You and me under the world tree

He was dressed in a pitch-black robe, and he appeared like a gloomy wise man.

However, perhaps because of his extremely tall and straight figure, this made the gloomy atmosphere subside a lot.

More importantly, he looks very young.

Although because of the cloudy eyes, it made him look a little bit vicissitudes, but compared to himself, a bad old man, he was indeed much younger.

"I heard that the sage of the Volsung clan should be a man who never lets his armor go."

Facing the man's gaze, Jibishi spoke.

"Because I'm not like Siegmund and others, who can form some kind of 'impression' and 'mark' with my handsome appearance and tall and strong figure."

The black-haired man just shrugged his shoulders in response to Gibishina's slightly teasing words.

"To put it bluntly, I just find it troublesome."

Then he picked up a bottle of cider, poured himself a glass, and pulled out another glass.

"Drink or not?"

"No need."

Facing the sage's incomparably casual invitation, Jibishi shook his head.

Although he also sat on the chair, he took out a wine glass from his arms, and also took out a bottle of wine—it was a bottle of honey wine.

"Do you prefer mead?"

"I just like to be careful. After all, my situation has not been easy since before."

After pouring a cup of mead into his glass, Jibishi said.

Immediately afterwards, the two toasted to each other, and then drank the wine in the glass in one gulp.

"The palace struggle is very troublesome. Since the big defeat decades ago, my father's reputation in the country has also plummeted. Although it is not as complete as Angnar's defeat, the struggle is not too rare."

"Ah, I remember, when Siegmund led the team into Gothic, and Simfi Otli then split up and declared war on Denmark."

Staring at the crystal cup in his hand, Hodder said.

Under the light through the window of the setting sun, the crystal glass reflected a magnificent brilliance.

"As for you Burgundy, this should be the first large-scale tough battle I have fought."

It may be because these are just past events for him, and more importantly, he has hardly been to the front line in person, so his tone was calm from beginning to end.

There is no nostalgia, no excitement, just like eating something before remembering.

"To be honest, it's quite troublesome, because wizards are not allowed to intervene in wars on a large scale, but fortunately, they won in the end."

After hearing the sage's light tone, Jibixi didn't know what to say for a moment.

Be angry, there must be some.

After all, it was a matter of the Kingdom of Burgundy anyway, and it was that big defeat that led to a series of things that followed.

That was the trigger of everything.

However, he couldn't say anything.

When people get old, they have experienced many things, so they can see more clearly.

"My father, he spoke highly of you. He said that he fought the most failed battle in his life with the strongest army, and was defeated by a group of defeated generals."

Having said that, Jibixi couldn't help but smile wryly.

"Moreover, he still can't find any excuses, because there is no magic and witchcraft in it, he just completely failed in strategy. The army is stuck in the land of the Netherlands like a quagmire, and will eventually be eaten away by you."

"Really? I remember when I caught him, he wanted to kill me."

"Naturally, you are the psychological shadow of my father's life. He was still worried about that war until the end, but it was also because of this that he advised me not to fight against the Kingdom of the Netherlands."

"He is kind to you, because as long as you make enemies, your lords will dare to oppose you, and then take the opportunity to attack you. As for me... I think he hated me until the last moment."

"That's right, who knows, our Kingdom of Burgundy has relied on you, the Netherlands, for a long time. It is only through the 'peace' that I have not signed a covenant with you that I can unify the chaotic situation."

Gibesh poured himself another glass of mead.

At this moment, he was staring at the mead that glowed golden in the setting sun.

"To be honest, sage of the Netherlands, although my father and king have repeatedly mentioned your talent, and you even became my psychological shadow for a while, I actually hate you."

Then the sage drank in silence.

"tell me the story?"

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I personally feel that this conversation is quite emotional.

After changing it a few times, I think it may be possible to change it to make it feel a little better.

conversation or something...

But it's still like this, sleepy.

With a nosebleed and a headache, I slipped away.

Chapter 84: I've been a failure in my life

It's hard to imagine that when the public opinion in the two kingdoms became more and more intense, and the atmosphere between the kingdoms even showed a tense atmosphere, two old men from the "last era" were calmly describing the relationship with the present in the sunset. irrelevant things.

One of them is a former wise man and think tank, and the other is a former king.

This is obviously incomprehensible, because the old king's daughter is still under house arrest in another mansion.

But when they were drinking and talking, they didn't mention this aspect at all, they just told the past.

"Although I really want to explain what's going on in detail, but when I mention this, I feel a little uncomfortable."

After taking a sip of the mead, the old king couldn't help but sighed.

"In short, the court of Burgundy is not peaceful. When I was young, the entire court was even considered dangerous. In order to ensure my safety, my father and mother even sent me out of the court and began to travel incognito. "

"However, I heard that the old king of Burgundy was a prodigal son when he was young, and he could wander away for decades without returning home."

After hearing what the man in front of him said, Jibixi couldn't help showing a helpless expression.

"Who wants to wander outside if they can go home? I think Your Excellency the Sage has a deep understanding of this, right?"

For this, Hodder did not respond immediately.

But these are not important to the old king.

Because it's not getting approval, he doesn't need to be approved.

If I had to say it, the current him is just narrating his past, which is more like talking unilaterally.

"The reason why wanderers can wander outside with confidence is because they know that they must have a destination. As long as they are tired, they can go home anytime and anywhere. Once they have a home and cannot return, they will inevitably feel a sense of confusion."

He drank the wine slowly, gulping down the honey wine in his glass.

At this moment, he might be in a hurry to drink, so he couldn't help coughing.

"Cough cough cough."

He covered his mouth.

After wiping his mouth, he exhaled again.

"For me at that time, compared to the so-called 'traveling', it was more like fleeing to some extent... I even thought about crossing the border of the kingdom and coming to the Netherlands to assassinate you."

"You can't do it."

"Yes, I can't."

Facing the sage's response, Jibishi nodded.

He didn't get angry.

What's more, he was unbelievably calm, let alone ashamed.

It's as if what he's talking about now isn't something he's experienced himself.

"The legendary sage not only has a lofty status, but more importantly, he is elusive. No one has ever known where he is. Although he should be living in the palace, at that time, I had no way to defeat anyone in the palace. .”

guard?

If hordes of guards blocked the passage, it would be difficult to deal with.

As for princes and kings, they are all famous warriors.

"Sigmund, Simfi Otley, and you Huo De, the three generals of the Volsung family who shocked the surrounding kingdoms back then, I can't deal with any of them, so I can only wander outside, waiting like a walking dead Follow the news from the palace."

When he said this, Jibixi couldn't help clenching the wine glass in his hand.

As a royal family, even though the palace is full of dangers, it is not difficult for his father to send the young him out of the palace and keep him anonymous.

Most importantly, he should not be short of money, at least there won't be any major problems.

However, he still hated himself.

"and after?"

Calmly sipping the sweet fruit wine, Huo De asked.

"Later, I met a girl..."

"Aha, I guess it's a dwarf."

"Yes, that's right, that was a dwarf girl. She accompanied me through the darkest period. We traveled together. In the end, I was called back to the court by my father. Before I left, I promised her that I would go back to pick her up." .”

"I think you must have had good expectations for the future. In your opinion, your seemingly omnipotent father should have taken care of everything."

"right……"

When the sage said these things calmly, Jibixi sighed first, and then smiled wryly.

"I was just a young man at the time, and I still had the admiration for my parents in my heart. When I returned to the court, I found that things were not as simple as I thought."

"Because at that time, your father and king were already dead."

"Well, his body is getting worse and worse, and his spirit is not good. The pressure imposed on him by the surrounding lords has almost crushed him. After many years, he has almost no way to control the situation in the kingdom. Most importantly, The treasury is short of money."

Speaking of the most difficult thing during that period, he couldn't help but let out a breath of foul air.

"The moths in the territory have no foresight, and the surrounding territories are putting pressure on this aspect. Even those merchants outside the kingdom are unwilling to come to Worms. The food in the territory can't even be exported, and we There is also no way to buy a large amount of minerals.”

"So this is the drawback of the lord system. The king is like the leader of a lord alliance. If the lord controls too much power, it will definitely threaten the king's power."

"But this is Midgard, Your Excellency the Sage, if there is no lordship system, what will it use to attract those powerful warriors and wise men?"

After all, Jibixi had no intention of discussing the so-called lordship system with His Excellency the Sage, he just said such a sentence in a flat manner.

Not all kingdoms in the Netherlands can imitate, and not everyone is the descendant of the Volsung family.

"At that time, my father wanted to launch a small-scale battle, but at that time there was a lack of well-trained army soldiers and weapons..."

"Well, because I stripped your father's army of armaments, we in the Netherlands are also short of money, and the Hengding family has no ability to govern the country at all."

Jibixi had nothing to say about this, he subconsciously felt a little annoyed, but in the end he still laughed.

At the same time, he coughed again.

"Ahem, ahem...the fully armed army lost to the so-called Netherlands Defense Forces who didn't even have complete weapons. This is what my father and king worry about."

The old king exhaled.

"Later, I thought of her. She is a dwarf. Although she looks poor, it is because she is willing to be ordinary, but she has wealth..."

"So, you went back to find the woman who used to accompany you just to get money?"

"Yes, she gave it to me too, I thought she kept at least a little, but..."

"But she left nothing to herself."

"Yes, I used that money to fill the treasury, and bought a large amount of minerals from a lord who controlled the mine veins, and in order to make that lord completely fall for us, my father asked me to marry his daughter. "

"That is the old queen now, Oona."