You and me under the world tree

py a friend's book.

If you have love, you can get it yourself, read the title of the book and know the subject matter.

Chapter 78: Confidence?

"what……"

For a moment, Theotis only felt that he had heard wrong.

I don't know whether it's because I can't understand the cold question that the sage asked outrightly at this moment.

Or because this question directly poked into the depths of her heart.

For a moment, she found that she had no way to respond at all.

"Weak."

She gritted her teeth.

Inexplicably, she felt as if she had been mocked.

And it's still the kind of all-round contempt from top to bottom.

Moreover, this mockery comes from a strong man.

To Theotis, it was like an elephant asking an ant why it was so small.

It sounds ridiculous and funny.

And because of this, Theotis' lips couldn't help but tremble.

There were so many times when she looked like she was about to make a sound.

But in the end there was no sound, and she was just panting.

That heavy breathing sound contained strong dissatisfaction.

"Feel unhappy?"

Finally, just when Theotis seemed to be adjusting his emotions, the sage spoke again.

His voice was still ice-cold, and the coldness that emanated from it seemed to freeze the secret passage.

He never wavered in any way because of the queen's entreaties and questions.

And in terms of attitude, he didn't even make any concessions.

"Then tell me what you did."

"I……"

"You kept saying that you were hit and hurt, but you didn't do anything, did you? Did you help in the great northern melee?"

No.

Nothing helped.

Can't do anything either.

Even though Theotis didn't answer anything at the moment, it could be seen from her widened eyes.

And even if you don't analyze her expression and emotions at the moment, you can analyze this point from those deeds alone.

Although the theory of the war in the northern peninsula originated from the inflated King Nedad and the Kingdom of Gitland he ruled.

But when a series of turmoil occurred in the upper echelon of the Gitland Kingdom, the kingdom gradually declined, and it was replaced by Norway, which prayed to the gods for strength and promised to bring heroic souls and war.

The young king of Norway, Angentil, united with Denmark to launch a great war.

Gitland, Iceland, Norway, Denmark.

Of the four kingdoms on the northern peninsula, Gitland and Iceland, the original overlords, suffered the most.

It is said that when the Norwegian berserkers set foot on the land of the extreme north, they began to massacre, and almost all the royal families who dared to resist and wanted to knock the enemy out of the island died in battle.

In the end, only the returned prince Gripal and his youngest sister survived.

There is no doubt that the gods played an extremely important role in this chaotic war.

According to the diary records that Hodd knew about Angentier, he was forced to start the war at the end.

But no matter what, this is a struggle between kingdoms and kingdoms after all.

Although the gods are its inducement and pusher, they are not its main factor.

What Angentyr relied on when killing all directions was the berserker created by the powerful 'Rage Technique'.

This is a head-on battlefield duel.

"The war depends only on your own strength and wit, but unfortunately, you failed to do anything."

The sage whispered slowly.

At this moment, his voice came from the nether world.

Hoarse and gloomy.

After hearing these words, Theotis turned even paler.

"I haven't seen you make any progress, and I haven't seen you exercise yourself."

"I……"

"To put it bluntly, you are just trying to escape blindly."

"you……"

At this moment, the young queen was incoherent.

Her originally bright eyes were also filled with chaos at this moment.

In the end, the sage didn't continue to say anything.

Are you lazy?

escape?

This kind of thing is not uncommon.

In fact, humans are very good at making excuses for themselves.

No, it should be said that not only humans, but most intelligent creatures are like this.

After establishing a universal morality that is closely related to society, they subconsciously move their image closer to this moral cognition.

However, there are also many people who prefer to follow their own mind.

It's nothing more than following, when conflicts arise, they even like to put on a coat that looks pleasing to the eye.

Usually there is nothing, but when all the contradictions are fully exposed, these actions become extremely eye-catching.

"I have no intention of arguing with you about this, let's stop here."

Although Huode didn't understand at the moment that he, who was tired at that time, had such thoughts and ideas.

But what is certain is that this impression will definitely not be good.

Because even now, Howard still has this feeling.

The current Hodder's knowledge of Theotis is actually not much left. Now that his memory has been modified, he still has the deepest knowledge and identity of her as "Siegfried's mother".

But now, he seemed to understand the source of that disgust.

"Memories may fade, but impressions and emotions never fade."

Sighing like this, Hodder watched the sage and queen in his memory walk out of the secret passage.

However, he did not continue to follow.

Because he is not in a hurry.

Although he didn't know how reliable his memory was, he at least knew that Theotis would not leave with the sage.

This is determined by reality.

Therefore, he just stopped in the secret path.

And when he walked slowly towards the outside, what he saw were white feathers floating around.

"Knew it."

Under Huo De's watchful eyes, those Valkyries who were waiting outside the royal city and gathered the corpses of the soldiers descended from the sky.

It is almost the same as the hidden plot of "Volsonger's War" in memory.

Although there was a little bit of a problem with the sequence, it was still right after all.

The Valkyrie is headed by Sigrun.

Unlike Huo De who was a calm bystander, the sage in the past just raised his hand slightly to protect the queen and others behind him.

And Sigrun just watched the last warrior.

After changing her expression several times, she let out a long sigh of relief.

"Hodder."

Call him by his first name.

Call the name of a mortal from the standpoint of a Valkyrie.

"Leave the holy sword and queen, they have other paths."

"What road? Is it a farce arranged by you?"

After that, the Valkyrie Sigrun remained silent.

She didn't know what to say.

"You can't protect them, you only have yourself."

Without any explanation, she just stated the fact.

"If you take them away, you must be against the new king of the Netherlands, and against the current Denmark."

The sage didn't speak, but just stared at the women in the sky.

"The Kingdom of Gitland will not help, Norway is now hostile to the Netherlands, and you... no, it should be you."

The Valkyrie's eyes quickly moved away from the sage, and focused on the queen behind him.

"Are you confident that you will leave under the pursuit of the kingdom's soldiers? The Danish army will arrive here soon."

Chapter 79: Greedy but Cowardly

Obviously, the Skywrath King City in the Netherlands could not stay any longer, because after Siegmund's death, it had already been occupied by the Hengding clan.

However, it is worth mentioning that the Hengding family adopted a strategy of assault.

They took advantage of the disharmonious diplomatic situation between the Gothic Kingdom and the Netherlands, and raided the Netherlands from the Gothic Kingdom.

Moreover, they came straight to the royal city.

Although some fortresses and towns were symbolically occupied along the way, this rule was only temporary.

Because the Hengding family's strategy is obvious.

They must first occupy the royal city, which has important symbolic significance, and defeat the core dominance of the Volsung clan.

To put it simply, they defeated the top layer first, and then slowly sorted out the bottom layer.

The advantage of this is obvious, because when the upper class of the Netherlands is uprooted, the ruling power of the Hendin family will be established.

And even the Valkyries have come forward, which means that legitimacy has been established.

Under such circumstances, the garrisons in other places who were too late to participate in the war did not say that they would surrender after hearing the news, but their resistance would not be too great.

Not because of other reasons, because for them, it doesn't make much sense to continue to resist.

Most people will choose to continue to surrender.

Of course, this does not mean that everyone is weak.

And this is the weakness of the Hengding family's beheading strategy.