At the entrance of the city of Bremen the was guards standing at the entrance when they saw an army approaching and sent the alert that an army was coming but the calmed down when they saw it was their own and open the gate and cheers erupted when the man at the head of the army entered.
This was Olaf who had come from plundering Paderborn and took all the wealth they could and return back to the city which was reinforced the city as they made it a stronghold as it was holding their ships and all the wealth they took, they march in the city and move to the main castle in the center of the city and Olaf stood before the army and said 'my people didn't I give you all what I promised, great wealth and glory!'
There was cheers and he said 'now you all can rest,' and the army went to different parts of the city and Olaf went with the other earls to the main hall of the castle and sat with them and sweyn asked 'okay Olaf we have fought and collected a lot of wealth but I am curious as to what is the next plan you have?' Olaf replied 'waiting is the next plan,' auslag who was confused asked 'what do you mean by that?' Olaf continued ' we have defeated all the army's near here and even plundered another city further down south,so now all we have to do is wait and see what the king of this land will do since I am also unsure of what he will do, but I have sent scouts as far as fulda to watch if they send an army, and if they do will have to ambush it and there will be no more attacks that will happen and we can return home with the wealth and leave a garrison strong enough to hold this city for future raids as I plan for the next time we end up here to attack their capital, we will recuit and even larger army for it.'
This brought laughs amount the jarls and Ragnar who was silent spoke 'Olaf there is something I want to say,' this caught all the jarls including Olaf off guard and said 'you are free to spread my friend,' Ragnar continued 'after seeing all this what we have accomplished and that this was just the beginning as made me realize that you are a man worthy for me to follow so I will swear on my arm ring to follow you,' auslag hearing this was shocked as she watch the prideful man swear his loyalty to Olaf, this was followed by Eric who said 'my friend you will always have my loyalty,' and followed by sweyn who said ' I too declare my loyalty,' Olaf smiled and said 'then I'll have it,' he looked to auslag and said 'take your time to think on it,' she looked and said 'no I too will give my loyalty,' Olaf nodded and said 'then let's feast!'
A few days later Olaf who was in talking with floki was interrupted by a man who came and said 'jarl Olaf there is a small group of French people who are looking to meet you,' Olaf looked at him and said 'did they say my name?' The man nodded, Olaf thought and said okay take them to the hall, floki call the others let see what this group want,'
Carloman looked at the city that looked like it was reinforced and had new banners, that may belong to Olaf, he hoped that they would let him in, that's when the gates opened and they where escorted to the center of the city when they came in front of some people who looked important but only one who sat so he looked to his translator and began 'greetings I am carloman, I came here as representative of my king,' the translator repeated the lines.
Olaf who sat there was superprized by the French man and asked in Norwegian 'you speak our language, that's interesting, as Kay tell your lord to speak what he wants since. It looks like that ' and carloman after hearing the translation continued 'my king knows your plan is to raid our capital for your next raid but I have an offer that can change his mind,' Olaf looked at the noble and smiled since this was indeed his plan as after some time, he thought of raiding it with his son, and said 'what plan do you have?' The noble said 'my king will pay you to raid his brother land and attack his capital Aachen.'
Olaf stood up after hearing this and the other Vikings looked surprised as they expected them to be told to leave not offer more money to attack someone else, Olaf looked in thought and spoke in French this time 'okay you have got my interest, how will you help us in the attack,' carloman was surprised by the fact that the Northman could speak French but composed himself and continued 'yes we have information on the lands you want to attack and also we have away to attack the city as it belong to the king father and was one of two capitals,' Olaf looked at the man and said 'so your enemy is attacking someone else but after that is down he will go back to you,' the noble looked sad as he noticed that this man was snaked and figured it out and said 'yes he will be campaigning south for the next 5 years.'
Olaf nodded and said 'okay, I will accept this offer but the payment is 15 thousand gold and we will attack in five years that gives you time to send 2000 a year to this fortress and the last 5000 will be given after the attack and give me the map that has the hidden entrances in to the capital of the city it's non negotiable,' the noble looked at the jarl and said 'then we have a deal,' he remove what looked like a map and gave Olaf who opened it and smiled and he saw the details he looked at the noble and said when will the first two thousand come,' the noble said 'it'll take time, weeks.'
Olaf nodded and said 'okay if you want to communicate with me you'll do it with Leif who will be the ruler of this land and castle in my absence,' and a man that was the size of a bear came out and showed respect to Olaf and looked at the noble and Olaf continued 'leave you translator here for sometime he'll teach my man here French,' and the Nobel nodded in agreement and the shook hands, Olaf spoke 'you are guests here and will be feed and rest then take your journey back to your king and make sure that it's written and signed by your king or I won't take it as truth,' and dismiss the meeting.