At the same time, on the other side, the soaring flames burning in the royal city almost attracted everyone's attention, but because the newly built royal palace was quite a distance from the residents' residences, although the fire was extremely fierce, it did not spread to other places.
This raging flame is like a ray of sparks in the dark night, extremely lonely.
"Who actually set the fire?"
"No matter who it is, I can only say that the fire is set well."
"If only we could burn that wretched king to death."
Such voices came from the crowd watching the fire from a distance. Although such voices were not consistent, they accounted for the vast majority, which showed the touching prestige of the current king in the Netherlands.
After all, compared to the former Völsung family, the Hundings family who now ruled this land can be said to be extremely bad in terms of ability.
Legni of the Hundings family once had a high reputation. That's right. When he led the Hundingsfamily into the city of Völsung 20 years ago, his reputation quickly spread throughout Midgard.
Völsunga Spana!
Those around him called him that, and the meaning of this name was: the person who killed Völsunger, but after all, this name was not very glorious.
Helgi used to have a name: Hundinspana (also translated as "Hundinspana"), which means "the man who killed Hendin (Hungding)", and this title was his real sword on the battlefield It was done with a real gun, and almost all the warriors of the Hundings family died under his hands. The name 'Hundingspana' was his personal reputation in the war.
But Legni is different. His title of "killer" is purely derived from his extermination order-after Siegmund's defeat and the king's city was breached, Legni ordered to kill and expel all and The people related to Siegmund are not only his immediate family members, even those friends who he made "blood alliance" are not spared.
He ruled this land with such horrible methods, and there was no improvement afterwards. If such a fearsome king can lead the kingdom to gradually expand, and gain glory and benefits for the country in the name of the great god, that's all. , but in fact Legni can't do that either.
Under the guardianship of the Valkyries, the Netherlands was still defeated by the old rival Gothic Kingdom. Even the original borders were lost, and the land was severely shrunk. Under such circumstances, it was impossible for the king to be loved. The internal contradictions in the palace were highlighted vividly at the moment when the palace was on fire.
No one voluntarily tried to stop the fire, but most of the spectators were watching the excitement. As the flames burned more and more vigorously, the fire in the north of the king's city almost reached the sky, and the fire could be seen even outside the city.
"Oh, it looks like Hodder has already started." When Siegfried and Regin rode the horses rented from the stables outside the city and ran all the way to the special ranch and stables of the Hundingsson royal family, Regin couldn't help but said. with emotion
Even with his dwarf height, he could still see clearly the flames and the thick smoke rushing up into the sky, and it wasn't just him, Siegfried was the same, but it was different from Regin's slightly gloating look , what appeared on Siegfried's handsome face was a touch of worry.
"Uncle, is he really okay..."
Such morale-damaging words did not arouse Regin's opposition, and the dwarf also fell silent. For a moment, the two horses galloped across the land of the Netherlands.
After all, Siegfried's worries are not without reason, although Midgard has always had the custom of advocating honor and death in battle, and because of this custom, even some old men are very good at fighting, just like Siegmund himself Siegfried doesn't doubt Hodder's combat effectiveness as much as he can frighten Legni with his 60-year-old age.
But he is old after all, and that kind of fire and smoke is definitely not a good thing for the body, just like the battle he heard about his father Siegmund and Legni, even if the former's fighting power is far away. Much higher than the latter, both in terms of martial arts and combat experience, he was much better than Legni, but his physical fitness could not keep up with the young man, and he lost in the end.
And what about Hodder?
"Hodder's physical fitness is good. The quality of his armor is not light, but he still wears it until now. After 20 years of living in a homeless life, his physical fitness should be..."
Well, Regin himself can't say this, the races in the entire Nine Realms, not counting those races, whether it's dwarves, elves or giants, or even those who don't have independent kingdoms and wander in various places in the Nine Realms Giant dragons are long-lived species. For example, Regin has been wandering for decades since he left the Kingdom of Gurnita Heide, and it has been 30 years since he settled down.
This adds up to almost 60+ years, but that's not much for Regin's long lifespan. Although he looks like a bad old man, he just passed from 'youth' to 'mature man' , but human beings are different, the human beings living in the 'atrium' among the Nine Realms are the race with the shortest lifespan.
For human beings, decades may be a lifetime for human beings, and Hodder's age is definitely an 'elderly person'.
Thinking of it this way, Regin really felt a little uneasy.
"Forget it..." Finally, he said, "If you're really worried, wait until we snatch two good horses from the stables, and then go all the way back."
"it is good..."
This is the tradition of Midgard. Even a child like Siegfried, who has only been exposed to blacksmiths since he was a child, has no dislike for the slightly rude words in Regin's mouth. any resistance.
Because this is the main tone of Midgard, even though Siegfried's personality tends to be gentle, the environment he lives in is not a greenhouse after all.
"You take this." Just as the two horses were galloping, Regin suddenly took out a long sword with stored magic, and he threw it to Siegfried who was not slow beside him.
In this regard, the young blacksmith apprentice did not resist, he understood it.
Then, hold it tight...
"Don't let go!"
"There are intruders! Prepare your defenses!"
Without stopping for a moment, the two war horses rushed into the royal ranch guarded by the tower. As for the guards on the guard tower, they were hit by rune magic as soon as they approached, and the whole tree The tower that was made was set on fire.
But at this moment, Siegfried has no time to take care of these, he just grasped the long sword in his hand, and then followed the way Hodder taught him...
"It's not just relying on the arms or wrists, that's not called swinging, that's called throwing! Swinging a sword relies on the strength of the whole body, the arms, wrists, and even the waist and back must be combined together!"
"Oh oh oh oh oh!"
With a single sword, flesh and blood flew across the body, and Siegfried's blade directly chopped into pieces the body of the guard. Even the armor carefully crafted by the Hundings royal family could not withstand such a slash.
"It's so sharp..."
"Right? This is a Regin creation." Seeing that Siegfried was shocked by this, Regin said, but he didn't boast much, because there are other things to do at this time.
"The stables are there, let's go straight there!"