"You swear you won't say it!" Diognis was also annoyed, and then he held the flail with both hands behind his back, and then made a cross-shaped twist, and deftly got out of the "Gawain strangulation", turned around, and kicked Gawain - but Gawain reacted very quickly, and at the same time that Diognes kicked out, he also kicked the guard.

The legs of both sides hit each other at the same time: Gawain, who was much taller, hit Diognis in the face with a kick; Diognis's legs, on the other hand, were shorter, reaching only Gawain's abdomen.

As a result, Diognis slipped upside down against the floor of the main hall of the monastery and slid far away, "Bastard, Varyag's red-fleshed bastard!" The guard didn't care about keeping face in front of the eldest princess, so he turned over and took out his sword, and when he touched it, he found it empty: Gawain was holding the sword that had just been drawn from him and threw it!

"Ahh The saber swept by a few feet in front of Anna, like a white light, so frightened that the eldest princess who was staying there shrugged her shoulders, and the captor tilted her head to dodge, and the saber smashed against the pillar, and the fire was everywhere. Then he saw Gawain rushing over again, picking up the iron flail on the ground, and thinking that something was wrong, he pulled out the lasso and hedged it too.

"Die!" Gawain shouted angrily, raising the iron flail.

But the movable iron head of the flail was reversed, and smashed directly into his face, this time on the left eyebrow bone, so painful that Gawain dropped this tricky and hateful weapon again, covering his face and half-squatting down.

"Beat him, Arrestor." Anna shouted excitedly.

Diognis's fist flew over, Gawain took a few blows, then jumped half a step sideways, dodged the next attack, then raised his fist, protected his face left and right, and stretched his counterattack fiercely, the hook fist from the bottom up, teased Diognis's ribs, and all the liquid stuff in the nose of the guard flew out, "Varyag barbarian, you are not bad, continue to beat him!" "Anna is in full theater mode.

Then, she saw Gawain continue to urge the strange boxing technique, and the catcher used the Bolgar wrestling, and the two of them attracted the meat, which made her exclaim, "I originally thought that the fight between male warriors was as magnificent and beautiful as Homer's epic, but when I saw it with my own eyes today, I realized that it was like a fierce and lofty beast, and it was an indescribable beast-like beauty. Sure enough, it's a foolish thing to write any work before it sees the real thing, the wise saying, well, Anna's wise saying. ”

When the curtain finally came to an end, it was the catcher who used a noose to trap Gawain like a real beast, and the two of them twisted together and fell to the ground, both of them were exhausted, but neither of them would give up, and the blood and vomit spread all over the place, which was simply spectacular.

"Okay, you all show the bravest side of the warrior, you can separate, my father's meeting over there should also be over, I am very interested in whether my father will unite with the Frankish knights in the end, you both go with me." In the end, it was Anna who gave the final verdict very humanly, so that the two who fought and died lost their temper.

When he walked out of the Blachna Monastery, Diognis walked in front with a lasso, his nose was dark and the corners of his mouth were bleeding; Gawain's neck and hands were tied, his eyebrow bones were cracked on both sides, and the blood stained his eyes horribly, and he staggered in the middle; Anna walked at the end surrounded by the slaves, holding an amber board and a reed pen, and there were two handmaidens beside her, one carrying an inkwell and the other holding a parchment scroll of Intuo, Anna's mouth did not stop on the way, she was full of interest in Gawain, and as for the captor, because there were too many legendary collections to access, it was really exciting, "Varyags, what did each of the seven rapids you came to Constantinople look like?" ”

"Varyags, I heard that you bathe in alkaline water and wooden barrels, can you tell us about the situation?"

"Hey, barbarian, answer me, do you like black-eyed women the most?"

"Barbarian, will you eat meat raw?"

"Barbarian"

Gawain did not answer any of her questions.

When he arrived at the door of the River Hall, Peter was the first to come out, standing there, looking refreshed, it seemed that his appeal had been approved by the emperor, and when he saw this appearance of Gawain and the guard, he couldn't help but be startled, but before he could ask, Anna stepped out first, "Dear hermit, my father has agreed to your request?" ”

"Yes, the Emperor has sworn in his own name, before the statue of Christ, that he will unite with the Franks in the struggle for the restoration of the Holy Sepulchre, and will be willing to provide all the necessary supplies, money, ships, and lodging for the pilgrim knights." Peter made no secret of his joy and excitement in front of the eldest princess.

Anna looked very melancholy, but Gawain then heard the little girl muttering to herself, as if she was relieved, "Don't worry, my father alone can't make the final decision, the Imperial Imperial Council, the Imperial Senators' Council, and the Patriarch's Council are still long."

"It doesn't matter." Peter's ears were pointed, and he bowed to Anna, "A year later, three years later, or five years later, I will never waver in my determination to go to the Franks to agitate for an expeditionary pilgrimage, even if the lightning and thunder, even if I sleep in the open air, even if it is difficult, I will preach town by town, Rome, Le Mans, Reims, Normandy and the countryside of Britain, I will never give up this matter in my lifetime, it must be done according to God's will!" ”

Anna's little face was full of shock, and she could see that what the thin, ugly old man in front of her, dressed in a coarse cloth robe and carrying a wooden stick, said was true—he was not the pampered and wealthy deans or bureaucrats of the imperial capital, nor was he one of the hermits who ran to the desert and caves to escape the passive inaction of the world, Peter was a true theorist, agitator, and doer—Anna could almost foresee the quagmire that she and her father's empire would face in the future, but she was so young, There is no way to change the destination of this huge and old ship.

"O maelstrom formed by the Banshees of Scoura, please stay away from the ships of the Empire and the Emperor, God bless Rome, God bless Rome," Anna prayed as she lifted the St. Mary's pendant hanging from her chest.

After a long time, Alexios, dressed in purple robes, also slowly walked out accompanied by the guards, he accepted Peter's kiss on his ring, and then took Anna into his arms, and finally the emperor saw two bloody men on a rope, and was slightly startled, and then he pointed to Gawain and Theognes in a certain stern tone, and said to the guards, "Can anyone explain what the hell is going on, there is rude bloodshed in the Brachna Palace." ”