Chapter 117: Oath of Allegiance
The coral bushes where the Jackdaw had been hiding were cleared out of a large clearing during the fight, and with the departure of Dalin and Gogoness, only a lone ship remained in the clearing.
In the distance, people kept approaching.
In order to avoid being watched as a rare animal, Mu Yan glanced at Barbossa, and the captain understood and immediately urged the crew to move.
A few minutes later, before the first sea tribes arrived, the Jackdaw sailed away from the Land of Right and Wrong.
"Boss, where are we going next?"
Barbossa asked.
Mu Yan punched the unhealed marks left on the deck.
"Look at the instructions the captain left for us."
Barbossa turned his head to look over, but he couldn't get the point for a long time.
"Stand on a high spot and look, my captain."
Mu Yan smiled, and lifted up with the seawater to support Barbossa, and the captain hugged another intact mast, condescendingly overlooking the wound on the ship, and looked at it for a few seconds, a strange brilliance flashed in his eyes.
He immediately slid off the mast and took out a map of the Encore Sea and compared it a few times.
Coincidentally, the traces of the three decks in a row formed a small piece of the map, which almost exactly coincided with the outline of the upper left corner of the Encore Sea, that is, the area where everyone was located! On this basis, there was a place that should have been flat but it was completely pierced, and even the keel of the Jackdaw was exposed!
And that place happens to be the royal hunting ground of the Encore royal family, the Forest of Korpsa!
In addition to the surprise, Barbossa was also a little worried: "Boss, this place shouldn't be easy to enter, right?" And he"
Mu Yan couldn't help but be a little surprised, and asked rhetorically: "Do you know Naga?" ”
Barbossa grinned, "Blackbeard Barbossa was a legendary figure who escaped from the Kraken back then, although he was not proficient, but he could probably understand and, most importantly, I was closest to you, I heard that name somewhat, and I saw the surprise on your face"
Mu Yan smiled and patted him on the shoulder: "Don't worry, I have a score in my heart." It may have been the captain's test for us, but he wouldn't have done it that well," he was about to say something, but he turned his head and saw Rorschach. He was obviously holding back his words and wanted to ask, and he had been pretending to sweep the floor beside Barbossa, and he was about to sweep through the deck.
Obviously, Rorschach didn't understand the Naga language, and Mu Yan didn't break each other's names when he fought with Dai Lin, everything was still a mystery, and it was only because he had seen that portrait that he had a question mark about this human who was suspected of being his ancestor but was very indifferent, and was glared back a few times by Dai Lin because he was too focused.
Speaking of which, he is also the most eye-catching one, and there is such a scorching eye in the group of frightened crew members, and no one will inevitably look at it twice.
"My captain, go ahead and get busy, it looks like Mr. Prussia wants to talk to me alone."
Barbossa glanced at Rorschach, who was about to speak, and then he looked abrupt.
"Go ahead, you should speak, boy."
"Thank you, Captain."
Rorschach finally came to Mu Yan and asked cautiously, as if tentatively:
"Boss, that guy"
"Who do you think he is?"
"I'm not sure it's just a lot like"
"Daryn Prussia?"
"Is he really!?" Rorschach asked rhetorically with a shudder, his voice thinning out.
Mu Yan nodded.
"It's really him."
"Mia is on top"
Rorschach seemed to have lost his support all of a sudden, and there was no light in his eyes in an instant, leaving only a look of loneliness and defeat.
His faith collapsed, and it was his reverence and trust in his ancestors that had always supported him in fighting and facing the ravages of life with full enthusiasm
But now
"He, he really surrendered to the Sea Clan, he really was a traitor"
"Stop, stop! How could you think that. Mu Yan held Rorschach's shoulder and shook it vigorously. You think too much, it's a long story, and I think you promise you that you'll respect him more after listening to it. ”
Rorschach's eyes lit up again.
Mu Yan tried his best not to mix his personal thoughts to retell Dai Lin's story, including his hints when the two of them fought just now, as well as the other party's guesses and responses, and finally put the judgment in the hands of Rorschach.
"So you see, although I told the captain that we were going to meet with our allies, and that they would meet us as promised, in fact I had two guesses in my mind, one was that as I said before, this was a tacit understanding between me and General Dalin. There is another one, which is just a one-sided trick on our part
"However, no matter what, he did not betray humanity back then, let alone do anything to be sorry for Turing, on the contrary, he is still protecting Turing in his own way, from this point of view, the treatment of the Prussian family is indeed unfair"
"No, boss, you're right." Rorschach raised his head, his eyes were extremely determined: "It is true that what he did back then is worthy of the name of Prussia, but in the same way, if it is true, as you say, the ancestor gradually wore down humanity and betrayed humanity over the years, then there is no room for forgiveness." The glory of the past cannot wash away the shame of today, and true loyalty will not be extinguished in time, if that is the case, I hope to end him with my own hands and stop him from being wrong again, you, will you help me, right? ”
Mu Yan was slightly stunned and nodded subconsciously.
"Of course"
Rorschach, however, fell to one knee in relief.
"Your Excellency Mu Yan, Rosha Prussia, hand over this sword to you, and hereby swear an oath.
"I, Roshaprusd, and my descendants, will always be loyal to you.
"With my will as a sword, and my body as a shield! The blade of the sword is not broken, and the shield is not broken! ”
After speaking, he raised the big sword with both hands and stood it horizontally in front of Mu Yan.
This is something that Mu Yan never expected, this is not a contract, let alone something with binding rules, but for Rorschach, there may not be anything more sacred than this ceremony
It is a traditional, ancient ritual of knightly allegiance that existed before the word "knight" was defiled.
This means that from now on, he will abandon his identity as a "person", be completely loyal to Mu Yan, and become his retainer, and then even if the Prussian family is wronged and restores its former glory, he is also Mu Yan's retainer, as long as it is Mu Yan's order, he must obey it. And when he became the patriarch, the whole of Prussia would also be loyal to Mu Yan.
Looking at the entire plain of herding horses, I am afraid that only those loyal servants who adhered to the rules of knighthood during the city-state period would make such a heavy oath
In a trance, Mu Yan's misty gaze seemed to have traveled through layers of time and space, and came to the sea area where Dai Lin died back then, and he empathized with the beliefs and expectations he carried at that time.
He somewhat understood Dai Lin's original choice.
The Prussian Germans put loyalty to the country first, and the reason why Daelin was able to quickly abandon everything and cooperate with Dawell, who killed 100,000 of his siblings and hated the sky, was to prevent the Prussian family from becoming the fuse for the Sea Clan's attack on Turing. Just like now, Rorschach did not hesitate to swear allegiance, just to ensure that once it was confirmed that Daillin had betrayed Turing, he could use Mu Yan's power to eliminate him as soon as possible
In other words, he was so desperate just to avoid such an illusory event, even if it was only a glimmer of possibility, even if he knew that his ancestors had been wronged was true, he would strangle it in the cradle, so that he would not be wrong again
Turing people
This is the Turing man
Mu Yan sighed in his heart.
Their loyalty to their family and country has been melted into their blood, but this loyalty is a little cold-blooded, which makes it difficult for him to accept it for a while.
After a long time of not waiting for a response, Rorschach seemed a little nervous, but did not dare to raise his head.
After a long time, Mu Yan took the big sword from his hand and tapped it lightly on his shoulder twice.
"I accept your allegiance."
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Rorschach also breathed a sigh of relief in his heart.
Three days later, the Jackdaw arrived in the Forests of Korpsa.