Chapter 64: The Varangians
Edith was stunned for a moment, and then she began to get a little annoyed.
"As for it? As for it? Just because we just asked two questions, we have to treat us like this! You're a big idiot!!"
Edith said as she spoke, tears welling up in her eyes, and she ignored Harold and lay on the bed with her head facing the wall and her back to Harold, and began to cry in a low voice.
Harold was a little confused, but he immediately understood that Edith must have misunderstood him. Harold understood that the girl in front of him was a strong character on the outside and soft on the inside, and he scratched his hair a little annoyed, and said, "Alas, no..... Don't we talk about it a lot! I just said a few words when I entered the door, how could I just let you go back alone because of that? ”
"That.... Why? ”
"The Knights of Punishment have closed off the Snow Mountain of St. Maurice, and I don't think this is normal. I'm worried that I won't be able to take care of you in case of emergencies after exploring the mountains, so it's better for me to go alone. ”
Edith was silent for a few seconds before she asked, "Really?" ”
"Really!"
Edith sat up, turned her head, and said, "You think we're a burden to you?" ”
"I didn't mean that, don't frame me."
"That's what you mean." Edith said fiercely. "Narrow-minded, arrogant! Since you feel that something is wrong in the mountains, then we either don't go, or we go together. ”
"You ....." Harold was upset by Edith's words, but he suppressed his temper and was about to continue to persuade her to go back.
"What are you?! You're not omnipotent! It's not immortal! You also have shortcomings in magic. Are you sure you can do anything alone? You also rely on us once in a while. ”
Harold was slightly speechless, he couldn't laugh or cry a little, the 'immortal and immortal' attribute of his body was something that he could never say to the girl in front of him. And what Edith said also has some truth, his magic level is indeed quite urgent, and there is a magic support that can gain a lot in a sudden battle.
Harold thought for a moment: "Well, okay. However, we said in advance that you must not venture in case of emergencies after entering the mountain, and everything is subject to my arrangement. Otherwise, I won't be able to protect you. ”
"Humph!" Edith burst into tears and laughed. "Who protects whom!"
"Cut." Harold smiled wryly. "Last year, the club went to the old school building that was said to be very supernatural, and I don't know which one of them was so frightened by sounds and hallucinations that he couldn't walk and asked me to tell the story all night?"
"Don't mention that!" Edith blushed.
"Don't mention it, don't mention it." Harold took a few steps, closed the curtains, and turned off the lights as well. "Hurry up and go to bed, and hurry up tomorrow morning to take a detour into the mountains."
With that, Harold took off his coat and lay down on the bed on the floor.
The room was darkened, and no one could be seen clearly, and the hazy and cold moonlight shone into the inn's cabin.
The night in the town is not peaceful. There were too many outsiders in the town tonight, and from outside the windows came a motley of voices, first a few foreign adventurers getting drunk, and then the sound of the Knights of Discipline as they captured them.
When the wave was over, the street fell silent, and there was some very subtle sound from the next door, and Edith thought back for a moment, and when she went upstairs, she saw a man and a woman dressed as merchants in the next room.
This made Edith's face heat when she heard it, and she felt that her ears were red with shame. Tossing and turning in bed, turning over a few times, still unable to sleep.
"Why don't you sleep?"
Harold's voice came from the bed on the floor.
Edith was startled and opened her eyes in the darkness, and she was about to speak, but she thought, "His ears are much more sensitive than mine, so ....."
Edith's heart immediately raced, and she expected Ai Ai, "We can't sleep." Why don't you continue to tell us the story of the last time in the old schoolhouse, the story of the Romans, we think it's quite complicated, and you can probably fall asleep after listening to it for a while. ”
"Alas!" Harold sighed in the darkness. "Where was the last time I talked about it?"
"Well, I can't think of it for a while, let us think about it from the beginning, what impresses me with the death of Caesar of the former triumvirate and the rise of Octavian of the last triumvirate! And the Roman Empire lost its western half of the country. Look, what is the structure of your brain, how do you come up with so many real fictional stories! ”
"Eh, don't talk so much nonsense! Where the hell am I talking? Harold urged.
Edith said, "What are you anxious about?" Yes! Let's remember, it seems that you are talking about the revival of the Roman Empire, the reconquest of the continent of Europe by the Roman Empire. Heck, we think it's complicated, but if Constantinople really exists, we'd love to see what you tell about this fantasy city. ”
"Hah-ha-ha." Harold laughed twice. "Then I'll start with the reconquest of the Roman Empire."
"Don't don't, it's too complicated. There are many names, place names and ethnic names, we can't remember them one by one, and there are many names of rivers alone. Well, you can change the style of the story, the story with the main character is more obvious. ”
Harold complained secretly: "If you don't say that women are fickle, you asked me to continue just now." ”
However, he thought about it patiently, and then said, "Since it's a different style, then I'll tell a story with other flavors." ”
Harold pondered for a moment and changed his tone: "In other words, in the last years of the Eastern Han Empire, a large-scale rebel army wrapped in a yellow turban shook the foundation of the empire......."
"Eastern Han Empire...... What a strange name. ”
Harold ignored her complaints and continued: "In this empire, there is a descendant of a down-and-out aristocratic branch surnamed Liu Mingbei and Xuande, who lost his land and title and engaged in handicrafts to weave and sell straw sandals for a living......
Harold talked about the plot of Liu Guanzhang's three-person alliance in one breath, and Edith listened in a daze.
"Are the three of them going to be mercenaries? Why did Liu Beiyi say that the descendants of the King of Zhongshan Yasukuni all value him, isn't there no longer a title and wealth? And what is the world? ”
As soon as Harold heard this series of questions, he realized that he could not explain it in a moment, so he said, "You better let me sleep." ”
"No, we can't sleep. Although your story sounds interesting, we don't understand it. ”
"Whew, change the last one, if you like to listen or not, I'll go to bed after a while." Harold found it super strenuous to coax girls.
"Scandinavia, is a peninsula in the northern part of the continent of Europa. It is estimated that four or five hundred years after the fall of Western Rome, the agrarian society of the peninsula began to crumble, and the young men had no food to eat and could not marry wives. So these young men tried to go to the ocean to beg for a living, grab money, food, and wives, and grab them when they could win somewhere, and do business if they couldn't win....."
"Wow, they're so lacking."
"Hmph, this is a way of life in a unique social background, and you can't blame these ancients." Harold retorted, a glint in his gray eyes: "At that time, these sea lords were called 'Vikings', and they came from the sea, and they were fierce in battle, and they were good at using axes and shields. Later, a group of them defected to the Roman Empire in the south, and were formed into a standing mercenary army by the emperor of the Roman Empire at that time, and became the emperor's guard. ”
Harold turned his back to Edith, as if recalling his distant past, and said slowly: "That legion is called the 'Varangian' Guard, and in the reconquest of the Roman Empire, the Varangian Guard was the axe of the Roman Revival, they were brave and fearless warriors, and at the same time a group of gangsters and drunkards who did not believe in gods. ”
"They are kings of the seas and veterans of the land empire. Tonight, I'm going to tell you the stories of those people. ”