Chapter 148: The Treasure of the Nibelungen

"Hmm~"

The pain all over his body made Hei Lang cry out in pain.

When he opened his eyes again, the first thing that caught his eye was the roof of the earthen house.

He got up in a panic, and found that the wounds on his body had been treated at some point, wrapped in white bandages.

He looked around, the room was not big, it could even be said to be very poor, it was basically a structure of earth and stone, and the land was uneven.

"Are you awake?"

Cage sat on the stove in the corner of the room, simmering something, casually.

"Fortunately, although you have a lot of injuries, they are not serious, otherwise I really wouldn't have been able to save you.

She suddenly fell from the roof in front of me last night, covered in blood, and it really scared me. ”

"You saved me?" Heilang said.

"There doesn't seem to be anyone else here." Cage said funny.

He lifted the pot and poured it into the clay cup that lay on the table beside him, then put the pot on the table, took the cup, walked over to Heilang, and handed it to him.

"This is mulberry leaf tea that can help you heal your wounds."

Hei Lang took the tea, blew on the hot air on it, and took a sip, the strange smell that distorted his expression.

Cage laughed, "It's really hard to get used to at first, but that's what I know from the East. ”

After a pause, he asked curiously, "Why have you been injured so much, were you robbed by robbers?" ”

"I was indeed robbed." Heilang's eyes flashed, "However, it was not the property that was robbed, but a key. ”

"Keys?" Cage frowned slightly.

"One, the key that can unlock a mysterious treasure." Heilang said.

Cage was stunned for a moment, he seemed to have thought of something, and said with a strange face, "Do you know the owner of a bar?" ”

Hei Lang frowned slightly, and was also a little puzzled, "What? ”

"I went to a bar last night." "But I didn't have enough money for the drink, and the boss said I would find something for him, but he didn't say what he was looking for."

Just tell me I'll find out later.

Who knew I would meet you as soon as I walked out of the tavern door.

You've just lost something. ”

Hei Lang's eyes opened, he seemed to think of something, and quickly asked.

"What does he look like?"

"What does it look like." Cage recalled, "He looks very handsome, to be honest, I would never say that a man is handsome, but he is really different, and I guess it is even more amazing in the eyes of women."

He also has very smooth half-length white hair, which doesn't look like dyed, it should be the original color, which is very special.

Oh yes, he said his name was Char. ”

Char had never told Heilang his name, and he looked different now than he had when he first met him.

However, at the time of the Headless Horsemann incident, he had met several of Heilang's apprentices in their current form.

When they returned, they would naturally relay what they had seen and heard to Helang.

Although Hei Lang had never seen the white-haired Char, he also guessed that the person was Char at the first time based on their retelling.

Heilang looked at Cage, his eyes flickering, "Have you heard of the treasure of the Nibelungen?" ”

Hearing this, Char, who had been watching all this, finally recalled in his mind what the so-called Burgundy was.

In the old days, they had another name, the "Nibelungenes".

The treasure of the Nibelungen comes from an ancient poem, the song of the Nibelungen.

One of the more famous epic operas, the Ring of the Nibelungen, is based on this poem.

The treasure comes from a dwarf named Andrwali, who can also be called a dwarf.

Legend has it that in the Nibelungen, where the Rhine River flows, at the bottom of the Rhine, there lived three Rhine fairies, who guarded a rock at the bottom of the river day and night.

For on top of that rock was a piece of gold with magical powers.

Andvali, a Nibelungen dwarf, swam from behind the rocks to the Rhine daughters, eager to be loved by one of them.

However, Andrwally's ugliness was ridiculed and despised by them.

He was annoyed, but then he saw the magical gold that glittered above the boulder.

The three fairies of the Rhine revealed to him the secret that "whoever can make a ring of this gold will rule the world, but he must give up love".

As a result, Andwali cursed love and snatched the gold, and together with his brother Mime, he made the gold into a ring of supreme power and a helmet that could become invisible.

But later, Loki kills Heridmar's son, and an enraged Heridmar demands that Loki pay compensation.

Loki forcibly snatched Andrwally's treasure in order to scrape together enough money.

Among Andrwally's vast treasures, the ring "Andervalat" minted in Rhine gold was the most valuable.

Andrwally, who was robbed of his treasure, cursed those who possessed the ring, and he would invite infinite calamity.

In this way, André Lanott was delivered as a ransom to Heridmar, along with other treasures, who was later killed by his son Fafnir, who coveted the treasure.

After that, a series of episodes caused the heroes to die because of the ring and the treasure attached to it. It is one of the most iconic cursed items in Norse mythology.

According to rumors, the One Ring in the Lord of the Rings is based on the description of this ring.

The dwarven Fafnir uses the power of the ring to transform into a dragon guarding the treasure.

As a result, people are shy away from it.

Siegfried – also known as Siegfried, the prince of the Netherlands, known for his strength and bravery.

As a young man, Siegfried loved to travel and explore, and as a result, he acquired many riches, including the treasures of the Nibelungen.

He killed Fafnir and bathed himself in dragon blood, but as he bathed, a linden leaf floated to his back, so this untouched place became his only fatal place.

Siegfried, bathed in dragon blood, also gained the ability to communicate with birds.

From the chirping of birds, he learned that the Burgundian princess Clinhilde was beautiful, and he wanted to marry her.

At this time, Burgundy was in the midst of an invasion, so the Burgundian king Gaunt wanted Siegfried to help him repel the invaders.

In addition, help Gaunt get Brynnhilde. Siegfried then used the power of the ring and helmet to transform into Gaunt and conquer the competitive Queen of Iceland, Brynnhilde.

Later, Gaunt married Queen Brynnhilde, and Siegfried married Princess Krynnhilde.

However, on the wedding night, Brynnhilde refused to have a round house, so much so that Siegfried once again turned into Gaunt and subdued Brynnhilde, taking her belt and ring.

Years later, when the two queens were at odds, Brynnhilde learned the truth and sent his servant Hagen to avenge his revenge.

Hagen then deceived Siegfried into the vital point and marked his shirt, and while Siegfried was drinking from the spring, Hagen stabbed Siegfried to death, took the Nibelungen's treasure, and threw him into the Rhine.

Siegfried's wife, Klinghilde, was grief-stricken and vowed to avenge her husband.

A few years later, the Hun envoy courted Klinhild for the king, and Klinhilde agreed to marry him in revenge.

A few years later, at the instigation of Clinhilde, the war between the Xiongnu and Burgundy was on the verge of breaking out, and finally the war ended in Burgundy's defeat.

This poem is a heroic epic, so there are many elements of legends, but it also contains historical facts.

The Burgundians, also known as the Nibelungenes, are an ethnic group living on the northwestern peninsula of Europe.

Over time, around 200 BC, they gradually migrated to the Rhine region south of present-day Mainz.

From 435 to 437, the Burgundians fought with the Huns, and in the end, the Burgundians suffered a crushing defeat and almost no survivors.

However, there were still a few surviving Burgundians from the war, who fled to what is now Geneva and the mountains of southeastern France, where they settled and multiplied.

In addition, in 453, the Hun king Attila married a Germanic woman named Hildic, and he died on the night of the wedding.

Therefore, most historians feel that the reason why Hildick married the king of the Huns was to take revenge. Moreover, this is similar in many ways to Klinhilde's marriage to the king of the Huns.

To be honest, if this is an online article, this kind of plot of sending a daughter and a wife to remarry is really poisonous among poisons.

There are many German adaptations based on the story of this poem, although they differ in detail, but they are also very different.

For example, in the opera Ring of the Nibelungen, Brünnhilde becomes a Valkyrie and is punished by Odin for disobeying Odin's will.

Odin plunged a thorn from the Sleeping Tree into her body, causing her to fall into a deep sleep until the bravest man of mortal heaven came to retrieve the Sleeping Tree branch and awakened her. And she must marry the one who awakens her according to Odin's oracle.

Naturally, it was Siegfried who came to wake her up, but he called him another name in this story, Sigeld.

But he still died at the hands of Brunshidel, which is still a bloody sadomasochistic plot.

And if the Nightmare Order wants to find this treasure of the Nibelungen, then they probably covet the ring with supreme power.

Although the power may not be as powerful, the ability to easily turn into a dragon is definitely a dimensionality reduction blow in this era.

There is really no such thing as a golden apple in this world, and Char has not manifested it.

But apparently, fate has made what this world already has connected with Heilang's fate.

(End of chapter)