Chapter 133 3.55 Light Touch Hall

Opening the door, an even more earthy scene came. There was actually a small buffet table hidden in the carriage! There were roasted lamb legs, stewed beef with potatoes, braised pork elbows, and a plate of fried rice. The whole carriage was filled with the smell of food.

Emma frowned and sat in the corner with disdain. After Loki sat opposite her, he obviously had no intention of grabbing food with his hands on the bumpy carriage. The O'Sullivan family was obviously still treating Loki the way they treated ordinary Viking lords.

These lords with muscles in their heads could not imagine anything else to enjoy except "eating meat".

The journey that followed was quite embarrassing.

Emma was obviously still upset about Loki letting Youm go. This girl, who was born in a wealthy family in Constantinople, did not understand much about the ways of the world. She naively thought that the boy could only get a better life if he followed her.

But she was not a chosen one, and she had no idea how tempting the "sun sacrifice" of Sequence 2 was to those high-level chosen ones. Not to mention that the Waldorf family is a business family, even if they are the king of Byzantium.

In front of the powerful ancient gods, there are still not many chips that can be used.

Fortunately, the two are not related, and Emma is just the balance of 300 "denar gold coins" in Loki's eyes. For Loki, after today's farewell, the two will never meet again, and there is nothing to explain.

The two entered the embassy district in silence all the way.

The embassy district is the most exquisite area in the Conqueror's Fortress. The exquisite garden in the castle was divided into several sections by the Viking King, including the Tang people's glazed tile palace, the Arabs' fire temple, the Byzantine Cathedral, and the water garden built by the French.

Although the Scandinavian Peninsula is wild and primitive, if we talk about envoys from all over the world, the royal palace is not rarer than those of the big countries.

The reason is simple: the "pillar industry" of the Conqueror's Fortress is to send Viking mercenaries, collect commissions from these financiers, and fight for them.

Viking mercenaries have different names around the world. In Constantinople, they are called "Varyag Guards", in France, they are called "Northern Tribes"; in the Arab Empire, they are called "White Ghosts" like the Slavs.

Many royal nobles tend to hire Viking mercenaries as personal guards.

1. They have a single belief and are extremely difficult to be controlled by other local beliefs, and will not participate in local factional disputes.

2. These mercenaries are fearless and even proud of death during battles. On the battlefield, they are much more powerful than any other troops just by virtue of this blood and courage.

3. Vikings are generally uneducated and simple-minded. They rarely do things that backfire on their masters. "Whoever has milk is the mother" is a sacred truth for these mercenaries.

As long as you make me money, I will definitely work for you.

The O'Sullivan family has been able to stand in the Conqueror's Fortress for nearly a hundred years, relying on the huge amount of money brought by Viking mercenaries. There is a mercenary academy in the Conqueror's Fortress. Viking farmers and hunters who have no food at home and can hardly make ends meet can send their children to the academy to be trained as mercenaries.

O'Sullivan will buy magic potions for them.

After the Viking teenagers are promoted to the Chosen Ones, he will also invite the best technical and tactical teachers from all over the world for them to receive the strongest fighting training of this era.

To be honest, Loki does not like this way of making money.

Selling out his own subjects and letting them lose their lives for the inexplicable fights of other lords can be summed up in two words: selling people.

No matter in which dynasty, "selling people" is a shameful act for the Chinese people. After removing all the skins, the mercenary business of the O'Sullivan family is essentially a business of selling people who drink human blood.

If all these mercenaries are gathered under his name to form an army, he can completely capture a large area of ​​​​territory and seek a better living environment for his vassals. But he would rather choose to make friends with these powerful countries by "selling people", and he would only bully the poor Slavs in the east from time to time.

No matter how you look at it, this is not a heroic act.

Passing through the garden of the embassy district, the sun disappeared, and the carriage drove into the gloomy gate of Wang Gong. In terms of scale, the outer gate of the castle is quite similar to the huge giant ruins in the "Sunken City". The carriage drove through a row of towering porches, which were at least 10 meters high.

The slender Gothic columns supported the arc-shaped dome. The sun shone on the walls of the porch, and you could vaguely see the mottled murals painted on the dome. The details of the murals began to become dull and dark due to their age, and some of the wall skins had fallen off, but careful identification still showed that it was a wide mural of a giant fighting a dragon.

The length of this mural is nearly 50 meters, almost spreading the length of the entire porch.

After passing the first porch, the carriage entered a spiral upward curve. Looking through the curved porch at the outer wall on the other side of the castle, Loki saw another huge red dragon.

This dragon's color was very similar to the outer wall of the "Conqueror's Fortress". It grabbed the outer wall of the castle with the two claws on its wings and its two thick hind legs, and twisted its head backwards to make a roaring expression.

It is unknown what happened, but the moment of death of this dragon was also frozen at this moment. Like the black dragon on the wall, the skin of the red dragon has been dried by the wind. At this time, it was illuminated by the setting sun, like a bloodstone ornament hanging on the outer wall of the castle.

"I say, little sister Emma, ​​you are well-informed in the Royal Academy. Are there still dragons in the current Western Continent, such as France, Visigoths, and Byzantium?"

"Humph!"

Emma snorted coldly and turned her head away in anger.

As a steel straight man who has lived two lives, Loki found that the stubborn disease of "straight men" will not be improved at all with the increase of age and experience. He really didn't know how to deal with this situation. He could only laugh twice and turn his head to continue watching the scenery outside the carriage.

In the huge revolving porch, several people walked higher and higher. It was not until the height of nearly 20 or 30 floors that the carriage resumed stable driving. Loki finally understood why Moherantin sent a carriage to greet him. If you walk this journey on foot, it will take at least half a day.

Finally, the carriage stopped.

As the coachman opened the door and lowered the footrest, Loki walked out of the carriage and saw a royal garden built high in the sky! Looking down from a bird's eye view, he could see houses the size of matchboxes, neat streets and ships passing by on the sea in the distance.

The garden was planted with carefully cultivated flowers, trees and marble statues of the gods in the Hall of Valor. The majestic central axis leads to a three-story palace that is all red. The top floor of the palace is even made entirely of shining glass.

An old butler in exquisite clothes stood on the other side of the carriage and waited respectfully.

"My king, Ivar O'Sullivan, and the eldest princess, Mehrandin O'Sullivan, are waiting for you two in the Light Touch Hall with other nobles."

"My two distinguished guests, please follow me."