You and me under the world tree

What did the silly boy say?

Turning his head and glaring at his daughter, Gripal's voice was clearly tinged with anger.

"I have only your mother as a wife, and her as my lover."

In Hilda's impression, her father was rarely angry, but when he was angry, no one dared to disobey him.

Among them is Hilda, who is not big or small. Even if she has a thick nerve, she should know that she has stepped on a thunder at this moment.

"So, who is this man?"

"Your...cousin."

"Cousins? No, Losger is still in Denmark, although they look a little bit alike."

"You don't just have one cousin, and that's a long story," he began. "He's Siegfried."

"Siegfried?"

Because Hilda didn't hear this name all the time, Hilda was a little dazed when he heard this name.

After thinking for a while, she finally remembered who it was.

Her aunt Theotis was queen of the Netherlands before she married King Erf of Denmark, and she had a child.

"But, I remember that he is dead." She stammered, with a look of disbelief on her face, "Is he still alive? Did the prince of Goth lie?"

For a moment, Hilda's active mind was thinking a lot, but Gripal just reached out and rubbed her little head.

"Who knows, you might as well ask the person concerned about these things."

"Ok?"

"Siegfried will be visiting us soon."

"Eh?"

Chapter 9: If only you were a boy

Hilda only felt that the amount of information was a bit large.

Although some things are taken for granted by Gripal himself, because he is proficient in divination and he had doubts before, it is nothing.

But Hilda is different. To her, this is not just a simple matter of "jumping out a brother halfway", this brother still jumped out of the coffin.

Of course she remembered this incident, because it happened just over two years ago, and it was quite a big deal.

The last descendant of the Volsunger family is like a flash in the pan, Siegfried and his companions fell in the city of giants in the Jura Mountains.

The reason why this matter is widely circulated is that it was made public by the famous Victorious Prince Dietrich.

Dietrich Dietmarsen

Although because of the distance, the Gothic Kingdom has always been able to fight only with the bordering kingdoms-Denmark, the Netherlands, Burgundy and even Hungary.

The distance between Norway and Gitland is too far, let alone Iceland, but even so, the name of Prince Victory is quite loud.

On the one hand, this is due to the bragging of the bards, on the other hand, it is proved by the actual record.

Because of this, his reputation was quite resounding. From the moment he revealed Siegfried's identity, the bards spread the news.

But it was the Valkyries who really pushed the news of 'Siegfried's death' to the forefront, because the Valkyrie took over the corpse and buried it.

Almost everyone knew the character of the leader of the Hendin family, King Legni who now ruled the Netherlands.

At the beginning, he even refused to give Siegmund a decent funeral, how could he think of burying his posthumous son grandly.

Just like Siegmund was buried in the tomb under the royal city, Siegfried's funeral was organized by the Valkyrie, which almost confirmed the fact of his death.

But it was her father's reaction that really gave Hilda a general understanding of 'Siegfried'.

Gripper once asked the Kingdom of the Netherlands for his body, because he knew that Legny would never hold a funeral for Siegfried.

This is unacceptable to Gripal himself, and he can ignore others, but Siegfried cannot expose his corpse to the wilderness.

Even though he is the heir of Volsung, the blood of Theotis still flows in his body, and Theotis is his sister.

The matter was over until the Valkyrie personally arranged a low-key funeral and sent the remains to the mausoleum of the Volsung family.

However, it is such a person, he is not dead, and now he still wants to visit?

"Really..." She couldn't help asking

Then her father nodded to her.

"Really, he has probably arrived in Yangang, maybe in the past few days."

"I can't understand, how did he do it... Could it be that he was resurrected?"

She scratched her head, and she didn't come back to herself until her father gave her a slight push.

"This kind of thing is not important, Hilda, go and see Nanna, she is still outside."

"Oh……"

Although Hilda is very interested in this kind of thing, her father is right, Nanna is still waiting for her.

This kind of thing can be asked at any time, but the friend is still waiting outside. This kind of choice is easy to do, isn't it?

So like that, she left.

"call."

When he walked outside the door, Hilda suddenly felt that his head was a little messed up, and he wanted to complain but didn't know where to start.

Don't look at Hilda's usual carelessness, she doesn't seem to have any scheming, but she is a princess of a country after all, and she is also the only daughter of Gripal.

In this way, the seemingly boring education she received since she was a child still had a little influence on her, so at this moment, her head began to turn:

Siegfried should have died but he didn't. Excluding the basically impossible option of fraudulent corpse, there may be only one possibility: fake death.

However, there are too many things involved in this 'fake death'.

Among them, the Valkyrie must have played a vital role.

So the question is, does the Valkyrie, who is the spokesperson of the gods, know the inside story?

Do the gods know the inside story?

I always feel like I've thought of something incredible...

Hilda always felt that he was standing on a fork in the road, and as long as his thoughts turned slightly, he would turn to a seemingly scary place.

Does the god know?

If the gods don't know...

"Hilda?"

Just as she walked out of the room, Nanna's voice rang in her ear, which made her interrupt her thoughts.

"Ok?"

"What did you see inside? Can you tell me if you don't mind?"

This is what smart people do. Neither Nanna nor Hilda are idiots. It is true that they feel like sisters, but this feeling cannot remove all obstacles.

They all have their own kingdoms, and Hilda herself is the future Queen of Iceland.

It is impossible for Nanna to stay there on her own initiative relying on her friendship with Hilda.

Nanna is Hilda's friend, but Gripal is the king. What he is going to do and what he does can be made public to Hilda, but it is impossible for Nanna to know everything.

To put it simply, it was one thing for her to forcefully stay there to inquire, but it was quite another to ask Hilda.

"No, it's nothing, it's just some boring divination done by the king." Facing Nanna's suspicious gaze, Hilda smiled, "It's nothing special, you know, when people get old, they always look forward and backward. "

This sentence is actually half true and half false. After all, Hilda still didn't tell her some things.

Because she didn't know whether to say it or not, she just kept it secret.

"Okay, compared to these, let's go and change clothes, it's still early."

Before Nanna could say anything, Hilda reached out and grabbed her, which made her feel puzzled.

"Change clothes?"

"Let's go out of the palace together, I'm almost suffocated in the palace!" She grabbed Nanna and started running, this kind of carefree movement couldn't help but attract the attention of the surrounding servants.

However, they are also used to the bragging behavior of the little master in the palace.

Some people even smiled knowingly. These people grew up watching Her Royal Highness, and almost treated her as a daughter.

"But, is it really okay?" Nanna couldn't help asking just being dragged by Hilda, "There are guards in the palace, so outside the palace..."

"You don't need to bring guards, I'll protect you." Hilda said, "None of those guards can fight, so don't worry."

Those guards will cry when they hear your words...

After hearing what Hilda said, Nanna couldn't help but cast her eyes on the female guard (shield girl) standing at the end of the corridor, but she obviously didn't hear it, and just stood there holding a sword and shield.

However, when she heard Hilda's words, Nanna couldn't help feeling a little bit of joy in her heart, followed by a touch of regret.

"Hilda." she called

"Ok?"

"It would be nice if you were a boy."

Suddenly confused by Nanna's words, Hiluda couldn't help raising her eyebrows, but from the worried face of her best friend, she finally found a reason to say this.

"Little fool, don't worry about this aspect, you will definitely have a happy marriage."

"Is it?"

"If your future husband treats you badly, then tell me, and I'll call the door!"

"Well, thank you."

Chapter 10: Heroes of the North

Although this is the main city of a kingdom, it seems to be isolated from the world. Except for the ships that come and go, the pace of life here seems to be quite slow.

This even gives people an illusion: there is no war here.

On the one hand, it is because this land is located at the northernmost point, and it is not bordered by other kingdoms, but more is due to the current King Gripal.

And on the port of Reykjavik, the smoke port, a soldier is standing here overlooking the beautiful sea view.

Of course he is Siegfried.

Nearly half a year has passed since the death of the evil dragon Favnir, and he spent more than half of his time in the former ruins of Gnitahead and now the Nibelung Kingdom.

His daily task is to practice swords, try to control Gorum, try to use Balmonk, and finally swing the two swords together.

This is actually quite a difficult process for him. He needs to control the evil dragon soul in Balmonk that hates the power of the gods, and he also needs to control Gorum who is chaotic due to stimulation.

The process involved is simply inhumane.

Thanks to the fact that he was bathed in dragon's blood, he has a far stronger physique and invulnerable skin than ordinary people, so he was able to exercise repeatedly under the torture of two swords.

If it was an ordinary person, he might be affected by the power emitted by the two swords.

But in fact, he was able to successfully control and learn to use two swords at the same time thanks to another item: the dragon heart.

Eating other people's hearts is an extremely ancient custom in the human world in the atrium, and even in the entire Nine Realms.

In this ancient and barbaric traditional custom, eating the heart of others means inheriting the knowledge and ideas of others, which is a very ancient inheritance ceremony.

And after eating the heart, he also found that he was indeed much lighter when swinging the sword, which belonged to Fafnir's sword skills and knowledge.

Thanks to this, he was able to fully control the two completely different swords within a few months, otherwise it would have taken more time.

Generally speaking, after completing such a heroic feat as slaying a dragon, the average warrior should have started bragging about it long ago.

But Siegfried is different. He spent a lot of time controlling the two swords of God's Wrath and Fog Demon.

After that, it took about a month to digest the knowledge of sword skills from Fafnir, and then set off from the dwarf mountains in the southwest to the north without stopping.

Maybe it's because he was influenced by his uncle, or maybe it's because he has strengthened his thoughts and beliefs, and he doesn't pay much attention to such things as "famous".

His current idea is to return to the Netherlands, and this is not only for himself, but also to end his uncle's obsession.

Therefore, he came to the north of the atrium world according to his uncle's instructions, which was agreed half a year ago.