You and me under the world tree

This topic cannot be accepted...

When Hodder said these words casually, Gripal felt the trouble for a long time.

He intends to maintain a good relationship with the other party, so he can't bring up this kind of topic.

To be precise, he couldn't focus on who was responsible for the 'Volsong's subjugation', because no matter who was blamed, it would make people feel unhappy.

and so……

"Destroyed can be rebuilt, right?" He just said these words, "I have asked the servants to prepare food, I hope you can enjoy the peaceful days in Iceland."

For Gripper, the stability and peace that Smokehaven, and the entire Kingdom of Iceland, maintained was something he was proud of.

There may be many shortcomings in it, but at least he kept war away from his country.

"I believe it will be unforgettable for you all your life."

Chapter 19: Banquets and inquiries

Banquets are a common form of celebration in the atrium world.

After winning the battle, the king will invite the warriors to a banquet to celebrate the anniversary of the king's enthronement, and the palace will hold a banquet.

Even the people here seem to have a hobby. If there is something worth celebrating, some rich people will hold banquets at every turn.

In Huo De's impression, Siegmund is such a person.

He ascended the throne himself, and held a banquet to celebrate.

Well, it's nothing. After all, there is a grand and ancient ceremony before the banquet. It is normal for other powerful lords in the kingdom to come down for dinner.

My son is born, let's hold a banquet to celebrate.

Well, this is okay, after all, it is also a direct bloodline, and the birth of Helgi is indeed worth celebrating.

My son finds an acquaintance to be a teacher, and holds a banquet to celebrate.

In fact, from here on, Hodt found that Siegmund was getting more and more swollen, and his brain seemed to be flooded.

Maybe it's because of cultural conflicts, maybe it's because of different perceptions of certain things.

Huo De felt that being Helgi's teacher was nothing, and there was no need to be so grand. As a result, Siegmund insisted on making it known to the world.

To put it bluntly, Hodder himself is not used to getting together with so many people (NPCs), and every time the task guide asks him to go to a banquet, he will feel uncomfortable for a while.

It's not that the dishes at the banquet are unpalatable, what's more important is that the warriors who participated in the banquet were quite generous, and they toasted every time.

To tell you the truth, it's very annoying, and the things you talk about are very unnutritious.

However, there are still different types of things like banquets.

What Huo De is not used to is the kind of banquet that is too loud and has a lot of people.

Of course, it's not that he hates it, it's just that he doesn't get used to it, because what he likes to do is to sit quietly on the side and watch them make noise peacefully.

Just be a bystander!

As a result, Siegmund dragged him to talk nonsense and drink together every time, which made him feel extremely uncomfortable.

But fortunately, the scale of King Gripal's banquet was not large to be honest.

There were only a few people involved, including King Gripal.

King Gripal of the Kingdom of Iceland, this is the host.

Princess Hilda of the Kingdom of Iceland, she is Gripal's daughter after all, so she must attend.

Princess Nanna of the Kingdom of Norway must not be excluded from the banquet. After all, she is also Hilda's best friend, and she often lives in Yangang.

Siegfried, the dragon-slaying hero and son of Siegmund, couldn't be absent. After all, he is also the protagonist of this banquet. This banquet is held for him. What is the absence like?

Huo Moyu Daren wants the NPC to do the task by himself. De, he has no idea, he is just a freelancer.

These were just the numbers for a small dinner, and Gripper seemed to dislike dining in a grand hall.

It's too alienating to have one table per person and sit scattered.

Griple didn't like that, so his banquet was supposed to be in the garden, with no table, just a picnic cloth, and everyone sitting on the floor.

But it's worth mentioning that when Hodder took off his helmet, everyone including Gripal couldn't help but look surprised.

For a man who had become famous long ago and was active in the same era as Siegmund did not look old, even younger than Gripper.

But Griple quickly realized that there were quite a few mixed blood in the atrium, whether they were of giant blood, god blood, dwarf blood or even elf blood, all had a longer lifespan than humans.

Therefore, this small banquet went quite smoothly.

The meals are not very high-end, but rather simple: the staple food is whole wheat bread, the appetizers are pickled cucumbers and Icelandic cod soup (plokkfiskur).

However, it is worth mentioning that plokkfiskur is not a "soup" in the broad sense of translation, at least in the eyes of Orientals, it should not be a soup, but more like a sauce.

Its method is not difficult. First, cook the cod and potatoes with clean water, then mash the cod and cut the potatoes into cubes.

In another pot, melt the butter, add chopped onion, cook until translucent, add flour and milk.

Then add pepper and turmeric powder as the main ingredients of curry powder, which is as rich as potatoes.

No one knows why these things appeared in Norse in the age of mythology, but it exists, and it is cultivated in various kingdoms.

Players who play cooking can even make their own spice powder.

In short, this thing does not seem to be a soup in a broad sense. No water is used from the beginning to the end, and the only 'liquid' is piled up with milk.

Even the cod is not the protagonist, it is just tossed with the potatoes into the above-mentioned simmered sauce at the last critical moment.

It's mildly sweet in the mouth, but the spice has a lot of stamina, and people like Griple like to eat it bite by bite with a spoon.

As for Siegfried, after he took a sip, he felt that the taste was too strong. If he had to describe it, it was like eating freshly cooked spicy meat without pasta or rice.

Some people like to do that, but Siegfried is obviously not your type, so it can only be served with bread and cod soup as a topping.

At the dining table, these people who are quite accustomed to eating can be said to be feasting, and they are talking about various things.

Hodder was like an outsider, just as he said to Siegfried before, he just listened quietly.

Moreover, just as Hodder expected, Griple was a person who valued blood and family ties. In addition, he had sympathy for Siegfried, so he asked a lot of questions in a concerned tone.

If it was the somewhat mediocre blacksmith boy who used to be, he would probably have said everything with a hot head and a sore nose at this moment.

But after more than two years of experience, he showed a certain degree of advance and retreat.

And more importantly, he had already understood the essence of 'only half the story', because he couldn't fully trust Griple.

It is worth mentioning that this was not pure deception, so Siegfried behaved more calmly.

"It's nothing. Legney found out who I was, so he sent soldiers to chase me down. My uncle and I escaped from the royal city, and then went to the Gothic Kingdom."

He concealed Lakin's existence, or he deliberately ignored it.

Because the status itself is not high, the dwarves wandering in the atrium world are completely dispensable.

Nor did this arouse Griple's suspicions.

"Later, Uncle suggested we fake death and get away with it, and that's what you know."

Yes, this set of reasons can be said to be perfect, and no one except Hodder and Lakin can find the loopholes in it.

However, after all, Gripal is not an idiot like Legney.

"I heard you had a dwarf foster father?" he asked

This question can also be regarded as validating Hodder's conjecture - Gripal really investigated the matter in this regard.

Chapter 20: Shock

As a person who can ask for Siegfried's body, regardless of the purpose and reason of his actions, after he learned of Siegfried's existence, it is inevitable to investigate this matter.

It is not difficult to find out that there is a blacksmith apprentice named Siegfried in the capital of Volsung. After all, Siegfried did not grow up in an isolated environment.

Following this line, it is not difficult to find out the dwarf blacksmith who has lived in the royal city for a long time.

But even so, Siegfried already understood this, so he nodded slowly without any hesitation.

"Yes, my uncle handed me over to him at that time, and he is a trustworthy person."

"Then, the dwarf..."

"Dead." When talking about this, Siegfried rubbed his eyes.

It looked as if the wind in the garden was making his eyes hurt, but it could also be that the topic was making his eyes sore.

After all, no matter what, the death of an adoptive father is not so easy to accept, even for a lowly dwarf.

Of course, this is not the case in fact. In Huo De's eyes, Siegfried's behavior was purely due to his poor acting skills.

Because he was lying, he was afraid to look into Griple's eyes, so he just started rubbing them.

How could Lai Jin die? He didn't know how good his life was.

According to what Siegfried told Hodder before, Gurnita Hyde quickly threw himself into the restoration project and repaired the ceiling the night Hodder left.

Different from human craftsmen, dwarf craftsmen are very efficient, and traces of magic that ordinary people cannot learn can be seen everywhere.

They used magic to create modest rock golems, then started building the house on the spot, restoring the dusty Gurnita Hyde in less than two days.

And not only that, Lai Jin also led people to rearrange the defense facilities, using the original Ganita Heide as a city like a decoy.

To put it simply, traces of life are maintained on the surface, but the clansmen are all moving deeper underground.

They used the original royal palace as the entrance and re-opened a passage, which can only be entered by entering a specific password, or holding an officially certified 'Mist Demon Ring' and using the password.

In a month's time, the dwarves created a large-scale city. They re-decorated the closed ceiling and shaped the starry sky with the inextinguishable fire stored in Lai Jin's ring.

"If possible, Lai Jin hopes that you can go back and take a look, uncle. It is definitely a 'mechanism city' with full defense."

From these words alone, Hodder can know how wonderful the newly built 'Kingdom of the Nibelung' is.

This point can actually be seen from the original layout of Gnita Hyde. The dwarves are not a "bad race" that likes to live in the "darkness" as most people imagined.

Their conception of 'art' is not inferior to those elves living in the kingdom of light.

Because they have no access to the sun, they especially love the moon and stars, so they make these by themselves.

Moreover, they love all kinds of institutions.

After considering the original shortcomings of Ganita Heide, Lai Jin will definitely focus on the issue of defense and camouflage.

Those passages that are easy to get lost are to make people here completely lose their sense of space and finally lose their sense of direction.

As for the organ city, this kind of thing is quite interesting, but I don't know if it will be put on the big map with the gradual update of the expansion pack.

But if you think about it carefully, it probably won't be, because no matter what, Lakin's "main process" should be the dead, and so far, not many people have tried to save that "bitter" old dwarf.

"Is it in the battle with the evil dragon?"

"Yes, that evil dragon named Fafnir once jumped into the sky to chase the sun goddess. In order to save the sun, the goddess temporarily blocked its brilliance."

When he said this, Siegfried finally raised his head, and he naturally began to bite the bread in his hand.

"I thought maybe you should know?"

Siegfried's words were flat, as if it wasn't a big deal.

But in fact, both Nanna and Hilda couldn't help looking at him, and even a wise man like Gripal couldn't help but pause.

The evil dragon, the sun.

These two keywords point to only one content, and it is definitely not the level of "maybe you should know" that Siegfried said.

Half a year ago, the twilight scene that emerged from the sky can be said to have shocked many people.

At that time, some people even thought that the world was coming to an end.

But later, according to what the goddess later said, it was just an evil dragon chasing the sun.

But unintentionally, this rumor became the legend of "the evil dragon intent on devouring the sun was beheaded by the mysterious hero".

Not to mention the present, this matter is a real heroic achievement no matter what era it is placed in the atrium.

Evil dragons are not uncommon, but this is probably the only dragon that dares to chase after the sun.

There's Valkyrie confirmed, so it's certainly not fiction.

And now, Siegfried admits it, which means...