"Vinland..." Hestein shook his head, and the focus of his gaze drifted from Vigdis's face to the roof.
"Scandinavia is too barren. But there has always been a rumor among the tribe that there is a rich continent in the west of the ocean called Vinland, with an area three times that of the entire Europa. My father believed this.
Hearing the rumors, he led his tribe to explore. I followed my father’s fleet and sailed north from the Isle of Man.”
"Have you found Vinland?"
"It's not that easy. After leaving the British Isles for a while, we found a huge island. But the ice and snow there were not much better than Scandinavia. We named the island Iceland."
"Then what?"
"My father was unwilling to give in, so he used Iceland as a base and continued to explore to the west. After an unknown period of time, we discovered another piece of land, which was very huge and far exceeded the area of Scandinavia."
"That's Vinland right there?"
"Vinland? The climate there is colder and more barren than in Scandinavia. Even wood that can be used to make ships is extremely scarce. We call it Greenland. After that, my father wanted to continue westward.
We want to explore the surface, but the people's hearts are already distracted, and the material situation does not allow it."
Vigdis sighed regretfully:
"What a pity. Maybe if we continue sailing westward, we can find the real Vinland."
"In the final analysis, Vinland is just a legend with no basis at all. Okay, the story is over, can you leave me now?"
"Not yet."
"What else do you want to do?"
"Tell me a story about your adventures on the sea every week. If you promise, I'll leave."
Hestein felt a little surprised:
"Do you really want to leave me on the island? Your father hates me very much! I was born in Scandinavia and am the son of a pirate!"
"Then what does it matter? This island hosts people from all over the world, including people from the Alemannic Federation, people from the Kingdom of Saxony, people from the Republic of the Islands... Why can't there be another pirate kingdom... No, Scandina
Where are the Viyas?”
Vigdis's eyes were so innocent.
"When I learn my father's swordsmanship and become the new lord of Antilia, I will let people from all countries and cultures live equally and happily in Antilia, because they are all mine.
people."
——Woke up from the dream.
The face that appeared in front of Hestein was so nostalgic.
"Vegdis?"
"It's Lily!"
Lily Mistertin hit Hestein hard on the head, causing Hestein to wake up completely - Lily looked very similar to Vigdis, but her eyes were covered with a piece of black cloth.
There is no brass bell hanging from my wrist.
The destitute boy back then has now become a man nicknamed the "King of Beasts". And Vigdis Mistertin passed away ten years ago.
Hestein roughly pushed Lily away, rubbed his eyes, walked out of bed, and asked while getting dressed:
"How did you get in? Where is the guard at the door?"
"Everyone fell asleep, so I came in."
"Asleep?" Hestein opened the tent angrily, only to see the pirates guarding the door lying on the ground in a mess. They were asleep, but they were obviously knocked unconscious.
At that moment, Hestein had already carried the gold discovered by Ella to join his troops. But among the nearly ten thousand troops, Bjorn was still the only one who could stop Lily Mistertin for a moment.
"Hestein, did you just call my sister's name again...?"
"Okay! Stop talking!"
The King of Beasts interrupted the topic rudely. However, Lily seemed to have no intention of stopping:
"It's really funny. The person who killed my sister was obviously..."
The entire tent was suddenly lifted into the air. Hestein raised his spear and pointed it at Lily Mistertin, and all the veins on his hands and neck bulged.
"Hestein? Did you point your weapon at me?"
Lily Mistertin's invisible eyes pointed aimlessly at the sky, but her body exuded a fierce murderous aura.
No one dared to stop the fight between these two men.
Just then——
"Little Rice! Little Rice, where are you going? Come back quickly! Little Rice! Hey! You two! What are you doing all of a sudden so early in the morning?"
A certain Baselisa protested at the two men from a distance, wielding a crowbar.
A strange twitching appeared on both Hestein's and Lily's faces.
"Lily, who is Little Rice?"
"It was a wild cat that your Baselisa caught on the island... For some reason, she and her maid have been trying to catch mice with bare hands these past few days. When they found that they couldn't catch them, they ran to catch a cat...
…”
"Catch mice? Why? Even if there are mice, they won't eat her bread!"
"I heard her say that she seemed to be trying to feed the mice to someone... The culture of the Seven Hills Empire... is really weird."
"Weird." Hestein repeated the word. For some reason, the words Ella said to Hunter Mistertin on the ship rang in his mind:
"In my eyes, the people on Antilia Island are also the people of the Seven Hills Empire."
In the distance, Ella finally realized that she couldn't catch the cat with force and a crowbar, so she took out a bell and tried to lure the cat into her arms through "enticement".
Jingle bell, jingle bell, jingle bell.
Hestein's burly body trembled slightly, and the world in front of him seemed to be distorted, overlapping with that day more than twenty years ago——
But I heard Lily sighing and saying to herself:
"If my sister is still alive, her child should be this big now, right?"
"No, if Vigdis is still alive, her child only turned ten last month and is much younger than her." Hestein glared at Lily, "I will never make a mistake in this kind of thing."
Amy grabbed a mouse by its tail and happily found Ella.
"Your Majesty! Look what this is! It's a mouse! It seems to be the leftovers from Little Rice's meal yesterday!"
"Little Rice, you did a great job!" Ella cheered, threw away the bell, and dug up dirt on the ground. She dug a small hole in the ground, inserted the crowbar into it, and then Amy covered her nose.
, the half mouse on the handle was carefully placed in front of the crowbar.
The two of them bowed to the crowbar together:
"Snake, look, it's the mouse you like to eat!"
"Snake, come out quickly! Help me bite Hestein to death!"
The crowbar silently expressed its thoughts on the two women in front of it.
Ella fell into deep thought: "It's strange, Jabir obviously attached such a big basilisk to the crowbar, why can't I scream out?"
"Does snakes not like eating dead mice?"
Ella suddenly thought of something and turned her gaze to Amy. Her gaze made Amy feel that danger was coming, and she took a few steps back.
"Amy, try to seduce her with magic again!"
"I don't want to! I don't want to use Aphrodite's divine protection to seduce reptiles! And it's to seduce the same individual twice in a row! Why is Your Majesty so anxious to call out that big snake? "
"Of course it's to kill that Hestein! No matter what, he is a scumbag! I want to avenge the girls he murdered!"
"Your Majesty! You are Baselisa! Not an assassin! Please don't insist on doing this kind of thing with your own hands, and spend some time learning magic..."
Looking at the two people arguing in the distance, Hestein turned his back silently.
"Originally I wanted to take the gold and go with her to see Lodbrok..."
Hestein asked Lily for her opinion in a low voice.
"But the way she is now...would it be better for me to keep her in my territory?"
