Vikings: Journey of the Juggernaut

Chapter 14 The Lady of Dawn, Sword and Spear Form

As the duel began, the sounds outside gradually became quiet, leaving only the old craftsmen who were still making noises.

"Little widow, you have such a good figure, you are very suitable to be a soul couple with my son." Granhan glanced at the woman's body, trying to disturb the reason of the person in front of him.

Although the prophet said that he could easily win this battle, since this person dared to stand up and fight with him, it was obvious that he was not just willing to die, and he must have some strength.

What the old craftsman answered was a long sword stabbing at an angle. The long sword was blocked by the shield.

Just as Granham was about to continue taunting him, he saw the woman step to his side and stab the sword from the other direction.He had to turn around to resist, and then came the third sword, the fourth sword...

He soon became tired of dealing with it, and his forehead was covered with cold sweat.After just a while, even my steps started to feel frivolous.

At this time, Itiya was also a little surprised. The opponent in front of her was far less oppressive than the pressure that Rayleigh brought to her during sparring.

The shield in his left hand was always ready for defense, but he didn't even wait for an attack.

With her terrifying combat observation ability, she quickly realized that this old guy's strength was indeed not very good. No matter whether it was strength, speed or physical strength, he couldn't do anything.

It's obvious, it's not fake.

Thinking about it, he is old and frail, his mind is full of drinking and women, he has a big belly, and his own strength is only average. After so many years of waste, he has no fighting power left.

In this case, she also let go of the attack. After the sword was blocked, a swift shield strike followed and hit the old craftsman on the head.

Nosebleeds gushed out instantly!

Graham was still in a daze because his head was hit, and he saw the sword stabbing his neck again, and he quickly raised his hand to block.

The long sword then penetrated the soft armor and stabbed into his arm.

Granhan shouted in pain and immediately retreated wildly, but after pulling out the long sword from his arm, he chased after him like a maggot attached to his bone.

"Wait... I surrender..."

Because his arm was injured, he decisively threw away the shield that was becoming increasingly difficult to hold, and his pace of escape accelerated a bit, while shouting at the woman.

But the vicious woman behind him did not give up the pursuit. After a few steps, he caught up with her and raised her long sword. Granhan knew that he could not escape. He felt cruel and turned around to strike with an axe.

If you want to die, then die together!

But this was just his wishful thinking. With a bang, the ax was blocked by the shield, and the sword edge fell and cut his wrist open.

"my hand……"

Granham screamed, and the ax fell to the ground.

Itiya did not hesitate, and kicked the man to the ground from behind. He kicked the ax at his feet far away, then held it with both hands and raised the long sword in his hand.

"kill him!"

"kill him!"

"Kill this old gangster!"

The surrounding tribesmen became increasingly excited, and countless shouts rang out.

"Don't kill, leave me a dog alive, spare me..."

In Granhan's frightened eyes, the sword suddenly fell down, piercing straight from his back until it penetrated his heart.

Pfft! !
Looking at the blood flowing out of the ground, the boiling sound in the field instantly became deafening.

At this moment, the sunlight completely penetrated the fog layer and shone on that delicate face, as if she had been covered with a layer of holy clothing.

……

A flash of fish belly white lit up the sky, and the entire Bastion Farm was reflected in the rays of light.

A young woman wearing a linen nightgown stood at the door of the longhouse and shouted to the two little ones in front of her: "Be safe, don't train too late, go home early at night... Eat enough at noon, if you don't have enough, Just come back and eat..."

"Okay, then my sister and I are leaving."

Rayleigh waved to the back and took his sister, who was happily drinking milk, to the coastal training ground.

My sister-in-law's cooking skills are very good, and with the money, the food during this period is naturally very good, and my sister has a little baby fat on her face.

At this time, two months had passed since the duel.

The past two months were generally relatively peaceful, and there were no harassers at home. There were quite a few people who came to formally propose marriage with gifts, but they were all politely rejected by the sister-in-law.

Smiling Genat also came twice to replace the outstanding person he mentioned, but each time he was kicked out before even mentioning his name.

Haven't been here since.

Another thing is that the raiding team set out for Western Europe again a few days ago, and Staff also left with them.

The tribe would arrange two raids a year, one after the spring rye harvest, and the second in early autumn.

Of course, time doesn't change at all.

Rayleigh had seen that when relations with the Blackfish tribe were tense three years ago, the raiding team waited until after the autumn barley harvest before embarking on the expedition.

Even in peacetime, the tribe would leave about forty raiders to guard the territory just in case.Most of the members of my brother's fleet, who had participated in the spring raid last time, basically stayed in the territory this time.

As for himself, with the further growth in strength after his breakthrough in xinxing, during this period of training ground duels, except for Kaisen and Jecam, his winning rate against the others has increased to more than [-]%.Of course, this is still while wearing weights and consuming most of your energy in advance.

……

After walking for more than ten minutes, Rayleigh arrived at the coast, and then he and his sister walked separately to their respective training grounds for their peers.

I have also thought about whether to bring my younger sister with me to train. After all, my younger sister basically trains alone among her peers.Later, she thought about it and gave up. Being under his own wing would only delay her growth.

Growing up, he knew very well:

This is a little sister who will grow into a terrifying existence on her own, and there is no need to do anything extra.

After passing through these thoughts, Rayleigh entered the training mode of enjoyment. Just like in the past, after sparring for a while with Jecam, who came quickly, the large army had already arrived, and the excitement started in his ears.

"It's finally my turn. Today, I want to avenge my previous humiliation." Skadi spoke with great enthusiasm. Since the incident of "Rayleigh refusing to accept the challenge" at the leader's farm, she and this grass chicken have been dueling together. Five times.

The result was: two wins and three losses!
It was a shame for her not to be able to defeat such a coward, and she had been brooding over this for more than ten days.

"Coward Rayleigh, you're still resting, stand up and fight me."

Soon, the two started a duel in front of everyone.

But what surprised everyone was that today, Rayleigh did not use the sword-and-shield mode of shield in his left hand and wooden sword in his right hand as usual.Instead, he put the shield behind his back, holding a wooden sword in his right hand, but replaced it with a spear in his left hand.

Although they had seen Rayleigh practicing the spear a few days ago, they had only been practicing for a few days. If they dared to take it out now, they would not take Skadi seriously.The girl is not weak among them, except for her anxious temper.

Sure enough, the girl seemed very angry, thinking that she had been underestimated: "Can you spear? You don't take this lady seriously, do you? I will teach you a lesson today."

The inner drama is so rich!

Rayleigh shook his head. He was just training two-handed weapons. After all, he couldn't wait until he went to the battlefield to practice.

Seeing the boy shaking his head, Skadi became even more angry, raised his wooden shield and charged over like a cow.

boom……

Rayleigh sent out his spear and pressed it against the wooden shield, and his whole body was pushed backwards.

After all, the girl was a little weak. If she was as big as Jackham, he would naturally not dare to use the strength of holding a spear in one hand to resist the wooden shield pressing down on his body, even if he would be hit immediately. Fall to the ground.

After pushing a few meters away, the momentum of the girl's feet had been exhausted. She knew that she could not continue to push, otherwise she would be thrown into pieces as soon as the opponent withdrew his strength.

Skadi used his shield to deflect the spear, took a step forward, and found that Rayleigh moved in the direction where the spear was deflected, and the distance became a spear again.Angry, she smashed the shield against the spear, and saw Rayleigh take advantage of the force and take two steps back, and continued to point the spear in his hand.

After fighting a few more times, she found that she couldn't get close at all, and that annoying spear was always blocked in front of her shield.Up to now, this grass chicken is only using his left hand to fight with himself.

It just doesn't make sense!
Skadi was furious. After flicking the spear away, he rolled like a donkey and tried to break into the distance. But when he looked up, he found that Rayleigh had already used his strength to get around to the side.

Not only did he not close the distance, he actually rolled further and further away.

call out……

The spear poked towards her side, and the girl knocked it away with a backhand sword, and then returned to the previous confrontation.

The suppression of strength made Rayleigh as stable as an old dog in distance control.

If Skadi couldn't break in, he could poke out his spear from time to time to counterattack, which made the girl very uncomfortable.

Seeing that there was nothing she could do to deal with this grass chicken, the girl was completely furious and used all her strength to hit the spear in front of her, trying to break it.

"Oh, I'm afraid Skadi is going to lose." Everyone looked at it and shook their heads.

After playing against Rayleigh for so long, they knew they couldn't be impatient. Even Kaison couldn't break through this guy's defense, so impatientness was useless.All he needed to do was exhaust his energy, and the girl was obviously so angry that she forgot everything.

Anger leads to defeat——

They felt this vividly from Rayleigh, especially after the duel two months ago. They all became excited and filled with anger to fight this coward who did not dare to go to the duel of life and death.

The result can be imagined, everyone lost miserably.

When he came back to his senses, he saw Rayleigh feinting and then retracting his spear. The girl still smashed down the shield as hard as before. As a result, the shield was empty and she almost fell to the ground.

When she looked up again, the spear was already across her neck.

"Hmph, you won." Skadi took a deep breath and carved his humiliating record on the wooden board.

This humiliating defeat will only make me stronger.

The girl secretly encouraged herself, counted how many days were left to play Rayleigh again, and vowed to get her place back.

Kaison's expression didn't change at all after seeing the victory. The eagle-eyed boy who continued to practice spear and sword had a little more understanding in his heart: perhaps the victory or defeat on the training ground was just for Rayleigh to improve his own strength. , don’t care about victory or defeat at all.

Outside the training ground, it’s all about life and death.

During the life-and-death duel that day, he had doubtfully asked his grandfather, the leader, whether Rayleigh was a coward.

"Your hands are still clean. That boy already had two lives in his hands. He just killed a person, and the next day he still went to the training ground like nothing happened. How can he be a coward with such a cruel heart?"

This was my grandfather's answer at the time.

(End of this chapter)