The Sage of Einar

Aldous opened his eyes suddenly and endured the pain in his arm, which made him close his eyes, causing him to almost pass out.

After getting used to the pain as best he could, he opened his eyes and the first thing he could see was that he was in what appeared to be a wooden construction.

So doing his best he got up from the bed where he was lying. Holding his arm that was bandaged, he walked towards the wooden door.

Which he opened with great effort. At that moment he could see a priest who was sitting sleeping.

The priest opened his eyes when he heard how the door he was guarding opened, seeing the nobleman in front of him.

He got up from the wooden chair and helped him back to the bed.

"You have to rest, your shoulder wound was too deep, and you lost a lot of blood.

If you get up from that wood again, maybe the suture I made can be opened. "

Aldous gave the priest a serious look. "I have to check if the Duke is okay. If something happened to him, I wouldn't have the courage to see his face.

As the leader of his knights, I always must ensure that he is always safe. "

The priest nodded and still led the knight to bed "The duke is alive, it's just that the wound on his back is too serious.

If he survives, I am sure that he will not be able to walk again in the best of cases, but everything will depend on the will of God and what he decides to do with the Duke.

Now what you should worry about, knight, is to recover, since those who attacked you could very possibly besiege us at any time.

We have sent a messenger to the capital of the fiefdom asking for support, but we do not know how long the support could arrive if it really does. "

Aldous lowered his head and clenched his fist. "Priest, what village are we in?"

The priest opened the window in a way and showed the knight the snow-covered town "This town is called Levant. According to the settlers, the old emperor Charlemagne came to this place after the conquest of the Saxons.

After staying one night, he watched the beautiful sunrise and named it Levant. For that fact, this is the only church in these places on the border. "

The gentleman when he saw the town frowned "We are quite far from the capital of the fiefdom, if the messenger they sent travels on horseback it should arrive in 3 days, although that is if it only stops to eat and rest the horse.

But if we take the time, it will take to arrive normally, plus the time it would take for my son to gather the duke's troops. "

Aldous turned and looked the priest in the eye. "The reinforcements will take about a month to arrive, but it all depends on the decision of the Duke's sons.

If they fight and seek to inherit their father's fiefdom, we will most likely never receive reinforcements.

I think the best we can do is send some emissaries to the nearby villages to bring their people and food.

In order for us to further fortify this place, we just have to hold out until the duke is healthy enough to be able to march into the emperor's army. "

With some curiosity, the priest caressed his crucifix "But why to march to the emperor's army and not go directly to the capital of the fiefdom."

Aldous sighed and caressed his temples. "If the duke's sons did not send troops, it means they have rebelled against their father.

So going to the county town just means that they are going to arrest us and kill us.

Perhaps that would be an impossible option to think about if Emperor Charlemagne will still rule, but with his death, the system governed by the emperor has lost strength.

I am sure that if Louis I had not launched an expedition north, none of the nobles on the frontier would support him. "

The priest upon hearing the words of the knight closed his eyes and caressed his nasal septum.

"I'll talk to the village leader. Maybe it will take a while to send some messengers to the nearby villages.

But sir, I hope you are really wrong and that the Duke's sons really do send reinforcements; I don't want to have to stay in this isolated place if they come to besiege us. "

Aldous sat on the bed and patted his shoulder "I hope so, priest."

While this was happening, Anders was dismembering the carcass of a pig, as he was thinking of preparing a different breakfast from dried meat, Fenrir for his part was faithfully waiting by Anders' side, because he from time to time gave him a piece of meat.

With his hand covered in blood, Anders wiped the sweat from his forehead and looked at one of his subordinates who was returning on horseback.

"Fritz, I hope you have found something interesting in your exploration since that horse that you are riding is costing us a lot of food. "

Fritz who had gotten off his horse on the way to Anders and from his bag took out his map that they had given him after stealing that group of Christians in the forest.

Anders looked curious as the map had some red marks that were not there before.

"I want to assume that those marks you made on the map are places that interest us or are places that we have to avoid."

Fritz formed a smile on his face and pointing to the red dots, he looked back at Anders. "Fortunately, this map correctly records the settlements in this area.

Throughout the morning I was riding, and I realized that most of the settlements have some wooden fortifications surrounding them, but these marked in red are only towns that at most have a small wooden palisade.

If it weren't for the map, it would be quite difficult to find them, as for the population in those places I'm not sure as I didn't want to attract attention. "

Anders used his ax to chop the pig's head off the table and taking a deep breath showed his teeth with a grin from ear to ear.

"Fritz used to think you were nothing more than worthless scum, but now you've risen through the ranks and are already a functional scum in this team of vermin that I have at my command.

Keep working hard and maybe in a few months I can consider you a true warrior, but now I want you to bring all your fellow vermin in front of me.

Since tonight we will bring a little fire to this place. "

Fritz headed towards the camp as he did not want to delay Anders' orders.

When all the members of the group gathered in front of Anders, he stood at the wooden table and holding the pig's head looked at everyone seriously.

"I'm sure none of you are satisfied with the number of places we have burned and stolen, but today Odin has looked us in the eye and enlightened us with his divine guidance.

Fritz has investigated the map that we obtained yesterday from the loot of the forest, there are more than eight settlements that have only wooden palisades that are no bigger than the height of a child.

So I was thinking that we divide into eight groups and each one is in charge of assaulting and burning each of those settlements to their feelings because they are not very big I will allow them to do what they want with the people of the place.

But you must remember that the cattle and valuables must be brought to the camp for their equitable distribution, as for the rest it will be up to you if you can get it or not. "

Anders threw the pig's head at Fritz, who grabbed it without understanding what Anders meant.

As he got off the table, Anders patted Fritz on the shoulder "The head of the pig is the most delicious if it is prepared correctly.

Consider it a gift from me and when we go out you will come in my team, so say goodbye to your little girlfriends with whom you had been hanging out since from now on you will be with the real men.

You will have time to do your things when we return to the camp. Now you should wake up the Godi since he will also accompany us. "

Fritz paused for a moment to try to understand what Ander was referring to with his little girlfriends, but it wasn't until he arrived with Godi that he understood what Anders had said.

Seeing the Godi who was on the ground surrounded by two women, he approached him and using a jug of water that was on a box; he wet his face.

The Godi who woke up suddenly burped and took from his side a mug that had a stale beer from which he began to drink, letting a few threads of beer fall from his chin towards his chest.

When he felt that his thirst stopped bothering him, the Godi used his hand to wipe his mouth and glared at the young man in front of him.

"I hope you had a very important reason to wake me up boy because if you don't have it, I'll take care of taking Odin's fury on you."

Fritz opened the cloth door of the tent where the Godi was sleeping and showed him that everyone in the camp was getting ready, as there seemed to be an order from Anders.

The Godi could only curse silently and got up from the bed to start changing.