Rise of Rurik

Ross hunters enjoyed the master-like service as much as possible. Most of them rested for a whole day. Although they had sex with local women, they felt stronger.

Ross is allied with Balmerk, and most people are very unfamiliar with the tribes of this western harbor. They seem to have 20,000 tribes, and every man has a dream to conquer the endless sea (Atlantic), and they should not be underestimated.

Rurik came with a strong purpose, and he didn't need to worry too much about the follow-up.

Mechasta took the task. He arranged for some people to keep mining in winter. The furnaces of the blacksmith workshop in Elrond were completely in charge of Kawei and Kamne, and the chrome was still being produced.

Rurik's eyes were directed to the north, the winter pastures of deer keepers, the land of bears, and the land of giant trees.

Rurik only knew the macro-geographical outline of Northern Europe, but he did not know the precise location of mineral resources at all.

He is a half-understood explorer, and the other clansmen are simply ignorant.

Running north to hunt for precious furs comes with great risk, and the cold is even more terrifying than polar bears.

Said that the Rus or other Vikings dared to run shirtless in the snow without fear of the cold, only a few madmen dare to do so.

Which of Rurik's hunters is not fully armed? Everyone was very well-dressed, and the weapons in their hands were very good.

He still took Cypolava, and the two sat in a warm sleigh sheltered from the wind, with a heavy weapon such as a torsion slingshot. The mighty rushed to a very clear location.

Fort Elrond is a key base in the north and is expected to develop into a prosperous city.

It's just that Rurik took into account the new situation, and Elronborg can no longer be counted as a frontier. He needed to build a further northern outpost for the winter hunt, and that outpost had to operate year-round to provide a safe and reliable post for trade routes destined to prosper in the future with new allies.

It has to be in the north, it has to be adjacent to a river, and preferably it has to be self-reliant.

Rurik had no need to re-establish a stronghold, because the Rus had already established it.

He didn't have to worry about anything at all, the army was moving fast in the frozen river, and the destination was the lake upstream.

The Elon River (Kemi River) originates from the Murmansk plateau,

It flows into a soothing place where many rivers converge. In particular, a very critical stream comes from the northern part of the central mountain range in Scandinavia. The specific source is a alpine lake. Below the mountain to the west of the lake is the huge Narvik Gorge where the Balmerk tribe is located. b.

The confluence of the rivers forms a lake, which is home to a variety of cold-water fish and spawning grounds for many salmon populations.

In another era, a Finnish city called Rovaniemi was established here, and now the Rus conquered it and established seasonal settlements.

Rurik decided to make it permanent, the so-called summer fishing and winter hunting, which served as a station to welcome guests all year round.

Her destiny was Fort Fiskerler, or Fisherman's Bastion, after which Rurik decided to name it permanently.

The destination of the hunting army, Fort Fisker! go ahead!

The deer keepers drove the deer to stop and go, and only the deer pulling the sleigh moved faster.

More than 300 people crowded in forty sleds. They brought a batch of food and construction tools. They were very confident in building a solid winter. The area they traveled was quite unfamiliar to everyone.

A sleigh was pulled by only two reindeer, and thanks to the smoothness of the glacier, Rurik didn't think the reindeer were too tired. People continued to advance for a while under the night, and when they were tired, they camped in the snow by the glacier.

How far is Fiskeller?

Rurik counted the time, and the group dawdled on the road for two whole days. They set off in the early morning, and it was not until the evening of the third day that people finally realized that the world ahead was smooth.

The soft light of the setting sun creates a magnificent sunset, and the frozen lake is also a glow.

Seeing such a scene, Rurik also indulged in its beauty.

"The world of ice and snow is beautiful, but it's too cold." An unknown force urged him to jump off the sleigh, and Rurik stood on the thick ice and ordered loudly: "Find our summer camp and camp there!"

The fishing camp built in the summer was right by the lake. Rurik looked around and did not bother his men to look for it. He quickly found the wooden buildings.

The team quickly made their way to their final destination, and some of the people who had fished here in the summer returned, for a while, they didn't recognize the group of wooden houses covered with thick snow.

Just look at it all.

Rurik pinched his waist and rejoiced at the struggle of the clan: "It's great, I thought there would be a lot of houses to be built, but I didn't expect it! It seems that I only need to build a circle of wind-shielding wooden walls?"

Biyonni stepped forward: "I have been here before, and it is here that I met your people."

"Oh?" Rurik slapped his forehead: "I remembered, you said this. How do you feel about this place now?"

Biyongni shrugged: "There's too much snow, so we can still live in it after cleaning. The house is simple, we can build it right away. At least this is a stable camp, and I don't want to sleep outside."

"Alright. We'll start logging now, and then the brothers will spread out and hunt freely."

"Free hunting?" Biyonni was startled: "I thought your army was going to hunt cooperatively, and bears can't be killed by one person. Could it be..."

Rurik laughed confidently: "My people like to hunt freely. If you encounter a bear, kill it, or be killed by it. A true warrior is not afraid of the cold and beasts, and if you die, it is fate. ... You should understand that the bravest warriors need this experience."

Biyonny had nothing to say, but he still felt that Rurik's laissez-faire to his people was imprudent, because bears were dangerous.

Rurik had just settled down, and even had a few words with Biyonni, and the crisis came suddenly.

In a wild world, danger always occurs suddenly.

Some hunters saw the strange scratches on the wood of the old camp. They were instinctively vigilant, and they drew long swords or took up crossbows with arrows.

There seemed to be monsters hidden in the hidden wooden door. Several hunters walked cautiously and opened the wooden door to see the monsters nestled inside.

The monster began to roar, then rushed out with a roar, and finally the huge figure was exposed in the setting sun.

Several hunters were knocked down, thanks to the protection of very thick leather jackets and the snow in the surrounding world, which saved everyone's life. They got up and picked up their swords to fight the monster.

More hunters acted. Hundreds of pairs of eyes saw it. A brown bear that had stolen the camp’s premises to hibernate rushed out. More than a dozen hunters used spears as marching staff to poke at the bear. The bears struggled frantically as they howled in pain. The Ross hunters didn't dare to attack rashly. They had a more secure way to kill the bears.

The hunters in the team in charge of the deadly steel-armed crossbow, after exerting all their strength to wind up, install the cone-headed armor-piercing arrow and hit the head of the shooting bear at close range. The bear's skull is an iron plate, the arrow is inserted into the bear's forehead, and the beast dies...

Such a crazy bear hunting scene was clearly seen by Biyongni.

He focused on Ross Hunter's last attack, and was immediately stunned: "Your kind of crossbow, actually..."

"How is it?" Rurik's heart was beating wildly, he knew that the threat was lifted in an instant, but his trembling could not be controlled at all. He tried his best to hide his nervousness with a smile: "That's how we hunt bears. We can hunt bears with a crossbow and kill squirrels with a crossbow."

"It was killed by you like this? It's amazing. Rurik!" Biyonyi slapped Rurik directly on the shoulder: "My brother, I beg you to send some crossbows to our tribe. Oh no, we Willing to exchange it for salt."

Are you going to send weapons to new allies? Rurik was at a loss for an answer.

He simply kept silent, seeing that, he was more sensible than Jonny and didn't ask any more questions. The Rus' crossbow has revolutionized Biyonni's understanding of the bow and arrow. In the harbour of their hometown, the tribal residents know how to make bows and arrows, but the bow power of hunters is average, it can hunt wild deer at most, and don’t think about hunting bears.

Many of the people who were knocked down by the bear had their mouths broken, and they were beaten by the tribesmen, praising "God protect you and you are safe and sound".

Unexpectedly, the bear hunting operation had such a beginning. The first bear to be killed was a brown bear. It seems that in the frozen world in this area, there must be a group of caves hiding bears in the hidden corners of the woods.

The leather of brown bears is not as valuable as that of polar bears, the former hibernating and the latter wandering around.

In this era, polar bears roaming on land even used ambush to kill roaming reindeer. As for hunting seals in the ice cap of the Arctic Ocean, it is another option. The world the Russ entered is no different from the no-man’s land. A group of deer farmers who still live freely in the vast world cannot have any impact on the ecology of this world.

Polar bears still roam the area, the Rus are sure. Now everyone has a new option - find a cave and shoot the hibernating brown bear.

Bear bile seemed to make a man a hundred times more majestic, and Rurik didn't believe it at all. Some hunters are interested in the guts of brown bears, especially the bear's liver. As for the bear meat, it is naturally shared by everyone, and everyone gets a piece of bear meat, which is roasted and eaten by everyone, as the beginning of the hunting event.

The Rus settled in the old summer camp, carrying axes and double saws, cutting down the surrounding pine forests, and then reinforcing their houses with wood.

A house chosen by Rurik was fortified and built, and in the future it would be a warehouse for bearskins or other hides.

The construction work lasted for three days. Except for the more than 50 people who took care of the sleigh reindeer and continued to build the wall, the other 200 people were scattered around the Fiskole stronghold. The hunters spontaneously formed a hunting team. Most of them used relatives and friends as a bond, mostly in groups of ten. They dragged a makeshift sleigh with important supplies and weapons to the depths of the pine forest.

Rurik is among them!

Perhaps the most noble leader of the Rus should not venture into the unknown ice and snow to hunt bears. It is estimated that due to the public opinion of the public and the attention of the "Prince" of Balmerk, he felt that he had to shoot a few bears himself to prove to everyone. At a young age, he had the ability to fight alone.

The daily life of the tribe lacks entertainment, and fighting with wives and concubines and brothers is probably the most interesting entertainment. As for the game of "grabbing the pottery urn" (the original football), it was no different from fighting. People need all kinds of interesting news, everyone gathers together and chews the tongue. Rurik decided that people didn't care how he hunted the bear, they only looked at the result, and it was enough that Lord Rurik shot the bear himself. Because the group of "Wild Story Kings" in the tribe will spontaneously add fuel to the fire, adding various buffs to their Lord Rurik, and describing him as a heroic warrior.

How did Rurik hunt bears? The Torsion Slingshot on that sled is his weapon!

With Seporava, he formed a bear hunt team with more than a dozen elite mercenaries including Yevlo, and thirteen Balmers including Biyonni, and ran to the eastern world.

They moved along a glacier, and the world ahead was very foreign to everyone.

Not quite. Rurik fully knew that continuing eastward was Murmansk, and maybe he would meet a new family of deer-raisers on the journey?

They were on the move, as if they were the only living creatures moving in the frozen world.

The ice and snow absorbed too much sound, and the world was extremely quiet every night in the camp. For this reason, people could only continue to light the bonfire to keep warm, and to avoid the attack of unknown monsters.

Rurik had been marching on the frozen Elrond, and his bear hunts were essentially the first expedition to explore the river's headwaters.

Their team of nearly thirty people and six reindeer walked on the ice for another three days. Polar bear? No trace at all! The world is quiet, peaceful and extremely cold, and everything is like the realm of the legendary gods.

A new frozen lake area has emerged.

Wrapped in the snow-capped pine forest, the huge world ahead is actually full of ice? It's as if this place was supposed to be a sea!

It's not a sea, it's a lake!

Biyonny and Floki, these two Balmerks saw such a magnificent lake for the first time, and then an inexplicable sense of fear affected their whole body.

The group was stunned, and Biyonni had lingering fears. He asked Rurik: "Maybe the bear is not in this area, we should change the route. The ice and snow world ahead is very dangerous. Look at this big lake, there may be ice and snow monsters hidden in it. If we move on, we will likely fall into the ice water and be pulled down and eaten by monsters."

Rurik didn't feel fear at all, but he didn't even notice the footprints of the bear along the way, which was really maddening.

"What? Are you afraid? The future leader of the dignified Balmer, a strong warrior, is afraid?"

Rurik's words were full of disdain, and Biyongni simply stopped complaining. He asked, "What do you want to do? Move on? If you can predict the general situation ahead, I am willing to fight."

"Keep going! Can't kill a bear, I'm never going back."

Rurik spoke through his teeth, how could he question such firm words than Jonny? He messed with his younger brother: "Froki, see how strong your Rurik brother is, you have to learn something."

"My attitude is to continue walking." Floki also patted Rurik on the shoulder: "We are brothers, and naturally we have to face any challenges together."

Is this a word of encouragement? Rurik didn't care at all, he was just holding his breath. After all, he is the commander-in-chief of the entire northern hunting operation. The vast majority of the Rus hunters have already used Fort Fiskler as their stronghold, or run to the north or the west. These directions are all areas that everyone has explored. What prey brothers are there? all clear.

So what is ahead of you?

"Keep going! There is no difficulty ahead at all, but a frozen sea." Rurik continued to bark his teeth, and his words were astonishing: "That's not right, maybe that sea is not completely frozen yet. Biyonni , did you know? When we see that sea, if we let down our boats and drift westward along the coastline, I am afraid it will only take seven days to reach your harbour."

"What? It's true? Are you sure?" Biyonny confirmed again and again, Rurik was willing to wait again and again, and he still felt that Rurik was talking too much in his sleep.

Floki raised his head, not his brother's question at all: "I believe Rurik's words are right, I want to follow him to see the sea."

"Let's go then." Biyonny didn't want to question any more, he only asked a very realistic thing: "We discovered this huge lake, Rurik, give it a name."

"Name?" Rurik didn't think much of it, he suddenly dragged Seporava, who was standing beside him, dressed as thickly as a little bear, to his side: "It's named after her, Lake Seporava. ."

But this lake, in essence, is Kemi Lake, it is indeed the upper reaches of the Elon River (Kemi River), but the actual source of the river is still in the north.

It is a high tundra swamp. Under the combined action of groundwater and melting ice from the hills, it has become a "water tower" in Northern Europe.

It was also here that the prey that Rurik had longed for finally appeared! It's not a bear, just a small herd of wandering wild reindeer.

Rurik, who was holding back his madness, approached the deer in a reindeer sleigh. The deer also obviously saw a group of black things approaching them on the ice lake. They all just watched with grass roots in their mouths, and then they were fatally attacked.

Rurik personally manipulated the torsion slingshot, and the mechanical aiming mechanism was installed to adjust the wooden ruler. It presented a fixed shooting angle. A javelin flew, and it leaped nearly 100 meters, crossed a beautiful parabola, and pinned it precisely. in the herd of deer. A deer with big horns was directly pierced through the neck and pinned to the snow.

The rest of the deer thought of running away, but it was too late.

There were ten reindeer in total, except for the three that escaped, the rest of the reindeer were killed by the long-range weapons of the Rus.

Yevro put down his steel-armed crossbow and exhaled happily: "Master, you shot a deer with precision, you are an elite warrior."

"Don't talk nonsense, we have been walking for so many days and we have achieved victory." Rurik smiled happily: "Now we have key supplies, and the deer are given to us by God. Yevlo, with The brothers recovered the arrows, peeled off the deer skin, and cut up the venison for roasting. We will camp here, rest for the night, and continue our journey tomorrow."

When it comes to hunting deer, all Balmers are spectators. Biyonny was so shocked that he had nothing to say. Rurik was obviously still a child, and he managed to hunt deer easily by manipulating the strange "giant bow" on the sleigh! Now Biyonny has taken a keen interest in the Torsion Slingshot again.

As for Floki, this kid doesn't care about hunting bears and deer. He just wants to see a brand new sea and the so-called Arctic Ocean this winter.