Chapter 10: Highlighting a pragmatism

From the perspective of the Kingdom of North, the Ice Sea can also be called the North Sea. Starting from Wendeng Port, heading northeastward, you will soon enter this sea area.

As the name suggests, the ice sea is named after its floating fragments of ice. Among these broken ice, the small ones may not hold a barrel, and the large ones can barely be called icebergs. At the same time, because the speed of ships in this era is not optimistic, and it is a blessing in disguise, there will be no couples on the bow of the ship for the time being in this sea area for the time being.

The most serious situation is probably that you hit a mini iceberg at night, and you need to use a wooden board to repair it in the bottom cabin, and then use a wooden barrel to scoop out the water.

Therefore, after more than thirty days of stable sailing, the medieval evangelion Ferrank successfully set foot on the land of the ice field.

In just over a month, the future priest endured a test that had never been seen in his past life. First, it was severe seasickness, and then it was severe diarrhea caused by eating sea fish caught by the crew. Finally, as the temperatures were getting closer and closer to the north, the temperatures were falling, and he found that the clothes he had originally imagined were completely insufficient to withstand the severe cold.

Fortunately, William still had a few furs left in his hand. He sold them to Ferlank and his entourage at a price of friendship, a real price of friendship - three kingdom silver coins. The price is too honest, and it is hard to say that there is no guilt for giving people a chance to die.

These experiences are not friendly, but William soon found that he really underestimated the boy. The somewhat delicate missionary miraculously held him down. While his entourage was holding the mast and vomiting and diarrhea, Ferrank was still holding his holy book firmly. You know, William had already made a plan to renege on his halfway, and only half of his ship's money was refunded by then.

If it weren't for the opening of his mouth, William felt that Frank would definitely praise the classic part of the saint's suffering, but his messy look made him look less holy than he was when he set out.

The moment he stepped onto the iceland land, the missionary won the basic respect of all the members of the ship, including William, and at least everyone had seen his faith.

Out of respect for his faith, William then decided to try to change his mind again. After all, seeing a pretty good person die in this unreasonable place, he was a little psychologically unacceptable. Anyway, the ticket price has been obtained, and for the sake of this generous income, he is not unable to work overtime, and he has more connections after returning.

With this idea in mind, William personally helped Ferrank get off the boat, who was a little floating, and stepped on the simple dock.

Rather than saying it is a dock, it is a stone embankment made of rocks along the coastline, in order to mark the docking area that is not easy to get stuck on the vast coastline. The large black stones are filled with small stones and sand. They have some shapes from a distance. If you look close, you say this is the magic of nature, others believe it.

More than a dozen fluffy figures had been waiting at the dock. Their faces were painted with patterns that were difficult to distinguish their facial features, and the fur suits from head to toe on their bodies were equivalent to a set of plate armor in terms of material. The sewing process was approximately no, and the practical value could be given locally.

Seeing William and his party get off the boat, they did not take off the weapons they carried. The big man, who was obviously taller than his companions around, came forward and greeted William with a bear hug with a real bear fur texture, and greeted William in a very fluent Vandenharbor accent.

"Ahh, William, this is a real surprise, two days earlier than expected."

"Of course, I don't want my friends to wait for a long time." William waved to Ferlank behind him and signaled him to come. The entourage, who was breathless on the boat, followed with a sword, and looked at the big man in front of him vigilantly.

"Let me introduce this person, Bjorn, whose name means as strong as a bear. More than a dozen people here have to listen to him." William introduced to Ferlank, "By the way, have you taught the language on the Snow Field? I have to tell you that this is an exception."

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Very good, the first step was stuck. William didn't expect that Frank hadn't considered this at all. This was also very reasonable. He probably thought North was a common language in the world, or simply thought that coming to Bingyuan was not considered going abroad.

This is of course very good, and it has a significant effect of dissuading. So William turned his back to Frank and made a gesture to Bjorn with a fist clenched to smash it down, meaning to scare him, and then continued: "This person wants to come to Bingyuan to recommend his god to you. Please explain the rules here to him."

Bjorn understood the gesture: "This is simple. There are not so many rules in our ice field. It will be done after our traditional rituals. Let's move things back now." He pulled a big sled made of wood that was rare in the ice field and began to unload the goods from the ship.

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Ferlank heard Bjorn say it simply, but when he arrived at the place, he realized that the simple part of the matter was to explain the process clearly.

From this settlement that leans against the port, looking deeper into the ice field, there is a barren land covered with ice and snow. At the end of the view, the sudden mountains rise up from the ground, showing a wave-like posture. This natural dividing line divides the real primitive ice field and the relatively mild area on the mountain range.

The wall building method here is similar to that of the Kingdom of North, but it eliminates the wooden structure and uses vaulted buildings similar to smirk houses. On the one hand, the vegetation here is only low shrubs and moss. On the other hand, it is also considered that in places under zero years, you really don’t need to consider using clay to stick the stones and will fall apart after sticking them together, let alone worry about the problem of wet and looseness when it rains - only blizzards.

After letting go of the human sled, Bjorn pointed to a large stone higher than the house next to the settlement and said, "Did you see the big black stone over there? That's where the ceremony begins."

In the puzzled eyes of Ferrank and his followers, he smiled and explained the religious traditions of the Iceland people: As we all know, survival on the Iceland is the biggest problem since ancient times, and all religious content revolves around this.

Of course, if you want to show that your God is worthy of faith, it depends on whether your God can give people strong survival ability. The old rule is to start from the starting point of the tribe, without clothes, tools, water and food, and go to the distant mountains. There are countless caves in that mountain range made of black rocks. You will find "living stones" deep in it, just knock on a piece and bring it back as a proof.

The entire process will probably vary depending on the distance between each tribe and the mountains, and will last from several months to one year. The tribe will select several people to follow from a primitive democratic voting method to follow from a distance as witnesses of the ceremony.

As for the "living stone", according to Bjorn, it is similar to most of the stones on this ice field. The stones used to build houses, the stones used as the starting point mark, and the stones that make up the mountains are all the same black rocks, but the difference is that they can be seen as "living" and can only be found in the depths of caves in the mountains. The knocked small pieces will die within a few days, and can only be verified by the witness on the spot.

After you get to the place, you choose a cave and get it. Anyway, your god will guide you. Everyone will not follow you because it is not easy to come out after entering.

You ask how to survive without clothes, tools, and food? There are animals on the ice field. Use the power God has given you to ask them for it.

As long as you can complete this ritual, it proves that your God can really give people the power to live, the tribe will build the most solid house for the unquestioned spokesperson of the gods, and the living stone you bring back will be embedded in the wall as a proof of miracles. The old priest was inspired by the stone god thirty years ago, and completed this feat under the witness of several warriors who everyone trusted, so the entire tribe converted to the stone god.

When he dies, his successor will also perform this ritual. However, considering that people inspired by God are actually very rare, most of the time, the tribe is in a state of no faith.

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To be honest, William was the first time he heard about this. He looked at Bjork with a puzzled look and signaled whether he had made it too ruthlessly.

"Don't look at me, everything I say is true. We never joke about this." He gestured at the physical gap between the two sides and laughed, "To be honest, I never thought about what would happen if the North would attend this ceremony, but as far as I know, although you have a lot of priests, there are not many divine powers like our old priests?"

(End of this chapter)
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