chapter 12

after marching until sunset we chose to camp on top of a hill there we sat around the fire after making camp which the Varangian guards sailers had set up by themselves as they are known to journey far on their ships and are used to travelling by sea so they had tents and dried rations of salted fish as they are a well-organized group and they only removed the helmet to eat as they were prepared for any attack

they all worship the old gods too so they are not Christian the system said that they will follow which god or gods I appear to worship and this will help me a lot with the fanatic and will limit the disputes that will happen with their integration with the jomsviking as the jomsviking are worshippers of the old Norse gods and have a few fanatics in their ranks

among them, I noticed a man in his 30 who kept giving them orders in an organized fashion his armour and shield were slightly different too he was their captain he was sitting close to the fire around him were five other warriors they were laughing about something I go to them and join them as I sat and talked with them,

"my lord excuse my ignorance but what are your plans for the future and what is your ambition, I only ask to know who I am serving "the captain looked my way and asked in a serious tone asked

the way he asked wasn't anything like Viking he was more like a noble which I understand as the Varangian served the emperor of Byzantium himself so they had to learn some etiquette

"good that you asked I also don't want my men to follow me for only blind loyalty I want you to understand who am i "I smile at him

"well for the now I want to return home to become the chieftain of the jomsviking then build a fleet of ships and go raid to the west "

"as for my ambition, I am not much different from most Vikings' dream to raid and conquer

I want to conquer the most fertile land, to sleep with the most beautiful women, to have enough gold and treasure to drown myself in, I want to create an empire that stretches where ever I go "

"and I believe that I will do it because the gods have gifted me with powers one of it is a communing man like you another is that I have no li, it and the last one is immortality so I never die and I can share my immortality with you if you swear your eternal elegance to me and my family"

*author note: the loyalty that the system gives is more like a fail-safe if any one of the summoned soldiers tried to hurt the mc or his family or has any ideas of rebelling then he will be erased from existence so the summoned are human beings that can make mistakes and they are not mind controlled or anything like that so they are informed of all the consequences of rebelling the moment they are summoned *

I say to all of them in loud voice they looked at each other for a second then they all knelt to me and held the oath rings on their arms

"We swear our eternal elegance to you and your family"

I go to my tent which was close took a bool of wood and a knife and came back I put the cowl in front of them and but my hand bleed out in the bowl

"every one of you needs to drink a little of my blood don't drink too much a drop will do "

I say as I pass that bowl to the captain as he drinks I feel the bond-forming with him then the next warrior after they finished drinking the blood I smiled as I now have 24 immortal warriors my smile turned into a grin when I remembered that all of them are experienced and battle-hardened warriors with the best equipment there are

after this ceremonial ritual we returned to the fire as the man started to sing I felt their excitement as they sang together or began to talk about their future