How is this crowdfunding going to work exactly? Don't you need to create some kind of reputation first before people start funding your cause? If Chizuru doesn't have that yet then I have no idea how she'll realistically raise that much money.
Brilliantly written. Askeladd's initial plan was to find a way to assassinate the King so that Canute could take the throne by default. But everyone knew that the King did not want Canute to succeed the throne - he wanted his eldest son Harold to take it. So any assassination attempt would have...
@egi321 I think his weakness was literally reflected light and all Thorfinn could do at that moment was knock him out using his feet since he was unarmed
Really nice build-up and conclusion from the previous two chapters. The fight ends with a battle that doesn't actually result in a death because Canute calms down Bjorn using the meaning of "love" that the priest said could only be achieved through death. This is probably a very heavy...
Really interesting chapter. I think the conversation between Canute and the priest was supposed to imply the dream of reaching Vinland - which the story has already described as a place with no war, conflict, and slavery. I think the story's supposed to lead to a reconciliation between Thorfinn...