Chapter 465: The end of Athlone's kingdom
Chapter 465: The end of Athlone’s kingdom
When one of Seafra’s subordinates entered the room, he realized that his eyes were closed.
So he could only sigh and see the corpse of the old abbot of the monastery ‘It is a real shame that his son has ended his life.
However, it is quite easy to control, and it is thanks to him that we can enjoy everything good about the monastery, from the most delicious food to the gold and jewels that this monastery had in his possession.
To think that a group of bandits could take over this monastery using the mad son of the abbot, the only thing that worries me is the army outside.
We could try to face them but only we have 600 people who have experience in robbing and killing, but we have not faced an army large enough to have experience.
I think the ideal would be to escape through the secret tunnels and leave this place completely abandoned because if all the rumors I have heard from the Norse are true we will end up dead. ‘
Seafra who was closing her eyes opened them and was able to look at his subordinate. “I’m glad you came. An apology if you see me this way, but I was having a convincing argument with my father.
By the way, you already know him. He is the Abbot of this monastery, but now that I think about what I am doing here in this place; I think he was in a field of flowers. “
The man just sighed and put his hand on Seafra’s shoulder. “Leader, an enemy army is invading us. What do you want us to do?”
Seafra scratched his head, as he had no idea what the man in front of him was referring to.
“What is an enemy army?”
The man bowed his head from him and looked sadly at Seafra. “Just repeat after me, I want you to leave the monastery and take all the riches while I take care of this place.”
Seafra blinked and started repeating the words. After a while, he didn’t stop repeating those words as we found them quite pleasant.
The man then smiled maliciously and left that place to inform the warriors to prepare everything to be able to leave that place.
Well, it was not worth sacrificing your life to defend a place.
Following those orders, the warriors took advantage of the night to escape from the monastery with all the wealth they could carry and entered the tunnels below the monastery.
The next day, Ansgar realized that there was something wrong with the walled monastery, so he quickly ordered his soldiers to prepare everything so that he could take care of the special forces soldiers.
This mainly because he had a feeling that the defenders had escaped this because there was no one guarding the monastery walls.
The soldiers of the special forces then climbed the walls and could see that the monastery was completely abandoned.
This gave them some curiosity, so they quickly opened the doors so that the army could enter while they checked if there was anyone in that place.
At the beginning, they could find nothing but they realized that many things of value were missing such as gold items and even crucifixes.
This made the soldiers suppose that the defenders who had met the previous day must have been bandits who somehow took control of the monastery.
Which would be quite an admirable achievement, considering the walls were too large for a group of bandits to have entered.
After reviewing for a while, they reached a monastery door which when they opened they could find a corpse in a state of putrefaction on a chair and the corpse of a monk on the ground with four daggers on his back.
This surprised the soldiers of the special forces quite a bit, however when they did not find any evidence of what had happened, they assumed that he had been one of the monks who had killed the bandits.
After checking the entire monastery and finding nothing of value or more corpses, Ansgar gave the order to wait in that monastery for two days before heading to the city of Athlone.
During the two days that they were in the monastery, the soldiers were in charge of taking all the books that were in that place and that had not been stolen by the bandits.
Towards some wooden boxes which would be sent immediately to Iceland, so that the books could be translated and stored.
When they had finished doing all this, the army set out for the capital of the Athlone kingdom, the city of Athlone.
The road was much quieter because it was in good condition, so the soldiers only had to work from time to time to remove the snow that had accumulated in some areas that made it impossible to advance.
After three days of a long walk, the Nordic army finally reached the city of Athlone, which was not very big, however it had interesting walls as they were completely made of wood.
The ramparts were mainly made up of wooden logs and were barely four meters high.
When the army besieged that city, the defenders who were in poor condition because of the hunger they had been having due to the lack of supplies.
They could only tighten their weapons because even if they wanted to leave they could not do so because they had the mission of protecting the city, although it will cost them their life.
In order to accomplish that task, they had only 350 warriors with whom they had to survive.
The leader of the defenders looked at his warriors seriously. “Our glorious end has come, we have to work hard to achieve the ultimate victory.”
The defenders, listening to the leader and looking at the vast army outside, decided to make a rather drastic decision, but it was the best one for them.
At that moment, the warriors launched themselves against the leader and the people loyal to him only a few minutes ended the lives of all of them.
After this, the defenders laid down their weapons and left the city because they did not want to defend that city where there was no longer food and the leaders had abandoned them a long time ago.
When Ansgar watched as the defenders came out with their hands raised, he knew that the war with the Athlone kingdom had ended, so he could now go north to begin the conquest of the Oriel kingdom.