Extraordinary Sailing

Although the envoys stood in front of Liwena's throne and talked endlessly, exaggerating the marriage between the Cyrus Empire and the Phalatis Kingdom as a great thing that is unparalleled in heaven and earth.

But in the eyes of the Phalatis monarchs and ministers, this is the provocation of the Cyrus Empire!

Over the years, under the governance of Queen Isabella, the Kingdom of Phalitis has steadily improved its comprehensive national strength. The whole kingdom is permeated with a spirit of forging ahead and enterprising. From economics, politics to military sharpening, at any time Prepare to compete with the overlord Cyrus for maritime supremacy.

There can be many kinds of means, such as economic war, trade war, political game, or even a national war with all the military power. Even if it will inevitably be accompanied by blood and fire suppression, they are already mentally prepared.

However, there is no one among the options—a weak marriage!

Moreover, after Aiwen's economic theory and the "Overlord's Disqualification Plan" were put forward, although the strength of Phalatis is still at a disadvantage, as an industrial country that represents advanced productive forces and strong stamina, they are still a backward feudal agricultural country in essence. The country's Cyrus Empire has gradually developed a subtle psychological advantage.

He is not at all afraid of this so-called overlord of the age of great voyages.

Although the strongest enemy of Phalatis is indeed Sirius, the only enemy in the future will be the [bourgeois] who represents a certain trend!

The faces of the subjects were gloomy, and Liwena, who had successfully completed the coronation happily, was even more disgusted as if she had eaten a fly. But now, after all, their identities are different, and they can't just do whatever they want.

The new Her Majesty the Queen wearing the crown patiently listened to the Deputy Envoy's words with an impeccable dignified demeanor, and then winked at the Foreign Minister next to her.

Some bald foreign ministers understood, and immediately stepped forward to replace the queen and said:

"Thank you His Majesty Your Majesty for your kindness, but..."

"Beautiful Your Majesty, you are the stars in the night sky. You are beautiful just right. No matter whether it is light or dark, there is no such thing as your peerless brilliance. I have admired you for a long time, please give the infatuated person a chance!"

After the deputy envoy opened the scene, the prince of the Sirius Empire named Manolo had already left the table in person, and also came to the throne. And the big sword-holding knight who caught Ivan's attention followed suit, keeping a distance of three steps.

Standing five steps away from Liwena and bowing slightly to her, apart from looking a little greasy, a great knight with perfect expression of all genes, his appearance has nothing to do with ugliness anyway.

Broad-shouldered and handsome, with long blond hair pulled back in an artist's braid. The black gown was so elegant, it even had a fresh purple hyacinth flower on the chest.

"And I promise you, according to the tradition of Cyrus, after we get married, as long as you can give birth to our heir, we will guarantee the continuation of the blood of both parties. As a truly noble gentleman, I will not care about any of your private life. put one's oar in."

While talking, he glanced intentionally or unintentionally, Ivan, who was standing on Livina's right hand by the hilt and acted as the guardian knight, was the opposite sex who had the closest relationship with the queen in the entire coronation ceremony.

The archbishop, the three bishops, the two guardians of the kingdom, the court attendants, etc., were either too old or too low-status, and had been automatically ignored by him long ago.

But he understands the meaning of what he said.

Silius' sea expansion in the past two hundred years has always been dominated by the totalitarian royal family, and most of the massive wealth plundered from all over the world has gone into the hands of the royal family and a few people in power.

Regardless of whether it is the royal family or the great aristocrats, they are not the main body of production. The use of these wealth is nothing more than two: either to continue to expand the army and conquer, or to spend extravagantly.

It can be seen from Santa Cruz, which is known as the Museum of All Nations, and the high inflation rate in Silius.

The lives of the upper classes of Cyrus are also notoriously corrupt. Most people enjoy the pleasures. In addition to the regular enjoyment of food, wine, and clothing, they also support the music, paintings, architecture, and sculptures of the entire continent by themselves. , art, luxury goods and other industries that burn money.

Santa Cruz has also gradually become another art resort that gathers art since the beginning of the "Renaissance", following the Turcat Dynasty. Youdao is full of warmth, and this group of people is also worthy of the name "the city will play" and "the expensive circle is really chaotic"!

Especially in the concept of marriage.

Because under the long-term religious rule, there is almost no concept of divorce in noble marriages.

Divorce can only be filed under one circumstance: "Only both spouses or one of the spouses has the right to request exemption from the attempted marriage, even if both parties disagree."

It means that there is a name of marriage, but there is no substance, and you can apply for divorce, even if it is the king.

Therefore, after the marriage of the aristocratic families of Sirius, the social customs will give the husband and wife full freedom. On the premise of maintaining the marriage relationship, they can go to their lovers to seek emotional comfort and play their own games.

A true aristocratic gentleman is not ashamed of his wife being someone else's lover, but ashamed of hating his wife's lover. Even true love between noble couples is a shameful thing.

Well, it's kind of ruinous.

He didn't notice the slightly blue face of Tulipman, who was lonely overseas and had less advanced concept of marriage. This self-proclaimed "gentleman" Prince Manolo still felt very good about himself, showing himself like a peacock in heat Continue to perform like a beautiful feather.

He reached out to take a portrait from the waiter beside him and showed it to Liwena to prove his sincerity:

"Your Majesty, I swear that you are the first woman I admire. This is a painting I created for you. I hope you like it."

On the oil painting is a heroic woman with long golden-red hair in a military uniform, exactly like Liwena, but her appearance is a bit neutral.

Unlike the Cyrus people who had been prepared for a long time, the Phalatis people didn't know much about the life of His Royal Highness Prince Manolo.

In his nearly 50 years of life, he has not achieved anything that can be achieved, and he is not on the key monitoring list of the intelligence department. Apart from his noble status, he is completely a marginal figure.

A royal grand knight who has no interest in politics and is obsessed with art is the only label on him, even if he draws a picture by himself, it is not surprising.

But Liwena didn't feel anything about his hospitality. Although she was willing to take on the responsibility of revitalizing the kingdom, it didn't mean she had to sacrifice herself casually.

However.

Seeing this oil painting in which the image of Rivina seemed to have been adjusted intentionally or unintentionally, the foreign minister who is most familiar with foreign affairs seemed to recall a bad rumor, and suddenly asked Manolo Unrelated question:

"Your Highness, excuse me, why are you still single?"

I was a little surprised by this question that was not on the "script", but Manolo tidied up his hair on the sideburns a little, and then explained very casually:

"Haha, as an elegant person who loves art, I have funded a large number of outstanding painters, sculptors, and musicians. I often eat and live with these outstanding artists. They are all good guys who are prone to depression and loneliness. I need flowers Spend more time with them."

The deputy envoy couldn't help tugging at his sleeve lightly, interrupting his words:

"Ahem, Your Highness"

It's not a problem to like beautiful boys with artistic flavor, but you can't talk about it!

However.

There is no need to continue to explain how he cares for those artists. Just the brain-filling picture has already made Ivan and Liwena who are facing him feel their hairs stand on end at the same time, and they unconsciously launched tactics like snakes and scorpions. Lean back

I no longer have the slightest interest in flirting with him.

But Rivina of Political Wisdom Online is very clear that no matter what the form of the attack, Sirius' starting point is to find fault. It is refreshing to refuse in this case, but it will also cause endless troubles.

Within a few years, it is still necessary to avoid fighting with each other as much as possible.

And this kind of embarrassing thing for a lady is most appropriate to be left to other admirers. Under the quarrel and jealousy, it is only natural to let it go.

stare!

Livina suddenly turned her head to look at the tall and handsome Ivan, who was as tall and handsome as a javelin, and the meaning revealed in a pair of beautiful lake green eyes could not be more obvious.

Aiwen carefully glanced at Duke and Nymph under the coronation stage, and yelled to Liwena through [Mind Network]:

"What do you see me doing? I already have a wife, so I can't help you."

Her Majesty the Queen, who was really disgusted by that guy, immediately raised her eyebrows. Regardless of the special occasion, relying on the strength of the third-tier great knight and covering it with a wide skirt, she kicked Ivan's calf.

Also shouted in [Mind Network]: "Shut up, I don't care, go and beat him up for me, bastard!"

Alvin couldn't help but take a step forward.

"Oh oh oh, I knew it. You are as beautiful as you are, and you cannot lack admirers. As a gentleman, it is really romantic to start a sacred "duel of honor" for the girl you love."

Manolo obviously came prepared, and this reaction to the monarch and his subjects was exactly what he wanted.

Since the end of the "Dark Millennium" and the beginning of the "Renaissance" on the mainland, dueling culture has prevailed, and humans can duel for various things.

At the beginning, it was a "judicial duel"-in order to solve criminal cases with insufficient evidence, whoever had the biggest fist would be justified; later it developed into a "knight duel"-fighting for the honor of knights, and the essence was still interests.

Later, it became a "duel of honor" - nobles, commoners and even slaves, because of dignity, political opinions, finances, real estate, even a look, a sentence "What do you look at?", "What are you looking at?", can all duel .

Among them, women are definitely the most important one among the many reasons for dueling!

Although there are some unspeakable special hobbies, it is not easy for every great knight who can interfere with reality to advance to the third rank.

Since the proposal was made suddenly at the ceremony, it was intended to catch them off guard. No matter whether Phalitis agreed, flatly refused, used procrastination, or pretended to be false, he had several plans.

If you agree, as long as Rivina gives birth to a child, she will be "dead" immediately, so that Cyrus will inherit Phalitis without any effort; Re-experience the fear of being dominated by the Cyrus Empire!

but.

The righteous Manolo, who set the tone of the duel, just smiled at Ivan and then stepped back, revealing the "bodyguard" standing behind him with a sword in his arms.

"According to the rules of noble duels, my deputy in the duel is Master Pedro!"

Aiwen: Uh, you're a fucking real dog.

at the same time.

In the intricate underground sewer system.

creak creak.

Clang——

Ambrose slashed with the big sword in his hand, and cut a spider the size of a fist into two halves cleanly. Looking at the humanoid spider lying on the top of the passage ahead, he said coldly:

"The maggots of the 'Damn School' did not follow Cyrus' envoys. What conspiracy did you have when you went underground? Did you do those missing citizens?"

Today, not only some citizens heard the cries of cattle and sheep, but also some people inexplicably opened the manhole covers of the city's sewers and got into the ground. Ambrose led his team of "Iron Wall Knights" to chase all the way, but happened to meet the wizard of this curse school here.

Similar to terrible curses such as "nailing the flesh curse" and "kin-eating curse", the "spider curse" is also a very vicious curse.

Using the spider cultivated by the black witch medicine to gnaw away his own body, transforming the human essence into a spider-shaped cursed object composed of green and black pitch, the process is extremely painful, but the ability is also extremely strong.

But this wizard of the curse school, who was inexplicably hunted down by a group of iron knights all the way, was suffering. The head of the asphalt spider kept wriggling and turned into a beautiful woman with a wheat complexion, watching a group of iron knights approaching Eyeballs spinning wildly:

"How do I know what missing citizens are? I'm just collecting spell-casting materials here, but I haven't done any bad things!"

"Heh, do you think we will believe it? Put you first."

BAA Baa baa.

moo moo moo.

At this time, the cry of cattle and sheep suddenly rang in their ears.

A group of people suddenly turned to look at the deepest part of the sewer.