"yes, Brant." Vanessa was a little sad, "I was upset about him just now. She turned to Reina, "I can't promise you anything, but at least you'll always be there for me, and we can face each other day and night, but he can't." But he must understand me! You know, I am sadder than any of us to make such a decision! She pointed around her, "I'm enjoying all this, but not as much as I should have paid for it." As an emperor, if you enjoy more, you are destined to think more and sacrifice more than others, and even kill your own flesh and blood relatives with your own hands and bear all the grief! ”

"But—"

"No," Vanessa interrupted Reina, turning her head away from the tears on her face, "I've made up my mind that I won't change it." Whether Brandt understands or gets angry, it's my choice. From now on, both the Land of Mountains and the Land of Midsummer will be annexed to the Flame Country as a subsidiary of the Scorching Flame Country! ”

With that, Vanessa brushed her hand away.

Experiencing the baptism of love, sacrifice and war is the process of fading away from youth.

Although the process is as painful as a cicada's moult, the pain has long been accustomed to Vanessa.

No matter how much Brant tried to stop him, the archmage Meese eventually solved Creon, but no one would expose his methods. The ant-eating magic he had placed on the shield of the King's Palace in Wine Valley had finally bitten a hole in the shield after a year, and the magic of countless people who wanted to get rid of Creon immediately swarmed in and tore the king to pieces. The magicians of the Winevalley Kingdom couldn't even find any kind of magic that was responsible for Creon's death. Brandt was impatient, so he had to return to China to inherit the throne, and hand over the land of Midsummer to the hands of Mees. The Great Magician is loyal to the blood of the king and absolutely obeys Vanessa's orders, but as a result, Vanessa lacks the most effective magical guards. Fortunately, with Rogge and Reina present, the queen strengthened the magic shield of Shenlanwei and made her palace impregnable.

Three months later, Vanessa and Muton were married in Redstone, the royal city of the Mountain Country.

The wedding was unprecedentedly grand.

Almost all the mountain dwarves attended their crown prince's wedding. And Vanessa is also the first time in her life to see so many dwarves. They weren't the same as they remembered, first of all, they didn't have the dwarves they had at sea, they didn't have that big feet, and they just had to look at the young girls to know that they were evolving into normal humans.

Queen Camilla, the true master of the Mountain Country, an old lady with a sharp smile on her face, agreed to all Vanessa's requests in the marriage contract, such as making the Mountain Country a vassal of the Flame Country, but refused her request to bring Muton back to the Flame Country, which couldn't help but make Vanessa puzzled, and now, looking at her eyes at Muton, Vanessa realized that he was all of his adoptive mother. She truly loved her son, and although he was not from her, in the eyes of this mother, Muton was the whole world.

When people have love, they are weak.

Vanessa was satisfied.

The feast was sumptuous, with the finest wines and bloody, half-cooked roast beef, stuffed duck, buckets of fresh crab, and a number of unnamed underground creatures that Vanessa could not name, roasted to a tempting taste.

"So, if I want to go back to the Burning Flame Country to deal with government affairs, what should I do?" Vanessa thrust a piece of meat from an unknown animal into her mouth, and it squeaked under the clay of her teeth, and the smell of the meat filled her with a taste she would never forget, "Oh, what is this?" ”

"It's dragon meat, my child." Queen Camilla said in her old voice, "If you want to go back, even if you want to go back, my son can't go with you, and he wants to stay and help me rule the country of mountains." ”

Vanessa almost laughed out loud, the tunnel in front of her is all of the country of mountains, what else do they have to govern, is it possible, this place is also like a fire dragon village, is there underground dark oil? "But you know, I'm the queen of the Flame Country." Vanessa was equal to Camilla in status, and her willingness to marry Muton was actually entirely political, and the sophisticated Queen Camilla certainly understood, "Wherever the queen goes, her husband must follow, right, my dear duke?" Vanessa turned her head to Mouton. She was so charming today, her eyes were misty, her brown-red hair was unkempt and beautiful, she raised her head, and a golden and green brocade robe reflected the flickering candlelight, "If I can't even tie my husband, then what charm is there?" ”

"I have no doubt about that," said Queen Camilla, with a mocking smile on her face, like a tiny chrysanthemum, "it is precisely because of your charm that the men of the Burning Flame Kingdom willingly accept your rule. ”

Just laugh as much as you want, Vanessa thought to herself, and when Muton offers to come back to the Burning Nation with me tomorrow, you won't be able to laugh anymore.

At the end of the feast, Vanessa was carried back to their cave palace by Muton. She remembered the last time she was pulled into the wedding room by Terrence.

This time, of course, will be different.

Vanessa looked at the mountain dwarf prince in front of him, he had half-human blood, a heroic figure and a loyal and reliable face, he was a personal friend with him, maybe he still had a little infatuation with him, but it didn't matter, the most important thing was that his self-sacrifice at the critical moment moved him and helped him successfully save his own mother from Terrence.

But soon, he's going to hate me. That little bit of gratitude will soon turn to anger and hatred under my onslaught, and he will hate me as much as he hates Terrence!

The conjugal ceremony was in order, and Muton showed respect for Vanessa without losing his manly demeanor, which was much better than the wedding night that Terrence gave her. Although both men knew that it was only a political marriage, at least it was not so pedantic that it would not take pleasure in it, and Morton was so pleased with Vanessa that his hand never left the Queen's waist unless he stopped to rest.

"I've wanted to tell you for a long time that what you do always surprises people." Muton kissed Vanessa's hair lightly, "I heard about your battle with the elites of the Flame Nation in Neverwinter, that battle has been told by storytellers, and they say that you are a goddess with the wings of a holy angel, and you took down the main force of Tarence with almost no sword soldiers......"

Vanessa smiled, "That battle was wonderful, but there's something more to focus on." Her smile gradually cooled, "Tomorrow, let's go back to the Burning Nation together, there is someone waiting for you." ”

Muton held back, and the smile on his face withered as if it had been frozen by the cold wind, "You imprisoned my mother? ”

Vanessa nodded. In front of him, there was no point in denying or quibbling, "If I or any of you don't go back, Xue Lanwei will kill her." ”

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