Europe is in chaos: the Roman emperor Henry has once again gained the ability to move freely, and is sharpening his sword against the "opposing emperor" of the princes, the Duke of Swabia; Before the end of the civil war in Normandy, Robert fled with all his elite to the territory of his uncle, Robert, Count of Flanders; King Ošbjörn of Denmark had recently killed his nephew Harald, but the other sons of King Sven had fled, with Canute being the most dangerous at the Swedish court; In the far north, the Gaelic people of ancient Caledonia only temporarily ended their cannibalism, and the scarred Molay looked at their neighbor to the south with hatred, and the king of Malcolm had imprisoned their lord Marsnekta, a shame that the northerners would never forget.

Only King Alfonso of the Spanish Peninsula and King Edgar of England were able to safely hold their territory, and even set their sights on neighboring powers, but King Alfonso did not realize at this time that across the Channel to the south of him, the Murabithi people, who had just destroyed the Ghanaian Empire, were also building an empire in a hurry, Yusuf ibn Tashfin, the name of the future Megatron Peninsula, did not even enter Alfonso's ears at this time. Therefore, only King Edgar of England can claim that his rule is as safe as a rock. In the newly conquered Welsh region, Rodrigo Díaz de Vival, the flower of the knighthood of the time, also known as the "Kingkiller", is pursuing Rhys Tudor of Dafede, a blood relative of the slain King Rees, the royal family of Dineffre who still has a strong appeal throughout southwest Wales, but is no match for Rodrigo's war genius, and can only be regarded as surviving.

The King of England was not idle, and after taking care of the relief of the counties, he set about rebuilding London, which had been destroyed by fire. For the first time in many years, Edgar had the opportunity to bring his various designs to life.

"This is a technique of the ancient Greeks, but unfortunately it is gradually lost in the world." The king said to an Italian craftsman armed with a hammer and chisel, "The secret of carving a veil into marble is that the top of the head and shoulders should be rounded and smooth, but the face should be deliberately rough." In this way, the texture of the fabric can be created through different light reflection effects. You can experiment with this process by following the pattern on that parchment roll, and if you chisel it right, you can even create an almost transparent effect on marble. ”

He describes the special skill of the 19th-century Italian sculptor Raphaelo Monti, who was prepared to carve a veiled Madonna, which the king designed with such elegance that, like all the buildings he designed, was imbued with a white and ethereal artistic beauty, which the Anglo-Saxons called aelfscinu – the sparkle of the elves.

London is a dilapidated city with a mixture of fish and horse dung, with about 10,000 inhabitants, the old city of the Romans largely abandoned, and the Saxons built only rudimentary huts covered with straw. The king's dream was to turn London into one of the brightest jewels in the Western world, a giant banquet hall full of music and wisdom.

In order to realize this ideal, Edgar hired craftsmen and artists from all over Europe, and he spent so much money that it was rumored that the king of England was going to build a new Rome in the north, from the Franks to Italy.

Almost all of the wealth obtained from the Normans and Welsh was invested in these works, except for the part that was rewarded to the lord's warriors. The royal mint's and Greenwich's armoury workshops were also busy all day long – the war brought famine and plague to many kingdoms, but a lot of income for English merchants. The knightly aristocracy of Europe, especially the Normans, may not buy the whale oil and wool of the English, but they are fond of the fine armor soldiers engraved with GW runes, and the amount of armament exported to Normandy in the summer is equal to the orders of Burgundy and Flanders combined.

Had it not been for the guild system and quality control regulations established earlier by King Edgar, the merchants and craftsmen of Greenwich would have been like the armor craftsmen of Milan and Cologne in the past, flooding the markets with a flood of inferior goods and overwhelming the competitors in Nuremberg. At a time when the most famous centers for the production of weapons and armor had not yet been formed, and Toledo was still in the hands of the infidels, English merchants did not need to worry about competitors of the same rank. The whaling industry was a different story, some whaling ships from France and Spain had already joined the competition, and they could often be seen near the straits, so the English had to go deeper into those farther seas, crossing huge icebergs that collided with each other, chasing whales, and one white ship even reached Iceland!

Whaling is a dangerous business, but young men and free-spirited slaves continue to join in, and the banshees and beasts of the sea, and the magnificent worlds inhabited by ancient pagan gods and goddesses in the distant world become common topics in the taverns. King Edgar had organized his own small fleets of expeditions, but he did not expect to be able to reach the supposedly New World lands like Eric the Redhead and his heirs—Heluran, the "Land of Stones", Macran, the "Land of Forests", and Vinland, the "Land of Wine", even the bear-infested Greenland. At this time, Greenland had a population of thousands, and most of these immigrants from Iceland could even export furs, ropes, oil, walrus ivory, white bears and eagles, but this trade route was too dangerous, and the most important grains and iron tools needed to be imported, and the further west, the less iron, the local Sklelins did not have any iron, and used walrus ivory javelins and sharpened stone knives as weapons, but the iron tools of those Vikings were also scarce, and the part of the Vikings who arrived in the New World was said to have no access to import iron tools, It is also difficult to establish any valuable colony points.

Edgar had no illusions at the beginning, he was not one of those northerners, thinking that sailing west would reach the edge of the world, into the abyss of the outer ocean, he knew what was in the west, but with the current technical conditions, the possibility of successfully colonizing the continent to the west was basically non-existent. So his eyes were not on the mouth of the St. Lawrence, the Long Island Strait, or Virginia, but on the shipping lanes around England and the seas around Hibernia, where fleets observed the changing stars, the floats of glaciers, and the distribution of fish, in preparation for the establishment of trade routes and hunting grounds at sea. In the future, it may also head south into the Pillar of Hercules to trade or compete with the Moors.

While the King of England was personally designing the underground sewers for the City of London, news came from across the Channel that his mother, Madame Matilda, had been placed under house arrest by the Duke of Normandy for secretly sending him money, an action that caused a lot of unease within the Duchy, and Robert's uncle, the Earl of Flanders, finally agreed to his request and was about to send troops to Normandy to seek justice from William.