Aske took Eleanor's hand and walked to the front desk.

Eleanor smiled softly, and the mist of will had quickly dispersed, enveloping the entire surroundings of Aachen Cathedral.

If someone is approaching the cathedral, they can react immediately.

The Archbishop of Germania, a kind old man with a long robe and brown glasses and a gray beard, is said to have held the position of cardinal in the Holy See as a young man.

Holding the scriptures in his left hand and the cross in his right hand, he gently motioned for the two newlyweds to come over and stand face to face, gazing at their beloved.

"Sophie. Caroline. Feng. His Royal Highness Saxony. The archbishop read out the name of the Saxon family that Eleanor had been given at birth, "Would you like to marry Asker. Lepius. Mr. Achilles is his wife, living with him according to the teachings of the Bible, being one with him before God, loving him, comforting him, respecting him, and protecting him as you love yourself. Whether he is sick or healthy, rich or poor, he remains faithful to him until he leaves the world? ”

"I do." Eleanor said without hesitation.

"Asker......" Archbishop turned around, and before he could pronounce Asker's full name, Eleanor suddenly narrowed her pupils and stopped in front of Asker.

A figure rushed in from outside the church, smashed the closed church door to pieces, and the two imperial knights guarding the scene were also violently knocked out by the burly figure.

The guy rushed in front of Eleanor and suddenly fell to the ground in embarrassment. Bruno, who was sitting on a bench next to him, snapped his fingers, ruining his desire to keep running.

The Imperial knights with black crosses on a white background swarmed around him, pressing their swords against his neck. The uninvited guest struggled to raise his head, revealing the face of a bearded Norman warrior, took out a roll of fire-lacquered paper from his sleeve, and shouted:

"The High King of the Helsingør Empire! His Majesty Emperor Sidlifa, has sent an urgent and serious state interrogation to Her Royal Highness Sophie, the Imperial Regent of the Holy Solomon Empire, the First Sword Bearer under the Iron Throne, and the Eldest Princess! ”

"Shut up!" Several elders of the Saxon family at the scene quickly got up, ordered him not to spoil the wedding scene again, and asked the imperial knights to drag him down quickly.

The Imperial Knight hurriedly struck him on the cheek with the hilt of his sword, preventing him from making a sound. And the Norman warrior ignored the sword, but stubbornly covered his face with his arms to block the blow, and cried out in pain:

"This Asker, who is going to marry you, is the betrothed future husband of His Majesty Sidlifa! If you insist on continuing the wedding, it will be considered a malicious provocation to the Outwell family......"

As soon as these words came out, the remaining imperial nobles present all changed color.

Since the founding of the Helsinger Empire in the north, there has been little peace on the border with the Holy Solomonic Empire. On the one hand, there was a struggle for trade rights in the Baltic Sea, and on the other hand, there was a confrontation with the claims of the two border areas bordering Schleswig and Holstein.

The former is dominated by encounters at sea between caravans, mercenaries, and lords' guards, while the latter has seen several large-scale land battles initiated by the military noblelords of the border realms of the two countries.

After several battles, both sides won and lost, but the intensity was controlled, and the nobles captured in the war could also exchange ransom and be released, so it was a relatively common territorial dispute between nobles.

And this Norman emissary, who came up as a "malicious provocation against the Ottvilles", is undoubtedly making the most advanced kind of war claim:

That is, Imperial Wars.

A full-scale confrontation between states, ending with the defeat or peace of one side, often accompanied by the cession of a large amount of territory and the loss of property, was a matter of great importance to the nobility of any empire.

However, this casus belli was so strange: this Mr. Asker, whom His Highness was currently marrying......

Actually the betrothal of the monarch in the north?

For a while, the guests present also accepted that they could not ...... Of course, if we accept this fact, then we can see the crisis clearly, and like the sword of Damocles hanging over our heads, it has begun to push the two empires to the brink of war and destruction.

This Mr. Asker was a man, not two, so he either married His Highness or went north to be the husband of the kingkiller.

The latter is absolutely impossible, because Her Royal Highness the eldest princess has guarded his chastity for six years, and the depth of his feelings can be imagined. If he were to be handed over to the North, the Empire's reputation would be in shambles: the Helsingør Empire, as the world would know about it, openly sent someone to interrupt the wedding of Her Royal Highness the Eldest Princess of the Holy Solomon Empire, and forcibly snatched her husband away.

Not to mention the loss of her husband by Her Royal Highness the eldest princess, which led to a series of subsequent problems such as lack of heirs, succession of power, political balance, etc., almost all of which could shake the rule of the Iron Throne and lay the groundwork for the next civil strife in the empire.

On the other hand, if the former is chosen and the wedding is carried out, then according to the threat of the north, it is a war.

The war was not good for either side, but the situation was different between the two countries: the HRE Empire consisted of several principalities, and in the event of a war with the north, the hardest hit would be the Duchy of Lorraine (northwest) and the Duchy of Saxony (due north) controlled by the House of Saxony.

As for Weissbach, the adoptive father of Her Royal Highness the eldest princess, the Duchy of Bavaria, where she is located, is located in the southeast, and it is almost impossible to be threatened by the troops from the north.

The Weissbachs were therefore bound to give their full support to the continuation of the wedding, while the Saxonys had a mixed fortune and had to choose between the threat of external war and the shaking of their internal rule.

This is not an easy political decision to make, and it requires a detailed assessment of the future international situation in order to finally determine how to deal with it. Therefore, the most suitable response for His Highness at this time is not to hand over the person, but to suspend the wedding, so as to buy enough time......

"Get out!" Eleanor snapped.

Guests: ..................

Well, considering that Her Royal Highness the eldest princess is a woman after all, anyone who is interrupted during her wedding will not be able to have any good mood and good face.

So we have no choice but to choose war.

The Imperial Knight pressed his sword down, drawing sharp blood marks on his opponent's neck. The Norman warrior silently placed the credentials on the ground, and was obediently escorted out by the Imperial Knight.

Everyone's eyes stayed on the book of the declaration of war, and Eleanor on the stage condensed her flowing will, rolled up the book on the ground, took it in her hand and unfolded it and glanced at it roughly, sneered, and threw it to Otto II below.

Otto II took it and looked at it, and his expression immediately became solemn. Because what is written on it is indeed the highest level of war threat without reservation:

From Copenhagen to Tromsø, from Oslo to Vyborg, His Majesty Sidlifa, the High King of the North, will send all the available troops of Great Scandinavia, and 100,000 Norman warriors will go south to conquer the HRE Empire, and the carpet that will welcome the return of His Majesty husband will be dyed red with the blood of the Franks.

To be sure, the overall power of the HRE Empire is stronger than that of the Helsinger Empire in the north. However, after all, the HRE was only a loose alliance of feudal principalities, and even with the prestige of Her Royal Highness the eldest princess and the connections of the Saxon family, at most 60% of the imperial army could be mobilized.

As for the supreme king, who was known for his power and violence, he could easily gather more than 90% of the northern army and head south, without blinking an eye on how many casualties he suffered in the process.

Otto II's face immediately fell.