The fireplace made of pure white marble burns brightly.

As the heavy copper-clad wooden door behind him closed, the halfling twins, who were standing a little cramped and uneasy, suddenly didn't feel a trace of cold coolness.

"Come and sit down, I have something to ask you. Green said with a wave of his hand.

Stepping on the spotless oak floor, the halfling twins carefully bypassed the plush wool carpet under the wooden table, and sat upright on the soft cowhide sofa.

As soon as they entered the Viking chieftain's home, the halfling twins felt refreshed once again.

With such a crystal clear wood-framed crystal window, even Westminster Bright Abbey, the largest in the Dragonheart Kingdom, does not have such a window.

The glittering and delicate candlestick, which they guarantee with their experience in collecting for the past thirty years, is definitely the golden candlestick of the ancient craftsmanship of the elves.

The furnishings in the house are simple and clear, not like those nouveau riche in the Demon Realm Continent, human aristocrats only know how to pursue luxury and pomp. This concept of comfort is somewhat similar to the style of the halfling, but in the details, the Vikings are clearly more perfect than they did.

Green noticed that Oreo had been silently surveying the furnishings since he entered the house, so instead of speaking out of the air, he took out a few clay cups from the closet, then found a jar from the cloth bag, and poured the dark brown powder into the cup.

"Drink!" Green gestured to the two halflings who were already stunned.

"Have you ever seen Mary?" he asked, stirring the small silver spoon in his cup.

He has always been very curious about Mary's background.

It's just that Mary never wants to talk to him about the past, and Lannister is also silent, so Green can only secretly suppress this curiosity in his heart.

The halfling twins, who had come to their senses, glanced at each other, and then said thoughtfully, "Well, we did meet." ”

It wasn't clear how the Viking leader knew that cocoa powder could also be drunk as a drink, but his easy-going appearance made them a little more relaxed.

"Where?" said Green, pausing his movements.

"Fog City, the capital of the Dragon Heart Country. ”

"Do you know which kingdom Mary is the queen of?"

The halfling twin nodded affirmatively.

Green immediately put down the cup in his hand and said with great interest, "Then you can tell me the story of Mary!"

The twins' expressions were a little strange, and they were silent for a while, then said cautiously, "My lord...... Haven't you heard of Bloody Mary?"

Green shook his head.

......

In the year 1065 of the Bright Calendar, King Grande Edward I the Confessor died childless, and the great nobleman Harold was proclaimed king.

William I, Duke of the Norman Duchy separated from the Rio Grande, led his army across the Strait of the Dragon Slayer and invaded the Grande under the pretext that his cousin Edward had promised him the throne during his lifetime.

In October 1066, Duke William fought Harold II in Hastings, and after the victory, he captured the royal city of Grande - Fog Castle, and at the end of the year proclaimed himself king, called William I, known as "William the Conqueror".

In 1067, after William the Conqueror ruled Grande, he married Eleanor, the princess of Elander, another kingdom on the island of Lyde, as his queen in order to defend against the invasion of Vikings. The two countries formed an alliance and fought against each other, followed by the birth of Prince Richard.

......

In 1084, after the only prince of Aland succeeded to the throne, he suddenly fell ill and died, and Queen Eleanor returned to inherit the throne, but was opposed by all the nobles of Aland, William the Conqueror.

In 1085, after deliberation, the nobles of Aland refused to accept Queen Eleanor to inherit the throne, but proposed two new proposals: if Prince Richard could slaughter a dragon with his own hands and marry the daughter of a nobleman from the Aland kingdom as queen, they would accept Prince Richard as the new king of Elander. Prince Richard slaughtered the dragon with blood, threw the still beating dragon heart in front of the Aland nobles, and then became the king of Aland.

In 1087, William the Conqueror died, leaving a will that Prince Richard would succeed him as King of the Grande, and the two countries have been co-rulers ever since.

In 1090, King Richard promised that all future kings would marry the daughter of a noble Aland as queen, and the two countries were officially merged into one, and the name was changed to "Kingdom of Dragonheart".

......

It wasn't until 1596 that Henry VII's eldest son, Arthur, was betrothed to Catherine, the daughter of the Duke of Elland-Lannister, but Prince Arthur died mysteriously not long after.

In order to maintain the tradition and the marriage contract, Henry VII betrothed his second son, Henry, who was only 12 years old, to his widowed sister-in-law, who was 18 years old. And Mary was the first daughter of Henry Tudor VIII.

Later, in addition to Mary, Henry VIII's five children died one after another, and there was little hope of a male heir.

"For a man to marry his brother's wife is unclean,...... They will have no children. —The Gospel of Light

Henry VIII decided to divorce and marry Anne York, the daughter of a nobleman from Grande, as his new queen.

This unprecedented divorce case set off a chain reaction that went far beyond the marriage issue itself – the Reformation of the Dragonheart Kingdom and the unification of the nation-state.

When Henry VIII's request for divorce reached the city of Light, Bridalek, the arbiter of the Pope rejected him due to the power of Catherine's sister Christina (queen of Caesar V of the Kingdom of Basel).

Annoyed, Henry VIII set aside the Pope and deposed Catherine.

In order to provide legitimacy for his actions, he took advantage of the religious reform in the Demon Realm Continent to announce a complete break with the Holy See of Light, establish a new religion "Holy Radiance Sect", and launched a reformation movement across the country to remove the power of the pope and confiscate the monasteries, and at the same time funded the Dutch Revolution in the Duchy of Tulip to fight against the colonial rule of the Kingdom of Basel.

However, the strong resistance of the people of Aland caused Henry VIII a headache, and he had no choice but to promise that Mary would inherit the throne in the future.

Four years later, Henry VIII died of illness, and Mary, who was only 13 years old, became queen of the Dragonheart Kingdom.

Influenced by her mother, she is a devout Illuminati.

Upon her accession to the throne, she reversed her father's policy and decided to restore the Illuminati as the state religion while banning the people of Grande from Protestantism.

Queen Mary's new policy immediately sparked an outcry from the new nobles and merchants of Grande.

It's just that unlike her father, Queen Mary's methods are more intense.

She executed any nobles who dared to oppose her, and then sent her army to slaughter hundreds of Protestants who believed in the Holy Radiance. Queen Mary's bloody reign lasted for two years, and the intolerable nobles united with the Protestants in a coup d'état.

They stormed Edinburgh, Queen Mary's royal palace, imprisoned the queen, and established the Republic of Grande in the Grande.

However, the dictatorship of the Protector of the Republic, Krenwe, aroused the discontent of another part of the old aristocracy. They welcomed back Princess Elizabeth (Queen Mary's half-sister), who had fled to the Duchy of Tulip, and then staged another coup d'état.

And it was at this time that Queen Mary, who had been pushed to the guillotine, was rescued by her Scarlet Knights.

"And what about then? Who will rule the current Dragon Heart Kingdom?" Grimm remembered that Ranny had told him that it was the year 1617 in the Bright Calendar.

After saying all this, the Oreo brothers realized that they had been leaning back comfortably on the soft sofa at some point.

The two of them hurriedly sat up straight again and put down the cups in their hands.

"Later, Princess Elizabeth became the queen, but now the power of the king of the Dragon Heart Kingdom is not so great......"

Is it not a complete bourgeois revolution? Green couldn't help but touch his chin, it seems that a lot has happened in the past two years.

"Is there anything special going on lately?" he asked, after a moment's thought.

"Something special... It should be that there are no demons at all on the north side of the Misty Sea that have been circulating on the continent recently... The Vikings appeared dragon knights... You have a lot of gold and jewelry here... Life is harder. The Oreos brothers glanced at each other, and one of them whispered.

"Another thing is that I heard that the Royal Navy of the Dragon Heart Kingdom has captured an airship invented by goblins. The other halfling added.

"Goblin airship?" Green stood up in surprise, could it be that the technology of this world has developed to this point?