Pirate Kingship-Chapter 804 - 499: Evernight Queen, Unexpected Incident_3
The Bayfolk, originating from pirates, lacked sufficient cultural foundation. Only by devoutly worshipping the Creator and striving to fully integrate into the continent’s system and the collective unconscious sea could they withstand the upcoming Great Flood.
Other than that, there was only a path to destruction.
Clearly, Margaret I had long known the truth about the Great Flood from the Church.
However, the development path this [Evernight Queen] had planned for the nation and its people was completely different from Byron’s independent stance.
She believed that only by completely abandoning the failed [God of the Wild Hunt] Woden, surrendering and converting to the victor of the last Divine War, the Creator, could the Bayfolk survive the next Great Flood.
In fact, this mindset of surrender was not originated by Margaret I herself.
After the collapse of the North Sea Empire, it was the Aalborg Kingdom among [Blue Dragon King] Reinhardt’s descendants that first converted to the Church.
They then established the basic national policy of clinging tightly to the support of the Church.
Even to show loyalty, they changed the family motto to: "Love what God loves, hate what God hates!"
They explicitly fashioned themselves as a sharp sword of the Creator, akin to the staunch Traditionalist Nation, the Kingdom of Castilia.
From then on, after the royal family members passed away, their souls would not go to the "Valhalla of Heroes" but to the Church’s "Heaven".
And Margaret I, having broken through the Fifth Order [King’s Title] by herself, held this motto as her lifelong obsession.
Denying her choice and changing course would not only negate years of effort and sacrifice from the Aalborg royal family but also completely deny her extraordinary path and everything she believed in!
This was something she absolutely could not tolerate.
The credo "Believing in the Church ensures eternal life" was deeply ingrained in her bones.
However, the current reality faced by the Kalmar Union must be addressed.
[Evernight Queen]’s face turned cold and frightening:
"There’s one thing you weren’t wrong about.
A King ruling the Kalmar Union of Three Nations without the Blue Dragon King’s bloodline might not stabilize the throne or shepherd the Creator’s flock effectively.
Although Violet has also taken her mother’s heretical path, I believe her descendants still have a chance for [the Creator]’s redemption.
Therefore, I can compromise on the choice of heir, allowing her husband and children to follow after Eric in succession.
But the precondition is that she must never marry [Wild Hunt] Byron Lancaster."
The old Prime Minister instantly showed difficulty on his face, feeling his master was playing with fire:
"Do you mean to find another husband for Princess Violet?
But I heard they fought together from Iron Anchor Bay to Black Sails Harbor, and their relationship is very good.
Breaking up a happy engaged couple to arrange a political marriage seems overly cruel to Princess Violet, doesn’t it?
Moreover, do you have a suitable candidate?"
Having made up her mind, Margaret I’s expression slightly softened:
"Cruel? Better that than dead.
When the last of the Red Rose Lancaster cries out in the Bayfolk’s Rune: ’rose! rose!’ and tragically drowns in the Great Flood.
Violet and her descendants, having turned towards the light, can survive in the collective unconscious that congealed all the continent’s believers.
She will definitely thank me then.
As for the marriage candidate..."
She silently turned her head back to look at Crown Prince Eric’s room opposite.
As the door opened, a towering man, burly with abundant body hair, nearly bare-chested even in the harsh winter, led a group of Middle Sequence hospital doctors out.
All wore serious expressions; clearly, no miracle had occurred.
The old Prime Minister also realized that his master seemed to already have preparations, and the likely candidate was the man before him.
"[Bearkin] Ulysses?"
The leading burly man was Margaret I’s cousin Lady Ingelborg’s grandson, twenty-five years old this year.
Currently a [Knight] among the [King’s Right Hand], while also a Fourth Order [Bayfolk Berserker].
Among the next generation of noble youths in the Kalmar Union, he was unquestionably the leader.
Moreover, he followed Margaret’s lead in all matters, adopting an even more radical and fierce attitude towards both Protestantism and the stubborn Bayfolk factions.
Such a person could definitely continue the queen’s established basic national policy.
By age, he was only three years older than the twenty-two-year-old Princess Violet, much better than when the queen herself married her husband Haakon VI Magnus, who was fifteen years her senior.
As a political marriage candidate, it seemed not so hard to accept.
As the door opened and closed, catching the sudden intense coughing of her grandchild, Margaret I’s expression remained calm as a still water:
"My original plan was for Eric and Violet, these cousins, to marry, reuniting the two royal bloodlines.
But now, it seems Eric might soon be summoned by our lord.
Death is but the beginning of another great journey.
Under my guidance, Eric is also a devout believer, and there’s already a place reserved for him in Heaven.
The Lord teaches us only the pure qualify to ascend, so I will not allow his soul to be tainted by forbidden knowledge. Today’s outcome isn’t all that bad."
Her words announced her granddaughter’s marriage and pronounced her grandson’s death sentence.
In her eyes, whether it was her son, daughter, grandson, or grandson-in-law, no one was an exception.
For the Kalmar Union of Three Nations to smoothly survive the Great Flood and uphold the family motto: "Love what God loves, hate what God hates," the personal will of family members did not matter.
