Chapter 385 7.39 Dilemma

Loki reached out and touched the cold dragon bone in front of him, feeling worried.

After hundreds of thousands of years, it was impossible to expect the dragon bones in the dragon tomb to be as fresh as before.

With the accumulation of time, this thing has long become the same texture as stone, and its surface has a dense patina like glaze.

It is probably impossible to soak it in wine.

No one would throw a stone into a wine pot.

As for making feed,

it seems even worse to let livestock eat stone powder.

However, this thing is the only commodity in Normandy that Loki has been thinking about for a whole winter, which is "only I have, and others don't have".

It is true that the Cold Stone Family has a fleet that can go to the polar regions to hunt whales and harvest whale oil every year, but this is the business of the Frost People after all.

As a duke, Loki cannot openly take over the business that has already become a complete production chain.

At most, he can collect 10% of the tax.

Based on the business philosophy that scarcity makes things valuable, Loki came here to harvest a batch from the Frost Giant King first, and then take a boat to Paris to see if there is a market for this thing.

Three years ago, he took a three-masted ship to the west for the first time, which was like opening Pandora's box. Since then, years of war have left him without even a chance to breathe.

In just three years, there were only 20,000 residents in the three provinces of Dragon Breath Plateau, River Valley and Frost Ridge.

Among them, there were only 2,000 people who could still pick up a big axe to fight.

Compared with the drastic shrinking population, the territory has expanded again and again. The last 2,000 Viking warriors are Loki's only assets. He needs to use these 2,000 people to do everything possible to maintain the situation of the two provinces in the English Isles.

Transforming from a group of pirates to a maritime trading country, this deep-sea dragon tomb is his only bargaining chip.

He looked at Mehrandin, and the Viking queen spread her hands and also made a helpless expression.

The dragon bone fossils from more than 100,000 years ago have never appeared in the civilized society of the Western Continent. Even Mohrandin could not tell whether this thing was valuable or not.

However, things had come to this point, so he had to fight hard.

Loki called on his men to drag the huge dragon bones onto the ox cart, and just as he was about to wave goodbye to the Giant King,

a black raven fell from the sky, with a red scroll tied to its claws.

According to the contact code formulated by Loki and Elizabeth. Only when fierce bloodshed occurred in the territory would papyrus of this color be written.

As soon as he opened the scroll and saw the first word,

his heart slowly sank.

**

"Duke Loki, I have to admit that we are in a huge trouble!"

Three days later, Loki, who returned overnight, saw Ecbert and Alfred before he approached the coastline.

Before he had time to say hello, Ecbert, the Lord of Wessex, came over first.

He had thought that this group of Vikings would definitely offend these high-ranking French masters at some point in time.

But he never expected that this day would come so soon.

"What happened?" Loki asked with a frown.

An hour later, when he walked into the church and saw old man Clint wrapped in bandages, Loki pieced together the whole picture of the incident based on the complete story described by Alfred.

Not surprisingly, the whole thing must be a conspiracy of the Illuminati.

The "Illuminati" is indeed flawless as the legend says. This evil god invasion is like a basin of dirty water. As long as it is poured on him, no matter what the result is, he can't wash it off.

If they succeed in catching Alfred, they can threaten Ecbert to be an accomplice of the Illuminati at the cost of his life.

If they don't catch him, it doesn't matter.

724 French citizens and 31,042 English people died in a war they started.

This account, the "Plantagenet Family" will definitely count on Loki.

**

On the grassland, the lion had no time to listen to the hyena's excuses.

The high-ranking French gentlemen would not listen to his explanations of "this is an invasion of evil gods planned by the Illuminati" and "your people have been prepared and plan to ambush me" and so on.

When Loki and Elizabeth got married, except for several rulers of the seven countries of England, the Duchy of France, the Free City of Visigoths, and the Greater Bavaria did not send a single noble.

Not even an envoy was sent to congratulate.

They simply did not recognize the status of these Viking barbarians in the civilized world.

As for this sudden war,

Everyone knows that the first axe was indeed chopped out by Clint.

Although the old man had broken bones and was wrapped in bandages. When he saw Loki appear, he still tried to get up and roared that I did not embarrass Hanshui Village. In front of Ecbert and many nobles of the English Isles, he openly admitted that he was the first to chop down the group of French bastards.

Loki smiled bitterly and shook his head, and could only appease the old man first.

In Scandinavia, swinging a big axe to chop at foreigners will not arouse public anger, but it is worth showing off. However, this is a civilized society after all. The "master" accurately found Clint, a pure-blooded old salty dog, and must have known that he would definitely fall into his trap.

"Edward Long Legs sent an envoy to deliver an imperial edict, asking you to go to Paris to stand trial by the Inquisition." Ecbert took out a red stiff scroll from his arms. The scroll was hard and was not made of papyrus, but another more advanced paper.

The back of the paper was even decorated with gold thread and hand-painted with several magnificent golden flowers.

That was the family emblem of the "Plantagenet Family".

"He only gives you 7 days."

"After 7 days, he will close the English Channel and cut off all commercial dealings with us, just like 12 years ago."

The Vikings did not understand the horror of this matter, but it did not mean that Loki did not understand.

In the civilized world, only the giants with vast territories and large populations like the late Qing Dynasty could "create their own world" if they wanted to survive without relying on other countries.

The backward technology and industry in the Middle Ages made the manufacturing of most daily necessities still confidential.

Glass, papyrus, soap, pigment, tea, porcelain, spices

There are too many necessities for these four floating islands to be self-sufficient. And all the supplies on the islands are transported from the Duchy of France through the English Channel.

Note that the imperial edict did not state separately that "no business will be done with the Normandy region."

In the eyes of the lion, all hyenas are of the same character. They have no time to distinguish who is the murderer.

If you don't accept it, you will be punished together.

No matter how you look at it, this is a fatal question.

If you go, you may be ambushed by an unknown enemy, and you will most likely fall into the hands of the Illuminati.

But if you don't go

The market of the seven countries will be in chaos within a week. The territory that you have conquered at the cost of tens of thousands of Vikings' lives will not only face a significant decline.

How these six allies will unite to deal with you is also a huge question.