Chapter 1 The Lumberjack

"A long, long time ago,"

The lumberjack paused for a moment, "Actually, it was only about nineteen years ago, the world was still normal.

The major kingdoms were still engaged in low-intensity, chaotic wars,

The upper class still indulged in extravagant pleasures, town residents crowded into sweatshops that were beginning to use steam engines, and rural residents suffered from the invasion of dark creatures, relying only on the protection of demon hunters wandering in the countryside.

Just like the past millennia.

Well, back then I was a king, the king of the Kingdom of Lienma, Frederick III.

My father was Frederick II, known as the Blood Eagle! My mother was Princess Orisa of the Kingdom of Ai'e! Noble blood flowed in my veins, just like my ancestors. I was qualified and capable of ruling an entire kingdom."

A hint of pride flashed across the lumberjack's face, which was then replaced by a look of frustration.

"But all of this was changed by Princess Aisha of the Kingdom of Arendelle."

The lumberjack scratched his chin, which was covered in a thick beard, "The Kingdom of Lienma is located in the northeast corner of this world. It's an island nation covered in ice and snow, while the Kingdom of Arendelle is located southwest of the Kingdom of Lienma, and is also an island nation covered in ice and snow.

I had heard of Princess Aisha before. At the time, I heard that she, as a child, possessed some kind of ability to control ice and snow—which was not a good thing for the royal families of all kingdoms.

Royal families can hire wizards and sorcerers with extraordinary abilities, but if members of the royal family themselves possess extraordinary abilities, it is considered a scandalous scandal—all kingdoms believe in the deities of the Aula pantheon, and take pride in their pure-blooded human status, even though the deities of the Aula pantheon have not shown any miracles for a long time."

Li Ang and the other players' hearts stirred, and they exchanged glances out of the corners of their eyes.

The Princess Aisha of the Kingdom of Arendelle, who the lumberjack spoke of and who could control ice and snow, was probably the Ice Queen in this mission.

"At that time, I was just a prince. My most important activity every day was attending various social balls and making friends with eligible noble ladies from various kingdoms—this was basically the main daily activity of unmarried noble men."

A look of self-deprecation and reminiscence flashed across the lumberjack's overly hairy face, "Hehe, I don't know if it was divine favor, but the princes of the major kingdoms and a group of small countries all had handsome faces. Back then, I was quite handsome."

You?

Julia couldn't help but scan the lumberjack up and down. The only difference between this brother and a gorilla was that he had a body of brown hair.

"Anyway,"

The lumberjack, completely unaware that the players were making fun of him in their hearts, continued, "The Kingdom of Lienma and the Kingdom of Arendelle have been friendly for generations. After hearing that the King and Queen of the Kingdom of Arendelle had died of illness, I, as a representative, led a delegation to the neighboring country,

Both to express sorrow for the death of their king, and to propose marriage to Princess Aisha, whom I had never met—this would be of great benefit to my future inheritance of the throne.

As a result"

The lumberjack shrugged, "We met Princess Aisha in the capital of the Kingdom of Arendelle. At that time, she was indeed a beautiful child, but she had a particularly bad temper, was mentally mature and stubborn, and was a bit eccentric.

She rejected my marriage proposal, and called this behavior 'a man's attempt to use kidnapped marriage to exploit, oppress, and exploit a new era woman with independent autonomy out of fear of losing her dominant social status.'

Sounds like that girl in the Little Red Riding Hood costume just now, right?

Before I could figure out what this sentence meant, I was kicked out of the Kingdom of Arendelle.

Soon, Princess Aisha became the new queen of the Kingdom of Arendelle. As soon as she held the coronation ceremony, she began to carry out drastic reforms.

For example, dismissing a large number of palace workers—she claimed that the servant system was feudalism's oppression of human rights.

Increasing the number of female official positions in the Kingdom's urban system—she claimed that this was a correction of workplace gender discrimination.

Amending laws to make the act of abandoning infants, especially female infants, a crime punishable by hanging.

As queen, she certainly had the right to make reforms, but when she began to confiscate the property of many nobles within the Kingdom of Arendelle on the grounds of 'clearing out the oppressive forces of the nobility,' some veteran courtiers finally couldn't stand it anymore and prepared to take action.

A group of the most radical courtiers, who tried to replace the Queen's position with Queen Aisha's sister, were directly frozen into ice sculptures by her,

And those ministers who simply offered advice were thrown into prison and stripped of their family property.

Soon, a civil war broke out within the Kingdom of Arendelle. Nobles who were unwilling to sit still and wait for death formed an army and attempted to overthrow Queen Aisha's rule.

Speaking of this, the lumberjack's expression darkened, "On the vast wilderness, a noble army composed of two thousand cavalry and thirty thousand soldiers was turned into ice sculptures by the wind and snow blown by Queen Aisha before they could even spread out their formation.

No one dared to resist Queen Aisha's rule anymore. She carried out a large number of reforms to the entire Kingdom of Arendelle, attempting to transform the kingdom into the human paradise she claimed.

After half a year of silence, the Kingdom of Arendelle began to launch wars against foreign countries, and the Kingdom of Lienma was the first to bear the brunt."

The lumberjack shook his head with a wry smile, "My father was once a powerful and proud warrior. He had beheaded more than a dozen troll chieftains and hunted thousands of monsters,

But in the face of Queen Aisha, who possessed power comparable to that of a god, he and the army he led were vulnerable.

The Kingdom of Lienma was destroyed. After being king for three days, I was forced to lead my ministers to surrender to the queen—this three-day period was about the time it took for the queen's army to reach the capital of the Kingdom of Lienma.

According to Queen Aisha's wishes, I, who did not surrender immediately, was also to be frozen into an ice sculpture, but the Queen's sister—Princess Anna, who did not have ice and snow abilities but was kind and amiable—persuaded her sister.

I was banished from the Kingdom of Lienma alone and wandered into the Kingdom of Ruun. As you can see, I became a lumberjack."

The lumberjack, or rather Frederick III, shrugged, with a look of calm, or rather fatigue, that saw through everything on his face.

"In the following years, Queen Aisha's army—actually mainly herself with ice and snow magic—swept away all resistance and cleared all kingdoms.

Although the royal families of various countries are still preserved, they are basically no different from secondary nobles and have lost all power.

Queen Aisha completed her one-person rule on this land and began her plan to transform the world."