Chapter 384: A Byzantine Breakfast (1/2)

The day after Berengar's wedding to Honoria, he woke up next to the young Byzantine Princess with a smile. Honoria was still asleep, and Berengar decided to play a little prank on her. He immediately began to spoon with the girl as he groped her sizeable breasts while kissing her neck.

Eventually, she awoke from her slumber and looked over at her husband. His eyepatch was removed, revealing the heavily scarred sapphire blue eye usually concealed beneath it. Seeing the wound he had received in battle, she carefully caressed his handsome face while kissing him passionately.

With this in mind, Berengar began to insert his member inside her tight, slippery hole, which instantly caused the princess to moan in pleasure. Eventually, Berengar sped up his movements, where he pushed Honoria's face down into the pillow while ravaging her from behind. To Berengar, this was where the fun began.

After playing around with his wife for a solid hour, the couple eventually got dressed and entered the dining hall, where everyone was gathered eating breakfast. Berengar and Honoria sat down at the table and immediately noticed their stares.

Evidently, Honoria was quite the squealer because everyone at the table had awkward expressions on their faces as if they were aware of what the couple had been doing for the last hour or so. Though Berengar didn't mind it, his bride indeed began to blush when she came to realize that she was responsible for the tense atmosphere.

Eventually, Berengar broke the silence by pulling out a leatherbound book and sliding it across the table towards the Emperor. Vetranis was immediately curious as he saw Berengar's actions and instantly inquired about the details.

”What is this?”

Berengar scoffed as he drank from the coffee that was presented to him before answering the Emperor's expression with a smug grin on his face.

”That is everything you need to know about how to feed your people properly. The four-field system, how to produce advanced fertilizers, the means to construct irrigation piping from copper, and a few modest improvements to your tools such as the steel plow; you can consider it my wedding gift.”

The men and women present at the table stared at Berengar in disbelief, none more so than Quintus, as the Prince most renowned for successful administration, this leatherbound book was worth more to him than any other text in the world.

Yet Berengar just handed it over as if it was an ordinary object. Despite how it appeared, this book contained critical information regarding the technology and knowledge behind the agricultural revolution. Berengar wasn't simply handing it over as a wedding gift, but as a means to strengthen the Empire.

With the backing of the mysterious tertiary faction, whose aim was to place his and Honoria's future son on the throne. Berengar wanted his child to inherit a wealthy and stable Empire. The construction of the Suez Canal and the advanced agricultural methods Berengar was providing the current Emperor was done so with this potential future in mind.

As for other technology such as superior iron and steel-making techniques, Berengar had no plans to yield those to anyone. After all, his ability to produce vast quantities of high-quality steel gave him a severe military advantage over everyone else in the world.

Vetranis flipped through the book with an astonished expression on his face. Though he didn't understand much of what was stated in the text, he knew people within the Empire who could adequately comprehend it. As such, he was eager to begin implementing such advanced technologies as soon as he possibly could.

With a warm smile on his face, the Emperor began to joke around with Berengar as if they had been friends for a long time.

”I'm glad to see our alliance is bearing fruit already. If I had known that uniting our two households in matrimony would be so beneficial, I never would have betrothed Honoria to that feminine Prince from France.”

Upon hearing this, Honoria immediately glared at her father; the last thing she wanted to be reminded of was the fact that she was once engaged to that little twink. However, she was not the only one in a foul mood. Decentius could not stop eying Berengar and Honoria with hatred. He blamed Honoria for his treacherous actions, and now that he knew she was alive and safe, he would not allow her to go unpunished.

After dealing with an entire day dedicated to a marriage he deemed a blight upon his bloodline and the sounds of his sister getting railed by a Barbarian King from the west this morning, Decentius was on the verge of exploding.

Noticing the second Prince's foul expression, Berengar could roughly guess what was on his mind, and as such, he decided to provoke the man further. With this in mind, he took a sip from his coffee before bluntly revealing Honoria's little secret to the rest of her family.

”So... Honoria is pregnant...”

This news shocked the entire family, except for Vetranis, who was well aware of this fact. Honoria began to pout as she gazed at her husband with a furious expression; she could not believe that he would reveal this fact the morning after their wedding.