Take the ride to dominate the game

Chapter 120 Dragon Egg
When the Gardener family ruled the Reach, the Mandalay family aroused the vigilance of King Pithon III of the Reach because of its growing power, and the latter ordered his vassals to expel the family from the Reach.

After many years of wandering, about 900 years before the Conquest, the King of the North accepted the southern family whose banner was a mermaid, and gave the Mandalays a large territory near the mouth of the White Knife River.

Afterwards, the mermaid family used the wealth they brought to build White Harbor, one of the five major cities in Westeros, and allowed the family to maintain prosperity for thousands of years.

Like the Lannisters of Casterly Rock, House Manderly is best known for its management and wisdom.

In fact, only a few of the most recent generation of Lions and Werewolves have ancestral traits, such as the clever, glib little devil, and Arya, who has the blood of the wolf.Tywin's strength and Ed's noble character are caused by special reasons, not the image that these two families have shown in front of the world for thousands of years.

As the first heir to White Harbor, Willis behaved like the Mandalays.

"Is this a scam?"

He first raised his doubts, and then suggested not to negotiate, and the army set off directly.

Willis' words won over some stability-seekers.

For the current coalition forces, with Joffrey, the most important hostage, they have a considerable initiative.

Arthur thought for a while, and said: "It's also possible. You go first, and I will take people to King's Landing City. If you don't enter the city, you will chat with them in front of the gods for a few hours. The golden robes don't have a lot of horses. , I can’t pursue quickly. I will catch up after the army has gone far.”

Although the defenders in the city are only five or six thousand at most, if the Queen Mother Cersei, who is dedicated to protecting her son, goes crazy and sends the defenders out to snatch her son back, the coalition army of 1 people will also die. Layers of people can escape.

And when Robb has no intention of the Iron Throne, and only wants to pursue the independence of the Northland-the United Kingdom of the River, the conflict between the Lions and the Starks is actually not as severe as the conflict between them and the two kings, Baratheon.

After all, both Renly and Stannis claim that they are the masters of the Iron Throne, and the rest of the kings are all false kings.

And Renly, who has nearly [-] soldiers and is eyeing the bitter bridge, should be the headache for Lord Tywin.

Sansa discussed with several great nobles in the northern border for a while, and felt that what her brother Robb wanted should be a truce with the lion family at the right time, and then let the Iron Throne recognize the independence of the rivers in the northern border.

"Then you go, the adults present will each give Arthur some people, and fly your family's banner to make this time-delayed negotiation look more formal."

Sansa suggested.

Everyone nodded in agreement, so Arthur set off with 120 mercenaries, [-] coalition soldiers, and some food and water.

In order to increase the momentum, these 140 people even played eighty or ninety flags, from the white-bottomed wolf of the Stark family, the X-shaped skinned man of the Bolton family, the blue-green mermaid of the Mandalay family, and the Stark family. The black-bottomed sun star of the Frey family, the twin tower banner of the Frey family, the brown-bottomed sentinel tree of the Talhar family, the silver-bottomed tomahawk of the Seven family, the orange-bottomed moose of the Hornwood family, and the small family in the north. Flags of different colors and shapes, in short, really look like the same thing.

Of course, Arthur's golden sword and horse flag was at the forefront of the team.

After the negotiating team left, the [-] coalition troops started cooking and went north along King's Avenue after eating.

……

Outside the gate of the gods.

After a long distance, Arthur ordered not to advance, and then sent a senior Stark officer to pass the message outside the city gate.

After being trapped once outside Shili City, he began to pay attention to the traps.

King's Landing City obviously didn't expect Arthur to be so cautious. After dawdling for a while, all the people from the imperial meeting appeared on the tower.

Considering the deeds of Bracken capturing James and taking Joffrey alone, everyone on the tower did not dare to come out of the city.

The coalition negotiating team should be more than 500 meters away from the city gate, which is still impossible to communicate.

So Baelish, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, was sent to confront Arthur for the first time.

"His Majesty Cersei promised that after the coalition released His Majesty Joffrey I, the North and the Riverlands would be allowed to be independent, and the war between Lannister, Baratheon and the Starks would end."

Littlefinger looked smart and capable in a knee-length black close-fitting robe.

Behind Baelish, there are more than a dozen gold robes riding horses, and they are also flying more than a dozen flags. In addition to the deer family and the lion family, there are also some royal nobles' flags.

"When will our independence be allowed? This is too disrespectful to His Majesty Robb, let your Queen Mother reorganize the language."

Anyway, it was delaying time, so Arthur began to mess around with such small details.

Many northern soldiers behind him agreed with this statement and nodded in agreement.

Littlefinger was helpless, tightened the rope, and led the people back.

During the second conversation, King's Landing's words were much more polite.

They promised that Joffrey would be the Guardian of the Five Realms in the future, and that the North and the River would never be the Iron Throne's sphere of influence.

Arthur refused on the grounds that the terms were not clear enough, and asked King's Landing to give an accurate truce time and specific territory.

Littlefinger was dark and stern, and led people away again.

Sure enough, he suffered the wrath of Queen Cersei again.

"What the hell does he want? This damned Bracken." Cersei stood on the city wall with a distorted face, staring at the group of banners in the distance.

If the Lannister heavy cavalry regiment were here, she would have ordered a rush to trample the bed bug in the riverland.

It was Bracken who took her brother, and it was Bracken who took her eldest son.

Grand Maester Pycell admired Duke Tywin very much, so he secretly took refuge in the Lion's family.

So he was also very concerned about Joffrey's capture. After thinking about it for a while, he said: "Maybe the rebels feel that they haven't got enough benefits, why don't we give some golden dragons and treasures first, so maybe Their attitude will be better.”

"Don't worry, people in the north are stubborn and self-respecting. Giving gold before the conditions are clearly negotiated will make them think it's a charity and send off beggars." Chief Intelligence Officer Varys objected to this.

"That's right, we don't have much money. We spent a lot of money to expand the garrison. If we don't borrow money, the Red Castle won't be able to survive."

Baelish knew best how much money was left on the Iron Throne, so he refused to give the Golden Dragon first.

Joffrey's younger brother, Prince Tommen, also followed behind his mother. He suggested: "As long as we keep agreeing to their demands, the northerners will always be satisfied. Let's talk a few more times."

Cersei took a few deep breaths, and told Baelish what she could offer.

Littlefinger was helpless, and first confirmed Cersei's bottom line: "After returning to His Majesty Joffrey, all soldiers loyal to the Iron Throne will withdraw from the riverlands, and ensure that Robb's territory is as large as the two kingdoms marked on the map. "

The Queen Mother nodded and waved Little Finger away.

This time Arthur refused in the name of letting the Westlanders withdraw from the riverland before returning Joffrey.

In this way, the two sides negotiated about ten times outside the gate of the gods, which was delayed for a full four hours.

After feeling that the coalition forces had also walked out four or five leagues, Arthur clearly refused to return Joffrey, and then led the people away.

On the tower, Cersei was dumbfounded on the spot, and she was a little more confused and resentful after wearing a mask of pain.

Now it was her turn to feel what Lady Stark felt.

The cruelest thing is to give hope and then ruthlessly extinguish it. The act of "rebels" sending people to negotiate made the Queen Mother think that her son would come back soon, but Bracken turned around and left and told her that these people were just Just kidding her.

"If something goes wrong with my son, I will kill this Bracken, I swear to the Seven Gods!" Cersei gritted her teeth and said bitterly.

……

Hurrying quickly, before dusk, Arthur finally caught up with the coalition forces with his men.

A bad news is waiting for him.

Instigated by many young northern nobles, Sansa wanted to kill Joffrey to avenge her father.

And the more rational Willis, Herman Tauha and others are trying to dissuade them from the central army tent.

Before he went in, he heard the constant noise in the tent, and Arthur suddenly felt bad.

After rushing in, Joffrey, who was tightly bound, was looking at the northern nobles surrounding him in horror.

His Majesty the King, who was usually majestic and majestic, now looks like a little sheep waiting to be turned into a kebab.

"Hey, hey, we can't kill Joffrey yet." He hurried over, separating several northern nobles with daggers.

"Miss Stark, why are you so confused?" Arthur shook his head at Sansa, indicating that Joffrey really can't be killed now.

At least it can't be spread that Joffrey was killed by the northerners, otherwise the lion family really won't stop the war.

Sansa looked at Arthur, who still hadn't cleaned his armor, and suddenly got up.

"Then listen to Master Arthur, let's go." Miss Stark said.

Many nobles in the northern border were outraged, but they had no choice but to leave the big tent.

Of course, they still spit out their phlegm before leaving.

Joffrey, who was full of panic, was also led out of the tent by Sansa's soldiers.

The four people appointed by Sansa to participate in the command stayed.

"This won't work. There are more than 1 coalition troops. If they don't keep them all, someone will sneak away and kill Joffrey." Arthur said.

Lord Tallhart suggested, "Perhaps a group of people can take Joffrey and send them directly to Harrenhal or Riverrun."

Willis said: "If the news leaks out and King's Landing finds out, what if they send a bunch of elite riders to snatch Joffrey back?"

King's Landing does not have a large number of cavalry troops, but a small army of one or two hundred nobles and knights can still be assembled.

"I can send Joffrey to each other, and I don't need to decide which castle to go to. In this way, if someone in the coalition forces reports this to Cersei, they will not know my route."

Arthur suggested.

In fact, he wanted to take Joffrey to hatch the dragon, but Yule had no news at all, so he thought about going directly to Midsummer Hall.

"Yes." Robert had a good impression of Arthur, and nodded in agreement.

Glover, who kept his head held high, only recognized Arthur, a man from the river.

So the plan was finalized.

At ten o'clock in the middle of the night, Arthur left with all the mercenaries of Qorhall, Gendry, Qyburn and Joffrey.

Take Gendry because he is Robert's bastard son, and Robert's grandmother is a dragon.In other words, Gendry has slightly more than one-eighth of the blood of the Dragon family.

The reason why I say a little more is because the Lu family itself is a close relative of the Long family, and there is always such a little blood bonus.

Although Gendry can't ride a dragon either, the dragon blood allows the dragonlings to bond with him.

Arthur himself didn't have the slightest bit of dragon blood, and he didn't know if the dragon hatched in this way would recognize him as the master.

If not, Gendry would have to take care of the young dragon.

There was still a lot of movement in the team of more than 200 people, and several spies who were closely watching Emperor Qiao's movements immediately reported it to the masters.

Of course, what puzzled these potential youngsters, Sansa and others was that Arthur actually led people to the south.

……

Four days later, Arthur's team walked out of the royal forest, and five days later, they arrived near the Midsummer Hall.

It used to be the summer residence of the Targaryen family, that is, the castle where they escaped the summer heat.

In 259 A.C., to celebrate the birth of his grandson Rhaegar, Aegon V decided to hold a grand party in Summerhall, where some dragon families and half of his court gathered.

At the same time, Aegon V wanted to use some magical rituals to hatch the dragon, so he used wildfire to heat the dragon egg fossils.

But this caused a fire, and the entire nobles who participated in the party were burned like Midsummer Hall.

This made Targaryen's already depleted population even worse.

Twenty-four years later, the Long Family Dynasty, which had been passed down for two generations, was destroyed.

On the bone road leading to Dorne, Arthur led the team eastward, and then saw the ruins of this huge castle.

Even if he looked at it from a distance, he had to admit that the fire was big enough. Almost 40 years later, the ruins of the Midsummer Hall were still charred and black.

After bringing people closer, I found that there were still more than a dozen people active on the ruins.

Among them were the soldier Pyp and Arthur's uncle Jules.

"Eldest nephew, why did you come here in person? I heard that the north is fighting fiercely. Wouldn't it be possible without a fierce general like you?"

Seeing Arthur personally leading the troops, Jule hurried up to meet him, holding the horse rope with a smile on his face.

"How did you find the stone?"

Yule glanced at the riders behind his nephew, and said in a low voice: "The approximate location has been determined, but it was slow to find it because of the lack of manpower."

Because Shengxia Hall is still a big castle, it can't be found by two people in a short time, so Yule went to a nearby village and hired more than a dozen farmers and farmers to help find it.

According to Yule, they have already turned over about [-]% of the area, making sure that there are no "oval stones" in it.

The remaining [-]% ​​of the area is where the dungeons and halls of Midsummer Hall are located. Because most of the buildings are made of stone, it is difficult to search for them, which delays the progress.

"Since you have brought so many people, they will be found soon." Yu Le said.

Arthur also wanted to end this matter as soon as possible, after all, Cersei, who lost her son, was not far from mad.

So more than 200 mercenaries were also sent to find the "ellipse stone".

Under the command of Yule, who had already planned the search plan, the whole team devoted themselves to the intense work of finding the stone.

During the period, Arthur also helped to remove several large rocks, and then found seven jeweled dragon egg fossils under a giant pillar.

According to the current timeline, Mother Long has hatched three dragons, so the magic of the whole world has begun to recover.

Then blood magic should be useful.

(End of this chapter)