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Chapter 198 I want to control the dragon
In addition to returning the Valyrian steel crown, Arthur wanted to add two terms.

"Even if Arianne marries me, she is still the first heir to Dorne. After Prince Doran, she is the Queen of Dorne."

Marriage is the best way to strengthen a relationship.

After being driven out of the Lorne River domain, the surviving Rhoynar once regarded the Dragon King of Valyria as a life and death enemy. It was this hostile spirit that allowed Dorne to resist Targaryen and the Iron Throne for more than 150 years. After the two parties entered into a marriage during the reign of the "Wise King" Daeron II, the relationship between Dorne and the Iron Throne directly took more than 180 turning points.

During several Blackfyre Rebellions and Usurper Wars, Dorne has been the most loyal ally of the Iron Throne, bar none.

Although this ally has something to eat.

Everyone in the imperial council took their seats one after another. Prince Oberyn, who was dressed in plain yellow robes, pondered for a moment and expressed his opinion:

"This is what it should be. Our Dorne never disinherited our daughter just because she got married. I think my brother is also happy to support his eldest daughter to rule Dorne."

The king is very satisfied with this, which means that he can get solid support from Dorne for quite some time to come.

"Finally, after the Golden Company is eliminated, you Dorne must take the lead in responding to my Second Son Act. All Dorne lords must send their second and illegitimate children who meet their age to King's Landing to join the royal army."

Different from the customs of the six northern countries, Dorne is very tolerant in treating illegitimate children. Except for the right of inheritance, the Shads receive far more treatment than the Buddha Flowers, Rivers, Storms, and Snows in the north.

Correspondingly, the lords and knights of Dorne are very willing to admit their illegitimate children and raise them with all their heart.

This resulted in a high number of illegitimate children of nobles in Dorne.

After reaching adulthood, the group of Shads went to find their own way of life, and a considerable number of Dornish illegitimate children went to the disputed lands in the east and worked as mercenaries in Lys, Tyrosh, Myr and other places.

It was this wave of people that Arthur was aiming at.

"As you wish, Your Majesty." Oberyn nodded in agreement.

This is good news for both sides. The lords have reduced the pressure to support their children, and let the second and illegitimate children get more decent jobs, and the royal army gets elite officers.

After the king had finished discussing the matter, Earl Tristan Legge announced another news.

"Your Majesty, after a month-long debate, the Cardinal of the Academy City will appoint a new Grand Bachelor, Dr. Ryan. He has already set off from Old Town and is expected to arrive in King's Landing City within two weeks."

Dr. Ryan?

Arthur wasn't impressed.

He looked at the six courtiers, "Who can tell me what kind of person this Dr. Ryan is?"

People in Xuecheng have to guard against it, so it is necessary to know in advance.

The Red Viper who stayed in the Academy City for a while answered this question:

"As far as I know, this doctor is a very strict old bachelor. His doctor's mask and bachelor's necklace are both made of gold. He should be good at finance and accounting."

Arthur nodded, it sounded normal, we'll see how this person behaves later.

"Qyburn's top priority is the lack of Harrenhal bachelors. I want to fight or patrol outside, and I need a personal bachelor."

He thought for a while, and said his decision, "Go send a letter to the Academy City, asking that Bachelor Yadar who compiled "The World of Ice and Fire" would like to serve the king."

The maester was a pupil of old Dr. Wargrave, born in 272.

At 27, he's young enough to weather the back and forth.

Tristan nodded, indicating that he had made a note of it.

In the following time, the Imperial Council discussed the war in the south. Although the forces provided by the parties supporting Arthur were already crushing, it was never too much to be careful.

There is no shortage of miracles in this world. In the first battle of Tengshi Town 170 years ago, the Winter Wolf Army with less than 2000 people managed to defeat the 2-strong Hewan Army.

The commander of the Winter Wolf Army, a 70-year-old man, killed Brandon Hightower and Earl Mond Hightower in a crowd of ten thousand with one arm.

It was also during this battle that the Hightower family lost their ancestral Wagang sword "Alert".

It is not known if Vigilance was lost, but if not, the sword is supposed to be kept by the Winter Wolves and their descendants in Blackwood Land.

Although the number of the Golden Regiment is small, they have been fighting in disputed places all year round. The combat experience of the soldiers is much richer than that of the conscripts in Westeros. In addition, the elephant soldiers unique to the southwest of Essos can completely eliminate this mercenary. Corps is still a bit difficult.

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At the same time, the Sea of ​​Sunset in the west of Westeros, the waters of Oakshield Island in the Shield Islands.

The red and narrow sloop "Serenity" was floating on the unusually calm sea, and the golden sea monster sails on a black background were slowly lowered by the mute crew.

A statue of the Black Iron Maiden stood at the bow, and Faria Buddha Flower was being tied in front of the iron statue.

She is the illegitimate daughter of Earl Humphrey Hewitt, the former lord of Oakshield Island. Because she was dissatisfied with the oppression of the lord's wife and her half-sisters, she joined Euron Greyjoy and became the king of the iron people. woman.

But King Euron didn't let her enjoy many blessings. Every time he went to sea, the pregnant Faria was always tied to the bow. It seemed that King Euron could feel more at ease.

"Strange, why did you have a miscarriage?" King Euron, who had commanded the mute crew to put down the sails, walked to the iron statue and expressed his doubts as he looked at the blood on the deck.

The miscarried Faria could not answer this question because her tongue was also cut.

King Euron would never allow a tongue-opening crew on his ship, save himself and his brother Aeron Greyjoy.

He slowly approached Faria, and under the terrified eyes of the illegitimate daughter of the Riverbend, he took off the black blindfold on his left eye, revealing the black eye that "flashed maliciously".

King Euron used this eye to observe carefully for a while, then fumbled for a well-preserved small bottle from his waist, pulled out the stopper, and dripped the water of shadow inside into his mouth.

The Nightshade Water is a thick blue drink that the wizards of Qarth drink year-round.Around the Temple of the Immortal there is a black bark tree from which the Nightshade Water is made.

It is said that this special product can enhance the ability of the eyes of magicians, allowing them to see traces of magic that ordinary people cannot see.

Euron, whose lips were dyed blue, retrieved the details of Faria's body again, and muttered to himself, "King's blood... curse... the method of the Shadow Binder."

No wonder he looked like an enemy. The pregnant Faria was no ordinary sacrifice. The child in her belly was worth Euron's own life.

Once, a blood witch church in Asshai gave Euron a set of "blood connection" spells, and King Euron also successfully used this evil spell on his own blood relatives.

So all Euron's children shall die once in his place.

"It doesn't matter, at this most critical moment, the curse of Shadowbinder is no longer important."

Euron made up his mind, put the black blindfold on his left eye back on, got up and left, and began to prepare for tonight's blood sacrifice ceremony.

Thirty or forty dumb crew members moved away all the debris between the iron statue and the mast according to the captain's arrangement, leaving this deck empty, and then returned to their rooms.

These wretches, domesticated, are so determined that no matter what howls and groans there are on deck tonight, they will never come out to take a look.

Items related to magic need to be arranged by Euron himself.

Fortunately, the only true God in this world doesn't care whether the believers' rituals are accurate to every detail, he only cares about the value of the sacrifices.

A tortured and impersonal wizard of Qarth was taken out of an iron cage in a ship by King Euron.

To summon the servants of the Drowned God, a warlock will suffice.

After the Ironborn King threw the wizard on the deck, he found a fish-chopping bone knife nearby, and chopped the wizard into fist-sized pieces one by one.

Euron chopped off the limbs first, then the soft flesh of the abdomen, then the ribs, and finally a relatively complete skull.

During this process, the wizard who had his tongue cut out groaned hoarsely until he passed out from the pain, but he was awakened by the pain soon.

This cycle repeats until the wizard loses consciousness.

After King Euron completed the construction of his work, he unbuttoned the belt button of the belt engraved with the sea monster pattern, and pissed on the soft and decomposed remains.

Disgusting yellow and dark blood mixed on this deck, part of it seeped into the planks, part of it flowed out of the hull, and slowly dripped into the setting sun sea.

Then King Ironborn called for two hapless mute sailors, and ordered them to throw the morsel into the sea.

The offerings had just been delivered to the Drowned God's realm just as the sun had disappeared over the western horizon.

Everything was just right, and Euron thought it might be the most perfect sacrifice.

After letting the two crew members retreat, the king leaned against the side of the ship, looking at the continent of Westeros in the southeast with his smiling right eye.

Although Horace of the Redwyne family returned to the Arbor Island with more than [-] large warships and repelled a small number of ironmen who entered the Arbor Island, Sir Horace obviously did not regain the Shield Islands for other families The determination of the Hightower family in Oldtown does not have a fleet, so the ironborn don't have to worry about counterattacks from the Reach people for the time being.

Even King Euron felt that he should send someone to do some damage to the vast coastline of the Reach, so that the Knights of the Reach would rush back and forth to paralyze their determination to resist the Ironborn.

The night gradually occupied the starry sky, and the usually peaceful sea surface of the Sunset Sea also began to become restless, as if something was about to emerge from the deep sea.

This is indeed the case, under the light of the not so bright moon, a huge creature jumped out of the sea.

Its body should be a dull green color, although the scalp is white.Most of the body is shiny and smooth, but the lower part has eight large tentacles like an octopus.

Unlike the octopus, the head has the vague features of a human head revealed in the moonlight.

A mouth full of stench opened from the head, and a hoarse, sharp guttural voice came out from it. All the dark emotions that could not be expressed on the face seemed to be contained in the voice.

Apart from the humanoid features on the head of this gigantic creature, any knowledgeable nobleman of Westeros could recognize this as the coat of arms of House Greyjoy, leader of the Iron Islands:

sea ​​monster.

"What's the matter with me?"

What is surprising is that this sea monster actually made a sound similar to the common language of Westeros, but compared with the human voice, the sea monster's voice is much more mellow.

King Euron is used to this phenomenon that can make all the lords and scholars of the Western Continent dumbfounded. He said firmly:

"I need to control a dragon! And I can't do it without your help, Dagon Greyjoy."

If Euron is right, this sea monster is his ancestor 100 years ago, the king of the Iron Islands during the time of Aerys I.

This was the last ironborn king who plundered the Reach before Euron. During his reign, the Ironborn plundered everything from the north to the west, and then to the Reach.

A member of Greyjoy once commented on this fierce king: Dagon can "grab the lion's beard" in the lion's den and "knot the direwolf's tail", but even so, Dagon can't deal with the real king. dragon.

"What are you going to do after controlling the dragon?"

It may be due to the slow response, the sea monster took a while to continue asking questions.

"Snatch Old Town and Highgarden, and then all the castles in the Reach, and complete your regret 100 years ago." Euron stepped on the side of the boat and replied roughly.

Dagon's last act of the Ironborn when he was a man was to take Young Dock from the Reach.

It was a small village near Fort Firm, loyal to Osgrey, and Osgrey, the lord of Fort Firm, was only a vassal of the Rowan family, the largest lord in the north of the Reach.

As for Rowan, they can be regarded as the first-line nobles in the Reach, not as good as the three families of Tyrell, Redwyne, and Hightower, but often compared with the Florens and other families in Brightwater City.

This is a relatively big shame for the iron people, after all, it took all the bosses of the iron people to grab the territory of a vassal's vassal's vassal's vassal's vassal.

"Oldtown... the Reach... tell me, what do you want me to do?"

The junior's proposal obviously greatly touched the softness deep in the heart of this sea monster, and it decided to do something.

Euron obviously has a complete set of plans, he slowly said his plan, "You have to gather all the sea monsters in the next few months, and then lurk in the waters near the mouth of the Meadow River, and wait until the dragon control When the time comes, I will tell you what to do."

The sea monster raised one of its own big black tentacles, waved it up and down a few times, as if expressing its intention to do it, and then slowly sank into the bottom of the sea.

Euron watched Dagon leave, a mocking smile slowly appeared on his rather handsome face.

If it wasn't for the use of sea monsters, he wouldn't be so polite.

The night was still long, and Euron went to the iron statue, untied Faria's rope, and led her into the cabin.

For each additional child, he gained an additional life.

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It is also King's Landing City shrouded in night.

Wearing a set of brocade robes with black background and gold silk, Marquis Innes walked into the king's bedroom, and in front of him was the captain of the royal guard, Anguy Bracken, who led the way.

Since entering the imperial council, the lord of the Twin Rivers City began to care about his attire. In order to make himself look both rich and rich, Lord Frey put a lot of thought into his clothes.

"Your Majesty, your Minister of War has arrived."

Aenys saluted the king, who had his back turned, though he didn't understand why the king had summoned him at this hour.

Arthur turned around. "Remember when I said you could get a pair of dragonhide gloves if you did me a favor?"

Innis had asked for dragon leather gloves before, and Arthur promised to give him a pair if he made a moderate contribution.

Similar to lizard molts, dragon skins are shed only a few times during the dragon's rapid growth period, which ends just before the dragon's youth.

The expression of the bald Minister of War immediately changed a little, "Your Majesty, please order me to do my best for the Frey family to share your worries."

Arthur stroked his chin, and said slowly: "Find your eldest son, Aegon the Bloody, and let him go to the valley. I will tell him exactly what to do."

According to the news from Seagull Town, Lord Baelish Littlefinger is trying to arrange a marriage between a rich businessman in Seagull Town and Leonor Corbray. At that time, Littlefinger will leave Eagle's Nest City and appear in Heartland City.

Arthur was going to take this opportunity to send someone to kill Littlefinger's trouble.

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(End of this chapter)