The Heavens: The Magical World Begins with The Lord of the Rings

Chapter 181 The Great Wall and the Night Watchman (Watch it later)

Three days had passed since the great battle that took place in the Ghost Shadow Forest. Gao Yuan finally came to this ice and snow castle located in the extreme north of the Seven Kingdoms after a night of driving. In front of the huge fortifications.

Standing in front of this majestic and impenetrable Great Wall, even Gao Yuan, who has seen the Great Wall with his own eyes, can't help sighing. In this era, the background is set in a world similar to the Middle Ages. People living on the continent of Westeros, It has to be said that it is a miracle that such a magnificent and magnificent Great Wall can be built 8000 years ago when it just entered the Iron Age.

The Great Wall stretches 483 kilometers from east to west and is nearly 213 meters high.The main body of the entire Great Wall is made of ice, snow and boulders.The top of the city wall is also very wide, enough to accommodate twelve fully armed cavalry riding side by side on the top, and its thick bottom may be even wider.

The construction time of the Great Wall of Desperation dates back to the long night 8000 years ago. In order to resist the sudden arrival of the aliens and the savages who call themselves free people, and to protect the human kingdom north of the Great Wall, the builder Brandon Star Ke built the Great Wall in front of him in the long summer.

Of course, the Great Wall of Impossibility was not built overnight, but after several centuries of continuous construction by the night watchmen, it has reached its current scale.After the Impassable Great Wall was established, it completely separated the lands of the ancestors and savages north of the Great Wall.It extends from the Frost Tooth Mountains at the westernmost point to the Seal Bay at Weihaiwang at the easternmost point.

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The Impassable Wall does not have gates for troops to pass through like other walls. It only has some tunnels that can pass through it at the fortress where the Night Watchmen are stationed.

These tunnels are guarded by several layers of iron fences locked by iron chains. Any tunnels that are abandoned by the castle or are in danger will be permanently blocked by the night watchman corps stationed here with ice, snow or sand.

Standing in front of the tunnel of Castle Black Fortress, Gao Yuan heard the night watchman's horn from the top of the Great Wall.

One sound represents the return of the brothers, two represents the arrival of the wildlings, and three represents the discovery of the White Walkers.

It has been thousands of years since the Night Watchmen have not blown the three horns that represent the discovery of the White Walkers, so that many black brothers who join the Night Watchmen today have almost forgotten what it represents.

Obviously, at this time alone in Gaoyuan in front of the Great Wall, the night watchman brothers who were on guard took it as a signal for the savages to attack.

At first, Gao Yuan didn't want to reach the south of the Great Wall from the fortress where the night watchmen were stationed, because it would bring him a lot of unnecessary troubles.Gao Yuan, who has the power of mind and the ability to transform into a dragon, can rely on his own strength to choose a place to fly over the Great Wall to the south of it from the unattended area.

In the middle of the night before today's arrival, the rune dragon transformed by Gao Yuan had already arrived at the Great Wall of Desperation, but when he tried to leap over the Great Wall of Desperation, he was stopped by a group of invisible forces. Nianli is still the rune dragon it incarnates, and none of them can walk from the top of the Great Wall of Desperation.

According to the ancient mythological records on the Westeros continent, when Brandon Stark cast the Great Wall of Impossibility, he compiled many ancient spells and magics inside it, so as to strengthen the Great Wall of Immortality and prevent the possession of magic. A creature of strength, climb over it from the top of the Great Wall.

After Gao Yuan's personal experience, it seems that this is not a rumor. For example, the cold gods, ghosts, ghouls, and Gao Yuan, who also possessed divine power, were completely blocked by the spells and magics cast on the Great Wall. to the north.

Therefore, Gao Yuan had no choice but to come to Castle Black, one of the few fortresses still guarded by night watchmen, and tried to cross from here to the south of the Great Wall.

For thousands of years, the Wall has been guarded by an army known as the Night's Watch.However, with the decline of the night watchmen's power year by year, the number of people owned by the night watchman corps has also been greatly reduced, which has seriously affected the night watchman's daily maintenance of the Great Wall.

During the heyday of this night watchman army aimed at fighting against the aliens, nineteen night watchman castles were stationed on the Great Wall stretching hundreds of kilometers. The number of night watchman army reached tens of thousands. Five thousand soldiers were stationed in Castle Black behind the city wall.Also many of their horses, servants and equipment.

The Night Watchman was born when the long night fell, and its brilliance stayed during that time. During the long winter that lasted for a whole generation, the white ghosts who went south swept almost all the homes of the children of the forest. The city-state of the people, the humans on the great roads of Westeros face extinction.

In the past, many aristocratic traditions in the northern region also regarded going to the Great Wall as a symbol of glory.In many northern families, the boys who came further down the line of succession were more than happy to don black robes and proudly hang their shields with their family arms in the Hall of Shields at Castle Black.

However, as the children of the forest and the ancestors jointly defeated the army of alien ghosts and forced them back to the extreme north in the land of eternal winter, all this changed quietly.

Thousands of years passed quietly, as the White Walkers gradually disappeared from this land, and after the generation of those who lived through the long night and still remembered the horrors of the White Walkers died, this legion built to fight the White Walkers is destined to die. Losing its former glory, its importance and treatment are also declining year by year.

Even so, these night watchman legions stationed in the Great Wall of Impossibility have not completely lost their role.The Great Wall of Desperation and the Night Watchman Legion stationed here have still played a very important role in preventing the invasion of wildlings north of the Great Wall for the Seven Kingdoms for a long time.

But after Aegon the Conqueror landed on the continent of Westeros and established the Targaryen Dynasty, all this changed drastically.

Nobles and knights are no longer willing to dedicate their lives to a meaningless watch for the honor and sense of responsibility in their hearts.

As a result, the Night Watch Legion gradually lost its main source of soldiers and financial support.Even had to repeatedly lower the entry threshold for the Night Watchman Corps.

After 300 years of evolution, the Night Watch Corps, which was once glorious for thousands of years, has now turned into this half-dead appearance.

300 years after Aegon the Conqueror landed, among the nineteen forts built along the Great Wall originally guarded by Night Watchmen, only three of them are still guarded by Night Watchmen. The Shadow Tower on the opposite side, Castle Black, the largest fortress of the Great Wall, and Eastwatch at the easternmost end.

From today's point of view, the decline of the Night's Watch is doomed.The Night Watch Legion, which originally had tens of thousands of people in its heyday, now has less than 1000 people.

And among the less than 1000 people, most of them are mobs from the Seven Kingdoms. Among these night watchmen, who are mixed with fish and dragons, they are roughly divided into three categories.

The first type of people is currently the most numerous type of night watchman in the Night Watch Corps. They are all criminals who choose to join the Night Watch Corps in order to avoid being punished for their crimes, just like the poacher Will. .

Thieves, poachers, rapists, and slaves, the dregs of Westeros, have now become the main force of the night watchmen. The criminals of the Human Legion now have no choice but to serve the Night's Watch.

If they defected and became deserters after joining the Night's Watch, according to the laws of the Seven Kingdoms, they would be executed by the lord who caught them.

The second type of people are those poor people who are forced by life. Although this type of people is a voluntary member of the night watchman team in name, they are free to leave during the training period and before taking the oath.But in fact, they were all forced by life or for various other reasons, and they chose to join the Night Watchman Corps when they were desperate.

Most of them are down-and-out aristocrats who lost their political struggles and were demoted; peasants who lost their land, bankrupt businessmen, and illegitimate children.

In a sense, they are the same as the first type of people who joined the Night's Watch, they are people who have no choice.The only difference is that they are free to leave before taking the oath, and no one forces them to take the oath.

And the third type of people is the last and least type of people in the Night Watch Corps. They used to be the main force in the Night Watch Corps, but with the decline of the Night Watch Corps, these people are becoming more and more popular in the Night Watch Corps. Less and less.

Typical representatives of this type of people are Sir Waymar Royce whom Gao Yuan met before, Jeor Mormont, commander-in-chief of the Night Watchman Legion, and Benyan Stark, the chief ranger, who are in the Night Watchman Legion A person who holds an important position.

A considerable number of them choose to join the Night Watchman out of yearning for honor and the responsibility of the Night Watchman.

There are also some people who choose to join the night watchman team because they are relatively low in the family inheritance and have no hope of inheriting the family.

Joining the Night Watchman is just one of their many choices, and it is also the worst path, so this kind of people who choose to join the Night Watchman are worthy of everyone's respect.

When they join the Night Watch Corps, they are usually directly appointed as officers or hold important positions. This unspoken rule that seems to be very unfair to the first two types of people is actually the reason why the Night Watch Corps can still maintain it. The essential.

These people who choose to join the Legion because of honor and responsibility are the core existence of the Legion who will not betray the Legion and abide by their duties.If a group of scum, peasants, merchants, and civilians were to serve as the chief and important positions of the Night Watchman, I am afraid that the Night Watchman Legion would not be able to support it now, and would have fallen apart long ago.

Trying to bind those scumbags, profiteers, and people who have no sense of honor and responsibility with an oath is simply a dream.

Although, those young nobles who voluntarily join the night watchman team with enthusiasm will usually feel very regretful when they find that the Great Wall and the legendary night watchman army are actually completely different from what they heard or imagined own choice.

But these young nobles who value honor and sense of responsibility will not take action. No matter how difficult the environment is, they will bite the bullet and continue to stay until they take the oath of the night watchman.

Gao Yuan waited for a long time in front of the tunnel of Castle Black, and when he gradually lost his patience, he heard the sound of iron chains swinging from the dark and deep tunnel, followed by the heavy gate. It was the sound of the iron door rubbing against the inner wall of the tunnel.

Looking into the tunnel from the gap in the heavy gate, I saw a ball of orange-red flames slowly walking towards the gate in front of Gao Yuan from the dark tunnel.

It was a very thin man. On his sharp and sharp face, there was a hideous scar extending from his temples to his chin.

The man came to Gao Yuan, raised his head and looked up and down the fully armed Gao Yuan with his gray-blue eyes.

"The stranger who approached the Great Wall without authorization, you don't look like those uncivilized savages, and your face is not the same as the people on Westeros." The man said in a deep voice, "Tell me your name and purpose."

"The etiquette of nobles should have taught people like you that you should introduce yourself before asking others' names." Gao Yuan frowned, wanting to know who came.

If you want to let yourself declare your family, you can't do it by just coming to yourself with a stinky face like a cat or a dog.Gao Yuan will only talk to people who he thinks have enough weight, otherwise it is just a waste of his time.

The man pondered for a moment.

"Standing in front of you is the son of Duke Rickard Stark, chief ranger of the Night Watch, Benyan Stark." Benyan Stark solemnly introduced himself to Gao Yuan, "Now, you Can you state your name?"

Gao Yuan put his palm on his chest.

"Nice to meet you, Stark! I am introducing myself to you now. I am a ranger who traveled by boat from the other side of the strait, but got lost in a storm. You can call me Gaoyuan."

I saw the corners of his mouth slightly curled up into a slight smile, it was obvious that he was very satisfied with the identity of the person he was talking to now.

"Since you lost your way when you went out to sea by boat, you should be detained in the castle of Eastwatch by my night watchman brothers now, instead of traveling hundreds of miles to Castle Black in the middle of the mainland." Ban Jan Stark obviously didn't believe Gao Yuan's words, and pointed out the loopholes in the words for him.

Seeing that his lie was exposed, Gao Yuan was not annoyed, but continued: "I went ashore by a river called Lujiao River. As for why I appeared here, it was because I met a friend on the way. He is dressed in black like you."

As soon as Gao Yuan finished speaking, a glint of light flashed in Benyan Stark's melancholy gray-blue eyes. It was obvious that the friend Gao Yuan mentioned caught his attention.

"Where did you meet your friend? What's his name? He is one of my night watchman brothers. A few days ago, he and two other companions disappeared mysteriously while patrolling the forest behind you." Benjen Stark raised his deep voice slightly, "If you know where they are, please let me know."

"They're already dead, at the hands of a group of monsters with pale skin and blue eyes. One of them, a young man named Weimar Royce, gave this to me before he died." Gao Yuan took it out of his arms. He took out the coat of arms of the Royce family and handed it to Benyan Stark through the gate.

"He wanted me to pass this on to his dad."

Benyan Stark took the coat of arms from Gao Yuan's hand, and looked at it carefully for a moment.

"How should I believe you? Maybe you killed Royce." Benyan Stark was still very cautious. He didn't choose to easily believe in the man in front of him because of the coat of arms owned by Sir Royce. stranger.

"I also know other rangers who are traveling with me. When I say their names one by one, I think you will believe me." Gao Yuan said.

"Gary, Waymar Royce, and Will, they are all brave fighters."

(End of this chapter)