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

Chapter 260 The Prime Minister's Tournament

After thinking hard for a long time, Ed Stark finally failed to find any clues from these limited information.Although he has now learned about Jon Arryn's various behaviors and the suspicious points in them, he really can't connect these with the secrets hidden by the Lannister family siblings.

The only thing that is certain now is that there must be a close connection between Jon Arryn's various unreasonable behaviors and the so-called secrets of the Lannister siblings.As for what exactly connects the two, Eddard Stark doesn't know.

Perhaps all these questions may not be answered until they visit the places Jon Arryn visited before his death.It's just that this process will take them a lot of time, and in the end it is very likely that the bamboo basket will be empty. Even Ed is not sure whether he will gain something from it.

Compared to spending a lot of time on a result full of uncertainty, it is already an established fact that Littlefinger and Mrs. Lysa murdered the former Prime Minister.Therefore, their most urgent task at present is to take down Littlefinger with lightning speed and reveal the truth about the sudden death of the former Prime Minister to the public.

Therefore, after some weighing, Ed Stark finally decided to shelve the investigation of the Lannister family's siblings for the time being.

Besides, Ed didn't want to startle the snake.

In this King's Landing City, it is not a wise choice for Ed Stark, who is currently weak, to provoke the entangled local snakes of the two forces at the same time.

The only way to defeat the two powerful local snakes at the same time is to divide and attack.

After he completely eliminated Littlefinger, the murderer who murdered the former Prime Minister, Ed was able to spare time and energy to concentrate on investigating the secrets that Queen Cersei tried to hide and put the former Prime Minister Jon Arryn in danger. , so that he can do his best to deal with the more powerful Lannister family.

When Gao Yuan walked out of the Prime Minister's Tower under the watchful eyes of countless hidden eyes, the sky in King's Landing City was almost dusk.After walking out of the gate of the Red Castle, he didn't pay attention to the numerous rats following him, but rushed straight to Bronze Jorn's other courtyard.

Back in the other courtyard, Gao Yuan just greeted Bronze Jorn and went back to his room.Gao Yuan spent almost a whole day in the city of King's Landing today for the affairs of Jon Arryn, for which he ran almost every corner of the city.

In this way, even though Gao Yuan's body was made of iron, he still felt tired after all. After the hastily used bronze was sent to the room by Jon for dinner, Gao Yuan lay down on the bed and fell into a deep sleep.

In the early morning of the next day, when the sky was just getting brighter, Gao Yuan, Bronze Yon and his two sons rode horses to the prime minister's martial arts tournament.

Compared with the Bronze Jorn suggested to him to go there in a sedan chair, Gao Yuan actually prefers to ride on this tall horse and enjoy the bustling scene of the martial arts tournament.

The white horse under Gao Yuan was carefully selected by Sir Nestor Royce before he left Gate of the Moon.Originally, he planned to ride the shadow lynx tamed by himself to the city of King's Landing, but his idea was dismissed by Sir Nestor on the grounds that the shadow lynx was not suitable for long-distance travel.

When Gao Yuan and his entourage stepped out of the king's gate and came to the arena, outside the towering city wall of King's Landing, by the bank of the bottomless black water river, more than hundreds of tents had already been set up.

This is far more than the number of tents that Gao Yuan saw here yesterday. Thousands of civilians crowded the beach of the Heishui River, and they could hardly see the end at a glance.

This spectacular sight of the tournament made those young valley knights who came to King's Landing City to participate in the tournament for the first time take a deep breath.Riding on horseback, they could only see countless hairs of different colors and flags of various colors floating on top of them.

There are still many knights like them who came late on horseback. The team of knights lined up in front of the entrance of the arena. Each of them wore shining silver armor, only a few The battle armor on the person is golden or other colors.

Not all of them are as rich as the Lannisters, who have the luxury of plating their armor with gold.Not everyone is able to wear armor covered with enamel like the knights of those big families.

For most of the knights in the Seven Kingdoms, it is already very good to have a whole body of armor.Many knights from small families like Sir Hugh would have to live frugally for most of their lives to have their own brand new armor.

As far as the many armored knights in front of them are concerned, most of the armor they wear is inherited from their parents.They struggled for most of their lives to buy a piece of armor, and when they no longer had any desire for honor, they passed on the armor to their sons.

Like Earl Jon Royce who was following behind him, the set of bronze armor on his body has been passed down from the Royce family to this day, and it has a history of thousands of years.

The bronze armor is engraved with many magical runes, and it is rumored that the runes on it can protect the wearer from harm, so the ancestors of the Royce family used these runes as their family's coat of arms.

Earl Jon Royce would wear this bronze armor whenever he participated in certain important events or tournaments, which was why he was called Bronze Jon.

In that long history, it is unknown whether this set of bronze armor can provide protection for the wearer.But now he can be sure that this set of bronze armor, which has been passed down for thousands of years and passed through countless generations of the Royce family, has lost its most precious function.

Gao Yuan once perceived this set of armor through his mind, but he didn't feel any magical breath on it, let alone the power of divinity and runes.

Now the vision of the stars weeping blood has long hung in the sky. If it really had magical power, it should have manifested by now.Therefore, Gao Yuan can only regret that this bronze armor is no different from other ordinary armors, and even because it is made of bronze, its protective performance is not even as good as today's ordinary armor.

This set of dragon scale armor on Gao Yuan is completely different. Although the runes on it are not as conspicuous as engraved on the bronze armor, the runes engraved by the elves of Middle-earth are not at all inside and outside it. It will be less than that of the bronze armor, and even the elves have blessed the dragon scale armor.

The defensive performance of the dragon scale armor is unquestionable. Gao Yuan believes that in this world, there is no weapon that can physically break through the defense of the dragon scale armor, even if it is forged from Valyrian steel with magical power. Neither do weapons.

When Gao Yuan and the others found their own seats among the many lords and ladies present, the auditorium of the martial arts arena was already full of nobles from all over the Seven Kingdoms.

Not far from them, Gao Yuan also saw Sansa Stark accompanied by Jenny Poole.Today she is wearing a long green dress, which sets off her beautiful long brown-red hair.

Just from the back view, this Miss Sansa Stark is indeed very similar to her mother, Mrs. Caitlin. It is no wonder that old pervert Littlefinger became crazy about Sansa Stark later.

Since I can't get you Caitlin Tully, it's not bad if I can get your daughter. Thinking of this, Gao Yuan cursed Littlefinger as a pervert, she's just a child!

As if feeling the gaze from Gao Yuan, Sansa Stark turned her head to look at the auditorium behind her with some doubts.When she saw Gao Yuan who was sitting upright behind her and not far away, her clear sky-blue eyes were suddenly filled with a little smile and spring love.Facing Sansa Stark's eyes full of "good intentions", Gao Yuan just smiled politely and nodded with the other party.

After receiving Gao Yuan's smiling response, Sansa Stark turned her head shyly, and saw her hands tightly wrapped around Jenny Poole's arm, leaning against her ear as if to say Whispering with my best friend.

During this period, Jenny Poole also turned her head frequently, secretly looking at Gao Yuan who was sitting upright, and after finding that Gao Yuan seemed to notice that she was looking at her, she turned her head quickly as if nothing happened.

"The girl in Huaichun is really cute." Seeing this, Gao Yuan smiled and shook his head.

Sir Anda, who was sitting beside Gao Yuan, seemed to have heard his whisper, and came over to him curiously and asked, "Lord Gao Yuan, what were you talking about just now?"

"Oh, I was thinking just now whether I want to find a beautiful wife for Sir Anda." Gao Yuan looked at the other party with a smile, "Sir Anda, do you have someone you like now? If you don't like any noble lady , I want to tell you when the last marriage will be."

Sir Anda shook his head like a rattle when he heard the words, and he immediately refused: "Lord Gao Yuan, I'm afraid this is not suitable, my father and I haven't thought about it yet."

"I will match you up with a noble lady. What does this have to do with your father, Earl Jon. You just need to promise me whether you want to, and I will help you match up with a beautiful lady, and then Earl Jon just needs to see The family that the noble lady belongs to is as good as your Royce family." Gao Yuan raised his hand to hold down Sir Anda who wanted to escape.

The embarrassing Sir Anda immediately didn't know how to answer, only heard him falter for a long time and didn't know what to say.In the end, it was his father, Bronze Jorn, who noticed his son's embarrassment, and hurried forward to rescue him, prevaricating Gao Yuan on the grounds that his son was still young and had not yet won the honor.

Seeing that Bronze Jorn went off to rescue his son in person, Gao Yuan stopped teasing Sir Anda, and turned his attention to Sansa Stark in front of him again.

Gao Yuan didn't see her sister and father by Sansa's side. Ed Stark is now leading a search of Grand Maester Pycelle, so Gao Yuan is not very surprised that he didn't come to the tournament in person.

But why didn't Arya come to the martial arts tournament today?This little girl with the blood of running wolf in her body should be very enthusiastic about this grand martial arts competition.

Could it be that the former chief swordsman from Braavos attracted Arya far more than this tournament?If combined with the original book, Arya's obsession with the water dance she taught, this possibility is not ruled out.

He looked up again at the crowd entering the arena. Among these people, the Seven Iron Guards of the Kings Forest were undoubtedly the focus of attention. Except for Kingslayer Jaime Lannister, they were all dressed in milky white scale armor. The white cloak is as pure as snowflakes in the north.

Although Kingslayer was also wearing a white cloak on his back, almost all the armor on his body gleamed golden in the sunlight.And the golden helmet and golden sword carved with lion patterns, which made him very noticeable among the seven iron guards of the king's forest.

The Sister Mordane sitting next to Sansa Stark is constantly introducing the origins of the adults to the two little ladies at this moment.Although he tried his best to lower his voice, his sharp voice seemed to be heard clearly in Gao Yuan's ears.

Septa Mordane held out her hand in the middle of the crowd, and Lord Jason Mallister, wearing a blue-purple cloak trimmed with silver, showed them a eagle-winged helmet.Immediately afterwards, he began to introduce the glorious achievements of the Earl of Mallister during the War of the Reavers. He was alone on the Trident River and beheaded three princes under Prince Rhaegar Targaryen.

In addition, there are many people that even Gao Yuan doesn't recognize. Among them are many hired knights, free knights and newly promoted oath knights who came from the Five Fingers Peninsula.

When Gaoyuan and Bronze Jorn asked about the names of those who came from their own territory, Bronze Jorn just told him in a flat tone: There are always many excellent knights born in the valley, but they are not directly rewarded by Gaoyuan or other lords In fact, the knights will not obey their orders, so even he himself may not be able to call out their names, even if the knight is from Runestone City.

Just as it is impossible for King Robert to know all the nobles in the Seven Kingdoms, the lords appointed by King Robert are also loyal to his vassals, but those vassals who are loyal to the lords may not necessarily obey King Robert , which is not surprising.

In addition to those who came from the Five Fingers Peninsula, there were also some who could tell where they came from simply by the style of their service and weapons.Some of them were from Highgarden, some were knights from Dorne, and many even participated in the tournament as servants.

Most of them are noble young masters who were born in aristocratic families but ranked last in the family. Most of these young people have not yet made outstanding achievements.But among these people, there are very few heirs of local princes. The reason is that as the orthodox heirs of the family, the family behind them cannot allow them to come to this kind of martial arts competition before they are canonized as knights.

Apart from the Seven Iron Guards of the Imperial Forest, the most eye-catching person among the tens of thousands of people was the warrior monk Soros from the free trade city of Myr.This is not because his loose red robe belonging to the king of light's red monk is very conspicuous, but because of the big bald head on his neck.

According to rumors, the red-robed war monk Thoros once attacked the city wall of Pyke alone with a flaming long sword in a battle to quell the Greyjoy rebellion.

Although people say that Soros just smeared wildfire on his long sword, Gao Yuan thinks that things are far from being as simple as people say.

As soon as this follower of the Lord of Light from Myr entered the arena, he immediately aroused Gao Yuan's high vigilance.Although the two were far apart, Gao Yuan's keen perception still felt the strange power emanating from each other.

(End of this chapter)