Game of Thrones: Royal Game

Chapter 121
With the arrival of a new month, the three-month crackdown on slave trade in the city of Pentos finally came to an end.

And Ian also got his 500 gold dragon's "surplus activity funds" from Illyrio as promised.

However, to Ian's surprise, the factionalism in Pentos not only did not ease with the end of the slavery ban, but intensified.
After a failed meeting between Prince Hazan, Governor Howcott, and Governor Tetrus at the Red Temple, Prince Hazan and Governor Howcott's daughter, Delive Howett, announce their wedding date.

The Howcott family had always been close allies of the Tetrus family before the Iron Bank doubled the price to win them into the Braavos Party, and Delive Howcott had been with them since she was a child. Suda Tetrus, the third son of Governor Tetrus, was engaged to be married.

The unilateral breaking of the contract by the Howcott family and the fact that Delif quickly fell into the arms of Prince Hazan completely ignited the anger of Suda Tetrus.

Not long after Prince Hazan's wedding date was announced, Su Da took several companions to the Big Red Temple on the top of the mountain in Pentos City, and swore to kill Hazan in front of Fiery Red Heart and a group of priests.

It's a pity that before Su Da had time to act, he was arrested by the eldest son of Governor Tetrus who hurried to the temple after receiving the news, that is, his elder brother.

The matter has come to an end for the time being, but how it will end in the future is still unknown.

These news were shared with Ian by Hazru, the leader of "Little Mouse" (Ian tentatively nicknamed him "Big Mouse"). friend.

Today he came to Illyrio's mansion to report to Illyrio, and after that, he shared lunch with Ian and the others.

During the meeting, Butler Mills also expressed his views on this matter. He told Ian that Governor Tetrus is by no means a person who will suffer easily. Take revenge on the Braavos party, and even Prince Hazan himself.

Butler Mills' speculation was quickly confirmed.

On the second day after Suda Tetrus was captured and returned home by his elder brother, with the approval of Governor Tetrus, Suda Tetrus formally invited Prince Hazan to hold a tournament.

The rule is that each side sends 7 people including Suda Tetrus and Prince Hazan himself to participate in the battle, and the game is a one-on-one life-and-death duel.The winner of each single game can be replaced to rest, but must continue to fight in the follow-up, and the competition will continue until all the participants of a certain side die in battle.

After the game, the governor of the losing side needs to publicly apologize to the winner in the Grand Council.

This proposal is very beneficial to Tetrus, because the ally of the Tetrus family and the 'slave trader' of the Volantis Party, Governor Cecito Moen, has raised a large number of slave warriors, and some of them even Several were champion gladiators of Meereen.

According to this rule, Prince Hazan's side has almost no chance of winning.

But I don't know if it's the man's desire to win or lose. Prince Hazan seems unwilling to confess in front of his fiancée's ex-fiancé.

After convincing his father and his prospective father-in-law, Governor Howett, he chose to face the fight openly, but the condition was that the date of the contest was set one month later, and he needed time to prepare.

In this way, the city of Pentos began to be shrouded in deeper clouds.

Ian was also shrouded in the cloud.

Because, a month later, the horse king will arrive in Pentos.

Although there are very few descriptions of Pentos in the original book, it is Daenerys's first POV chapter when the horse king arrives.

If such a grand contest was taking place in Pentos at the same time as the horse king's banquet, it would be impossible for everyone to keep silent about it.

In other words, in the current timeline, some players have exerted influence on the party struggle in Pantos, triggering the butterfly effect, which led to the emergence of this contest.

Of course, this is not to say that the players are behind-the-scenes bosses, perhaps they just played the role of speculators like 'Littlefinger', or have influenced these big figures in Pentos in other ways.

But anyway, this is something to be wary of.

It's a pity that even though Ian has established a relationship with the largest intelligence network in Pentos, he still can't find a clue to arrest other players.

So in the following time, he could only ask the 'big mouse' Hazru to help him investigate whether there are any characters who appeared in Pentos in the last two months, while continuing to practice the skills of the skinchanger and improve his own strength.

During the period, Ian also asked Illyrio to follow him to attend his banquets, hoping to find a way to get acquainted with the Braavos ambassador and the head of the Iron Bank in Pentos, but Illyrio refused.

Illyrio's reason for refusal is also really irrefutable, because he said: 'Viserys will not want his first vassal to be my subordinate. '

Obviously Illyrio was right. If Ian had followed Illyrio here in Pentos before committing allegiance to Viserys, he wouldn't know if the news got to Viserys' ears. How angry would that 'sleeping dragon' who is so inferior to be eccentric.

Ian didn't want to take this risk, so he gave up this plan and began to improve his strength with peace of mind.

In the past half a month, with the news that a group of [-] Dothraki KaLS crossed the Lorne River and entered the Great Plains through Na Sa Star, the news spread to Pentos, the atmosphere of the city It also started to get tense.

Listen to the 'big rat' Hazru said, now the rumors are spreading in the streets and lanes.

They say that the biggest Kara-S ever marched to Pentos at this very moment, and that mighty Khal Drogo was coming to marry the last princess of the King of the West.

There are different opinions about the specific scale of that Kara-S. Some people say that there are 4 roaring warriors who tied bells (a Dothraki custom, only after winning a battle can one be tied with bells, and one will be added after winning a battle, and one will be cut off when losing a battle). , while other tribes, women and slaves add up to a total of 10 people.

Some people also say that 50 is actually the number of roaring warriors, and the total number of Kara-S exceeds 200, even [-] million is not a lot...

In order to welcome this 'friend', the governor's council quickly passed a resolution to recruit mercenaries to temporarily double the city guard.

But after doing so, the actual strength of Pentos will exceed the 6000 agreed with Braavos.

In order to gain the support of Braavos Ambassador Oranto, the Council of Governors finally reached a compromise, allowing the temporary addition of 2000 mercenaries to be commanded by three commanders.

They are Prince Hazan of the Braavos party, a close friend of Illyrio who is biased towards the Braavos side, and Governor Tetrus himself of the Volantis party.

It is worth mentioning that when Ian scouted Pentos in eagle form, he discovered that the Black Falcon mercenary regiment he had deployed in Pentos and had no contact with him had also joined the 'City Guard' of Pentos through private work.

(End of this chapter)