Game of Thrones: Royal Game

Chapter 189 Varys' Nightmare
Varys had a dream.

In the dream, he returned to his childhood, and he saw his childhood master. Although the other party's face was blurred, he could still feel kindness from the other party's figure.

For his time as a slave in the kitchen of the merchant's house in Lys had been the happiest of all his miserable childhood.

The rich merchants' cooks and maids were the best of men, and they seldom put Varys to heavy work.And in the rich merchant's house, Varys also has a large group of close playmates.

It's a pity that the happiness in the dream stayed very short, and he soon saw a troupe.

He vaguely remembered that day, it was the birthday of the rich merchant's daughter, in order to celebrate the birthday of the little princess at home, the rich merchant invited a traveling theater troupe to his home to perform.

And on that day, the owner of the troupe fell in love with Varys and expressed his willingness to pay to buy him.

At that time, the young Varys didn't know what this meant. He only thought that he could get rid of the boring life of a helper and go to the troupe to perform in all kinds of beautiful clothes, so he begged the rich businessman to sell himself to the troupe.

Unexpectedly, this was the beginning of his miserable life.

The dream continued, and at this time he had arrived on the troupe owner's boat, doing all the dirty work and groceries, enduring hard training but often not getting enough to eat.

Their troupe toured the Free Cities, sometimes to Oldtown and King's Landing.

The dream was like flying around, awakening Varys' memory little by little.

Soon, he becomes tense as their troupe arrives in a place in Mill that changes his life forever.

As expected, he soon saw the wizard. It was he who had asked to buy himself with a large sum of money, a sum large enough that the troupe owner could not refuse.

At that time, I was very afraid of that man, because he thought that the other party would enjoy the little boy as rumored, but the other party did not, and the wizard actually needed him to complete the blood magic.

At this moment, Varys naturally has no fear, because the wizard from back then has already been caught by him and locked in the coffin in the basement, and he has already completed his revenge.

But at this moment, Varys still frowned deeply, because in this dream his feelings were so clear, and he had been given the potion that could not move or speak but could feel everything.

He was going to be eunuched again in his dream.

Varys wanted to yell.

Sure enough, what was supposed to come still came, and the heart-piercing pain came from his lower body. From the corner of his eyes, Varys saw the wizard throw something into the flames.

The flame turned blue, and a voice came out of the flame. It was the voice that lingered in Varys's heart day and night. He still didn't know it. Was it a god?Is it a demon?Or a magician's trick?

The flames went out and the sound died away.

When Varys opened his eyes again, he had appeared in Pentos, and sitting in front of him was his new assassin friend Illyrio Patimos.

Varys was secretly glad that the dream had skipped this terrible experience - after the ceremony the wizard drove him out on the street, useless, to fend for himself, while the troupe had sailed away, and he started Live a life of begging and stealing.

During that time, he endured both physical and mental torture every day.

He would never want to look back once if he could.

Back in sight, he and Illyrio started a new business together—he would steal things from pickpockets, and Illyrio would hand them over to their owners in exchange for payment.

Soon they became big and powerful, and they became famous in Pentos, and all people who lost valuables knew to ask them to 'help' find their lost property.

Of course, the thieves in Pentos were also looking for them. At first, they mostly wanted to kill these two business snatchers, but unfortunately they didn’t succeed. So in the end, these people simply asked them to help sell their stolen goods. In a practical sense, they became their downline.

Before long, Varys and Illyrio amassed a considerable fortune.

The dream continued to move forward, but Varys became more and more confused. He began to think, what does it mean that he suddenly had a dream that looked back on his life?Could it be that I accidentally ate something that was poisoned by others, and then unknowingly came to my deathbed in my sleep?

The dream did not leave him time to continue thinking, because he had already come to Westeros.

He came at the invitation of Aerys II. The Targaryen monarch known as the 'Mad King' discovered his talent and invited him to come to his imperial council as the Chief Intelligence Officer.

So he began his service to House Targaryen.

Gradually, his intelligence network began to spread all over King's Landing, and every move of the city could not escape his eyes. He gained the trust of the mad king Aerys II, so much so that the captain of the Kingsguard, Barristan the Fearless, Selmy expressed disgust that the dynasty of Aerys has become the dynasty of Varys.

It is a pity that the Usurper War broke out later, and after Prince Rhaegar died in the Battle of the Trident River, Lannister's Qin King's army arrived at the city of King's Landing belatedly.

He advised Aerys II not to trust Duke Tywin and not to open the city gate to him, but this time, the Mad King did not follow his advice, but chose to believe in the loyalty of the Lannister family.

Elis II and Duke Tywin were close friends when they were young, and even the knight status of Elis II was conferred by Tywin.

During the more than ten years when Tywin served as the Hand of the King, the already fading Targaryen Dynasty was once full of vitality.

Although the two finally broke due to suspicion, when Elis II was really facing annihilation, he still opened the gate of King's Landing to Tywin.

Afterwards, Tywin Lannister's army bloodbathed King's Landing, while his subordinate Gregor Clegane, the 'Magic Mountain', went straight to the Red Castle to slaughter Rhaegar's children and widow.

Rhaegar's son Aegon was pulled from Elia Martell's arms by the Mountain and fell to his death on the wall, while his daughter Rhaenys was pulled out of the bed by him and stabbed to death with a random sword.

In the dream, Varys witnessed all this again, but did not stop it...just like ten years ago.

Luckily it was a dream, Varys congratulated himself, lucky these images only appear in my dreams.

these truths.

When the screen changed again, he appeared in Pentos again. At this time, Illyrio had become one of the seven governors of the city.

In the dream, Illyrio excitedly showed Varys his newborn son, a boy born to Illyrio and his whore wife Sira.

The boy had purple pupils and silver-blond hair.

"Is this your child?"

"of course."

"A Valyrian nobleman of such blood, he looks like a Targaryen."

"In a sense, he is also a Targaryen." Illyrio replied meaningfully.

The child's mother, Sira, is a descendant of the Blackfyre, as is Varys.

"Red or black, a dragon is a dragon." Varys nodded.At that moment, a great plan came to his mind.

He wants to do something that no one can imagine with his good friend Illyrio. He wants to artificially create the most wise and benevolent monarch, and then create a dynasty.

However, just when Varys finished brewing the plan and wanted to tell Illyrio, the baby in Varys's hand suddenly burned and turned into a mass of burnt residue.And his friend Illyrio also turned into a cold corpse, his fat body full of arrow clusters.

Then, the whole of Pentos burned, and in the raging flames, Varys once again heard the whispers he heard in the flames.

It is still the language that I don't understand.

Is that a god?Is it a demon?Or a magician's trick?
get out!You shameless thing!Varys growled in his sleep.

What he didn't expect was that he actually saw a figure in the flames.

In the white plate of the Kingsguard, with fair hair and a youthful look, he stepped out of the ruins of Pentos on fire.Behind him, a black giant dragon spread its wings, and then sprayed a mouthful of dragon flames towards him.

The next moment, Varys woke up from the bed with a start.

He was slightly relieved when he found out that he was not on the verge of death due to poisoning, but at the same time, he was also more confused.

Who is the last young man in the dream?And who made the voice in the flames?What happened to that dragon?Is this just a dream, or who is heralding something to herself?
Varys doesn't believe in gods and has always had a deep aversion to magical tricks, but he can't believe that this is just a nightmare.

He hadn't had a nightmare in years, and he couldn't even remember the last time he had one.

He knew that this was an ominous sign.

Soon his premonition was verified, and in the afternoon of that day, a letter was delivered to him.

The letter came from the other side of the narrow sea, telling the news that Pentos was massacred by the horse king Drogo. Illyrio was killed in this commotion, and the whereabouts of the Targaryen brothers and sisters are unknown.

This is another bad news after the Queen was executed for having an affair with Robert and Robert declared war on the West Territory, which was far worse than the news from Winterfell.

It took Varys an unknown amount of time to recover. He staggered to the desk and took out a quill and letter paper.He was to write to Harry Strickland, head of the Golden Company, and Sir Jon Connington to discuss what to do with their already shaky recovery plan.

After writing the letter, Varys cut off a piece of wax and spooned it over the candle to bake it.

On the dancing candlelight, he once again saw the shadow of the blond youth in his dream.

This time, he suddenly thought of a candidate who perfectly matched this figure, the illegitimate son whom Illyrio had mentioned countless times in his letters—Ian Darry.

　This book selects some of the wide-ranging speculations on Wikipedia that have not been officially confirmed. It is only used as the setting of this book, and it is not guaranteed.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)