Game of Thrones: Royal Game

Chapter 283 Comes Like a God
"Your Majesty Maqiro, Your Majesty is here to invite you." The guarding knight announced Daenerys' will to the red-robed monk who was asking for an audience, and opened the bronze door of the hall for him.

Then Marqiro, accompanied by two heavily armed knights, walked into the hall in the pyramid.

As Marqoro slowly walked down the steps, Daenerys finally saw clearly the appearance of this envoy who claimed to be from the Red Temple of Volantis.

He was about seven feet tall, and wore a strange red robe that exposed a huge, round, pebbled belly. His skin was as black as pitch, and his face was covered with white beard and hair like lion's fur. Inflammation tattoo.

Just looking at his appearance made Daenerys feel a little uncomfortable. She originally thought that the monk of the Red God should be more like Celia... at least not like the beast in front of her.

But this little bit of emotion was well hidden by Daenerys, Ian is not here, I must be more majestic as a queen, she secretly said in her heart.

So Daenerys nodded to the little interpreter Missandei.

"Before you is Daenerys I Targaryen, Stormborn, Queen of the Andals, the Rhoynar, and the First Men, Ruler of the Seven Kingdoms, Defender of the Realm, and Protector of Astapor. The Dragonlord, the last of Valyria." Missandei called out her name.

"I am Maqiro, a monk from the Great Red Temple of Volantis. I was appointed by the Supreme Priest Benello to come to Astapor to pay homage to His Majesty." Maqiro saluted.

It seemed easy to talk, Daenerys breathed a sigh of relief.

"Excuse me, Your Excellency Maqoro, I have longed for your religion for a long time," Daenerys said with a smile, "To be honest, I have always had a high-ranking priest of R'hllor by my side. She served the Red God in the Red Temple of Pentos, and after the fall of Pentos, she and I sailed to Astapor."

"Oh? I wonder if His Majesty can introduce this colleague to me after today's meeting?" Maqiro immediately became interested.

"I'm happy to do this, but it's a pity that Priest Celia has already set off with my Hand of the Queen, Earl Ian Darry, to Meereen." Daenerys regretted.

"Going with the army?" Maqiro became surprised this time, "Usually, if an army has priests accompanying it. May I ask if your prime minister is also a follower of the Red God? Or is it your army? Are there many followers of the Red God here?"

"This..." Daenerys was stopped by the question, she was stunned for a moment, and then simply admitted, "Actually, I have never asked about the military affairs, so I don't know if Celia has preached in the military.

But it is very possible that Earl Ian Darry is a follower of the Red God. After all, he has great trust in Celia, and even recommended her to me as my Minister of Finance.Moreover, Earl Darry has declared himself the Spear of the Red God more than once. "

Sure enough?Ma Qiluo suddenly remembered the words that the Supreme Priest Benello said after watching the fantasy in the flames, "This son is either the apostle of my god, or the pioneer of the cold god."If the little queen is not lying, it seems that this Earl Ian Darry really has a connection with the Lord of Light?

"I don't know why the Supreme Priest Benello sent you here, what's the matter?" Daenerys asked when she saw that Maqiro suddenly fell silent.

"I am." Marqiro felt helpless. His original purpose of coming to Astapor was actually to meet that Earl Ian Darry, and his second purpose was to see the legendary dragon.

But when he went to Astapor to inquire, he found that both Ian and Long had left Astapor.

Immediately afterwards, he was arrested by a group of spies because of his suspicious appearance, and he was sent directly to the pyramid until he proved his identity and declared that he wanted to meet the queen.

In fact, how can he have anything to find this queen?
"Your Excellency Benello asked me to ask Your Majesty, do you need us to send a group of priests to Astapor to help you preach? Of course, this is mainly to consolidate your rule." Maqiro thought of the reason temporarily, anyway, according to According to the queen, Earl Darry is a follower of the Red God, and she doesn't care about things, so it's normal for them to come to Astapor to help preach the Red God, right?
"We believe that dragon and fire are naturally one, and the Church of the Red God and your dynasty will be a match made in heaven." Maqiro added.

"Ah" Daenerys hesitated for a moment, then nodded, "Yes, but the priests you send must obey the church in Astapor, and my finance minister, Celia, will be the supreme priest of this church. "

"It should be so." Ma Qiluo agreed immediately, and it was a surprise that he managed to make a lot of achievements in this envoy.

"Besides?" Daenerys was very depressed. Why is this guy not motivated at all, and she has to ask him herself if she has something to do?
"In addition, I have to meet Earl Darry, so I hope that I can set off for Meereen earlier, and maybe catch up with Earl Darry on the way." Marqoro implicitly expressed his intention to resign.

Sure enough, people who really have something to do will only look for Ian!snort!

"Then you..." Daenerys was about to allow Marquisro to leave when suddenly a falcon landed beside Daenerys and interrupted her.

"Following you?" Daenerys confirmed to Peregrine Falcon in a low voice, watching the movements of the Peregrine Falcon.

She knew Ian's shapeshifter, knew it was Ian's message to her.

Peregrine nodded, and then added another set of movements.

"Come with you, take him with you?" Daenerys continued to confirm, watching the movement of the peregrine falcon.

This time, she got an affirmative answer again, and Peregrine did not add any new movements.

"Mm, Your Excellency, before you leave, please come with me." Daenerys did not explain, but directly ordered.

Marquilo was a little strange, but he didn't ask any more questions, so he followed the peregrine falcon to the side hall with Daenerys.

Then the peregrine stopped on a table and quickly flew out of the window.

"This is." Maqiro was indeed attracted by the bird's movement, and looked at the chessboard on the table.

"This?" Although Daenerys didn't know what Ian's purpose was, she roughly understood what Ian meant. He wanted me to introduce this kind of chess to the red monk?

"It's a board game Ian invented, and he calls it Go," Daenerys explained.

"Volantis also has a chess game, we call it Cyvasse Chess. Compared to your game here, it seems very simple? Its chess pieces only have one shape and two colors." Maqiro said somewhat I don't understand, can this kind of stuff be downloaded?
"How about this, how about I introduce its rules to you?" Daenerys asked.

"Actually." Maqiro laughed. He wasn't interested at all, but due to the identity of the other party's queen, it was really hard for him to say no. "Okay, I'll trouble you."

In this way, Daenerys began to explain the rules to Mo Qiro.

At the beginning, Ma Qiluo didn't take it seriously, but as he got further behind, his face became more and more serious.

When Daenerys was almost halfway through the rules, she found that the high priest of the Lord of Light was already pale, trembling all over, and even knelt directly on the ground.

Marquilo could no longer hear Daenerys, and all he could think about was the chessboard with nineteen vertical and horizontal lines and the chess pieces with only two colors.

Go, only black and white, embodies the most essential competition of all things.

It is not like cyvasse, it has no king, no knights, no dragons, and no mobs, it only has black and white two pieces, tit for tat, which perfectly fits the doctrine of binary opposition of the Red God Sect.

In Maqiro's eyes at this moment, what is on the chessboard is no longer white and black, but fire and ice, light and darkness, life and death, justice and evil.

This is the epitome of the head-to-head confrontation between R'hllor and the ancient cold god!
What is my God's apostle?This is my god descending to the world!

No, I can't go directly to Meereen. I have to return to Volantis and report this to the High Priest.

Meereen
"That's probably the way it is. Father, my lords, I don't know what we should do next?" After reading the letter from Yunkai, Paoz zo Parr looked at his father.

In addition to Paoz, there are three other people in this room, including his father, Grazdan zo Pal, the city defense commander of Meereen, and the Lord of Meereen, Hizdahr the "Noble" Zo Pal. Lorak, the Meereen nobleman who later became Daenerys' husband in the original book, and the commander-in-chief of the new Ghis expeditionary force, Eress zo Emud.

These three held command of all the armies of Meereen and New Ghis at this moment, and were the central group that conspired with Yunkai against Ian.

"Has Yunkai screwed things up?" asked Grazdan zo Parr first.

"It seems that someone among the sages of Yunkai has informed you." Paoz nodded.

"And then Earl Darry took down Yunkai?" This time it was Eres zo Emud, Commander-in-Chief of New Ghis who asked the question.

"It looks like this." Paoz shook the letter in his hand, "But Earl Darry did not occupy Yunkai, nor did he send troops to loot Yunkai, he was just punishing General Fazaha (Rabbit) and him. After the Faza family behind them, they returned power to Yunkai's Council of the Good Lords.

It’s just that the original Grand Marshal of Yunkai died in the turmoil, and now Yunkai’s new Grand Marshal is Grazdo Zo Ark (General Shaking Ass), and the son of the original Grand Marshal has become the new chief deputy commander .In addition, Grazdan mo Eraz, the wise lord who often travels to Yunkai, has now been promoted to a high nobleman and has been given the post of deputy commander. "

"Promoted to a high-ranking noble?" The three people in power in the room screamed almost at the same time.

This kind of thing has never happened since the demise of the ancient Ghis Empire, although according to the tradition of the Ghis people, as long as they can pass the unanimous vote of the ruling council, a family can complete the promotion.However, since there has been no large-scale war in Slaver's Bay for so many years, and the existing high-ranking nobles will do their best to protect the interests of the entire class, this proposal to promote the lower-ranking nobles has never appeared.

"This letter only notified the result, and I have no way of knowing the specific situation, but based on this result, we can guess that that Grazdan Mo Eraz is a traitor among the wise lords of Yunkai, and his The benefits obtained are the rewards Earl Darry gave him." Paoz still used the word 'Mo' representing the inferior nobles to refer to the nouveau riche, and his pride as a high noble did not allow him to admit such a ridiculous promotion.

"According to the information I received," Hizdahr zo Lorakh, the Holy Lord of Meereen, questioned, "All the wise lords who attended the meeting at the time said that Lord Darry did not interfere in the entire meeting process."

"Do you know the situation of the meeting at that time?" Paoz asked hastily.

"I have some friends in Yunkai." Holy Lord Hizdahr made a perfunctory sentence, and then continued, "In fact, the promotion of the Eraz family is more like the result of a compromise between the good lords of Yunkai. General Zidor (shaking his butt) supports Grazdan's family promotion, and Grazdan in turn supports Grazdor for the position of Grand Marshal of Yunkai. The Rucker family also had to make compromises."

"Didn't Earl Darry mean it?"

"At least judging from the current situation, he didn't express any opinions, and he even deliberately distanced himself from it, expressing his unwillingness to participate in Yunkai's internal affairs." Hizdahr replied.

"So, he did, as he promised, have no appeal to Slaver's Bay?" New Ghis commander-in-chief Erez zo Emder was a little surprised.

"At least it seems so, but" Holy Lord Hizdalla paused, "We seem to have been led astray by an unimportant matter, and now we should be more concerned about whether Darry has found out Our conspiracy?"

"This" Paoz hesitated, and said with some uncertainty, "this letter says"

"They said that this turmoil was only caused by General Fazaha (Rabbit) and the Volantis Chamber of Commerce, right?" Holy Lord Hizdahr interrupted the young people of the Parr family, "Earl Darry only liquidated The Farza family let Yunkai go, and sent a letter stating that he would continue to march towards Meereen.
But the question now is, did Fazaha and Daznak (a certain player) really not betray us?Does Earl Darry really know nothing, or does he already know?"

"But what? Use false information to relax our vigilance, and then attack us suddenly?" Guessed Erez zo Emud, the commander-in-chief of New Ghis.

"This is indeed a possibility, but I think... the greater possibility should be that he decides to turn a blind eye and give us another chance to maintain the alliance. As long as we cooperate enough in the future, he will Just pretend it never happened.”

"Why do you think so?"

"Anyway, it would not be in his interest to come to Meereen and fight us under the current circumstances." Holy Lord Hizdahr shook his head, "Even if he defeats us, he will There will not be enough troops to fight Khal Drogo, and the best outcome for him is to maintain the alliance, and he can only fight against Drogo with our strength."

"Similarly," Hizdahr continued, "if we can't directly destroy Lord Darry's army as originally planned, and capture Queen Daenerys and send Drogo to retreat, maintaining the alliance and defeating Drogo will be of great importance to us." As far as we are concerned, it is also the best result. He should be sure that we will choose to maintain the alliance, so he put all the blame on Fazaha."

"If that's the case," Grazdan zo Pal, the city defense commander of Meereen who has been silent all this time, couldn't help but sigh, "I really can't imagine that the earl is a young man under 20 years old. "

"Isn't there such a story in mythology? The harpy descended into the world and took over the young body to act." The commander-in-chief of New Ghis said as if he remembered something.

"Hey, don't make such jokes, he's not even a Gisian." Holy Lord Hizdahr reminded with some dissatisfaction.

"Yes, it would be great if he was from Ghis." The new Ghis commander shrugged disapprovingly.

"Forget it, let's get down to business," Hizdahr no longer struggled, "Everyone, what is your opinion? Do you want to continue to maintain the alliance?"

"You are right. If the plan fails, the risk of us becoming an enemy of Earl Darry is even higher than forming an alliance with him to deal with the horse king. I agree to maintain the alliance." The commander-in-chief of New Ghis also recovered after seeing this. Seriously, take the lead in expressing your opinion.

"If he doesn't ask too much in the future, I agree." Grazdan Zo Pal nodded immediately.

"Ha, what if he made an excessive request?" Holy Lord Hizdahr asked back.

"He." Grazdan zo Pal didn't know what to say for a while.

"No matter what he asks, we have no choice. After all, the Grand Marshal of Yunkai has changed. We have every reason to believe that the new Grand Marshal is on the side of Lord Darry.

According to our agreement, Earl Darry and his people occupy three seats in the highest command regiment of the coalition forces. He has already obtained the real command power... If we want to maintain the alliance, we can only accept his command.

Moreover, we were the ones who betrayed the other party first without breaking the contract. Now our plan has failed, and we may not be able to run away if we make up for it with a hemorrhage. "

(End of this chapter)