Game of Thrones: Royal Game

Chapter 340 Big Red Temple
Behind the tall and thin man is a black and strong man with the opposite skin color. He is about seven feet tall, with a white beard like a lion's hair on his face, and every part of his body is exposed There are tattoos of red flame patterns all over the body.

Ian saw the latter from the perspective of a falcon. In Daenerys's palace in Astapor, when Maguro visited Daenerys, Ian instructed the little queen to show her the Go game he had carved out at random. .Originally, Ian had prepared a long paragraph of binary opposition theory to explain the game, but he didn't expect that all the explanations were not used, and Magi Luo had already 'enlightened' it on his own.

Since the red-robed monk who was half a step behind the thin and tall man was Marquilo, whose magical ability was not weaker than Melisandre's, the identity of the red-robed monk who stood at the head of the throne was ready to be revealed, only Volantis's Only the Supreme Red God Priest Benello can have this qualification.

"Welcome to come." After Ian and his party approached, Benello took the initiative to step forward, "Friends from far away from Slaver's Bay."

"You are willing to help us, we are very grateful." Earl Daeron Grafson saw that Ian had no intention of speaking, so he took the initiative to take a step forward and accepted the task of talking to Benello, "If you don't With your help, I am afraid that we will be in danger tonight."

"We are all R'hllor's servants, this is our duty." Benello shook his head and said, "Because the night is long and dangerous everywhere."

When Benero spoke, Ian kept observing his lipless mouth. Every time the mouth opened and closed, it was accompanied by the beating of fire.

"The night is long and dangerous everywhere." Earl Daeron repeated the other party's prayer.

"Please come into the temple with me first," Benello said sideways, and the guards behind him also stepped aside.

As Ian, Darren, and Melisandre stepped into the steel gate, Benello also turned and walked into the temple, maintaining a parallel position with several distinguished guests.

Crossing a marble avenue big enough for 20 horses to run side by side, Ian and the others were quickly brought to the second gate of the Great Red Temple.This door was made of bronze, and it was a circle smaller than the main door outside, but it was still nearly 10 meters high.

The guards who followed Ian and the others into the temple and the soldiers of the Tiger Robe Army were left outside the door, and only a few personal guards followed Ian and the others into the door.

Behind the bronze gate is a majestic temple. The whole temple is one piece, without any gaps or glue marks, as if it was chiseled from a huge natural rock.

Every pillar, every step, every stone wall, every tower in the temple, and even the stone arches and domes of the entire temple are astonishingly large. They are completely unlike the proportions that a human activity place should have. More like it was created for the legendary giant.

On the wall of the temple, countless hues such as red, yellow, gold, and orange are intertwined, drawing gorgeous pictures, and the slender spiers are entangled with each other, like icy flames swirling upwards, pointing directly at the sky.

Ian has been in the world of ice and fire for a long time, but this is the first time he was amazed by a certain building. Even in the modern age where Ian himself lives in a highly developed civilization, he has never seen such a magnificent building. of buildings.

This reminded Ian of an evaluation of the imperial architectural style he had seen online - it does not seek equal dialogue, it only wants you to marvel and surrender when you stand in front of it.

"My lord? What's wrong with you?" Daeron was the first to find out and stopped, and asked aloud.

"It's okay." Ian quickly reacted, pulled out his injured right hand from the burqa, and raised it up, "It's just that it reacted suddenly."

Ian had been hiding his injury before because he didn't want the soldiers below to know about his injury, but now there are only a few of his closest confidants left, so there is no need to continue to hide it.

"Are you injured?" Melisandre noticed Ian's hand injury and immediately stepped forward to check.

Ian was not polite, and handed her his hand directly. At the same time, he also noticed that when he got the news that his hand was injured, Marquis also took a step forward, but after Melisandre spoke, Back again.

"The thumb was cut off, can it be recovered?" Ian took out his knuckle that was cut off by the Dothraki mercenary from his pocket after Melisandre checked the injury, and handed it over to him. go out.

"It needs to be washed with water first." Melisandre didn't answer directly, but she gave an affirmative answer.

This was within Ian's expectation. The potion called 'Blessing of the Supreme Shepherd' in the system mall can restore broken bones. There is no reason for a top Red God priest like Melisandre to do this. Less than the same thing.

"Then let's go to the central temple first." Benello was quite enthusiastic, "I will ask the servants to prepare clean water."

So the group quickened their pace and soon came to the third gate in the Red Temple.

This door is much smaller than the previous two, about 5 meters in height and 4 meters in width.But what is shocking is that this door is made of gold, and Ian doesn't know whether it is gold-plated or pure gold. If it is the latter, then the military expenditure in the second half of the year is probably enough. The King of Light should not be so stingy Comparing such trivial things with yourself?maybe not
After entering the central temple, Ian found that it was terribly empty and simple. There were no decorations or statues in it. In the center of the hall stood a huge iron brazier with a diameter of 40 feet. flames.

Around the giant brazier is a circle of 'small' braziers about 3 feet, a total of 120.

After the servants from the Red Temple brought water to clean Ian's wound, Ian returned the knuckles to their original positions, and then Melisandre chanted a spell, which was a strange, high-pitched song with a cry. , with lyrics in High Valyrian.

Ian has learned this language from Daenerys and Celia for a long time. Although he didn't learn it very well because of frequent desertions in class, he has no obstacles to normal communication in most situations.

It's just that Ian didn't understand a single word of the song Melisandre sang right now, and he barely understood it after looking up the knowledge and memory brought by the skill 'Legend of the Priest of the Red God' The gist of the lyrics.

After about 3 minutes, Melisandre began to motion for Ian to put his hand into the brazier.

This made Ian hesitate a little. After all, this avatar of his own doesn't have any skills of the Red God Priest and doesn't have any fire resistance. If it is put into the brazier, it won't be burnt into charcoal?But Melisandre's eyes were firm, and Ian finally chose to follow suit.

However, he regretted it the moment he put his hand into the fire. The intense burning sensation was sent to Ian's brain along the nerves. Under the blessing of Melisandre's spell, the pain Ian felt was even worse than that. Under normal circumstances, putting your hands in the fire is hundreds of times stronger.

The treatment lasted for three full hours, until late at night.

When Ian pulled his hand out of the brazier, the whole right arm was covered with blood from the elbow to the elbow, and the hand was completely scorched black. He spread out the palm that had become whole again, and wisps of black smoke flowed from between his fingers. take off.I knew it would be better to buy a can of 'Blessing of the Supreme Shepherd'. In order to save a mere 20 points, Ian took a deep breath and stopped worrying about this bad luck.

At this time, everyone had already gone to rest. After Ian walked out of the hall, he glanced at the empty corridor, then turned his head to say goodbye to Melisandre, and followed the slaves of the temple to the room where he rested tonight.

After lying on the bed, Ian couldn't fall asleep because his arms were still hurting.Moonlight poured into the room from the skylight and shone on the wall painted with flame murals. Ian couldn't help but think of the missionary mission that was still in progress.

Anyway, he didn't feel sleepy, so he simply sat up, turned on the auxiliary system, and opened Celia's task bar in [Alliance].

[Main task three: The unity of politics and religion
mission target:

# Get more than 50 believers (30 points)

# Get more than 300 believers (100 points)

#Cities with more than 50 believers (100 points/city)
# Obtain 30 religious soldiers whose system quality evaluation exceeds B-level ([-] points)

#Acquire 100 religious soldiers whose system quality evaluation exceeds B level ([-] points)

#Probation (kill or convert) 30 pious pagans ([-] points) (√)
#Influence (kill or convert) 100 million pious heretics (100 points)

#Destroy a religion with more than 50 believers (so that the number of remaining believers does not exceed 500) (100 points/time)
Mission rewards (can be obtained after completing all the above missions, among which destroying religions and cities with 50 believers must be completed at least once): 1000 points
Remarks: In the city occupation mission, each city can only be settled when it is occupied for the first time]

Ian originally thought that he had transformed believers in Slave Bay fast enough, but when he actually saw this set of tasks, he realized that it seemed that there was still a long way to go before he could complete Celia's main story three.

So far, the entire task force has only completed the task of "conquering" one hundred thousand devout pagans. Ian estimated that this should also include a large number of Dothraki who were physically converted and those Lazarins who refused to surrender.

As for the believers themselves, they haven't even reached the base of 50.

However, according to Ian's estimation, after he has completed the transformation of the entire Slave Bay and Laza area, and the Red God believers in Volantis, it should not be difficult to reach a total of 300 million believers.

Similarly, the task of owning a city with more than 50 believers is not difficult. You only need to take down Volantis and then declare that the religion rules this city. This task can be compared with the task of occupying the city in Ian's own main line [-] together.

Originally, Ian didn't intend to let Celia complete this task, because teaching her a city with a population of 50 was tantamount to giving her the ability to fight against herself, burying the risk for the alliance to break down in the later stage.

It's just that now that she has become R'hllor's spokesperson, Celia's future position in the church can only be regarded as the same level as that of Benello and Melisandre, so this risk has actually been eliminated.

Based on the same reason, the two missions of having 3 and [-] religious troops above B-level can also be completed. You only need to change the entire tiger-robed army into a religious army after taking down Volantis. If this Even if it is not enough for [-] B-levels, then select some elite soldiers for intensive training according to the model of the Iron Slave Legion, and this task can be completed in half a year at most.

The really hard part is the remaining two missions.

The first one is 'influence 100 million devout heretics'.

To 'conquer' 100 million people is easy, just preach and use coercion and inducement. If it doesn't work, coupled with physical salvation, there are many people in the Raza area and the upper reaches of the Volantis Royne River who can be converted by themselves.But adding the qualifier 'piety' is difficult. In this era when most people don't have enough to eat, if the system's piety standards are stricter, Ian simply doesn't know where to find 100 million. devout believers.

Perhaps many roaring warriors of Slark are counted, and then there are people from the north who believe in the old gods. In the case that the six countries in the south have converted to the seven gods, the north can persist in their belief for hundreds of years, which is somewhat pious.Followers of the Red God and Braavos' followers of the Many-Faced God should also have slightly higher piety than other religions.

As for other religions, it’s hard to say, even those knights in Westeros who anointed with holy oil and kept vigil in the church when Stannis was converted didn’t immediately establish the ‘Faith’ of Light. Queen's party?The Harpy believers in Slave Bay are even more nonsense. After Ian declared the Red God religion as the state religion, all the nobles of Guise went to the Red Temple to complete the conversion ceremony immediately.

The second difficult task is to 'destroy a religion with more than 50 believers so that the number of remaining believers does not exceed 500'.

If the number of 100 million devout believers is set too high, then the number of no more than 500 people in a religion is undoubtedly too low.

Taking Slaver's Bay as an example, as long as Ian missed any tribe hidden deep in the Ghiscari Mountains when transforming Slave's Bay, 500 followers of the Harpy might be missed.What's more, the trade in Slave Bay is developed. There are still many Ghis people who have settled in other cities in this world. It is impossible for Ian to chase Qarth or even Yindu to overtake them.

Taking a step back, even if everyone is converted, among this population that is so huge that it can be counted in units of one hundred thousand, there are not 500 fanatics who pretend to convert but retain their original beliefs?

In short, this task is more outrageous than converting 100 million devout believers, and Ian hardly sees the possibility of completing it.

However, if you don't complete the main line three, you won't get the last 1000 points of the whole mission, and you won't be able to start the main line four.

Ian has almost finished his main line three at present, and only has a little over 1000 points. After the completion, he can get another 1000. These and Celia's points in the first half of the main line three, the total is less than 3000.

If you don't complete Celia's main line three, then your main line four must provide at least 6 points, and if you can complete all of them, it is possible to achieve the victory condition of 10000 points.

From what Ian knew about dog schemes, it was all a dream.

Forget it, take one step at a time, solve Volantis's problem first, and finally Ian temporarily gave up thinking and forced himself to sleep.

(End of this chapter)