Blood of the True Dragon

Chapter 30 Assassination
Jon Connington and Jorah Mormont led the troops to leave soon, and the camp became quiet again in an instant.

And Aegon has been sitting in his seat waiting for news from his subordinates.

The Unsullied outside the gate gathered very quickly. Under the leadership of a few Unsullied with good eyesight, the armies on both sides quickly rushed to both sides of the battlefield.

And there are only [-] Unsullied guards left in the entire camp.

If the other party came to attack the camp at this time, he might be the one who was defeated. Aegon sat in the tent and was full of thoughts.

And just at this time, he seemed to feel something unusual.

The sounds outside the tent seemed to be quieter. It should have been the normal sound of insects and the thunder of a burning bonfire.

There are assassins!
Aegon became vigilant in an instant, and in an instant, his whole brain was racing to think about countermeasures.

If he yelled actively, maybe the assassin would sneak in to assassinate him, or just run away in the chaos.

What's more, in such a situation where the opponent is in the dark and the exact number of people is unknown, this method is obviously not the best choice.

And he still needs to find out who sent the assassin.

Thinking of this, Aegon had already decided on a strategy to capture the opponent alive.

Then he raised his hand to signal the maid beside him, Raiselin, to walk in together, let Raiselin lie on the quilt, and lifted the quilt next to him, pretending that he was sleeping on the other side.

Raistlin's amber eyes were wide open, and she was aware of the danger, but she refrained from shouting.

Aegon then took out a dagger from behind the pillow, handed it to Raistlin's hand, and made a silent gesture in front of her.

Raistlin hesitated for a moment, and finally nodded slightly, instead of directly choosing to hold Aegon hostage with a knife.

Although at the beginning of the sea, she wanted to kill Aegon.

Because she thought Aegon was no different from the slave masters of Lys, but in Astapor, when she saw Aegon free all the slaves there, her opinion of Aegon changed.

He is different from those slave owners and those kings!
No, it should be said that he is different from most people in the world!
Intuition told Raistlin that if Aegon lived, the world might change because of him!
So now she has no intention of killing Aegon.

After seeing Raistlin nodding, Aegon also slowly retreated behind the curtain, picked up a short sword, and waited for the assassin to arrive.

After a while, footsteps were heard outside the big tent.

Two assassins wearing Unsullied armor and spiked helmets slowly groped in.

Raiselin, who was half-closed, also became nervous instantly, and couldn't help clenching the dagger in her hand.

She could only exhale two deep breaths as much as possible to calm down, and kept telling herself that it was nothing.

Just as she had thrust a dagger into Drumman's eye on the bed, this time she could slit his throat.

The two assassins went inside and saw two people vaguely lying on the bed, and the one on the left had long hair hanging outside, so they both moved to the right in a tacit understanding.

The sound of footsteps lingered in Raiselin's ears, and Raiselin couldn't help opening her eyes a little more to observe the enemy.

In the end, the two assassins both walked to the bed, one lifted the quilt suddenly, and the other stabbed down viciously with his sword.

It's just that when they lifted the quilt, they were blinded for a moment, and the assassin on the right directly stabbed the bed board with a sword, and the short sword was directly stuck inside and it was difficult to pull out for a while.

The two realized something was wrong in an instant, and immediately turned around and wanted to escape.

At this time, Aegon got out from behind, went straight to meet one of them, and shouted "Guards!".

The escaped assassin still wanted to resist, but Aegon had also learned swordsmanship for more than ten years, and it took no trouble to take down an enemy who had no weapons.

With two strides, the dagger was placed at the opponent's throat.

And the other assassin also reacted at this moment, turned around and attacked Ruislin, and Ruislin was caught by the opponent without reacting.

The two sides confronted each other instantly.

"Perhaps, you can let us go? We all have hostages? If you want to die, then I will cut this beauty's throat!"

The assassin holding Raistlin suggested to Aegon in a somewhat accented Common Tongue.

"Oh? Really? You think you can threaten me?"

After speaking, Aegon cut the throat of the assassin in his hand.

The bright red blood spurted out, directly making the assassin on the opposite side tremble with fright.

It never occurred to him that Aegon would do it directly, without even giving him a chance to negotiate.

"Now it's up to me to say, what you have is just a maid, and her life is insignificant compared to mine.

Obviously, I couldn't let the assassin who wanted to kill me escape in order to save her.

So it doesn't matter whether you put down the sword or not, I will definitely kill you anyway.

But if you will tell me who sent you, I can grant you forgiveness in the name of the king! "

After Aegon finished speaking, the guards of the Unsullied outside the tent also rushed over, pointing their spears at the only remaining assassin.

The assassin hesitated for a moment when he heard Aegon's words. After seeing the Unsullied around him, he finally put down the sword with difficulty.

In fact, when Aegon finished those words, the assassin had already lost the initiative.

And the arrival of these Unsullied only made him make up his mind.

Raistlin immediately ran away from the assassin and ran to Aegon.

Aegon looked at the assassin and said coldly:
"Very well, now you can answer the questions!

If I think your answer is perfunctory or deceitful, then I still have the right to kill you!

But you need to take off the helmet first, I don't talk to cowards with masks. "

The assassin nodded helplessly, and then took off his helmet. Under the helmet was a young man with brown hair.

Aegon went on to ask:

"Well, what's your name? What did you do?"

"I'm a mercenary from the Stormcrows! They call me Jack the Cutthroat!"

Jack the Throat Cutter, I'm Jack the Ripper, Aegon couldn't help complaining in his heart.

"Which of your regiment leaders sent you here?"

Jack didn't answer directly, but asked rhetorically, "Are you sure I won't kill me if I tell the truth?"

Aegon laughed: "Do you still have a chance to choose now? Compared with the king's reputation, your life is not worth mentioning."

Jack took a deep breath, and dragged the whole thing out as if accepting his fate:

"Well, Commander Puranda sent me to assassinate you. He said that if you kill you, the army of eunuchs will be disbanded. For this reason, he paid a high price of three thousand gold dragon coins for your head."

Aegon narrowed his eyes, wondering if what the guy said was true.

Puranda is a Ghis, and it is understandable that he wants to kill Aegon, because Aegon just killed all the slave owners in Astapor.

But this guy shouldn't have such scheming, right?

Or does someone have an idea for him?
Seeing Aegon frowned, Jack immediately begged:

"I'm telling the truth, absolutely true, Your Majesty, you shouldn't kill me.

Oh, yes, I also need a piece of information, Your Majesty, you will definitely thank me for hearing it! "

"Say it!"

"Well, Your Majesty, I overheard this information from the captain talking to the Yunkai'i, who have already made contact with the New Ghis.

Just two days ago, the Yunkai'i had sent messengers to New Ghis, ready to let them attack the empty Astapor. "

"You're telling the truth?" Aegon said in shock.

He hadn't expected Yunkai to make alliances with the other Slaver's Bay cities so soon.

Could it be that after staying in Astapor for a long time, these slave owners in the Slave Bay are already prepared?

"It's true, Your Majesty the King!" Jack said firmly.

"Very well, you can go, I will give you forgiveness!"

After speaking, Aegon raised his hand to let the Unsullied disperse.

"Great King of Westeros, God bless you!"

Jack shouted to Aegon excitedly, and staggered away from the camp.

Aegon strengthened the Unsullied guards outside the big tent and the guards around Daenerys' tent, and then sat down and analyzed the situation.

Yunkai's messenger went to New Ghis two days ago.

And it takes six days to walk from Yunkai to Astapor along the seaside road.

By water, it only takes three days.

And by water from Astapor to Singhis only four days.

I have to return to defense quickly, otherwise, it will be troublesome when the opponent captures Astapor. Without strategic depth, it is equivalent to trapping him to death in Slaver's Bay.

"Are you sure he won't kill me to say that?"

Raistlin's words directly interrupted Aegon who was contemplating: "Huh?"

Then Aegon came to his senses, so he chose to tell the truth: "Actually, I'm not sure, but I don't have a better way. If I let him go, maybe you will be killed by him after you get out!"

Raistlin smiled when she heard this.

Raistlin had been really angry when Aegon said he didn't care about her life.

After all, she was willing to risk her life to confuse the enemy for Aegon, but the other party turned his face and refused to recognize him.

But when the assassin put down his sword, she realized that this was actually Aegon's psychological tactic, blindly being weak would only lose the initiative.

This young king is really different from others!
She didn't understand what kind of feeling she was feeling, but after learning about this, her mood immediately improved.

(End of this chapter)