Game of Thrones: Knight of Glory.

Chapter 184 The huge dragon

Looking at the damage and shape of the warship in front of him, Lind quickly imagined an image of a huge monster suddenly emerging from the sea and biting off half of the hull in one bite.

Huge is the only word that comes to Lind's mind now. You must know that this warship has four levels of cabins and is the largest sailing warship currently. When docked at the dock, it is almost as high as the three-story building next to the dock.

More than a year ago, when Linde designed this kind of warship, he based it on the largest sailing warship he remembered in his previous life.

However, he was not a ship builder in his previous life and knew nothing about the internal structure of the ship. He just drew the sailboat based on what he saw and then handed it over to a specialized shipbuilder to build it.

As a result, although he was not able to completely restore the sailboat he originally designed, the shipbuilder improved it based on the existing shipbuilding technology in the world of ice and fire, and finally built this huge sailboat with four levels of cabins.

The deck of this kind of sailing ship is equipped with a large number of crossbows, which can easily penetrate the hull of a long ship. There are also openings on the second deck, where archers can freely attack enemies on both sides without being affected. , the large amount of space also allows the ship to accommodate several times more warriors than ordinary sailing ships. Once entering a boarding battle, the side with more people can easily take advantage.

It was precisely because this kind of warship was manufactured and equipped with the Miracle Fleet that Lind was able to completely control the Dorne Sea. Dorne such as Thor City and Soul Hill had no room for resistance and could only Accept Linde's offer of settlement with strings attached.

There are currently six such warships, all of which are equipped in the Miracle Fleet. According to Linde's plan, only after the Miracle Fleet is equipped with twenty such large warships will the attack on the Stepstone Islands be officially launched. war of unification.

However, what he never imagined was that in less than three months, one ship would be lost in this way.

However, this does not detract from the prestige of this warship. After all, this is the only ship that has been able to survive the attack of sea dragons in the past many years. Moreover, only the upper cabins of this ship were damaged, and the bottom cabins were damaged. The cabin and keel are still intact, and the front and rear gaff sails are also intact, which is why the ship can still sail on the sea.

Regardless of the fact that the warship is so damaged that it may sink at any time, in fact, it only needs to repair the damage, and then it can be repaired and then incorporated into the fleet to continue its mission.

It is precisely because of the hugeness of the warship that it highlights the hugeness of the sea dragon that attacked the warship. Lind compared the other keels he had seen and found that even the largest Vagahar was smaller than this one. As for Hailong, it is much smaller.

If mammoths were a unit of measurement, then Vhagar's limit might be that he could swallow one and a half mammoths, and this sea dragon could swallow three or more.

Although the Dornish Sea Dragon is so huge, Linde does not find it difficult, because in his opinion, such a huge size means slow movement, and it also means that the target is easy to be attacked. With his current power against the dragon rune, As long as this sea dragon does not possess any extraordinary mysterious power such as magic, he is absolutely sure that he can kill the sea dragon without any harm.

Now the only thing he needs to consider is how to prevent Hai Long from escaping. Although the dragon runes he masters are very powerful, none of them can help him fight freely in the sea. Once Hai Long feels that his life is in danger and dives into the sea, Then it will be very difficult to lure it out and kill it.

"Is there any way to prevent the sea dragon from sinking to the bottom of the sea when it escapes?" Lind looked at the damaged warship and asked Sir Halls Redwin, the commander of the Miracle Fleet behind him.

Hols was stunned when he heard this. He did not expect that he was following Linde to check the damage of the ship. While his mind was still thinking about how to answer questions related to the ship, Linde had already begun to think about hunting the sea dragon.

However, he quickly returned to normal, thought quickly, and said, "You can use a harpoon and a floating bucket."

Lind thought for a while, shook his head, and said: "The power of the crossbow on the ship's bed is not enough to hurt Hai Long."

Linde had already met the survivors on the warship before. By talking to them, he had learned about the appearance of the sea dragon that attacked the warship, and this sea dragon did not look like the one with scales on its body as he thought. The aquatic creature with tail fins and other characteristics of fish is more like a giant dragon swimming in the sea, because more than one person has seen the sea dragon grow wings, but the wings are badly damaged, like a piece of rag.

Therefore, Lind believed that this sea dragon was probably a wild dragon with an injured wing, so all the battle details he considered were based on the dragons of this world.

Nymeria has a dragon skin inner armor, which is the ancestral inner armor of the Fu Deli family. The dragon skin used to make the inner armor should come from one of the dragons that died in Tengshi Town during the Dance of the Blood Dragons.

He has tested the defensive power of the inner armor, and it can basically be defended by ordinary bows and crossbows. It can be seen that the defensive power of the dragon's skin is not as easily destroyed as seen in previous episodes. The defensive bed crossbow It is even more impossible for the arrow to be easily pierced through the body of the dragon hundreds of meters away.

Among all recorded dragons, very few dragons died directly from bows and arrows, or the dragons were still in their infancy, and the dragon skin on their bodies had not accumulated enough defensive power. For example, during the riots in King's Landing, the dragons died in the The young dragons in the cave were either shot in the eyes or other vital parts, such as Meraxes who died in Hellgate Castle.

Bows and arrows and crossbows cannot directly cause any damage to the dragon skin of an adult dragon.

If judged by its size, that sea dragon is definitely a dragon from the same period as Balerion, the Black Death, or even earlier. The skin of such a dragon has grown to an extremely strong level, so unless it is shot in the eye Otherwise, the bed crossbow and whaling harpoon would not be able to penetrate the dragon skin defense.

Although he could not find a way to restrict Sea Dragon's escape, Linde had no intention of waiting any longer, because the appearance of Sea Dragon would have a great impact on the trade of Miracle Port.

By checking the registration records of ships at the dock, it was found that in less than half a month, the number of ships coming to Miracle Port had decreased by almost one-third. As the damaged warships were towed to the military port dock for repairs, witnessing the war Those with damaged boats may have greater doubts about being able to safely navigate the Sea of ​​Dorne.

If the problem of Hai Long is not solved and continues to be delayed, in another month, I am afraid that the number of ships in Miracle Port will be reduced to half or even less. This will be a heavy blow to the economy of Miracle Port and even the entire Shengxia Hall. He formulated All plans will be forced to stop, and some unknown variables may be triggered.

Therefore, even if the sea dragon cannot be killed, the sea dragon must be defeated to let people know that Linde has the ability to protect the safety of their ships, even if they are facing the legendary sea dragon.

"Prepare the ship immediately. We will set sail immediately and let several prestigious chamber of commerce directors in the city accompany us." Lind ordered to Halls.

Halls immediately replied: "The ships are ready and can set off at any time. However, the Chamber of Commerce Directors are afraid they will not take risks with us."

Lin De said in a deep voice: "It doesn't matter, you can just notify them. It's also a good time to see which chambers of commerce are worthy of our attention."

"Yes, I understand." Halls nodded, and then asked: "Would you like to take a look at the survivors of the merchant ships that were attacked before?"

Lind shook his head and walked towards Halls' flagship, the Arrowhead, and said, "Don't go see them yet. Give me their interrogation materials." After hearing Lind's instructions, Hall Si immediately took all the interrogation materials, boarded the flagship with Linde, and sent people to notify the directors of the chamber of commerce. He also ordered the fleet soldiers on the dock to start boarding the ship. After the directors of the chamber of commerce arrived, they You can set sail directly.

"Is this all the information you asked for?" In the captain's cabin of the Miracle Fleet's flagship Arrowhead, Lind quickly flipped through all the information on the latest merchant fleet attacked by sea dragons, frowning slightly. Then he asked Halls, who was standing across the table.

"Yes, my lord, all the information after the interrogation is here." Sir Halls stood opposite the desk with his chest puffed out and replied.

"Don't you see any problem here?" Linde pushed the information in his hand in front of Sir Halls and said.

"Problem?" Sir Halls was stunned, picked up the information, looked at it, and said in confusion: "What's the problem?"

"Everyone used the same description when describing the sea dragon's attack on the two ships. A huge monster suddenly emerged from the sea, bit the ship off in one bite, and swallowed everyone. As for where they met I can’t even explain how I escaped.” Linde pointed to a section of the interrogation materials and said, “If there were only one or two people, there wouldn’t be any problem with that, but there were more than 40 people who all used the same method. It’s a big problem to say the same thing in different ways.”

"You mean they are deliberately fabricating the accident of being attacked by a sea dragon?" Sir Halls hesitated and guessed.

"Are the owners of the two surviving ships members of our Miracle Chamber of Commerce?" Linde asked again.

"Yes." Sir Halls nodded.

Linde tapped his fingers on the table and said: "According to the rules of the Chamber of Commerce, if any goods exported from the Chamber of Commerce have an accident in the specified sea area, the Miracle Fleet will help retrieve them. If they cannot be retrieved, they will Compensation will be based on half of the total value of the goods.”

"You mean they are deliberately causing a shipwreck in order to defraud the Chamber of Commerce of compensation." Sir Halls quickly understood the meaning of Linde's words, but he soon had new questions and asked Said: "But they did lose two ships of goods, and two ships sank. The combined value of these goods and the sunken ships is probably much more than the compensation. This seems to be a bit outweighing the gains."

"What if this batch of goods itself does not exist?" Linde said solemnly.

Halls was stunned and said, "But do they have shipping records?"

"Go and call the current executive president of the Chamber of Commerce." Linde gave an order without continuing. When Hols turned to leave, he added: "Go and call the Blood Armor Captain of Miracle Port. Call us together."

"Yes, sir." Halls nodded.

Not long after, the current executive president of the Miracle Chamber of Commerce and the captain of the Blood Armored People of Miracle Port, who had been waiting at the military port dock for a long time, came to the captain's room.

"Look at what's wrong here." Linde pointed to the interrogation materials on the table and said.

The two hesitated for a moment, then each took a part of the information and looked through it. After reading it, they exchanged information.

"The attack story these people said is all fabricated." The captain of the Blood Armored Man of Miracle Port read it first and said in Common Language with a Braavos accent.

The captain of this blood-armored man is called Quetz, who is from Braavos. He is one of the people who has followed Lind for the longest time. He had already joined Lind when he helped Nymeria build New Tengshi Town. Under Linde's command, it was only nominally under the name of the Tengshi Town garrison affiliated with Nymeria.

After that, he was transferred to Miracle Harbor with Jon Bulwe and served as captain of the Miracle Harbor garrison. Because of his outstanding performance, his name was also included in the recommendation list left by Jon when he left.

When the special intelligence organization Blood Armor People was formed, he also took the initiative to join the Blood Armor People and was appointed as the captain of the Blood Armor People in Miracle Port.

It was precisely because of his long-term dealings with intelligence that he could see the anomalies in the interrogation data at a glance.

The executive director of the Chamber of Commerce, Gorman Sediga, took a step behind Quetz and said: "The shipment record must be forged. I remember clearly that the batch of weapons recorded above should have been ordered by Meereen, and This fleet is the Volantis Chamber of Commerce fleet, and it is impossible for the Chamber of Commerce to trade the weapons they ordered to them."

Linde asked again: "Then tell me, what is the reason for this situation?"

Gorman quickly replied: "Someone is making false accounts and wants to use the chamber of commerce's internal compensation agreement for members to defraud the chamber of commerce of money."

"Very good." Linde nodded and said, "I'll leave this matter to you for investigation. The Blood Armored Man will cooperate. I want to know who is so bold and wants to take money from my pocket. I must investigate." After all, do you understand?”

"Yes, sir." Gorman and Quetz nodded quickly.

Not long after Gorman and Quetz left, the directors of the large chambers of commerce who had received the notice arrived at the dock one after another.

Unlike what Halls thought, these chamber of commerce directors did not show any fear of Hai Long. After receiving the notice from Linde, they handed over the affairs in hand to their subordinates without hesitation, and then came fully armed. When he arrived at the military port, he expressed his willingness to accompany Linde to the southern coastline of the Dorne Sea to defeat the sea dragon.

Not only those who were notified, but also some who were not notified also came over to join in the fun, such as Bishop Joses of the Miracle Church.

Faced with these people, except for people with a certain reputation like Bishop Joses, everyone else was sent back by Linde. What he needed was people with fame and influence to help him defeat Hai Long and protect him. Word spread that the sea area was safe, not that he really wanted anyone to help him fight the sea dragon.

(End of this chapter)