The Glory of the Seven Gods of Ice and Fire

Chapter 193 Frey's Younger Generation
Pentos, after experiencing the war during the expedition, the city experienced more than ten years of prosperity. No matter how fierce the fighting was outside the city walls, it could not reach the city of Pentos.

But now, war has spread to Pentos, and the mercenaries from Braavos have joined forces with the rebels to surround Pentos.

Had Aenys Frey not continued to build up Pentos's defenses, the city might have fallen.

Leaning against the wooden wall, looking at the towering walls of Pentos not far away, and the devastated battlefield scene between the walls and the besieged area, a trace of anxiety flashed through Black Walder's heart - until now, Pentos still stands.

Their time was very tight. Black Walder thought that Hugo had already solved the problem in the south. If he failed to capture Pentos before him, as a traitor who betrayed Innis, he would probably have to go into exile abroad.

The reason for Black Walder's betrayal was simple. Although he was the best of the fourth generation, in this huge family where even the youngest members were calculating the order of succession, it was wishful thinking for him to get old Frey's land. After all, he was still too far away from inheriting it.

There were too many people in the Twins eyeing the throne, and most of them were his elders.

Even if he relies on killing, he will have to kill dozens of relatives, not to mention that the difficulty of assassination will continue to increase, and once exposed, he will be ruined. He really has no future at this level, so he might as well change track.

So Black Walder came to the East. He set his eyes on Pentos in Inis's hands, which was a duke-level territory.

Even if he cannot obtain the title of commander, he should be able to take over a piece of land at the earl or even marquis level. After all, this is their Frey's territory. Isn't Marquis Walder proud of the fact that he has allowed his descendants to open up such a vast land and settle all his descendants?

So, Black Walder crossed the Narrow Sea. At first he wanted to ask for an earldom directly from Inys, but the reality is often contrary to one's wishes.

Innis only gave him a few towers. Black Walder asked for more, but Innis said he could only give him an official position in the city of Pentos. This made Black Walder very angry, and this was the beginning of the feud between the two sides.

Of course, Black Walder chose the territory. In his opinion, being an official had no future. Next, he naturally joined the competition and fighting in the territory of Pentos, and rushed into the meat grinder with his subordinates summoned from Westeros.

At the beginning, Black Walder occupied some villages and successfully forced the villagers to pay tribute to them, but when he wanted to expand further, he found problems.

Black Walder discovered that the wealthy territories of Pentos had basically been divided up by those who came first, and there were too many contenders for the remaining land. Moreover, his land was an object of contention, and new challengers would soon arrive.

As a Frey, they certainly have privileges in Pentos, but what does that privilege mean when it comes to fighting on the territory of relationships? If we count relationships, who doesn't have a few relationships?
Therefore, even though he was the fourth generation of Old Frey, no one gave him face in the fight. As the number of challengers increased, his subordinates suffered heavy losses, and most of the wealth and supplies brought to the East were consumed in these endless battles.

Compared with the magnificent castles of the Freys who came earlier, the later Freys were so miserable. After leaving the occupied land in disgrace, Black Walder felt a strong sense of imbalance.

So he wrote another letter to Innis to make his appeal, but Innis ignored him completely. That disdain made Black Walder's resentment deepen, and he began to make trouble for Innis.

Although most of his challenges to Innis were easily dealt with, at most causing Innis to lose face, in the process he discovered that some people stood on his side, and these people were his relatives.

Innis realized that there must be many Freys in trouble like him, so Black Walder consciously looked for and contacted these people.

As he got to know these tribesmen, whose names he didn't even know, he discovered that most of them were third and fourth generations who had come to the East in search of land. They were all dissatisfied with Innis, who had at most given them a few towers or some ordinary positions and then sent them away. They shared Innis's view that this was simply not enough.

However, not all third and fourth generations have this attitude, because they were ready to get out of the Twins with nothing, but now they can obtain territories in the East and become officials.

Moreover, it seems that they can arrange a future for their descendants. Nothing can be better than this. They are extremely satisfied with old Frey's arrangements.

Relying on his usual status as the leader of the opposition, Black Walder reached a consensus with those dissatisfied people: Frey had obtained a piece of land as big as an entire duchy in the East, but in the end he gave out only these few melons and berries. Wasn't this like giving alms to beggars?
They once approached Old Frey, hoping that Marquis Walder would come forward to solve the problem, but all they were greeted with was Old Frey's sarcastic and harsh insults.

In Old Frey's opinion, he had already done the limit for these good-for-nothing grandchildren. Children and grandchildren have their own blessings. At his age, he has already provided corresponding properties for each of them, but these guys actually want more?
If you want to gain more land, you can only rely on your own efforts. Aenys, Luchen and Merry all gained it through fire and sword, not by relying on the Frey surname.

Black Walder was very clear about Lord Walder's attitude, so he did not get involved in these things at the beginning, but he did not tell other Freys either. He needed them to do this, and needed these Freys to hit this wall, so that he could lead them in the future.

Then, Black Walder quickly connected these people together to form a powerful internal opposition force of the Frey family. They won over the lumpen proletariat in the city of Pentos and used them as pawns to cause trouble for Inis, also to reserve manpower for possible opportunities in the future.

Not everyone can have a bright future in the East. After the fertile land has been divided up, if you want to get land, you have to go to remote areas. Otherwise, you can only seize territory. If you don’t even want to seize territory or become an official, you can only stay in the city as a lumpen proletariat, running a gang and extorting innocent people.

These are the people that Black Walder has his eyes on. Among them are many well-equipped wandering knights. If used well, they can be a powerful force.

During this process, Black Walder also accidentally discovered the two incompetent sons of Inis. After their father became the ruler of Pentos, these two people came to the East and wanted to inherit their father's status and title.

Unexpectedly, Innis married the daughter of a Pentos noble and gave birth to several children of oriental descent, and explicitly deprived his two sons of their inheritance rights.

Even though these two guys were useless, they were Innis' sons after all, and who knows when they might be useful, so he pulled them in. This soon paid off for him, as the two told him a lot about Innis's personality traits - and it was precisely because of his understanding of his character that he was able to stab Innis in the back without him even realizing it.

But the current situation made Black Walder feel a little regretful for betraying his family, but this regret was immediately suppressed. Things have already happened, and it is useless to dwell on these emotions.

Instead of continuing to worry about it, it is better to think about how to take down the wall in front of you.

Mentioning this and calculating the power in his hands, Black Walder was speechless again.

Take the Braavos people, who provided the bulk of the troops this time, for example. Braavos brought tens of thousands of mercenaries and a large number of well-made siege equipment, but no matter how good these things are, they will not work if the soldiers are not good. Most of the Braavos mercenaries are Andals from the mountains within the Braavos area, as well as the mountain people they have collected from various valleys in the north.

These people are indeed strong and powerful, but they retreat in various ways on the battlefield. They always put preserving their own strength first and are not willing to fight for their lives. They will only move forward after being whipped.

It seemed that these mercenaries thought that this battle was impossible to win and they came only for the gold coins in Braavos, so they fought very lazily.

The people of Braavos were so angry that they had no choice but to leave the mercenaries here as a threat, but the mercenaries didn't take it seriously. No one knew why they were so confident.

According to Black Walder's observation, this dilemma was mainly caused by the great prestige of Hugo Tollet among the mountain people. It was this person's existence that made these mercenaries so evasive.

Having stayed in the East for so long, he understood the influence of the Faith of the Seven in Essos. Even in the mountains of Norvos, one could see some traces of the Faith of the Seven from time to time.

However, the most crucial one is Hugo, Hugo Tollett. When this name is mentioned, Black Walder remembers the first time he met him. At that time, he was just one of the countless people who came to the Twins to ask for funding from Marquis Walder.

I have never taken this hired knight seriously and have never even met him.

Although Hugo already had an army under his command at that time, it was not until the miracle of Seagull Town that he realized that Hugo's expedition was not so groundless.

Then, just one year later, this person became someone that people could only look up to.

With his current status, it is extremely difficult to see him. In the past, he looked down on Hugo and went to the Twins to beg for food, but now it is extremely difficult for him to even see Hugo when he wants to beg for food.

This made Black Walder feel extremely unbalanced. Why? Why? Why could that hired knight become such a big shot? However, Black Walder found that many of his relatives had a similar attitude to him, which allowed him to further unite the internal forces.

However, when thinking of Hugo, he was still speechless. Black Walder thought bitterly that he would probably have to live under Hugo's shadow for the rest of his life, unless - he could achieve Innis's position.

This was why Black Walder decided to betray Aenys and kill several of his relatives when the Faceless Men of Braavos came to persuade him - but, anyway, they were just some river words, and the death of these bastards was not a pity - as long as he could become the leader, he was willing to give anything.

He was not afraid that Braavos would go back on its word. Today's Pentos is no longer the Pentos of the past. It is now a Pentos filled with Westeros nobles. If they want to rule, they must rely on him, a man with the blood of Frey, to appease the people.

The position of commander would definitely be his, Black Walder told himself, and Pentos could be taken soon, as that city had not made many preparations for war.

"Black Walder, have the Braavosi brought us supplies? Or are we going to have to rob them ourselves?"

Just when Black Walder was imagining how great it would be to take over the position of leader of Pentos, a voice that made him immediately angry came and broke his fantasy.

That was none other than Aegon Frey, the bandit son of Aenys, a damned robber knight—even if he considered himself a degenerate, he would not have fallen so low.

Next to Aegon was his brother, Rhaegar the Fat, a man so obese that it looked as if his fat was about to burst out just by standing there, and he was also extremely incompetent.

The weasel took the name of the real dragon. Black Walder knew the outside world's ridicule of the two sons of Aenys, but he had to admit that these ridicules were indeed very appropriate. These two guys were just two pieces of trash, even among the third and fourth generations of Frey who were full of trash.

Whenever Innis mentioned his two sons, he would lose control of his emotions. After his relationship with Innis broke down, Black Walder liked to use this to provoke Innis, and it always worked.

However, these two things have made Black Walder unable to hold back any longer. If they had not provided a lot of information and could calm the people of Pentos, Black Walder would have asked them to get out long ago.

I guess that's why Inis let his lady Pentos give birth to children like piglets.

"If you want to rob, then go ahead and rob. Don't make a fool of yourself by being defeated by the militia again."

Black Walder didn't give the two men any face at all. He directly poked their skin, successfully making them look embarrassed. Then Black Walder walked away a few steps, away from these two pieces of trash.

He should go talk to the Braavosi, Black Walder thought, that would be better than facing these two idiots.

Suddenly, Black Walder seemed to feel a flash on the distant mountain, which startled him. He looked over quickly, wanting to see the scene over there clearly, but he saw nothing.

Just when Black Walder was wondering if he was thinking too much, he suddenly felt a rumbling sound from the ground.

Although it was very minor, Black Walder, who had experienced many battles, still reacted.

"Enemy attack! A large number of cavalry are approaching!"

Black Walder shouted immediately, and then he saw a flag he didn't want to see.

That is the seven-pointed star.

(End of this chapter)