Dominate the Game of Thrones with Mount and Blade

Chapter 198 I want to control the dragon

In addition to returning the Valyrian steel crown, Arthur wanted to add two more clauses.

"Even if Arianne marries me, she is still the first heir to Dorne. After Prince Doran, she is the Princess of Dorne."

In terms of stabilizing relationships, marriage is the best way.

After being driven out of the Rhoyne River, the surviving Rhoynar once regarded the Valyrian dragon king as a mortal enemy. It was with this hostile spirit that Dorne resisted the Targaryens and the Iron Throne for more than 150 years. However, after the two sides concluded a marriage during the reign of "Wise King" Daeron II, the relationship between Dorne and the Iron Throne took more than 180 turns.

In several Blackfyre Rebellions and the War of the Usurper, Dorne has always been the most loyal ally of the Iron Throne, without a doubt.

Although this ally is a bit weak.

Everyone in the royal meeting took their seats one after another. Prince Oberyn, who was dressed in a plain yellow robe, pondered for a moment and expressed his views:

"This is as it should be. We in Dorne never deprive our daughters of their inheritance rights just because they get married. I think my brother is also happy to support his eldest daughter to rule Dorne."

The king was very satisfied with this, which meant that he could get solid support from Dorne for quite some time to come.

"Finally, after destroying the Golden Group, you in Dorne must take the lead in responding to my Second Son Act. All the lords of Dorne must send their second sons and illegitimate sons who meet the age to join the royal army in King's Landing."

Unlike the customs of the six northern countries, Dorne is very tolerant of illegitimate children. In addition to the right of inheritance, the treatment of the Sands in all aspects is far better than that of the Flowers, Rivers, Storm, and Snow in the north.

Correspondingly, the lords and knights of Dorne are very happy to acknowledge their illegitimate children and raise them with all their heart.

This leads to a large number of illegitimate children of Dorne nobles.

After adulthood, these Shads made their own livings. Quite a number of Dorne bastards went to the disputed lands in the east and became mercenaries in Lys, Tyrosh, Myr and other places.

Arthur was targeting this group of people.

"As you wish, Your Majesty." Oberyn nodded in agreement.

This was good news for both parties. The lords reduced the pressure of supporting their children, and allowed the second sons and bastards to get more decent jobs, and the royal army got elite officers.

When the king finished discussing this matter, Earl Tristan Lager announced another news.

"Your Majesty, after a month-long debate, the cardinal of the Citadel will appoint a new Grand Maester, Dr. Ryan, who has set off from Oldtown and is expected to arrive in King's Landing within two weeks."

Dr. Ryan?

Arthur had no impression of him.

He looked at the six courtiers, "Who can tell me what kind of person this Dr. Ryan is?"

People in the Citadel must be guarded against, so it is still necessary to understand them in advance.

The Red Viper, who had been in the Citadel for some time, answered this question:

"As far as I know, this doctor is a very strict old maester. His doctoral mask and maester's necklace are made of gold. He should be good at finance and accounting."

Arthur nodded. It sounded normal. We will see how this person performs later.

"Coben is filling the vacancy of the maester of Harrenhal. I need a close personal maester when I have to fight or patrol outside."

He thought about it and made his decision, "Go send a letter to the Citadel and ask if the maester Adar who compiled "The World of Ice and Fire" is willing to serve the king."

This maester is a student of old Dr. Wargrave, born in 272.

At the age of 27, he is young enough to withstand the tossing back and forth between places.

Tristan nodded, indicating that he had made a note of this matter.

In the following time, the royal meeting discussed the war in the south. Although the troops provided by the parties supporting Arthur were already overwhelming, it was never too much to be careful.

This world is not short of miracles. In the first battle of Tengshi Town 170 years ago, the Winter Wolf Army, which had less than 2,000 men, defeated the River Bay Army of 20,000 men.

The commander of the Winter Wolf Army, a 70-year-old man, killed Brandon Hightower and Earl Mond Hightower in a battle array of 10,000 men with only one arm.

It was also in this battle that the Hightower family lost their ancestral sword "Alert".

It is not clear whether "Alert" is lost. If not, the sword should be kept by the Winter Wolf Army and its descendants who remain in the Blackwood territory.

Although the number of the Golden Group is small, they have been fighting in the disputed land for many years. The soldiers have much more combat experience than the conscripts of Westeros. In addition, the elephant soldiers unique to the southwest of Essos make it a bit difficult to completely eliminate this mercenary group.

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At the same time, the Sunset Sea in the west of Westeros, the waters of Oakenshield Island in the Shield Islands.

The long, narrow, red single-masted warship "Silence" was floating on the unusually calm sea, and the black-bottomed golden sea monster sail was slowly lowered by the mute crew.

A black iron virgin statue stood on the bow, and Faria Flowers was tied in front of the iron statue.

She was the illegitimate daughter of Earl Humphry Hewitt, the former lord of Oakenshield Island. She was dissatisfied with the oppression of the lord's wife and her half-sisters, so she surrendered to Euron Greyjoy and became the woman of the Iron King.

But King Euron didn't let her enjoy much. Every time she went out to sea, the pregnant Faria was always tied to the bow, as if this would make King Euron feel more at ease.

"Strange, why did you miscarry?" After instructing the mute crew to put down the sails, King Euron walked near the iron statue, looked at the blood on the deck and expressed his doubts.

Faria, who had a miscarriage, could not respond to this question because her tongue was also cut.

King Euron would never allow anyone on his ship to have an open tongue, except for himself and his brother Aeron Greyjoy.

He slowly approached Faria, and under the frightened eyes of the illegitimate daughter of the Reach, he took off the black blindfold on his left eye, revealing the black eye that "gleamed with malice."

King Euron used this eye to observe carefully for a while, then fumbled for a well-preserved small bottle from his waist, pulled out the stopper, and dripped the shadow water inside into his mouth.

Nightshade Water is a thick blue drink that the wizards of Qarth drink year round. There is a black-barked tree surrounding the Temple of the Immortal, and Night Shadow Water is made from its dark blue leaves.

It is said that this special product can enhance the ability of magicians' eyes, allowing them to see traces of magic that ordinary people cannot see.

Euron, whose lips were dyed blue, searched for the details of Faria again, and then murmured to himself: "King's blood...curse...Shadowbinder's method."

No wonder he looked like he was facing a powerful enemy. The pregnant Faria was no ordinary sacrifice. The child in her belly was worth Euron's own life.

A blood wizard from Asshai once taught Euron a set of "blood connection" spells, and King Euron successfully used this set of evil spells on his own blood relatives.

Therefore, all of Euron's children can die in his stead.

"No matter, at this most critical moment, Shadowbinder's curse is no longer important."

Euron made up his mind, put the black blindfold on his left eye back on, got up and left, and began to prepare for tonight's blood sacrifice ceremony.

Thirty or forty mute crew members followed the captain's instructions and moved all the debris between the iron statue and the mast to make the deck empty, and then returned to their rooms.

These poor tamed people are firmly convinced that no matter what howls and groans come from the deck tonight, they will never come out to take a look.

Euron needs to arrange items involving magic himself.

Fortunately, the only true God in this world does not care whether the believers' rituals are accurate to every detail. He only cares about the value of the sacrifices.

A Qarthen wizard who was tortured beyond recognition was taken out of the iron cage in the ship by King Euron.

To summon the Drowned God's attendants, a wizard is enough.

After the Ironborn King threw the wizard on the deck, he found a bone-chopping knife nearby for chopping fish, and then chopped the wizard into fist-sized pieces of meat one by one.

Euron started with the limbs, then the soft flesh of the abdomen, then the ribs, and finally a relatively complete skull.

During this process, the wizard who also had his tongue cut out groaned hoarsely in pain until he fainted from the pain, but he was soon awakened by the pain again.

This cycle continues until the wizard loses consciousness.

After King Euron finished working on his work, he unbuttoned his trousers engraved with sea monster patterns and peed on the soft and rotting remains.

The disgusting yellow and dark blood mixed on this deck, part of it seeping into the wooden boards, part of it flowing out of the hull, slowly dripping into the sunset sea.

Then, the Ironborn King found two hapless mute sailors and ordered them to throw the meat into the sea.

As the sun disappeared over the western sea level, the sacrifices had just been delivered to the domain of the Drowned God.

Everything was just right, and Euron felt that this might be the most perfect sacrifice ceremony.

After letting the two crew members retreat, the king leaned against the side of the ship and looked at the continent of Westeros in the southeast with his smiling right eye.

Although Horace of the Redwyne family returned to the Arbor Island with more than seventy large warships and repelled a small number of Ironborn who entered the Arbor Island, Sir Horace obviously did not regain the Shield Islands for other families. determination, and the Hightower family in Oldtown does not have a fleet under its name, the Ironborn do not have to worry about counterattacks from the Reachers at sea for the time being.

Even King Euron felt that he should send people to cause some destruction on the vast coastline of the Reach, so that the Knights of the Reach could run back and forth to paralyze their determination to resist the Ironborn.

Night gradually took over the starry sky, and the usually peaceful sea surface of the Sunset Sea began to become restless, as if something was about to emerge from the deep sea.

It was indeed like this. Under the illumination of the not-so-bright moonlight, a huge creature jumped out of the sea.

Its body should be a dull green color, although its scalp will be white. Most of the body is shiny and slippery, but the lower part has eight large tentacles like an octopus.

The head, however, was different from that of an octopus. The vague features of a human head appeared in the moonlight.

A mouth full of fishy stench opened from the head, and a hoarse, sharp throat sound came from it. All the dark emotions that could not be expressed on the face seemed to be contained in the voice.

Apart from the humanoid features on the head of this giant creature, any knowledgeable Westeros noble can recognize that this is the coat of arms of the Greyjoy family, the leader of the Iron Islands:

Sea monster.

"What do you want from me?"

What is surprising is that this sea monster actually made a sound similar to the common language of Westeros, but compared with human voices, the sea monster's voice is much richer.

King Euron was accustomed to this phenomenon that would make all the lords and bachelors of the Western Continent stunned. He said firmly:

"I need to control a dragon! And I can't do it without your help, Dagon Greyjoy."

If Euron is right, this sea monster is his ancestor a hundred years ago, the King of the Iron Islands during the time of Aerys I.

This was the last Ironborn king before Euron to plunder the Reach. During his reign, the Ironborn plundered everything from the North to the West and then to the Reach.

A Greyjoy member once commented on this ferocious king: Dagon can "catch a lion's beard" in a lion's den and "tie a direwolf's tail in a knot." However, even so, Dagon cannot deal with the real monster. dragon.

"What will you do after you control the dragon?"

Perhaps due to his slow response, it took the sea monster a while before he continued to ask questions.

"Robbing Oldtown and Highgarden, and then all the castles in the Reach, to complete what you regretted a hundred years ago." Euron stepped on the edge of the boat and answered in a rough manner.

When Dagon was still a human, his last Ironborn act was to seize Little Doc in the Reach.

It was a small village near Stalwart Castle, loyal to Osgrey, and Osgrey, the lord of Stalwart Castle, was just a vassal of the Rowan family, the largest lord in the northern part of the Reach.

As for Rowan, he is considered one of the first-tier nobles in the Reach. He is not as good as the Tyrells, Redwynes, and Hightowers, but is often compared to the Florens and other families in Brightwater.

This is a relatively big shame for the Ironborn. After all, it took all the Ironborn bosses to work hard and only grabbed the territory of a vassal of a vassal of the feudal family.

"Oldtown...the Reach...tell me, what do you want me to do?"

The proposal of the younger generation obviously greatly touched the softness deep in the heart of this sea monster, and it decided to do something.

Euron obviously had a complete plan, and he slowly stated his plan, "You have to gather all the sea monsters in the past few months, and then lurk in the sea near the mouth of the Mead River, and wait until the dragon-controlling one comes." When the time comes, I'll tell you what to do."

The sea monster raised one of its big black tentacles, waved it up and down a few times, as if to express that it would definitely do it, and then slowly sank to the bottom of the sea.

Euron watched Dagon leave, a mocking smile slowly appeared on his handsome face.

If he didn't want to use the sea monster, he wouldn't be so polite.

The night was still long, so Euron walked to the iron statue, untied Faria's rope, and took her to the cabin.

For every additional child, he can gain another life.

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King's Landing is also shrouded in night.

Marquis Innis, wearing a black brocade robe trimmed with gold, walked into the king's bedroom. In front of him was the captain of the royal guard, Angay Bracken, who led the way.

Since entering the Royal Council, the lord of Twins City has begun to care about his clothes. In order to make himself look rich and wealthy at the same time, Marquis Frey spent a lot of thought on his clothes.

"Your Majesty, your Minister of War has arrived."

Aenys saluted the king who had his back turned to him, although he did not understand why the king summoned him at this time.

Arthur turned around, "Remember when I said you could get a pair of dragonhide gloves if you did a favor?"

Aenys had asked for dragonhide gloves before, and Arthur promised to give him a pair if he performed a moderate feat.

Similar to how a lizard sheds its skin, a dragon's skin will only shed a few times during the dragon's period of rapid growth, which ends before the dragon's youth.

The expression of the bald Minister of War immediately changed, "Your Majesty, please tell me that I, the Frey family, will try my best to share your worries."

Arthur touched his chin and said slowly: "Find your eldest son, Aegon the Blood, and ask him to go to the valley. I will tell him what he will do."

According to the news from Seagull Town, Lord Littlefinger Baelish is arranging a marriage between a wealthy Seagull Town businessman and Leonor Corbray. At that time, Littlefinger will leave the Eyrie and appear in Heart City.

Arthur is going to take this opportunity to send someone to kill Littlefinger.

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