Eagle of the Valley of Ice and Fire

In the year 296 of the Aegon calendar, it was the 10th birthday celebration of Prince Joffrey. According to King Robert's custom, the tournament in King's Landing named after Joffrey was held as scheduled.

Atis wanted to take this opportunity to go to King's Landing and express his doubts to his father in person.

Even at night, the other side of the castle was brightly lit.

Robert led the cavalry into the city, looking at the noisy and joyful crowd, and many knight tents were set up in the castle's parade grounds in a disorderly manner.

"It seems that Lord Hunter has no experience in entertaining scum knights." The mercenary Bronn whistled and rode a tall horse. He was very happy. Robert Royce, who kept his promise, paid him a commission, which was very generous. He even played the harp and sang and laughed all the way back to Longbow Hall from the Five Fingers Peninsula.

Weimar didn't expect that this sloppy-looking mercenary could also do the work of a minstrel.

"My good sir, there are so many things you don't know." Bronn said in a dragging tone, getting close to Weimar's face.

Robert admired this mercenary very much. He smiled and said, "Weimar, don't let him laugh at you, play a song too." He also used his sword as a baton, swinging it in front of Weimar, and his words hid some kind of brother's jokes and encouragement, "Come on, Weimar, you play and we sing."

Weimar's face was as red as a rotten apple. He didn't know how to refuse other people's jokes. He grabbed Bronn's harp and just stroked it lightly. The knights of the valley and the mercenaries around him started to make a noise, cheering and scolding.

"Well played, sir!" "What the hell are you playing, sir?"

Weimar continued to play indignantly, but this group of damn mercenaries was always out of tune and couldn't keep up with the rhythm.

Unexpectedly, it was Bronn who helped him out. "Don't tease this knight, let's sing "The Bear and the Fair Girl"!" Weimar finally returned to his familiar tune. The harp sang and danced happily on the road, the knights of the Vale beat the rhythm with their shields, and the mercenaries sang loudly. Bronn's hoarse and unpleasant voice was also particularly pleasant to Weimar's ears at this time.

The singing along the way could not cover the chaotic noise of Longbow Hall.

The ravens in Longbow Hall were unclaimed. The maester who originally served the Hunter family died in the dungeon, and the new maester had not yet taken office. Attis had already taught himself raven studies, but he had never gone to the Citadel to claim and make a necklace.

He took over the ravens, and during this period of time he had been helping Eustace exchange letters with the lords of the Vale, King's Landing, and even the Citadel.

After Eustace received his father's letter and the earl's appointment in the name of Robert and Jon Arryn, his previous dissatisfaction with Artis gradually disappeared after he took full charge of the coastal defense of Longbow Hall and the Five Fingers Peninsula. He arranged many services for Artis, as evidenced by the piles of books in Artis's room and the maids who changed every few days.

He sent people to search Harlan Hunter's room inside and out, but did not find any correspondence between him and Littlefinger, and even the correspondence with King's Landing and Seagulltown did not appear. In addition to the futile efforts, Artis actually admired Harlan's decisiveness. This guy was not a pig teammate, but he was quite trustworthy.

Attis never leaves his dagger. He picks up the candle wick with the tip of the dagger. The flame burns on the wick. A strange feeling strikes Attis. He stares at the flame. It seems that there is another world in the flame. The burning candle flame of the wick is wrapped in another fire. Looking closely, it turns out that someone is warming himself by the stove. The long silver hair is like a waterfall in the valley. Attis frowned and couldn't help but put his face close to the fire.

"Awoo!" Adam's voice brought him back to reality. When he looked again, the flame had gone out, and the candle wick only left black ash and unpleasant smell.

Attis smiled and shook his head. He cleaned the dagger with water and picked up a piece of bread and stuffed it into his mouth.

He didn't like noisy crowds, which was something he had never experienced in Runestone City and Eyrie. He had never seen so many hired knights running around in the castle. In the past few weeks, he even found foreign knights and noble maids messing around in the kitchen, making them all covered with flour, and chickens and ducks even ran around next to their bodies, forming a strange picture.

Atis recalled. His heart was inevitably in turmoil. His father had been very strict with himself in this regard since he was a child, and he always used Robert as an example.

"If Robert hadn't left seeds in the valley, would Lyanna have a grudge against him?" His father said angrily, "So many things might not have happened later, and Lyanna might not have followed Rhaegar." After that, he was silent for a while.

Atis always thought that it was Rhaegar who abducted Lyanna, and he was full of doubts and confusion at that time. His father was never stupid. Now Atis roughly understood the story behind that period of history, but his father just wouldn't talk nonsense in front of outsiders.

"In short, I will arrange a wife with good looks and character for you in the future.", his father swore.

Then Atis waited for sixteen years.

I heard from Earl Jon that his father seemed to be very interested in Little Rose of the Highgarden Tyrell family, and even called Lord Mace Tyrell a brother when he met him. At that time, King Robert seemed a little angry about this matter.

But Mace's mother Olenna Redwyne always refused this marriage, which sometimes made his father very unhappy. Later, his marriage was put on hold due to many political affairs.

Atis hurriedly drank a glass of wine. Why did he suddenly think of these things? Although there was no one around, Atis still pretended to cough to relieve his inner discomfort.

Lynx Adam squatted on the table, looking at Attis curiously with his big eyes. He got rid of the distracting thoughts in his heart, picked up the book again, thought of the many strangers in Longbow Hall, and decided to leave here as soon as possible.

A voice in blue robes sounded outside the door, "Sir, Master Royce is back, and Earl Eustace has arranged a dinner for them.".

Attis knew that he was going to blend into the chaos of Longbow Hall. He stood up, straightened his clothes, and walked out of the room.

When daylight came, Weimar felt a warmth on his face. He squinted his eyes and woke up. He found Adam rubbing his clothes with his paws. He jumped up in fear and said, "Adam!".

When he came back to his senses, he found Attis looking at him with a smile, "We should go, Weimar." Attis said, and threw Weimar's armor over.

"Are you in such a hurry? We just came back, and we didn't even serve wine at last night's dinner, Eustace." Weimar muttered, but still got off the bed and put on his armor in an orderly manner.

"Hurry up, we have to go on our way." Attis turned around and left. When he came to the castle, he found that all the messy knight tents were gone. Eustace nodded slightly to him, "Let me see you off. Attis." Behind him were heavily armed cavalry.

Attis closed his eyes. There was no Lord Yohn in the team. He left Longbow Hall with his eldest son Anda a week ago and returned to Runestone City. Robert looked at Attis solemnly. The flag of the Royce family was floating in the air, but the blue moon eagle flag of the Arryn family was missing.

When Weimar arrived, everyone had been waiting for him for a long time. Robert urged him. Weimar hurriedly galloped over and stopped beside Attis. "Are you starting?" Weimar asked an unnecessary question. He As soon as he spoke out, he secretly resented his own stupidity.

"I've been waiting for you, you guy." Robert scolded. Then the cavalry slowly walked out of the city gate, and Attis also jumped on his horse.

The army set out in the area closest to the desert in the valley, and the green shade could only be found in the distant mountains and forests. Weimar noticed that the army slowed down significantly as it approached the mountains and forests. He looked at Attis in confusion and found that he was just calmly Looking forward, he doesn't seem to care. Luo Ba kept observing his surroundings and casting his gaze to the distant sky.

Eustace followed closely behind the team. From the beginning, Weimar wondered why he kept a considerable distance from them with his fully armed cavalry. It was like the relationship between the front army and the rear army. Weimar shook his head. , he found that he couldn't understand it more and more.

"Weima, there have been many cases of rocks breaking and falling in the valley. Will the residents in the mountain forest approach the falling rocks when they seem calm after the rocks fall?" Attis suddenly asked.

Although Weimar didn't understand why Attis asked this, he saw many situations like what Atis described in Runestone City. "Definitely not. Maybe the entire cliff will collapse in the next second. This is just a storm." It's just the peace before," Weimar replied confidently.

"Yes, the crisis seems to have been resolved, but in fact the most fatal thing is behind it, such as the regretful guest after Harlan Hunter." Attis's flat tone made Weimar feel lingering fear, and he thought about Attis Probably frightened by the assassination of the regretful guest, Weimar said comfortingly: "Attis, don't worry, it was all my fault before, I didn't think much of you." Weimar looked at Attis seriously.

Attis smiled when he heard this, and Robert couldn't bear to look at it. He slapped Weimar on the head and said, "Hurry up!"

Weimar glared at his brother with dissatisfaction, flicked the riding crop, and wanted to speed up the horse's pace, but he suddenly slowed down, and the bugle of a scout in the distance suddenly sounded.

Luo Ba immediately rushed in front of the army, "All the troops move forward! Move forward!, speed up!" The valley knights all accelerated their pace and followed Luo Ba.

"What's going on?" Weimar then realized that the charging battle flags were all Royce's family flags, and he was used to obeying military orders and following among the Roba cavalry.

Attis raised the iron gun hanging on the saddle, "I will lead you to make great achievements and become famous. Weimar, how can you thank me?" Weimar was about to answer, but after entering the forest, he suddenly found the Aylin family in front of him. The flag fell down, and countless disheveled mountain clans looked at Luo Ba's charging team in horror.

The army swept away, and the Gaoshan clan fell apart instantly. Weimar leaned tightly on his horse, holding out and slashing his sword crazily on both sides. At least ten Gaoshan clan members died in his own hands.

Flesh and blood are flying in the mountains and forests, and the green shade is stained with blood, as if luxurious red dye is swaying among the natural green, as freely as freehand brushwork.

The head of the leader of the mountain clan was hung on Attis's spear. He rode his horse into the middle of the battlefield and said, "Your leader is dead. Surrender or not!" After saying this, brave warriors who were not afraid of death rushed over and died in the steel. Under the power of guns and crossbows, Eustace's cavalry regiment instantly occupied the forest highlands. They dismounted and held crossbows, shooting deadly arrows at the mountain clans who tried to escape into the mountains and forests but could not roar.

Weimar saw Bronn on the battlefield. He was entangled with a mountain clan. The steel sword in his hand sliced ​​open the enemy's fragile armor, and blood sprayed from his chest. He tossed his hair coolly and also discovered Weimar.

"You are not bad, ser." Bronn quickly moved closer, and three mountain clans surrounded him. Weimar turned his horse and attacked the enemy from the side to cover Bronn. "You haven't left yet, mercenary?".

"Whoever has the money will follow." Bronn killed the last enemy and thrust the sword into his throat with a joking tone.

Attis swept his steel spear to block the thrown stone axe. The blue robes swarmed forward and killed the remaining mountain clans. He said to Bronn, "Then you should go to the Lannister family. They are the richest, and the land is full of golden dragons." All."

Bronn waved his hands helplessly, looking at the embarrassing battle situation in front of him. The mountain clans who had surrendered obediently raised their hands and buried their faces on the ground. "There is no chance, Lord Aylin. I just focus on the present and seize the current opportunity.", Bronn. Long said with a smile.

Attis left satisfied, he liked the mercenary's sincerity.

Weimar only learned about Attis's full plan from Robert. It turned out that Attis specially arranged a group of cavalry to lead the empty carriage to warm the seats, send them by horse, and ran to the house under the banner of the Arryn family. They set up camp in the mountains and forests, and then led their light cavalry to follow, in order to induce the Alpine clan, which had a thousand-year hatred against the Aylin family, to appear and catch them all.

"A Lannister must pay his debts." Attis said to Waymar as if joking. Waymar imitated Bronn in depression and searched for the corpse, ignoring Bronn's strange eyes. All he thought about was that Attis didn't tell him. own distress.

"You slept like a dead pig last night." Robert revealed ruthlessly, and everyone laughed again.

Attis got the number of deaths. Only a few of the decoy cavalry he arranged were left alive, and as many as 300 people from the Alpine clan were killed or injured and surrendered, which was enough to keep them alive for decades, Attis thought to himself.

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