Game Of Thrones - Gacha Version
Chapter 2 - chap 2
A month passed by, each day seemed longer than the day before, Brennan used most of this time training and planning about the future, each day he was the first in the training field, and when the others came he already had a small run, made push-ups and Sit-ups, ser Rodrik Cassel watched closely his training, and even waked earlier just to watch him.
After absorbing, Geralt's powers, his body passed by some changes, along with the supernatural physical capacity's, he got taller, in a mother he passed from 51.2" to 59.7", now he was the tallest of the Stark children, he gained some muscle too, but thanks to the thick fur clothes used in the north they were hide.
His skills with the sword raised to an amazing level, now even some soldiers could keep with him, even when he held back, he never shows too much, he took his time in all fights, he didn't use much strength or agility, but he moved the practice sword smoothly and without worry, he "fought smart" playing a good show and then winning.
Not even the master-at-arms suspected of him, each day he was the first to come and the last to leave, two weeks ago Rodrik Cassel was so satisfied with him that him personally started to sparring with Brennan.
To keep his show, he never won any fight and even let the man land hit in him, after the first week he started show an improvement, now the spars lasted longer and longer and by the end of the week he could keep a tie until the man was exhausted. He kept that same rhythm, in the second and third weeks.
To everyone he was a hardworking kid, with a good amount of talent.
At night when he were alone, he trained what he didn't wanted to others people see, sign were a versatile but weak form of magic, there are 5 signs used by witchers, Aard an attack that directs a blast of telekinetic energy, capable of throw enemy back or destroy some objects, Igni a spell that conjures a burst of fire, Yrden a magic trap that attack enemy causing damage and stunning them, Quen a protective spell that conjure a protective field around the caster, and his favorite Axii a mind control spell very similar to the jedi mind trick.
He used the last one sometimes in the servants of the castle, to make they obey and don't make any question about. He secretly made the servants bring blocks of stone and earth to him room.
He used the druidic magic to shape the stone in various small square planters, and filled them with earth, then he casted the Plant Growth spell to enrich the land, making it twice much as profitable.
After that he planted some plants and fungi that he obtained from the herbalist kit from the druid. He was pleasantly surprised when he discovered that some of the belongings of units came with them.
Geralt came with a standard armor of the wolf school along with a silver sword and a steel sword, the druid came with an old leather armor, a complete herbalist kit and a magic staff called the Staff of the Woodlands.
Inside the herbalist kit, he finds some plants and seeds, and between those seeds there were the Red Amanita Mushroom used to health potions, the Rowan Berries used to antitoxins and the Sourgrass used to make Soothing Salve.
Since the tree tips of seeds, were useful he planted then in his room. Luckily all three seeds didn't need much sun and were resistant to cold.
There was also carrot, pears, beans beets, cabbage, cauliflower, chard, lettuce, mustard, onion, radish, potato and turnip seeds.
He didn't know much about plant, but with the druid knowledge he learned that those seeds could be planted in the cold temperatures of the North, without the need of glass gardens. He would give some to his father in the future.
He tried some different spells but nothing to flashy or powerful, he didn't wanna to draw unnecessary attention.
By the end of the month Brennan, Robb and Jon started to gain an allowance of 100 gold dragons, He and Robb were very happy with it, But Jon recused the money and asked their father to split between Brennan and Rob.
While Robb refused Brennan just took the money, and thanked Jon, this action seemed to displeased Robb and Lord Stark, but both remained in silence since was Jon's decision.
Brennan could easily refuse the money too, but he needed it and he was not a hypocritical person and he had a good use for that money. The next day he gave Jon the Griffin steel sword of Geralt, it was a very good bastard sword, and was sharper and harder than any normal steel sword around, it made Jon happier than the money.
Without losing time he used all the gold for two rows, his gains were a jeweled drinking horn at common rank and a medical book with three fingers wide also a common rank. The two items were useless to him.
Using Varamyr skills and knowledge, he started training how to warg in different animals, first he used a crow in the castle, and flew around the castle before going far from Winterfell, he kept warging at least one or two times per week, and one day he just found a curious scene, a woman l.i.c.k.i.n.g another woman, in an alley.
He got so distracted by the scene that he didn't pay attention and lost control of bird after hitting a wall.
Around the end of the second moth, a rumor of the iron pirates navigating far from their shores started to spread, and soon the firsts attacks should start.
The bear island and Deepwood motte were the two most affected places in the north.
In that day he fled the castle and went to hunt, when his disappearance was noted, all castle went in a tumult, and everyone started looking for him. Some hours later he came back carrying two eagles, an owl and one rabbit.
When he set a foot in the castle his mother, grabbed him in a tight hug, and them started scolding for leaving the castle alone, his father looked relieved, and granted him for the hunt but prohibited him leaving the castle.
He kept quiet for two days before doing the same thing, he disappeared the whole day and latter was found by some soldier dragging a deer, the soldiers "helped" him and the same thing from two days ago repeated.
It continued happening until his father granted his permission to leave a hunt as long, he kept it near the castle. His mother was nowhere near happy with that, and when she screamed with him his father blamed the wolf's blood in him.
All this time he kept a close look to the shores using crows and others birds, until he found an ironborn ship with a silver scythe on black, the sigil of the house Harlaw, about two days of distance of the sea dragon point.
After a brief consideration Brennan decided go to motte, the distance between Winterfell and the motte was around half-day traveling with horses.
With his druidic magic he would create a snow storm while hunting, then he would get "lost" and appear near the motte one day before the attack, he would participate of the fighting and with the help Guo Li, he would find a way to kill the leader of the attack.
While he planned, he took a small book where he noted all future events and his plans for the future, as a failsafe he only wrote in Russian and Portuguese, two languages that never exited is this planet, only per precaution he added a failsafe for the failsafe and wrote in codes, and without the keyword that only he knew was impossible to decipher.
After writing down his plans, he slept until morning, when the sun came, he woke up and prepared himself, he put the leather armor of the druid under his normal thick clothes, since he gave Geralt steel sword to Jon he took the silver sword.
Thanks god or gods and the good blacksmithers of the witcher world, the silver sword was as strong and sharper as the steel blade.
He grabbed his yew bow, and two quivers full of arrows, and leaved the castle walking, since he got his father's permission leaving the castle, was a lot easier than sneaking out, or using the magic Wild Shape to transform himself in a bird to fly over the walls.
And plus, there are no risk in being hit by an arrow.
He walked for a few moments and entered line of trees, in the next moment the earth opened and man jumped out in front on him. The man had tan skin, dark hair and beard, he used black pants, and an olive-green shirt under a black coat, and a circular black and green hat.
"Did you find it?" Brennan asked and the man nodded.
Brennan, he followed silently, until they reached a small mossy mound, beside the mound was a cage with bars made of earth, with two shadowcats pacing as they were watched by three huge armored bears.
The bears were twice the size of a common polar bear of earth, each of the used a unique armor, one used a red armor that resembled a roman lorica armor with a roman helmet, the second used a segmented plate armor with a helmet that looked like a triceratops head without horns, and the last bronze scaled mail with a large kettle hat.
They were Gyrda, Aslak and Grima respectively, Gyrda was the leader, and Aslak was the only male of the group.
Seeing he approaching Gyrda great him rubbing his muzzle on his face, and he responded stroking her muzzle.
"Those two, were restless all morning, take care and don't go too close of them, they tried to attack Grima when she brought some food to them."
She warned with a soft tone.
He smiled and approached the cage, and waved his hand casting the Dominate Beast spell, this spell was used to charm a beast in the sight of the caster to obey his orders, the shadowcats tried to resist, but against a high level druid skills it was futile, with the beasts charmed Brennan felt a telepathic link to them and them he warged to their bodies, making the bond deeper and permanent.
Brennan discovered that by combining the two skills together made it easier and the results were better, now not only he had full control of them but even if the shadowcats died he would not suffer anything.
In the future he planned to add at least one mammoth and a firewyrm, to his controlled creatures.
He smiled and pated the two cats' heads. "We are going to the deepwood motte, we have to get there until tomorrow afternoon at the latest."
Guo Li and the three panserbjornes, nodded in understanding. Closing his eyes Brennan started casting the spell, slowly the time started to change, the sun became hided by clouds, the wind started to blow stronger at each minute passed, and snow started to fall.
Each minute the weather changed, and after an hour a strong blizzard storm with cold winds, started.
"It's done, let's move."
With these words the group started to move.
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The travel to deepwood motte was better than Brennan expected, riding in Grima's back, they arrived in the middle of the night with some hours before the sun rise. These little travel in the night brought an unexpected profit.
During the way here, they found some corpses in the road, when they looked them Brennan identified them as a merchant caravan that passed in Winterfell days ago, they were all dead and almost all their goods were gone.
Following the smell in the scene, they find the culprits, a camp with band of 15 wildlings, using the night as cover he send the shadowcats, and easily killed the watcher in silence, after that killing the rest was a piece of cake.
Searching in the camp he found what he came looking for, the money of the merchants, he found roughly up to 300 gold dragons, a reasonable fortune for a merchant caravan of this size.
Using the money, he gained three rows, and this time he had more luck than before, he gained.
Spartial ring 100m³ – SR
Alchemy Jug - U
Ring of Telekinesis - R
All three items were excellent to him, Spartial ring had was a ring used to storage things with an inner space of 100 cubic meters, the Alchemy Jug was a magic Jug that could produce amounts of acid, poison, beer, honey, mayonnaise, oil, vinegar, fresh water, salt water and wine, every day, the Ring of Telekinesis, was a magic ring that allowed to cast telekinesis spell at will.
Using the ring he collected the stolen goods and the weapons, and went his way, since they were dead, they didn't need it anymore.
The deepwood motte, was a poorly protected wood castle, near the wolfwoods, the lord of the castle was lord Glover, a loyal vassal of the Stark, the castle had a garrison of 500 men, but due to House Glover controlling the majority of the Wolfswood if given time they could gather up to 3000-4000 men.
Unfortunately, there were no time and no warning, tomorrow or after it the ironborns were going to attack, and if he reminds right due its poor defenses, they would invade the castle and make huge damages to it.
Besides the Wolfswood there were no other terrain advantages, and he needed keep silence about the ironborn to his plans work, so it was up to him to guarantee an advantage. After analyzing the information that he had about the attackers and the terrains a plan slowly started to form in his mind.
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Is was around noon that he reached the deepwood motte, entering was a small problem, normally a soldier would not pay much attention in a kid entering or exiting in peaceful times, but when a kid mounting a snow bear with two others following it became impossible to not notice.
First, they were very alarmed, but when he identified himself, they stopped any rush idiot action and called the lord while they watched him with caution and some fear. No more than ten minutes later lord Galbart Glover along his brother Robett Glover came.
Lord Galbart Glover was a sturdy man, with brown hairs and beard, even despite he was the older brother he seemed younger than Robett who already had grey hair and wrinkles, both wore black doublets beneath a red surcoats.
The moment Lord Galbart put his eyes on him, he recognized and welcomed him with a small smile and invited him to the longhall in the top of the hill, after eating and drinking, for the guest's rights, Lord Galbart asked about his presence here.
He then started to telling a story that he made before, he said that he exited to hunt and when he was chasing a deer a blizzard came, by accident he crossed with the three bears, when they were about to attack, "something" happened and he was looking through the bears eyes, after that the three bears started to protect him until they came here be accident.
At first both Lord Galbart and his brother didn't belive his words, but when his eyes turned white and one raven landed in the bear's back, they believed. Both seemed shocked, but they put blank faces and acted normal, as descendants of the first man and followers of the old gods, they know or suspected of Brennan being a Skinchanger.
With this much of information they treated the panserbjornes very well and guaranteed good food and accommodation to them.
There was a small banquet to celebrate his presence, he meets Robett's wife Sybelle and his two daughters, Gawen the oldest and Erena the younger. After eating lord Galbart said that he sent a crow to winterfell to warm his father about him, and promised to take him to home in the next day.
With Galbart permission he spent the rest of the day training with the recruits, and surprised all everyone with his skills. By night there was another small banquet and he was given a small but comfortable room to sleep.
When was about to sunrise he woke up and started the plan to reduce the enemy numbers, first he warged in a crow and flight closer to the ironborn camp, then he used all his spell slots from the level 5 and above to use the conjure animal spell.
The conjure animal spell, was used to conjure spirits of fey form others dimensions, to assume the form of a determined creature and follow the orders of the summoner, after some time or when it was killed the creature disappeared.
The form he choose as the velociraptor, unlike the ones from Jurassic park, the Dungeons and Dragons, velociraptors were small dinosaurs about the size of a big dog, they had feathers over much of their body. They are savage predators, travelling in packs to bring down much larger and stronger prey and their sickle-shaped claws can easily shear through flesh, and their incredible speed made them hard to escape from.
Using all those spell slots he summoned 96 of those deadly creatures, near the camp, and let they run amok with only two commands, kill as many as possible and drive them in the deepwood motte direction.
In other situation he could use the conjure fey spell to summon a stronger creature like a mammoth or the mighty Tyrannosaurus Rex, but he would lose not only the advantage but the result would be very inferior.
In the forest one or two Tyrannosaurus Rex, would at maximum kill, 50 or so man, before the rest run or kill the they, using the advantages of the trees.
To the velociraptors however a forest was a perfect advantage ground, their quick attacks and pack tactics along with the hiding and ambushes spots, granted by the trees and bushes, made them two or three times deadlier than a Tyrannosaurus.
First, they divided in groups and surrounded the camp, then the hell was unleashed, the ironborns were no better than common pirates, the know how to sail and hold a sword, but their technique was poor and barely had discipline, so when the velociraptors jumped out the bushes killing them they didn't know how to react.
The small dinosaur, used hit and run tactics to kill the ironborn, attacking from different side them running to bushes while others groups attacked. Camp became a mess in minute, with the ironborns running to one side to another screaming and trying to hit the smalls dinosaurs.
it only took one or two to kill an inattentive man, and even an attentive would be killed by three. with bunches of velociraptors leaping from bushes on all sides, only a lucky few could react while most of the others fell into scythe-shaped claws or sharp teeth.
In less than fifteen minutes more than 300 man laid dead while only six of the velociraptors died. With scream of fears, pain and anger, the ironborn started to run not knowing they were being leaded. The fastest shouted at those behind them, while the slow ones were isolated and killed one by one reducing their numbers more and more.
Having a group of man running and screaming in the direction of your castle was a hard to miss thing and quickly alarms and scream sounded by all places. Leaving the crow behind he took his bow and followed the soldiers.
After running out the forest and noticing that they were no longer being chased, the ironborns without others options started the attack to the deepwood motte. The anger of losing so many mans and the fear of having to going back to the forest made them attack madly and without care.
Not being prepared for such an attack, the fight quickly began to tip in favor of the ironborn, who quickly killed their way to the gate. Brennan stood on the walls shooting arrows on the attackers, until the ironborn, started setting then on fire.
Even after losing so many men, they still had the advantage numbers, and when the burned gate fell, they entered killing their way, and a great messy fight began. Using confusion to his advantage, Brennan took a sword from a dead soldier and entered the fight.
With Generalt's superior skills and fencing, he began to slay the iron men, slowly striking the target, the Harlaw with a Valyrian steel sword. The man barely saw him until he stabbed a dagger into his hip.
the man screamed in pain and tried to slash him with his sword, preventing the attack brennan swung his sword and slashed deeply into the man's leg, falling to his knees, spitting curses, brennan swung the sword again but the man blocked with his own sword and tried to grab it. Toughly Geralt Brennan Easilly grabbed the man's hand and banged his head on the iron man's nose. the ironborn screamed, but was stopped by a sword that pierced his throat. With a leverage upward the skin of his neck tore and his head fell back to the floor.
Brennan quickly took the man's sword and returned to the fight. the fight lasted a few more minutes, and Lord Glover was proved ruthless in killing ironborns to the last man.
After the fighting the rest of the day passed in a wink, there was no commemoration and a heavy mood around the men, lord Galbart watched him closely, fearing that he could suffer any harm, beside some light cuts that he took on purpose.
In the man's hip, a valyrian steel bastard sword rested sheathed, Brennan gave it to the man as a gift as he knows he was loyal to his house, these was one of the five sword he gained before, he used the fight as an excuse to finding two of these swords.
Now, with the now-identified Harras Harlaw slain, his Nightfall sword now belonged to Brennan, along with a long Valyrian steel sword. For "finding" two Valyrian steel swords and winning Nightfall in combat, Brennan began to be called Luck Wolf.
By the sunset, his father arrived along small group of soldiers, after being told the events he was not happy at all, and even a new Valyrian steel did not help to ease his mood, after some time passed a crow from the bear island came with notice of an attack.
Few minute later lord Galbart brother came with the notice that only make the mood heavier, someone invaded the castle and robed a significant amount.
The next day they traveled back to Winterfell with a 100-man escort from Glover's house, along the way his father was bothered by the fact that he was riding a bear while two others walked by his side.
Apparently, he and Lord Glover had a conversation last night and the fact that he was a Skinchanger was revealed to his father. Lord Stark didn't say a word, but he knew there would be a long talk when they got home.
When they set foot in Winterfell, they were greeted by a worried stark lady and an eager maester luwin. After being scolded by lady stark they were to the solar were lord Stark opened the letters along with a letter informing of the attack on the bear island others two came, bringing unpleasant news.
In the day before Lord Rodrik Ryswell of the hills, along with his wife and sons died in a fire while they slept, no one knew how the fire started, and when they noticed it was to late and various parts of their castle was burning.
The second letter was from Barrowton the seat of house Dustin, informing that lady Barbrey Dustin died, the lady of barrowtown died after falling of the stairs and break the neck.
With their lord's dead and no heir to take over both Barrowton and the hills, they were without command. While the a.d.u.l.ts argued he remained in silence until he was sent to bed.
The next day he went to his solar father and proposed to unite Barrowton and his lands with the cailin moat and designate him as future lord, about the Hills he proposed to let Jon assume under a new surname, to ensure his cooperation Brennan used the Axii sign.
Under the influence of the charming spell he agreed and Brennan would assume in his 15 namedays.
The news about Barrowton and the Hills were announced after the lunch, his mother seemed very pleased until lorde stark, announced that Jon would assume the Hills, in the future.
Two days after the announcement, Guo li came with a spartial ring loaded of gold dragons, during the fight with the ironborns, he was the one who robbed the Glover house, with his bending skills he entered and took about 10 thousand gold dragons from them.
As an excuse Brennan gave them a valyrian steel sword, it helped to compensate the loss and helped to guarantee and reward the Glover house loyalty, a very fair trade in Brennan opinion.
The rest of the time was to travel to the hills, dreadfort, barrowton and back here, from the hills and barrowton he took 15 thousand each, from dreadfort he took half of their fortune.
Since that money belonged to enemies of his house, he didn't mind "borrowing" it without permission or devolution.
About the incidents that happened he was also the culprit of it, Lady Barbrey was a stark hatter and his father and brothers would follow the boltons in future, so they all needed to be gone.
The lady of barrowton was easy, it only needed him to warg into a crow and create a bit of ice in the steps and watch she fall to her dead. The Ryswells were a bit more complicate, he also warged into a crow in this one, however before setting things in fire he casted through the crow the poison spray spell in every members of the house, to guarantee that no one would escape, and used the produce flame spell.
Now not only he reduced the numbers of enemies, but also gained a seat of his own, reduced the Bolton funds and got some money.
Four birds in one stone.
After absorbing, Geralt's powers, his body passed by some changes, along with the supernatural physical capacity's, he got taller, in a mother he passed from 51.2" to 59.7", now he was the tallest of the Stark children, he gained some muscle too, but thanks to the thick fur clothes used in the north they were hide.
His skills with the sword raised to an amazing level, now even some soldiers could keep with him, even when he held back, he never shows too much, he took his time in all fights, he didn't use much strength or agility, but he moved the practice sword smoothly and without worry, he "fought smart" playing a good show and then winning.
Not even the master-at-arms suspected of him, each day he was the first to come and the last to leave, two weeks ago Rodrik Cassel was so satisfied with him that him personally started to sparring with Brennan.
To keep his show, he never won any fight and even let the man land hit in him, after the first week he started show an improvement, now the spars lasted longer and longer and by the end of the week he could keep a tie until the man was exhausted. He kept that same rhythm, in the second and third weeks.
To everyone he was a hardworking kid, with a good amount of talent.
At night when he were alone, he trained what he didn't wanted to others people see, sign were a versatile but weak form of magic, there are 5 signs used by witchers, Aard an attack that directs a blast of telekinetic energy, capable of throw enemy back or destroy some objects, Igni a spell that conjures a burst of fire, Yrden a magic trap that attack enemy causing damage and stunning them, Quen a protective spell that conjure a protective field around the caster, and his favorite Axii a mind control spell very similar to the jedi mind trick.
He used the last one sometimes in the servants of the castle, to make they obey and don't make any question about. He secretly made the servants bring blocks of stone and earth to him room.
He used the druidic magic to shape the stone in various small square planters, and filled them with earth, then he casted the Plant Growth spell to enrich the land, making it twice much as profitable.
After that he planted some plants and fungi that he obtained from the herbalist kit from the druid. He was pleasantly surprised when he discovered that some of the belongings of units came with them.
Geralt came with a standard armor of the wolf school along with a silver sword and a steel sword, the druid came with an old leather armor, a complete herbalist kit and a magic staff called the Staff of the Woodlands.
Inside the herbalist kit, he finds some plants and seeds, and between those seeds there were the Red Amanita Mushroom used to health potions, the Rowan Berries used to antitoxins and the Sourgrass used to make Soothing Salve.
Since the tree tips of seeds, were useful he planted then in his room. Luckily all three seeds didn't need much sun and were resistant to cold.
There was also carrot, pears, beans beets, cabbage, cauliflower, chard, lettuce, mustard, onion, radish, potato and turnip seeds.
He didn't know much about plant, but with the druid knowledge he learned that those seeds could be planted in the cold temperatures of the North, without the need of glass gardens. He would give some to his father in the future.
He tried some different spells but nothing to flashy or powerful, he didn't wanna to draw unnecessary attention.
By the end of the month Brennan, Robb and Jon started to gain an allowance of 100 gold dragons, He and Robb were very happy with it, But Jon recused the money and asked their father to split between Brennan and Rob.
While Robb refused Brennan just took the money, and thanked Jon, this action seemed to displeased Robb and Lord Stark, but both remained in silence since was Jon's decision.
Brennan could easily refuse the money too, but he needed it and he was not a hypocritical person and he had a good use for that money. The next day he gave Jon the Griffin steel sword of Geralt, it was a very good bastard sword, and was sharper and harder than any normal steel sword around, it made Jon happier than the money.
Without losing time he used all the gold for two rows, his gains were a jeweled drinking horn at common rank and a medical book with three fingers wide also a common rank. The two items were useless to him.
Using Varamyr skills and knowledge, he started training how to warg in different animals, first he used a crow in the castle, and flew around the castle before going far from Winterfell, he kept warging at least one or two times per week, and one day he just found a curious scene, a woman l.i.c.k.i.n.g another woman, in an alley.
He got so distracted by the scene that he didn't pay attention and lost control of bird after hitting a wall.
Around the end of the second moth, a rumor of the iron pirates navigating far from their shores started to spread, and soon the firsts attacks should start.
The bear island and Deepwood motte were the two most affected places in the north.
In that day he fled the castle and went to hunt, when his disappearance was noted, all castle went in a tumult, and everyone started looking for him. Some hours later he came back carrying two eagles, an owl and one rabbit.
When he set a foot in the castle his mother, grabbed him in a tight hug, and them started scolding for leaving the castle alone, his father looked relieved, and granted him for the hunt but prohibited him leaving the castle.
He kept quiet for two days before doing the same thing, he disappeared the whole day and latter was found by some soldier dragging a deer, the soldiers "helped" him and the same thing from two days ago repeated.
It continued happening until his father granted his permission to leave a hunt as long, he kept it near the castle. His mother was nowhere near happy with that, and when she screamed with him his father blamed the wolf's blood in him.
All this time he kept a close look to the shores using crows and others birds, until he found an ironborn ship with a silver scythe on black, the sigil of the house Harlaw, about two days of distance of the sea dragon point.
After a brief consideration Brennan decided go to motte, the distance between Winterfell and the motte was around half-day traveling with horses.
With his druidic magic he would create a snow storm while hunting, then he would get "lost" and appear near the motte one day before the attack, he would participate of the fighting and with the help Guo Li, he would find a way to kill the leader of the attack.
While he planned, he took a small book where he noted all future events and his plans for the future, as a failsafe he only wrote in Russian and Portuguese, two languages that never exited is this planet, only per precaution he added a failsafe for the failsafe and wrote in codes, and without the keyword that only he knew was impossible to decipher.
After writing down his plans, he slept until morning, when the sun came, he woke up and prepared himself, he put the leather armor of the druid under his normal thick clothes, since he gave Geralt steel sword to Jon he took the silver sword.
Thanks god or gods and the good blacksmithers of the witcher world, the silver sword was as strong and sharper as the steel blade.
He grabbed his yew bow, and two quivers full of arrows, and leaved the castle walking, since he got his father's permission leaving the castle, was a lot easier than sneaking out, or using the magic Wild Shape to transform himself in a bird to fly over the walls.
And plus, there are no risk in being hit by an arrow.
He walked for a few moments and entered line of trees, in the next moment the earth opened and man jumped out in front on him. The man had tan skin, dark hair and beard, he used black pants, and an olive-green shirt under a black coat, and a circular black and green hat.
"Did you find it?" Brennan asked and the man nodded.
Brennan, he followed silently, until they reached a small mossy mound, beside the mound was a cage with bars made of earth, with two shadowcats pacing as they were watched by three huge armored bears.
The bears were twice the size of a common polar bear of earth, each of the used a unique armor, one used a red armor that resembled a roman lorica armor with a roman helmet, the second used a segmented plate armor with a helmet that looked like a triceratops head without horns, and the last bronze scaled mail with a large kettle hat.
They were Gyrda, Aslak and Grima respectively, Gyrda was the leader, and Aslak was the only male of the group.
Seeing he approaching Gyrda great him rubbing his muzzle on his face, and he responded stroking her muzzle.
"Those two, were restless all morning, take care and don't go too close of them, they tried to attack Grima when she brought some food to them."
She warned with a soft tone.
He smiled and approached the cage, and waved his hand casting the Dominate Beast spell, this spell was used to charm a beast in the sight of the caster to obey his orders, the shadowcats tried to resist, but against a high level druid skills it was futile, with the beasts charmed Brennan felt a telepathic link to them and them he warged to their bodies, making the bond deeper and permanent.
Brennan discovered that by combining the two skills together made it easier and the results were better, now not only he had full control of them but even if the shadowcats died he would not suffer anything.
In the future he planned to add at least one mammoth and a firewyrm, to his controlled creatures.
He smiled and pated the two cats' heads. "We are going to the deepwood motte, we have to get there until tomorrow afternoon at the latest."
Guo Li and the three panserbjornes, nodded in understanding. Closing his eyes Brennan started casting the spell, slowly the time started to change, the sun became hided by clouds, the wind started to blow stronger at each minute passed, and snow started to fall.
Each minute the weather changed, and after an hour a strong blizzard storm with cold winds, started.
"It's done, let's move."
With these words the group started to move.
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The travel to deepwood motte was better than Brennan expected, riding in Grima's back, they arrived in the middle of the night with some hours before the sun rise. These little travel in the night brought an unexpected profit.
During the way here, they found some corpses in the road, when they looked them Brennan identified them as a merchant caravan that passed in Winterfell days ago, they were all dead and almost all their goods were gone.
Following the smell in the scene, they find the culprits, a camp with band of 15 wildlings, using the night as cover he send the shadowcats, and easily killed the watcher in silence, after that killing the rest was a piece of cake.
Searching in the camp he found what he came looking for, the money of the merchants, he found roughly up to 300 gold dragons, a reasonable fortune for a merchant caravan of this size.
Using the money, he gained three rows, and this time he had more luck than before, he gained.
Spartial ring 100m³ – SR
Alchemy Jug - U
Ring of Telekinesis - R
All three items were excellent to him, Spartial ring had was a ring used to storage things with an inner space of 100 cubic meters, the Alchemy Jug was a magic Jug that could produce amounts of acid, poison, beer, honey, mayonnaise, oil, vinegar, fresh water, salt water and wine, every day, the Ring of Telekinesis, was a magic ring that allowed to cast telekinesis spell at will.
Using the ring he collected the stolen goods and the weapons, and went his way, since they were dead, they didn't need it anymore.
The deepwood motte, was a poorly protected wood castle, near the wolfwoods, the lord of the castle was lord Glover, a loyal vassal of the Stark, the castle had a garrison of 500 men, but due to House Glover controlling the majority of the Wolfswood if given time they could gather up to 3000-4000 men.
Unfortunately, there were no time and no warning, tomorrow or after it the ironborns were going to attack, and if he reminds right due its poor defenses, they would invade the castle and make huge damages to it.
Besides the Wolfswood there were no other terrain advantages, and he needed keep silence about the ironborn to his plans work, so it was up to him to guarantee an advantage. After analyzing the information that he had about the attackers and the terrains a plan slowly started to form in his mind.
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Is was around noon that he reached the deepwood motte, entering was a small problem, normally a soldier would not pay much attention in a kid entering or exiting in peaceful times, but when a kid mounting a snow bear with two others following it became impossible to not notice.
First, they were very alarmed, but when he identified himself, they stopped any rush idiot action and called the lord while they watched him with caution and some fear. No more than ten minutes later lord Galbart Glover along his brother Robett Glover came.
Lord Galbart Glover was a sturdy man, with brown hairs and beard, even despite he was the older brother he seemed younger than Robett who already had grey hair and wrinkles, both wore black doublets beneath a red surcoats.
The moment Lord Galbart put his eyes on him, he recognized and welcomed him with a small smile and invited him to the longhall in the top of the hill, after eating and drinking, for the guest's rights, Lord Galbart asked about his presence here.
He then started to telling a story that he made before, he said that he exited to hunt and when he was chasing a deer a blizzard came, by accident he crossed with the three bears, when they were about to attack, "something" happened and he was looking through the bears eyes, after that the three bears started to protect him until they came here be accident.
At first both Lord Galbart and his brother didn't belive his words, but when his eyes turned white and one raven landed in the bear's back, they believed. Both seemed shocked, but they put blank faces and acted normal, as descendants of the first man and followers of the old gods, they know or suspected of Brennan being a Skinchanger.
With this much of information they treated the panserbjornes very well and guaranteed good food and accommodation to them.
There was a small banquet to celebrate his presence, he meets Robett's wife Sybelle and his two daughters, Gawen the oldest and Erena the younger. After eating lord Galbart said that he sent a crow to winterfell to warm his father about him, and promised to take him to home in the next day.
With Galbart permission he spent the rest of the day training with the recruits, and surprised all everyone with his skills. By night there was another small banquet and he was given a small but comfortable room to sleep.
When was about to sunrise he woke up and started the plan to reduce the enemy numbers, first he warged in a crow and flight closer to the ironborn camp, then he used all his spell slots from the level 5 and above to use the conjure animal spell.
The conjure animal spell, was used to conjure spirits of fey form others dimensions, to assume the form of a determined creature and follow the orders of the summoner, after some time or when it was killed the creature disappeared.
The form he choose as the velociraptor, unlike the ones from Jurassic park, the Dungeons and Dragons, velociraptors were small dinosaurs about the size of a big dog, they had feathers over much of their body. They are savage predators, travelling in packs to bring down much larger and stronger prey and their sickle-shaped claws can easily shear through flesh, and their incredible speed made them hard to escape from.
Using all those spell slots he summoned 96 of those deadly creatures, near the camp, and let they run amok with only two commands, kill as many as possible and drive them in the deepwood motte direction.
In other situation he could use the conjure fey spell to summon a stronger creature like a mammoth or the mighty Tyrannosaurus Rex, but he would lose not only the advantage but the result would be very inferior.
In the forest one or two Tyrannosaurus Rex, would at maximum kill, 50 or so man, before the rest run or kill the they, using the advantages of the trees.
To the velociraptors however a forest was a perfect advantage ground, their quick attacks and pack tactics along with the hiding and ambushes spots, granted by the trees and bushes, made them two or three times deadlier than a Tyrannosaurus.
First, they divided in groups and surrounded the camp, then the hell was unleashed, the ironborns were no better than common pirates, the know how to sail and hold a sword, but their technique was poor and barely had discipline, so when the velociraptors jumped out the bushes killing them they didn't know how to react.
The small dinosaur, used hit and run tactics to kill the ironborn, attacking from different side them running to bushes while others groups attacked. Camp became a mess in minute, with the ironborns running to one side to another screaming and trying to hit the smalls dinosaurs.
it only took one or two to kill an inattentive man, and even an attentive would be killed by three. with bunches of velociraptors leaping from bushes on all sides, only a lucky few could react while most of the others fell into scythe-shaped claws or sharp teeth.
In less than fifteen minutes more than 300 man laid dead while only six of the velociraptors died. With scream of fears, pain and anger, the ironborn started to run not knowing they were being leaded. The fastest shouted at those behind them, while the slow ones were isolated and killed one by one reducing their numbers more and more.
Having a group of man running and screaming in the direction of your castle was a hard to miss thing and quickly alarms and scream sounded by all places. Leaving the crow behind he took his bow and followed the soldiers.
After running out the forest and noticing that they were no longer being chased, the ironborns without others options started the attack to the deepwood motte. The anger of losing so many mans and the fear of having to going back to the forest made them attack madly and without care.
Not being prepared for such an attack, the fight quickly began to tip in favor of the ironborn, who quickly killed their way to the gate. Brennan stood on the walls shooting arrows on the attackers, until the ironborn, started setting then on fire.
Even after losing so many men, they still had the advantage numbers, and when the burned gate fell, they entered killing their way, and a great messy fight began. Using confusion to his advantage, Brennan took a sword from a dead soldier and entered the fight.
With Generalt's superior skills and fencing, he began to slay the iron men, slowly striking the target, the Harlaw with a Valyrian steel sword. The man barely saw him until he stabbed a dagger into his hip.
the man screamed in pain and tried to slash him with his sword, preventing the attack brennan swung his sword and slashed deeply into the man's leg, falling to his knees, spitting curses, brennan swung the sword again but the man blocked with his own sword and tried to grab it. Toughly Geralt Brennan Easilly grabbed the man's hand and banged his head on the iron man's nose. the ironborn screamed, but was stopped by a sword that pierced his throat. With a leverage upward the skin of his neck tore and his head fell back to the floor.
Brennan quickly took the man's sword and returned to the fight. the fight lasted a few more minutes, and Lord Glover was proved ruthless in killing ironborns to the last man.
After the fighting the rest of the day passed in a wink, there was no commemoration and a heavy mood around the men, lord Galbart watched him closely, fearing that he could suffer any harm, beside some light cuts that he took on purpose.
In the man's hip, a valyrian steel bastard sword rested sheathed, Brennan gave it to the man as a gift as he knows he was loyal to his house, these was one of the five sword he gained before, he used the fight as an excuse to finding two of these swords.
Now, with the now-identified Harras Harlaw slain, his Nightfall sword now belonged to Brennan, along with a long Valyrian steel sword. For "finding" two Valyrian steel swords and winning Nightfall in combat, Brennan began to be called Luck Wolf.
By the sunset, his father arrived along small group of soldiers, after being told the events he was not happy at all, and even a new Valyrian steel did not help to ease his mood, after some time passed a crow from the bear island came with notice of an attack.
Few minute later lord Galbart brother came with the notice that only make the mood heavier, someone invaded the castle and robed a significant amount.
The next day they traveled back to Winterfell with a 100-man escort from Glover's house, along the way his father was bothered by the fact that he was riding a bear while two others walked by his side.
Apparently, he and Lord Glover had a conversation last night and the fact that he was a Skinchanger was revealed to his father. Lord Stark didn't say a word, but he knew there would be a long talk when they got home.
When they set foot in Winterfell, they were greeted by a worried stark lady and an eager maester luwin. After being scolded by lady stark they were to the solar were lord Stark opened the letters along with a letter informing of the attack on the bear island others two came, bringing unpleasant news.
In the day before Lord Rodrik Ryswell of the hills, along with his wife and sons died in a fire while they slept, no one knew how the fire started, and when they noticed it was to late and various parts of their castle was burning.
The second letter was from Barrowton the seat of house Dustin, informing that lady Barbrey Dustin died, the lady of barrowtown died after falling of the stairs and break the neck.
With their lord's dead and no heir to take over both Barrowton and the hills, they were without command. While the a.d.u.l.ts argued he remained in silence until he was sent to bed.
The next day he went to his solar father and proposed to unite Barrowton and his lands with the cailin moat and designate him as future lord, about the Hills he proposed to let Jon assume under a new surname, to ensure his cooperation Brennan used the Axii sign.
Under the influence of the charming spell he agreed and Brennan would assume in his 15 namedays.
The news about Barrowton and the Hills were announced after the lunch, his mother seemed very pleased until lorde stark, announced that Jon would assume the Hills, in the future.
Two days after the announcement, Guo li came with a spartial ring loaded of gold dragons, during the fight with the ironborns, he was the one who robbed the Glover house, with his bending skills he entered and took about 10 thousand gold dragons from them.
As an excuse Brennan gave them a valyrian steel sword, it helped to compensate the loss and helped to guarantee and reward the Glover house loyalty, a very fair trade in Brennan opinion.
The rest of the time was to travel to the hills, dreadfort, barrowton and back here, from the hills and barrowton he took 15 thousand each, from dreadfort he took half of their fortune.
Since that money belonged to enemies of his house, he didn't mind "borrowing" it without permission or devolution.
About the incidents that happened he was also the culprit of it, Lady Barbrey was a stark hatter and his father and brothers would follow the boltons in future, so they all needed to be gone.
The lady of barrowton was easy, it only needed him to warg into a crow and create a bit of ice in the steps and watch she fall to her dead. The Ryswells were a bit more complicate, he also warged into a crow in this one, however before setting things in fire he casted through the crow the poison spray spell in every members of the house, to guarantee that no one would escape, and used the produce flame spell.
Now not only he reduced the numbers of enemies, but also gained a seat of his own, reduced the Bolton funds and got some money.
Four birds in one stone.
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