Game Of Thrones - Gacha Version

The Basilisk Isles, was a deplorable place, full of slaves, slavers, pirates, whores and the worse of the society, the towns were crowded of them, with bad music playing around and lots of noise, the mud-filled the whole place, the mud on the ground reached the middle of the shins, to make it even worse, the mud was mixed with blood of the unlucky.

The only place worse was the jungle of Sothoryos, with dozens of poisonous insects, wasps sized mosquitos, poisons dart-throwing plants and literally dozens small pools of diseases scattered around. Hid under leaf mats and hard mud, deep dark water holes acted like a natural trap, the dense forest made it difficult to move even in small groups.

And if it was not enough, the constant heavy rains, drained the men's energy.

Inside a large wood great house, Brennan rested with men he brought here, the structure was enormous round building, made entirely of wood and vines, to guarantee a protected sleep, the wall was 10 inches thick, the floor was made of stone and a bonfire with a whole pig and some chicken in the center, illuminated the area, without making smoke.

Around him almost five hundred men, where resting trying to recover their forces, among these men, he brought 200 were demigods or legacies, 50 were rangers and the rest 250 were others units that Brennan got overtimes, now less than 450 remained, thanks god he had the idea of bringing 5 T-888 and one son of Asclepius with them, otherwise they would have lost far more people.

Traveling here was much more difficult than Brennan imagined, the natural traps along with dozens of different diseases and poison insects made their lives very difficult, only on the first day he lost 10 men, in the following days the numbers decreased until they adapted themselves to the forest.

The travel from abandoned port to the basilisk point and back lasted only one week, and they lose all those men. Even during the fight with the beasts, they didn't lose as much they lost during the trip.

A basilisk was like a six-legged Komodo dragon, with red-heads, they were very agile being able to quickly climb and jump obstacles and had a powerful poisonous bite, capable of ripping a man's limb easily. Their size varied from small like a beagle, to a large rottweiler and to large than the size of a bear.

Killing a basilisk was not so difficult, capturing one however was a lot difficult, even the small ones were heavy and dangerous to carry without care. To capture one alive, some man needed to draw its attention to allow the rangers to shot its legs and Brennan, use magic to control them.

Using that method, they were able to catch thirty of these beasts, five of them were large enough to fight and eat a bear easily.

That plan worked very well until an unfortunate encounter, a Sothoryos ape, if Brennan ever finds the man who described them, he would kill the man slowly, those apes were like smaller cousins of king kong.

They were around 22 to 25 feet tall, their limbs were ticker than wood logs and their tick fur protected them from arrows, and to worse things they were very smart.

Before killing it, the ape killed eight people with five demigods among them, in one hit.

Like the other he encountered, one of the apes looked like an orangutan, they were enormous varied hair colors and had a pair of long and strong legs. They preferred to live in smalls groups of 5 -6 a.d.u.l.ts.

The other species of ape looked like a baboon, they were 19 to 21 feet tall, very tick, grey or black hair, and were even more aggressive, unlike a baboon from earth their buts were covered by hair. They preferred large groups of at minimum 10 a.d.u.l.ts.

To spare his men, Brennan capture all them with magic, and only went after smalls groups, the way back was more comfortable until they crossed with a small tattooed lizards group. Those lizards were like the Jurassic park velociraptor.

They were big, fast, deadly and were green with black stripes, and had a green mane from head to the tail. Due to their speed and intelligence, it took two days to track and capture a group of them even with magic, luckily, they found some eggs too.

After them catching giant snakes, spiders and White vampire bats were far easier. now he knew why this place was called green hell.

Their last target was the terrible wyverns, but everyone needed to rest before continue, so now they were here, a wood house made and protected with magic to guarantee some rest to the group.

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Wyverns were a species found only in Sothoryos, they were vicious and ferocious predators, even being smaller than dragons they were far more dangerous than them, and were called the tyrants of the southern skies.

Right now, Sothoryos had four main species of Wyvern, the brindled wyverns, swamp wyverns, brownbellies, and shadow-wings, each one of them had their unique traits.

The swamp wyverns, had dark green moss scales, and grow up to fifty feet long, they had the strongest bodies and the hardest scales, but were mostly inactive and rarely fly far from their lairs, besides their strong bodies and claws, they had a strong poison that could spit up to fifty feet.

The brownbellies wyverns, were the most active and most dangerous of them, they were the smaller breed of wyverns, they grow up to forty inches long, they were not strong or poisonous like the others, but they compensated it with their intelligence and numbers. They were very smart, and lived and hunted in packs of hundreds or thousands, and so are far more dangerous than larger breeds.

The last species was the shadow-wing, this wyvern is nocturnal, with black scales and wings that make it invisible in the dark, and therefore was the most feared. They grow up to thirty feet long, and were specialists in quick dive attacks and had the sharper and stronger claws than others breeds, their bodies were slim and lighter than others wyverns but they were strong as others breeds.

Right now, Brennan's target was a large young swamp wyvern, the rangers found this one living alone in a small swamp, judging by its scars, this one was expelled from a group, and so a very attractive catch.

Moving slowly, trough the wet terrain, Brennan along with a small group arrived in their target's swamp. Behind him a small group of ten, followed in silence, wyverns are vicious and cruel, but they were smart, if a large group attack, they would fly away or cry for help.

Hiding behind a tree, Brennan observed his target from a certain distance. The wyvern, was rather young, he could say that by its light-dark green scales and not the moss dark green of a.d.u.l.ts, a lot of scars decorated the wyvern body, it had thirty to thirty-five feet.

It was distracted eating a large snake, in a small piece of land above the water that reached in his c.h.e.s.t.

A swamp was not the ideal place for a fight, but it was useful to traps and ambushes.

Making a signal with the hand, two rangers who were hiding in the tall trees drawn their bows and shot. The sounds of the arrows alerted the wyvern, who tried to fly, in the next instant the two arrows pierced the muscles in the wyvern's back, and the beast fell.

The wyvern released a cry of anger, right in the next second, four arrows hit his right leg, making the wyvern lose the balance and fall in the water, he struggled in the water, before rising to his feet screaming in pain and rage, his red eyes looked in the direction the arrows came from and he tried to run to it.

Another whistle and two more arrows hit the back of his left leg.

Using this chance Brennan and four more soldiers ran into wyvern direction, in their hands small square wood shields, seeing their approach, the wyvern cried and spat a green viscous liquid.

Raising their shields, they blocked the strange liquid, and a sizzle started to sound from the shields, the group continued to advance and when they were a few meters of the wyvern Brennan dropped the shield and cast a barrage of spells.

Dominate Beast, Hold Monster, Slow and Web.

The wyvern resisted the first two spells and tried to attack with his tail, but being slowed down by the spell everyone could dodge easily. Taking the chance, he casted another barrage of spells.

Sign Axii, Hold Monster and Dominate Beast.

This time the spell barrage worked very well, under the Sign Axii and the spell Dominate Beast, the wyvern became calm and started to obey Brennan's orders. Using this as advantage Brennan used his warg skills, to complete dominate the beast.

With the wyvern under control they looked to each other with smiles in their faces, the plan worked better than they expected, now with one wyvern, taming others would be easier.

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Relaxing on the deck, Brennan enjoyed the salty smell of the sea, the blue that stretched for miles was spiritually relaxing. Rockstrider birds singed a beautiful song while they flight above the sea.

"My lord, we are near the stepstones and four days from Bravos. Should we keep the course or should we contour by the summer sea?" A man wearing a roman armor asked.

"No, keep the course to the stepstones, if any pirate ship appears, shoot at will." He ordered and the man leaved, with a grunt of pain, he shifted uncomfortably in a chair, looking down to his bandaged c.h.e.s.t he grunted in anger, the wound started in his right shoulder and went all way down to the left side of his waist.

He was arrogant, and only moment of arrogance almost costed all to him. Spiting some blood, he thought on that day, is was a normal hunt, they were after two brindled wyverns, the plan was the same used in three others hunts.

That time however, they were caught off guard, four more brindled wyverns appeared in the middle of their attack, was unexpected but they could fight with them. The fight however attracted more attention and soon a pack of brownbellies wyverns and a giant boa appeared.

He lost several men, and leaved heavily wounded, but luckily, he was alive and with all limbs. They started to leave Sothoryos that same day, and a bunch of pirates thought that they were a good prey.

Out of rage they killed them and attacked the Basilisk Isles, this time they used all their skills without care of anyone see. When they leaved they were a lot more tired, but a lot more richer and less anger.

With sons and legacies of Poseidon/ Neptune, Njord, Nereus and others water gods and spirits, in the sh.i.p.s they were almost invincible in the ocean, and plus the sons and daughters of Nereus and Njord, could sense any "bounty" or richness in the seas.

To get those powers, Brennan absorbed one son of Njord and one of Oceanus, what was a surprise since he never read about demigods from titans.

Now their small groups were heading to the stepstones, his "fleet" consisted of four sh.i.p.s, named destroyers Ana, Rose, Bethany and Wilhelmina, compared to the longsh.i.p.s they were larger armored monstrosities.

With 135 meters Length and 25 meters Height, they were made of ironwood and reinforced with titanium plates, they had twenty canons on each side, three in the stern and one canon and two special scorpions in the front, with four masts and two steam engines, to move the sh.i.p.s.

They were designed to be capable of carrying up to 500 men and food enough for three months, the captains were sea gods sons, and the "officials" were legacies, the crew was made of others waters gods or spirits sons and daughters and units obtained from gacha.

"Pirates."

A scream cut the silence and the people on the ship stopped what they were doing to observe small fleet of sh.i.p.s coming in their direction, one galley leading ten longsh.i.p.s with black flags were coming in their direction.

When Brennan was about to order to shoot them, an idea came to his mind.

"Don't shoot." His voice resonated through the ship stopping those who started to prepare the cannons. "Let do it in the old way"

Smiles crossed the crew faces and they started to drawn their weapons and jumping on the sea, seeing this the crew of the others sh.i.p.s started to do the same, extending his hand he took a spear next to him.

Jumping in the sea, Brennan felt a rush of energy running through his body and the wound in his c.h.e.s.t stopped to hurt, by an unknown reason even the sea water could not cure completely this wound.

Like a bolt he swam to the enemy ship and covered the distance in a fell seconds, using the water to gain impulse he jumped out the sea and landed in the deck of the enemy ship, in front of the captain, catching the pirates by surprise.

The spear in Brennan's hands became a blur and four pirates along with the captain were divided in the half. The rest of the pirates seemed to finally awake and drawn their weapons while screaming.

A smile appeared in his faces and he started to move, stepping forward he pierced one pirate's c.h.e.s.t, and raised the body in the spear using it as a shield to block two arrows, with a swing he throwed the body, hitting one pirate with a bow making in fall in the water.

The sound of two swords swings coming from behind came to his ears, jumping back, his body hit one pirate and quickly turning around he grabbed the man arm's and twisted him using the man to block a sword from another pirate, with a thrust Brennan's spear pierced through the body and hit the c.h.e.s.t of the other man, killing both of them.

Pulling the spear from the bodies, he pointed his hand shooting a gush of flames burning the pirates and setting the pirates and the ship on fire.

Panic and shock appeared in the faces of the remained pirates, if it was for the fire or for the sight of magic it didn't matter, every single one of them dropped their weapons and jumped in the water, trying to swing faster from the ship.

It was a pity that it was a futile attempt, waving his hands tentacles of water grabbed the pirates and pulled the down to ocean deeps, drowning all them, with another wave of the hands, the water raised and put out the fire before it spread.

Looking around he saw other three demigod finishing the remaining pirates in the ship, thirty grown man versus three demigods and a man with the powers of one, it was so easy that was boring.

On the others sh.i.p.s the pirates were having the same destiny that their friends, or they died quickly almost without chance to react or they were thrown or jumped in the sea where they drowned, in any way they died and the sh.i.p.s were preserved.

Storing the sh.i.p.s inside the bottomless bag, they continued their journey until the stepstones were in sight. The stepstones were chain of islands, located in the middle of the sea between Westeros and Essos.

Currently, it was a pirate lair and refuge, home of more than twenty pirate crews, and "ruled" by the pirate king. In the future this pirate king, would launch an attack to Dorne and assume it until the events of the "War of the sand".

Since he had to abandon his travel in Sothoryos, conquering the stepstones would be a good consolation prize.

If he remembered right in the remake the total number of pirates under the pirate king was about, 10 to 14 thousand men, and up to two hundred sh.i.p.s. Off course most of these pirates belonged to others captains who supported this king.

When Brennan leaved the north, he had a total of two and half thousand men, not counting the non-fighting members, two thousand men, from these around five hundred were demigods, six hundred were legacies and the rest were marines, pirates, sailors or Vikings.

Now he had one thousand and two hundred men capable of fighting, it was a huge loss.

Most demigods and legacies were alive, but the rest of the common members were almost gone, by now, to fight more than ten thousand pirates he had to use his trump cards.

About a couple of hours later the sh.i.p.s stopped and one man came, with news.

"Sir, the stepstones are on sight, all cannons are ready and about twenty sh.i.p.s are in our firing range, what should we do now?"

"Make a perimeter around, don't let any ship leave, tell every demigod of the sea to create a storm and waves to destroy any ship who try to leave."

The man nodded and leaved screaming the orders, soon three dozens of sea demigods start to cooperate by combining their powers, the calm sea started to agitate, the breeze became stronger and stronger and the winds started to blew from different directions, the blue sky slowly became covered by black clouds and a heavy rain started, in less than one minute a full storm engulfed the stepstones.

"Now it's my turn."

With this thought he jumped in the sea and swam at full speed to the main island, with the powers of a son of the primordial sea, even swimming in the worsts storms became an easy and pleasurable activity.

Arriving in the land he remained hide, and opened the bottomless bag he carried, releasing the content the sands, hundreds of skeletons holding swords and bows leaved the bag and occupied the beach, when he had numbers enough, he commanded them to move and kill every single living thing in the island.

Under this command a horde of skeletons started to move and he followed behind them while hiding the best he could. Using the skills of a high-level wizard, he created this small army of undeads to use as a secret weapon.

This was one of his top secrets, if any word of it leaked, he would become the most hated enemy of the Rhollor followers, with their power and influence they would become a terrifying foe, that he didn't had the chance to win yet.

In Sothoryos, he was arrogant, he thought that with the powers and a group of demigods he was undefeatable, the cruel reality however showed him how wrong he was, if he used undead he could archive even better results and not get wounded, by a wound that not healed even in the water.

Even, Alexius a son of Asclepsius the god of medicine, couldn't heal it completely, Brennan best chance was getting some character with powerful healing skills, or let it cure naturally with time.

Using the undead army today was the one of the only ways to dominate the island fast and don't losing to many resources. Right now he didn't had enough men in the sh.i.p.s to a invasion, if he moved the unsullied, all free cities and westeros would notice such army moving around, in the north while his territory was constantly expanding he didn't had enough soldiers or sh.i.p.s to such battle, this and his father and probably the king would stop him.

So, there was four choices in the table for him, first he could go back to the north and leave any plan in the stepstones, second, he could gather his soldiers build a fleet and attack, third he could summom gacha units and attack, the last was using undead and dispensable units.

The first option was out of table, in the future the stepstone would have important events for the series, the first sea dragon will appear here and kill Vyserion before being killed by Drogon.

The second option was another big no, gathering soldiers and building a fleet would drag attention to him, both the hand and Ned would not approve any action towards the stepstones since it could start a war between the free cities and westeros, and even if they won Brennan barely had the chance to command the islands.

The third option was out consideration, every unit was precious, using them here was a waste of time and resources.

So, the only option available was the undeads, the skeleton army marched across the bloodstone island and reached the blood fort, the fort was small compared to most castles, but was larger than most keeps.

Sturdy stone walls and a wooden gate, with several dozens of drunk pirates acting as guards, out the gates several poorly made houses and buildings, despite the storm a good number of people ran through the streets.

When the first people saw the undead army, the screams started, the drunks, the whores, the bandits and the pirates, screamed and ran to the gates of the fort, some braves picked their weapons and tried to fight.

Screams of fear and pain filled the night, while rain and thunders fell out the sky, behind the undead army, Brennan watched while plans to the future crossed his mind.