Game of Thrones: Knight of Glory

Chapter 235 Na Sa Xing

On the Naan River, Lind lay leisurely on the boat, and his telekinesis drove the boat to slide quickly on the river. Bachelor Marwin lay on the side of the boat, looking excitedly at the water that was rapidly receding under the boat. , like a child, he would put his hand into the water from time to time, feeling the impact of the water on his palm.

After getting along with each other for this period of time, Linde also gradually understood Marwin's character. To put it simply, he is a true scholar who has a strong curiosity about the things he likes, but he still has basic principles for doing things. Bottom line, unlike Cobain who did things without a bottom line just to satisfy his curiosity.

But he is not without his shortcomings, that is, his curiosity is too strong, and he likes to inquire deeply. Along the way, he has asked Linde at least hundreds of questions in total, which makes the quiet person always like to ask questions. Linde also became a little annoyed and thought about finding a suitable place to drop him off and let him go to Summer Hall by himself.

Fortunately, he still had some eyesight and saw the change in Linde's mood, and put away his curiosity in time, so that he was not left halfway by Linde.

Driven by the power of mind, the speed of the boat was very fast, and coupled with the fact that it was going down the river, it took only two days to complete the journey that took more than ten days on land.

In the early morning of the third day after leaving Norvos, Lind's boat sailed into the ruins of Na Sa.

If Ge Doha is the pearl on the Rhoyne River, then Na Sa is the most eye-catching gem in the crown.

This city is a city-state run by the Warrior Queen Nymeria. Before it was destroyed by the Valyrian Free Fortress, it was the center of the entire Rhoynar city-state, which made the entire Na-Sa star very large. , which is more than ten times that of Ge Dohe. Among the current Free Trade City-states, only Volantis can barely compare with it.

Such a huge city is centered on the impact river beach at the intersection of the Lorne and Narne rivers, and expands to both sides, forming a huge city across the Lorne and Narne rivers. Several stone arch bridges connect various urban areas together. The docks are built along the river and can easily dock hundreds of boats. These boats are not small fishing boats, but flat-bottomed boats that fight in the river.

In the deep bay where the dock is located, you can clearly see more than a dozen flat-bottomed warships sinking into the water, with only the bows or sterns emerging from the water. Judging from the situation, they should be the navy of Novos, who are docking the ships. When we were at the pier, we were suddenly attacked and the ship was sunk before we even had time to sail out of the pier.

"The belief in the Old Man of the River has existed in the Lorne River Basin for thousands of years. It rarely attacks fishing boats on the river. In the beliefs related to it, it is written that it has the right to rule the underwater residents, so it has no influence on what happens on the water. Things are not interesting."

Marwin sat on the bow of the boat and watched Lind slowly bring the boat to the side of the dilapidated pier. He stood up and jumped onto the pier, while continuing to explain: "According to my research, the old man in the river does not refer to a specific person." It refers to a group of gods, a group of giant one-horned turtles. In the records about the migration of the Rhoynar, the earliest conflict between the Rhoynar and the Valyrian people was because the Valyrian people hunted a man. Later, in the war between the Rhoynar and the Valyrian people, the giant turtle also appeared several times, assisting the Rhoynar in attacking Valyrian invaders, and also caused many casualties. , it can be seen that the Rhoynar people at that time mastered the method of communicating with the old man in the river and drove him to fight. "

"Is it the Green Seer's ability?" Linde, who jumped ashore, tied the boat rope to a big rock and asked.

"It shouldn't be the ability of green seers." Marwin shook his head and said: "Green seers do have the ability to drive animals, but the animals they drive are not very big. Being able to drive an animal as big as a bear is already a green seer. The limit has been reached. A giant turtle like the Old Man in the River, which is bigger than a flat-bottomed warship, has obviously exceeded the limit of the Green Seer's ability."

After listening to Marwin's narration, Lind nodded, and then asked Marwin to stay on the river bank, while he jumped into the water and dived to the bottom of the river to check on the sunken ships.

The flat-bottomed warships exposed on the river account for only a part of the sunken ships on the river bottom. There are also a large number of sunken ships at the bottom of the river. These shipwrecks are not only the naval warships of Novos, but also many merchant ships. All of the sunken ships are Without exception, there was a big hole in the bottom of the boat and it eventually sank due to water intrusion.

Linde also found some clues from the damage to these ships, that is, the sinking of these ships was not caused by a giant one-horned turtle, because the damage on them was large and small, and the size of the damage was also inconsistent. It felt like there were A dozen giant turtles of various sizes were besieging these ships.

In addition, among these sunken ships, there are also many corpses soaked in river water. Judging from the decomposition of the corpses and the damage to the cargo on some merchant ships, these sunken ships should have sunk in recent months.

After Lind checked several times and found nothing missing, he returned to the water and told Marwin what he had checked.

Marwin thought for a while and said: "A few months ago, there were indeed rumors of ship accidents in the nearby area, but the number of ships involved was very small, and it almost did not affect the navigation of the Narn River. According to the news from Novos, It can be seen that the number of attacks on ships by the old man in the river has increased rapidly in the past two weeks, and the navigation of the Naen River has finally been completely cut off. Something must have happened during this period that caused the old man in the river to become manic and aggressive. Fight."

Lind listened to Marwin's analysis, pondered for a moment, and guessed: "Is it possible that we have entered the egg-laying and incubation period of the Old Man in the River? Animals will become very violent and aggressive during the egg-laying and egg-hatching periods. , let alone wild ones, even domesticated ones will attack their owners.”

"It is indeed possible." Marwin nodded in agreement, and then asked: "What should we do now? Find the old man's lair in the river?"

Linde shook his head and said: "No, there is no need to look for it, let it come out on its own initiative."

As he spoke, he saw him reaching into the water, using the power of the nameless king's runes to activate the frozen dragon runes on the sword of the lost knight, and injecting the extremely cold magic power generated into the water.

Then I saw icicles protruding from the bottom of the river, pushing sunken ships out of the water and floating on the water. Soon they occupied the entire deep-water bay. From a distance, they looked like A large fleet of ships was docked at the dock.

Although he had seen Lind display his god-like magical power more than once, Marwin still showed the same shock and excitement as when he saw it for the first time.

After setting up the bait, Lind did not stay here waiting for the old man in the river to appear. He and Marwin were like travelers, walking around in this huge ruins and experiencing what this city once was. Prosperity.

Perhaps because Nymeria's name comes from the city's former owner, the Warrior Queen Nymeria, Lind has such a special fondness for this ruined city, especially when he came to the Warrior Queen's former palace. At that time, I couldn’t help but walk in and take a look.

Although the palace has been abandoned here for hundreds of years, these marble buildings are still standing, but the humid environment has corroded all the exquisite reliefs on the surfaces of these buildings, and moss vines have also climbed up and covered them. Removing these ugly scars is like preserving a little face for this once glorious city.

"Although the entire palace is abandoned, there are still some ancient items that have been preserved." Marwen followed Linde and looked at the ancient buildings around him and said, "In this palace, there is a statue of Nymeria. The statue is still well-preserved even after so many years. It is said that this is because mother Lorne is protecting it, which is very magical. "

"Statue?" Lind was stunned when he heard this, and then motioned to Marwen to lead the way.

The two walked through a ruined garden full of weeds and shrubs and arrived at the palace backyard. After walking around a broken cloister, they saw the statue in Marwin's mouth.

As Marwin said, even in such a harsh environment, there is no moss growing on the statue, no vines clinging to it, and there is not even dust on the surface. It looks unrealistically new, as if it was just yesterday. Just like carving.

However, none of these magical phenomena attracted Lind's attention, because Lind was already attracted by the face of the statue.

"Nymeria?" Lind couldn't help but said as he looked at the face of the statue.

Marwen on the side clearly heard Lind's mutterings, but he thought that the Nymeria Lind mentioned was Nymeria, the warrior queen of the Rhoynar, but in fact, the Nymeria Lind mentioned was Nymeria. It was his wife Nymeria.

The reason why he couldn't help but pronounce Nymeria's name was because the statue of the warrior queen was exactly the same as Nymeria in both body shape and appearance. The only difference was that Nymeria used a two-handed giant axe. , but the statue in front of him holds a spear in his hand.

Marwin stood aside and said: "Some people say that this statue is sculpted according to the one-to-two ratio of Queen Nymeria, but in this case, Queen Nymeria's height would be too tall. , and the body shape is much larger than that of ordinary people, so I think the ratio should be one to two and a half or three to three."

"No, it's a ratio of one to two." Lind refuted Marwin's statement and said, "My wife's name is Nymeria. Her height and body shape are one to two of this statue."

Marwen couldn't help but smile when he heard Lind's words. He felt that Lind mistakenly brought his wife into the warrior queen Nymeria a thousand years ago, which created an interesting association.

But then, he suddenly realized something. He turned to look at Linde's expression when he was focusing on the statue, and confirmed: "Sir, does this statue of Warrior Queen Nymeria have the same appearance as the Earl of Tengshi Town?"

"Yes." Lind nodded and said, "Nymeria has the blood of the Dornish Martell family, which means she also has the blood of the Warrior Queen."

"This is really magical!" Marwin couldn't help but exclaimed and said, "Maybe this is a return to his ancestors!"

Lind walked around the statue and did not feel any magic power from the statue. However, through the power of the unknown king's runes to enhance the special visual effect, he still saw some power of faith entwining around the statue. Thinking about it, This should be the reason why the statue can be kept so clean, not broken, and not entangled with plants.

Linde couldn't help but asked curiously: "This statue obviously looks unusual. Why has no one moved this statue away for so many years?"

"I know some of the reasons for this." Marwen explained: "It's because of the curse. Anyone who tries to move the statue will be cursed and contract greyscale. Legend has it that this is Prince Gaelin, the hero of the Rhoynar people. He hated Queen Nymeria and her people withdrew from his crusade early, causing the Rhoynar people's disastrous defeat in Volantis, and cursed Queen Nymeria before she died. The queen was protected by her mother Lorne, and the curse that fell on Queen Nymeria was transferred to this stone statue."

"A very interesting story." Lind shook his head and said with disdain: "Although Prince Gaelin had an army of more than 200,000 people back then, Valyria had more than a hundred dragons. Even Nymeria The queen joined his team and was stationed in Chayon, and the final result would not have changed in any way. The Rhoynar people were completely defeated in the end, and they didn't even have a chance to stand up. It was all because of his arrogance, so what did he have? Curse others with your face?”

Marwen smiled and said: "Perhaps you can tell Prince Gaelin these words directly. Legend has it that the Shroud King who rules the stone people was hanged in Volantis that year. Prince Guerin."

"Lord Shroud?" Linde looked at Marwin in confusion.

Later, Marwin told Lind about the Shroud King, and Lind had a thoughtful look on his face after hearing this.

He himself doesn't quite believe that the Shroud King is Prince Guerin who has a grudge and turned into a zombie. Instead, he thinks that the Shroud King is a title passed down from generation to generation. The original Shroud King may be those who The Rhoynar who did not leave with Nymeria pretended to be in order to call on more Rhoynar to gather against Valyria.

But in this world where ghosts and corpses exist, it is not impossible for Prince Guerin to resurrect after death and become a zombie. After all, in the face of magic, the common sense of the previous life does not apply to this world.

Linde stared at the statue. After a while, he suddenly took off without warning and flew into the air, overlooking the entire ruins of Na Sa Star from a high altitude.

As he fell back to the ground, Lind suddenly asked Marwen: "Scholar Marwen, what do you think of me reorganizing and rebuilding this place and turning it into my territory?"

After hearing this, Marwin was stunned, looked at Linde's serious expression, pondered for a moment, and said: "Leave aside the funds to rebuild this place, you want to complete the reconstruction here and control it, you need to get three more The acquiescence of the city-state.”

"Three city-states? Are you talking about Volantis, Norvos and Qohor?" Lind said thoughtfully.

Marwin shook his head and said: "It's Pentos, Norvos and Qohor. As long as you get the acquiescence of these three cities, it will not be difficult to rebuild and occupy this place with your strength."

After hearing this, Linde nodded slightly and did not continue the topic. He seemed to regard the suggestion just now as a casual idea.