King of The Wall

2022-01-12

Chapter 706 Abandon one's benefactor after achieving one's goal
"How it happened, and who Killed Prince Aegon?" Daenerys lifts the head, his always seductive beautiful eyes swept across the Golden Corps generals with anger, and finally stopped on the leader of the surrender delegation, "I need an explanation, Head Strickland!"

Damn, do you have to act after the dirty work?

This is a female whore and wants to set up a torii!

Storm's End is not so easy to get.

While secretly slandering Daenerys, Harry Strickland was trembling with fear, breaking out in cold sweat, and began to tell the story of the incident with a face of shame.

As an Old Fox who has lived for several decades, Harry had anticipated that things might not be so simple. In order to avoid unnecessary twists and turns and the handle falling into the hands of others, he has prepared supporting witnesses, physical evidence and confessions on the way. According to the script: he was sleeping at the time of the incident - the "alibi" was enough to keep him reasonably unaware of any details. As the turmoil became more and more turbulent, squire woke him up, and he hurriedly put on the armor and rushed to Prince's residence with his cronies... Unfortunately, it was too late, he only had time to grab Prince's body to avoid his humiliation, And blocked the murderers at the scene, and finally brought them to justice on the spot in the confrontation of arrest and resisting arrest.

This is a complete and self-consistent timeline, and there is no one inside the Golden Group who has the position and reason to expose his lies. And even if the Queen wanted the culprit, he could really come up with the bodies of the "murderers" - in the chaos of that night, the mercenaries clashed with the Highgarden guards loyal to him in order to prevent Mace Tyrell from rescuing little Aegon. There were also casualties in the battle. These brothers who died in battle died anyway. The stinky skins left in the world were used as a king slayer. They made the best use of everything. Even the spirit of the sky would only feel comfort... what opinion.

Well, on that last point, believe it or not, Harry Strickland did.

The Unsullied Soldiers rejoice at the fate of the traitor Prince, but also regret the Queen's loss of blood.

Daenerys overbearingly asks every detail of the tragedy, grief-stricken and skeptical of the truth.

Harry Strickland seems to be in a panic, but he answers with confidence - it's a fake of course, but he has arranged it to be real, and this time he is in the third layer.

A group of Golden Corps officers and Mace Tyrell watched the performance with a sneer in their hearts. They had guessed that everything was just a cutscene, Strickland killed Aegon even if it wasn't Queen's order, at least with Igor's acquiescence, they were in the fourth layer.

Behind Queen, Igor, who was floating outside the atmosphere, looked down coldly at these people whose joys and sorrows could not be connected. He felt that they were noisy, and he thought coldly and ruthlessly about the way to detonate the conflict.

The plan to murder a person with a borrowed knife succeeded, but the aftermath and silence work of abandoning one's benefactor after achieving one's goal is still unfinished.

Looking at Harry Strickland's determined and calm performance, it is estimated that there will be no weak spot to let Queen see that the tragedy was planned by him... Daenerys has the identity of the "legal ruler of the Seven Kingdoms" at this moment. , can't act willfully like a tyrant, and this also means: as long as all the mercenaries insist that this is an accident, no matter how angry and suspicious she is, she can only smash her teeth to implement the agreement in the peace agreement in the end. Accept the Golden Corps' surrender and let them safely leave Westeros.

And by then, Harry Strickland, who felt that oneself did the dirty work for Queen without getting paid, was bound to publicize the secret meeting between oneself and "Igor" and show it to everyone. The fake pardon not only ruined the Queen's reputation and legitimacy of rule, but also caused estrangement and suspicion between him and Dany.

And such an ending is absolutely unacceptable to him.

This matter must come to an end today, right here, and the best outcome is to let the Queen kill herself - and to achieve this goal, we must try to let the Captain-General of the Golden Company admits that oneself directed the tragedy.

Harry Strickland is certainly not stupid, he's even smarter than 99% of people.

It's hard to imagine how difficult it would be to get such a smart person to do such a stupid thing.

Fortunately, Igor is no ordinary person now.

He is powerful and won the Queen's trust.

Although didn't expect any coup, he still had one last stupid way, that is: using power, single force subduing the ten meetings, and forcibly disrupting the situation.

......

He left his position with a sullen face, and walked in the direction of the carriage, the Queen, and the Captain-General of the Golden Company.

As the only person walking around at the moment, he grabbed everyone's attention as it should be by rights, and even Harry Strickland, who was explaining Daenerys's explanation, rolled his eyes to look at him subconsciously. Looking around, his body froze almost imperceptibly.

Harry felt as if a tiger was slowly approaching oneself, and the goosebumps all over his body instantly surfaced. No, no, this metaphor still can't accurately describe how he feels at the moment - as an experienced and knowledgeable mercenary group leader, even if Harry Strickland encounters a real tiger, he will never have such a violent reaction.

The black clothed prime minister in front of him seems to be a little different from the one oneself met that day?
No, it is very different!
"As the most famous mercenary organization in Essos, the Golden Company is so loyal and disciplined?" Igor didn't stop until he got to Queen's side, he didn't look at the body of the young man in the car, "Prince Aegon As the object of your allegiance, you should have sworn to protect him to the death, but in the end, he died in your hands. As the head of the regiment, you are to blame for this! Come on, take this person down for me and bring him back to King's Landing In the dungeon, strict interrogation and investigation!"

As the Hand of the Queen, Igor can certainly command the Unsullieds, but the problem is: the Queen himself is there.

No soldiers moved, in an instant, everyone's questioning or questioning or bewildering eyes were focused on Daenerys.

"Your Majesty...this..." Harry Strickland was completely unprepared, he was stunned for a moment, he forgot what he said in an instant, and could not help but look at the Queen in a panic. , "My authority is not strict, and the responsibility for mismanagement cannot be shied away. However, for the sake of having executed the murderer and brought back Prince's body intact... Your Majesty, spare your life!"

Daenerys is also a little confused, and the first reaction is that Igor is a little overreacted and superfluous: after questioning, she did not hear any obvious weak spots or loopholes in Harry's answer, and Aegon seemed to have died in a game for no apparent reason. Stupid mercenary riots. The whole world is watching her every move, she can't and shouldn't just throw a surrendering enemy general into prison without a good reason.

However, years of leadership experience also made her know clearly that it is okay to communicate and quarrel in private, but denying the order of oneself Hand of the Queen in public... is a foolish act.

"There are still a lot of doubts about this matter, Head Strickland, I'd like to trouble you... to bend over to accept some investigation and questioning." Daenerys said coldly without wavering on his face, and turned towards Unsullied who looked at her. Commander nodded, it is considered that he approved Igor's order.

So the dozen or so Unsullied soldiers approached Harry like a closed circle, about to collect his weapons.

Strickland's reaction was surprisingly big, he jumped back to hide among his mercenary generals with agility that didn't fit his fat physique at all, and pulled out his sword with a bang. Even the mercenaries who were close to 2/3/2022 followed him and took out the guy.

Hundreds of Unsullied rushed to the Queen with their lances in unison. Mace Tyrell hurriedly led the guards back a few steps to clear the relationship, and the scene instantly became with swords drawn and bows bent.

"Your Majesty, please think twice!" Strickland had no idea what was going on, but decided to give Daenerys one last chance, "I'm here to accept your agreement and surrender to you!"

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(end of this chapter)