In the world that Arthur lives in, although magic is rare, it is by no means non-existent.
Not to mention, among the group of mercenaries around them, there were more than a dozen of them wearing bronze plate armor with magic runes on them.
Generally speaking, the magic in the entire world can be divided into blood magic, water magic, shadow magic, fire magic, and special abilities such as "alien" and "green prophet" among the ancestors.
The most famous blood magic is that Daenerys, the dragon mother, used the three lives of the horse king, the witch, and the child in her belly to give the inner soul of three dragon eggs, and hatched three dragons from these dragon egg fossils.
The more famous shadow magic is that in the original book, Melisandre, the witch of the Lord of Light, used Stannis's shadow to kill Renly and Cortanai Penros, the acting lord of Storm's End.
Of course, the Lord of Light also has other magical abilities such as resurrection, prophecy in fire, making swords burn, etc.
Water magic is exclusive to the Rhoynar. The most recent appearance was when the Rhoynar were driven to Dorne by the Valyrian people. Nymeria, the surviving leader, manifested several oases.
Aliens and green seers are the most common magic methods. It is said that only one alien appears in a thousand ancestors, and one green seer appears in a thousand aliens. The so-called aliens are those who can easily enter animals
consciousness, and then control the animal's actions.
Among the six members of the younger generation of the Wolf family, Robb, Jon, Bran, Arya, and Rickon all have alien abilities, which shows the power of the Stark family bloodline.
Arthur speculated that this might have something to do with Ed's father Rickard marrying a Stark, which strengthened the bloodline of the Wolf family.
If there is magic, there will naturally be magical creatures.
White Walkers, children of the forest and dragons are relatively common magical creatures.
As far as Arthur knew, the White Walkers were transformed from living humans. The owner of Custer's Fortress north of the Great Wall sacrificed his sons to the White Walkers.
Considering that Custer himself was a Stark ranger and a wildling, and Custer took his daughters as wives, many of the White Walkers are Starks.
The Children of the Forest lived in this land before the First Men conquered Westeros, so the origin of dragons is very mysterious.
One theory is that magical creatures do not occur naturally, but require magic to be applied to the prototype creature in order to be born.
There is a dragon-like creature called a long-winged dragon in the continent of Sothothros. It is smaller than the Valyrian dragon and cannot breathe fire. One of the Bath monks believed that the dragon was the Valyrian blood wizard using the long-winged dragon.
Created.
Of course, there are other theories about the origin of dragons.
The same monk of Bath once recorded a legend of Asshai: a mysterious people tamed dragons in the Land of Shadows, and then gave the art of controlling dragons to Valyria.
Some people also record that the Valyrians discovered dragons in the Fourteen Fire Peaks of the ring peninsula and learned the art of controlling dragons.
But this does not explain why only the forty noble families of Valyria can ride dragons, and ordinary Valyrian people do not receive preferential treatment from dragons.
Judging from the fertility situation of Maegor, the son of King Aegon I, a dragon king family like Targaryen should have a big secret.
Maegor married six wives, three of whom were human wives and one a Pentos courtesan. These four wives were all good at giving birth, but after marrying Maegor, they could only give birth to lizard-shaped, half-dragon, half-human dead babies.
Although Maegor's childlessness was affected by the poison caused by Tiana, the courtesan of Pentos, poison could not cause the dead baby to take on the shape of a lizard.
This is enough to show that the bloodlines of the forty Dragon King families are different from ordinary humans.
Back to business.
After choosing the largest black dragon egg, Arthur ordered people to find a large number of branches, hay, firewood, etc. to form a circle, and then placed the black dragon egg and Emperor Qiao in the center of the fire sacrifice pile.
Of course, in order to ensure that the hatched dragon recognized his master, Arthur cut his hand open and the blood dripped onto the black dragon egg.
Joffrey's mouth was gagged all the way and he couldn't speak. He could only threaten and curse a few words when he took a break to eat.
Now, no matter how ignorant he was, he knew that it was a matter of life and death.
So he twisted his body desperately and tried his best to push out the rag blocking his mouth with his tongue.
"Let me go, and I will give you whatever you want. I am the king, the guardian of the entire territory, and the owner of the Iron Throne..."
"Save it." Arthur ordered someone to light a fire. "If you die, won't I be able to steal your things?"
Whoosh!
The dry grass first emitted black smoke, and then a red flame floated. The flames jumped like a snake to the branches and wood, and the latter began to burn.
Crackling!
Since this place is close to the Sea of Dorne, there is a lot of moisture in the branches and firewood. This causes billowing black smoke to rise quickly from the fire ritual pile, and Joffrey's figure is thus covered.
"Ah~"
At dusk, in the thick smoke, this pure-blooded Lannister let out the most brutal scream since his birth.
More than two hundred mercenaries were very interested in this scene and gathered in a circle to discuss it.
Their hometown of Qohor also often holds fire rituals, and they are familiar with blood magic that always fails.
"I think this gentleman's approach is wrong. He should be killed first and perform blood magic while his blood is hot."
"I don't know what it means to lay a dragon egg? Do you still want to hatch a dragon?"
The bachelor who followed, Coburn, took out a small notebook, lay down on a big rock and started recording.
Arthur had brought him here because the man knew some Valyrian, so he was prepared.
"What are you remembering?"
"My lord." Qyburn didn't even raise his head, writing with a feather pen, "I am recording the discovery of the dragon egg fossil and the burning of the king and the dragon egg together."
He actually wanted to use Joffrey for human experiments.
After all, not every bachelor has the opportunity to come into contact with the king's body.
But now it seems that all he can get is the burnt body of the king.
Arthur thought for a while and decided to let Cobain continue recording.
Among the nobles of the Seven Kingdoms, Hightower is the most sinister. The academy in his family's territory is secretly eliminating traces of magic in this world.
Qyburn was born in the Citadel, but he was very interested in living experiments. Let him try in this area, maybe he can really discover some hidden truths.
The fire still had to burn for a long time, so Arthur ordered the cooks in the team to start cooking dinner, and the entire team began to rest.
Late at night, after adding more firewood to the fire sacrifice pile three or four times, a strange scream came from the fire.
The dragon finally hatched.
The fire ritual pile was almost extinguished, and a black two-legged pterosaur slowly crawled out and moved towards Arthur's location.
This is a young enough dragon, about the size of a two-and-a-half-year-old hen. But the young dragon is obviously much more aggressive than the hen.
Its whole body is neatly lined with small, sharp spines. Its legs end in talons similar to those of a falcon. Its tail is long and winding, with spines at the end and possibly barbs.
The red light emanating from the baby dragon's eyes is even more frightening to see.
It is worth mentioning that this dragon's wings are surprisingly large, disproportionate to its small body.
This means it can bear more weight.
Maybe when he reaches adulthood, he can wear dragon armor to reduce the damage from crossbows, javelins and other weapons on the ground.
【Please name your magic pet】
A blue light curtain appeared, reminding Arthur that it was time to give a name.
"Alduin."
Arthur typed the name with his mind.
This is the name of a black dragon. It is a suitable name for the baby dragon hatched from the black dragon egg.
[Alduin (riding pet) has joined your team]
[Note: You can ride a dragon after your riding skill is greater than 10]
Arthur looked at this note and suddenly became happy.
Since many character skills are temporarily unavailable, his skill points are all added to running, iron bones, and strong attacks.
The riding skill when the system is activated has three points, which have never been added.
Each upgrade has two skill points, and when you add ten points to it, you need to upgrade to at least four levels.
Although the upgrade is a bit slow, as long as he meets the requirements of riding skills greater than ten, he will be able to ride a dragon. By then, Alduin must have grown up.
Arthur had previously worried that he might not be able to ride a dragon. After all, according to Ice and Fire's worldview, only a person with the blood of the forty dragon king families in Valyria could ride a dragon.
The conditions for riding a dragon without the blood of the Dragon King were too harsh, and the cost of one's life was not something he considered.
Unexpectedly, the system enabled this trick for him, so that he no longer had to regret not being able to ride the dragon.
It was already late at night, and only a few people saw the baby dragon crawling onto Arthur, which greatly impacted their perceptions.
The young man Gendry knelt down first and put his head to the ground. He was born in King's Landing, so naturally he had been to the burned dragon's lair and knew what dragons meant.
The few remaining mercenaries who were keeping vigil knelt down, and they were not as pious as Gendry.
As people from the continent of Essos, the mercenaries have far less respect for dragons than the people of Westeros.
Arthur ordered them to get up and do whatever they had to do.
…
The next day, almost everyone knew about the birth of the black baby dragon, which made Arthur's image suddenly become mysterious.
Naturally, Qyburn didn't get the king's corpse he wanted, because Joffrey's body was burned to ashes, not even large bones.
Most of the people in the team were discussing the birth of the baby dragon. Of course, their eyes looked at Arthur as passionately as they looked at the baby dragon.
Bracken didn't care about the fiery looks these people looked at him. After ordering the traces of the fire sacrifice pile to be cleaned, he led the entire team, Alduin and the remaining six dragon eggs northward.
Emperor Qiao's death and the origin of the dragon were ordered by him to be kept strictly confidential.
In the process of hatching a dragon, there are basically no outsiders involved, which allows the matter to be spread only among this group of people for the time being.
As for Joffrey's death, Arthur's theory was that Joffrey wanted to escape at night, but ran into the Kingswood and was mauled to death by a group of wild boars.
After another dozen days of riding, the group finally arrived near the Blackwater River.
Here, Arthur learned about the latest situation on the mainland.
Spurred by the siege of King's Landing by the combined forces of the North and the River, Stannis led more than a hundred longships south, defeating part of the Redwyne fleet along the way, and reached Shipbreaker Bay, preparing to besiege Storm's End Castle.
As for West Hejian, Robb first sent out a few small groups of decoy troops outside the Golden Tooth City. This made Jaime, who was defending the city, very irritated. He then went out of the city to chase the small group of northern troops, but he was surrounded by them.
James was captured again.
Robb then took the hostages to the Golden Tooth City to persuade them to surrender, but was rejected by the defenders. So the Young Wolf Lord led his troops to attack the Westerlands through the path discovered by the direwolves, and marched all the way to Lannister Port.
The interception battle organized by Edmure did not have much effect. Tywin's army successfully crossed the Red Fork River and then pursued them to the Golden Teeth City.
In order to allow Robb's army to withdraw to the West River to fight the Western Army, Lord Tywin then sent a large number of small troops to implement the "scorched earth policy", which made the farmers in the West River miserable.
The response method of the Fish and Wolf Alliance was to send more than 10,000 people on the eastern front to continue westward to fight against the small force of the Shi Family in the West River.
On the battlefields between Hejian and the Western Territory, the Fish and Wolf Alliance temporarily has the upper hand, but the situation in the Northern Territory is very worrying.
When Robb became king of Riverrun, he sent Theon Greyjoy to the Iron Islands to bring reinforcements.
Theon is the only living son of King Balon, the leader of the Iron Islands. After there were no hostages in the north, King Balon sent most of the ironmen to invade the Moat of Cailin. In order to get his father to accept him, Theon was even more active.
He personally led people deep into the hinterland of the Northern Territory and captured Deepwood Castle and Torun Square City.
This made quite a few soldiers in the northern border become homesick and their morale was slightly unstable.
In the south, Renly, who was stationed at Bitterbridge, already knew of the disastrous defeat at Shipwreck, so he led an advance force of nearly 20,000 cavalry eastward to prepare for the rescue of Storm's End.
Of course, the worst thing is Cersei in King's Landing. It is said that she has been driven crazy by the disappearance of King Joffrey I. Her cursing and roaring can be heard in the Red Keep all day long.
However, the "rebels" neutralized the king's territory, and there was no news of her son in the riverlands.
Arthur was not a cruel person, so he sent two mercenaries to King's Landing to inform him of Joffrey's death, so that Cersei could stop longing for her son's return.
"Just say that he was mauled to death by a wild boar during his escape. Let Cersei remember Joffrey's death on my head and don't cause trouble to the Wolf family."
Legend has it that after the late King Robert was seriously injured by a wild boar and died, Cersei loved to eat wild boar meat. Now that she heard that her eldest son was also mauled to death by a wild boar, I don’t know how she felt.
After King's Landing learns of Joffrey's death, they will definitely make Tommen king again.
Then the two deer brothers continued to compete with King's Landing for the Iron Throne.
In more than ten days, Alduin has doubled in size. Although it cannot spit out fire, Arthur has learned the pronunciation of fire in High Valyrian.
"Dracarys!"
Although there are still little devils in King's Landing, without the coalition forces as a backbone, Arthur doesn't want to lead such a small number of people to fight with four or five thousand golden robes, so after crossing the Blackwater River, he led the people north to Harren
fort.
Once there, he can decide what to do next.
…
Ten days later, Harrenhal.
This castle is not much different from when I left it almost two months ago, except for the addition of more northern soldiers.
"Open the door quickly, the Earl of New Shili City is back." The soldiers guarding the city shouted.
The leader, Arthur, was confused by this title.
He doesn’t remember that he had this title!
Only when he entered the Hall of One Hundred Furnaces and saw Sansa Stark, Herman Talha, Robert Glover and others stationed here did he know what was going on.
