Game of Thrones: Viserys the Three-Headed Dragon.

Chapter 143 The Secret of Dragon Flame

"Dracarys!"

Viserys placed his hand on the scales of Nightfire's throat and commanded Nightfire to breathe fire.

His hand could feel the heat gathering in Yehuo's throat. Its jaw was bulging and making some strange vibrations. With this vibration, the scales on Yehuo's throat were visibly hot.

As the tremor subsided, a dragon flame of moderate size spewed out from Nightfire's mouth, igniting the pile of firewood in front of it. The dragon's flames were becoming increasingly fierce, and the firewood pile soon began to emit fierce smoke and burn violently under Nightfire's continuous fire.

Viserys reached toward its mouth and found it was hot, breathing out a scalding breath.

It makes perfect sense. The little dragon's flesh and blood will be burned by the flames, so even though it can theoretically spit fire for longer, the flesh and blood in its mouth is not thick enough, and can only support about ten heartbeats. Its mouth can't withstand the fire it spit out, so it has to shut up and rest.

The immature dragon is used to spitting out fire in puffs, but its flame is still too weak.

Viserys loosened his grip.

Every time he felt the vibration in Nightfire's throat, Viserys was very curious, wondering which bones, flesh, tissue and organs were moving in its throat to make such a strange sound.

Legend has it that before the Targaryen dragons became extinct, everyone who had seen a dragon had heard of a terrifying roar when the dragon was preparing for battle. When people heard that sound, they knew that it was the dragon's throat accumulating flames, which was the prelude to the eruption of dragon flames.

But people only think that the roar of the dragon is a manifestation of deterrence and animal behavior, but they have never thought that roaring before breathing fire may be a necessary step for the dragon to breathe out dragon flames.

Ever since Viserys heard that magic is "song", he turned his attention to this.

It was a reasonable guess that the dragons in this world had fire-breathing organs that emitted vibrations through a certain tissue in the body, condensing the magical substance in the body - Viserys guessed it was a blood and flesh coagulation in a special sac in the throat - into a flammable semi-gas, semi-liquid substance through the vibrations of a special organ.

This combustible substance has strong adhesion and can continue to burn even if it sticks to other substances after being ignited. This is why the dragon flame of this world's giant dragon is difficult to extinguish.

Viserys and Nightfire can both breathe fire, but their natures are really different.

Viserys's fire-breathing organ is actually his head, his horns are the magical core that spews flames, and his mouth is the final destination of the magic of the entire fire-breathing organ.

He didn't need to vibrate his throat to breathe out fire.

Viserys thought that if he could understand the operating logic of the various organ structures in Nightfire's body when it breathed flames, he could use magic to simulate and construct the fire-breathing organs of the dragons of this world, and this might be how he used the magic of this world.

But unfortunately, Viserys had no way of knowing the internal structure of the dragon, and could only try to remember and imitate the strange frequency of Nightfire's throat when it breathed fire.

Viserys guessed that one form of "singing" might be vibration waves.

As a person from another world, Viserys understands "song" as "wave", sound wave, electromagnetic wave, light wave, gravitational wave.
Anyway, no matter whether it was true or not, he decided to try using the simplest sound waves first to see if he could trigger the unusable magic power in his body.

Speaking of which, when the Red God Priest restored the Faceless Man's body in prison, he made some indescribable sound.

Viserys and Daenerys compared the sounds they heard and found that the sounds they described were different. There was no doubt that it was the magic trained by the priests of the Red God, which was performed with sound and perhaps coordinated with actions.

But its essence must be to use some special sound waves to mobilize magic.

Viserys transformed into dragon form and tried to make sounds with his throat.

"Dra~carys~" He pronounced the most standard Valyrian word for "dragon flame", and then began to try to grasp the strange vibration rhythm of Nightfire's throat when he just breathed fire, trying to break down the words of Valyria when commanding the dragon to breathe fire into a series of strange rhythms.
Nightfire looked at Viserys with its big, curious eyes. Despite trying several times, it still seemed to not understand what Viserys was doing.

Daenerys, who was observing the red comet in the sky in an open space nearby, heard the sound and turned back to look at Viserys and Nightfire who were standing by the woodpile. Seeing that the sounds coming out of Viserys' mouth were getting weirder and weirder, she couldn't help but shook her head.

The red comet with a long tail was slightly further south than yesterday. The strange thing was that its tail was obviously very long, and sometimes the light it emitted could even illuminate most of the sky. However, it had appeared in this world for a long time, but it still had not covered the entire sky above our heads.

Maester Pylos said that based on the stargazing records from the Citadel, they calculated the orbit of the comet and it would stay in this sky for at least one to two years before leaving.

This is the speculation made by the stargazers in the academy based on their observations, and is the result of scientific argumentation.

Daenerys' brother Viserys believes that the red star represents magic. Although they have learned that the truth about magic is "song", Viserys still believes that the red comet in the sky is closely related to magic.

So he asked Daenerys to try looking at the star before meditating.

Daenerys has been observing the star every sunny morning through Maester Pylos' lens. Looking at its red glow for too long makes her feel uneasy.

As Viserys described, the stars wept blood. Looking at the red comet in the sky for a long time would make Daenerys think of blood.

After stargazing, Dany sat cross-legged on the ground solemnly.

This is a pile of rocks on the back of a rarely visited mountain deep in Dragon Mountain. Daenerys is standing on a huge rocky surface.

She turned her gaze to the dragon eggs lying on several layers of sheepskin - the sheepskins on the ground were all skins of wild goats hunted by Nightfire, and Viserys had burned them with fire, so there was a strange smell of burnt and faint blood.

The dragon egg was red-gold in color with white wavy edges, and the patterns on its petrified scales carried an ancient temperament.

This was the dragon egg that she and Viserys had taken from Aena's arms in the Targaryen family tomb. It was huge and lifeless, like a dead object.

But Daenerys knew it was not dead, there was a huge magic in the dragon egg. The magic took the shape of a dragon, most of the dragon's scales were red gold, and the horns, wing bones and crest were silver-white.

"Only death can buy life."

According to Viserys, the magic inside the dragon egg can be awakened into a truly living dragon through some cruel blood sacrifice method.

They will not attempt blood sacrifices.

But Daenerys has a mysterious magical connection with the dragon egg. After knowing that the truth of the magic is "song", Viserys wants her to try to "sing" to the dragon egg.

Although he had no idea how to sing it, Viserys still gave some suggestions.

Let Daenerys try holding the dragon egg in her arms, closing her eyes and meditating, trying to communicate with it through thoughts to see if she can communicate through magic.

This is not Viserys's fault. In the original world line, Daenerys often had close contact with the dragon eggs around her, which established some kind of connection and eventually hatched a giant dragon.

Although the ritual memories hidden in her blood may have been cleared away when Viserys devoured the dragon soul, Daenerys' mysterious connection to the dragon egg still exists and is stronger.

So this suggestion, which seems to be made on the spur of the moment, is really worth a try.

Daenerys sat on this huge rock platform, and as her brother Viserys said, she sat cross-legged, picked up the dragon egg beside her, held it in her arms, controlled her breathing rhythm, and tried to enter a state of emptying her mind. It was a very strange scene.

Fortunately, this place is rarely visited, and people have no way of knowing that the Targaryen King and the Regent Princess of Dragonstone are conducting occult research here in broad daylight.

The petrified dragon egg gradually grew warm in her arms.

To this day, Daenerys is no longer surprised, because this is a normal manifestation of the magic power emitted by the dragon eggs.

The egg had been like this every time she had held it in her hands since she had acquired it. She had experienced this feeling countless times, which seemed amazing to others, but it was the same when she placed the egg next to Viserys, or even next to a nightfire to slowly warm it.

After all, all three of them have dragon souls obtained from Daenerys, and there is some kind of common magic from Daenerys that can resonate with the magic of the dragon eggs.

But this response cannot change the fact that the dragon egg still cannot be activated.

Sometimes, Daenerys would have some sudden ideas, such as roasting dragon eggs near the magma, trying to use the heat of the hot lava to burn and crack the dragon eggs.

Because during the contact process, they found that dragon eggs would absorb high heat.

When a dragon egg is placed in a very hot place, such as a brazier or near lava, you can see the heat ripple around the dragon egg, and the heat waves lick the surface of the stone, making it glow.

But this is actually an illusion. The essence is that the magic power emitted by the dragon egg is mixed with the heat waves in the air.

A similar phenomenon could be seen when Viserys or Nightfyre were observed on their scales when they were in areas with sufficient heat.

That just means that in this environment, their magic power instinctively blends with the scorching air. They adapt to this environment and love it.

This doesn't keep the dragon egg alive.

"Only death can buy life."

A real dragon can fly and breathe fire. It is made of living flesh and blood, not magical stone.

She sat with her eyes closed, emptying her mind, calming herself and achieving a state of mental relaxation.

She had been meditating these days according to Viserys's teachings. Although she had not gained anything mysterious, emptying her mind was really a magical way to rest. Every time she finished meditating like this, she felt particularly relaxed and comfortable.

Gradually, she entered a mysterious state of relaxation like meditation, and everything in the world seemed to become relaxed and quiet.

The whole world seemed to be cut off from the moment, and the only things she could hear were her own heartbeat and breathing.

"D~r~a~c~a~r~y~s~"

The strange song Viserys was attempting stretched out in her ears, becoming stranger and stranger, until it was utterly muddled and grotesque.

Suddenly, she had a strange idea.

Life, flesh, fire.

A certain thought seized her mind, and she recovered from the miraculous state of meditation and relaxation. She was not sure whether this action was madness or some kind of inspiration that penetrated the truth.

She looked toward Viserys first.

Her brother was still trying to decipher the Valyrian word for "dragon fire" as Nightfire's throat throbbed as he breathed fire.

And she seemed to have discovered some truth earlier than her brother.

She stood up and held the dragon egg to Viserys. She asked, "Brother, I want to try using my blood, a drop of blood, and then roasting the dragon egg in a high heat. Just like I gained magic from dragon bones and dragon eggs, and then transferred it to you through dreams. This dragon egg may absorb my blood, just like you-"

"No." Viserys stopped her from saying anything further. "Dany, to be honest, I have long thought that the method of blood catalyst might be able to hatch dragon eggs. But using your blood or someone else's blood is essentially a blood sacrifice. Your blood really has magical power, so don't try it lightly. Ancient magicians have a term called 'the fire of life', and the medium for using it is blood. The ancients believed that there was no difference between a drop of blood and a bucket of blood, or the 'fire of life' transported through magical media, because its essence is to use blood to establish a magical connection. I don't want you to try this."

The blood of the king and the ancient bloodline passed down for a long time in this world are powerful. Melisandre, who is beside Stannis, can prove this. Stannis's "fire of life" has been used by Melisandre and he dares not use it anymore.

"I thought I had discovered some great secret, but it turns out you had already thought of it." Daenerys felt a little disappointed. She really wanted to help.

"Don't think so. You've done a good job." Viserys paused and asked her, "By the way, what prompted you to come up with this idea?"

Viserys wanted to trace the source, he believed that all inspiration had its reason.

Daenerys thought carefully about the flash of inspiration she had just experienced, and said, "I have become more and more proficient in meditating to enter that magical state of relaxation in the past few days. Before meditating, I held the dragon egg and thought of what you said, 'Only death can exchange for life', and then I began to meditate. If I had to say what touched me, I heard the strange sound you made." Daenerys tried hard to recall the strange and chaotic pronunciation, "'D~r~a', I can't make those strange sounds, it's so strange."

"Hmm, maybe it's because the sound of the human throat in reality limits you." Viserys suddenly had an idea. "Go to your dreams, Dany, try it in your dreams. Let's go back to the castle! Let's touch the dragon bone."

With the idea in mind, Viserys was a man of action. He immediately transformed, took Daenerys with him, picked up the dragon egg, stepped on the firewood, and flew up the mountain.

Viserys flew so fast that Nightfire could only follow slowly from behind. It soon lost him, but it had gotten used to it and just followed the old route over Dragon Mountain back to the castle.

They quickly entered Longshan from the cave on the east side of Longshan, touched a piece of dragon bone, and hurried back to the castle.

Viserys was afraid that Daenerys' inspiration was lost.

There was a sense of excitement that made it difficult to fall asleep during the day, but fortunately, they had already established a very good understanding over such a long time.

Soon, Daenerys fell asleep.

She did not forget Viserys's instructions. In her familiar waking dream, she tried to make that strange sound: "D~r~aD~r~a~c~a~r~y~s~"

Daenerys was stunned. In her dream, she actually made the strange sound in its entirety.

What surprised her even more was that as she made that strange sound in her dream, she suddenly had an inspiration, opened her mouth and spewed out flames.

It felt as if, in the dream, she was also a dragon.

But what can the fire in the dream do?

Daenerys realizes that she can "sing" to the dead dragon in its egg in her dreams.

(End of this chapter)