Game of Thrones: Viserys the Three-Headed Dragon.

Chapter 174: Gem Gift to Heroes

"Lead us out of darkness, O Allah, and fill our hearts with fire, so that we may obey Your light."

Jorah frowned as he looked at the fire on the flat ground in the remote port, sparks swirling and rising, surging into the sky in the dim morning light. Before the new Night's Watchman Stannis and the knights who had died for him set off north to the Wall, the king allowed the Red God believers in the Night's Watch to light a night fire at the most remote port dock in the town the night before, and pray to their Red God for a safe journey north.

The disturbing lady Melisandre will go with them. It is said that the king originally planned to execute her, but she took the initiative to ask the king to let her go north with the Night's Watch as a sinner to atone for her sins - this is just an external statement. In fact, the king and the lady reached a certain agreement, agreeing that she would not be allowed to perform human sacrifices, agreeing that she would not harm innocent people who would not threaten her, agreeing that she would not be allowed to forcibly spread the faith of R'hllor, and agreeing that she would help guard the Great Wall until her death.
The Night's Watch does not accept women, but there was once a Night's Watch member disguised as a man, Dany Flint. This brave woman chose to disguise herself as a man and join the Night's Watch because of the selfless dedication and glory of the Night's Watch in the story. However, reality is not as good as the ballads. This brave female Night's Watch member was later raped and murdered in the Nightfort while trying to prevent a mutiny among her brothers.

There are songs in the North about the brave young Dany Flint, and they are said to be so touching that they bring tears to anyone who hears them.

But this Lady Melisandre was given the title of Night's Watch advisor in the name of atonement, and Jorah knew that she would never suffer the same fate as Dany Flint.

This lady is blood red and terrifying.

"Ser Jorah, this new batch of Night's Watch brothers." Glendon Hewitt felt a little jealous as he watched the black-clad brothers walking down from the castle one after another in the morning light.

Ser Glendon is the commander of the Night's Watch sent to Dragonstone to receive supplies. He is a member of the Night's Watch stationed at Eastwatch and a knight from the Hewitt family. He is also a friend of Alliser Thorne, the master of Castle Black. Ser Alliser Thorne was once a knight of the Thorne family in the Crown. He fought for the Targaryen family in the War of the Usurper and was a defender of King's Landing. He wore black clothes after the fall of King's Landing.

Therefore, Glendon originally hoped that this relationship would allow him to obtain more supplies on Dragonstone.

However, when he arrived at Dragonstone, Sir Glendon realized how much importance King Targaryen attached to the Great Wall. Not only did he prepare enough supplies to fill the ship, he also sent nearly three hundred new Night's Watchmen to the Great Wall at once, including men, horses, weapons and equipment.

This will undoubtedly add a group of powerful rangers to the Great Wall, but these newcomers
Glendon looked uneasily at the new recruits of the Night's Watch sent by King Targaryen, whom he did not know how to deal with. He asked Ser Jorah, who was in charge of the affairs of the Night's Watch, "What is this?" Jorah would go north with Barristan on the ship of the Golden Company to bear witness for Prince Aegon.

Jorah replied: "This is your new Night's Watch. Didn't you know about this a few days ago?"

"But this." Sir Glendon looked at the new night watchmen. They were divided into two groups. One group was the devout believers who prayed beside the dying night fire, and the other group boarded the ship in silence and watched everything on the dock indifferently from the deck.

Ser Glendon knew that although the Night's Watch was divided, they would obey only one man: Stannis.

This Lord Stannis in black was once a king.

Now Lord Stannis was saying goodbye to his wife at the dock.

He looked stern, while his wife Celis looked fanatical.

The "advisor" Melisandre shouted beside the campfire: "R'hllor, Lord of Light, thank you for giving us Stannis to resist the ruthless darkness. Thank you for giving him a heart as pure as fire, thank you for giving him the red sword of a righteous hero, thank you for giving him endless love for his loyal people. Please guide him, please protect him, R'hllor, please give him the power to defeat his enemies."

“Give him strength,” Lady Selyse and the other Red God followers responded enthusiastically, “Give him courage, give him wisdom.”

Stannis looked at the campfire with a cold face, not knowing what he was thinking. Glendon could even see his mouth moving left and right, as if he could hear the sound of him grinding his teeth.

"My dear husband," Lady Selyse wanted to hug and kiss him passionately, "The Chosen One of R'hllor, the One Chosen by the Hero's Red Sword, I will pray for you devoutly for the rest of my life, waiting for the prophecy to come true!"

Stannis put a hand on his wife's shoulder and struggled against her embrace. He looked at her darkly. "I am a man of the Night's Watch now, and men take their oaths without families. Don't grab me, woman."

"My dear husband." Lady Selyse knelt down enthusiastically, clasping her hands together as if in prayer. "You are a hero, you have your mission, your oath, and the engagement is only the least important part of it. If your fate requires you to abandon it, then abandon it. But I always remember that I was once your wife, and I will always keep my oath for you."

Stannis was silent.

"Lord Stannis? It is time to act," Melisandre put her hand on Stannis' arm. "R'hllor has sent us the sun to warm us and bring us day. With him as our guardian, we will face the relentless darkness." But he did not withdraw from Melisandre as he had from his wife. The Red Woman was nothing like Selyse: young, plump, and strangely beautiful, with a heart-shaped face, copper-colored hair, and mysterious red eyes.

Hearing Melisandre's words, Stannis suddenly shut up and clenched his teeth. "Dragons, gods, darkness, magic, white walkers. Destiny." Stannis had heard about what happened in Braavos. He muttered these words, pulling out the so-called hero's red sword returned to him by King Viserys, watching it emit different lights in the morning light. There was no expression on his face, but there was a bit of pain. "Then set out to meet the so-called destiny."

When Stannis passed by the Onion Knight Davos who came to see him off, he just looked at him deeply without saying a word, and led the team directly to board the Night's Watch ship "Storm Crow". Davos hesitated to speak, and finally just bowed solemnly to Stannis.

Jorah had been waiting at the boarding ramp of the Stormcrow for a long time. When Stannis passed by, he stepped forward and said, "Lord Stannis, the King has another gift for you."

The Red Witch beside Stannis turned her head to look at Jorah, her red eyes looking mysterious in the morning light.

Jorah couldn't help but glance at the ruby ​​necklace at her throat.

Stannis's face remained expressionless: "What did he give me?" But there was something strange in his tone, as if he was curious.

Jorah waved his hand, and the guards behind him took out a square box wrapped in black cloth. Jorah took the box and handed it to Stannis solemnly: "His majesty said that if you encounter danger that you cannot handle, try to pick it up again. This thing may give you the power to fight back. But this thing is very dangerous and may endanger your life. So, unless it is necessary, His Majesty asks you not to try it."

Stannis narrowed his eyes. "Is it a magic item?" Stannis felt inexplicably sad. Today, magic is very popular on Dragonstone. Everyone is discussing magic. Even the king himself is a dragon magician. The world is changing too fast and too drastically. Stannis feels like he is still in a dream, or has unknowingly come to another world.

"You will know when you see it. My mission is accomplished, Lord Stannis." Jorah did not answer directly. After giving the gift, he turned around and said goodbye to Ser Glendon of the Night's Watch. "Ser Glendon, it is almost time for me to board the ship. We will meet at the Wall."

Ser Glendon frowned, looked at Jorah, and said, "Goodbye, Ser Jorah." Then he turned to look at Stannis, "Lord Stannis?"

Stannis looked at Glendon with a serious face: "Ser Glendon, are we ready to go?"

Ser Glendon couldn't help but answer like a subordinate: "Yes, Lord Stannis."

Sir Glendon thought of it inexplicably. According to historical legends, when Master Aemon went north, Lord Brynden the Bloodraven accompanied Maester Aemon as an "honor guard" and went north to the Wall by sea. There were two hundred guards, mainly Lord Brynden the Raven's Tooth Guard, accompanying the Bloodraven. Lord Brynden the Bloodraven later became the commander-in-chief of the Night's Watch.

Now that Stannis has nearly three hundred men with him and was once a king, Ser Glendon realizes that even if the old bear has great prestige - Dragonstone doesn't know what's happening outside the Wall - he might have to consider giving the position of Lord Commander of the Night's Watch to Lord Stannis.

But Stannis saw Jorah leaving after delivering the gift. After boarding the ship, he couldn't resist his curiosity and opened the black package.

Inside the package was an exquisite glass jewelry box, and inside the box, a ruby ​​necklace of the same type as Melisandre's was lying there quietly.

Stannis looked at Lady Melisandre, who had been following closely beside him, but saw that her expression was solemn. She was looking deeply at the Dragonstone Castle, and a strange color flashed in her blood-red eyes.

Stannis realized that despite the lady's secrecy, the sight of this thing had undoubtedly shocked her.

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"You promised to escort the young master to Dragonstone, and we chose to believe you. But you brought us here. This is Pentos, wizard. We missed the Dragon King's wedding! If we hadn't passed through the Stepstones to Tyrosh, we would have had a chance to catch up. And we missed so many things by going to Tyrosh instead. Listen to the rumors. The Golden Company landed in the Stormlands. I dare say that must be the work of His Majesty the Dragon King! He is recovering the Stormlands, and may have completely defeated Stannis before the wedding. Now that the Dragon King's wedding is over, he may have set out to lead his troops to King's Landing. And what were we doing at that time? We were taking the trade route of Pentos along the west coast of Essos, paying tolls to the pirates, Tyrosh and Myr fleets? Did the young master travel thousands of miles to Dragonstone just to give money to these people and then hear the news that King's Landing has changed hands?"

Willas listened to the captain of the guards who was traveling with him talking back to the magician, and finally chose not to continue to mediate this time. This was also something he could not accept. Although he had never actually traveled by sea, he knew from books and the teachings of maesters that to go to Dragonstone, one only needed to sail along the coastline of Westeros. But after crossing the Dorne Sea, Dr. Marwyn, who claimed to be a magician of the Citadel, strongly opposed going north along the coastline of Westeros and insisted on taking the route of Tyrosh-Pentos-Dragonstone.

This made them spend two more weeks to reach Pentos. Now they temporarily stopped in Pentos for supplies, and it would take at least three or four days to sail to Dragonstone. This meant that they wasted nearly twenty days. If they sailed along the coastline of Westeros, they could definitely catch up with the wedding of His Majesty the Dragon King.

"I suggested at the beginning that traveling by land is safer than by sea. And do not be deceived by the speed of the ship on a sunny day, my lord. Do not forget that more than half of the route I take you is a sunny day with favorable winds." The wizard Marwyn was short and fat, with a very thick chest and shoulders. His head was too big for his body, protruding forward from between his shoulders. He had a prominent forehead, a slate-like chin, and his nose had been broken more than once. His teeth were stained a mottled red by sour grass leaves. To be honest, he looked more like a dock thug ready to twist off someone's head than a doctor of the Citadel. But he spoke with an inexplicable convincing power, "Believe me, the Narrow Sea is not peaceful now, and we will only face disaster along the coastline of Westeros."

Willas sighed: "Is this the result predicted by your magic?"

"No, this is the result of my observation at the port of Tyrosh. I asked my acquaintances at the port of Tyrosh. When we arrived at Tyrosh, there had not been a single ship from the Stormlands of Westeros or Dragonstone for nearly half a month. Even the news of the Golden Group landing in the Stormlands was brought by merchant ships from Dorne. What does this mean? This means that either the sea route to Westeros is blocked, or the autumn storm in the Narrow Sea has blocked the route. I said long ago that we should have taken the land route. The land route is much safer and faster than the sea route, especially now that the Narrow Sea in autumn and winter is so capricious. Without a fleet escort, you all don't realize how dangerous it is to cross most of Westeros and reach Pentos with only one ship!"

Willas tried to calm himself down and not let himself appear impatient. He had already been at sea for so long, nearly two months, and it was too late to regret not taking the land route. "So is the route to Dragonstone clear, Doctor, according to your 'observations' this day?"

"There are two pieces of news. Unfortunately, the port of Dragonstone has been blocked. Fortunately, the Throat has not been blocked." In fact, Dragonstone has been unblocked, but the news has not come yet.

The captain of the guard was surprised and said, "Why? Are they really attacking Stormlands or King's Landing? I was just talking nonsense."

They had been at sea for a long time and were now in Pentos. News from the Stormlands and Dragonstone had not yet reached them. They had no idea what had happened on Dragonstone, nor did they know that the Stormlands had been recaptured by Viserys. They also had no idea that because of the assassination at the wedding banquet on Dragonstone, Viserys had blocked Dragonstone and was heading to Braavos.

They had not yet decided that the dragons of Dragonstone were real, that they really existed, though they were half-convinced, and that was why they were so anxious.

As early as in Tyrosh, Master Marwyn had heard about dragons from different people when he stopped to resupply. Although most of those people had heard about it from hearsay and had never seen it with their own eyes, and those who claimed to have seen dragons spread the news among the Tyrosh people like myths, the Tyrosh lord had seen and acknowledged the existence of dragons when he was sent to Dragonstone by envoys.

The Grand Lord admitted it, and proudly proclaimed that he was the first ruler of the Free City to send gifts to His Majesty the Dragon King. Considering that bribery is a normal operation in the election of the Grand Lord of Tyrosh, the Grand Lord of Tyrosh's propaganda may be for political purposes. But this to some extent proves the authenticity of the dragon.

Now they were on their last leg of their journey to Dragonstone.

In response to their questions, Dr. Marwyn simply said, "Anyway, Lord Willas, and this lord. No matter what you think, the Throat is not blocked. I suggest that we set off quickly. Even if we can't enter the port of Dragonstone, we can still go to the Point and Tidehead. Hurry up, the dragon is ahead. Even if you miss everything, there are still dragons to see!"

Speaking of dragons, Marwyn suddenly became excited. "Believe me, a three-headed dragon is not an ordinary creature. I dare say that in the thousands of years since the birth of dragons, only on today's Dragonstone can you see a dragon with three heads! This is definitely the only three-headed dragon in the world in countless epochs! If you can't see it with your own eyes, even the most knowledgeable wizard in Asshai can't explain to you what kind of witchcraft, magic or divine power it is!"

Willas couldn't help but look at the doctor. It was not until today that he realized that the other party was obviously more anxious than them, but he just didn't show it in the past few days. The doctor firmly believed that dragons really existed and was full of curiosity about dragons!
(End of this chapter)