Game of Thrones: Viserys the Three-Headed Dragon.

Chapter 180 Neither Natural nor Magical
The mouth of the Titanosaur is like the hands of other vertebrates. It mainly depends on the mobility of the Titanosaur skull. The mobility of the Titanosaur skull depends on two channels: the "lateral channel" of the skull formed by the quadrate-zygomatic-quadrato-maxilla, and the "palatal channel" formed by the quadrate-pterygoid-mandibular-vomer on the palatal surface.
Daenerys flipped through the cold and rigorous text recorded in "Legendary Creatures: Dragons". These words described the structure of dragons, but made Daenerys feel overflowing malice.

They studied these things, seemingly recording the structure of the dragon's skull. But in the next section, the author changed his tone and began to point out that there were two fatal weaknesses in the dragon's head. One was the gap between the bone pieces at the back of the skull. Although there were also dragon scales and skulls there, in order to allow the dragon's mouth to move flexibly, there was a flexible joint similar to the bone pieces. Below the joint was the dragon's brain that controlled the dragon's movements. Hitting there with a blunt instrument could make the dragon lose balance and unable to fly, and if it could penetrate there and directly damage the dragon's brain, it could directly kill it. The death of Slycos proved this.

The dragon's eyes are theoretically the most vulnerable spot, and piercing the eyes can penetrate deep into the dragon's brain. Mogul's death verified this.

There is also a bifurcated quadrate branch extending dorsally at the rear edge of the pterygoid bone, where the lower wing is connected.
Daenerys couldn't bear to read any further, and felt endless anger welling up in her chest.

Nightfire seemed to sense her anger. It looked coldly at the huge book in Daenerys's hand and made an unsettling low roar from its throat, as if as long as Daenerys gave the order, it would spit out dragon flames without hesitation and burn the book to ashes.

Viserys turned his head. "Weren't we to see only the hatching and raising of dragons?"

Daenerys gritted her teeth and said, "I used to be a little fascinated by the Citadel of Oldtown, but now I really want to burn it to ashes!"

Viserys had already read it. He mainly read the book's discussion on the origin of dragons. Unfortunately, the book was vague about the origin of dragons, but the parts on hatching, raising and taming dragons quoted a lot from Brother Bath's "Dragons, Dragonworms and Longwings: An Unnatural History of the Dragon Race". This shows that Brother Bath's book has an extraordinary status in the Citadel's works on dragons, and it is not as the Citadel claimed to treat "Unnatural History" as nonsense.

Viserys was not very angry, because in the few memories he had seen from the dragonbinder, there were researchers in Valyria who specialized in studying dragons. Those researchers were usually indifferent to dragons, and dragons were often unwilling to approach them.

This suggests that Valyria's researchers are not studying things like "Dragon Postpartum Care", but something more disturbing. Just from what Viserys knows from the outside world, it can be seen that Valyria used blood magic and hybridized different races, including humans.
Viserys actually had a guess. The so-called "demons" that are now roaming the ruins of Valyria may be some kind of hybrid species of Freehold blood magic, and the sea monsters that now live in the Sea of ​​Smoke may have been the food source of the dragons in the Freehold dragon farms. Otherwise, if Valyria really relied on cattle and sheep to feed the dragons, how many cattle and sheep would it take to feed the dragons?
Therefore, the food source for the dragon breeding must be some larger species. Viserys guessed it was a sea monster.

The sea monsters in this world are as real as dragons. When Viserys and Euron met, they saw a sea monster that was probably not very old.

Valyria's study of dragons would only become more bloody and cruel.

It has never been a strange thing for humans to study alien species, but dragons just happen to be related to the Targaryen family.

The position determines the attitude. Viserys must speak up for the dragons and avenge the Targaryen dragons that were harmed by the conspiracy.

But think about it from another perspective. If the name of this book is "Alien: The White Walkers", and it explains in detail the structure and weaknesses of the White Walkers, what attitude would Viserys have towards the Citadel? Would he need to speak up for the White Walkers who are being studied?
The scientific research of the Citadel has crossed the line, and it has crossed the line of the Targaryen family. Viserys's position dictates that he must deal with them seriously.

There is no doubt that Viserys will rectify the academic atmosphere of the Citadel and try and execute all members of secret societies.

What should we do next? Destroy the Citadel completely? Forbid the Citadel to study dragons? Or burn all dragon-related books like Saint Baelor did?

Viserys imagined a scenario where in the future, people who studied dragons in Westeros would be hunted down like witches during the witch hunt, and then flee to Essos to continue their research and form a new secret society.
Viserys knew it. No matter what, the cleansing of the Citadel must be carried out, and the study of dragons must be banned. In this era, ruling ultimately depends on sanctity and force. Reason and kindness can be slowly and carefully discussed when one is invincible and not threatened.

But if the divinity of the dragon is deposed, then Viserys will have to guard against too many things after unifying the realm.

"Dany, calm down. Don't read any more. You're only making yourself angry." Viserys leaned over and closed her book. "I promise you, they will be punished most severely. After I take Oldtown, I will carry out a great purge of the Citadel. All those who have anything to do with the secret society will be completely annihilated by dragon flames, and their bones will be crushed to ashes."

"Unfortunately, it takes at least three to five years for a dragon to become combat-ready, and thirty to fifty years to reach adulthood. Nightfire has grown fast, but it is still far from being able to help you on the battlefield. If a war is coming, a bigger war is even more imminent. Brother, should I continue to hatch these baby dragons? They will need our protection for at least three to five years after they are born, and we have to guard against the covetousness of the so-called 'Targaryen bloodline'. I really don't want the baby dragons I hatch to be occupied by those 'bloodlines' and become a threat to our heirs in the future. Today, I recalled A Dance with the Dragons and compared it with these cold records. I found that too many dragons are sometimes not a good thing."

"During the Dance of the Dragons, the Targaryens were all fools and idiots. They had no ambition and only cared about the Seven Kingdoms. The slave owners in the Valyrian Freehold knew that external expansion was the best way to relieve internal pressure, and there were also the Citadel and the Hightower family behind the scenes. In the final analysis, the Targaryens during the Dance of the Dragons were just a bunch of idiots with dragons. Dany, you can continue to hatch dragons. I have an idea. I think there may be a way to make these baby dragons you hatch become believers of the Ancient Dragon God. I need to try to make them our 'Fremmy and Melisandre'. In that way, even if they have to assist 'Stannis' in the future, they will always be believers of the Ancient Dragon God."

"Really?"

"I want to try."

"How to do it?"

"Just like raising nightfires, I will raise them myself, and I will try to establish a dependent relationship with them. According to the book, the Valyrian and Targaryen ancestors never really tamed dragons. It was only the mysterious connection in their blood that allowed them to drive dragons. The Valyrians used blood witchcraft, whips, and horns to control dragons, and the Targaryens used the blood connection to make dragons recognize them. But nightfires seem to be different from them. Nightfires obey me and you. It's not recognition, it's obedience. I will try to turn this obedience into faith and establish worship. There must be some reason why the gods of this world need believers, and I need believers to verify my guess. Since it is said that dragons are as smart as humans, why can't there be dragons among my believers?"

Viserys also had another consideration. When these dragons became his believers, perhaps he could eliminate the possibility of these dragons being controlled by greenprophets or other mysterious beings through special magic.

After all, the Children of the Forest would be defeated even by the Andals, who worshipped wood gods.

According to Marwyn, the spread of the teachings of the Seven is beneficial to the Citadel, because the Citadel wants to build a world dominated by mortals, and it requires mortals to use a human faith to resist the gods and mysterious forces they hate, giving mortals spiritual sustenance and courage to fight against those mysterious things.

This gave Viserys a hint. That is, even if there was no god in the Cult of the Seven, the belief in the Seven Gods seemed to allow their believers to have a certain ability to resist the influence of other gods.

This shows a possibility, that is, the humans in this world have some kind of power, because the source of the power of the Seven Gods to resist the influence of other gods can only be humans themselves, not gods. Daenerys looked at her brother and nodded seriously: "I will help you. The dragon egg brought out of the tomb of Enar is about to hatch. I have a hunch that if I sing again, it will break out of the shell." Previously, because of the appearance of little Aegon, Daenerys stopped trying to hatch the dragon egg and sang to another dragon egg given by Illyrio.

That's the stance. Viserys and Daenerys were horrified when the priests of R'hllor were manipulated like puppets by the Red God. But when they wanted the dragons to be their puppets and tools, they had no problem with that.

"Dracarys!"

In her dream, Daenerys once again "sang" to the dragon's magic that was gradually changing from dead to lively.

The fire she breathed out in her dream had activated the giant dragon magic in the dragon egg to a certain degree. It could even blink in the magical space of the dream, but its eyes still lacked a trace of life.

But Daenerys could feel that if she sang it once more it would come alive.

She looked at the giant dragon magic standing silently in front of her, staring into its eyes, looking at the dragon eyes that were like lakes of broken gold, as if to inject soul into those lifeless eyes.

How many steps are needed to infuse soul into the dragon-shaped magic in a soulless dragon egg?
The answer is three steps. The first step is to see it in a dream, the second step is to "sing" to it and call it with the flame of the soul in the dream, and the third step is that the magic of the singing flame resonates with the magic of its activation and gives it life.

As Daenerys continued to sing fire to it, the dragon-shaped magic in the dragon egg became more and more active, until it reached a certain critical point, and the dragon-shaped magic faintly emitted a low humming sound in response to the flames spewed by Daenerys.

thump.

Daenerys seemed to hear its first heartbeat.

Thump, thump.

Then came the second and third sounds.

A slow, low heartbeat sounded, gradually picking up the rhythm of Daenerys's magic fire-breathing - or rather, her magic song.

It was not a sound heard by the ears, but some kind of indescribable strange feeling. At a certain moment, Daenerys stopped singing the magic of fire, and she felt that the power in her body was responding to the dragon-shaped magical heartbeat.

dong dong.

Daenerys heard its heartbeat grow stronger, stronger in response to the surge of power within her own body.

Finally, the dragon's golden eyes suddenly closed. When they opened again, they had the spirit of a living creature.

It let out a loud roar in the dream space connected to Daenerys and Viserys, then spread its wings and flew high. As it flapped its wings, its body's magic power burst out, igniting silver-white flames, and in an instant, it turned into a magical dragon covered in silver-white flames.

As the silver-white flame burned, the dragon became smaller and smaller.

Until finally, it turned into a dragon in the shape of a baby dragon, only the size of a crow.

Daenerys realized that this was a new soul formed by the aggregation of its huge magical power.

The dragon-shaped magic in this fossilized dragon egg was given life and soul by her power, and it came alive.

When Daenerys wakes up from her dream.

She saw that the shell of the dragon egg she had been holding before she fell asleep was gradually breaking, cracks appeared, and fragments fell off.

A baby dragon spreads its wings in a broken dragon egg.

Its tiny scales were red-gold, and its horns, wing bones, and crest were silver-white, just like the dragon-shaped magic she had seen in her dream.

(End of this chapter)