Game of Thrones: Viserys the Three-Headed Dragon.

Chapter 181 Basic Knowledge
"Give it a name?"

Viserys took the shining golden little creature in his hand. Perhaps because it was just born and its soul had been cleansed and had no knowledge of magic, the newborn dragon was fearless. It was not as irritable as Nightfire when it was born, nor was it afraid of Viserys' hand infected by the ice dragon's magic like Nightfire is now. Instead, it hissed and breathed at Viserys' hand. It waited to make sure that Viserys' hand would not hurt it, and even did not care that Viserys touched it with that hand.

But every time I stroked its body with that hand, it would tremble all over like a cat that was tickled, straighten its body and make a buzzing sound in its throat.

"Shinyshiny?" Viserys couldn't help but say as he looked at the gold and silver dragon.

"Seriously?" Daenerys frowned. She touched her belly. "How about Prince Gold? In any case, it will be a dragon for the child in the future. Let them grow up together."

"The gold and silver princes remind me of Rhaegar." Silverwing had already been taken by a dragon, otherwise Viserys would have chosen this.

"Shinygold is so weird, Shinygold." Daenerys would never agree with such a delicate name like Shinygold.

"It's a good name." Viserys had no objection. Besides, the name used in Shiny Gold is Shiny, which is different from the name Quick of Silver, the dragon of Aenys I Targaryen. It will not make people think of Silver. After all, Aegon the Uncrowned, the son of Aenys, was usurped from the throne by Maegor I, and Silver and Aegon died in the Battle of Godseye Lake.

So the name of the newborn dragon was confirmed.

Flashing gold.

Viserys was very curious. Once Glittergold could spit fire, the flame it spewed out should be just like the magic shown in his dream. Its flame was silver-white, completely different from the crimson flame spewed out by Nightfire that met Viserys's imagination.

But the essence of their flames should be the same magical substance.

In that book, the study of dragons by the Academy described that there is a special organ in the dragon's throat in the dragon's body structure. The Academy named it the 'Dragon Flame Bag'. It grows larger and longer as the dragon ages. This airbag-like dragon flame bag has many tracheae connected to the dragon's very powerful lungs. Researchers believe that this thing is an unnatural product created by blood, fire, witchcraft and magic.

Countless people have wondered, what fuel does Dragon Flame rely on?
Does it burn like a glass candle but not be consumed? Created out of nothing?

The dragon flame bag seems to prove that the dragon's flames are fueled by a special substance produced in the dragon flame bag. During the dissection process, they obtained a viscous semi-liquid substance from the dragon flame bag that is flammable and burns very violently, and can even burn in water. It is said that the fire magician simulated the characteristics of this substance and produced wildfires similar to dragon flames. The production of wildfire is not some kind of science, but magic and witchcraft. The fire magician puts the materials needed to make wildfire into a manufacturing machine engraved with special spells in a large maze made of black stone, and then does not perform alchemical processing on it, but recites a mixed secret spell to the manufacturing machine to make wildfire.

Back to the dragon flame bag, the researchers have doubts. Even though the dragon flame bag is very large, it is still not enough to explain the source of the dragon's flame. Because the combustible material in the dragon flame bag is less than they thought, it is impossible to support the large amount of dragon flame spewed out in a battle.

After all, the fuel for Dragon Flame is created out of thin air?

Because this special air bag-like dragon flame bag is only connected to the dragon's lungs, and not to other special organs.

In fact, apart from this special organ, there is nothing special about the dragon's body structure.

Speaking of it, the other organs in the dragon's body are very scientific. Its respiratory organs are the same as those of birds. In addition to the lungs, there are also thin membrane air sacs formed by the lung walls. There are 9 main air sacs, which extend into the cavities between the internal organs, muscles and bones to assist the lungs in double breathing.

Like birds, giant dragons can perform double breathing. When resting, giant dragons mainly breathe in the lungs through the movement of the intercostal muscles and abdominal muscles. When flying, they mainly breathe through the movement of the chest muscles. When inhaling, part of the inhaled gas enters the lungs for gas exchange, and part directly enters the air sacs; when exhaling, the gas that previously entered the air sacs enters the lungs again for gas exchange.

Gigantosaurus has a vast network of bronchioles, in which the airflow is in the opposite direction of the blood flow in the pulmonary capillaries. This countercurrent exchange allows the efficiency of oxygen extraction to be much higher than that of other animals.

The dragon has a very large heart with a fast heartbeat and high pressure, resulting in rapid circulation.

After all, the dragon only has one special magical organ, the Dragon Flame Bag.

This made the researchers at the academy feel very puzzled.

A reasonable explanation is that the dragon produces this substance in its body while breathing fire during battle, but a dragon only has one special organ, so how can the fuel be produced out of thin air?

It was obvious that this situation, which could only be explained by magic and witchcraft, made the researchers at the Citadel very uncomfortable.

Trying to explain witchcraft and magic with a reasonable theory while excluding the witchcraft part, the Academy is destined to only get a specious explanation.

So their questions were not answered in this book.

Viserys knew why, because the dragon's dragon flame bag was just a magic processing plant, it was not the essence of the dragon's flame. The essence of the dragon's flame was the dragon's roar before it spewed fire, and the special vibration frequency triggered the dragon's magic organs. It was speculated that part of the dragon's flesh and blood was processed by the dragon's special organs in the process, and was consumed and transformed into the magic substance needed for dragon flame.

The dragon's flames certainly did not come out of thin air, but were the result of the dragon's witchcraft, the witchcraft of blood and fire.

Viserys guessed that the reason why the newly born Golden Dragon's future dragon flame would be silver-white might be because of the same shape as its dragon egg and dragon scales. It might be due to some pigment in its body, or it might be related to the mineral content of the fossil dragon egg.

A dragon in stone.

Speaking of which, Viserys was also surprised by Daenerys's power. In a sense, it was Daenerys's power that gave life to the stone. Although there was a lot of magic in the fossil dragon egg, it was given life through fire, and it seemed that it did not suffer serious damage, which could be called a miracle.

Daenerys was visibly in good spirits, and at the end of the dragon hatching, a new dragon soul was born from the dragon's magic. It was Daenerys who gave new life to the magic in the dragon egg. Viserys was not sure whether Daenerys's attempt satisfied the true essence hidden in the dragon hatching condition "only death can exchange for life", or whether she had completely broken this condition.

Or perhaps a bolder guess is that Daenerys's attempt has already approached the essence of the world's magic. The so-called "song", the song of fire may represent some of the power to create life, and Daenerys has inadvertently been using this power?
But these are not certain, and Viserys needs more magical knowledge to understand the mysteries.

Speaking of which, Viserys and Daenerys's understanding of the magic in this world was that they first saw the castle in the air at the top, and then saw the foundation after Marwyn arrived. In addition to bringing them the warning from the Citadel, Marwyn also brought them the basic introductory knowledge of magic and witchcraft for normal people.

Whether it is Asshai or some of the serious magical knowledge passed down in Valyria, the basis of magic and witchcraft is the corresponding spell runes of meditation, which are activated through special movements and unique spell language.

Viserys asked Marwyn for a rune meditation method that was very popular among Asshai mystic researchers and had a very high degree of universality. It consisted of seven special spell runes and fourteen meditation movements. The seven special spells were four commonly used witchcraft methods: "fire, water, spirit, and shadow", and the other three runes were used to improve one's "soul, body, and spirit".

Viserys discovered that the pronunciations of these spell languages ​​all had one thing in common: high-pitched and sharp, with strange pronunciations, not like human voices.

These spell languages ​​seem to be simulated from non-human voices. Learning these spell languages ​​of magic and witchcraft seems to be through some way, with special movements to alienate people's vocal organs and body shapes, so that people can make non-human sounds.

Viserys had a feeling that not only the language of the spell, but also the meditation movements that required coordination were very similar to the human species using human organs and bodies to forcibly adapt to certain knowledge and abilities that humans could not understand and that were not within the scope of human function that could be recognized and learned.

He even had a guess that this knowledge was captured from some non-human-understandable phenomenon, summarized through countless generations of experience, and was part of what humans could forcibly adapt and learn.

Previously, Marwyn lit the torches of everyone in the patrol team using the "fire" rune spell from this meditation method.

Marwyn chanted this spell, and his mental force attracted the power of some kind of flame in the air, thus igniting the torch.

In Asia, this introductory rune meditation method can be used to determine whether a person has the talent and ability to learn magic.

For example, if someone can quickly master the "fire" rune meditation, it proves that this person has the potential to become a fire wizard. Fire wizards in Asshai are generally related to R'hllor.

"Water" corresponds to water magic and is related to the beliefs of the ancient Loina people.

"Spirit" is more evil, which fits the necromancer. It is said that there are necromancers who can use corpses in Asia. These people claim to be descended from the corpse city of Stya, where even the shadow binders dare not set foot. According to legend, the history of Stya can be traced back to the Kingdom of Dawn.

"Shadow" corresponds to the Shadowbinder, and is also closely related to the faith of R'hllor.

But don't expect too much from the magic of this world.

Take the fire mages, who are the most numerous in Asia, for example. Fire mages generally use various means to ignite fire, but most of them need to use props and powders to make magic-like attempts to ignite fire - compared to magicians, they are more like jugglers who control fire.

Someone like Marwyn, who could ignite fire simply by performing actions and reciting runes with his strong mental power, could be considered a leader among fire sorcerers. This was enough to shock people at the warlock gathering in Asshai and make them exclaim, "This kid is so terrifying."

A powerful shadowbinder like Melisandre is a master among masters in Asshai. Most shadowbinders can only use shadows to blur people's vision and use powder to make people hallucinate. Melisandre's ability to create shadow killers is a unique skill even in Asshai, and remotely igniting animal organs is a skill that many pyromancers can never achieve in their lifetime.

In this world, there is no systematic stage to judge the power of a magician. As long as one learns a strange magical method, he can be called a master.

Of course, this is the side of the city of Yashai that ordinary people consider normal and seemingly acceptable.

Of course, Yashai, a city without taboos, also has a side that appears evil, dark, bloody and terrifying to outsiders.

In Asia, the simplest, quickest to learn, but also the most dangerous are blood magic and black magic. These magics and witchcrafts that are taboo elsewhere usually require corresponding rituals. These rituals are usually horrifying, primitive and barbaric, blasphemous, evil and terrifying, and often require blood and sacrifice.

It can be said that Melisandre's human roasting is the lightest and most easily accepted magical ritual by outsiders in Asshai.

Perhaps it is precisely because the other side of Asia is so evil and unrestrained that the city of Asia is shrouded in evil.

Dr. Marwin said that there were almost no species other than humans living on the land of Asshai, and even livestock raised by humans would die without exception after arriving in Asshai by boat. In Asshai, the land could not grow food, and food and drinking water were completely provided by merchant ships. In addition to humans, there seemed to be only a kind of fish with a hideous and twisted appearance living in the poisonous black water of the Ash River, which was the only two species in the city.

The evil horror of that city is so disturbing that just talking about it makes people uncomfortable.

It is the most primitive, ignorant and evil place for human beings to study magic and witchcraft. It is also the place where the world conducts the most in-depth and systematic research on magic and witchcraft.

The rune meditation method brought back by Marwyn undoubtedly has very strong universal value and is very worthy of reference for Viserys and Daenerys.

It is strange that Viserys and Daenerys are already the most powerful wizards and magicians in the world, but it is only today that they learn the basic knowledge of this world from Marwyn.

(End of this chapter)