Game of Thrones: Viserys the Three-Headed Dragon.

Chapter 183 Black Stone Stele
The place was filled with the stench of decay, as if the carcasses of fish and some indescribable animals were exposed in the endless black mud.

The black mud was disgusting and slimy, and it had a strange oily sheen in the rain.

A few daredevils proved that the fishing village full of black mud could be entered normally. Although in this way, the leather armor worn by the soldiers in the stormy days would have to be washed many times to remove the stench when they retreated. The knights didn't care, after all, it was their servants who were uncomfortable.

Sir Mond arranged the affairs of each team, frowned, and led the team into the black mud of the fishing village in the heavy rain.

Even if you cover your mouth and nose with sackcloth and plug your nostrils with the herbal pills provided by the scholar, the stench here cannot be covered up. It's so smelly that it drives you crazy.

Someone found human body parts and traces of bonfires on the wooden stakes in the middle of the fishing village, which proved that some unique and brutal blasphemous rituals had indeed taken place here.

Ser Mond walked over to where the scouts had reported finding the body parts.

This is an open space in the middle of the fishing village, with a dozen wooden frames built around a huge rock platform at a certain distance. The poor dead were hung upside down on them like livestock, and their bodies were cruelly and horribly mutilated.

These gallows are arranged in a circle, indicating that there should have been some kind of sacrificial props on this rock platform.

This horrifying scene only made the well-trained knight pause for a moment, and he quickly remembered his duty.

The accompanying scholar endured the discomfort and examined the body parts of the dead on the wooden stake.

Only the hunters and town managers who came with them were vomiting outside the fishing village. Even the giant dragon hovering in the sky could not calm them down.

The fishing village has been completely emptied, with nothing left in the houses.

Sir Mond couldn't help looking at the valley gap between the high hills not far away, which was the focus of their investigation. He looked up at the giant dragon hovering in the sky in the storm, and vaguely saw the king on the dragon's back, which gave him some confidence.

This eerie fishing village makes people feel uneasy.

The half-league-long beach on the road near the fishing village, covered with carcasses of various fish and marine animals, shocked everyone speechless. Some people even vomited all the lunch they had just eaten in the camp.

The strangeness here is frightening. Even the well-informed Sir Mond was terrified just now as he set out towards the fishing village, which in their eyes was becoming more and more evil.

They trudged along the path indicated by the scouts, arrived at the end of this strange beach, and walked into this black fishing village that looked particularly eerie in the storm.

This so-called fishing village is a crowded and miserable hut, with ugly tree roots and noose-like parasitic vines growing on the edge. Every deformed tree and every tuft of strange grass creates a morbid atmosphere, which is further deepened by the occasional slippery stone walls and the ruins of dilapidated thatched houses.

The black quagmire covers every corner of the fishing village, exuding an evil atmosphere as if it were cursed.

Sir Mond and his party did not stay in the empty fishing village for too long. They passed through the black swamp that was all over the fishing village and headed towards the high hills above the open land where the fishing village was located.

The heavy rain never stopped, and the wind brought by the king's dragon turned the rain into wet and hot, vaguely dispelling people's fear.

At this time, they came to a place with sparse trees, and the valley gorge where the black mud originated suddenly appeared in front of them. The slope of the valley was not steep, and there were many ridges and outcroppings of rocks. Several streams of black muddy water flowing out of the dark cracks in the canyon merged into one stream here and flowed to the fishing village.

In the storm, the deep canyons and mountain crevices were as eerie as the mouths of monsters from the abyss.

Sir Mond frowned. Although this place was high up, they found things like seaweed, barnacles, and corals in the black mud that they had not found in the lower part of the fishing village. It seemed that this place was closer to the sea.

This illogical discovery is increasingly disturbing.

A tense atmosphere hung over the team.

This is the only way to reach the canyon caves where black mud is bubbling out. Sir Mond gritted his teeth and ordered the team to move forward.

As the team approached the canyon, the rumbling sound of the rainstorm gradually became terrifying. The sound of rain and thunder seemed to produce some kind of reverberation in the canyon cave. When these mixed sounds came out of the cave, there was a kind of unsettling and strange sound mixed in it. Intoxicated howls and shouts were vague in the rain, and echoed continuously in the canyon, like a storm blowing from the abyss of hell.

Sir Mond thought it was hallucination for a moment, but when he heard this strange sound that only a madman could remain calm in his ears, he found himself stunned.

"Sir?"

When the mixed voices suddenly stopped, the other knights around Sir Mond looked at him.

Sir Mond noticed that these people looked a little panicked under their leather helmets.

Sir Mond drew his sword. The feeling of the sharp sword in his hand made him feel more secure. "No matter what is inside, kill them with the sword. Follow me! For the king!"

As the commander drew his sword, more people drew their swords and walked towards the dark cave without hesitation: "For the king!"

Viserys noticed something unusual outside the canyon, and his army drew their swords as soon as they approached the canyon cave, which meant that they saw or heard something that Viserys did not see in the sky.

Viserys thought again and again, and decided to shrink his body slightly and lower himself to the top of the army.

In the pouring rain, Viserys also heard the strange noises echoing in the canyon.

It must be admitted that even Viserys felt a hint of fear and confusion at this strange sound. At the same time, he felt an excitement like scientific research or archaeology in his heart, so he began to examine the situation in the strange cave in the canyon more carefully.

The nearby scenery could not be seen clearly during the day due to the rain, but with the faint light, one could see that several caves on the side of the valley where the black mud was emerging seemed to be connected to each other, and several streams that originally seemed to be mountain streams were flowing between the caves. These winding mountain streams were now occupied by black muddy water, which continuously brought out the foul-smelling black mud from the dark caves and flowed into the outside of the canyon.

Led by Commander Sir Mond, the first group of knights climbed up the gentle slope to a cave that seemed to have traces of human activity and was constantly oozing out black mud. The entrance to the cave was not small, and three people could walk in side by side.

The well-trained knights took out the soaked torches from the leather.

A servant took out a bottle of oil that had been prepared long ago from his backpack, and another servant dug a stable point at the entrance of the cave that was sheltered from the rain. Immediately, another person put down a large pot.

The servant poured the oil into the cauldron and then began to try to ignite the oil with a flint.

After several ignitions, flames instantly exploded in the large pot filled with oil.

The first few knights stirred the torches in the pot, and the wet torches began to burn. Then they continued to walk deeper into the cave along the stream full of black muddy water.

As the pioneers went deeper, a knight soon came out to report: "There is a lot of space inside!"

The interior of this cave is indeed unimaginably huge.

Viserys shrank down and flew into a light hole in the cliff of the canyon, and soon discovered that there was a different world inside the cave in the canyon.

Inside was a huge cave space. This strange space reminded Viserys of the big cave inside the Dragon Mountain on Dragonstone Island, so much so that he wondered if it was formed naturally.

The ground inside the cave was a swamp full of black mud. The knights holding torches were carefully exploring the way to avoid falling into the strange black quagmire.

The cave was dark, like a gloomy abyss.

Seeing that there seemed to be no one inside the cave, Viserys couldn't help but become interested.

As he roared, "Dracarys!"

Two fireballs spewed out of his mouth and instantly flew towards two directions of the huge cave like two huge flares.

Under the bright light of these two fireballs, the space inside the cave is shockingly large.

Now a group of about twenty knights with torches had entered the vast space of the cave, but they only illuminated a small corner like fireflies. It took Viserys's fireball five heartbeats to hit the stone wall from where he was spitting fire.

Suddenly, a huge and abrupt object deep in the cave attracted Viserys' attention.

It rose steeply, perhaps a hundred yards from Viserys, in the very center of the cavernous mire.

A huge black stone.

Neither the outline nor the way it stands could have been created by nature.

The knights who entered the cave first also discovered the thing under the illumination of the dragon's fireball.

It's just a big rock. Some people comfort themselves like this.

But the muddy road under their feet was undoubtedly heading towards the big rock.

Before the knights arrived, the king had already flown to the stone on his dragon.

In the middle of the black mire, Viserys had spotted a few signs of campfires, signs of human activity in the past, but most of them were swallowed up by the mud now, leaving only unburned wood chips and burn marks.

More and more people entered different locations of the cave from different entrances. Torches were like stars, illuminating each entrance of this huge cave.

Viserys moved closer to the massive black stone, examining it in the dim light of the fire above him.

This black stone must be four or five meters high, and its bottom seems to be the source of the black mud, bubbling out.

There was dried black mud and something that looked like blood on top of the stone.

Looking closely, Viserys discovered that there was a corner on the right side of the black stone that seemed to have been broken off and now was glued together with some vague dark red viscosity.

The marks on it were so strange that Viserys had the illusion that the stone was a living thing, emerging bit by bit from the black mud swamp.

The thought made Viserys uneasy.

What made him even more uneasy was where had all the fishermen gone?
Viserys noticed inscriptions and crude reliefs on the stone's surface. The inscriptions were written in a script Viserys didn't recognize, nor had he seen anything like it in any book. It was obviously not even the same script as the Asshai spell runes Marwyn had given him.

Most of these inscriptions and reliefs are textualized symbols of aquatic creatures, such as octopuses, dolphins, sharks, crustaceans, shellfish, and whales, etc. Several symbols clearly represent certain types of marine creatures larger than whales.

Even more disturbing to Viserys was the pattern of the relief.

The relief was large, a group. Viserys could see it clearly, the theme of the pattern was a race of humanoids with webbed hands and feet, playing like fish in an underwater cave, or worshiping in front of a huge altar under the waves. These humanoids had human faces, webbed hands and feet, thick and loose lips, bulging eyes, and dull eyes. Their eyes were depicted in different shapes, some were flat like octopuses, and some were pure black ovals.

Perhaps this is the mermaid in the sailors' legends.

However, according to this relief depiction, these mermaids have hideous faces and do not look like beauties at all.

The last side of the relief is a few sea monsters that seem to be the gods believed in by mermaids. They have multiple tentacles like octopuses, strange eyeballs, and huge outlines. One of the sea monsters in the relief is killing and swallowing a whale. Compared with the size of the whale, the sea monster has an extraordinary size.

At this time, the knights found their way through the swamp and were approaching the huge black stone in the middle of the black swamp with torches held high.

Viserys was lost in thought at the Blackstone, the light from the flaming skulls casting strange reflections on the black mud swamp before him.

"stop!"

Just as the knights were about to approach the Black Stone, Viserys gave a loud roar, and the soldiers at all the entrances and exits of the cave stopped, waiting to hear the king's orders.

It turned out that Viserys discovered that the black stone base stopped bubbling out black mud at some point.

Something strange is happening.

Viserys felt genuinely uneasy. He looked around and found that many people had entered the cave from other entrances, holding torches and standing around the cave full of black mud. Viserys simply ordered: "Ser Mond, lead everyone in the mud to retreat. Don't step into this black mud swamp."

However, just as Viserys gave the order, he suddenly saw a foreign object quietly sliding out of the black mud under the stone.

At first, only the slightest movement of black mud heralded its arrival.

At a certain moment, a rumble of thunder was heard outside the cave, a thunder mixed with the sound of the storm, and then a shrill, cruel howl and scream suddenly broke out from under the black stone under Viserys.

Tear!

Viserys flapped his wings sharply, moving away from the huge black stone beneath him.

"Dracarys!"

Immediately afterwards, a ray of fire spurted out!

More than one painful howl and scream from humans mixed with each other came from under Viserys's flame ray, and the piercing screams echoed endlessly in the huge cave. The huge strange shock made everyone feel weak in their legs and feet and their hearts trembled for a moment.

Some people even trembled all over at the strange screams, unable to move due to some kind of shocking fear.

Under the attack of Viserys's flames, the unknown foreign object instantly sank into the black quagmire and disappeared.

The alarming scream came to an abrupt end, with only its echo lingering in the cave.

The foreign object came suddenly and left suddenly. Viserys only saw its body suddenly emerging from the black mud. With a quick glance, Viserys found that its skin was pale under the black mud and its body was like a human.

Since it did not die instantly from the burning of dragon flames, it let out more than one human scream.

Viserys had a very cruel and horrible guess that perhaps the humanoid thing was just a part of it.

The whole thing might be the missing cultists of the fishing village. They were gathered together by some force and turned into an inhuman being.

And its purpose seems to be to completely liberate the black stone tablet in the mud from the ground of this strange cave.

Viserys inexplicably recalled the legend about the Storm God and the Drowned God. Legend has it that these two gods are eternal enemies.

This made Viserys speculate that if this black stone with underwater creatures carved on it was created by the alien believers of the Drowned God in the sea and was used to seal something, then it seemed that it could explain the current situation.

This being sealed by the Drowned God is trying to break the seal.

Just as Viserys was on guard in the cave.

There were shouts of surprise from outside the cave: "A monster has come ashore! Monster!"

Things related to the Drowned God and the Storm God are all very Cthulhu.

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(End of this chapter)