Game of Thrones: Viserys the Three-Headed Dragon.

Chapter 197 The Effect of Prayer

When the news that Viserys was leading the Dornish army into the south reached the Lannister camp, Kevan was sure that he did see a hint of relaxation on Tywin's stern face.

These days, in order to prevent the Tyrell Army from making any moves, Lord Tywin took the initiative to let the Tyrell Army occupy the Kingsroad on the west side of King's Landing, Casterly Rock and the supply lines of the Riverlands, so that they would think that they had held the lifeline of King's Landing.

Tywin himself controlled the three northern supply lines of King's Landing: Rosby, Sow Corner and Stokeworth.

When Stannis and Renly blockaded King's Landing, half of the food in King's Landing came from this supply line in the north.

Tywin always had a firm control over Harrenhal and Maidenpool, and sent out scouts to keep a close eye on the Tyrell garrison. After the Tyrells had already entered a standoff with the Lannisters, even Lord Tywin felt powerless, knowing that the situation was hopeless, and his idea changed from defending King's Landing to retreating to Casterly Rock.

To achieve this goal, Tywin has quietly arranged more than half of the new troops in the Westerlands to Stonehall for support. Now that all the troops in the Westerlands have left, many places are empty. The new troops besieging the city under Davon Lannister are said to be besieging the city, but in fact many troops are occupying the retreat route in the riverlands. Tywin's original plan was to take advantage of the failure of the siege of Riverrun and directly lead the army to the riverlands. The actual purpose was to lead the Westerlands troops to bypass the riverlands and withdraw to the Westerlands via the Golden Tooth.

Although this was the plan, Tywin was not sure whether there would be any unexpected changes that would lead to a complete loss if he simply gave up King's Landing and took a detour back.

So Tywin is waiting too.

He was waiting for his new allies to do something, or for the Targaryen army in the south to march.

Tywin himself felt very strange that at a time when the Lannister family was in a difficult situation, there were actually people who took the initiative to choose to join.

Euron Greyjoy, the new king of Pike, hopes to reach a cooperation with King's Landing and ask King's Landing to recognize his status as king. He claims that he will send a fleet to attack Dragonstone and suggests that the Lannister fleet in Lannisport join forces.

Of course Tywin didn't believe this. The Iron Islands and Dragonstone are separated by half of Westeros. Unless Euron's ship can sail on land and travel through the heart of Westeros, it will take at least half a year for the Ironmen to reach Dragonstone, and they will have to pass through Lannisport and Redwynn Strait on the way. Moreover, the Lannister fleet has not moved to prevent the Ironmen from plundering the Westerlands.

But Tywin saw what Euron wanted, and it seemed that the other party intended to cross Lannisport and plunder the Reach. So Tywin started his familiar raven tactics again, giving Euron verbal benefits and promising that the fleet in Lannisport would let the ironmen go to "Dragonstone".

Tywin would be happy to see Euron causing trouble in the Reach, so that there would be at least one less Redwyne among the Tyrell troops lingering near King's Landing.

However, the situation developed more favorable to the Lannisters than Tywin had imagined. They thought that the Targaryens would attack the South first, but the possibility of that happening was extremely low. As the Tyrell army began to find excuses not to obey the king's order, Tywin once thought that Mace Tyrell had reached a secret agreement with the Targaryens.

However, the facts were unexpected, and Targaryen chose to attack the south first. Lord Tywin was extremely curious about the Duke of Mace. Since he did not reach an agreement with Targaryen, what on earth was he doing these days?
But no matter what, Lord Tywin regained his usual calmness and sternness after learning about this: "Since the enemy has chosen to attack our allies in the south, we must discuss how to deal with this matter. Kevan, send an honorary knight to take my password to the Duke of Mace: Please ask the Duke of Mace, the lords of the south, and the ministers appointed by the king to come to King's Landing to discuss rescuing the south."

Kevan asked, "We're going back to King's Landing?"

"Of course not." Lord Tywin poured himself a glass of claret. "Give Jaime a letter and ask him to count the troops and lead King Tommen to Riverrun in person."

Kevan couldn't help but ask, "Where's Queen Cersei?"

Lord Tywin's face was grim. "Someone must sit in King's Landing for His Majesty."

Kevan asked again: "What if Jaime disagrees?"

The fire shone on Lord Tywin's golden beard, reflecting the golden light. Lord Tywin fell silent and did not speak.

The whole camp seemed to fall silent, until finally Kevan grew uneasy. "I'll just--" he said.

"If he disagrees," Lord Tywin turned his head, gritted his teeth, and a vein on his neck bulged, "then just treat it as if I don't have this son." Tywin narrowed his eyes and looked at Kevan, "Kevan."

"." Even Kevan felt dizzy. If Jaime refused to follow Tywin's words, then Kevan would be the heir of the Lannister family.

After Lord Tywin finished speaking, he quickly calmed down: "Notify the entire army to prepare and set out in three days to join forces with our allies in the south and rescue the south." If they are still there in three days.

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A grand ceremony is being held outside Rain House City.

Though the king's banner had been erected at his camp outside Nightsong, the king himself lingered in the Stormlands.

Sending letters to the southern lords was part of the original plan, and Viserys handed the matter over to Prime Minister Oberyn. While the frontline sent letters to the south, it was also sending a letter to Viserys to inform him that everything was ready and waiting for the king to come and command.

When planning Dragonstone, Viserys knew that remote micromanagement was not advisable, so he delegated the command of the front line to Oberyn, allowing him to decide the time of the march. Viserys was only the commander-in-chief in name only, and actually went to the front line to participate in the battle only when Oberyn began to march.

Although Viserys told Oberyn that speed is of the essence when he issued the military order, it must be said that Dorne's march this time was several days earlier than he expected. The time Viserys gave was actually ample, but the Dornish obviously did not want to miss the opportunity.

To be honest, Dorne's actions were much faster than Viserys expected. Viserys actually gave Oberyn half a month to a month to prepare, and expected that it would take at least a month to launch the offensive. However, the actual situation was that after these Dornishmen returned from Dragonstone, they galloped and reached the Prince's Pass in Dorne in just half a month, and reorganized their troops in just a week. This was certainly not because Oberyn was so capable, but because Prince Doran in Dorne had already made sufficient preparations for the war.

During this period, Viserys went to Summerhall once and had a brief meeting with the guards assembled at Summerhall. He also took the time to scout the movements of King's Landing's troops in the south from high altitude a hundred miles north of Summerhall camp.

Finding that there was no unusual movement of troops near King's Landing, Viserys ordered the guards to gather at Nightsong with his banner. He relied on his strong mobility to patrol between the Borderlands and Highgarden from high in the sky.

To be honest, Viserys's mobility is a bit unfair to his enemies on the battlefield. Viserys is not sure if it is a problem of historical records, but it is speculated that the dragons of the Targaryen era could not fly as fast as he does. Even Melias, the "Red Queen" of the Uncrowned Queen Rhaenys, who is known as the fastest dragon in Westeros, does not seem to be as fast as Viserys.

According to the records of the Citadel, the flying speed of the Targaryen dragons was roughly the same as that of airplanes during World War I, only about 40 leagues per hour, more than twice the speed of 110 leagues per hour when Viserys exploded.

With such mobility, if Viserys wanted, he could even appear on two different battlefields hundreds of leagues apart in one day.

However, high-speed flight is only suitable for traveling, not for reconnaissance.

Viserys was now taking advantage of the moment he received the raven message from Nightsong to quickly wrap up the current affairs in Stormlands.

Needless to say, it is the dragon statue in Amaya Castle.

Now Viserys was squatting on the highest point of the hill he had chosen, watching in the continuous drizzle as soldiers and laborers below moved a cloth-covered statue from the foot of the hill along the flat slope onto the hill using wooden axle wheels.

Although there was no publicity, the townspeople at the foot of the mountain had heard that the king was going to erect a dragon statue on a flat ground on the hill. Seeing that the army did not stop him, they watched from a distance. Viserys did not care, for he needed the public's attention to test the effectiveness of the statue.

Viserys knew very well how to make people curious and respectful of the statues, and that was through rituals. Rituals were sometimes more useful than anything else. As long as a solemn sense of ceremony was created, no matter what the statue was, it would make people feel solemn and dignified.

So Viserys also made a series of ritual requirements for the erection of the statue. For example, the craftsmen had to carve the statue indoors, the craftsmen could not add eyes when they finished, and there had to be space reserved for the eyeballs to be embedded. The statue had to be covered with waterproof cloth at the bottom of the mountain, and when going up the mountain, even though it was covered, the statue had to always face the sea.

On the hill platform where the statue was placed, a high platform was built facing the sea, on which were placed cattle, sheep, bread, salt and wine for sacrifice.

The most eye-catching thing was a piece of golden cloth with the words "Calm the Storm" written in Valyrian in brightly colored paint. The cloth was hung on the altar ostentatiously like a flag.

Not to mention many illiterate people of that era, even many educated nobles could not understand what the word was, which added a lot of mystery to it.

After the civilians and soldiers had moved the statue to the designated location, which did not require so many people but was still deliberately required to have 49 people, Viserys said, "It's all right."

The platform on which the statue was placed was already large, but it was still not big enough to accommodate Viserys's huge body, and Viserys did not intend to do it himself. He just watched and directed from the side.

The three honorary knights who killed the most murlocs in the previous encounters were responsible for offering the dragon statue. Old Ser Mond was also among them. Viserys said that in order to suppress this unusual storm, the power of the dragon statue needed the help of the three most courageous people, so they were chosen to become glorious knights.

When the statue was placed.

The three knights followed the king's orders and walked to the altar as if they were carrying out a military order. According to the king's request, they each took up three oak boxes placed under the cows and sheep on the altar, with two polished black stone balls in the middle. In the boxes were glass eyeballs made from melted obsidian.

Under the gaze of the crowd, the three knights solemnly lifted the oak box high up and came to the seat of the statue.

Someone lifted the waterproof cloth of the statue for them, allowing them to enter and stuff the obsidian eyeball specially sent by the king into the reserved position of the dragon statue.

Wait until everything is finished.

The three knights each grabbed a corner of the statue's cloth, completely exposing the statue.

One of them didn't look very big, but it was majestic and solemn, with its eyeballs reflecting black light, and the three-headed dragon statue, as if alive, was completely exposed to everyone's eyes.

"Offer salt and bread to the Dragon God."

It was very local. Viserys said that the dragon statue was invited to suppress the storm, and to some extent it could be considered an invited guest, so salt and bread were offered to the statue according to the rights of a guest. As for the cooked cattle, sheep and wine used for sacrifice, they represented a local banquet for inviting the gods.

The two stewards of the Wilde family sprinkled salt and bread crumbs under the statue's seat and toasted to the dragon statue.

The master of ceremonies then shouted in the common language: "Please ask the ancient dragon god to come here to calm the storm for Yuwu City." Then he shouted, "Calm the storm."

To, who was placed in the crowd by the Wilde family, shouted, "Calm the storm."

The MC called out again, “Calm the storm.”

Seeing that no one was trying to stop them, the people were inspired by the people in the crowd and joined in the shouting out of curiosity, “Calm the storm.”

The people were not actually looking at the statue, but at the real three-headed dragon sitting on the top of the hill. There was no way around it, Viserys sat there on purpose to attract attention. Anyone who came to watch would be shocked and panicked when they saw a huge beast sitting on the top of a hill not far away.

And at this moment, Viserys finally understood what role ordinary people played in faith.

Regardless of whether they really believed in such an ancient dragon god or not, everyone was more or less touched by Viserys's solemnity under the influence of the emotions that were aroused. Now everyone shouted in unison, "Calm the Storm", and there seemed to be many invisible waves echoing Viserys' "song", which actually made the power of the storm's "song" in Viserys faintly resonate.

Viserys concentrated his mind, relying on the power of "song" to instinctively create a mysterious connection with the heaven and earth, and tried to use the power of "song" to influence the weather. As he tried this, he found that those invisible waves were guided by the power of his "song" to join his power and provide assistance.

Viserys found himself entering a strange state in a daze. With the addition of these forces, he seemed to be in control of the wind and rain in the area.

Viserys looked at the dark clouds in the sky and tried to disperse them with a thought. Viserys could feel that the dragon soul magic in his body, which belonged to this world, was being consumed violently under the influence of the "song", as if it was struggling with other forces, but at the same time, the mental power consumption that was originally unbearable was not so serious.

That's it, Viserys realized.

The people in this world do have some kind of power. Their bodies or souls have the effect of resonating with the original "song". As long as you guide their power to be affected by your own "song", you can provide support for your own "song".

This may be why Melisandre suggested Stannis to build the Red Temple after sensing the abnormality in the Stormlands. The power of the "gods" in this world may be very strong, but they cannot display their power wantonly without suffering any loss.

By directing the power of many mortals to respond to one's "song", one can greatly reduce one's own consumption and more easily demonstrate one's power.

Viserys saw that the ritual was complete and that he had already vaguely understood some of the truth, so he flew away without stopping.

Behind him, the dark clouds that had been hovering over the Rain House City for two months were quietly dispersing.

As people watched the king and the dragon disappear into the sky.

I don't know who was the first to shout out.

"The rain has stopped!"

"The clouds have cleared!"

"Sunshine, look, the sun is out!"

(End of this chapter)