Game of Thrones: Viserys the Three-Headed Dragon.

Chapter 249: Secrets of Valyria
The fiery red clouds reflected on the cracked and dilapidated land, as if the catastrophe that happened four hundred years ago was still continuing.

The air was filled with the stench of sulfur, and from time to time a stream of heat gushed out from the cracks in the ground, burning the land with unbearable heat.

The Valyrian Peninsula was once a prosperous land, but now, it is covered with huge pits and cracked ground, as if it had been hit by an asteroid. The earth has been lifted up and torn apart by terrible force.

When you enter Valyria, the world's first city for four hundred years, even though it is in ruins, it is still shocking.

The city was collapsed and ruined, but its area was very large. Although many parts had sunk into pits and cracks where red lava could be seen, one could still see a glimpse of the city's majestic style from the huge, broken black stone buildings filled with volcanic ash.

As a big city in the world of ice and fire, it has a very large area, with huge, towering black stone walls stretching to the far distance. The city is formed into several large areas around several collapsed volcanoes, covering a very large area. Although most of it is now buried and collapsed, those broken huge walls and giant towers are still shocking.

But no matter how prosperous and magnificent it once was, it is now a dead city.

It was dead silent, with countless dead bones buried in the shattered buildings with no one to collect them, and a large number of dragon skeletons spread out under the grayish-white volcanic lime. Only the strong wind wrapped in heat waves passed through the ruined streets of the market.

This city has been abandoned for more than four hundred years, with no one surviving and no one visiting.

From a distance, the black walls looked tall and majestic, but up close, they were all broken and ruined. The black stones made by the Valyrians with special techniques seemed to have been painted with gold paint and colorful and beautiful glass paintings, magnificent and splendid, and the towers were inlaid with gems. But as time eroded, the gold paint had long disappeared, the glass had turned into slag, the paintings had long been indistinguishable, and the gems in the towers were broken and buried on the ground. Only hard black stone bricks and bones were left, human, dragon, and unknown animal bones.

It can be seen that when a disaster occurs, there are still people trying to survive.

The broken arches of this ruined city were the place with the most human bones. These people seemed to want to escape, but were engulfed and killed by the shock waves caused by the horrific falling rocks, lava, and meteorites that were like asteroids hitting during volcanic eruptions. They were finally turned into withered and broken skeletons.

The city's narrow alleys are intricately packed with collapsed and damaged buildings that are stacked against each other. Everywhere you look, there are traces of human misery, faded burn marks, human bones, dragon bones, and rubble. Under the crimson sky, everything is in depressing colors of gray, white, and black.

Viserys thought that if anyone walked into the city through the main gate, they would feel like they were walking into a molten inferno.

They flew over the ruins of the city's collapsed houses, passed over a giant collapsed building at the intersection of a street, and found the route to the royal city of Valyria on a huge and magnificent street that the city builders had left behind, which was large enough for a hundred-meter-long dragon to pass through.

Of course, there were other things in the ruins of Valyria besides the uncollected bones. Although armor and weapons seemed sparse compared to the piles of skeletons, Viserys had already seen a lot of armor and weapons buried in volcanic ash, rubble and skulls just by flying from a city gate to the road leading to the royal city.

I just wonder if those are all Valyrian steel products.

In addition to Valyrian steel, this suddenly dead city also has endless wealth. As long as you search in the ruins, I believe that adventurers who arrive here will be able to find countless gems, gold, silver, treasures, and even dragon eggs from the ruins.
This dead city was destroyed too suddenly, and the remaining danger was too terrible. Over the past four hundred years, countless wizards, black magicians, scholars, adventurers, treasure hunters, pirates, and tycoons have tried to travel here to find and dig for the treasures buried after the doomsday catastrophe, but all have returned empty-handed.

Either they never returned, lost in the vast ocean, or they went mad for some reason, saying that this land was haunted by demons and cursed by the gods. Gradually, people dared not approach it, saying that if they took a look at this coast, they were doomed to die.
According to the records of the Citadel, in the past four hundred years, the adventurers who have been recorded have only reached Oros in the southern part of the Sea of ​​Sighs from the north along the "Devil's Road", but no one has ever made a fortune by taking risks in Oros. Adventurers' teams are often wiped out, and only occasionally there are crazy survivors who escape from the Land of Long Summer, claiming that Oros is haunted by demons and the city is cursed.
In the south of the broken Valyrian Peninsula, the sky seems to be a cursed red land forever. In four hundred years, no survivors have sent back news. In four hundred years, only Euron Greyjoy claimed that he had been here and escaped unscathed.

Because the ground of the Valyrian Peninsula rose after the Doomsday Catastrophe and it is surrounded by cliffs, the only place for landing is the Sea of ​​Smoke area connected to the continental shelf. The Sea of ​​Smoke is a terrifying area of ​​volcanoes and eternally boiling sea formed after the broken Valyrian Peninsula sank. However, the water in the Sea of ​​Smoke is boiling, and there are even rumors that terrible demons and sea monsters roam the Sea of ​​Smoke.

These strange rumors are not groundless. The volcano that sank into the seabed in the Sea of ​​Smoke erupts from time to time, and the volcanic miasma and poisonous gas are rampant. It is impossible for ordinary humans to stay in such an environment, and it is not impossible for sea monsters to survive the doomsday catastrophe. The Sea of ​​Smoke is adjacent to the capital of Valyria. From the memory of the Dragonbinder, Viserys learned that there was once a saltwater lake flowing into the sea, where the two rivers of the Valyria city converged into the sea, and it was once a sea monster breeding ground for the Valyrians to satisfy the dragon's consumption of food.

Viserys guessed that Euron must have used some means to land from the Sea of ​​Smoke and enter the southern part of the Valyrian Peninsula.

But it is very likely that Euron did not come in person, but was possessed by the ability of a skinchanger, and he may not have actually come to the city.

If Euron had actually reached the city and seen what Viserys had seen, Viserys was sure that no ambitious man would have been able to resist seeing this mountain of treasure and only take a suit of Valyrian armor, a few daggers, and a dragon egg.

If you have the ability to come the first time, you will definitely have the ability to come the second time.

On this dead land, there is the wealth that the Valyrians have accumulated over thousands of years by colonizing Essos and plundering from all over the world. Even if Euron is a ruthless man and can restrain himself from considering those treasures, the Valyrian steel products in the ruins alone, if he comes one or two more times, are enough for him to exchange for more wealth than he would have plundered for several years.

To be honest, as they entered the main road of the royal city, they saw more and more huge dragon bones buried in ashes and pits, and armor and weapons with corners exposed on the broken road. Even Viserys, the "demigod" and "king", felt his heart beating faster and he became restless.

Especially when you see the obvious rows of armor piled up on the avenue submerged in the volcanic ash - these are obviously the guards of the royal city fleeing in groups, so it is very likely that their armor and weapons are made of Valyrian steel. Even if Valyrian steel is not enough to arm so many people, the guards coming out of the royal city are at least wearing hybrid steel.

Even on the main road of the royal city, there are so many things that are dazzling to the eyes, so what should the palace look like?
Viserys looked towards the royal city of Valyria.

Although there was a large-scale collapse there, combined with the memories of the Dragonbinders and the layout of the city, it is easy to tell from the specifications and style of its dilapidated magnificent buildings that this is the location of the royal city, the capital where the archons and chief dragon king elected by the forty dragon king families of Valyria live.

The huge towering towers are the residences of the Dragon King Archon, his ministers, and their allied Dragon King families. Those towering towers that once soared into the clouds were the most magnificent and splendid buildings in Valyria. In order to sit on the pinnacle of power, the forty Dragon King families lived there and fought against each other brutally.

The original Targaryen family was just the weakest and farthest from the center among the forty dragon kings.

But now, the towering towers that symbolized the highest power in Valyria have collapsed in the Doomsday catastrophe, turning into ruins, and some have sunk deep into the ground, falling into pits filled with lava.

When the doomsday catastrophe came, the Dragon King died along with the civilians and slaves, and the dragons, like ordinary birds and beasts, had no way of surviving.

"Are we going to the royal city?" Viserys looked at Freyme. "At this point, your god should have told you what the 'Key of Fire' is, right? This city is so big, and the palace alone is two leagues long. If you don't know what that thing is and can't sense it, how long will it take us to find it if we keep searching aimlessly?"

Fremi controlled the pterosaur, which was very weak after being resurrected because the clean food it brought was exhausted. "I don't know if the destination is the royal city or somewhere else. I only know it's in this direction."

Viserys's body has now been deliberately shrunk to only a dozen meters, and he and the pterosaur are carefully moving around the city.

A dozen meters tall is already a huge thing for ordinary people.

But after entering the ruined city of Valyria, Viserys, who was more than ten meters tall, and the pterosaurs, who were four or five meters tall, seemed like two tiny creatures compared to this huge ruined city. Looking down from the sky, they were so small, not even as big as a collapsed tall building.

There were hundreds of such buildings in the ruins of this city, and compared with the area of ​​the entire city, even if Viserys became his largest form, he would be just a slightly larger black dot compared to this city.

Like two planes flying into a big city
Fremy has the "oracle" and is leading the way, so Viserys can only choose to believe it.

Of course, Viserys would not let his guard down easily.

This dead city may not be dead.

Viserys has not forgotten that there is a mysterious figure behind the scenes who is plotting and causing trouble in the Targaryen family, his and Daenerys' bloodline.

Maybe the thing that the Red God asked Fremi to find will eventually belong to that guy.

If we put ourselves in Viserys's shoes and think about it, if he were the mysterious being, the royal city would undoubtedly be one of the most likely hiding places.

But as Viserys and Fremy flew into the sky above the royal city, no accidents occurred. Only the cracks in the ground of the royal city occasionally erupted magma with black smoke and a pungent smell, which almost provoked Viserys to counterattack.

It can be seen that the royal city of Valyria seemed to be deliberately built on the underground lava river, so when the royal city collapsed, there was a red lava river underneath. This never-extinguished lava river is connected to the volcanic lava lake of the Fourteen Fire Peaks. Four hundred years have passed, and the cracks in the collapsed surface are still filled with boiling lava.

The damage to the royal city was very serious.

There are several pieces of volcanic rocks as big as small hills, which were obviously smashed down from a distance like meteorites when the Fourteen Fire Peaks Volcano erupted. It is hard to imagine how terrible the impact and force were at that time, which formed huge meteorite craters.

The terrifying impact force left horrifying circular patterns on the surface of the royal city, destroying and damaging all blocking buildings.

Here in the royal city, Viserys saw huge dragon bones that were comparable to the dragon skeletons found underground in Dragonstone. Some of the dragon bones in the ruins were even larger than the collapsed houses nearby.

With just a glance, Viserys saw at least three two-hundred-meter-tall dragon skeletons and a mountain of rubble and ashes. Most of these huge dragon bones were buried underground, some were broken and collapsed, but just the exposed parts were enough to make people feel terrified.

This shows how powerful Valyria was back then, with herds of giant dragons that were invincible.
But even such a powerful country as Valyria could only fall in the face of the power of the true God.

Viserys suddenly came to his senses and withdrew his attention from the dragon bones, ruins and armor.

The gods of this world just don't take action very often, not that they don't have truly great power. Only by becoming the same being as them can you truly escape the fate of being controlled by them.

Look at Valyria. No matter how powerful and prosperous it once was, and it even had witchcraft and magic, wasn’t it still destroyed by the gods?

Thinking of this, Viserys couldn't help but wonder what Valyria had done to cause this powerful king to be destroyed in an instant.

Viserys certainly would not believe that he was punished because of his disrespect for the gods, cruelty to the gods' believers, or excessive plundering, which angered the gods.

The attitude of the gods towards mortals can be seen from Fremi.

Gods do not necessarily love humans, mortals are just tools, and disrespecting gods does not make them angry. You know, even the Red God sect with radical doctrines rarely physically destroys those who disrespect gods.

Moreover, according to Viserys's analysis of the various intelligence he already had, the gods who attacked Valyria were almost all the gods alive at the time.

There is no need to say much about the Red God; the cracking of the earth and the uplift of the peninsula are obviously the power of the old gods related to the power of the land; and the backflow of sea water and the submergence of the earth are the work of the Drowned God; even the Cold God is involved - this can be guessed from the weapons used by the Faceless Men to resist Valyria.

In order for the gods to gather together to destroy Valyria, this country must have done something that endangered the gods, forcing them to strike hard and use the power to destroy the world to completely destroy this place.

Even the residual power has been wreaking havoc on this land for hundreds of years, making this land seem cursed, uninhabitable and full of monsters.

"It's that direction. There is something, some force, calling me to go there."

Suddenly, Freyme pointed in a certain direction and shouted to Viserys.

Viserys looked up and saw that it was no longer the royal city area, but an collapsed active volcano behind the side of the royal city. There was a big hole in the belly of the volcano, and the hole seemed to lead directly to hell, and the pit was deep into the ground.

It seems that the mountain has sunk to a depth of hundreds of meters, and there is dense lava and overwhelming heat underneath.

The pterosaur seemed unable to withstand this terrible environment. It was panting and having difficulty breathing.

In fact, as early as when it entered the city, its mouth and nose were already full of charred marks and covered with grayish-white dust.

The current situation of this pterosaur is almost the same as that of any ordinary creature wandering here. The unpleasant smell in the air is obviously due to excessive sulfide, and the magma that occasionally bursts out of the cracks in the ground brings out a lot of smoke and ashes, making every breath a torture for ordinary creatures.

Viserys warned Fremy, "It won't hold out much longer."

The air here is poisonous, dusty and scorching hot. It is hard to imagine what the pterosaur's lungs must be like now.

It is just an ordinary pterosaur after all.

If the Valyrian dragons were more adapted to volcanic terrain than ordinary creatures, they might be able to survive in this environment, but for ordinary creatures, this would be a death trap.

It was a miracle that Fremi had managed to get it here.

"Look, there!" Fremi didn't care about the pterosaur's life or death. She saw a passage that seemed passable from the cave entrance and pointed in that direction. "It must be there. I can feel that the oracle is calling me and the gods are urging me."

Viserys looked at her and found that there was a faint red flame burning in her red eyes, extremely fanatical.

Fremi has gone insane and seems to have completely become a tool of the Red God. She has only one goal.

Viserys said nothing more. "Lead the way."

Fremi's hand clenched the shadowy flesh tentacles of the pterosaur, which seemed to inject some kind of power into it. Viserys saw that the pterosaur's eyes quickly became bloodshot and fanatical, and its whole body suddenly seemed to be stimulated and changed its sluggish state, as if it could ignore the pain and the burning of the high temperature environment. With its flesh burned and smoking, the pterosaur flapped its wings and flew straight to the sunken hole.

Viserys hurried to follow.

Under the huge pit, nearly a hundred meters deep and close to the underground magma lake, there is a huge passage running across the stone walls. The passage has traces of man-made objects, with typical Valyrian black stone bricks and pedestals supporting the road of the passage.

The passage is now covered with hot gravel and ash, but it was clearly once a passage for humans to walk on.

Fremi walked in without thinking.

But Viserys felt something was wrong.

He looked back at the lava lake about ten meters below the bottom, and vaguely saw a black spire looming in the lake. Viserys looked carefully and found that there was a collapsed giant building under the lava lake. The building was completely submerged in the lava, but its hugeness was vaguely discernible, and he even suspected that this huge sinkhole was caused by the entire building sinking in.

At the edge of the lava lake, Viserys could vaguely see some strangely smooth areas, free of dust, as if they had been deliberately polished.

This gave Viserys a very bad suspicion.

As expected, Fremi in front was attacked.

A strange roar sounded in the passage, and then a cluster of terrible fire breath sprayed from a corner of the passage straight towards Fremi and the pterosaur flying in front.

After the flames erupted, a strange creature with black and red scales and a head and neck that looked like a dragon rushed out of the flames, opened its huge mouth and bit the pterosaur that was suddenly attacked and hit the wall of the narrow passage.

"#%!"

The pterosaur may be an ordinary creature, but Fremi is not an ordinary person. Fremi recited a strange spell with difficult-to-recognize pronunciation in her unique voice. In an instant, the tentacles made of shadows and flesh from the pterosaur that crashed into the wall and whose life or death was unknown were activated like lightning, and instantly pierced the body of the strange creature.

The tentacles of shadow and flesh were incredibly sharp. Viserys was about to lend a helping hand, but he saw that the tentacles easily pierced into the body of the strange creature, not only piercing the scales, but also piercing through it. The monster felt the pain and let out a terrifying roar like a dragon, with flames gathering in its mouth.

But it couldn't spit out a second burst of fire.

Two shadow tentacles pierced into the eye sockets of the strange creature. The next moment, the thing collapsed to the ground, just like a snake, its nerves still flapping twice in reaction, and then it stopped moving.

Fire dragon worm!
Viserys moved closer and saw the creature in its entirety, with a head like a dragon but a body more like a snake.

This creature has no wings, no limbs, is covered with scales, and is good at burrowing in rocky soil.

This fire dragon worm is more than ten meters long and as thick as a bucket. It is a very long worm.

It is undoubtedly the top predator in this area, otherwise it would not directly attack intruders.

Fire dragon worms are said to be egg-laying creatures. Their larvae are about the size of a child's thin arm when they are born. Like dragons, they can grow to be extremely huge. It is rumored that there were fire dragon worms in Valyria that could even drill underground passages in the rocks that were large enough for several carriages to run parallel to each other.

Viserys looked at the creature with a dragon's head but snake-like body and could not help but marvel at it.

As expected, their blood was boiling hot. As Fremi controlled the shadow tentacles to pull out blood, some blood splashed onto the pterosaur, and smoke sizzled on its scales.

Viserys looked back at the pterosaur. The poor pterosaur had just been bitten by a vicious attack and was dying. Viserys said, "It is dying again."

The red robe on Fremi was apparently fireproof, so she was not harmed. "I know."

As she spoke, Fremi controlled her tentacles and began to cut the body of the Fire Dragon Worm.

At this moment, the lady looked like a butcher.

Viserys watched quietly as she delivered the cut flesh to the pterosaur, and then controlled the pterosaur to swallow the flesh and blood of the fire dragon worm.

The pterosaur obviously refused. The flesh and blood of the fire dragon worm was burning hot, which was not the normal temperature for it to eat.

But Fremi ignored it and continued to control it to swallow in big gulps.

But after eating a few pieces of flesh and blood, the pterosaur not only showed no signs of improvement, but instead screamed in pain.

Viserys saw that its tongue and mouth were severely burned by the flesh and blood of the fire dragon worm, so he could imagine the pain its throat and stomach must be in.

But Fremi just continued to let it swallow, drinking the blood.

At a certain moment, the pterosaur finally collapsed due to exhaustion from the pain, and Fremi controlled the shadow flesh tentacles to pierce the pterosaur's heart.

Viserys already knew what would happen next, so he mourned for the fate of the pterosaur. Neither able to live nor to die was the most appropriate description of its current situation.

After some means, the tortured pterosaur came back to life. Its body was covered with scars and its eyes had lost the luster of a living creature, but it was still alive and was driven again by Fremi.

This method is chilling.

When they set out again, Freyme looked deeply at Viserys and said, "If we are attacked again, please be sure to take action, Lord Viserys."

"Of course." Viserys narrowed his eyes. At this point, knowing that there was a threat hidden in the passage, he had to take precautions. "The wind is rising!"

As Viserys chanted a strange spell, a gust of wind rose from his body and rushed into the passage.

After about a dozen heartbeats, Viserys said, "This passage is about a few hundred steps long, and the exit is a large space. There are some holes in the inner wall of the passage. I'm afraid these fire dragons drilled out of the passage. Be careful. This is a straight road, I'll go ahead."

"Okay." Fremi didn't hesitate and responded directly.

Viserys vaguely sensed that Freyme's power seemed to become active after entering the volcano, and it became more and more active as she used it.

Normally, Viserys should be worried that Fremy would use too much strength and become exhausted.

But the opposite is true. Here, the more Fremi uses her power, the more active and powerful it becomes.

Viserys had long speculated that the source of Valyria's power was inextricably linked to the Red God, and Freme's strange behavior undoubtedly added credibility to this speculation.

This also made Viserys even more worried. As the power in Fremi became more and more active, would this priest eventually turn into a giant firework and cause a second doomsday catastrophe on the ruins of Valyria?
Is the Red God planning to hold a grand funeral ceremony just for Viserys?
With this concern in mind, Viserys became more cautious.

After killing another blind fire dragonworm in the strange passage, Viserys and Fremy quickly passed through another exit of the passage and arrived at a huge underground space.

As soon as he arrived here, Viserys couldn't help but sigh: "The Valyrians are really like the dwarves in fantasy novels!"

It is hard to imagine that in the Doomsday catastrophe, such a huge and relatively intact mine could still be preserved underground in Valyria.

This is a huge underground mine, built in the belly of a huge mountain, above the magma.

The tall collapsed black stone buildings, huge walls and chains, and underground transport tracks show how busy this mine once was, and those collapsed buildings silently tell of the great power that the Valyrians once possessed.

But the backflow of magma and collapsed buildings show that this is also a dead place, and now only dead bones and ruins are left.

[Forge of Eternity]. (Refer to Baldur 3 - Forge of Vengeance)
At the entrance to the passage, Viserys discovered a huge stone tablet with a name carved in Valyrian from a huge dragon sculpture.

This huge underground space is a forge called the "Furnace of Eternity". It is a smelting furnace built by a chief dragon king and several dragon king families, symbolizing their rule that will last forever.

Viserys asked, "Is that what you feel here?"

Frémie's scarlet eyes looked over, and Viserys saw that the red flames in her eyes were becoming more and more obvious. She replied, "Below, deeper underground."

Viserys flew high into the vast space, trying to find the path that led to the deeper depths that Freyme had spoken of.

From a high place, one can clearly see that this huge forging plant is divided into three parts. One part is the material area connected to the mountain mine tunnel, and this area has collapsed severely. The other part is a large steel structure that is divided by the backflow of magma and is located in a slightly lower magma lake area in the space. It seems to be the so-called "smelting furnace". Although that area has collapsed severely and skulls and bones can be seen everywhere, it seems that because of its steel structure and the fact that it is built on a relatively stable mountain, it is not seriously damaged.

Viserys watched from a distance and couldn't help but wonder if the smelting furnace called the Eternal Hearth was still working properly.

(Refer to Baldur 3's Adamantite Forge)
And at a landslide at the edge of the collapsed material platform, Viserys saw a deeper pit, with countless lava forming rivers and flowing deeper.

And at the bottom of the pit, there were traces of human construction.

(Baldur 3, looking at the Temple of Shar from the Forge of Vengeance)
I saw huge black stone sculptures standing upright in the depths of a pit that seemed to go deep into hell. It was obviously a passage created by a landslide. There was no normal way to go. It seemed that only people with the ability to fly could go from this place to there.

What surprised Viserys was that the area seemed to be better preserved than the underground smelting furnace.

There were no signs of large-scale collapse of the buildings there. The entire building was still built with the black stone of the Valyrians, but it looked more ancient and gave people a gloomy feeling.

Surrounded by large tracts of magma and filled with red light, the place has an inexplicable sense of holiness and sacredness.

Needless to say, that's where the deeper underground that Fremi mentioned is.

There was no need for Viserys to say more, as Fremi had already seen that direction and immediately rode the pterosaur, which was already at its limit, to fly deeper into the layer.

Viserys gritted his teeth and decided to keep following.

It has come to this point, and the direction Fremi is leading is obviously very purposeful, and it is definitely not a trap set by the Red God to harm himself.

Whatever the road ahead held, Viserys could not stop here.

He followed closely.

Soon, the two of them flew into this ancient, gloomy black stone building.

Viserys had seen many unimaginable things along the way, but when he came here, he couldn't help but be shocked.

As soon as he entered this black stone building, Viserys felt a cold breath in this building surrounded by hot magma.

What does this mean?
This means that the power of the God of Cold is here!

Although the sculptures in this building are still Valyria dragon sculptures, the black stone seems to be mixed with some kind of fluorescent material, and the whole building emits an unsettling strange light in the ground, making the eyes of the sculptures seem to have life, as if they are observing the sudden visitor.

"careful!"

The feeling of being watched was not an illusion.

As Viserys went deeper into the building, he discovered that those swimming lights were actually living creatures. They should be some kind of plankton, gathering together on the black stone building, and some fine black dust was spewing out from their bodies!

When Viserys and Fremy reached this deep area, the air was already filled with this black dust.

Viserys could even feel his breathing becoming difficult, and the flow of magic in his body becoming more sluggish.

The three breaths of fire, frost and lightning were spurted out at the same time.

Viserys reacted quickly, stirring up a gust of wind around his body to keep the strange black dust out.

"This thing is afraid of fire!"

It is difficult to explain why such plankton that is afraid of fire and heat could live in an environment full of magma, but sensing their weakness, Viserys immediately accumulated flames and burned the sculptures and walls of the entire building.

A large number of plankton corpses turned into black smoke and fell. Viserys was afraid that there was something wrong with their corpses, so he immediately blew up a gust of hot wind, blowing away everything around.

But look at Fremi.

The person was fine, but his face looked a little pale, as if he had just been tricked by this strange creature.

And that pterosaur
Unfortunately, it was about to die again. The pterosaur was foaming at the mouth and breathing with difficulty, like a broken bellows, taking in more air than it exhaled.

"It is dying again," Viserys said.

Fremi looked at the pterosaur, then quickly looked away from it: "Looks like I'll have to walk next."

Viserys was speechless. He looked at the pterosaur that could finally die, and for a moment he felt a little complicated.

As Fremy stretched out her hand, the shadow tentacles on the pterosaur seemed to turn into another living creature, slowly detaching from the wounds on the pterosaur, and finally turning into a ball of shadow, which was controlled by Fremy at her side through the air.

The pterosaur's breathing gradually stopped and its eyes became empty.

Fremi waved her hand, and the shadow, like some kind of energy creature, came into contact with Fremi's shadow, and was then slowly absorbed by Fred's shadow.

It was then that Viserys noticed.

The light sources around were not very bright, but Fremi's shadow was extremely black, like charcoal.

Compared to hers, Viserys's own shadow was almost invisible.

I guess this is her witchcraft.

It seemed even more unlikely that Viserys would have any contact with her, so the two of them chose to walk.

This building that looks like a temple is actually not very big, but it is extremely dangerous.

The strange luminous plankton that they had seen before were just appetizers. As they went deeper, Viserys and Fremy encountered poisonous fog and magical mechanisms in the building. The strange mosquitoes that they had encountered in the wild before also appeared in this building.

Fortunately, they are strong enough to solve these problems one by one.

After these things, Viserys roughly understood the necessity of the Red God asking Fremi to ask him for help.

If Viserys had not transcended the scope of normal creatures in this world, it is very likely that it was only Frey herself, and she would have fallen into a trap.

After overcoming many obstacles, the two of them finally arrived in front of a huge door.

The gate is in a circular building structure, surrounded by three huge black stone sculptures of human bodies with dragon heads, and in front of the gate is something similar to an altar.

A line of text in Valyrian reads: "Give me your blood, and prove that you bear the blood of the dragon."

Such a strange place, how smart does Viserys have to be to be willing to offer his blood on this altar?

He looked at Fremi: "This door is blocking the way? Should we just break it open?"

Even the Black Stone of Valyria could be melted by Viserys's fire.

I'm just afraid that forced destruction will trigger some trap.

They were already deep underground, and after calculating the distance and direction, they were probably already entering the real Fourteen Fire Peaks volcano group from the vicinity of the Valyrian capital through the underground passage. Viserys was worried that this obviously unusual building might have some traps, which would directly cause the Fourteen Fire Peaks to erupt again and lava to flow back in.

Although Viserys can now withstand the heat of the magma with his ability.

But he was afraid that the way back would be cut off, so he had to dig his way to the surface bit by bit like a digger. Now they were hundreds of meters underground, not to mention that they might have walked under a volcano, so the distance upwards was probably more than a few hundred meters.

Unexpectedly, Fremy looked back indifferently and said to Viserys: "This is a trap, a trap for you."

"What?" Viserys didn't expect that he would have anything to do here.

But then he heard Fremi shouting, "Mortals who covet divine power, show yourself!"

"Haha," an unpleasant laugh sounded in the building, and it was difficult to tell the direction. "An alien from another world, and a priest with divine power. I never thought that one day I would meet such a combination in Valyria."

A drifting black mist slowly floated down from the top of the circular building, and along with it came two huge dragon heads, which were two fire dragon insects that were even larger than the giant sculptures that were dozens of meters tall inside the building.

The two fire dragon insects had long and huge bodies, with their front ends leaning down and their tails still hidden in the darkness on top of the huge building.

The drifting black mist fell to the ground and turned into an elegant man with golden hair and amethyst eyes. He was wearing a strange glowing robe, as if he was wearing bright stars. He wore a strange purple crown on his head, and against the backdrop of two huge fire dragon insects, he looked like an emperor.

Strangely enough, Viserys recognized him. "You are, the researcher of Valyria, the executioner of the dragonbinder?"

The man chuckled. "Interesting, interesting. It seems that you, a monster from another world, also have the ability to devour memories. You ate the memory of the soul in the Dragonbinder's Horn."

Viserys narrowed his eyes at him. "Are you the one who uses the power of blood to manipulate the fate of the Targaryen family?"

"Wrong." The man laughed, "What destiny does the Targaryen bloodline have? How can we talk about power? If it weren't for me, the weak Targaryen would have perished along with Valyria long ago."

"Are you also from the Targaryen family? I'm curious, how could a mere researcher like you survive that catastrophe?" Viserys asked curiously, "Or, how did you survive from the Dragonbinder era to the present?"

The man seemed pleased to hear Viserys's question and opened his arms. "This is the power of witchcraft!"

Fremi said indifferently: "That's not the case. It's just a small trick to steal divine power. The fact that you are still a mortal now is enough to prove that you have not touched the origin of witchcraft at all."

Her tone was flat, as if she was commenting.

"Mortal?" The man frowned. "I am immortal, and my witchcraft is stronger than anyone else's. The reason I failed to become a god is that the power of a god was occupied by the inhuman beings you believe in. But it doesn't matter. The reshuffle war is about to begin, and your god's power will be cut by us mortals, and I'm afraid it will not be able to defeat the God of Cold. Then, we can become the new owners of the 'Song of Fire'. God? Haha, it's just that some foolish mortals don't know the truth and were deceived into making statues."

"'We'?" Viserys heard the man say. "So you are a collection of souls. Interesting. Mind telling me about your feud with the Red God? I am very curious."

"You?" The man looked at him with disdain and resentment. "Monster from another world, you stole the fate I arranged for the Targaryens and interfered in our war with the Red God. You are courting death!"

Faced with such accusations, Viserys was not angry, but only asked: "You know 'song', I am curious, do you know that I have the power of 'song'?"

The man's eyes became more vicious: "Storm? Impossible!"

"You react quickly. Is it because of your soul?" Viserys was curious. "Multiple souls make your mental power abnormally active, and your brain works very quickly."

"You are lying to me!" The man's eyes flashed. "You are a monster from another world. Your power is indeed unique and hard to understand, but it is definitely not the power of 'song'."

Viserys shook his head. "It seems that you have been out of touch with the news since I consumed the mysterious power that influenced your bloodline. It is indeed as the priestess said. You may have surpassed mortals by a lot, but you are still a mortal after all."

As if stimulated, the man's eyes shone brightly, and he cast a spell on Viserys. After the spell was finished, the man sneered: "Oh, it's really fake. The magic flowing in your body is not from this world, but a monster from another world! It seems that you are just a fool who was deceived by the Red God and runs errands for Him."

Viserys smiled helplessly and looked at Fremy: "My lady, now that it has come to this, you should already know what the 'Key of Fire' is. Is it this guy in front of you?"

"No, it's not him." Fremi's expression remained indifferent, and her tone was flat, "It's something inside the door, a part of 'Song of Fire'."

Viserys couldn't help but be curious: "May I ask why a part of the Red God's 'Song of Fire' is here, in the hands of the Valyrians?"

"You will know." Fremi's voice this time seemed to become as loud as a bell, carrying a terrible aura. "When you obtain the complete 'Storm Song', you will understand. Now, Viserys, as promised, get the 'Key of Blazing Fire' for me, and I will present the 'Storm Song' to you as promised."

Viserys looked over and saw that Fremy's scarlet eyes had been completely filled with flames, and her entire body was emitting a strange light.

Hearing this, the strange man who had been ignored finally realized that Viserys might really have the "power of the storm". He shouted: "Impossible, 'Storm Song' is dead!"

Seeing the Red God urging him to take action, Viserys said hurriedly, "It is a blessing from the Creator God that we can all gather here. Can you sit down and talk? I have many questions that need to be answered."

"Don't waste time, Viserys, he is stealing my power over this priest!" "Flemmy" continued to make that terrible voice, "Kill him and destroy his ritual!"

"What?!" Viserys looked at Freyre, his shock not fake at all.

God bless you, Viserys thought that she was accumulating strength to launch a powerful attack in her current state, and never imagined that she was fighting with the strange man who appeared in front of her.

He didn't even see what ritual the other party was performing.

But before Viserys could launch an attack, the man had already struck first. He uttered a strange command, and the two huge fire dragonworms immediately spewed out hot streams of flames towards where Viserys was.

Viserys immediately dodged quickly and then immediately breathed out air towards the fire dragon worm and the man.

Breaths of fire, ice, and lightning rushed over one after another.

The two fire dragon insects actually used their bodies to withstand the attack.

It happened in the blink of an eye.

But then Fremi shouted, "You dare!" Her red robe swelled up, and a terrible shadow exploded in front of her, forming an impenetrable insect net.

Viserys had sharp eyes and immediately discovered that the strange man had turned into a ball of smoke, hiding in the fiery breath of the fire dragon worm. After forcing Viserys away, the man went straight to where "Fremi" was and killed him himself.

And in his hand, there was a pitch-black dagger that made people feel icy cold just by looking at it.

The man was resourceful and decisive, and it was obvious that he was aiming for a fatal blow.

As the moment came, the pitch-black dagger had already pierced through the shadow insect web of "Flemmy".

Viserys dared not hide his strength any longer.

In just a moment, Viserys burst out at his fastest speed. A sonic boom was heard in the circular building, and in less than a heartbeat, Viserys's body had rushed to the smoke that the man had transformed into, and he knocked the smoke apart. The man's condensed upper body was broken in half by Viserys and flew far away.

When the speed is fast enough, Viserys's body charge is even more effective than his breath attack.

The man's upper body and the strange dagger were knocked away and cut off, and the strange smoke that made up his body sprayed all over the ground like blood.

Viserys didn't dare let the strange thing touch him, so he didn't slow down and took "Fremi" with him and leaped a long distance away.

At this time, even if he had psychological resistance, Viserys could tell that "Fremy" was the "king" on this side and could not be easily "checked" by the other side.

"Hurry! Kill those two bugs that are in the way while his body is scattered!" You can't tell that this "Red God" who possessed Fremi is such a nagging guy.

But the situation was too strange for Viserys to be distracted.

Viserys didn't think twice and rushed forward with "Fremi" at the same speed without waiting for the two giant fire dragon insects that were still confused to react.

Viserys slammed into one of them, condensed a huge dragon claw with magic to grab its head, and instantly three deadly breaths attacked the fire dragonworm's eye sockets.

And "Fremi"'s reaction was surprisingly able to keep up. In an instant, several tentacles burst out from the shadow on its body, strangling and piercing the eyes of another fire dragon worm.

After all, Viserys is a demigod, so there is no reason for him to fight with two huge and intimidating-looking fire dragonworms.

There was only that strange man.

Even though he was "killed" once - after all, his upper body was cut in half, but he was actually an "immortal" being as he introduced himself. The strange black mist that made up his body quickly flew to his upper body, and in just a few breaths, his body had condensed again.

"How could this be possible!" With just this one move, the man obviously knew how powerful Viserys was. He was shocked. "How could this be possible!"

"Keep killing him!" "Flemmy" shouted, "Kill him as many times as he resurrects!"

"Viserys!" the man cried. "We are not enemies!"

Viserys accelerated again, bursting into action, and attacked. "I'm sorry, but I've chosen my side."

"No!" The man began to beg for mercy, "Let me go, I can tell you any secret you want to know, I can help you, help you become the 'Storm God'!"

Thunder and lightning, with the power to tear everything apart, swept through the strange black fog.

"No!"

The flames, with a heat that could melt all living things, burned the black fog.

"No!"

The frost, with its cruelty of freezing everything, froze the black fog.

He wanted to escape, so he abandoned the black fog controlled by Viserys like a gecko cutting off its tail and began to fly high into the sky over the strange building.

Poison barriers, strange magic, and weird mosquitoes appeared one after another, but none of them could stop Viserys's pursuit.

At one point, the man yelled, "You've been fooled, hahaha!"

Upon hearing this, Viserys realized that he and "Fremy" had distanced themselves from each other. Worried that he had been tricked, he stopped the chase and returned to where "Fremy" was.

But this was a trick within the opponent's plan, and there was no problem on "Fremi"'s side.

But in that situation, Viserys had no choice. This was a necessary measure. After all, that strange guy could not be killed, and he could not be so careless as to think that he could ignore this side.

"Flemmy" did not say much about Viserys's appearance, but only said: "Mortals who covet divine power are just mortals after all! Happy cooperation, Viserys."

Viserys looked at her. "Shall I open this door for you?"

But she said, "Open it? No need, I have already contacted him."

"Fremi" was seen putting her hand on the door, and the shadow under her seemed to flow into the crack of the door. In just a moment, this door that seemed to be mysterious was opened.

And below was a long, dark, cold staircase.

A biting chill rose up from below, and even Viserys couldn't help but shiver.

This is definitely the power of the God of Cold.

"You stay here, Viserys. When you see the light, you may leave. Meet me at the top of the cave the way you came. I will find you and give you the rest of Stormsong."

Viserys looked at her intently. "I cannot go in?"

"Flemmy" smiled and said, "Of course you can come and watch the ceremony, but when the power of the song explodes, it will depend on whether you have the ability to withstand it."

At this time, the scarlet eyeballs of the red-robed woman were no longer visible in her eyes, only two burning red flames. She was waiting for Viserys's answer.

"All right. As you say." By this point, though confused, Viserys had chosen a side, as he had said before.

"Flemmy" nodded, ignored him, and walked down the freezing cold stairs.

Until it completely disappeared into the dark stairs.

About a dozen heartbeats passed.

Suddenly, a burst of hot breath burst out from the stairs. Even though Viserys was far away, he still felt as if his soul was burning.

And then he saw a bright fire at the end of the stairs.

Although he wanted to stay here and observe the situation, the burning sensation on the stairs became more and more intense. Viserys felt his soul trembling, and then he understood why the other party asked him to leave when he saw the fire.

So I had to do as he said and go back along the same route.

It didn't take long to reach the cave entrance.

The volcanoes in Valyria began to become violently active, with countless hot streams erupting from the cracks. Some craters and even underwater volcanoes were filled with billowing smoke and dust and incredible heat.

Viserys carefully watched for possible dangers, but until the volcanic activity subsided, no dire situation occurred that would endanger him.

As the volcanic activity subsided, Viserys suddenly noticed a terrifying hot breath rushing out of the cave, and he looked warily.

After a terrifying breath, a devil-like figure with strange wings flew out from the underground magma lake channel.

Looking closely, it was a humanoid creature with red skin and no clothes, neither male nor female. When he stopped, Viserys distinguished that the pair of demonic wings were similar to the wings of the "Valyrian dragon", and he had some strange guesses in his mind.

The strange demon said, "Viserys, very good, you are waiting for me here. I admire your attitude and ability. It is right to cooperate with you."

"What shall I call you? R'hllor, the Red God?" Viserys asked.

“Me?” the man said, “You can call me the Messenger of God. I am R’hllor, yes, but R’hllor is not me.”

“Am I to understand that you will become R’hllor’s agent and walk the earth?”

"Exactly. You are indeed a smart man."

After hearing these words, Viserys felt that this messenger did not seem very smart.

"So what do I want?"

"Come on, I'll take you there." The Red God's messenger pointed to the north. "That's where the Drowned God would never dare to be our enemy."

Viserys wanted to ask him more questions, but he had already flapped his wings and flew far away. Viserys had no choice but to follow him.

Soon, they arrived at a beach in the Smoke Sea, where several giant sea monsters seemed to have been waiting for a long time. When they saw them, they lifted up huge white bones and threw them onto the beach. Then they quickly dived into the strange boiling ocean of the Smoke Sea and soon disappeared.

Viserys looked at the bones and wanted to get some information from this seemingly unintelligent messenger of the gods, but he didn't expect the other party to give him any chance. Seeing that all the deals were done, he just looked at Viserys and said, "The war of gods is coming, Viserys. Our cooperation ends here. It's about the ownership of the great music. Then everyone will rely on their own abilities."

After saying this, the messenger flapped his wings and flew straight towards Valyria.

Judging from his appearance, he might be looking for the bad luck of the "mortal" he mentioned.

Viserys looked at the pile of bones on the beach and felt that some problems had been solved, but a lot of doubts followed.

He felt as if he was involved in a lot of things, but everything was so confusing.

Looking at the pile of bones on the beach that represented the authority of "Stormsong", Viserys felt a little confused about the future: the appearance of the gods' messengers meant that the gods had officially demonstrated their power and cast a true agent with divine power into the world, and what impact would this have on the world?
He couldn't imagine it for a moment.

(End of this chapter)