Game of Thrones: Viserys the Three-Headed Dragon.

Chapter 277 Li Daitao is stiff
"Sigh~"

A tingling electric shock sensation came from the palm of his hand, and the pain was so severe that the warrior's son almost dropped the box in his hand.

The people behind him heard his hissing and couldn't help asking, "What's wrong?"

"It's okay. I think the wool was shiny and it pricked me."

The illiteracy rate in Westeros is extremely high, and most people do not know what "static electricity" is. When they are electrocuted by static electricity on wool, silk, etc., they can only use the most intuitive description to describe it. They call this phenomenon "static electricity".

The warrior son who was shocked by static electricity thought it was just an ordinary static electricity. Since the beginning of winter, almost everyone who can afford to buy bleached wool will wear a warm woolen coat. It is abnormal if they don't get shocked a few times when dressing, combing their hair, and touching metal every day.

The night was so long that it was difficult to distinguish day from night. The boxes were unloaded from the merchant ship at Linhemen. They moved the boxes across most of King's Landing in the dark and placed the items in the Vatican warehouse on Silent Sister Street.

Soon, these warrior sons moved all the goods to the warehouse.

A monk with a stern face was inspecting the goods in the warehouse.

When the Warrior's Son put the box down, the monk carefully approached with the hurricane lantern, looked at the mark on the box, and after confirming the source, he brought the light closer: "Open it."

The Warrior's Son responded by prying open the box.

Pieces of black glass stones shining with black light lay quietly in the box. The glow of the lamp danced on the blade, and the flame-orange light drew sharp lines on the glass edge.

It's dragon crystal.

"Huh? What happened?" The monk reached out and grabbed a piece of debris, which was as light as a feather and flashed with black light.

It was a fragment of a large dragon crystal. On the top layer of the box, several pieces of dragon crystal were broken into slag, which obviously could not be used to grind into arrowheads or spearheads.

The soldier in charge of carrying the box said, "This is how it looks when I bring it here."

The monk raised the oil lamp and shone it on the warrior's face. A seven-pointed star was engraved on his forehead, proving that he was a devout and fanatical "Star Warrior".

The monk nodded, "Dragon crystal is fragile. Go ahead, most of it can be used, take it to the workshop."

The soldier nodded, picked up the boxes again, and went deeper into the warehouse.

After crossing a narrow path with only faint light, walking down the downward stairs, entering the smelly sewer of King's Landing, turning a few corners and examining in the dark, you will come to an underground space that is brightly lit and hot.

This is the underground of the Sanctuary of Remembrance in the Hills of Rhaenys, or, you can also call this place the "Dragon's Lair".

The Sept of Thought was built during the reign of King Aegon Targaryen I. It became the base of operations for the Warrior Sons during the armed uprising of the Order. Later, Maegor rode Balerion and flew over the Sept without warning, pouring dragon fire. The Sept of Thought was reduced to ruins in the flames, and Maegor built the famous Dragon Cave of the Targaryen family on the ruins to keep dragons.

Now, after the Dance of the Blood Dragon, the huge dome of the Dragon's Lair has collapsed from the inside, and the bronze door has been closed for more than a century, turning it into a ruin blackened by flames.

At one point, this place became a place where some people used the ruins with half-closed doors to receive customers, until one of the customers stepped on a rotten floor and fell into the cellar with the prostitute, and discovered the wildfire that Aerys II had ordered the pyromancers to bury here.

In the last year of Viserys' reign, Cersei also followed Aerys II's rich experience in burying wildfires and buried many wildfires underground, preparing to burn King's Landing into a wasteland.

Then the Warrior Sons, who received the hint from Viserys, took over here. They not only cleared Cersei's wildfire, but also quietly transformed the huge underground into an operations base for the Warrior Sons. They built a warrior statue under the ruins and renamed this place the Sepulchre.

Like all religions, although the seven gods of the Church of the Seven Gods are seven aspects of one god, the prayers in different temples have different emphases. This is a purely military warrior temple. Or it can be called a "Star Warrior" monastery that specializes in baptizing the sons of warriors and granting them the "blessing" of the gods.

Because the Targaryen royal family does not recognize the legitimacy of the Warrior Sons, they are preparing to go underground at any time.

There are blacksmiths, chefs, smelting furnaces, and weapons processing workshops here.

The place where the warriors carrying the boxes sent the dragon crystals was the processing workshop. Here, there were special stone mill craftsmen and tools, who would grind the dragon crystal ore from Dragonstone Island into arrowheads, spearheads, and daggers.

At this point, we must solemnly state that

Although the Warrior Sons are willing to purchase dragonglass raw materials, food, tung oil, wildfire, asphalt and other supplies from Targaryen, it does not mean that they will obey Targaryen's arrangements. They believe that they are only taking precautions against the Long Night and the White Walkers, and are drawing on Targaryen's familiarity and experience with the White Walkers to prepare for war.

They fight for the glory of the Seven Gods and represent the "warriors" in spreading blessings and honors among the human world.

So, in the weapon processing workshop, the last step here is different from all other places. Here, the last step for the weapons is dyeing.

The Warrior's Son has a dedicated pigment artist who uses dyeing mineral raw materials that are difficult to obtain at this time of year to prepare pigments, and processes and dyes the polished obsidian weapons into rainbow colors.

In the teachings of the Seven Gods, the seven colors of the rainbow represent the seven gods.

The Warrior's Son's emblem is a rainbow sword.

Of course, it is difficult to obtain mineral raw materials for dyeing at this time of year. Therefore, the pious acting lord left by Viserys on Dragonstone, Earl Gunther, could only reluctantly recruit islanders to join the vigorous mining industry on Dragonstone during the long night and cold winter, express respect for the Seven Gods on behalf of the king, and earn this money with piety.

Although the Warrior Sons have another nickname "Poor People's Assembly", the church is not poor at all. Don't be fooled by the fact that their leader "High Sparrow" wears tattered clothes all day long. The church has made great efforts to support the armed forces. Since Cersei lifted the ban on the arming of the Warrior Sons, in just one year, the weapon ownership rate of the Warrior Sons warriors has reached the point where all members have at least one crossbow, and the armor coverage rate has reached an astonishing one third.

One third is not a small number. Now the total number of Warrior Sons is as high as 6,000, including more than 100 knights who have come with their families to join them.

Looking at Westeros, apart from a few major princes and some second-tier nobles with deep accumulation, ordinary lords really cannot put together such a team of more than 2,000 armored warriors.

What's more, there are more than 4,000 unarmored soldiers.

Two thousand soldiers are a force that can truly stir up trouble.

The Holy See was very wealthy and had sufficient connections and channels to obtain resources. In just one year, they purchased finished armor, recruited blacksmiths, bought iron ore, recycled iron farm tools, and smelted ironware for churches across the country.

It is no exaggeration to say that to develop an armed force from scratch to such an extent within a year, looking at Westeros, perhaps only the former Lannisters of the West could do it, because the West is rich in mineral resources and the Lannisters have enough money.

As for other nobles, some have mines but no money, others have money but no mines and no resources.
In this era, making armor is not an easy task, and building an armed group from scratch is even more difficult.

However, the Star Warrior moved the cargo box to the weapons workshop, and someone soon took it over and processed it.

After the great monk in charge of the workshop acknowledged his hard work and prayed for him, the warrior then set out to the warrior group training ground to report back and continue his hard training.

Walking deeper from the hot underground workshop and up a spiral staircase, the warrior soon arrived at a relatively intact huge space among the collapsed ruins of the dragon's lair.

This was supposed to be a lair built for a giant dragon in the Targaryen dragon caves, but now, a huge granite base has been built in the center of this space, and on top of the base, stands a warrior statue that has entered the final stage of shaping.

This space can already be called a temple dedicated to warriors.

Seven hundred pure white candles were piled on the granite base, illuminating the warrior's majestic figure. Surrounding the warrior's majestic figure, thousands of star warriors blessed by God - warriors with seven-pointed stars engraved on their foreheads, chests or backs - were kneeling towards the warrior's statue, taking off their cold-proof clothing, or wearing only single clothes, or exposing their backs, showing the warrior the marks engraved on their bodies and praying devoutly.

As rumors of magic and witchcraft spread, these devout believers believed that such asceticism could gain the warriors' blessing. The High Sparrow traced the origin of this asceticism and found historical evidence. He believed that when the Andals landed in Westeros, the knights who had the seven-pointed star engraved on their bodies relied on such asceticism to gain the guidance and blessing of the Seven Gods and eventually defeated the First Men and the Children of the Forest.

The warrior walked quietly into the temple, passed through countless star warriors who were practicing hard in the temple, and came in front of the leader High Sparrow.

The High Sparrow was a thin, cold-eyed, gray-haired old man who wore only a simple, plain woolen tunic, a thin piece, and knelt devoutly in front of the warrior. Even though the countless candles that illuminated the sanctuary were seven steps away, it was still cold where the High Sparrow was.

The collapsed dragon's lair leaks a lot of air.

The face of the 'sparrow companion' who was wearing the same clothes as the High Sparrow had turned blue from the cold, and his body was trembling slightly, but the High Sparrow himself was motionless, without a single tremor. Everyone knew that the leader was extremely devout in his faith, and his will was as firm as steel.

Because of the flapping of butterflies' wings, the Archbishop of the Vatican was not assassinated as in the original world line, and the High Sparrow had no chance to succeed the Archbishop, but by accident, he became the leader of the Star Warriors and the Sons of Warriors.

Although he is not yet the Archbishop, he has more power and prestige than the Archbishop in the hearts of many warriors because he controls the church's armed forces. The current Archbishop is a cowardly stamping machine, and anyone can easily convince him of any opinion. He is a puppet used to balance the forces of all parties.

To the knights of the order, no matter what the other bishops think, once this bishop dies, these fanatics will hold up axes and swords, carry the High Sparrow and sit on the position of the high bishop.

Seeing the warrior coming back, the High Sparrow said in a firm but kind voice: "He's back."

The warrior answered solemnly: "Yes."

The High Sparrow nodded at him and responded as usual: "Okay, join the training." But suddenly he noticed that the warrior looked at him with a strange look, "What's wrong?"

It turned out that when the warrior approached the big sparrow, he suddenly felt an electric current coming from his forehead and reaching his heels. This inexplicable and strange feeling made the warrior a little dazed.

"Oh, I remember your name is Dosan." The High Sparrow seemed to know something and smiled faintly at the warrior, "Give me your hand."

The warrior named Dosan bowed his head, knelt on one knee, and extended his hand respectfully to the High Sparrow: "Yes, Captain."

Dosan felt the High Sparrow's hand on the back of his hand, and there was a strange warmth. Then he heard the High Sparrow say, "Your practice has paid off. Go find Hasti and tell him that you have entered the door." "Yes."

Dosan had been meditating and practicing with the warriors these days, enduring hunger and cold, seeking spiritual liberation, and he no longer felt sad or happy about this progress. He just nodded calmly, stood up and walked through the crowd of ascetics under the warrior statue, and came to the location of a group of ascetics with bare upper bodies and bloodstains all over their bodies.

Here, he found Hasti, a monk with scars all over his back: "Master Hasti, I have been initiated."

Brother Hasti said with compassion: "Oh, okay, kid, follow me."

Then, Dosan followed Hasti through the blood-stained ascetics and entered a dim room under a staircase at the edge of the temple.

This is a room that smells like blood, like a torture chamber.

Hasti kindly handed him a cleaned iron whip covered with spikes and said, "Go, child, to cleanse your deepest sins, to obtain the warrior's blessing, and to feel the presence of the gods."

Dosan solemnly picked up the iron whip and stepped into the deepest darkness of the room. In the deep darkness, the tall warrior took off his coat and knelt on a bluestone platform.

Then he began to swing the iron whip, letting it hit his back, and letting the spikes on the whip pierce into his flesh.

Over and over again, the devout believer whipped himself, recalling his worst sins.

Three years ago, during the siege of King's Landing and the riot in King's Landing, he and several starving companions took advantage of the riot to kill a man who looked quite respectable, but they could not find a penny on him. Then, for some reason, in the evening of that day, he returned to the place where the murder took place and saw a child in tattered clothes crying beside the body. He could not help asking, and only then did he learn that the person they killed was a baker who had difficulty making ends meet at home and had finally saved up his clothes and was looking for a job baking bread.

Dosan returned home with mixed feelings, and saw the burning house and his wife's body in the house. It turned out that the mob also rushed to the neighborhood where Dosan lived that day and looted the decent-looking houses nearby. His wife was stabbed to death in her home by the mob in order to protect the black bread she exchanged for her body. They also set the house on fire.

That was the saddest day in Dosan's life. Everything he had was ruined and he was almost on the verge of collapse.

He kept thinking about the wailing baker's children and the image of his wife lying in the burning house.

These things tortured him and drove him crazy.

Later, Dosan got the answer after confessing to the High Sparrow. It was all because of his evil thoughts, his desires, and his sins.

Only by cleansing himself of these sins can he be liberated.

The spiked iron whip whipped his body again and again. The blood flowing from his back seemed to take away his sins, and the pain brought relief and peace to his soul.

The whipping of the iron whip gradually weakened.

Dosan was in a state of confusion, almost fainting from the pain, blood loss, and cold.

At this time, Hasti's kind voice sounded: "Listen to the voice of the warrior, repent your sins, and seek your liberation."

A tingling electric current rushed from his forehead to his coccyx. In a daze, Duosan seemed to feel a force supporting his body.

In the chaos of near fainting, he seemed to see a ball of golden light guiding him. He stood up in a daze as if in a dream. Following the golden light, he saw a psychedelic color in the darkness, colorful streams of light.

The color guided his direction. He stood up in a daze, followed the blurry light, walked past the kind-hearted monk Hasti, and walked out of the door of the ascetic room.

At this moment, Dosan saw the light in the temple was shining brightly. The statue of the "warrior" emitted thousands of golden lightnings, which made him unable to open his eyes. The candlelight that ordinary eyes could only see became dim in his eyes.

"Oh, warrior!" he murmured, as if in a dream. "Please give me the courage and strength to eliminate all evil in the world for you, atone for my sins, and spread your name."

Hasti had arrived in front of him at some point and led him to kneel down and pray devoutly to the statue.

At this moment, in the midst of blood loss and abnormal half-sleep, the Star Warrior felt it.

The warrior's power is warm and sharp.

That was the thunder and lightning that represented divine punishment.

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As a "god" in the sense of Westeros, it is often not up to the will of the person to whom power is given, like Euron and Patchface.

Although the beliefs of the Seven Gods followers are somewhat troublesome, the essence of the Seven Gods' teachings is to stimulate the power of "Song of Man" that people have within themselves. If they develop confrontational emotions in their minds and bodies, they will easily become resistant to other forces.

But the Cult of the Seven has no real gods, so causing trouble is easier than imagined.

Since ancient times, the means of bewitching believers are nothing more than hallucinations, miracles, and mind PUA. After all, Viserys is now the Lord of the Storm. It is not easy for him to infiltrate his power into mortals without their knowledge, let alone an organization like the Warrior's Sons, which produces people with mental power that is abnormally higher than that of ordinary people.

As soon as Viserys came back from Valyria, he began to think about how to "make a substitute" for the Seven Gods, which had no real gods. The gems in Valyria that were infected with the power of gods and the dragon bone magic that Viserys had once had gave him inspiration.

That is to use items containing the power of one's own song to radiate and influence the believers of the Seven Gods little by little.

Viserys did not need to ask them in person to acknowledge that Viserys was a "warrior" or something. He only needed them to be able to feel the power radiated by Viserys through them when the fanatical believers were most likely to experience an abnormal surge in mental power. This would make them naturally close to Viserys's "song" and be affected by the magical radiation.

The glass candles that Viserys carries with him are used not only to transmit messages remotely, but also to influence the dreams of the "infected".

Yes, take Dothan, who had just entered the sect and saw the "warrior" shining brightly, as an example. His hallucination actually came from the dragon glass ore given to them by Viserys, and some of the ore was infected by Viserys's own magic - this kind of fantasy came from the fact that Viserys had been invaded by the power of the Drowned God in the same way, but Viserys was not as cruel as the Drowned God, and the power he infected with the dragon glass was only a little bit.

The sensitivity of the contacted person's mental power needs to reach a certain limit before this power can be stimulated to invade their body. Once someone stimulates it, Viserys can sense the position of the stimulater and locate the stimulater. Then he can use this to affect their mind, causing them to have various hallucinations and enter bizarre dreams.

Mortals do not have the power of Viserys to resist the influence of the "gods", so they will almost all follow Viserys's ways.

Viserys did not need them to offer the power of their souls as a blood sacrifice to invoke power like the Drowned God did. His purpose was to make them hallucinate and "see" the miracles of the gods they believed in.

With the subtle influence of day after day, their power and understanding of the gods they believe in will gradually overlap with Viserys.

The only thing missing now is the opportunity for these believers to associate "warrior" with Viserys.

At some point, Viserys wouldn't have to say anything, they would naturally associate Viserys with their gods and come up with a reasonable explanation in their minds.

"Warrior" just happens to meet Viserys' needs. In essence, even if he is not the son of a warrior, "Blacksmith" and "Father" Viserys has similar things prepared.

There is a fact that the mortals of King's Landing and the believers of the Seven Gods will never know: the White Walkers and the tide of the zombies attacking King's Landing were, in a sense, led to King's Landing by Viserys who took advantage of the situation.

What is even more paradoxical is that the Vale can only be regarded as the party affected by Viserys' plan.

Viserys's fortified defense in the riverbed actually showed a phenomenon: tight on the left and loose on the right.

This was of course the nature of the river's geography. Most of the noble castles in the river were located on the left side of the Green Fork River, and there were only a few villages and towns on the King's Road to the east of the Green Fork River. Viserys directly suggested that these villages and towns choose to migrate.

As a result, the White Walkers who infiltrated the south had a smooth passage on the Kingsroad in the Riverlands, and could enter Harrenhal without any obstacles, go deep into the Crownland, and even reach King's Landing. The White Walkers even divided their forces into the Mountains of the Moon and went deep into the valley.

Viserys sold the Kingsroad from the North to King's Landing when the defense plan began.

The purpose needs no further explanation, it is the faith of the Cult of the Seven.

Viserys didn't even tell Daenerys the entire plan, although Daenerys knew his purpose and had already figured out most of his arrangements and cooperated with them.

Yes, Viserys was going to bring extreme pressure to King's Landing, to pose a deadly threat to the center of the Seven Kingdoms' most important religious belief, to the Church, which had lifted the ban on armed forces, had a full understanding of the enemy, and was fully armed.

Viserys wanted them to experience firsthand that even though the Cult of the Seven had military power and the power to terrify the lords, they could only fight and resist in vain in front of the army of the Others. Then, Viserys would appear and help the mortals with his unquestionable power.

In the face of the White Walkers, the so-called noble king in the castle will not be spared just like the lowly civilians. The so-called holy bishops and evil sinners will die fairly together and turn into corpses.

At that time, will those devout believers doubt the existence of gods and question their faith?
And when Viserys helps them through the cruel scenes with a power unimaginable by mortals, will they have new thoughts?
Viserys had witnessed the initiative of the church on Earth when it was impacted by scientific progress. He hoped that the Seven Gods in Westeros would be able to demonstrate sufficient initiative after being impacted by magic, aliens, and divine power.

Many people will die.

Yes.

But Viserys believed that the bloody reality would always be more effective than preaching, and he would not tell mortals: I am a god, and you can be saved by believing in me.

He wanted to use the bloody lesson to warn the mortals of Westeros, especially the bishops and believers of the Church of the Seven, to either fight with him in his name or wait for destruction.

(End of this chapter)