Game of Thrones: Viserys the Three-Headed Dragon.

Chapter 55: Viserys Turns and Leaves
Viserys took a fresh lemon from the bag and squeezed it. It was undoubtedly the freshest, juiciest, and best quality lemon in the Tyrosh market.

Pity.

He threw the lemon in his hand out of the window, and then ordered Jorah and Butch: "Go, pour all these lemons into the sea!"

Jorah and Butch did as they were told and dumped bags of orange lemons into the sea.

Then the Cedurian set sail from the port of Tyrosh. It is said that the docks were full of lemon fishing boats that morning.

Jorah seemed to hesitate for a long time, and finally found Viserys, who seemed to have calmed down a little: "My lord, why don't you throw those boxes of Tyrosh copper coins into the sea?" It was only ten thousand Tyrosh copper coins, which would only fluctuate between 80 and 110 gold coins. Jorah believed that they had suffered a great humiliation for this little money, and Viserys should show his firm attitude.

When Jorah said this, Daenerys immediately looked at him with a vigilant look.

Viserys was angry and said to Jorah, "Aren't these ten thousand coppers money?"

Jorah was speechless. The lemons thrown into the sea were worth almost as much as the money, and even more in places where lemons did not grow.

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From Tyrosh to Lys, you have to cross the Stepstone Islands, and the sea is not peaceful. The Tyrosh and Lys fleets each control a section of the sea, and there are many pirates in between. However, Viserys has locked himself in the room these days, and the merchant ships have been blackmailed many times along the way, so he did not go out to watch the fun.

The situation between Tyrosh and Lys was tense, but it had not reached the point of open confrontation, and the merchant ship at least arrived in Lys safely.

They still proceeded according to plan, and the merchant ship was scheduled to stay in Leith for two weeks.

Viserys will continue to try to "borrow money".

Getting off the ship meant leaving the merchant ship's room, and Daenerys was very worried about the boxes of Tyrosh copper coins on the bedside. But Viserys didn't care at all, and only comforted her that the five thousand mil gold coins that she had asked Grole to look after for him were always safe in the box on the bedside, and now the ten thousand Tyrosh copper coins were not worth worrying about, so he planned to get off the ship without saying anything.

Finally, Jorah could no longer sit still and said, "Sir, there are more and more treasures on your ship. You can't just leave them alone. How about I stay and help you look after them?" Jorah took the initiative to suggest that he stay on the ship and look after the treasures.

Before Viserys could say anything, Daenerys frowned at Ser Jorah's proactive attitude: "Ser Jorah, will you not come off the ship with us?" In Daenerys's opinion, Viserys was quite wary of Jorah, and she was very worried about letting him guard the ship.

"My lady, my lord," Jorah looked a little strange, and he bowed, "Please let me stay on the boat, I beg you."

Viserys said, "Is there something you are hiding?" He asked casually, and then he said, "Then you will stay aboard the ship." Viserys agreed.

"Thank you for your understanding." Jorah looked grateful.

Dany looked at her brother and Jorah strangely and said nothing more.

So only four of them got off the boat.

Daenerys remembered that she had spent some time in Lys when she was a little girl, and she and her brother Viserys had been there while they were wandering around. She had come again, not for long, and had met Illyrio at a banquet given by some noble here, and had been invited to Pentos.

This is Daenerys' third visit to the city.

She began with the mountaintop temple of R'hllor, which was so vivid in her memory, and scanned the island's low hilltops from top to bottom, all the way to the palm trees and fruit trees by the pier.

Now setting foot on this land again, everything feels familiar yet strange.

The further east you get from Essos, the more legitimate the slave trade becomes.

Here in Rees, you can see groups of slave traders next to the slave ships moored at the dock. There is no market tax for buying slaves here, but both buyers and sellers have to bear the risks themselves.

Lys is a city-state that relies heavily on the slave trade. The number of slaves here is one-third more than the number of free people in Lys. Lys is famous for its bed slaves and brothels, which breed and produce beautiful little boys and beautiful female slaves. Doria, who Illyrio once intended to give to Viserys, is one of them. The alchemy guild here is also very outstanding, and its production of poisons is world-famous, including the famous Lys Tears and Strangler.

Dany followed Viserys closely, and suddenly Viserys stopped and she almost bumped into his back.

She looked in the direction where Viserys was looking. On the coast, a group of red-robed monks were gathered around a fire, lighting the flames. Faintly, she could hear screams from that direction mixed in with the noisy voices of the people on the coast. She didn't dare to imagine what was happening there.

The thick smoke rising from the seashore quickly turned the sky in that area gray.

The pedestrians on the way into the city seemed unaware of what was happening over there. They were all walking in a hurry, as if they were used to it.

"Hurry up, hurry up." Someone urged them from behind, "Why are you standing in the middle of the road? Are you going to move or not?"

Behind them was a loaded cart. Viserys stepped out of the way.

"When exactly does this ceremony of praying for victory take place?" The man pushing the cart whispered as he passed by. He was not wearing a collar and looked like a free foreigner.

"Hush!" his companion warned in a low voice. "Don't talk nonsense here."

They passed Viserys.

Viserys thought for a moment, then looked up at the Temple of R'hllor in the distance. He could faintly see smoke rising into the sky from there. "Let's return to the ship first."

Then they didn't even enter the city gate, but turned around and went back to the dock.

"My lord, why are you back?" Jorah was looking around boredly on the deck. When he saw Viserys and his companions turning around, he got off the boat to greet them.

Viserys asked him, "Is Captain Grole still aboard?"

Jorah said, "Yes, I saw him just now."

Viserys said without explanation, "Take me to him."

Jorah led the way with a strange look on his face, and when he found Grolai, he was counting the cargo in the cabin with the merchant ship's chief financial officer.

Viserys summoned Grolal and asked, "Captain, I was at the gate just now and saw red priests offering sacrifices on the shore. What is this? I have been in Lys before, and never seen anything like it."

Grolai didn't find it strange when he heard it: "I'm afraid Reese will have to go to war, but I don't know whether it will be a naval battle or a land battle."

Even Jorah knew: "My lord, you may not know that before the war, the people of the Free Cities would pray to the gods they believe in for victory on the battlefield. What you saw was a sacrificial ceremony commissioned by the Governor of Rees to be held in the Red God Temple. The locals believe that this cruel act can bring them the blessing of the gods on the battlefield."

"This is not an act of cruelty, Ser Jorah," Grole protested. "This is a tradition from before the war."

"I have no intention of criticizing your faith, Captain," Jorah said. "I once participated in the battle between Lys and Braavos on the banks of the Rhoyne River as a mercenary. It has been proven that even if the soldiers were 'blessed' before the battle, they would still die if they were hit by swords, and they would still fail on the battlefield if they were not commanded properly."

"Heh." Grolai sneered and wanted to say something.

Viserys interrupted their taunting and asked Grole, "Do you worship the Red God?"

"The Red God is the most widely worshipped god in Essos, and temples can be found everywhere. What's wrong with believing in such a convenient god to pray to?" Grolai is not a devout believer, but just for convenience. If other gods in other places need him and it is convenient for him to do business, he will also express his belief. He joked and took out an oval gold coin, "In Lys, I can also pray to the goddess of lust."

The currency of Rees has a naked woman printed on it, who is the local goddess of lust.

"." Viserys felt that there was no need to dwell on the issue of faith, but he still felt uneasy. He had already encountered the power of the ancient Targaryen kings and the Drowned God. It was hard to say whether he would encounter the Red God again.
While Viserys was inexplicably tangled, Daenerys stared at the gold coins in Grolai's hand thoughtfully. She tried to shake off the disturbing cruelty she had just seen on the road, and recalled that the gold coins in the interlayer of the copper coin box seemed to be of the same style. She was a little annoyed that she was shocked by the full box of gold coins at that time and didn't realize this at all.

She suddenly wondered, could it be that the gold that Lord Tyrosh lent to Viserys was all Lys gold? Or was there Myr gold as well?
She felt that she had vaguely learned of some great secret.

As Dany was secretly excited about her discovery, Viserys said, "Alas, it is getting late. We will stay on the ship today and enter the city tomorrow."

Huh? Isn't it late? It's only noon.

But no one questioned Viserys's decision.

At night, after Daenerys fell asleep, she began to dream.

She dreamed that she woke up in her bed in a merchant ship's suite, with a faint red light flashing outside the porthole.

She walked to the window and looked out.

From afar, she saw a red cloud covering the sky above the top of the black city, and she could faintly hear a roar coming from the top of the mountain under the red cloud.

The voice was calling her, Dany realized.

In an instant, she suddenly realized that it was the dragon singing to her.

According to a semi-official source in World of Ice and Fire, one of the largest temples of R'hllor is located in Lys.

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