Game of Thrones: Viserys the Three-Headed Dragon.

Chapter 65 Sea Monster

From the tower came a strange song:
“In the sea, people eat fish. In the sea, fish eat people.

In the deep water, at the bottom of the sea, birds have scales but no feathers.

I know, I know. Ooooh!

A wise companion is a wise man, a wise fool is a jester.

Oh, clever clever clever foolish fool!
Oh! There are birds, insects, and dragons in the sky.

Oh! There are fish, shrimps and seahorses in the deep sea.

The dragon comes to dance, the dragon comes to dance.
The seahorse is here to welcome you, the seahorse is here to welcome you."

The fat, limp Fool shuffled and hopped up and down the tower steps, rambling in a weird way. He wore a toy helmet made of an old tin bucket, with two antlers tied to the top and cowbells hanging from them, which made different sounds with his stumbling steps.

The Free City of Volantis had a custom of tattooing the faces of slaves and servants, and this jester from Volantis had red and green checks covering his scalp and neck.

People called him Patchface.

When Prince Rhaegar had no sisters to marry, the old King Aerys II Targaryen—who was not as crazy as he was later—sent Lord Steffon Baratheon across the sea to look for a wife for the prince, hoping to find a pure-blooded descendant of Valyria. Lord Steffon's search was in vain, and two weeks before he was ready to leave for home, he found Patchface, who was still a child at the time, in Volantis across the narrow sea. That was the most outstanding jester Lord Steffon had ever seen, and the Duke bought his freedom and planned to bring him back with him to bring laughter to the children of Storm's End.

But the ship on the way back encountered a sudden storm, proving that the name "Shipbroken Bay" was indeed worthy of its name. The Duke's schooner hit a reef in the storm and was swallowed by the sea. More than a hundred oarsmen and crew members, along with the Duke and Duchess, were buried in the sea. Three days later, Patchface was washed ashore. His skin was white and wrinkled from being soaked. Joe Mi, who found him, insisted until his death that Patchface's skin was sticky and cold. People thought he was dead, but he coughed up seawater and survived, and from then on he became a mentally retarded person. In addition to the physical sequelae, the torture at sea also took away all his memories and half of his brain.

Patchface then stayed at Storm's End as a court jester and fool, and later followed Stannis to Dragonstone and became a fool for Stannis's daughter, Shireen Baratheon.

Princess Shireen looked at her jester with blue eyes, and she said, "Adin, stop singing." Her jester had been singing this all day long these days, and she asked him to stop, but he wouldn't. She had just had a nightmare recently, dreaming that a dragon wanted to eat her. This song made her feel uneasy.

"Dance, dragon, dance!" But her Fool continued to sing, and as he sang he stood on one foot on the stone steps, then on the other.

"The seahorse is here to greet us, the seahorse is here to greet us!" With every line he sang, he turned his head, and the bells on his antlers kept ringing.

"Your Highness." It was the young maester newly sent by the Citadel who came down the towering tower stairs to greet her.

Shireen greeted shyly: "Master Pylos, I'm here to see Master Cressen." Many people have come to the castle recently, Maester Pylos being one of them. People's way of addressing Shireen has changed from "Miss" to "Princess", and she is not used to it yet.

"Who is it that visits us so late at night, Pylos?" came the old voice from the lighted room in the tower.

Xilin responded: "Master, it's me and Ading."

"Child, you should be with your mother meeting the princes' wives who came to the castle," the old scholar came out of the door and waved for her to come closer, "Why did you come to see me?"

“I’m still having that nightmare,” Shireen told him. “The dream about the dragon trying to eat me.”

The old maester remembered that the little girl had been haunted by nightmares for years. The old maester felt sorry for her. The child was only about to turn ten years old and was not beautiful. When she was young, she was infected with gray scale and almost died. Although she escaped, she was left with terrible defects: the skin on half of her cheek to the bottom of her neck was all stiff and necrotic, the surface was cracked, and it peeled off layer by layer, mixed with black and gray spots, and it felt like hard stone to the touch.

"Didn't I tell you?" the old maester said gently. "Dragons are dead and can never be resurrected. They are all stone sculptures, child. Long, long ago, our island was the westernmost outpost of the powerful Free City of Valyria. It was the Valyrians who built this castle, although their great art has been lost. To defend the fortress from foreign invaders, they built towers at every intersection of the fortress walls. The Valyrians deliberately carved these towers into the shape of dragons to make the castle look more terrifying. They abandoned ordinary battlements and replaced them with thousands of hideous stone statues for this purpose." He held out his mottled, skinny hand and gently squeezed her small hand. "So, there is nothing to be afraid of."

Shirin was unmoved. "What was that flying thing in the sky? Today, my mother's maids were talking by the well and said they heard the woman in red tell her that it was 'dragon's breath'. If dragons can breathe, doesn't that mean they are alive?"

This damned red-robed lady, the old scholar thought bitterly, isn't it enough that she has been gossiping in the queen's ear all day long, and now she is even unwilling to let go of her little daughter's sweet dreams? He must give those chattering maids a good reprimand and warn them not to make any more alarmist remarks.

"My dear child, that thing in the sky is called a comet, which is a star with a tail. It is lost in the sky and will soon disappear. We will never see it again in our lifetime. Just wait and see."

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The rain is still falling.

Viserys's order to counterattack was not well executed.

Looking down from a high altitude, he soon discovered that the flickering fire he had seen at the exit of the suite passage was the result of the half-reefed sails of the merchant ship being ignited. There was a strange flame that was about to go out in the corner under the rain. It was obviously caused by some special waterproof incendiary material that was thrown onto the sails.

He suddenly appeared just now, and took the initiative with the only attack method he could use at the moment, which had a powerful deterrent effect on ordinary people and was difficult to stop - he gathered the magic power through the magic organ constructed in the middle of the head and sprayed it out as a powerful flame ray. The moment he appeared, he directly burned through the people who were leaning against the edge of the pirate ship and shooting arrows, as well as the people gathered on the nearby decks.

The ropes and planks that the pirates used for boarding were also cut by the flaming blades. The ropes and planks that the pirates used for boarding were broken and lost their support. Several pirates fell directly into the sea. The remaining pirates on the pirate ship retreated in panic. The few pirates who had already boarded the Cedurian were instantly isolated and had no way to retreat.

But the crew of the Cedurian were also shocked. The first group to come out upon hearing the noise was Captain Grolai, who jumped out of the captain's room holding an exaggeratedly large shield, and several brave sailors holding crossbows and swords. But when they looked up and saw Viserys, they immediately froze in their places. Some people even subconsciously wanted to aim their crossbows at Viserys in panic, but fortunately, this reckless guy was tackled by his quick-eyed and quick-handed companions.

Then the hatch on the deck opened twice. The first time, the first person to come out was a merchant sailor. After raising his head and seeing Viserys, he immediately rolled back to the cabin and closed the hatch. It was not until the hatch was opened again that the Unsullied came out of the cabin one after another, calmly formed a team and went to besiege the pirates who jumped onto the Cedurian.

Compared to the reaction from the Cedarion, the pirates on the pirate ship reacted first to the outstanding deterrent effect after Viserys appeared.

The pirates, awakened from the shock, were actually shooting arrows at Viserys. Some pirates were even running and crawling towards the ballistas covered with tarpaulins on their decks. Others were rushing towards a large covered device placed at the stern of the pirate ship, which was suspected to be a catapult. "Dracarys!"

Viserys uttered the High Valyrian word again, meaning "dragon fire," and he did so before breathing fire, more for ritual and deception than for practicality.

The flames accumulated in his head again, and the scorching flame rays with terrifying high temperature condensed again. Viserys flapped his wings, creating a strong wind to blow away the rain of arrows that Daenerys shot at him - although they might not hit him. He spewed out blade-like flame rays from his mouth again, sweeping from the pirate sailors at the bow along the central axis of the pirate ship to the trebuchet at the stern, and then to the crossbow machine on the ship.

Several more horrific fire wounds appeared on the pirate ship. Seen from high above, the wounds where the flames were gradually dying looked like lines scribbled by a child on the deck.

The fire rays were enough to deal with ordinary people and some wooden products on the deck, but not enough to cause decisive damage to the pirate ship. Viserys estimated that he still had enough magic power in his body. This was the first time he had used the magic power he had accumulated for so long in this world. He planned to use his decisive power to bury these pirates.

Thinking of this, Viserys flapped his wings, intending to soar into the sky above the pirate ship. He wanted to use the strongest attack this body could launch now, to drop a huge magical fireball on the pirate ship from high altitude and eliminate possible threats on the pirate ship.

"Dragon rider!" This should be the first voice Viserys heard from the pirate ship, coming from a person whose appearance could not be seen clearly. Viserys was flying very high, and in his eyes, all the people below were just bean-sized black shadows under the rain curtain, but he could see the movements of that person. That person opened his arms to him, as if to challenge him, "Face me!"

It is said that the reason why the Tranquility is called Tranquility is because the crew of this pirate ship that created a terrifying legend on the sea are mutes and mixed-blood bastards from all over the world, including black people with skin as dark as asphalt, and short and hairy monsters that look like Sothoryos apes. Their tongues are all pulled out, and their ears are filled with liquid metal. They are silent and will not make any sound from their mouths whether they are killing or being killed.

The only voice on board will be that of Euron Greyjoy, Captain of the Silence.

Viserys finally noticed that there was something dangerous about the figure who was challenging him, the captain of the Silence himself. His crazy behavior must be based on something.

Viserys would not enter into such an obvious provocation.

Viserys could easily see several shirtless black figures blowing a strange horn behind the men who challenged him.

Viserys heard the strange sound of the horn, the sound that drowned out all other noise, and saw the man who blew the horn fall in response, and then another man took over. Every blast of the horn meant the death of one of the trumpeters.

But the magic in that call posed no threat to Viserys.

His power comes from another world!

However, Daenerys seemed to be slightly affected. Her breathing became noticeably heavier, and the hand around Viserys' neck became noticeably stronger.

Viserys turned his left head to see Daenerys's current situation. She seemed to be in great pain, hugging the dragon's neck tightly in his middle, with her whole head buried in Viserys' body.

Viserys was afraid that something might happen to her, so he continued to flap his wings upwards, trying to get as far away from the strange horn sound as possible. At the same time, he flew to the right height and used the magic in his body to create a fire attack that would decide the outcome.

The man on the pirate ship who tried to seduce Viserys with provocative behavior saw that the dragon ignored him and continued to climb into the air, so he immediately ran on the ship. He held something in his hand, and as he ran, he gathered power and threw it towards Viserys.

"Wow!"

As the man threw the thing in his hand, the inky black sea surface seemed to boil in an instant, and several slender tentacles sprang out from the dark sea surface under the night sky, like several long whips, and swung hard towards Viserys in the sky.

"Dracarys!"

Viserys, who was well prepared, even had time to roar before spitting out the flame ray that had been brewing for a long time.

Blade-like flames swept across the huge tentacles that sprang out of the sea. Although they failed to cut them off like they did the wooden hull, they burned horrific huge wounds on the tentacles.

The slender tentacles retracted in pain, slapping the sea surface and causing huge waves.

And Viserys continued to flap his wings upward.

Everyone looked up, at the rolling dark clouds where lightning flashed from time to time, and at the dark figure of the three-headed dragon suspended high in the sky, with flames gathering like a whirlpool.

Under the middle head of the three giant dragons that looked like horns burning with eternal flames, a huge fireball was forming in the air.

If they hadn't seen it with their own eyes, no one would have believed it. On a rainy night at sea when a storm was coming, they saw a huge fireball hanging in the sky like a scorching sun. Rainwater was steaming up wisps of white smoke around the huge fireball. And the scorching sun-like fireball smashed down on the pirate ship below like a falling star.

The moment the fireball hit the pirate ship, astonishing flames exploded on the hull, producing several white air currents that went straight up into the sky. The scorching hot wind spread in all directions, and the strong wind pressure made the damp and cold air in the rainy night seem to become scorching hot in that instant.

This consumed a lot of magic power. More than half of the magic power accumulated in Viserys' body had been used up. He slowly descended from the sky, flapping his wings and hovering over the burning hull of the Silence.

He also had to be wary of the huge sea monster in the sea whose full appearance had just been revealed.

Flame Ray
Fan Skills

Ordinary Fireball (not used in this article yet)
Fireball
When the author first played the game, he saw all its skills and was killed instantly by its ultimate move, which left a deep impression on him.

ps: The reason why the protagonist has only one flame ray is because only the middle head of King Guliok is flame, and the other two heads do not have corresponding magic power to use now.

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