Game of Thrones: Viserys the Three-Headed Dragon.

Chapter 89 Funeral
"Your Majesty, with all due respect, I do not think this is appropriate."

Earl Gunther, who was sent by Viserys to deal with the corpses of both warring parties, tried to calm his heartbeat. He looked at the king who was still wearing armor on the throne in the main hall, and tried not to look at the three-headed dragon lying behind him and the baby dragon on his shoulder.

The king's voice was loud enough for everyone in the main hall to hear: "They have no swords." Even though all of them were just Lord Gunther, the Lambton brothers, Princess Shireen who was invited to watch, two Unsullied centurions, Missandei who translated Valyrian into the Common Tongue for the centurions, and a dozen Unsullied guards of King Viserys and Princess Shireen.

Earl Gunther was loyal and frank: "Your Majesty, the whereabouts of Stannis's army are unknown and they may come at any time. The castle is under-guarded. If they riot at the foot of the mountain, I am afraid..."

For the huge castle on Dragonstone, more than a hundred Unsullied guards are far too few. Even if all the people present were called together, the dining tables on the first floor of the main castle would not be fully occupied.

From a purely military perspective, the fortress on Dragonstone can accommodate at least a thousand defenders.

Viserys said, "I can make an agreement with them. Most of them are knights and squires anointed with holy oil. Do they lose their knighthood by converting to the Lord of Light?"

Viserys planned to let the surrendered prisoners in prison attend the funeral held in the cemetery today. The reason why he wanted to do this thankless task was that Viserys wanted to build momentum for himself, rely on the dragon to spread his own strength and destiny, while holding high the banner of honor.

After hearing what Priestess Fremy said last night, Viserys had some ideas and wanted to do something to see how the Red God would react next.

Now that he has taken Dragonstone, Viserys doesn't have to rush into the internal struggle in Westeros.

Viserys always remembered that his goal was to obtain the dragon soul. He attacked Dragonstone because he guessed that the Dragonstone castle built by the Valyrians could block external magical interference. The mysterious power of this world has revived and has turned its attention to him and Daenerys. Viserys also guessed that Dragonstone was stuck in the middle of the gods, so he decided to wait and see how the situation changed.

He had to ensure that when he next entered Westeros, he would not be invaded by a spirit as powerful as the Dragonbinder.

After all, Westeros has the Greenseer, and he dare not forget this. There is a saying among the readers of the original novel that the Mad King Aerys's later madness may be related to it. Of course, this statement is groundless and lacks solid evidence. But what happened after touching the Horn of the Dragonbinder made Viserys feel frightened.

Viserys' words made Earl Gunther at a loss for words: "Your Majesty."

Viserys said, "Ser Gunther, do not worry. I rode my dragon to check this morning. There were no ships in the ports of Point and Tidepoint. I went dozens of miles into Blackwater Bay and did not see Stannis's fleet. I can be sure that his fleet will not return today. I am confident that you will handle this matter. Ser Gunther, you are an honest and upright knight. I trust you."

".Yes, Your Majesty."

Then Viserys asked two centurions to take the rest of the guards who had no special tasks and Earl Gunther with him, and asked Missandei to translate for them.

The king will not bring his dragon to this funeral in person, and the surrendered soldiers of Stannis may take the opportunity to cause chaos.

Around noon, the gravediggers in the cemetery at the foot of the mountain, the monks of Baal, and a dozen old women recruited by the town - the silent nuns of the Dragonstone Cathedral were all driven away - finished dressing the more than 100 corpses, and the funeral was ready. Earl Gunther returned to the prison with the quartermaster, Arnell, who was summoned last night, and announced the matter to the soldiers imprisoned there: "The funeral of the dead in the town cemetery at the foot of the mountain has been prepared. The king allows those who want to attend the funeral to go out, but there is an agreement: in the name of the gods and the reputation of you, the dead will be buried according to the teachings of the Seven Gods, and those who attend the funeral cannot take the opportunity to cause trouble. They must return here after the funeral. Sir Arnell can testify that this is true."

The quartermaster said, "I can testify to that."

There was a sudden noise in the prison.

Someone asked, "Did you kiss the Targaryen king's hand, Arnill?"

The quartermaster's face was full of fatigue, and he said calmly, "I spent a night with the stonemasons at the foot of the mountain, making sure those stonemasons and apprentices didn't carve the wrong names. King Targaryen didn't see me."

"trick!"

Count Gunther ignored Axel's call - that was all he called out. Count Gunther asked, "Raise your hands if you want to attend the funeral."

Hands were raised in the dark cell with dim firelight.

At the gate of the black cell, each prisoner was given a black mourning dress by the silent Unsullied, and only a few Unsullied symbolically stood guard on the way out of the castle. Earl Gunther led the long procession to the funeral down the mountain road, and there was not even a Targaryen army escorting them.

It was not until the funeral procession arrived not far from the town cemetery that they saw dozens of Targaryens standing in a corner of the cemetery.

They already knew that these Targaryen soldiers were all foreigners who could not even speak a few words of the common language of Westeros. A teenage girl translated the funeral verses that Brother Baal was chanting into Valyrian for these Targaryen foreign soldiers. Finally, with the sound of the "bury" bell, the bodies on that side were covered with coffins and placed in the dug graves. The foreign soldiers and gravediggers worked together with shovels and quickly sent dozens of their own dead to the graves. Finally, tombstones were erected in front of the graves.

After doing this, the Targaryen soldiers from foreign countries gathered together and left the cemetery in silence.

Although they were fully armed, their numbers were still far less than those of Stannis's men who came down to attend the funeral, but there was no communication or conflict between the two sides even when the arrays were intertwined.

There were many more Stannis soldiers who died in the battle, nearly a hundred of them, and the expressions of fear, madness, and ferocity on their faces had been cleaned up, and the bodies had been wiped clean, looking particularly peaceful. Earl Gunther led everyone into the cemetery and lined up, and Brother Baal came with a wooden statue representing the Stranger and a chime to pray for the dead.

No one mentioned here that they had converted to the Lord of Light, and they just remained silent in the array.

There were several rows of graves for Stannis's dead, and Septon Bhaal walked past the coffins one by one, reciting the Stranger's Scripture as he walked. The gravedigger carefully inserted the shovel used by the Targaryen army next to the coffins in the first row, and then waited quietly for the septon to finish reciting the Scripture.

Finally, with the sound of the "Funeral" bell, two gravediggers covered the first coffin with a board, put it into the grave, and began to fill the first grave with soil.

There was no need for Count Gunther to say anything. Soldiers from the team stepped forward and followed the gravedigger's steps to cover the coffin with a board and put it into the grave. Others went up with shovels to fill the grave with soil.

There aren't enough shovels, so not everyone needs to step forward.

Someone came quietly to Count Gunther and whispered to him: "Eland Floren greets you. Count Gunther, your king is a true king, please be sure to tell him that."

Gunther turned around and saw that the person who spoke was Floren, who had argued with Axel in prison last night.

Many in the funeral procession glanced and whispered.

Lord Gunther did not answer, but looked up at Dragonstone Castle on the mountain.

He saw that among the terrifying dragon statues on the Dragonstone fortress, there was a dragon he had never seen before that seemed to be looking over here.

After the funeral, Count Gunther asked to speak privately to the king while reporting back in the main hall.

Viserys allowed him to go up to the Hall of the Table, and then he and Daenerys flew to the gap in the Hall of the Table to wait for him.

When Earl Gunther arrived at the Table Hall, he immediately bowed and said, "Your Majesty, forgive my stupidity, but why don't you have Maester Pylos send a letter outside Dragonstone Island, declaring to the nobles of Westeros that you are the legitimate king of Westeros, deposing the current false kings in various places, and calling on loyalists from all over the world to fight for you?"

"The ravens are gone," Viserys told him. "Lady Selyse was at Maester Pylos's yesterday morning trying to send a raven for help. As soon as they opened the cages, the remaining ravens flew away in terror and have not returned since. Many more Stannis sent away have not returned yet. There is one white raven left from the Citadel, which announces the approach of winter."

This reason left Gunther speechless for a moment.

Earl Gunther thought for a moment and said, "Your Majesty, if that is the case, you can send people to Tidehead Island, Crab Island, and Pointy Point to persuade them to surrender. These three families have been loyal to Dragonstone since ancient times. You only need to send a messenger to summon them, and they will all join your army and fight for you."

"How many men do you think they can gather for me now that they have agreed to serve me? And what will they do when Stannis returns to attack Dragonstone?" Viserys responded calmly. "Once I defeat Stannis's fleet at Dragonstone, they will come to me on their own."

Earl Gunther was speechless. Finally, he told Viserys what Elland Florent had said to him at the funeral: "I see that many of the surrendered knights have similar intentions, Your Majesty, you only need to summon them to the front of the hall for questioning-"

"We'll talk about this after we fight Stannis." Gunther went to the prison yesterday, and Missandei went with him as an interpreter for the Unsullied jailer. Missandei came back and told Viserys what she heard.

He gradually figured out that the Dragonstone defenders could be roughly divided into two groups. Although they were all from the Florent family, one group was under the command of Stannis's loyal queen, headed by Axell Florent, and the other group was sent by Alester Florent, Lord of Brightwater, who surrendered to Stannis after Renly's death, to protect the queen and ensure the power foundation of the Florent family.

Alister is appointed Hand of the King by Stannis.

Alister is a political opportunist. At first, they fought for Renly. After Renly's death, he became the first person who swore allegiance to Renly to switch to Stannis Baratheon. He was also the first new lord to abandon the Seven Gods and convert to the Lord of Light R'hllor, and once replaced his brother Axell as the leader of the Queen's Party.

Although Viserys was impressed by the men's will to fight, he would never have wanted them to be the first to serve him.

After seeing off Count Gunther, Daenerys quickly got off Viserys and stretched her muscles, lifting her visor to breathe freely: "What are you going to do when the ravens come back?" She had been influenced by Viserys and could probably tell that Viserys would not do what the earl mentioned. Viserys did not seem to care much about the "fake king" in Westeros.

"Before I tell you, think about what you would do if it were you."

As Viserys spoke, he flew to the main castle with his enlarged body and squatted down, looking out in the distance in the direction of Blackwater Bay.

I don't know whether the war in King's Landing is over.

(End of this chapter)