Ice and Fire: Reign of the Dragon.

Chapter 136 Longzel's Five Fingers (Happy Mid-Autumn Festival)

Silver Blood Tower, Five Finger Hall.

The hall was small, with five dark pillars surrounding the long table. In the windowless room, only candles were burning quietly, lighting up the faces of everyone at the table. Longzel sat in the main seat, crossed his hands, holding his chin, and silently sorted out what he had to do during this period. Five finger-shaped gems of different colors were placed in different positions on the long table, waiting for their representatives to arrive.

Aslan Rondel, a handsome young man with silver hair, wore a silver and red robe. He quietly walked to the blood-red gem finger and lit the candlestick beside his seat. The candlelight was illuminating the family emblem on Aslan's chest. On the red background, three silver kraits with their tails swallowed surrounded a silver lion head, staring at the bright candlelight. As an important general under Ronzel, the Blood Finger, the Bloodsworn Brothers, and the hereditary retainer of the Vareses family, Aslan Rondel had a superior status among Ronzel's ministers. After Dorne surrendered, the Rondel family was granted a large area of ​​Yronwood Valley. Aslan also built two castles in his territory: the Silver Lion Castle as the main city, and the military fortress of the krait city. However, the two castles are currently under the jurisdiction of the acting lord appointed by Ronzel, and Aslan concentrates on serving in Dragon's Nest.

Longzel's current servants, the 15-year-old black-haired boy Revell Haydon, the Earl of Skybridge City, and the 14-year-old Quentin Manwoody, the Earl of King's Tomb City, skillfully added wine to Aslan and served him sweets such as fried nuts and small cakes. After doing all this, the two boys silently retreated into the shadows and prepared to prepare wine for the next Five Fingers member.

"Will Hoffa be late too?" Aslan couldn't help but laugh when he saw that he was the only one present for a long time. In his impression, Hoffa was always the first to arrive and the last to leave in previous meetings. But today, he didn't know why he didn't even arrive earlier than him? Or the other four fingers didn't arrive at all. This was too strange.

"Hoffa and Tigaro are waiting for a reply from Tas Island." Longzel took the light wine that Revel had just poured for him and took a sip. "Sebastian has blocked the wine port. Those guys whose brains were eaten by their ancestors can only escape through the Storm Land."

"Your Highness, I think we should have let Ago release his khalasar." Aslan still couldn't get over the fact that someone dared to "steal dragons" near Dragon's Nest. "The Dothraki have fast horses, and their lords couldn't react after they passed through the Stormlands. If we had let the cavalry out that day, we would have caught them back long ago." Aslan took a sip of wine and said indignantly.

"And then?" Longzel said with a smile, "Wait for Beaumond to take his two daughters to stay in Summerhall. Every day, he will not only figure out how to wash his daughters and send them to Aegon's bed, but also come to me and cry and shout that we are bullying his Baratheon family? I can't let Wormithor burn all the nobles in the Stormlands with a blast of dragon flame."

"Alas." Aslan naturally knew that this was unrealistic and could only sigh quietly. He had to wait for the other four fingers to arrive before reporting on the current situation of the Silver Blood Army. For a moment, the Five Finger Hall fell into silence, with only the whispers of the two young men. However, after feeling that the hall had suddenly become quiet, the two young attendants did not dare to whisper anymore and hurriedly covered each other's mouths.

"You two should have a chat." Longzel looked at his two servants and couldn't help but think of his previous servant. If Jakaris was still alive, well, forget it, don't think about it too much.

The young attendants hurriedly pretended to be busy, and it seemed that they were indeed busy. Quentin was busy distributing plates and wine glasses one by one, and Revell was busy pouring wine into the glasses and placing snacks on each plate.

At this moment, the door of the Five Finger Hall creaked open, and Hoffa, with black hair and golden eyes, walked in first and stood next to the Iron Fingers. "Your Highness, I am late. Please punish me."

"You are all here, and the meeting has just begun. Sit down, you are not late." Longzel explained helplessly. If he did not explain that Hoffa was not late, Hoffa would keep asking him to punish him, and then the meeting would definitely not be held.

Hoffa then meticulously lit the candlestick at his position and sat upright. The candlelight illuminated his emblem. On the silver bottom, a golden hand held a golden scale. As a senior official of Longzel, Hoffa also had his own fiefdom. After the Dance of the Blood Dragons, the Law-Keeper family was awarded a large piece of territory in the Reach. Hoffa let his younger brother Adams Law-Keeper inherit the territory and built a solid castle "Scale Castle" on it. He stayed at Longzel's side and served as his senior official and guard. Following behind him were Sebastian Jieyan and Tigaro Dagareon.

Sebastian, whose emblem was a twisted flame on a dark blue background, lit the candlestick next to the golden finger with ease, sat down, and nodded to Revell who brought him wine and food.

Tigaro sat aside, with a complex emblem of the Holy Grail, a winged snake and a teardrop painted on his chest. The two were now great nobles under Longzel. The Jieyan family obtained the Star Shuttle City territory, and the much older Gunthor Jieyan became the Earl of Star Shuttle City. The Dagareon family was granted the High Castle that was once the River Bay. Tigaro broke ground on the original site of the High Castle, preparing to build a more spacious and comfortable castle, the "Fortress of Tear".

As Rey closed the door, he lit the candlestick next to his silver fingers. Five fingers and five candlesticks together lit up the long table engraved with the map of Westeros and the map of Essos.

"Okay, everyone, everyone is here." Longzel looked around with his five fingers, motioned the two attendants to leave, then crossed his hands again and held his chin. "Tigaro, you speak first."

Tigaro nodded and pushed his obsidian finger into the groove in front of him. A magical scene appeared, and the obsidian finger suddenly shone with a faint light. "Your Highness, Lord 'Evening Star' of Tars Island has replied. He has thoroughly checked all the ships entering and leaving the port, and did not find any suspicious people with silver hair and purple eyes. Only a few merchant ships from Lys and Volantis had sailors with such appearances, but their captains insisted that these were old sailors they had always brought on board, and these ships had indeed just entered the port."

"Then those dragon thieves are most likely on those ships." Hoffa said. "Your Highness, I ask Lord Aslan to speak." Hoffa looked at Aslan beside him. With Longzel's approval, Aslan could directly mobilize the Silver Fleet to intercept those merchant ships. "Your Highness, my suggestion is to continue to wait and see." Tigaro signaled Hoffa not to be so anxious. He explained slowly: "After Tas Island, the ships going to different ports will have different routes. We only need to track the ships going to Dragonstone to find the dragon thieves. There is no need to use the Silver Fleet. Moreover, Your Highness has also promised to use Wormisol to hunt down those dragon thieves. Everyone knows that ravens are faster than ships, and dragons are faster than ravens. What's more, someone has already taken a ship to chase them."

"Who?" Aslan asked curiously. He remembered that there was no record of ship movements in the Silver Fleet.

"The knight that Valar just appointed, his name was something like Xiufu." Rey recalled and said, "He took his team to ask for leave and volunteered to go after the dragon thief."

"Where did they get the ship?" Aslan was still confused.

"There is a cavalryman named Dennis in his squad. His wife is a captain who has several ships under her command." Tigaro replied, "Among those ships, there is a large sailing ship called 'Rat'. It was an old and dilapidated flat-bottomed merchant ship. After arriving at Wine Harbor, the woman named Marda from Hull Town sold her three large ships and bought a large sailing ship built by the Wine Harbor shipyard, which she named 'Rat'. That ship is a great clipper. I have assigned their ship an assistant maester with a raven. As long as we find the whereabouts of the dragon thief, we will be informed immediately."

"I will reward them when they come back." Longzel nodded: "Go on, Tigaro, do you have any other information?"

"Lysandra Rogar, the governor of Lys, is sailing towards Wine Harbor with his family." Tigaro said slowly, "Based on the existing intelligence, they are most likely here to request mediation of the war between them and the Iron Islands. Nine days ago, Dalton captured six affiliated towns of Lys and burned the mangroves and those towns on the coast. In addition, Sarlak Lohar's fleet was also defeated by the Iron Fleet, but the overall casualties were not great."

"They are expected to arrive on this day." Longzel calculated that based on the speed of the clipper ship, Reese's ship would probably arrive after the tentatively scheduled Kingsguard selection.

"Don't worry, Your Highness. My people have already found their ships." Tigaro said, "They will arrive after the time you scheduled."

Longzel looked at Tigaro. He knew that his old friend was definitely not as calm as he seemed. Tigaro's family was also a big banking family in Rees. It was the squeeze of the Rogar family that led to the destruction of Tigaro's family and he almost ended up in Rees's prostitute district.

However, Tigaro can now look at these things calmly. According to him, he is more concerned about how to squeeze more value out of the Rogar family and allow the Varese family to gain greater benefits.

After Tigaro finished his speech, the silver-haired young man took back his obsidian finger, and the next one to be placed in the groove and glow was Rei's pure silver finger.

What he wanted to report was the situation of the dragon's lair and the dragon.

"Brother, the observation period has ended." Lei Yi took out a thick booklet, "I have written down all the details, but there is good news."

"Why don't you tell me the good news right away? What are you waiting for?" Longzel smiled and straightened up.

"The fire has laid eggs."

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival everyone, there will be two more chapters later.

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(End of this chapter)