Ice and Fire: Reign of the Dragon.

Chapter 139 Aegon's Decision
A silver-grey dragon roared and swooped down from the clouds. The waves breaking the sea could be seen clearly even from a long distance. After a while, the dragon rose from the sea, spinning into the air, with tentacles in its mouth trying to crawl out. But as the fire flashed, the dragon swallowed the giant squid like a wheat-made pasta special to the river bay, and then spread its wings and flew in another direction. It didn't even look at the Rat.

"A brand new winged warhorse!" Zhuo Ke threw himself over the side of the ship, ignoring the turbulence of the ship, and shouted in surprise. "I'm going to drive it back to the herd of the great Khal Longzel!"

"Drokoko, that is King Aegon's property." Thuf recognized the dragon. He had seen it flying over King's Landing when he was young and knew it was Ser Laenor Velaryon's dragon. Of course, Thuf did not know the dragon's name: "Well, to use your Dothraki terms. It is a winged warhorse from King Aegon's herd, not Prince Longzel's herd."

"King Aegon? Are his herds as big as Khal Longzel's?" Droko asked doubtfully, "Does his herd have winged horses like Wormithor? Oh, I remember now, King Aegon is the cub next to Khal Longzel? Aren't his herds the same as Khal Longzel's?"

Xiufu realized that he had no way to convince or change Zhuo Ke's mind, so he simply ignored him and shouted to the lookout: "Erin, observe if there are other ships chasing the dragon."

"Yes!" Erin's sharp eyes spotted a small speedboat that suddenly changed its course and sped off in the direction of the gorgeous silver-gray dragon. The speedboat disguised as a paddleless sailboat extended dozens of long oars in the blink of an eye and quickly left behind another merchant ship on the side.

"Martha, hurry up and catch up! Young maester, let the raven go!" Shufu also rushed to the direction pointed by Erin and shouted. The petite Marda rushed to the rudder. "Adam, take someone to adjust the sail rope, we will catch up." The cabin door creaked open, and a young maester stumbled out, but the maester did not let the raven fly. Instead, he took out a blood-red dagger and cut the raven's neck with one knife. Strangely, not a drop of the raven's blood flowed onto the deck, but made the dagger redder and redder, and finally disappeared in the maester's hand. However, no one noticed the maester's strange behavior, they were all concentrating on adjusting the direction of the large sailing ship.

"Yes! Mother." Adam immediately brought the sailors guarding the sails and adjusted the direction of the sails. The Mouse slowly turned and prepared to chase the speedboat.

On the clipper, the captain with waves and sailboats tattooed on his face knelt in front of Hogen Belleris and Ben Unebar and said tremblingly: "Master, we can't go any faster. We are just a small boat and can't reach the speed of a warship with 150 or 200 oars."

"Idiot, there's a ship chasing us from behind." Huo Geng kicked the captain over. Ben held Huo Geng's shoulder and said to the captain, who immediately fell to the ground after being kicked over, "Go full speed ahead and chase the dragon. Don't worry about the ship behind."

"Ben, that is the galleon of House Vareses. Even the swan ships of the Summer Isles and the purple galleons of the slaves of Braavos are not as fast as them. Do you want to kill us?"

"What we did was a life-or-death mission." Ben Unebar signaled the captain to quickly mobilize the oarsmen, and grabbed Hogen's collar in return: "Have you forgotten how Taraz died? Since we are here to tame dragons, dragons are our only target. As for the pursuers, as long as there are no dragons coming, we can just kill them."

Hogan pushed Ben aside and straightened his collar. There were not only sailors on the ship, but also twenty Unsullied and twenty Tiger Robes, all hiding under the cabin. In order not to alert other ports, they swam to the ship near Cape Wrath, where it was almost impossible to stop the ship. The entire ship did not even resupply on the island of Tarth, but bought supplies directly from a Volantis ship that left the port. Only then did they arrive at Blackwater Bay smoothly.

They must be quick. As for the pursuers behind them, it’s still unclear who will kill whom.

Dragonstone.

Korax roared as it descended from the sky. The blood-red dragon, as slender as a snake, lay steadily on the long causeway outside the castle. Hearing the roar of the dragon and its approach, Ser Robert Kanes, the acting lord of Dragonstone, staggered over to meet him. The old lord was old, not only senile but also very fat. It had already consumed a lot of his energy to walk here. "Your Majesty, I have blocked all the ports of Dragonstone. No strange ships are coming in."

Daemon jumped off the dragon's back, took off his gloves, and walked to Robert: "I'm hungry, the dragon is hungry too, prepare food for us." Daemon had just finished patrolling Blackwater Bay on his dragon, but unfortunately, the chase between Hogan's ship and the Maus began after he finished his patrol.

Unfortunately, the old prince missed the dragon thief's ship.

"Your Majesty, the food is ready." Sir Robert held onto the stone railing of the causeway and followed the Regent, panting. "Sir Alfred took the dragon guards to patrol Dragon Mountain. I can guarantee that today, only Haiyan was seen out foraging, and no other dragons were seen."

"Where is the sheep thief?" Daemon asked. As an old dragon born during the reign of King Jaehaerys I, the sheep thief was not very big, but he was well-known in Dragonstone for his cunning, greed, and cruelty. Many shepherds on Dragonstone had been killed by him. This wild dragon even flew to the valley to look for food. When the knights of the valley heard the news and rushed over, the sheep thief had left only ashes and a mountain tribe that had been burned to ashes.

"I didn't see the old dragon." Robert Kans recalled and made sure that the sentries he had arranged all over the island had not found any trace of the sheep thief.

As for Gray Shadow? Few people had ever seen the young and shy dragon, except for a few fishermen who had seen it dive into the sea to catch plump tuna, and then immediately disappear into the clouds or the mountains.

"Are there any new dragon eggs hatching in the Dragon Mountain?" Daemon suddenly stopped and looked at Robert Kanes seriously. This was a fatal question, which Daemon only realized after receiving the news that Sarafathers and Igarath had hatched. Daemon clearly remembered that when he was a teenager, the Targaryen family had no shortage of dragons.

To be precise, in the hundred years from the time the Conqueror unified the six kingdoms to the time King Viserys ascended the throne, the Targaryen family actually had more than just the few dragons they have now. When Maegor the Cruel was a teenager, since he never had a dragon, Aegon I and Queen Visennia arranged twelve dragons for him to choose from, and these twelve dragons were only the healthy and aggressive ones born in Dragon Mountain.

During the reign of King Jaehaerys, Queen Rhaenaea's Dreamfyre produced dragon eggs almost non-stop, and during the years she lived on Dragonstone, dragon eggs were hatched almost every month. As a result, the dragon courtyard on Dragonstone could no longer accommodate them, and many young dragons escaped from the courtyard and built nests all over Dragon Mountain, becoming wild dragons.

But the Targaryen family seemed to attach no importance to the dragons hatched in the Dragon Mountain. Except for those tamed and ridden by family members, the rest were left to fight and die on their own. As a result, by the time Viserys I became king, there were almost no hatched dragons in the Dragon Mountain. Even if there were, they were eaten or hunted by gluttons or other dragons.

Daemon didn't realize until then that he couldn't do this anymore. He had to cherish every dragon egg and every dragon that hatched. He had to keep these real forces, the relatives of the real dragons, firmly in his hands. Robert Kanes was stumped by this question. He recalled carefully. Although the old knight was old, his memory had not declined. He suddenly remembered the news sent back by the patrolling dragon guards. "Yes, I remember. There are dragon eggs hatched in the Dragon Mountain. When the dragon guards were patrolling, they heard a cry different from that of Sea Smoke, Sheep Thief and Gray Shadow."

"Take me to see it quickly." Daemon was overjoyed. This was great news, better than the hatching of Dawn and Igarath. These dragons were hatched in the territory of the Targaryen family. Especially in the period when the shadow of dragon stealing was looming, the newborn dragons were enough to prove that the Targaryen family was still destined.

"Your Majesty, aren't you going to eat?" The old knight tried to dissuade the prince with tears in his eyes. Damon was less than fifty years old and could still hold on, but he couldn't. Going out of the castle to pick up Damon had already cost the old and fat knight half his life. Going to Longshan again... No, he had to go. The old knight was determined to follow his master until his soul returned to a stranger.

"We'll eat when we come back. By the way, Korakshuu needs to eat now. Lead the way."

"Your will be obeyed."

Dragon's Nest City.

Aegon climbed down from the training ground in front of the Dragon Crystal Tower with a wooden sword in his hand and bruises all over his body. He sat down on the open space at the edge of the field and gulped down a bottle of water.

In the venue, Aslan Longdel chopped the sword in Revil Haydon's hand with a sword, and the sword swung and hit the young servant's back, knocking him down directly: "Your center of gravity is unstable and your resilience is too poor. You are not as strong as His Majesty Jakaris when he was nine years old." Aslan said in a deep voice.

Aegon heard his brother's name and drank a sip of water with some sadness. Ringol's training was also over. The boy did not need actual combat training, and his project was much easier.

"Ringol, do you think I can compare to my brother?" Aegon couldn't help but say as he watched another young man being knocked down by Aslan, and then got up to continue training.

"His Majesty Jacaerys is His Majesty Jacaerys, and Aegon is Aegon." Ringol pretended to be a little adult and patted the young king on the shoulder. "To be honest, I heard from my uncle that His Majesty Jacaerys was unable to defeat Lord Aslan until the end." Ringol was not familiar with Jacaerys. He only had some vague impressions of the handsome black-haired big brother, including that he often hugged him and teased him, and often talked to his father. But he knew that Jacaerys was a very good person.

Hearing that his brother had not defeated Aslan either, Aegon smiled knowingly. At this moment, a shocking roar came from below the Dragon's Nest.

The entire Dragon Nest City seemed to be shaking.

"Why did Wormithor take off?" Aegon stood up suddenly and ran to the edge of the training ground in two steps, which was facing the entrance of the dragon's cave below.

The huge Wormithor, which was big enough to block out the sun, spread its wings and flew up. Aegon could even clearly see Dragonzel wearing the Valyrian steel armor of the "Dragon Rider" behind it.

"What happened?"

"The dragon thief must have been found. I saw Prince Longzel give Assistant Maester Arthur a red dagger. I didn't dare to listen to what else they said. I think it was something that could notify him immediately. This damn dragon thief even dared to covet a dragon."

Aegon looked in the direction of the voice and saw that it was Revil who was talking to Quentin. He rushed over and asked, "Revil, what's going on? What's the matter with stealing the dragon?"

"Your Majesty, don't you know? A few days ago, a group of dragon thieves from Volantis tried to steal Vermax, but one of them was burned to death by Vermax, and the rest ran away." Revil was also very puzzled why Aegon didn't know about this.

Aegon stood up without hesitation and ran towards the Dragon's Lair Tower without even changing his dirty clothes.

"Aegon, what are you doing?" Ringol hurriedly followed with his short legs.

"I want to see who is so bold." Aegon gritted his teeth and said, "Dare to steal my eldest brother's dragon."

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