Ice and Fire: Reign of the Dragon.

Chapter 164 Bernila: I want to fly to the end of the world

Damon's funeral was simple.

Longzel and Aegon collected his ashes and placed them solemnly in the family tomb of the Targaryen family. There was no nobles watching, no ceremony, only the children bidding farewell to their father and Carax's mourning.

This was also his personal request. The prince's original words were: "I have lived a wonderful life. I was born in blood and fire, and I died in blood and fire. I have no regrets. You don't need to shed tears for the departure of a soldier."

Joffrey, who had restored the Velaryon fleet on Tidemark, returned. Five years after the war, this impulsive but shy boy had grown into a tall man. The rise of the Vareses family caused the Velaryon family to lose most of their routes. After all, the more affluent Brewport and Silvercrown were more attractive to merchant ships from the East Continent than Spicetown and Hulltown. The wealth of the Seahorse family was shrinking, but Joffrey still stabilized the situation.

In fact, he didn't do anything. He just signed an agreement with Sebastian Zhayan, allowing ships flying the seahorse flag to sail with the fleet under the silver dragon laurel leaf sails. Through profit sharing, the decline of Velaryon was slowed down a lot.

Even so, Joffrey was still worried about the Velaryon family. When he learned the news of his stepfather's death, the brown-black-haired boy was stunned for a long time before rushing out of the Nine Flights in panic and flying back to King's Landing on Tyrexu.

Baelor, who was far away in Lys, also rode Moon Dancer back to King's Landing. This "queen mother" who was unwilling to be lonely had always been extremely resistant to a comfortable life. In the past few years, she spent much less time in King's Landing than on the back of a dragon. People had seen her among the mountains in the Borderlands, riding Moon Dancer to trade horse meat and live sheep with the khalasar of Ago. When Rey and Rhaena rode their dragons to find her, Baelor disappeared again. Miners in the Westerlands once saw dragons with crowns of thorns flying between the mountains. Since then, bards in the Westerlands began to sing songs about the queen mother riding dragons to hunt man-eating lions for hunters in the Westerlands. Merchants traveling to and from the Neck had seen the queen mother wandering in the miasma-filled swamp, as if looking for the mobile water fortress of the marshlanders. Lord Cregan Stark and Lady Alysanne set out immediately after receiving the ravens from Earl Severn that found a dragon over Wolfwood, but they came up empty-handed.

The Queen Mother wanted to see the legendary giants. She stayed in the Last Hearth for a long time and helped Lord Umber melt the ice that blocked the road. Benilla understood the difficulties in the North. She refused Lord Umber's hospitality and went north again to the Black Castle of the Wall. There she met Jason Lannister, who was dressed in black and survived the harsh winter and the invasion of wildlings. The former Duke of Casterly Rock has now become the commander-in-chief of the Wall. His wife Lady Johanna prepared a lot of gold for him, but he exchanged the gold for supplies. It was his supplies that allowed the Wall to withstand the most severe cold wave in the 132nd year of the Conquest. The blizzard for seven months almost covered the entire Wall with ice and snow. The rangers could not attack at all, and the supply ships of Eastwatch were difficult to dock. If the Night's Watch, which had expanded to more than people after the Dance of the Dragons, had not relied on the supplies brought by the lords of the West, I am afraid that by the time the blizzard stopped, a large number of people would have been frozen to death or starved to death.

The arrival of Benila made the people on the Great Wall uneasy. After all, they stood on the opposite side of the young "Queen Mother" in the Dance of the Dragons. But Benila didn't care about that. She rode the dragon to clear the road for the defenders of the Great Wall and exchanged small items from the north of the Great Wall with the old rangers. Benila wanted to continue northward, but Moon Dancer refused to fly over the Great Wall. Benila could only ride Moon Dancer and disappear from people's sight again.

Daemon had sent people to look for her everywhere, but they only brought back vague eyewitness reports. The most recent report was that Benella appeared in Lys. She accepted a large sum of gold provided by Lysandra and burned the rebels who tried to overthrow the rule of the Rogar family with Moon Dance. She also used the money to fund a mercenary group called "The Unburnt Princess" to experience the feeling of being a mercenary leader. Unfortunately, when the news of Daemon's death came, Benella immediately gave up her dream of becoming a mercenary captain and rode her dragon back to King's Landing.

The gathering lasted only three days before people dispersed again. Daemon had passed away, but the kingdom still needed to be governed. The Council of the Kings was still functioning normally. Lotor Rogar from Lys took over the post of Chief of Intelligence, which had been vacant for a long time, and maintained the management of the capital together with Tyran, Bartimos, and the new Lord Justice, Lord Forrest Frey. Aegon followed Dragonzel back to Dragon's Nest to continue learning how to rule.

Dragon's Nest City, Twin Towers.

Rhaena and Rey's room.

Originally, only Rey lived here, so there were books everywhere. But since Rhaena moved in, the room has become much tidier. All the books are neatly placed on the bookshelf and classified according to specific labels. However, many of the books are written in languages ​​that Rhaena cannot understand. She can only classify them according to the entries given by Rey. Until now, she still doesn't understand what languages ​​those books are written in.

"Sister, remember to go through the door next time."

Rhaena looked at the floor-to-ceiling window of the room, with an expression as if she didn't know what to say. Benilla jumped steadily from Moon Dancer's back to the terrace of the room, and stepped into her sister's room in one step.

"Don't dare let that brat Ringol find out." Benila breathed a sigh of relief. In order to avoid Ringol, she deliberately did not go to the dragon's lair, nor did she go to the several towers where the children often appeared. Moon Dance landed steadily on the railing of the terrace, hanging like a big bat. It was also unwilling to go to the dragon's lair in Dragon's Nest City. For it, it was equivalent to the territory of another giant dragon and was quite dangerous.

"Why are you hiding from him?" Rhaena closed the book in her hand in a very strange way. "Doesn't your cousin Longzel support you very much?"

"Uncle Longzel supports me, ah." Benila curled her lips. "But that brat Ringol always thinks that I am irresponsible for running around. So every time I come to Dragon Nest City and he sees me, he will go to find my uncle, and then it is a waste of our precious time. By the way, Rhaena, let's get down to business. Did you find what I asked you to find?"

Rhaena looked at her sister warily, though silently she took out several large books that Benilla had asked her to copy from the great library of the Laurel Tower. "I warn you, the Reys have records of these books, and they will know that you borrowed them."

"It's all right, all right. I left a letter for my cousin Longzel, and he knows about it." Benila flipped through the books happily, including "Geography of the Eastern Coast of the Narrow Sea", "Disputed Lands: The Travels of Hassan Lo Tator", "Diary of a Voyage to the Summer Sea", "Explorations of Sothoryos", "The Basilisk Islands: The Land of Blood", and "The Book of Kings: The History of the Skeleton Mountains". "Huh? Why isn't there?" Benila hesitated. There was another book on the list of books she provided to Rhaena. "Journey to the Land of the Dead" written by Longzel.

Bards all said that Longzier had been to the lost ancient Valyria, where he gained the power and dragons of his ancestors. After returning, he wrote this travelogue to guide his descendants to continue exploring the relics of their ancestors.

"There is no such book." Rhaena shook her head. "It was made up by a bard. Think about it, given my cousin's character, would he leave behind something so sensitive?"

"He won't." In fact, Bernila didn't have much confidence in getting the book. After thinking it through, Bernila quickly put the book into the bag around her waist.

"Thanks, I have to go now."

"Sister, although it's not appropriate for me to say this." Rhaena looked at her sister who turned over and jumped into the terrace and got back on the dragon's back. After thinking for a while, she said firmly: "I understand your dream of exploring for the Targaryen family, but you still have Moon Dancer. What if Moon Dancer?"

"Don't worry, I won't let the Targaryen dragon wander in a foreign land." Baelor smiled and replied: "I have already given Moon Dance instructions. If I sleep in a faraway place, it must return to its home island of Dragonstone no matter what."

She waved.

"My dear sister, I hope I can rest in peace at the end of the world. Tell Uncle Longzel that I will write a travelogue and ask him to remember to receive it."

At this moment, in the circular covered courtyard on top of the Silver Blood Tower, Longzel looked at Yuewu taking off and sighed.

"Honey, what's wrong? Is it Queen Mother Benilla?" Diana was sitting next to Serena, playing building blocks with her daughter. She couldn't help but look up when she heard her husband sigh.

"Yes." Longzel sighed, "Benila, I wish your long-cherished wish will come true."

Above the vast sky.

The moon dance broke through the clouds, and Benila grabbed the hand guard of the dragon saddle and laughed wildly. But as she laughed, a tear suddenly flashed in Benila's eyes.

"Little Jie, I have also walked through the rivers and mountains of Westeros. Next, I will fly to the end of the world." She raised her head and listened quietly to the sound of the wind. "Let's go see the outside world together."

The wind howled.

Only the sound of Yuewu's chirping and the laughter of the young queen mother remained.

From that day on, Baelor Targaryen was never seen again.

This is the first update. There will be another update later. I have been quite busy these days, so the third update will be postponed to 10.4/5/6.

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