Ice and Fire: Reign of the Dragon.

Chapter 166 Vareses, Silver Blood and One Heart

When Lingol heard his father ask this question, he straightened his back quickly. He knew that the topic that Longzel wanted to talk to him about was very important and he had to listen carefully.

If I'm not mistaken, this concerns the future of the Varese family.

"Ringol, what I am going to tell you is the history and future that I know." Longzel put his arm around his son's shoulders and led him to Vhagar's skull. "It's not what you read in the book, but what I saw with my own eyes."

"You must remember what I said, child." Longzel switched to High Valyrian. He glanced at Ringol who seemed to want to find paper and pen: "Don't write it down on paper, remember it with your brain."

"Yeah." Lingol pursed his lips and stood still, standing obediently beside his father, waiting for Longzel to tell the story.

"What I am going to tell you next is the history and future that I saw in the prophecy, as well as the research results of your grandfather and the combination of what I have seen." Longzel placed his hand on Vhagar's skull and slowly told him everything that Ringol had never heard of.

"When my father was young, he became famous in the Blackwall of Volantis for his strange behavior. No one knew why he was so strange. The family had been raising slaves for so many years, but he chose to create indentured workers, which led to the family being besieged by all the Blackwall nobles. No one knew why he was so obsessed with organizing the workers, miners, and farmers in his family to try new things. It was these behaviors that caused the wealth of the Varese family to shrink greatly when he was young."

Longzel smiled as he talked about his father's past: "But when the things he finally experimented with really made the Vareses family rise, everyone only dared to curse him quietly, and no one dared to talk nonsense in front of the family. After gaining enough power and wealth, my father began his research on our bloodline. He always said some strange things at that time, such as if he had watched A Song of Ice and Fire or Game of Thrones. But this did not affect his indulgence in experiments with magic and blood, and he did achieve some success."

Ringol looked at his father curiously, then at Vhagar's skull, and continued to listen silently to Longzel telling these stories that he would not normally read in class or in books.

"The blood of the Vareses family is inherited from ancient Valyria. Our direct ancestor was one of the fourteen people who first participated in dragon training, the 'Blacksmith' Vareses. According to legend, they took the eternal fire from the depths of the volcano and made an ancient contract with the dragon hovering over the peninsula. Since then, the shepherds of Valyria have become the masters of the dragons, and a great 'empire' has risen on the edge of civilization."

He sighed, and continued, "But father thinks that's not the case. He thinks the ancestors of the Valyrians committed unspeakable horrors with dragons, so we have dragon blood flowing in our veins. That's why, even if we are not dragon riders, we can still approach dragons, unless they are hungry. Father believes that the Valyrian dragon kings use witchcraft in the pits of High Gothos to make men, women and beasts have sex, not only for fun, but also to continue the ancient experiments. They want more."

"But what my father didn't know is that all this is not just the history of the secular world. There is also the support of this world behind it. Now I am going to tell you about another perspective of history that I have seen in a way that ordinary people cannot know. Of course, it may not be true, it is just a perspective."

"In a distant and unknown era, the world we live in was born. At that time, the oceans rose and fell from exhaustion, and the earth rose from it. The first life was born. The forests, the seabed, the lakes and rivers, and the intelligent life played the first music with this world. As this world gradually stabilized, what we ordinary people call "gods" also appeared. They may be the leaders of various races, who have been passed down from generation to generation and deified themselves. They may be some strange creatures, but above them is the great will of this world, blazing, bright, shadowy, burning, as well as silent, dark, dead, and cold. They symbolize the flourishing life and eternal death, and symbolize the vitality and anger of this world. The old gods that the ancestors believed in were them, and the King of Light R'hllor who prevailed in the East Continent was also them. Even the unspeakable foreign gods in the legend are also them."

"Father, I remember Dr. Vesalius talked about this issue." Lingol recalled the knowledge he had read: "Although the Red God faith of the King of Light is generally considered a dualistic religion, some people believe that the Red God and the Cold God are one, although the latter is strongly opposed by the red-robed monks."

"They are one, and not one." Longzel was not sure about this, but what he was sure of was that no matter whether it was the Red God or the Cold God, or the Old God or the Thousand-Faced God, these gods who had displayed miracles, they were essentially the chords and echoes of the world playing music from different periods. "I saw dragons born from the shadowy land. They are the creations of the Red God, carrying the music of fire. I saw humanoids with blue eyes, or the aliens and demons, born in darkness and ice. They are the messengers of the cold god, playing the music of ice." Longzel touched his son's hair and sighed, "When ice and fire alternate, especially when ice occupies this world, the long night and eternal winter will come, and we will usher in the end of the world. The wise races of the ancient times discovered this, so the first emperor of the Dawn Kingdom appeared in this world. In the era of the Dawn Kingdom, the ancients who were troubled by the song of ice and fire sought many ways. Legend has it that the shepherds of Valyria have the blood of the Amethyst Queen flowing in their bodies. She tried to resist the eternal night of ice by mastering the symbol of fire and maintain the fragile balance in it, but she did not succeed. Her brother, the Bloodstone Emperor, sought the power of the alien gods from outer space to solve the music of ice and fire once and for all."

"Father, I remember that the Bloodstone Emperor also failed." Ringol said, "He murdered the Amethyst Queen, founded the Stars in Place, and performed blood sacrifices in the hope of attracting the 'alien gods' from outer space. But he failed, and the long night still descended on this world. The Night Lion's demons broke through the Five Fortresses and destroyed the Kingdom of Dawn. It was not until 'Azor Ahai' from all over the world sacrificed their loved ones with blood and pulled out the Messenger of Light that the world welcomed light back."

“Yes.” Longzel sighed. As he grew older, his memory of what he saw in the flames not only did not fade, but became clearer. There were even many details that he did not see back then, such as those eyeballs that opened in the sky and eventually fell in flames and ice, light and darkness, shadow and death, and those guys who called themselves "Gods" wailing and struggling in the long night.

"After the Long Night, civilization was rebuilt. The Ghiscari Empire, the Golden Kingdom, the cities of the Rhoynar, the nations of the High Men, and the Valyrian Freehold where our ancestors lived were established one after another. People still remember the fear of the Long Night, but they no longer remember why the Long Night came. The Valyrians who mastered the dragons should have become musicians who played the songs of mortals between ice and fire, but our ancestors committed the sin of arrogance. They arrogantly pursued more power, and then they collapsed."

"Valyria's pursuit of 'fire' eventually ignited the Fourteen Fire Peaks, and we almost lost everything. My child, I don't know if the Targaryen family knows the prophecy. The Asshai people believe that before the next long night comes, Azor Ahai will be reborn in the land of smoke and salt, accompanied by the bleeding star, and his song will be the song of ice and fire. And his coming will either be to save mortals from the long night and weave new mortal songs, just like the heroes who ended the long night. Or he will become an accomplice of ice and fire, ushering in the long night, and ultimately plunging the world into eternal silence, just like the Bloodstone Emperor. Now do you understand why I am telling you this, my son?"

Lingol was very smart. He quickly thought of his own family: "So, father, are we the chosen family?"

Longzel nodded. "Although I don't know what the world is thinking, it is obvious that He is happy to see the development and changes of the Song of Ice and Fire, as well as the efforts of mortals to save themselves, so He will not only bring the Long Night, but also give us gifts. Ringol, the Vareses family has obtained these, but also has to take responsibility. You must remember these words and pass them on until the day when the Long Night comes. The meaningless fights between dragons will ultimately cost us and even the entire world. Remember this, and remember this forever."

Longzel said solemnly: "The Varese family cannot tolerate division or waste. Only by uniting together can we fulfill our responsibilities."

Ringol nodded solemnly.

He remembered clearly what his father said. Even though he did not have his father's powers that were unknowable to mortals, he still had his pride and reliance, and he believed that he could meet his father's expectations.

Certainly possible.

This is the first update. There will be another update later. If nothing goes wrong, there will be three updates on 4, 5 and 6. If there are no three updates tomorrow, they will be postponed to the 7th. In short, there will be three updates in three days during the National Day.

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