Ice and Fire: Reign of the Dragon.

Chapter 206: Feast of Dragons

As soon as Lingol said this, the hall fell silent instantly, and the young people who had just spoken all looked dejected, like wilted grass.

What Ringol said was true. The rise of the Vareses family itself relied on the two dragons, Vermithor and Silverwing, which were once Targaryen family dragons summoned by Longziel. Now they opposed the Targaryen family to take away Vermax.
"Brother, Xiaojie is right about one thing." Serena thought for a while and spoke. Orion beside her obediently poured a glass of mulled wine with sugar cubes and nutmeg and handed it to Serena.

"The ownership of the dragon is a problem. The Burn is in King's Landing, and Vermax is in Dragon's Nest. If we follow the agreement and allow the Targaryen family to tame Vermax, it will be natural for us to let the children of the family take back the Burn in the future." She took a sip of the hot wine. "But brother, this also leaves a hidden danger. What about Vermithor and Silverwing?"

"Serena is right, brother." Orion added hastily. "What if the Targaryens think that Vermithor and Silverwing are also Targaryen dragons and hope that we can allow them to tame dragons?"

"Are our dragons just for show?" Jacaris said without hesitation, "Let alone my father's great power, brother, we can let Vermax go because of the contract and promise, as well as the friendship between the late king and the family. But Vermithor is my father's dragon, and Silverwing is my uncle's dragon. We will never allow them to leave the Vareses family."

What he didn't say was that Womisoel and Silver Wing were the two largest dragons in the world. With them around, even if the world changes, the Vareses family will undoubtedly be the number one family under the throne.

"Even if it costs my life?" Dan thought he should calm down at this time. He said softly, "Cendroth and I have had resonance, but you have also seen that it rejected my taming. If it weren't for the help of my brothers and sisters, I would even die under the dragon flame of Cendroth. Although Cendroth is big, it is just a young dragon, while Womisol and Silver Wing."

Dan took the cup of mulled wine from his sister, but Valena took it away silently and gave it back to Serena. The silver-haired girl looked at Dan with some resentment, took the drink that the silent girl had been mixing and handed it over.

"Thank you, Valena." Dan took the medicinal tea brewed by Valena with some embarrassment. He still had wounds on his body from the previous dragon taming, which needed treatment.

The young man drank the medicinal wine in the cup and continued.

"Womithor is bigger than a mountain, and Silver Wing is also an old dragon. Even if our dragons are combined, it will be difficult to suppress them." Dan looked at everyone and expressed his thoughts: "Brother, Xiaojie, sister, I think we should wait and see what happens."

Jacaerys calmed down, but there was still some anger in his voice: "Dan, you are still too cautious." He was the first to express his opinion: "Brother, I will not participate in the training of Targaryen dragons."

"Neither can I." Serena said, "I agree with Dan's opinion, brother. Family interests come first, but we will not assist the Targaryens in training dragons according to our family's dragon training methods." She looked into Ringol's eyes. Her heterochromatic pupils seemed particularly lethal at this time.

"Brother, father has given you the decision-making power. You make the decision."

Ringo looked at his brothers and sisters around him, as well as Daniela beside him. Although she did not express her opinion, Ringo knew very well what Daniela was thinking.

She naturally stood on her family's side.

Ringo nodded and stood up. He looked around at his brothers and sisters and made the final decision.

"Let's do as Dan thinks." He continued, "The Targaryen family has their own way of taming dragons. It is not convenient for us to participate."

While the children were enthusiastically discussing the issue of dragons.

The Twin Towers, Valar's bedroom.

Since the death of Lady Leila, Valar's bedroom has been deserted for a long time. For a long time, Valar preferred to go to his brother to drink and chat, or run to Silver Wing's dragon cave to drink rather than to the bedroom.

His body couldn't hold on any longer.

"I didn't expect that I didn't die on the battlefield in the end." Valar lay on the bed, touching his sunken belly due to rapid weight loss. His thirst was already very serious, his wounds could not heal and quickly festered, gout, and many other unnamed diseases also came to him, making it impossible for him to ride a dragon and fly for a long time.

He saw Longzel sitting next to him, and Ray leaning against the door.

Longzel looked at his brother calmly, but only Valar and Rey knew that Longzel in this state was the most terrifying. You never know what kind of monster is under the skin of Longzel who looks calm and indifferent.

Rey still had silver hair that fell to his shoulders, and he had no beard. There were not many wrinkles on his face, and his figure was still thin and strong, not much changed from when he was young. Even Renia looked much older than him in appearance. If others saw him, they would not believe that he was already 52 years old and had entered old age.

The youngest of the three brothers was just a follower of his brothers when they first came to Westeros, but now he has become a dragon knight that the princes fear, and a great nobleman who can stand on his own.

Valar ignored his brother's disappointed expression and turned to look at his brother who had a calm face.

"Brother, I thought you were immortal." Valar said softly, "I didn't expect you to be old too."

"Mortals will eventually grow old, and mortals will eventually die." Longzel grabbed his brother's hand, and a hint of scarlet flashed in his deep purple eyes. "Valar, you should also be able to feel that your body..."

"I know that the place where I was scratched by Silver Wing's scales last time has not healed yet. I feel like there are small bugs crawling there. If I don't move, they will crawl there. If I move, they seem to have discovered something. And my stomach hurts when I move. It hurts more than when the Silver Scorpion instructor hit me with his iron spear. Forget the continuous pain. I'm not a child anymore. What can I say to you about this?" Valar looked at his brother and suddenly smiled: "Brother, brother, look at me, I always feel that you are much older than me. When I was young, I listened to you. But you are only a few dozen breaths older than me."

Valar kept talking, and Longzel and Rey just listened silently.

"Rey, you're old too." As he spoke, Valar turned the topic to Rey, who had been leaning against the door. "Come here. Let me take a good look at you."

Rei sighed and sat down next to Valar: "Valar, do you really have to kill yourself?"

"The war is over," Valar said aggrievedly, "Brother, you know that I am a natural warrior. My life is connected with the flames of war. I shouldn't die on my bed, the ancient gods." Valar patted his stomach unwillingly, "I shouldn't have dodged the spear at the beginning. I know, I should have reacted. The silver shield couldn't stop it, and the silver wings couldn't stop it in time. If I didn't dodge, I would have died on the battlefield."

"Valar, shut up." Rey sniffed hard: "A dragon knight who died under a scorpion crossbow? Valar, you..." He didn't finish the rest of the curse in the end.

"It was embarrassing." Valar smiled, "but at least it was not as embarrassing as it is now."

"Valar, if you want." Longzel put his hand on his brother's forehead, just like he often did to his brothers when they were young, and said slowly: "I can let you live a long time, but it only costs a little."

"Blood for blood, life for life." Valar said softly, "Forget it, brother. I don't need to sacrifice dozens of innocent lives for myself. Those who died at my hands in the war are enemies, and I have no mercy on them. Those who died under the sword of the black-skirted widow in peacetime are sinners, and I don't have mercy on them either. Brother, I still remember the story you told me and Rey. The blood magic that prolongs life requires more than just prisoners."

Longzel nodded.

Indeed, the blood magic of prolonging life is a blasphemy that reverses the established music of the gods. In the days of old Valyria, the Valyrian pyromancers and blood wizards who mastered the magic of resurrection were not satisfied with the magic of resurrecting corpses, they sought the spell of immortality.

Thus, various forbidden experiments were carried out at the Fourteen Fire Peaks and at High Gothos in Sothoryos. Outside the slave pits of High Gothos, hundreds of blood witches conducted inhumane magic experiments, trying to find a way to prolong their lives and achieve immortality.

They succeeded, but they also failed. Before the destruction of Goltsos, the blood witches invented that kind of magic, but the price was too high. For a blood witch to live forever, it required the sacrifice of thousands of mortals with magical blood and at least ten agents of the gods. For a dying person to prolong his life, it also required the sacrifice of hundreds of people with magic in their blood.

"If you want, I can let you live a few more years." Longzel repeated.

"Haha, brother, I don't want to live on your blood for those years. That's too depressing." Valar turned his head and looked at the ceiling of the bedroom. When Leila was still there, they hung wall hangings from Crab Island on the ceiling. After Danella and Valenna were born, paintings depicting myths, legends and history were hung there.

Now that the children have grown up, all that remains is the Crab Island wall hanging that Leila brought with her.

"Brother, it's okay for me to ride a dragon comfortably for once."

Longzel closed his eyes and opened them after a while. "No problem, you can ride as long as you want."

"Thank you, brother. I'm tired and want to sleep for a while." Valar moved his head and said with a smile, "There will be a banquet tomorrow, brother. You are not allowed to forbid me to drink at that banquet."

Rei wanted to say something, but was stopped by Longzel.

He said only one word.

"it is good."

Valar closed his eyes in satisfaction. Longzel looked at his brother and silently placed his hand on the candlestick beside him. The flames swirled up and ignited Longzel's palm in the blink of an eye. He moved his palm to his brother's forehead, and the flames suddenly faded like a tide, condensing into a scarlet spot in his palm.

As the scarlet blood dripped, Valar's frown slowly relaxed.

After a while, snoring sounds were heard from the bedroom.

After leaving Valar's bedroom, Rey sniffed violently and almost couldn't hold back the tears in his eyes: "Brother." He wanted to say something, but in the end he said nothing.

"Rey, tell the children." Longzel took his brother to the corridor bridge of the Twin Towers, overlooking the brightly lit Midsummer Hall at the foot of the mountain. Even at night, it was as bright as day, with the dim lights of the Purple Palace, the sun-like light of the Midsummer Market, and the countless candlesticks of the Seven Dragon Cathedral that were lit all night long.

"Don't stop Valar from doing anything at tomorrow's banquet." Longzel's voice also fluctuated a little at this time: "Let the children gather at the top of the Dragon Cave Tower tomorrow night."

The ups and downs in his voice gradually calmed down, and there were no additional words.

Rei nodded and turned to leave the covered bridge.

The next day.

In the early morning, the first to arrive at Dragon's Nest were the children's wheelchairs. Daeron and his younger brothers and sisters arrived at the castle first, followed by the wheelchairs of little Aegon and Viserys' children.

The king, queen and prince of Oldtown rode their dragons and landed in the courtyard of Dragon's Nest.

As soon as the three got off the dragon, Baoyun immediately jumped down from the top of the city wall, followed closely by Luehuo and Igaras. Their destination was simple.

The dragon's lair in Dragon's Nest City.

King Aegon and Queen Samantha watched the scene with great satisfaction. Only Viserys was not very happy, but he still accepted what he saw.

Baoyun flew to the dragon's lair impatiently and roared softly. Huohuo and Igaras followed closely behind and landed on the rough ground of the dragon's lair.

The giant dragons in the dragon's lair poked their heads out one after another. The moment they saw the three dragons, Shadownight, Starsong, and Womax roared with joy, while Stormcloud and Glowfire crawled back to their former nests with great interest.

It is still there, but the nest of Huohuo has always been shared with Chenxi. Now it can no longer accommodate two giant dragons. Huohuo looked left and right and nodded to Chenxi. Chenxi also turned his head happily. The blue light flashed, and in just a moment, the dragon flames intertwined with blue and gray-black broke the mountain wall like a knife or an axe.

The space suddenly became spacious.

The two dragons snuggled close to each other, and Luhuo stretched out its tentacles to stroke Chenxi and Xingge's body outside the cave for a few times, then followed Chenxi into the nest as if arm in arm.

Baoyun was also excitedly roaring something to Yingyan and Wormax, and from time to time he would roar at the opposite side of Xingge.

Dawn never liked this kind of communication. It curled up in the nest it shared with Nightmare and rested quietly.

The newborn dragons were now blocked in the nest by Hovenders, and were not allowed to participate in the changes in the dragon's lair.

Only Sendroth was grinning and trying hard to suppress something. Kong Yi glared at Sendroth, who was much bigger than him. It was true that it had a gentle personality, but every time it faced Sendroth, it could never calm down.

After all, any dragon would retaliate angrily if it were hit by a dragon out of the blue.

"Wood. Bronze partners are not allowed to watch."

"Shut up and be patient." Sendroth roared unhappily and retreated into his nest.

Without Kong Yi noticing, Igaras had already jumped to the nest of him and Sarafathers. When Igaras saw Sarafathers, who was much bigger than him, lying on a huge bulging object made of hot mud and dragon secretions, which had obviously been used to store dragon eggs.

If someone was standing nearby, he could even see a look of shock and pain on a dragon's face.

Sarafathers growled, followed by Kong Yi's low roar. Igaras kept that expression and looked at Sarafathers, then at Kong Yi.

Finally, he let out a low growl and prepared to turn and leave.

At this moment, Sarafathers growled lazily, and Igaras instantly became energetic, crawling happily to the side of the huge dragon egg storage bag. He glanced at Kongyi who had also crawled to the side, and hurriedly let out a series of roars that even Viserys could not understand if he was present.

Strange expressions also appeared on the faces of Sarafathers and Kongyi's dragon.

As the dragons communicate with each other.

The banquet hall under the Silver Blood Tower.

As the king and queen took their seats, a grand banquet was about to begin.

King Aegon looked down at the people below with satisfaction.

They are all the future of the kingdom. Never before in the history of the kingdom have so many dragon knights and prospective dragon knights gathered together.

King Aegon even felt a little sad.

The kingdom really rose in his own hands.
"Haha, everyone is waiting for me, right?" Longzel's blood sworn brothers Azor Celtigar and Joffrey Cavallen came over with a chair. Valar sat on the chair and laughed at everyone: "What are you waiting for? Do you want His Majesty the King and Her Majesty the Queen to starve? Hurry up and serve the food. And you, all of you, choose a better song today. Let everyone have fun."

Only then did the waiters begin to serve the food and the bards and musicians tune their instruments.

"Your Highness Valar, how is your health?" King Aegon asked with concern, and Samantha looked at her brother and father with some confusion.

Samantha read the sadness in her father's eyes and immediately understood something. She took her husband's arm and shook her head.

King Aegon also reacted and did not continue to ask questions.

Longzel glanced at the visiting Targaryens.

Prince Daeron was handsome and his smile was refreshing. Prince Rhaegar was a little gloomy, but he could make a smile appear on his face, and the little girls couldn't tell.

Prince Aegon was a handsome young man, but his eyes were frivolous and he always looked at Serena and Valenna. Prince Aemon was equally handsome and his leg was a little lame, which was an injury left by dragon training, but Prince Aemon stood straight and his eyes did not look sideways. Prince Aerion was lively and active, but when Aemon looked at him, he could only make a bitter face and watch the waiters bring out plates of delicious food. Alysanne was a very beautiful girl, and she always glanced at Dan and Jacaerys.

Indeed, Jacaerys, with his beard shaved, inherited his mother's beauty, and in terms of appearance, he was no worse than Ringol and Dan.

At this moment, Viserys took the lead in breaking the silence before the banquet.

He will speak for the king.

The prince, whose silver hair had turned a little gray, stood up and raised the silver wine he had just poured, but his eyes fell on Longzel who was standing next to King Aegon.

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