Ice and Fire: Reign of the Dragon.

Chapter 290 The Battle of Behemoths
Wyman Webber of Coldmoat Castle had never thought that his good friend, who was once cheerful and generous and vowed to revive the Osgrey family, would become the man he is now, with great ambitions fulfilled but no spirit at all. He was indifferent, no, it could be said that he was decadent.

Eustace Osgrey looked at the bustling crowd calmly, sighed and handed a glass of red wine to his friend: "Try it, Dorne's Summer Red, it's not the best wine, not as good as the wine from the Arbor, but you can't drink such pure Summer Red in the Conquered Lands. Seven layers of hell, those damn merchants even watered down the beer in White Harbor."

Wyman Weber took today's unlimited supply of Summer Red and took a sip. The taste was average, certainly not as good as the fine wine from Qingting Island, but it had the aroma of fruit, which was rich and sweet. Drinking it really did eliminate a lot of bitterness in his heart.

This was also why Wyman thought his old friend was so willing to drink Summer Red. "You really don't want to try your luck at the Black Palace? I heard that Prince Jacaerys will go to Tyrosh to serve as governor. Perhaps joining him will help you?"

Eustace drank the red wine in the cup bitterly. "My fiefdom is inland, where there are more stones than soil, and more swamps than rivers. It took me several years to build a castle. If it weren't for the fact that the place is really big, I would have wanted to go back to Steadfast. Do you think that even if I surrender to the Silver Dragon, the Red Lion and the Sphere will not tear us small shrimps apart? Their land is fertile, their population is large, and their castle is strong. We have no ability to resist them."

He wanted to vent his anger, but he didn't dare to, so he could only put the wine glass back into the wine tower in frustration.

"You're all right, Fort Steadfast? That's just a watchtower." Wyman Webber joked, but then he sighed. How could he not know the bitterness of his old friend? The Osgrey family was extremely prominent when the Gardener family still ruled the River Reach on the Oak Throne. The Checkered Lions fought with the Red Lions and the Golden Lions in the mountains and plains. Unfortunately, the demise of the River Reach Kingdom also brought about the decline of the Checkered Lions. King Maegor deprived Osgrey of his castle and territory.

The once-powerful Checkered Lion fell apart, and Coldmoat, the former home of the Osgrey family, also belonged to the Webber family.

However, the patriarchs of the two families of this generation got along very well. Before the Great Crusade, Eustace even entrusted his wife and children to the care of his good friend. After the Great Crusade, Eustace was only granted a small piece of land.

Just slightly larger than the previous territory.

If the local nobles had not foolishly murdered Rhaegar, and the angry King Daeron had not almost wiped out all the local nobles who retained their power, Eustace might never have obtained the territory and title of earl in his life.

The two good friends clinked their glasses in silence. At this moment, a middle-aged man with red hair came over with a glass of wine in his hand.

"Osgrey, this is..."

"Weman, Weman Weber, my lord is Lord Rowan of Golden Tree City." Weman bowed tremblingly, he immediately recognized who this man was.

Count Harold Reyes, the "Blood Lion", the former Count of Castamere and now one of the largest princes in the conquered territories, his new castle is far more magnificent and huge than Castamere. The castle, which he named Lion's Den, embodies his ambitions.

He and Count Hermann Pohl were candidates for Governor of the Conquered Lands, but neither was particularly interested in the position.

Whoever wants to take over the mess of the conquered land can do so.

They are more interested in land, but compared to direct plunder, forming gangs is more in line with their desires.

"Your old friend?" Harold Reyes asked drunkenly.

"The Osgrey family and the Weber family are old friends, Lord Reyes." Eustace quietly put Wyman behind him and raised his glass to clink with Harold.

"Oh, old friends, but Osgrey, we are still more reliable people from our conquered land." Harold laughed and drank another glass of wine: "Hey, Osgrey, I still remember the guy whose head you chopped off. I heard that he was a warlord who tore a lion to pieces. Haha, in the end, he was torn to pieces by our lions."

Eustace shook his head helplessly. Harold was trying to recruit him.

But for these military nobles, the best position is to stand without anyone.

Anyway, Harold couldn't force them to stand in line.

Seeing that Eustace was still drinking alone, Count Reyes lost interest and went to look for other people with his glass of wine.

"Are you sure you don't want to go to the Black Palace?" Seeing that Earl Reyes had left their range, Wyman said worriedly, "I saw Lord Oscar Tully, Lord Jon Bolton, and several other famous lords leave."

Eustace gritted his teeth and thought for a moment.

In the end, he still didn't make up his mind to leave the Red Castle. Perhaps, not taking sides with anyone and managing his own territory, which he was sure these nobles had absolutely no interest in, was the right choice. Seeing that his old friend was still like this, Wyman Webber could only sigh and leave.

He wanted to go to the Black Palace to try his luck and see if he could get in touch with the Silver Dragon.

News of the change of ownership of the Iron Throne did not spread quickly.

At least the people of Sothoryos didn't know that they had finally found the trace of Moon Dance.

But the situation is not good.

After killing the sneak attacking cavemen, the group followed the route of the cavemen's attack and actually bypassed the thick fog that blocked the river mouth and found a narrow path.

Many cave dwellers dug caves under the paths and in the hollows of old trees, preparing to ambush prey that fell into their traps. But in front of the dragon, they were the prey.

Stepping on the corpses of the cave dwellers, the group finally reached the vicinity of Yilin.

Then they saw chaos.

"Your Highness, the dragon!"

The veteran pinned a caveman who had emerged from a tree to the ground. The armored Silver Blood Army quickly formed a formation, and the spear-wielding striped guide charged forward. With the help of steel armor and weapons, those scary-looking cavemen and their lizard pets were as fragile as paper.

What's more, there are dragons.

Beile hurriedly climbed onto the burning dragon saddle. Centrolos had already climbed up to the treetops with Dan on his back. The dark green dragon flames poured out, blasting holes in the ground and burning the cave-dwelling monsters inside, causing them to scream in agony.

It was not until this time that the group could clearly see another giant beast, Moon Dance, taking off from the depths of the woods.

And its opponents.

"Gods above, father bless you."

Dan gripped the gauntlets on the dragon's saddle, and Centroros gave a piercing cry of pleasure.

Yuewu's dragon flame exploded in the woods, throwing out several pools of charcoal, but more dark shadows rushed out from the woods and pounced fiercely on the giant dragon that was struggling to take off.

The woods seemed to be torn apart by something.

The giant lizard that stood up and walked showed its teeth as sharp as knives, and the giant lizard that carried a strange object also had heavy scales on its back.

Another huge creature spread its wings and poked its head out after a series of black shadows like flying birds flew out from the woods.

"Is this a pterosaur?" Beile looked at the giant creature that was not much smaller than Yuewu with some excitement. "No, no."

Beile was suddenly shocked to find that there seemed to be a humanoid creature lying on the back of the pterosaur. Before he could say anything, Cendros had already stopped the fire and pounced in the direction where the pterosaur took off.

"Light the fire, attack, assist Sendroth, and appease Moondance."

Without time to guess, Beile immediately gave the order to attack.

(End of this chapter)