Ice and Fire: Reign of the Dragon.

Chapter 295 Clues to the Dragon's Origin

The Black Palace is in peace and prosperity.

Far away Sothoryos.

Dan and his group evacuated the battlefield near Yilin in a rather embarrassing manner. The dense trees did not stop them, but instead made everyone run harder.

The soldiers and scholars running on the bottom were soon exhausted, but they also rushed out of the area previously covered by gray-white fog and returned to the "safe zone" spewed by the dragon before they set out. When they stopped, they realized that it took them only an afternoon to run back to the battlefield that they had explored for a day and a night.

The sun gradually set, and the grayish-white mist once again enveloped the river, but it did not erode the "safe zone" where Dan and his group were. It seemed as if the dragon's flame made the grayish-white mist feel "fear".

"Hoo, hoo." The scholar panted heavily and sat down on the campsite with a tired look on his face. The striped guide Gada Guga squatted beside him, talking to himself. At this moment, the three-headed dragon slowly landed near the safe zone.

Dan and Beile eagerly jumped off the dragon saddles. Two dragon riders, one big and one small, rushed to Moon Dance almost immediately.

Worried that the wild dragon might attack his companions, Centros got ready for battle, with his wings slightly spread out, his slender neck stretched out, dark green flames surging between his teeth, ready to pounce on the wild dragon that was slightly smaller than himself and stop any of its actions. The tentacles of the Fire also stretched out, and even three of them were quietly trying to reach out to Yuewu's body.

Yuewu also looked at the two people, one big and one small, who were walking towards them with full vigilance.

"Baile, stand behind me." Dan waved his hand, protecting Baile behind him, and stretched out his hand, saying in High Valyrian: "Moon Dancer, don't move."

As if she heard a familiar command, Yuewu was stunned for a moment, and then continued to look vigilantly at Dan who was walking towards her, but the two giant dragons next to them forced Yuewu to focus more on Sendrolos and Luhuo.

At this moment, Dan finally saw the corpse behind Yuewu that had turned into a skeleton.

Almost instantly, Dan realized who the body belonged to.

Baelor Targaryen, daughter of Daemon Targaryen and Laena Velaryon, one of the "Twins of Pentos", queen of Jacaerys I, and a member of the royal family who has been missing for many years.

"Yuewu, be obedient and don't move."

Dan commanded Moon Dance in High Valyrian while slowly approaching the dragon. Centroros also approached Moon Dance step by step to protect his companion. Moon Dance cautiously retracted her neck. She did not dare to attack Dan because she was very sure that if she had the desire to spit fire or attack, the two dragons would immediately tear her to pieces.

Dan finally walked to Yuewu's side. He reached out and grabbed the strap of the dragon saddle. He used some unknown method to pull it gently.

The broken dragon saddle naturally fell to the ground with the corpse.

The dragon saddle is a creation from ancient Valyria. This special saddle is only suitable for dragons. In the heyday of ancient Valyria, the forty dragon king families had their own ways of fixing the dragon saddle. For example, the Varese family would use long nails with magical power to nail the dragon saddle into the dragon's scales in ancient times. After the dragon saddle technology matured, they changed to cleverly use the direction of the long nails and the scales to fix the dragon saddle without hurting the dragon. The Targaryens are used to tying the dragon saddle with straps and then fixing it with nails.

Moondancer was just a young dragon when she left Westeros. After so many years, the dragon saddle no longer fits the dragon's body and scales. It is truly a miracle that it has been preserved to this day.

Yuewu felt the dragon saddle on its back fall off. For some reason, it seemed to breathe a sigh of relief and became much more docile than before.

Dan frowned. Benilla's skeleton remained intact after falling from the dragon's back.

This is not normal.

"Uncle, look at the patterns on the skeleton." Beile discovered the problem in the details. Dan only then realized that something seemed to have carved messy patterns on Benila's skeleton. He couldn't tell what it was or what it was carved with.

The tattered dragon saddle fell apart as soon as it hit the ground, dropping a pile of messy things.

There were metal coins that were minted in unknown eras and for unknown reasons, shiny stones, a small piece of oily black stone that left a deep impression on them, colorful feathers, worms that had turned to stone, crystal clear scales, and a few black slates.

It was densely engraved with words that were already somewhat worn out.

The bachelor came over, took one look at the pile of things, and immediately turned away. He knew very well that there were some things he couldn't even look at.

Dan carefully took out the things from the broken dragon saddle and sorted them out with Beile. He had already heard about the strange sound from the maesters and veterans, but at least that sound did not really kill any of their members.

It may take more time and exploration to find out what that sound is.

Gada Guga stopped talking to himself and walked over to Dan with some fear.

"Respected Dragon King, Dragon God, can you provide me with shelter?" The spotted guide said in a frustrated tone, "My God did not respond."

Dan thought for a moment, then pointed at the oily black stone and said, "Does your tribe's legends include any records of the enemy we encountered this time, the strange noises the maester mentioned, and the black stone?"

The striped guide nodded: "Yes, respected Dragon King."

He pointed at the oily black stone. "The stones that fell from the sky built cities. The gods protected the mortals. The giant beasts were also created by the gods. The bloody lizard god in the jungle created lizards that walk upright. They can use weapons and hunt mortals. Our hunter god with antlers protects us from the erosion of the lizard god."

However, the striped guide had no idea what was going on with the strange sound.

"Never heard of a knowledgeable person saying that."

Dan keenly grasped two key words in the words of the striped guide: stones falling from the sky and lizardmen using weapons.

He had long suspected that the striped people, who were reproductively isolated from humans, and the weak but ferocious and aggressive cave dwellers they killed who could survive underground were all products of blood magic hybridization, or came from even older times.

But no one can say exactly what it is like.

Dan decided to keep looking and he glanced at the slate.

He couldn't understand the words on the slate, but there was beautiful handwriting engraved on the back of one of the slates.

That came from Benilla.

"These four tablets come from the ancient city of Izarkan, where no mortal has ever been and where dragons roar."

(End of this chapter)