Ice and Fire: Reign of the Dragon.

Chapter 296 The Life of a Legendary Explorer

Yizarkan?

Dan had no memory of this city, and neither did Beile, so Dan turned around and called out to the maester. "Maester, is there any record of 'Yizalkan' in the Citadel?"

The maester was stunned for a moment, then shook his head. "The Citadel knows very little about the world outside of Westeros, the nine trading cities, Qarth, Slaver's Bay, the Summer Isles, and the Basilisk Islands."

He was a top student in the Citadel, and when he graduated, Dr. Evans personally gave him a necklace, one of which represented geography. However, even though he passed the Citadel geography exam, he did not dare to claim to know anything about areas outside the known world.

"In the past month or so we have been deep in the rain forest, we have basically overturned the legend recorded in the Citadel about Queen Nymeria colonizing Sothoryos." The scholar quickly recalled what he had learned and the notes he had taken during this period. In the past records, Yimen Tower and Yilin were not far apart, but after their on-site investigation, they found that Yimen Tower was a long way away from Yilin. And Yimen Tower was not the gate tower of Yilin as previously recorded.

It is actually a separate castle.

But it is no longer possible to tell who built it and why it was built.

All we can confirm is that the records show that the building materials of Yimen Tower and Yilin were both a kind of strange oily black stone, which is correct.

Dan remained silent and continued reading.

Bernila did not leave many words on the stone slabs. The simple words contained a lot of information. I don't know if it's because of the material, the words on the four black stone slabs are not worn out seriously, and Bernila's words are clearly visible.

After leaving Yunkai, he met the Shadowbinders of Asshai and received the prophecy and blessing.

The words at the beginning of the slate seemed to be written in a hurry, just like the words describing the origin of the slate. However, Dan, who had received a complete aristocratic education, had no difficulty in deciphering them. Unlike a normal prophecy recipient, Benila did not keep the content of the prophecy secret. Instead, she wrote out the prophecy in detail.

The song of earth and water ended in the forgotten continent, and the song of ice and fire began. If you want to resist the darkness of the north, you must face the shadow of the south. If you want the sun to rise, you must let the stars set.

Deciding to go to Yashai, Yuewu was unhappy. Yashai was very depressing, there was no sunshine, and the food and water smelled of sulfur. There were as many swindlers as people with real skills there, but they all coveted Yuewu, so after buying enough information and getting the help of a wizard named Yunkong, they flew to Sothoryos.

Master Yunkong
Beile was also reading his aunt's records. The boy quickly recalled a ridiculous book he had read. "Uncle, I remember that Master Yunkong can manipulate air currents. It is said that the ancient Gaoren Kingdom and Yidi Tianchao would employ Master Yunkong to manipulate clouds and rain. But do they still exist?"

“There are still groups of people in Asia,” Dan explained briefly and continued reading.

The journey was not smooth. We passed by a city without the sun. Yuewu was very scared. We must leave that cursed city immediately.

I was attacked. The attacker was not human. It had bat-like wings, goat-like horns and hooves, and was red all over. Its eyes seemed to be burning. Fortunately, Yuewu reacted in time and took me away from the nasty creature. Although it had wings, it could not fly, and Yuewu's dragon flame could not kill it. This creature must be recorded. Arrived at the Loyna landing point, was stung by a blood-sucking insect, had a fever, but no other abnormal reactions.

We arrived at Yimen Tower, but the water there is not drinkable directly.

Arriving at Yilin, they witnessed the sacrificial rituals of the Lizardmen in the city. They dug out the eyes of the young and middle-aged male striped people and threw them into the pyramid in the center of the city. They dug out the hearts of the remaining humans and drained their blood. The black stone soaked in blood could not be looked at directly, and Yuewu almost lost control.

They discovered Moon Dance and summoned pterosaurs to attack us. The large pterosaurs were easy to deal with, but the shadow pterosaurs were the biggest threat. Moon Dance and I were both injured, and we were forced to flee to the south.

Arriving at a new city, Moon Dancer helped a nearby tribe of spotted people repel the attack of spotted ghouls. Their language was very similar to Valyrian and they could roughly communicate. This city, which was larger than Yilin, was called "Yizalkan" in the language of the spotted people.

Compared to Yilin, Yizarkan is not entirely built of oily black stone, but all buildings except the area built of oily black stone are destroyed, but the different buildings can be roughly guessed by referring to the city layout of Yilin. Surprisingly, the pyramid in the center of Yilin is a deep pit with a visible bottom in Yizarkan, where a group of shadow pterosaurs and their ghoul servants make their nests.

Moon Dancer defeated them. My wounds have become infected, and I can only avoid contact with anything from Sothoryos as much as possible.

These four black stones were found in the deep pit. The text on them could not be deciphered, but there were murals around the pit that seemed to correspond to the contents of the stone slabs. However, I could not be sure whether they were correct. The contents of the four murals were:

The first mural shows a lizard man wearing a feather crown holding a harp and playing music. Below the harp, there are two branches, one with mountains and the other with a river. Humans with goat horns are worshiping the lizard man wearing a feather crown on the river.

The second mural. Stars fell from the sky, a human with goat horns chiseled stones from meteorites and built a huge black city - don't ask why, the only color retained in the mural is the black of these stars and the city, and another human with goat horns stabbed the lizard man with a feather crown with a long sword. Surprisingly, the human has two faces, one in front and one in the back, which seem to represent two genders.

In the third mural, the moon is broken and a giant dragon emerges from it. Normal-looking humans begin to appear, which fits with the ancient legend about the origin of the dragon.

In the fourth mural, a man killed a woman, and her blood flowed into the dragon's body. A baby was being conceived in the dragon's belly. Behind the man was a shadowy black figure, which was painted with exaggerated strokes.

I'm not sure what these contents mean, but I must bring them back to Westeros. Prince Longzel may be able to decipher this information. However, bugs have grown in my wounds. I tried to clean them, but found that they seemed to have made their home in my internal organs. The witch doctor of the spotted people had no way to solve this problem.

May the girl bless me, I am at least luckier than Princess Aria back then. These bugs cannot kill me in a short time. Maybe the Asshai people will have a way?
I tied myself to Yuewu. Yuewu's injuries healed slower than I expected. I hope she can hold on until we leave this strange land.

So much for the beautiful handwriting.

Dan couldn't help but gasp.

(End of this chapter)