Under the sunlight, four or five grey-robed apprentices from the City of Knowledge were frolicking on the wide grass field in front of the hotel.
A young man with thick arms and deformed legs jumped and spun in a circle. Then, he threw out his arm abruptly, and the green, shriveled apple in his hand flew down the Honey Wine River at a high speed with a whooshing sound.
At the same time, Laresa quickly pulled out an arrow from the ground in front of her and nocked it on her bow. In the blink of an eye, the large golden wooden arrow that was almost a meter long whistled through the air like a shooting star.
At the highest point of the apple's trajectory, a crisp sound was heard. The apple split into two pieces, but the arrow didn't slow down. It flew another forty or fifty meters before landing.
"Bullseye! Good!" The apprentices applauded and cheered.
"Again," Larissa said excitedly.
"You've been practicing all morning. Aren't you tired?" Pater, who was sitting on the grass, said sullenly.
"I'm going to perform in front of a master in a few days. Archery is already very … Sigh, you don't understand." Larissa shook her head and urged her partner to continue throwing apples.
"Throw two apples this time," she said.
Danny rubbed her nose. Girl, you're using too much force in the wrong direction. Of course, archery is useful, but it's obvious that we're not meeting in a big place. There's no space for you to practice your archery skills.
Well, this good-looking black guy was the rookie Fire Mage I met last night through "Shake Shake".
"Sigh, it's too boring here. I want to go to the dock and listen to the sailors tell stories about dragons. Some people say that they've seen dragons. I want to see a dragon too, even if it's just a glimpse," a fat, short, and stupid-looking young man shouted.
"Rooney, you were born too late. You can't see a dragon," the assistant next to him said.
He looked like he was twenty-four or twenty-five years old. His nose was long and sharp like a carrot. The leather rope around his neck was strung with four links. They were a chain made of white iron, tin, lead, and copper.
"But …"
"Is that a turnip on your shoulder?" The sharp-nosed young man didn't wait for Rooney to finish and patted him on the head. "Have you forgotten the modern history of your country? The last dragon died during the reign of Aegon III. "
The lame apprentice threw out two apples and muttered, "Ahman, you should really go to the dock. The stories of sailors have been …"
"Morand, how stupid are you to believe Seaman's words?" The sharp-nosed scholar's assistant interrupted him impatiently. Don't say I haven't been to the wharf, for I know better than you what sort of men those sailors are.
In order to attract attention, they even lied about sleeping with mermaids and staying in the stomach of sea monsters for more than ten years. "
The lame apprentice argued, "Ahman, the stories of individual sailors can be dismissed with a smile, but the same story told by four oarsmen who speak four different languages …"
Armand shook his head. "It's not the same story. The Dragon of Asha, the Dragon of Quills, the Dragon of Meereen, the Dragon of Dothraki, the Dragon of Freeing the Slaves … the versions of the stories are different."
Lame Morand stopped throwing apples and stubbornly said, "The stories are different, but they all have one thing in common. There's a dragon and a beautiful young queen."
"Alright, tell me, who's the queen?" The assistant scholar sneered.
"Danny Rize."
Dani waved her hand to let White Knight take the armor back first. She walked over herself and greeted Pater who looked over. Then she smiled at the sharp-nosed assistant scholar and said, "The old town's school city is nothing more than this."
"You —" Ahman was furious, but when he met Danny's smiling purple eyes, he couldn't bring himself to curse. He could only mutter, "My lady, the City of Knowledge is the most prosperous academic center in the world. There's a wealth of knowledge and wisdom here. You can't insult it."
"A frog in a well!" Danny said lightly. "Everyone in the world, including the King's Landing officials, knows about the dragon and the Dragon Queen, but the City of Knowledge has always treated it as a rumor."
"Dragons have been extinct for a long time," Ahman emphasized with a red face.
"Do you know about the Allied Army?" Danny asked.
"Allied Army? What army? "Ahman was confused.
"That's not right. King's Landing is considering joining the Allied Army, but you don't even know what the Allied Army is?"
Danny was speechless. Was the City of Knowledge so uninformed?
Seeing that she didn't look like she was lying, a few nearby apprentices came over. Even Laresa stopped shooting.
"Do you know that the mad king's daughter is not dead?" Danny asked.
"Danny Rize Targaryen. I heard that she married the horse king," Ahman said.
"Dragons are indeed extinct, but Danny Rize hatched three dragon eggs two years ago and got three dragons."
The assistant scholar shook his head. "Impossible. Since the extinction of dragons, the Targaryens have tried many times to hatch dragons, but they all ended miserably."
"That's why I said the City of Knowledge has an undeserved reputation!" Danny sighed.
"Why do you say that, Miss Layla?" Pater asked curiously.
"Because no one in the City of Knowledge noticed the change in the Mana Tide. In fact, many mages in the world knew about the birth of dragons before they appeared."
Everyone else was confused. Only Laresa's heart skipped a beat. "What is the Mana Tide?"
"Do you know about magic?"
"Magic is just a trick!" the sharp-nosed assistant scholar said immediately.
Danny looked at him strangely and asked, "What did the City of Knowledge teach you? Valleglia only existed four hundred years ago.
Even if you don't know about Valleglia, you should know about Valleglia's Way, right? Can that thing be created without magic? "
"Well …" The assistant scholar was speechless.
Danny continued the previous topic. "Dragons determine the upper limit of the world's strength. For example, in a room with a three-meter-high ceiling, you can only jump three meters high.
When a dragon appears, the ceiling of the world rises to ten meters, or even a hundred meters. Those who have been jumping high immediately know that dragons exist in the world. "
"Do you understand now?"
"Occult professionals are people who jump high." Laresa understood.
"But the City of Knowledge also has professors who have mastered occultism. I saw the Valleglia's steel chain on their necklaces," the lame apprentice said, puzzled.
Danny shrugged. "So, I think the scholars of the City of Knowledge don't live up to their name. This is a common thing in the continent of Ursos. Everyone with a little bit of status knows about it."
"Miss, we don't understand what you're talking about. Please be kind and tell us about the story of the dragon and the dragon queen!" the silly Rooney shouted.
"Okay, Danny Lilith hatched three dragons near the Dothraki Sea. After that, she was invited to Queers, burned the wizard's Hall of Immortality, and ferried to Astapor in Slaver's Bay. She conquered the city and freed the slaves.
Half a year later, she conquered Yuankai and Meereen and restored all the slaves to freedom. She became the Queen of Slaver's Bay.
But the world's maritime trade is mostly supported by the slave trade. The Dragon Queen's actions made Queers, Volantis, Rhys, Terosi, Jadesea, and the slavers unite to form the largest army in a thousand years.
I heard that even the Westeros received the invitation, and the King's Landing did not refuse. "
She concluded. "Look, how big of an event is this? Eighty percent of the world's people know about it, but the City of Knowledge is not even sure if there are dragons. "
Even the stubborn Oman had to believe it. This was too big a matter, and lies could be easily exposed.
"I have to tell the professors," he said nervously.
"Don't go!" Laresa pulled his sleeve and said solemnly, "Pretend you don't know anything, just like those scholars and professors."
"You …" The sharp-nosed Oman was puzzled at first, then shocked. He said in disbelief, "The scholars swore not to participate in the power —"
As soon as he finished, he sighed dejectedly, as if all the bones in his body had been sucked out. He sat on the grass, hugging his shoulders, and looked confused.
If even the sailors knew about it, the scholars and professors must have known about it, but they …
Looking at the group of fearful, contemplative, and confused apprentices, Dani fell into deep thought. What was going on in the City of Knowledge?
Even if they went against their oath and chose to take sides in the power struggle, Danny could understand. After all, the City of Knowledge was in the old town!
But deliberately hiding or even erasing the existence of the Dragon Queen, this was a little … too impulsive.
It was hard to understand!
It seemed that the situation in the Westeros was far more complicated than she had imagined.
What a small country made up of three failed races. The struggle for power was so intense and complicated that it was even more intense than the nine city-states of Ursos and the cities of Queers and Jade Sea combined.
"Hehehe, you want my daughter? Sure, the price is clearly marked, one gold royal. "A woman's laughter came from the window on the third floor of the hotel.
Then the man cursed loudly that the price was too expensive. The woman retorted that her daughter Rosie was the most beautiful and pure hostess in the hotel. Not a single gold royal, not a single copper coin less.
Then there was the sound of heavy breathing. In broad daylight, the adulterous couple actually …
No, Rosie —
Danny could not help but look at the stupid apprentice, Pater. His girlfriend with cute dimples, wasn't she called 'Rosie'?
Sensing Danny's gaze, Pater's face turned red, then white. He muttered, "That's Rosie's mother, Emma. Although she's the oldest among the hostesses, her body is enchanting, a lot —"
Danny did not want to know about a middle-aged woman's business, so she interrupted him and asked, "What's the deal with one gold royal?"
"This …" Pater's face was conflicted, and he did not know what to say.
The short fatty beside him, Rooney, did not have so many scruples. He shouted, "Ever since Rosie's first period came, Emma has been promoting her daughter to everyone. It's worth one gold royal's first night. Pater is saving money!"
"Uh …"
Was this the ugliness of human nature, the distortion of morality? Or was it helplessness under the cruel fate?
The window on the third floor was not closed, and the sound became louder and more rhythmic. The apprentices were a little restless, and Danny could not stay any longer.
She waved at Pater and walked towards the hotel lobby.
"You're saving money? But even if you have one gold royal, what can you do? I think you really like her. "Danny asked.
"I want to elope with Rosie, but I'm scared. Right now, I just want to save up enough gold royals so that Emma won't sell Rosie." For some reason, Pater told the secret in his heart to a female knight whom he had just met twice.
Even his friends didn't know about his plan.
Maybe it was because her eyes were full of sincere sympathy?
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