It was late at night.
In the kitchen where the rat chef cooked the Andal prince, moonlight shone through the hole in the roof onto the edge of the well.
Barristan pointed to the well and explained his experience to Danny with lingering fear, "There was a small platform at the bottom of the well to fetch water. I stood there and waited for Sam.
It was a wet and slippery brick wall before, but as Sam approached, the wall suddenly turned into a white weirwood door. "
After failing to find the exit of the Black Gate outside the Great Wall, Danny sent Whitey to bring Barristan and Fat Sam back.
The Black Gate seemed to involve spatial magic.
It was a little unbelievable. Even spatial magic was involved?!
But reality was so strange.
The Black Gate was at the bottom of the well in the kitchen of the Longnight Castle. Logically speaking, after passing through the Black Gate, Sam and Barristan should be separated from the Longnight Castle by a wall. In fact, Danny found them three kilometers west of the Longnight Castle.
Sam also said that the cave that Coldhands brought him into last time was not here.
"Weirwood?" Danny was shocked, but at the same time felt that it was reasonable. She nodded and said, "It is said that the Children of the Forest cast magic on the Great Wall."
Barristan said with certainty, "It is magic! The white weirwood has an old man's face on it. It can still speak and has its own consciousness.
When Sam said the Night Watcher's oath, the mouth on the face immediately opened. After I went in, I was confused for a while and appeared outside the Great Wall. "
"I'll go down and take a look." Danny was eager to try.
"Will it be too dangerous? Danny, with your current status, you can't act impulsively. "Old Yimont advised.
"A king does not stand under a collapsing wall. I understand." Danny smiled freely. "In addition to being a king, I am also a mage and a seeker. Compared to sitting on the throne and ruling the world, I am now more curious about the secrets of this world.
And this well has existed for thousands of years. During this period, countless Night Watchers went down to fetch water. There must be many Night Watchers who passed through the Black Gate through the Great Wall. They were all fine, so why did I encounter danger here?
Besides, I am the rightful queen of the Andals, Loynars, and the ancestors. I am the great hero who will end the long night in the future. The Black Gate has a consciousness. After knowing my identity as the Savior, they didn't even have the time to protect me. Why would they deliberately harm me? "
Yimont was embarrassed, but on second thought, although the Dragon Queen was a little shameless, her words were crude and reasonable.
Black Gate was obviously a friend of the Night Watchers and a guardian of the Great Wall. There was no reason for him to hurt a good queen.
"Then be careful," the old scholar said helplessly.
Without further delay, Danny walked down the stairs in the wall of the well. Seeing that Barristan was about to come down, she stopped him and said, "Sir, you guard the well."
"I have to protect you," the old knight said.
"Sigh, the bottom of the well is empty. There's nothing but stones and water." Danny shook her head.
"No one knows what's hidden in the well. It's safer with me around," Sir Barristan said.
"Hey, can a rat chef jump out from the bottom of the well?" Danny smiled carelessly. "If there really is a monster coming out of the water, the two of us won't be able to move freely on the narrow platform below."
"Then I'll guard the stairs above the Black Gate," the white knight insisted.
"Okay." Danny no longer insisted. She was the first to go down, followed by Sam and the white knight.
The spiral stone steps in the wall of the well were not narrow. It was only a palm wide and thirty centimeters long. The weather outside the Great Wall was cold, so the moss was not thick and not slippery. Walking on it was stable.
However, in a dark environment, people's sense of balance would be poor. She still had to stretch out a hand to hold the wall.
The top of the well was bathed in moonlight. With each turn, it became narrower and dimmer.
Danny heard her footsteps echoing between the wet stones. The sound of water below was getting louder and louder. Round after round, the well became darker and the air became colder.
Listening to the rippling sound of water at the bottom of the well, she was puzzled. Why didn't the bottom freeze into ice at this temperature?
Gradually, Danny's eyes adapted to the dark environment at the bottom of the well. With the thin moonlight above her head, she could even see the opposite stone wall and the shaking water below. Without holding the wall, she could walk as fast as flying.
"Fatty, stop first. Let me try and see if the Black Gate is open for me." Halfway, she shouted to the fatty above.
"Oh." Sam and Barristan stopped.
After adapting to the weak light environment, Danny became faster and faster. She walked to the bottom of the well. There was a platform one finger high above the water. In fact, it was a bigger stone step, twenty centimeters wide and half a meter long.
For some reason, the dark water was extremely turbulent. It was like the water in a novice water carrier's bucket. It kept shaking and hitting the stone wall, making muffled sounds.
If the bottom of the well was a world and the well water was an ocean, then at this time, there was a level 12 typhoon on the ocean surface.
"Is there a big turtle at the bottom of the well? If it has been raised since the Great Wall was built, how old would it be after eight thousand years? "Danny said to herself.
"Clang, clang, clang …" Stopping her reverie, Danny knocked back and forth on the wet stone wall beside the small stone platform. The hard stone made a crisp sound, and there was no trace of wood.
"I am the Queen of the Andals, the Loynar and the Ancestors, Danny Liz Targaryen!" Danny put on a straight face and said to the stone wall seriously.
"…"
There was no reaction at all.
"I am the Mother Of Dragons, I have five dragons!" she said again.
"…" There was still no response.
"I am the liberator of slaves, the advocate of freedom, the world's suffering slaves, Misha!"
"…"
"I guard the Great Wall, I kill the deviant ghosts!"
"…"
"I am the legendary savior, the reincarnation of Yasore Ahai!"
"…"
"I have two dragons outside, it is too easy for the dragon flame to burn the weirwood." Danny began to threaten.
"…"
"I … F * ck!" Danny gritted her teeth and looked up at Sam, who was above her, and shouted, "Fatty, come down!"
Rustling footsteps came from above, Sam and the white knight began to move down again, Danny's dragon soul returned to her body, and she stared at the stone wall in front of her with wide eyes.
The sound of leather boots rubbing against the stone steps was getting closer, and Fatty's panting could be heard clearly.
"Oh my god!" Danny suddenly exclaimed.
Without any warning, the stone wall suddenly turned into a door, a white weirwood door with a face on it.
The black door was not black at all, on the contrary, it was white.
The wooden door emitted a milky white light, like the mixture of milk and moonlight, but the light was so weak that it could not illuminate anything other than the door itself. Even Danny, who was standing in front of it, was pitch-black.
The face on the door was pale and old, full of wrinkles, and lifeless.
Well, it was not carved on the door, or rather, there was no wooden door at all, what appeared in front of Danny was a face.
It was the face of a living old god who was suppressed under the Great Wall.
His mouth was tightly shut, his eyes were tightly shut, his cheeks were sunken, his forehead was withered, and his chin was loose. If a person was immortal, but not immortal, after he lived for ten million years, he would get older and older, and eventually his face would look like this.
But from the perspective of the dragon soul, this old and decayed tree face was emitting endless magic and holy light, as dazzling as the sun falling in front of her eyes.
If dignity was a physical object, all the dignity of all the kings and nobles in the history of mankind, and superimposed together, it would not be as good as the old weirwood in front of her.
Danny's legs trembled, and she had the urge to kneel down and worship. Even Blackie in her Soul Realm had knelt down, and the only thing that kept her dignity was her own will.
Seeing the Dragon Queen's pale face, sweating, and trembling body, Sam was puzzled and asked, "Your Majesty, what's wrong?"
"I …" Danny was awakened and immediately dispersed the dragon soul, and all the abnormalities disappeared immediately. The weirwood door in front of her was so decayed that it gave people the illusion that it would be smashed into pieces with a kick.
"Seven Gods above!" She patted her chest a few times to calm her breath, and said in horror, "The power of a true god is so terrifying!"
"A true god? What are you talking about? "Sam asked strangely.
"Sigh, the ignorant are fearless." Danny glanced at the fatty and sighed.
At this time, the door opened its eyes, and the eyeballs were as white as the weirwood face, seemingly empty, but Danny was shocked.
Seven layers of hell!
It was alive, and its consciousness began to return.
"Who are you?" The door asked, and the well replied softly, "Who — who — who — who — who — who — who?"
Danny raised her hand and interrupted the fatty's action of opening his mouth to make an oath. She calmed down and said solemnly, "I am the Mother Of Dragons, Danny Lilith."
It was a very simple title, and there was nothing fancy about it.
"You —" the door hesitated and asked, "Do you want to come in?"
"Ah!" Fatty Sam was shocked. She could open the black door without chanting?
This was different from what Cold Hands said!
"I want to know the secret of the Great Wall." Danny said.
"Swear!" the door wrinkled its nose and said.
Danny was stunned, and raised her hand to swear, "Everything I saw and heard today, I will never say a word, and I will never threaten the safety of the Great Wall."
"Swear!" the door repeated.
"Uh, what oath?" Danny was confused.
"Your Majesty, maybe it's the oath of the Night Watchers." Sam hesitated.
“what？ You want me to be a Night Watcher?! "Danny widened her eyes and said in disbelief.
Like the scholar, the Night Watchers did not recruit women, not to mention that she was a serving queen.
"It's not the same. Maybe it's just a part of the oath of the Night Watchers." Barristan reminded her from above. "You don't have to devote the rest of your life to the Night Watchers, and you don't have to die."
Danny recalled Sam's "incantation" from before. Sure enough, he removed the beginning and the end, leaving only the "essence" in the middle. She cleared her throat and said solemnly, "I'm the sword in the darkness, the guard on the Great Wall, the flame that resists the cold, the light of dawn, the horn that awakens the sleeper, the shield that protects the kingdom."
"No —" the door seemed to be a little annoyed.
"That's not okay?" Danny was also angry. Must I wear black clothes?
"The ancient oath." the door reminded her.
"Gah —" Danny was dumbfounded.
"Do you know what the ancient oath is?" She turned to Sam.
Fatty said thoughtfully, "Is it the oath that the Children of the Forest and the ancestors signed?"
"It can't be. What does the oath have to do with the Great Wall?" Danny shook her head.
Suddenly, the door pouted and spat out a circle of faint white runes in Danny's direction like a smoke ring.
The runes were very complicated. The "QR code" outlined with 108 characters only contained a very simple message: I swear to balance the natural elements, protect this world, and prevent the world from falling into the dark abyss.
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