Dark Castle.
Commander's Tower, the king's bedroom.
The night outside the tower was cold as ice, but the fire in the fireplace was burning brightly. Blood witchcraft was in progress.
"Danny Rize is gone. She didn't give us a chance to do anything." Stannis lay on the bed, his head resting on his arm as he stared at the ceiling. "Compared to me, she's more like the Child of Prophecy."
"Mm, ah, oh, ya, yi, ha, hey, ho …"
The red-robed woman shook her sweat-dampened red hair as she chanted the incantation of blood magic.
"She's not the Child of Prophecy. You and I are certain of that. She has never been in the Holy Fire," Melisandre said.
"But she has a dragon. She can activate the Light Emissary, and she has the ambition to end the night." Stannis gritted his teeth.
"Your Majesty, am I not helping you replenish your magic now? Part of the Light Emissary's runes have been activated by her. Once I analyze it, you will be able to use my magic to control the red sword.
Sigh, it's a pity that the Light Emissary hasn't been completely unsealed. Otherwise … "
After a pause, she continued, "As for the dragon, she can hatch it. You can also hatch a magic dragon from a stone. I've reminded you of this long ago."
"Eide Rick, my nephew. But he has been released by Davos." Stannis's cheeks puffed up as he ground his teeth. "If you want to … Is it too late? Or use Manslade and his son instead. They both have the blood of kings. "
"I can only tell you that the more sacrifices and the purer the blood of kings, the higher the chance of success."
After a moment of silence, Stannis asked, "How did that woman hatch the dragon? Did she really sacrifice three of her family members to King Lahlo like the legends say? "
Melisandre wriggled slowly, her cheeks reflecting a seductive red light under the firelight.
"His Majesty, the Light King, did not respond to my question. The Holy Fire is unpredictable, and not everything can be foreseen. "
Then, she said in a firm tone, "But a wise person would understand that this is the case if they think about it carefully.
A long, long time ago, when we first met, Robert was not dead, and Danny Liz was not even married to the horse king. Therefore, I suggested that you sacrifice the King's blood to hatch the Mystic Dragon. "
"Sigh, I should have listened to you then." A hint of regret flashed across Stannis' deep blue eyes.
Feeling the magic power flowing into his body bit by bit, Stannis groaned and frowned, "But at the banquet, when we mentioned the matter of the Free City hatching the dragon through sacrifice, Danny Rize swore that the dragon hatching did not require a sacrifice. The theory of sacrificing the person you love the most is simply a paradox. He even said that the slave masters in the Free City-States had gone crazy. "
"Hey." Melisandre smiled seductively. "With your wisdom, can't you see her intentions? Everyone wants a dragon, and when they get a dragon, they want to be the only dragon knight. "
Stannis nodded heavily and said with certainty, "Anyone in the world who isn't stupid knows that she is lying. She wants to monopolize the Megalosaurus.
It is because she is afraid that the Free City-States will hatch a dragon that she rides it everywhere and steals its eggs. "
"Yes!" said Melisandre approvingly.
"But she did not sacrifice her fourth dragon to her loved ones." Stannis was puzzled.
"Hmph, this is where her deception is brilliant." The red-robed woman said confidently, "Did I ask His Majesty to sacrifice his loved ones before?
No?
Because blood is blood, and its power is real, and the King's blood naturally contains the magic of a King.
Look at the fates of Robb, Joffrey, and Balon, you should know that I am not lying. The King's blood is powerful. "
"You mean …" Stannis suddenly understood. "From the beginning, she used the King's blood to hatch the dragon, but she was afraid that others would follow suit. After all, she was not the only one with a dragon egg.
Then, she purposely said a paradox — sacrificing the person you love the most to hatch the dragon.
If I hatch the dragon according to her theory, anyone who is sacrificed will not be the person I love the most. And if I love someone more than a dragon, I will not sacrifice them.
In such an unfalsifiable paradox, her lie will never be exposed. "
"His Majesty is wise!" Melisandre praised sincerely.
"What a cunning woman!" Erlu sighed and dragged a small wooden box from the bedside.
There were many red runes carved on the surface of the black wooden box. When the lid was opened, there was a blood-red dragon egg covered in deep purple spots.
The red-robed woman looked at the dragon egg and smiled proudly, "The box has runes carved by me. The stone egg's aura is completely blocked. Even if I put the box in front of the Mother Of Dragons, she will not be able to sense it."
"Clang, clang, clang …" Erlu knocked on the dragon egg a few times and frowned, "I don't know which era this dragon egg is from. It is completely petrified."
"It is precisely because it is a stone egg that the previous Targaryens did not bother with it, allowing you the chance to dig it out from the depths of Dragonstone Island," Melisandre said with a smile.
"She sacrificed the horse king, Viserys, and the little prince in her belly. Three kings, three eggs, and the fourth …" Erlu looked hesitant, "Could the fourth dragon be … Lys's maid?"
"Haha, not every king is as benevolent and just as you. Because of this, you are the true child of prophecy." Melisandre's eyes flashed and she sneered.
"What do you mean?" Stannis asked curiously.
"Was that maid really killed by an assassin?" Melisandre's eyes flashed with a hint of mockery.
"Could it be?" Stannis's expression changed drastically and he said with a trembling voice, "She killed her closest maid on purpose just to maintain that lie?"
The red-robed woman did not answer the question directly. She only smiled faintly and said, "I am sure that the fourth dragon egg was hatched with the king's blood.
Think about it, Astapor, Kaiyuan, and Meereen, how many good, virtuous, and great lords have died?
They are all royal families with more than six thousand years of history! "
"Hiss —" Stannis gasped, "This is very different from her heroic and righteous performance at the Wall. That woman is not what she appears to be …"
At this point, he suddenly paused.
It seems like she is the same as me!
He is also brave, righteous, and tenacious, but there is also a shadow in his heart — Renly and Cortanai Panglos …
Perhaps, in the heart of every magnificent hero, there was a dark place that no one knew about. This was the bumpy road that a lonely king had to go through!
Suddenly, he felt a sense of empathy for the Dragon Queen.
Melisandre had been close to Erlu for many years and guessed his thoughts from the darkness in his eyes. She changed the topic and said, "Your Majesty, she stole the dragon eggs of Volantis on her way to the Westeros and burned hundreds of kings or their descendants.
Those people have the blood of Valleglia that is purer and nobler than the Targaryens!
You have to hurry. I am afraid that the fifth dragon will be born soon. "
"Sigh, why are there so many royal descendants in Ursos, but I only have the insignificant king of the barbarians." Stannis was a little angry.
"It is a pity that old Yimont escaped. His blood is very rich!" Melisandre said regretfully.
Stannis shook his head and said, "It does not matter whether Yimont leaves or not. As long as he is alive, we cannot touch him."
"Ahhh …" Melisandre raised her head and stiffened her body, not moving at all. Wave after wave of magic suddenly rushed towards Stannis' lower abdomen. Flame runes flickered rapidly on his sturdy abdominal muscles, and he couldn't help but groan out loud.
"So much … Are you okay?" Erlu looked at the red-robed woman's pale face and asked worriedly.
Melisandre stood up and put on her red robe. She walked barefoot to the window and opened it. The cold wind whistled in, and her red hair and robe swayed violently in the wind.
Looking at the towering ice crystal wall, she said with a complicated expression, "Do not worry. The Wall is a place of miracles. It contains a vast amount of magic. Here, my magic power is growing with every passing moment. "
"Crack, crack crack —" The sound of ice breaking came from afar. A black mark on the ice was crawling towards them from afar.
"Kaboom!" The sound of ice breaking suddenly echoed in the silent sky above Dark Castle.
The red-robed woman's eyes almost popped out of their sockets. A two-finger-wide crack appeared on the ice crystal wall. It was as obvious as the scar on a beauty's face. It was still crawling, up, down, east …
"Ahhhh …" She held her head and screamed crazily. "The power is disappearing. The Wall … is falling!"
"Ahhhh … The Wall is cracking!" At the top of the Wall, under the Wall, the Night Watchers screamed in fear.
"Ahhh … The Wall is falling. Someone blew the Horn of Winter!" Some barbarians screamed.
"Crash …" Just then, a piece of ice the size of a bed fell from the seventy-meter-tall wall beside the King's Tower. It smashed into the drawbridge between the tower and the wooden stairs and rolled down, leaving a thunderous sound on the stone floor.
Suddenly, all the Night Watchers and barbarians in Dark Castle were alarmed. Many of them were still running around the arena barefoot.
"Wall, what happened?" Stannis walked up quickly and asked with a pale face.
.....
Almost at the same time, at the Eastwatch.
"Wall, what happened?"
Queen Celis was only wearing a thin shirt. She hugged her daughter tightly and looked at the falling pieces of ice outside the window. Her face was twisted in fear. She mumbled the same question as her husband.
"Mother, I'm scared." Princess Shireen's eyes were filled with fear. She shrank into her mother's arms.
"Under the Wall, the wind has risen. The wind I've been waiting for is here. Let's sail on the ship. Oh, oh, oh, I know, I know, it's time to find the treasure!" Patched face waved his arms and twisted his fat body as he sang loudly.
Princess Shireen turned around to look for her jester. But when she met his eyes, she was shocked by the strange look in his eyes. She sat down on the wooden floor.
It was a pair of blue eyes that she had never seen before. They were sacred and dignified, deeper than the trenches in the ocean. Greed and craziness were like the seawater in a tsunami. They almost materialized and overflowed from his eyes.
"Adin, stop shouting. You … make me scared!" She shrank her neck and wiped her tears.
The jester's body trembled out of habit. The words in his mouth were unclear and out of tune. The craziness in his eyes became comical and the greed turned into stupidity.
He returned to being a fool. He clapped his hands and laughed at the princess. "Under the Wall, the wind has risen. The wind I've been waiting for is here. Oh, oh, oh, I know, I know, the treasure has appeared! Oh, oh, oh … "
It was a similar song, but Shireen felt relaxed and laughed along.
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