"What's wrong?" Garth asked worriedly.
Not long after the Dragon Queen's finger touched the old doctor's forehead, about ten minutes later, her smiling face suddenly turned gloomy, and she even began to grit her teeth.
"Xuecheng deserved to die, and Rickard deserved to die," Danny said coldly.
Things went smoother than she had expected.
Once, Danny had entered the mind of the hard-footed Spearwoman, and from her shattered soul core, she had seen some of the spearwoman's memories.
Once, Danny had entered the mind of the "good boy" Jia Kun and caught a glimpse of a few of Jia Kun's life experiences.
She guessed that by entering Dr. Wargrave's mind, she might be able to discover some of his secrets, or she might not be able to see anything.
An ordinary person's soul core was like a ball of vapor, while a person with a strong will was like a solid crystal.
A person with a shattered soul had a shattered soul core like a shattered crystal.
Extraordinaries formed an external meditation foundation, such as Danny's nine-colored vortex, the fire mage's flames, the shadow binder's shadows, the moon chanter's moonlight …
Their memories were almost impossible to peek at because their soul core was hidden in the depths of their meditation foundation.
Wargrave's soul core was like a crystal with countless holes drilled out by worms, and it was also protected by a layer of fog.
If Danny had tried to break through the protective soul fog before eating the weirwood seed paste, she would have probably hurt the old doctor.
But now, her thoughts had silently seeped into the crystal with countless holes inside.
In an instant, Danny felt as though she had fallen into a colorful maze. Countless scenes flashed before her eyes, as though she had opened a kaleidoscope.
The old doctor felt different, and the colors of the scenes changed accordingly. The warm hugs with a woman, the cold parting, the dark solitude, the sunny birth of a baby, the dark conspiracy …
Many scenes appeared incomplete, like a roll of film tape that had been left for too long. Most of it was damaged, and a small part was blurred, leaving only the incoherent plot clearly visible.
But the scenes regarding Scholar Virius were too vivid and profound.
Even though Dr. Wargrave was almost ninety years old and had dementia, the memories of his son remained in the depths of his soul.
Perhaps, only death could end his longing for his son.
Scholar Viris was only in his early twenties when he received the necklace. He was recommended by Wargrave to Winterfell in the Northern Territory for personal use.
He didn't want to be separated from his son either, but this was a rare opportunity. He was the Duke of the Seven Great Kingdoms!
There were only seven scholars who assisted the duke.
The position was too precious. If there was even the slightest vacancy, countless scholars would fight over it.
Before the previous generation of Winterfell scholars died of illness, Wargrave had started planning for his son's successor.
Danny was only curious about this kind of thing and didn't care about it.
She fast-forwarded to the scene where Vilis and Rickard interacted …
The Mad King said that Rickard was the biggest villain in the Seven Kingdoms.
To the Targaryens, that was indeed the case.
Rickard was ambitious, and the Northern Region could no longer satisfy his desire for power, especially after going to King's Landing.
When Xiang Yu saw Shihuang's parade, he said, "You can replace him!"
When Liu Bang saw Shi Huang's parade, he sighed, "A real man should be like this!"
When Rickard saw the Mad King sitting on the Iron Throne, he thought, "That crazy little bastard, his talent and martial arts are inferior to mine, why should I?"
Moreover, the North was cold, the South was hot; the North was barren, the South was rich.
His ambition was the South!
At first, Rickard was purely greedy for power, hoping to exert more influence in the court and didn't have any thoughts of replacing the duke.
Scholar Vilis saw through the lord's thoughts and encouraged the duke's ambition.
There were three reasons why Vilis was like this. Firstly, he was ambitious. With a doctor as his backing, his growth had been too smooth, and he had easily become the 'Grand Chancellor' of one of the Seven Kingdoms. He was bold and had high goals.
Second, Vilis was loyal to Rickard and felt that Duke Stark deserved more.
Finally, and most importantly, the City of Knowledge was tired of the Targaryen family's rotten affairs.
Saint Bailey, Mediocre King Aegon, Black Fire's rebellion, Blood Crow's White Terror, Midsummer Hall's incident …
One after another, rotten affairs made a portion of the scholars in the City of Knowledge come to a consensus: The Westeros would be better without the Targaryens.
Let's not talk about the others, just take the Black Fire's rebellion as an example.
In less than a hundred years, there were five Black Fire rebellions.
Daemon Black Fire's descendants came one after another, almost at least once in every generation. Every time, it would bring great damage to the Seven Kingdoms.
Hundreds of thousands, hundreds of thousands, millions of civilians were affected. The nobles who died in the war were also like mushrooms after the rain, uncountable.
Even the Dukes of the Seven Kingdoms died one after another — Lannister and Tiemin had Dukes who died because of the Dragon Family's rotten affairs.
Wasting money and manpower, corpses piled up everywhere, but what did the Seven Kingdoms gain?
nothing!
Every time a Targaryen was born, the Gods would flip a coin to decide if he was great or crazy.
Then, the people of the Seven Kingdoms would pray together, not expecting their king to be great, as long as he wasn't crazy.
Why!!!
How could the Targaryens, who didn't even have a dragon, rule the Westeros?
It could be said that after the Blood Dragon Dance, the City of Knowledge had completely lost its reverence for the Targaryen royal family.
It wasn't hard to understand. The Targaryen's sacred mantle was torn apart by the scholars. They weren't even afraid of the Targaryens with dragons, so why would they revere the lunatics without dragons?
So, a small portion of the scholars gathered together, intending to get rid of the Targaryens.
Well, only a small portion.
The scholars were divided into two categories: those with noble backgrounds and those with no background.
Commoners with no background became scholars because they had good brains. The second son, third son, or collateral descendants of noble families didn't have the right to inherit, so becoming a scholar was also a good way out.
For example, as the third son of the family, old Yimont didn't have the right to inherit, so he went to the City of Knowledge to become a scholar.
In fact, most of the scholars came from noble backgrounds.
The noble scholars allowed the Blood Dragon Dance for the sake of their ideals, but they didn't necessarily agree to get rid of the Targaryens.
The reason was simple. The Targaryens were only one of the great nobles. If the scholars were to mess with the Dragon family today, who knew if they would feel that the Lion family's "debt must be repaid" was too domineering tomorrow?
So, only a small number of scholars had the intention to change the Iron Throne's master, and Vilis happened to be one of them.
Brandon and Catelyn Tully, Lyanna and Robert's marriage alliance, sending Eide Stark to Arryn Valley to become old Jon's adopted son, becoming Robert's sworn brother …
All of the above were Vilis' plans.
Other scholars also participated in his plans, such as Scholar Clarkson who served Theon Bella.
According to Vilis' plans, the great hero who ended the Targaryen rule should be Rickard Stark.
In the end, although the Mad King was crazy, he wasn't stupid or blind.
Wolf, Fish, Deer, and Eagle, such an obvious alliance, couldn't he see it?
If the Mad King didn't have any political sense, he wouldn't have rejected Tywin's suggestion of a marriage alliance between Regar and Cersei. Instead, he would have formed an alliance with Dorne.
The Mad King wasn't wrong in rejecting Tywin and changing the marriage alliance with Dorne. In fact, it was very wise.
Because Tywin had been the Hand of the King for 20 years, his power was too great. Even with the Mad King's' wisdom and talent ', he couldn't suppress him, let alone his son-in-law Regar.
Back then, there was a saying among the Westeros: Lord Tywin ruled the Seven Kingdoms, while Lady Joanna ruled Tywin.
There were even people who claimed that Lord Tywin was the true ruler of the Seven Kingdoms.
When the Mad King heard it, he cut off that person's tongue, and that person later cut off Eide's head.
Un, it was Ilin Pine, Tywin's henchman.
From this, one could see how much power Tywin had at that time.
Even Grand Scholar Pycelle, who was supposed to serve the Targaryens, was convinced by Tywin and was willing to lead the way.
I digress.
Scholar Vilis knew that the Mad King was crazy, but he didn't know to what extent. He tricked the Duke into King's Landing and tortured him to death in the most humiliating way.
The plot between the Mad King and Rickard was similar to King Zhou and Ji Chang.
Hmm, the Mad King's craziness surpassed King Zhou's.
He didn't test the waters, he didn't imprison them, he just went crazy and was reckless.
Rickard wasn't as shrewd as Ji Chang. Ji Chang could even eat the meatballs of his eldest son, but Old Rickard was reckless. He was clearly plotting a rebellion, but he still dared to go to King's Landing alone.
If it was Ji Chang, he would've stayed at home and pretended to have a stomachache instead of going to Chaoge alone.
More importantly, Ji Chang had the mandate of heaven.
Rickard was the vanguard for the king.
Terrible fate!
The 'Wolf, Fish, Eagle, and Deer' alliance that took more than ten years of hard work to create was taken advantage of by Robert for nothing …
Un, not long after Rickard died, Scholar Vilis thought that the alliance had failed, so he also died of depression.
Who knew that the Mad King was so crazy that he killed Stark and his son, as well as Jon Ayrin's heir. In theory, the four-nation alliance was already broken.
But he wasn't satisfied. He wanted to eliminate the source of the problem and kill Eide and Robert.
The heavens took pity on him. At that time, Robert was the one who was truly innocent. His wife ran away with someone else in such a way. He was even more pitiful than a big bear.
Jon Ayrin took over Vilis' four-nation alliance plan and willingly became Uncle Finger's successor. He re-established the framework of the alliance and made it even more indestructible.
However, the core of the alliance changed. From Stark to Byra and Theon.
In Vilis' four-nation alliance, Eagle, Deer, and Fish had no contact. Only Wolf had contact with the other three.
In Jon Ayrin's four-nation alliance, Deer and Fish still had no contact. Only Eagle had the foundation of an alliance with the other three.
Eide was the second son, and Eide was the younger brother. Eide wasn't as dazzling as Robert, so the number one foster father of the Seven Nations naturally wouldn't support him to become king.
.....
"How did the City of Knowledge become like this …" Garth's face was pale as he muttered to himself.
"Once a person studies, they become bad!" Danny complained.
"What do we do now? That little alliance among the scholars, does it still exist? "Garth asked.
"Targaryen has been destroyed for so many years. It should have been disbanded long ago." Danny sighed.
Perhaps, Aegon's conquest of the Westeros was a mistake.
If Targaryen only occupied Dragonstone Island and the royal territory, raised dozens of dragons at home, and led Valerian, Sytyga and a few other underlings to control the narrow sea trade … He had money, leisure, and power. He would be living a carefree life now.
Garth looked out of the window and reminded, "It's almost dawn. Your Majesty, we should leave."
"We can't let those scholars go just like that." Danny puffed up her cheeks and said fiercely, "Targaryen, debts must be repaid. I have to give the City of Knowledge a retribution!"
Garth was stupefied. Wasn't the City of Knowledge miserable enough?
What could be more terrifying than the church parading through the streets to atone for their sins?
"Hehe …" Danny laughed eerily.
Since the City of Knowledge liked to control public opinion, and liked to "not fear sacrifice for the country and the people", then use public opinion to help me kill the Faceless!
Danny used "Danny's Whisper" on Wargrave.
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