"After receiving the news that the Great Wall had collapsed, I couldn't eat or sleep well. Sure enough, a few days later, I found traces of ghouls in the sentry tower outside the town.
When we left the Great Wall, the commander didn't allow the Thurnes to take away the dragon crystal weapons. We only had a few dragon crystal daggers from beyond the Great Wall.
At first, I tried to organize a defense, but there were too many ghouls. After several years of dealing with them beyond the Great Wall, I knew that if I fought them head-on, Karhold would fall. "
"That's my son, my newborn son, my only son." Sai Gon cried and shouted, "Do you think I'm willing to give him to the ghouls?
As long as I have the power to resist, I'm willing to be a hero, but I'm not!
I'm not you, I'm not the Child of Prophecy. I can't deal with them. I can't be a hero.
I'm useless and cowardly, but I still have the responsibility to protect my clansmen and the people of my territory. "
"Patriarch!" The guards of the Thurnes clan cried out in grief.
"My Lord!" The servants of the castle, the stables, the kitchen, and the other people of the Northern Region who had heard the commotion were also emotional and their eyes were red.
In just half a year, Sai Gon had won the hearts of the people of the Northern Region as a barbarian from beyond the Great Wall.
Danny frowned and glanced at the people around her. "Do you know what he did?"
"Everyone in Karhold knows that in order to make the ghouls retreat, the Count sacrificed his only son to the God of Frost," a bearded knight said in a low voice.
The knight's words didn't cause a stir in the crowd. Obviously, this matter was an open secret in Karhold.
"You're bold. In order to win people's hearts, you even dare to publicize such a deadly secret," Danny said sarcastically.
Earl Thurne smiled bitterly. "It can't be hidden. Do you think the God of Frost has such a small appetite that he'll be satisfied with the Count's son?
This is only the first time.
One out of a thousand people, one out of a thousand people will contribute a baby boy.
Every year from now on, we have to sacrifice more than ten baby boys to the God of Frost, unless I can sacrifice another son.
The Count's son has a noble bloodline and is more useful to them. "
"Hiss —" Grey Worm behind Danny, who had always been calm, couldn't help but change his expression. "If the other castles follow suit, the ghouls will only increase in the future. Humans will never be able to end the Long Night."
Dragon Queen said coldly, "Offering sacrifices to ghouls is a crime against humanity. You should die!"
"I —" When Sai Gong raised his head, he was once again intimidated by the Dragon Might in his purple eyes. "I'm guilty, but I have no choice!"
"You didn't have a choice, and he didn't have a choice either. Then, the whole world was ruled by deviant ghosts and fell into eternal ice. At that time, you really have no choice but to die! "
With that, Dani brandished her sword, ready to strike.
Clang, clang, clang, clang, clang!
"My Lord!" The barbarian guards and the knights of the Northern Region drew their swords and approached the Dragon Queen. Further away, there were also crossbowmen eyeing her.
"You dare to draw your sword at me?" Danny looked around. "Reckless fool."
Whoosh, whoosh, whoosh. "The huge fireball suspended ten meters in the air suddenly spun and shot out a string of bright red fire snakes as thick as a thumb and as long as an arm.
Every fire snake found a soldier who aimed their sword or crossbow at Dragon Queen. Not a single one was missing, and all of them were bathed in Dragon Flame.
"Ahhhhh —" In the blink of an eye, thirty to forty soldiers were rolling around with their heads on fire.
It was a bit like Ghost Rider in the Marvel movies.
The human-shaped candle was too frightening. The knights and soldiers who were a beat slower seemed to have been burned by their own sword hilts and hurriedly let go.
Then they all widened their eyes and glared at Dragon Queen as if they were looking at ghouls.
No, when they saw ghouls yesterday, their eyes weren't even this frightened and repulsed.
"No, no, Your Majesty, please let us go!" A brown-haired girl wearing a golden fox fur coat stumbled out of the castle and came to Sai Gon's side. She knelt and cried.
"Your Majesty, have mercy, have mercy! As long as there is a way to live, we don't want to sacrifice ghouls. That's my son! "
This was a tall, thin girl with a long face and grey eyes that were unique to Stark.
She seemed to be sick. Her eyes were dim and her face was as pale as snow. Her breathing was weak and her voice was weak.
Danny immediately guessed that she was Stark's only daughter, Yali, who was beheaded by Robb. She was also Sai Gon's wife.
"What you are doing is cutting off other people's chances of survival, cutting off the future of the entire human race." Dragon Queen's expression was firm and her tone was cold.
"Thump, thump, thump!" The Countess knelt down, her knights knelt down, and the group of guards led by the knights knelt down as well. Further away, the Kahold City servants and civilians who were looking at Dragon Queen in fear also suppressed their fear of the Mystic Dragon and knelt down behind the Count and Countess.
"Mercy, have mercy!" Hundreds and thousands of people widened their eyes in fear and shouted at Dragon Queen.
At this moment, Dragon Queen was no different from the ghouls that surrounded the city yesterday. She was an enemy that they could not afford to offend and had disturbed their peaceful lives.
"You guys are really —" At this moment, Danny's expression changed as well.
"Dragon Queen, if the Count doesn't send out the little Count, we will all die. We don't want to die! My child is so young, he's only two years old. He hasn't even seen summer, sob sob sob … "A middle-aged woman wailed.
Her crying was like pressing a button on a loudspeaker. A series of sobs, pleas, and even complaints came one after another. They formed a tsunami of words and emotions that drowned Dragon Queen in an instant.
"There are so many ghouls. There's no end in sight. The Count was prepared to resist, but he couldn't beat them! We don't want to die. What else can we do other than sacrifice to the Frost God? "
"Your Majesty, please be merciful and kill the Count. What are we going to do when the ghouls come next time!"
"Your Majesty, you have a dragon. You're powerful, but why didn't you come yesterday? If you came, we wouldn't have to sacrifice the ghouls! "
"What's the use of killing the Count now? Can you save all of us if you kill him?
If you can't, we'll still have to sacrifice to the ghouls.
Or, you can kill all of us and be done with it. If we die, there will be no more ghouls, no more Eternal Night! "
"If you have the time and energy to torment our little Kaho City, why don't you kill the Ghoul King earlier? End the Eternal Night and chase away the ghouls. We won't have to sacrifice to the ghouls anymore! "
.....
Dani's face was tense. She was angry, angry, and … helpless.
If these unruly people were not punished, the "Ghost Resistance United Front" might become her one-man show.
But how should she punish them?
Should she really destroy Kaho City?
The total population of the castle and the town outside was estimated to be over ten thousand. Most of them were civilians, and most of them were women and children. Should she burn them all to death?
Logically speaking, she should ride the dragon and burn the entire Kaho City.
Kill ten thousand to warn a hundred!
One Kaho City provided ten ghouls a year. How many Kaho Cities were there in the Northern Region?
How many Kaho Cities were there in the Westeros?
If she allowed this situation to develop, she wouldn't be able to kill all the ghouls in ten years.
If the ghouls didn't die, how could the Eternal Night end?
But she couldn't do it.
At this moment, Danny admitted helplessly that she still lacked some courage.
Perhaps, compared to courage, she lacked a "scholar from Westeros" more.
A scholar from Slave Bay was useless. She had to get a scholar from Westeros.
In the end, she shouldn't be doing this kind of dirty work. She had been foolish to bring people to Kaho City.
"Chi!" A sword flashed and Sai Gon's right arm was cut off at the elbow.
"Ah —" Sai Gon wailed. Yali, the soldiers and servants around her cried out in alarm.
"I'm not the King of the Northern Region, nor the King of the Seven Kingdoms. I don't have the right to execute an Earl. But Stark and the Iron Throne will definitely give an explanation to those who fight against the ghouls."
After throwing down a verbal cannon, the Dragon Queen extinguished the fireball, spread her fire wings and leaped into the dark sky.
.....
"Are we letting them go just like that?" Garth asked unwillingly.
Returning without accomplishing anything, the Dragon Queen was frustrated. Her subordinates who traveled thousands of miles were also frustrated.
"What do you think we should do?" Danny asked back.
After a moment of silence, Garth said, "Kill one to warn a hundred. We have no choice!"
"Do you want the Queen to ride the dragon and burn Kaho City?" Da Xiong was a little agitated. "That will make her the enemy of the Northern Region. We won't dare to stay in Winterfell anymore."
"At special times, we should use thunderous means. When the gray plague appeared in the old town, didn't my great-grandfather order the soldiers to kill everyone who tried to escape to prevent the plague from spreading to the Seven Kingdoms?
Regardless of whether it was a man, a woman or a baby in his arms, there was no exception.
Reality proved that his order was cruel, but it was correct.
The plague was contained within the old town. Even though half of the people in the old town died, there wasn't a single case of the plague in the surrounding cities. "
Garth spoke slowly with a hint of pride in his tone.
Danny was stupefied. Your great-grandfather did the right thing, but why don't you talk about his ending?
"This is the Northern Region. We should follow the host's wishes," the Dragon Queen said in a low voice.
They didn't return to Winterfell immediately. Instead, they went to the Trembling Sea to hunt a whale.
The three Megalosaurus, Big Black, Little White and Little Green, dived into the sea and searched for more than half an hour before they found an adult humpback whale.
There was no other reason except that the pterosaurs were hungry and Winterfell lacked fresh meat to feed them.
After a full meal, the forty pterosaurs split into two teams. One team carried the Unsullied Ironclad back to Winterfell while the other team flew to Dragonstone Island.
Besides the Dragon Crystal weapons, they also needed to transport a batch of Wildfire Bullets with Tyrion oil.
Barristan would represent the Dragon Queen and ask the King's Landing for a batch of Wildfire Bullets, at least a hundred tons.
Although Danny wasn't willing to invest a lot of troops in the battle of Winterfell, she did her best to arm the Northerners.
.....
Sansa and the Dragon Queen left Winterfell at the same time and flew to the valley with their big bellies. The first thing they did was not look for Erlu. Instead, they went to the Northerners' camp and met Illyrio alone.
Hmm, Erlu's main force had already arrived at the Moon Gate Castle and successfully occupied the capital of the valley.
In theory, the 2,000 cavalrymen of the Northern Region were his subordinates and followed him. Illyrio was always "protected" by the cavalrymen of the Northern Region.
"Aegon is in heaven," Sansa said with a complicated expression as she looked at the sloppy fatty in front of her.
The palace that used to belong to King Aegon and Queen Sansa now belonged to Erlu and his wife and daughter. Sansa was currently receiving the fat merchant in the guest room of the side hall.
His condition was very bad. He was dispirited and his clothes were dirty. His rosy and oily fat face was now like a dried red Fuji apple. His dull eyes only shone when he heard the words "Aegon".
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