"I always thought that no one understood my main goal of fighting for the Iron Throne better than you, because you were the one who made me realize my mission."
Erlu looked at the woman beside him with a complicated expression. "Now that the Long Night has come, the Great Wall has fallen, and the King of Strange Ghosts is attacking the south as fast as lightning. Before long, the Northern Territory will fall, and then Hejian.
It is very likely that in the next month, the Strange Ghosts will reach King's Landing and even the old town.
Isn't the responsibility of a Savior to stop the Strange Ghosts from destroying the Westeros? "
Aunt May frowned. "I am not stopping you from fulfilling your mission as a Savior, but now is not the time to challenge the King of Strange Ghosts."
She was not lying. After the Long Night, communication with the King of Light was much simpler and more precise.
Every time she stared at the flame and asked when the Long Night would end, she could feel Lahlo's will from the flame: Stannis was not ready.
Lahlo did not play any tricks at all. He directly told Aunt May that now was not the time to be reckless!
"The King of Strange Ghosts' gaze just now made me tremble in fear. I know that I may fail at Winterfell, but I am not afraid!" Erlu gritted his teeth and said word by word, "Yasuo and Ahai cannot defeat the King of Strange Ghosts in one go. He has been defeated time and time again, but he keeps fighting.
Although he has failed countless times, he has always brought hope to a hopeless world.
He can endure failure, and so can I. I will persevere. Even if I fail ten thousand times, I will not lose my fighting spirit. "
Do you think that anyone can have the chance to keep fighting? I am afraid that if you fail once, you will lose your life.
If Danny was here, she would most likely complain like this.
Aunt May, of course, could not complain about the savior she had chosen.
"There are no two identical leaves in the world. You are a Savior, yes, but your experience is not necessarily similar to Yasuo and Ahai's. He can fail many times, but it does not mean that you can." She said very tactfully.
"I will die?" Erlu gritted his teeth.
"You are not ready."
Erlu took a deep breath and relaxed his mind and body.
He looked at Aunt May with a serious expression and said, "As long as we can save the world, there is no one who cannot be sacrificed. From the very beginning, I had this awareness.
I can sacrifice myself, and so can Shireen.
But I am Shireen's father. If I sacrifice her without trying my best, am I still human?
Yasuer and Yahai had failed so many times in the process of forging the red sword. Did they not know that sacrificing their wives was the best way to forge the red sword?
Every attempt he made was an effort to save his wife.
In the end, after he had tried everything, he decided to sacrifice his wife. Nisha Nisha knew that her husband had done his best, so she was willing to sacrifice herself. "
Melisandre did not know what Yasuo and Ahai were thinking at that time. Perhaps Erlu was just wishful thinking, or perhaps Erlu and the former savior were in perfect harmony and understood each other's situation and choice.
But she really didn't agree with Erlu.
"Fate had already decided. It was destined that Yasuo and Ahai would become the savior, and that Nisha Nisha would be sacrificed. Maybe you guessed right. He was trying to prevent Nisha's death, but his many years of hard work only resulted in the prolongation of the Long Night. An entire generation!
If he had been more determined and listened to the call of fate, using Nisha to forge the sword at the first opportunity, it is very likely that the Long Night would have ended a few years earlier. "
"Fate …" Erlu's eyes flashed and he began to grind his teeth. "Danny Rize has already broken fate."
"Danny Rize? What did she say to you? "Melisandre was shocked. She didn't know what that woman had revealed.
Erlu looked into Aunt May's eyes and said softly, "She said that the so-called sacrifices were all given to the Light King, Lahlo.
As long as Lahlo is generous, he can help the Child of Prophecy forge the red sword and hatch the Demon Dragon without any sacrifices.
The so-called fate is just a script that he wrote in advance to achieve his own goals. "
Aunt May said seriously, "Maybe the great Light King can do everything, but what is the price?
Everything has its own rules. A king has the entire kingdom, but can he unconditionally give the kingdom's territory to every subject who asks for it?
If the king does that, the kingdom will definitely collapse.
If the kingdom collapses, the subjects who reap without sowing will end up even more miserable than before they received the land. "
"The great Lahlo's divine power is unlimited, but he also has an eternal enemy — the Frost God who pulls the world into cold and darkness.
If he grants every believer's request regardless of the cost, the mortal's desires will never end. How long can someone as powerful as Lahlo last?
When Lahlo's divine power is exhausted, the Frost God will be unscrupulous and do whatever he wants.
Against the Frost God, what can the mortals who received Lahlo's gifts do?
The world will eventually be destroyed because of our shameful greed.
Farmers farm, blacksmiths forge, kings rule, and the Child of Prophecy saves the world. This is the law, the destiny formed by countless laws. "
Erlu frowned and thought about it. It seemed that the red-robed woman's words made sense, but … the Child of Prophecy didn't have any privileges. Couldn't the Light King make an exception?
After all, he, the Child of Prophecy, was helping him fight against the Frost God!
Perhaps Danny Rize wasn't lying. Gods saw mortals as pigs and sheep. Lahlo chose the Child of Prophecy because the Child of Prophecy had something that he needed.
But what did he have that was worth Lahlo's attention?
Shireen?
After a long silence, Erlu sighed. "No matter what, we have to support Winterfell. This is the responsibility of the King of the Seven Kingdoms, and also the mission of the Savior.
Even if we don't talk about responsibility and mission, just from the perspective of benefits.
If we let Winterfell be destroyed by the Other Ghosts, the next time the Other Ghost King leads an army of ghouls that is several times larger to the Blood Gate.
At that time, we won't have any reinforcements. Danny Rize won't help us, and if Stark is still alive, he won't either.
If the people's hearts are scattered, the Seven Kingdoms will really be finished. "
Aunt May was silent for a long time before saying, "You can send the Winged Dragon Army to support Winterfell, but don't challenge the Other Ghost King."
"I'm not afraid of death!" Erlu was inexplicably angry. "Go with me. If the Other Ghost King appears, please help me with the great Lahlo. If I still die in battle, I won't have any complaints. "
"But you're the Savior. You can't die. If you die, the world will really be finished," the red-robed woman said anxiously.
She was really anxious because she really thought that he was the Savior.
Erlu said faintly, "In this world, is there a Savior who avoids responsibility and is afraid of battle?
On one hand, you say that I'm the Child of Prophecy arranged by fate to fight the Other Ghost King. On the other hand, you want me to avoid the final battle with the Other Ghost King. Isn't this contradictory?
If I'm really the Savior, I'll only become braver in my failures. Countless failures can train my will and martial arts, and finally let me grow to the point where I can defeat the Other Ghost King. "
Aunt Mei already understood that she would not be able to persuade this stubborn monarch this time.
Hmm, Erlu wasn't completely obedient to the red-robed woman. Otherwise, he would have tried to hatch the Demonic Dragon in the stone egg years ago.
"I'll accompany you — Dong dong dong!"
Melisandre was just about to agree when a series of hurried knocks on the door interrupted the two's conversation.
"Your Majesty, Sir Davos sent news." Outside the door came the loud and joyful voice of the attendant, Davos.
Davos was the fifth son of the Onion Knight.
The Onion Knight Davos had a total of seven children, all sons, and all of them grew up healthily without illness or disaster.
Because of this, he became more and more devoted to the Seven Gods.
In the War of the Four Kings, Davos led his eldest, second, third, and fourth sons to work for Erlu. They were quite similar to the Five Tigers of the Han Family of Cao Wei.
Erm, Han De and his four sons.
Unfortunately, the fake Han De met the strengthened version of the "Black River Zhao Zilong", and the fake Tyrion Zhao Zilong burned his four sons to death.
"Davos is still alive?"
Erlu was pleasantly surprised. He put on a robe and went to open the door.
As Erlu's attendant, Davos had seen the interactions between Erlu and the red-robed woman too many times. Therefore, when he came in, he didn't look around. He respectfully and straightforwardly handed the letter to the king.
"Good, that's great." Erlu read ten lines at a glance. He excitedly cheered as he read.
But in the end, he fell silent with a conflicted expression.
Melisandre tightened her red dress and walked over. She asked curiously, "What's the situation?"
"Not only did Davos not die in the chaos, but he also completed the mission I gave him again. He successfully convinced the Bronze Jon and the other vassals of the Valley." Erlu had a complicated expression.
"The Onion Knight is really Your Majesty's lucky star!" Melisandre smiled.
"Lucky star? If the Great Wall hadn't collapsed, I would be overjoyed after receiving this letter. But now … "Erlu frowned and shook his head.
When King Aegon's True Dragon Alliance besieged the King's Landing, there were two armies in the north and the south. The southern army went from the Wind Stop Fortress to the Imperial Forest with ten thousand gold troops, four thousand Dorn cavalry, and eight thousand Storm vassals. The northern army went from the Blood Gate and the Valley vassals led twenty thousand elite soldiers to the south.
But before the northern army got close to the King's Landing and entered Rosby City (seventy to eighty kilometers away from the King's Landing), the news of King Aegon's capture spread to the army camp.
At that time, the southern army had already been stationed at the southern shore of the Blackwater for many days. They were waiting for the northern army to join forces.
The Iron Throne's military strength was limited. It was impossible for them to divide their forces and destroy both the northern and southern armies.
You Lun and Cersei chose to attack the southern army because Dorn and the gold troops were irreconcilable enemies. With Aegon captured, the vassals of the Valley might not be loyal to him anymore.
The Iron Throne's thinking was not wrong. The vassals of the Valley did not have much loyalty to Aegon. After Davos brought Sansa's' letter of surrender ', they immediately retreated.' F * ck King Aegon, f * ck King Stannis, f * ck Cersei, I want to go home. I don't want to play with you anymore. '
But soon, they realized that they could not go home even if they wanted to.
They lacked military rations.
As mentioned before, during the Rebellion of the Four Princes, the king's territory was ravaged. Bandits passed by like combs, soldiers passed by like hounds, and wolves robbed lions after they finished robbing.
Everyone took turns robbing. How could the hungry soldiers be divided into factions?
In the end, the vassals of the king's territory had no way to make a living.
And the Westeros army did not seem to have the habit of carrying rations. It was thousands of miles from Winterfell to the King's Landing. How could they transport rations?
When the Valley Army went south, they realized that they could not rob the vassals of the three rivers.
Not to mention rations, even the commoners ran away.
But they were hungry!
So, the lesser nobles were unlucky.
So, the vassals wrote letters to Dragonstone Island, begging the Dragon Queen to be merciful and restrain her nephew.
So, the old crab personally went to Moon Gate Castle to persuade King Aegon to restrain himself.
So, King Aegon and the dwarf rode on pterodactyls and delivered rations to the vassals of the Valley every night.
So, the vassals of the Valley changed their route. They circled around and tried to travel by sea. Illyrio transported the rations to Dragonstone Island.
Through Dragonstone Island, they supported the Valley Army at Blackwater Bay.
For example, Twilight Valley was less than a hundred miles away from Tidehead Island.
So, after Aegon was captured, the source of rations was cut off.
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