The gloomy north wind made the shadows of the trees flicker like ferocious living creatures. Mormont looked around hurriedly and said, "I don't feel good. I keep feeling that something is spying on us."
Jero Dane twitched his huge hooked nose and frowned. "I smell human feces. There should be a large number of living people living here."
"There's a cave in the pit. The No Flag Brotherhood used to live here. The snow has covered their traces." Danny said.
This was a tall mountain. In the fertile plains between the rivers, a thousand-meter-high mountain stood abruptly, like a chimney stuck in the ground.
The mountain was covered with aged pine trees, birch trees, and iron trees. Here and there, there were a few small weirwoods with red palm leaves. There was only one red spot in the midst of all the green.
At this time, the trees were covered in a thick layer of snow, and the leaves were wrapped in a layer of crystal clear ice.
A gust of north wind blew, and the branches and leaves collided with each other, making crisp tinkling sounds.
This was the Noble Heart.
Danny led the two white knights through the portal. They stepped out from the Oak Hall 20 kilometers away to the soft snow mountain top.
The top of the mountain was slightly flat, and there was a huge pit more than 50 meters in diameter in the center. Even if it snowed intermittently for several months, the huge pit was not filled, and the general outline of the pit could be seen.
Those who didn't understand the situation might even mistake it for an extinct volcano when they first saw the huge crater.
If there was no snow, it could be seen clearly that the huge pit was an ordinary pit, but there were many white python-like weirwood roots in the pit.
There were sparse vine-like weirwood branches at the foot of the mountain, but there were no huge weirwood trees. Now, there were dense roots as thick as a person's wrist at the top of the mountain, which was very unusual.
But if one knew something about the Noble Heart, there would be no more doubts.
Eight thousand years ago, the Dragon Queen came here in another way. Once, there was a weirwood tree that reached the clouds in the huge pit, and its scattered branches and leaves almost covered the whole mountain under its shade.
Later, all the essence of the weirwood was transferred to a fresh spore branch, and the rest of the branch withered. The Children of the Forest and the ancestors planted 31 weirwood saplings around the withered stump.
Thousands of years had passed, and the small sapling had grown into a pavilion. This noble place had always been the holy land of the believers of the old gods.
Until one day, the Andals arrived.
They advanced wave after wave, cutting down the forest as if they were possessed. They slaughtered the children of the forest and burned the heart trees, especially the weirwood.
After hundreds and thousands of years of conflict, the ancient kings gradually compromised. They gave up on the belief of the old gods and merged with the Andals through marriage in terms of bloodline, culture, tradition, and faith.
The final moment had arrived. South of Neck, only the noble hearts and the believers of the old gods were still holding on.
These believers included children of the forest, forebears, and even the Green Prophet. They were extremely powerful, and large groups of ravens and wolves were summoned.
However, the Andals had iron armor, iron swords, and a more advanced knight system. The believers of the old gods with wooden spears and bronze weapons were no match for them.
The war lasted for generations. The Andals lost many people, but they never stopped. Every shapeshifter lost was one less. In the end, the believers of the old gods lost to the believers of the seven gods who worshipped the seven logs.
It was said that the bodies of all the animal companions that died in the war were piled up to half the height of the Noble Heart mountain.
The Green Prophet, children of the forest, and forebears were all slaughtered. The weirwood was cut down and burned, leaving behind a huge pit and 31 tree stumps.
However, the Andal king who attacked the Noble Heart did not have a good ending. He became a kinslayer and died a horrible death. The kingdom was also conquered and divided by others.
"How embarrassing." Danny's expression suddenly became strange. "The protection circle of the children of the forest is still working. The Andals won the final victory, but they did not damage the circle set up by the children of the forest at all. No wonder there is not a single ghoul here."
The Noble Heart was the holy land of the children of the forest, so of course it was protected by a circle.
However, this circle only had two functions: to ward off evil spirits and to calm the mind.
Back then, the Andals did not have the ability to detect the ancient protection circle, so they naturally could not destroy it.
"Do you intend to enter the final home?" An old woman suddenly emerged from behind a sentinel tree at the bottom of the hill as if she was burrowing through the ground.
The old woman was hunchbacked and curled up. She was less than 90 centimeters tall, and her face was full of wrinkles. She leaned on a bumpy black walking stick and leaped over thick tree roots that had been frozen hard by the snow. She slowly but steadily walked toward the Dragon Queen at the top of the hill.
The north wind howled, and the old woman's white hair that almost reached the ground danced in the air like a white cloud.
Her eyes were strangely red, similar to the cat eyes of the children of the forest.
Among the children of the forest, only the Green Prophet's eyes were red.
"You are the ghost of the Noble Heart?" Da Xiong frowned as he sized up the old woman who looked and acted strangely. He asked, "Where is the final home?"
"Stand aside. Don't disturb my conversation with the King of Gods," the old woman shouted rudely.
"King of Gods?" Dark Star glanced at the Dragon Queen and asked in confusion, "Are you talking about the queen? Why the King of Gods? "
"The king who ends and unifies the new gods and the old gods." There was a hint of fear in the old woman's red eyes toward Dark Star.
"You are supposed to be a demon king who brings darkness to the living," she mumbled.
"What are you talking about?" Geralt frowned. This old woman was very strange. He could understand every word she said, but he did not understand what she was trying to say.
Fortunately, he had been cultivating with the Dragon Queen for the past few years. If he had been as hot-tempered as he was back then, he would have cut down this pretentious witch of the forest with his sword.
Danny's eyes flashed. He smiled and said, "I heard that you are very good at prophecy. The Brotherhood often looks for you to gather information about the outside world. Just because you don't leave your house, you can predict everything in the world?"
"I just want a sip of wine." The hunchbacked old woman sighed.
Danny's eyebrows couldn't help but twitch a few times. This pretentious act …
Most people wouldn't even know that she was pretentious. Alright, maybe the old woman didn't want to pretend either.
However, Danny knew that the Brotherhood used a mere pot of wine to know in advance that Erlu would kill his brother, You Lun would kill his brother, the Blood Wedding, the Purple Wedding, and a series of other prophecies that would change the situation of the Seven Kingdoms.
However, the Brotherhood was still not satisfied. They couldn't understand and didn't have the interest to analyze the slightly obscure prophecies. Instead, they wanted more direct information, such as how many enemies there were, where they came from, and where their troops were …
"How about we make a bet?" Without waiting for the old woman to agree, Danny pointed at Ursa and said, "Let's prophecy Sir Jorah's future together."
She was shameless enough. As the Queen's White Knight, wasn't she the one who had the final say in Ursa's future?
However, the hunchbacked old woman didn't even think about it or look at Ursa. She blurted out, "In a few days, he will be very unlucky. He will be surrounded by rotten peach blossoms and be in a dilemma."
"Hahaha!" Danny laughed loudly.
Ursa and Geralt both sneered with disdain.
"Now that the Holy Land belongs to me, your duty of guarding has been completed. Do you want to change the environment?" Danny asked with a smile, "I can send you to Dragonstone Island. Have you been to Dragonstone Island? With Jenny of the City of Barren Stone. "
Obviously, she thought that the old woman had lost the bet of prophecy. Perhaps the old woman had deliberately surrendered to her.
The hunchbacked old woman didn't talk about Ursa and the bet anymore. She said with a disappointed look in her eyes, "I miss Jenny very much, but hearing her name from your mouth makes me feel very uncomfortable.
You omniscient people are all voyeurs on the river of time. You watch our lives as a drama with relish and leave comments from time to time, but you don't know how painful it is for us as the people involved. "
"Every time you meet singers and bards in Noble Heart, you will let them sing 'Jenny of the City of Barren Stone'. Everyone knows that, so there is no need to peep at you," Danny said.
"If you don't peep at me, how do you know that I like to listen to that song?" The hunchbacked old woman said.
"The person who enters my sight now is not just him at this moment. His past and future will be displayed in front of me at this moment," Danny said proudly.
"You can go. I will stay in Noble Heart and won't go anywhere." The old woman shook her head. She didn't want to talk to the Dragon Queen anymore.
"You don't want to see the savior you prophesied? Last time, you ran hundreds of miles to the Red Fork River to find me. "Danny asked with a smile.
"I have seen him through the eyes of the trees." The old woman's shriveled cheeks trembled a few times. Her expression was complicated as she said, "He is making a huge mistake. He shouldn't have mixed with the followers of the Red God. He shouldn't have gone to the King's Landing. He shouldn't have left you. You have to help him stay away from danger, away from the son of the Red God."
"You are saying that Stannis wants to harm him?" Danny asked in surprise.
"Beside the son of the Red God, his life will be in danger." The old woman nodded.
Danny frowned and thought for a while. She said, "I will warn him, but Stannis once risked his life to help Winterfell. He might not leave the King's Landing."
Without the old woman's prophecy or Danny's reminder, Bran had already warned Jon countless times: be careful of the red-robed woman, be wary of the Red God Lahlo.
But there were some things that had to be done even if one knew they couldn't be done.
Erlu had bled and lost his life for Winterfell. Jon couldn't leave before the "Battle of the King's Landing".
Yes, the "Battle of the King's Landing" plan wasn't completely ruined.
Now, the forces of the Red God Church in the Free Cities were gathered at the King's Landing. Weren't they waiting for the return of the Strange Ghost King and the millions of ghouls to besiege the King's Landing?
"Your Majesty, are you talking about Jon Stark?" Gero Dane was confused when he heard the words, but he finally figured it out.
"He's the savior in Asha's prophecy?" he said in disbelief.
Big Bear also had a look of disbelief. "Why Stark?"
"He's Rega and Leanna's child." Danny's expression was calm as she exploded a bomb.
Now that she had become an omniscient person, she couldn't pretend to be ignorant anymore. She might as well say it openly.
If the dwarf couldn't survive this wave and died, he would be embarrassed to walk on stage!
Dark Star and Big Bear looked at each other in bewilderment. After a long time, they asked cautiously, "Are you saying that your brother and Lyanna Stark have a bastard son who is Jon Stark?"
"Do you think it's reasonable?" Danny asked back.
Gero hesitated for a moment and said with difficulty, "After I point it out, it seems very reasonable."
"All the doubts have been solved. Back then, I didn't understand. Eide Stark was such an old-fashioned and serious person. How could he have an illegitimate child?
And I followed him to participate in the War of the Usurpers, and I've never seen him have the slightest bit of ambiguity with other women, "Big Bear said in realization.
Danny turned around and faced the huge pit. With a wave of her hand, the weirwood cane floated into her right hand.
"Bang!" Noble Heart swayed gently a few times, and a lightning-like pitch-black spatial crack cracked open above the huge pit.
"This is the holy land of the old gods. Are you going?" she asked the two white knights.
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