Game of Thrones: The Strongest Dragon Mother

Chapter 1026 Dani's Overture

There are many bug buildings in the world of A Song of Ice and Fire, and Pike City, the family castle of the Greyjoy family in the Iron Islands, is also one of the bugs.

At the beginning of its establishment, Pike City was located on the top of a towering cliff protruding from the sea. As time went by, the rocks supporting the cliff were continuously eroded by sea wind and waves, and this island gradually became a rocky reef surrounded by sea water.

It's like putting peanut ice cream on the balcony, letting it be exposed to the scorching sun in summer, the cream and chocolate melt and flow along the wall, leaving only the peanut kernels in place.

The architect who built Pike City seems to be able to predict the future of the castle. When building the city, he specially built the towers of the castle on "peanut kernels".

In this way, thousands of people fell over, and the originally connected buildings became isolated buildings on the rocks.

The towers are connected by wooden bridges that sway in the wind.

Why was the death of King Balon so easily accepted by the Ironborn?

Think about it, after eating at the restaurant at night, I decided to read a book for a while, so I took the lantern and walked through the spiral staircase hundreds of meters above the sea (not the stone tower is hundreds of meters high, but the foundation is hundreds of meters above sea level. Cliff) came to the study, then went back to the bedroom to sleep, crossed the hanging rope bridge like a swing again, got up the next day, heard that there were guests visiting, and then crossed
With such a lot of tossing, even if the probability of an accident every time you cross the bridge is 0.001%, there are too many times, and there will always be a day when you fall down.

Well, there are as many Greyjoys who fell to their deaths in a storm while crossing a bridge as there were Targaryens who went mad and tossed themselves to death.

The point is that even the headland has been eroded by time into a hidden reef, and the stone towers built on the headland are still well preserved.

At least, Asha was sleeping in the duke's bedroom named "Tower in the Sea", listening to the raging waves outside, but her heart was extremely peaceful, and she was not at all worried that her castle would collapse in the wind and waves.

Of course, the peace in her heart is not only because of the strong family castle, the last month is the most comfortable time she has lived in these years: she is needed by the Dragon Queen and the Seven Kingdoms!

Uh, Asha doesn't lack love, and the Dragon Queen didn't give her love, but Euron's actions made Greyjoy, who was already notorious, completely reduced to an existence that people hate and ghosts hate.

When the people of the Seven Kingdoms hated the White Walkers, they didn't mind leaving a place in their hearts for Euron and the Ironborn.

Therefore, even though Asha became the actual ruler of the Iron Islands more than a year ago, she still had no idea, worried about the big liquidation, and worried that the Ironborn and Greyjoy would be abandoned by Westeros.

Don't doubt, the Dragon Queen really revealed her intention to completely ban the Ironborn.

In the history of the kingdom of Westeros for thousands of years, the Iron Islands have been trying to prove one thing: the iron species is harmful to Westeros and has no benefit.

Because they lost too badly in the Battle of the Conqueror (Harrenhal, where the dragon burned, belonged to the King of the Iron Islands), when the Targaryen ruled Westeros, the Ironborn barely stayed quiet for 300 years.

The so-called honesty is only compared to the unscrupulousness before the war of conquest. The Ironborn has always sent fleets to the narrow sea to act as pirates. Whenever they have the opportunity, they will also plunder the coast of Westeros.

For a certain period of time, relying on the preferential customs policy given by the Iron Throne, and meeting the Duke of Wise, the iron clan also made a fortune from the sea trade, and the people are rich without robbery. The Greyjoy family has accumulated more a lot of wealth.

According to the thinking of normal people, when this day is better, we should live a good life, right?
The iron species is not.

They were thinking: Fake, after holding back for so long, now he has finally become a rich man. He has the money to build warships, buy munitions (ironware), and armed forces. Why don't they do a good job?
Then they really start rebelling, killing, looting, and laughing.

Therefore, the Dragon Queen never thought about letting the iron species live a good life, and then know the etiquette in the warehouse, and know the honor and disgrace if they have enough food and clothing.

For the Ironborn, living an honest life is a humiliation, while stealing, burning, killing, and looting are honorable.In a sense, they really did "know honor and disgrace with enough food and clothing".

For such a nation, Dani's governance method is also very simple, completely block, block all social factors such as economy, people's livelihood, external communication, etc.

The Iron Islands are an archipelago. Even the wood for shipbuilding has to be imported from the mainland. Cloth, wine, refined iron and other materials are scarce. Facing the ban, they can only barely make ends meet. The population cannot grow, and they lose the potential for war. How can they have the strength to go there again? Provoking major seaport cities?
It's all right now, the Dragon Queen personally promised that as long as she honestly helps her with affairs, no matter whether it succeeds or not, she will give Tiezhong another chance to be a good person.

Internal and external troubles were all eliminated, Asha felt relieved and slept more securely.

"Hissing——" the sound of the pterosaur awakened the Duchess of the Iron Islands from her slumber. She opened her eyes in a daze, and when she was sure that a pterosaur had really arrived, she immediately woke up, lifted the duvet, and wrapped the vine-like The man on the body moved away, and Chi Guoguo walked down to the ground, the cold air that hit her made her shudder.

"Maybe, I should move to Chengmen Castle, and then fix a heated kang." Asha said to herself, while wiping the wet stains on her thighs with the bed sheet.

"My lord, so early?" The man on the bed also woke up from his dream.

Only by the dim yellow light of the whale oil lamp did Asha see her bed-mate's face clearly.

Fortunately, it was his bodyguard, Big Dick, who was young, Kong Wu, and barely qualified in appearance.

She originally had seven or eight fixed bed-mates, but the past few years were not peaceful. When she was captured by Erlu in Deepwood Castle, three of them died in battle, and the rest responded to King Euron's call, or died in the bend of the river. , or fighting White Walkers in Highgarden.

"The pterosaur knight is coming, it should be from the Dragon Queen." She said something casually, and she called the maid to dress herself.

The visitor is the second son of Crab Island, Rhaegar Celtiga.

The little crab was originally not qualified to be a pterosaur knight, but the old crab felt that he was too old to fight on a dragon, so he discussed with the dragon queen and gave his pterosaur to his second son.

Well, the big crab Iris Celtigar is the commander of the Slave Bay Fleet, and there have been pterosaurs for a long time.

Although the little crab is greedy for life and afraid of death, and has a serious interest in profit, his resume in the past few years is very good: in the early years, he helped build a stronghold in Meribald, presided over the disaster relief work for the Dragon Queen on the Crab Claw Peninsula, and later participated in the Battle of Winterfell. The first wave responds to the "Dawn Warrior" call.

So Dany agreed to the old crab's request.

"Duke Asha, I know you like reading books. This time I brought you a complete hardcover edition of "Wargrave's Dramatic Works." Seeing Asha in the main hall of the main castle, the little crab graciously presented a large bundle of hard kraft paper wrapped books, and then carried a bamboo basket of fresh strawberries, "Eating more fruits will make you more beautiful."

Asha smiled decently, polite but not too close, "Sir Celtigar, do you have any arrangements for your visit to the Iron Islands this time as Her Majesty the Queen?"

She knew what the little crab was thinking at this time, the prince of the Iron Islands.

However, this is not the first time the two have met. Back then he disliked and despised her (the little crab has connections and knows the Dragon Queen's idea of ​​banning the Iron Islands), until the Dragon Queen promised to give the Iron Islands and Greyjoy another chance, He suddenly paid her so much attention.

She looked down on such a snobby guy.

Asha's bland reaction made the little crab a little disappointed, but he didn't forget his mission.

"I wonder if His Majesty the Great Drowned God agrees with the queen's suggestion?"

"This" Asha turned her gaze to "Three Drowned Man" Thaler.

The High Priest of the Drowned God shook his head regretfully, "His Majesty the Drowned God didn't respond to me, he should have refused."

Asha looked at the little crab worriedly.

The little crab frowned as expected, and his tone became severe, "The conditions for forming an alliance can be discussed, but His Majesty the Drowned God won't even talk about it?"

"Perhaps, He is still thinking. Give us a little more time to explain the current situation to His Majesty the Drowned God," Asha said.

Thaler sighed, nodded and said, "I will try my best."

He himself actually disapproved of the queen's covenant.

Let the supreme god of creation of the iron species be the younger brother of a mortal?

This is blasphemy!
At any other time and target, he would roar the slogan "The dead will not die, but will rise again", calling on the Ironborn to rebel, and teaching the blasphemers to feel pain and death.

But now, if they dare to rebel against the Dragon Queen, the dead will die, there will be no hope of rising, the Drowned God will burp, and the iron species will become extinct.

"This time I come to the Iron Islands, there is one more thing." The little crab's expression eased, "Her Majesty has established the first Holy Light Sanctuary on the Crab Claw Peninsula. Duke Asha and Priest Thaler can go and have a look."

"What is the Sanctuary of Light used for?" Asha asked puzzled.

"After you have been there, you will understand that the future of mankind depends on Her Majesty Daenerys after all.

Whether the long night lasts ten years, twenty years, or longer, the ultimate victor is destined to be human beings, us, and Her Majesty the Queen. "The little crab said meaningfully.

Half a day later, Asha understood the meaning of his words.

"Am I dreaming?"

The sun is shining brightly above the head, and there are bare-chested farmers busy in the fields. The black soil is dotted with green spores, and the grass on the field ridges also protrudes green leaves. The ditches are gurgling, and the warm breeze brings the fragrance of spring and birds happy singing.

When Asha was ten years old, she saw a similar scene. It was after winter and before summer. For people today, it was a very distant "spring".

But now is the long night!
She suspects that she travels through time and goes back to the past.

But she clearly remembered that a few minutes ago, she saw a huge translucent bowl on the back of the pterosaur, which was turned upside down on the ground.

Rhaegar sang a song out loud, "Hand in Hand, Little Friends"

Then a silly human face appeared on the wall of the bowl, gigantic and giggling, a 30-meter-long pterosaur slipped through the giant's cracked mouth.

The wall of the bowl seems to be very thin, but Asha flew in it for 1 minute. Maybe she didn't walk in a straight line?
It was a sea of ​​wind, with two layers in total. The outer layer was in a positive spiral, and the inner layer was in a reverse spiral. When flying through the middle layer, Asha had difficulty breathing and her face turned red.

Therefore, she didn't dream, and she didn't go back to the past. She just penetrated the wall of the wind bowl and came to the Holy Light Sanctuary.

"We call it the 'Girdle of Daenerys'. It is the land of eternal summer created by His Majesty himself. Even in the long night, it is summer here, early summer." Brother Meribald walked over.

"Currently, the Daenerys belt is still in the experimental stage. As long as it is verified and feasible, it can be widely promoted. One thousand wind elves, two hundred wind giants, the king of wind giants, and storm giants can create at least three super-powers covering the Three Rivers Basin." wind ring."

"Three river basins? Half of Westeros!" Asha and Thaler exclaimed.

"It's not an exaggeration, there are only twenty wind giants here, and the wind giants are far less powerful than the wind elves.

What's more, the queen also has a storm giant who is not weaker than ordinary true gods, and one can protect a three-river basin. " said the old monk.

"Gods bless, human beings are saved." Asha exclaimed.

"Humanity will win, but to save more living people, there is still a big problem to be solved." Meribald looked at Priest Thaler, and said seriously: "If all the wind elves are used to make Daenerys' belt, the Queen Your Majesty will lose his powerful magic weapon. Next, what should we use to deal with the alliance between the Cold God and the Evil God?

What if His Majesty was exhausted when rescuing the city-state of Essos, but the Cthulhu Alliance went to ambush her? "

"Hence, Your Majesty needs helpers, first deal with the Alliance of Evil Gods, so that we can deal with the Other Ghosts without any worries.

Moreover, there are too many human beings, and the Ring of Wind cannot feed all of them. We need the seafood that His Majesty the Drowned God bestows on us! "

Asha pondered for a moment, then said: "With Daenerys' girdle, humans will surely be able to survive the long night, and His Majesty's choice is just icing on the cake for humans.

I don't think he would refuse an alliance with the victor. "

If she refuses, she doesn't mind leading the Ironborn to convert to the Seven.

What is the value of belief in a god who refuses to help believers get out of desperation?
"I will do my best." Priest Thaler said solemnly.

(End of this chapter)