Chapter 33
The last time Bloodrider was ordered to go out to explore the terrain and properties, of course, he couldn't walk in the day and night. Although the Bleeding Star in the sky dyes the sky red, it is completely impossible to see the distant scenery with the blushing rays of light.
So, last time Aggo they really worked hard.
This time is different, the purpose is clear, there is no need to detect whether there are people or large animals nearby...
Bleeding Star of blood and fire hangs overhead, no Khalasar The old and weak women and children dragged down, Dany took the lead, and the little silver horse galloped happily on the red sand, bringing a slender red sand between the horses' hooves.
Jorah and her Bloodrider were three horses behind Dany, followed closely from behind by 20 Dothraki screamers.
The rumbling of hooves spread far and wide across the ground, and reddish-brown-scaled sand lizards poked their heads out of the grass, as if feeling the ground shaking.
"Hi ga--"
"ga ga--boom--"
A sharp, rough cry suddenly sounded overhead, the size of a wild cat. The sand lizard wanted to retract the grass, but... it was a string of dark red flames that fell from the sky.
The black smoke mixed with the smell of sulfur ignited Devilgrass beside him at once.
The sand lizard zhi zhi screamed and fled out of the fire sea, next moment when the sky darkened, oneself rose into the air with nowhere to focus. The stinging pain pierced by the sharp teeth in the weak abdomen has not yet dispelled the panic in his heart, "hong", a mass of flames swept over, and the sand lizard completely lost consciousness.
"Treading..."
The Devilgrass, ignited by Dragonflame, quickly sank into the shallow red sand as the horses hooves stepped on it one after another, leaving only a few strands left. white smoke swaying in the wind.
Dany looked up at the young dragon vying for blood in the sky, and a satisfied smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.
horse men's sense of direction is very good, their entire group hardly detours and found the dragon bone at midnight.
If you think about it, it is true that people with poor sense of direction cannot be Khalasar's scout rides, because Dothraki Great Grass Sea is less recognizable than Red Waste, and scout rides are scattered in all directions, and the farthest you have to leave Khalasar A day or two ride.
"The Seven, is this really the skeleton of a living creature?!"
Even though I have heard many times that Balerion can swallow a bison in one bite, it is as big as a destroyer. Dany couldn't help but exclaimed.
The skeleton exposed outside the sand is ash-gray. The deeper it goes into the ground, the darker the color of the skeleton. Originally, only a small half of the skull was exposed on the ground. Last time, Rakharo cut open the sand that buried the skull in order to explore the size of the dragon bone.
"If the sand is completely swept away, the project is too big, and it will take a lot of time..." Dany climbed the top of the dragon's head, which was two stories high, and looked at the buried corpses that accumulated into a curved hill. , the heart began to hesitate.
Jorah frowned at the huge skull and said, "Her Highness the Princess, what are you going to do with this dragon bone corpse? I'm afraid it's unrealistic to ship it all back."
"This "..." Dany smiled bitterly, "To be honest, I really planned to ship it back, not to mention how much gold can be exchanged for dragon bone, it's just made into a weapon... You've also seen the formidable dragon bone bow. Power, the great killing tool that warriors must match!"
"The horse people don't have the technology to forge dragon bone weapons, only the highest Qohor Smith can shape dragon bones into weapons." Jorah shook his head.
"What do you say? Leave it here?" she asked.
Jorah touched his chin, suggested: "Choose some dragon bones that are easy to carry and go back, and bury the rest in place. In the future... come back and pick them up as needed."
"The skull is too big to handle, take the bone from the wings."
Dany gave the order and the horse people began to fuck in a frenzy. They dug along the dragon's neck to the waist and abdomen. They didn't need to dig too deep, enough to search for broken bones as much as possible.
The bone that Rakharo brought back was a broken bone. Dragon seemed to be as Dany had guessed.
"Hey, this is... this bone is so slender, not right..." A horse men stopped digging and picked up a 40cm long bone stick from the sand , looking back and forth in confusion.
Following the route of "head-neck-back-wing", horse men dug a winding gully.
The sand is soft and much easier than expected, and the ditch is two or three meters deep.
When the sky was dyed deep indigo azure, they had dug up to the middle of their necks.
"Khaleesi, there is a situation, it's not dragon bone, I dug up a human corpse." Horse men shouted loudly, the faint vibrato could make people feel his fear, "This is not a human, it is a devil , the devil's corpse, people shouldn't be like this."
"Devil, the devil's corpse!" The other horse people who were working came over to take a look, and also shouted in horror.
As a big boss, Dany certainly doesn't have to work. She has been training little dragons before.
Hearing the noise coming from the pit, she trotted over quickly, looked towards the horse men in the pit, and shouted: "There is no devil, the devil dare not approach the dragon, even the dragon who has been dead for many years. corpse! That must be human... uh..."
She was yelling in a rage at first, but as the crowd made way for space, she could see half-buried in the brown sand The twisted corpse in the middle, she was also horrified and stuck.
It's really that the corpse is too terrifying, it's a corpse curled into a ball like a mother's fetus, not a pure skeleton.
Its skin is like purple black devil scales, tightly wrapping the bones, you can see the thumb-cap-sized "scales" as rough as old tree skin, densely packed, covering the whole body.
The arm curled up in front of the chest...is that really an arm, not some kind of creature's claws?
Ten dagger-like fingers poked into the sky, as if ready to go, about to choose someone to devour.
The corpse was as thin as a bony child, but its sharp-toothed claws were 20cm long, completely disproportionate.
What's even more terrifying is that the eyeballs in the corpse's eye sockets were not corroded and weathered, um, not decomposed by bacteria.
There is black pitch-like mucus around the deep purple eyes, staring at everyone "viciously" like a living person, and the mouth that is almost cracked 180 degrees seems to be roaring the devil's curse.
"Fuck..." Cursed Earth's words, Dany immediately followed the locals and said, "Seven Hells, Ser Jorah, you are experienced and knowledgeable, do you know who this is?"
She didn't forget that this is a fantasy world, even Children of the Forest and Giant, it's not uncommon to see Goblin and Gnolls.
"He should be a human." Jorah was also digging soil in the pit, hearing this walking to the horse men who first found the body, and took the tragic white bone stick from him.
"Her Highness the Princess, look..." He shook Dany with the bone, and then gestured with the bone on the left leg of "devil", "The body is missing. I lost a calf, which is the one in my hand. According to your previous conjecture about the origin of the dragon, a dragon escaped from Valyria in the cataclysm.
Then, it is impossible that it is controlled by a Knight What about the one who left?
dragon died of serious injuries and fell from the air, and Knight broke his leg, so the calf bone was separated from the body."
Aggo retorted: "Look at the calf bone. If the corpse is really human, then he is also a dwarf."
The calf bone without the soles of the feet is over 40cm, indicating that its owner must have been a big man in his lifetime. .
And the crouched corpse... probably no more than 1.2 meters tall.
"It is said that the ruins of Old Valyria from the Lands of Long Summer to the Smoking Sea are still shrouded in curse." Ser Jorah stood up and looked at Dany solemnly: "From Volantis to Slaver's Bay, obviously There is a Valyrian road left from the Freehold period, but they would rather take a boat to bypass the ruins of Valyria and travel several times. That road to Mantarys is called Demon Road."
"Valyria is not Was it destroyed by a volcanic eruption, and why is it related to the curse?" Dany wondered.
"I don't know," Jorah guessed with a frown, "perhaps a ghost from the Old Valyria Dragonlord? As everyone knows, Valyria is a civilization that masters dragons and Blood Magic."
"Hehe, you just said that this 'Dragonlord' died horribly because of a curse." Dany pointed to the "devil" corpse in the pit, and said with a smile: "Aren't you contradicting yourself?"
"If it wasn't for the curse, why did Valyria not escape without a single dragon? Dragons can fly. Earth Fire lava is very terrifying, but it can't burn dragons, so how can they kill all dragons? ' Jorah asked in chorus of voices.
"Maybe he was cursed to ride a dragon to Qarth to ask Warlock for help," Aggo interjected.
horse people were scared to death at first, but now they saw Khaleesi and Jorah quarrel in front of "devil" for a long time, and the devil didn't attack.
Gradually, their courage returned.
"Qarth's Warlocks are indeed famous," Jorah said sarcastically, "but they are famous because they often use false Magic to deceive the world, and even Westeros has appeared those blue-lipped liars. "
"Then..." Aggo thought for a while, then pointed to the east: "He may ride a dragon to the Shadow Lands on the other side of the Jade Sea, where there are Sorcerers and Shadowbinders everywhere. Burned by Khaleesi The dead Maegi is the method of communicating the devil learned there."
"Why do you think he is going to ask someone for help? Where else can a Magic skill be stronger than Valyria?" Jorah laugh.
"Whether he's going to Asshai to find Sorcerer, or he's stunned by Earth Fire, flying here indiscriminately has nothing to do with us." Dany pointed to the devil-like corpse, ordered: " Don't touch it directly, go to the nearby tree trunks and weeds, and burn them on the spot. The Valyrian believes in cremation, and I don't mean to disgrace this Dragonlord senior."
horse people immediately stopped digging and climbed up the soil Pit and go around to collect firewood.
Around nine o'clock in the morning, Dany's three dragons breathed fire together, lighting the firewood in the pit. Then dozens of people hid from the sun with their backs on Giant's bones, and resumed their work in the evening.
Well, Dany is the most comfortable, she makes her home in Dragon Mouth, her thick head completely blocking the sun, lying on her cleaned jawbone, cool, comfortable, and very interesting.