Chapter 381

Chapter 381

2021-01-06

Chapter 381 Going through the motions and the battle of the melting sword
Faced with threats from the Daenerys on land, sea and air, Among the seven gates of King's Landing, only the male lion facing due west and southwest, the second king gate, is open for half a day in the afternoon in good weather every day. When Igor sailed back to land from Dragonstone, it was already late. After visiting the nitrate that oneself most missed, he took a rest in the Black Wall fort for the night.

The Night's Watch Logistics King's Landing Department, with Igor's head as a saddle, briefly gained full ownership of the property after the fall of the original capital dignitaries who supported Renly Baratheon and put on black cloth, but with the new King's Landing loyal to Stannis The nobles stood firm and began to seek benefits, and Nina had to represent Night's Watch - voluntarily surrender some oil and water. Fortunately, the new King's Landing dignitaries themselves are divided into the "Crownlands faction" and the old "Narrow Sea faction" that Stannis brought ashore, and even the different factions are not all monolithic, through careful control of the cakes allocated to these noble lords. The size allows them to check and balance each other, and then borrowing Igor's own fame and the status and influence he has after being elected as Lord Commander, under the circumstance of Stannis, the king, not thinking about it, no one can conceive the idea of monopolizing the Night's Watch industry.

Dividing half of the cake does greatly reduce the income that Night's Watch can obtain from the industry, but the benefits of paying the price are: completely avoid Tyrion and Igor, and the industry is leaderless. The risks and attrition of their struggle. After defeating Janos Slynt, the industry controlled the King's Landing gang and influenced the civilians through the hands of Alar Deem, and relied on large dividends as protection fees to make the "white people" of the nobles become oneself... It can almost be said that King's The first boss of the Landing garrison is the king, and the second boss is the Night's Watch industry.

Industrial workers in black clothed or dark horse armor are almost "VIP citizens" in the eyes of the soldiers of the King's Landing garrison. Relying on this convenience, Igor rests in the den of Black Wall Fort. One night later, second day arrived at King's Gate slowly and unhurriedly, and only asked Nina to say hello - then jumped directly to the front of the long queue waiting to open the door, and immediately became the first batch of people to enter the city when the door opened.

The group went straight to the Red Keep after entering the city. Since the reservation was already completed through the internal channels of the garrison, they were successfully placed in it.

Easy to get in, but in the Red Keep...he wouldn't get the pompous Dragonstone reception: because Melisandre hid her arrival, wrote Stannis several times to Wall asking her to return He didn't show his face at all, only Davos Seaworth, the famous "Prime Minister Onion", agreed to take time to meet Igor - also in his personal office instead of a formal place like the Throne Room, and the time was only half an hour.

The difference in attitude is actually easy to understand: Daenerys, returning from across the Narrow Sea, needs to fight for all he can to pave the way for oneself to retake Iron Throne, but Stannis occupies King's Landing and sits on Iron Throne ... He neither needs a group of exiles to admit the legitimacy of oneself, nor is it possible to move his brain to seek the far-flung Wall garrison to go south to the King of Diligence-nothing for the public, no personal friendship, naturally No bird Lord Commander of the Night's Watch.

Igor had come to ask the Lord of the Seven Kingdoms for reinforcements: he knew it was a futile attempt, but he decided to go through the cutscene as planned: the Blackbird's arrival at King's Landing had to pass by the Targaryen fleet. The controlled Blackwater Bay, even a fool can guess - oneself must have been released by Daenerys to be able to dock. There must be some murmurs in the dark: Did Night's Watch promise or give anything to the Dragon Queen in order to gain this "pass"?
As a neutral Night's Watch, if he finally made a trip south, only to meet Targaryen who came across the sea to prepare for restoration instead of worshiping the real king on Iron Throne, once he was found out and took To make a fuss to question the position and intentions, it is very likely that the Night's Watch industry will fall into the predicament of just out of Daenerys "Dragon Nest" and into Stannis "Deer Mouth".

What he wants to do is to use today's meeting to create an illusion to clear the relationship: oneself is traveling south just to ask the king for help. Help, he has asked for it, but he didn't get it. All kinds of pots caused by it... Don't throw it all on oneself in the future.

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Davos from Flea Bottom can be regarded as approachable, but Stannis is indeed powerless to defend himself both internally and externally... It's not a pleasant wrangling for more than ten minutes Afterwards, Prime Minister Onion insisted that he could not send reinforcements north. At most, he could only let Igor go to the prison to pick the prisoners he wanted and bring them back to the Wall - and for the scum, the latter naturally refused to accept it.

After a brief meeting, Igor left the Red Keep with a sullen face, joined the entourage who were waiting outside the gate, and left Red Keep for a while before returning to his normal expression: "Okay, it's time to The play is over...and one last stop. After the business, we will leave King's Landing before the city gate closes. If all goes well, we will be able to leave the river and enter the ocean on the Blackbird before dark...As long as there is a moon , we sail day and night."

The so-called last stop was Tobho Mott's Smith shop. As King's Landing's number one weapon, Forging Master, his shop is located on the top of the Street of Steel in the Visenian Hills. According to Smith oneself, he's the only weapon master in town that can seep color into metal rather than paint it...Igor guesses it's by fiddling with various metal ions. That's not the point, the real reason Igor went to find him is this - this Tobho Mott had studied blacksmithing at Qohor and learned how to recast Valyria steel. In the original work, he recast the House Stark sword "Ice" that fell into the hands of Tywin into Two Swords and distributed them to oneself's sons and grandsons. The reliability is guaranteed.

As the technician to be brought back to the north this time, Qyburn is always with Igor today. From the Lord Commander's personal guards, he has heard what Igor wants to ask Tobho Mott to do. .

"My lord, it is said that you accidentally acquired the 'Dark Sisters' from beyond the wall, is this true?"

"Really, how?"

"You know that the 'Dark Sister' is the sword of Visenia, the elder sister of Aegon the Conqueror?"

"Yes, what is Mr. Qyburn's opinion?" Igor already knew roughly what the other party was going to say, and glanced at him. Glancing at Melisandre, who was also riding a horse next to her, Red Woman looked to oneself as expected—probably hoping that the new Qyburn would convince oneself not to melt the sword.

"The existence of such a famous Valyrian Steel Sword is of great significance in itself. Whoever holds it will enjoy a certain glory. How could the adults want to melt it?"

Meaningful? Igor shook his head helplessly: "Mr. Qyburn, you used to be Maester, you must be very knowledgeable. I ask you: Whose hands did the Dark Sisters finally appear in?"

"Dragonrider Aemon Prince passed it on to Duke Bloodraven In his hands, the latter is the last owner recorded in the Dark Sisters."

"I tell you, Duke Bloodraven went to venture beyond the wall and finally died on the north side of the wall. It stayed there - until some Night's Watch picked up the sword not long ago. It was neither gifted to me by the previous owner, nor a trophy I won by my ability, just 'picked up'... Excuse me , in the laws of Westeros, am I considered its legal owner?"

"This..." Qyburn's main focus is natural science, and the knowledge of these laws is really not very clear." But House Targaryen has perished..."

"If Daenerys · Targaryen came to me on a dragon and wanted to get back her family's ancestral sword, should I give it or not?" Igor continued to ask , "Of course, I can hide its identity - unfortunately, every Valyrian Steel Sword in the world has a name and origin, if I don't disclose the existence of the Dark Sisters, that Valyrian Steel Sword of unknown origin, no matter how meaningful it is, has several points of can for me to use?"

He raised his hand to stop Qyburn's interjection: "Okay! Suppose both the Dragon Queen and that 'Prince Aegon' were defeated in the war with King Stannis. Die, no Targaryen in the world will come to me for this sword... Then, I have to ask, what is the significance of this sword of the Dark Sisters? In which epic war was it killed? Any great enemy worth mentioning, or played a major role in which Legendary event?"

"During the Dance of the Dragons, Daemon Prince dueled Aemon de Prince over Gods Eye, Pierced the opponent's eye with this sword."

"Dance of the Dragons...well, a stupid civil war caused by the desire for power, if there is any Targaryen in the world who killed Aemon with Daemon De Prince is proud, I look down on him in real name." Igo r snorted disdainfully, "Let me tell you, the Dark Sisters, compared to several other Valyrian Steel Swords in the world, are only special from House Targaryen. And even of the two Valyrian Steel Swords inside House Targaryen - it's the less important one. Even its more-renowned brother, the sword of conquest 'Blackfyre', has never had any Legendary deeds- 'Conqueror 'Aegon once wished this sword to be buried with oneself after his death, and 'Unworthy King 'Aegon Then give it to oneself's illegalimate child Daemon instead of the legitimate heir Daeron - not because you want Daemon to inherit the throne, but simply because the former sword technique is better! "

"Do you understand what I'm trying to say?" Since the owner is an authentic Valyria Dragonlord, its quality may be better than those bought by the nobles, but in terms of 'extraordinary significance', even in the eyes of the House Targaryen oneself, it is just a Valyrian Steel Sword. It does not represent kingship, nor does it indicate orthodoxy... Those who want to be kings with this sword alone are all dead! I am a Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, and I picked up an ancestral sword that was lost by the destroyed family. If there is any great character in the Seven Kingdoms who will look at me for this reason, then he is an idiot! "

"Hmm..." Igor's eloquence suppressed Qyburn's imposing manner, and he couldn't think of a rebuttal for a while, "But, even if you don't consider the meaning of this sword, a very sharp, There is no stronghold one cannot overcome the Valyrian Steel Sword, even if it does not announce its identity to the whole world, and only uses it as a peerless sword, isn't it also a weapon to restrain Others? "

"What kind of Lord Commander would expect a sword to win a war instead of combat readiness?" No matter how sharp the Dark Sisters are, how many times will they have a chance to face Others? As for the cast arrows, I calculated and conservatively estimated that it could be divided into fifty parts - which means at least fifty attacks on Others. Besides, this is just one of the great gifts I have for Others. Igor didn't want to talk about it any more and kicked the horse's belly to increase the speed. "We were all impressed with the 'Dark Sister' because it was the sword of Aegon the Conqueror elder sister, who was one of the founders of the Targaryen Dynasty. ...but who still remembers the name of a certain king's sword in Azor Ahai's time? In this battle of life and death, I have prepared several major gifts for the enemy, determined to win, and no matter which 'surprise' killed the Night King at the end, in the official announcement to the outside world, Night's Watch will declare: We It was shot with a set of arrows called Lightbringer. "

The horses' hooves pounded on the smooth pavement of King's Landing Great Way, and everyone had to speed up to keep up, and no one questioned the bumps.

To be honest, Bran brought back the Dark Sisters for oneself as an extra surprise, and Igor doesn't really care if he melts the sword or not - but because it doesn't matter, when there are people who constantly consume him for such an insignificant thing When he was full of energy, he instead became stubborn: "The prestige and meaning of weapons are given by the user, and history is written by people. I bet thousands of years from now, the world will only remember me Igor West defeating the Night King with the 'Lightbringer', and no one will remember what the fuck is a sword called after a Kai King who has long since destroyed a dynasty Dark Sisters. ”

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(end of this chapter)