Chapter 234
In the sunshine, four or five Citadel apprentices dressed in gray robes played in the wide grass in front of the hotel, beside Honeywine, which was reflected by the green river grass.
A young man with sturdy arms and deformed legs and feet took a light step, turned around, threw away his arms violently, and swiftly flew downstream of Honeywine with a shriveled azure apple in his hand with the sound of "hu hu".
At the same time, Alleras quickly pulled out an arrow stuck on the ground in front of him, bent bow and place arrow, and completed it in an instant. The large golden wooden arrow nearly one meter long brought a sharp edge. The screeching sound was like a meteor...
There was a crisp sound at the highest point of the apple's flying parabola, the apple split into two pieces, and the arrow went unabated and flew again The forty-fifty meter just fell.
"On the bull's-eye, good!" The apprentices applauded.
"Come again." Alleras said excitedly.
"Aren't you tired?" Pate, who was sitting on the grass, said dully.
"I'm going to perform a stunt in front of a Master in a few days, and archery is already very... alas, you don't understand." Alleras shook his head and urged his partner to keep throwing apples.
"Two this time," she said.
Dany touch your nose, girl, you are using your force in the wrong direction. Practicing the arrow technique is of course useful, but you don't have to think about it. The place where we meet will not be too big, and there is no room for you to use the arrow technique. ?
Well, this black guy with a logo is the rookie Firemage I met through "Shake It" last night.
"Ai, it's too boring here, I want to go to the pier and listen to the sailors' stories about dragons, and some people say that oneself has seen dragons, and I want to see dragons too, even a glance is good." A fat man The short, stupid-looking boy shouted.
"Roone, you brat was born too late to see the dragon." said the Acolyte next to him.
He is twenty four-five years old, with a long and pointed nose, like a peeled carrot, and a leather rope around his neck is strung with four links, which are pewter, tin, Chains of lead and copper.
"But..."
"Is that a turnip on your shoulder?" The pointed-nosed young man slapped Fat Roone on the head before he could finish speaking. After a few moments, "Forgot the modern history of the country? The last dragon died in the dynasty of Aegon III."
The cripple apprentice threw out two apples and muttered, " Armen, you really should hang out on the pier, the sailors' stories are a lot lately..."
Armen, assistant to sharp-nosed Maester, interrupted him impatiently: "Mollander, how stupid do you have to be to believe a sailor? Don't say I haven't been to the pier, I know far better than you what those sailors are.
In order to attract attention, they even sleep with mermaids and stay in Kraken's belly for more than a dozen times. Years of lies have been told."
The cripple apprentice argues: "Armen, the stories of individual sailors can be laughed off, but the same story is told by the rowers on four ships who speak four different languages..."
Armen shook his head and said, "It's not the same story, the dragon of Asshai, the dragon of Qarth, the dragon of Meereen, the dragon of Dothraki, the dragon of liberation of the slave...the story is different."
cripple Mollander stopped throwing apples and said stubbornly: "The stories are different, but they all have one thing in common, there is a dragon, and there is a young and beautiful Queen."
"Well, you Tell me, who is the Queen?" Acolyte sneered.
“Daenerys.”
Dany waved White Cloak back with the armor first, she walked over by herself, greeted Pate who was looking over, and then smiled. The pointed-nosed Acolyte said, "Oldtown Citadel, merely this."
"You—" Armen was furious, but Dany's full of smiles' purple eyes couldn't say anything. After I exited, I had to mutter: "Miss, Citadel is the most prosperous academic center in the world. It has the richest knowledge and the most proven wisdom, and you cannot tolerate your insults."
"a frog in well!" Dany serene said, "Everyone in the world, including the top executives of King's Landing, knows about the dragon and the Dragon Queen, but Citadel has always regarded it as a rumor."
"Dragon Long gone." Armen emphasized, blushing.
“Do you know the Allies?” Dany asked.
"The Allies? What army?" Armen was at a loss.
"No, King's Landing is thinking about joining the Allies, but you don't even know what the Allies are?"
Dany is also speechless, dignified Citadel, the news is so Blocked?
Seeing that her expression really didn't look like a lie, several apprentices nearby came over, and even Alleras stopped shooting arrows.
"Mad King's daughter didn't die, do you know that?" Dany asked.
"Daenerys Targaryen, I heard she married the Horselord," Armen said.
"Dragon is indeed extinct, but Daenerys hatched three dragon eggs two years ago and got three dragons."
Pointy-nosed Acolyte shook his head repeatedly: "Impossible, since the dragon is extinct. Afterwards, House Targaryen tried Dragon Hatching several times, but all ended in a tragic end."
"That's why I said you Citadels have a false reputation!" Dany sighed.
"Miss Rhaella, why do you say that?" Pate said curiously.
"Because no one in Citadel noticed the change of Magic Power Tide, in fact, before the True Dragon was revealed to people's attention, many Mage in the world knew about the birth of the dragon."
Others They all looked at a loss, only Alleras moved in his heart and asked, "What is Magic Power Tide?"
"Do you know Magic?"
"Magic is a trick to deceive people!" Pointy nose Acolyte said immediately.
Dany looked at him oddly and wondered, "What did Citadel teach you? Valyria was only four hundred years ago.
Even if you don't even know Valyria. No, you should know about Valyrian road, one of the nine Wonders, right? That thing can be made without Magic?"
"This..." Acolyte was speechless.
Dany continues the previous topic: "Dragon determines the power limit of this world. For example, in a room with a roof three meters high, you can only jump three meters at most.
The moment the dragon appeared, the ceiling of the entire world was raised to ten meters, or even a hundred meters, and those who kept jumping all the time knew immediately that the world had dragons."
"Do you understand now?"
"Mysterious professionals are high jumpers." Alleras stunned.
"But Citadel also has an Archmaester who masters mysticism, and I see the Valyria steel links on their chain." The cripple apprentice wondered.
Dany shrugged, "So, I think Citadel Maester is a bit unworthy of its name. This matter is almost rotten in Essos continent, and everyone with a little identity knows it."
"Miss , Magic Tide or something, we can't understand it, you kindly tell the story of the dragon and the Dragon Queen!" Roone shouted silly.
"Well, Daenerys hatched three dragons near the Dothraki Sea, then was invited to Qarth, burned the House of the Undying in Warlock, and then ferryed to Astapor in Slaver's Bay, where she occupied the city , liberate the slaves in the city.
Half a year later, she won Yunkai and Meereen one after another, and restored all slaves to Free Folk, and her oneself has become not just in name only, but also in reality Slaver's Bay Queen.
But most of the world sea trade city-states are supported by slave trade. The behavior of Dragon Queen has made Qarth, Volantis, Lys, Tyrosh, Jade Sea city-states, and slave traders united to organize the largest and most powerful city-state in thousands of years. Crusade Legion.
I heard that even Westeros accepted invitations, but King's Landing did not refuse."
In the end she concluded: "Look, what a big event? world Eighty percent of the people already know about it, but Citadel isn't even sure if there is a dragon."
Stubborn as Armen has to believe it, because it's too big and it's easy to tell a lie.
"I have to tell Archmaester," he said nervously.
"Don't go!" Alleras pulled on his sleeve and said seriously: "Pretend to know nothing, like those Maesters, Archmaesters."
"You... ...." Pointy-nosed Armen was puzzled at first, then became horrified, and said incredulously: "Maester swore not to participate in rights-"
As soon as he finished speaking, he sighed then said, as if being He slumped on the grass as if he had taken away the skeleton of his body, holding his shoulders with a confused look on his face.
Maester and Archmaester must have known the information that even the pier sailors knew, but they...
Looking at this group with fear, thought and expression The apprentice, who was at a loss and hadn't figured out the situation, Dany also fell into contemplation: What the hell is Citadel doing?
Even if they broke their oath and chose to take sides in the power struggle, Dany would understand that the Citadel was in Oldtown after all!
But deliberately concealing or even erasing the existence of Dragon Queen is a bit...too leading figure.
Incomprehensible!
It appears that Westeros' situation is more complicated than she imagined.
It's so special that Chi Qian Wang Ba Duo, a "small border country" composed of three failed ethnic groups, the power struggle is fierce and complicated, surpassing Essos continent Nine Cities and Qarth, Jade Sea various cities The combination.
"gē gē gē, do you want my mother's daughter? Yes, the price is clearly marked, a Golden Dragon." A woman's coquettish laughter came from the window on the third floor of the hotel.
Then the man cursed loudly that the price was too high, and the woman argued that Rosey, oneself's daughter, was the most beautiful and pure waitress in the hotel, a Golden Dragon, not a single copper plate.
Then gasping loudly, under broad daylight, a cheating couple actually...
No, Rosey——
Dany couldn't help it looked towards stupid apprentice Pate, his little girlfriend with cute dimples, isn't he called 'Rosey'?
Perceiving Dany's gaze, Pate blushed and turned white, muttered: "That's Rosey's mother Emma, she's the oldest among the waitresses, but she's got a voluptuous figure, a lot—"
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Dany didn't want to know about a half-old milf's skin and flesh business, so he interrupted him directly and asked, "What's up with a Golden Dragon?"
"This... ." Pate frowned, not knowing what to say.
The short fatty Roone next to him didn't have so much scruples and shouted: "Since Rosey has had her menarche, Emma has been selling oneself daughter to everyone, which is worth a Golden Dragon's first night, and Pate is saving money!"
"Uh..."
Is this the ugliness of human nature and the distortion of morality? Or helplessness under cruel fate?
The third floor window was not closed, and the sound became more and more high-pitched and rhythmic. Several apprentices were a little restless, and Dany couldn't stay any longer.
To Pate beckons with the hand, looked towards the hotel lobby.
"You're saving money? But what if you have a Golden Dragon? I think you really like her." Dany asked.
"I want to elope with Rosey, but I'm afraid. Now I just want to save up enough Golden Dragon so that Emma doesn't sell Rosey." The female Knight tells her inner secret.
Even those little friends don't know his plan.
Perhaps because of the genuine sympathy in her eyes?