Chapter 348
"What's the matter with me?" the red-nosed old man asked feebly as he slid off Grenn's back.
"What's the matter with you? The day before yesterday, you were in good health and full of energy. You were busy in and out of the Wildlings camp, treating more than 100 patients. Why did you suddenly decline?" Dany smirked, Asked with concern on purpose.
"I..." The old man's godless eyes turned to the stakes that bound Others, "I saw it all, there really are Others, Night's Watch and Wildlings didn't lie to me, really There are Others!"
"So what?" Dany seemed confused.
"wu wu..." cried the old Archmaester, "Others have nothing to do with dragons. Without dragons and Magic, humans can't even make a Valyrian Steel Sword, let alone a Lightbringer?
Citadel's pursuit of the 'real world' for hundreds of years is wrong, it is too wrong. Even survival cannot be guaranteed, and the 'real world' has become the most false fantasy."
"Hehe," Dany laughed happily, "you know what's wrong? Let's start atonement!"
"Atonement? Archmaester Perestan did something wrong, isn't he the Maester who served you? "Some uninformed Night's Watch wondered.
Well, no one except Maester Aemon knew about Citadel's murder of the Dragon Queen, nor that Perestan was distributed to the Wall as captive and sinner.
They were all the same as Aemon before, thinking that Dragon Queen followed the old Westeros rules and went to Citadel to find a Maester who helped oneself - although everyone could see that Dragon Queen's attitude towards the old Archmaester was always strange, Unlike Feng Jun to treat Maester.
"Old man, you tell them." Dany both hands crossed near chest, raised his chin to the old man, and said, "Today, you will officially put on black clothed, you must let your Night's Watch brother understand why you came, and then you can make a clean break with the past, and the sins of the past have nothing to do with you."
"I..." The old Archmaester looked up blankly, and saw the Night's around him. Watch, Knight, Wildlings all blinked a pair of curious eyes and looked at him.
Suddenly, his shivered spirit shivered, and he was instantly awake and refreshed.
"I'm sick, can I talk about it next time?" he begged pitifully.
"You didn't have a good conscience before, didn't you? You can't hide the fact that Citadel has changed so much. Even if Wall's information is blocked, it will come over sooner or later." Dany shook his head and said.
"Alas..." The old man's cheeks, which had just turned red from excitement, turned pale again, and he pointed towards Night's Watch: "I violated the guest right and was inviting Queen Daenerys to be a guest at Citadel. At that time, he poisoned her, and—"
"hua!" Everyone was shocked, and they never thought that a thin, small, sickly old man could make such a big news.
"The Seven is on top, what happened to Westeros recently, violations of guest rights have happened one after another, who would dare to be a guest at someone else's house in the future?" Ser Mallister said surprised and angry.
"Are you crazy?!" Stannis, who was bandaging his right hand, also turned his head sharply and shouted in disbelief.
"Archmaester Perestan, why did you do that? Didn't Maester swear strict neutrality and not engage in power struggles?" Jon stepped forward, ugly complexion.
"Hey, southerners are really morally corrupt." Wildlings looking down on shouted at the old man.
The red-nosed old man glanced at the group of people who were pointing their fingers at oneself, and continued: "In addition to poisoning, I also arranged for people to ambush formidable crossbows and killers on both sides of her room, and prepared them on the roof and ground. 500 crossbowmen, more than 100 Scorpions.
I know that there is a strange connection between dragon and Dragonrider. If Dragonrider is in trouble, dragon will come to check and take revenge. In this way, Scorpion can Daenerys Your Majesty's dragon shoots to death."
The people who were cursing the old Archmaester gradually stopped, stunned and almost speechless.
"Citadel is crazy, Maester is crazy, Oldtown House Hightower is crazy!" The Knights and Ser of the Stag Party shook their heads.
"I have no grudges with Daenerys Your Majesty, so I do it only to realize the ideal of 'real world'." Then, the old man talked about the secrets of the real world and Dance of the Dragons.
The audience was silent, not even the voice of accusing him. There were as many audiences as there were wide-open mouths and bulge's eyes.
The audience was horrified, looking towards the old Archmaester's eyes as if they were watching a visitor from beyond heaven.
Most people don't understand what the real world is. They only know that Citadel is awesome, Citadel is crazy, Citadel slaughtered dozens of dragons in House Targaryen, and Citadel is scary.
A few people who understand Citadel's ideals feel chills in their hearts. Is Maester, who has oneself will, still worthy of the trust of the nobles?
Clearly, Citadel Maester treats the sacred oath as fart.
Whether dragons are harmful or beneficial to the world, Maester does swear allegiance to Iron Throne and swears not to engage in power struggles.
Today, because of the real world, they dare to destroy the dragon. Will they kill the nobles and monks for a "fair world" tomorrow?
The fat boy Sam took a step forward and said with a puffed face: "Archmaester, Citadel exists for two purposes. First, to explore the truth of the world and take knowledge as belief; second, to be selfless for the Seven Kingdoms people. Serve with nobles.
There are very few people who can master mysticism, but no one can deny that Magic is also a kind of knowledge. You can choose the knowledge you want to learn, but you cannot erase the knowledge you cannot master.
Just like warriors choose oneself's weapons, some use swords, some use hammers, some use lance and bows and arrows.
impossible If you choose to use swords, you are represented by all warriors in the world I declare that only using a sword is the right way, let alone destroying hammers, long spears, bows and arrows, and making other weapons disappear from the world."
Dany looked at the fatty like white bread in surprise, unexpectedly. He has such insight and courage.
"Sam, you're right, I'm wrong, Citadel is wrong." old fogey bowed his head and sighed.
"I think Citadel's ideal of a real world is good," Stannis said suddenly, "a world without Magic, Dragons, Spiritual God, Others is kinder to humans."
"This Is that what the Lord of Light ordered the Child of Holy Fire to say?" Dany's mouth twitched.
"This has nothing to do with my belief in Lord of Light," Second Stag said solemnly, "when the world has no more Demons, R'hllor Your Majesty can rise above the Astral Realm and rise with the sunset. , to see that the world is at peace."
"No," Perestan shook his head, "your thoughts have entered a misunderstanding just like me, and the Maesters of the Citadel.
The birth of the world. We, not us, made the world.
The world is here, right here, it has existed for millions of years, and will continue to exist for countless thousands of years.
Everyone looks forward to Always Summer, but the rules of the seasons have nothing to do with what we think.
To this day, I still think the real world ideal is very good, as good as Always Summer. But this is a The magical world is destined to have Spiritual God and Magic.
If we humans can't adapt, we will be eliminated...
For example, this Long Night, Others are obviously intelligent and civilized.
We hate Magic, deliberately deny Magic's existence, and even make dragon extinct. Then, we have no ability to fight against Magic species, perish in Long Night, Others replace us , become the new human on this continent.
The world is still there, running as usual."
"This..." Stannis was stunned.
"Old man, your recent awareness and insight are quite high!" Dany stared at the red-nosed old Archmaester strangely.
"I violated the guest right and hurt you, I am willing to put on a black robe." The old man glanced at Dany, turned his head to search in Night's Watch, and shouted: "I have said what I have to say, Who will lead me to read the Night's Watch oath?"
Night's Watch executives looked at each other in blank dismay and hesitated.
"Your Majesty, can you hack him to death?" Eastwatch commander Cotter Pyke ugly complexion said to Dany, "Or, let the dragon eat him? Although we at Night's Watch are not particular about our background, we also have The unwritten rule - no one who violates the guest right."
Old Archmaester's face was pale, and he exclaimed in panic: "When was there such a rule?"
Even Night's Watch doesn't want him anymore, where else can he go?
"There is no clear rule, but..." Bowen Marsh swallowed, wondering, "No one wants to be a brother with someone who violates the guest right!"
"Yeah, yeah," Grenn Aurochs nodded again and again, "though I don't know what you're talking about, world, true, I don't know either. But it's clear that this guy is the one with Walder Frey and Rat Cook. Kind of a character.
Gods, make me brother with Rat Cook...I don't do it!"
"Yes, male prostitute, rapist, murderer Devil, I can bear it, but Rat Cook is too unbearable." Todder also agreed with nodded.
"I'm not the same as Rat Cook, not Walder Frey! I'm for ideals, without the slightest personal enmity or benefit." The old Archmaester trembled with anger.
"It doesn't make a difference. A thousand years ago there was a Rat Cook, a thousand years later, you Perestan will be known as the 'new Rat Cook'.
After all, you murdered a great man The King. As long as human beings exist, they will not forget this for a day." Dolorous Edd said eloquently.
"Ai, Walder Frey will thank you. With you in front of him, he might be able to quietly hide in history, at least not so much." Ser Mallister sighed.
Old Archmaester closed his eyes in desperation, tears rolled down his shriveled cheeks, raised his neck and shouted, "Have mercy, mercy, kill me, let Dragonflame burn me!"
Joining the ceremony became a sparring meeting, and the old man collapsed.
"Uh, don't get excited," Dany hurriedly comforted, "this is the sin of the entire Citadel, and you can't let you, old Archmaester, alone."
"But everyone just remembers me. , there's only one Rat Cook, why don't you catch a few more Archmaesters here?" The old man broke the jar and began to complain about the Dragon Queen.
"There is still hope in life, and when I die, I become Rat Cook."
"What hope is there, even Night's Watch looks down on me..." old The man's heart was ashes, and he wailed.
"It's okay, I'll force you in, Night's Watch can't refuse the criminals sent by Queen."
"No! Queen, mercy, mercy, kill Him!" Night's Watch wailed.
"Shut up!" Dragon Queen dragon soul possessed her body and roared, the audience was silent for a moment, and everyone stared at her blankly.
"It's settled, Grenn, go to the cellar and bring another Wights over."
Dragon Queen is so assertive that no one dares to object.
"Todder, Edd, you arm the Archmaester."
"What?" old man said blankly.
"Join the ceremony."