Chapter 349
A quarter of an hour later, thousands of people in the courtyard formed a circle again.
In the circle, the old Archmaester put on leather armor, wore a rattan training helmet, held a Dragonglass dagger, and stood facing a sturdy Wights with a height of 1.9 meters.
Well, Wights still had a long chain around his neck that was dragging on the ground. Five meters away, Grenn held the other end of the chain like a dog.
"Kill this Wights, no matter how much you look down on your character, Night's Watch and Free Folk will admire your courage." Dany said loudly.
"crash-bang..." Wights dragged his long chains, widened his rotten mouth, and roared silently at the old Archmaester.
"Gudong!" Perestan's frightened eyes widened, he swallowed hard, clenched his dagger, and stepped back unconsciously.
"It's too big, it's too tall and ferocious, I can't beat it. Could it be a female Wildlings Wights, or, child Wights?" he cried.
"Will you have a duel with Baby Others?" Dany sneered, gave Grenn a look, Night's Watch immediately loosened its chains, Wights was free, and immediately stepped forward like old Archmaester.
"ahhhh—" The old man closed his eyes, swayed the dagger in his hand, and howled incessantly.
"bang!" Wights hit Archmaester's wrist hard, the dagger fell off, and the old man howled.
Then, like embracing a lover, the tall Wights opened his arms and embraced the old man, and a rotting and peeling black mouth bit the part of the rattan mask.
"ka-cha, ka-cha!" The training helmet crackled like a child chewing on a sweet potato.
Seeing the pale rotten face that saluted with oneself, smelling the stench of black blood-stained teeth, the old man is stiff, his eyes are white, his teeth are chattering, and his mouth is ho ho , but could not say a complete sentence.
As soon as Dany raised his hand, Grenn Aurochs tugged hard, and pulled the dead man's black mucus-dripping mouth back.
"Kill the coward in your heart like a Night's Watch guy. Pick up the dagger and keep fighting," she yelled at the old Archmaester, who was slumped to the ground, his pants wet.
"I, I can't, I'm dying." The old Archmaester moaned.
"Then die, anyway, you are not afraid of death." Dany sneered, and turned to the Night's Watch on the side: "Take a helmet and put it on Archmaester, um, use a wet towel to put his face on Wipe the smudge on it."
Todder said with a smile: "Will your ass be wiped? He urinated, hahaha..."
After more than an hour of tossing and turning, the sky was dark, and Perestan finally cried and stabbed the Dragonglass dagger into Wights' stomach. The crash-bang excrement, rotting internal organs, and fluffy corpses almost buried the little Archmaester. .
Watching old Archmaester cry and vomit as he crawled out of the stinking corpse, Smith Donal finally took a black sheepskin cloak and put it over him.
Perestan, become a glorious Night's Watch.
Afterwards, Septon Cellador took the old man to the humble little Sept in Castle Black. Under the personal witness of Dany High Septon, the old Archmaester issued a sacred oath:
Long Night nears, I will watch from now on until I die.
I will take no wife, no Fiefdom, no children.
I will not wear a crown or compete for honor.
I will do my duty faithfully and live and die in Sri Lanka.
I am the sword in the dark, the guard on the Wall, the flames against the cold, the light in Morn's hour, the horn that wakes the sleeper, the shield that guards the kingdom.
I dedicate my life and glory to Night's Watch, tonight and every night.
......
Having experienced the most shameful and lowest point in life, the old Archmaester seemed to have bottomed out, and suddenly got rid of the sick state and recovered to The appearance of the spirit Little Old Man before. In the afternoon, he moved to the Maester wooden tower under the crow's nest and began to help old Aemon take care of the crow.
Well, after obtaining the consent of Dany, Stannis and Night's Watch, he also sent a long letter to Oldtown in the name of oneself, detailing the situation of Wildlings and Others.
That night, Castle Black Wood Hall, Night's Watch, Stag Party Ser, Wildlings Commander gathered together.
Behind the first wooden table sat Dragon Queen, Stannis, Bowen Marsh, Cotter Pyke, Mallister, and old Aemon.
The dining table below was pulled open to leave an open space, with Mance Rayder kneeling in the middle.
This is the King-Beyond-the-Wall trial.
Dany intends to leave the Wall tonight, but he has to deal with the beginning and end of Wildlings before leaving.
"Mance Rayder led the Wildlings to invade the Wall and must be put to death, warn others from following bad examples. Since he is my captive, I have the right to sacrifice him to the Lord of Light in accordance with my beliefs. "Second Stag said solemnly.
"Ah!" Night's Watch and Wildlings exclaimed in low voices in the hall.
Dany was noncommittal and asked the four Night's Watches: "What do you think?"
"King-Beyond-the-Wall has not been forgiven since ancient times, even more how He broke the Night's Watch oath. Anyone who escapes from the Night's Watch, once arrested, has the right to be executed by any lord." Bowen Marsh said slowly.
"Yes, Mance Rayder must die anyway." Both Mallister and Cotter Pyke nodded in agreement.
"Sentence him to death|Sentence is fine, but can I hang it first and then burn it?" Old Aemon frowned.
"It's not burning, it's offering sacrifices to the Lord of Light," Stannis gritted his teeth, "the sacrifices must be alive!"
"I don't think so." Dany There was a smile on the corner of his mouth, and he asked: "How did Mance Rayder put on black clothed?" While patrolling, I accidentally encountered a small tribe that had been slaughtered in the village. There were hundreds of people in the whole village, and only one Wildlings child, four or five years old, was alive.
He is Mance Rayder, Targyl will be He was brought to Castle Black, raised by Night's Watch, and naturally put on black clothed and became Night's Watch."
"Four or five years old..." Dany nods and asks again Mance Rayder: "Why did you break your oath and betray Night's Watch?"
"Hehe, because of a piece of clothing." Mance Rayder laughed miserably and said in a complicated tone: "I used to be a loyal Night's Watch. Man, I thought I would keep doing it. Until one day, I became obsessed with something called 'freedom'.
That time, I was seriously injured on patrol, and my brother was worried that I would not be able to support the Wall. And sent me to a Free Folk woman-
Hey, don't look like that, no sex. That's an old Spearwife, ugly, old. She doesn't need that, and neither do I I don't have that desire.
During her recovery, she repaired my torn cloak with red fabric, but after returning to the Wall, the commander immediately asked me to put on a uniform black cloak.... ..
Then, I ran away."
"Er, just because of this?" Everyone was stunned.
"I don't even have the freedom to choose what oneself likes in clothes, I can't stand Night's Watch anymore, I want freedom!" exclaimed Mance.
Old Aemon said solemnly: "In the south of the Wall, anyone who encounters the Night's Watch brother who is out on business, just by the black clothed on his body, any noble will give food and supplies, and even treat him like a VIP, Even King is no exception. black clothed is the bondage, but also our flag and glory."
"I don't want this hellish glory, I just want freedom." Mance loudly said.
Dany holds the forehead and his head hurts.
"Your whole family has been slaughtered freely, and you still don't understand how terrifying a disorderly, uncontrollable freedom is?"
"Last time with you 'oral race' After the war, I understood, but I really can't stand the constraints of Night's Watch."
"He is not a Night's Watch material, nor is he clothed in black clothed voluntarily or because of guilt, a child, mind Incomplete, it is unreasonable to make a Night's Watch oath in a daze."
Then, Dany switched to The Seven High Septon mode, his expression suddenly became serious and solemn, and his white face faintly exuded holy rays of light: "Chapter 23 of "Seven-Pointed Star", Father said to Hugor that all involuntary sacred marriage contracts and sacred oaths issued are not protected by The Seven and should be cast aside by everyone."
In the south of Braavos, there is a piece called Hills of Andalos, which is the hometown of Andals. And King Hugor of the Hill is the first King of Andalos, similar to King David in Holy Scripture.
A lot of content in "Seven-Pointed Star" is explained in the form of dialogue and exchange between Hugor and The Seven.
In the teachings of The Seven, breaking a sacred oath and a marriage contract is the same great sin as breaking a guest right. But there are also preconditions, both parties who make the oath must do so voluntarily.
The "voluntary" here mainly means that the person who swears does not have a knife around his neck, and it doesn't matter whether he is willing or not.
For example, Sansa is married to Tyrion, she is definitely not willing, but her marriage to Tyrion is protected by The Seven. Because Sansa didn't shout and object at that time, but chose to endure it silently.
If Tywin tied Sansa and married his son, the marriage would not only be void, but cursed by Gods—if The Seven even existed.
At this point, Dany is a bit arrogant.
"If Mance's oath doesn't count, there is no sacred oath on this world." Stannis said while staring.
"I didn't say it doesn't count, but special cases are dealt with specially. He is a child, so you can't be more tolerant?"
child?
Mance Rayder looks distorted.
"He's not a kid, he's much older than you." Ser Mallister twitched at the corners of his mouth.
Dany also embarrassed a bit, touched his nose, and said embarrassingly with a smile: "Didn't Wall take in hundreds of Free Folk teenagers at this time? They are all temporary Night's Watch, and they are free after Long Night. Choose to leave. Mance Rayder's situation is familiar to them, only an orphan adopted by Night's Watch, can't be considered orthodox Night's Watch."
"This is your new rule, and it only applies at this time. , not the Night's Watch tradition," Stannis said solemnly.
Dany leaned back in his chair, squinted at him and said, "That's how you want him to die?"
"The law is the law, and no selfishness is allowed!" Stannis said firmly.
"There's something wrong with your head!" Dany pointed at him bluntly, taunted: "Has no political wisdom at all, has Mance Rayder in his hands, and ordered the hundreds of thousands of Wildlings to go beyond the wall. Crowd, isn't it?
Killing him would be easy, but right away, the Wildlings will compete for a new leader, a new King-Beyond-the-Wall, and then harass Wall and even collude with the Others ......
Leave Mance, no matter if he can be controlled or not, no matter how many people follow his orders, but he has occupied the position of King-Beyond-the-Wall, new The Wildlings King cannot be produced, and the Wildlings unite does not raise.
Even if there are 100,000 Wildlings, a group of stragglers, there is no threat to Wall."
Night's Watch, Stag Party Ser and Wildlings all stared blankly at Dragon Queen, shocked and horrified: Dragon Queen is so reasonable, Dragon Queen is so terrifying!
Second Stag's furious expression also slowly solidified, and he closed his mouth, thinking seriously.
"Ah, kill me, you kill me! I'm guilty, I broke my oath, I'll lead troops to invade the Wall." Mance suddenly howled.