Chapter 557
2021-01-06
Chapter 557 "a glimmer of survival" (Part 1)Unlike most Westeros, Daenerys She is no stranger to the teaching of Red God, even speaking from a certain perspective, she is still a half believer.
Because High Priest Benerro deciphered "Dragon Queen is the Child of Prophecy" from the flame, Red God taught countless people up and down to continuously promote her propaganda on both sides of the narrow sea and obstruct the formation of the anti-Targaryen alliance. Volantis Great Red Temple also sent a high priest of the same level as Melisandre - Moqorro, who traveled thousands of miles to Slaver's Bay to assist and guide her, and stayed with her until she fulfilled the prophecy and defeated Others before leaving.
During this process, Daenerys not only got to know the magic of Magic, but also got acquainted with the red robe monk and the gods he believes in in the long-term relationship...
That He is a mysterious but reliable Warlock, and the R'hllor he believes in seems to exist. Every word he says and every thing he does around oneself... are all following the instructions of the god to guide oneself. Go to the final battle and become the Child of Prophecy who defeats the darkness and saves mankind. During this process, Moqorro maintained a strict neutral attitude, neither participated in the battle between Varys and Petyr, nor did he ever seek power and self-interest for himself, nor did he do anything such as to spread the Red God religion. The absurdity of hurting innocent people like burning heathen.
Moqorro's well-mannered words and deeds undoubtedly gave Daenerys a good impression and impression of the monk red robe and R'hllor of his faith - in fact, she was even appointed after the reunification of the Seven Kingdoms. Moqorro is the chief religious and Magic advisor, who introduced the Cult of Red God to stir up the stagnant religious status quo in the Seven Kingdoms, and weakened the absolute influence of the Cult of The Seven under the control of the Oldtown Hightower family over the whole Westeros. The Seven without knowing the king's status quo.
It's a pity...the latter insisted on resigning and returned to Volantis after completing the mission, and she didn't keep it.
But it doesn't matter if Moqorro is gone. Daenerys' closeness and affection for him and the Red God sect behind him now extends to his trusted colleague, another Red God, in a loving way. On High Priest Melisandre.
A group like them who are powerful but extremely devout and have no political ambitions should not help others to deceive or deal with oneself, the Queen in prophecy, for any dirty purpose. Bar?
With this mindset, despite the unfortunate timing of the witch's visit, Daenerys decided to take a moment to meet after some thought.
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"Please come in."
Daenerys finished the order, sat back in his seat, put away his confusion and panic, and straightened his waist , put on the strong mask that belongs to the Dragon Queen again... and looked up towards the red woman who walked into the house, although her face was tired but as always elegant and arrogant.
"Ms. Melisandre, visiting late at night, I don't know why?"
"Why?" Red Woman shook her head, "Your Majesty, it's not up to you to ask me now , and it's time for me to ask you - what are you doing here at this time?"
"Ma'am, we all respect you." Missandei immediately jumped out to defend the Queen: "But It's Your Majesty's room, she doesn't need any reason here, please be respectful!"
"I know it's her room." Melisandre sneered with the contemptuous eyes of adults and children After paying a glance at Maiden, he immediately turned his eyes back to Daenerys: "Three of Your Majesty's top ministers were poisoned at the same time, and two of them were killed. The remaining one is also life hanging by a thread, and you are neither trying to rescue the survivors at this moment, nor hurry to evacuate Winterfell to Land-grant civil unrest... huddled in this Unsullied-protected building, waiting for some Wonders to happen, or just hoping the situation will get better and calm down on its own?"
Daenerys wasn't caught off guard by this obvious sarcasm. Infuriated, because she was actually preparing to evacuate, but was interrupted by Red Woman's door-to-door call - she and Missandei looked at each other quietly, and neither of them told the truth.
After a few seconds of awkward silence, Daenerys realizes that before the truth is revealed, she should show a little bit of concern for her subordinates, even if she is just pretending: "This is really my fault, please. Excuse me. Ms. Melisandre, Igor called you for help before he fell unconscious. You must have participated in the treatment. Can you tell me how he is now?"
"Dead." Red Woman He spit out two words with no expression on his face, and then added, "Qyburn Maester recognized that the Lord Commander was some kind of poison that he had stolen. This medicine is extremely poisonous, but it has one characteristic - it can be digested by the body itself, So...not only is the poison mild in small doses, but in theory - as long as you try to hang the poisoned person's life, he can survive and fully recover by his own bodily functions. So I have been casting spells for the whole afternoon. Continue his life, engage in a war of attrition with mana and poison, and try to save the Lord Commander of the Night's Watch."
"cough cough, Your Majesty."
Missandei whispered beside him One sentence, seemingly clueless and said nothing, in fact, it is a hint to remind Daenerys: even if it is a high-level priest of Red God, what he said is not necessarily completely credible.
"Then why did it fail?" Daenerys felt as if something had been drawn from his body when he heard the word "dead" from Red Woman's mouth, somewhat empty but at the same time. relaxed . The bitterness of losing a confidant, and the lightness of knowing that the former has not betrayed... Several completely different emotions are mixed together, and the taste is really indescribable. Even after being reminded by Missandei that the witch may be deceiving oneself, it still takes a long time. I can't get out of this loss.
"Because no one's mana is infinite, I have tried my best, but the Lord Commander drank a lot of poisonous wine, and the formidable power of this poison is completely beyond imagination... No matter how strong it is... If I hold on, I can't hold it anymore."
As if adding convincing to the words "must be in order to oneself", Melisandre each minding their own business walked to the side for the purpose of Next to the chair prepared by the visitor, he sat down as if he had been drained of energy.
She certainly wasn't as frail as she appeared to be, but anyway, at least it's true that she's nearly depleted of mana now: when Igor returned the magic chain to Melisandre, the magic power in it There's actually very little left. This is incredible - you must know that this chain was designed and built to ensure that it can remove enough poison to poison ten elephants. As long as the wearer does not drink the poison as water and eat it, it is impossible to use the magic power in it. Consumed so clean.
It's not so much that Igor used it to detoxify and drain the magic power, it's more like--something sucked the magic power out of it.
If the person who borrowed the chain was a certain priest and colleague, she would definitely come to the door to ask for an explanation, but facing the spokesperson appointed by R'hllor, Melisandre did not dare to ask more, and could only silently accept the loss. Swallow. She is now relying on oneself's own magic power to maintain her youth spell, which makes her look a little haggard, but she is fighting straight, which can be used as strong evidence for her statement.
"So, you gave up on his treatment?" Even though he knew it was probably a lie, for some reason, Daenerys felt a real heart pierce, even in the words he said. Bring some bitterness of life and death parting.
"It's a pity, but I have no choice." Melisandre said in a calm and cruel tone, "Although the breath and heartbeat have not disappeared, but he is no different from the dead, fast. In a moment, if you are slow, you will be able to reach dawn... But, after I calmed down and thought about it, I found that there is actually a way to save him."
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Should I say "very good", or "it really is this way"?
Queen and Missandei master and servant looked at each other and saw the same thing in each other's eyes.
If the first half of Melisandre's words still left Daenerys with sympathy and grief, the second half of the sentence shattered the atmosphere—and even made her gnashing uncontrollably. Teeth got up: After talking a lot, he must not die in the end anyway?
Isn't that oneself's previous mental activities a waste of emotion?
As long as Igor doesn't die, no matter what the reason is, how many hardships and turbulence "supposedly" he has gone through, he will be the eternal biggest suspect, and oneself will never be able to get out of this suspicion in his life.
Daenerys' face turned cold, but after all, he didn't want to turn his face with a Red God priest, so he had to continue the trick: "What way?"
"True Dragon bloodline contains powerful Power, I just happened to learn a kind of unpopular Blood Magic, which can release this energy and introduce it into other people's bodies, so that it can bring back the effect of life." Melisandre stared at Daenerys' eyes and said, "If Your Majesty is willing to donate some Blood for me to cast spells, maybe I can try to save Lord Commander from the brink of death. I just don't know if this Night's Watch has such an important position in Your Majesty's heart, and whether you...have the courage Try it with courage."
Blood Magic?
Dany's heart skipped a beat.
No one knows Blood Magic better than her!
Wait, it's a joke...of course it's nonsense to say that, Daenerys is not arrogant enough to know Blood Magic better than a high priest of Red God, but he has never eaten pork. Guozhuran, although she can't say that she has mastered or mastered this extremely unpopular and evil technology, but she really understands it.
For no reason, she really—saw it more than once, even got up close and personal with it.
As early as Maegi Mirri Maz Duur, whom she met at Lhazar Forest, later as she rushes to Asshai to learn the dragon mastery, and a little closer to watch Moqorro connect by sacrificing blood to the flames. R'hllor turned to Him for answers and guidance...
Everything Daenerys knew and saw made her understand that Blood Magic existed and could really save people.
As for the power in the True Dragon bloodline, she has been coveted by many mysterious people - whether it was when she was nearly imprisoned by Warlock in House of the Undying, or when she went to Asshai Being asked by that mysterious kui lizard to exchange blood for the "Dragon Mastering Code"...
If Daenerys was still very suspicious of Igor before, it was because Melisandre was so pretentious and made it real. After speaking for a while, it dropped to eight points.
Is this a hoax by director Igor, wanting oneself to dispel his suspicions because of his personal participation in the rescue, or...he is really dying at the moment, and desperately needs something like Blood Magic. How to win a glimmer of survival?
Daenerys was hesitating, but Missandei next to him jumped out in a hurry.
"Your Majesty, you can't go there!" The little clerk saw Daenerys's attitude soften from firmness, and realized that Queen had fallen into the predicament of the authorities and fans, and fantasized about it. and etiquette, shouted out in front of Melisandre: "This is obviously a trap!"
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(end of chapter)