Game of Thrones: Viserys the Three-Headed Dragon

The newly appointed acting lord of Dragonstone, Earl Gunther, presided over the opening of the port of Dragonstone today. He led the two Unsullied teams sent to him by the king to guard the town guard for a whole day. He could be said to have done nothing all day long. It was not until the evening when the town guard began to enforce a soft curfew that he led his team back to the castle.

Count Gunther walked straight into the main hall of the main castle, and was stopped by the king's Unsullied guard captain in the middle of the corridor to the Picture Table Hall. The captain of the guard sent someone upstairs, and soon His Majesty the King's only maid, Missandei, appeared from the stairs: "Hello, Lord Gunther."

Count Gunther was already familiar with this process: "I would like to see His Majesty the King."

Missandei replied: "Your Majesty is not here, only the Princess Regent is upstairs."

Earl Gunther was speechless for a moment, paused, and then asked: "When will His Majesty the King come back?"

Missandei replied: "I'm sorry, my lord, but I have no way of knowing the King's itinerary."

Daenerys's voice came from upstairs: "Who is coming?"

Earl Gunther was helpless, it was too late to leave, so he had to say: "Then please inform Her Royal Highness the Princess Regent that Gunther Sanglas is asking for an audience."

Not long after, Missandei, who went upstairs to report, led the reserved Count Gunther to the Picture Table Hall.

Daenerys, the regent princess appointed by the king, was wearing a smart purple robe and was sitting in the main seat of the Picture Table Hall, reading some document in front of the bright candlelight.

Count Gunther still had the same question: "Your Royal Highness, when will His Majesty the King come back?"

Daenerys looked up with a serious face: "Maybe tonight, maybe tomorrow morning. My brother is training his dragon. You know how important dragons are to us now."

Just as he was talking, a roar came from the inner room on this floor. A young dragon spread its wings, flew in front of Daenerys, landed on the table, and stared at Count Gunther.

Count Gunther moved his eyes towards the young dragon, then glanced at the maid Missandei who had moved a small table behind her and was sitting at the foot of the stairs, writing something. Finally, she said what she wanted to advise the king: "Your Royal Highness, please Please tell your majesty that although it is now confirmed that Stannis's defeated army has marched south to Storm's End and Dragonstone is temporarily safe, the false king Joffrey of King's Landing now has the support of the Lannister and Tyrell families, and Dragonstone is not far from King's Landing. If they organize an army to attack, we must take precautions. Please make an early decision and ask the maester to send a letter to the outside of Dragonstone to declare the legitimate king to the nobles of Westeros and summon those who are loyal to the king."

"Earl Gunther, I will tell my brother for you." Daenerys replied seriously, "However, my brother told me that how we govern Dragonstone next will be how we govern Westeros in the future. He wants to try to manage Dragonstone Island first, what do you think?"

"Your Highness, there are many wars in Westeros now. Even if Your Majesty wants to quietly govern the lands of Dragonstone, how can the puppet kings allow Your Majesty to settle down here? As for governing the country, I have limited abilities and dare not speak nonsense. But Your Majesty has With this heart, he already has the qualities that a good king should have. When he regains the country and appoints talented people, he will definitely be a good king. "

"Well," Daenerys smiled, "I will tell the king for you."

"Then let me take my leave first, Your Highness Princess."

After Count Gunther left.

Daenerys looked at Missandei, she nodded to Dany, and then took a pen and paper and went downstairs to her maid's room on the next floor.

Daenerys continued to look at the scroll in her hand. This was dictated by Viserys, and she wrote down the next questions and plans.

Currently, only the lord of Wonderport and the six-year-old acting lord of Riverhead are among the vassals of Dragonstone, including Fairport, Sharp Point, Tidehead, and Crab Island. Viserys plans to send Lord Gunther to lead a fleet - a fleet. ship and three captured Lysian battleships - go around and try to take the remaining few under his command. The process of capturing the Lys battleship is not worth mentioning. They sent two rowing boats straight to the Tidal Fortress port at night. The pirates had no time to react, defeated them in one blow, abandoned their weapons and surrendered, and were imprisoned in the Tidal Fortress prison.

But in fact, apart from Earl Gunther making the decision in Wonderful Port, Earl Sharphorn is said to have been taken to Storm's End by Stannis - now the Earl's mother is in charge, and is said to be a strong woman.

The life and death of Lord Adrian Celtigar of Crab Island is unknown, and the same is true of Lord Montfort Velaryon of Stormhead - news of those who died and surrendered under King's Landing City has not yet come from King's Landing, so they may have concerns. .

But even if they sincerely surrender, nothing will change. Currently, these families only have the old and the weak, women and children, and they have no ships or troops to provide to the prince. They can only provide moral support and part of the tax revenue for King Viserys.

Dragonstone and these vassals are said to be vassals of the Narrow Sea, but in actual terms, the core Dragonstone is now considered a town-level village unit, and the four vassals can only be regarded as village-level, and Viserys has the title of king. He could barely be considered a mayor of several villages after retaking them.

The only things you need to worry about when ruling Dragonstone are ports, commerce, taxation, and the army.

Viserys planned to wait until Count Gunther led the fleet to recover the four vassals, and then let Grole complete Viserys's agreement with the sailors who had traveled with him for most of the world, and send the sailors who still wanted to go home back to Pentos. At the same time, he settled various accounts and returned Illyrio's goods.

Of course, the most important thing is to take over Illyrio, Viserys' "chancellor" and assign him tasks.

Although it is difficult to say what the "Minister of Finance" really intends, Viserys still has to do what he promised. He does not want to be a traitor, and with his current strength, he does not care what Illyrio will do.

The relationship between the monarch and his subjects of "I will not betray you if you do not betray me" can continue to be maintained.

Viserys still hopes that his "Minister of Finance" will open up the situation for him.

Dragonstone was taken back from Stannis, and Stannis spent all the wealth accumulated on Dragonstone in order to attack King's Landing. What Viserys received from him was Dragonstone, where almost all the wealth was exchanged for supplies, ships, and troops, and then both were buried in Blackwater Bay. Only armor, weapons, and military rations were barely captured.

There is no money in the Dragonstone treasury now, let alone building a new fleet, even building a warship is enough. It is only enough to pay the salaries of the existing troops and the castle and town maintenance personnel, or occasionally reward them.

Now Viserys' fleet is so shabby, two three-hundred-oared ships and three Lys warships, and a big-bellied merchant ship that can only sail with the wind without the power of the rowing boats.

Viserys needs funds to at least build a fleet that can help him block the throat.

And now he is still carrying debts to Myr and Tyrosh, so it is inevitable that his "finance minister" will come to him to rob Peter to pay Paul.

Speaking of which, Daenerys, the "Princess Regent", actually has nothing to do. The affairs of the town are managed by the acting city, and the acting city lord Earl Gunther actually has nothing to do all day. The only busy people in the castle are the tax affairs officer and the financial affairs officer, and Viserys asks them to hand over the accounts sorted out every day to Daenerys, and finally Viserys only needs to glance at them once or twice, and then Daenerys signs on his behalf.

However, despite this little thing, Viserys still set up a new department specifically for finance, called the Ministry of Finance, and a Pentos man who came from the financial steward of the Thaydurion temporarily led the minister. The duties of this department are to sort out the accounts, establish functions, and lay a good foundation for the "Minister of Finance" who has not yet taken office.

At present, the main work of this department is to refer to the original financial and taxation policies of the Seven Kingdoms to formulate complete and clear rules, record all financial revenues and expenditures, manage the existing financial affairs officials, and establish a special archive to collect records of financial affairs. The king has recruited many affairs officials to do these things, and has also specially assigned a person who is familiar with the laws of the Seven Kingdoms to list the parts of the laws related to finance and taxation.

When the king established this department, he emphasized that the reason why he did this was because his position as Minister of Finance had long been promised to a person who was not from the Seven Kingdoms. This was done so that he could take over the work as quickly as possible when he took office in the future.

In addition, there is Missandei, the only maid of the king and the princess. The king asked her, who can read and write, to record and organize the conversations between the ministers and the king/regent princess in the regular meetings of the public ministers, and record them in a format called "meeting minutes". The king occasionally guides her how to improve when he reads these, which content to write in detail, which content to abbreviate, and which content not to write.

The king wanted to hand this matter over to the young Maester Pylos, who was quite open to new things. He was originally sent by the Citadel to serve Dragonstone. When Dragonstone changed its owner, he became a maester serving Viserys.

In theory, any maester has no political inclination. After completing his studies, the maester will be sent to a castle or other residence and be loyal to the master there as a mentor, doctor and advisor. If the control of this residence changes, the maester should be loyal to the new master.

But the young maester has a lot to do, and the seriously injured still need his daily care. In order to retrieve the ravens, the maester had to try to go outside the castle in his spare time and use the caged ravens to call the ravens that were afraid to fly back to the castle to return to their nests. These ravens need to be trained again so that they can get used to the existence of dragons like their ancestors a hundred years ago.

As for what the king is doing.

Viserys is frantically digesting the cursed dragonbinder magic in his body.

He is now near the crater of the active volcano in the center of Dragonstone.

Dragon Mountain on Dragonstone is an active volcano, and the castle and town of Dragonstone are built on the front of Dragon Mountain. The lower part of this side is relatively flat, while the upper part rises from the ground and is particularly steep. The top of the mountain is the highest peak of Dragon Mountain. The high ridge is like a huge barrier protecting the front of Dragon Mountain. Even if the volcano is active, as long as it is not violent to a certain extent, the eruption of volcanic ash will not be thrown here.

Moreover, this volcano is a relatively mild active volcano. There is almost no record of eruption in the Targaryen Dynasty for more than 300 years. Viserys discovered a few days ago that there are many geothermal vents near the crater, and steam generated by volcanic activity continues to rise from the geothermal vents.

Through the pale and gray steam of the geothermal vents, you can see that there are exposed magma pools and black and red hot lava in some places.

Viserys tried to enter a huge smoking mountain pass and ventured into a volcano full of lava and magma pools. As the temperature of the environment rose, the tip of his nose was full of pungent sulfur. After his body swelled, the magic power in his body was abnormally active, and the speed of absorbing the magic power of the dragon binder attached to his body would also increase.

Now the magic power in his body is all the magic power of the fire element, which is not unexpected.

Fire dragons like to live in hot volcanoes. This environment is difficult for humans to survive, but it is very suitable for dragons to operate their magic power.

But when we really came to the volcano, whether it was the geothermal vents and exposed lava pools outside, or venturing into the huge volcanic cave, the area of ​​Dragonstone volcano was much larger than Viserys had imagined.

But it was not difficult to understand that there were many wild dragons living in this area, and the dragons in the world of ice and fire were usually very large.

Today was the first time Viserys tried to rest near the crater. Before that, he had to be on guard against Stannis, and he didn't want to consume too much magic power.

Because while digesting the magic of the Dragonbinder Horn, the magic in his body would also be consumed, and according to the principle of the import and export of the water tank, it was actually a negative profit. In other words, when the magic water tank on his body was digesting the Dragonbinder Horn and slowly getting bigger, the water in the water tank was actually decreasing, and when he was working at full speed to digest it, the water in the magic tank would be far less than the water out.

So before Viserys digested the magic of the Dragonbinder Horn to a certain extent, he had not planned to go to the dangerous area of ​​the volcano to venture to find the habitat or nest of the homing dragons that might have been wild dragons or the Targaryen family.

Those easily discovered skeletons and dragon egg sites have usually been collected. The value of dragon bones and dragon eggs is there. After the blood dragon dance of the Targaryen Dynasty, many dragon species ventured here to collect dragon eggs to hatch dragons and find possible wild dragons. There were also dragon bone poachers who tried to make a fortune by following the trail.

On the sparsely populated eastern slope of Dragon Mountain, you can easily see many incomplete traces and remains left by humans.

If Viserys wants to find the hidden dragon nest in the huge Dragon Mountain volcano and find the possible dragon bones and dragon eggs left, it will take more time.

In fact, Viserys plans to try to bring Daenerys to explore the Dragon Mountain volcano area when he can slow down and digest the magic of the dragon binder.

It was Daenerys who saw the dragon horn at a glance on the Serenity pirate ship, and she may have a secret magical connection with the magical dragon eggs.

Perhaps because Viserys had used the magic of another world to grind away the Targaryen bloodline in his body, he did not have the talent of Daenerys.

However, taking Daenerys into the volcano still needs careful planning, although it is difficult to define her as a mortal now with her current physical condition. Daenerys' soul is wrapped in the blazing fire magic, and her body is more heat-resistant than before.

Daenerys has actually become an extraordinary existence in this world.

At midnight that day, Viserys, who was working at full speed to digest the magic of the Dragonbinder, finally shrank his body and flew back to the castle when his current magic was almost consumed by 70%. At this speed, he estimated that if he had another three or four times, he would be able to completely get rid of the curse-like magic of the Dragonbinder.

Since he had been exposed to the Dragonbinder, the magic power in his body has never been fully replenished, but digesting this type of magic power is not a thankless task. Although this type of magic power digestion is not as fast as the magic power of the other world that is stimulated by dreaming, Viserys can clearly feel that some strange changes are taking place between the magic power he digested in this way and the magic power of the other world in his body. He vaguely feels that this is a chance to become a "real dragon", but the quantitative change of magic power has not yet caused a qualitative change.

After returning to the castle, Daenerys informed Viserys of Earl Gunther's loyal advice this evening.

If the goal is to dominate Westeros and quickly unify the world, Earl Gunther's advice is very pertinent, but from his own perspective, steady personal strength is the foundation for Viserys to stand in this world where true gods exist.

"By the way, I just saw those two Braavos merchant ships that haven't left." Viserys was talking about the merchant ships that were stranded at the Dragonstone port blockade. They entered the Dragonstone port earlier than Viserys. Viserys suspected that they had bad intentions and had not been allowed to leave after the blockade. As a result, when the port was unblocked today, he still saw the two ships staying at the port.

"What's wrong?" Daenerys asked.

"They may be from the Iron Bank. It doesn't matter. I will consider these troubles when my finance minister arrives." Viserys skipped the topic and asked, "By the way, how many ravens have flown back? Can they be sent to all parts of Westeros?"

Ravens are smart animals that are trained to deliver messages. The reason they can deliver messages is that most ravens are trained to fly to a specific castle. Some are trained to fly between two castles, and such ravens are usually very precious. However, if a lot of effort is put in, a raven can learn the names of three, four, or even five castles, and can fly to any one according to the command. But such smart birds are usually seen once in a hundred years.

Not all the ravens that flew that day were flying to the destinations they were trained to deliver messages, because the maester only planned to deliver messages to the nearest castles. When the ravens are not carrying any messages, they will return to their nests according to their strong instinct to return to their nests.

But because they are smart, they dare not return to their nests easily after being scared away by the dragon, and only wander around Dragonstone. For this reason, the maester had to go to the open space outside the castle to try to call. It is said that this has been very effective, and many ravens have been taken back to the cage.

In the past few days, many ravens that Stannis had sent to various castles have also returned to their nests. In fact, it was because the maester found that some ravens that flew back from other places returned to their nests normally that he began to try to pick up those that were scared away in the castle outside the castle.

Daenerys answered him: "Maester Pylos said that most of the ravens have returned, and they should be soon." At the same time, he asked curiously, "Can we prepare the letter to be sent first? What do you plan to write on the letter?"

Viserys said excitedly: "I plan to send a letter to all parts of Westeros, saying: 'The white crows of the Citadel have arrived, marking the end of the long summer and the approach of winter. Viserys Targaryen, the dragon king of Dragonstone, calls on all forces in Westeros to remain calm and restrained, jointly maintain peace, and strive to preserve the last crop harvest before winter, so as to make full preparations for the people of Westeros to survive the harsh winter.'"

Daenerys' eyes widened when she heard this.

Dragon Mountain roughly refers to the volcano of the mythical beast Palu