The Mountain of Ice and Fire

Chapter 1005: Asha Captures the Judgment Elder Alive

The first stab was extremely deep, burying most of the pointed cone.

The Judgment Elder pulled hard, extracted the pointed cone, and stabbed a second time.

This time, the location was not in the same place.

Soon, the pointed cone poked out a small circle, the size of a fist.

But it had not yet pierced through the warship.

The flagship's hull was extremely thick.

The Judgment Elder felt exhaustion and suffocation.

His calf was pierced by a sharp arrow, and although he had wrapped a turban around it, it was still consuming his stamina and taking away his heat.

The Judgment Elder put away the pointed cone and swam towards the stern of the ship. Using the shadows of the stern, he wanted to secretly take a breath and rest a little.

The Judgment Elder quietly emerged from behind the stern, and then he saw a pair of eyes in front of him.

A pair of eyes full of wildness.

There was no killing intent in these eyes, only a teasing smile.

These were a woman's eyes.

"Hello, my name is Asha," the other person said. "My Common Tongue of Essos is very clumsy, I apologize!"

Suddenly, the Judgment Elder didn't know what to say or how to react.

He had a very brief moment of confusion, and then he reacted.

Although the other person wasn't wearing the signature turban, and although the other person was a woman, he immediately understood that she was the enemy.

The Judgment Elder thrust the pointed cone in his hand towards the woman's face.

Suddenly, his chest hurt, and some terrifying weapon had deeply pierced his chest.

The right chest!

Fortunately, the heart was on the left.

The intense pain made the Judgment Elder's body tremble.

When his pointed cone stabbed, the woman called Asha was already several meters away like a ghost.

Only then did the Judgment Elder feel his own sluggish movements and clumsy reactions. He had never had such a terrible reaction as today.

He was indeed very tired in the water. Although the injury to his calf was numb, it had a profound impact on his reaction and strength.

"I'll give you time to breathe, knight, and also give you one more chance to dive down and pierce the bottom of the ship. Before you float up again to breathe, I won't kill you."

The woman's words completely confused the Judgment Elder. He suspected that he had misheard. Although the other person's Common Tongue of Essos was terrible, the Judgment Elder understood the meaning of every word. However, the enemy wanted him to pierce through their own flagship, and on the flagship was the King of Qarth.

"You want me to go down and pierce this warship?"

"Yes!"

"You're not Qarth's navy?"

"I am!"

"You hate the King of Qarth on the ship?"

"No!"

The Judgment Elder felt his thinking was confused and couldn't quite sort out the situation in front of him. Everything seemed incredible.

"Woman, what do you mean? Are you making fun of me?"

"If I wanted to make fun of you, I wouldn't be watching you poke the ship underwater."

"You were watching me poke the ship? You were just by my side?" The Judgment Elder couldn't believe it.

"Yes."

"You're a fish, able to sneak silently to my side?"

"I'm not a fish, but my swimming ability is stronger than yours. From childhood, I grew up in the sea. From the time I was sensible, I was seven years old, I started going to sea with the most savage people to rob property, to be a pirate. In the sea, there's not much difference between me and being on land."

The Judgment Elder was speechless, and a voice in his heart was desperately telling him not to believe this woman's nonsense: "Woman, did you also float up with me?"

"I've been following you."

"Always?"

"Always, from the moment you were shot by an arrow and fell into the water."

The Judgment Elder couldn't speak. If what this woman said was true, then the woman's swimming skills were obviously above his. A woman, with better swimming skills than him, was that possible? Could it be that this woman was an evil sorceress skilled in swimming? In Essos, there was no shortage of sorcerers, but there were no sorcerers skilled in swimming.

The Judgment Elder couldn't see through the mysterious woman in front of him at all.

If the woman's diving skills were still above his, then it was also very likely that his own decline in physical strength and the exhaustion caused by the arrow in his calf had dragged down his reaction and agility, making him sluggish and clumsy.

The Judgment Elder looked down at the injury on his right chest, where a crossbow bolt was inserted.

This was the second time he had been shot by an arrow.

The previous time was a long arrow, this time it was a crossbow bolt.

The woman's hands were underwater, and she was holding a short crossbow that could fire continuously.

The firing power and speed of the short crossbow in the water had been weakened, otherwise, at such a close distance, this crossbow bolt would have almost completely shot into his unprotected chest.

In front of the short crossbow, the Judgment Elder knew that with his current speed, he couldn't kill the woman in front of him.

The woman's reaction speed was far above his, which had already been verified. When his pointed cone stabbed out, the other person had already dodged several meters away.

"I'll go down and poke the ship, you won't sneak attack me from behind?" The Judgment Elder's thoughts finally returned to the theme.

"If I wanted to kill you, I would have already done it."

"Can I trust you?"

"You can also give up poking the ship and surrender, dropping your weapon."

The Judgment Elder was knowledgeable and experienced, but it was the first time he had seen such a strange woman. The woman's good swimming skills and the incredible words she spoke made the Judgment Elder really not know which of her words to believe.

The Judgment Elder did not pull out the crossbow bolt. As soon as he pulled it out, his strength and heat would quickly be lost, making him more exhausted and unable to resist.

Regardless, he had to try, to execute the tactical goal.

The Judgment Elder took a deep breath, dived, and looked back. The woman was indeed following behind him holding the short crossbow. She only needed to swing her legs to follow behind him like a fish, not too close, not too far.

He was diving in front, and the water could dissolve part of the enemy's crossbow bolt's power and also limit the crossbow bolt's speed, but the distance was too close, and with his current speed and reaction, it was difficult to avoid it.

The Judgment Elder dived to the center position of the ship's bottom, and Asha followed all the way. Her weapons were certainly not only the short crossbow, but also short knives and short swords.

She followed behind, holding the short crossbow in her hand, as if escorting her own prisoner and ordering him to continue piercing the warship.

When the Judgment Elder arrived at the position, he stabbed the pointed cone towards the bottom of the ship.

This time he mustered his strength, determined to pierce the bottom of the ship before his body collapsed.

Pieces of wood were brought out by the pointed cone. He felt the depth was enough, abandoned the pointed cone, and switched to a short knife. The pointed cone was not efficient for digging wood, and it was faster and more suitable to use a short knife to dig out the wood blocks whose structure had already been damaged by the pointed cone.

Palm-sized pieces of wood were dug out by the short knife, and bubbles began to emerge from the Judgment Elder's mouth. It was time for him to breathe.

"Drop the short knife, step back, I'll do it." Asha said beside him, holding the short crossbow in one hand against the Judgment Elder's neck, and patting the Judgment Elder's shoulder with the other hand.

Of course, she couldn't speak underwater, but her gestures explained everything.

People with good swimming skills may have their own tacit understanding underwater. When the Judgment Elder saw Asha's gestures, he understood Asha's meaning.

He was even more incredulous.

His forceful poking of the ship and digging of wood had involved the crossbow bolt on his chest, making the wound deeper and more painful. The tearing pain had been disturbing his body and soul.

The Judgment Elder decided to make a desperate gamble, he abandoned the short knife in his hand.

He avoided to the side.

He gave up the position.

Asha wanted him to retreat further. Asha was very careful to prevent the enemy from attacking her.

So, the Judgment Elder retreated further, ensuring that the other person would not be distracted by him.

So, Asha hung the short crossbow on the sword belt around her waist, drew out the short sword, and stabbed it fiercely at the place just now.

After several stabs, there was an extremely slight 'clang' sound in the water!

A metallic sound spread in the water.

The wooden layer of the ship's bottom was pierced by Asha, and it hit something hard and metallic.

Seawater did not seep upwards into the ship. That layer of iron blocked the place where the wooden planks were broken, blocking it tightly, as if it were a complete whole.

The sound was difficult to spread in the water, but the Judgment Elder heard it.

"It's the sound of metal." He approached and made a gesture.

From the moment Asha acted, he believed that Asha was an alien on his battle line. Perhaps the King of Qarth had a private feud with Asha, or perhaps the King of Qarth had violated Asha, but no matter what the purpose, this strange woman with swimming skills as good as a fish wanted to sink this flagship just like him.

Asha stabbed fiercely with the short sword, constantly poking at a thick metallic substance. The blade of the short sword could not pierce the bottom of the ship. She used all her strength, but still could not break through that layer of iron bottom.

The bottom of the ship was actually covered with a layer of iron plates?

This made the Judgment Elder stunned again.

When the two had to surface to breathe, Asha was already panting heavily, while the Judgment Elder was pale, his lips were purple, his body was shaking, and he could no longer persevere.

There were two arrow wounds on his body. The arrow wounds were very deep.

"You need treatment," Asha said.

"I don't need it."

"I want to go and kill the King of Qarth, are you willing to help me?"

"What do you want me to do?" The Judgment Elder felt dizzy spells attacking.

"Be captured by me, I'll take you on the ship and offer you to the King of Qarth. When the King interrogates you, I'll stand by the King's side unexpectedly and pierce his neck with a short sword."

The Judgment Elder was about to sink, he reached out and supported the bottom of the ship: "Okay!"

"You completely trust me?"

"Yes! In the name of the Sea God!"

"Okay, I'm going to strangle your neck and hold the knife against your throat to take you out."

The Judgment Elder turned around and gave his back to Asha.

"Who are you from Essos?" Asha asked.

"I am the commander of the Essos navy, the Judgment Elder, and I am also responsible for Essos's security and defense." Essos actually did not have a real army, but Asha did not know this.

"Oh, I understand, are you ready."

"Do it!"

Asha wrapped one arm around the trembling Judgment Elder's neck, held a short knife against the Judgment Elder's throat with one hand, and swam him out from under the bottom of the ship: "Put down the rope ladder and pull the prisoner up."

The people on the ship heard Asha's voice and looked around, seeing Asha controlling an enemy floating in the sea. A rope was thrown down first, Asha tied the rope around the prisoner's waist, and the soldiers on the ship worked together to pull the prisoner up. A rope ladder was thrown into the sea, Asha put the short knife back into her waist, grabbed the rope ladder and boarded the flagship.

On the deck, the Judgment Elder had already been controlled by several Unsullied soldiers. Asha led the soldiers to escort the prisoner in front of the Mountain. Beside the Mountain, followed Daenerys, Arianne, Jaime, Quaithe, Jorah Mormont, Missandei, Mirri Maz Duur, Damian Yolk and a large group of people.

Damian Yolk was a Dothraki.

However, the current Dothraki no longer refused to cross the Poison Water by boat. They had been on several expeditions by boat in the war, and everyone had learned to take a boat in the years of war.

There were many Dothraki and Unsullied soldiers in this huge naval fleet.

Asha knelt on one knee: "Your Majesty, the prisoner I caught is the Essos military commander, the Judgment Elder. He is responsible for the Essos navy and army." Essos actually has no real army, but Asha doesn't know this.

The Mountain looked at the Judgment Elder, who was having difficulty even standing: "Elder, why did you choose a battle of self-destruction?"

The Judgment Elder had never seen such a burly king, he was simply a real giant. That shoulder width and the majesty of his body were breathtaking.

The Judgment Elder swallowed a mouthful of saliva: "The Essos people will never give in, and will never be slaves."

"The Dragon Knight King came to Essos not to conquer the Essos people as slaves, but to lift the dark curse suffered by Essos," Quaithe said.

The Judgment Elder glanced at the familiar wooden lacquer mask and knew who the masked man was: Quaithe of the Red God's Tower.

"Quaithe, the King of Qarth you serve is about to die," the Judgment Elder laughed.

Asha got up and stood beside the Mountain.

"Judgment Elder, just with you now?" Quaithe said calmly.

"Do you dare to give me a sword?" The Judgment Elder was still thinking about attracting everyone's attention to create an opportunity for Asha to attack the Qarth giant king.

"You can't kill me with anything," the Mountain shouted, "Damian, hang him up, hang him on the mast."

For those who are determined to be enemies, the Mountain never shows mercy!

Damian Yolk came out and punched the Judgment Elder first. This punch hit the Judgment Elder's abdomen, causing him to curl up and fall down. The pain twisted his face, and his features were tangled together. He was shouting in his heart for Asha to act quickly, this was the best time.

"Asha, how did you catch him?" The Mountain laughed.

"Your Majesty, when he was shot by Theon's arrow, I followed him all the way. He dived to the flagship and poked the bottom of the ship with a pointed cone. He failed the first time, and couldn't poke it down the second time because of the injury, so I helped him and pierced the wooden layer of the bottom of the ship, poking it into the steel layer. I tried my best and couldn't pierce the steel layer. Your Majesty, you suggested using thin steel to pave the bottom of all warships. After my personal verification, I no longer object, and I fully accept your suggestion. Your Majesty, you are right, I was wrong."

"I've always been right," the Mountain said proudly.

"Asha, act!" The Judgment Elder was still humming unwillingly in his mouth, but it was difficult for him to make a clear sound. He was rudely bound by the Dothraki, completely disregarding his life or death, just like tying a dog.

Arianne laughed: "Asha, you were watching by the side when that stupid guy was poking the bottom of the ship."

"Yes, Princess."

"He didn't suspect you?"

"He believed me the moment I went to poke the ship. Then, I told him how we would assassinate the King of Qarth, and he completely agreed."

Everyone laughed.

Damian York and his Dothraki soldiers bound the elder council members, pulled the ropes, and suspended them from the tall masts.

The Mountain said, "Asha, you still refuse to accept my suggestion unless you personally take a knife and poke the bottom of the ship?"

"Yes, Your Majesty. I don't think that thin layer of steel can withstand the attack of a short sword, and it will only increase the weight of the ship."

"You doubt the skills of Master Tobho Mott and Duke Gendry," the Mountain said.

"My ignorance has blinded my eyes," Asha laughed.

"When the battle is over, sound the drums and march to the port of Asshai!" The Mountain issued the order.