The Mountain of Ice and Fire

Eleven-year-old Kom Warner had the height of a normal sixteen or seventeen-year-old, with long arms and legs, a face like golden paper, sunken eye sockets, and dull eyes.

The elder accompanied the Mountain and Jeyne.

Jeyne sat down and reached out to take Kom Warner's hand: "Kom Warner, I am the Duchess Jeyne Clegane, my name is Jeyne Westerling, can you hear me?"

Kom Warner showed no reaction.

"Look, this is Duke Gregor Clegane, your father Ser Archibald Warner's superior, the highest guardian of the Royal Navy fleet, and the Master of Ships in King's Landing."

Kom Warner still did not react, but Jeyne felt something in his hand, the child's fingers trembled slightly, as if trying to grab Jeyne's hand and stand up with force.

Jeyne did not ask the elder about Kom Warner's condition, what medicine he had taken. An elder who could be bought with gold and a small knife was not to be trusted.

The elder could be easily bought by the Mountain and Jeyne, and could also be easily bought by others. Such a person's words had lost credibility. Jeyne believed in her own medical skills and some secret arts taught by her grandmother, the witch. On Claw Isle, every tribe has its own gods, but one god they all worship in common is the Blood God. Here, blood witches hold supreme status. Prophecy, medical skills, faith, prayer - blood witches combine many abilities in one.

Kom Warner's trembling fingers proved that he could hear Jeyne's words.

It was just that he had lost the ability to speak, and his body seemed to be imprisoned.

Jeyne said: "Kom Warner, Duke Gregor Clegane has come to take you as a squire, according to his promise to your father, to take you out, and on the day you come of age, he will knight you. If you agree, move your eyes."

The Mountain, Jeyne, the elder, tribal guards, Erren, and Graland all stared at Kom's eyes. Brienne and Zelly guarded both sides of the gate.

After a long while, Kom's right eye blinked slightly.

Jeyne, the Mountain, and the elder all saw it, the child was trying to respond.

"Kom Warner, do you agree to be Ser Gregor Clegane's squire, according to your father's wishes?"

This time, the child's right eye blinked a little more obviously.

"Then, I have a very important question to ask you, do you know what illness you have? You understand everything in your heart, don't you?"

The elder said: "Madam, this child is young, he already had a cold, plus his father's sacrifice, it suddenly became like this."

The child's right eye blinked again.

Jeyne glanced at the Mountain, then looked at Kom: "Kom, I can see that you have been poisoned by snake venom, the person who poisoned you didn't want you to die, the dosage was controlled just right, do you know who poisoned you?"

This time, Kom's eyes blinked.

The elder became anxious: "I must ask the Madam and the Duke to leave, what you are saying is absurd, I know the child has not been poisoned by snake venom at all, are you a blood witch? The people of Stone Shore are all proficient in snake breeding, no one can see that he has been poisoned by snake venom, and we Warners are not afraid of snake venom at all, please leave immediately, you impolite outsiders are not welcome here."

"Mountain, take down the elder," Jeyne said lightly.

The elder was shocked and hurried out, babbling and shouting loudly outside. As soon as the two elder's guards in the room moved, they were held at the throat by Ser Erren and Ser Graland's short knives. The Mountain took action, grabbed the elder, lifted him up gently, and with a little force, the elder's shoulder bones shattered.

A scream sounded.

But the elder's previous babbling shouts to the outside spread, and it was not known exactly what he shouted, only that the Stone Shore spearmen, men, women, old people, and children, all drew their knives and picked up their spears, and rushed towards this side with a Doloroloro roar.

Brienne and Zelly drew their longswords and stood in front of the gate.

Several crisp sounds of swords and spears clashing, bang bang bang, several spearmen and villagers were knocked down.

"Erren, fire a signal arrow!" Jeyne shouted.

Whoosh!

An arrow with an iron whistle installed on its tail soared into the sky, whistling towards the place where the soldiers were stationed.

Polliver, Anguy, and Dunsen were already on guard, they heard the iron whistle sound, immediately jumped up, drew their longswords, and shouted: "Soldiers, fight!"

The three kicked over the tables in front of them, knocked down the serving girls, and chopped down several spearmen at the gate. The three snatched the stables, jumped on their horses, and galloped towards the main stronghold building.

Behind them, three centurion teams that had been prepared quickly rushed out, unstoppable, regardless of men, women, old or young, all who came up to fight were killed.

On the wooden buildings and stone rooftops, men, women, children, and old people appeared one after another, with bows and arrows in their hands, shooting at the Clegane army from above.

Arrows嗖嗖, several soldiers were shot and fell from their horses.

Every Clegane cavalryman was an absolute elite. Losing one person would make the Mountain feel pain.

"Shield defense!" Polliver shouted.

The soldiers were not unprepared, the round shields on their backs were taken off one after another, the road between the houses on both sides was still too narrow for the three hundred cavalry. Several more cavalrymen were shot and fell from their horses.

"Counterattack!" Dunsen shouted.

Each Clegane heavy cavalryman had two javelins, which were used for charging. When they were not far from the enemy, they would throw the javelins first, then rush into the enemy formation and draw their swords to slash and kill.

Hundreds of javelins were raised, and with just one round of throwing, the 'enemies' on the rooftops were hit one after another, and rolled down from the rooftops and wooden buildings. For a time, screams resounded throughout the stronghold.

With just one round of counterattack, the 'enemies' could not stop it. In the next instant, the adults, children, men and women, old and young on the wooden buildings and stone rooftops fled cleanly.

The team advanced, and the villagers on the wooden buildings and stone rooftops in front of them fled one after another, not daring to show their heads to attack this black killing god team again.

Soon, Polliver, Dunsen, and Anguy rushed to the front of the main stronghold building, which was already surrounded by many spearmen and villagers. Brienne, Zelly, Erren, and Graland guarded the gate with four longswords, the spearmen and villagers desperately besieged, but could not break through the defense.

Polliver, Dunsen, and Anguy led three centurion cavalry teams to charge, the spearmen and villagers instantly collapsed, the longswords waved, and after a chase, the spearmen and villagers fled in all directions.

The Mountain appeared at the gate and said: "Form a line, guard this place."

"Ho!"

The soldiers agreed together.

Far and near, the entire village resounded with Doloroloro shouts. Listening to the sound, many villagers had climbed over the stone walls and went down the steep slopes, in every direction. The Doloroloro sound spread far and wide in the night sky of the empty mountains and basins.

The elder, who was controlled in the room, said: "Duke, Madam, you still have time to stop now, otherwise, all the tribes of the peninsula will come to attack here, none of you will be able to leave Claw Isle."

It turned out that the villagers and spearmen who had climbed over the walls in all directions were going to notify other tribes.

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Once the people of Claw Isle encounter foreign enemies, they will put aside their deep-seated hatreds and kill the foreign enemies first, then engage in internal blood feuds. This seems to be a tradition.

For thousands of years, no army has dared to break into Claw Isle and use force within the tribes. They have always been cautious and careful. The Clegane army entered the Warner family's territory on Claw Isle, and arrested elders and killed villagers at the slightest disagreement, committing a great taboo and challenging the dignity of the entire Claw Isle. Later, this incident was written into the history of the continent, and circulated as a symbol of miracle and courage. Singers also wrote many songs about this story, which were sung throughout the Seven Kingdoms.

Claw Isle, the absolute forbidden area of the Seven Kingdoms, also began on this day to break the inviolable rules of the forbidden area. It was like the shell of an egg, broken by a hair's breadth, but facing an irreversible fate of shattering.

It was also from this day that Claw Isle accelerated its true integration with the outside world. Claw Isle, which had been closed for thousands of years, began to face the outside world and actively opened its closed doors, and was accepted by the outside world while accepting the outside world.

Many changes in major events, and even the promotion of world progress, seem to start from a certain accidental event on the surface, but there is an inherent inevitability.

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Polliver came in: "Sir, Madam, some of our brothers have been shot by arrows."

"Will they die?"

"No!"

"Carry them in!"

"Yes, Sir."

Seven arrow-stricken cavalrymen were carried into the Stone Shore building.

Jeyne, wearing a red robe, knelt in front of Kom Warner, ancient and mysterious syllables chanted softly from her throat. After a long while, she got up and whispered: "Mountain, feed Kom Warner half of the venom I gave you." In front of everyone, Jeyne called the Mountain Duke; in whispers and privately, she called him Mountain.

This venom was prepared by the witch and Jeyne for the Mountain's future duel! The witch saw the Mountain's life-and-death duel, and the opponent smeared terrible snake venom on the spear.

It seemed that everything was destined in the dark, and the venom prepared for the Mountain to remove the snake venom from the spear came in handy here, just like an invisible big hand had arranged everything long ago.

The Mountain even suspected whether Jeyne and the witch had seen this scene again, but in fact they had not. The witch and Jeyne could only see fragments of the future, not all of it. The gods in this world are not very reliable, let alone wizards who only rely on the will of the Blood God.

The Mountain helped Kom Warner up, Kom Warner's face had faded from golden and returned to rosy. The elder sat on the chair shivering.

The Mountain fed Kom Warner the venom little by little.

Jeyne came to the elder: "Confess, in the name of the Blood God."

The elder trembled, his toothless mouth shriveled and wriggled, but no sound came out.

"If you don't confess, you know the cruelty of the Blood God to his people, you will fall into hell forever. I know what kind of snake venom you used, I have studied all kinds of snake venom for many years." This sentence was also a lie. It was the witch who studied all kinds of snake venom for many years, and tasted snake venom. This is also the real reason why the teeth of primary blood witches are black. Their pills are related to many highly poisonous substances, and they personally taste the poison to verify the spells.

"...It wasn't me..." the elder said.

"Then who was it?"

"............"

"Don't dare to say? With us here, what are you afraid of? Kom Warner will soon recover his health, do you think the people of the Warner tribe will support their young lord or the person who used snake venom to kill the young lord? When the truth comes out, your crime will be even greater," Jeyne said sternly at the end.

"I have a request."

"Speak!"

"I will only tell this request to Young Lord Kom."

"You will be able to tell him soon, in order to reduce your sins and gain the mercy of the Blood God, please tell me the name of the poisoner now."

"...Steinbeck Warner..."

"Kom's uncle?"

"Yes, the Warner family's number one warrior, the family's warriors are all his people."

"Two hundred cavalry!" Jeyne said lightly, unimpressed, "Do you think his two hundred cavalry can defeat our three hundred heavy cavalry?"

"He also has allies."

"He will have no allies, we will beat his people to pieces, except for surrender, there is only a dead end."

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Cough cough cough!

After resting, young Kom coughed for a while, and then vomited. Bloody and rotten black blood spat out half a wooden basin. He was covered in sweat, his face was painful and weak. After rinsing his mouth with clean water, he fell into a deep sleep.

When he woke up, it was already dawn. He felt weak all over, but he was extremely refreshed and comfortable. Having escaped from death and cleared the poison, the child was in a really good mood.

The young man's eyes swept over Jeyne, the Mountain, Brienne, Zelly, Erren, the little maid, Ser Graland, Polliver, Anguy, and Dunsen's faces one by one, as if he wanted to engrave all these people's faces into his mind, not daring to forget.

His gaze finally fell on the elder's face, moved from the elder's face, and finally fell in front of him - a strange statue cast from an unknown material, a monster that looked like a horse but was not a horse, with a blood-red color, holding a black iron heavy axe in its mouth.

The monster's hooves were thick, and unlike a horse, there was a horn in the middle of its forehead.

This carving, which revealed a sacred aura, was brought by the elder from the tribe's temple. The elder was lying prostrate in front of the child: "Young Lord, Warner King is yours."

Kom Warner supported himself and leaned against the bed rail: "Elder, are you going to pass on Warner King to me? Proclaim me as the official patriarch of the Warner family?"

Jeyne, who had read the history of Claw Isle thoroughly, knew that Warner King was the only hero in the Warner family who had unified Claw Isle. It was the first time she had seen that the memorial statue of a hero was not a person, but a monster and a heavy axe. Jeyne recognized this monster, and this monster had a name: Unicorn. (In the original book, the Unicorn is on the Skagos islands in the North, and there will be relevant plots to connect later.)

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"Yes, Young Lord Kom, you are the rightful heir, the heir to Warner King, you are now the patriarch of the Warner family."

"But this is not a temple, I have not received the witness of the Blood God. I need all the clansmen to be present and perform a formal ceremony."

"I have already prayed for you in front of the Blood God, Young Lord, as long as the statue of Warner King is in hand, everything can be simplified. You are currently weak and cannot participate in the heavy and complicated ceremony of the family patriarch, which requires a total of seven days. The warriors in the family don't know when they will be able to return, according to the Duke and Duchess's suggestion, simplifying things is the best option at the moment. The warriors and villagers in Stone Shore have gone to notify the tribes on the island, and they will soon come to kill us. Child, you are now the patriarch of the Warner family."

The boy was silent for a long while. "Elder, you're giving me the tribe's treasure. Is there something you want in return?" Korm didn't seem excited, whether from weakness or composure. He sensed that the elder's sudden gift of the Warner's inheritance must come with a request.

Having walked from death's door back to life, the child's nature had changed; he had matured in an instant. It was hard to say if this was a good thing or not.

"I beg the Chieftain for mercy. I have committed a grave error. Please, Chieftain, do not subject me to the ancestral punishment."

Korm looked at Jenny, seeking something in her eyes. He held Jenny in a regard and gratitude akin to a mother. Whether he found the answer he sought in Jenny's eyes, no one knew. All that was heard was the child saying, "Alright, I agree, Elder."

The elder trembled with excitement. "Chieftain, I will go and inform the entire village, and summon them to pay respects to the new Chieftain."

"There's no need, Elder. Give me the name of the new elder."

The elder's body shuddered, then dimmed with disappointment. "Yes, Chieftain. Jeremiah Warner, the most suitable person for the next elder."

Korm looked at Demon Mountain: "Duke, your little attendant is still too weak, can I request you to call his name? Let Jeremiah Warner in."

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