Game of Thrones: Roar of the Dragon

Chapter 105: Dragon Flame Washes the Ground, Three Dragons Burn the City

Rustling!

In the valley, groups of valley civilians were rummaging through the ruins of the Eagle's Nest.

They were not searching for survivors, but for buried property.

After all, Eagle's Nest is the family castle of the Valley Lords. Any treasures found there would be enough for these commoners to live on for the rest of their lives.

During this grand treasure hunt, people would occasionally cheer with surprise.

Hooray, hooray!
It was not until the sound of huge dragon wings breaking through the air rang in their ears that the common people in the valley who were only looking for treasure on the ground realized that
Two huge and terrifying dragons began hovering above their heads at some point in time.

With a gloomy face, Jacaerys did not stop this group of valley civilians who were like vultures eating carrion. Instead, he used a huge reward of one thousand gold dragons to encourage them to look for any clues about Rhaenyra and others.

Two days!

Jacaerys, Vermax and Silver Wing circled around the ruins of the Eyrie for two days.

As time passed, he knew that the chances of Rainier and the others surviving were becoming increasingly slim.

Because if they were alive, it would be impossible for them not to show up after seeing Womacks.

The third day, which was the seventh day after the fall of Eagle's Nest.

A commoner in the valley found an ugly golden ring from the ruins, which had been melted so much that only the shape of a crown could be barely seen.

After Jacaerys promised the commoner of the valley to go to the Red Keep to claim his reward, he took the golden ring, climbed onto Vermax's new dragon saddle, and flew towards King's Landing.

In the Bright Moon Mountains, Sir Eric and two princes were hiding in the bushes with anxious faces.

Near them, a group of savages from the mountain clan, with hideous faces and wrapped in animal skins, were searching wildly.

After falling from the Eagle's Nest, these wildlings began to plunder everywhere openly.

Sir Eric, caught in a dilemma, could only watch Wormax and Silver Wing fly away in the sky.

That afternoon, Jacaerys returned to the Red Keep in King's Landing with the two dragons.

"No news from Damon yet?"

After throwing the golden ring to Coleman and instructing him to ask the Grand Maester of the Red Castle to check it, Jacaerys asked Stone beside him with an expressionless face.

Stone, who had followed Jakaris for many years, knew what state he was in and immediately replied cautiously, “Yes, Your Majesty.

But many people saw Lord Daemon riding the Korakshuu, so it shouldn't be a problem."

"Well, go down! Leave me alone for a while."

"As ordered!"

Stone saluted to Jacaerys who was sitting alone on the Iron Throne, then turned and left. As he was about to leave the throne room, he vaguely heard a sigh behind him.

Not long after, Coleman brought back the judgment of the Grand Maester of the Red Castle to Jacaerys.

This golden ring is the golden crown once worn by Viserys I.

Upon hearing this expected result, Jakaris' eyes suddenly became as sharp as a knife.

……

Oldtown is the largest and oldest city in the Seven Kingdoms, built by the First Men long before the Andal invasion.

It is located in the southwest corner of the Reach, where the Mead River flows into the Whispering Bay and the Sunset Sea.

Due to its strategic geographical location, Oldtown is the second most important port city after King's Landing.

The most eye-catching building in the old town is a tall tower built on an island at the estuary, with a blazing flame burning on the top day and night.

Its name is the Towering Tower. It is the castle of the Hightower family and also their family emblem!

The towering tower serves as both a castle and a lighthouse. It is the tallest building in the entire continent of Westeros, even taller than the Wall.

Some people claim that if you stand on the top of the towering tower, you can see the Great Wall in the north.

This statement is of course false, but standing on the top of the towering tower you can indeed see very far.

For example, the sentinels of House Hightower now saw three dragons flying rapidly from the northeast.

Dangdang Dangdang!
Urgent alarm bells rang in the towering tower, and one by one the soldiers of the Hightower family hurried to their own defensive positions.

The towering tower is nearly 800 feet (about 244 meters) high and is divided into seven floors from bottom to top.

Each layer of the wall is equipped with densely packed defense equipment. In addition to windows of various sizes, there are also many hidden shooting holes on the wall.

This lighthouse, which represents the pinnacle of architectural art in the Seven Kingdoms, is actually a giant tower armed to the teeth.

The alarm bells in the towering tower not only alerted the soldiers of the Hightower family, but the entire defense force of the old town was hastily preparing for battle at the sound of the alarm bells.

Standing high, seeing far. The warning function of the towering tower was fully demonstrated at this time.

Not until all the defense forces of the old town were ready did the three-headed dragon in the northeast sky finally fly into the territory of the old town.

Boom boom boom!
The first to launch the attack were not the Hightower family soldiers from the towering tower, but the defenders of the city gate guarding Rose Avenue in the northeast of Old Town.

Although the scorpion crossbows are not installed on the city gate walls of Old Town, the range and power of these large crossbows improved by the Citadel have been improved.

Ang~~
As a dragon roar echoed throughout the old town, three giant dragons in the sky formed a long snake formation and swooped down at high speed towards the old town gate.

Dangdang Dangdang!
The thick and long crossbow arrows fired by the improved crossbow hit the dark green dragon in the front, which was more than 60 meters long and had a wingspan of more than 130 meters.

However, these thick and long crossbow arrows were completely unable to break through the defense and were directly bounced away by the dark green dragon's solid dragon scales.

The other two silver-gray dragons, which looked somewhat similar but had a much larger size, did not need to dodge at all. They just swooped down easily behind the dark green dragon.

Hoo ho ho!
The dark green dragon leading the way opened its bloody mouth, and black-brown dragon flames covered the walls of the old town gate in a fan shape.

The city gate guards and the improved crossbows were melted like candles by the horrifying black-brown dragon flame.

And this is just the attack of the first dragon, there are two other dragons hiding behind it.

Ho-la, ho-la!
Two silver-gray dragon flames of different shades erupted in the sky near the old town gate.

A dark grey dragon flame exploded like an umbrella, covering the city gate and the residential area behind it with a huge attack range. A large number of civilians ignited by the dark grey dragon flame fled from the residential area, screaming and struggling on the ground.

Boom, bang!
The other dragon flame was lighter in color, tending towards silver-white and burning for a very short time, but its extremely strong impact force destroyed the city wall of the old town gate in an instant.

The defense of the northeast gate of the old town was completely destroyed by these three giant dragons in just half a minute.

But they did not fly directly towards the iconic towering tower.
Instead, it flapped its wings and hovered in the sky above the northeast area of ​​the old town, then spewed out dragon flames of various colors, burning the buildings on the ground inch by inch.

It is obvious from here that their goal is to completely wipe Old Town off the map of the Seven Kingdoms.

Dangdang Dangdang!
The action of these three giant dragons washing the ground with their dragon flames caused urgent alarm bells to ring throughout the old town.

Unlike the war preparedness alarm bell that sounded alone in the towering tower, the sounding of these alarm bells throughout the town only represented one meaning.

That is, the old town is facing the crisis of destruction, and all townspeople can use various means to escape.

The northeastern area of ​​the old town is built on land and is a ground urban area consisting of large and small streets paved with cobblestones.

Groups of civilians from the ground city, some with their families, some carrying various belongings, fled towards the Whispering Bay port in the southwest.

The Old Town, whose population is second only to King's Landing, has nearly 300,000 civilians. In the chaotic crowd, hundreds of civilians in the ground city were trampled to death because they fell.

Under the merciless and scorching dragon flames of the three-headed dragon, countless buildings and civilians in this ground city area were directly burned into charred charcoal ashes.

The old town, starting from the middle area, is a riverside city area composed of the mighty main stream of the Mead River and various trickling tributaries.

The overall city area on the river is somewhat similar to the Venice on the sea in the previous life. The streets in the city have become criss-crossing waterways, and the means of transportation are large and small boats.

Hoo ho ho!
Three giant dragons that continued to spit out dragon flames of various colors slowly flew over the riverside city.

However, except for the dark green dragon's black-brown dragon flame that could burn on the river for a long time, the dragon flames of the other two dragons could not reach the ships on the river.

Therefore, the survival rate of civilians in the river city is significantly higher than that in the ground city in the northeast.

Sitting upright on the dragon's saddle, Jacaerys paid no attention to the civilians who fled to the seaport by boat.

His goal today was not to harvest entry points, but to completely destroy the Hightower family and its base, the old town.

If we only talk about the efficiency of destroying the buildings in the old town, Silver Wing with its large-scale attack ranks first, the newly captured Sea Smoke ranks second with its unique dragon flame impact power, and finally Womax.

There was no decent resistance in the entire old town, and the three giant dragons quickly burned down nearly half of the old town.

Boom boom boom!
Whoohoo!
As the three dragons of Womax moved towards the western part of the old town, waves of thick crossbow arrows and stones whizzed towards them.

It turned out that he had entered the attack range of the towering tower without realizing it.

In that case, let’s melt this annoying stumbling block first!

With a thought, Jacaerys sent a message to Wormax to control the two dragon servants with dragon roar and rush straight to the towering tower of the Hightower family.

Hooray, hooray!
After the second devouring transformation, Womax can be considered invincible in the ordinary sense.

Aside from the scorpion crossbows and armor-piercing crossbow bolts of King's Landing, other ranged weapons are simply unable to penetrate its solid dragon scales.

Womax carried the long and thick crossbow arrows and flew to the top of the towering tower with Silver Wings and Sea Smoke, to the area with the bonfire that was said to never go out.

Hoo ho ho!
Jakaris controlled Silver Wing and Sea Smoke through Womax, hovering around the towering tower in a triangle position.

Then, almost at the same time, they spewed out their respective dragon flames towards the bonfire area at the top of the towering tower.

The dark brown dragon flame of Womax directly melted and softened the solid stones supporting the towering tower.

The powerful impact brought by Haiyan's silver-white dragon flame blasted the softened tower stone into pieces of varying sizes.

Silver Wing finally used a large area of ​​dark grey dragon flame to cover the rubble with blazing flames.

Wow!
This towering tower, which represents the pride, symbol, and heritage of the Hightower family, continued to melt and collapse in the three-colored dragon flames.

what! ! !
At this moment, it doesn't matter whether you are a direct or collateral noble of the Hightower family, or a soldier or servant.

They would either be directly melted into charred ashes by the three-colored dragon flames, or fall from a height of more than 200 meters along with pieces of flaming debris.

Puff, puff!
As the towering tower melted and collapsed, countless tons of flaming debris fell into the surrounding river.

Countless pieces of rubble sank to the bottom of the river, even blocking the estuary and slowly raising the overall water level.

When the towering tower was melted by the three dragons of Wormax until only an island base remained, the raised water of the Wine River began to flow back towards the ground town in the northeast.

Jacaerys did not stop there, but controlled the three dragons of Wormax to continue spewing dragon flames towards the western part of the old town.

Because in the west district of the old town, in addition to various municipal institutions, there is also a building that is almost as famous as the towering tower, the Academy City!
As the highest institution that trains and manages all the scholars in the seven countries,
The Academy has the inherent important functions of monopolizing the knowledge of the Seven Kingdoms, controlling the public opinion of the Seven Kingdoms, and collecting intelligence on all the nobles of the Seven Kingdoms.

If possible, Jakaris would really like to take control of such an important institution in his own hands.

But no!

The Citadel was built by the Hightower family with all their efforts over the years. The relationship between them has long been inseparable and cannot be simply separated.

In that case, let’s destroy them all!
The Citadel is as easy to find as the Towering Tower, because there is a ten-meter-tall green Sphinx (a monster with a lion's body, eagle's wings, and a snake's tail) statue on each side of its main entrance.

knowledge is power!

But this power pales in comparison to the terrifying dragon flames.

Scholars with chains around their necks were transformed into human-shaped torches by the dragon flames, and countless books recording history and knowledge were burned to ashes by the dragon flames.

Since the Citadel is located close to the Wine River and Whispering Bay, a small number of scholars managed to escape before the Citadel was completely transformed into a flaming hell.

It took about half a day, and Jacaerys, with the help of the power of three dragons, burned this old town, which had been built for thousands or possibly tens of thousands of years, to the ground.

After his revenge by burning the city, the gloom in Jakaris' heart was relieved a lot.

Instead of continuing to burn the ships and boats that were fleeing from Oldtown to the Sunset Sea, he rode his dragon back to King's Landing.

Two or three days after the old town was burned down by the three dragons, the water from the Wine River, which was blocked by the estuary, submerged the entire ruins of the old town.
This is the true way to erase the last trace of Oldtown from the continent of Westeros!
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