Game of Thrones: Roar of the Dragon

Chapter 139: The Secret of Gray Scale, City-wide Epidemic Prevention

The outsiders at the Red Keep Girls' Festival Ball had been cleared out, leaving only Jacaerys and his direct lineage members.

A clear chant in High Valyrian was heard, and the air near Nia's head, who was lying in a pool of blood, began to distort and vibrate.

Her extremely sweet face was like shedding skin, being slowly peeled off by the vibration of the air.

At the same time, her white body with her clothes cut open began to masculinize.

In less than half a minute, Nia turned from a slender and sweet girl into a burly and ugly man.

This is the Faceless Man’s disguise magic!

It was the first time for Benilla, Luthris, Joffrey and others to see such a fantastic scene.

They immediately burst into admiration. If Jakaris hadn't stopped them loudly, they would have rushed to pick up the human skin mask dropped by the other party.

Ella had no interest in participating in the Girls' Day Ball before, so she had been conducting her own magic research.

Now he was specially invited by Jakaris to use magic to break the magic.

"Your Majesty, as you expected, he is indeed a Faceless Man."

She nodded to Jakaris to confirm, then glanced at the ugly man's exposed left thigh expressionlessly and continued,

“Although greyscale is only a byproduct of the god’s wrath, it poses a threat that cannot be ignored.

So I suggest that all those who have come into contact with this faceless man be gathered together, and then have the dragon breathe out dragon flames to burn them all together."

"The wrath of God? Are you saying that greyscale is not just an ordinary disease, but a product of gods, or magic?"

Jacaris caught the key point of Ella's words and immediately asked.

The descriptions of greyscale in previous TV dramas all came from ordinary people, but Ella, the extraordinary being from Asia, obviously knew more of the secrets.

Hearing the question, Ella did not hide anything and answered directly: "More than eight hundred years ago, the Fire King of Valyria led his army to attack the Heartbroken Territory.

Well, Sad Territory was once called Chayon, a great city built by the Rhoynar.

Prince Galin of Chayon won several victories in the early stages, but the war ended immediately when hundreds of dragons descended on Chayon.

"In revenge for the defeat Prince Galin had brought upon him, the Fire Lord hung him in a golden cage and dipped him into the Mother River Rhoyna, the god worshipped by the Rhoynar.

Legend has it that Prince Galin prayed to the Mother River Rhoyna to curse his enemies at the cost of his own life and the lives of the remaining Rhoyna in Chayon.

The Fire Lord laughed loudly at Prince Garin at the time and did not take his curse seriously.

But in the dead of night, the mother river Lorne brought down the wrath of God!
In the absence of any rainfall, the entire River Lorne swelled and completely submerged Chayon.

As the floodwaters receded, the captured Rhoynar disappeared, along with thousands of Valyrian soldiers, including the Fire Lord and his dragon."

"The giant dragon was swept away by the flood? This is really bizarre!"

Jacaerys couldn't help but speak up as he listened to Ella's story, which he couldn't tell whether it was real history or legend.

"Yes, and some legends say that the Fire Lord and his dragon are still trapped at the bottom of the River Rhoyne.

Their bodies and minds turned to stone, and their icy breath rose from the riverbed in the form of mist.

Ordinary men who become lost in these mists are infected with the greyscale disease, becoming mad, hungry stone folk."

“Ella, what you said is a mixture of truth and falsehood, making it impossible to judge.

Just tell me what you know about this greyscale disease!"

Hearing Jacaris's last words, Ella turned her eyes left and right and answered evasively, "Your Majesty, I have made a breakthrough in my research recently.

But the dragon materials are consumed too quickly..."

"I'll have someone give you another portion, don't keep you in suspense!"

Jacaerys understood what she meant and immediately interrupted her words of secretly asking for payment.

Hearing this, Ella smiled brightly and quickly told the secret information about greyscale.

“Over the past few hundred years, many extraordinary people have gone to the Sad Territory, trying to dig up this unknown history, as well as possible treasures and resources.

They did discover something, for example, that the flood was most likely a divine ritual triggered by Prince Garin through sacrifice.

And it is impossible for the Fire Lord, who is accompanied by a large number of dragons and blood wizards, to be swept into the flood so easily.

The two sides fought an extraordinary battle that was enough to destroy the entire city!

The result was obvious, the Fire King's army was completely wiped out.

As for Prince Garin's side, there is a high possibility that both sides will perish, and even if they win, it will be a pyrrhic victory.

Some top-level extraordinary people once captured some Stone People from the Sad Territory for research and found that they were also divided into levels.

Stonemen, also known as those infected with greyscale disease.

They can infect ordinary people through skin contact. These stone people will slowly lose their sanity over time and become crazy people who only know hunger.

If they cannot survive the final outbreak of greyscale, these stonemen will die from their internal organs being petrified.

But the very few Stone Men who managed to make it through were covered in scales, had immense strength, and even regained some of their sanity.

This kind of stone people have just touched the extraordinary realm and can be called extraordinary stone people.

I heard that there has always been a force of extraordinary stone people hidden in the Heartbroken Territory, and their leader is called the Shroud King.

Some say the Shroud King is Prince Galen!"

"Hmm? Why does this Greyscale disease sound like it's using ordinary people to raise Gu?"

Jacaerys whispered to himself, then suddenly spoke to Ella,
"Wait, there's something wrong with what you said!
Greyscale has been in Westeros for at least hundreds of years.

According to you, no matter how small the chance is, a small number of the hundreds of thousands of greyscale infected people in Westeros will definitely survive.

But there is no record of any extraordinary stone people in the history of the Seven Kingdoms."

"Your Majesty is really amazing. You can even find such a small problem.

The top extraordinary person who studied the stone people once wanted to cultivate extraordinary stone people in large quantities.

So tens of thousands of ordinary people in a small city were secretly infected with greyscale.

But none of these stone people trained outside the Sad Territory survived the final outbreak stage.

Perhaps this is why the stone people of Essos eventually head to the Heartbreak.

There is some kind of power in the Heartbreak Territory that attracts them and makes it possible for them to become extraordinary stone people!"

As soon as Ella finished speaking, Jakaris immediately interrupted, "Didn't that top-level extraordinary person go to Sad Territory to explore that mysterious power?"

“When we went there, no one didn’t know what happened.

But from then on, Volantis, to which he belonged, sent ships three times a year to provide food supplies to the stone people there.

In fact, some have speculated that the Stonemen may be connected to the missing dragons of the Valyrians.

After all, the scales of the extraordinary stone people are very similar to the dragon scales of a giant dragon in terms of both defense and appearance. "

After Ella told all the secrets she knew, she immediately added, as if she was afraid that Jacaerys would think of going to the Heartbreak Territory.

“Oh, my teacher once told me that besides the ruins of the Valyrian Peninsula, the most dangerous place in Essos is the Heartbreak.

Therefore, I will never go to these dangerous places before I become a top-level extraordinary person! "

"Well, I won't land in Essos until I'm fully prepared.

Okay, Ella, go ahead and get busy! I'll send someone to deliver the dragon material to your magic laboratory."

"Yes, Your Majesty!"

Upon hearing this, Ella immediately turned around and left happily.

But as she left, she used air magic to take away the human skin mask that the Faceless Man had dropped on the ground.

Jakaris' mouth twitched when he saw this, but he didn't say anything to stop it.

I guess Ella is the only one in the entire Red Castle who dares to study this thing.

It would be best if she could use this to find the flaw in the Faceless Men's disguise magic.

But this time, Jacaerys can no longer sit on the Iron Throne and do nothing.

After instructing the two brothers, Benilla and Lusiris, to stay in the Red Castle, he flew away on his dragon.

Da da da!
what! ! !
In the Flea Bottom of King's Landing, teams of Unsullied wearing gloves and masked heads quickly blocked the exit of the Flea Bottom.

Seeing this, the poor people of Flea Bottom, who had been slaughtered by them before, immediately screamed and ran away.

Rudy led a strong man who was tied up tightly with a rope into the room and asked him to identify where his companions were.

He was one of the thugs who were trying to rob Nia but was beaten black and blue instead.

At this moment, the clothes on his back had been completely torn, revealing his horrible skin covered with black and gray scales.

Coleman's intelligence was excellent, and the whereabouts of these exotic beauties were basically under his control.

So in addition to where they lived, Rudy immediately led a team to seal off and isolate the flea nest.

When Jacaerys arrived at the scene riding his dragon, all the thugs had been captured and interrogated by Rudy.

After confirming that they were all infected with greyscale, Jacaerys ordered Vermax to spit dragon flames to burn them to ashes.

But after he learned the details from Rudy, he realized that the situation in King's Landing was not optimistic.

Mainly because it was discovered too late!
Seven days ago, these rogues had scales stabbed into their backs by Nia.

If they were the source of infection deliberately created by 'Nia', then the hundreds of people they came into contact with in the past seven days were the secondary sources of infection.

These hundreds of secondary sources of infection have come into contact with at least thousands of tertiary sources of infection.

Therefore, city-wide epidemic prevention is imperative!
There is a saying in the previous life that all fear comes from the unknown.

Combining what he had seen in his two lives, Jakaris now had a general understanding of the greyscale disease.

He also had full confidence that he could completely control the greyscale before it destroyed King's Landing.

After all, we have experienced epidemics in previous lives. This grayscale disease, which is transmitted through skin contact, cannot be more severe than the new coronavirus, which is transmitted through air and droplets!
To carry out city-wide epidemic prevention, the Unsullied Legion alone is definitely not enough.

So he gathered together the Golden Cloaks, most of the soldiers of the Conqueror Fleet, and the family soldiers of the nobles of the Seven Kingdoms.

They also forcibly requisitioned lime, sulfur, liquor and other items that could be used for sterilization and disinfection from King's Landing.

Then, King's Landing was divided into thirty isolation areas with the Red Castle, the residence of the exotic beauties, and the Flea Bottom as the center.

The first three areas are high-risk areas, the nine areas connected to these three areas are medium-risk areas, and the remaining eighteen areas are low-risk areas.

At this critical moment, Jakaris naturally used thundering means.

He ordered all his soldiers that anyone who dared to disobey orders and leave the isolated area without permission could be killed without reason!

If people cooperate with the quarantine work, they can receive a daily allowance of food that is barely enough to fill their stomachs.

Fortunately, we had the food supplies looted from Dorne, otherwise it would not be enough to deal with this biological crisis.

Jakaris then temporarily trained several disinfection teams and asked them to start spraying lime, sulfur, liquor and other items from the high-risk areas to disinfect the environment in the isolation area.

And regardless of the risk isolation area, all men and women must undergo a physical examination every day.

Of course, Jakaris humanely set up two tents in each isolation area and conducted separate inspections based on gender.

The men were examined by the Gold Robes, the women by the Unsullied.

The Unsullied Army is a well-known eunuch army in King's Landing, so most female civilians can accept it.

Even if they couldn't accept it, they didn't dare say a word.

Human rights? What is that?
There is no such thing in this world!

As for the nobles of the seven countries, they were naturally checked by special male and female servants.

Although Jakaris gave them special care, the inspection was still strict.

And if they are found to be infected with greyscale, their fate will be the same as that of ordinary people... burned to ashes by the dragon flames of Vermax!
Jacaerys actually knew that greyscale did not necessarily lead to death as long as one was infected.

In the previous TV series, Samwell Tarly cured the "Big Bear" Jorah Mormont.

But it’s a TV show after all!

How to treat it in reality and whether it will relapse after being cured are all problems.

Instead of wasting time on such a troublesome problem, it is better to spit out a breath of dragon flame and burn it cleanly.

Under Jakaris's cruel epidemic prevention measures, one after another people infected with grayscale were detected.

During the first four or five days, one to two thousand greyscale infected people were burned to ashes every day.

As time went on, the number of greyscale infections became fewer and fewer.

When no grayscale infections were detected in the low-risk areas for several consecutive days, Jakaris directly lifted their quarantine.

These civilians who have been freed are not stupid and did not go to medium- and high-risk areas without permission.

They still maintained their previous life and began to bring back vitality to King's Landing, which had been blocked for nearly ten days.

Afterwards, just like the epidemic prevention work in previous lives, medium and high-risk areas successively became low-risk areas, and then the isolation was lifted.

This greyscale disease is definitely an unprecedented disaster for the native people of Westeros.

If things go wrong, the entire King's Landing may be destroyed by this horrible infectious disease.

But it took Jakaris less than a month to solve the problem at its root.

After the greyscale epidemic was over, Jacaerys's concubine selection meeting continued.

However, the previous group of exotic beautiful girls was severely infected with grayscale disease and was almost wiped out.

Ella, who occasionally came out for some fresh air, learned about this and reminded Jakaris.

Although these exotic beauties are considered tools for marriage alliances, they are from famous families after all.

For example, Nia, who was replaced by the Faceless Men, her ancestor was Utherod Zayn, the most famous sea king of Braavos.

Although hundreds of years have passed and the influence of the Zainen family is different from before, the power of their family cannot be ignored by anyone.

They probably won't believe the Faceless Men's claim that they used greyscale to assassinate them, and will think that the deaths of the Exotic Girls were all caused by Jacaerys.

These foreign nobles are very concerned about their reputation and will definitely try their best to regain their lost face from Jacaerys, or from the Seven Kingdoms.

It can be said that now the whole of Essos, including Pentos and Braavos, has become Jacaerys' enemy.

But this is exactly what he wants. The more everyone is his enemy, the easier it will be to harvest entry points!

(End of this chapter)