Game of Thrones: Roar of the Dragon

Chapter 145: Three-stage strategy, two continents collide

"What? Are we going to cross the Narrow Sea and march to Essos?"

"Why are you in such a hurry?

Even if the population explodes in the future, the current terraced crops in Westeros will be able to feed it."

"Yes! Our family is taking advantage of the halving of commercial taxes to expand our caravan business.

If we go out now, won’t the initial investment be wasted? "

"Who isn't? Besides, the barbarians from the foreign continent are not easy to mess with!

I've heard that the King of Braavos has a fleet that's second to none.

Most of the nobles in the Seven Kingdoms are not good at naval warfare. We may be sunk in the narrow sea before we even get close."

"Shh, keep your voice down!

If others hear what you said, they will either say that you are not devout enough in your belief in the Dragon God, or that you are not loyal enough to His Majesty the King."

As soon as Jacaerys finished speaking, the nobles of the Seven Kingdoms in the throne room immediately began to whisper to each other.

Lusris in the crowd heard most of what was said. Knowing the inside story, he realized that this was a battle of revenge for his brother.

After all, he had been assassinated many times by that group of foreigners before, and even little Aegon might have been killed by them.

Moreover, my brother never fights a battle without confidence. Since he has proposed an expedition to Essos, he will definitely achieve ultimate victory.

As soon as he thought about it, Lusiris immediately stepped out of the crowd and saluted, saying, "Your Majesty, I request to be your vanguard in your expedition to Essos."

"Very good, since Prince Lusilis has volunteered to fight, I will appoint you as the vanguard commander.

To reward your courage, the first city you conquer this time will be the fiefdom I reward you with."

As soon as Jacaerys finished speaking, the nobles of the seven kingdoms seemed to suddenly react collectively.

No matter how powerful the fleet of those foreign barbarians is, we have the fighting force of seven giant dragons!
If I had tried harder just now, this city would be mine.

The nobles of the seven countries felt as if they had lost a city and regretted it to the core.

"Your Majesty, we, the Staunton family of Crow's Rest, are willing to serve as the vanguard and assist Prince Lusris in his first visit to the continent of Essos."

“Your Majesty, the Dragon God, our Rosby family is the first noble family to believe in the Dragon God Church.

Please let us continue to prove our faith!"

"Your Majesty Jacaerys, our Lake family from Duskdale..."

Looking at the nobles who were vying to be the vanguard, Jacaerys smiled and stretched out his hand to quiet them down.

After playing with these profit-seeking nobles of the Seven Kingdoms for half a year, how could he not know what kind of people they are?

So he continued leisurely, "Since Prince Lusiris has taken the position of vanguard commander, the vanguard troops under his command have been settled.

He has been living with Duke Forrester's Frey family for more than half a year, and he must have gotten along well with them.

They will serve as the vanguard troops to first land on the continent of Essos."

The nobles of the seven kingdoms fell silent upon hearing this, because they all knew what Jacaerys said, and it was reasonable and could not be refuted.

However, some of the smart nobles of the seven countries suddenly felt terrified and their hair stood on end.

It turns out that His Majesty the King had been planning this day for more than half a year.

Jacaerys didn't actually say anything, he just paused for a moment before continuing,
"Don't be discouraged if you didn't become the vanguard. I have seen your bravery.

This war between gods will be a protracted one, and you will definitely have the opportunity to fight for me and for Westeros.

As long as you can achieve victory and military merit, I will grant you corresponding fiefdoms, titles, gold, silver and treasures.

And now, I roughly divide this war of gods into three stages.

In the first stage, Prince Lusris and Duke Forester landed on the continent of Essos and captured a city to establish a stronghold.

Then, with this stronghold as the center, they began to slowly encroach on the surrounding towns.

In the second stage, no matter what method you use, obtain as many ocean-going ships as possible.

Then, just like the previous expedition to Dorne, a team would be formed to transport all the valuable items looted.

The third stage is to transport Westeros civilians to the conquered towns of Essos for permanent colonization.

Alright! I declare that the first phase of the war against Essos will officially begin tomorrow."

Most of the nobles did not know what colonization meant, so they understood the Essos War as an upgraded version of the conquest of Dorne.

The last expedition to Dorne not only enriched a large number of nobles, but also created a number of new noble families.

So this time... the cake is bigger and everyone can get a piece of it!

"Woohoo, Westeros wins!"

"Your Majesty, victory!"

"Wonderful victory, ten thousand victory!"

The shout gradually grew louder and louder, until it became a huge shout that echoed throughout the throne room.

Seeing that his pre-battle morale was going so well, Jacaris waved his hand and asked everyone to go to the banquet hall to enjoy wine and food.

Most of the nobles of the Seven Kingdoms were perceptive, and the few who were not were dragged away by others.

A few minutes later, these idlers left the throne room in groups of three or five.

Snapped!
Jacaerys walked down the steps of the Iron Throne and hugged Lucerys in his arms.

"Darker, but taller and stronger!"

"elder brother……"

Hearing Jakaris' simple yet sincere words, Luciris, who thought he had become strong, immediately had tears in his eyes.

Joffrey, who was standing by, smiled brightly when he saw this, as he was the youngest brother.

He didn't want to see his two brothers having a rift over something that happened half a year ago.

This hug now directly resolved all the dissatisfaction between them.

So Joffrey then seemed to join in the fun, ran up in two or three steps, opened his arms and hugged his two brothers.

Dario and other white knights looked at the three king brothers hugging each other, and a smile from the heart appeared on their faces.

Jacaerys then headed towards the banquet hall in Maegor's Holdfast while chatting with Lucerys about current affairs in the Seven Kingdoms.

During this process, Jakaris looked at his second brother and nodded secretly from time to time.

It turned out that he was right to let Lusiris go out to exercise alone.

If he remained under his protection, he would definitely become a listener with no opinions of his own and only knew how to follow orders.

Even his fiancée, Renia, could manipulate him at will. To use the words of a certain local dialect in his previous life, it was completely bullshit.

Now, when Lusris has a disagreement with his brother during a chat, he will stand firm in his opinion and explain the reasons in detail.

This also made Jakaris more confident that Lusiris could be competent for the duties of vanguard commander.

The banquet hall in Maegor's Tower was only about half the size of the small hall in the Prime Minister's Tower, and could accommodate a hundred people for dinner at the same time. These nobles from the seven kingdoms came today to respond to the war call, so they did not bring their families with them, and this banquet hall was fully capable of accommodating them.

As a Dragon God King who holds both divine power and royal power, it would be absolutely incompetent for him not to be arrogant and extravagant.

The entire banquet hall was brightly lit, and behind each candlestick was a huge, completely polished silver mirror.

This more than tripled the intensity of the light from the braziers and candles in the hall.

The surrounding walls were hung with ribbons embroidered with black three-headed dragons and gorgeous gold ornaments.

At this moment, Queen Benilla, who had not appeared before, as well as three princesses and five concubines, had all taken their seats at the main guest table.

When they saw the three Jakaris brothers coming, they all stood up and lifted their skirts to salute.

Lusris stared at one of his brother's concubines, and his brows gradually furrowed.

Of course, he wasn't looking at the other person's strange white velvet stockings that clung to his legs.

Instead, he was looking at her obviously bulging belly.

Concubine Fina seemed to feel Lusris's gaze. A smile appeared on her perfect face, and then she nodded to the king's brother.

Luthris did not get Joffrey's answer because Lord Samwell was hurrying them on the road.

Only now did he discover that the woman who was pregnant with his brother's first child was actually a concubine of commoner origin.

Lusris, who had grown up and become sensible, suddenly had a brainstorm in his mind, as if he saw the blood dragon's dance erupting again after decades.

Jacaerys glanced at the dazed Lusiris, and followed his gaze.

He figured out the reason quickly and burst into laughter. It seemed that he was thinking too much about his younger brother now that he had grown up.

With him, the semi-immortal Dragon God King, around, these descendants can only be heirs forever.

Perhaps when he gets tired of playing, Jakaris will choose an outstanding descendant to abdicate.

But even behind the scenes, he will always hold supreme power in Westeros and Essos.

After asking his brothers to take their seats, Jacaerys informed the maids to start the meal.

After becoming king, Jacaerys indulged himself in the gentle life in the early days.

But after nurturing more than sixty flower buds into brilliantly blooming flowers, his sense of novelty slowly faded.

The monotonous food in this world suddenly made him feel unbearable.

So he personally improved the Chinese cuisine of his previous life into localized dishes.

After passing these dishes to the chefs at Red Fort, they were quietly spread out.

These dishes have now become an indispensable part of every meal for the nobles in King's Landing, and I believe they will spread throughout the Seven Kingdoms soon.

Only a small number of these nobles today are from King's Landing and the Crown Territory. Most of them are "country bumpkins" who came from all over the Seven Kingdoms.

So when they tasted the improved dishes served by the maids, their eyes lit up and they devoured them voraciously.

The nobles from King's Landing and the Royal Territory sneered upon seeing this, completely forgetting that they had experienced the same thing when they tasted it for the first time.

After the banquet, the emperor and his ministers toasted each other with wine and had a great time. Then the night fell and passed quickly.

Early the next morning, the Conqueror fleet quietly sailed from Blackwater Bay to Blackwater River.

Five thousand Frey family soldiers were already waiting at Fisherman's Square behind the River Gate.

Naturally, the nobles of the seven nations would not miss the grand spectacle of the first expedition of this war of gods.

They stood on the city wall of Linhe Gate and looked around, wondering when and under what circumstances their Dragon God King would appear.

Only one-third of the Conqueror's fleet would be needed to transport these five thousand men.

When the large and small ships docked, Earl Samwell, the Minister of the Admiralty, immediately ordered the vanguard troops to board the ships.

The neatly-arranged Frey family soldiers immediately took action after hearing the order.

It took about half a day for the 5,000 vanguard troops to complete boarding the ship.

Hooray, hooray!
At the same time, Araxes, with a pearly white body, flew towards the River Gate carrying Lusiris.

Even before in the Twins, Araxes was provided with the best dragon feed by dedicated dragon guards.

So its size has skyrocketed from about eight meters to about twelve meters.

In the eyes of the nobles of the seven countries, this body size is already extremely oppressive.

But at this moment, Vermax, who was ten times larger than Araxes, appeared through the clouds in the sky.

Its huge dragon wings with a wingspan of two to three hundred meters cast a huge shadow below, as if completely covering half of the entire Linhe Gate.

"Look, His Majesty the Dragon God is standing on top of the Holy Dragon that protects the nation!

Is he going to jump from such a high altitude again? "

Following an exclamation from a noble of the Seven Kingdoms who had witnessed the incident, tens of thousands of people around Linhe Gate raised their heads in unison, then squinted their eyes and looked at the dragon head of Womax.

I saw a figure wearing a black suit and a red cloak standing proudly on the dragon head.

As if sensing that everyone's eyes were on him, the black figure was about to walk down from above Womacks' head, which was hovering dozens of meters in the air.

Yes!

Jacaerys actually walked down from the sky out of thin air.

When the strong wind from high in the sky blew up his cloak, he really looked like a god descended from the kingdom of God.

This scene was deeply engraved in the minds of tens of thousands of people in Linhemen, and it would probably spread throughout the seven countries in no time.

But where they couldn't see, they saw that every time Jakaris took a step, the air under his feet would distort and fluctuate.

Sitting on the dragon saddle of Womax, Ella, who was wearing a magic mask engraved with strange runes, looked unhappily at Jakaris who had only traveled one-third of the way in the air.

Then he took out a mask magic weapon similar to the previous one from his arms and crushed it directly.

A translucent mist poured into Ella's body, and her eyes suddenly became as bright as stars.

She was so focused on her magic research that she had no idea what Jakaris was doing.

This air magic that helps him prop up in the air may look simple, but it is actually an advanced magic that Ella has recently learned after using her previous resources to break through the realm.

Since it is advanced magic, the magic power consumption is naturally extraordinary.

In order to cooperate with Jakaris's performance in public, she would have to waste at least three mask magic weapons that stored magic power.

If Jakaris hadn't given her double the dragon materials, she would never have wasted her precious magic weapon on such a boring thing.

What Ella thought was boring now brought a huge shock to the Frey family soldiers who were about to go to war.

Jacaerys was seen walking in the air like a god, and he reached a height almost equal to the wall of Linhemen.
Then he drew out the black fire with his right hand and pointed it towards the eastern continent of Essos, shouting, "My warriors, you will receive the protection and power of the Dragon God.

Now, go conquer Essos!"

"Ugh!!!"

The entire vanguard force suddenly became full of momentum, and the Conqueror Fleet took this opportunity to set sail towards the continent of Essos.

Westeros sends troops to foreign countries, and the two continents that have lived in peace for nearly ten thousand years are about to collide violently!
(End of this chapter)