Game of Thrones: Roar of the Dragon

Chapter 163 Return of the King

Dangdang Dangdang!
Before the East Gate was breached, the sound of urgent alarm bells rang throughout Winterfell.

The bells and trumpets of this era convey information through sound and rhythm.

The continuous and urgent sound of the alarm bells means that Winterfell is facing a critical moment of life and death crisis.

After everyone in Winterfell woke up from their dreams, they immediately put on their clothes, picked up their weapons, and rushed towards the east gate.

Benilla, who had always been regarded as a trump card, could no longer bear it even though she did not hear the secret signal from Duke Creggan.

Go straight to the kennels in Winterfell where Moon Dancer is.

"Everyone, get down from the city wall and go to the city gate to provide support!"

When the commander on the east city wall saw that the city gate had been broken, he immediately realized that it was meaningless to hold on to the city wall.

So he loudly commanded all the Northern Alliance soldiers to go to the city gate where the zombies were constantly pouring in to provide support.

As the many Northern Alliance soldiers on the city wall reached the stairs, they saw the fierce battle below.

The guardian of the North, Duke Creggan, led his personal guards and the remaining gatekeepers to form a wall of flesh and blood.

They were under tremendous pressure and used transport carriages and other objects as obstacles to hold back the zombies pouring in from the city gate.

At the same time, they also have to deal with the vines and branches that are constantly spreading from the city.

Fortunately, the East City Gate is too narrow for the ocean-like army of zombies.

A large group of zombies who were extremely excited to see living people were crowding at the city gate, and even fewer could squeeze in within a short period of time.

But no matter how small the number is, it is still much greater than that of Duke Creggan and others on the ground.

Click, click, click!
One after another, the zombies squeezed through the east city gate and rushed towards Duke Creggan and others.

If any of the royal guards or Northern Alliance soldiers made any mistakes, they would take the opportunity to knock them to the ground.

Then they would either bite them alive with their mouths or use old weapons to end their lives amidst the screams of these humans.

"Archers, shoot! Quickly cover the Duke!"

After the commander reacted, he immediately gave the order to attack to his archers.

All the archers standing on the steps of the city wall immediately and skillfully lit a tinder, then drew out special arrows, lit them and started shooting.

shhhhhh!
The flaming arrows shot straight into the army of zombies. A zombie that just jumped up was pierced through the head by a rocket. The entire corpse was knocked down from the air by the power of the arrow and then quickly began to burn. Weiwei.

With their help, the pressure on Duke Creggan and others was greatly reduced.

They had been barely defending themselves, but now they were able to take the initiative to attack.

Blah, blah!
Duke Creggan swung the huge steel sword Han Bing in his hand across a sword-wielding skeleton wight, and its skeleton suddenly collapsed to the ground as if it had lost its support.

After rushing a few meters towards the east gate, Duke Creggan felt like he was stuck in a quagmire.

The closer you get to the city gate, the harder it becomes to move forward.

It seems that his plan to retake the East City Gate has to give up here.

But as the battle became more intense, Duke Creggan also discovered the uniqueness of his ancestral greatsword.

Blah, blah!
The effect of using this greatsword of steel against zombies is completely different from that of ordinary weapons.

Even if a ghoul is cut in half by ordinary weapons, it can still continue to move.

But as long as you are hit by the ice, or stabbed, or even just swept by it.

These zombies will immediately turn into piles of dry bones or rotten corpses that have lost their power.

It’s a pity that the Wagang weapons are too precious and cannot be widely popularized.

Otherwise, if you just want to defend against these zombies at the city gate whose combat effectiveness is not very strong, it shouldn't be a big problem.

Since I can’t get in, I can only retreat!
“Your Excellency the Duke, the brothers are beginning to get tired.

We can't hold out here for long, let's quickly withdraw to the second line of defense!"

As soon as Duke Creggan retreated to the defense line, the captain of his personal guards chopped down a wight with the flaming sword in his hand, then turned around and shouted at him.

"Well, we can no longer defend this place, so retreat is a natural thing to do.

But first we have to deal with those vines and branches that are in the way."

After nodding in agreement with the judgment of his captain of the personal guards, Duke Creggan immediately pointed out the key to retreat.

Although many Northern Alliance soldiers had already begun to rush in from the city and were chopping down the vines and branches that looked like living things.

But the effect was minimal, and the retreat was still blocked by them.

However, when the Northern Alliance soldiers on the city wall came down to support, the pressure on Duke Creggan and others was suddenly reduced.

After taking a short breath, he immediately organized people to pick up torches and other items to burn the vines and branches behind.

Blah, blah!
But at this moment, something strange happened.

I saw that the snow-covered ground behind the East Gate began to bulge upwards.

Then, pale bony hands emerged from the ground.

Not far behind the east gate of Winterfell is the Stark family crypt. If Jacaerys were here, he would definitely send someone to transport all the bodies to another place in advance.

But Duke Creggan did not expect this, so he was caught off guard.

"Everyone listen up. Those of you near the east city gate will resist the zombies, and those of you near the inner city will continue to burn those vines.

And those in the middle, come with me and bury these bones back into the soil!"

Duke Creggan knew that he would not be able to burn the vines and retreat to the second line of defense without dealing with the skeletons crawling out from inside the formation.

So he immediately shouted orders to the guards around him.

"Yes!"

The guards around Duke Creggan and the Northern Alliance all answered loudly in unison.

Then they immediately divided into three parts and dealt with their respective targets in an orderly manner according to his orders.

Interestingly, these skeletons, which looked like hands stretched out in horror movies, finally crawled out of their upper bodies with great difficulty.

Duke Creggan and his men then easily killed him with the weapons in their hands, just like playing the whack-a-mole game in the previous life.

However, the land of Westeros has a history of tens of thousands of years. Before Winterfell was built, countless skeletons were already sleeping in this area.

Even without the crypt, these reawakened bodies would not be so easy to clean up.

And not only in the area where Duke Creggan is located, but also in the area in the rear where a large number of Northern Alliance forces gathered, and even in the second line of defense area, all kinds of skeletons kept emerging.

This directly resulted in the reinforcements having to deal with the skeletons in their respective areas first, and Duke Creggan and others were completely isolated and helpless.

Boom boom boom!
Duke Creggan was anxiously thinking about how to resolve the increasingly bad stalemate.

Suddenly, there was a sound of extremely heavy footsteps outside the East Gate.

As the city gate was blocked by countless zombies, Duke Creggan and others could not see the specific situation.

But the more unknown it was, the more this unknown sound was like a huge rock, weighing heavily on the hearts of Duke Creggan and others.

Bang!
"Clang!" A dull crash sounded.

A large group of zombies and the city gate that were stuck at the East Gate suddenly scattered towards the city like flowers from heaven.

That is……

Duke Creggan took this opportunity to see at a glance what had made the unknown noise.

It turned out to be a giant corpse ghost that was taller than the East City Gate!!!

Duke Creggan's reaction to the giant corpse was not too great.

After all, even the White Walkers have appeared, so having one more legendary giant wight is completely acceptable.

This giant wight with an extremely oppressive size pushed through the group of wights blocking the door and went straight into Winterfell.

But it did not continue moving forward, but stopped.

Then it grabbed a special zombie that was lying on it from the side and threw it forward.

Tear!

When that special corpse was thrown into the sky, it actually pierced its own stomach with its hands, then took out round objects from its stomach and threw them at the Northern defenders below.

A round fruit just happened to fall not far from Duke Clegane. Seeing the familiar fruit,
He immediately got terrified and hid behind a transport carriage, shouting, "It's the Explosion Fruit, quickly hide behind the obstacle!"

But it was too late! Not everyone has his reaction speed.

Bang bang bang!
Orange-red flames rose up in the formation of the Northern defenders.

If you look from the sky, you can see that several open spaces were blown out in the formation of the Northern defenders.

Duke Creggan dodged very timely, and there was only one explosive fruit around, so he was not affected by the explosion.

Unlike the previous battle in Last Hearth, this time the army of zombies has a variety of new tricks.

Duke Creggan's troops were attacked from both front and back and suffered such heavy losses.

If no miracle happened, they would have been completely wiped out.

Hooray, hooray!
The sound of dragon wings breaking through the air came from the direction of the main castle of Winterfell, and a miracle happened.

Wow!

Like a savior, Benilla controlled Moon Dance to spit out light green dragon flames, directly igniting the vines and branches that had blocked Duke Creggan for a long time.

Rustling!

These vines and branches that seemed to have life stretched wildly towards the sky after being ignited.

It looks like he wants to tie up Yuewu in the sky and then pull her to the ground.

Benilla would naturally not let the other party succeed. Although Yuewu’s injuries had not completely healed, they had little impact on its flying speed.

Yuewu was seen flying left and right in the sky, avoiding the vines and branches that were burning.

And when those vines and branches tried to bind the giant dragon in the sky, they naturally could no longer block the retreat of Duke Creggan and others.

"Your Excellency the Duke, we have found a way to retreat. Let's retreat quickly!"

“Well, but there is one more thing to do before leaving, which is to kill the giant corpse ghost.

If we allow it to throw those special corpses with the Explosion Fruit, we won't be able to hold on even if we retreat to the second wall!"

Looking at the giant zombie in front of him who was grabbing another special zombie and preparing to throw it, Duke Creggan's eyes flashed with a burning fighting spirit.

After he finished speaking to his captain of the guards, he turned around and quickly ran towards the stairs of the city wall.

Ordinary weapons or bows and arrows have little effect on giant zombies, but on the city walls, there are large crossbows that have not been very effective before.

Seeing this, the captain of the guard turned around to look at the other soldiers who were beginning to retreat towards the inner city, gritted his teeth and followed Duke Creggan back to the city wall.

Click, click, click!
Duke Creggan came to the east city wall and operated it personally, starting to shake the adjustment lever to change the direction and angle of the large crossbow.

When the captain of the guards saw this, he immediately picked up a thick and long crossbow arrow from the side and started loading it.

Boom!
After adjusting the direction and angle of the large crossbow, Duke Creggan pulled the trigger without hesitation.

In the blink of an eye, the thick crossbow arrow pierced through the back of the giant corpse's neck from behind, and its huge body fell heavily to the ground.

But without fire, the giant corpse could not be defeated with just the thick and long crossbow arrows.

I saw it struggling with its huge body, trying to get up again.

“Shit, almost shot him in the head.

Reload your arrows quickly!"

Seeing that the target was not dead, Duke Creggan began to urge his captain of the guards to reload the thick and long crossbow arrows.

After that, the two sides prepared to attack each other almost at the same time.

Duke Creggan pulled the trigger again, and the giant wight threw special wights at them on the city wall.

"My Lord Duke, be careful!"

Seeing it flying over his head, the captain of the guards roared and pounced towards Duke Creggan who was sitting on the large crossbow.

Bang bang bang!
A series of explosions sounded around the large crossbow. The air waves generated by these explosive fruits directly blew the large crossbow into pieces.

Wow!
Duke Creggan struggled to break free of the fragments of the large crossbow that was pinning him down, and then dragged his captain of the guards out of the ruins.

At this moment, the captain of the guards' legs disappeared, and his back was almost burned to charcoal by the high temperature.

Just now, at the last moment of the explosion, he used his body to cover Duke Creggan tightly.

"Your Excellency, Duke. You are not hurt, are you?

Hurry, run away..."

The first words spoken by this diligent and conscientious captain of the guards were actually his concern for Duke Creggan and asking him to escape quickly.

"Barry, stop talking.

I will carry you to the maester. Don't worry, you will be fine."

Duke Creggan's eyes suddenly became moist upon hearing this, and he held Barry's hand and spoke to comfort him.

"Don't worry about me, run away quickly, otherwise you won't have a chance to return to the second line of defense."

As if it were a last burst of energy, Barry, who had just spoken incoherently, now spoke very fluently.

At the same time, Barry, who was lying on his back, suddenly stretched out his charred other hand and pointed it toward the sky, and continued,
"Your Excellency the Duke, what is that? It's so huge!"

Upon hearing this, Duke Creggan immediately looked up at the sky, and just as he looked up, he felt Barry's hand in his hand fall softly to the ground.

He knew in his heart that Barry, who had been with him and protected him for many years, was dead, but Duke Creggan did not bow his head.

Instead, he looked up at the dark dragon shadow in the sky that was growing larger and larger, and murmured, “That is Womax, and on its back is our King Jakaris.

Our King of Westeros has returned!"

(End of this chapter)