Game of Thrones: Roar of the Dragon

Chapter 93 A Difficult Choice
In the inner city of the Red Castle in King's Landing, Cheese walked towards the gate with his dog.

Behind him, a hunchbacked assistant with short black hair and a stained face was carrying a pile of clinking mouse traps.

"Hey, Stinky Cheese, why is there an extra person today?"

Cheese always smells bad because of the constant contact with dirty dead rats.

The royal guards of the Red Keep naturally added the word "stinky" before his nickname.

“Because Princess Helena, no, Queen Helena is afraid of mice.

So the housekeeper increased the reward for each mouse.
This is my old friend, and we are going to have a big fight today while there are few people around."

Upon hearing this, Cheese immediately began to explain, and while speaking he stuffed a bag of copper stars into the hands of the royal guards guarding the gate.

The royal guard weighed it in surprise and said with a smile, "Oh, it seems you really want to make a fortune!

Well, go in! You know which areas are off-limits. "

"Don't worry, I don't have that much brain to take risks."

After some joking and bantering, Cheese led his hunchbacked assistant into the inner city.

After getting away from the group of royal guards guarding the gate, the smile on Cheese's face instantly turned into nervousness.

He tilted his head and whispered to the hunchbacked assistant behind him: "I brought you in, where's the rest of the money?"

"Wait until we leave safely, and then you can go find the white maggots and claim your reward."

The hunchbacked assistant raised his head, which had been lowered, and was surprised to see that it was Damon in disguise.

"You guys? You still want to take people out? This is different from the original agreement.

Well, at least another fifty, no, one hundred gold royals..."

Ang~~
While they were bargaining over the cheese, a dragon roar was heard from the direction of the dragon's lair.

Then, almost everyone in King’s Landing could see a massive, yellow-scaled dragon flying off toward the northwest.

Syrax?

It looks like something happened at the dragon's lair, we have to hurry.

When Daemon looked up and saw the yellow-scaled dragon, he immediately realized that he didn't have much time.

"I'll give you two hundred gold royals, and take me to the royal chambers in Maegor's Holdfast right now.

Say one more word of nonsense and I'll slit your throat and stuff a rat in it."

Cheese's heart trembled when he felt Damon's murderous intent, and he immediately took him to Maegor's Tower.

Today was the big day for the new king's coronation, and most of the royal guards and gold cloaks were at the Dragon's Lair keeping order.

So not only in Maegor's Holdfast, but in the entire Red Keep, there are very few royal guards.

Without wasting much time, Daemon and his companions reached the royal bedroom area of ​​Maegor's Holdfast.

According to the information obtained by the white maggots, Joffrey, young Aegon, and young Viserys were imprisoned here.

In fact, Emond originally wanted to lock up the three children in a dark cell filled with death row prisoners.

Although Queen Alicent hated Daemon and Jacaerys for killing Maelar, she could not bear to be cruel to Rhaenyra's children.

She directly ordered Joffrey and the other two to be placed under house arrest in Rhaenyra's former room and sent four royal guards to guard them.

Before approaching the destination, Daemon took out the Dark Sister and the dagger, which were pressed against his back and disguised as a hunchback with the hilt of the sword.

After finishing preparations, Cheese walked around the corner towards the four royal guards, holding the dog in his left hand and the mousetrap in his right hand.

"Go away, you damned rat catcher. This is not the place for you."

The royal guard closest to Cheese frowned and walked towards him while scolding him.

Da da da!
Swish!
Damon, who was hiding behind the cheese, suddenly jumped out like a cheetah, and the dark sister at his waist drew her sword out of its sheath and killed him with one blow.

giggle!
The royal guard, who had no time to react, covered his neck, spit out blood and fell to the ground.

"There's an assassin, come!"

The other three royal guards shouted upon seeing this and rushed towards Damon with their swords drawn.

The first royal guard stabbed Damon in the chest with his sword simply and powerfully.

The Dark Sister in Damon's hand swept from left to right with a backhand sweep.

Ding!

The Dark Sister slashed hard at the middle of the royal guard's sword, splitting it in two.

Damon then raised his right hand holding the sword and turned his wrist, and the Dark Sister slashed back from right to left very smoothly.

Tear!

The royal guard suddenly froze in place, and then a horrible bloodstain appeared above his left cheek, and then extended straight to the bottom of his right cheek.

Wow!

Half of the royal guard's head fell to the ground, and red and white blood flowed all over the ground.

The remaining two royals turned their heads and looked at each other, then immediately adjusted their pace and charged in parallel, wanting to use their numerical advantage to attack Damon at the same time.

Damon showed a happy smile of enjoying the battle. He took a step forward and used the lightness and hardness of the Dark Sister in his hands to block the two long swords by himself.

Bang!
While blocking the opponent's attack, Damon's right foot directly kicked the royal guard on the right back two steps.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, he attacked the guard on the left with all his might.

With just two or three strikes, the Dark Sister pierced through the guard's armor and into his heart.

At this time, the royal guard on the right stepped forward again.

Damon, who didn't have time to pull out the Dark Sister, simply dropped his sword, pulled out a dagger from his waist and threw it out.

puff!

His throwing skill was so accurate that the sharp dagger pierced directly into the eye socket of the royal guard on the right.

Damon slowly pulled out the Dark Sister from the body of the royal guard on the left, and then gave the royal guard, who was covering his eyes and screaming, a final blow from the sword.

This one-on-four battle lasted only half a minute from start to finish, and Damon directly demonstrated his superb art of killing.

Squeak!

Damon, his body splattered with blood, stepped over the corpse on the ground and pushed open the door.

Inside the room, the three brothers who heard the screams huddled together tightly.

Joffrey, with a bandage on his left eye, protected his two younger brothers behind him just like he did on Dragonstone.

When Damon saw this scene, the expression on his face suddenly softened.

"Joffrey, Aegon, Viserys, follow me!"

A familiar voice sounded, and Joffrey and the other two recognized Daemon, the man with short black hair and covered in blood.

"Father!"

Seven-year-old Aegon and five-year-old Viserys were the first to rush over and hug Daemon.

Daemon didn't waste any time. He sheathed the Dark Sisters, picked one up in each hand, and left the room with Joffrey who was walking forward.

Cheese, who was anxiously waiting outside the door, saw Damon coming out and immediately walked quickly towards the Prime Minister's Tower.

He was the person who knew the secret passage of the Red Castle best, so naturally he also knew where the only available secret passage was.

In order to make it easier for Aemond and to leave a way out for himself, Sir Otto did not close the secret passage in the Prime Minister's Tower.

But he installed a bolt on this secret passage so that it could only be opened from inside the Prime Minister's Tower.

The Red Castle's defenses today were indeed unprecedentedly weak. Several minutes after Damon and the others left, four figures rushed to the scene after hearing the noise.

The leader was undoubtedly Bent-foot Laris.

If he had not heard the noise in Princess Helena's room, this place would probably have been discovered only after Damon and others escaped from the Red Castle.

Laris, who was very smart, walked around the house and said to himself, "It is impossible for the intruder to force his way out through the main gate of the Red Castle with three children.

So where can we go? The Prime Minister's Tower... You three, go to the Prime Minister's Tower!"

He was the one who discovered all the secret passages in the Red Castle, and naturally he also secretly paid attention to which ones Sir Otto had sealed and which ones had been left open.

As soon as Laris's order came, the three royal guards around him immediately left him and strode forward.

As the Hand of the King, he naturally has to serve his king at all times, so the Prime Minister's Tower and the bottom floor of Maegor's Holdfast are connected.

When Damon and his companions successfully arrived at the bottom floor of Maegor's Holdfast, they happened to meet the famous White Knight twins, Eric Cargill and Alec Cargill.

The two were originally on guard at the Dragon's Lair, but a royal guard informed them that the Prime Minister had asked them to find Queen Alicent and Princess Helena.

After returning to Maegor's Holdfast, he happened to meet Daemon holding the child.

Neither of them recognized Damon, who was disguising himself by cutting and dyeing his hair, but the features of the three children were too obvious.

Clang!
Alec, who was extremely loyal to the Green Party, drew his sword immediately. Ilic beside him put his hand on the hilt with a complicated look in his eyes.

"Take them and escape first!"

Daemon gave Cheese instructions, put his two sons down and pulled out the Dark Sister.

Alec and Erik immediately recognized Daemon by the famous Varsteel sword.

"The Kingslayer Daemon Targaryen is here, come quickly!"

Alec is quite self-aware and knows that his swordsmanship is not as good as Damon's.

Before rushing into battle, he shouted a warning to attract the royal guards in Maegor's Holdfast.

Dangdang Dangdang!
Damon and Alec were entangled with each other, and the two swords kept colliding, making a series of collision sounds.

Although Daemon's weapons and swordsmanship were superior, Alec was a white knight after all, and he was also paying attention to Joffrey and the other two.

The two men fought fiercely for a while.

Alec, who was in the middle of the fight, suddenly caught sight of his twin brother standing there, and immediately yelled, "Eric, what are you standing there for?
Either fight with me or go get those kids!"

Ah~~
At this moment, a child's scream came from the direction of the Prime Minister's Tower.

Daemon immediately turned around and saw three royal guards chasing Joffrey and his companions like an eagle catching chickens.

Five-year-old Viserys was the slowest runner and was already held tightly in the arms of a royal guard.

Seeing that the situation was not good, Cheese had already run into the Prime Minister's Tower alone.

good chance!
Seeing that Damon made a serious mistake due to distraction, Alec took the opportunity to raise the sword in his hand and chop it hard at his head.

clang!
A long sword came in from the side at an extremely fast speed, just in time to block the fatal sword for Damon.

"Prince Damon, leave this to me, you go and save them!"

Eric shouted loudly to Damon, and immediately swung the sword in his hand to attack Alec, who was full of disbelief.

"Damn it, Irik, why?"

"For Viserys the First. For honor!"

Damon ignored the White Knight twins who were fighting for their own ideals, and his attention was all on his three children.

Damon burst out at his fastest speed and rushed towards the nearest royal guard like a cheetah.

puff!

The royal guard, who was unable to catch up with Joffrey, had no time to react and was stabbed in the head by a sword, dying on the spot.

At this time, the seven-year-old Aegon was also caught by another royal guard and carried on his shoulders.

"run!"

Knowing that they were no match for Damon, the two royal guards looked at each other, turned around and fled in two directions.

"Father, save me!"

"Wooooooah~~Father!"

Aegon and Viserys cried for help at the same time, and Daemon was suddenly faced with a difficult choice.

If we miss this opportunity today, it will be extremely difficult to save people again.

It was very likely that this was the last time he saw his other son.

Da da da!
After only a second or two of hesitation in his mind, he made his choice.

Daemon rushed straight towards little Viserys, who was closest to him.

The royal guard holding little Viserys was naturally no match for Daemon.

But he delayed Damon for three or four minutes before his death.

"Prince Daemon, get out of here!"

When Daemon came back carrying little Viserys, Erik rushed over carrying Joffrey.

Not far away, Alec fell to the ground with a sword in the leg, but a group of royal guards appeared at the gate of Maegor's Holdfast.

Turning his head to look at the direction where little Aegon disappeared, Daemon decisively ran towards the Prime Minister's Tower.

After entering the Hand's Tower, Erik immediately put Joffrey down, then turned around to close the door and bolt it.

Bang bang bang!
As soon as the door was closed, there were continuous banging sounds. However, given the quality of the door, it was impossible for it to be knocked open in a short time.

Damon and his three companions quickly climbed up the stairs of the Prime Minister's Tower.

When they arrived at the King's Hand's chambers, they saw that a bolted slab of stone had been lifted from the floor.

Needless to say, Cheese has escaped from this secret passage.

Carrying little Viserys on his back, Daemon was the first to enter the straight downward staircase tunnel.

Eric then allowed Joffrey, who could move on his own, to enter.

Just as he was about to leave, he suddenly remembered something, stood up and rushed out of the King's Hand's bedroom.

A minute later, he entered the secret passage holding a golden crown engraved with the three-headed dragon family emblem in his hand.

This golden crown was worn by Viserys I, the king to whom Erik served.

Rustling!

After walking through the secret passage of the Red Castle for nearly twenty minutes, Damon and his three companions walked out of the closet of a bedroom in a residential building near the Red Castle.

As soon as they came out of the secret passage, they saw Cheese lying on the floor of the room with a knife in the back.

"Mother!"

When Joffrey and little Viserys saw Rhaenyra waiting nearby, they immediately rushed over excitedly.

"Joffrey, I'm sorry."

Rhaenyra first apologized to Joffrey with a guilty look on her face, then suddenly realized something was wrong and turned to ask Daemon, "Where's Aegon?"

Damon didn't say anything, but just shook his head at her with a cold face.

"Princess Rhaenyra, I bring you your father's crown."

"Thank you for your loyalty, Ser Elric."

"Hey, if you want to reunite, wait until you leave King's Landing!"

"White Maggot" Messaria interrupted the conversation between Rhaenyra and the other, urging them to leave King's Landing as soon as possible.

After leaving the house, Rainiera and the others got on the freight carriage that Messalia had prepared for them in advance.

The number of gold-cloaked guards at the major gates of King's Landing has been greatly reduced today.

In addition, Damon contacted his old subordinates in advance, and the freight carriage left King's Landing very smoothly.

Of course, a big part of the reason for this is that they did not choose the Linhe Gate and Steel Gate, which were heavily guarded.

The former leads to Storm's End where Jacaerys' army is located, and the latter leads to Duskendale and then to Dragonstone.

Rhaenyra and Daemon chose the Dragon Gate, which leads to the Riverlands, the Valley and the North!

(End of this chapter)