Game of Thrones: The Wrath of the Sleeping Dragon

Mia quickly nodded.

The two then made their way through a maze of turns to an empty room inside the ship's cabin.

bang——

They closed the door tightly, bolted it from the inside with a click, and rested for a short while.

"Whoo~"

"Whoo~"

The red-haired girl was breathing heavily, her chest heaving; she was clearly terrified by what had just happened.

She had considered the possibility of encountering terrifying sea monsters and horrific demons, but she never imagined that such a thing would happen after entering the Smoky Sea.

Many people who have inhaled too much smog have begun to fall into a state of madness and delusion.

It began to attack those around it in a fit of madness, shouting "sea monster" all the while.

Where is the sea monster?

"These sea monsters are clearly themselves!"

The red-haired girl took another deep breath, then seemed to remember something, her throat bobbed, and she swallowed.

Now, hiding inside the cabin, she is still a little scared thinking about what just happened.

Without warning, those of their kind, with bloodshot eyes, began to attack their friends, even shouting to kill the sea monster.

Do they see all conscious humans as sea monsters?

Mia remembered that before she and Eamon escaped into the cabin, many pairs of scarlet eyes were already fixed on her.

However, after they escaped into the cabin, they blocked the door with heavy objects, and the crazed mercenaries and sailors estimated that they would not be able to break in for a while.

but.

Actually, not everyone on the deck went mad; there were still many people who remained sober.

Viserys and Mia reacted quickly, covering their mouths and noses to reduce the inhalation of the fog. Similarly, some people were physically strong, and the fog did not have a significant impact on them.

Just like the arrival of a plague, some people with poor physical condition or bad luck get sick and die, while others seem as if nothing has happened.

Viserys pulled Mia into the cabin, where they could still hear the sounds of fighting coming from the deck above.

"Kill the sea monster!"

"Kill the sea monster!"

The piercing screams filled one with despair.

If they hadn't witnessed what had just happened, Viserys and Mia might have found the roar incredibly tragic, but now they only felt a chill run down their spines.

puff--

thump.

The sound of a longsword piercing flesh was heard, followed by the heavy fall of the corpse onto the deck.

The battle between Viserys and Mia above their heads continues.

However, the intense battle led to increased physical activity and increased lung capacity. Those who were conscious gradually inhaled more gray fog than their bodies could bear after the fighting.

Blood vessels gradually appeared in her clear eyes, making them look like scarlet eyes from a distance.

A mercenary who had just been holding on had several monsters he had killed lying on either side of him.

However, he gradually couldn't hold on any longer. He inhaled too much of the gray fog and started coughing involuntarily, his mind gradually sinking into chaos.

At that moment, in his moment of clarity, the last thing he saw was a crazed sailor lunging at him.

Then...

Then he saw the sea monster.

"Hansen! What are you doing!"

The sailor who rushed forward raised his longsword high, then abruptly froze in mid-air.

He blinked his scarlet eyes, tilted his head slightly, and suddenly asked stiffly.

The sailor then sheathed his sword and pulled Hansen, whose eyes were also red, up from the ground.

"Kill the sea monster quickly!"

"We're almost there!"

Hansen, on the other hand, was in a daze and had even forgotten what had just happened.

I don't know why I fell to the ground, or what my surroundings were like.

What are you saying?

But after being 'reminded' by his companion, Hansen stood up and looked around.

Only then did they realize that the surrounding area was littered with severed sea monster tentacles, some still wriggling haphazardly as someone stepped forward to finish them off, while a few struggling tentacles were being besieged by their companions in the distance.

"It's a sea monster!"

Hansen shuddered at the sight and quickly picked up his longsword from the ground.

It seems I was just stunned by the sea monster, and my brain hasn't processed what happened not long ago.

The current situation is clear: the fleet has been attacked by a sea monster, and many of our brothers have been killed or wounded.

"Damn sea monster!"

"Kill the sea monster!"

Without much thought, Hansen let out a shrill scream and charged toward the sea monster's tentacles, which were being attacked by its companions not far away.

...

"This fog is not simple."

Below deck, Viserys and Mia, who were hiding in the cabin, took refuge in an empty room.

Viserys remained calm and began to analyze the situation. His composure eased Mia's tension considerably.

"They contain strong hallucinogenic components, which caused the sailors and mercenaries to fall into a hallucination and begin killing each other."

"But why would they say they saw a sea monster?"

Meanwhile, the red-haired girl sitting on the opposite bed had calmed down considerably.

Although still a little nervous, I took a deep breath and spoke.

Chapter 316 Miraculous Recovery

"Perhaps... he's fallen into some kind of delusional state."

Viserys was silent for a moment, then spoke.

"Everyone has heard the legend of sea monsters in the sea."

The world's imagination of sea monsters is mostly limited to tentacled monsters resembling giant octopuses or squids.

For example, the giant golden squid from the Greyjoy family.

A small number of people imagine sea monsters as giant whales, after all, such behemoths are the undisputed rulers of the ocean even if they don't grow into sea monsters.

However, these creatures are docile and do not appear ferocious, so there are relatively few legends that imagine sea monsters as whales.

"The root of terror actually stems from people's inner fears."

"Everyone has heard of sea monsters in the misty sea, and the presence of the gray fog has fueled their fear, leading them to mistakenly believe they have been attacked by sea monsters, so..."

The young man with long, silver-gold hair sat on the bed, his mind racing as he tried to explain the mystery, but his words came to an abrupt halt.

"So...what?"

“Imon”.

Mia wiped the blood off the dagger. She had calmed down considerably by now, and then looked up to ask him a question.

"Is there no way to explain why these infected people only attack conscious humans and not their 'fellows'?"

"If it were just pure fantasy, they should have killed everyone around them."

"People who have gone mad should no longer be able to clearly distinguish between friend and foe."

Mia and Viserys just observed that all the people with bloodshot eyes who had gone mad were attacking the sane humans.

However, they do not attack each other; in fact, they can cooperate perfectly without any collateral damage, just like a group of clear-headed individuals.

"Yes."

Viserys frowned slightly and nodded when he heard Mia's words.

He was indeed puzzled by the problem and didn't know why this was happening.

However, because of Gillian's diary, Viserys knew more than Mia.

He knew that sea monsters did exist in the Sea of ​​Smoke, because Gillian had encountered one, and the people on the ship paid a great price to finally escape to that lost continent.

Viserys once had unwavering faith in Gillian's diary, but now he suddenly began to doubt its authenticity.

He had no doubt that the diary was forged by Gillian to lure him into exploring the Valyrian ruins.

Even without Gillian's design and luring, he himself would inevitably come here in the future; this place is the key to unraveling the mystery of the black mist.

He was suspicious of what was described in Gillian's letter.

Do sea monsters really exist?

According to Gillian's diary, the fleet was attacked by a sea monster, and all the crew members fought back and cut off the monster's tentacles.

Although the crew suffered heavy losses in the end, they still managed to escape the sea monster's attack.

Viserys now had some doubts: was what Gillian saw back then really a 'sea monster'?

Or perhaps, just like what Viserys himself experienced, it was all just people's imagination, leading to mutual slaughter, and in reality, there was no such thing as a sea monster.

"Then...Aemon, what should we do now?"

Then the room fell silent again, and after a long while, the red-haired girl finally spoke again.