Game of Thrones: The Wrath of the Sleeping Dragon

Has His Majesty been crowned Emperor?

"His Majesty intends to rebuild Valyria?"

The people of King's Landing did not understand what political direction the Iron Throne's move represented, but they were still thrilled and could not help but shout Viserys's name.

This symbolizes the strength of the nation. A strong nation is naturally free from external invasion, and its people can live and work in peace and contentment. When facing merchants coming from across the narrow sea, they can hold their heads high and feel proud.

"King Viserys!"

"Your Majesty!"

"Wrong! We should now address him as His Majesty the Emperor!"

"The most glorious and supreme emperor of the Andals, the Rhoynar, and the Valyrians has ascended the throne! Long live His Majesty the Emperor!"

Notices were posted throughout the streets and alleys of King's Landing, and the people cheered and surged like a tide into the square below the Red Keep, shouting the Emperor's name towards the palace above.

Merchants from the trading cities that traveled between Westeros and Essos couldn't help but change their expressions slightly upon seeing these notices.

They instinctively felt that something terrible was about to happen, so they hurriedly returned to their lodgings to write letters to their hometowns, telling them what had happened in King's Landing.

Chapter 664 Battle of Tianji City

The wheels of history never stop because of any one event.

Just as King's Landing made the historically significant decision to rebuild Valyria, far away in Dorne, on the battlefield of Sky City, war was raging.

"kill!"

The royal army soldiers are launching a fierce attack on this 'City of the Azure Sky', which is located behind the Prince's Pass at the end of an ancient road.

Tianji City is known as the City of the Azure Sky because it is located on high ground, making it easy to defend and difficult to attack. Below it are jagged rocks, with no decent roads or flat land. War machines such as catapults and siege engines cannot be deployed here. The only option is for soldiers to rely on their flesh and blood to raise ladders and launch attacks on the city walls.

"kill!"

The young Dornish man, Cullen, dressed in light leather armor and the cloak of the Clinton family of Storm's End, led a group of archers to fire arrows at the walls of Sky and City, suppressing the archers on the walls.

He was the most talented hunter in the village. As long as he held a bow and arrow, his prey could not escape his pursuit. To him, there was no difference between shooting people and shooting animals. In fact, humans were not as agile as animals, and their movements were as clumsy as a big brown bear.

The brown-haired boy drew his bow, narrowed one eye, aimed at a Fleur family soldier who was peeking out from behind the battlements, and then released his finger, the bowstring snapping open.

bang——

The arrow flew from the boy's hand, fast, accurate, and ruthless, piercing the eye socket of the Fleur family soldier with perfect precision, as if it had eyes.

"what--"

The enemy soldier let out a shrill scream and fell from the city wall, knocking a half-climbed Wang soldier off the ladder. The two rolled down the wall and were half-dead.

The walls of Tianji City are surrounded by bare, strange rocks, some of which are extremely hard and covered with sharp points. Falling off the walls would result in death or serious injury.

After leading fifty warriors across the Red Mountains and overcoming numerous hardships to successfully breach the Prince's Pass, defeating the Fowlers' soldiers and capturing the pass, Dornish youth Karen was personally appointed by the Hand of the King, Jon Clinton.

Karen was knighted for his meritorious service and will have his own fiefdom and position when he returns to the Stormlands.

At this moment, however, he is fighting alongside his comrades to attack Tianji City and avenge his father, mother, and brother.

"Go to hell!"

The brown-haired young man hid behind a rock, took another arrow from the quiver on his back, drew his bow, and fired, taking the life of a Fleur family soldier.

"Go to hell!"

Karen's archery skills were astonishing; he fired arrows filled with vengeful fury, washing away the blood of his enemies.

The battle was extremely fierce. Not long ago, Prince's Pass fell, and Old Falcon only led a small number of soldiers to escape back to Tianji City. Then, relying on the geographical advantage of Tianji City and the fact that these few soldiers were putting up a stubborn resistance.

However, at that moment, the sound of a retreat horn suddenly came from behind Wang Jun.

It turned out that an army bearing the banner of House Uller of Prison Gate had arrived from a distance and launched an attack on the royal army. As the commander-in-chief, Jon Clinton was forced to sound the horn, ordering the army to halt the attack on Skygate and retreat back to their camp.

"Reinforcements from Tianji City have arrived."

"It seems the Fowler family has many 'friends'."

A middle-aged man with greyish-red hair sat upright on his warhorse, the King's Hand medal on his chest reflecting the sunlight slightly. His expression was calm, without the slightest hint of panic.

"Are they crazy?"

"How dare they oppose the Iron Throne?"

A Second Legion general from Essos standing next to Jon Clinton asked, puzzled.

He was a Rhoynar, but he did not consider these Dornish people as his own, because they were the Rhoynar who led ten thousand ships across the Narrow Sea to escape to Dorne. This involved many grudges of the ancient Rhoynar kingdom, which need not be elaborated upon.

To this Roynar general, the 'Prince' was a supreme being, and he couldn't understand why these people dared to defy his 'Prince,' especially when they clearly couldn't win.

"Actually, there's nothing hard to understand."

"They are Dorneans."

"If you can understand the thoughts of the Dornish, then you are one of them."

Jon Clinton sat upright on his warhorse, his voice cold and laced with prejudice against the Dornish.

Although he and Oberyn were good friends, it did not change his terrible impression of the Dornish.

This is not hard to understand, because Jon Clinton is a Stormlander, and his former fief was Eagle's Nest, where he was the Earl until he was stripped of his title by the Mad King.

How could a nobleman from the Stormlands possibly have any goodwill towards the Dornish? They are sworn enemies for centuries.

"Perhaps they enjoyed too much preferential treatment in the past few years and no longer know who their masters are."

"Perhaps it was because they defeated a dragon hundreds of years ago that they gained too much confidence."

After Princess Renée's first menstruation, Jon Clinton repeatedly urged Viserys to marry her, believing it to be His Majesty's inescapable 'responsibility'.

He didn't explicitly say who he was targeting, but claimed it was a tradition of the Targaryen family and the Valyrian dragon riders.

If we learn from the historical lessons of previous dynasties and want the royal family to remain legitimate forever, we must ensure that princes of pure blood sit on the throne, rather than disrupting the bloodline.

Jon Clinton did not express it openly, but it was clear to everyone that he wanted to push for a new queen to join the harem in order to replace and balance the position of Queen Arianne from Dorne.

Oberyn, who was clear-headed, initially wanted to voice his opposition, but after much deliberation, he decided not to get involved in the palace intrigue and chose to observe from the sidelines. He also privately advised his old friend not to get too involved.

Because royal court intrigues are often exceptionally brutal, and can result in bloodshed.

Even though Viserys married Rhaenys, and the young queen also had half Dornish blood, Dornish interests remained unaffected.

Unfortunately, Jon Clinton did not heed Oberon's sincere advice.

"It's time."

Then, looking at the army not far away, with the banners of Prison Gate and more Dornish nobles flying, Jon Clinton murmured softly.

Chapter 665 Imperial Southern Tour

"It's time."

"I didn't expect to catch so many people at once."

In the sky, a grey-backed falcon soared, its grey-black eyes surveying the battlefield below, before rising with the wind.

On the battlefield, atop the walls of Tianji City, the old falcon Franklin Fuller watched the royal army slowly retreat back to their camp, then couldn't help but throw away his blood-stained longsword and burst into laughter.

"Hahaha--"

"Our reinforcements have finally arrived."

The Earl of Tianji City's armor was tattered, and his white beard was stained with blood. The soldiers of the Fowler family on the city wall could no longer laugh; they all sat down on the ground, panting heavily, their eyes filled with the relief of surviving a disaster.

Tianji City was just a hair's breadth away from being breached. Since the Prince's defeat at the pass, the Fowler family has only a few hundred soldiers left to hold out desperately.

If it weren't for the harsh geographical conditions of Sky City, which made it extremely easy to defend and difficult to attack, it might have already fallen, and Count Fowler would have been taken to King's Landing for trial.

Fortunately, Franklin Fowler was well-liked and had many connections in Dorne. More importantly, the policies of the Seven Kingdoms had aroused much dissatisfaction among the Dornish nobles, who wanted to take the opportunity to express their discontent. The royal army broke through the Prince's Pass and invaded Dorne, touching a nerve among the Dornish nobles.

They certainly wouldn't expect the Iron Throne to change its policies to consider the feelings of the Dornish nobles.

The nobles of Dorne, though mad, were not without brains; they knew it was utterly impossible, tantamount to open rebellion.

What awaits them will be just like the First and Second Wars of Dorne, where the armies of the six nations will attack Dorne from multiple directions, causing bloodshed and paying an extremely heavy price to win the war.

Therefore, the Dornish nobles wanted to use the incident involving Franklin Fowler the Elder as an opportunity to express their dissatisfaction with the Iron Throne. Their only demand was that the Reach kings repatriate those who had escaped Dorne and send them back to Dorne to face the punishment of local laws.

Because they violated the laws established by the local lords and nobles and left their homeland without permission, they are criminals in Dorne and should return home to be tried.

In fact, the Dornish nobles' demands were not unreasonable in their eyes.

After all, Dorne was a 'special zone' personally promised by Viserys.

The Special Administrative Region does not follow the changes in other parts of the Seven Kingdoms. Although it is nominally still subject to the Iron Throne, it actually still exercises a high degree of autonomy from the old aristocracy era.

Since it was a highly autonomous society that still followed past traditions, the nobles of the North were entitled to make local laws.

However, they clearly misjudged one thing.

That is, they are not as important or powerful as Viserys imagined.

Although Dorne had helped him seize the Iron Throne, Viserys was certainly not an ungrateful man, but ultimately the help Dorne provided and the merits they made were not enough to make them so presumptuous.

Moreover, the Dornish people's confidence has always stemmed from the First Dornish War, in which they successfully resisted the Targaryen invasion and killed Queen Rhaenys and her dragon Miraathis at Prison Gate.

This war lasted for nearly ten years, from Aegon's fourth year to Aegon's thirteenth year, before a truce was reached. The Targaryen army withdrew completely from Dorne, and Dorne paid an extremely heavy price to maintain its independence and freedom.

This war gave the Dornish people ample confidence that lasted for three hundred years, and later Dornish people believed that they could still resist the dragons' attacks just like their ancestors.

However, history often teaches us that even the most powerful nations eventually decline, and the current Dornish army is not as fierce as their ancestors were when they resisted invasion.

Kagol, the Minister of War of Viserys, has now led his tribe across the poisonous waters on a wooden horse back to the continent of Essos.

After the Second Conquest, he used a highly contemptuous Dothraki word to describe the fighting strength of the Dornish army, roughly equivalent to 'sheep'.

During the battle for Starstalker in the Reach, if Kagor's Dothraki Roaring Warriors hadn't arrived in time to launch a surprise attack on the Reach army from behind, the Dornish army would have been almost completely annihilated by Velas Tyrell's Reach Legion.

The Dornish army's current fighting capabilities are far inferior to the bravery of their ancestors when they resisted invasion.

Just because their ancestors were able to withstand the dragon attacks of House Targaryen doesn't mean they can.

...

Meanwhile, in distant King's Landing.

Viserys, who had just been crowned the first emperor of Valyria, mounted his dragon and prepared to travel south alone.