Game of Thrones: The Wrath of the Sleeping Dragon

“His death is a huge loss to the entire Tantric community, and we are all deeply saddened.”

It was still the same white-haired and bearded monk who took the initiative to step forward, bow slightly, and then lead Viserys to the old monk's burial place.

The funeral was held in a grand manner for several days, and his body is still in the coffin and has not been buried.

When Viserys arrived at the magnificent shrine, all the monks present looked on with fear and unease, clearly frightened by the sight of the dragon circling and roaring in the sky.

They all thought the Valyrian Empire was about to take action against Norfos, this pristine land.

However, when they saw that only Viserys had come here, they couldn't help but have a slight change in their expressions and many thoughts arose in their minds. However, the twelve monk governors did not make any statement. Except for the old monk leading the way, the rest of them obediently followed behind, so they gave up their thoughts.

He rests here now.

Then the old monk who was leading the way turned around and spoke.

Viserys didn't speak, but simply nodded slightly. He stepped forward and looked the coffin up and down.

Then he reached out and suddenly grabbed the coffin lid, flipping it open.

Chapter 758 Kohol

Viserys's actions were sudden; he directly overturned the completely black coffin lid, and the bearded monks present were all caught off guard.

"Distinguished guest, you..."

The old monk, who was the leader of the twelve monks, suddenly changed his expression, and everyone present was in an uproar.

Viserys's actions were extremely rude. Even though he was of noble status and had arrived riding a dragon, it was still unacceptable for him to open a coffin in someone's funeral.

However, before the bearded monks could accuse Viserys of being disrespectful, their expressions changed when they saw the scene inside the coffin.

The completely black coffin was now empty; the corpse had vanished without a trace.

"what happened?"

Where did the body go?

The monk governor was furious and questioned the slave soldiers present, but the soldiers were all bewildered.

Because the memorial service had lasted for three days and three nights, with people guarding the place day and night, it was impossible for anyone to steal the body under such watchful eyes.

However, the scene is now in chaos, with people whispering and discussing amongst themselves, and Viserys's actions have ironically become the source of the truth.

"I'm sorry, Your Majesty."

"Please move aside for now, we will thoroughly investigate the whereabouts of the body."

"We have prepared a grand banquet for you..."

At that moment, a long-haired, bearded monk-governor approached, bowed slightly, and then spoke.

In Norfolk, not everyone is entitled to grow a beard; only orthodox monks are allowed. Other men, regardless of their social status, generally grow long beards and do not trim them.

Women and slaves were not allowed to have any hair on their bodies, and their hair had to be shaved off. Some noble Norfolk women would wear wigs.

However, Viserys's purpose in coming here was to find the old monk Norfolk, who possessed the ability to prophesy, and he had no interest in attending any banquet.

Whether the other person was truly dead or simply hiding away to avoid him, Viserys was powerless to do anything about it.

After all, the other party possessed a stronger ability to prophesy, especially on the continent of Essos, where Viserys absorbed the power of the Old Gods and used it more in Westeros.

"No need."

The silver-haired young man, draped in a black cloak, spoke calmly.

This 'calm' was often interpreted as 'indifference' by the other party, who inwardly groaned in despair.

Having offended the Emperor of the Valyrian Empire, what good days await him in the future?

After all, the other side only needed to move a finger to send out an army of 100,000 to wipe out the small city-state of Norfos.

Moreover, given that it was just said that the person was dead, but the body has disappeared, it does raise suspicions that the death was staged.

The senior officials within Norfoss actually knew that this old monk possessed prophetic abilities, and that the same event that occurred a few years ago in Kohol, where the Red God cultists seized power, was also supposed to happen in Norfoss.

Although the bearded monk system of Norfolk appears impregnable at present, only its own people know that much discontent is brewing in the lower city of Norfolk.

Because the bearded monks were only a minority in the city, while the vast majority of people in Norfos were ordinary people, or even slaves, who were not qualified to become monks.

Many places in the free trade city-states practiced slavery, relying on worthless slaves to guard the city. Norfolk was no exception, and their Holy Guard consisted entirely of bald slaves.

Because in Norfolk, women and slaves were not entitled to have hair.

The Red God religion of Rahlo is precisely the kind of religion that most easily incites these poor people and slaves.

Therefore, many years ago, a conflict broke out in Kohol between Red God believers and traditional nobles as well as Black Goat God believers.

The Red God followers burned the statue of the Black Goat God, stormed the Governor's Council, and massacred many of the Kohol family's powerful families.

Just as Viserys, together with Prince Raggedy's Winds, seized Pentos, almost all of Corho's noble families were wiped out, and the survivors fled.

Three years ago, Kohor was completely controlled by the Rahlo cult. The Black Goat God worship was driven out of Kohor and wandered in various trading city-states, even reaching the empire's borders.

However, the Black Goat God worship was quite bloody, often requiring the sacrifice of livestock, and even the lives of criminals. When necessary, the nobles of Kohor would even offer their own flesh and blood to the Black Goat God.

Years ago, when the followers of the Red God secretly plotted a riot, the nobles in the city used this most extreme method in hopes of gaining the protection of the Black Goat God.

Unfortunately, the Black Goat God did not appear to save the lives of his followers. In the end, the Red God followers won the war, seized control of the city of Kohor, and turned the city into a place where people completely worshipped the Red God.

Norfoss was also destined to suffer the same fate. Undercurrents were brewing in Norfoss's lower classes, with many of the lower-class people and slave soldiers living in the lower city being bewitched by the red monks and preparing to launch an uprising with the followers of Kohol.

But the old monk on the Stairway of Sinners successfully foresaw this scene and gave an early warning. Norfolk drove away all the red monks and carried out a large-scale search and arrest of all the lower-class people and slave soldiers who were preparing to participate, thus killing the uprising before it even began.

"Could it be that he really faked his death?"

The monk governor was inwardly groaning, but Viserys ignored him and had no desire to linger any longer. Instead, he took a step and vanished into a cloud of black mist before everyone's eyes.

...

Viserys rediscovered his dragon form; he actually disliked the world created by humans and preferred to stay deep in the mountains and forests.

Norfolk is such a city, where fierce winds blow year-round and the city is surrounded by mountains.

While Viserys was visiting Norfolk, Belerion flew to a hill outside the city to rest for a while. The hill was covered with a dense black forest with beech, oak, and pine trees and a variety of wild animals, such as wild boars, brown bears, wolves, and other prey.

During this time, Bellerion casually killed a brown bear, then roasted it with dragonfire and ate it, just to fill a gap between his teeth.

Now, Viserys can teleport using the black mist over a radius of several miles, enough to cover a city, so finding Bellerion won't take him much effort.

However, when Viserys found Bellerion, his brow furrowed slightly.

He sensed a familiar feeling here.

He then carefully examined the area and turned his gaze to the northwest of Norfos.

Chapter 759 The Gates of Hell

Viserys was drawn by something strangely familiar, and rode his dragon to a place a hundred miles northwest of Norfolk, before descending from the sky.

We are now close to Loras Bay, but still surrounded by the Norfolk Mountains.

This was a secluded mountain valley, densely forested and rarely visited by humans. A massive black dragon passed through here, startling the wild beasts on the ground into a frenzy of panic, as if it were the end of the world. Then, Bellerion fell from mid-air.

"here..."

Viserys frowned slightly as he looked at the scenery before him.

Located in the Norfos Mountains, but far from the city-state of Norfos, Viserys could feel the call from this place even from a great distance. When he flew over on his dragon, he saw it at a glance from a great distance.

There is no other reason.

Because the terrain here is so distinctive.

This is a huge sinkhole, with a deep opening that resembles an abyss. Looking down from the sky and facing the opening of this sinkhole gives one an even more chilling feeling, and even Viserys is not immune to it.

When he stares into the abyss, it is as if the abyss is staring back at him.

However, once Viserys landed in the sky and stood on the edge of the sinkhole to observe it, he was able to discover that there were many densely packed caves below the sinkhole.

This breathtaking natural landscape is certainly not unknown; it is absolutely the largest sinkhole Viserys has ever seen, even larger than the remains of the Fourteen Flames he glimpsed in the Valyrian ruins.

Because Viserys possessed a photographic memory, he could memorize many books after reading them only once. Therefore, he only needed to think for a moment to remember where he was.

"Still 'Long-Legged' Lomas."

"This guy has traveled to countless places throughout his life."

Viserys remembered.

"Lomas traveled the world and wrote two famous books, one called 'Miracle' and the other called 'Man-Made Miracles'."

These two books are so famous that they are among the first books for many noble children in Westeros, directly helping them form their first impressions of the vast world.

"The gods created seven wonders, but mankind created nine."

This is one of Lomas's most famous quotes.

The seven wonders created by the gods are natural landscapes, while the wonders created by humankind are man-made architectural wonders.

"The Norfolk Cave is one of the seven wonders of the world created by the gods."

"This place has one of the world's rarest cave systems. The sinkhole is steep and bottomless, and no one has ever been able to reach the bottom of it."

"People say this is the entrance to the underworld."

Viserys was quite fond of the books "Wonder" and "Man-Made Wonders" by Lomas the Longlegs, whose mentor was the former Maester of Dragonstone. Viserys was also deeply impressed by the sinkhole at Norfos.

Especially regarding Lomas's final description, 'The people around the sinkhole all believe that this is the entrance to the underworld.'

These things had piqued Viserys's curiosity long ago, but as more and more things happened, Viserys had long forgotten about them.

Unexpectedly, at this time, I was drawn to the vicinity of this sinkhole by a series of coincidences.

"really."

"Just like the cave where the original god of the frontier was suppressed, this place is also a bottomless pit."

The people around them were not wrong. Some of the bizarre myths in this world, apart from the most outrageous ones, were things that had to be believed, because many of them were not just stories passed down through generations, but real things.

For example, the people living around the Norfolk Cave claimed that it was the entrance to the underworld, but Viserys confirmed this after careful observation.

This place indeed leads to an unknown place. Viserys didn't know if it was the underworld or something else entirely.

But Viserys was certain that this place, along with the Bottomless Pit and Valyrian ruins beyond the Great Wall, did indeed share the same origin and had an inexplicable connection to the black mist within him.