Game of Thrones: The Wrath of the Sleeping Dragon

Daenerys even shivered slightly.

What's wrong with it?

Viserys, holding Daenerys's hand, stood before the original form of the Old God, looked up at the enormous weirwood tree, and spoke in a slightly low voice.

"It's dead."

Daenerys was slightly curious upon hearing this; she hadn't expected Viserys to recognize a tree.

"Do you recognize it? Who is it?"

"It is the ancient god of the North."

When Daenerys asked the question, Viserys answered calmly.

"The Old Gods?"

But his answer took the silver-haired girl by surprise. She turned around and looked at Viserys in disbelief. She never expected to hear such a name from Viserys.

However, when she saw that Viserys's expression didn't seem like he was joking, she covered her mouth.

"How is this possible? Can gods also die?"

"Do the Leaf, Robb, and many other northerners know that their god is dead?"

The fact that gods also die, and especially that they too perish in the cold winter winds, just like humans, deeply shocked Daenerys.

She had only heard Viserys and others mention the war, but she had never imagined what kind of enemy they faced that even gods could die at their hands.

"Even among the gods, there are different ranks, and the law of the jungle prevails. Daenerys, weak gods will certainly die."

"If you want to survive, you can only become stronger, no matter the cost."

Viserys, on the other hand, remained relatively calm.

"Ye Zi and Xue Fa are the ones I brought from here. She knows that the Old Gods are dead."

"But people from the north don't know that."

It was freezing cold outside, so it wasn't a good place to talk. Daenerys then followed Viserys into the cave under the roots of the weirwood tree.

This is a hidden cave that you might miss if you're not paying attention. Although the Old Gods are dead and this place has been attacked by the White Walkers once, it seems that some of the Old Gods' barrier still remains.

Viserys led Daenerys inside and immediately felt the temperature rise, far less cold than outside.

If the outside world is a harsh winter, then the world inside the cave is like a slightly chilly spring or autumn.

"The temperature is different here!"

"Is this the power of magic?"

Daenerys took Viserys's hand and led him into the cave. Viserys picked up a broken piece of firewood from the ground, perhaps a root of a weirwood tree, and lit it to dispel the darkness and illuminate the world inside the cave.

In fact, after Viserys spoke with Daenerys alone last time, he resolved the knot in her heart.

Daenerys's worry was that Viserys would abandon her and not want her anymore; Viserys was her only and everything.

If Viserys were to actually do that, it would trigger a flaw in her personality, and she would definitely go insane.

However, the reality is that Viserys did not do that; he did indeed, as Missandei had guessed, not know how to handle the relationship.

Even with two lifetimes, Viserys felt a little numb.

She had watched Daenerys grow up, even from when she was an infant. He could be calm and collected with other women, and he had quite a few lovers, but Daenerys's relationships with them were not the same as theirs, which were purely physical.

Therefore, one of his personal habits is to put things aside when he doesn't know how to make a decision, and then deal with it later when he has figured it out. However, he did not expect that his attitude of putting things aside temporarily would annoy Xiao Dani.

However, the issue was resolved after the two had a frank and open conversation not long ago.

Daenerys didn't want to marry anyone but Viserys, firstly because of the Targaryen tradition, which burdened her even more than Viserys himself; and secondly because of Viserys's example, she no longer looked down on anyone else in the world.

Who, besides Viserys, would dare to marry Daenerys?

Even if Viserys wanted to marry Daenerys off, there would probably be no one willing to do so, for fear that they would lose their heads before their bride even entered the family.

Therefore, during their frank and open conversation, when Daenerys insisted that she wanted to marry him, Viserys agreed to marry her as his queen.

However, Daenerys did not follow the path of Arianne and Renesas, or most women in the world.

Even before she was married, she already showed some of the traits of a future queen, exhibiting a strong possessiveness.

She even had some complaints about her two older sisters, Arianne and Renis, who had arrived earlier, and was particularly annoyed by Viserys's having several lovers.

In particular, she had witnessed her former best friend, Margaery Tyrell, in Viserys's bed.

Chapter 789 Entering the Cave

The home of the Last Children of the Forest still retains some of its original appearance, but there are still obvious traces of the large number of invaders who once visited.

The Night King once led his army of the dead to conquer this place, but no one knows what his purpose was.

"Viserys".

"If this enormous heart tree is the Old God, then how did the Old God die?"

Viserys held up a torch to illuminate the surrounding darkness, while Daenerys clung tightly to her brother's hand, afraid to let go, for beneath their feet lay countless crumbling skeletons, and she felt a pang of fear.

"Obviously."

"It was the White Walkers that killed it."

Viserys, holding Daenerys's hand, his pale purple eyes reflecting the firelight, surveyed the desolate landscape around him: the tangled roots of weirwood trees and the skeletons scattered everywhere.

The two continued walking downwards, and all the colors gradually disappeared, leaving only black soil and white wood.

The cave beneath the Old Gods' physical form is like a paradise, crisscrossed with countless forks and stone chambers, truly worthy of being the last home of the Children of the Forest. Most of the caves here contain skeletons, not left by invaders. Viserys had seen them when he first came here. There is even an underground river and a small stone bridge in the underground world.

After Viserys led Daenerys across the stone bridge, there were skeletons with weirwood piercing their bodies on the stone chamber there. As Viserys and Daenerys passed by, these skeletons all opened their eyes and made cracking sounds, as if they wanted to say something, but no sound came out.

Daenerys was startled once again. This place was like the seventh level of hell, full of corpses and bizarre phenomena. The atmosphere became even more eerie when she learned that the corpses of the Old Gods were standing above them.

"Viserys, slow down."

She didn't dare walk behind Viserys, so she snuggled into his arms.

This feeling of unease wasn't unique to Daenerys. Viserys had come here for the second time, but the first weirwood tree in the world had died here a few years ago, and Viserys also sensed an ominous aura permeating this underground world.

However, Viserys's purpose was to see the bottomless pit. Leaf had warned him that no one who went into this cave could come out alive. It seemed to lead to the underground world, or perhaps some monster was underground with its mouth wide open, waiting for its prey to come to it.

Compared to the leaf's description of a monstrous creature with bared teeth and claws, Viserys was more inclined to believe that this place led to the underworld, because he had seen an obsidian spearhead here and witnessed the Children of the Forest battling a fire-breathing worm countless years ago.

Viserys also had a nagging suspicion that the Night King's desperate search for the traces of the Old Gods might be to find this cave that leads to the underground.

"Is that right?"

However, when the two arrived at the deepest part of the cave, in front of the bottomless pit, the torch in Viserys's hand had already burned down to its last bit.

The bottomless pit in front of us wasn't very big, just big enough for one person to pass through. The depths of the cave were shrouded in darkness, blacker than asphalt, thicker than tar, and dimmer than a crow's feather. Light was like an unwelcome intruder, always flashing by and disappearing in an instant.

He threw the last bit of torch he had left into the abyss, but the depths of the bottomless pit were shrouded in a thin mist. The light still managed to penetrate, but it had become much dimmer.

Then the last bit of torch burned out its last rays in the cave, and the surroundings were soon plunged into darkness. Viserys rested his hand on the rock at the entrance of the bottomless pit, his pale purple eyes gleaming slightly.

"Viserys?"

Daenerys, who was hiding beside him, naturally noticed Viserys's abnormality. It was pitch black all around, and she could only feel safe by hiding next to Viserys. Even her attempts to call out to Viserion outside seemed to have been cut off.

But Viserys did not respond to the girl's voice, because at that moment a different scene appeared in his eyes.

He used the power of the Old Gods to begin retracing his steps through the rock above the cave, until he returned to the scene before the Old Gods died.

Viserys was now at the cave entrance, but Daenerys was no longer by his side, as the two were now in different timelines. Viserys was surrounded by the sounds of wights running rampant, but no wight dared to approach, as if they were all avoiding something.

However, at that moment, everything outside suddenly became quiet.

Viserys stood alone at the entrance of the abyss, his eyes flickered slightly, and then he raised his head to look into the distance in the darkness.

The place was deep underground, dark and gloomy, yet both of them had excellent eyesight.

The Night King, wearing a tattered ice crown, stood quietly not far away, gazing at Viserys, who was also looking back at him—a gaze that transcended time and space.

The Night King saw Viserys from the future standing there, but after a long silence, he decided to pretend he didn't see him.

Because he had no way to stop Viserys from watching, and he also knew that Viserys could not cross time and space to stop him.

Then the Night King took a half step back and turned to look behind him. A white-haired White Walker stepped out. This White Walker could not see Viserys, nor did it know why the Night King had been silent for so long. Then, it walked into the bottomless pit without hesitation.

"really."

As Viserys watched the White Walker enter the abyss, a restless urge urged him to follow behind.

Anyway, I'm just a spirit now, and this happened in the past.

However, Viserys ultimately restrained his impulsive desires and chose to endure it. When he turned around, he discovered that the Night King and the White Walkers had already left and disappeared.

"Why not wait until it comes out?"

Viserys was slightly taken aback by the sight, then fell into deep thought.

After an unknown amount of time, Viserys finally came to his senses in the darkness.

He sat on the ground at the edge of the cave, leaning against the nearby wall. The temperature inside the cave was still warm, and Daenerys was still by his side, but she had fallen asleep holding him at some point.

Chapter 790 Confession

"Dani?"

When Viserys woke up, he was slightly taken aback when he saw Daenerys sleeping in his arms, and then he couldn't help but chuckle.

He didn't know how long he had been lost in thought, but it was clear that Daenerys had fallen asleep.

Looking at the silver-haired girl who had fallen asleep in his arms, Viserys did not disturb her, but leaned against the rock wall behind him and closed his eyes slightly as well.

One of the White Walkers entered the bottomless pit that was said to lead to the center of the earth, while the Night King and the other White Walkers did not wait there but left immediately.

But Viserys waited there, which is perhaps why he was distracted for a long time, causing Daenerys to fall asleep.

However, perseverance pays off, and after waiting for several years, Viserys finally saw his opponent emerge from the abyss once again.

The white-haired White Walker brought out a black stone the size of a human head from the bottomless pit. This stone seemed to absorb all light, the purest and most extreme darkness. Viserys felt his spiritual body fluctuate slightly just from looking at it.

"Don't look directly at it!"

He suddenly awoke, while the Otherworldly being very clever, did not look at the stone. Viserys followed behind it, watching it slowly head north with the black stone.