Game of Thrones: The Wrath of the Sleeping Dragon

This little thing will then become a stranger, taking his life. He never imagined that he would die on the gallows one day.

Sandor, upon hearing James's words, did not hesitate. He drew his sword, raised it high, and then brought it down fiercely, severing the ropes on the gallows.

thump—

James's body was quickly pulled up, the rope around his neck tightened instantly, and his face turned red, then a terrifying bluish-purple.

"Ho ho ho..."

Although he didn't want to lose his composure and wanted to die with dignity, his survival instinct made him involuntarily open his mouth and make a hoarse sound, wanting to breathe in fresh air.

In the brightly lit throne room, a black mist, invisible to others, seemed to be drawn in and flew into Viserys's hand.

Chapter 808

Jaime Lannister was tried for regicide and was eventually hanged in the square outside the Red Keep.

His body was then laid down, and after Sandor Clegane, the Lord Chief of Staff, confirmed his death, the news was relayed to the Throne Room, breaking the silence that had ensued.

Someone took the lead in clapping, and the remaining nobles followed suit. Margaret, unaware of what was happening, raised her hand to clap along, but her brother Velas, who was standing to the side, grabbed her hand.

Little Rose paused for a moment, glancing at her brother. Then she saw Velas gesture to him, turn to look in the other direction, and noticed that Tyrion's eyes were slightly red. The other Lord Chancellors simply clapped briefly before stopping.

Viserys, sitting on the Iron Throne, showed little joy in his desire for revenge. He merely nodded expressionlessly, then rose and announced the end of the trial.

"Farewell to Your Majesty."

The imperial nobles below all bid him farewell in unison. Viserys, then escorted by the Kingsguard, left the throne room through a small door behind the Iron Throne and returned to the Magorium.

In fact, Viserys felt that the Mad King's death was his own fault. He had already heard Jaime explain the reasons why Jaime killed the Mad King in the Maegor Tower, and he had also experienced it firsthand.

As an 'observer', he witnessed firsthand the Mad King's final madness as the last Targaryen monarch after the fall of King's Landing.

The middle-aged man, who was thin, with messy hair that grew past his shoulders and fingernails that were a foot long, looked like he was in his fifties or sixties, even though he was only in his forties.

He sat on the Iron Throne, wearing Aegon IV’s enormous, exquisitely decorated crown inlaid with dragons, and then hysterically ordered the White Knight to cut off his father’s head and bring it to him.

But Jaime disobeyed the Mad King's orders and instead drew his sword to kill Rosart, the pyromancer who was ordered by the Mad King to destroy the entire kingdom of King's Landing.

"Burn them all!"

"Burn them all in their homes! Burn them in their beds!"

The Mad King ordered the pyromancer Rosat to ignite wildfires hidden in the streets and alleys beneath King's Landing, which blew up and burned the entire city and its hundreds of thousands of inhabitants alive.

Viserys stood by, quietly watching him go mad, watching the seventeen-year-old blond knight draw his sword and kill the pyromancer, then approach the mad king.

It seemed that the Mad King only 'woke up' at this moment. He turned around and ran towards the back door of the throne room, the one where Viserys had just left, shouting as he ran.

Burn them!

However, the Mad King had only run a few steps before he collapsed on the steps in front of the Iron Throne. Jaime, holding a bloodstained longsword, stepped forward. The Mad King began to beg for mercy, but Jaime showed no mercy and slit his throat.

At that moment, the Lannister army stormed into the Red Keep, and Ser Eli Westerling and Lord Roland Craig led their troops to the scene.

They witnessed everything Jaime did and then asked him if he wanted to establish a new king, but Jaime did not answer, remaining noncommittal. He then sat on the Iron Throne, placed his bloodstained sword on his knees, and quietly waited for the next person to arrive.

He wanted to see who would take the kingdom from his hands.

However, the next person to enter the throne room was Eddard Stark, the Duke of Winterfell. From the moment he saw Jaime sitting on the Iron Throne and the Mad King lying beneath it, he knew that Jaime should be sentenced to death.

But Jaime never explained why he killed the Mad King, what his real motive was, or even revealed that the Mad King wanted to blow up King's Landing at the last moment and burn hundreds of thousands of people alive.

Jaime simply took the blame for the 'Kingslayer' upon himself, and then secretly searched for two other fire sorcerers, Belis and Gorgon, who had participated in the Mad King's plan to burn the city, and killed them one by one.

However, the secret he didn't reveal back then, he still didn't say at the last moment, even when he was sentenced to hanging.

Viserys had initially thought that Jaime might reveal the whole truth, allowing everyone to re-evaluate him and even remove the accusation of 'Kingslayer,' after all, he had saved hundreds of thousands of lives.

However, for some reason, James did not reveal the secret until he was sentenced to hanging. He did not beg for mercy or don the black robes, but calmly faced death, ending his stumbling life.

Jaime's soul then flew into Viserys's hands, where he protected it.

Viserys had no intention of keeping Jaime's soul, but his actions made him feel regretful.

Viserys returned to his study, and then Jaime's spirit emerged from his palm.

This is a small wisp of black mist, yet within this wisp of mist lies an ever-changing mystery. The enigma of the soul remains the greatest mystery to humankind to this day.

Viserys reawakened Jaime with divine fire. Jaime, who had just been hanged outside the city and whose body was still warm, appeared before Viserys with a blank expression.

"Is this the seventh level of hell?"

"Why does everyone I reawaken ask me this question?"

Viserys stood on the balcony of his study, looking at Jaime floating not far beside him, and said calmly.

Every soul can manifest its own image, and Viserys did not expect that Jaime would still manifest as a white knight in his subconscious.

"Wasn't your experience as a member of the Imperial Guard a nightmare?"

Viserys asked.

After his initial shock, Jaime quickly recovered. After all, Jaime was a Lannister, and although he could be willful at times, he was still intelligent enough.

He quickly and vividly described his current situation using his imagination, and despite his shock, he still answered Viserys' question.

"Though this white robe has tarnished me, I still remember my vow."

Perhaps for this reason, Jaime killed the Mad King to prevent disaster, but did not expose the Mad King's crimes.

"Viserys, why did you resurrect me?"

However, after answering Viserys' question, Jaime couldn't help but ask a question in return.

"I did not resurrect you; you are merely a soul."

Clearly, James's understanding of his current situation is still flawed, because the soul form is so real that he believes he has been resurrected.

"You've died once."

"Now we can start over."

Chapter 809 Sending Troops

After a month of negotiations, the human coalition finally reached an agreement on the deployment plan.

The rebuilt Valyrian Empire drew troops from Andalus, Pentos, and King's Landing, totaling more than 50,000 men. They first landed and assembled at Pentos, then followed the dragon trail left by the Valyrians straight to Norfolk. They rested temporarily at Norfolk, and then continued along the ancient road to meet up with the Valyrians at Kohor.

On the other hand, Braavos, as the representative of the trading city-states, dispatched its entire invincible fleet and contributed its world-renowned purple-sailed, purple-hulled merchant fleet and its sailors as ships for the allied forces to transfer and coordinate supplies, and to help the allied forces ensure a stable supply of materials.

As for the Invincible Fleet on the other side, they mobilized all their forces to harass the White Walkers' rear from the sea and cut off their retreat. They attacked the fallen island of Iban, striving to be the first to clear out these islands. Meanwhile, Braavos also sent an army of 10,000 men to join the allied forces in the battle.

They first set sail from Braavos by ship, then joined the fleet of Loras and their soldiers, landed at Tomahawk Point, crossed the Dark Current River, and finally reunited at Cohor.

Although the battle lines are currently in disarray, with the kingdoms of the Ober Peninsula and Salor putting up a difficult resistance, the empire and the major city-states of the west will not underestimate the enemy and advance rashly just because they are going to rescue the kingdoms of Ober and Salor.

Everyone only has one life, and it's always better for someone else to die than for yourself to die. Therefore, no matter how angry or pleading the envoys from the Kingdom of Ober and the Kingdom of Salor, they could not change the allied forces' plan to set up their meeting center in Kohor.

As another powerful city-state among the trading city-states, Valantis has a long and powerful history. They are the undisputed overlords of the western coast of the continent of Essos. Although they have declined now, their heritage remains.

This time, Valantis sent two governors to participate in the High Council of Men in King's Landing: Nessiso Visama, governor of the Elephant Party, and Malajo Megaya, governor of the Tiger Party.

Valantis sent 30,000 troops up the Lohn River towards Kohor, carrying a large amount of food. The route to Valantis was the easiest, as it was entirely by water and they would likely be the first allied forces to reach Kohor.

However, a minor incident occurred during the negotiations regarding the number of troops Valantis would send.

That is, the elephant-wing leader Nessiso Vesama made a strong statement that Volantis was far from the White Walkers, and by the time the White Walkers reached Volantis' doorstep, the Long Night might already be over.

However, due to the geographical location of Volantis, if the White Walkers were to actually reach their doorstep one day, it would be no different from the end of the world. Therefore, Nessiso Visama wanted to lay low and give up, and was unwilling to send out so many soldiers.

However, there are undisclosed rumors that Nessos Vesama's family is engaged in the slave trade in Valantis, and that many of the Tiger Robe Army are Vesama's private troops. Sending a large number of slave soldiers to participate in the war would have a huge impact on his family's strength and business.

However, Nessiso Visama's actions undoubtedly provoked public outrage, and after a meeting one day, Nessiso Visama returned to his residence in King's Landing to rest.

However, that night the governor from the Elephant Party of Valentis seemed to have a nightmare, shouting in his room that the man who had been hanged a few days earlier was chasing him, attracting a large crowd.

Nessiso Vesama then seemed to have been scared to death before he could wake up from the nightmare; his breathing stopped and his pupils were dilated.

The fact that Nessiso Visama was scared to death sparked some discussion in King's Landing, with people spreading rumors that the room was haunted and keeping their distance.

However, no one sympathized with the other party, since he had been disrupting the atmosphere of the negotiations. Even another governor of Valantis, Malajo Megia, did not come to offer his condolences, but secretly gloated. The loss of a governor by the Elephant Party was an opportunity for the Tiger Party.

The Western world, led by the Valyrian Empire, is preparing to assemble at Corhol to confront the White Walkers, while the Dothraki, Slaver's Bay, and Lazar are determined to fight with all their might.

Because the White Walkers are closer to them, and the Great Grass Sea is sparsely populated, no one knows what it has become, not even the Quel'Thuzad, who is the Dothraki's messenger.

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War is imminent, and the atmosphere in King's Landing is tense, as the White Walkers continue their relentless devouring of the land that sustains humanity, day and night, while humans search for solutions. Not a single minute can be wasted.

In the harbor of King's Landing, ships ready to embark on an expedition to the Eastern Continent were prepared, and a young naval commander stood under a torch, directing the movement of the ships.

Viserys's 'adoptive father,' the Lord Governor of the Riverlands and Lord Sea Lord, Count Geoffrey Brecken, would not participate in this war because he was too old, and had now sent his son Hendry to take charge of the family affairs.

Although the empire has continued to thrive since its founding, the veterans who established the country do not possess the youth and vitality of a young empire.

Lord Naval Secretary Geoffrey Brecken is now merely a figurehead Lord Chancellor of the Council; former Grand Master of the Golden Company, Misz Thoth, is seriously ill; former Prime Minister Jon Clinton has been killed by an arrow in Sky City; and Chancellor of the Exchequer Elirio has returned home to recuperate.

The power structure of the empire has gradually changed, with older members retiring, but fortunately, the empire has not experienced a shortage of capable successors.

The reason lies in the college system established after the split of the City of Learning. The City of Learning is no longer the only dominant entity, but has been divided into several colleges scattered in major cities such as King's Landing, White Harbor, and Oldtown, and these colleges are in competition with each other.

These academies have cultivated a large number of talents for the empire, especially the Imperial Military Academy. Young blood has filled the army, and now the empire's army is full of vitality. Facing the war that is coming, they are not afraid but have high morale and want to make achievements and make a future.

The docks at Blackwater Bay were bustling with activity. A young man with ruddy hair from the North, dressed in leather armor and holding a rein, turned his head one last time to look in the direction of King's Landing before boarding the ship.

He invited Margaret to see him off, but unfortunately she didn't show up. He felt a little disappointed, but he also truly understood what she meant.

Robb Stark then clenched his fist, severing his budding feelings completely from the bottom of his heart, before turning to look eastward and taking a deep breath.

That was his new journey.

Chapter 810 Caitlin's Idea

The first Valyrian soldiers boarded the warship and sailed towards Pentos. Robb Stark, the young lord of Winterfell, was also on board. Having mustered his courage, Robb Stark severed his ties to love and embarked on the warship bound for Pentos, determined to make a name for himself.

In the North, at Winterfell.

As Robb embarked on his journey and gazed eastward, a jet-black raven flew to the Stark family's home city.

Maester Luwin, whose hair had already fallen out, delivered a handwritten letter from the young master to Lady Caitlin's room.