At this time, the Valyrians living on this peninsula encountered the dragon for the first time at the Fourteen Peaks of Fire. They worshipped this terrifying creature, regarded it as the totem of their people, and offered livestock as sacrifices.
This marked the first contact between dragons and humans.
The dragons discovered that as long as they didn't attack the humans and provided them with proper protection, the humans would willingly give them the prey they hunted.
Because the dragons are highly intelligent, they can understand the difference between a full meal and a regular meal. As a result, the dragons living in the Fourteen Fire Peaks of the Valyrian Peninsula gradually developed a tacit understanding with the Valyrians and lived together in harmony.
With the protection of their dragon brother, the Valyrians gradually expanded, establishing their capital city of Valyria and many other major cities.
Because the Fourteen Fire Peaks contained amazing mineral veins, the Valyrians once again offered sacrifices and, after obtaining the dragons' consent, began to develop the mineral veins of the Fourteen Fire Peaks.
However, during the mining process, the Valyrians inadvertently crossed the seal of the gods and made contact with the Balrogs from the underground world. After all, the fourteen fire peaks of the peninsula are the main passage between the underground world and the surface world, and the aura of these Balrogs is the strongest.
Meanwhile, the Balrogs of the underground world took this opportunity to reach a pact with the Valyrians. They granted these weak mortals power and the magic to wield dragons, in exchange for the continued mining of the Fourteen Fire Peaks, the destruction of the barrier set up by the gods, and the opportunity to invade the surface world.
The forty families that rose to power in ancient Valyria were the lucky ones chosen by the Balrog and granted the magic of the Black Mist, and the ancestors of the Targaryen families were among them.
They were not originally silver-haired and purple-eyed, but after receiving power from the underground fire demon, they gained some physical characteristics that were completely different from other humans, especially their purple eyes, which were once called the eyes of demons.
After the Valyrians made contact with the Balrog, receiving power from the demon and the magic to tame dragons, they quickly began to thrive.
The first forty people to inherit magic established forty families. Their descendants all mastered the ability to control dragons and also possessed the characteristics of silver hair and purple eyes.
They then rode their dragons and began to clash with their neighboring states, destroying them one by one. Valyrian Freehold expanded rapidly like a runaway horse.
They defeated the most powerful human empire at the time, the Gugis Empire, in five wars, razing this great nation to the ground and planting salt, sulfur, and skulls on the land, making it difficult for the Gugis Empire to rise again.
They then launched an attack on the city-states of the Rhoynar. Prince Galin led 250,000 men in rebellion against the Valyrian dragons and army, but they failed. Prince Galin was captured alive and imprisoned in a cage as a warning to others.
The Valyrians continued their westward conquests, enslaving many nations and city-states, capturing their people and nobles, and forcing them to mine the minerals beneath the Fourteen Fire Peaks.
While conquering other countries, Valyria itself was also thriving.
Relying on external plunder and magic, they built magnificent cities such as Oros, Mataris, and Tria, and constructed highways that have stood the test of time for millennia, connecting all parts of the world.
However, just as Valyrian Freehold reached its peak, possessing hundreds of dragons, countless powerful wizards, dominating the world, and arrogantly claiming to be able to challenge the gods in the heavens, the gods had long been eyeing this human empire.
The power of the underground fire demon is inherently concealed, and because of their different natures, the gods in the sky find it difficult to detect the existence of the black mist magic.
However, the gods in Asgard eventually discovered the deal between the Valyrians and the Balrogs.
Rahlo bluntly stated that the first great war in the realm of gods broke out at that time.
He led the other gods, including the seven-faced god of Westeros, the drowned god, the Old Gods, the Black Goat, the Weeping Lady, and many others, in a siege against the Valyrian gods.
The Valyrians rose to power and dominated the world over thousands of years, naturally giving rise to many gods.
The Valyrian gods were very united and biased towards their homeland, which led to the first civil war in the realm of the gods.
Rahlo, leading the 'Gods of Order,' suddenly launched a swift and deadly attack on the Valyrian gods, catching them completely off guard and leaving them powerless to defend themselves.
Valyrian gods include Balerion, the god of death, and Miracis, the lord of the ocean's fury. The names Aegon and Viserys gave to dragons were actually the names of the ancient Valyrian gods.
They were suddenly attacked by the other gods and caught off guard. They then began to fight back, but they were no match for the overwhelming number of opponents, and thus they all perished or disappeared.
After defeating the Valyrian gods, the gods of Asgard, led by R'hllor, began attacking Valyrian Freehold.
The gods in heaven rarely interfere in the affairs of mortals, for they fear that their divine power will become impure.
However, not wanting to interfere does not mean that one cannot interfere. When the gods in the heavens decide to do the same thing at the same time, nothing can stop them.
What followed was the devastating Valyrian catastrophe. The Valyrian gods vanished, losing their protection. The gods of Asgard destroyed this great nation that had dominated the mortal world without encountering any resistance, wiping them off the planet overnight.
Chapter 902 Return
In this war of the gods, the Valyrian gods were ambushed, resulting in the deaths and injuries of almost the entire army. However, the gods of Asgard were not entirely without casualties.
As the second most powerful god among the gods, second only to the red god R'hllor, the seven-faced god encountered a desperate counterattack from the Valyrian gods. His divine body was severely injured, and he was even nearly destroyed.
The Seven Gods are in extremely poor condition, so they have retired and have not appeared since the Valyrian catastrophe. They also rarely respond to the calls of believers in the mortal world.
"So that's how it is."
Viserys' expression hardened slightly after hearing what Rahlo said.
He never imagined that the Valyrians were playing such a big game, secretly making a deal with the Balrogs of the Underworld to obtain the path to their racial rise.
If this is indeed the case, then the Valyrians' annihilation was entirely their own fault, or even deserved.
Of course, this is only Rahlo's side of the story. No one knows what actually happened except the gods who experienced it all.
Did the Valyrians betray the world and become collaborators?
Or perhaps they tricked the Balrog into giving them power but didn't do anything, or maybe it was all a fabrication, a complete misunderstanding...
"Were the Seven Gods seriously injured in that battle?"
Aside from the story of the Valyrians reaping what they sowed, Viserys was most concerned about the Seven Gods.
After all, he had just witnessed the immense power of the Seven Gods, whose influence extended across the Seven Kingdoms and parts of Andalus. The influence and power of the Seven Gods were second only to Rahlo, the Lord of Light.
However, these seven powerful gods encountered a counterattack from the Valyrian gods during the Valyrian catastrophe, and were severely wounded and on the verge of death? They have not recovered to this day.
Viserys fell into deep thought upon hearing this. Rahlo's purpose in coming to see Viserys was to recruit him into his camp, citing the reason that they should jointly maintain the peace of the realm of gods and the stability of the mortal world.
Facing the hero who once saved the world, the Lord of Light, Raholo, looked at him with sincere eyes and extended a hand, seemingly deeply concerned for maintaining world peace.
Viserys hesitated for a moment, then temporarily suppressed his thoughts and finally extended his hand to shake hands with the other.
Viserys agreed to join their side, and Rahlo's expression relaxed slightly.
Although he is the leader of the gods in the divine realm, there are conflicts wherever there are people, and this is especially true among the gods in the divine realm. The struggles between gods are even more brutal than those among mortals, and Rahlo is not a man of absolute authority.
For example, the Drowning God, who dwells in the Sunset Sea, doesn't give him much face, and in the East there is the even more unfathomable Heavenly Emperor of the Dawn Kingdom, as well as His son and many other Eastern deities.
The East and West have always kept to themselves, never interfering with each other, much like the East and West in the mortal world. Their exchanges are limited to economic matters, with almost no political interaction. The fact that Emperor Bu Gai of the Golden Dynasty sent envoys to the Valyrian Empire can be seen as the beginning of a groundbreaking journey.
Therefore, Rahlo can at best be considered a leader among the gods of the Western world, and many gods are not very convinced of his authority, such as the drowning god and the Valyrian gods who once formed a very strong alliance.
However, having successfully won over Viserys, Rahlo did not linger there any longer.
For deities to enter each other's territory without prior notice is a form of provocation, but the weirwood tree is an exception.
The Old God is a good-natured one.
Although His time as a god was the longest, longer than any known god, and even longer than the Heavenly Emperor of the East who claimed to have ruled for ten thousand years, He was a being that existed since the beginning of the world.
However, the Old Gods have almost never been angry and have never expanded their territory. They have always been seen as 'good guys'. Although the Old Gods are not very strong in combat, their abilities are very special and therefore should not be underestimated. The other gods will not disturb the Old Gods' territory unless necessary. Furthermore, the Old Gods participate in every summoning by Rahlo, so Rahlo trusts them very much.
Rahlo then left the place and returned to his own territory, leaving Viserys alone standing quietly in the falling snow.
He was still wearing his battle-scarred Valyrian steel armor, then looked up at the golden weirwood trees not far away.
The Old Gods seemed to sense Viserys's gaze, swaying their branches as if welcoming him to the realm of the gods.
The Old Gods and Viserys were old acquaintances. Viserys still possessed the divine power of the Old Gods, and he also saw off the Old Gods' original forms on their final journey.
However, compared to the long lifespan of the Old Gods, Viserys' brief appearance over the past few years might not even be considered a moment.
However, this did not prevent Viserys from feeling a genuine sense of warmth and affection for the other person.
The Old God swayed his branches as if beckoning Viserys to come over, and Viserys stepped towards him.
Then a golden branch slowly drooped down, and Viserys, holding the golden branch, seemed to sense something, and then gently placed it on his forehead.
next second.
The world before Viserys' eyes changed; his gaze swept rapidly across past events, including some of the things Rahlo had just mentioned.
The Old God did not speak, nor did he express any emotion; he simply presented the past events through images.
Viserys paused slightly after reading everything. The development of events was largely the same as what Rahlo had said, but some minor details made him think deeply.
This also sparked his interest in another deity, who was, strictly speaking, an old acquaintance of his.
Viserys knew Him, but the other party might not have known Him.
"It seems I'll have to pay a visit to the Drowned God sometime."
Viserys thought to himself after reviewing the events that had transpired in the past.
The Old Gods possess the ability to travel through time and space; however, they seem to have some reservations about certain areas involving the gods.
Not only Viserys, but perhaps all the Green Prophets throughout history have been unable to see images related to the gods through the powers of the Old Gods.
The next second, in the mortal world, Viserys, who was lying beneath the ice altar, opened his eyes.
Chapter 903 Two Months
The snowstorm in the land of eternal winter seems to have stopped.
Beneath the pitch-black sky, the icy blue pillar of light still stretched from heaven to earth, connecting the divine realm.
After the day and night were reversed, the world's day and night order returned to normal under Viserys' influence, and the world's extreme points were shrouded in a long night.
click -
At that moment, a sudden sound rang out from the silent ice field, and then a figure staggered up from the snow, slightly moving his frozen flesh.
It turned out that the sound came from the Valyrian steel armor, which had been frozen solid, and the person who got up was Viserys. He rose from the ground, covered in a thick layer of snowflakes.
However, looking around, he found that nothing much had changed, so it seemed that he hadn't been gone for too long.
However, it was only then that Viserys realized that his companion, the black dragon, was not beside him.
Where did Bellerion go?
Viserys was slightly taken aback, then used telepathy to search for Bellerion's whereabouts, and soon received a reply.
Bellerion couldn't speak, but it suddenly received a message from Viserys, conveying emotions of joy and surprise.
In fact, the black dragon did not go too far from Viserys, but went out to hunt.
It has stayed by Viserys' side without leaving for a long time, except for the occasional hunting trip. It has been about... maybe two months.
"Two months have already passed?"
Viserys, upon receiving the message from Bellerion, paused slightly, repeatedly confirming that he had not misunderstood.
Although the black dragon is not human, Bellerion is highly intelligent and can understand the simple human concept of days and months, roughly the sunrise and sunset. Animals actually have their own way of understanding time, and are even more sensitive to changes in the environment than humans.
Time flew by, and two months passed in the blink of an eye. Viserys was still deeply immersed in the message that Bellerion had given him, and it was around this time that he understood the meaning of 'a day in heaven is a year on earth'.
He felt he hadn't spent much time talking to Rahlo, yet two months had already passed in the mortal world? Perhaps he had lingered too long with the Old Gods?
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