Game of Thrones: The Wrath of the Sleeping Dragon

Viserys wasn't sure which part of the process went wrong, or whether the flow of time in the divine realm was truly different from that in the mortal world. However, Bellerion had indeed been waiting for Viserys for two months.

It could sense the state of its companion. Viserys was not dead, but Bellerion did not know why Viserys did not wake up no matter how it called to him, so it could only stay by his side and wait patiently.

Fortunately, the dragon persevered and finally waited for its companion to awaken again.

The joyful emotions that Bellerion conveyed warmed Viserys' heart even in the icy land of eternal winter.

"Two months have passed. I wonder how things are going over there?"

After putting aside the matter of Bellerion, Viserys then thought of the war on the continent of Essos.

Successfully killing the Night King resolved the White Walker invasion, and humanity ultimately triumphed over the White Walkers. Moreover, a new Night King is unlikely to be born anytime soon; if one were to be born, it would only be Viserys himself.

Then, a young man with long, snow-white hair sat on the steps of the Ice Altar and pondered for a moment before remembering Rahlo's advice to him.

Lachero warned him that when the divine fire began to burn, it would be best to gradually cut off and distance himself from the human world.

Otherwise, one is easily greatly affected, and the divine power refined by the divine fire will become impure, thus affecting the shaping of the divine body. The divine body is the spiritual body composed entirely of divine power after becoming a god, having discarded the physical body.

A divine body grows gradually with the accumulation of divine power, but if the divine power becomes mottled and mixed with too many impurities, the divine body will naturally not fare much better.

Viserys had only recently become a god, and the divine power refined from the divine fire was still insufficient to create a divine body. He needed time to accumulate it, and this initial stage was the most important.

Therefore, Rahlo advised Viserys to stop interfering in mortal affairs. In fact, after he became a god, all kinship, friendship, power, and other mortal matters became less important.

Even the strongest emotions cannot withstand the test of time. Eventually, lovers and even children will grow old, while the gods themselves will remain forever young.

As someone who had been through it all—he was once the human hero Azor Ahai—Rahlo's words to Viserys were truly from the heart.

All the gods in the world actually do this. Over the long years, they have become extremely selfish and self-centered. Except for Raholo actively making contact, they rarely intervene in mortal affairs themselves.

In the last Asgardian War, R'hllor led the gods to personally participate and wiped out the Valyrian Freehold, which had dominated the mortal realm. However, all the gods who participated in this war paid a price, more or less.

Some of them, even after hundreds of years, have not fully recovered, which shows how severe the punishment was for the gods to personally intervene.

While waiting for Belerien to return from afar, Viserys sat beneath the ice altar, carefully examining his current physical condition.

Viserys's body now contains a fusion of several powers: a true Frankenstein's monster, the extraterrestrial cold power represented by the Black Stone, the black mist magic bestowed upon the Valyrian nobles by the Balrog, a portion of the Old Gods' divine power, and his own burning divine fire.

Not long ago, Viserys fell into a trap set by the Night King, allowing the power of the Black Stone to flow into his body and disrupting the balance of the original order.

Originally, fire-attribute black mist magic dominated Viserys's body, but now the forces of ice and fire are locked in a fierce battle.

The power of the Old Gods, like the Old Gods themselves, is a "good guy" and did not participate in the struggle between the powers of ice and fire.

The divine fire burning within Viserys was supposed to neutralize the fire, but it was too weak at the time and therefore did not have the desired effect.

But now, after ending the Long Night, Viserys has ignited the divine fire, and the divine fire burns fiercely in his soul world, no longer as small as it once was.

The divine fire is now easing the current conflict of forces within Viserys.

Although everything seemed to have improved, only Viserys himself knew the true state of things.

Chapter 904 Gathering in the Kingdom

The results of the investigation were not optimistic. The opposition between ice and fire was very obvious, and it was extremely difficult to integrate them, especially when the ice and fire forces were not balanced.

The divine fire forcibly reconciled the two, but this was only temporary. If Viserys were to fall into a fierce battle, this brief harmony would be broken.

Meanwhile, the ice-based power has gained the upper hand within Viserys, suppressing the power of the black mist. It will eventually completely devour Viserys and transform him into the next Night King.

No.

To be precise, he's the next god of cold, since Viserys has already become a god.

This result was, of course, unacceptable to Viserys.

"So, I can't afford to get bogged down in a tough fight now."

Viserys pondered for a moment, then shook his head.

Ráchero seemed very sincere to him; after all, he was once a hero who saved all of humanity and deserved respect. Ráchero was dedicated to maintaining peace between the divine and mortal worlds and had also helped him a great deal...

"For a god, a dozen years is not a long time, so I don't think there will be any battles during this period."

Viserys thought to himself that it wasn't that he completely trusted Rahlo, but rather that Asgard had been at peace for so long, and there was no reason for a major civil war to break out as soon as he joined, and for him to be dragged into it as well.

Viserys had only recently become a god and needed time to accumulate divine power and solidify his divine body.

He anticipates that his current physical problems will improve significantly after further solidifying his divine body, at which point he should be able to allow the two conflicting forces of ice and fire to coexist harmoniously within his body.

Before that, Viserys decided to heed Raholo's advice and minimize his interactions with the mortal world.

After he finishes everything here, he will set off back to King's Landing for seclusion, settle his affairs after death, and then hide himself away to wait until he has condensed his divine body before making any further plans.

Of course, all of this will have to wait until after we've visited the Drowned God.

Viserys obtained more direct information from the Old Gods, and through their perspective, he gained insight into some past events, which sparked his interest in visiting the Drowned God.

He thought the other party was a very interesting deity.

Of course, when Viserys felt such emotions, he couldn't help but ask himself the same question.

Could his desire to meet the Drowning God be driven by the ancient, unsung gods?

Although Viserys had a close relationship with the Old Gods and still possessed some of their power, he sensed something unusual as soon as he arrived in Asgard.

The struggle between the gods is far from the harmonious one described by Rahlo. Although they do not engage in direct combat, they employ a variety of covert tactics.

Therefore, Viserys's reasonable skepticism towards everything was actually a means of self-preservation. Petyr Baelish, 'Littlefinger,' used this method to climb the ladder of chaos and ascend to the throne of the Vale governor.

After all, this place was still unfamiliar to Viserys, and mortals, compared to the wisdom of the gods, were perhaps not entirely without room for resistance.

The black dragon, who had gone out hunting, returned, and Viserys rode on Belerien and flew directly to the Iron Islands.

...

In the two months following Viserys' ascension to godhood by igniting the divine fire, the world underwent some earth-shattering changes.

First, the human alliance was officially disbanded. The total size of the alliance was as large as 200,000 at its peak, and even as many as 300,000 to 400,000 when the Dothraki steppe knights and laborers were included, but in the end, it was reduced to less than 20,000.

It must be said that this was an extremely tragic war, leaving behind a period of history that people should reflect upon and remember.

However, this is also a war in which all mankind unites to resist disaster. People can understand each other, put aside their differences, and unite as one. It is also worthy of being recorded in history.

After the coalition officially disbanded, all the troops from around the world began to return to their hometowns, but unfortunately, some of the surviving coalition soldiers no longer had homes.

Because Braavos, Loras and other places had been destroyed by the war, the entire continent of Essos was riddled with holes in this war.

The Imperial army traveled the longest distance, starting their return journey from the now-ruined main battlefield of Kohol, and after two months they had reached Pentos.

However, some of the soldiers from Westeros still needed to board ships at Pentos to return to their homelands, including Robb Stark and Brienne of Tarth.

They returned from the battlefield in glory, and Robb fulfilled his long-cherished wish, making a name for himself and letting more people know his name, rather than being Eddard Stark's son who became Lord Warden of the North by relying on the Stark family's influence.

The same was true of Countess Brienne of Tass. She didn't crave fame like Robb did, but she still managed to prove herself, showing that a woman's battlefield is not just the delivery room, and that women can go to war just the same way.

Brienne's chosen path was also fraught with difficulties.

However, Robb and Brienne, who should have had no connection at all, met during this war and became close friends who could talk about anything.

After the victory at Dawn, some of the Imperial soldiers who landed in Westeros to provide support needed to return to their homelands by ship. Bessie, the commander of the Allied forces in this battle, also returned to King's Landing with the Imperial army to report for duty. Targaryen princes and princesses were also among them.

The victorious imperial army then spent another half a month at sea before finally arriving at the imperial capital, King's Landing.

Many soldiers who participated in the expeditionary force saw the outline of King's Landing in the distance and couldn't help but shed tears of excitement.

Although this expedition only lasted a little over a year, the memories it brought them would last a lifetime. They would never forget this brutal battle, and everyone who survived it was transformed. After all, they had endured the trials of cold, hunger, and fear, and they all persevered through them.

The fact that less than one-tenth of the victors survived the war is enough to confirm its brutality.

The expeditionary force returned to King's Landing to a warm welcome, and Robb bid farewell to Brienne, the two going their separate ways.

After this great battle, Robb's greatest wish now is to hug his mother and his younger siblings, so he plans to return to his hometown. Brienne is the same; having survived the ordeal, she wants to return to Tass to recuperate for a while.

The return of Bessie and Princess Diana, the Targaryen princes and princesses, and Prince Horos to King's Landing, as commanders of the Allied Forces, has attracted much attention.

Meanwhile, at the same time, the two queens who remained at the Wall also received clear news that they had returned riding dragons after the victory in the war, and Queen Daenerys had brought back a little prince, Aemon Targaryen.

The long-silent King's Landing suddenly seemed to become lively.

Chapter 905 Power Struggle in the Harem

The return of Queens Reyne and Daenerys disrupted the stable political situation in King's Landing.

Due to the special circumstances of the war, Viserys was not in King's Landing, and Daenerys and Renesas were serving as dragon knights on the frontier. Therefore, no one objected to entrusting the Iron Throne to First Queen Arianne.

However, Queens Rhaenys and Daenerys returned to King's Landing after the war. As equals, they could not possibly continue to obey Arianne's orders, and the conflict thus came to light.

Daenerys, who appears delicate but is actually strong-willed, was the first to stand up against Ariane's rule.

As the 'Mother of Dragons,' the sister and wife of Emperor Viserys I, and one of the Targaryen dragon riders, Daenerys enjoyed high prestige among the people, second only to Viserys himself.

However, Daenerys's opposition to her sister Arianne's rule caused Renesas, Viserys's second wife, considerable distress, leaving her caught in the middle and in a difficult position.

Arianne is Reynolds's cousin, Prince Doran is her uncle, Reynolds is also half Dornish, and the relationship between Daenerys and Reynolds goes without saying.

Therefore, Rhaenys was caught in the middle, unable to support Daenerys's rebellion against her sister's rule, nor could she side with Arianne. Rhaenys could only mediate and try to ease the conflict between the two.

However, despite Rhaenys's good intentions, her efforts had little effect. The two queens openly clashed in the throne room, and news of a fire in the palace during the emperor's disappearance gradually spread throughout King's Landing, becoming a topic of conversation among the people and causing some negative impacts, threatening the stability of the political situation.

Reyne had initially intended to mediate, but seeing the situation, she decided against continuing to mediate the conflict between Arianne and Daenerys. Her husband's whereabouts remained unknown, and although Reyne had great faith in Viserys, she still harbored some lingering worries.

However, the female knights Mia, Bessie, and others who received the black mist magic from Viserys all claimed that they could sense that Viserys was still alive, but in a strange state, and that he might be recuperating somewhere.

Rhaegal and Viserion, the mounts of Reyne and Daenerys, could also sense that their elder brother, Balerion, was also alive.

The fact that Viserys and Balerion were unharmed brought a slight sigh of relief to Arianne, Daenerys, and the others.

But this was still not enough to reconcile the conflict between them, because there was no room for harmony between Arianne's strong personality and Daenerys's strong-willed nature.

Seeing that she couldn't reconcile the conflict between the two, and worried about Viserys's condition, Renis simply decided to avoid seeing him altogether.

The Duke of Summer Hall mounted her steed Rego and flew directly north in search of Viserys's whereabouts.

Of Viserys' three wives, marrying Arianne was a responsibility to restore the family, marrying Rhaenys was out of love, and marrying Daenerys was an obligation.

Viserys's favorite woman was actually Renesas, and the two shared the deepest bond. For Renesas, Viserys was the most irreplaceable person in the world.

...

Renis rode alone on the dragon Rego to the north in search of her husband.

Meanwhile, Viserys left the frontier and rode the black dragon Belerien to the Iron Islands.