Game of Thrones: The Wrath of the Sleeping Dragon

Chapter 913 The Sanctuary of Stars

For a period of time afterward, Euron remained immersed in this nightmare-ridden state, becoming completely exhausted and even paranoid.

But then another major event occurred: the body of the drowned priest, which had been buried in the rubble beneath Pyke City, suddenly grew legs and ran to Euron's bedroom bed.

The corpse was now highly decomposed and emitted a foul stench; Cersei couldn't help but vomit as soon as she entered the room.

Euron was so provoked by this scene that his inner suspicions finally erupted.

"Who did this?"

He suspected that everyone around him wanted to harm him.

Therefore, Euron began to wield his sword and wreak havoc, killing wave after wave of people. The guards in Pyke were replaced again and again until the people were filled with fear and trepidation. However, things still did not improve.

Euron's planned trip to King's Landing to report for duty has also fallen through. Euron now suspects that a powerful force on the island intends to overthrow him. The other party is so powerful that they can even place a corpse in his bedroom. Euron is afraid that once he leaves the Iron Islands, he will lose his position as the Lord of the Iron Islands.

Euron didn't even care about the news that nearby fishermen had recently spotted a black dragon.

Panic gripped Pike City, and the news, though kept secret, quickly leaked out, and rumors began to circulate in the Iron Islands.

"Serves you right!"

"Parricide!"

People claim that the vengeful spirit of Theon Greyjoy has come to haunt him. Euron has done all sorts of evil deeds and has finally received his just deserts. The term "kinslayer" is unwelcome and even despised by people everywhere and in all faiths.

Most of the people in the Iron Islands today are migrants from the mainland, and some are slaves that Euron plundered from other places. Apart from fearing Euron's reign of terror, few people support him. As a result, rumors and gossip are rampant on the islands, mostly gloating.

However, Euron was suffering greatly here, while on the other side, Viserys was unaware that he had released a soul filled with resentment over being cuckolded, which had brought Euron such great trouble.

He had already arrived above the old town on his black dragon, Bellerion. Viserys didn't want to cause too much of a stir, so he sent Bellerion to rest somewhere in the distance as usual, while he went to visit the Seven Gods.

After becoming a god, Viserys also created his own divine power through the burning of divine fire, and his divine body was still being shaped little by little.

Divine power has many uses, but the simplest one is to be enveloped in a layer of divine power and freely transform into a certain form.

In fact, the function of divine power is not illusion; it is merely an additional function. However, ordinary mortals cannot see through divine power and therefore cannot discern its nature.

Viserys kept in mind Rahlo's warning. Rahlo's words were a mix of truth and falsehood, but this one was indeed true: after becoming a god, one must reduce interference in the secular world, otherwise the divine power created by the divine fire through absorbing faith would become impure.

simply put.

People hold a lingering belief in Viserys, who saved the fate of the entire world.

They may not know who Viserys is, or even what he looks like or his name, but they are all grateful to the one who ended the long night and saved the world's fate. It was through this small river that Viserys became the sea and ultimately ignited the divine fire to become a god.

After becoming a god, one needs to maintain a sense of mystery. When Viserys interfered too much in the mortal world, the mystery disappeared and faith diminished. This was the world's punishment for the gods. Their faith power would become mottled, which would affect the quality of their divine power and ultimately become a flaw on their flawless divine body.

Therefore, Viserys started with small things, trying to sever his ties with the world. This is why he disguised himself and entered the Sanctuary of the Stars.

Although Oldtown had suffered the ravages of war in its early years, as the oldest and largest city in Westeros, it quickly regained its original vitality.

Old Town is located in the Reach, which is now the territory of the Royal Lands. However, Viserys has actually confiscated all the cities, including Seagull Town, White Harbor, and Lannisport, which are now under the direct control of the Empire, with governors appointed to govern them.

The 'new model' initiated by Viserys did indeed effectively stimulate the economy, changing the previous stagnant and closed-off state of the old aristocracy and making it vibrant and dynamic.

Viserys walked among the streams and bridges of the old town, enjoying the feeling of being isolated from the world. He walked on the streets, but everyone seemed not to see him. It was as if he had a built-in filter, and only those with high enough mental strength had a chance to see him.

A beggar kneeling in the street seemed to sense something and suddenly looked up at Viserys. Viserys paused slightly, nodded, and smiled at him.

Viserys then continued walking forward, while the little beggar remained kneeling on the ground, somewhat dazed.

He always felt that this person was out of place with the surrounding environment, but he couldn't quite put his finger on why. In fact, he had just suddenly looked up because he had a feeling about it, but he didn't know why.

However, at that moment, under the watchful eyes of the little beggar, Viserys stepped through the doors of the Temple of the Stars.

Then a beam of golden light shot straight into the sky, right before the boy's eyes. He was so shocked that his eyes widened, and he even forgot to breathe.

But the next second, the boy's vision returned to normal. There was no one in front of the Starry Sanctuary. The person who had just appeared had disappeared, and with him disappeared the golden light that had suddenly shot into the sky.

Am I seeing things?

The boy quickly rubbed his eyes to make sure he hadn't seen wrong, but when he turned to look around, no one around him had noticed what he had just seen.

The boy stood there for a moment, stunned, then looked up at the Starry Sanctuary. He felt that he might have just encountered the Seven Gods, and a bold idea suddenly arose in his mind.

Then the boy threw away the broken bowl in his hand and strode towards the Church of Stars.

On the other side...

Viserys stepped into the Sanctuary of the Stars, and the place suddenly changed. It seemed to have noticed Viserys's presence and directly connected him to the kingdom of the Seven Gods.

When Viserys arrived here and opened his eyes, he found himself in a world where clear and turbid mist rose and golden mist sank.

In front of Viserys was an irregular mass of milky-white light.

Chapter 914 Seven Levels of Hell

These are the Seven Gods?

Viserys gazed at the irregular white light before him, the clear white mist rising and the golden mist sinking, and stood within it, lost in thought.

Undoubtedly, the other party noticed his arrival and opened the gates of the divine kingdom to welcome him in. However, the seven gods were unable to express anything, unlike the old gods, the Lord of Light, and the Drowned God that Viserys had met before.

"It seems that the Seven Gods are seriously injured."

Viserys hesitated for a moment.

He originally wanted to have a chat with the Seven Gods, but it was clear that they were no longer able to communicate normally. The Seven Gods were now just a mass of divine power without self-awareness, maintaining a state of self-preservation.

Even so, the power of the Seven Gods should not be underestimated, after all, they possess the extensive faith accumulated in Westeros.

Then Viserys reached out his hand, and the Seven Gods seemed not to reject Viserys's hand; a milky white light enveloped his hand.

He also used the power of the seven gods to penetrate their divine kingdom, and human faces gradually emerged.

The Seven Gods are the main religion of the Seven Kingdoms. On the continent of Westeros, only the North, the Iron Islands, and some Rhoynar do not believe in the Seven Gods. For them, the Old Gods of the North, the Drowned Gods of the Iron Islands, and the ancient gods of the Rhoynar are more revered.

In order to distinguish it from ancient beliefs, the God of the church is sometimes called the new God, but it is also called the seven-faced God in one body.

One body, seven faces—that's the most standard way to refer to the seven gods.

The Seven Gods are not actually seven people, but seven different forms of one deity, representing seven different virtues.

The Heavenly Father represents judgment.

The Virgin Mary represents maternal love and nurturing.

Warriors represent strength in battle.

Young girls represent innocence and purity.

Blacksmiths represent handcraftsmanship and labor.

The old woman represents wisdom.

The Stranger is an exception among the seven forms, representing death and the unknown.

Viserys saw the faces of the Seven Gods, their cheeks seemingly composed of millions of faces, ordinary enough to be inconspicuous in a crowd, yet these ordinary faces represented the majority of people.

The kingdom of the seven gods contains heaven and hell, just as the gods have seven faces and hell has seven layers.

Viserys swept across the area with the power of the Seven Gods, awakening countless slumbering souls. Through these slumbering souls, Viserys also saw familiar faces.

With a thought, these souls appeared. Fortunately, he had such a convenient function; otherwise, finding Viserys' familiar face among hundreds of millions of souls would have been extremely difficult.

Among them were his great-uncle Maester Aemon, William Darryl, the Red Keep coach, and his elder brother Rhaegar, among others...

"Scholar Aemon".

"Rega".

They're all here.

Maester Aemon was of impeccable character, and if he didn't enter Heaven, no one else could. Viserys immediately spotted his elder brother, the famous 'Silver Prince' Rhaegar Targaryen.

Where is Mother?

But Rega seemed to have just been awakened and did not recognize that the man in front of him, who looked extremely similar to him, with long white hair and icy blue flames burning in his eyes, was his brother.

There is no doubt that these people are very devout believers. The kingdom of the Seven Gods only accepts these devout souls, while those who do not believe in the Seven Gods have no chance to enter the kingdom.

These devout and innocent souls can rest peacefully in the Kingdom of God, but in contrast, they belong to the seven levels of hell.

God has seven faces, and hell has seven levels. The seven levels of hell also contain the souls who believe in the seven gods.

However, they all undoubtedly made mistakes during their lives, some serious and some minor, ranging from theft, gambling, prostitution, and illegitimate children to incest, indiscriminate killing, and even patricide. These are all representative of the faults in the doctrine of the Seven Gods.

The punishments at the lowest level of the seven levels of hell are the most cruel, while the punishments at the highest level are relatively lighter, but one will be tormented forever and never be able to be reborn until one's soul is completely destroyed.

Viserys then turned his gaze to the seven layers of hell.

With a thought, countless names appeared in his mind, and he also saw many familiar faces here.

Characters like Gregor Clegane, known as the "Mountain," the most wicked man in the Seven Kingdoms, are certainly among them. He is imprisoned in the seventh circle of Hell, enduring terrible tortures.

Viserys also saw many familiar faces in the Seven Circles of Hell, which were far more crowded than Heaven: Tywin Lannister, Lord Breckon, Robert Baratheon, and even his mother, Queen Rhaegar, among others...

"Mother?"

Viserys saw his mother, Queen Leila's, soul standing alone on the third level of Hell, and his brow furrowed slightly as anger ignited in his heart.

He didn't know how the seven gods maintained the operating system of the divine kingdom, but how could he not be furious that such a good woman as his mother was suppressed in the third level of the seven levels of hell?

Queen Leila was probably considered incestuous in the Seven Kingdoms' doctrine because of her marriage to her brother Aerys Targaryen, while the Earl of Brecken was considered illegitimate.

"You are..."

"Rega?"

The silver-haired, haggard woman's soul saw Viserys. She was slightly taken aback at first, then quickly shook her head.

"No, you're not..."

"You...have we met somewhere before?"

Before her stood a complete stranger, yet there was a strange sense of familiarity—the other person's eyebrows, the contours of their face...

"Could you be...?"

Viserys' mother, Queen Leila, was about to say something, but Viserys did not speak to his mother for the time being, instead simply putting her soul away.

"I'm taking them with me."