Game of Thrones: The Wrath of the Sleeping Dragon

A soldier who bravely fights to kill ghouls on the battlefield, a scholar who heals the wounded and saves lives, a lord who opens his granary to do good deeds, and so on... Every ordinary yet great person deserves faith, and there is no need to believe in those useless gods.

Among these people was Viserys, their king, who defeated the Night King and saved the fate of all mankind.

It was under these circumstances that Viserys inadvertently ignited the flame of his faith, a fragile little flame that has now grown into a blazing divine fire.

"Save yourself!"

"Strive for self-improvement!"

This sentiment and attitude that was spreading through the Imperial army began to surge dramatically during the most difficult and challenging time of the Long Night.

Because at that time, even the most faithful believers lost faith in the gods in heaven, and their faith began to waver. This wavering ended with the end of the Long Night and reached its peak after the victory at the Battle of Kohor.

This idea is somewhat similar to a saying that is widely circulated on the continent of Essos: "All men must die, and all men must serve."

The Many-Faced God was once trapped in the mines of Valyria and witnessed the torture and death of slaves. They were captured from all over the world and prayed to all sorts of gods in various languages, but none of them responded, and they all died with regret.

Therefore, the Thousand-Faced God was also the first Faceless One to comprehend the true meaning of the gods at this time.

The saying that would later become widely known on the continent of Essos, "All men must die, and all men must serve," began to circulate from this time.

But now it has become, 'All men have faith, all men die, and all men need to serve.'

Therefore, strictly speaking, this idea did not originate from the Targaryen army, but rather it was a belief that was born from the surface of the world's historical process, whether by chance or by necessity.

This belief of the common people was of course not noticed by the gods high above in the heavens, who were busy participating in the infighting among the gods.

Humanity needs a leader.

Unfortunately, the God of a Thousand Faces was merely a top-tier assassin who spent his entire life building a top-notch assassin organization. He was the deity who responded most frequently to the prayers of his followers, yet he was still not enough to become the leader of humanity.

Viserys emerged at this time, taking over the position of the Many-Faced God and becoming the emotional anchor for many mortals.

Religious wars.

Therefore, the Imperial army, led by the young Queen Daenerys, embarked on an eastward expedition. After conquering Volantis, their objective became very clear.

They want to destroy all beliefs in 'evil gods'.

However, destroying these beliefs in evil gods does not mean promoting the Seven Gods of Westeros or the Drowned Gods, etc.

Instead, the message is to drive these evil deities who disregard human life and treat it as worthless from the earth's surface, severing all their ties with the mortal realm.

They declared to the world that ordinary people can also control their own destiny.

Chapter 950 Yuan Kai

This is a war of either side, where there is no room for sentimentality; only killing and complete elimination of the other side can stop it.

Meanwhile, as Daenerys's army began its advance eastward...

The gods of Essos, led by Rahlo, also began to react, including some Essos gods who had not participated in this war of the gods.

The eastward expansion of the Valyrian Empire in the mortal world created a sense of crisis for them.

These gods also fear that their followers might be easily eliminated.

After all, the battlefield situation in the mortal world is completely opposite to that in the realm of the gods, with Westeros holding an absolute advantage.

Therefore, these gods began to put aside their arrogance and actively used their divine power to get involved in the struggles of the mortal world, even at the cost of polluting their divine bodies, to send the same signal to their believers in the lower realms.

That is to stop this religious war launched by the imperial army at all costs!

...

Yuankai.

Yunkai is a city on the eastern coast of Slaver's Bay, with the island of Yaros to its west, nestled between Astapo and Meereen.

Yunkai's main export was slaves, mostly female slaves. The city had many crumbling walls and towers, as well as step pyramids, all built of yellow bricks.

The Yunkai are a proud people, descendants of the Gugis, and they also worship harpies. However, the harpies worshipped by the Yunkai differ slightly in form from those of Astapo.

The Yunkai harpies have the bodies of women, the wings of bats, the legs of eagles, and the tails of scorpions, their claws gripping a whip and iron chains, while the Astapo harpies grip an open pair of shackles.

The harpies of Meereen, the largest city-state in Slaver's Bay, are different from those of Yunkai and Astapor.

In reality, the true faith of the Gugis Empire was in a harpy, but thunder was hidden between its claws.

However, as the successors of the Gugis Empire, the three city-states now have three different symbols.

This also symbolizes that the harpies' faith has become ununited and scattered. It can be inferred that the harpies themselves must have encountered some kind of problem, which is why they cannot even control their own followers.

The Harpy, the goddess of the Gorgis Empire, is an ancient deity, but she waged war against the Valyrian gods many years ago when Valyria rose to power.

The final outcome of this war is already known: the Valyrians defeated the ancient empire and buried them in history.

What makes this world special is that the struggles between the gods are closely related to the mortal world, and wars in the mortal world can also have a huge impact on the gods.

Therefore, the Valyrian gods defeated the gods of the Gorgis Empire, severely wounded the Harpy, and sealed her beneath the former Summer Sea, now the Bay of Sorrows, where she could never escape.

He was released by R'hllor after the Valyrian catastrophe, and was able to see the light of day again.

So, does the Harpy really not want to participate in this war and seek revenge against the Valyrian gods who sealed her in the sea?

Of course she wants to!

Unfortunately, the Harpy was sealed at the bottom of the sea for thousands of years, and her power was greatly reduced. Even if she wanted to, she was powerless. Therefore, she did not appear in this war between the gods of Westeros and the gods of R'hllor.

However, the weakened harpy now felt a sense of crisis once again, because this time it was exactly the same as what happened thousands of years ago, almost making her suspect that she had been given the same script.

A Valyrian led a small army of slaves into the borders of the Gugis Empire, and a small-scale conflict broke out between the two sides.

The proud Gis people initially didn't take these barbarians from who-knows-where seriously, but no one expected the conflict to escalate so deeply.

The enemy continued to deploy new troops, while the Githians called for reinforcements. The two sides remained locked in a fierce and evenly matched battle. Then, the silver-haired, purple-eyed man descended on a terrifying flying beast.

The scale of this war has escalated.

The proud and powerful Gis people continuously dispatched their elite troops, led by their most renowned generals, to forge weapons capable of hunting these behemoths.

However, the Githians believed that as long as they did their best to hunt down this sky behemoth, they could win the war. But they did not expect that before they could even hunt down the first dragon, a second and a third dragon flew in from the distant west, with these silver-haired, purple-eyed people, whom they regarded as demons, on their backs.

After five fierce battles, the ancient empire collapsed and became scorched earth beneath the feet of the conquerors.

The Valyrians offended many people on their path to rise, so it's hard to say whether their subsequent doomsday catastrophe was a calamity or retribution.

But Viserys inherited the Valyrian 'legacy,' and with his bloodline and appearance, even if he hadn't inherited those legacies, he couldn't possibly sever his ties with Valyria.

Therefore, a silver-haired, purple-eyed Valyrian has now appeared on the land of the Gugis Empire, leading an army of slaves, causing the harpies who were recuperating to feel a strong sense of crisis.

He even went so far as to abandon the results of his partial restoration and forcibly transmit his will to the lower realm.

The way gods and believers communicate is through the heart, which is the fire of faith.

...

Now, Grazdan Mo Eraz, one of the wise lords of Yunkai, is lean and muscular, with slightly reddish-brown skin and a prominent forehead.

At this moment, he was wearing a toka robe, which was only worn by nobles and wealthy merchants of Gith, with golden tassels hanging down, all of which were Mil's lace.

The night outside the window was deep, and the bright moonlight shone on the cold stones inside the pyramid, reflecting a pale light. Grazdan Mo Eraz, one of the wise lords of Yunkai, was kneeling under a golden harpy statue, with the backs of his hands pressed against the ground, palms facing up, and his forehead lightly touching the ground.

The Gugis believe that the earth gives them power, and that the forehead is the window to the soul; when the forehead touches the ground, one hears the teachings of the gods and gains wisdom.

This is Grazdan Mo Erraz's daily prayer routine, as normal as eating and drinking.

Because although he prayed very sincerely every time, he never received a response from the true God.

However, today, all of this happened very suddenly. An ancient and distant voice resounded in his mind, and then his expression changed drastically.

Chapter 951 Stopping the Eastward Advance

A mysterious voice rang in his ears, and the next second he saw the true god.

This was a colossal creature, over five meters tall, with outstretched bat wings, floating in mid-air, and possessing eagle legs and a scorpion's coiled venomous tail, in a magnificent temple filled with ancient Ghistoric colors.

He looked down at the kneeling servants below, his eyes filled with contempt, and then spoke in a commanding tone an obscure and incomprehensible divine oracle.

Without giving Grazdan Mo Erraz any time to react, He kicked him away from there.

However, by the time Grazdan Mo Erraz came to his senses after kneeling before the idol, the moonlight outside the window was cold, but he was covered in cold sweat and his face was pale.

"This is a divine decree!"

But he couldn't care less about that at the moment; instead, he tried his best to recall the divine message that the true god had just given him.

The other party spoke ancient Giscali, a language that is almost extinct. However, the Erraz family, as the oldest and most glorious family in Yunkai, considers themselves descendants of the ancient Giscali and naturally retains the habit of learning Giscali, just as the Targaryen family learns Valyrian.

Then, Grazdan Mo Erraz tried hard to recall the oracle that the harpy had just delivered, and after consulting the dictionary, he finally translated a sentence.

"Stop her—"

...

"Stop her?"

The ancient Ghiskali language has a clear distinction between male and female third-person pronouns, so the 'she' referred to by the harpy must be a woman.

However, for Yuankai, as in most parts of the world, men are the rulers, while women are often treated as appendages or property of men.

she?

Who would be a woman whom the true god would go to great lengths to stop, even if it meant issuing a divine decree?

The rulers of Astapor are called Good Lords, while the rulers of Yunkai call themselves 'Wise Lords'. They both come from the oldest family in Yunkai.

They believed that, relying on ancient wisdom and the wise ruler of the city, they were the first to be civilized. However, in reality, the wise ruler of Yunkai, like the rulers of other city-states in Slave Bay, divided the people into several classes: clans, commoners, and slaves.

Furthermore, it was difficult to cross these classes; commoners would always remain commoners and could never become wise rulers, while slaves were subordinate to wise rulers unless they performed great merits and were granted a pardon to become commoners.

Yuankai relied on this system of class divisions to solidify social classes and maintain the stability of the city-state. Slave soldiers were used to suppress the common people, while the common people supported the wise ruler and looked down on the slaves.

In fact, it wasn't just Grazdan Mo Eraz who heard the harpy's oracle yesterday; several other wise lords in Yunkai who prayed at night also heard it.

Although the translations differ slightly, the general meaning is the same: He is asking believers to stop a woman.

"Whom does the true God require us to stop?"

At the top of the tallest pyramid in Yunkai, a group of wise lords, dressed in colorful toka robes and adorned with magnificent ornaments, gathered to discuss the events of the previous night.

Although this sounds fantastical, the harpy had not sent any messages to the mortal world for hundreds of years, but unexpectedly, she sent down a divine decree at this time.

"If it's a woman, then it must be her."