Game of Thrones: The Wrath of the Sleeping Dragon

"Because no one knows him better than me."

Having grown up together, no one knew her brother better than Diana.

Because of his exceptional talent, Heros was actually extremely arrogant. He saw no other rivals, not even his sister.

Would he risk staying in the river region to save the lives of the people?

"However... that's not necessarily true, after all, it's been a long time since we last saw each other."

"If he really does that, I'd like to go see him."

Then Diana changed the subject, suddenly smiled, and spoke with anticipation.

Because they were only two or three years apart in age, Diana and Herros had a very good relationship.

At least he's a little better off than his younger brother, Eamon, who is too much older than his older siblings, so much so that they never played together as children.

...

Ten years have passed on the Great Wall of Despair. A group of familiar faces have passed away, and they have been replaced by a group of energetic young people.

Jeor Mormont, the 997th Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, closed his eyes forever in a snowstorm. Maester Aemon of the Night's Watch, and Maester Paisell, who was later exiled to the Wall, also passed away.

Grand Maester Paisell was born in Aegon 216. When he first arrived here, he slipped and broke his leg. Everyone thought he would soon die because he could not adapt to the harsh environment of the North.

Surprisingly, this sycophantic and incompetent scholar was remarkably resilient.

He lived until the year 315 of the Aegonian calendar, 24 of the Gregorian calendar, surviving the long night and finally reaching the age of ninety-nine, almost reaching one hundred. He finally succumbed to his illness and breathed his last on his sickbed, which can be considered a good ending, dying peacefully in his old age.

The body of Grand Scholar Paisell was buried behind the Great Wall on an unnamed hillside outside Mole Village, with a simple stone tablet erected and that was the end of it.

In a few years, people may forget this name, and this grave will become just another nameless grave on this land. However, there have been many nameless graves in the world throughout history, so it doesn't matter if there is one more.

After the death of Lord Commander Jeor Mormont, the Night's Watch brothers held a vote, and Eddard Stark, the former Warden of the North who had voluntarily donned the black robes to atone for his sins, became the 998th Lord Commander of the Night's Watch.

But he is also very likely to be the last commander-in-chief elected by vote.

Because the Night's Watch's recruitment rules have changed, the Night's Watch used to be a mixed bag of people from all over the Seven Kingdoms due to manpower shortages, including farmers who couldn't afford to eat, people who couldn't pay their debts, poachers, rapists, thieves, and bastards.

Only a small number of these members come from noble or titled families, while most of them join the Night's Watch out of desperation after losing out in the kingdom's internal political struggles.

However, this rule of the Night's Watch has changed since the two White Walker Wars and the Long Night.

Once people learned of the existence of the White Walkers, the Night's Watch, which had been neglected for thousands of years, became important once again, and the dregs of society could not be allowed to fill the ranks.

Today, the Night's Watch recruits as usual, just like other legions in the Empire, but the proportion of criminals among them has been greatly reduced, and the size of the legion has grown from about a thousand men during King Robert's reign to thirty thousand men today.

For this reason, the position of Commander-in-Chief of the Night's Watch gradually became important, making it a legion that truly guarded the north of the empire and was stationed in the northern border.

If the Lord Commander of the Night's Watch were to rebel, just like the Night King did, his 30,000 fully armed troops would march south and instantly swallow up the entire North.

So nowadays, Eddard Stark, as the Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, is basically just taking it one day at a time.

Because of the information revealed from the court in King's Landing, it may not be long before the Imperial high command appoints a new Lord Commander of the Night's Watch to replace Eddard Stark, and Eddard will become this person's assistant.

This information came from Eddard Stark's eldest son-in-law, Velas Tyrell, the current Hand of the King, so its accuracy is quite high.

This inside information wasn't particularly important, and his father-in-law wasn't someone who craved military power, nor did he intend to rebel. Therefore, Velas revealed this information to him so that Ed could prepare in advance.

According to information revealed by Velas, the person who may replace him in the future is none other than Princess Diana Targaryen, who is currently relaxing at the Wall.

Eddard Stark, who had always remained aloof from the affairs of the Empire and observed from the sidelines, felt deeply concerned about this.

Because His Majesty the Emperor is missing, the Red Keep claims that Viserys is not dead, but is recuperating somewhere. However, a country cannot be without a master forever, especially since His Majesty the Emperor's three children are growing up.

The empire is heading in an extremely dangerous direction.

Chapter 982 Emerging from Seclusion

The empire is sliding into the abyss, and those in power, either fail to see it or turn a blind eye, are happy to use the chaos as a stepping stone to go even further.

Eddard Stark was punished by being forced to wear black and travel to the North as a result of his friendship with Robert Baratheon and his role as a criminal during the reign of the usurper.

Ironically, while Eddard Stark was worrying about the fate of his country, the vested interests were reveling.

However, despite Eddard Stark's deep concern for his country and its people, he had little effect.

After all, he was a criminal, even though he now seemed to have command of the Night's Watch and command an army of tens of thousands.

But in reality, a decree from King's Landing could strip him of all his power and place it in the hands of a girl who had never led an army before.

He wanted to keep the Stark family out of the conflict, but he wrote a letter to Winterfell asking his son Robb to come over. However, he only received a reply.

In the letter, Robb subtly declined his father's offer, while also tactfully indicating that he was currently the Lord Warden of Winterfell and had many matters to attend to. He added that he would travel to the Wall to visit his father when he had more free time...

After reading his son's reply, Eddard felt disheartened. He realized that his children had all grown up, and he also understood that the Stark family was now inextricably linked with this princess.

Robb and the Stark family's ambitions will be tied to the giant ship of the Empire's eldest daughter, Sansa, a marriage arranged by Her Majesty the Queen, while their youngest daughter, Arya, is Princess Diana's Kingsguard.

"Will she...become the next empress of the empire?"

His once dark brown hair was now mostly gray, as was his neatly trimmed beard. Eddard sat in his room with a map of Westeros in front of him.

The North is located at the northern end, overlooking the south of the empire. If the Central Plains, the south, and the border regions fall into chaos, can the North seize the opportunity to send troops south with overwhelming force and stabilize the situation in one fell swoop?

And there's another point, which is the dragon.

Although war is decided by soldiers, dragons are an absolute force that cannot be ignored on the battlefield. Will Her Highness the Princess's side have an advantage over dragons?

Besides the two princes' respective dragons, 'Tyrannosaurus' and 'Silver Dragon'.

Prince Heros's mother is Queen Reynis, who possesses the green dragon Rhaegal, while Prince Aemon's mother is Queen Daenerys, who possesses the white dragon Viserion.

Princess Diana is at a disadvantage with the dragons unless she can find the black dragon Bellerion, who disappeared with her father. With Bellerion's help, she could definitely secure victory. Alternatively, she could persuade the remaining two unclaimed dragons, 'Sir' Mirasis and 'Little Lady' Syracuse, to join her.

The cold wind rattled the window, and the old man with gray hair and wrinkles piled up on his forehead as he slowly pondered.

However, at that moment, a deafening dragon roar suddenly came from the sky above.

Call ~

The enormous dragon, its body covered in red scales, blotted out the sky, and then, carrying its master, spread its wings and flew towards the distant south.

...

On the distant island of Dragonstone, since Viserys began his seclusion, Dragonstone has become a forbidden zone, off-limits to anyone except members of House Targaryen and the Unsullied Guard.

Even the Dragonstone fleet patrolling Blackwater Bay could only stop there and could not land.

The few remaining inhabitants and villages on the island had long been relocated, making Dragonstone a private forbidden zone for the Targaryen family.

The second queen of the Valyrian Empire, Rhaenys Targaryen, has lived here for many years, accompanying her husband. Ten years have passed in the blink of an eye.

In the underground world of Dragonstone, Viserys locked himself away, seizing the time to solidify his divine body, for after ten years, he could sense that the Seven Gods and the Drowned God, along with other Westeros gods, were nearing their end.

Although he instructed Daenerys to uproot the foundations of the Red Gods' faction on Essos, this was still not enough to change the status quo of the battle.

If he loses in the war of the gods, all the glorious achievements he has made in the mortal world will vanish, because the Valyrian Empire will collapse like the former fortress of freedom under the blow of the gods.

Therefore, although Viserys seemed relaxed when he talked about this with his three wives, the pressure on his shoulders was actually making it hard for him to breathe.

Viserys secluded himself for ten years. During those ten years, he was not completely asleep; he would occasionally peek at what was happening in the outside world.

However, he did not intervene, because compared to the war that was about to begin, the struggles in the mortal world were just minor squabbles.

"The divine body has been fully formed."

The flame of the glass candle burned quietly, dispelling the surrounding darkness and casting a shadow on the wall behind it.

This shadow has been cast on the wall for ten years, almost etched into the wall itself.

However, at this moment, the shadow on the wall finally moved slightly, and the white-haired youth sitting cross-legged in the underground world of Dragonstone finally opened his eyes.

Golden light flowed in his pale purple eyes, and deep within them burned an icy blue flame.

Then, with a slight movement, the thick layer of dust that had accumulated on his body was instantly swept away.

Ten years have passed.

Viserys has sat here in solitude for ten years, yet what is astonishing is that his appearance remains unchanged; he still looks like a young man in his twenties.

He even looked younger than his eldest son, while his first wife, Ariane, was already forty-one years old.

But for Viserys, who possesses divine power, this is merely one of the least significant advantages.

Ten years have passed in the blink of an eye.

"How are they?"

Viserys opened his eyes and immediately looked around.

He saw Renis, who was still with him on Dragonstone, and Arianne, who was staring blankly at the sea in the Magorium. Then his gaze turned to the distance.

Over the past ten years, he has not only been working hard to condense his divine body, but also integrating the power within his body.

By a twist of fate, Viserys did possess the power to contend with the Red God R'hllor; on the contrary, he had so much power that he could not control it.

After ten years of accumulation, Viserys has integrated the powers of ice and fire within him. Once his divine body is fully formed, he will possess ice from the heavens, fire from the earth, and divine fire gathered from the world of the mind.

Now he can rely on the three powers to fight against the Red God Rahlo.

Chapter 983 Renis

"It's time."

Viserys then looked up at the sky, his eyes gleaming with a dark golden light.

He spent ten years finally condensing his divine body, fully mastering the power of ice and fire, and finally becoming qualified to fight against Heros.

On Dragonstone, a beautiful woman with long brown hair and wearing a long dress sat under an umbrella in Engon Garden, sipping wine and resting her other hand on her thigh, watching a group of kittens playing on the sunny lawn.

The garden of Yingeng is filled with the pleasant scent of pine, tall black trees rise from all sides, wild roses and towering thickets of thorns, and cranberries grow in the mud.

She was Rhaenys Targaryen, the second queen of the Valyrian Empire during the reign of the three queens. The first queen, Arianne, was the most mature and stable, so she stayed in King's Landing to handle state affairs, while the youngest queen, Daenerys, launched holy wars to suppress rebellions. Therefore, Rhaenys was the most idle person.

However, it wasn't actually Rhaenys being lazy. In fact, during the reign of the three queens, a balance needed to be struck between the three women: Arianne was in charge of domestic affairs, and Daenerys was in charge of foreign affairs. Therefore, someone needed to sacrifice power to maintain this balance.

Furthermore, Renis doesn't seem to have much of a desire for power, compared to the other two.

So she was happy to live a peaceful life, residing on Dragonstone Island year-round to accompany her husband, hoping that one day he would emerge from the underground world.

Time flies.

The girl who was once pulled onto a carriage in a daze while holding a little black cat, which changed her destiny, is now almost forty years old.