Game of Thrones: The Wrath of the Sleeping Dragon

But Viserys seemed to have anticipated their problems once again.

"You want to ask why?"

"The answer is simple, because the real me is already 'dead,' this is just a shadow I left behind in advance."

Viserys smiled and spoke in a gentle voice, but he revealed a fact that was hard for anyone to accept.

"what?"

This time, even the two people below, including Heros, were unsettled.

They never expected that after solving the mystery left by their father, they would be teleported thousands of miles away by divine power, only to receive such devastating news.

"What exactly happened, Father?"

"However, in reality, the word 'death' is not quite accurate for the gods."

"The gods are complex beings that you cannot comprehend. They are a collection of faiths, so even if a god is killed, he cannot be considered completely dead as long as the last person in the world who believes in him is still alive."

However, the afterimage of Viserys' divine power then patiently explained to his son and daughter.

"The reason I died is obvious: I perished in a great war between the gods."

Viserys' voice was calm, as if he were not telling a story about himself.

Decades ago, the war of the gods was launched hastily, but the first battle was also the final battle, with the gods of Essos, led by the Lord of Light, fighting against the gods of Westeros, led by the Seven.

They destroyed the divine realm and turned the world upside down. This war of the gods was extremely fierce and could be called the twilight of the gods. One after another, the gods on both sides fell.

In the end, only the Old Gods, Belial, and Viserys remained to fight against the Lord of Light, who had just defeated the Seven Gods.

Viserys initially thought he had the battle in the bag, but he greatly underestimated the true power of the Lord of Light, the head of all gods.

Ultimately, this fierce battle ended in the defeat of the Westeros gods.

With the fall of 'Black Death' Belial, even the Lord of Light, due to the Old Gods' tenacious vitality, was helpless and thus fled.

Viserys also perished in Norfolk during his final battle with the Lord of Light, causing an unprecedented earthquake.

However, he seemed to have foreseen something, and thus left the dragon spear behind in advance, perhaps waiting for this very moment.

Chapter 1103 Prophecy and Planning

"My father died at the hands of the Lord of Light?"

Upon hearing Viserys's words, Diana and Herros exchanged a glance, both seeing the shock in each other's eyes, almost unable to believe their ears.

They were unaware, of course, that while the mortal world was at peace, a fierce battle was raging in the realm of the gods above them.

Almost all the gods in the world perished in this great war, except for a few weak gods who did not participate in it.

Their father was among them; he fought to the very end, carrying the last hope of the gods of Westeros.

Unfortunately, Viserys ultimately failed.

Even though he had a premonition that the King of Light, as the head of all gods, would be extremely powerful.

Viserys had actually elevated him to an unattainable level, but he still underestimated his opponent's strength.

Upon hearing the news of their father's sudden death, Diana and her brother Holos were stunned.

But Heros's reaction was the most intense among them.

Because he possesses the true dragon blood of his father and mother, as well as the divine power of the King of Light.

Originally, he had some goodwill towards the King of Light because of his background, but now it was completely shattered, and he stood there numb.

"Heros, you should know something about your background now, right?"

However, at this moment, Viserys suddenly changed the subject and asked a question.

"Hero's background?"

Diana didn't understand her father's words and looked confused, while Heros suddenly became excited.

He rarely loses control of his emotions like this, even when he faced repeated failures not long ago, he managed to restrain himself.

"Father, what exactly happened back then?"

Heros was so eager to know what had happened back then that he even forgot that the person in front of him was just a shadow left behind by Viserys, not his real father.

"What happened back then...it's a long story."

"I'm sorry, my son, I know you're eager to know, but we must wait until we defeat the Lord of Light before we tell you."

After Viserys finished speaking, he paused for a moment, and then spoke.

When Viserys left this shadow, he seemed to have already guessed the question his son would ask him in the future. The two were separated by time and space, but they talked back and forth as if they were face to face.

This left Diana, who was standing to the side, both bewildered and inexplicably at ease.

What's happening now is far beyond her comprehension, but fortunately her younger brother is smart enough to quickly adapt to this unfamiliar environment.

Although Diana was completely confused by what her father said, she understood his last sentence.

"Father, are we going to fight the Lord of Light?"

What should we do?

As the Lord of Light was the murderer of her father, Diana had long been eager to take revenge on him.

Although she didn't know how to fight the gods to avenge her father, the slender woman with long silver-gold hair was not afraid. Instead, she gripped the hilt of the sword at her waist and calmly asked.

"us?"

On the other side, Heros was somewhat agitated, but fortunately, he had good self-control.

He quickly calmed down after hearing his father's words, and then grasped the key point in the words and asked the same question in return.

"That's right, it's us."

"We will fight side by side once again."

Viserys's shadow nodded slightly, once again guessing what Diana and Heros wanted to ask.

Brothers fight tigers together, fathers and sons go to war together.

Viserys has been waiting here for Diana and Herros for many years.

"The Old God helped us; it possesses the ability to travel through time and space and to make prophecies."

Viserys used the simplest prophecy to succinctly demonstrate the greatest reliance of his strategy.

Decades ago, before this great battle, Viserys rode a dragon north to visit the Old Gods and the world's oldest weirwood.

During that exchange, the Old Gods gave Viserys many prophecies.

Its golden branches drooped down and touched his forehead, and Viserys saw countless secrets spanning the ages in the ocean of time and space.

This includes Heros's origins, the Lord of Light's schemes, the process and outcome of this war of the gods, and his eventual 'fall' in Norfolk, which triggered an unprecedented earthquake.

The Lord of Light tampered with Viserys's wife, Heros's mother, when she was about to give birth, intending to use his son's body to 'be reborn in flames' in the mortal world.

At that time, Viserys had not yet begun to take action against the Cult of the Red Gods in the mortal realm; in fact, the two sides were still in a 'cooperative relationship,' allowing many red monks to openly preach in Westeros, which seriously impacted the status of the Church of the Seven in Westeros.

But the Lord of Light seems to have been a prophet, or perhaps he had been planning to preemptively strike against the Seven and the gods of Westeros since then.

Point Guard Here

He didn't consider Viserys a rival at that time; he merely wanted to usurp the throne, preemptively taking over the body of Viserys' eldest son, and thus directly controlling the entire vast empire, severing the foundation of the Westeros gods from their mortal roots.

Just like what Viserys did later.

Therefore, twenty years ago, after Viserys saw these prophecies from the Old Gods, including his own future 'fall' in the War of the Gods, he began his own planning and countermeasures.

As ancient gods who dwell within time, the Old Gods gave Viserys many directions for prophecies. While the Old Gods once made prophecies in the blink of an eye, a long time had passed since Viserys lasted for that particular time to communicate with them.

Because the man and the tree exchanged many messages, Viserys made numerous attempts in the prophecy to thwart the King of Light's conspiracy and have his second son, Immon, defeat his eldest son, Heros.

However, according to the prophecies of the Old Gods, Heros's power far surpassed that of Immon, and Heros mostly defeated Immon and Diana.

Even though he directly designated either Immanuel or Diana as the crown prince, the tragedy of fratricide still occurred in the end.

Having not experienced cruel trials, Yin Meng remained innocent and kind, but was murdered in her sleep by her brother Meng in her blanket.

In some routes, Diana kills Immon, or Immon kills Heros.

But Viserys did not want such a cruel ending, so through numerous attempts with the Old Gods, he finally found a path with the least cost.

Therefore, Viserys established the rules of the game based on this route, guiding the three siblings to compete within the rules, solve the puzzles he left behind, and forbidding his three wives from interfering.

Chapter 1104 The Power of Ice and Fire

The struggle between beliefs is cruel and bloody.

The King of Light used divine power to possess the body of his eldest son in order to seize the entire mortal empire.

Therefore, what appears to be a civil war within the Targaryen family is actually a fierce contest among the gods in the heavens, a proxy war.

In this war, Heros himself was unaware that it was actually the divine influence of the Lord of Light that drove him to seize power and even turn against his brothers.

Heros is the agent designated by the King of Light, while the second prince of the empire, Immon, is Viserys' agent.

If Viserys had not received the help of the Old Gods according to the original plan of the Lord of Light, then it would have been almost certain that Heros, as Viserys' eldest son, would become the next emperor of the empire.

Since it is a proxy war, the gods behind the scenes on both sides naturally use their own unique abilities.

Viserys gave Immon the skull of the storm god, and the Lord of Light gave Heros the horns of the black goat god who could unleash curses and plagues.

But having possessed the prophecy of the Old Gods and foreseen this scene in it, Viserys naturally wouldn't give Heros the opportunity to obtain the horns of the Black Goat, causing widespread suffering and chaos.

The artifact that the Lord of Light bestowed upon Heros was intercepted by the branches of the Old Gods and taken away beforehand. As a result, Heros did not receive the artifact that was rightfully his and was defeated in the subsequent war.

Having established the rules for the mortal world and thwarted the Lord of Light's plot to usurp his throne, Viserys then began to arrange his 'afterlife' and prepare for this great war.

He chose a suitable place for himself to 'die', which was Norfolk.

For decades earlier, before the Long Night, Viserys had come to Norfolk to visit the nameless old monk among the bearded monks who lived at the end of the Stairway of Sinners, hoping to hear his prophecies and teachings.

However, Viserys failed; the nameless old monk had died days before his arrival.

Viserys then heard that there was a huge, bottomless sinkhole a few hundred leagues away from Norfolk, which people said was the entrance to the underworld.

Now, the sinkhole has begun to stir restlessly, with white smoke rising from the cracks in the rocks, forming a thick fog with a pungent odor.