Game of Thrones: I'm flying a dragon on your face, how do you respond? - Chapter 108

c108 Conflict at the Imperial Council

Arya scrubbed her muddy clothes in the moonlight. She completed the task assigned by Teacher Syrio and caught the cunning and vicious one-eared old cat. According to the gold-cloaked guards of the Red Castle, it was the king of this castle!

Once the king entertained his father-in-law, Duke Tywin, and the one-eared old cat jumped onto the table and snatched the delicious roasted quail from his hand, causing the king to laugh…

Arya remembered the conspiracy she heard in the basement full of terrifying dragon bones. They wanted to murder my father! I have to go back and warn him!

In any place in King’s Landing, as long as you look up, you can see the royal castle standing on Aegon’s Hill. She quickly passed through the dark streets. Thanks to the tournament, there were gold-cloaked patrols even at night, at least the streets became much safer!

The hound escorted Sansa. His tall figure made the evildoers in the dark stop, and the smell of wine from his mouth made Sansa unbearable.

“Thank you, sir!”

“Sir? You complimented the wrong person, little bird, I’m not a fucking sir!” Sandor Clegane lifted the dog-head visor, revealing a horrible scar on the left side!

“My scar is from my good brother, Ser Gregor, and do you think he really killed the child by accident? Look at what your so-called knights have done!”

Sansa remembered the two murders that happened at the tournament today. Ser Gregor Clegane accidentally pierced the throat of a young Vale knight, who was the squire of the former Prime Minister Arryn Jon and was recently appointed a knight by King Robert. People were talking about it, saying that the poor child was not ready to be a knight, and her best friend Jeyne Poole was crying and shaking all over…

Thinking of this, Sansa turned pale, and hurried back to her room, burying her face in the velvet blanket.

Arya managed to intimidate the guards of the Red Keep and was able to enter the Prime Minister’s Tower, but Dad didn’t believe her at all. If Jon was here, he would definitely believe her.

Then an old man in black asked to see him, so Dad asked his guard Desmond to send her back to his room…

Jaehaerys hugged two plump beauties, and the guilt surged in his heart again. Young people should be self-controlled!

The next morning, Eddard was called to the meeting hall by Robert’s chief steward. After he arrived, he found that Robert actually attended the meeting!

This is big news. It is the first time that Eddard Stark has seen Robert participate in political affairs seriously since he came to King’s Landing.

“Everyone, take a look at Varys’s intelligence!” Robert’s face was gloomy, and Varys handed Eddard the parchment.

“After being surrounded by 20,000 soldiers from Dragonstone, Pentos surrendered without a fight?” Eddard looked at the parchment in disbelief. How long has it been… a week? Two weeks?

As one of the nine free trade cities, Pentos fought with Braavos for the Andalus in the early years and was defeated. Later, in the peace agreement with the Braavos, it was stipulated that the Pentos people should not have more than 20 warships, hire mercenaries, sign contracts with free mercenary groups, or keep any troops beyond the city guards.

So although Pentos has huge walls, its military strength is considered to be the lowest among the free trade cities.

The Imperial Council once inferred that Targaryen must have gathered troops in Fortelland City not to treat guests to a meal, but to Pentos or the Andalus Hills. With the strength of Dragonstone, if you want to capture both, you must pay a certain price.

But no one expected that the Pentos people were a group of soft bones, without even a little resistance, and surrendered directly!

In this way, the wealth accumulated by Pentos for hundreds of years all belonged to the Targaryen family. After the surrender, Pentos abolished the prince and the original governor system. Targaryen re-established the Governor of Pentos here, and the new governor was Prince Jaehaerys.

After conquering Pentos, the Targaryen army went north and east. The actual land under its jurisdiction extended to the coast of Braavos in the north, the Little Rhoyne River in the east, the Myr Bay in the south, and the east coast of Essos in the west!

It was vast, with a population and land area no less than any of the seven kingdoms, and all of them were flat and fertile territories.

“They have a dragon!” Renly laughed, “The backbone of the Pentos people was broken by the Braavos people a long time ago. Even with a high wall, how can they resist the attack of the dragon?”

“That golden dragon named Hela, according to intelligence, is big enough to swallow a horse in one gulp!”

“And it is well known that the size of a dragon increases with age, even when it dies, it keeps growing!”

“I am afraid that in a few years, it will catch up with the Black Death Balerion! The key problem is that it is still very young, at least it can live for hundreds of years!” Varys continued. He already knew this information. Illyrio came here not only for the Prime Minister’s business.

“We must kill it and its dragon rider!” Robert pounded the table angrily, “Send people to Braavos. The expansion of the Targaryens in the East Continent is not a good thing for all free trade cities. If they want to keep their wealth and status, they must cooperate with the Iron Throne!”

“Your Majesty, I’m afraid that the remaining eight free trade cities of Myr, Lys, and Tyrosh are already overwhelmed…” Varys said another shocking news, “Now the three city-states have each sent thousands of mercenaries to fight for the disputed land!”

“Norvos and Qohor have been harassed by the Dothraki and are unable to send more soldiers to fight the Targaryens!”

“Damn it!” Robert was furious, “We must curb the development momentum of Dragonstone!”

“There is a good opportunity right now, isn’t that kid participating in the tournament?”

“Let him run into the Mountain, I will see the body of that kid today!”

Ed looked at Robert in shock, “I strongly disagree with this! In the name of the gods, this is without honor. It’s a crime!”

“Fuck honor, I’m the king!”

“Robert, if you do this, you will be infamous forever.”

“You can blame me as much as you can, as long as the job can be done. I’m not so blind that I can’t see the shadow of the axe on my neck.”

“Robert, I will never be an accomplice to murder. You can do whatever you want, but don’t ask me to put my stamp on it.”

Robert narrowed his eyes, a blush climbed up his neck, higher than the velvet collar, he pointed at Ned angrily and said: “Lord Stark, you are the Prime Minister, you either do what I say, or I will ask someone else.”

“Then I wish him a good job.” Ned said, unbuttoning the carved silver hand badge that fastened his cloak and symbolized his status…