Chapter 0499: Magic Map and Dragon Crystal
The battleship came to the waters of Dragonstone.
Twelve warships and more than twenty small warships sailed out of the port of Dragonstone Island to meet the Warhammer of the Magic Mountain.
On the flagship stood Count Gavin Westerling, the father-in-law of the Magic Mountain. Beside him is the fierce general of Crag Rock City, and the heavy axe general of the fierce people of the West, Rhos Patser. Jenny's uncle is also the brother-in-law of Magic Mountain.
Rock City is by the sea, Count Gavin has been proficient in water since he was a child, and the earl's guards are all good at making tides.
Earl Gavin and General Rover are in charge of Dragonstone for the Magic Mountain.
The flagship and the battleships of the left and right escorts were new ships, a 'gift' from the Wagnergar Sea Lord.
The flagship is named after the Magic Mountain: the Magic Mountain.
The left frigate is called Dragonstone, and the right frigate is called Crag.
The other nine warships were the trophies captured by the night raid on Dragonstone Island by the Magic Mountain, and all of them were ships under Stannis Baratheon.
There are few naval warships on Dragonstone, but there are quite a few naval soldiers, 3,200 naval soldiers, which is the same number as the soldiers of the Royal Fleet.
Two thousand two hundred warriors and one thousand Westerling infantry from the Crab Claw Peninsula made up the navy of Dragonstone.
The Demon Mountain led the Warhammer to arrive, and the naval soldiers and generals of Dragonstone Island came to greet them.
The fleet entered the harbor with thunderous cheers.
The prestige of the Demon Mountain in the hearts of the warriors is so high that the little devil is envious and jealous.
Dragonstone was the choke point of King's Landing trade and was a strategically important location. Waterway trade was the only link between King's Landing and the other seaports of the Narrow Sea, and if it were cut off, King's Landing would lose its prosperity and economic status. From King's Landing to the North, to Arrynval, to Storm's End, to Dorne, to Old Town, the waterways are faster, and the distances are twice as fast as overland, whether it is to transport legions or supplies, personal journeys or trade exchanges.
Earl Gavin and General Rover both saw the little devil beside the Magic Mountain, they had received a wanted order from the National Teacher, and the little devil was wanted by the whole country, and the little devil appeared on Dragonstone Island with the Magic Mountain. I don't know if the little devil was caught by the magic mountain, or if the little devil secretly helped the magic mountain escape? This is a delicate question, and if the magic mountain doesn't say it, Count Gavin won't mention it, pretending not to know. Luo Fu kept his mouth shut, and only the demon mountain was the first to look.
Magic Mountain and the little devil disembark and board Dragonstone Island.
It is a rocky island, with no fishing villages in sight and no farmland in the distance, and there is a mountain on the right side of the island, which is known as the place where the dragons of the Targaryen family lived before the Dragon Mountain. On the side of Longshan, hundreds of meters away, there is a towering dragonstone fort crouching like a giant beast.
The Magic Mountain, the Little Devil, Count Gavin, generals at all levels, and the centurion disembarked and rode horses, and soon came to the city.
In the distance, the little demon saw a row of gargoyles crouching on the high city wall, with no visible head or tail, roughly estimated to be about a thousand. When he came to the city walls, the little devil saw that the gargoyles were mainly dragons, but also various hellhounds, griffins, unicorns, leopards, and lions. The gargoyle was very tall, with the heads of the defenders sticking out from the gargoyle's pedestal.
Under the base of the gargoyle is a dripping spout made of a faucet, and a row of dripping nozzles is connected in a line, which is spectacular.
This kind of building, the little devil has seen the introduction in the book, but it is the first time he has seen it with his own eyes.
The walls are all made of black stone. gives people the coercion of contemplation and slaughter.
Entering the city gate, the towers of the main fort, the bachelor's tower, the dungeon tower, and various other towers are all dragon-shaped buildings.
The torch stand on the side of the street and the torch stand on the side of the city wall are all in the shape of dragon claws.
The paving stones on the ground are carved with a dragon flying one by one.
Count Gavin led the way and entered the main fort tower of Dragonstone: the Stone Drum Tower.
The entrance of the stone drum tower is designed as a dragon's mouth, and the tower enters from the dragon's mouth, and the floor of the hall is a dragon-shaped pattern, and the spiral staircase is designed as a dragon's tail. As far as the eye can see, every building, furniture, ceiling, and floor is related to dragons.
Aegon Targaryen's ancestor came to Dragonstone with a dragon and brought with him Valyrian stonemasons who built the castle and covered everything in the shape of a dragon. For three hundred years, Dragonstone was also home to the Crown Prince of House Targaryen. Whoever has the right to live here among the king's children is the future king.
After overthrowing the throne of the last mad king, Illistan Stangaryen, Robert Baratheon bestowed Dragonstone to Stannis Baratheon and Storm's End to Blue Baratheon.
Dragonstone was barren and sparsely populated, making it difficult for lords to gather armies. The nearby annexed islands were inhabited by the vassals of Dragonstone, which were also sparsely populated with only a few fishing villages.
The little devil saw that although Dragonstone Island was very famous, and the castle was built tall and strong, if it could not develop its economy, it would be a huge expense to feed 3,000 soldiers on this island. The people of its fishing villages are unable to provide good tax revenues.
The Duke of Dragonstone is in name only!
It's no wonder that Demon Mountain is going to return to the western realm to develop, and if his tens of thousands of troops are all concentrated on Dragonstone, there is no way to survive except to hijack merchant ships and act as pirates.
In the eyes of Magic Mountain, from the perspective of economic development, Longshi Island is indeed pure chicken ribs, tasteless food, and it is a pity to abandon it.
The little devil has read the royal collection, which contains records about the Stone Drum Tower, and it is rumored that whenever a storm comes, the ancient walls of the Stone Drum Tower will rumble and echo, from which the name of the Stone Drum Tower comes from.
There is a Hall of Heroes in the Lannister, and every time the tide hits, the waves will make a thunderous sound when the waves pour into the cave under the sunken hero, which has become a great spectacle of the city. But why does the stone drum tower roar during a storm? There is no answer in the book.
The amazing craftsmanship of Valyrian craftsmen has become extinct with the end of Valyria, and many of the buildings on Dragonstone are unique swan songs on the continent of Westeros.
The royal collection also says that there is a secret passage under the tower of the main fort to reach the center of Yongsan. Looking out of the window, a high arched stone bridge is built to resemble a dragon soaring, connecting the stone drum tower with the dungeon tower in the air. The dragon's head is in the stone drum tower, the dragon's tail is inserted into the dungeon tower, and the dragon's body becomes an arched stone bridge.
The building is beautiful, and Longwei is everywhere.
The group made their way to the top floor of the main fort tower, which is also the council hall of Dragonstone: the Table Hall.
The table hall is a circular room with four tall and narrow windows facing east, west, north and south. Inside the room is a large wooden table with a complete map of Westeros, carved depicting the geography of Westeros in detail.
Aegon the Conqueror's annexation of Westeros began with this desktop map. All of his battle plans came from this map table hall and map table.
The 'map table' was more than fifty feet long, about half its length at its widest point and less than four feet at its narrowest point. The location corresponding to Dragonstone Island has been carefully designed. A high platform was built on the west side of the table, with a throne on it, and sitting on the throne just had a panoramic view of all the mountains and rivers on the tabletop map.
The little devil thinks it's a magical map that instigates people to call Westeros. He thinks that no matter who sits on that throne and looks at such a three-dimensional map, it is difficult to fail to have the ambition to dominate.
The little devil aimed at the Magic Mountain, and the Magic Mountain looked at this delicately carved map of Westeros very calmly, and he couldn't see the turmoil in his heart.
But the little devil always felt that the map of the Magic Mountain must be not small, and this picture table is a symbol, which will constantly remind a careerist not to forget to dominate Westeros and take every territory on the map under his command.
The magic mountain sat on the throne on the high platform, and I don't know how many generations of crown princes and kings have sat on that throne. This table is 300 years old, it was built and carved by the first generation of Aegon Targaryen, and it is not known if the throne has been passed down for 300 years. In the royal collection, there is no introduction to the belief in the throne.
There was only one seat in the entire table hall: the only seat overlooking the continent of Westeros. On the map, the Great Wall in the north, the Ghost Forest outside the Great Wall, the Ancestral Fist Peak and the Seun Mountains, Bear Island and the Frozen Coast, the East Sea Wanggang and Seal Bay, and the legendary origin of the unicorn island, are all clearly marked.
In the south, Dorne's Halberd City, the thriving trade town of Slats, the Stone Steps Islands, known as the pirate's nest, the old town with the Towering Tower, one of the Nine Wonders of the World, the Qingting Island, which produces Qingting wine on all continents of the world, and the southernmost known band in the Midsummer Islands, the most prosperous and upscale brothel, Sataya, the brothel owner of Sataya, is from the Midsummer Islands...... All of these are carved on the table hall......
Mountains, rivers, castles, forests, hills, plains, deserts, snowfields, all have strict size markings, as long as the number of garrisons and the name of the lord are inserted, this is the most detailed map of all things, of course, such a map is not only used for military purposes.
Farming, animal husbandry, economy, trade, and politics can all be viewed from this map, laid out, and planned......
It is difficult for wise and ambitious people to see such a full-dimensional map that is the only one in the country without the idea of hegemony......
Sitting on the Magic Mountain, 'perhaps the throne where the first King Aegon sit', tall and burly, not angry and arrogant, imposing like a mountain, he is not a king, but he surpasses the bearing of two generations of kings that the little devil has seen: Robert and Joffrey.
"Ladies and gentlemen, does anyone know why this island is called Dragonstone?" said Magic Mountain.
The voice of the Magic Mountain was powerful and majestic, and it roared in the picture table hall.
No one answered!
Earl Gavin was a well-read nobleman, and Rover was a rough man, with more than a dozen knights and dozens of centurions, most of whom were from the Crab Claw Peninsula, and were proudly illiterate.
Magic Mountain looked at the little devil: "Prime Minister, you are knowledgeable, can you know the origin of the name of Dragonstone Island?"
When the magic mountain is in a good mood, he likes to call the little devil the prime minister. If the little devil is narrow-minded, he will think that is a sarcasm. Fortunately, the little devil ignored the intention of the name of the magic mountain, so as not to find any unpleasant feelings for himself.
"Lord Magic Mountain, there is a stone mountain on this island, and after the Targaryen family brought the dragon, the dragon inhabited the stone mountain, and it was named Dragon Mountain. The name of Dragonstone Island is from Longshan Mountain. The island of dragons and stones, Dragonstone Island. The little devil wasn't sure if his claim was accurate.
"Dragonstone Island is an island formed by volcanic eruptions, and Longshan is indeed named after the dragon brought by the Targaryens, but the name of Dragonstone Island is because there are dragon crystals underground. Demon Mountain said lightly, as if he was a bachelor from the school city.
"Long Jing?" Count Gavin, General Rover, generals, centurions, and others had all heard of Long Jing for the first time.
The little devil had seen the introduction of Long Jing in the book, but he had never seen the real thing. In the underground of Dragonstone Island, there is a dragon crystal mine buried?
"Legend has it that dragon crystals are the ore that kills strange spirits, and the weapons of the children of the forest are all polished from dragon crystals. The little devil said.
"Yes, Long Jing is the nemesis that kills the ghosts. No matter how powerful the strange ghosts are, a dragon crystal arrow, a dragon crystal dagger, and a dragon crystal short knife can shatter them into a pile of ice chips. In the face of the dragon crystal weapon, the strange ghost is vulnerable. ”
Strange ghosts?
Count Gavin and the others looked at each other, of course they knew about strange ghosts, they all knew from stories, fables, songs, legends. In real life, there is nothing strange about nature.
The little devil has read the book about the dragon crystal, and the record in the book is the same as the dragon crystal that the magic mountain said.
His eyes sparkled as he looked at the Demon Mountain, why did the Demon Mountain know this? How could this be? Could it be that he was like a blood crow, from an ordinary person to a wise person, from an intellectually outstanding person to a shapeshifter, and from a shapeshifter to a green prophet?
How ridiculous are the Seven Gods!
"Lord Demon Mountain, how do you know that there are dragon crystals underneath Dragonstone Island?"
"There is a cave in Longshan, and on the stone wall at the end of the cave, there are carved drawings of the ancestors using dragon crystals to kill strange ghosts. On those pictures, the distribution map of the underground dragon crystal is drawn, as well as the method of mining and the secret technique of refining the dragon crystal weapon. ”
The little devil was shocked when he heard it, and Count Gavin and the others were confused.
"Dragonstone is an ore, and the name of Dragonstone Island was not given by Aegon Targaryen, but by the ancestors. Dragon Stone refers to Dragon Crystal. ”