After striking a deal with Joffrey, Zhang Cheng quickly reverted to hiding in his room every day to study how to hatch dragon eggs, occasionally taking a little time to maintain the ambiguity created between him and Elo Tyrell

In fact, as time passed, he had begun to be able to feel an unknown energy slowly filling the air.

Although very, very thin, even a little bit can stand out like a torch in the darkness for a mage who is desperate to draw energy.

However, feeling is not able to truly harness these mysterious energies, they are not at all pure and powerful like arcane energy, nor are they extremely malleable and changeable like the energies of the magical earth, they are just like inert gases that do not resonate with anything.

In order to find out the reason, Zhang Cheng wasted another bottle of precious well water, and with the help of the power of the spell, forcibly collected about more than 100 milliliters of gas-liquid mixture composed entirely of inert energy.

Looking at the gray and white color in the test tube, he couldn't help frowning and muttering, "Didn't get there...... I remember that when Melisandre and Miri Maz Dur cast their spells in the story, they didn't have too many difficulties. Could it be that the time is running out, or maybe I'm missing something?"

Just as he was in deep thought, a quick knock on the door interrupted everything.

Bang! Bang!

"Who? Didn't I say that no one was allowed to disturb me?" Zhang Cheng asked in an extremely unhappy tone.

"My lord, I'm sorry to bother you so late, but there are a few guests who don't want to be identified who claim to be your friends and need to meet you right away. The butler's voice came through the crack in the door.

"Guests who don't want to reveal their identities?" Zhang Cheng suddenly had a bad premonition, and quickly hid the test tube in his hand and opened the door.

I saw Derry standing at the door with three people in cloaks, although he couldn't see his appearance clearly for the time being because of the dim light, he still keenly smelled a familiar fragrance.

"Ai Luo, is that you?"

"Yes, Mason-sama. ”

With a familiar voice, the shortest of them took off his hood, revealing the face of a beautiful girl.

At the same time, the other two people also took off their hoods one after another, revealing their true colors.

They were none other than Lan Li and Loras.

Although Zhang Cheng had already guessed what was happening, he still pretended to be incredulous: "Your Excellency the Duke, Sir Loras, why did you come here late at night?

"I'm sorry, Sir Mason, something has happened. My brother, King Robert, had an accident while hunting, and I am afraid that he will die in a short time. And I was told for sure that Joffrey, Tomman, and Myrcella were not his own flesh and blood, but mongrels born of Queen Cersei's affair with the Kingkiller. Now!she's trying to get her bastard to usurp the throne!As a member of Baratheon!I'm not going to allow that to happen!" Lan Li became more and more agitated as she spoke, and finally even began to growl under her breath.

"What? how is this possible?!" a subtle sneer flashed on Zhang Cheng's face, followed by an exclamation.

"I vouch for my reputation that Lord Ranley is telling the truth, and even the Prime Minister, Duke Eddard Stark, knows it. But he was too upright to join forces with us, so we had to flee King's Landing as quickly as possible, and then gather our vassals against the Lannisters. Loras followed suit.

"So...... What do you need me to do?" asked Zhang Cheng in an uncertain tone.

"Quite simply, I'd like you to take care of her, she can't ride her horse all the time. Also, I'd like you to keep an eye on King's Landing, and if there's any important information, please send it to this place. Loras pulled out a note that had already been prepared.

Zhang Cheng took it and glanced at it, immediately threw it into the brazier next to him, and nodded seriously: "Please don't worry, Miss Ai Luo was originally my fiancée, as long as I am alive, no one can hurt her." ”

"In that case, then I'm relieved. We're still in a hurry to leave King's Landing, so we won't bother. With that, Loras pulled Lan Li and quickly disappeared into the night.

Seeing the two leave, Zhang Cheng immediately ordered the housekeeper who was waiting on the side: "Go and prepare a guest room for Miss Ai Luo." Remember, you have to keep it a secret and never let anyone know that she lives with us, you see?"

"Understood!" Delhi bowed slightly, and walked briskly in the direction of the guest room.

After the housekeeper's house opened, only the lonely man and the widow were left at the door of the room, and since no one had the intention of speaking first, the scene fell into an awkward silence.

In the end, it was Elo Tyrell who took a deep breath and said in a rather helpless tone, "I'm sorry, my lord, but I've caused you trouble. ”

Zhang Cheng smiled and shook his head, stretched out his right hand and stroked the girl's cheek and responded: "Don't say that, you are my fiancée, as the champion of the martial arts competition, if I can't even protect my fiancée, what's the point of living." Don't think about it, rest for the night, and I'll take care of the rest. ”

"Hmmm......"

A faint flush appeared on his face, and he let his big hands roam around his cheeks and sensitive earlobes, without the slightest hint of resistance.

If it were an ordinary man, I am afraid that when I encountered this situation, I would have started to use my hands and feet, and tricked the girl into bed as quickly as possible to complete the "home run".

But Zhang Cheng is not an ordinary man, his heart has long been filled with a thirst for power, and when the girl ** was a little short of breath, he decisively terminated his further behavior, and after sending a sleeping kiss, he returned to his room silently.

"Robert is dead...... The prelude to the chaos has begun...... On the other side of the ocean, Daenerys is about to hatch three young dragons...... I don't have much time to prepare......"

Zhang Cheng muttered to himself, put away the dragon eggs, changed into an inconspicuous civilian clothes, and went straight to the dungeon of King's Landing.

There was no doubt that he was going to follow Daenerys's example and try to hatch a young dragon with burning and blood sacrifices, and he didn't care how painful it was for a person to be burned alive.

Not to mention a few prisoners locked in prison cells, even if he needed blood sacrifice to a city of hundreds of thousands of people, he would not hesitate even the slightest.

On the road of pursuing power, the most taboo is to hesitate, and in the end, the more you think, the more complicated it becomes, forgetting that persistence and concentration are the keys to the top.