In the old town, on the top floor of the tower, an old man with gray hair stood in front of the window, looking condescendingly at the chaotic old town.

He is none other than Leighton Hightower, who has a series of titles and titles such as "Old Man of Old Town", "Voice of Old Town", "Lord of the Harbor", "Earl of Tower", "Guardian of the School City", and "Lighthouse of the South".

As the owner of this city, he was full of anger and murderous intent at the moment, and he wanted to kill all the bandits raging in the city at once.

You must know that since he began to obsessively study the mysteries of magic, he hid in the tower almost every day and tried all kinds of things, leaving all the trivial matters of managing the territory to his sons, until someone broke into the study and loudly told him the news of the capture of the old town by the Iron People, he finally woke up and began to reflect on whether his actions over the years were wrong.

Of course, compared to the panicked women and minions, Leighton Hightower was much calmer, because he knew that the strength of the Iron Islands was simply not enough to attack the upper area of the Tower.

The reason is simple, this is the tallest man-made structure in the known world, and it is not a military fortress made of huge stones in the ordinary sense.

It resembles the castle on Dragonstone in structure and form, using a special magical technique that melts dragon crystals and casts them into shape, making them stronger than steel, and nothing can destroy them except for the dragon's scorching flames.

According to a bachelor's research and conjecture, the tower was probably built by a mysterious creature named "Deep Diver", which was a hybrid of human women and sea creatures, that is, mermaids often mentioned by sailors, and was later completely wiped out by deep sea creatures, leaving only a mysterious tower that could not be explained at all.

Leighton Hightower didn't know if this unsubstantiated speculation was correct, but he did know that it had never been captured by any military force since the Hightowers took possession of the Tower.

Aegon the Conqueror and his dragon may be the only force that could pose a threat to the Tower, but Earl Manfred, the leader of House Hightower, wisely chose an alliance rather than a confrontation, so it is impossible to prove whether Dragon Burn can actually melt the tower.

As for the fire attack that Viktarion was using, it was not even a tickle for this tower, and once the passage was completely sealed, he would not even think of pushing it further with an army of 100,000.

"Father, you haven't closed your eyes for a day and a night, so you might as well lie down and rest for a while. Don't worry, Baylor has already sent a letter of help to King's Landing and the High Court, and it won't be long before these bastards will pay for what they've done. Moroya Hightower whispered comfortingly.

Unlike most of her siblings, who were greedy for pleasure or busy fighting for power, she was always by her father's side, helping to decipher the esoteric knowledge of magic, with no intention of marrying and rarely participating in the management of the family, which earned her the nickname "Mad Woman".

"Waiting for help? When did the Hightowers fall to the point where they needed to be rescued? Don't you understand? If we can't drive out the Iron People on our own, the would-be enemies will think we're in decline. They then use a variety of methods to test and then wait for the right moment to attack. Look at Stark, Tully, and Baratheon, what is happening to these once-glorious families? I will not allow my family to decline and perish in my hands. Layton clenched his fists and let out an angry roar.

There was no way not to be angry, after all, when he handed over his power to his eldest son Baylor, the Hightower family was still one of the top nobles in Westeros, even the lord of the Riverbend region Tyrell was polite.

But what about now?

Now that the bloodthirsty Iron Breed is running rampant in the Old Town, the Hightower family can only hide in the Tower of Heaven and wait for rescue from the outside world.

The huge psychological gap made this old man completely unable to accept the facts in front of him.

Looking at her father's bloodshot eyes, Moroya sighed helplessly, and just when she wanted to say a few more words of comfort, a loud roar suddenly resounded over the city.

At the top of the blue sky, a huge beast swooped down at great speed, spewing a blazing flame at a warship docked in the harbor of an Iron Island.

The terrifying heat instantly engulfed the ship, both the sailors inside and the ship itself, all of which were swallowed up by the bright light of fire.

With a piercing scream, the battleship quickly sank into the sea in a fierce burn.

Because the whole process happened so quickly that many people didn't have time to react.

However, when the sunlight shone on the scales of the giant beast's body, reflecting a dreamy violet light, Moroya finally recovered from the shock and muttered to herself, "Dragon...... It's a dragon, a living dragon!"

"What the hell is going on?!Could it be that the descendants of House Targaryen have returned to the Seven Kingdoms?" Layton turned and asked his youngest son, Gonthor, who was guarding the doorway.

The latter hurriedly smiled bitterly and shook his head: "No, father, that dragon does not belong to the Targaryens, but to a man named Mason Asspring. It is said that he not only knows how to hatch and tame dragons, but also has some kind of powerful magical power. ”

"Asplin, how come I've never heard of such a family?" Layton subconsciously frowned.

Knowing that his father had been in the tower for too long, and that he had no idea of the changes in the outside world in the last six months, Gonthor explained in a low voice: "Aspring is not a noble family, and it has only been passed down for three generations.

The founder, Manta, was a mercenary knight who was given an official register and a small barren territory for his military exploits, and later incurred a huge debt due to poor management, and by the time Mason's generation was unable to pay it back, he had to mortgage the territory to pay the arrears.

But I don't know why, this originally unknown Mason, suddenly seemed to be a different person, and the first time he appeared in the eyes of everyone, he won the championship of the first martial arts tournament with an overwhelming advantage, and later allied with the Lannisters, and successfully smashed Stannis's cavalry charge in the Battle of the Blackwater River.

Afterwards, the Florentine family, who had participated in the rebellion, were stripped of all their lands and titles, and recently married Ezlo, completing their marriage to the Tyrells.

I think the presence of his dragon in Old Town means that reinforcements from Bright Water City have arrived......"

The words just fell!

A heavily armed army poured in directly from the North Gate to unleash a merciless massacre of pirates.

Those iron people who were busy robbing and raping didn't expect that there would be reinforcements, and they were blinded all of a sudden, plus they had no formation for a long time, and they were scattered in the streets and alleys, so they couldn't organize effective resistance, and hundreds of people died in just ten minutes, and the rest of them couldn't care about the gold and silver treasures and women in their hands, so they turned around and retreated in the direction of the port.