"Zheng-Zheng-"

The blade rubbed against the thick and tough trees of the North, sparks in handful, harmonizing with the hoarse roar of the boy.

"Robb."

Caitlyn's slightly trembling voice came, but the boy in front of her, wildly wielding a steel sword, fell on deaf ears.

"Robb!"

Caitlin raised her voice.

Robb's hand movement finally stopped, and he turned around with his sword in his trembling hand.

Looking at the young face full of tears and hatred, Caitlin also burst into tears, and she reached out and hugged her son.

Feeling his mother's embrace, Robb's sword fell to the ground, and he buried his head in his mother's neck, tears streaming unconcealedly.

In front of his subjects, he was a military genius who fought a 10-to-1 battle loss in the first battle, and the Duke of Winterfell was loyal to everyone.

But before his father went south, he was just a fifteen-year-old boy.

Robb had to put away his tears in front of the army of the North, but in his mother's familiar and warm embrace, he wanted nothing more than to cry uncontrollably.

My father died, and died in King's Landing.

"The gods punished Joffrey, why don't you take them all away?"

"Robb, you can't criticize the gods."

"I'm going to kill them......"

Robb said through gritted teeth with red eyes.

"I'm going to kill them all, and I won't leave any of them behind!"

Caitlyn stroked Robb's hair as she had waited for Ed to return from the battlefield as a child.

How could she not be heartbroken.

Although she and Ed have no love, they have been together for many years, even if there is no love, they have already had a more intimate family relationship.

She wanted to kill them all, too, but ......

"They have your sister ...... on their hands"

Caitlin said through gritted teeth.

"When we get your sisters back, kill them all......"

"No......" Robb gritted his teeth and looked up, "The gods have already punished Joffrey for his mistakes, Cersei will never dare to do anything to my sister, not to mention that we already have Jaime in our hands, and when I defeat Tywin, they will have to trade my sister for me!" ”

"Robb ......" looked at Robb who looked like a hungry wolf, and Caitlin was a little stunned.

The gods' punishment of Joffrey eased Robb's hatred a little, and the blood in front of him paled.

But Caitlyn doesn't see it that way, and she can't understand Robb's plan.

The cold forest behind the camp doesn't hold much warmth.

The two soon left the forest—Robb was about to hold a battle meeting with his lords.

Looking at Robb, who had entered the tent with steady steps, Caitlyn waited silently outside the tent.

At first, she waited for Eddard's brother Brandon, who said before leaving that he would marry her when he returned, but it was his brother Eddard who stood in front of the temple with her.

After a short two weeks of marriage, Ed left her like his brother, and this time, unlike last time, he left her at least one child.

Robb was born in this way, and every time she held this little child in her arms, Caitlyn worried about whether he would be able to see her father.

But now, she was waiting for Robb, her son.

……

……

"Put breakfast on the table."

Mormont, commander-in-chief of the Night's Watch, looked up.

"Oh, it's all every day, you can't bring me a little beer."

Jon opened a closed window, took a beer bottle from the windowsill outside, and filled a dime glass.

"Ed has educated you well, Jon."

Mormont took the glass and looked up at the young man.

"No wonder you love him so much."

“……”

Jon gritted his teeth and didn't speak, he didn't want to discuss his father, even if it was Mormont.

With that, Mormont took a sip of his beer, then frowned.

"Well, if only I could have some more lemonade...... Why don't you talk, so tired from riding a horse last night? ”

"You ......"

Jon's throat was a little dry, and his eyes were a little panicked.

"Don't look at me like that, do you think those people below will choose a fool to be the commander-in-chief of the Night's Watch? Aemon, after talking to you, said to me that you would definitely go, but I said you would definitely come back. ”

As he spoke, Mormont curled the corners of his mouth slightly smugly.

"Look, I said it, I know my subordinates, and I know my children...... Glory will send you south, and glory will bring you back. ”

"It was my friends who brought me back." Jon retorted.

Mormont glanced at him, "I didn't say whose glory it was. ”

"They killed my father!"

"So you want to bring him back to life?"

Mormont retorted loudly.

"......" Jon didn't speak.

"Hmph, it's best if you don't have such a plan, you and I have seen what it looks like to come back from the dead."

Mormont stood up, walked over to the window, and pushed it open.

"At least you're lucky and the gods are here to avenge you."

Mormont teased, "But I heard it was a wizard, and Maester Aemon had seen wizards back then. ”

A gust of snowy wind blew in, and Jon was shaken.

"I know the punishment for desertion, and I am not afraid of death." Jon said.

"Don't worry, you're not a deserter anymore - those young and vigorous children are always indispensable to secretly go to Mole Village to prostitute themselves, can I kill them all? If everyone who escaped from the camp at night was to be killed, only ghosts would be left to guard the Wall. ”

"Your brother is on the battlefield, but he has the support of the lords of the whole north behind him, and any of the vassals have more soldiers than the entire Night's Watch Legion combined, do you think they will need your help?"

Mormont glanced at Jon, who was speechless.

But there was one sentence that Jon didn't agree with.

Although the Night's Watch's legion was less than a thousand men, in terms of combat effectiveness, these black-clad ravens were definitely much stronger than the northern armies he had ever seen.

Even though the Wraiths hadn't been around for thousands of years, and even though the Night's Watch had rotted to this point, it was still the only army on the continent that didn't produce and trained all year round.

Here, they train in the harshest climate in all of Westeros, they have to adapt to the high altitudes, and they have to face enemies like savages.

These people may have been thieves, orphans, and rapists before they came to the Wall, but if they stayed here for a few years, even a coward like Samwell would have the courage to draw his sword against the stranger.

Commander Mormont hadn't gone south for too long, and he didn't know what more than a dozen years of peace had made the armies of the north and south rot.

But Jon wisely didn't refute.

"You're not the only one affected by the war, my sister, Meg of Bear Island, should join your brother's army with her daughters right now, if she is killed on the battlefield......"

Mormont crushed the egg in his hand with a gloomy look, then took a deep breath and picked up the egg white and yolk in his hand to eat.

"But I know better that my duty is here."

"Snow, you and I swear here."

Mormont looked up at Jon and said seriously.

"Outside the Great Wall, the Shadow Tower's rangers found many of the villas abandoned. At night, Sir Dennis said he could see the fires in the mountains, and the flames burned from dusk to dawn. A savage captive says that the king of the Outer Fortress, Mance Red, is hiding in a new secret fortress to gather all his subjects, and his purpose is known only to the gods of heaven. ”

"Carter Pike said that huge deformed footprints were found just three miles out of the East China Sea, and they also found four blue-eyed bodies, but unlike us, they were wise to burn them."

With that, Mormont approached Jon and looked at Jon.

"Do you think your brother's war is more important than ours?"

“…… No. Jon felt his throat feel a little dry, so he swallowed.

"Your father is a descendant of the ancestors, and you have the blood of the ancestors in your body, and I always thought that he sent you here for a reason...... So, tell me now, when the dead and those more terrible things cross this Great Wall and slaughter us in the night, do you think there is any difference between who sits on the Iron Throne? ”

“…… No. ”

Jon shook his head, he hadn't expected this layer.

"Good!"

Mormont patted him on the shoulder.

"Revenge is left to your brother, and you ...... and your wolf, follow us across the Great Wall to the north......"

"Over the Great Wall?" Jon's eyes widened.

"That's right!"

Mormont picked up the reforged Valyrian sword and reached for Jon.

"I'm not going to just sit here and wait for the snow to come and figure out what's going on outside the walls. I'm going to get your uncle back, dead or alive. The Legion of the Night's Watch will be in full swing, led by me myself, against the King of the Outer Gates, the Wraiths, or whatever. ”

"So tell me, Lord Snow, and now tell me your answer, who are you the bloodline brother of the Night's Watch...... Or an illegitimate child who wants to get involved in the war......"

Jon frowned, groaned, and reached out to take the sword.