Chapter 44: Bad News from Far Away
In the year since the end of the Harrenhal Tournament, Han Xing has spent a fairly comfortable year in Eagle's Nest City, practicing various combat skills has led to a great increase in Han Xing's various proficiency, and most importantly, Han Xing's strength has increased by two points, which he only trained after fighting Robert and Eddard countless times.
What's more, the favor of "Bronze Yoon" was not in vain, Han Xing learned a novice-level defense technique from him, which can reduce the obstacles caused by the armor, and now Han Xing will not feel the slightest burden in the armor, as if the armor has become a part of his body.
His stat bar is as follows:
Name: Han Xing
Rank: Realm Lord
Age: 34 years old
Strength: 10+5
Dexterity: 7+5
Stamina: 8+5
Intelligence: 10+15
Charisma: 9-5
Health: Stamina*3 Current HP 49+150
Mental Power: Intelligence*10 Current Mental Power 250
Force Limit: 1500
World bonus 500
Realm Master +1000
Status: T Virus Evolved (Intelligent) Advanced
Effect:
All stats except Charisma and Intelligence +5, Intelligence +15, Charisma -5, and Health +150
The speed of wound healing is greatly increased, 100% immunity to diseases and toxins is obtained, and all vital points except the head are eliminated.
Additional Skills:
Juggernaut: Allows summoned creatures in the world to participate in the battle, and there is no troop limit in the home world of zombies such as Resident Evil
Mind Reading: Allows you to spy on the other person's inner thoughts (the greater the intelligence difference, the higher the success rate) and consumes 50 mental power each time
Spiritual Connection: Allows for spiritual communication with living beings, establishing spiritual connections. Spiritual link groups can be created, with a current limit of 3 people. Range: 100 meters, each time you consume 10 mental energy (upgradeable)
Upgrading the next level requires 500 survival points, and the range is increased to 150 meters.
Skill Proficiency: Entry-level ranged combat
Apprentice-level melee
Apprentice-level equestrian
Entry-level shielding
Beginner Defense (Increases movement speed and reaction speed while armoring)
General language (Chinese, English, French, German)
"Lyanna is missing!" Today a raven sent a letter from Winterfell, and Robert, believing it to be a love letter from Lyanna to himself, ran over to read it, only to hear Robert's roar, like a furred lion, and his voice seemed to be using a megaphone, so that his roar could be heard throughout the Eagle's Nest.
"It's worthy of the Baratheon family, no wonder their family language is 'Anger Burns', if it were left for now, maybe Robert could pick up some throat lozenges or something." Han Xing secretly scolded Robert's loud voice, and then walked to the hall where Robert was.
Han Xing cautiously came to the door of the hall, used his shield as a cover, and looked inside to see the situation inside, at this time Robert was losing his temper, chairs, plates, knives and forks, like cannonballs, flying everywhere, accompanied by Robert's roar.
"I knew that Targaryen boy wasn't well!" Robert thundered like a bulging frog.
"I should have killed him with a hammer! I should have made a move, just when he gave Lyanna that damn broken flower crown! The sound of items being smashed was heard again.
Jon Arryn sat down in his chair very calmly and said lightly: "Robert, calm down, it may not be that Prince Rhaegar kidnapped Lyanna!" ”
"Calm down? You told me to calm down? None of the Seven Kingdoms can compare to my Lyanna! Robert said hoarsely.
"Who else could it be if it's not that Targaryen bastard? That's what Brandon wrote in his letter, he said that only that Rhaegar had written a bunch of love letters to Lyanna a while ago, and finally a letter asking her to go to Harrenhal to meet him! ”
"Then Lyanna is gone, she wasn't tricked into being kidnapped by Rhaegar and what else could she be? Do you want to tell me she's going to play hide-and-seek with the Icewolf? Robert's anger was tinged with remorse, even with a little crying.
"Damn, she's my fiancée! My fiancée! How do you calm me down. As he spoke, he picked up a table knife and threw it out, which was Han Xing's position.
Han Xing's eyes were quick, he used his shield to block the table knife, and looked at the table knife nailed to the shield trembling, and couldn't help but say embarrassedly: "I didn't expect that I practiced shield skills hard for a year, and the first time it came in handy was actually in this situation." ”
"Damn, Hanschel, why are you hiding there?" Robert noticed Han Xing hiding behind the door, trembling with his shield, and immediately stepped forward to pull him over.
"Tell me, Hanschel, what are we going to do? Should I rob the guy and save my lovely Lyanna from the dragons? Faced with Robert's questioning, Han Xing was immediately embarrassed, although he knew that Rhaegar's "kidnapping" of Lyanna was the fuse of the war of the Raiders, but he did not dare to open his mouth to suggest that Robert fight King's Landing.
"Robert, be sober, my sister has been taken captive, I'm angrier than you, more nervous than you, but smashing things like you won't help her in the slightest!" Ed's appearance relieved Han Xing.
"So what do you think I'm going to do? Ned? Lyanna doesn't know where or what kind of abuse she suffers now, I just hate myself for not having a pair of wings to fly to her, where am I, her fiancé, when she needs me most? Perhaps after listening to his friend's dissuasion, Robert sat down with tears in his eyes, and said with tears.
If a man hears that his fiancée was kidnapped before the wedding, if he is not angry, then he is not a real man, this is definitely a great shame, not to mention that Robert is indeed very affectionate to Lyanna.
It's not that men can't cry, it's just that they haven't reached the point of sadness, or they just don't want to show their vulnerable side in front of the people they want to protect.
Ed stepped forward to sit next to his old friend, patted him on the back and soothed: "Robert, you forgot, it takes time for ravens to fly over, and you also know that my eldest brother is prejudiced against Rhaeggar, and Lyanna may just run away to play, and she hasn't done anything like this, maybe Brandon has already found her." ”
Robert wiped his tears and said, "Really? ”
Ed had no choice but to pretend to be categorical: "Really! What's more, there are so many people in the north, and there are not a thousand but eight hundred people sent to find her, not a few more of us, but a few of us, a lot less, even if it is too late to rush over now. ”
Han Xing couldn't help but admire Ed's eloquence, he deserved to be a real man! If Robert is left like this, no one will want to sleep peacefully tonight. I couldn't sleep soundly, and suddenly Robert said, "My Lyanna!! I'm afraid I'll have to drive him crazy.
finally appeased the angry Robert, but he didn't expect that within a few days, bad news followed.
"Maester Verris has written that my eldest brother Brandon and my father, Duke Rickard, have been killed by Aerys!" The object of this thunderstorm became Ed.
"What did you say?" This was the voice of everyone present, and compared to Lyanna's disappearance, this news can be described as truly shocking news.
Time seemed to stand still, Ed kept reading the letter, Robert held an apple and stuffed it in his mouth, Han Xing held a wine glass in his hand, and there was still wine in his mouth, Roy was cutting a piece of meat, but his knife stopped.
Until Jon Arryn's knife fell to the ground with a "dang~boom~" sound, the piece of meat that he hadn't swallowed in his mouth was still hanging on his mouth.
Ricard is no ordinary man, he is not some messy cat and dog, he is the Duke of Winterfell, the guardian of the North, one of the most important vassals in the kingdom, and a figure of the same level as Jon Arryn, who was actually executed! This is simply thunderous, you know, even if the king wants to kill a big nobleman, unless it is a serious crime such as treason and there is ironclad evidence, it will take at least more than a year for a set of procedures to go down.
"Ed, what the hell is going on? You take your time. Jon Arryn forced his composure, and even though he hid his trembling hands behind his back, anyone with eyes could tell that he was shaking violently.
"My eldest brother Brandon became angrier the more he thought about it after he wrote us that letter, and he rushed to King's Landing with a few loyal men, hoping to find Rhaegar and return to Lyanna." Ed's voice was a little choked, and he looked even more dumbfounded.
"His temper is indeed not very good, and when he arrives in King's Landing, he yells at the city, demanding that Rhaegar hand over Lyanna or else make him look good, and he also says that he should come out and die."
"He's so reckless, how can he say such a thing, Crown Prince Reggark, not to mention whether Rhaegar kidnapped Lyanna is another matter!" Jon Arryn pondered with his chin cupped.
"If you want me to say, Brandon did the right thing, he should go to the door and teach that little white face a hard lesson!" Robert slapped the table.
Jon Arryn glared at Robert fiercely, and said in a worried tone: "Brandon's temper will definitely get him in trouble~~Alas~~~"
"As a result, Aerys actually arrested and imprisoned him on charges of treason and conspiracy to kill the crown prince!" Tears swirled in Ed's eyes, how cruel fate was to him!
"He's your king!" Jon Arryn corrected.
"He's a fart king, arresting others on trumped-up charges, what kind of king is he? Is it just because he said a few angry words? Robert was the first to speak.
Then, when my father heard that the eldest brother had been arrested, he rushed to King's Landing and demanded that the eldest brother be tried in a fair manner, and he demanded a trial in the right of a nobleman. The king accepted! Ed's tears were already running down his cheeks, and his voice trembled.
"And then where? If that's the case, how could Duke Rickard die? What's going on? Say it! Ed! Jon Arryn, who had always been calm, became impatient, urging Ed to continue.
"The king didn't intend to have a jousting trial, and my father put on his armor and walked into the hall thinking that he was going to fight one of the Kingsguards, but he found that only two pyromancers in the hall had a stove, and then several guards appeared and captured my father. Then the king said to his father, 'Fire is the warrior of the House of Targaryen, so please fight with fire!' If you want to prove your son's innocence, you have to win the fire, and the way you can win it is not to be burned by it! They also put a noose around the neck of the eldest brother, forcing him to watch his father 'compete' with the fire, and the eldest brother watched his father struggle and scream in the flames, and he desperately tried to rush up to save him, but he was strangled to death by the noose! The rest of the eldest brother's servants were also put to death. ”
At this point, Ed could no longer weep, tears welling up from his eyes and nostrils like a spring, and the man of the strong men fell to his knees and whimpered.
"Ahh Big brother, father! Iris, you're not human! You're not human! Ed wailed frantically, his eyes were red like rubies because of the bloodshot, and for a moment Ed seemed to turn into a bloodthirsty wolf.
Ed seemed to be able to see his father being roasted by the fire, and under the flames, his armor was useless, but his father was screaming because of the heat; He could imagine how his eldest brother would be broken when he saw his father being tortured like this, and he desperately ran towards his father on fire, regardless of the rope around his neck, but maybe it was intentional by the "Mad King", the rope was not long enough at all, and he deliberately put a sword on the side, but the sword was actually completely out of Brandon's reach.
In the end, in his own life and his father's life, the eldest brother chose to sacrifice himself, he desperately wanted to pick up the sword, even if his face was bruised, even if it was more and more difficult to breathe, but it was still not enough, just when he was about to touch the sword, he couldn't hold on anymore, and was hanged alive in front of his father. And the father watched his son die in himself, and his heart was completely devoured by the flames with tears streaming down his face.
"Horrifying" Jon Arryn seemed so frightened that he trembled and muttered, repeating a sentence that among Brandon was Jon Arryn's nephew, Albert Arryn, the heir of the Vale.
"A bullshit king, he doesn't deserve to be a king, he's a madman, he's a demon from hell, he doesn't belong to the world! He deserves to die! This time it was Robert's turn to embrace Ed and appease his good brother.
Even Han Xing and Roy knew that the "Mad King" would have this one, but when it came to this day, the two of them were shocked, after all, such a thing was too appalling in a medieval Westeros continent.
Although Han Xing admits that the "trial by force" itself is a trial method that favors the aristocracy, relying entirely on violence to determine the outcome of the trial, and winning one side is the will of heaven, this kind of law is largely the umbrella of the criminal aristocracy, after all, the common people are not like the nobles who fight and kill every day, and the competition will definitely not beat them. What's more, the trial of martial arts can also appoint its own agent, and it does not have to be in person, which can be described as a protective umbrella for nobles to break the law and commit crimes.
But under such circumstances, a great nobleman was inexplicably sentenced to death by death.