268 Assassination
There was a commotion in King's Landing due to the "serious illness" of the former Prime Minister, and it was so dense that it seemed that the huge fleet that occupied the entire sea was also in a panic.
The weather was bright yesterday, but it became gloomy in the evening, and now after the night, there are even gusts of wind in the surrounding sea.
The dark clouds overhead, thick clouds kept surging, and there were occasional bursts of lightning and thunder, each time they appeared, they could make the hearts of countless people looking up and watching below panic.
This is a clear sign that a storm is coming.
Strangely, it hasn't rained yet?
But even this was enough to make most of the people fearful, and many of the veteran sailors and captains proposed to return to the ship, and the nomads who were on the boat for the first time were so frightened that they cried out to their knees, thinking that their departure from the steppe must have provoked the wrath of the gods.
However, not everyone was so ignorant, the priests of the Dothraki were busy running around the ships to pacify the people, and some of the red-robed figures scattered throughout the fleet were shouting to the sky, babbling incessantly, and even more caught some slaves who accompanied the ships, and launched a cruel fire sacrifice despite the screams of the slaves.
In fact, when the climate first changed yesterday, there were red-robed monks who did this, and their actions were not to fool people, but to have a real effect, otherwise the storm would not have completely descended by now.
However, although it worked, it was not so strong, and the momentum of the storm was slowed down, but it never completely dissipated, but slowly increased.
Among the many ships, a tall, thin figure in a red robe was standing on the bow deck with a scepter in his hand, looking up at the terrifying phenomenon in the sky, with a solemn face.
It wasn't an ordinary storm, he could feel a special will hidden in the wind that blew his robes around him, and it was this will that the storm had invoked.
He was no stranger to this.
In his early years, before he became the supreme priest of the Red God Church, he had traveled to Westeros and had seen this phenomenon from a sea outside the Seven Kingdoms Storm Lands.
This was one of the reasons why he was clearly opposed to landing in the Storm Lands when they had made plans to march not long ago, which was not only mountainous and forested, but also risked the destruction of the fleet in the seas.
However, the current situation really surprised him - this place is not close to the Storm Lands, and even far away from Westeros, why does this unique will come?
The confusion in his heart made him inexplicably have a bad premonition, seeing that the sky weather was getting more and more serious, he gritted his teeth even more, resolutely made up his mind, and then suddenly turned around and spoke loudly in front of many figures on the deck.
"The darkness of the long night shrouds this sea, and it is also resisting the power of the Lord of Light!"
The lanky Supreme Priest Beneiro's cheeks and jaw were covered with flame tattoos, and his lipsless mouth opened and closed without thinking, and naturally let out a high-pitched voice.
But this is not a godly disciple of the true God! But this is not a devout believer in the true God!! β
The tremolo-filled words sounded especially sacred, and the firm accents seemed to be in hand, making the many beings on the deck look antique, and the silver-haired young Viserys in the middle of it was even more uplifted.
Viserys then saw the red-robed priests around him set out at Bennero's orders, some carrying firewood, others pulling out one wailing slave after another from the cabin, and the red-robed monk carrying out one god after another.
The Seven Gods of Westeros, the Weeping Lady of Reese, the sheep god of the Lazarins, the god of harmony on the island of Nas......
He didn't see the mainstream gods of the nine free trade city-states, but some of the statues of the hidden gods still dazzled Viserys, so he couldn't help but whisper to a teenage silver-haired girl beside him: "The motto of the Targaryen family is blood and fire, which is in line with the style of the Lord of Light, Rahlo, and told me that the conquerors should believe in the King of Light, what seven gods should they believe?" β
The little girl blinked when she heard this, and did not dare to pick up the topic of her brother casually talking about the ancestors, Prince Viserys did not care when he saw this, and looked at the busy red-robed monks, and opened his mouth to continue to say something, but he stumbled under his feet, and the turbulence of the ship's board made him hang and fall to the ground!
This made His Royal Highness a little annoyed, and subconsciously thought that the sailors who operated the ship had slammed the ship into some reef, which made him, the king of Westeros, lose face, but then he suddenly heard a panicked shout behind him, and couldn't help but look back, and couldn't help but be stunned.
In the line of sight, there were several huge black-brown pythons tightly wrapped around the stern of the ship under their feet, squirming and contracting, and shaking the ship vigorously!
No, it's not a python, it's a tentacle! One tentacle!
"Sea, sea monsters!?"
Murmuring subconsciously, Viserys suddenly felt a violent wind coming behind him, and his head couldn't help but be confused, and then he was knocked down on the deck by the guards beside him, his eyes stunned as he watched a thick tentacle enveloping the shadow sweep over his head, and a piece of sea water dripped down his cheeks, bringing a little coldness, making him shiver.
"Your Royal Highness, go quickly!"
The shout of the guard rang in his ears, and then he was pulled up and ran in the direction of the bow not far away, his steps staggered involuntarily, and his head couldn't help but look back, the thick tentacle had already tightly hooked the ship's mast at this time, and then he heard a creaking sound, and the mast that should have been strong broke in an instant, and smashed towards the side of the ship!
It all happened so quickly that it seemed like it only took a few blinks of an eye to turn into chaos around it.
The terrifying monster attacked, some people panicked to dodge, others shouted at the tentacles, and in a tense atmosphere, the silver-haired prince was tightly guarded by the guards at the tail end of the other side of the ship without tentacles, and in front of him was the red-robed supreme priest Beneiro, with his back to Viserys, not the slightest fear, but walked forward with a scepter.
As he advanced, the tentacles of the sea monster that were dragging and rubbing the ship suddenly trembled, as if pain had come to them!
This red-robed monk has a way to deal with this monster!
Viserys was relieved at this, and heard the whispers of a guard.
"I heard that the great pirate Regnar has a sea monster escort, is this one?"
Pirate?
This word made the silver-haired prince, who should have been full of fear, can't help but feel irritated in his heart.
If it was a simple inhuman monster, it was nothing, and now that he heard that this monster was driven by a mere lowly pirate, he had to instinctively think that he was insulted.
So he opened his mouth to speak, but suddenly there was a slight popping sound behind him, which made Viserys slightly stunned, and then he couldn't help but turn his head to look, and found that the guard who had his back to him and was careful to guard against the sea had now fallen on the guardrail of the ship, and the metal arrow stained with blood on the back of his neck broke through the skin and was faintly revealed!
"There is ββ!"
His pupils shrank suddenly, and Viserys opened his mouth to shout, but a hand suddenly reached out from outside the ship and grabbed him by the collar, and then a huge pull struck!
In a panic and screaming, the silver-haired prince fell into the sea under the ship with a thud!
However, the matter was not over, the attacker did not leave directly after the first blow, but jumped onto the boat with the strength of his other hand, and then did not hesitate to swoop over the guardrail and slammed it, knocking down a guard who had turned back when he heard the sound, and then rolled on the spot, dodging the long sword attacking from the other side, and stood up and walked forward a few steps, the longbow in his hand that had been equipped with arrows when he rolled was pulled into a full moon, and he raised it decisively, and suddenly let go of his hand without aiming at it!
The arrow flew out, and in the blink of an eye, it pierced through the tall and thin red-robed figure in front of him with his back to this place, causing him to scream involuntarily, and his body collapsed towards the deck, and then he saw the shooter sideways to dodge a knight-dressed guard behind him angrily, and the bowstring of the longbow in his hand had been broken from the tail at some point, and it was used as a whip and flung towards the frightened silver-haired little girl not far away.
The force of inertia caused the bowstring to twist around her neck in an instant, and the girl was staggered closer with a blushing face, but she was not hurt in the end, because the guards did not exceed two seconds to free her from the "whip", but by the time they pulled their hands, the assassin had already jumped over the railing of the ship and leaped into the sea.
The popping sound was accompanied by the girl's crying cough, which made the four guards angry one by one, but they also felt a deep sense of powerlessness.
The whole process was only about three or four seconds, and the assassin was very short from appearing to disappearing, and the red-robed figure who had been attacked by an arrow in the back had just collapsed to the ground, and had not completely lost his breath, and most of the people around him did not react, watching all this in a daze.
The deck became silent, and several of the sea monster's tentacles took the opportunity to shrink back, causing a relatively large movement, so the screams suddenly rang out, and chaos even greater than the attack of the sea monster just encountered suddenly erupted.
"Assassination of the High Reverend!"
"Go and save Prince Viserysββ!"