9 The Blonde Knight outside Mole Village
Recently, for some reason, the temperature in the north, which has always been cold, has become warmer.
The ground under his feet, which had been frozen hard, was now dissolved and softened by the scorching sun overhead.
Fields stretch as far as the eye can see, and a muddy road leads to a semi-underground town, and behind the town, a towering and frozen "mountain" is visible to the naked eye.
"Uncle Jaime, is that the Great Wall of Desperation?"
A childish voice came from beside him, and when he turned his head, the little girl with blond hair and blue eyes was looking curiously at the great building that radiated with the sun's rays.
Beside the girl, a chubby boy who looked even younger than her, only seven or eight years old, rode on a small pony, his face was tense and solemn and vigilant, and his demeanor was like that of a little adultβhis grandfather had told him before he came that the northern border was not at all peaceful.
More than a dozen heavily armed knights followed silently, and the blonde knight led by him pursed his lips after the girl's voice fell, and then smiled faintly: "Yes, there is the Great Wall." β
"It doesn't look scary at all." The girl blinked.
But when these words fell, the boy's retort came from the other side: "Stupid Messila, what is scary is the wild man outside the Great Wall, not the Great Wall." β
"But my mother said that there is a crow army on the Great Wall, and the crows are very scary."
"Mom hasn't been to the Great Wall."
The boy said, raising his chin and saying, "You should ask Uncle Tyrion, he said he peed on the Wall." β
When the little boy said this, he looked adoring and yearning, and he didn't notice the knights behind him who couldn't help but smile.
"I want to ask Uncle Tyrion too, but I haven't seen him in a long time......" the girl bit her lip.
"We'll see him soon."
The boy promised, then looked at the blonde knight, "Yes, Uncle James?" β
The return to life in Kaiyan seems to have changed the character of the originally docile and shy boy slightly, but unlike his unruly brother, he is more likable.
The blonde Jaime nodded silently.
His originally smooth chin was already covered with a short beard. Make him look more mature and depressed.
There is also no rebellion and cynicism of the monarchicide that once was.
What happened to his family hit him hard.
After the wildfire broke out in King's Landing, King Stannis of House Baratheon and Lord Tywin of House Lannister became the main targets of suspicion among the noble lords of Westeros, especially Stannis.
However, with the arrival of the Seven Divine Oracles, this suspicion was completely cleared.
So the Great Lords of Westeros, whether they were really indignant, or coveted the gold mines of Castle Rock. With Stannis taking the lead, all the blades were pointed at the Lannisters in the West.
Although because of climate change, which lasted for more than half a month, this targeted military initiative has been somewhat hindered. But as the world returns to normal, the nobles, who have good reason, have no intention of giving up on continuing.
Right now, the Western Realm is already in danger, and before anyone else actually comes to the door, their own lords are already a little chaotic.
Sensing that something was wrong, Duke Tywin drove his eldest son and his two "grandsons" out and went to the far north to join the Duke's youngest son, Tyrion. Lannister.
The pain of being separated from his family and love was devastating to Jaime, which caused him to be unusually silent at the moment.
"I hope that the overseas allies that my father said can be reliable."
Silently muttering this phrase that has been repeated many times along the way, Jaime. Lannister subconsciously touched the hilt of the long sword pinned to his waist.
It seems to be a prayer, but it's not.
After all, who could he pray like?
The seven gods of faith are already biased towards their enemies and will not help them at all.
However, his brother Tyrion was inseparable from the apostle of the seven......
This chaos left the blonde knight at a loss.
He didn't know what would happen after his defection to Tyrion, and although the letter was full of confident promises, it wasn't a short time coming. The exchange of information in Westeros was very inconvenient, and they did not have any friends in the north to help carry the news, let alone rush to the road with great fanfare......
Just as Jaime was worried and worried about the future of his group, a commotion not far away suddenly interrupted his thoughts, and he looked up to see a long caravan in the distance.
What happened?
The caravan was not far from where they were, and it seemed that the situation was in the midst of infighting, and the fighting was fierce.
Suspecting that there was a deception, Jaime quickly raised his hand and signaled the knights behind him to be vigilant.
The sound of weapons unsheathed came and went, and a scout on a brown and black horse stepped forward cautiously but with speed, circled around the caravan, and quickly returned to report.
"My lord, the men of the caravan are besieging a mercenary."
When he reported, the scout's face was a little strange: "That mercenary is very powerful, and he didn't score a point for a pair of seven or eight, and even bit the captain of the caravan's guard." β
"Bite to death?" Jaime was stunned.
"That's right, his teeth are like that...... The ......" scout didn't have a lot of vocabulary in his head to speak, so he changed the subject and said, "The mercenaries are very strong, and they are not afraid of weapon attacks. β
Hearing this, Jaime was interested. Despite the mercenary's apparent appearance, he didn't think his party would be in danger because of a wild man. So he waved his hand, and the procession quickly rushed towards the caravan in the distance.
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The truth is no different from what the scout said.
Dressed in brown leather armor, the mercenaries besieged by the caravan guards did appear to be quite brave and fearless.
In the face of the arrows and the long sword that came from around him, not only did he not dodge, but instead pounced on a target and bit and scratched, looking crazy like a beast.
At the same time, if someone engages him at close range, he can knock them to the ground with a single punch, no matter how big they are, or simply fly them away!
It is unclear how long the battle lasted, but the long convoy was already littered with corpses. Blood flowed and gathered, soaking the already muddy and sparse road beneath his feet into a black and red.
The breeze blew through the fields on both sides, and the smell of blood permeated the surroundings, making people frown unconsciously.
And at this moment, there were only seven or eight people besieging the mercenary. It seems that these people don't have much fighting faith left, and it is estimated that if it weren't for the appearance of Jaime and his party, they would have been preparing to escape.
"Lord Knight, please help us, he's a murderer!"
The arrival of the knights overjoyed the leader of the caravan, who was escorted behind by the guards, and he hurriedly called for help, but halfway through his shouting, he could not help but shudder at the grinning of the mercenary not far away.
Even though the group was not their Lannister family's own leader, Jaime answered the caravan leader's plea for help.
With a wave of his hand, a knight quickly rode forward, and the continuous sound of the horse's hooves hitting the ground was endless, and the long sword in the knight's hand swept away, directly slapping the mercenary who was wantonly to the ground!
This obviously annoyed the other party, so the mercenary got up and ignored the rest of the caravan, and bent down to rush towards the armored knight who was turning his horse's head not far away.
He's fast. His enemies, however, were not so much the guards of the caravan as the peasant mud-legged garrison.
Not to mention the long-term combat training, the hard full-body plate armor on the knight's body alone is not something that can be broken by ordinary means.
Sensing the enemy's strength, and at the same time not afraid of injury, the knight quickly made a response strategy, he first clamped the horse's belly, dodged the mercenary's attack, and then swung his long sword, entangled with the tip of the weapon, so as not to entangle the opponent, after a few rounds of confrontation, the war horse suddenly flew closer, and the sharp weapon in his hand was a sweep, directly cutting off the strange man's head!
Arterial blood splattered rapidly under the pressure of the human body, and the appearance of spraying in the sun was like a fountain, and it was also quickly soaked in the armor and armor of the neighboring knights, but the knights who were accustomed to killing on the battlefield did not care about it.
With his sword sheathed away, the knight looked back at the blonde Jaime and signaled that the battle was over.
The battle was indeed over, and although he was not afraid of being injured, the mercenary whose head had been cut off was obviously unable to get up and fight again, despite the hideous look on his face.
Not to mention the caravan people's thanksgiving looks, Jaime. The Lannisters rode to the battlefield and looked down at the severed head with sharp buckteeth, frowning.
Infinite strength, fast speed, not afraid of injury, and the appearance is significantly different from normal people......
"What is this?"
He was puzzled, but he didn't have time to think, and there was an uproar behind him!
Accompanied by the girl's sudden scream. Jaime chuckled inwardly and jerked his head back.
However, the scene he saw was not what he had imagined.
I saw that in the ranks of knights, next to the girl, where the little boy Tomman was, a pool of clothes was folded disheveledly on the horse's back.
Beneath the horse, a short-legged dog with blond and white fur was rolling and struggling on the muddy ground, as if it had just fallen off its horse.
After standing firm, the dirty little thing subconsciously shook its body, and after stepping on the ground mud and turning around in place a few times, it turned its head to look at James. Lannister, with innocent eyes, screamed a few times.
looked at the dog blankly, and carefully scanned the surroundings, the blonde knight couldn't help but open his mouth,
"This ......"