Chapter 13: Martial Trials
Outside the hall, the rising sun dyed the eastern sky rose and pale gold, and the warm wind crept over the fields and forests, and the long grass turned into waves of indigo and then green with the wind, and the mist spread to the distant mountains, where the fog was stirred and the light smoke was filled. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info
In the granite hall, the tension was tense, everyone looked at the Oriental and the famous monarch killer in the field, they were excited and even some people who did not belong to the Lannisters began to bet on each other, but no one was optimistic about this unknown person from the East, in today's words, Du Yu's odds are extremely high.
In the audience, only Arya and Ed were optimistic about Du Yu, but they were not confident enough. King Robert is half, and he only gives some trust to Eddard Stark's face.
Jaime Lannister stared at Du Yu like a real lion with the eyes of his prey, his sword carved with gold thread carved out of the texture of a roar, the hilt of the sword like a lion's head, the gauntlet was the lion's claw, and the carved gold sword with a double-sided blade shone with a deadly luster.
"If you can die under my sword, you will no longer be a nameless." Jaime threw a beautiful wrist flower with the long sword in his right hand, which won some applause, and said proudly with a flirtatious look on his face.
"Glittering things aren't all gold, maybe you're a Lannister, but if it's really a lion, hehe, we'll see, come on, let me see the means of the monarchicide." Du Yu let out a long laugh, pulled out the Tang knife on his waist, the cold blade, the cold light flowed, and the tip of the knife pointed at James Lannister like a drop in the ocean.
"I hope your blade will be as sharp as your mouth, Oriental!" Jaime's face was a little ugly, he was not a man who was good at retorting sharply with words, probably this is what people often say, the Lannisters gave Jaime the body like a lion, and the brain of old Tywin was left to the little demon Tyrion.
The long sword in his hand was like a poisonous snake, and the tip of the sword slashed forward in the air ruggedly and meanderingly, making a tentative move.
"Don't test me, show your true skills, take out your sword to stab the king you swore allegiance to, how can such a tortuous and soft hurt me." Du Yu slid back with ease, dodged the sword, and looked at Jaime Lannister with a smile.
"Hopefully you'll still be able to laugh after a while." Jaime has been on the battlefield for a long time, so naturally he will not be shaken by Du Yu's few words, his steps are steady, and his right arm drives the sword in his hand, like a spear that catapults out, a sword pierces Du Yu's armpit, and then picks Du Yu's heart.
Very old and spicy and swift means, I am afraid that many soldiers have been hated under this sword.
"Nice, but it's not enough, it doesn't look like the gods are on your side, Kingkiller!" Du Yu's body shook slightly, almost against the laws of the human body, like a blanket, and avoided the sword in an incredible posture.
The extraordinary flexibility brought by yoga, and the almost perfect manipulation of skeletal muscles, in the one-on-one mortal duel, Du Yu is completely a almost crushing play.
"Kill him!" Joffrey screamed in his seat, his hands gripping the armrests of the chair, trembling uncontrollably, he saw his uncle's disadvantage, which made him very nervous, because if Jaime lost, he couldn't take revenge on the obnoxious little girl.
Jaime Lannister raised his sword and swung another sword in close pursuit, but Du Yu still slid backwards, hiding out of range of the attack, and the carved golden sword slashed through the air.
Du Yu stepped on another lotus mark and turned to the right, and Jaime got up and jumped over, still holding his long sword high.
He approached, step by step, carefully treading on the uneven ground. Du Yu still had a faint smile on his lips, and kept retreating. Jaime swung his sword at the urging of Prince Joffrey, but Du Yu's dodge was more flexible, easily avoiding the deadly ferocity of one sword after another.
Then Du Yu circled to the left, away from Jaime's golden lion armor, towards the side he had no protection, and a single look made Jaime subconsciously withdraw his sword and return to defense.
"I've heard that your father, Tywin Lannister, used to say 'lions don't care what sheep think,' and told me Jaime what if that lion couldn't even catch a sheep?" Du Yu asked Jaime Lannister with a smile while dodging lightly.
Her words made everyone present smile except for the Lannisters, and King Robert laughed out loud without concealment, and in the ugly face of Queen Cersei, he took a big dry glass of wine, and the whole person looked as if he had taken a cool shower in the summer, showing a comfortable expression, watching the two of them compete with great interest.
"You coward!" Jaime Lannister's face was hideous, his muscles flared up, he roared, and rushed up again with a big sword in his hand, "Coward, if you have a kind, you will fight openly!" The others chimed in.
"Ho, ho, ho" three sharp sword lights pierced the air, and the deadly aura pointed to Du Yu's softness, and there was an unintentional trace of irritability in the swiftness and agility, Jaime Lannister's heart was disturbed, he began to be in a hurry, and his pace was no longer steady.
"Well, since you insist on asking for it, to be honest, I don't hate you very much, although you are not a good person, but not that bad." Du Yu shrugged, and the Tang knife in his hand, the narrow blade made a standard sword pressure counterattack in modern fencing movements.
"Buzz!"
Tang Dao was in Du Yu's hand, as the muscles of his forearm trembled, drawing a semicircular arc in the air, the tip of the knife was like a scorpion's chelica, and a little star stinged at Jaime Lannister's wrist, arm crook and shoulder socket with swiftness and incoherence.
The crushing of the single combat power made the battle extremely monotonous after the end of the play.
There was a continuous sound of "boom", and the sword carved with a lion fell to the ground.
The knife hit Jaime Lannister's right wrist and the crook of his arm, and slashed diagonally along the crook of his arm, and the thin disc protecting the joint made a loud noise, and Jaime snorted and turned around, blood dripping on the ground.
Then Du Yu got close and kicked Jaime to the ground with a flick kick, the long knife firmly resting on his neck.
"Surrender or die!"
In the exclamation of everyone, Du Yu's expression remained unchanged, and he asked calmly A trace of blood oozed from the long knife.
Feeling the pain, Jaime Lannister wasn't sure if the Eastern bastard would actually cut off his own head if he didn't surrender, he was the son of Tywin in Castle Rock, and if he died like this, he himself would not feel worthy of it.
"I surrender! I threw in the towel! ”
"Jaime!" Just as his neck was bleeding and shouting surrender, Queen Cersei stood up with a scream, her face flustered, probably worried about the life of her brother and lover, and then looked at Du Yu resentfully, and pointed sharply, "Catch him!" Lannister's men responded.
"Stop!" This time it was the king who called a halt, and Robert Baratheon glanced at the crowd majestically, his fat body rising from his seat, his beard shaking.
"In the name of the new gods and the old gods, Oloin from the East has won this tournament trial, and Arya Stark will not be punished in any way, so let's have a few drinks!"
The king's words did not produce the expected cheers, and there was a hint of hesitation among the Lannisters, and most of them had not yet recovered from the defeat of the king-killer, and could not believe that the famous lion of the Lannisters had been defeated by the sword of a stranger.
"Shouldn't we give our warrior from the East, Sir Olroin, who plays for the Starks, some applause! Thank you to him for bringing us such a wonderful competition, like a lion hunting a sheep! ”
King Robert's loud voice resounded throughout the audience, and the slightly insulting and ridiculous language made both his queen and Jaime look at him with hatred, and even Ed felt that something was wrong, and Joffer, who was sitting on a stool, looked ugly as if he was covered with soot.
Only Arya was very happy, happy from the bottom of her heart, she jumped up and hugged Du Yu: "Thank you, Oloin, thank you for being my acting knight, my knight!" ”
"Of course! You're welcome, I've always been willing to serve you, my miss. Du Yu chuckled and saluted
Just as King Robert himself had promised that the matter was over, and he was already raising his glass to clink glasses with Eddard beside him, Cersei spoke, and she looked at her brother and lover in distress as she bandaged her wounds, and she reluctantly spoke.
"Since the girl was judged to have made no mistakes, what should the wolf do?" She interrupted Robert as he was about to drink. "What to do with the beast that ravaged your son?"
The king put down his glass, turned and frowned, and said, "I forgot about that damned wolf." ”
Ned saw Arya tense up in Du Yu's arms, and a guard stepped forward and said, "Your Majesty, that wolf has no shadow at all. ”
Robert didn't seem displeased. "Can't find it? That's it. ”
The queen raised her voice: "Peel me the wolf's skin, a hundred bounty dragons!" ”
"It's expensive," Robert muttered, "and I'm not interested in it, a stinky woman." If you want to buy it, buy it with your Lannister money. ”
Cersei looked at him coldly, "I didn't expect you to be so stingy. I thought that the king I was married to would quickly find me a wolf's skin to make a bed. ”
Robert's face sank, and he said angrily: "No wolf can still cover the bed with wolf skin, you and I can do magic?" ”
"Who says we don't have wolves?" Cersei Lannister said. Her tone was very calm, but there was a triumphant sparkle in her blue eyes.
It took a while for everyone to understand what she meant, and when everyone understood, the king shrugged his shoulders unhappily: "Whatever you want." Tell Sir Ealing to do it. ”
"Robert, you're not serious, are you?" Ned protested.
The king was in no mood to argue any longer, and he had lost the appetite for drinking. "Don't talk about it, Ned, that's the end of it. Icewolves are already wild and hard to change, and if you don't get rid of them, your daughter will suffer just like my son sooner or later. Help her get a dog and she'll be happier. ”
"Are you sure you really want to do that? Robert, Robert! It's your decision, right? A hint of disappointment flashed across Eddard Stark's face, and Robert looked at Eddard with a blank look in his eyes, then took a heavy step and turned away without saying a word.
The atmosphere brought about by the trial just now dissipated, and the hall suddenly fell silent.
"Where's that ice wolf?" As soon as her husband left, Cersei Lannister couldn't wait to ask. Prince Joffrey stood beside her and smiled.
"Which Icewolf?" To everyone's surprise, Du Yu stood up again.
"......" No one answered him, some people didn't dare, Eddard Stark was not in the mood, he could see that Du Du Yu was asking knowingly, as for those Lannisters, they only had hateful eyes, this time Du Yu could offend them a lot, because he mocked the guardian of the West, Duke Tywin, when he was competing with Jaime, he was still very respected.
"That woman, she's Sansa's lady!" Seeing that everyone didn't speak, Arya had to stand up and say to Du Yu.
"Oh, it's Sansa's lady, I accidentally drank too much last night, and beat this wolf and beat her away, I'm so sorry, dear queen, I didn't know you were going to kill this wolf yesterday, next time I'll find a way to get you a beautiful wolf skin." Du Yu put on a cynical expression, looked at Cersei Lannister with a smile, and said.
Eddard Stark's eyes lit up, and he swore that he had never liked this young man so much as he did now, and he even wanted to hug Du Yu fiercely, if it wasn't a little rude.
"Awesome, I knew it, Oroin, you're so nice!" Arya can't remember the first time she cheered today, Olrope always gave her all sorts of surprises.
The only ones who were unhappy were Cersei and Joffrey, and Cersei's turquoise eyes glanced at Du Yu coldly.
"Oriental boy, didn't your parents teach you to be careful when speaking in a foreign country? Beware, woe comes from the mouth. Joffrey, let's go! ”
After Cersei finished speaking, she didn't look at the different faces of everyone in the hall, flicked her sleeves, turned away, and everyone made a way for them.
With the help of Du Yu, a small confrontation between the wolf and the lion ended in the lion's loss, and the wolf family seemed to have won, looking at Arya's smiling face and Ed's relieved expression, even Du Yu didn't realize that his little butterfly had begun to brew a huge storm, and things would be more and more out of his control.
"Won every battle, but lost the whole war." Fate is continuous, and one victory does not promise anything about the future.