Antillor led the Doge of Illyrio all the way, and he was familiar with the place. A month earlier, when the Governor of Antillor had heard in his palace that Liu Jian had defeated Drogo's army of 100,000 in half a day, and had won the war, he was so frightened that he fell straight down from his chair inlaid with many precious stones, gold, and Valyrian steel.

Antillor, who reacted, immediately prepared a large number of valuable gifts to meet the victor of the battle of the Kohor Forest, the new ruler of the Great Grass Sea of Sidothrak.

And Liu Jian, for the sake of stabilizing the situation, also chose to accept the overtures of the governor of Antillor. During this conversation, Liu Jian offered not to take the initiative to attack the city-state of Kohor, and was willing to protect Kohor's caravan as it went to Vess. Dothraki conducts business dealings. Just as a price, Kohor's caravans need to be taxed.

At the same time, in order to stabilize the governor of Kohor, who is considered to have a lot of energy and is quite eye-catching, Liu Jian said that the caravan run by Antillor himself enjoys the highest tax exemption, and the annual tax exemption amount is about the same as that of Antillor and Vis in the past. Half of the annual trade between the Dothraks.

In Antillor's view, this condition almost ended in a resounding victory, as he not only protected Kohor from being caught in the middle of the war. What's more, his own interests were not only safeguarded, but also greatly increased, and the price he had to pay was only a few craftsmen and some children.

As a famous foundry city, Kohor has the most developed arms trade in the entire free trade union, as well as the most skilled craftsmen in the entire free trade union. For Antillor. A group of craftsmen is simply harmless. As for some children, that's not much of a requirement. Even in a commercially developed free trade union. People who could not survive the hardships were still everywhere, and merchants were willing to give large amounts of gold to black goats. He is willing to give a large amount of food to the church of the Lord of Light, Rahlo, to be burned, but he is not willing to give even a copper plate to the poor people living in the lowest strata of society.

Among them, children who are not able to earn their own livelihood make up a considerable proportion of them, and they often work as thieves, liars, and beggars, and their presence makes Antillor have to constantly worry about the security of Kohor. Now that Liu Jian is willing to take over these children who are completely worthless, it is too late for Antillor to be happy.

Probably the only thing that gave Antillor a headache was that the battle for the Forest of Kohor was over, but the powerful Kao, who had just ruled the entire western region of Dothraki, was in no hurry to return to the vast grassy sea that belonged to the Dothraks. It's been a month now.

Even with TitanKao's assurance, Antillor couldn't help but worry.

Antillor had to admit that he was indeed afraid of this man, of Liu Jian.

Look at all the things this man has done since he appeared.

In the Battle of the Bloody River, he defeated Kao, who was four times his size, with two thousand men. A month earlier, in the Battle of Kohor Forest, he had defeated ten times his size, the most powerful Drogo Kao Dothraki had ever seen, with more than 10,000 men.

And now, this man has 30,000 people. And the number is still growing.

Who will he beat next time?

Who can stop the attack of this terrifying Kao?

For Antillor, it didn't matter who that person or what it was, as long as it wasn't him and his city-state of Cohor, then everything was fine.

Four hundred years ago. Three thousand Unsullied defeated the Dothraki several times their size under the walls of Kohor and slain Temokao, who was so powerful at the time. By now, the city-state of Kohor had been defended by the Unsullied. And every Unsullied has a bunch of human hair tied to his spear, in honor of the three thousand Unsullied predecessors four hundred years ago.

But now, four hundred years later. Neither Antillor nor the other merchants of Kohor were confident that they would be able to replicate the miracle of war four hundred years ago when facing Liu Jian. Every three or four years. In the face of the less powerful Dzekokao who visited regularly, the merchants of Kohor preferred to spare Kohor from the flames of war by offering gold coins rather than rebelling with the spears of the Unsullied. What's more, now, Titankao is obviously a Dothraki ruler who is countless times more powerful than Dzekokao.

Facing Liu Jian, even if Liu Jian had made a promise not to attack Kohor, it was impossible for Antillor not to worry about it. It's just that even though he was very worried about this, after Liu Jian had made a promise not to attack Kohor, he also lost his position to question why Liu Jian had stayed in Kohor Forest. This question is no longer suitable for him to mention to Liu Jian.

And it just so happened that at this time, his friend His Excellency the Governor of Illyrio had come to curry favor with the mighty Kao, which was really good news for Antillor.

This was the key reason why he appeared in the Dothraki camp in Kohor and personally led the governor of Illyrio to meet Liu Jian.

After several temptations, Antillor decisively proposed to the Governor of Illyrio that he would be able to test Liu Jian for him, the most important thing was to ask him...... When exactly did he get ready to leave the Kohor Forest and return to the Great Grassy Sea of Dothrak, which belonged to him? After all, in any case, Liu Jian's forces were stationed in the Kohor Forest, and for the Governor of Antillor, it was like a tiger lying next to a couch, making people unable to sleep.

"Of course, my friend, your concerns are my concerns." Illyrio said without hesitation, Liu Jian was stationed in the forest of Kohor, and it was not only Antillor who was the governor of Kohor who was worried about this. After all, after Kohor is Norfoss, and after Norfoss is Pantos. When Liu Jian's army was stationed in the Kohor Forest, the entire Free Trade Alliance was under the threat of the powerful Kao's scimitar.

"If I can get that Kao's friendship, I'll do my best to persuade him to leave the Kohor Forest as soon as possible. After all, no one wants to go to war with such a powerful Kao. ”

"You're absolutely right. My friend. ”

The two came to an agreement in a very short time. Before leading the governor of Illyrio to a continuous camp, Antillor saw the half-armored young man guarding the camp in front of the camp, and decisively grabbed the reins and stopped, saying, "Illyrio, my friend." I can only take you so far, they will take you in to meet the Titankao. ”

As Antillor said this. Two young men in full armor had already greeted them. Looking at the two teenagers, Illyrio couldn't help but be a little puzzled. They were all dressed in well-studied, thick body armor that was immediately recognizable as the work of Kohor craftsmen, and there was no ponytail on the back of their heads, and their hair was shaved short, leaving only a thin layer remaining, as only the Unsullied of Astrapor would shave their hair like that.

But these two half-grown children obviously could not be the Unsullied of Astapor, and it was absolutely impossible for the Unsullied to get their shields and spiked helmets at this age, and they could not be sold by the good masters.

Apparently. As Antillor said, this Kao was very different, unlike the Dothrakkao he had communicated with in the past.

But Illyrio also knew that now was not the time to ask questions, so he obediently climbed off his horse with the help of his servants, and took the lead in half-baked Dothraki to reveal his identity and intentions to the two half-grown children, who looked very much like Dothraki in skin color and appearance, but were completely different from Dothraki in both dress and behavior.

Then one of the children said, "I can hear and hear the lingua franca, you can use the lingua franca." ”

Hearing him say this, a grain of water was even more surprised, among the Dothraki people who could hear the lingua franca was definitely a minority of the few. Not to mention a child.

"Come with us, Kao is waiting for you."

Illyrio hurriedly stepped forward and took out two shiny gold pantos from his cuffs: "Two honorable warriors, can you tell me if Kao is in a good mood?" ”

While the Dothraki are in the Free Trade Union. In Slave Bay, in the eyes of the Westeros, they are no different from savages. But Illyrio knew that the Dothraki could just as much bribe, and they just as much loved gold. Bribery like this has happened countless times in Illyrio's past life, and it is not invincible. But it's not much worse.

But this time, Illyrio keenly noticed that the eyes of the two and a half teenagers completely changed the moment he pulled out the gold coins. Their palms clenched the spear in their hands, and the action made Illyrio's hair stand on end, and he felt that the spear in the young man's hand might be stabbed into his stomach the next moment.

The Seven Gods are above, but fortunately this kind of thing didn't happen.

"If it weren't for Kao wanting to see you, I would have killed you!" One of the teenagers said.

Illyrio could hear him say this in a serious tone, and it was clear that it wasn't just talking.

Next, the two teenagers led the way, Illyrio followed behind the two in silence, the atmosphere was awkward for a while, Illyrio thought about what the two teenagers' attitudes meant as he walked.

Obviously, as Antillor said on the road, this Kao is very unusual.

After walking for a while, a short distance away, the two teenagers stopped in front of a black tent. It was apparently a separate tent within a large camp, and a man in a black robe stood there, waiting quietly.

"We can only take you here, in front, not in the area we are responsible for." Illyrio heard the young man of Dothrak who threatened to kill him speak earlier, and saw him pointing to the black-robed man in front of the camp gate: "Follow him, he will take you back to Kao, don't wander around, otherwise you will ......"

The words that followed were unspoken, but the threat was conveyed along with the spear in his hand.

Leaving behind a mushy Illyrio, the two young Dothraki men in armor turned and left. Illyrio was confused, and had to look for help at the short man in the black hooded robe standing at the camp gate.

The black hood, the invisible face hidden in the shadows, and the striking white arrow-like triangular markings on the robes made it easy for Illyrio to identify the man.

The assassination force created by the mighty Titankao, the Brotherhood of Assassins!

With Titankao's victory in the Battle of Kohor Forest, the Assassin Brotherhood's fame spread throughout Essos, along with Titankao's prestige.

Even as far away as Pantos, Governor Illyrio had heard numerous legends about the Assassin Brotherhood, which were said to be light on their feet and not make a sound when walking. Legend has it that they can melt into the night so that even the sharpest eyes can't spot them, that they are so fast that they can easily catch up with galloping horses, and that when they jump, they can stab birds in the air with their Braavos rappers.

However, Illyrio felt that this might just be an exaggerated rumor, because if the Assassin Brotherhood was indeed as powerful as the legend suggests, Drogokao would not have managed to escape to him.

But that didn't stop Illyrio from fearing them, and as a businessman, Illyrio knew very well that he could see people and talk nonsense.

"Illyrio, Governor Pantos?" The voice coming from under the black robe surprised Illyrio again, although it was a little strange, but the voice was so immature, it was obvious that the owner of the voice should also be a child no more than fifteen years old.

This is also an extremely young teenager.

"Yes, Your Excellency?"

"Follow me."

From the moment he entered the camp, Illyrio quickly noticed the difference.

The Dothraki camp on the periphery was still the same, no different from the Dothraki camp that Illyrio had been familiar with in the past.

But here's ......

Silence, silence, silence!

There was silence as if there was no living person.

This silence also affected Illyrio, whether it was the black-robed assassin, or Illyrio, or even his servants, they were all affected by this silence at the moment, and everyone closed their mouths and walked forward in silence.

The black-robed Assassin had followed him for some distance, and as Illyrio was stressed by the silence of the Dead Realm, which he had never felt before, the black-robed Assassin finally stopped and finally uttered the third sentence of the meeting between the two men. (To be continued.) )