Chapter 385: A False Alarm
Stepping out of the dimly lit inner castle doorway, Egg easily spotted his cheap apprentice in his vision: Arya was practicing swordsmanship in the open in a light power suit—she was jumping nimbly around with a ponytail tied behind her head, sometimes slashing hard, sometimes stabbing quickly...... Spun and leap, tiptoe to the ground, left and right, and let out a cry that was probably to cheer himself on as he launched a dazzling attack...... And that's what Iger had just heard from afar.
Putting aside the actual combat aside, Egger had to admit that Arya's posture and movement of the sword were really quite pleasing to the eye, and it was no wonder that there were a large number of onlookers gathered around the venue. Among them, there are many applause and indiscriminate commands, and even those who are afraid that the world will not be chaotic to cheer her or her opponent on.
Berry looked at it for a moment, and his eyes lit up: "It's a beautiful fight, who is this lady? She seems to have been trained quite well in swordsmanship." ”
"Arya Stark, the sister of the current Duke of Winterfell. Iger replied.
To be honest, after some training from Jia Kun, and with his hobby, even if he is not with himself, he often finds someone to practice...... Compared to the master who was busy all day and could only spare a small amount of time to train and maintain his physical fitness, even if he didn't have the experience of training in the Black and White Academy across the Narrow Sea, Arya's skills were already quite good—maybe even better than him.
Of course, the "strong" mentioned here is only the theoretical level of tricks and skills, and the inferiority in strength and physical shape, as well as the shortcomings in actual combat experience and psychological quality, cannot be caught up with by practice. The Faceless taught Arya's swordsmanship was also better suited for surprise assassination than head-on combat in a duel, so despite the bells and whistles of the wooden sword in her hand, she still couldn't handle her opponent, and even had to retreat from time to time to avoid the opponent's counterattack.
"It turned out to be Miss Stark. Soros stared at the arena with interest and burped, "Tsk...... This is the lady with the longest legs I have ever seen, who is in good shape and trained, and who certainly does not have a little fat on her body, and blessed is her future husband...... Hey, why is she wearing an anklet? Is this a legendary self-imposed limit deliberately made in order to suppress her own strength and increase the difficulty?"
Iger was stunned for a moment, and then he was startled: he was reminded to realize that the person who was standing motionless in the center of the field to parry Arya's stormy attack was actually his prisoner, Asha Greyjoy. The previous conversation between himself and Berry and Soros was simply a chicken and a duck!
He heard Arya's voice from a distance, and was familiar with her figure, and found her in the crowd at a glance after passing through the door, but ignored the daughter of the sea monster who was inconspicuously dressed and did not move much. But Berry Dondelion and Soros don't know Miss Stark in this timeline, and as adult men and soldiers, they see at a glance the other woman with longer legs and better skills in the field.
This wasn't just an embarrassing question caused by a wrong answer, but Egg certainly couldn't have forgotten that Asha had been captured for leading the Iron People to invade the North, and Arya was the sister of the Guardian of the North—and the wooden sword could kill anyone if it hit the vital point!
He was so frightened that he immediately shouted, "Arya, what are you doing, stay away from her!"
In a panic, even if he was as cautious and rational as he was, he made a wrong decision: Arya, who suddenly heard his voice, not only did not move away from Asha, but was distracted by his shouting, and turned to look in his direction, with a happy face: "Master?"
Distracted, the wooden sword in Asha's hand stabbed Arya in the back.
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Egger's heart was about to jump out of his throat, but luckily things didn't go as he thought, and after a small stumble, Arya turned back angrily as if nothing had happened: "Hey, how did you sneak attack!"
"Didn't your master teach you, can't you be distracted during the battle?" Asha withdrew her wooden sword and looked at Egg, who rushed over and pulled the girl away to protect her, with a playful face, "What's the matter, Lord Commander-in-Chief, if I want to hurt this little girl, she has died dozens of times in the past ten days since you left." ”
"Why!" exclaimed Arya, unconvinced, "I'll ...... It's only one or two losses, and most of them are draws!"
"Okay, shut up!" Egg, who was in a false alarm, glared at Asha warningly, didn't say much, took the wooden sword in Arya's hand and threw it casually, grabbed her by the arm and took her away from the center of the school, and glanced sternly at the onlookers who watched the sword duel between the noble ladies with relish, "What do you see, disperse!
"What are you doing!" Arya, who was playing happily, was grabbed by Egg's arm and struggled dissatisfied, "I only fought with her for a long time today!"
"Also ask me, do you know who that person was just now? You want to find someone to practice the sword, and the master has no objection, but you ...... Why don't you pick someone too?"
"We're not using real swords. Arya retorted with an unhappy face, "Besides, she's just a little bit better than me, so she can't do anything to me." ”
How could Egger have the heart to quarrel with her, anyway, he would greet the guards directly later, and Asha would not be allowed to practice with Arya later, this matter was not negotiable...... As a prisoner, the daughter of the sea monster is too restless, who knows if she had the idea of hurting Arya to take revenge on the Stark family in the blink of an eye, only to give up in the end?
Dragging Arya back to the Earl of Black Harbor, Egger had to re-answer the question that Berry Dondelion had just asked: the long-legged lady in the field was his prisoner, Asha Greyjoy, and the little girl next to him who didn't know the height of the sky was Miss Stark...... Obviously, although Arya's little blushing and sweaty appearance is also very cute, Berry is still more "sexual" interested in the mature Asha. After some nutritious greetings and conversations, Yam, the mayor of Houguan Town, who got the news, also hurried over.
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After clarifying the identities of the guests he had brought back to Houguan Town, and asking him to send someone to take Count Berry and his followers to settle down, Egg began to arrange business: "I brought back a large batch of nitrate from King's Landing, a small part of which was scraped off the wall, and sent it directly to the weapons department to assemble the dragon crystal bombs, don't delay for a moment. The other large part was mixed with a large amount of salt, so that the pyromancer and the people in the relevant departments were immediately ready to purify it...... The specific method and process, let this bachelor of science to study together. And this one, Tob Mott, a famous forger from King's Landing, you have him take to the foundry in the industrial area, let him see if there is anything left to start the work, make a list and implement it as soon as possible. ”
"Yes, sir. ”
After summoning several low-level leaders in a row and assigning several important tasks listed by Agro, Egg, who had dealt with all the goods and guests he had brought back from King's Landing, breathed a sigh of relief and began to ask the most obvious question he found when he entered Houguan Town: "What happened to the people who set up tents outside the city walls? I asked you to issue an intermediate warning the next day when I left, why haven't you settled all the people inside the city walls for more than ten days?"
"Alas, don't you know, my lord, there was a fake attack alert from the direction of the Grand Canyon two days ago, and the number of residents gathered in Houguan Town right now is not at all the number of residents that should be in the state of medium alert...... Many of the tribes of the new land-givers who lived within the half-day walk also moved over in a panic after seeing the beacon fire, and the total number of people far exceeded the normal capacity of Houguan Town. Persuade them to move back to their residences first and refuse to run back and forth, because if they are all put into the city, it will affect the normal operation of various productions, so they can only be temporarily relocated outside the city. ”
"False alarm?" Iger became serious, "what's going on?"
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