Daenerys pinched her thighs, and there was pain. She walked quickly to the river with anticipation and picked up the "Dragon Control Classic" left by the mysterious woman.

The paper of the book is of a strange material, with a strong sense of age but no sign of decay, and the whole book is written in the high Valyrian language, the catalogue index is clear and illustrated, and the content is so rich that it does not look like a fake at first glance. Daenerys instantly forgot about her tiredness and hunger, turned to the first page, and began to read word by word, quickly immersing herself in it.

There is nothing esoteric about the beginning, and it can even be said that it is quite easy to understand, and Daenerys, who has excellent knowledge of Valyrian, reads the first chapter fairly easily.

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This is not so much an explanation as a background history.

The first volume of the Dragon Dictionary revolves around the core of the "prerequisites for dragon control", with an emphasis on the interpretation of the definition and origin of "dragon blood".

Dragon's blood, that is, the "true dragon's blood" in the lingua franca.

Valyrians are divided into two types: narrow and broad. Among them, the Valyrians in the broad sense, the "citizens of the Valyrian Fortress of Freedom", refer to all the propertied classes in the territory of Valyria who are born free and own land.

In the narrower sense of the word, Valyrians are those with silver hair and purple eyes, who have the talent of dragon control, that is, those who truly possess dragon blood.

The protagonists of the story are a small part of the Valyrians in the narrow sense of the word: dragon kings who legally own dragons and can ride them.

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Originally, only one family member in all of Valyria possessed strange inhuman beauty and a talent for dragon riding, and the rest of the citizens were vassals, servants, or vassals of the family. The members of the first Dragonlord family, also known as the "Primordial Dragonlords", inevitably produced illegitimate children in their dealings with the rest of the Valyrian citizens—special Valyrian citizens who did not have the Dragonlord's surname, but had dragon blood in their veins, and indeed shared the same characteristics as the Primordial Dragonlords.

At that time, the number of dragon knights was far less than the number of dragons, and a large number of wild demon dragons flew freely among the fourteen fire peaks in Valyria, and no one could drive them. With the idea of rapidly increasing the number of dragon knights to strengthen the Fortress of Liberty itself, and out of the love of the original dragon kings for their illegitimate children, the rulers of the first dragon king family generously issued a far-reaching decree after consideration:

[The illegitimate sons of the early dragon kings and even the descendants of the illegitimate children, as long as they can successfully control the dragon, they can become the founders of the new dragon king family and enjoy high status and treatment. 】

This decree was in effect for nearly a hundred years, during which time illegitimate children with silver and gold hair, purple or indigo eyes, and in short, possessed dragon blood stepped into the Fourteen Fire Peaks one after another, risking their lives to try to tame the wild demon dragon. The losers are clawed, fanged or destroyed by the dragon's fire, and disappear into the long river of history, while the winners cross the dragon gate and become the dragon knight and the founder of a new dragon king family, etching their surname into the history of Valyria.

That's it...... The number of wild demon dragons among the fourteen fire peaks decreased one by one, and the number of dragon king families quickly changed from one to two or three...... Eventually, it expanded to a dozen or even dozens.

Eventually, the founder of the fortieth dragon king family tamed the last wild demon dragon visible among the fourteen fire peaks, marking the end of the Origin Dragon King Family's Tuien Decree. After this important point in time, the forty dragon king families worked together to reformulate and clarify the constitution of the fortress of liberty that was used until the destruction of Valyria regarding intermarriage and the ownership of dragons, commonly known as the "law of the dragon king". It is stipulated that only Valylian who marries with each other or who is born within each other and has the blood and surname of one of the forty dragon kings is eligible to ride a dragon. Otherwise, even if they have dragon blood and talent, they are not qualified to become dragon knights.

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It's a bit complicated, just remember one thing: these forty dragon king families have a monopoly on the domestication, breeding, and riding of dragons, and the discourse and control that comes with them at the top of Valyria's Fortress of Freedom. Since then, even though the characteristics of silver-haired purple eyes and even the dragon's blood have spread to the whole world with the mercy of the dragon riders, from the birth of the fortress of freedom to its destruction, every decree and every dragon rider in Valyria came from these forty families. The few exceptions are often bastards who secretly ride an intimate ownerless dragon cub while shepherding dragons for the lord's family - a felony under the laws of the Fortress of Freedom, where offenders either rely on the dragon's owner's acknowledgment to obtain a surname to make it legal, or face the hunt of all the other dragon kings around the world and never die.

At the end of the first chapter of the canon, there is a list of the surnames of the forty dragon king families, the top one alone occupies the first row is the Origin Dragon King, and the derivative dragon king family below has three surnames in a row.

1+13, a total of 14 lines, a full page.

And "Targaryen", which is the penultimate row, is one of the lucky ones to become the legal dragon king family in the end. The Valyrian family, "Valerian", which is also famous in the Seven Kingdoms, is not among them, and belongs to the affiliated families of the Targaryens, not one of the dragon kings of the Fortress of Freedom.

With forty dragon king families and hundreds of dragon knights, Valyria's former prosperity seems to be right around the corner. Unfortunately, all the forerunners, including the Primordial Dragon Kings, were annihilated in the torrent of time in the mysterious catastrophe of the Doomsday Catastrophe and the subsequent turmoil, and now only one Targaryen remains......

If little Aegon, who is currently in Westeros against the Retainer family, is an impostor, the last dragon king family of the Targaryens, and only the last woman left, is destined to die out completely.

Daenerys sighed and turned the page to the second chapter.

The principle of harnessing the dragon.

That's the point. The little queen shook off the sorrow and grace in her mind and began to read it carefully.

After a while, she realized that her previous shallow empirical knowledge of dragon control had almost completely deviated from the right path.

The dragon knight's "taming" of the dragon is not at all like riding a horse as she took for granted - relying on skill and training to form a conditioned reflex for the dragon's command and body movements. Whether it's a special word or a whip, it's all sideways, and the real dragon control is to use the dragon's recognition of the Valyrians who have dragon blood, with a set of magical and complex contracts, to bind the selected dragon at the soul level, and then the dragon knight can control the dragon through his mind, directing and manipulating the dragon as if it were a part of his own body.

Chapter 2 begins with a list of generally accepted empirical laws regarding becoming a Dragon Knight.

1. Riding a dragon ≠ driving a dragon, a person, because of his special identity (dragon breeder) or strong strength (magic or other), may experience the feeling of riding several dragons. But in his life, he can only bind one-to-one with a dragon and become its driver and rider.

2. Dragons live longer than humans, but the Demon Dragon with the Lord will not accept the second Dragon Rider until the death of the previous contractor, regardless of whether they are familiar with each other or how strong or weak they are.

3. The closer to the bloodline of the Origin Dragon King, the purer the bloodline of the Dragon King, and the higher the success rate of dragon control. The Primordial Dragon King, who had never intermarried with the outside world, would surely be able to control the dragon. But as the bloodline is diluted, the success rate of dragon riding will drop at an alarming rate and proportion.

Fourth, having dragon blood does not necessarily control the dragon, but without dragon blood you must not control the dragon - this is the lesson that the Fortress of Liberty has learned through countless failures and bloodshed experiments.

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These laws do not contradict Daenerys' perception: she is the nurturer of the three dragons, the mother of the black, white and green dragons. I haven't tried it, but if I want to ride Rego and Viserion in the future, I probably won't be bitten or thrown off. But what she wants is clearly not a simple ride, but a command that can be harnessed like an arm - only a true dragon can allow her to bring blood and fire to her enemies with precision and ruthlessness, like Aegon the Conqueror, and take back what belongs to her.

Well, the Dragon Binding Pact and the Binding Spell are on the back page, and that's exactly what Daenerys wants.

She then soon discovered that the third chapter was completely different from the first two: although it was also written in Valyrian script, and even the style and size had not changed, she could not read it.

To be precise, you can understand every word in it, but when you put it together, you don't understand what it means or how to do it.

In the less than eighteen years of Daenerys' life, the only time she has been associated with magic is when she awakens the three dragon eggs through blood sacrifice and self-immolation, following the practice of Mirri Maz Dur. But it was a botched imitation, a purely intuitive one, with the witch's own demonstration—but now, the Dragon's Pact required her to unleash the power of the dragon's blood, and the Binding Spell required her to use her psychic power to precisely control the "second" body.

This...... What does that mean and how do you do it?

After a futile struggle and struggle, Daenerys realized that she could not master the true dragon harness on her own without the necessary foundation, and that she needed guidance and had to pay the price she should pay.

She didn't wait long, and at about the same moment the next day, the mysterious woman appeared in front of her again.

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"Save your lines, I want you to teach me. For some reason, Daenerys is sure that the other party has this ability, "Tell me the price." ”

Amused by the eagerness and directness of the little queen in front of her, the lizard seemed to shake her shoulders with a smile and spoke unhurriedly.

"Countless dragon seekers are watching my whereabouts and whereabouts, intending to find the lone Mother of Dragons through me. For your safety, I have to choose the way I am now, and meet you with a spell. And to do that, it takes magic, a lot of magic—too much magic that I can't afford. The red lacquer mask blocked the mysterious woman's face, but it couldn't hide the unpredictable light that flashed in her eyes: "And in the blood of the dragon king, there is power. ”

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