Cobain sensed the indiscriminity in Egger's tone and shut his mouth.

Yesterday he had seen the erudite and kind side of the Night's Watch, and today he had seen the other side of his arbitrariness—which, of course, was not all pejorative here. Disobedience is a bad trait most of the time, but if a person who insists on his own opinion makes a deliberate decision based on sufficient reason and sharp judgment, and it turns out to be the right thing to do, he will be able to achieve greatness "without the influence of others."

Whether or not to melt the sword depends entirely on personal thoughts, and it is not a matter of principle, let alone right or wrong. However, after a little thought, Cobain sniffed more from Egger's last words: Lord Commander-in-Chief, it seems that you have some contempt for Aegon the Conqueror and his sisters?

No, it's not. More like arrogance than contempt, his boss, the supreme commander of the defenders of the Great Wall, seems to think that he will become a more famous figure than the founder of the Targaryen dynasty and the conqueror of the unification of the Seven Kingdoms.

Is this arrogance, or confidence?

Time will tell the answer.

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They weave through the crowded streets, and since Daenerys had recently ridden a dragon over King's Landing to show her strength, the Dragon's Burn has greatly intimidated the city with far fewer residents than in normal war. Of course, the Heishui estuary is much warmer than the land grant, but after all, winter has completely fallen, and because the river and the sea are more humid, people do not feel very comfortable. But the good news is that the stench that originally enveloped the whole city in this capital of the Seven Kingdoms was much less than I remembered, and I don't know ...... Which of the three reasons why Daenerys scared away some of the residents, the cooler temperatures, and the fact that the industry started building toilets was more to blame?

A small number of ragged beggars huddled down the streets, and the children who had been running barefoot everywhere were nowhere to be seen because of the cold, and they left the square and turned into the Iron Street, and began to ride up the long Viesnian hills along the path, which was full of blacksmiths working in front of the forge, but there were far fewer customers bargaining, and for no other reason - now all the shops in the Iron Street were preparing for King Stannis's army, and did not take on personal work.

The higher they mounted, the taller the blacksmith became, and the same level existed in the trade, and the rules were similar to those in the rest of King's Landing: the better the skill, the higher the status, and the higher the elevation. The man they were looking for lived on the top of a mound nearly 100 meters high and ran a huge armory shop made of wood and plaster with floors large enough to overlook the narrow alleyways below.

The two doors of the shop, made of ebony and fishbeam, depict a hunting depiction, flanked by a pair of stone-carved knights, draped in whimsical red steel armor in the form of griffins and unicorns.

Egger wasn't the only visitor, as several horses were already tied to the stake at the door, and there were people standing guard, even holding a long, dark flag. Seeing that the best "parking space" was occupied, he could only choose to lead someone to tie the horse to the other side of the door, and after leaving one person behind, he walked to the door of the store.

Before he could enter it, he heard the sound of an argument coming from inside the shop.

"My lord, this is equipment for King Stannis's army commanders, and you really can't take it with you!"

"If the armor and weapons are built, aren't they just for people to use? After we equip them, we also want to defend the Seven Kingdoms for His Majesty Stannis, why can't we buy them? How much price, even if it is reported, it will definitely not be less of a copper for you!"

"It's not about money, sir...... Violating His Majesty's order, we, the common people, will lose our heads!"

When Egger entered the city, he had already sent someone to greet him first, and the waitress in the store immediately guessed their identities when she saw the group dressed in black, and hurriedly announced loudly: "Mr. Mott, the commander-in-chief of the night watch has arrived!"

......

Egger had only just stepped through the door, and was upset to find that he had stumbled into a dispute, and his head suddenly grew: in the lobby of the shop where weapons and armor were hung or stocked, several apparently uninvited visitors were blocking a slightly short, but not thin, man. The encircled man was dressed in a black velvet jacket with a hammer embroidered with silver thread on his sleeves, and a heavy silver chain around his neck, on which the sapphire was the size of a pigeon's egg.

Coupled with the words and words heard before entering the door, it is easy to judge what happened at the scene: someone wanted to forcibly buy some non-commodity goods, but the staff refused, and the two sides were arguing...... At this time, Egger suddenly appeared with Nina, Melisandre, Cobain, and a group of guards, interrupting the forced purchase.

The reason why his head is big is not because he is afraid of things, but because Egger really doesn't have time and mind to play anything at the moment - Tobu's blacksmith shop is the number one in King's Landing, and it is not the ordinary people who dare to make trouble here all year round. But he was going to get out of the King's Gate by the same way as he was, and leave the place before dark on the Blackbird and down the river, and return to the land with a boatload full of nitrate. If you get into trouble for no reason, you are not afraid of being bullied if you have a large number of people on your side and a witch, but if you are delayed in going out of the city, you have to find a place to spend the night, not to mention the trouble of wasting a precious day's time.

It's a pity that the person he is looking for on this trip is the shopkeeper here, and it is impossible to turn around and leave...... For now, he could only hope that he and his tall, heavily armed Night's Watch soldiers would be able to calm the scene, and the other party would be reasonable.

The person who was besieged saw Iger enter the door with a large group of people, and as if he had encountered a life-saving straw, he got rid of the troublesome people surrounding him and ran to them. And I don't know if it was intimidated by the lineup of a group of night watchmen...... The troublemakers didn't stop him and let him leave, and looked at the new visitors who poured through the door.

Egger, who was stared at by several pairs of eyes, also quickly looked at the other party: the leader was a young aristocratic man with blond red hair in a black satin star-patterned cloak, and he had a purple lightning bolt embroidered across the night sky on his chest, and he couldn't remember which family coat of arms...... The nobleman was followed by a lanky, freckled, red-haired boy, a strong man with a dagger and a sword on his belt, and a tall red-robed man who was slightly obese.

Egger didn't know any of these people, but in the end the man caught his attention: in this world, due to the high cost of high-end dyes, few people would wear brightly colored clothes—such a bright red robe as bright as the guy in front of him, he had only seen in the Macchiro next to Melisandre and Daenerys.

Who is this, another Red God priest?

Iger looked at the red-robed woman beside him with inquiring eyes, but seeing that she didn't need to be reminded, she had already stared at the red-robed man opposite with a frown, and spoke in an unkind tone.

"Soros, what are you doing here?"

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