Chapter 205: The Dragon Queen
In addition to her suffocating beauty, Daenerys also has a special power that makes her hair stand on end, and she can't help but want to kneel and obey. Only those who have experienced it close will understand: in this world, there is really such a thing as "king's breath".
Watching her from a short distance, Petyr Berish realized that the young girl of the Targaryen family in front of him could cross half of Essos in just one year, from a barbarian vassal to the present day with an army, three dragons, and countless legendary titles, not just by chance and luck.
Even though it wasn't the first time he had seen her, Petyr still had goosebumps on her body when she approached her, and it was no illusion that even without looking at the other person's face, he could clearly feel that the one sitting on the little silver horse enjoying the cheers of the crowd was the queen, and not any other woman.
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After Braavos sold what was left of his possessions, the former Chancellor of the Exchequer disguised himself and traveled south via Andas to Pantos, where he had procured some groceries and set out for the west coast of Essos, which was dotted with Westeros merchants and could be recognised at any moment...... Go to Norfoss or Kohor to hide your identity and start the second half of your life that may be boring.
However, just two days after leaving the city, he was caught in his sleep by several unidentified men while sleeping in the open at night, brought back to Pantos, and put on a ship.
At first, Petyr thought that King Robert's bounty hunter had captured him and wanted to take him back to face trial, but for a moment everything was lost, and he almost killed himself...... But his keen observation soon made him realize that the ship carrying him was not crossing the Narrow Sea, but was sailing south along the western shore of Essos, and quickly turned around to the east.
It didn't take long for the mysterious figure who had captured him to explain to Petyr the destination of the trip - the ship was to sail to Slave Bay, and he, after going ashore, was to find Daenerys Targaryen and join her, assist the true dragon descendant, and lead the queen to counterattack Westeros and restore the Targaryen dynasty at the right time.
The feeling of being manipulated by fate is undoubtedly terrible, but as a small man, he left his long-run territory and came to a strange foreign land, and was confiscated the last bit of wealth...... has no power, no power, no brains and no place to use, if he leaves the gang that grabbed him, I'm afraid he won't be able to survive for a week.
In desperation, he decided to put up with the mysterious manipulator behind the scenes for the time being.
The ship docked at Yuankai, but unfortunately Daenerys and her army had already left for Meereen, and Petyr drove slowly in the desert for half a month under the "protection" of the strong man Bevos, and finally found the target of this trip under the city of Meereen, and expressed his intention to flee to her.
The first meeting was not pleasant, and as a gift for his own safety, Petyr immediately revealed the identity of Jorah Mormont's undercover agent after introducing himself. This made Daenerys furious, and the Queen's knight, who was originally closest to and trusted, fell out of favor in an instant, and was sent from her personal guards and staff to drill into Meereen's sewers...... In order to complete the inside and outside should be combined.
Unfortunately, apart from earning them the right to stay and enjoy the tent and food, this denunciation did not give Petyr immediate trust, in Daenerys' words—the one who exposed a liar could be an even bigger liar.
Then a miracle happened, and in the presence of Petyr, the dragon queen, who had been hanging all the way, performed another miracle without a word: with a group of men who drilled the gutter and a stake, she captured Meereen in one night, which many people thought would be impossible. And when the sun just rises, the ceremony of entering the city begins.
In the square in front of the Great Pyramid, slave owners who had been dragged out of bed in their sleep were huddled together in despair. In the morning light, the "Great Lords" looked like they were not majestic, and they looked so humble and ugly and ridiculous deprived of their jewelry and robes, huddled together like a group of shaved monkeys.
"I want your chief," said the dragon queen, who stopped in front of the square on horseback and shouted to the captives, "hand them over, and the rest will forgive." ”
"How many?" asked an old woman, sobbing, "how many people will you have to forgive us?"
"One hundred and sixty-three. She replied, "All nailed to the stakes that surround the square, making sure that each one points to the next person, just like the children you saw on Meereen Road!"
The captives screamed and shoved, but the heavily armed Unsullied rushed into them without emotion, pulled out the core members of the families who were surrounded by the crowd, counted one hundred and sixty-three, and threw them aside...... Some of them scolded, some begged for mercy, and some directly collapsed into mud and urinated incontinence......
Petyr frowned.
What is this doing? The shock of seeing three dragons as big as humans and thousands of well-trained Unsullied people two days ago, and the surprise of seeing Daenerys easily take down Meereen, made Petyr's original resistance a little loosened: maybe according to the arrangement of the mysterious person who captured him, he would be able to follow and assist the last Targaryens, and he would really be able to counterattack Westeros in his lifetime, and sit back at the table of the Imperial Council, or even on the Iron Throne?
Hell, just thought that this queen was a bit reliable and was trying to find a way to arouse her idea, this girl was going to perform "doing stupid things to push herself to the end of the road" in public?
"Her Majesty. Patyr could not stand it, and cried out in the crowd of followers: "I have heard of what you saw on the way to Meereen, and fully understand that your heart is now filled with the fury of the true dragon, but I still have to tell the truth—every time you crucify a great lord on a stake, you are one step closer to being nailed to a stake!"
The Unsullied, the mercenaries, and the large number of freed slaves who had been freed from their shackles moved out of the way so that Daenerys could see the speaker more clearly. The Dragon Queen stared coldly at the former Chancellor of the Exchequer who had defected across the Narrow Sea: "This is a punishment, one life for another, you came all the way from Westeros, is it just to intercede for these slave owners?"
"No, I have no intention of saying any nonsense about these people who are not related to me, on the contrary, I think that you should not forgive any of these slave owners. They all deserve to die, not just one hundred and sixty-three!"
As soon as these words came out, not only the unsullied ones pulled out the great lords of the crowd, but even the remaining ones rioted. Even Daenerys' followers were opposed, and the young dragon queen, who had thought she had met a dissuasion, was a more radical liberator, and she was a little overwhelmed for a while.
"No, there must be innocents among these people, and I want righteous revenge, not brutal slaughter. ”
"Since there are differences of opinion, then Your Majesty, would you like to put these slave owners in prison for the time being, and listen to the next inferences before making a decision?"
"Hmph. An extremely handsome mercenary beside the queen stood up: "What kind of identity is the queen, where does she have time to listen to the words of such a treacherous person as you?"
"Yes, Westeros across the Narrow Sea does have some bad news about me, but it's all malicious slander. Littlefinger didn't know the mercenary who spoke, but stood straight in the crowd, raising his head and staring at Daenerys without changing his face: "Even if all those rumors are true, so what? The one who is said to have been poisoned by me, but Jon Arryn, who helped Robert the Targaryen overthrow the Targaryens, is your Majesty's enemy! In the face of defectors who have traveled thousands of miles, does your Noble Majesty not even have the time and patience to sit down and listen to my views and see if they are speculating?"
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Daenerys hated this kind of trick, and she didn't want to pay any attention to a guy who seduced someone's wife and colluded with her to take her husband's life and property...... Even if the deceased is a lackey of the snatcher and an enemy of herself, it will not change her senses in the slightest. The phrase "the enemy of my enemy is my friend" is not used everywhere, and I am a person first, and then a Targaryen.
Displeased in her heart, but looking around at the soldiers and the newly liberated slaves who were all focused on her, she still decided to give the guy in front of her a chance to express his opinion, but no matter what he said, she would take the lives of these one hundred and sixty-three slave owners.
"Hold them all in captivity, and the one hundred and sixty-three will be separated from the others!" Daenerys made a gesture on the little silver horse, and his subordinates immediately cleared the way to the Great Pyramid in the center of the city. "Petyr Berish, come on, let me hear what you have to say. ”
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Half an hour later, in the reception hall of the Great Pyramid of Meereen, Daenerys sat down in the soft chair of the once most powerful lord of Meereen, and looked disdainfully at Petyr Berish, who had come with her: "Well, Your Excellency the former Chancellor of the Exchequer of the Plunderer, what is your opinion on what I should do with those slave owners, say it." ”
Petyr looked around and couldn't find a place to sit, but Daenerys's guards stared at him alertly, but he couldn't help but stand up and answer, "Your Majesty, ...... the slave camp you dragged along."
"They are not slaves, they are free people. ”
"Well, having spent two days in His Majesty's Free Folk Legion, I already have an idea of what you are doing in Astapor and Yuankai...... First of all, I would like to say that at the age of His Majesty, he is already able to use virtue and benevolence so skillfully to mobilize the lowest slaves to serve you. ”
How did the emancipation of the slaves become "use virtue and kindness to mobilize slaves to serve themselves"? Daenerys was displeased, but she didn't think of a way to refute it, so she only stared at the other party silently.
"It's a pity that you have taken two slave city-states by the same means, but you have not given the people in them a way to live, and you have hurried to the ...... of Meereen."
"Didn't give you a way out?" Daenerys moved in displeasure to sit more comfortably, "I established a council for Astapol and Yuankai. ”
"You set up a council, but you didn't leave them an army or a way to make a living. ”
The deference in Petyle's tone gradually faded, and he had prepared a set of rhetoric to impress the queen during the two days in the camp, but the reckless order of "one hundred and sixty-three" from Daenerys who had just met him for the second time made him uneasy - it was wonderful to assist Daenerys in her return to Westeros, but there was an important point to find out before betting on herself as a bargaining chip: is Daenerys a queen worthy of assistance, or is she an arrogant and arrogant person who only relies on beauty and three dragons to break into the world, the female version of the Mad King?
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