Due to the threat from Daenerys on land, sea and air, only the Lion and King's Second Gates facing due west and southwest are now open for half a day in the afternoon when the weather is good. It was not early when Egger sailed back to land from Dragonstone, and after visiting the nitrate he was most concerned about, he rested for the night in the Blackwall Fort.

The Night's Watch Logistics King's Landing, with Egg's horse as the saddle, briefly gained full ownership of the property after the fall of the former capital magnates who supported Ranri Baratheon, but as the new King's Landing nobles loyal to Stannis gained a foothold and began to seek profits, Nina had to surrender some of the oil and water on behalf of the Night's Watch. Thankfully, the new King's Landing magnates themselves were divided into the "King's Lords" and the old "Narrow Sea Faction" brought ashore by Stannis, and even the different factions were not all monolithic, and by carefully controlling the size of the pie allocated to these noble lords to keep them in check and balance with each other, and by taking advantage of Egger's own fame and the status and influence he had after being elected commander-in-chief, no one could afford to monopolize the Night's Watch property without Stannis, the king's brains.

Cutting half of the cake does greatly reduce the amount of revenue the Night's Watch can make from the industry, but the benefit of paying the price is that it completely avoids the risk and expense of fighting the powerful in the absence of Tyrion and Egger and the leaderless industry. After the defeat of Genos Slint, the estate used the hands of Aral Tim to control the King's Landing gang and influence the commoners, relying on a large amount of dividends as protection money and making the nobles' "white way" its own...... It could almost be said that the number one boss of the King's Landing garrison is the king, and the number two boss is the Night's Watch industry.

Relying on the convenience of the industrial employees dressed in black or black vests, who were almost "VIP citizens" in the eyes of the soldiers of the King's Landing garrison, Egger rested in the nest of the Black Wall Fort for the night, and arrived at the King's Gate the next day without hurrying, only to let Nina say hello - he jumped over the long line waiting to open the door and went directly to the front, becoming the first batch of people to enter the city at the first time when the door opened.

After entering the city, the group went straight to the Red Fort, and because the internal channels of the garrison had already completed the reservation, they were successfully placed in it.

Easy to get in, but ...... in the Red Fort He didn't get the kind of pomp and circumstance that Dragonstone received: Stannis didn't show his face at all, except for the famous "Onion Prime Minister" Davos Seaworth who agreed to meet Iger - also in his personal office rather than in a formal place like the Throne Room, and only for half an hour.

It's easy to see the difference in attitudes: Daenerys, returning from across the Narrow Sea, needs to fight for all the strength she can to pave the way for her to regain the Iron Throne, but Stannis sits on King's Landing on the Iron Throne...... He didn't need a gang of exiles to recognize his legitimacy, and he could never have moved his mind to the king of Qin, who wanted the defenders of the Great Wall far away, and he had no personal friendships, so he naturally didn't want the commander-in-chief of the Night's Watch.

Egger had come to ask the Lord of the Seven for reinforcements: he knew it was a futile attempt, but he decided to go through the motions as planned: the Blackbird would have to pass through Blackwater Bay, which was controlled by the Targaryen fleet, and a fool could have guessed that he must have been cleared by Daenerys to get ashore. Surely someone will be muttering to himself: Did the Night's Watch promise or give anything to the Dragon Queen in order to gain this "pass"?

As a neutral night watchman, if he finally went south, but only went to meet the Targaryens who had come across the sea to prepare for the restoration instead of worshipping the real king on the Iron Throne, once he was known and used to question his position and intentions, it was likely that the night watch industry would fall into the predicament of just leaving Daenerys's "dragon's den" and entering Stannis's "deer's mouth".

What he wants to do is to create a false impression through today's meeting to clear up the involvement: he is only here to ask the king for help on this trip south. Help, he begged, but he didn't ask for it, all kinds of pots caused by this...... Don't throw it all at yourself in the future.

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Davos, who came from a flea nest, is approachable, but Stannis is now really in a difficult situation both internally and externally...... After ten minutes of unpleasant arguing, Prime Minister Onion still insisted that he could not send reinforcements north, and at most he could only ask Iger to pick the prisoners he wanted in the prison and bring them back to the Great Wall - and for the scum, the latter naturally took a firm stance and refused to accept them.

After a short unpleasant meeting, Iger left the Red Keep with a calm face, joined up with the entourage waiting outside the gate, and left the Red Keep for a while before returning to his normal expression: "Alright, the play is over...... There is one last stop. When we were done, we left King's Landing before the gates closed, and if all went well, we could leave the river and enter the ocean before dark...... As long as there is a moon, we sail day and night. ”

The so-called last stop was Tob Mott's blacksmith's shop. As King's Landing's number one weaponsmith, his shop is located at the top of the hill on Steel Street in the hills of Visenya. According to the blacksmith himself, he was the only weapon master in the city who was able to bleed color into metal instead of painting the surface...... Iger guessed that this was done by tinkering with the metal ions of various valents. That's not the point, the real reason Iger went to find him was that this Tob Mott had studied forging at Kohor and had studied how to recast Valyrian steel. In the original book, he reforged the Stark family sword "Ice" that fell into the hands of Tywin into two swords, and divided them among his son and grandson, whose reliability is guaranteed.

As the technician to be brought with him on his return to the north, Cobain had been with Iger today, and from the Commander-in-Chief's personal guards, he had heard what Iger wanted to ask Tob Mott to do.

"My lord, it is said that you accidentally obtained the 'Dark Sisters' from outside the Seychelles, is this true?"

"Really, what?"

"Did you know that the Dark Sisters are the sword of Visenya, the sister of Aegon the Conqueror?"

"Yes, what does Mr. Coburn think?" Egger already had a rough idea of what the other party was going to say, and glanced at Melisandre, who was also riding next to her, and the red-robed woman did look to herself—probably expecting the new Corben to convince him not to melt the sword.

"The existence of such a famous Valyrian steel sword is of great significance in itself, and whoever holds it enjoys a certain honor, how could an adult want to melt it?"

Egger shook his head helplessly: "Mr. Coben, you were a bachelor, and you must be very knowledgeable. I ask you: Who was the last Dark Sister to appear?"

"Prince Aemon, the dragon knight, passed it into the hands of Duke Bloodraven, who was the last owner of the Dark Sisters' chronicles. ”

"Let me tell you, Duke Bloodraven went on an adventure outside the Fortress and died on the north side of the Wall, and the sword was left there with him—until some Night's Watch picked it up not long ago. It was not given to me by my previous master, nor was it a trophy that I had won by virtue of my skills, but only by 'picking it up'...... Excuse me, am I the rightful owner of Westeros under its laws?"

"This ......" Cobain's main direction is natural science, and these legal knowledge is really not very clear, "but the Targaryen family has ...... fallen"

"If Daenerys Targaryen comes to me on a dragon and wants to retrieve her heirloom sword, will I give it or not?" Iger continued, "Of course, I can hide its identity - unfortunately, every Valyrian steel sword in the world has a name and origin, if I don't disclose the existence of the Dark Sisters, how much of that tile steel sword of unknown origin can be used by me, no matter how significant it is?"

He raised his hand to stop Cobain's interjection, "Well, if both the Dragon Queen and the 'Prince Aegon' were defeated and killed in the war against King Stannis, no Targaryen in the world would come to me for this sword...... Rather, then, I would like to ask, what is the significance of the Dark Sisters' sword, and what is it that has slain in some epic war, or what is the important role it has played in some legendary event?"

"During the Dance of the Blood Dragons, Prince Daemon pierced his opponent's eye with this sword during a duel with Prince Aemond over Lake Divine Eye. ”

"Dance of the Blood Dragons...... Hmph, a stupid civil war caused by the lust for power, if there is any Targaryen in the world who is proud that Daemon killed Prince Aemond, I despise him by my real name. Iger snorted disdainfully, "Let me tell you, the Dark Sisters are nothing more than the Targaryen family compared to the rest of the Valyrian swords in the world. And even among the two Valyrian steel swords inside the Targaryen house - it is the less important one. Even its more famous brother, the Sword of Conquest 'Black Fire', has never had any legendary deeds - Aegon the Conqueror had hoped that the sword would be buried for him after his death, and Aegon the 'Philistin' gave it to his illegitimate son Daemon instead of his rightful heir, Daeron - not because he wanted Daemon to inherit the throne, but simply because the former had better swordsmanship!"

"Do you see what I'm trying to say, since the owner is an authentic Valyrian dragon king, it may be of better quality than the nobles bought, but in terms of 'extraordinary significance', even in the eyes of the Targaryens themselves, it is just a Valyrian steel sword. Neither represents royal power nor foreshadows orthodoxy...... Whoever wants to be a king with this sword alone is all dead!, the commander-in-chief of the Night's Watch, has picked up a lost clan sword that destroyed the family, and if there is any great man in the Seven Kingdoms who will look up to me for this reason, he will be a fool!"

"Hmm......" Cobain was suppressed by Egger's eloquence, and couldn't think of a rebuttal for a while, "But, even if you don't consider the meaning of this sword, an incomparably sharp and indestructible Valyrian steel sword, even if you don't announce its identity to the world, just use it as a peerless sword, isn't it also a sharp weapon to restrain the ghosts?"

"What kind of commander-in-chief would expect a sword to win a war instead of expecting war readiness? No matter how sharp the Dark Sisters are, how many times will they have a chance to slash in the face of the Aliens? Besides, this is just one of the gifts I have for the strangers. Iger didn't want to discuss it anymore and kicked the horse's belly to increase his speed, "We were all impressed by the Dark Sister because it was the sword of Sister Aegon the Conqueror, one of the founders of the Targaryen dynasty...... But who remembers the name of a certain king's sword in the days of Azar Ah? In this great battle of life and death, I prepared several great gifts for the enemy, and no matter which 'surprise' killed the Night King, in the official announcement to the outside world, the Night's Watch would declare that we had killed him with a set of arrows called the Lightbringer. ”

The horses' hooves rattled and pounded on the smooth pavement of King's Landing, and everyone had to speed up to keep up, and in the bumps, no one questioned it.

Truth be told, Bran was just a bonus surprise for himself to bring back the Dark Sisters, and it didn't matter if the sword melted or not—but because it didn't matter, he became angry when people kept squirming about something like this: "The prestige and meaning of a weapon are given by the user, and history is written by people." I'm willing to bet that thousands of years from now, the world will only remember that I, Egger West, defeated the Night King with the Lightbringer, and that no one will ever remember a long-lost queen with a sword called the Shit Dark Sisters. ”

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