Chapter 0362: Winter's Horn: Night's Watchman's Oath
At the foot of the Ancestral Fist Peak.
Will said to Chief Ranger tough guy Sauron Smallwood, "Sauron, are you familiar with the Frost Fang?"
"Severed Palm Colin is more familiar than I am. ”
"Okay, I'll wait for him to come. - You pick a team of 100 people and go to the banks of the Ruhe River to dig a trench and lay down the antlers. ”
"My lord, the banks of the Ruhe River are as long as ......"
"Choose the easiest place to cross the river, dig a sinking pit, and fill it with spikes. ”
Sauron said, "My lord, are the wild people here with old men and children to drive cattle and sheep as you said?"
"Yes!"
Sauron smiled: "My lord, we are strong soldiers and horses, we are all cavalry, in the Ghost Shadow Forest, we can easily strangle the wild people in sections. The tens of thousands of wildlings who can't take part in the battle are a burden to the wildling legions, and I bet they all will collapse before they all make it to the Wall. ”
"The pits and stakes are arranged, not for killing, but for making them suffer. ”
"My lord, savages cannot be tamed. ”
"It's not taming, we're giving them a chance to survive, it's different. ”
"All right, sir. ”
Sauron ordered a hundred cavalry and headed straight for the Ruhe River.
If the savages want to reach the Great Wall, they must cross the Ruhe River. Both sides of the Ruhe River are rocky, and there are not many places where you can cross the river gently.
A small group of savages can go to the East China Sea to look at the smuggling or the Shadow Tower Grand Canyon, but tens of thousands of savages cannot pass, they can only take the Black Castle of the Great Wall, break through the door, and there is no other way.
Soon, Severed Palm Colin arrived with three hundred cavalry from the Shadow Tower.
The Rangers of the Shadow Tower are predominantly veterans.
When there was a large increase in recruits, many of the veterans of the affairs officer, forester, animal trainer, were promoted to rangers, and the position was reserved for the recruits to exercise, and some female soldiers of the Roaring Stone People were more suitable for miscellaneous tasks such as affairs officers, foresters, animal trainers, etc.
Colin arrived with his men, and the veteran legions cheered.
"Lord Will, what can my people do?" Colin said.
Ever since Dennis Mellister was hanged for his rebellion, Colin has been the commander of the Shadow Tower.
"You pick twenty brothers who can dig, enter the Frost and Snow Fang from the foot of the Ancestral Fist Peak, and dig ancient graves along the Ruhe River. ”
"Dig a grave?" said Colin in a deep voice.
"Yes, we'll have to find the Horn of Winter before Mance Rader does. ”
"Is the legendary Winter Horn real?"
"Yes!"
Colin was moved, and among the veterans around him, there were also people with shocked expressions.
The Horn of Winter, also known as Joman's Horn, is a legendary magical item. In mythology and legend, Joman, the king of the Outer Fortress, once sounded the trumpet of winter and awakened the giants of the earth. Legend has it that the Trumpet of Winter can bring down the Great Wall of Desperation if it is sounded at close range.
Those veterans with suspicious faces were all people who had heard the legend of the Winter Trumpet.
Joman is a once-legendary king of the Cypriots. In myths and legends, he blew the trumpet of winter and awakened the giants of the earth. He also joined forces with the King of the North to end the reign of the Night King.
The Night King comes from House Stark and is named Brandon after his ancestor, Brandon Stark, the Builder, but like Brandon Stark, the youngest Kingsman in King's Landing, everyone is used to calling him Bran.
The Night King is the thirteenth commander-in-chief of the Night's Watch and a fearless warrior. He fell in love with a superb beauty whose skin was as pale as the moon, eyes as blue as stars, and skin as cold as ice. After bringing her back to the Nighthold, the Night King proclaimed himself king and crowned the woman queen, and he ruled over the Night's Watch brothers with dark magic, beginning a brutal thirteen-year reign. As his ambitions grew, the Night King Brandon Stark was eventually defeated by the union of his own brothers, King of the North and King Joman of the Outer Frontiers.
After the Night King's death, it was discovered that he had built several spiral altars on the north side of the Wall, offering sacrifices to the Wraiths every night for the living and livestock, so all records of the Night King were destroyed, and his name became taboo in the North and the Night's Watch legions.
Legend has it that during the battle against the mighty Night King, Joman, the king of the Outer Fortress, blew the horn of winter and awakened the sleeping giants to join the battle, which destroyed the Night King.
And in the time of the Night King and Joman, it was a time when magic was the main force. At that time, everyone knew low-level magic. High magic is in the hands of wizards, monks, and shamans. At that time, the knights of the lords of the kingdoms were not surrounded by scholars, but monks who were proficient in magic.
"Lord Will, how can we find Joman's grave?
"Joman's tomb has a magic ban, and every time you find an ancient tomb, you must first recite a spell to lift the ban when you dig it. ”
"What's the spell?"
"The Night's Watchman's Oath. ”
"Night's Watch Oath?!"
The brothers in black all looked at each other.
Why did the Night's Watch Oath lift King Joman's tomb ban?
The brothers looked at each other in amazement. They finally looked at Will together.
Will said, "The Trumpet of Winter threatened the safety of the Wall, and Stark, the king of the North, had his monks use magical power to devise this Night's Watch Oath to break the ban on King Joman's Tomb, a top-secret plan. This secret, the secret of the Night's Watch oath to break the ban, is recorded in ancient books. ”
In fact, there are three magical secret portals in the Great Wall of Desperation, which can be passed by reciting the Night's Watch Oath. This secret was also discovered by Sam Will in the cellar library and sent a message to Will by the raven, but Will did not tell it.
When the Night's Watch legion is in a hurry, forced to death by enemies on several sides and unable to escape under the desperate Great Wall, recite the Night's Watch oath and the magic door will open. No one else could enter, except for the Night Watch brothers, who were silently reciting their vows.
The gates of the Great Wall of Desperation are not only the oak iron gates of the Black Castle and the underground tunnel secret doors of fortresses such as the Shadow Tower. Might and Magic has always existed, and the magic has never gone away. Although the disappearance of the dragons has damaged the magical power, the magical power of the Great Wall of Desperation has never been weakened.
The Night's Watch Oath is not just an oath without a mouth, it is embedded with the mysterious power of an ancient incantation.
Colin was worried, "Lord Will, will that horn really bring down the Great Wall of Desperation?"
"I'm not sure, Lord Colin. ”
Severed Palm Colin nodded: "Lord Will, I understand, I will find Joman's tomb as soon as possible." But the horn of winter, even if we find it, we don't know it, there are many ancient tombs of the tooth of frost and snow, and there must be a lot of horns. ”
"The Horn of Winter is dark and large, at least eight feet long, with wide openings that can easily fit all of your arms in. The horn was inlaid with ancient runes in gold, and the gold-colored runes, because of their age, I think must have faded to brown. ”
An eight-foot-long horn, erected, taller than Colin with a severed palm, a horn that could lower a whole person's arm from the place where it opened, who could have such a big mouth to seal the opening and blow it?
For all human races, this is impossible.
At least eight feet long, when blowing the horn, it also requires two people to lift it flat.