Chapter 0119: King's Landing Tournament
Two months later.
News of King's Landing being holding a jousting tournament spread throughout the North.
To celebrate the inauguration of his new Prime Minister, Eddard Stark, King Robert summons the nobles, lords, and valiant knights of the Seven Kingdoms to compete in King's Landing.
The competition was held in three forms: the first was a spear competition, and the winner was rewarded with 40,000 gold dragons, and the second place was rewarded with 20,000 gold dragons.
The second is a group melee battle, and the winner will be rewarded with 20,000 gold dragons.
The third is the archery competition, and the first place is rewarded with 10,000 gold dragons.
A total of 90,000 gold dragon prizes.
Ordinary people can't earn a few golden dragons a year. Some civilians in slightly backward areas can't earn a single golden dragon a year.
Three thousand golden dragons, enough to hire an army of two thousand to fight for you.
So what is the concept of 40,000 golden dragons?
That's a huge amount of money that all the warriors are excited about.
Even the Lannisters, who are so rich that they can't match, don't despise the wealth of 40,000 golden dragons and the power that this wealth can hire.
The King's Raven flew through the Seven Kingdoms with this exciting news.
For the Warriors, in addition to the huge prize money, there is also a great opportunity to make a name for themselves.
Those who perform well will be entertained by the King, rewarded with the blessings of the nobles, and crowned the winner in King's Landing.
This is the jousting competition that every true knight aspires to participate in.
The heroes of the world, the lords and vassals of the Seven Kingdoms, after receiving the news of the king's crows, began to prepare one by one, calling the bravest knights under their command to prepare for battle. Soon they will gather in King's Landing.
The lords of the North, House Robb Stark of Winterfell, House of Robet Glover of Deepwood, House Jon Amber of the Last Fireplace, House Carstark of House Stark, House Mormont of House Bear Island, House Greyjoy House of the Iron Isles...... The lords, vassals, and nobles of the Seven Kingdoms all received letters of invitation to joust signed by King Robert.
The Night's Watch at the Wall of Desperation had also received news of the Seven Kingdoms Tournament, not King Robert himself.
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Jon Amber of the Iron Spear set out for Winterfell with only two family knights and two gunmen on the day he got the news.
The Amber family's Fireplace City is the northernmost of the Seven Kingdoms, and to the north of the realm is the border of the Night's Watch. A few hundred miles further north is the Great Wall, known as one of the Nine Wonders of the World.
In response to King Robert's call, the Lords of the North will gather via Winterfell and set out for King's Landing.
King Robert took into account the distance and proximity of the nobles of the Seven Kingdoms, and he gave the time of the jousting a month after the Raven's message.
But Jon Jon Jr. was still afraid that he wouldn't be able to make it to the tournament.
His goal is to win the spear competition: to win the prize of 40,000 gold dragons and crown the winner in full anticipation.
In his mind, there were only two people in the Seven Kingdoms who could compete with him.
One is Harris Moran, the first spear rider in the North, who is now the captain of the personal guard of Robb Stark, the young lord of the city, and the other is Gregor Clegane, a knight loyal to Castle Rock.
Gregor Clegane is said to have the blood of a giant, much taller and more powerful than his younger brother Sandor Clegane, the hound, and the huge, heavy knight's two-handed sword he wields with ease, as insignificant as a dagger.
Jon Jon, Jr., however, trusts his arm strength and gunmanship.
The Seven Nations Competition, the young young man Jon Amber just wants to fight to become famous and dominate the Seven Kingdoms.
Jon Amber Jr. and his four knights traveled day and night, but in just three days, he was in Winterfell.
However, when he arrived, he found that he was still the last.
Winterfell has gathered the children of the nobles who have gone to King's Landing, and even the Mormont family of Bear Island in the far northwest has arrived. The former patriarch of the Mormont family was now the commander-in-chief of the Wall, Jao Mormont, who went to the Wall of Despair to become a night watchman in order to let his son Jorah Mormont inherit the title.
Jorah Mormont was a disgrace to the Mormont family, who was hunted down by Eddard Stark for selling captured poachers to slave traders in Telosi, and was forced into exile in a free-trade city-state across the Narrow Sea.
The current patriarch of the Mormont family is Geo's sister Maggie Mormont, and her eldest daughter, Daisy Mormont, is the next heir to Bear Island.
Jon Jon had met Daisy Mormont for the first time, and he had guessed her from her family crest. Daisy is tall and good-looking, wearing a beautiful armor that fits the lines of her body, and little Jon is attracted to Daisy at first sight.
The arrogance of Deepwoodburg, Robette Glover, was also there, and the arrogance in this kid's eyes had faded after being subdued by Robb Stark, but it was only when he faced Robb Stark.
Little Jon's surprise was Lord Will, the leader of the Night's Watch from the Wall of Desperation, who was accompanied by the humanoid giant bear Tyron Ash that Jon Amber Jr. was a little afraid of. The armor of this humanoid giant bear was changed again, and it looked like a huge work of art in a shiny heavy black steel armor.
His two-handed bronze hammer was also gone, replaced by a huge two-handed heavy sword. The thickness of the epee is comparable to that of a shield, and the length of which is comparable to that of a spear. It was the longest and thickest two-handed heavy sword Jon Jon had ever seen.
Jon Jon Jr. believed that the fine armor and terrifying two-handed heavy sword must have come from Donna Noi. King Robert's warhammer and the armor and weapons of the king's brother Stannis Baratheon were forged by him. Before his right hand was amputated, Donner Noi was Stannis's master blacksmith.
In fact, there are really many talented people among the night watchmen of the Great Wall of Desperation, and there are even two experts in mapping: Benson and Bunus.
Lord Will went to King's Landing this time as a recruiter for the Night's Watch.
The news of the arrival of the Wraiths in the dead of winter did not attract any attention from the nobles and dignitaries of King's Landing, and it was as if a breeze was blowing across the lake, causing a slight ripple before it went silent.
For the singing and dancing king's landing and the nobles of the Seven Kingdoms, the strange ghost is a conversation after tea and dinner and a joke in the mouth of the courtier. On the contrary, the entry of the Night's Watch to accept the sporadic savages and the allegiance of the Wolf Forest tribe aroused greater interest among the nobles, but it was only a moment of novelty in the conversation, and soon, the news that was too far away from their lives disappeared without a trace.
Moreover, these news still came out of the mouth of a little devil who had no sense of family honor, and this credibility was even lower and dismissive.
To Jon's delight, Lady Caitlyn finally agreed to the request and asked the young lord Robb Stark to lead them to King's Landing for a jousting tournament.