Chapter 0967 - Selling Dragons
The colors of the world seem to have run to Quells.
This was Daenerys' first feeling when she stood in the port of Quells.
Along with Daenerys came Will the Doctor Aquaman, Mai the Faceling, Jaime, Arya, Varys and Argo, Jogo and Lacarlo.
Argo, Jogo, and Lakallo were dressed in the yellow traditional Dothraki robes, with a scimitar at their waists and bows and arrows on their backs. The three of them had been vomiting from the time they got on the ship, and when the ship arrived at the port of Quells, it was miraculously healed.
She was accompanied by an important figure, the Green Lady of Meereen, who had lived in Quells for a while, and she brought two sphinx-proficient manticore-laden maids with her, as well as caring for Daenerys and Will's two dragons.
Two little dragons.
Two small dragons that are already the size of eagles.
The people of Quells had never seen a dragon, neither a large nor a small dragon.
After the ship docked, the group went ashore, and everyone found that even the ground of the port was paved with colorful stone surfaces. As far as the eye can see, there are also several huge harbors, where ships from all over the world are busy, and people speak the dialects of various places, like a port of all nations.
Will and Daenerys' merchant ships were guided to this small port by the port's warships, as they had no right to dock at other ports.
Why not have the right?
Other, larger ports are dedicated to the royal family, the Thirteen, the Tourmaline Brotherhood, and the Spice Guild. The docks of these people can only be docked by special boats. The outside boats, which are doing business with the Quells royal family, are docked at the docks exclusive to the Quells royal family, and the rest of the places are not docked and cannot be docked. Once docked, it's time to change partners.
Tourists and those who come to look for business opportunities to negotiate business all dock in the outermost small port.
Daenerys and Will's ship docked in the outermost port.
Even the smallest port is larger than any of Daenerys' nine free trade city-states. It was filled with all sorts of ships, and Will noticed that many of them could be used as warships without renovations. Those ships had iron or copper heads, which were covered with ornamentation, and when the ornaments were removed, they were the heads of battleships.
From the wooden oars protruding from both sides of the ship, it can be seen that the wooden oars and sailors on these sailing ships are the power of the battleship. Many boats have holes in wooden oars.
In order to prevent piracy and fight at any time, many ships from all over the world are commercial and war-ready ships.
Daenerys and the Green Saints, as well as two handmaidens, are in love with the colorful colors of this port.
When you go ashore, there are many women and men standing in rows with all kinds of signs, they are translators, guides, and matchmakers of goods, you have to hire warriors, buy horses and mules, rent a house or eat, find the best or cheap hotels, and even find some dark people and things, these people can help you do it.
Jaime's eyes lit up when he came ashore, for the young girls were all bare-ed, and their beautiful clothes were worn only on the left or right side of their bodies, revealing a well-behaved or full or sparkling Confucian house obliquely.
And what attracted Arya was that some of them had long hair, and they were tied with bronze mirrors one by one, both men and women, but women were more tied to bronze mirrors, and when the sun shone, those bronze mirrors were shining.
As for nose studs, earrings, and face piercings with ivory and other ornaments, there are even more.
Quells has people from all over the world. Many people come from another, more mysterious and expansive continent: the continent of Thross. The continent is located to the south of Assos, and in the middle of the two continents is a wide ocean.
The Green Saintess was familiar with Quells, and she led the group into a trade market. This trade market is right next to the port and very close. There are five ports in Quells, all of which share this trade market.
There was any goods in the world in this market, and Daenerys, Will, Arya, Jaime, Varys, Maiin, Jogo, Lago, and LaCarlo were dazzled, stunned, and amazed.
Will estimates that not to mention conquering the entire Quells, that is, only taking one sub-market in the market, can support a country's war funds.
Will and Daenerys are led by the Green Saint to the Beast Market, where some of the fiercest and most venomous beasts in the world are sold, and the night lions of the Dothraki steppe are commonplace. There are many beasts from the continent of Sothros that Daenerys and others have never heard of or seen, monsters with six legs, scaly beasts with long tails, and birds of prey with barbs on their wings.
However, no matter how many fierce beasts and Daenerys walked by, the beasts all obediently lay down, much to the surprise of the merchants and tourists in the market, as well as the customers.
In the end, they found two small cages in the group, the cages were covered with yellow cloths, and from time to time there were voices in the cages: Correct!
The sound was not loud and very soft, but the sound also frightened those poisonous snakes and beasts, and they all lay down, until Daenerys and the others walked away, and those fierce beasts slowly recovered, but the murderous wildness in their eyes disappeared, and they became tame and gentle.
Soon, Will's party attracted attention. The people who bought and sold all kinds of beasts of prey and birds of prey were all powerful people, and many of them were local magnates of Quells. Speaking of the powerful, in Quells, many people from other continents come to Quells to buy real estate. They have wives and children, status and careers in their hometowns, and here in Quells, they are not only here to buy a house, do business and travel, they also have their own families and businesses here.
A new place, a new wife and children, a new career.
A man with a kind face, no tattoos, no fancy dress, and no strange accent walked over and reached out to stop Daenerys.
"Dear guest from afar, I am the affairs officer of this market, and my name is Abner. Can I help you?"
The fish has taken the bait!
"Of course!" Will laughed, reaching out and taking Daenerys' hand, "Abner, we want to sell a bird, or maybe it's not a bird, it's a little beast." ”
"It could be a flying beast, it could be a bird. Daenerys said.
Abner said courteously, "Your Excellency and Lady are both from Westeros. ”
"Westeros, no!" Will denied without confidence.
"Let's keep the place we came from secret!" Daenerys said.
Arya only had Will and Daenerys shaking hands in her eyes, she came over and grabbed Daenerys's other hand, and gently pulled Daenerys behind her, Will let go of Daenerys's hand, and got Arya's meaningful glance.
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Chapter 0967-2
Abner smiled, "Please forgive me for being reckless. He thought that by telling each other where they came from, they would increase their sense of closeness. But the other party seems to be very taboo about this. Then, what the other party has in their hands may not be their own. It is likely that he killed someone, and then helped the deceased raise the strange thing in the cage.
Or maybe the person who was robbed was chasing them all the way. In short, in Quells's supermarket, there are all kinds of people. Identities are mysterious.
Will said, "Out of the way. ”
Abner smiled, "My lord, then, I can ask you to lift the ......," he pointed to the yellow cloth.
Will looked around, not far from them, and there were curious people standing all around. These people have different appearances, and they are all powerful people who play beasts of prey and birds of prey. There are also some vicious-looking people, who look like ruthless people such as pirate kings who kill people without blinking.
Abner said, "Your Excellency, please come with me." ”
"Good!" said Will.
The group followed Abner, Will, Daenerys, Jaime, Arya. Varys was aware that the people around him no longer followed. This Abner was a very kind middle-aged man, who spoke fluent lingua franca, but it was clear that everyone around him was afraid of him. In Quells, Daenerys learns that what is truly scary is not the owners and managers of the market, nor the thieves and the king of the bandits, but the blue-lipped wizards.
The wizards of Quells hold the most terrifying and mysterious place in the city: the Immortal Condor. And the market of beasts and birds of prey is under the jurisdiction of the Immortal Condor and is taxed. This is the private market for the Immortal Condor.
The wizards of Quells are not only as noble as royals in Quells, they are extremely famous throughout the Eastern world, including as far away as Asha. They are known to the Orientals as the "Blue Lips of Quells". Throughout the Far East, the wizards of the Temple of Immortality are revered by kings and feared by vipers.
Similar to the Masters of Westeros, the power and prestige of the wizards of the Immortal Temple have declined over the centuries. But even so, whether you are a king or the president of a rich and powerful chamber of commerce, you are respectful to the wizards and do not dare to have the slightest arrogance.
There is a famous saying about wizards in Quells: "A wizard's house, bones and lies." ”
The bones are the medals for the wizards to kill those who disrespect them, and the lies are the capriciousness of the wizards. Except for their loyalty to the Temple of Immortality, wizards are not loyal to anyone else.
In Quells, there was a well-known Assassin Order known as the Regret Guys, in which the killer would whisper in the ear of the target, "I'm sorry", before killing the target.
The Regret Guest is independent of any power in Quells, and the Regret Guest's favorite killing weapon is the Sphinx's Manticore. Even the locals of Quells, the wealthy merchants of the Chamber of Commerce, did not know the true secret of the Regret Guest. But Will knows, Maiin knows. The true masters of the Regret are the wizards of the Immortal Temple.
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Will and his party were led to a round white house in the far corner of the market. This house is strangely built, you can't see the windows, you can't see the doors. It's like a big bowl clasped to the ground. This building is modeled after the architecture of the Temple of the Immortals, with the shadow of the Temple of the Immortals.
Abner reached out and pressed on the wall, and a door opened, and inside was the ground as white as snow, and the roof and walls as white as snow, in short, white to the eye. Otherwise, it was empty and there was nothing.
Abner bent down and asked Daenerys and Will to enter, Daenerys went in first, Will went in too, and then Abner invited two maids with cages to enter, and when the Green Saint was about to follow, Abner reached out to stop her.
"Miss, please wait a moment. "Abner was gracious and polite.
The Green Saint was stunned, Abner had already entered the room, he looked at everyone with a smile on his face, and the door of the room closed automatically, blocking Jaime, Maiin, and Arya.
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"Hello, my lord, you can now open the cloth of the cage. Abner said.
Will nodded at the two maids, and one of them stretched out her jade finger and gently lifted the corner of the cloth. Abner's breath stopped, what was in the cage that would make the beasts and birds of prey in the market fearful.
A pair of gold-colored claws were exposed, the spikes were sharp, and the edges shimmered, like the cold light of a blade. This was the first time Eibner had seen such a pair of bird-like claws.
When the cage was lifted again, Abner saw a tail of pure gold, long and sharp as a sword.
Abner judged that it must be a bird of prey that he had never seen before, and when the cage cloth was lifted a little more, he saw the scales: very beautiful scales, shining like gold. It can be determined that this is a flying beast made of gold. Among the birds, there are no feathers, only a scaly appearance similar to that of a large fish in the sea, which Abner has never seen.
Finally, the cage cloth was fully opened, and a pair of dazzling golden eyes that made hearts palpitate, and a hideous, vicious head.
Abner was completely stunned.
Faintly, a voice in his heart cried out, "Dragon? Is this a dragon? Or is it a griffon?
The chances of being dragons are not great, as dragons have already appeared in the sky and conquered the western and central parts of the continent of Essos with the Mother of Dragons, and if there are dragons among the others, Abner judges that these dragons should belong to only one person: Daenerys, the Mother of Dragons. Daenerys, on the other hand, in distant Astapor, won't come here to sell her dragons.
Unless, the gang stole the little dragon of the Mother of Dragons and came here to get rid of it.
"What kind of flying beast is this?" Abner asked, his voice trembling.
"Some say it's a dragon. Will said, a puzzled look in his eyes, "But we've established that it's not a dragon. ”
"Oh, why are you so sure?"
"Because they don't breathe fire. ”
"Have you tried it?" asked Abner cautiously.
He noticed that the strange bird was staring at him, and he couldn't help but feel fear in his heart, and a cold sweat broke out in his vest. What's going on? The murderous intent of this strange thing is not felt, but you feel the death that comes from the bottom of your heart.
Abner remembered the strange scene of the beasts of prey and birds of prey outside prostrating in fear, and his heart panicked.
"Cover it!" Abner said, a fine sweat breaking out on his forehead.