Chapter 0848 - Burning Glass Candle
'In the dark room, the glass candles are already burning' - Arya did not know the metaphor of the phrase, nor did she understand the meaning of the phrase. When she was training in the Black and White Academy, no one had ever told her anything like glass candles and dark rooms.
But she knew she had to figure out what the metaphor of the sentence was.
Someone deliberately asked a child to convey this sentence, which must have an extremely profound meaning. Perhaps, this sentence is the way to 'change the name'.
"Thank you, little one, I received your relay. Arya picked up her small, shriveled purse and shook it, and the purse clanged. She opened the mouth of the purse and pulled out a bronze star from it. - In Arya's pocket, neither the golden dragon nor the silver deer are there. Following the Magic Mountain, Arya didn't spend any money at all. If she was shopping in King's Landing, she would ask the store to put the account on His Majesty's head, and naturally Petyr Berish, the little finger, would pay the bill honestly.
The magic mountain's gaze swept over Podrick, Com Warner, Langdon Gal and others, and everyone took out the golden dragon from their pockets, Langdengar moved the fastest, and with a flick of his fingers, a yellow golden dragon flew into the child's pocket accurately.
Not long after the Magic Mountain sat on the Iron Throne, the Clegan paper money was still popular only in the West, and the great nobles and merchants in King's Landing had to take the golden dragon to the Baylor Bank in exchange for the same amount of paper money before they could do business.
But most of the people at the bottom of the riverland have never heard of paper money. They were accustomed to using golden dragons, silver deer, and bronze stars.
The child reached out and took out the golden dragon from his pocket and looked at it, his eyes were full of green light, his eyes were extremely flexible and turned around, his eyes flickered and flickered, and then he ran away. The soldiers laughed.
The heel of the right leg of the magic mountain knocked slightly, and the red smoke beast understood the master's intentions and continued to move forward, everyone followed, and the king flag waved in the wind.
Moshan looked at Arya, "In the dark room, the glass candle is already burning, Arya, what does this mean?"
"I don't know. Arya said calmly. She didn't know, and it was impossible for the Natural Demon Mountain to know. Anyway, everyone doesn't know, so think of it as an undecipherable oracle, or a secret word of a wizard. Arya noticed that Magic Mountain's gaze was inquiring, she knew that Magic Mountain wanted to know who had conveyed this sentence to her, but Arya didn't want to tell the truth.
She decided not to let the Magic Mountain know that the Faceless One had come! It's sinister, but Arya has no choice.
In the decisive battle of Winterfell, the Demon Mountain saved the lives of the Stark family and the people of the entire North, which is a great kindness, even if Arya is broken, the Stark family still owes the magic mountain a favor.
Magic Mountain's gaze shifted from Arya is to Melisandre: "Madam, the glass candle has burned in the dark room, what kind of metaphor is this?"
Melisandre looked at the Magic Mountain, and a heart-warming smile rippled in her beautiful and charming eyes: "Your Majesty, you are an oracle, I think you should know what this sentence means, right?!"
Arya's heart moved, listening to Melisandre's meaning, the magic mountain and she seemed to know what this sentence meant?!
The Magic Mountain is an oracle, and Melisandre is the priest of the Red God, and if they both know the meaning of this sentence, then someone telling her this sentence has a special meaning. - Someone did it on purpose!
If it were someone from the Black and White Courtyard, he would not leave, and only when the former Jaqun Hegar came, he would choose to retreat because of Arya's sharp words. Retreat is not fear or weakness, but in the Black and White Courtyard, someone has painstakingly trained Arya to grow up like a daughter, and the relationship between them goes beyond the teachings of the Assassins and has a human friendship. Someone's preference for Arya, the gods have always looked at it. The gods chose to acquiesce.
If the Faceless Assassination's assassination is detected and turned into an overt kill, the Faceless has two options: kill everyone who knows the inside story, or leave and continue the mission with another Faceless One. Generally speaking, unless forced to do so, the Faceless One takes over with someone else, rather than killing everyone who knows what's going on. The Faceless were the top Assassins, and for each person they killed, they either traded another life or signed a sacred employment agreement in front of the statue of the Thousand Faces.
Once they accept the task, they have a very clear goal: a name. People who are not of this name, they will not do it.
Not killing any innocent person indiscriminately is one of the Creeds of the Faceless One. The more elite the assassins, the more they revered life. This is completely different from the realm of those land hooligans who stab people to death in the street if they don't agree with each other. The end of life, for the Faceless One, is not a dark pain, but opens another way of serving the Red God.
This is 'all men die, and all men must serve.'
Someone's assignment, of course, has only one name: Gregor Cregan. In the face of Arya, if someone refuses to draw his sword, then he is left with only one way: retreat. Naturally, there will be other, more powerful faceless beings in the Black and White Courtyard to take over.
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The magic mountain withdrew its gaze from Melisandre's face, and any man, looking at Melisandre's gaze, couldn't help but think about it. Melisandre's eyes were full of spring waves, as charming as a demon. The delicate ruby pendant, the heart-shaped ruddy face, the snow-white neck that wants to drip rain and dew, and the skin as white as milk and as smooth as a mirror, every minute and inch are very flirtatious. But the magic mountain looked at Melisandre unfazed, he knew that Melisandre's age was several times older than his grandmother.
Much of Melisandre's secret of youth was in the great red gem at her throat.
The sound of the horse's hooves was dense and crisp.
"Your Majesty, do you know what a burning glass candle is?" asked Arya, politely in a very formal tone.
When Arya is casual and happy, she will directly call the Magic Mountain the Magic Mountain, and will not call him His Majesty. The Magic Mountain takes a tacit attitude towards Arya's address. This is basically the same as the character of the previous king Robert Baratheon. Robert also liked Eddard Stark by his name, and didn't mind the people calling him Robert on the streets. In the royal palace, the courtiers and generals all knelt down on one knee to salute the king, and neither the magic mountain nor the royal magistrate Ilin Pine refused to kneel, they chose to stand and bow their heads, and Robert did not care, he acquiesced in the 'transgression' of Ilyin Pine and the magic mountain.
Robert's ability to unite the Seven Kingdoms and the ability to make the fearless Barristan Selmi his captain of the Kingsguard was decisive. Barristan killed many of Robert's relatives and friends on the battlefield, and killed three of Robert and Eddard's best friends in life and death, but Robert chose to pardon Barristan after capturing him, and finally made Barristan kneel down and submit.
Robert ascended to the Iron Throne as a usurper, and finally brought all the royalist nobles loyal to House Targaryen to kneel and submit, and his generosity played a major role. In fact, the dreaded Magic Mountain also has the demeanor of Robert!
Whether it is in public or in private, Arya is happy to call the Magic Mountain, and the Magic Mountain naturally accepts it calmly, without any majestic reprimand on the royal power or expressing the slightest dissatisfaction of herself.
Arya addressed the Magic Mountain as His Majesty the King in a very formal tone, she wanted to know what a burning glass candle was, and she was very solemn, which made the Magic Mountain look at her more.
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"Glass candles, it's obsidian. Magic Mountain said with Arya's positive color. Magic Mountain knew that today's events were a little strange, starting with the child who passed the word, Arya encountered some things, but she refused to say it on such an occasion.
"Obsidian?"
Melisandre said, "Obsidian is the dragon crystal that kills the Stranger. There are a lot of dragon crystal deposits buried under Dragonstone Island, and His Majesty the King sent professional western miners to dig obsidian on Dragonstone Island a year before the decisive battle in Winterfell, and then asked Count Gavin Westerling to send Dragon Crystal to the Great Wall of Desperation. Dragon Crystal is the essence of earth fire, and it specializes in restraining the frost body of strange ghosts. ”
"Will the dragon crystal burn on its own?" Arya asked Melisandre.
"Not really!"
"Can dragon crystals be forged into candles?"
"Dragon crystal can be forged into short knives, daggers, arrowheads, and I think it can also be forged into candles. ”
"Pitch black room, burning candles, so what does that mean?" Arya was glad that Melisandre and the Magic Mountain knew the secret of the glass candle. It seems that someone may also know the secret of the Dragon Crystal Candle and may not be a secret to Arya.
The voice of the magic mountain sounded, and the matter of the dragon crystal candle was known through the magic mountain. Although he is not an oracle, he knows the superficial secrets about the Dragon Crystal Candle. This superficiality is amazing for people who don't know anything about glass candles.
"Arya, in Oldtown Schooltown, there are rumors of three glass candles as sharp as knives. Any apprentice who enters the school must be in a dark room with a glass candle that is also dark before he is officially promoted from apprentice to assistant bachelor. ”
Old Town, School Town, Assistant, Black Room and Black Candles?
"Your Majesty, why does the school city have such a rule?" Arya had two more respects for the Magic Mountain. Her words and deeds rarely return to the unconventional ladylike temperament.
"Oh...... This question ...... "the superficiality of the Magic Mountain begins to show," ...... I've heard that the Bachelors of the Academy are putting apprentices in dark rooms as a kind of exam question for promotion...... A compulsory question...... It seems to take three days and three nights...... Rumor has it that if an apprentice with some kind of talent can make the black glass candle burn......"
“...... Oh......" Arya certainly didn't understand why, "an apprentice can't be a bachelor's assistant without burning?"
"Not really. As long as you can stay in the room for the allotted time, you pass the exam. For hundreds of years, no apprentice could make a glass candle burn on its own. Many of the apprentices could not contain their curiosity in the dark room, and would reach out and touch the glass candle on the table, because it was pitch black, they did not know that the glass candle was extremely sharp, and as a result, without exception, the apprentices' hands would be cut by the sharp edge of the glass candle, and some would be seriously injured. As long as he can't make it to the time to open the door, as long as he makes a call for help in advance, he has to leave the school. ”
"Knocked out?"
"Yes, eliminated. Even trying to be an apprentice is disqualified. ”
Arya turned to look at Melisandre, "Madam, is this what His Majesty said about the secret of glass candles?"
"For the school city, yes. ”
"Why did the school do this? What is the secret of the glass candle? How can it spontaneously combust?"
"Maybe it has something to do with dragons. Melisandre said.
"Dragon Crystal?"
"Dragon Crystal is the essence of earth fire, and the dragon's dragon Yan is also the essence of flame. ”
Arya seemed to vaguely feel something: "When the dragon reappeared in the sky, the magic also revived simultaneously, so the spontaneous combustion of the dragon crystal candle is like the revival of magic?"
"Arya, if you want to figure this out, maybe you'll have to go to the school. Melisandre gave Arya a meaningful look.
Arya's heart moved!
She asked someone to change her name, and someone told her that, what does that have to do with her request for a new name?
If you want to change your name, of course, you have to find the person who proposed it, and Jakun Hegar asked Arya to change her name, and Arya finally changed her name, and Jaqun Hegar was saved from suicide. It was also from that time that Jaqun Hegar took a fancy to Arya and thought she had the potential to become a faceless being, so Jaqun Hegar gave Arya an iron coin. Arya offered to change her name, and someone should have reminded her to go to the client, but someone didn't, and he asked the child to tell Arya such a strange thing.
What are the hidden secrets of the burning dragon crystal candle that Arya needs to unravel?
Or is it someone's way of getting Arya out of the Magic Mountain?
Arya quickly made a decision, and the tone of her voice changed, and she no longer solemnly addressed the Magic Mountain as His Majesty the King: "The Magic Mountain, after the wedding in the West, can you take me to the school city with the dragon?"
"As you wish, Miss Stark. Magic Mountain laughed. He naturally saw that Arya had made a very important decision, and this decision made Arya feel relieved, so she changed from the solemn title of 'His Majesty the King' to the relaxed and wanton of 'Magic Mountain'.
"Arya, after attending the wedding in the West, your one-month time limit to protect His Majesty has long since expired. Melisandre said teasingly.
"I know when it is time to leave our King, Lady Melisandre. Arya said lightly.
"Oh!" said Melisandre, smiling, charming, "Arya, the night is long, and the glass candle is not so good!"