Chapter 0527: Lorne River Basin: Dragon Flame Power
A few days later, Drogo Kao saw the famous Lorne River.
The south-central inland area at the western end of Essos is divided into two parts, the plains to the southwest by the sea and the mountains to the east, which is crossed by the vast Lorne River, through which the valley was once home to the warlike Loina for generations.
More than half of the Dornish people of Westeros today have the blood of the Roynars. This is the case with the Quentin Martell family. They are half Dorn, half Roynar.
1,000 years ago, in order to resist the expansion and invasion of Valyria Freefort in the southeast, the Prince of Loyna, Gaylin the Great, led 250,000 Leunards to fight to the death, but they were all wiped out in front of the dragon fire of the Valyrians. The Valyrians destroyed many of the city-states of Loyna, including the capital Nisa.
Namelia, the heroine of Royna, led a thousand warships across the Narrow Sea to land in Dorne, married Martell's patriarch and conquered six other countries, unifying Dorne, and thus the Loyna people were completely integrated into the blood of the Dorn.
The Lorne is a huge river with hundreds of small branches flowing into the Lorne, which is also the mother river of the Royna people, and the river eventually flows into the Summer Sea. At the mouth of the Lorne, there is a free trade city-state: Valantis.
Drogo Kao's army will descend the Lorne River and aim for the very wealthy and prosperous Gulf City of Valantis.
Valantis is one of the nine free trade city-states inhabited by many nobles, slaves, and mercenary groups. In this bustling and affluent city, there were five times as many slaves as the rest of the population. The Drogo Kao Legion loved nothing more than the rich and prosperous lands, and they were also familiar with the slave trade, and the Drogo Legion had smooth slave trade routes with the major slave cities in the East.
After conquering Valantis, the legion marched westward, heading thousands of miles to the island city of Rees.
The city-state of Rees will face the threat of slaughter for stealing Daenerys' three dragons.
Although the Loynards are no longer there, the avenues built by the Loynards on both sides of the Lorne and some of the castles that have been burned into fluids by dragon fire are still there. Along the way, the traces left by the dragon burn are everywhere, shocking and shocking the fearless Dothraki to the invincibility of the dragon flame.
This raises the prestige of Daenerys the Unburned, because she has the blood of a dragon in her veins, and she is not afraid of fire, and she is safe and sound in the sea of fire.
When the Legion arrived in Nissa, the ancient capital of the Loynars, they were silent in the face of the towering city-state made of the massive rock burned into a pitch-black fluid by dragon fire, including Drogo Kao, whose eyes were speechless.
The immense power of the dragon's flame from a thousand years ago has made the Dothraki breathless and unable to breathe. A huge rock as big as a hill was also burned into a fluid in front of the dragon flame, and if the dragon flame sprayed on a person's body, what would be the result?
Varys was also walking the Lorne River for the first time, and needless to say, all the Dothraki had aroused their ambition to recapture the young dragons, and many of the generals who were disrespectful to Daenerys had awe in their eyes when they faced Daenerys. The purpose of their trip was to recapture the three dragons for Cariss.
Along the Lorne River Valley, the traces of war left by the dragons of the Valyrians have taught the valiant Dothraki a vivid lesson in dragon fire. The dragon is supreme, and in the face of the dragon, the horse can only surrender.
Invisibly, Daenerys's brilliance was a little brighter.
Corso, the blood alliance guard who hated Daenerys to the core, also put away his unruly gaze in the face of Daenerys, and became softer, although this was only the appearance.
Daenerys snatched the woman whom Corso had asked for and gave her freedom, which was an unsolvable hatred and a humiliation to Corso. Many others have also suffered this humiliation from Daenerys, and these seeds of hatred are buried in their hearts and are slowly taking root and germinating.
Quentin and Varys also saw the power of dragons for the first time, and they were equally shocked and speechless.
When the city-state of Valyria conquered Essos, it had hundreds of dragons, which was not comparable to when Daenerys' ancestors conquered Westeros. At that time, all kinds of magic were rampant, and high-ranking military officers and magicians were able to call for wind and rain and enjoy supreme status and glory.
The Prince of Royna, Emperor Garyn the Great, was a high-level water magician, who could borrow the waves of the sea by chanting magic spells. Although he used forbidden magic to cause a terrible flood that drowned many of the Valyrian legions, he was still killed by the power of hundreds of dragons.
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Drogo Kao led his legions into the territory of the bay city-state of Valantis, and cities large and small along the way were surrendered, and some nobles fled to Meereen overnight.
Without a single knife or shot, Drogo Kao won several cities. When the news reached Valantis, the people of Valantis were shocked and frightened, and they were in chaos before they could fight.
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Located at the mouth of the Lorne River, Valantis is the closest free trade city-state to Valyria. When the Valyrians launched the Conquest, Valantis was the first city-state to be conquered by the Valyrians by ship from the sea, and she was the first colony to be established in the Valyrian Fortress of Freedom.
Of the nine free trade city-states, Valantis is very powerful. The basis of its powerful and wealthy source was its slave trade. Valantis, the closest free city-state to the Eastern Slave Bay, openly engaged in the slave trade because it was too far away from the city-state of Braavos, which opposed the slave trade, and Braavos was also out of reach of the slave trade in Valantis.
The city of Valantis was a huge city, with the rolling Lorne River flowing into the sea, which was split in half and connected by a long bridge across the Lorne.
The long bridge was not built by the Valantis, but by the Valyrians after the conquest.
The bridge has an extremely long span, supported by huge piers that are as flat as an avenue, and the entrances at either end are arches made of black boulders carved with sphinxes, sphinxes, dragons, and other monsters. The bridge deck was large enough for two four-wheeled carriages to pass side by side. In the middle of the bridge, the hands of the thieves and the heads of the criminals were inserted into the spears for public display.
The city to the east of the bridge was inhabited by aristocrats, popularly known as Old Valantis. The western part of the bridge was inhabited by civilians, slaves, merchants and mercenary groups from all over the world.
Old Valantis was also built by the Valyrians after the conquest, the walls were very wide and thick, and the width of which could be used to hold horse races on them, if each carriage was sheathed with four horses, then six carriages could race side by side on the walls. To date, no city-state has had walls of such width. The height of the wall was also formidable, it was more than two hundred feet high, equivalent to the height of thirty stories of an ordinary house inhabited by freedmen.
Old Valantis also has a famous name, which is due to the fact that the tall, wide and thick walls made of black rock are named: the Black Wall.