The Valyrians who built the long bridge and the black wall of Valantis also left descendants in Valantis.

In Valantis, nine out of ten of the nobles who live in the Black Walls have Valyrian blood.

Drogo Kao of the Dothrak Sea is leading an army to attack, and the news keeps the three consuls of Valantis busy and nervous. Valantis inherited the political form of Valyria of yesteryear, a city ruled by consuls. The consuls came from two parties: the Tiger Party and the Elephant Party.

The consuls were elected by the free Valantis who owned the land, one person, one vote, and were elected once a year.

Elections last for ten days at a time, and these ten days also become a carnival for the Valantis, with some candidates doing anything to get votes, but only legal citizens of Valyrian ancestors are eligible to run for consulship.

The Tigers were the old nobles and warriors of Valantis, who advocated the use of force to achieve their desire to conquer the world. In the centuries following the fire of the Valyrian Fortress of Liberty 400 years ago, the Tigers came to power and launched an operation of conquest. They had conquered Mill, Telosi and Reese, but were eventually defeated by the coalition of the free city-states, and the Tigers' grip on Valantis' politics was greatly weakened, and their reputation plummeted.

The Elephant Party was a merchant and money lender who advocated the conquest of the world through trade. For the three hundred years after the Tiger Party fell into decline due to its defeat in the war, the Elephant Party controlled Valantis' government, and to date, at least two out of every three consuls came from the Elephant Party.

Malacho Megaria is one of the three consuls, he belongs to the core of the Tiger party, has been elected as consul several times, and enjoys the name of the Tiger. He had 10,000 infantry and 2,000 cavalry at his disposal, and his legion was known as the Tiger Robe Army.

The Tiger Robe Army is loyal to the Tiger Party. A significant number of the warriors in the Tiger-robed Army believed in the Red God Rahlo, the Lord of Light that Melisandre believed in.

In addition to this, Valantis had 20,000 infantry and 2,000 cavalry belonging to the City Guard of the city-state of Valantis, which was loyal to the Elephant Party. The City Guards consisted of slaves, with only a handful of freedmen among them.

The City Guard was in the hands of the Elephant Party consuls, one of whom was Nesiso Visama. Nessiso Visama had a close personal relationship with Illyrio, the governor of the city-state of Pantos, and of course their personal relations were based on trade interests. Governor Illyrio had shady businesses, such as the slave trade, which was firmly opposed by the Bravovers, and he would secretly trade with Nesiso Visama. Both Illyrio and Nessiso have a lot of shady business dealings.

The other consul of the Elephant Party was Dofas Pennimien, a wealthy merchant who had been to the maritime trade of Westeros and was actively preparing for his next re-election.

When the news reached Valantis that Drogo Kao's army had attacked and taken several towns along the way, the three consuls agreed that the Tiger Maracho could hold on with the help of the Black Wall, as the Dothraki had a peculiarity of whistling and whistling away. As long as they hold out for more than a month, the Dothraki who are impatient to stay in one place for a long time will automatically leave, and they will most likely follow the Valyrian Avenue to attack the free trade city-state of Mir.

The distance from Valantis to Mill in a straight line is no more than five hundred miles.

The Black Wall is indeed easy to defend and difficult to attack, and the Dothraki cavalry is invincible in steppe warfare, but they are not good at siege warfare.

It's just that in this way, Xicheng has no danger to defend. The west city of Valantis was not protected by high walls.

Of the two consuls of the Elephant Party, Dofhas was only willing to negotiate peace, believing that the Dothraki were only concerned with money and goods, and that as long as they sent an envoy to negotiate peace with them and give them money, they would naturally retreat. In this way, it will avoid angering Drogo Kao. The cost of angering Drogo Kao was beyond Valantis' affordability, as Drogo Kao would slaughter the city to teach a lesson to those who dared to resist him, and turn all the nobles into slaves.

Maracho, the consul who was friendly with Illyrio in Pantos, was a man who did not have much military or political opinion, and he vacillated in the middle. He feared that he would anger Drogo Kao, and that Daenerys would propose to emancipate the slaves after the peace, and Daenerys' reputation as a slave liberator would spread not only to the slave cities of the East, but also to Valantis.

And the wealth and pleasures of the nobles in Valantis were created by slaves. Maracho's fortune was also earned from the slave business. The place where the bridge between the slave trade in the Western world and the slave cities in the East was Valantis.

It is difficult for Malacho to make a decision until he is sure whether Daenerys, the slave liberator, will be hostile or amicable to the slave nobles when he enters the city.

If Daenerys turns a blind eye to their slave business, then Maracho is willing to negotiate peace and pay for it. But if Daenerys wanted them to change the rules of the slave trade, Malachio would rather fight.

The three-digit archons couldn't reach an agreement, and they finally decided to consult with the Red God Priest Beneiro.

In Valantis, there is a huge temple: the Temple of Rahlo, the Lord of Light.

It is rumored to be the largest temple of the Lord of Light in the world, more than three times larger than the Basilica of Baylor, the seven sacred places on the continent of Westeros.

The Red Temple is located east of the Lorne River, near the Black Wall. No one knows exactly when the Red Temple was built, but the temple's pillars, stairs, buttresses, stone arches, domes, and towers are all so huge that they seem to have been hewn out of the same rock. More than a hundred colors, including red, yellow, gold, and orange, intermingle and permeate the walls of the temple, like clouds at dusk.

If Drogo Kao were to conquer Valantis, his first step would be to conquer the Western City, which had no walls, and then the Temple of Rahlo, which had no protection outside the Black Walls.

Drogo Kao demolished the local temple every time he conquered it, and then moved the statues of the local temple back to Vis Dothraki, the only city of the Dothrakis. On both sides of the city avenue of Vis Dothraki were scattered with statues of gods from other cities, and those who were covered in dust or had severed hands and feet became the pride of the Dothraki people in conquering the world.

The temples of Lahlo have their own armament, and they are known as the Hand of the Holy Fire.

The Hand of the Flame is the guardian of the Red Temple, and has been bought by the Red Temple since he was a child to train as a soldier. Dressed in ornate armor and orange cloaks, they held spears with tips like flames, guarding the entrances to the temple. They are known as the Holy Warriors of the Lord of Light and the guardians of the Red Temple.

The Hand of the Holy Fire has always maintained the size of a thousand, and only one person will be replenished when one dies.

In Valantis, no one dared to despise the hand of the Holy Fire, armed with only a thousand men.

Because in Lahlo, whether it is the Tiger Robe Army belonging to the Tiger Party or the City Guard Army belonging to the Elephant Party, most of the fighters are Rahlo's followers.

At the slightest moment, at the command of Archpriest Bennero, most of the warriors of the Tigers and Elephants will break away from the army and join the Hand of the Flame to fight for the Lord of Light.

During her journey from the Jade Sea to Westeros, Melisandre made a special trip to Valantis to meet with Archpriest Benello, where she was warmly welcomed by the populace, and she and Benelo became close friends because of the faith of the Lord of Light.

Faced with the threat of Drogo Kao's army, Valantis decided to make the most holy decision for Archpriest Benneiro, whether it was war or peace.

If there is a battle, Archpriest Bennero will exert his powerful appeal, and the Lord of Light will also send down the light of divine power, and if peace is negotiated, with Archpriest Bennero's participation, the city will also be shrouded in the protection of the Lord of Light.

While Drogo Kao led the army to march towards Valantis in a hurry, and when the other cities in Valantis' territory surrendered without a fight, the three consuls of Valantis humbly came to the foot of the gate steps of the temple of Lachlo, and humbly asked a hand of fire to send a message to the archpriest of Bennero, asking for a meeting.