Chapter 0998 - Lightbringer Sword
Will patted Arya's hand, "Don't be nervous, it's Uncle Bunyan." ”
"Uncle Bunyan, you haven't been back to the Great Wall?" Arya let go of Will's hand and ran towards the dark shadow in front of her.
Suddenly, Arya was taken aback, there was another dark figure standing in front of the wall, silent, as if it were a sculpture, and Arya was startled when she got closer.
Bunyan's voice rang out: "Arya, that's my fellow rat. ”
"I'm not a rat, I'm Bunyan's comrade, a ranger among the insignificant Night's Watch. The mouse laughed.
Arya felt that the rat was as cold as a piece of ice, exuding a cold breath.
"Uncle, why are you here?" said Arya, walking over to Bunyan.
Bunyan's hood covered his face, like a mouse.
"We stayed here all the time. The mouse laughed.
"Living in the crypt all the time?" a feeling of horror rose in Arya's heart.
She felt the chill emanating from her uncle's body as well.
An uncle who lives in a grave, an uncle who exudes cold.
Arya looked back at Will, who looked at him with ease.
She believed Will, and soon, Arya adjusted her mood, she didn't hug Uncle Bunyan, she was going to rush up and hug him. But the uncle really looked a little abnormal.
Arya held out her hand, as did her uncle Bunyan, who noticed that her uncle was wearing moleskin gloves on his hands.
Arya took her uncle Bunyan's hand, and a piercing cold ice came from her uncle's hand, causing Arya to shudder.
"Uncle?" exclaimed Arya, surprised.
"I'm already an undead, Arya. Bunyan's singular and steady voice.
"Undead?" Arya was even more startled and took a step back.
"Yes, strictly speaking, the rat and I are already dead. ”
Although Arya has learned facelessness and can change faces, facelessness is not necromancy. She didn't know anything about necromancy.
"Uncle, you're dead?"
"Yes! I'm dead. “
"Then why are you still talking?"
"Brindon Rivers, the green prophet of the three-eyed raven has resurrected me and the mouse, and although we have the power to move, we have lost the vital signs of those who eat and sleep, and our hearts have stopped beating. The soul still dwells in our bodies. ”
Arya's eyes widened: "Uncle, I can't understand!"
"You don't need to understand, you just need to know that the rat and I are undead. ”
Arya looked at the rat and then at Will, "Will, this is the secret of the crypt. ”
"The secret of the crypt is underground. Will said, "Arya, don't you think it's strange that there are no hot springs in the entire North, but only in the underground of Winterfell?"
Arya has lived here since she was a child, and since she was born sensible, she has known that there are hot springs in Winterfell. My mother was afraid of the cold, she came from the south, and my father was in the wall of my mother's room, leading the hot spring water to flow through the wall to ensure that my mother could be as warm as the south.
Because there have always been hot springs in Winterfell, and there are hot spring pools on the ground of the three eyes in the Shenmu Forest, everyone is used to it, and no one thinks it is strange. It's as if the sun rises in the east, and no one thinks about why the sun doesn't rise in the south.
Everyone is used to it, and no one has thought deeply about it.
Arya said, "Will, so do you know why our Winterfell has hot springs underneath?"
"Yes, there's a big secret in Winterfell's underground. This big secret was told to me by the Green Prophet of the Divine Wood Forest. A few years ago, I was a night watchman ranger on the Wall, patrolling the Ghost Forest with seventeen-year-old Sir Weimar Royce, Gary, a comrade who had been stationed at the Wall for forty years, and we encountered the Wraith, and the Wraith killed Sir Weimar and killed Gary, I was terrified, crossed the Wall, and fled for my life, and in the Wolf Grove, I was captured by the Stark family's freeriders and taken to the execution ground, and Duke Eddard Stark himself came to execute me, and wanted to cut off my head with the family's ice sword. “
"I remember that story. Arya said.
"That's not the story, that's what I really experienced. ”
"Okay, I'll listen. Arya said. She returned to Will's side. The chill from Uncle Bunyan and the rat was like a knife, making Arya feel very uncomfortable.
"When I was about to be beheaded, a voice told me a lot of secrets, and this voice was the humanoid life of the Divine Wood Forest. ”
"The Prophet of the Green Tree of Hearts when we got married?"
"Yes. A humanoid life combined with the Ten Thousand Year Heart Tree, his will covers the entire North, not just Winterfell, nothing in the North can escape his eyes and will. With the help of the Green Prophet, I told the Proverbs of House Stark and said that I had come to warn Lord Eddard with a prophecy from God, and my prophecy was soon fulfilled, so Lord Eddard let me go. ”
"I remember when you competed with our head coach and won the head coach and taught Jon Snow kendo. ”
"Yes, I stayed in Winterfell, and at night, under the guidance of the Green Prophet, I went to the Stark family's crypt, and then learned the great secret of the Stark family's underground, and also learned why in the entire north, only the Stark family has a hot spring underneath. ”
"Why?"
"Because there are a lot of dragon bones buried in the ground, and a sword. ”
"Sword?" Arya's eyes widened, "Lightbringer?"
"Yes, 8,000 years ago, Azor Ahai defeated the Wraiths in the Long Night with a sword called the Lightbringer. The sword was buried underground by the city builder Brindon Stark 8,000 years ago, and in order to ensure that this secret was not revealed, Brindon Stark built the Stark family's tomb on the location of the sword. The tomb of the ancestors is the most holy, and the Stark family will never let anyone come to desecrate it, and no one else will know that under the tomb, there is a 'lightbringer' buried. ”
Arya was dumbfounded, unable to breathe.
"Under the guidance of the Green Prophet, I learned the secrets of the Lightbringer, but I still need to find the reincarnation of Assor Ahi in order to pull out this Lightbringer and defeat the Stranger in the dead of winter. In order to increase my strength, I founded the Holy Inquisition. The purpose of the Inquisition was to settle disputes, to put an end to the strife among the human race, and at the same time, to find the reincarnation of Assoel Ah. “
"Did you find it?" Arya muttered in her own voice.
"There's a bit of an eyebrow, but it's not sure yet. ”
"How can I be sure?"
"Whoever can pull out the lightbringer will be able to determine in the end. Currently, Jon Targaryen is one candidate, Daenerys Targaryen is also a candidate, and the other is a member of the Stark family's bloodline. ”
"Who?" said Arya's heart pounded.
Will brought her here, is she the reincarnation of Asalor Ahai? Asor Ahai was a hero 8,000 years ago, a man, and she was a woman.
"Little Will!"
"Little Will?" Arya's voice grew high and thin, "how is it possible that you and Big Gilly's child?"
"Big Gilly is the blood of the authentic Stark family. Uncle Bunyan said lightly, "It's like the Night King who has come to attack us with a strange ghost this time, and he is also a member of the Stark family. ”
Arya was completely stunned, unable to move.
"The Night King is coming soon, and the Night King should know the great secrets of Winterfell, and he is afraid of the Lightbringer, so we have come here and are stationed here, so that the Night King cannot be taken advantage of. ”
"The Night King was the thirteenth Commander-in-Chief of the Night's Watch and the younger brother of the Lord of Winterfell at the time. After going to the Great Wall of Desperation as a night watchman, he became the commander of the night watch, and married a woman who was as cold as ice, had ice-blue eyes, and never spoke. ”
Arya was surprised, "The eyes of the strangers are all ice blue, and so are the ghouls, and it has something to do with the Night King's wife?"
"Yes!"
"Why are they all Starks?" Arya asked, "The Night King is a Stark, and the one who can pull out the Lightbringer could also be a Stark. Arya looked at Will.
Will and Big Gilly combined and gave birth to a child, but he didn't have Will's bloodline, but he awakened the Stark family's bloodline.
The bloodline of the Stark family, in the north, has always been the power of kings.
"The Stark family, outside the Great Wall of Desperation, in the north, has many bloodline branches. Any branch has the potential to awaken the strongest bloodline of the ancestors, and Little Will, the child of Big Gilly and Lord Will, is the second Stark to awaken the bloodline of the 'Ice Breaker' in the past 8,000 years. And the Night King, is the first. ”
Arya's mouth was wide open, unable to breathe.
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Bunyan Stark turned and walked into the depths of the crypt, where the rat walked silently against the wall. Arya took Will's hand tightly and followed behind the two ice-like men.
After walking for a long time, after thousands of years of ancestors' side, Arya suddenly became more and more nervous, she always felt that the eyes of every ancestor statue were watching her and moving with her movements.
The ancestors seemed to come to life, in this space, they were invisible, but Arya could feel their presence.
The feeling made Arya nervous, but not afraid.
The ancestors were Starks and wouldn't hurt her, and Arya was convinced of that.
Ahead, at the end of the tomb.
Under the light of the fire, there was no road ahead.
Bunyan and the rat stopped, pushing a statue of an ancestor. Arya saw that there was no dust on the statue of the Patriarch, which showed that Bunyan had been pushing the statue a lot.
The statue turned, revealing a downward staircase, a downward passageway, from which a cloudy heat rushed out, causing Arya to almost cough.
Bunyan Stark threw away the torch, Will also threw away the torch, and the whole space was dark all of a sudden, and Arya felt that the darkness was like substance, like thick ink, and even Will beside him couldn't see it. She was about to speak, when suddenly, a light began to light up in the passage, as if someone had lit a candle below.
The light is not strong, but it is getting brighter and brighter, enough to make people see the road under their feet.
Arya was surprised that there were other undead living underground.
Bunyan Stark walked down first, the rat followed, then Arya, and Will broke off.
A group of four people came down the passage, the passage was not high, and you had to bend down to enter. The walls on both sides of the passage are inlaid with pearl jadeite and Arya jade that she can't name, and all kinds of peerless jade can be found here.
Arya was stunned again. Underneath Winterfell, there is a treasure trove hidden in the world.
Will said, "Don't reach out and touch the jade, there are undead living inside. ”
Arya's body shook, and she looked back at Will with horror in her eyes.
"It's a disembodied undead, Arya. Every undead here is a great hero who fought against the strange ghosts 8,000 years ago. They were ordered to wait here, waiting for the reincarnated hero of Assol Ahi to lead them out. “
"They are our secret army in Winterfell's second line of defense. Will said.
"The second line of defense? The Great Wall of Desperation will definitely not be able to hold it. ”
"It can't be defended, but it can wreak havoc on the Night King's legions. We hope to bury the Night King in Winterfell's defenses and kill him. ”
"Yes...... He's a Stark, too!' Arya said.
"He's a Stark, but he's also a Wraith. Bunyan said coldly.
Arya is silent!
The group bent down through the long passage, and suddenly a wave of heat rushed towards Arya, making her immediately feel the heat.
A spiral staircase descends, a huge circular space, a huge circular cemetery, a shattered stone monument.
Will's eyes moistened slightly when he saw the stele.
The dragon bone sword at his waist came from this stone tablet. After the dragon bone sword was pulled out by him, the stele shattered.
Arya saw a long sword stuck in the middle of the graveyard, which looked ordinary, but she knew that it was the legendary Lightbringer.
In the circumference of the cemetery, there is water bubbling and flowing, hot spring water.
Bunyan stood at the exit of the spiral staircase and did not go down: "Arya, Will, we can't go down, with every step, the temperature rises a lot, we are undead, we can't withstand the heat of the dragon bones and the lightbringer." ”
Arya was curious, and since she was here, she had to go down.
She took off her cloak and untied her mink coat, and Will likewise took off her cloak and coat, putting on only her underwear.
Outside, winter has arrived, but here is a furnace.
"This is the secret of the hot springs in Winterfell, and all the keels buried in the cemetery. Will said, "And it was the Lightbringer Sword that turned all of Winterfell's groundwater into hot spring water." ”
Will had already been here, and still remembered everything about it, and he led Arya down to the cemetery, where at his feet was a bubbling stream of water that surrounded a huge circular cemetery, and in the middle of the cemetery was a sword of its own appearance.
Arya tried to jump over the water, but the temperature was too hot, and the temperature in the air was like a flame, and Arya's skin was faintly painful. Arya's hair began to curl slowly due to the heat.
"Why did you bring me here?" asked Arya.
"If I die in battle, you'll need to bring Jon Targaryen, Daenerys Targaryen, and Little Will here to try and see who can pull out the Lightbringer. ”
"I'd suggest it's best to let Little Will draw his sword first. "He's Stark, he's the North, he's the Ice of the North." ”
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ps: Combined with the beginning of this article, fill in the pit at the beginning.