Chapter 71 The Expensive Valyrian Steel Sword
Without waiting for Arstan the Whitebeard to answer the previous question, Jorah said aggressively: "Let me ask you again, how will Illyrio arrange the princess's future? Contact the nobles of the Seven Kingdoms? Use his property to hire mercenaries?"
"The names of dragons and Targaryens can only stimulate those lords in the melee to immediately put aside their disputes and unite against the outside world. Maybe some people have expectations for Her Royal Highness, but there will be more assassins. Who can guarantee her safety?"
Jorah asked several questions in a row, leaving Grolai at a loss. This old sailor did not understand politics at all. Bringing Queen Daenerys back to Pentos was the purpose of his trip.
But in theory, he is now serving the queen and is also a minister under the queen. This.
Bevos did not react at all, and continued to eat his skewers. Protecting the safety of the little queen was his job, and he didn't care about anything else.
Whitebeard pondered for a long time, raised his head, and looked at Dany with a firm look: "I swear with my life and honor that I will protect the safety of Her Royal Highness."
"Alas!" Jorah sighed and said helplessly: "As the Queen's Iron Guard, I have already dedicated my life to Her Royal Highness, and her bloodriders will live and die with her, but what's the point of facing the traitors of the Seven Kingdoms?
A random 300-man mercenary team can wipe out all threats. Do you think that Duke Tywin, who shits gold, will be stingy with such a few gold dragons?"
Whitebeard's tall and burly body stood there, his lips pursed tightly, and asked: "What do you suggest?"
"Go to Slaver's Bay and buy Unsullied." Jorah said loudly.
"But Unsullied are useless without them, and my ship can't carry more!" Grole sighed.
"Go to Slaver's Bay first." Jorah didn't say that he would sell the cargo on the ship, or even your sea ship, to exchange for Unsullied.
At this time, Dany seemed to have finally made a decision.
She gritted her teeth and said, "I have decided to follow Ser Mormont's advice and go to Slaver's Bay. Will you three go?" "Wherever you go, I will go," the strong man Belvos raised his head and said incoherently with food in his mouth, "The fat man in Pentos only hired me to protect you. Now I am yours!"
You dead eunuch, you can eat more than my dragon, but you are so ambiguous. I don't want you.
Dany smiled and nodded.
"I am willing to serve you." Grolai said.
"I am Belvos's squire." Whitebeard said.
In this way, everyone's opinions were basically unified. Regardless of their loyalty, the three ships temporarily submitted to Dany.
"Then I order a change of course?" Grolai asked her.
"Let me think about it." Dany asked Grolai to open the sea chart and asked him to mark the approximate position of the fleet at this time.
The speed of this big-bellied sea ship is not as fast as the sailing ships of the Age of Exploration on Earth. It can only travel at a speed of about eight knots.
Well, about 14 kilometers per hour, and it can travel more than 300 kilometers a day.
Of course, this is related to the wind speed. When there is no wind, the ship will hover directly on the sea surface. When the wind speed is good, it can reach more than 10 knots.
Now it has been three days since leaving New Ghis. There is still one or two days of sea journey to cross the Storm Sea outside Valyria. Now it is just right to turn to the Slaver's Bay.
But after seeing the ruins of Valyria on the map, Dany remembered the majestic magic city she saw in the Immortal Palace.
She tapped the location of the Valyrian capital on the map with her finger and turned around to ask, "Has anyone explored the ruins of Valyria?"
"Yes," Whitebeard frowned, "In the past four hundred years, countless people have wanted to go to the ruins of Valyria to look for treasures. The most common longswords of Valyrian nobles are also forged from Valyrian steel, and the most common Valyrian two-handed sword is also a priceless treasure today.
It is said that Tywin Lannister once tried to buy the family sword of a poor little noble - the Valyrian steel sword, but no matter how Tywin raised the price, the noble did not sell it.
I don't know how much Tywin offered, but considering the wealth of the Lannisters, it must be at least 200,000 gold dragons."
"Cough cough cough" Jorah Mormont seemed to be choked by saliva and coughed violently.
After a while, he touched his nose, blushed, and muttered awkwardly, "No, not a poor little noble."
Whitebeard and Dany's eyes widened, and they looked at the exiled Earl of Bear Island in surprise.
"Could it be you who sold it?" Whitebeard murmured.
"I never thought of selling Longclaw!" Mormont argued loudly.
"When I went to Lannister Harbor to get a loan from Tywin, that guy kept pestering me to buy a sword, but Longclaw is the family sword of the Mormont family. My father is not dead yet. If he knew, he would probably return from the Wall and chop me down with a knife."
If your father died, would you have sold the family sword at that time?
Everyone had this idea, and Whitebeard looked at Jorah with more contempt.
Well, just like Mormont couldn't stand Whitebeard, Whitebeard also looked down on knights who had lost their honor.
"Lynness Hightower probably doesn't know about this?" Whitebeard said sarcastically.
Mormont dodged his eyes and stammered to change the subject: "It's not 200,000. Tywin called out a sky-high price of 850,000 gold dragons at most, but I insisted on not selling it, even if he threatened not to give me a loan. Later, I went to the Iron Bank of Braavos to borrow money." 850,000 gold dragons?
10.2 billion RMB, that's enough for Jorah's spendthrift wife to spend her whole life (Lynness: Humph, you underestimate me).
Dany was dumbfounded, and the desire to go to Valyria became stronger.
Then another question came to her mind: "Sir, the Lannisters don't have Valyrian steel swords, where did you get them on Bear Island?"
Jorah immediately replied: "The Lannisters also have a Valyrian steel two-handed sword, Light Howl. More than a century before the fall of Valyria, the King of Casterly Rock spent nearly two million gold dragons to order it from the Valyrians."
Shit, big bear, please don't provoke me anymore!
Dany's eyes were about to turn into gold coins.
Whitebeard seemed to have guessed her thoughts, and then warned her: "After the fall of Valyria, many people coveted the treasures and secret arts of the Valyrians, and the Lannisters were no exception.
More than three hundred years ago, King Tommen II of Casterly Rock formed a super fleet - known as the 'Golden Fleet' to explore Valyria destroyed by the Doomsday Catastrophe. As a result, dozens of warships, thousands of sailors, and Tommen II himself, all perished in the ruins cursed by the gods.
King Kaiyan's sword, Light Howl, was naturally left in the ruins of Valyria.
Just ten years ago, Duke Tywin's younger brother, Gillian Lannister, also went on a journey to find the family sword and never returned.
In addition to the Lannisters, the Volantis who were closest to Valyria were the most orthodox nobles of the Free Fortress of Ancient Valyria, but they still went there and never returned.
The painful experiences of countless people tell us that it is a Jedi. Your Highness, with your wisdom, you should not do such a foolish thing."
Dany's men and ships were naturally far inferior to Tommen II's, but she also had her own trump card.
"Arstan, I fully understand your wise advice." Dany smiled at him gratefully, and then changed the subject and continued: "But I have dragons. Our fleet only needs to stay in the safe periphery. My dragons can cross the dangerous sea and enter the broken peninsula."
"This..." Whitebeard was doubtful.
"This is worth a try." Jorah touched his furry chin and said worriedly: "But we don't know what dangers are inside. If an accident occurs, your dragon may..."
"Why not wait until the dragon grows up and becomes more powerful, and then you can let him explore the ruins of Valyria?" He suggested.
This is a mature view, stable and reasonable, and Dany has no reason to refuse.
"A dragon has three heads," she sighed, "but there is only one dragon rider. When the dragons grow up, the white dragon and the black dragon will probably become wild dragons. They will definitely not hurt me, but you are still young now and will not attack humans. It won't take a few years, just one year. I can't always watch them. Just like the big black dragon, he will always leave my sight and go out to hunt in the wild.
I want to go to Valyria to find the real secret of dragon taming, at least to prevent those two dragons from eating people."
In the original plot, Daenerys's dragon ate people, even little girls, and the three dragons almost became wild dragons - in fact, the white dragon and the green dragon were both wild dragons without control in the end.
"Can you control the black dragon? I think he can easily hunt humans now." Whitebeard said worriedly.
"Yes, don't worry about the black dragon at all." Dany said confidently.
It was because the black dragon once had the desire to devour the centaur children that Dany was worried about the dragon eating people.
She could feel the emotions of the Great Black. When she was in Qarth, a two or three-year-old centaur girl accidentally broke into her bedroom. The Great Black was startled and immediately thought of biting and eating her.
At that time, Dany was terrified. For the first time, she realized that dragons were legendary creatures at the top of the food chain, and humans were also a dessert in their diet.
Later, she asked Jorah again.
The ser told her that dragons not only ate humans, but even ate several Targaryens.
Of course, that was an internal fight among the Targaryens. One Targaryen fed another Targaryen to the dragon. Under normal circumstances, dragons would not take the initiative to eat Targaryens. If the Targaryen did not have the qualifications to ride a dragon, but insisted on riding a dragon, he would most likely be eaten.
Later, Whitebeard came. Seeing that he was experienced and knew the old stories of the Targaryen family very well, Dany asked him for advice.
Whitebeard said that dragons with owners would not harm humans. The most terrifying thing was wild dragons without owners. They were unruly and difficult to control.
He also told her a terrible story. During the Dance of the Dragons, the Targaryen family had more than 20 dragons. There were so many dragons that no one tamed three of them and they became wild dragons.
There was a wild dragon named "Glutton", which was extremely terrifying. Not only did it eat a large group of apprentice dragon riders (Targaryens without dragons, or Velaryens), it also bullied the weak and devoured dragon corpses, young dragons and dragon eggs.
So when he heard Dany's concerns, the most mature and prudent Whitebeard was silent.
"You can only get close to the edge and never enter that place." With a sigh, Whitebeard waved his hand and said, "When we get there, you will understand. I hope the black dragon will not be hurt."
"I saved it." Dany nodded and asked Mormont, "Why is your Longclaw only 850,000, but the Light Howl costs 2 million? Does the price of Valyrian steel swords fluctuate so much?"
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