Chapter 262 The War Begins

Dragonstone is very busy at this time. Because it is located at the narrow entrance and exit of Blackwater Bay, it is naturally an important line of defense for King's Landing. Therefore, since the beginning of the war, Dragonstone has been occupied by Stannis's royal fleet. "Requisitioned", now the island is busy deploying maritime defenses inside and outside.

However, Renly is not the Lord of the Sea, and the defense of the sea has nothing to do with him. The main reason why he returned to Dragonstone was because the "Cans" maester on the island informed him that he had some new clues about the war.

In other words, someone came to inform the enemy of some preparations for war.

"The fleet of Braavos is preparing to attack the Gulf of Karin in the north, and the fleet of Volantis is targeting the Arbor Island. Your main enemies will be the combined fleets of other city-states, as well as the Dothraki, and their purpose The land is landing in the riverlands.”

A middle-aged man with a bald head told Renly.

He is a Qhoror, but claims to belong to the red robe Melisandre. Naturally, he would not forget Melisandre Renly, but he was hesitant about it.

Although he had reached a basic verbal cooperation agreement with the red-robed woman, as far as he understood, the red-robed woman was just an ordinary priest with no status in the Lord of Light's faith. How did she know these strategic situations?

Renly didn't ask further questions, because he could feel that the person in front of him was just a simple microphone, but this matter was very important, so after thinking about it, he took a fast boat towards Victoria on the night he arrived at Dragonstone. Rush outside Stroh.

He doesn't need to pay much attention to things in King's Landing for the time being, and there is nothing particularly important to keep an eye on. At the same time, Pentos, one of the nine free trade city-states, is not far from Dragonstone, and a round trip voyage does not even take ten days, so He planned to go and see for himself, and if necessary, take a hostage for interrogation.

As a result, I ran over to take a look, but I ran directly into the enemy and prepared to set sail to officially launch a war!

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The shallow sea water is warmed by long-term sunlight. When you are in it, a strange coolness rushes into your body from all directions.

With his body floating under the sea, Renly squinted his eyes in the water as he stared at the dark bottom of the ship in the distant port area and the trance-like crowds of people on the land. .

The long-lost feeling around him made him feel happy, but the scene he saw at this time made this joy quietly disappear.

Without him, there were too many ships moored at the port, and countless Dothraki boarded the ships.

The Dothraki are a nomadic people, most of whom have bronze skin and wear light leather armor. Putting aside the memories of his past life, Renly's current impression of the Dothraki is that they are the overlords of Essos.

Yes, although the nine free trade city-states are very powerful, the strongest military force in the Essos continent is not the major city-states, but the Dothraki, a war race where all the people are soldiers.

Renly had known in advance that the Dothraki had also cooperated with the Targaryens, but he did not expect that the number of these people would be so large - he lurked under the ocean, and from morning to night, the dense The crowds of people kept pouring onto the boats but they were still endless, seemingly endless.

At this moment, he believed the news of the red-robed woman even more. Dothraki are natural cavalry. With so many Dothraki, instead of plundering and causing trouble in the hinterland of the continent, sending them directly to siege cities would be a complete waste and would result in half the effort. Because the Dothraki don't attack cities at all.

Renly was dazed by this.

It's the Riverlands, the North, and the Arbor Island. The increase in the number of battle lines means that the war has become more complicated. If it was just a matter of deciding the outcome in King's Landing, there wouldn't be much need to think about it, but now it has to be done. Make emergency adjustments.

Thinking about it, he didn't act rashly.

Although he did not fully believe it before, he also did not forget to pass the news to the Iron Throne. At the same time, although the war was about to begin, Renly believed that the Iron Throne would also learn that the enemy was about to set sail without doing anything on his own, because Iron Throne The Throne had intelligence points set up outside of Westeros - there were ravens delivering the news much faster than him running to inform them himself.

Renly waited quietly——

He was going to try to see if he could trigger the curse effect on his body here.

The feeling of being in the sea for a long time is completely different from that on land. Humidity surrounds the body all the time, but in comparison, Renly prefers the situation in the sea at this time.

The continuous coolness around him was no longer able to cause any freezing damage to him at this time. Instead, it magically transformed into the nutrients he needed when entering his body. The hunger that was born over time was continuously controlled by this special power. Soothing, the spirit of long-term observation has never been exhausted.

Renly in the sea is like a tireless perpetual motion machine, not eating or drinking but always full of energy. At the same time, schools of fish continued to gather around him, becoming more and more numerous and closer, causing serious trouble for his observation. Renly had to keep sinking because of this, for fear of being caught. Discovered by those troops on the sea.

The huge shoal of fish finally blocked everything in the front, back, left, and right directions. The area around his sight was dark and full of all kinds of fish heads. They were ugly, slender, and ferocious. They looked very scary at first glance, but this did not affect Renly's feelings. "Sight".

At this time, his eyes were closed tightly, but his perspective was not limited to the ocean, but above the sky——

If someone were to observe at this time, they would find that above the surface of the sea where Renly dived, a white seagull was slowly soaring in the sky, observing the dense fleet at the end of the port under the bright sky, and the Dothraki who were denser than the fleet.

At the same time, it was also observing the changing winds and clouds in the sky.

One day, two days, three days...

As time passed, the white seagull focused all its attention on observation, observing the surrounding environment and the situation in the port in addition to its normal foraging.

On the fourth day, the situation changed. The army at the port finally boarded the ship, and huge merchant ships began to set sail one after another, heading towards Westeros, ready to start a war that was destined to cause countless casualties.

However, it was precisely because of this that Renly's observation suddenly came to an end.

It was not that he took the initiative to end it, but that the seagull soaring in the sky suddenly burned itself from the inside out!

This sudden situation caught Renly off guard. The consciousness in the seagull felt the sudden intense burning sensation with the bird, so much so that he couldn't help but look painful in the sea. Faintly, the miserable bird calls and the subtle sounds of the burning fire entered his "ears". When he opened his eyes again, the world was only the dark and lightless seabed.

Unconsciously clenching his fists, Renly looked up. At this time, his head was still tightly blocked by the school of fish, but he seemed to be able to see through the school of fish and the ocean and see a red-robed figure standing on the deck with a scepter.

The last scene the bird saw was this figure raising the scepter in his hand and pointing it to the sky.

"The spell of the red-robed monk?" Thinking secretly, Renly turned around and swam towards other directions on the seabed.

The eyeliner was eliminated, but Renly's goal was also achieved-

Before the seagull died, it saw not only the red-robed figure standing on the bow, but also the gloomy and windy sky.

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