Chapter 294: Setting Sail and Lightning

The main job of the two major religious armed forces that were once destroyed was to protect wild travelers from wild beasts, robbers, and harassment and attacks by pagans.

The organization planned by Renly is actually similar to the poor people's gathering in the two major armed forces, the difference is that it is not controlled by the church.

However, although it is not directly controlled by the church, the church is the organization's scheduled financial logistics provider and assistant. These will not show anything in the short term. After a long time, are you afraid that the church will have no influence in this organization?

This is actually a very obvious thing. The Archbishop understood it at once, and the Prime Minister Jon Arryn also saw this possibility after he came to his senses.

However, the current war situation is hot, and the number of refugees killed and injured is indeed too large. He believes that the emergence of such organizations without the Iron Throne spending a dime is obviously not a bad thing.

Once the war is over, consider disbanding this organization or finding a way to restrict it.

After all, the time is destined not to be long. Even if the church infiltrates, where can it infiltrate?

At least it won't let the armed forces of the Order revive right under his nose.

As for whether he will encounter obstacles from the Church at that time, the old Prime Minister doesn't care much about it. The Church at this time is not the continental overlord that it was more than two hundred years ago. Although it has a strong influence and is very rich, it is still subject to the Iron Throne.

The only thing that bothers him is Renly's attitude. Logically speaking, Renly was born in a royal family, and his position should naturally be biased towards the Iron Throne, but he has the identity of the messenger of the gods, and his style of doing things is completely different from that of normal nobles.

The old Prime Minister is not sure whether Renly will help the Iron Throne or the Church when the day comes.

This is actually very important. In private, he doesn't want to offend Renly. In public, Renly has a strong influence in King's Landing. If he is determined to stand on the side of the Church, then even the Iron Throne will have to be cautious.

This also made the old man sigh. Unconsciously, the third son of Baratheon, who was once considered insignificant and sent to the Reach as a "hostage", has become an important figure that can cause turmoil in the kingdom, and they are even a little bit unable to react.

However, he obviously worried too much about this. Although Renly supported the restoration of the armed forces of the cult, he would not bother to care about such things when the war was over and all disputes were gone.

Now he did this, firstly, he thought that more power at hand would increase the possibility of victory, and secondly, he wanted to do something for the civilian class who had no human rights in this world.

Thirdly, if he could restore the armed forces of the cult from his own hands, he could exchange something that was crucial to him from the Seven Gods-

"The function of the gods is related to the status of their believers. If you can restore the armed forces of the church, then He can do more things."

"What things?"

"For example, killing gods."

...

This conversation took place when Renly was still in King's Landing and saw a large number of refugees pouring in.

At that time, he had the idea of ​​restoring the armament of the cult, so he communicated with the spokesperson of the Seven Gods on his wrist about the "benefits" he could get after the restoration.

The result made Renly very excited.

The war started because of him, but his enemies were not those mortal ambitionists, but the many "gods" behind them.

If those gods had not sent down oracles to urge believers to come to Westeros to find and destroy the "Old Gate", then this war would not have been fought at all, and he would not have had to work so hard.

So the way to completely solve this big problem is not to win this war, but to wipe out those "gods".

However, Renly just didn't have the ability to do this.

He is good at killing people, but killing gods?

If there were entities, he could try, but the gods he knew were illusory, invisible and intangible.

In this case, no matter how powerful he was with the sword and how many special powers he had, there was no other possibility except to hit the air.

So since the Seven Gods could help him do this, Renly naturally needed to pay attention.

However, he would not believe everything the spokesperson said. Although she seemed to have not told him any lies from the beginning to now, who could guarantee that she would not tell him any lies?

Psychic talent is completely useless for such a being, and Renly would not trust her 100%. And the other party seemed to know Renly's suspicion, and completed the part of the Seven Gods in advance for each transaction.

It was just that this time, because she needed to restore the weapons of the cult, she could not kill the gods immediately, but the spokesperson claimed that when the weapons were initially restored, the Seven Gods could help him solve a hostile god.

Renly was looking forward to the arrival of this day.

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The journey from King's Landing to the Westerlands, and then from the Westerlands to the sea to the Iron Islands is very long, but no matter how long it is, there will be a day to arrive.

On a relatively clear morning, the envoy team that arrived at Lannister Port in the Westerlands set off on the road to the Iron Islands by boat with the help of the local Lannister family.

In addition to the envoys, there were two foreign captives in the team, one was Rhaenys, and the other was her guard and swordsmanship teacher.

Many people actually don't know the identities of these two people, because Renly did not treat them as prisoners at all. Besides Renly, the only one in the team who knew about this was Varys, the former chief of intelligence.

But Varys obviously wouldn't say much about it, and because Renly didn't tie him up either, Varys had been observing the rumored strange daughter of the Sea King.

Then he found that this girl was indeed very special.

The most special thing was that she had been captured, but she always had a smiling face, and she didn't have any hostility towards Renly, her captor, but was trying to please him everywhere.

Not only did she go to ask about Renly's well-being when she had nothing to do, but she also always asked around in the team about Renly's preferences and habits. Varys couldn't help shivering when he saw her, wondering if Renly, who had strange means, had brainwashed this poor little girl?

This matter was very important, because if Renly had the ability to "brainwash" the girl, then he would naturally have the ability to brainwash him, Varys -

Although he no longer thought he had any secrets to hide from the other party, Varys still didn't want to lose his "freedom" in thinking.

So from time to time, he ran to the girl to ask around, trying to find out the truth.

Unfortunately, he didn't make much progress. Every time he asked, the girl just smiled and said nothing, or naturally changed the topic. Varys sighed at her smart and precocious character, but felt deeply sorry for this "brainwashed" girl.

However, although he couldn't ask anything, Varys was still keen to communicate with the girl. There was no way, everyone else in the team knew his identity, and no one talked to him.

In this case, apart from Renly, only this girl who was also a captive could chat with him to pass the time.

...

On the boat that day, Varys was chatting with the girl about some topics about the current war, but when the dark clouds gradually gathered in the sky, when the sea breeze blew violently, the originally bright environment became darker, and their conversation had to end.

"What a familiar scene."

The girl next to him looked up at the darkening sky, with a thoughtful look on her face.

"Braavos is by the sea, so I think there will be no shortage of storms." Varys replied.

"No, I mean--"

The girl was suddenly speechless halfway through her words, and then a trace of confusion appeared on her face, but this emotion flashed by and was not noticed by the people around her.

Because the sea breeze was getting stronger and stronger, it was obviously impossible to stay on the deck, so the girl said goodbye to Varys and ran back to the cabin. She wanted to stay in the room, but after thinking about it, she moved her feet and ran in the direction of Renly.

She was going to "brush up the favorability" as usual, and then maybe she would ask why she felt so familiar with the storm outside.

But when she walked outside Renly's door, she suddenly noticed something strange.

In the cabin room with little sound insulation, a strange crackling sound was faintly heard, and at the same time, a bright light leaked out from the crack of the door, shining on the girl's curious face, looking dazed.

The door was obviously not closed tightly. The girl thought for a moment, then raised her hand and pushed it slightly harder. The gap in the door quietly widened, and an amazing scene came into her eyes.

A dazzling light shone from above the table by the window, shrouding the slender figure with his back to the door in a hazy state. The crackling sound became clearer, but because it was blocked by the man, the source could not be seen. All that could be seen were the dazzling cracks on both sides of his body that twisted and floated in the air.

Is that... lightning?

Yesterday, because I had to adjust the update time, I owed one day for the update. I owed thirteen chapters before, plus two chapters equals fifteen chapters. After this chapter is paid off, I still owe fourteen chapters~