Chapter 302: Strange Illusion

Wet, cold, and silent,

The castle of Pike City is composed of several reefs on the sea, like peaks on the sea. It has a unique structure, but it is also affected by the serious water vapor in the sea.

Even the best room in the castle is hardly as dry as the ordinary houses on the land of Westeros.

However, with his special blood, Renly did not feel any discomfort. Instead, he felt a strange sense of comfort when staying in it.

At this time, there were many people living in the castle, but the tower where he was was very quiet. There were many guards. The servants and attendants subconsciously whispered when they walked, and did not dare to make too much noise, so as not to disturb him.

The reason was just that Renly said that he wanted to "retreat and practice" and should not be disturbed--

Obviously, the Greyjoy family attached great importance to him, even to Renly himself. But when he thought that the person in charge of the Greyjoy family was the female ironman who greeted him, he was relieved.

But in fact, Renly doesn't need a quiet environment in the room, and it doesn't matter if it's a little noisy, because the changes on his wrist don't need his control, and it doesn't cause him too much trouble.

Of course, if there is no certain impact, he won't stay indoors under such circumstances.

The impact is not strong, but illusions will grow around the body every once in a while, and the room that should be very quiet will change into other scenes, such as fish in the sea, ships drifting, iron people sleeping on the bed, and endless killing on the battlefield.

The main reason for the change is the fusion mark on his wrist. At this time, the mark that should be in a mess is constantly blooming with deep blue light, flickering, and seems to be breathing between breath and death.

This change is very unique. Renly, sitting on the velvet bed, once asked the spokesperson of the Seven Gods, but the other party didn't know why it happened, but claimed that it must be related to his chaotic mark.

Renly was not surprised by this, because most of the strange and incomprehensible changes were always related to the Chaos Mark, such as the appearance of the Seed of the Ancient Road, the communication of the Spokesperson of the Seven Gods, the resurrection of the Drowned God, etc. If there was no "bug" of the Chaos Mark, he would not be able to do these things at all.

Renly was looking forward to how the current situation would eventually evolve, but it had lasted for three days, and apart from the flickering illusion, nothing else had happened.

But Renly believed that the time for the real change to occur should not be far away.

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On the other hand, when Renly stayed at home, the team of envoys who came with him were accommodated in a tower in the castle.

Unlike their attitude towards Renly, the servants in the castle did not like these visitors from the Green Land very much. If it were not for Renly, these people would not even think of living in the castle of the Greyjoy family.

However, being unwelcome does not mean being embarrassed, it is just a cold attitude. Usually, the food and drink expenses are basically not small. The current manager of the Greyjoy family, Asha Greyjoy, has even visited here once.

In addition to Renly, the main person on this mission, there is also a deputy and some clerks. The deputy is called Kalman, who was born in a small noble family in the king's territory and is quite calm.

But this calmness has become more and more difficult to maintain in the days when Renly has not shown up.

After arriving in the Iron Islands, they were "locked" in this castle. Naturally, they had no way of knowing what was happening in the Iron Islands at the moment. At the same time, although they saw the attitude of the Ironmen towards Renly on the road, those people were a minority after all. It was still unknown how the people of the Iron Islands would view Renly.

At the same time, Kalman was also worried about the disappearance of King Balon, and felt that this trip would probably not have any results.

"God bless, I hope to get out of here safely." He prayed secretly.

This probably represents the thoughts of most of the envoys, because after arriving in the Iron Islands, they felt only indifference.

Varys, the former intelligence chief who was a prisoner but not imprisoned, had even guessed that Balon's "disappearance" was just a strategy of the Iron Islands to deal with their coming here.

Therefore, he also did not think that this mission would have any effect, unless Renly could persuade most of the nobles of the Iron Islands, but that seemed unlikely.

It was not to underestimate Renly, but a careful analysis of the current situation-

Normal methods could not make the Iron Islands do things that would harm themselves and benefit others. Abnormal means... If Renly really had abnormal means to affect hundreds of people at once, wouldn't the war in Westeros have ended long ago?

With the contacts along the way and the many events he had learned about, Varys thought he had roughly figured out Renly's upper limit, which also reduced his anxiety.

"It's not that scary."

Thinking secretly of someone, Varys, who was in the tower room, suddenly saw the daughter of the sea king, who was also a prisoner with him, hurriedly passing by under the tower, and couldn't help frowning.

Since Renly stayed indoors, the girl who took the title of Targaryen's first queen also rarely went out these days, and was basically not seen.

This didn't seem unusual. After all, they were among the Ironborn and felt a little unsafe, but as an intelligence officer, Varys was sensitive and thought that something he didn't know might have happened.

"We are trapped in Pike City and are not allowed to go out. What could have happened?" He was secretly surprised, but he still had no clue, so he was a little alert.

If Renly's existence made him blind, then the daughter of the Sea King felt to him like a weakened version of Renly. He knew something about it, but couldn't see her "true face" either.

The Saint of the Moon, the Beloved of the Gods, the Shadow of the Sea King, the Natural Conspirator... These titles are widely circulated in a small circle in Braavos and even the Free Trade City. They look as delicate and beautiful as a doll. The girl is actually a very extraordinary guy.

Although she couldn't tell during normal conversations, Varys was always wary of her appearance.

Unfortunately, just as he couldn't figure out how Renly obtained those powers, he also couldn't figure out the whereabouts of this daughter of the Sea King. Unlike facing Renly, he couldn't even guess what the other party was doing at this time. Purpose.

She appeared in Westeros out of nowhere, and even took the initiative to be a prisoner - if it weren't for the special status of the daughter of Neptune, Varys would have suspected that she was a spy trained by Baratheon since she was a child.

"This world is becoming more and more invisible to people." He sighed, suddenly thinking that he was just a prisoner now, and it was useless to think so much, and he couldn't help but feel sad.

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Rhaenys didn't know that someone had regarded her as the same kind of person as Renly, or that she rarely cared about what others thought of her, except for a few limited things, and rarely cared about anything.

At this time, she was confused by the changes in the box.

During this time she had been studying Renly's chest and its contents.

The toy - flesh and blood, the objects inside that changed back and forth but could not find any regularity, and the number that was constantly being replenished aroused her great curiosity. However, after studying for many days, there was still no result.

At the same time, due to limited conditions, she was unable to carry out the pharmaceutical research she had planned before.

I thought that this kind of restrictions would be alleviated after coming to the Iron Islands, but I didn't expect that not long after coming here, Renly, who had a "close relationship" with the ironborn, stayed behind closed doors. Without his care, the ironborn were completely Don't take the rest of the mission seriously.

At the same time, a strange change occurred in the box, which made it impossible for her to continue studying——

It began to continuously emit bloody light!

Because Renly promised Rhaenys to study it, the box has been kept by her. The flickering blood light shone in her bedroom, and the atmosphere was strange.

At the same time, with the flickering of light, she could often see some strange illusions appearing around her.

People dying of illness in the house, storms raging at sea, criminals in cages...

This kind of illusion is actually nothing. Rhaenys can create it by her own means. It just requires a lot of materials and energy, but she does not underestimate this.

Just because this box is related to gods.

However, several days passed, and apart from the flickering illusion, she did not see anything else happen, and she couldn't help but feel very puzzled.

"Isn't it time yet?"

Suspicious, the girl waited patiently.

Three days, five days, seven days...

It wasn't until the tenth day that the illusion appeared that a new change suddenly came into being——

The storm is coming.