Chapter 265 Sudden Death

Balon died without warning. He had just ordered the fleet to assemble to prepare for a decisive battle with his daughter Asha at sea. After returning to the room, Victarion saw him when he went to look for him again. He was already dead in the room, with a knife inserted into his heart.

Victarion recognized that this knife was given to Asha by Balon when she was taken away by Lind, and immediately shouted that Balon was killed by Asha, and that Asha committed unforgivable parricide. sin.

Everyone present looked at Victarion with a strange look. Everyone present was not a fool, and everyone could see that this was a frame-up.

Not to mention how Asha crossed such a long distance across the sea, how she sneaked into Pike City silently, and why she left such a highly identifiable knife behind after killing Balon, and other doubts, the most important thing is The thing is that Asha now has the absolute upper hand. She does not need to commit the crime of parricide at all to defeat King Balon at sea and seize the position of Lord of the Iron Islands.

Aelin Oakwood looked at Victarion and said: "Compared to Asha, aren't you Victarion more suspected? You are the last person to see Balon, and The first person to discover the body, and entering Balon's bedroom requires passing through a suspension bridge. There are guards guarding one end of the suspension bridge. It is impossible for anyone to enter Balon's bedroom without alerting the guards. No matter how you look at it, only you have the ability to kill Balon. ”

"Old sea fish, do you know what you are talking about?" Victarion looked at Erin Oakwood angrily and said.

Erin Oakwood looked at him without fear and said, "Of course I know what I'm talking about, but do you know what you did?"

The extremely angry Victarion reached out and held his axe, and was about to attack Erin Oakwood, but his arms were immediately grabbed by the two sons of Dunstan Drum, the leader of Old Wyk Island. , and the other lords in the room also put their hands on their weapons, looking at Victarion warily.

Aelin Oakwood shouted: "Look! This is the tradition of your Greyjoy family. If you can't talk, you will take action. Last time it was Shavin Botley, this time it is me, and next time who is it?" "

The expressions on the faces of the surrounding lords changed. They were already very unhappy about Shavin Botelli's incident before, and now Victarion made such a move again, which made them feel a little bit different. In the eyes of the Greyjoy family, these lords are like a group of cattle that are slaughtered at will.

Dunstan Drogu, the lord of Wake Island who was the oldest among the lords in both age and seniority, stood up and said solemnly: "Victarion is the most suspicious of Balon's death. Let's take Victarion first." Lock him up and wait for the new Lord of the Iron Islands to deal with him."

Upon hearing Dunstan Drum's proposal, all the lords agreed.

"You have no right to deal with a Greyjoy in Pike City! You..." Victarion glared at everyone and wanted to resist, but was quickly restrained by several people and blocked his mouth, and A rope was found and tied up.

The surrounding Pike City guards looked at each other, not knowing what to do.

Logically speaking, they should stop the lords, but the problem is that they can also see that Victarion is indeed the most suspected person, and it is normal to imprison him, but without Victarion, Aeron is going crazy again now, and there is not even a Greyjoy who can call the shots in Pyke City. All the guards are looking at the steward of Pyke City, as if he is the only one who can make the decision now.

The general manager of Pike City thought for a while and said: "Lock up Victarion first, and then decide how to deal with it after the next lord of Pike City arrives."

As the general manager of Pike City made his decision, the guards immediately stepped forward and took Victarion away.

After Victarion was taken away, the lords also left Balon's bedroom at the request of the General Manager of Pike City. The General Manager asked people to clean up Balon's body and found a few wooden boards to make a simple coffin, store the body first, and wait for the next owner of Pike City to arrive before doing the next step of processing.

Back in the hall of Pike City, the lords did not leave, but gathered together to discuss what to do next.

"We should follow ancient traditions and call a kingselection immediately to elect a new Lord of the Iron Islands and unite everyone to fight against Asha Greyjoy's fleet!" Dunstan Drum has always coveted the Lord of the Iron Islands. Location, now that King Balon suddenly died, he felt that this was an excellent opportunity, so he suggested loudly.

Except for Dunstan Zhuogu's two sons who shouted in response when his suggestion fell, everyone else looked at Dunstan Zhuogu with a strange expression, as if they were looking at an old fool.

"The King Selection requires the participation of all the lords of the Iron Islands. Anyone is eligible to participate in the King Selection. Now the people from Great Wyk Island, Kuroshio Island and Harlaw Island are not here at all. We have to notify them at short notice," Lin Oakwood looked at Old Dunstan with disdain and said: "Not to mention whether they will agree to hold a kingselection meeting, even if they agree, the preparation for the kingselection meeting will take more than ten days, and Asha's The fleet will arrive tomorrow, so there is no time to choose the new Lord of the Iron Islands. Lord Dunstan, wouldn’t you just let us hold a king-selection meeting here?”

Dunstan Zhuogu's face turned red when he was told that, and his eyes flickered. It seemed that his thoughts were really spoken, and he really wanted to let the people in the hall hold a king-selection meeting on the spot.

At this time, someone suddenly said: "Is there any point in holding a kingselection now? Even if a new Lord of the Iron Islands is elected, can he lead us to defeat Asha's fleet? In the end, Asha will still be the Iron Islands' leader. Lord of the Islands."

Many people nodded slightly after hearing this, feeling that it made sense.

But some people expressed dissent, saying: "A woman became the Lord of the Iron Islands? I can already imagine how those people on the land laughed at the Ironborn."

"The woman you are talking about is now commanding hundreds of warships and advancing towards us, but we have no way to do anything!" Erin Oakwood glared at the person who expressed objections and said: "Speak next time Use your brain first to imagine whether you have the qualifications to be disdainful to others? What you said just now is not only an insult to yourself, but also to us!" As he said, he said to everyone: "Our only problem now. The next step is to fight or surrender.”

Everyone nodded after hearing this.

Erin Oakwood suggested: "Since we cannot negotiate a result and Balon is dead again, then we will decide according to the old tradition."

Everyone nodded in agreement.

So, they asked the General Manager of Pike City to prepare, and left the hall one after another, went outside the castle, and found a stone that represented their own ideas. After returning to the hall, they put the stone in their hands into the box prepared by the General Manager.

As the last person put the stone into the box, the general manager of Pike City opened the lid of the box and dumped all the stones inside on the ground. The result was clear at a glance. There were only a few sharp rocks that represented the desire for war, while the others represented A round pebble that wants to return.

Now that the results have come out, the various lords no longer hesitated and left one after another, returning to their respective territories to prepare for the new Lord of the Iron Islands. At the same time, they also sent people to contact Asha's fleet to avoid happening. Unnecessary misunderstanding.

However, just as all the lords were leaving, Victarion, who was imprisoned in the dungeon of Pike City, saw someone who should not be in Pike City.

"Euron! Why are you here?" Looking at Euron Greyjoy who appeared on the other side of the cell fence, Victarion's face was filled with surprise, mixed with a hint of fear and panic.

"Park City is my home, why can't I be here?" Euron showed his unique evil smile. His blue lips made him look a little weird, and what was even weirder were his eyes.

At this moment, he had taken off the blindfold of his left eye, revealing his eyeball as black as ink. Everyone who saw it felt that the blackness was like the bottom of the deep sea where light cannot shine, and the eyeball of his right eyeball was as dark as ink. The strange situation is not inferior to the left eyeball at all. The silver-blue eyeball emits a slight light, like ice.

"Your eyes..." Victarion looked at Euron's eyes and felt an inexplicable chill.

"Instead of caring about my eyes, you should be more concerned about your own situation!" Euron looked at Victarion and said: "Parricide Victarion, do you think our niece will Let you, the enemy who killed her father, go?"

"No, I didn't kill..." Victarion recovered from the surprise at Euron's eyes and quickly defended, but soon he realized something, pointed at Euron with a shocked look, and said: "It was you! It was you who killed Balon!"

"You are not stupid." Euron admitted Victarion's guess without any secret, and said: "After being captured by Robert, Balon should have chosen to commit suicide. At least he could still act like a king. He died honorably, but he chose to live. The real Balon was already dead by then, and all that survived was just a cowardly old man. In the past, he could have easily blocked my attack and cut my throat. , and now I just used a knife to kill him, what an ugly guy!”

Victarion stared at Euron speechless for a long time.

"There is no need for us to continue discussing a dead person now. We should pay more attention to the current situation." Euron said in a deep voice: "I don't have much time. I have to leave here before Asha seals the sea area. I don't want to be chased by her again." Kill once, what about you? Are you going to wait here to die, or leave with me."

Victarion didn't want to stay with Euron any longer, so he shook his head and refused: "Asha won't kill me, I didn't kill Balon!"

Euron smiled disdainfully and said: "You are really stupid. Whether Asha wants to kill you or whether you killed Balon is not important. What is important is that Asha wants to sit on the throne of the Lord of the Iron Islands." position, she must kill you, otherwise she will not be able to conquer those lords." With that, he turned around and prepared to leave, and at the same time said: "Since you have made your choice, I can only wish you good luck. ”

"Wait!" Just when Euron was about to walk out of the cell, Victarion suddenly stopped him and said, "I'll leave with you."

Euron stopped, with a smile on his face, turned to look at Victarion and said, "You made a right choice."

After saying that, he signaled to the guard guarding the door and released Victarion.

Although Euron has been away from the Iron Islands for many years, he still has some loyalists on Pyke, and this time he just used these loyalists.

Victarion moved his bound arms, took the ax handed over by the guard, and said: "We can't just leave like this, take me to the Iron Fleet, I can't leave the Iron Fleet ships to Asha. "Girl."

"It just so happens that I think so too." Euron looked at Victarion thoughtfully and nodded.

He knew very well that the reason why Victarion wanted to take away the Iron Fleet was not for the reason he said, but because he wanted to use the Iron Fleet to suppress himself.

Euron didn't care about this, because in his opinion, he would soon be able to conquer Victarion's fleet, and the end result would be the same.

I don’t know if it was because the general manager of Pike City ignored it, or because he saw that Victarion had been imprisoned, and there was no need to send someone to the Iron Fleet to inform him of the situation. In short, when Victarion, Euron and others When they came to the Iron Fleet, the people in the Iron Fleet knew nothing about what was going on in Pike City, and still regarded Victarion as the commander-in-chief of the Iron Fleet.

The final result was that when the governor of Pyke Island sent people to the Iron Fleet, the entire Iron Fleet had been taken away by Victarion, and it was only then that he discovered that Victarion had escaped.

At this time, Asha didn't know what happened in Pike City. She was currently conducting the final battle deduction with Baelor Blacktys. When the two made sure that nothing was missed and began to issue instructions to each fleet, the lords sent The incoming messenger has arrived in front of her fleet.

At first, Asha thought that what the messengers said was just a ploy to make her relax her vigilance, but when she heard that the knife that killed Balon was a gift from Balon, she immediately understood that this was not a plot. It's true, and she also knows who killed Balon, because the knife was the one that stabbed Euron when she and Euron were fighting. The knife that was taken away by him could only be killed by Euron. Sneak into Pike City silently and kill Balon.

Although Asha wanted to return to Pyke Island right now, she still resisted the urge and let the fleet advance towards Pyke Island step by step. After entering the waters of Pyke Island, it stopped there and then headed towards various islands in the Iron Islands. The lords summoned her to her ship to negotiate.

In the end, there were no surprises. The islands such as Old Wake Island and Salt Cliff Island had already decided to surrender, and the other Kuroshio Island and Great Wyk Island did not have any objection. Asha Greyjoy He became the Lord of the Iron Islands very smoothly.

However, her first order as Lord of the Iron Islands was to arrest Euron and Victarion, announce that they had killed Balon and led the Iron Fleet in rebellion.