Chapter 95 Divine Grace Mountains

When the tournament was held, Linde gave the task of protecting Willas to Gals, and also asked the Red Viper to take his Dornish knights to participate in the protection.

It was undoubtedly an insult to let a Prince of Dorne serve as the bodyguard of the heir to the Reach. However, because of the previous assassination, the Red Viper had not yet found out a result. He felt that he was in the wrong first, so he agreed to Linde's proposal. This is a bit too much to ask for.

After arranging the knight guards, he also asked Moroya to follow Vilas to prevent anyone from assassinating Vilas using poison or other means.

Vilas didn't know what his aunt was capable of. He couldn't understand Linde's arrangement at all, but he didn't reject his aunt either. The two of them had a lot of topics to chat about domesticated animals, and the Red Viper He is also a master at domesticating animals, and the three of them get along very well.

However, Lind could still tell from the subtle changes in expressions and tone of voice when Red Viper was talking to Moroya, that Red Viper knew Moroya, and the two of them were not strangers.

Linde did not pursue the matter. In his opinion, it didn't matter whether they knew each other as long as it didn't affect him.

"You arranged for us to protect your young master, what about you? What are you going to do with Linde?" Red Viper, who accepted the arrangement, asked Linde with some doubts.

"I want to capture your Dornish Mustang King," Lind replied.

When leaving the camp, Lynd did not wear armor, but wore a set of Dornish-style uniforms, rode a horse, and left the camp in the Reach with glory.

The scene of Lind's departure was also seen by many interested people. In their opinion, Lind's departure undoubtedly meant that the defense of the Reach camp was weakened by half.

But when they learned that the Red Viper had brought people from Sunspear to help defend the camp in the Reach, and that even the Red Viper had lowered his status and temporarily became Willas's protector, they understood that they had no chance. At this time If you show up casually, you will probably be targeted by the red viper.

So the attention of these interested people turned to Lind again. They were curious about what Lind was going to do when he left Vilas at this time.

Soon they figured out that Lind had left the camp in the Reach for their Mustang King. As soon as the news spread, many knights and horse trappers outside Divine Grace City who came for the Mustang King also came. No longer caring about participating in the martial arts competition, they all left the camp eagerly and entered the Shen'en Mountain Range.

For the lords and nobles of Dorne, the Wild Horse King in the Divine Grace Mountains is no longer just as simple as two divine horses. As many people failed to capture the Wild Horse King and returned, they were even lured to the beast by the Wild Horse King. In the group, they were bitten to death by wild beasts, or died directly under the hooves of the Mustang King. The Mustang King has become a spiritual totem in the hearts of the Dornish people.

The Mustang King resisted the trappers and tamers just as the Dornish resisted the Targaryen conquests.

Therefore, some lords also offered astonishing rewards, saying that if someone could capture the Mustang King alive and donate money to them, they would be directly canonized as knights, and given villages to them to become wealthy knights.

If you are a knight, you will not only be given more land and villages, but you will even be given important positions in the territory.

Therefore, a large number of Dornish knights, warriors, hunters, etc. all poured into the Divine Grace Mountains. As a result, let alone capturing the Mustang King, most of them did not even see the shadow of the Mustang King. Only a few were lucky. The children saw the horses of the Mustang King, but they had no way to capture them.

Moreover, they discovered that the horse herd of the Mustang King was migrating toward the restricted area deeper in the Shen'en Mountains. If they continued to track it, they might not be able to get out.

It is precisely because the Mustang King is so difficult to capture that the Dornish people's worship of the Mustang King has become even stronger. There are even rumors that the Mustang King is the incarnation of the old god, and this statement is still very popular among the civilians in Shen'g City. popular.

Now Lind said he wanted to capture the Mustang King. In the eyes of the Dornish people, this was equivalent to touching their forbidden fruit. And after seeing the glory around Lind, the Dornish people felt that if Lind really encountered the Mustang King, then he would Definitely able to capture it.

Therefore, knights, horse catchers, hunters, etc. under various lords were dispatched one after another. Even if they could not capture the Mustang King before Linde, they would still destroy it when Linde captured the Mustang King.

The vast majority of the Dornish people thought that Lind was an outsider and that the terrain of the Divine Grace Mountains was unfamiliar to them. They could reach the forbidden area in the mountains where the Mustang King was in advance, but what they didn't know was that Lind actually had a guide by his side, and this A guide had encountered the Mustang King head-on before. This person was the knight from Divine Grace City, Rossos, whom Lind asked about the Mustang King on the road.

The reason why Knight Rothos was willing to risk being hostile to the Dornish people to help Lind when Lind was looking for the Mustang King's guide was mainly because he wanted to turn to Lind and become Lind's sworn knight.

As an orphan from the Green Blood River, even if Rossos became a knight, it would be difficult for him to gain real reuse from the nobles, let alone gain rights. The Elion family of Divine Grace City was already the third lord to whom he was loyal.

He has been a sworn knight of Divine Grace City for three years, and he has always been ostracized by the local knights of Divine Grace City. For things like sending letters, he can use ravens to deliver them. Even if it's not good enough, there are dedicated messengers, but Divine Grace City's The captain of the guard asked him, who was injured at the time, to deliver a message to Sunspear, which directly caused his injury to relapse after arriving at Sunspear, and he had to rest for ten days and a half.

As a result, after he returned to Shen'en City two days ago, he was fired by the guard captain of Shen'en City for not returning in time to report the news.

Rossos, who became a mercenary knight again, could only look for the next nobleman who could hire him. However, although the City of Divine Grace gathered most of the nobles in Dorne, there were very few people who wanted to hire an orphan from the Green Blood River. Even if Someone was willing to hire him, and the conditions offered were very harsh.

In the end, he thought of Linde, so he went to Linde directly and expressed his willingness to help Linde capture the Mustang King. The condition was that he would become Linde's sworn knight. After he made great achievements in the future, he would become the Tyra family's knight. Official knight.

Lind happened to be looking for a guide to take him into the Divine Grace Mountains. Rossos came to recommend himself, which solved his problem. As for Rossos's conditions, it didn't matter to him, as long as Rossos' ability reached his heart. According to the standard, it is not a problem to let him become his own family knight.

Therefore, in order to misjudge the Dornish lords and nobles outside Divine Grace City, he did not let Rossos follow him. Instead, he entered a landmark valley in the Divine Grace Mountains to wait for him. Then he left the camp alone and let Rossos follow him. The men of Dorne thought he had no guide.

When the Dornish people discovered that Lind's target was the Mustang King and sent people into the Divine Grace Mountains, Lind and Rossos had actually penetrated deep into the mountains and headed towards the edge of the restricted area where the Mustang King last appeared.

Why the Shen’en Mountains got this name is unknown, but most people think it has something to do with the old gods, because the Shen’en Mountains were the settlements of the old gods and ancient races in the ancestors’ era.

Later, as the number of ancestors increased, they clashed with the ancient races, which eventually turned into a war. The ancient races were wiped out in large numbers, and the weirwood trees were cut down. The ancient races had to resort to the last resort in desperation. Their green prophets carried out an attack on the Neck. The large-scale sacrifice awakened the underground giants, tore the earth apart, shattered the Arm of Dorne connecting the continent of Essos, and completely split the connection between the two continents.

Although the Divine Grace Mountains are not the only place for sacrifices, it is the core place to receive the power of sacrifices. This is the place where the underground giant sleeps, so all the power after the sacrifices falls in the Divine Grace Mountains until It is still affecting the Shen'en Mountain Range.

Dornish people all know the legend of the Divine Grace Mountains and they all believe in this legend, and the reason why they believe it is entirely because the Divine Grace Mountains themselves are so weird.

You must know that the Shen'en Mountain Range is bounded by the Dorne Sea to the north and the Green Blood River to the south. The climate is warm and humid, which is very conducive to plant growth. This can be seen from the tree-lined environment around Shen'en City.

Although Thor City in the north is not as lush with vegetation as Divine Grace City, the plant growth there is much better than most other places in Dorne.

However, in such an environment, the Shen'en Mountains are extremely barren. Except for some weeds and moss, there are no plants growing on the mountains. Moreover, there is very little rain on the Shen'en Mountains, and there is not even snow. , as if there is some invisible force wrapping the entire Shen'en Mountain Range to prevent all water vapor from approaching.

Some people say that this is the curse of the ancient race, while others say that this is the work of the sleeping giants under the Shen'en Mountains. All in all, the depths of the Shen'en Mountains have almost become a desert-like forbidden zone for humans.

However, just as there are activities in the no-man's land of the desert from time to time, there is also no shortage of curious people exploring the forbidden areas deep in the Shen'en Mountains, and Rossos is one of those curious people.

Before Rossos was hired by the Elion family, he was a sworn knight of the Tolan family in Soul Hill. Soul Hill is located on the east side of the Divine Grace Mountains and is one of the peripheral branch mountains of the Divine Grace Mountains.

He accepted the request from the Tolan family's consultant bachelor to protect the bachelor into the Shen'en Mountains and conduct some research and investigation on the flora and fauna of the Shen'en Mountains.

That year, he and several other mercenary knights and more than a dozen hunters repeatedly entered the Shen'en Mountains six or seven times, and stayed in the Shen'en Mountains for more than two months at most. Although he cannot be said to know the Shen'en Mountains well, he is still better than the Shen'en Mountains. The average hunter is more aware of the situation in the Divine Grace Mountains, which is why he was able to find the Mustang King before.

After entering the mountain, Rossos took Lind directly towards the restricted area of ​​the Divine Grace Mountains.

Before setting off, he had inquired clearly that the Mustang King had led the horses into the depths of the restricted area. He speculated that the Mustang King should have led the horses to the lake in the center of the restricted area, where he was preparing to avoid horse trappers and hunters. Harassment.

The forbidden area deep in the Shen'en Mountains does not contain any fatal mysterious power that makes people stay away. It is mainly because the topography here will make people who enter lose their way and eventually be trapped in this area.

The topography here is all barren mountains composed of huge rocks. If you look at it, not only the slopes are covered with gravel, but the hills and mountains below the slopes are also covered with gravel. It is as if there used to be a high mountain here, and then it was affected by some kind of force. After being crushed, it turns into countless gravels scattered on the ground, and most of the gravels are very huge. People can only walk through the gaps between the gravels, and they may get lost after walking a short distance.

And more importantly, there are no animals, not even plants, in this area. Once trapped here, you can only wait to die. Therefore, such an area is also regarded as a restricted area by the Dornish people. The entire Shen'en Mountains have a total of Five such no-go areas.

However, this kind of entry, which is very dangerous for most people, is not very dangerous for Rossos. He is no stranger to such restricted areas. He and the consultant bachelor of Soul Hill were once there. After living in another restricted area for more than a month, the scholar taught him how to find food and drinking water in such a restricted area. This was also the reason why he had the confidence to lead Lind to find the Mustang King's horses.

Lind was not worried about getting lost in this so-called restricted area. Both Rossos and Glory could take him out of this area. He was more concerned about the actual situation of this restricted area.

After entering this area, Linde knew that some of the rumors about this type of restricted area in Dorn may be true. These restricted areas may contain some mysterious magic power, because after entering this restricted area, Linde obviously I feel that the dragon rune on the Homeless Knight's sword absorbs the surrounding magic much faster. It can be seen that the magic here is stronger than the magic outside.

However, this intensity is only relative. Compared with the magic he saw on the towering tower in Old Town, the magic here is simply not worth mentioning.

However, even though the magical power here is not worth mentioning in Linde's eyes, it has already had a considerable impact on the surrounding environment. The most direct impact is that there is no grass growing here, and no animals are willing to enter this area.

Secondly, ordinary people who enter this area are surrounded by the magic here for a long time, and they will inevitably be affected by the magic. At least they will have some hallucinations, and in severe cases they may completely lose their sense of direction. This may be the reason for entering here. The main reason why normal people end up getting lost here.

Linde's physique has changed due to the Dragon Feast Ceremony, and the Homeless Knight's Great Sword can also absorb the surrounding magic at any time, so he will not be affected in any way.

Rossos is also not affected by the magic here. The reason is that he wears a golden amulet around his neck. This amulet emits extremely weak magic power to resist the scattered magic power in the surrounding environment and approaches Rossos.

He said that it was the Lorne Talisman passed down by his family. This amulet was thousands of years old and was made by his ancestors when they were still in their hometown of Essos. A drop of the mother river Lorne was preserved in the amulet. river water.

Lind expressed his belief in the origin of the amulet told by Rossos and asked him to keep the amulet well.

This surprised Rossos, because even he himself did not believe that the origin of this amulet was as ancient as his father said.

I don’t know if it was because the talisman brought good luck. Not long after they entered the restricted area, they saw the excrement and other traces left by the horses on the road, and Rossos judged based on the dryness and humidity of the excrement. It shouldn't be very far from the horses.