Eagle of the Valley of Ice and Fire

Chapter 192 Reaction

In the side hall of Harrenhal, Alliser Thorne nodded slightly, "Duke Attis, I went south on the order of Elder Bear to inform the king and guardian of Westeros of the threat from beyond the wall. The Great Wall lacks manpower," he He raised his eyes to look at Attis Arryn, who was quietly reading Old Bear's letter, and said softly: "I heard that your Harrenhal has a lot of prisoners, so..."

Attis raised his head and glanced at the requesting night watchman, then gently placed the letter on the table, "Ange," the attendant next to him turned to look at Attis, "Wait until tomorrow morning, take Ser Alliser to the dungeon, select Prisoners headed for the Wall.”

Alliser Thorne sighed slightly and bowed to Attis to thank him.

"Stay in the castle for a night, Ser Alliser. The steward of the castle will arrange a bedroom and hot water for you, and you can take care of the messenger of the Night Watch," Attis said softly, and before Alliser could respond, he spoke again. Say: "The contents of the letter"

Alliser frowned slightly. Most of the castles he visited along the way were very dissatisfied with the old bear's letter acknowledging the position of every king in Westeros and got into a lot of trouble. But Alliser Thorne herself was not. In this view, the Night's Watch Legion's political neutrality and detachment has been a thousand-year tradition. How can it be abolished for a while?

But Duke Attis's question surprised him, "I heard from Count Leonor in Twins City that you brought a ghoul's arm?"

Allisa looked up in surprise, "I wanted to present this to the king, but..."

He turned to look at the entourage who followed him all the way, a young night watch officer with a round head and round head.

The attendant placed a black wrapping cloth on the dining table and spread the cloth to reveal the rotting human hands.

Alliser Thorne took a deep breath, "As you can see, it has long since rotted. It is no different from an ordinary rotting corpse hand, but I saw it with my own eyes."

Seeing Attis silently looking at the rotting arm in front of him, Allisa shook his head slightly. He straightened up and looked up at Attis solemnly, "Maybe you think I'm crazy and that the Night Watchman is crazy. , but no, the resurrection of the corpse is a real thing. It attacked Mr. Xiong. I saw the corpse of the ghoul with my own eyes. I also believe in the credibility of the Commander-in-Chief. I hope you can also believe that no matter whether it sounds ridiculous or not, the ghoul does exist. ."

Allisa froze in place with a straight face, staring directly at Attis.

Attis looked at Ser Alliser, who was ready to accept all jokes, but there was no change on his face.

If you can also see pictures and prophecies in the flames, perhaps these strange spirits are not surprising. Attis thought to himself, he nodded gently, "Why don't I trust a man from the Night Watch?" There was no disdain in his eyes, "You are the guards of the kingdom, I have no reason to distrust, not to mention, you are The anointed knight of the Seven, Ser Alliser."

Alliser's face was a little moved, and his eyes moved slightly. Ever since he was expelled to the Great Wall by Tywin Lannister, he had nothing more to seek. He regarded the pursuit of the Night's Watch as his mission and the value of life. However, He has always suffered from the stigmatization of the honor of the Night's Watch. South of the Neck, he could not hear any good adjectives about the Night's Watch. All he heard about was the lair of rapists, murderers, and thieves, not the residence of the Kingdom's guards. .

He vented this resentment on the criminal scum north who chose to wear black clothes, believing that they had ruined the reputation of the Night's Watch.

Unexpectedly, he would receive similar treatment in the south as he did in the north.

Allisa swallowed his throat. He didn't know what to say, so he could only lower his head and nod, "That's too flattering, Duke Attis. I will remember your hospitality for the rest of my life."

"There will always be a place for you by my hearth." Attis responded softly.

After Angei led Allisa away, Attis looked at Mr. Xiong's souvenir again.

"The wildlings are invading, the White Walkers are infested, the Night's Watch legion has no more than a thousand men, and the Great Wall stretches for thousands of miles, making it difficult to maintain the kingdom's defenses. The legion is counting on the kings and lords of Westeros, hoping to get help." "Master Attis ," the guard in blue robes walked into the side hall, "This is the letter from the Church of Harrenhal." He handed it to the Duke with both hands, and Attis spread it on the table.

The pitiful few names of people and places in the letter made him feel helpless. Attis sighed softly. Since he got the information from the red-robed woman, he asked the monks of Harrenhal to submit to him the list of monks stationed in the village. But it is obvious that not only the He'an family has declined in the Harrenhal area, but the church has also lost its control over the monks in the villages. The Harrenhal church, which should have a registered list of monks, only provides this number of people and village information. You must know , even if I ride a horse around Harrenhal, I will see more villages, large and small, than on the list provided by the church.

He did not believe that the church dared to lie to him, and at the end of the letter he added an apology from the regional bishop.

"Affected by the war in the Riverlands, the church's turnover was poor, it was robbed, and the list was lost."

Attis silently folded the letter and threw it aside on the table.

His control over the riverlands is too low, but this land is the future of the valley.

Attis let out a long breath and turned to look at the bodyguard standing aside, "Hand the raven to King's Landing and let Evan Arryn handle the matter at hand and come to Harrenhal."

"Yes." The guard nodded slightly, turned around and wanted to leave, but was stopped by Attis.

Attis stood up, feeling a little relieved from the uneasiness in his heart. He thought of Magiro's description and murmured: "Knight in rainbow cloak, training monk, preaching, God's Eye Lake"

"Armed religious order, assembly of poor people, sons of warriors." Although he hesitated, he still said these words with unique historical characteristics, and a sense of strangeness and alienation arose spontaneously.

"Send another letter to Seagull Town and ask the church in the valley to select a hundred monks, even if they are just apprentices, to be sent to Harrenhal for my training." Attis gave an unexpected order to the bodyguard.

Although the church in Seagull Town would certainly not refuse Attis's request, for thousands of years in the Valley, the Arryn family had rarely had anything to do with the church, and the two sides basically did not interfere with each other.

There was even a joke at the beginning. The church in Seagull Town had not been renovated all year round, but the monks in Seagull Town did not know how to get out of Seagull Town, let alone the Eagle's Nest City, which was thousands of miles away.

But strangely enough, the guard just responded softly, turned around and walked out.

The empty side hall now only had bookshelves and a fireplace with Attis. He walked to the fireplace silently, looking at the small fire dancing inside, thinking about his future plans.

He didn't know what kind of force was behind the dead eunuch monk, and he didn't know whether the exiled knights in the Riverlands were related to the son of a warrior who suddenly appeared in the flames - the church knights armed by the order hundreds of years ago. related, but he knew very well where such monks would choose to take root and communicate with each other.

This is also the reason why Attis asked the Harrenhal Church for the list of monks stationed in the village and the names of the villages. It is impossible for the Harrenhal Church to dare to be an enemy of him. They are too conspicuous in the open and are not suitable for these secret plans. , but the nameless sect that hides in the dark and uses its faith to influence the people is another matter.

Attis' eyes gradually became firmer. There were many villages in the Riverlands without monks stationed there, and there were many suspicious locations. But at least the information provided by R'hllor had narrowed the scope to the area around the Lake of the God's Eye.

He wants to place all these ownerless villages with monks in the valley and investigate them one by one so that these forces hiding in the dark have nowhere to escape.

(End of this chapter)