The Winter of Ice and Fire Is Coming

The moon was dark and the wind was not high, and the waves lightly beat the shore.

Everything is peaceful.

The port on the shore of Skags is not large.

More than a dozen boats docked inside.

This kind of boat like a building is like the home of the children of the forest who build tree houses on the big trees.

This is a boat built by the Skagos.

Will and Arya rode a Griffon, whose vision talent is unmatched.

The two griffins uttered a low cry. Will understood the meaning of the griffin. He patted the flames on the neck and let the flames fly up to the ship. As expected, there was no one on the ship.

There are no unicorns either.

Two griffins landed on the deck of the ship.

There is a smell of fresh paint on the boat upstairs.

"They painted new paints and painted paint." Arya said.

"Just these few days?"

"Yes, just these few days."

Arya and Aquamarine came to Donghaiwang a few days earlier, with the purpose of investigating the situation on Skags Island.

Reconnaissance of Skagos Island from the air, even if it is discovered by the Skagos people, there is no problem.

Although they have unicorns, they cannot fly into the air.

"Why did they suddenly paint these buildings with paint?"

"I don't know, Skagos Island is mysterious."

"You go back and inform everyone to come into the port, grab the boat first, don't move for now, wait for my order, I will go to the island to have a look."

"it is good!"

call!

Flames rose into the air from the upper ship, the azurite flew up, and the two griffins flew in opposite directions.

Will rode a griffin to the center of the island. In a short while, he saw the fire in the distance.

Looking at the past, there is a sea of ​​fire in the distance.

Will was taken aback. Is there anything wrong on the island?

Flying towards the fire, I soon heard singing and drums coming, and then saw the figure shaking under the fire.

Closer, people are reveling. The Skaggs are holding some kind of grand celebration.

What to celebrate?

Celebrating robbing ten ships of food?

The flames flew closer, because of the close relationship with the flames, Will's visual ability has also evolved greatly.

He saw a scene where thousands of people were reveling. There were men and women, old and young, and everyone was singing and dancing around piles of flames. On the high platform, a priest in a robe was praying to the sky, ah, ah, yelling to the sky, the language of the Skaggs is incomprehensible with the languages ​​of other places, only a few of them can speak universally. language.

Will let the Griffins fly closer, and he noticed that there was not a single guard soldier on the periphery of the carnival crowd, and it was not surprising that there was not a single unicorn.

Why are there no unicorns?

The unicorn was held underground by the Skags.

Unicorns like to live in burrows and live in dark and damp places underground. They can swim and dig holes to hide themselves. The sea in the north is cold. Unicorns can swim in the cold water. They like cold and adapt to the cold environment.

Before Will came, he tried to learn as much as possible about the secrets of the Skaggs and the unicorn.

The record in the book is very limited, and what Bachelor Yimon learned through his apprentice Skaggs is also very limited.

These people are celebrating, why is there no one on the boat upstairs to watch? Do they think they are unmatched, or do they think no one can enter their complex waters?

The waters of the island look calm, but in fact there are dense reefs and the currents are very complicated. If there is no water map of Bachelor Yimon, and Asha's pathfinder these days, the night watchman's battleship will indeed not be able to approach the island.

Skargers, who have never been disturbed by outsiders, are really not at all vigilant.

They have long lived a life of robbing others' things and no one can take them. It is said that Braavos Sea King’s ship was robbed by them. Sea King has the most powerful navy in the world and still can’t do anything to the Skags.

Will decided to go down and get in touch with these people.

The scene is chaotic and carnival, there are too many people, and no one can see who Will is.

However, the priest on the high platform suddenly pointed to the sky and yelled something to Will.

Afterwards, everyone on an island looked up at Will's location.

The priest on the high platform suddenly knelt down, and his whole person was lying on the ground. It seemed that he was extremely religious.

After that, all the Skargers knelt on the ground.

Their kneeling is also very different, first on their knees, and then on their knees, with their palms folded in front, straight.

No matter how you look at it, it has a heavy religious significance.

Will was pretty sure that ordinary people should only see the Griffin, not him.

But he didn't know if the priest could see him.

Some ancient priests have some inexplicable abilities.

Looking at the black and kneeling Skaggs, Will flashed in his mind, and suddenly remembered that Bachelor Amon had told him about the ancient beliefs of the Skaggs.

But it wouldn't be such a coincidence.

This belief is that within three days of the death of the elders on the island, if foreigners enter the Skaggs Island, they are regarded as auspicious envoys sent by the gods. Then this messenger will have a month of heavenly life like a god, and he can do anything on the island, such as fancy anyone's wife, and he can ask this woman to sleep with him. He can enjoy any food on the island, gold, and on the last day of this month, he will be able to leave with the generous gifts from the people on the island.

In short, you can do whatever you want on the island, everyone will love you, and the bravest warrior will protect you personally. You can ask a virgin to sleep with you every night, or you can be as drunk as any leader. You can enjoy the room, the bedroom.

When this month passes, when the soul of the elder returns to heaven, people will send you away, because your mission is over, you have to go to heaven to return to God, and take away the soul of the elder and let him rest in peace.

And at any time after this month, if the same person reappears, they will be captured by the people of the island. They will torture you for a month, will not let you die, will let you enjoy the most cruel pain, and finally bring you They were put to death and then thrown into a large pot, cooked over a high fire, and the whole clan ate them all separately and drank a large pot of soup. Finally, the bones will be ground into powder and handed over to the new elders of the island to make the holy medicine for soaking in water, until all the bone meal is consumed.

The month of torture to death is called the month of punishment.

The person who came when the elder died was a divine envoy; if the divine envoy came back suddenly, it was not a divine envoy, but a demon. To the envoys of gods, we must respectfully greet them, and to torture the devil, so that the devil is afraid, so she will not dare to come to the island to confuse people.

Will didn't know whether he belonged to a divine envoy or a demon, because whether it was a divine envoy or a demon, when people saw it, they would bow down to the ground. The former was because of respect and the latter was a prayer. Before you set foot on the land of the island, people are praying for the devil’s departure, but as long as your feet stick to the land of the island, I’m sorry, they will not and dare to let you go.

This is a peculiar belief that it is difficult for Will to believe, but Will believes what Bachelor Amon said is true.

Will decided to change his mind and don't have to think about pretending to be mixed in after landing. Now let's see what these people want to do. If it is a god, you can avoid a fierce battle; if it is a devil, as long as your feet don’t stick to the island The dirt is just fine.

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0862 Chapter 2 Divine Envoy descends from the sky

Will patted the griffon's neck. The flames slowly lowered in height. Will noticed that no one was standing around, and these people had no weapons on their hands.

Not far away, there are low-rise villages, one by one cone-shaped houses, all made of thatch. There are no fences, no stone walls, and no outline of the city. This is the most primitive civilization. The level of architecture is primitive. The level of civilization of these people may still remain at the stage of primitive society.

Will saw a long stool in the middle of the high platform with a thin old man with long hair and beard. It seems that the old man has stopped breathing. If this person is the elder of Skaggs, then Will is Divine envoy of mishaps. On several stools shorter than this long stool, there are many living people tied up. The faces of these people are covered with a white cloth, but the twisting of their bodies can be seen.

Is this a living sacrifice after the death of the elder?

If the people of the whole island fail to wait for the envoy within three days after the death of the elder, then the elder will be cooked. It is said that this is people’s respect for the elder. In this way, the elder will not leave, and he will be reborn and live. In the body of the people. The bones of the elders will be buried, put in a crock pot, buried in a circular pit, and then the pit will be filled up, and a pile of gravel will be piled up on it.

Each person in the entire island is a stone, no more and no less. A baby who cannot walk will be replaced by a piece of gravel by his parents. So on Skagos Island, you can touch anywhere, but you can't touch the gravel pile, that is their most sacred thing.

What the outsiders didn't know, they accidentally touched the gravel pile on the island, no matter how good the relationship with the locals, they will immediately turn their faces and kill you cruelly.

Will rides a griffin from the sky, but he is full of vigilance.

He had to figure out whether he represented the envoy or the devil.

If an old man with long hair and beard is an elder and has died, then he is a divine envoy. In the eyes of the Skargers, the divine envoy can be anyone. They only look at the timing of the match, and it has nothing to do with who the envoy is, whether it comes from the water or from the air.

The divine envoy is here to pick up the elder's spirit.

The Skags also left the island to go to the outside world. Some Skags came to serve as night watchmen, and in the mainland of Essos, there were also Skags who served as mercenaries.

Although these contacts with the outside world are rare, they definitely have contact with the outside world.

In the history of the Stark family ruling the northern territory, the Stark family also fought the Skaggs several times. The Stark was to conquer, although it failed in the end. The most successful one was when both parties agreed to a peaceful ending. The Skags accepted the food and cloth from the Stark family. Nominally, the Skags admitted to belong to the vassal of the Stark family, but kept In fact, independence was the highest degree of integration with the outside world in the history of Skargers.

The fragile relationship between the lord and the vassal was forgotten in people's minds after a few years.

In the cold winter, forced to make a living, the Skargos also rode unicorns to land across the northern land and looted some villages.

In Will's understanding of the Skags, very few of the Skags should speak some simple common language.

Depending on the clothes they wear, they will also trade with merchants outside in exchange for cloth, salt, and iron.

"Anyone who speaks Common Language?" Will asked.

His voice was loud and resounded throughout the audience.

Since none of the Skargers have weapons, they can be lowered.

The priest looked up and Will saw a face painted with unicorns.

There were strange syllables in his mouth, and Will could not understand a single syllable.

The priest was very excited, and he kept making gestures with his hands, but Will became calm and looked at the other party and stopped talking.

The crutches in the priest's hand pointed to the people lying on the ground, and he made a quick voice, and people stood up, as if they had received a pardon.

"I can speak a little bit of lingua franca." A woman went up to the high platform and waved her hands to Will, "Ah, please come down, you are our divine envoy, we have seen through your disguise, come down, ah, !"

Will does not go down: "What is your name?"

The girl said: "My name is Millie. My brother has been a mercenary in Braavos. My grandfather is an elder on the island. Look at him. He passed away yesterday."

"Where are your parents?"

"They were killed while dealing with evil people outside." The girl said.

This Will does not doubt. According to Immons, the Skaggs did not hate the outsiders very much at first. They were full of hatred for the outsiders after being robbed of trading goods and deceived many times. But these things have nothing to do with their strange beliefs.

Yimon had learned a little Skaggs language with his Skaggs apprentice. When he was young, he came to the island with medicine to treat illnesses and save people, so he was widely welcomed by the Skaggs.

It is said that all kinds of horns with magical power in the world come from the unicorns of the Skags.

Many people have launched wars on the islands because of unicorns, but they all ended in tragic endings.

"Who are the people you tied up, are they from the outside world?" Will asked.

"Yes, they are all evil people."

"Can you remove the cloth covering their faces?"

"Of course!" said the girl.

A lot of paint is painted on the girl's face, and her face is not visible. There is only a slip of cloth around her waist, and the rest is covered with paint full of patterns.

Long black hair was draped around the girl's waist.

Several people who were guarding the dead took off the white cloth covering the face of the sacrifice. Will lowered his height again. Two of them, Will knows, they were the former Imperial Forest Guards, and they took off Qiao Buddha when the Western Territory fell. The two Royal Forest Guards that King Li sold to the pirates: one was the taciturn Sir Manden Moore, who was originally from the Valley, but was very sinister and vicious; the other was Sir Malin Tran, who was bullying and fearful of hardship.

"Can I order you to release five of them and kill two of them?" Will said.

The girl translated Will's words to the priest.

The priest grumbled a lot of impassioned words to Will. The woman's translation basically meant that Will is a divine envoy, and his words are will. As long as they don’t hurt the Skargos, the Skargos will not violate it. .

So Will decided to walk down the Griffin and give it a try!

He is here to conquer the Skags, not to kill. Will order the Skargos to ride a unicorn to defend against ghosts? Will doesn't know, but he can try.

According to Samwell, there are ancient records that the more powerful unicorn is the nemesis of the ice spider. I don't know if it is true!