Galedun pondered for a long time without understanding it. When he happened to turn his head and glance at Colin and Kade, he immediately burst out laughing.
The two knights looked as if they had just swum out of the sea, drenched from head to toe. From beneath their visors, beads of sweat the size of soybeans dripped steadily from their hair.
"Hurry up and take off your armor. Don't get dehydrated."
He quickly stepped forward to help Kade remove his armor. Valyrian steel was light, but Kade was tall and powerfully built, and his full suit of steel armor still weighed over two hundred jin.
He himself had lain low in Volantis for a long time, and without permission, had "borrowed" various components from dozens of Valyrian descendant families inside the Black Wall, piecing them together into this Valyrian steel armor over two meters tall.
Colin hesitated slightly. "But, Captain, didn't you say we must stay armored at all times…"
Galedun had required the four knights to remain in armor constantly because he feared that the gods of this world might directly erase him. At the same time, it could defend against extraordinary attacks, including those from shadowbinders.
He had never been to Asshai. The only thing he could use as a reference was someone like Mel—an absurdly powerful shadowbinder—who was probably the ceiling of magic.
But since this world had prophecies, who could say what earth-shaking thing he might do in the future that some extraordinary beings would foresee?
After all, he was already, through small-scale plotting, preparing to rule the entire known world, gathering data and resources for the Zhinao and cultivating shapeshifter companions.
And along the way, he and the four knights might even gain longevity! If possible, it would be best to achieve the feat of slaying gods!
"It's fine. Colin, you take off your armor too! If you pass out from dehydration, you won't be able to protect me."
He ordered Colin. Da Zhuang's radiated flames weren't anywhere near the hundreds of thousands of degrees of a legendary Godzilla, but after being accumulated in the high-temperature flame-storage heat sacs, they still reached two to three thousand degrees.
Just look at the huge pit scorched by the fire dragon's sweep—it was reflecting a dazzling, glassified sheen.
The three of them endured wave after wave of scorching heat. Even Galedun's silver-white robe with water-pattern embroidery had been baked into wrinkles, let alone how miserable the two knights trapped inside their armor must have been.
Only then did Colin comply. He pulled off his helmet and gulped down water from the flask he carried with him.
After helping Kade remove his armor, Galedun walked over to Da Zhuang and consulted the Zhinao.
"Zhinao, what do you say?"
[Legendary Godzilla is a Titan behemoth that has lived for several million years. Legendary G has experienced countless battles with Titan behemoths, long since integrating combat into instinct.]
[Over millions of years, through repeated victories, Legendary G formed the dominant aura of the King of Titans. In Legendary G's eyes, any Titan behemoth before him must submit.]
[Da Zhuang's hunting skills have only just taken shape, and fear is present when firing flame heat rays. It is recommended that the host guide Da Zhuang to practice firing heat rays daily, while leading the three young ones to hunt Titans in this world to cultivate a dominant aura.]
[It is recommended to collect the breath data of the three young ones and optimize it into unique breath techniques. Legendary Godzilla's atomic breath has both flame and beam forms…]
One analytical projection after another appeared in Galedun's mind. The Zhinao's analysis was extremely detailed, yet his expression turned bitter. He understood it all—comparing juvenile Da Zhuang to Legendary G was indeed unfair.
Even if the three young ones entered the growth stage, compared to Big G, they would still only be crushed.
"But where are there so many Titans in this world?"
The Shadow Lands and other fringe regions of the world, and Sothoryos, perhaps—but he didn't dare go there!
There was also the fire dragon worms he had been yearning for in the Smoking Sea, but to this day he was unwilling to risk stepping into it, much less exhaust Tarth's potential by dispatching legions to capture them.
[There is a 93% probability that a sea monster clan exists in the Narrow Sea. The Shivering Sea also has other sea beast clans. However, it is not recommended for the host to approach north of Ibben Island. Survival probability: 0.1%.]
"Looks like I'll have to set sail again sometime. Maybe I can go meet Daenerys and see her hatch dragons!"
[Strongly recommended that the host choose this option to collect complete data for the dragon project.]
"We'll talk about it when the time comes."
Galedun ignored the Zhinao.
Several flaws had already appeared in his plans, forcing him to activate backup plans one after another.
Even with the Zhinao, it was impossible to precisely calculate the next moves of people like the Three-Eyed Crow or the Citadel based on behavioral patterns alone.
During self-diagnostics, the Zhinao discovered that part of its data was missing, leading to errors in its calculations.
Just like this time—what should have been the Three-Eyed Crow's sole responsibility was to monitor the Westeros timeline and maintain the past and established destiny. Yet somehow, it had gone and gotten Jon Arryn killed.
"Optimize the vitality potion daily. Report results after self-check."
[Acknowledged]
Galedun felt a lingering fear as well. Having come this far, he was gradually beginning to understand Second Brother's worries and timidity.
...
Lys, located at the center of the Narrow Sea, was rich in fishing resources, but its island forests were barren.
As a result, Lys possessed the largest fishing fleet among the Nine Free Cities, yet had only a small number of warships, unable to defend its own sovereignty.
After Tarth rose to power, Tarth's fleet easily captured Lys's mere two thousand-odd naval forces.
The Lysene Governor's Council was terrified. They even somehow procured two dragon eggs to offer up, and were willing to sign a suzerainty agreement similar to those of Pentos and Braavos—anything so long as Galedun would not conquer Lys.
Galedun rejected them all one by one. Tarth's land development potential was already exhausted, and he was wary of the Three-Eyed Crow, unwilling to set foot on Westeros.
That left only the large islands of the Narrow Sea to focus on. Moreover, Lys's labyrinth was also built of black stone.
If the Zhinao could analyze the nature and origin of black stone, then Galedun's magical data series would be further perfected.
Four months ago, over a hundred warships from Tarth entered Lys Bay. Not a single captain from the fishing fleets dared to sail out and engage.
The First Legion disembarked. With just a few spear-and-shield cohorts forming ranks, they completely terrified the three-thousand-man resistance force the Governor's Council had hastily scraped together.
The ranged cohorts and archer cohorts didn't even loose a single arrow before more than half of the resistance force scattered, and most of the commanders knelt down to surrender.
From that point on, after Lys was formally brought under Tarth's rule, a hundred officials escorted by the united legions began their political performance.
By striking at the corrupt merchants and elites of the Governor's Council to initially win public support, dividing the covert resisters, stabilizing prices, building factories to provide more jobs, and delivering a series of combined blows, the people of Lys were completely won over and became Galedun's subjects.
Afterward, Galedun's teacher, Ser Duncan, while inspecting the officials' political achievements, also visited local elders to collect folk sayings about the Blind God Boash and the labyrinth legends.
This was to gather more information for the First Legion's exploration of the labyrinth.
The followers of Boash neither eat meat nor drink alcohol. They walk barefoot, wearing coarse wool shirts and animal skins.
They wear hooded cowls without eyeholes to show reverence to their god. These priests believe that only in darkness can the "third eye" open, thereby piercing the illusions of the material world and glimpsing the deeper essence of reality.
Another core doctrine of theirs is the extreme rejection of self-awareness, because only by abandoning human vanity can one obtain divinity.
Thus, Boash's followers abandon their own names, and when referring to themselves, they use "someone" instead of "I."
When Galedun was in Lys, he once visited the local priests of the Blind God. Upon hearing these things, he felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity.
Three eyes!
"Someone"!
In darkness—corresponding to the Long Night. He and the Zhinao speculated that either Boash was a New God, who had betrayed the New God faction represented by the Red God, the Lord of Light, and joined the Old Gods—
—or that these Valyrians were one of the backup plans arranged by Valyrian civilization.
Boash was a god worshipped by Valyrians settled in Lys. As early as 1,322 years before the Doom of Valyria, a group of Valyrians had left their homeland and come to Lys.
This involved the entanglement between black stone and the New God factions!
Therefore, the benefits of investigating the Blind God and the labyrinth were immense. Even if it meant giving up dragon eggs, Galedun had unhesitatingly rejected the Governor's Council's submission.
...
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