"Damn it!"
"What exactly is this green flame? Is it fire magic? If this continues, we'll all die under these cursed flames sooner or later!"
The Ironborn leaders, not understanding what was happening, roared in anger at the terrifying Wildfire.
Up to this point, they hadn't even landed on Oldtown's docks, yet they had already lost over forty longships and thousands of warriors. This was a massive loss the Iron Islands fleet had never encountered before.
"That's Wildfire, a terrifying flame created by alchemists. There's almost nothing in this world that can extinguish them, unless they are buried with sand."
"You've seen it, its power is no less than Dragonflame, but anyone can use it. This is another sharp weapon in the hands of the Targaryen Family."
The well-informed Gonthor explained to everyone, while looking at Wei He Luosi, who was leading the group.
"So, openly provoking the Targaryen Family like this, I really don't know if it's a wise move?!"
Wei He Luosi remained as cold as ever, his tone and expression showing no change whatsoever.
"We believe in the drowned god; only the drowned god can bring us strength, the power that makes us Ironborn immortal."
"Don't you forget, what is dead may never die, but rises again, harder and stronger~"
This time, Wei He Luosi's tone finally became somewhat high-pitched, and the rest of the Ironborn all cheered along with him.
"What is dead may never die~"
"What is dead may never die~"
Only Earl Zhuo Gu and a few other great nobles like Gonthor exchanged glances, subtly communicating through their eyes.
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In the underground space of Oldtown, almost all of Oldtown's residents had safely taken shelter. By the dim candlelight, people, old and young, clutched their most precious belongings tightly to their chests.
Thanks to the Oldtown Garrison and the monks controlled by Daniella's faction guiding and maintaining order, despite the large population, it was quite orderly.
After Daniella took control of Oldtown, she had the Oldtown Garrison and the Starry Sept cooperate to implement a new household registration system in Oldtown.
Based on the situation of Oldtown's various islands, the entire Oldtown was divided into eight large districts according to general directions. Each district had an independent church, a free school jointly run by the church and the Citadel, a district administrative office, and a district security team.
Within each district, it was further divided into sub-level street offices according to streets; within each street office, every ten households formed the smallest administrative unit of Oldtown. These ten households jointly elected a group leader, responsible for the popularization of policies from the higher level and the supervision of group members.
Furthermore, the Oldtown Garrison had established a strict system of collective punishment, which instantly improved Oldtown's public order. Monks trying to incite people or bandits trying to fish in troubled waters found it difficult to take root here.
Because once such a person appeared, they would be reported by residents to the authorities and then arrested by the security team. Their fate would either be exile to The Wall or being sent to the Stepstones as laborers.
So, after several months, the administrative efficiency of the entire Oldtown greatly improved. Each large-scale transfer well demonstrated the effectiveness of the new household registration system. Hundreds of thousands of Oldtown residents were all transferred from above ground to the underground space in less than an hour.
This was because everyone had already known their designated shelter areas during this period. After Rogge's transfer order was issued, the district heads immediately conveyed the message to each street.
The street office staff then immediately passed it on to each group leader. Under the leadership of the group leaders, the 10 households directly entered their assigned underground space through their exclusive evacuation channels, so the efficiency was naturally very high.
And in their exclusive closed spaces, basic living supplies had already been stored. If there were no accidents, they would be replaced regularly. The security team inspected the geological space almost every day, and anyone who dared to feign compliance would naturally face severe punishment.
"Mother, why do I feel so hot?"
A pretty little girl with grayish-white hair and blue-violet eyes asked her mother, while touching her wildly beating heart.
Her mother was a beautiful middle-aged woman with golden hair and blue eyes.
The beautiful middle-aged woman quickly touched the little girl's forehead with her right hand, and only after finding it not hot did she feel relieved. But she still dotingly picked up her little daughter and gently comforted her,
"Oh, my Laila! Perhaps we hurried too much, that's why you feel stuffy and hot. You'll be fine after a rest. Here, drink some water, that will make you more comfortable."
And the other children around her slowly began to show similar symptoms. The eldest son, who was 17 this year, also had silver-white hair, but his pupils were deep blue, like his mother's.
"Mother, the temperature in this underground space is very low, and it's starting to get colder outside. Logically, we shouldn't feel hot! And I also feel my heart beating faster and faster after reaching the underground space."
"Yes, Mother, I feel that way too. I always feel a terrifying power washing over my body."
The mother's 14-year-old eldest daughter also chimed in, she was a very bright beauty with golden hair and blue-violet pupils.
Immediately after, the 12-year-old second son and the 10-year-old youngest son also all showed such symptoms. And without exception, all of her children had silver-white hair, and their pupils were almost all blue with a hint of purple.
Meanwhile, Amoros, under the Weirwood tree next to Hightower, suddenly looked at the Weirwood in shock, because an extremely surging, clear magical power began to emerge from it.
That tide-like surging magical power continuously poured into Amoros and the five Dragon Eggs beneath her.
Along with the infusion of this magical power, Amoros felt as if she had turned into a blazing fire, and the dozens of fat sheep she had swallowed in the morning rapidly began to digest. This made her feel as if her metabolism had suddenly accelerated dozens of times.
After only a quarter of an hour, she already felt somewhat hungry.
Similarly strange phenomena also occurred on Raven Island in the Citadel. Scholar Ruiwen, carefully checking the incubation of the white raven eggs on the island, discovered that dozens of white raven eggs in front of him had all hatched simultaneously.
"Oh my God~"
"They haven't reached their hatching time yet, so why did they suddenly hatch?"
While he was at a loss, several apprentices responsible for incubating other ravens ran in frantically, reporting in terror,
"Sch-Scholar Ruiwen, all the raven eggs have hatched together!"
"What did you say? All hatched?"
"Yes, Master Scholar! All hatched, including those that haven't reached their hatching time!"
If Daniella were here, she would certainly be able to sense that a powerful magical tide had begun, with Oldtown's center as its base point.
At this time, all the Weirwood trees in Oldtown began to frantically plunder this scattered magical power, then convert it into pure energy and diffuse it around. And the roots of the Weirwood trees were seizing and pulling even greater energy from deeper within the earth.
These ravens and white ravens hatched early for this very reason.
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