All the night watchmen gathered in the hall of Castle Black. This is usually where the night watchmen eat. This is the only place that can accommodate everyone in the castle.
Witte returned from the Crow's Nest and entered the hall. Commander-in-Chief Mormont and several senior officers were sitting on one side. He motioned for Witte to sit next to him.
Sitting down, Witte looked at the dark crowd in the room. Most of them were farmers who had lost their land, people who could not repay their debts, poachers, rapists, thieves and illegitimate children. Many of them were criminals who came here to avoid punishment.
Here, for example, Janos Slynt stood in the back row with a nervous look on his face. The former golden-robed Commander-in-Chief now wore black robes like his brothers of the Night's Watch, and never dared to look directly at Witte. There are only a very small number of the Night's Watch who come from noble families or are second sons of families with titles. They are often lost in political struggles or in order to stabilize their family's inheritance, such as Commander-in-Chief Jeor Mormont and Benyan Stark.
Senior positions are voted for by all brothers. However, there is an unwritten rule. Only these nobles who take the initiative to serve as night watchmen are eligible to run for senior positions in the army.
For example, Chief Rangers Benjen Stark and Waymar Royce came here on their own initiative to reduce family inheritance disputes, and Commander-in-Chief Jeor Mormont came here to pass the title on to his son.
Sitting between the three of them, Werther handed Mormont the royal order from Robert and the letter containing the new news: "Vampires have appeared in a total of five places on the continent, and their scales vary." p>
After reading it, Mormont gave it to Benyan: "We have received letters from King's Landing, and we also believe that there are vampires, but we don't have silver here. If we use ignition and torches to fight vampires, I'm afraid the Night's Watch will suffer huge losses."
Witte scanned the hall: "I came here this time because I discovered a conspiracy. Two vampires were captured in Tyrosh. Through interrogation, it was learned that a total of six of them crossed the Great Wall through secret methods. The Riverlands,
The Stormlands and the Riverlands are the areas where they mainly develop their numbers. The one in King's Landing is responsible for collecting intelligence. And the one in the Riverlands happened to meet me by chance, so the other two places had to rush to attack humans." After reading it, Bunyan and Weimar handed the royal order back to Werther. Bunyan asked: "If according to what Duke Werther said, this vampire species called Cold Harbor does not have a son, and there are magicians everywhere in the Seven Kingdoms.
, then what’s the point of launching this kind of war knowing that they will lose?”
Weimar: "If I were the leader of the vampires, I would definitely hide in the woods first and slowly develop the same kind. They will not come out until the number reaches a certain scale. I bet they must have other purposes for a piece of bread!"
"Oh!
"At this time, there was an exclamation in the hall, and an ice-withered vampire more than two meters high was created by Werther.
"They are powerful individually, but their bodies are afraid of silver and fire. When they encounter these two things, their skin is like a paper lake that cannot be cut by ordinary swords."
Witte pointed at the vampire ice withers: "But now their group still has one shortcoming, knowledge! Through interrogation, it was learned that the vampires outside the Great Wall were all transformed from free people. In addition to being able to speak and communicate, they do not know how to write.
They understand military affairs, but they don't understand manufacturing, they don't understand communication, and they only know simple strategies. It wasn't until low-ranking nobles became their servants that they had some decent organizational power."
"Duke Werther, you flew to Castle Black from the Riverlands. Could it be that the vampires and White Walkers are aiming for the Great Wall?" Mormont was very worried. It would be fine if it was White Walkers. Stannis had brought a large number of them before.
Obsidian, now almost every night watchman has an obsidian dagger. To deal with vampires, you can only risk your life.
Witte turned to look at Mormont and the others: "You often deal with the free people outside the Great Wall. No matter how stupid they are, they will not make unnecessary sacrifices. What a holy son, to develop descendants, I think only destroying the Great Wall is worthy of them.
Do it!"
Mormont: "It is our lifelong duty to protect the Great Wall. Duke Werther, how do you need us to cooperate?"
Wirth: "How many castles are currently garrisoned under the Great Wall?"
Mormont: "From west to east, there are five fortresses: Shadow Tower, Icescar City, Black Castle, Grayguard and Eastwatch. We will send people to inspect the other empty castles every six months."
Wirth: "Inform them immediately to inspect all castles. Check carefully whether the Great Wall is broken, whether there are secret passages in the buildings, and whether there are any strange things in the rooms!"
The task was quickly arranged. Benyan led a group of rangers to the east to start patrolling, Weimar led a group to the west, Mormont was in the center to support, and other castles sent rangers to patrol nearby.
There was too much wind and snow outside Castle Black, and the dragon fell to the ground but could only hear its sound but could not see its figure. Werther did not stay here longer. Mormont sent Werther out of the castle gate.
"Have you decided who will take over as Commander-in-Chief next?" Witte looked at Mormont, who had lost all his hair and had a white beard hanging down to his chest, knowing that his time was running out.
"Bunyan is the most suitable successor." Morr tightened his tight coat: "Is Jorah okay? I heard he was captured in Dorne."
Witte: "Mr. Xiong, you are not very well informed. This happened last year."
Mormont sighed: "The weather is getting colder and colder. Most of the messenger crows froze to death on the way. We can only send people to Lindong City to collect intelligence. The information we can get here is intermittent." p>
"Jorah was very lucky. After being captured, he was rescued by Nymeria. Later, he made a lot of contributions. After the war, he gained a lot of weight when he arrived in Tyrosh." In such a bitter and cold place, even the news of his family
No more, the life of the Night Watchman was indeed difficult, so Werther talked to him for a while about Jorah's condition.
After listening to the story, Mormont asked again: "Then are my granddaughter and grandson engaged to anyone?"
"Let Jorah worry about this kind of thing. With the current power and financial resources of Bear Island, it will not be difficult to find them a good family. I'm leaving."
There were several big smiles on Mormont's old face, and he watched silently as Werther walked into the wind and snow and disappeared.
Werther still has a little memory of Eastwatch. I remember that in the TV series, the Night King breached the Great Wall from here, so Werther set out from Castle Black to patrol the east. When Robb arrived at Castle Black a few days later, he went west to support Weimar and his party.
People.
A few days later, at the Long Carriage Castle, which is two castles away from the easternmost Eastwatch, Witte received news from the rangers that Robb and Waymar had discovered something in the Nightfort, and all the nearby rangers were there.
Rushed to support. It took Werther another whole day to arrive at the Nightfort.
Before he even landed on top of the giant dragon, Werther saw the burning Nightfort and the night watchmen standing nearby with their horses.
The dragon landed, and Robb had already run nearby. Wit jumped off the dragon and floated to his side: "What's going on? Are there any casualties?"
Robb said as he walked: "There were no casualties. We accidentally set the castle on fire."
"Accidentally? I remember that the Nightfort has been abandoned for almost two hundred years. There are so many tinders inside?" It was a support message sent by Robb, and there were no casualties. Witte was a little surprised.
The Nightfort was the first Night Watch castle on the Great Wall and was once the largest castle. As other castles were built one after another, the number of Night Watchmen stationed here gradually decreased until it was completely abandoned two hundred years ago.
This castle is often mentioned among the people in the North, but they are all in ghost stories. Why did the "Night King" once rule here? Legend has it that he married a female White Walker, enslaved his brothers with magic, "Prince Bacon Human Pie", etc.
Countless ghost stories happen here, and few people are willing to come to this place.
Werther walked very fast, and soon he arrived in front of the burning castle. The night watch rangers also gathered around. At this time, Robb slowly explained:
"Weima and I came here. After entering the castle, we found that it was covered with spider webs. I used magic detection and there was no magic reaction, only countless white little spiders. There is no prey in this ice and snow. How is it possible?
There were so many spiders that I immediately sent a signal to request support.
Next we trampled many spiders to death and used long swords to clean up the cobwebs. Yesterday evening, a night watchman brother who was cleaning the spider webs accidentally touched the spider web hanging down from the beam with the torch in his hand.
The inside of the castle was set on fire."
"Spider webs are flammable, as long as people are fine. Have you caught any live samples of those little white spiders?" Witte is interested in spiders. This thing is definitely unusual.
"I have a live one here." Weimar ran to his horse and brought over a cowhide bag.
"Yes, he is as careful as your brother." Werther encouraged him.
Waymar Royce, he is thin, has a pair of gray eyes, elegant manners, and well-dressed. It can be seen that he is from a noble family. His second brother is one of Renly's personal guards, the Red Guard Robert Royce.
Si.
Weimar smiled and didn't reply. At this time, everyone was staring at the leather bag in Werther's hand. The spider was poisonous, and it was definitely not a good thing to grow in a white color in such a place. After catching one in the bag, they didn't dare to open it for observation.
Robb has never seen this kind of animal, and he hasn't figured out why.
Werther wrapped his white mage's hand around the leather bag and gently grabbed the spider out. The spider was all white except for a few black spots on its back. Its eight thin legs were spread out about the size of a human palm, and its body was about the size of a thumb, with a bulging middle.
The abdomen is the most conspicuous.
Werther pressed his fingers against the two fangs of the spider, and a small drop of pale yellow liquid was squeezed out. His fingers were stained with venom, and Werther took it into his mouth in one gulp.
"No!" Some night watchmen immediately shouted to stop.
"It's okay, you all should be quiet." Robb yelled loudly. He knew best that Tyene ranked first in the continent in alchemy. It was because Werther was lazy and picky and didn't want to try all kinds of messy things. p>
Relying on his thick blood and his unique ability to identify alchemy, Witte mobilized his magic power after eating it and carefully sensed the venom.
The people around looked at Werther's eyebrows and frowned, and hissed as if he had eaten dragon pepper seasoning. "It seems delicious?"
"Don't try! The half drop of venom just now is enough to kill five people!" Wit spit out the venom in his mouth, and the venom mixed with Wit's magic fell to the snow, emitting green smoke and making a sound.
The sound of squeaking.
Robb kicked the snow with his feet to cover the venom: "Teacher, is there any problem with this kind of spider?"
"It is an ordinary animal, and it does not have magic power in its body, but it is strange that there is no problem!" Witte took the spider in his hand and looked around.
Gently pinch the end of the spider's abdomen with your fingers and rub it back and forth around the spider's spindle. A thin thread of silk floats out from the spider's abdomen.
Witte wrapped the spider silk around his thumb and index finger, and slightly adjusted the magic power. The magic power between the index finger and thumb was unimpeded. If he slightly increased the magic power output, the spider silk was immediately cut off.
Werther: "Remember carefully, what is the shape of the spider web in the castle?"
Weimar thought for a while: "The entrance door was completely blocked by spider webs. After we cut it open with our swords, the floor, roof, and walls of the hall were all covered with white spider webs."
Robb suddenly thought of what he had learned in Tyrosh: "The spider web has many main veins as thick as an arm, and there are branches branching from the main veins in the room. Teacher Witte, are these spiders using the spider webs to build magic circles?"
"It's very possible! The spider web is not fire-resistant, and will break quickly when it encounters a sharp blade. I just tried the magic-conducting property of the spider web." Wit looked at the ice giant sword Robb carried behind his back: "This kind of spider web has the magic-conducting property.
It's better than Valyrian steel, but it can't withstand the violent output of magic, and it can't let magic turn into magic directly on the spider web. It's too easy to damage, so it can be used to set up a one-time use magic circle, which is very useful!"
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"Which Night Watchman knows the architectural structure inside the Nightfort?" Werther asked loudly. Some wooden structures in the castle were burned to death, and the top collapsed without support. It was impossible to distinguish the original appearance.
Everyone shook their heads. The castle had been abandoned for two hundred years, and the oldest night watchman present was only 40 years old.
"Duke Werther, I heard a legend that there is a secret door in the Nightfort. It is as old as the Great Wall and allows people to pass through the Great Wall." A thin night watchman replied in a low voice without any confidence. p>
"Where are you from?" Werther looked at him.
The thin night watchman: "Kahuo City, Kahuo City in the north."
Werther nodded to him. Without the internal layout, it was impossible to know how the spider silk would be arranged, but it was enough to know that there was a secret passage. There was a magic circle inside the Great Wall to prevent undead creatures from passing through, but the white spider in Werter's hand was just
Ordinary creatures. It’s not that magical creatures necessarily have low intelligence. They can still acquire some instincts from their mother’s body. As long as there are enough and time is enough, there is no problem in building a magic circle with spider silk.
Since these spiders can pass through the Great Wall through the secret passage, there must be a large spider nest at the other end of the secret passage.
"Ha!" Werther raised his foot and stepped into the snow, and the ice began to spread from under his feet. In this icy and snowy climate, within a few seconds, the Night Fortress was covered with a layer of ice crystals, and the fire was also extinguished. "Everyone, pick up your weapons and go in with me to search for the secret passage!" After shouting, Werther pulled out his giant sword and took the lead towards the ruins of the castle.
Having just used the ice magic that wrapped the castle, Werther already knew where the secret passage of the castle was through the magic of connection.
The opening is on the first floor of the castle, on the wall at the bottom of the well in the middle of the kitchen! Even if the entire castle burns down, the secret passage cannot be destroyed.