A year ago, this attack was a disaster when it first occurred.
‘Shadow Hunter’ Edrik fell from the sky like a meteorite late that night, his body burning with blazing fire, streaking across the dark night sky.
It crashed directly into the vast sea outside King's Landing City, causing violent waves and even overturning many passing ships.
At that time, Emperor Aemon Targaryen I, who was living in the palace, also received the news. However, everyone at that time thought that it was a flying stone falling into the sea, causing waves on the sea, so there was no news.
care.
After Aemon was woken up from his sleep, he just arranged for the Imperial Fleet to go out to sea tomorrow morning to try to salvage the meteorite. After all, the story of his father taking meteorites from the sky and forging the Excalibur in Norvos when he was a boy, Aemon has been repeating since he was a child.
Even when I am old, I have heard it countless times.
The jesters around him were full of flattery, claiming that His Majesty the Emperor was as wise, powerful and diligent in governing as the previous Emperor, and therefore received gifts from the gods in the sky. They also sent a meteorite down for His Majesty to forge a sword.
And Aemon heard what the jesters said, and although he knew it was flattery, he was still very happy. He rewarded these jesters with some gold, and then fell asleep again.
However, Aemon did not expect that this 'meteorite' that fell from the sky late at night was not only not a gift from the gods, but actually wanted to take his life.
Late that night, a giant beast with flames all over its body and lava flowing from its back broke through the water and gradually emerged from the deep sea.
It rode the rolling waves and appeared in the Blackwater Bay outside King's Landing, and then let out an earth-shaking roar that made the whole King's Landing tremble.
Suddenly, they were attacked by giant beasts from the sea, and the city of King's Landing suddenly fell into chaos.
The Imperial fleet stationed in Blackwater Bay showed little resistance before being torn apart by the giant beast's claws and angry flames, turning into sampans floating in the sea, and the sea suddenly burst into flames.
The city of King's Landing experienced chaos and gradually launched a counterattack. However, the overwhelming arrows fell on the giant beast as if they were shot on steel.
Some were melted by the flames without touching the body of the giant beast, while others barely managed to hit the body but fell to the ground without breaking through the opponent's defense.
Even if the giant crossbow bolts used to kill White Walkers on the walls of King's Landing hit the giant beast, it only tickled the beast. The giant crossbow bolts penetrated into the flesh and blood, and then melted, and then the wounds on the giant beast's body healed instantly.
recovered.
The behavior of the giant beast that came to attack from the sea made the soldiers in King's Landing feel despair. The enemy did not look like a monster that should be born in this world.
The giant beast was several times larger than the largest dragon they had ever seen. Its whole body was bathed in flames and it was invulnerable. Its vitality was so tenacious that it was almost abnormal, and it would recover from any wounds in an instant.
However, at this moment, the dragon of the Targaryen family, who lives and lives in the Kingswood, finally flew in.
They brought hope to the people and soldiers in the city, but they ruthlessly crushed this hope.
The giant dragons attacked the giant beast that came out of the sea, but like a human attack, they were unable to cause any substantial damage.
Even as a mature dragon among the Targaryen family dragons, in order to protect the group, the female dragon "Siren" Meraxes was bitten to death by the opponent, and her body fell into the deep sea.
And another dragon of the Targaryen family, the eldest son of the green dragon Rhaegal, the mount of Queen Mother Rhaenys Targaryen, and the crystal dragon 'little lady' Syrax, a strong male dragon, was also
The other party chewed it alive.
The fall of the two giant dragons not only caused chaos among the dragons, but also turned the last hope of the people of Junlin into despair, and the soldiers lost the confidence to resist.
Because it's not that they don't have courage, it's that fighting against such an enemy is simply risking death. They don't even have the qualifications to injure the other party.
Then all the city gates of King's Landing were opened wide, and all the people cried for their fathers and mothers and fled out of the city in droves.
Seeing that the situation was over and King's Landing could no longer be defended by the giant beasts, the Targaryen royal family living on Aegon's High Hills finally began to evacuate on giant dragons.
The dragon kings fled in all directions on giant dragons, preparing to gather their troops to fight the giant beast. At the same time, they also ordered the surviving bachelors of the academy to read all the books to search for information about this giant beast.
And then the hard work paid off. A large number of ancient books were still preserved in the old town's school city. A bachelor who studied ancient history finally found some clues about this giant beast from a dilapidated ancient book from an unknown era.
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Although it was just a few words, it also made people understand the identity of this giant beast that attacked them.
"This lion beast is recorded as being a companion of the hero Azor Ahai."
"Because he is the terminator of the long night, he has been portrayed as a hero in various cultures around the world. However, the name of this hero is different, including being called the hero Heilkoron in Heilkoron, and the hero Heerkolon in Yidi
He is called Yi Tal, Neferion in Nigel, and Edric the Shadow Hunter."
"This 'Shadow Hunter' Edric is the earliest statement spread from the Land of Shadows, claiming that it is a giant lion with no entity and only a shadow. People confuse the giant lion with Azor Ya
Hai’s name.”
"The same description is also found in "Overview of Jade Sea"."
"'Shadow Hunter' Edric? I don't understand, why did he come to attack King's Landing?"
After exhausting their efforts to open ancient books, people finally learned the identity of this giant beast that suddenly appeared to them. It turned out to be a legendary lion eight thousand years ago, who once stood side by side with the hero Azor Ahai.
Combat.
"But no matter who he is, whether he is a member of the gods in the sky, but since he attacked King's Landing, he is our enemy!"
"I must kill it!"
However, although the old emperor Aemon I Targaryen I, who had lived for more than fifty years and still looked young, was not a hot-tempered person, he naturally could not swallow his anger in the face of such a serious challenge, with the capital being destroyed and the dragon falling.
Even if the legendary giant beast "Shadow Hunter" Edric has lived for eight thousand years, he may have already become a member of the gods.
But it must be killed to pay for the lives of the hundreds of thousands of people who were buried in King's Landing.