"But... no matter what, this is an important discovery."
Viserys resisted the greed in his heart, and then clenched his fist.
"If the opportunity is suitable in the future, I can go and take a look."
Although the ruins of Valyria are extremely dangerous, they are very important to Viserys.
"I have a hunch——"
"The secret hidden in the black mist may be in this lost civilization."
House Targaryen was once one of the forty ancient houses of Valyria.
As a man of Valyrian blood, Viserys could see the black mist surrounding him that no one else could see.
Moreover, this black mist will express the current state of its host in the form of Valyrian text. Actively killing people and plundering the souls of others can further encourage the growth of the black mist.
The connection between the Black Mist and Valyrian civilization has gradually become more solid.
And these rags that were suspected to have been brought out from the ruins of Valyria by Jillian Lannister all contained a faint black mist.
This is the first time Viserys has seen this black mist from anywhere other than a dead person, which further solidifies the secret connection between the two.
Viserys then put away the parchment map and opened the diary left by the 'maester'.
as expected.
This diary records what happened to Jillian after he left Lannisport at the age of eighteen.
Ten long years were condensed in this thin diary.
He once sailed the Laughing Lion to Volantis, but half of the crew on the ship gave up following Jillian when they heard that he was going to the legendary Sea of Smoke, so Jillian could only buy slaves to replace them.
In the days that followed, Jillian had been planning to enter the Valyrian ruins. He even encountered several deceptions, was almost killed, and almost lost his fortune. He was so desperate that he once wanted to commit suicide.
The text here written by Jillian is very sad.
Fortunately, there is always a way out. Jillian finally cheered up and organized a small fleet to enter the sea of smoke.
Viserys took Jillian's diary and read it with great interest.
This is more of an autobiography than a diary. If Jillian were willing to publish his diary, he would probably make a lot of money.
However, after he organized a fleet and entered the Sea of Smoke, Jillian's writing experienced a drastic change.
Although Viserys tried his best to imagine, he still couldn't understand the ambition he had just now, then the joy when he saw the ruins of Valyria, and then the despair that finally hit the bottom...
What exactly did they experience during this?
"tentacle?"
"Tentacles?"
"The huge tentacles swept away a crew member. He screamed and was then dragged into the pitch-black sea."
This diary is a memoir written by Jillian after he escaped from the ruins of Valyria, and he also recorded his own reaction at the time.
"I felt like I was scared out of my mind at that time."
"My legs are like lead. I desperately want to escape but I can't move forward. I can only watch the tentacles that cover the sky and the sun continue to sweep away one crew member after another..."
"They didn't even scream. I thought they were dragged into the water and drowned..."
"However--"
"Until I shivered and hid in a gap on the deck, I saw with my own eyes a crew member being rolled up by the huge tentacle."
"Then he was stripped of all his flesh and blood by a huge force, leaving only a set of withered bones that fell into the black sea water."
Jillian's words are full of fear.
call...
After seeing this, Viserys couldn't help but breathe a little faster. He took a deep breath and pinched the memoir with his fingers so hard that his fingernails turned white.
"Is this... a sea monster?"
Viserys tried his best to imagine what it would be like when a giant deep-sea squid comparable to a three-masted ship attacked humans.
However, Jillian's records can only remind Viserys of the deep sea squid through the words 'tentacles' and 'tentacles'.
And they seemed to be more than just one, there were more weird creatures attacking them in Jillian's description.
Fortunately, although the crew suffered heavy casualties, they still fought back, cut off several sea monsters' tentacles, and finally escaped from the sea monsters' attacks and escaped to land.
"These sea monsters seem to be very afraid of this land and will stop moving forward when they reach a certain range. However, they seem to be unable to stay away and can only stay under the deep sea around the Valyrian continent forever."
"Otherwise, once these monsters escape, they will be in seven levels of hell! God knows what terrible things will happen."
These are the exact words from Jillian's memoir.
The fleet lost several ships, and then relying on luck and tenacious will to survive, they finally broke through the attacks of the sea monsters and pushed aside the boiling fog on the sea, arriving at the edge of the Valyrian continent. The sea monsters arrived
They didn't dare to pursue here and retreated on their own initiative.
"Perhaps this disaster created them. After all, I have been to many places. There are no such monsters in other places in the world, except Valyria."
"Therefore, they don't want to leave here. They stop growing when they leave here, but they may die if they get close to this land."
What follows is Jillian's own guess about the direct connection between the sea monster and the natural disaster.
But no one can confirm what he said.
Then Viserys' fingers turned the pages and came to the next chapter.
He already regretted giving Jillian a glass of poisonous wine. If he had known that Jillian knew so much, he would never have let him die like this.
However, it's too late to say anything now. The poisonous wine has been given, and it's too late to get it back. Maybe it won't be long before we hear the news of Jillian's death.
Viserys shook his head with regret, but he had no choice but to continue reading.
Next.
Jillian's memoirs came to the land of Valyria.
They paid a great price and broke through the Sea of Smoke, and finally landed in Valyria, a land full of mystery and horror.
Among them, many crew members and even slaves on Jillian's fleet refused to continue exploring because they were frightened out of fear. They even arrested Jillian and wanted to kill the man who tricked them here.
However, although Jillian was frightened, he still gave full play to his eloquence and finally persuaded some slaves and crew members to let him go.
After all, the ship has been seriously damaged and cannot go back immediately and must be repaired on the spot.
They have no other choice but to move forward.
However...
On the night of the first day this group of survivors landed on the island, another very terrible thing happened.