However, the savage envoys were also stern in appearance and weak in heart.
It seems that they want to intimidate the king of the south. In the eyes of the savages, these "kneeling people" living behind the Great Wall are weaklings, and they will be afraid if they are even slightly intimidated.
However, the savage messenger never expected that he would kick the iron plate this time.
Instead of frightening the fat king in front of him, his threat angered Robert Baratheon.
Perhaps the envoy never inquired about the person he was negotiating with before coming to the Great Wall of Despair.
After all, King's Landing is too far away for them. To the savages, everything south of the Great Wall is called the South.
"Better get out of here before I decide to cut out your tongue and stuff it into your ass!"
King Robert was reluctant to accept the soft words, his eyes widened like copper bells, and then drove the envoy out.
He simply did not believe that a winter horn that came out of nowhere could cause such a majestic Great Wall to collapse as soon as it was blown.
However, although Robert was angry, he was not a cruel tyrant. If it were Aerys, the messenger would have been burned to death.
He drove away the savage envoy and asked him to tell the King Beyond the Wall.
"Tell that bastard who once broke his oath to the Night's Watch!"
Robert spoke loudly, his voice buzzing in the conference room.
"If you thieves and rapists living outside the Wall want to pass through the Great Wall, you must surrender to the King of the Seven Kingdoms!"
"And pray to the Seven for forgiveness of his sins, and then make a choice between the gallows and the black suit!"
King Robert roared, blowing his beard and glaring, he knew those wildlings were lawless criminals.
They called themselves free people to distinguish them from the "kneeling people" who bowed to the lords and kings south of the Great Wall. The free people believed that the "kneeling people" lacked freedom.
But Robert now insisted on making them kneel.
Then, the fat king with a beard on his face picked up the wine glass and drank a glass of wine, hummed twice and continued to speak.
"certainly."
"This is for the common savage."
"The guy named Mance Rayder who betrayed the oath of the Night's Watch has no chance to put on black clothes. He must be sent to the gallows."
King Robert can forgive other wildlings, but that doesn't mean he can forgive the guy who calls himself the 'King Beyond the Wall'.
"Mance Rayder should be punished according to the rules of the Night's Watch."
"His Majesty."
And at this time.
Eddard Stark, who was sitting next to him, spoke with a serious look on his face, with dark brown hair and gray eyes.
"I will hold a fair trial for him and hear his reasons."
Eddard Stark is a man of honor and justice, and he will listen to Mance Rayder's reasons for betraying the Night's Watch.
Then he personally cut off the head of the 'King Beyond the Wall' with his family's Valyrian steel sword 'Ice'.
Then the wildling messenger was driven out of Castle Black
After the wildling envoys were driven away, the Night's Watch and the reinforcements from the North and other places were seizing the time to set up defenses.
They originally thought that the savages would come to attack in anger, but after waiting and waiting, there was no news.
What about the winter horn that can blow down the Great Wall?
What about the hundreds of thousands of savages?
The three-hundred-mile-long, seven-hundred-foot-tall Great Wall gave the coalition forces and the Night's Watch ample confidence.
Everyone felt much more relaxed. In their opinion, no one could break such a majestic Great Wall, not even hundreds of thousands of savages, not even the so-called White Walkers.
Later, the news of the failure of the negotiations was brought back to the Ghost Forest by the messenger. Among the large savage troops, the arrogant words of the southern king made all the savage tribe leaders explode.
They were unwilling to bend the knee to the so-called king for the sake of freedom, but Mance Rayder united hundreds of tribes and ended the internal fighting among the wildlings.
Therefore, he had unparalleled popularity among these free people, and was elected as the King Beyond the Wall.
It was impossible for them to kneel to the king of the south, and it was even less possible for them to hand over their king and have his head chopped off by the lord of the south.
Hundreds of tribal chiefs and leaders clamored to storm the Impasse Great Wall.
However, as the protagonist mentioned, Mance Rayder, the King Beyond the Wall, seemed very calm and did not show any anger.
He stopped all the tribal chiefs' requests for war and asked them to calm down.
Because he knew very well that with the support of the king and nobles behind the Great Wall, it was impossible for them to break through the desperate Great Wall.
However, Mance Rayder did not want to blow the Horn of Winter unless it was absolutely necessary.
If the Great Wall really collapses, then humanity will lose its only barrier against the White Walkers, and catastrophic consequences are likely to follow.
but.
If the king of the south was determined not to let the freedmen pass, then there was nothing Mance Rayder could do.
He has to take responsibility for his people, and he doesn't want to have his head chopped off.
At that time, he could only blow the Horn of Winter to cause the Great Wall to collapse, and then lead his people to rush out.
Next, whether humans live or die has nothing to do with him.
therefore.
Not wanting to end up together, Mance Rayder restrained his anger.
Then he calmly sent out another envoy who wanted to have frank negotiations with King Robert.
Free people bowing the knee to the king of the south and demanding their own heads are absolutely unacceptable conditions. This is Mance Rayder's bottom line.
Subsequently, the envoys of the second negotiation were brought into Castle Black.
However, this time the free people's envoys were much more humble. Before they came up, they clamored to blow the horn of winter and let the Great Wall collapse and everyone die together.
Unfortunately, this time the envoys of the free people showed a sincere attitude, but after the last farce, King Robert no longer believed in the Horn of Winter at all.
In his opinion, if the other party really had such an artifact, they would have blown the horn a long time ago, killed the coalition forces of the seven countries, and directly invaded the northern border.
It was obvious that the other party was trying to scare themselves, using something that didn't exist at all to deceive themselves into opening the city gate and letting them enter the territory of the Seven Kingdoms.
In fact, the conditions King Robert stated before were not angry words, and this was also his bottom line.
If he could, he wouldn't want to lock hundreds of thousands of savages outside the Great Wall and watch them be killed by the White Walkers.
However, if these hundreds of thousands of savages are unwilling to surrender to the king and lords, are unwilling to put down their weapons and stop plundering, and are unwilling to pick up farm tools and farm with peace of mind.
Then being put into the Great Wall of Despair like this would probably be a disaster.
It was impossible for Robert to agree, and it was even more impossible for the North, which was most directly affected by the wildling attack, to agree.
Eddard Stark sat in the side seat, looking at the wildling messenger below with a frosty expression.