In addition to leaving a small number of people to guard the camp, and those who were on night duty yesterday to rest during the day, the remaining people formed a mighty team and left the camp on the edge of the beach, heading towards the interior of the Valyrian continent.
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Wilder was riding on a war horse, and his cronies were also riding on war horses and surrounding him.
"Set off!"
It was obvious that he did not trust these paid mercenaries.
Therefore, he and his cronies fell at the back of the team, letting the mercenaries and slaves explore the way in front, so that they could turn around and run away if there was the slightest sign of trouble.
The breeze blows and the shadows of the trees sway.
There was a strong smell of decay in the air that made people want to feel sick.
"careful--"
"Watch that way."
Wow——
The expedition team composed of slaves and mercenaries was walking through the overgrown woods, pushing aside the thorns on the ground, and carefully exploring the distance in one direction.
Valyria has been destroyed for hundreds of years, and few people have been able to set foot on this continent in these hundreds of years.
Therefore, many traces of the once glorious civilization have disappeared and have degraded back to the primitive era. People are struggling to find the traces left behind.
But the expedition team came prepared after all.
The accompanying team even included several scholars who were well versed in Valyrian history.
Three of the scholars are from Volantis, and one is from the Citadel of Oldtown.
This is an old man who is short and fat and looks extremely strong. He also wears a heavy bachelor's chain around his neck.
Other scholars were in poor health and sat in sedans carried by slaves, but only this old man from the school city walked on the ground with the soldiers, squatting down from time to time to study carefully.
He believed that since he came to Valyria, he should put himself in others' shoes and see more and learn more.
Viserys still didn't know the name of this 'fellow' from Westeros.
After all, he was also afraid of being recognized, so he did not take the initiative to contact this person.
However, Viserys was somewhat curious about this old man.
"This old man must be very good at fighting——"
Viserys didn't know why such an idea suddenly came to his mind.
He remembered that someone had said before that the old academics in the city would sometimes get into fights because they couldn't explain a problem.
Then this old man, who is short and fat and has a neck as thick as a bull, is definitely a god of war doctor.
Viserys looked very low-key and inconspicuous hidden among the crowd.
He glanced at the old man not far away again. The old man squatted down and rubbed the soil on the ground with his fingers, and then finally withdrew his gaze.
When looking through the information Wilder carried last night, he saw a complete version of the map of Valyria and a fragmented comparison map.
Some scholars inferred the specific location here and marked it.
The place where Viserys landed now seems to be a place called the Bloody Plains, and there is an abandoned city called the Crucible City nearby.
The Crucible City was once controlled by a noble Valyrian Dragon King family, but now that prestigious family has been annihilated in the long river of history and disappeared without a trace.
The Bloody Plains used to be part of the interior of the Valyrian Peninsula and did not face the sea. However, during the apocalyptic crisis, the continent was shattered and the plates became torn apart, and it became an area close to the sea.
After the Valyrian Peninsula was shattered, it was mainly divided into three major islands. The expedition team landed on the centermost and largest island.
Because their target is Valyria City, the former capital of the Valyrian Freehold Empire.
According to legend, this is a city that amazes the gods. The dragon kings of Valyria plundered the wealth of the world to build this magnificent capital.
Volantis's expedition was ambitious, and they spent such a high price just to get higher rewards.
The dragon eggs, black stone craftsmanship, Valyrian steel casting craftsmanship, etc. they want, if these things do not appear elsewhere, then they will definitely appear in this royal capital.
The Targaryen family also started in the city of Valyria. It was originally an ordinary noble family located in the royal capital.
Later, after sensing the danger through the prophecy of the 'prophet' Denise Targaryen, she voluntarily left the royal capital and came to Dragonstone to avoid the disaster.
"What is this? A stone?"
"wrong."
"We have found the way-"
At this moment, someone at the front of the team suddenly started making noise, and it was obvious that they had made an unexpected discovery.
"What?"
The sturdy bachelor who was walking on the ground rushed over, and the three Volantis scholars sitting in the sedan also signaled and carried the sedan over.
It turned out that the mercenaries and slaves who were walking at the front made an unexpected discovery. They discovered a wide and ancient Valyrian road. This road was extremely wide enough for several carriages to run side by side, and could allow large armies to travel together.
But it is a pity that this road has been broken up, overgrown with weeds, and trees have extended onto the road.
"This is a Valyrian road!"
"Very good!"
"We are on the right path!"
The bachelors and scholars who came to the front quickly determined that this was the ancient road they were looking for that could lead directly to the capital of Valyria.
"We will continue walking along this ancient road, cross a river, and then arrive at the royal capital of Valyria."
With the positive discovery, the morale of the expedition team naturally became very high, and Viserys was also much happy.
Because Balerion had also successfully flown through the Sea of Smoke to the continent of Valyria and landed not far from the camp.
The Sea of Smoke did not have a strong psychedelic effect on Balerion who flew from the sky. And judging from the emotions Balerion gave him, it seemed that it had just killed a monster and then devoured it alive.
After chewing it, the surrounding monsters cannot pose a threat to a giant dragon for the time being.
He was happy to have discovered the Valyrian Trail, and Viserys was naturally very happy to have Balerion succeed.
Because this means that he has nothing to worry about now.
"I wonder how the White Walkers and the coalition forces are doing on the other side of the Great Wall?"
Viserys thought slightly.
He had been away from Pentos for some time. This time could not be said to be long, but it could not be said to be short.
However, before he left, the figure of the White Walkers had not yet appeared, there were only traces of some dead people.
There were actually several reasons why he took this opportunity to explore the Valyrian ruins.
First, due to the riots in the Sea of Smoke, something related to the ruins of Valyria had undergone changes that caught his attention.
Secondly, he knew that the outcome between the coalition forces and the White Walkers would not be determined so quickly.
If he holds a heavy army and waits to reap the benefits on the other side of the Narrow Sea, he will inevitably fall prey to the nobles and people of the Seven Kingdoms.
A king who refused to save his country and watched the people being slaughtered by the White Walkers, and in the future, when both the living and the dead were harmed, he would lead a large number of foreigners to backstab his own country and massacre its own soldiers...
How much trust and support can he gain from the public?