"Counting the time, Euron should have arrived in Pentos with our gifts."
In Pike City, a gloomy corridor connects the main castle and the Blood Keep.
According to legend, all the sons of a certain river king were massacred here thousands of years ago. They were chopped into pieces alive while they were sleeping and returned to their father, hence the name Blood Castle.
The outside of the castle is covered with white salt crystals and green lichen, while the inside of the castle is airtight and sealed, making it look particularly eerie.
A thin man with a haggard look sat in the gorgeous hall of the Blood Castle Hall, holding a glass of scarlet wine in his hand and grilled sausages and pickled fish in front of him, and spoke in a hoarse voice.
He is King Balon Greyjoy, the leader of the Iron Islands. He now wears the driftwood crown that he was forced to take off due to rebellion a few years ago.
In the hall of Blood Castle, his third brother Victarion sat on his left hand side, and on Balon's right hand was his eldest daughter Asha Greyjoy.
Asha and Viserys are of the same age, and she just completed her adult ceremony last year. She has a slim figure, slender legs, short black hair, and a somewhat perky nose.
"Father, will Viserys agree to our terms?"
Asha took a knife and fork to split a piece of beef on the plate, and then put it into her mouth. The girl had a strong character and a hot temper that was not inferior to that of the man. She chewed the beef and asked with a little worry.
This is a Greyjoy family dinner.
However, the second eldest brother, Euron Greyjoy, has been sent as an envoy to Pentos by his eldest brother. The fourth brother, Aeron, is presiding over a ceremony of the Drowned God on Great Wyk Island. He is also not in Pike City. Now he is only
Asha and Victarion were left.
"Huh, if he doesn't agree, we'll go find the Baratheon family."
Baron sat at the head of the long table while eating, holding a shining knife in his hand, and sneered and said in a hoarse voice.
"Even if he agrees, we will contact the Baratheon family."
"Asha, you have to understand that if the iron race wants to conquer the green land and plunder more wealth and land, women will continue to create chaos and will never let them settle down."
Due to the unique geographical environment, the Iron Islands are home to an independent, ferocious and even cruel ethnic group.
They call themselves the Ironborn. The land in the Iron Islands is barren and difficult to cultivate. Cheap iron ore is abundant and the population is not large. They can only rely on plunder to survive. Therefore, the Ironborn have been plundering since ancient times.
However, because there are not many iron types, it is doomed to be even more difficult to conquer the green land. Therefore, the iron types have always used methods of creating chaos to fight for living space.
And Asha naturally understood what her father said. Her father wanted to have both sides, using the advantages of the iron fleet to eat both sides to maintain a balance, so that the green land would continue to be chaotic. This was also the method adopted by countless generations of iron races.
It's just that the girl is slightly dissatisfied with the plundering of wealth, land and women that her father said.
However, Asha does not sympathize with the plight of the girls who were robbed. It is the tradition of the iron race to follow the ancient path and pay iron money. What she wants to do is to rob men, and rob more and better-looking men.
Why can only men rob women, but she can't capture a few good-looking men and return them to the Iron Islands to be her 'salt husbands'?
Balon naturally didn't know what his daughter was thinking, but even if he knew what Asha was thinking, he probably wouldn't blame her.
Who made his youngest son Theon become a hostage due to the defeat many years ago, and was adopted as an adopted son by Duke Eddard Stark. Asha was his only heir.
However, what Balon did not mention to Asha was that he would contact Robert Baratheon next and use the threat of the Targaryen family to try to get his son Theon back.
But at this moment, the girl looked at the father she admired in her heart, and her father's thin face was unsmiling, with his long gray hair hanging down his back, and then he spoke.
"If the green land cannot be unified, then the iron race will never be able to lift its head."
"The son of the Mad King will agree, because the Iron Throne is not his yet, so why shouldn't he agree?"
Then Baron forked another piece of sausage and put it into his mouth, chewing it with his pale teeth, his gray beard trembling slightly, and then emphasized again.
"He will agree."
But at this moment.
Wow——
The sound of metal chains sounded outside the hall, and a bachelor with gray hair and gray robes hurriedly walked in from outside the Blood Castle hall.
He is Bachelor Quillen of Pike City. He is holding a brief note in his hand, and then he speaks in a hurried voice.
"King Balon, something bad has happened!"
He received a distress letter from Kuroshio Island not long ago. The person who sent the distress letter was the Drowned God Priest of Kuroshio Island.
They claimed in the letter that they had been attacked by the White Walkers, and that most of the island had fallen, with only the castle still struggling to hold on.
After the words of Bachelor Quillon fell, the whole hall of Blood Castle fell into silence.
King Balon, who was sitting in the front seat with some gray hair, still picked up a piece of sausage with his fork and put it into his mouth, chewing it slowly, as if he didn't hear what Bachelor Quillen was saying.
On the other side, Balon's third brother Victarion has been somewhat silent from beginning to end. He is tall and mighty. He is a powerful warrior and a very capable fleet commander on the battlefield, and he is also very capable outside the battlefield.
Calm and collected.
But when he heard what Bachelor Quillen said, Victarion couldn't accept it. He slammed the knife and fork in his hand on the table and said in a low voice.
"Maester Quillon, are you kidding?"
"Those White Walkers don't have warships. Did they swim to Kuroshio Island?"
Victarion did not want to believe it, while Asha on the other side turned to look at her father with a slightly panicked expression. Unlike her uncle, Asha believed that Kuroshio Island did not have the guts to make such a joke.
"Father, what should we do?"
Whether the White Walkers can row or swim, since they can attack Kuroshio Island silently, they can magically appear in King's Harbor the next second.
My father had just made up his mind to sit on the mountain and watch the fight. Since the Iron Islands would not be attacked by the White Walkers anyway, let the usurper and that Viserys fight each other and both sides would suffer.
However, not long after his father finished speaking these words, the White Walkers attacked the Iron Islands in an instant.
Asha was a little curious about what kind of decision her father should make at this time.
"grown ups..."
After hearing Victarion's doubts and King Balon's indifferent look, Maester Quiron became slightly anxious.
"Vic."
At this moment, King Balon finally spoke.
His face was gloomy and he didn't know what he was thinking. He held the knife and fork tightly in his hands, and the veins on the back of his hands popped out.