"The long night is coming, I will keep watch from now on"
"I am the sword in the darkness and the guard on the Great Wall"
"I dedicate my life and honor to the Night Watch, tonight and every night."
Under the heart tree with falling snowflakes, the oath of the night watchman is ringing.
Since Aegon conquered the Seven Kingdoms, a rare recruit of two hundred men of the Night's Watch has joined the Legion.
Moreover, most of their members come from the most elite force in the kingdom, consisting of many Crowtooth Guard soldiers.
They came here to escort a noble person to this place.
That was the noble Maester Aemon who should have been king but gave up and gave up his surname.
There was also a sinner, the former Prime Minister of King Aerys I and Maekar I, Lord Bloodraven Brynden Rivers. He was deposed by King Aegon V and sentenced to death for conspiracy.
The world before Viserys changed.
He was still in the middle of a conversation just now but suddenly appeared here. However, Viserys did not panic. Instead, he turned his head left and right and looked around at everything around him.
He knew that the Three-Eyed Crow had the ability to take people through time and space, but no matter how good his history studies were, Viserys couldn't tell which era he was in now.
However, Viserys relied on his extraordinary memory and looked at the more than 200 Night Watch recruits in front of him, and suddenly found two faces that seemed familiar to him, as if he had seen them somewhere.
But before Viserys could identify who these two people he seemed to have seen before, an old voice came from behind him.
"That person is me."
"The oldest person in the team."
In the white wind and snow, he heard the voice coming from behind. The silver-haired young man in front of the sacred forest turned his head slightly and looked behind him.
On a branch not far away, a black crow was combing its feathers. It had a scarlet eye on the top of its head and was looking at Viserys with its head tilted.
This scene seems a bit familiar?
Viserys also looked at the crow on the treetop, and then he remembered that he was talking to Brynden Rivers in the cave just now, and suddenly a three-eyed crow flew in and stayed beside him.
far away.
Viserys turned his head and looked at the crow at that time, and the crow also looked at Viserys, and then preened its feathers.
One person and one bird just looked at each other for a second in that brief process.
"At that time was I infected?"
The silver-haired young man stood in front of the sacred forest in the snow and looked at the three-eyed crow quietly and then said.
Then he turned his head and looked in the direction beside him.
An old man with white hair in black robes was standing there, opening a pair of hazy eyes and looking at Viserys as well.
"Yes, you were too careless, Viserys."
"Although my mental strength is not as good as yours, I can still bring you here relying on the weirwood trees."
The two hundred new recruits of the Night's Watch finished their oaths in front of the Heart Tree, and then dispersed.
One of them, a gray-haired veteran, was Brynden Rivers, Hand of the King of the previous two dynasties. He was fifty-eight years old when he was sent to the Wall.
The other young man with silver hair is somewhat similar to Maester Aegon whom Viserys had met. He was Maester Aegon in his youth. He is only thirty-five years old now. It is difficult to imagine that he will be here this time.
The Great Wall has been watching for so long.
This group of the most elite soldiers in the kingdom, as well as the criminals who had been cleared of the dungeon by Aegon V, and even the young Maester Aemon, seemed not to have seen the two people in the snow.
They all turned a blind eye to the Three-Eyed Raven and Viserys.
Only the gray-haired 'young' Brynden Rivers seemed to have some feelings.
He stared blankly at a certain blank piece of snow in front of the sacred forest, feeling that there seemed to be something strange there, a feeling that was both familiar and unfamiliar.
The blank snow field he looked at was where Viserys and the Three-Eyed Raven were now, but he saw nothing, just a spotless blank.
Duke Blood Crow's mental power is very strong, and he seems to have sensed something, and when his strange behavior caught the eyes of others, he was in a daze.
Perhaps he has not yet accepted the fact that he has sworn an oath and will become a recruit of the Night's Watch from now on.
However, once he fell from the king's hand, where one person was inferior to ten thousand people, to the mortal world, and became a night watchman army that only criminals and illegitimate children could come to, ordinary people could not accept it either.
"grown ups"
A Crowtooth Guard, once a subordinate of Brynden Rivers, stepped forward to persuade him.
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"You don't seem very surprised?"
Not far away, where Brynden Rivers was looking just now, the three-eyed crow looked at the silver-haired boy with a calm face and asked curiously.
He had thought about the various reactions this young man would have when he was brought here, and even violent resistance, but he never imagined that Viserys would be calm, as if he was taking a walk in his back garden.
"Have you thought of it a long time ago?"
The white-haired old man looked at Viserys and narrowed his eyes slightly.
There are only two possibilities for him to be so calm. One is that he has already thought of it, and the other is that he is confident that even if he is taken to the past, he can still return to the present.
"Are you Brynden Rivers?"
Viserys did not answer the Three-Eyed Raven's question, but instead asked him a question.
In this world, the white-haired old man is not a miserable person entangled with tree roots, but a person with legs and feet who can move freely, because this is his spiritual realm, and his appearance and posture can change at will, and even become a human being.
Weirwood.
And he didn't know why Viserys asked this question, but now that he had seen everything, he naturally had nothing to hide. The three-eyed crow nodded slightly.
"I am."
"The last green prophet of the previous generation is approaching his end, and he taught the power of the old gods to a human being."
"In the future, the Three-Eyed Crow will also teach his abilities to a boy."
"Will you use the same method you used to deal with me in the future to deal with Brandon Stark?"
Viserys spoke in a calm voice, and the expression of the white-haired old man in front of him suddenly changed.
He had read the biography of Brynden Rivers before setting off. Looking at this man's life, Brynden Rivers was definitely not a simple-minded or even kind-hearted and responsible person. His methods were ruthless,
Make the enemy fearful.
"How many eyes does Duke Bloodraven have? A thousand, plus one."
After Bran accepted the inheritance of the Three-Eyed Raven, his temperament changed drastically and he became weird. It seems that it is not difficult to explain.