Viserys is constantly exploring the next path in King's Landing. He wants to awaken the pale raven skull with the fire of faith when he is ready.
Viserys asked Meraxes if she recognized the raven, but Meraxes shook her head and said that she had not seen a god who became a raven.
It is very likely that it is one of the ancient gods, relying on its own strength to become a god. She can sense that the crow's skull contains powerful divinity.
At the same time, the Night Watch Legion on the other side was advancing steadily, gradually recovering large areas of land and castles.
The soldiers of the legion braved the severe cold, wind and snow, and measured the land in the north step by step.
In fact, the North is sparsely populated and there are not many castles. If the Night Watch Legion just recaptures the castle, it will not take a few months.
Most castles can even be captured in less than a month. After all, these scattered ghouls don't know how to defend the city. They just saw human soldiers and pounced on them like wild beasts.
The soldiers of the Night's Watch could just shoot them with bows and arrows stained with kerosene from a distance, and they couldn't even get close to the human soldiers.
Without the existence of White Walkers, brainless corpses are no match for humans.
However, the difficulty is that the Northern Territory is vast and sparsely populated. Therefore, these Night's Watch soldiers must clear out these corpses inch by inch to prevent future troubles when the people of the Northern Territory relocate back.
…
"drive"
"drive"
The towering walls of Winterfell stand on this vast, endless plain. Two horses, one brown and one black, are running towards this side, with two knights in black riding on the horses.
They were wearing black cloaks and thick wolf skin shawls, coming from afar covered in dust. They were the two brothers of the Stark family.
Eddard Stark and Benyan rode their horses to the city wall and reined in the reins. They looked up at Winterfell so close at hand and couldn't help but feel a lot of emotion.
"This is what Winterfell looked like when I last left."
Eddard Stark exhaled a breath of white air and then spoke.
On the other side, his younger brother Bunyan was wearing black leather gloves and raised his hand to point to the burnt black mark on the city wall not far away.
"I left a little later than you, Ed. That area was burned down by me."
That year, Bunyan and other coalition soldiers and the brothers of the Night's Watch were separated from the main force during the Battle of Winterfell. They did not retreat in time and were trapped in the cellars of Winterfell.
They struggled for several months in the cellar relying on the remaining supplies. Finally, they ran out of ammunition and food, mustered up the courage to rush out, and then jumped off the city wall with the help of heavy snow to escape.
The scorched mark was left when Bunyan pushed down a barrel of kerosene and threw down a torch to light it to stop the zombies from chasing him.
Later, Benjen and others were rescued by the Three-Eyed Raven, and the rest of their journey was all about finding Viserys until they were captured on Dragonstone and later released when King's Landing fell.
"Winterfell...is thrown from my hand."
Ed Stark looked at his hometown in front of him with mixed emotions on his face, and finally sighed.
"But Winterfell has been regained from your hands again, Eddard. There is no need to blame yourself."
Bunyan turned his head to look at his brother and said with a smile. The middle-aged man with dark brown hair and beard mixed with a bit of gray shook his head when he heard this, but still smiled.
"Let's go into the city!"
Then the two brothers rode their horses into Winterfell.
Winterfell has now been recaptured by the Night's Watch. It only took two days to kill all the corpses, including those in the cellar.
However, I don’t know what happened to the crypts of Winterfell. Most of them collapsed. Most of the tombs of the King of the North have been buried forever, and the few tombs that are still outside are also deep pits. There should be
The sleeping tomb owner has disappeared.
When brothers Eddard and Benjen arrived in the crypt, the Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, Jeor Mormont, was already here.
He was inspecting the Stark family tomb with a torch. When he saw the owner of this place arriving, he stood up and patted Ed on the shoulder. He sighed and said nothing more.
It is naturally the greatest misfortune for a family to have their ancestral graves dug up, but it happened to be the work of a strange ghost. Who can explain this?
"Commander Mormont."
"Commander-in-Chief."
"Bunyan."
"Lord Eddard Stark."
The three of them briefly greeted each other, and then the commander of the Night's Watch with gray hair and beard left the place, leaving it to the two brothers of the Stark family.
Soon after all the outsiders had left, the cellars of Winterfell became quiet, except for the burning torch in Benyan's hand, which made a constant crackling sound.
"I remember you told me that you had a dream."
"Bunyan."
The two brothers looked at the collapsed Winterfell cellar in front of them for a long time, and then Eddard Stark's weather-beaten face suddenly turned around and asked.
"Well, that's right."
On the other side, the smile on Bunyan's face had also disappeared, and he felt a little heavy.
He had mentioned this dream to him after he and his brother were reunited in King's Landing, when he was most desperate when he was besieged in this crypt.
Then he dreamed of his sister Lyanna Stark, who loudly told Benjen to leave quickly with tears in her eyes.
After waking up from the dream, Benjen and others mustered up the courage to fight their way out, and met the Night King who was returning to Winterfell.
Fortunately, the Night King didn't bother to chase down a few human soldiers who were still alive, so Bunyan and others were able to escape.
"Bunyan, do you think Lyanna still has her own consciousness now?"
Eddard Stark was silent for a long time and suddenly said something shocking.
"What?"
On the other side, his brother Bunyan was also slightly stunned, and then looked at his brother in disbelief.
It was a consensus that the ancestors of the Stark family, including their relative Lyanna, were manipulated by White Walkers to fake corpses, but what surprised him was Ed's words.
"impossible?"
Bunyan thought for a moment, then shook his head and said.
"If Lyanna was still conscious, why did she shoot Robert with an arrow?"
"you"
However, Bunyan swallowed his words before he finished speaking.
Because he also attended the public trial in King's Landing, he also heard the love story between his sister Lyanna and Rhaegar Targaryen.
Could it be that Lyanna shot Robert with an arrow to avenge Rhaegar?
The look on Bunyan's face was a little surprised, while Eddard Stark on the side was silent throughout the whole process, with a complicated expression on his face. He is the person who knows this period of history best.