Benyan knelt on the ground, and then he merged into the army of the dead and became one of them. There were all kinds of corpses around him.
However, his loyal horse still followed him and did not leave.
Afterwards, I don't know how much time passed, but the army of the dead began to retreat slowly, heading further north, while the ice-blue flame was still burning brightly and seemed to never go out.
They climbed over a towering mountain and continued to move toward the boundless north, far away from the range of the ice-blue flame. Only when it completely disappeared from everyone's sight did Bunyan wake up.
"What's wrong with me?"
Bunyan suddenly woke up, and then felt the coldness coming from his soul.
The first time he saw the ice-blue flame, he was already deeply immersed in it without realizing it. He had no idea what happened next. He was like a puppet on strings, obeying the "companions" around him.
The order of some unknown existence is acting against one's own instinct.
Until he woke up again, he was already in the middle of the vast army of the dead and became one of them.
His left hand is still holding the mount 'Red Yellow'. Even if this old horse that has been with him for many years dies, it still has the same memories of his life as Bunyan. It has always followed its master, even if he becomes confused.
It has never gone far.
"Thank you, old man."
Bunyan stroked the skull horse's mane with his hand, and the old horse with a docile personality turned its head and looked at him calmly, but now its red and yellow appearance was a bit scary, and half of its cheeks were rotten.
The bones are also exposed.
The entire army of dead people was moving forward silently, making no sound except for the sound of footsteps. They crossed the towering mountain range and continued to move towards the unknown north.
Bunyan didn't know where they were going, but based on past experience and the eyes of the Ice Dragon Star he saw when he raised his head at night, he judged that they were still heading north.
But he didn't know if it was Bunyan's illusion. He felt that the Ice Dragon Star seemed to be getting closer and closer to them. The moon above his head also turned dimly dark red, and it was more than three times larger than what he had seen in the human world.
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"The days are getting shorter and the nights are getting longer."
"Is it possible that we have to walk to the moon?"
Bunyan looked at the Ice Dragon star and the moon above his head, which seemed to have grown much larger. He couldn't help but think like this.
Even with the imagination of people in this era, it is impossible to imagine where the north of Westeros leads. Could it lead to the sky?
Could it be that Westeros is actually as big as the continent of Essos? It’s just that the ‘Skeleton Mountains’ that block the continent in Westeros are actually endless ice fields? And Westeros is just the ‘upright’ continent of Essos?
As the youngest son of Rickard, the former Duke of Winterfell, Bunyan naturally received an excellent education since childhood. He knew that the world was very big, and it was definitely not just the size they were familiar with. However, at this time, he 'lonely' set foot in the human world.
I had never set foot in a field before, so I couldn't help but let myself go and start boldly imagining.
Bunyan was even looking forward to seeing something surprising next.
He even thought of the story told by the old nurse in Winterfell about the Ice Dragon.
"Ice dragons are much larger than the Targaryen dragons. They roam the endless ice fields and occasionally appear on the Shivering Sea."
"Their bodies are made of ice and snow, and their eyes are made of light blue crystal. They wave their huge translucent wings and breathe out cold air, enough to freeze a ship into ice."
"The vast trembling sea has a legendary place among sailors, called the Man-Eating Bay. According to legend, ships that enter the Cannibal Bay and never return all encounter the cruising ice dragon."
"They froze the ship with their icy breath and then ate all the humans on it."
When he was a child, Bunyan would feel cold every time he heard the stories told by the old nurse. However, when he grew up, he realized that the stories told by the old nurse were all folklore that he heard from somewhere, and most of them were lies.
Human, deceiving children not to cry.
"Is it possible to see the ice dragon that the old nanny talked about by going all the way north?"
Such thoughts only flashed through Bunyan's mind, and then he couldn't help but shake his head, no longer thinking about these bizarre things.
He didn't think that there would be a dragon bigger than Balerion on the endless ice field.
He had witnessed the Black Death with his own eyes when he was in King's Landing. The huge body that covered the sky and the sun was emitting scorching heat. He could feel the heat coming from just a hundred meters away from it. This feeling made him shudder.
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Bunyan doesn't think there is anything in this world that can defeat the dragon. If there is, it is not a field that humans can touch.
It must be the gods who can do it, and perhaps it is for this reason that the gods punished Valyria.
Therefore, Bunyan persuaded his brother to surrender as soon as possible, for the sake of his sister-in-law and children, not to make fearless resistance. It was inevitable that Targaryen would conquer the Seven Kingdoms, and they would have to pay for their mistakes.
Bunyan pulled the red and yellow reins of his mount and followed the large army slowly forward, his mind filled with random thoughts.
He can't do anything else now and can only think wildly. He also wants to find his sister Lyanna Stark. This is also the purpose of his trip. Now there are so many corpses and white ghosts gathered here.
Benyan guessed that Lyanna should be among these ghosts, but now he has no way to find his sister.
Because he was surrounded by an endless army of ghouls, it was difficult to squeeze out no matter which way he walked, because these ghouls would not give way to him.
And it was easy to spot the clues. Although the white ghosts and corpses didn't seem to see anything, and they turned a blind eye to some of his abnormal behaviors, Benyan still felt that he shouldn't be too unique.
Otherwise, it would really be like lighting a lantern and going to the toilet, only to have nothing to do but to poop.
However, Bunyan was thinking wildly and followed the team tirelessly for who knows how long.
There have been many transitions between day and night in the human world, but here it is eternal night.
But at this moment, the march of the zombie army suddenly stopped, and Bunyan, who was a little confused and distracted, was slightly startled. If he did not have a very strong psychological quality in such an environment, everyone would eventually go crazy.
However, a loud roar of a dragon suddenly sounded above the head. This roar shook the endless ice field and was filled with monstrous rage.