Although the Long Night has fallen for nearly half a year now, and all creatures in the world, including humans, have been severely affected, humans have wisdom and have found some ways to solve the current predicament.
For example, there is a large hourglass in St. Belle's Cathedral. It takes an hour every time it is completely drained. Therefore, the monks in St. Belle's Cathedral are constantly turning over the hourglass every day, and then use it to spread the water throughout the world.
The bells throughout King's Landing tell people what time it is and what they should do.
Just like the three ancient bells of Norvos, getting up, eating, sleeping, etc. have all been calculated, and the people of King's Landing live their lives according to the bells of the temple.
Therefore, although the long night is now shrouded in darkness and there is no sun or moon, King's Landing still has the concept of 'day' and 'night', and can do whatever it is at which time.
The long night has fallen for half a year, and the empire's territory as a whole is still stable.
Because the empire has made adequate preparations and started hoarding food and grass early in advance. Now, after the food control, although the people do not have enough to eat and are barely able to survive, at least they will not starve to death in the next one or two years.
The outside world is more cruel. Nowadays, most of the shipping connections have been cut off. Most merchant ships dare not go to sea. It is not that the merchants have no courage, but that many city-states have begun to imitate the empire and implement a closed policy. In addition to forming coalition warships
Running back and forth on the Narrow Sea.
Viserys also learned about the current situation of the outside world through the contact with his 'Iron Mask General'.
It is said that chaos has broken out in many places. The hungry people rushed into the homes of the rich and opened their grain depots. In some places, the riots were suppressed, but people have begun to eat people.
Viserys and Bessie can talk across two continents, as do all those who have been corrupted by his black mist, just like the wizards of the ancient Freehold claimed by the Ashai Shadowbinder Quelizard.
There are currently four glass candles hidden in King's Landing. They were all looted from the academy after the Old Town was breached. They are one green and three black.
Viserys learned the spells that the Quirk taught him to control, but he was still trying to figure out how to control the glass candle as a whole.
If the glass candle of the Ancient Freehold was really useful, it would be a very powerful magic weapon, just like the raven skull.
Because its calling distance is much stronger than that of Viserys himself in his original state. After all, Viserys and Bessie are now separated by a narrow sea. In fact, the distance is not that far. Sometimes, they will 'make phone calls' frequently.
'Disconnected'.
After the destruction of ancient Valyria, the craftsmanship of making glass candles has also been lost, and there are not many glass candles left, even rarer than the surviving Valyrian steel swords.
But the value of a glass candle is far less than that of a Valyrian steel sword, because apart from detecting the return of the magic tide, the glass candle has no effect on ordinary people, and naturally cannot cut gold.
The Valyrian steel sword is worth a lot.
If the glass candle is really useful, Viserys plans to place the four candles on the Great Wall, King's Landing, and Essos respectively, and the remaining one is waiting for arrangement.
In this way, the message can be transmitted seamlessly and timely, and with the dragon as a mount, the travel time between the two places can be shortened. Even if the empire's territory is doubled, it can still be tightly held in the palm of your hand, without the territory being too large.
Because of this, it fell apart in the later period.
Viserys looked at the black glass candle in front of him and the eternal flame on it and fell into deep thought.
At this moment, a sweet and slightly childish girl's voice came from behind.
"Dad, I heard that mom said you are going to a place far away?"
Viserys suddenly came back to his senses, and then saw his eldest daughter, Diana, with short silver-gold hair that reached her neck, standing behind him.
Diana is still young, only six or seven years old this year, but she has already fully demonstrated her intelligence. She just likes to play and has a lively nature.
The same was true for Viserys' other child, Horos Targaryen. Dr. Marwyn, the Grand Maester who was responsible for the prince's education and enlightenment, sincerely lamented Prince Horos's studiousness.
Children from ordinary families are still at the age of playing when they are three or four years old. Even the families of great aristocrats do not start education until they are six years old, but His Highness Prince Heros does not like playing around. On the contrary, this boy is very interested in books.
, he is also curious about many things in the world, and has begun to learn to read.
Heros knew even more words than his sister. Of course, this was not because Diana was less talented, but simply because the sister did not study hard, while Heros was very dedicated to learning.
"Well, dad is going to the Eastern Continent."
Viserys heard the voice behind him, turned his head and saw his eldest daughter, then reached out and picked up Diana, and the girl sat obediently in her father's arms.
"Do you know where the Eastern Continent is?"
"Mr. Marwin should have taught you."
Viserys held his daughter in his arms and tested her knowledge to see if she had studied seriously during this period.
"Well, of course I know!"
When Diana heard that her father was testing her, she immediately sat in Viserys's arms and squirmed like all the children in the world, they were all willing to act coquettishly in their father's arms.
"The eastern continent is the continent of Eessos."
Due to the pronunciation of the name Essos, Diana had some difficulty speaking it.
The Targaryen family is the remnant of the ancient Valyrian Free Fortress, and now Viserys is determined to rebuild the empire, so the children of the royal family are given bilingual education, both Common Language and High Valyrian.
In fact, when Viserys was a child and the second prince in the Red Keep, he was educated in Valyrian.
The continent of Essos is the common name for the Eastern Continent among the people, and it is also a simplified version of the name. Some of the letters are lost when it is called. The full name of the continent of Essos should be the continent of Essos.
"Then what is Dad going to do in Essos?"
The way the girl with silver neck-length hair tried to bite her words made Viserys laugh. He scratched his daughter's little nose with his hand, which made his daughter roll her eyes, and then said with a smile.