Lord Commander Jeor Mormont was staring at the raven scroll in his hand, a mixture of emotions in his heart as he looked at the signature.
Some time ago, the Valyrian Empire that suddenly appeared in the North made him feel a little familiar, and now this familiarity has turned into a sudden realization, and he finally understood why he had so many questions about that adult at the beginning!
Over the years, everyone has seen the changes in the Night's Watch. They eat better and better, live better and better, have more equipment and weapons, and the harassment of wildlings has gradually decreased. Although the rumors and news of the Others are increasing, in the eyes of many low-level Night's Watch, everything has become better.
And when the flag of the Valyrian Empire appeared in Mole's Town and the Crown Town, the Night's Watch warriors were talking about it, and they were all curious about what kind of existence this suddenly appearing country was.
After that, when more rumors about dragons and magical creatures appeared, Jeor Mormont finally felt a little wrong, and he felt that the newly emerging force seemed to be related to a mysterious person.
It was only today, when Jeor Mormont saw the raven message, that he finally learned Marco's identity. What he couldn't understand was why Marco would help the Night's Watch so vigorously.
Although the Night's Watch has always maintained strict neutrality in the history of the Seven Kingdoms, this "War of the Five Kings" has made many Night's Watch brothers full of malice toward King's Landing and the Lannister family, especially after the news of the death of the recruiting officer Yoren in the Riverlands was sent back to the Black Castle by Jon thru the crow letter to Winterfell.
With the Crown cutting off resources and manpower, Jeor Mormont could only order the Night's Watch's newly appointed recruiting officer to take in "new recruits" near White Harbor and Gulltown. The number and quality of the recruits were much worse than before. The last time, after receiving the news that White Harbor and Dreadfort were about to go to war, the Night's Watch also stopped its "recruiting" work.
"What do you think about this?"
After the raven messages were sent, Jeor Mormont asked the chiefs around him. Benjen Stark was still silent and lost. The Stark family's affairs made him exhausted. Especially after the "Red Wedding" happened, he almost broke his oath and went south.
Finally, it was Maester Aemon who talked him out of it, and he's been like this ever since.
At this time, the new recruit instructor Elisha Thorne said with some excitement:
"I think this is a good thing. Since the death of the 'King of the Hundred Years', no king has ever really valued us except for the Stark family. Only His Majesty Markel really cares about us, values us, and respects us. And if there is a large-scale attack on the Great Wall by the Others or the wights in the future, I believe that the first and only force that will come to support us will be him."
Chief Steward Bowen Marsh added, "No matter what happens in the Seven Kingdoms, the Night's Watch will always be the Night's Watch. We will always be here, and anyone who comes to help us is a friend and honored guest of the Night's Watch!"
Seeing that no one else had anything to say, Jeor Mormont rose after a moment's thot and addressed the men.
"Then clean up the King's Tower and prepare to welcome the arrival of this king!"
"Yes, sir!"
Several officers, led by Bowen Marsh and Alliser Thorne, answered in unison.
At this time, in the town center of Mole Town, Marco was listening to the reports of the heads of his subordinates. Beside him were his four wives. Marco's clothes had basically been changed to the formal dress of the military uniform. Because he didn't like wearing the crown very much, he threw the crown in the Griffin Castle.
Because Marco didn't have many requirements for red tape, Moonshadow and the others also dressed casually, not like the nobles in King's Landing who wore gorgeous long skirts.
The reason Marco came here was because Maester Yimon wrote him a raven letter, in which Maester Yimon said he felt he was about to die and hoped to see the last of his clan.
So Maester Aemon had summoned Brynden Rivers and Aegon Targaryen (Jon Snow) to his bedside to say their last farewells.
Yin Meng had helped Marco a lot, so Marco would see him off no matter what, and see if he could save Yin Meng with the light magic.
Mole Town was once very backward, but since Marco invested in it, it has become many times more prosperous than before. Some merchants in the North and the Vale of Arryn are also willing to come to Mole Town for trade after learning that there are fewer wildlings here.
The furs, iron ore, silver ore, handicrafts, clothing, furniture, and various ceramics of Mole Town were all of high quality and low price, and the King's Avenue line became prosperous over time.
There would have been more people here if not for the War of the Five Kings and the civil war in the North, but with the change of ownership of Winterfell, this trade route has recovered some vitality.
After listening to the officials' report, Marco praised their achievements and put forward the later planning. This time, Marco also brought a batch of new seeds from Skaggs Island.
Leaf and the other transformed Children of the Forest had been researching new crops and fruit trees for Marco. Although they had experienced many failures, as time went on, all kinds of new magical plants appeared.
For example, water hyacinth that can absorb sewage and bear fruit; vines that can parasitize on sentinel trees and bear hard-shelled pine cones; mushrooms that are tenacious, grow rapidly, and are completely non-toxic; barley that cannot be seeded but can grow rapidly, etc.
These crops and trees would take root in the barren soil of the North, bringing food to the war- and famine-ravaged Northmen. The Starks had ruled the North with honor and chivalry, the upstart Boltons had subdued the North with blood and brutality, and Marco would rule the North with magic and food.
After explaining these things, Marco heard the dragon's roar from the roof, and then the door of the hall was knocked open. The little crystal dragon rushed in directly and jumped to Marco's face.
The little crystal dragon rubbed its head against Marco affectionately, and Marco gently stroked its delicate scales and said gently:
"You did a good job this time, keep it up, and I'll reward you with a pile of rubies later!"
"Hiss.."
At this time, Brinden also pushed the door and walked in. After he saluted Marco and Yueying, he said to Marco:
"Your Majesty! We are all ready here, and we can set off soon!"
After that, the group left Mole Town. Ygritte's young dragon was nourished by the magic spring on Skagos Island, and it grew faster. Now it is almost as big as a giant lizard.
At this time, it was flying hard behind two of its kind, trying to catch up with them, but soon, it ran out of strength and fell from the sky, stopping on Yin Geng's shoulder.
"Yin Geng, you still need to train it more. Although ice dragons are different from fire dragons, long-term flight is more conducive to its growth."
Marco said to Yin Geng, Yin Geng's ice dragon and Marco's crystal dragon were somewhat similar, neither of them ate meat, the ice dragon ate magic, Yin Geng had two very special magic powers of ice and fire, which was also one of the reasons why the ice dragon liked him.
Because of the abundant "food", the ice dragon didn't like flying after a long time, and its body became a little bloated because of the nourishment of magic. Marco was afraid that it would be raised into a ground dragon by Yin Geng, so he said this.
Hearing this, Yin Geng said with some embarrassment: "Sorry! Your Majesty! I know, I will pay attention to it in the future. Duke Blindenburg told me about this in his letter, but every time I see its pitiful appearance, I can't bear to train it, but you can rest assured that I will change it immediately."
"Roar..."
Just then, the two young dragons in the sky suddenly roared. Everyone looked up and found that a group of Night's Watch rangers had already set up a formation at the gate of the Black Castle, ready to welcome Marco and the others.
The young dragons' roars made the horses a little nervous, but they quickly calmed down under the comfort of their masters, which made Marco's eyes light up. It could be seen that "Old Bear" still attached great importance to this meeting.
After Marco's coronation, the Three-Eyed Crow formed a special guard for him. The guard had a total of 20 people, all of whom were the strongest elites among the rock species and savages. The Three-Eyed Crow also spent a lot of energy to awaken their shapeshifting talents and carved tattoos for them with source language runes.
These runes gave them great power, making these warriors as fast as shadow lynxes, and they could communicate perfectly with animals and plants, and they had become like elves in the Western fantasy stories of Blue Star.
The Three-Eyed Raven also named this new profession "Wind Speaker" and called on the people under Marco's rule to study with him. During the time Marco went to King's Landing, the number of Wind Speakers had reached more than 100.
And Narkissos, as if he had been stimulated, began to study day and nite. He told Marco that he would definitely develop a new profession for Marco in three months.
Originally, the Three-Eyed Crow wanted to name these guards the "Kamikaze Guards," but Marco rejected the idea because the name always made him unconsciously recall the disgusting race of the Japanese, so Marco's guard team was finally named the "Wind Dragon Guards."
Each warrior of the Wind Dragon Guard has a dark green cloak with the sacred sun emblem of Marco embroidered on it. For the armor, Marco specially prepared dark gold scale armor for them, and the weapons were also Tang Hengdao.
After communicating with a Wind Dragon Guard, Benjen Stark was allowed to come to Marco. He looked at Marco with a complicated expression. There was anger, sadness, regret and a trace of helplessness in his eyes. However, he still recovered and said to Marco:
"The Night's Watch welcomes King Maegor the Cruel, and the brothers of the Night's Watch will never forget your generosity and recognition!"
After saying that, Benjen Stark bowed to Marco, then made a gesture of invitation to Marco, who rode the unicorn Silver Flash past him.
Marco looked at his lost soul and waved to Yin Geng behind him:
"Yin Geng! Let them come!"
Then Marco led the main force to the gate of the Black Castle, while Yigen led a wide carriage to Benyan.
Looking at the silver-haired man in front of him, who was both familiar and strange, Benjen asked with some surprise:
"Who are you?"
"Uncle Benjen! It's Jon!"
"Benjen," Ygritte said, and Hodor Willis pulled back the curtain of the wagon, and Bran and his party emerged, the Stark males who had nearly been wiped out, finally reunited in front of the Black Castle.
Marco led his wife and a group of his men to the small square of the Black Castle. The little crystal dragon and the little green dragon were playing and screaming in the sky, which made the Night's Watch warriors marvel. After Marco got off his horse, he led Moonshadow and the others to the front of Old Bear and the others.
After a brief exchange of greetings, Marco took Moonshadow and the others to visit Maester Yimon, leaving behind a group of Night's Watch warriors with different expressions. Although the quality of the "treasures" in Mole Town had improved a lot, they were not worth mentioning compared to Marco's wives.
However, they were not fools. They knew that they had no chance at all when they saw the giant dragon and the guards. They could only yy in their hearts. "Old Xiong" saw this and said with some dissatisfaction:
"All of you be good and don't cause trouble. Don't forget who gave you these years of good life, and don't forget your oath. If anyone causes trouble at that time, I will directly cut off his 'brother' with my long claws!"
Scholar Yin Meng was lying on the bed with a painful expression. His body and soul had reached the point of exhaustion. Marco could see the weak life energy in his body slowly dissipating. It seemed that he could only last until tonight at most.
"Is that.. Mr. Linden and Mr. Markel?"
Maester Aemon asked in the direction of Marco and the others, his hand trembling as he raised it. The little fat boy beside him quickly supported him, and Brynden slowly walked up and gently took his hand.
Their friendship had lasted for nearly half a century, and they had both given their all to the Targaryen family, but at this moment there were no words between them, perhaps because they both knew what the other was going to say.
"Your Majesty! Sam has told me about your current situation. You are truly a great man. No king in history has ever done what you have done. The dragon has been resurrected, and I can also go and reunite with my brothers. I will tell them... cough cough..."
After saying all this in one breath, Academician Yin Meng seemed to have been drained of all the strength in his body, and he began to cough violently.
Maeko quickly used "Vitality Regeneration" on him, but the current Scholar Yimon was like a bucket with holes everyplace, and there was no way to save him. His soul was so weak that it was beyond repair.
"Lord Markel! Thank you! Can you bring Yigeng here too? I have one last gift to give you!"
Scholar Yin Meng, who had recovered some of his spirit, said to Marco.