The war is coming, and this may not be clear in other parts of the Seven Kingdoms, but in the King's Landing City, even any beggar on the roadside is very sure of this.

From the port, they could see the confiscated foreign merchant ships berthed in a compact manner. From the streets, they could find that the members of the capital garrison were ready to go, with serious faces, and they could also find a trace of relevant information from various bureaucratic channels.

People were talking about this, indifferent, afraid, disgusted, and expectant... All kinds of emotions represent the attitudes of various classes towards it, but before the war really came, several things that happened successively attracted the attention of the King's Lander.

First of all, the Crab Claw Peninsula on the edge of the King's Leader. It has been five months since the betrayal of the Iron Throne. The previous amazing reward caused a lot of discussion in the city of Junlin. At this moment, the reward, or the plan to attack the Crab Claw Peninsula has achieved results-

There were originally six or seven lord families of all sizes on the peninsula, but now only three are left. After consultation, these three families officially wrote a letter to express their surrender.

So far, the Iron Throne paid a total of 7,615 golden dragons.

It seems a lot, but it is very rare for a war to launch. At the same time, except for some necessary soldiers and "working" people surrounding the peninsula, this battle did not bring any burden to the Iron Throne.

It is obvious that this is a complete victory. Although the result of the victory may bring hatred of the locals in the peninsula against the Iron Throne, no one cares about it, because the Crab Claw Peninsula was not on the side of Baratheon at all, and it was originally part of the enemy.

At the same time, I don’t know who revealed that the plan was proposed by the Minister of Justice. For a time, Lan Li’s name was repeatedly mentioned by people. He was admired, feared, feared, and disgusted. No matter how you look at it, he has all the names of ordinary people, but overall, his name is still very good among ordinary people.

This is due to the better public security in the king's land.

In addition to the incident of the Crab Claw Peninsula, there was another incident of monster attacking the caravan in Hejiandi. A group of 100 people heading to the north to travel to the caravan disappeared into a forest not far from the Twin City of Hejiandi, and no one had seen them again.

This incident made the rumors about Hejiandi, which had already cooled up again. Through the mouths of many businessmen, Junlin people learned about various special situations, such as humans who could turn into wolf-shaped bodies, short witches wearing green cloaks, iron pots boiling in the forest with human hearts, etc. Because it was far away, no Junlin people had seen them with their own eyes. These things were still regarded as rumors or interesting news. Most people talked about them in a curious manner, and no one was afraid except for children.

Things in the Hejian land seem to be separated by a layer of veil, and they can never be sure of anything in a hazy way, but the public can clearly understand something about the Archbishop recently-

The Archbishop, who was affectionately called the fat man, was suddenly kidnapped by a group of masked bandits while traveling in a sedan chair, and was stripped naked in public and threw him into the King's Fisherman's Square.

Fishermen's Square is a place where King Landing fishmongers sell fish, and many King Landing people also buy fish there. In other words, the daily traffic of people in Fishermen's Square is very high.

So when the naked Archbishop descended from the sky, it caused a sensation. The news spread throughout the King's Landing not long after that day.

What is the Archbishop who was scared to the point of being pissed? What is the Archbishop who screamed like a fat pig waiting to be slaughtered... These words are all honesty, and there are more unreliable rumors.

For example, the Archbishop secretly went to the kiln and was retaliated for not paying, or went to have an affair with a noble lady in the city and was discovered by the male owner, or was discovered by the female owner...

The church lost all its face, and the fat archbishop also lost face and resigned as the archbishop in shame (actually he wanted to stay on it, but he was forced to the palace by the archbishops). Then the seven archbishops of the church began a secret struggle for the position of archbishops.

As a result, somehow, the city reported the ugly secrets and scandals of the Archbishops, which even made the true devouts furious. Therefore, there were voices of cursing in the St. Belle Cathedral for a week.

Finally, under the dazzling attention of people, a monk named Gole from a flea nest was pushed to the archbishop, which surprised many people, but the surprise was only ordinary people. In fact, the upper nobles knew that the monk named Gole was able to rise to power because the respected King Robert personally appointed-

Since losing his armed power, although the church has not diminished its influence, it has been increasingly restricted by the Iron Throne. In history, there was a king who appointed an archbishop, so King Robert can naturally do this today.

After the new archbishop took office, the news about the church stopped for a while. People who devoutly believe in the gods were looking forward to the new archbishop being able to do some good things, and many people were waiting to watch the fun.

Under such circumstances, no one will notice the news about the disappearance of a foreign merchant ship in the port, but this matter is enough to change the upcoming war situation in the future.

...

"This is the bone of a mammoth, from the north of Westeros, the place of eternal winter outside the Great Wall of Desperation."

After smuggling and sailing, a missing captain finally arrived at the location of Kohall, one of the nine free trade city-states a month later. At this time, he was in a pale palace like a bone-supporting, reporting on the situation with several powerful people in luxurious black clothes on the stairs.

An old man in black on the stairs looked down at the bone fragment in his hand, feeling nothing unusual, but another middle-aged man with thin cheeks next to him suddenly shrank his pupils after seeing the bone fragments, and then he hurriedly looked at the captain below.

"Where did you get this thing?"

"Get from a Northbound merchant."

The captain responded respectfully: "And he was traded from the savages."

Northland, savages, this is a strange word for the former senior leaders of Kohall, but since they found the door, they have become familiar with all aspects of Westeros.

For example, the North is one of the seven ancient kingdoms of Westeros, while the Savage is a general term for humans who are blocked from an ice-cold Great Wall at the end of the northern border.

Not only that, they even know more.

"The savages believe in the old god."

After carefully understanding the process, the thin middle-aged man who asked the question could not help but say to his colleagues: "Old God, the old gate, this seems to be very related."

“We haven’t investigated this before.”

The old man who did not find anything abnormal in his bones retorted after hearing this: "The old god was the name that the Westeros had only in order to distinguish the seven gods of the Andals. The seven gods were the new gods. The gods in the past were the old gods. The old gods had no name originally, and they were not really called the old gods."

"But this fragment was found in the land of faith in the Old God."

Before the thin middle-aged man could speak, a chubby old man on the other side said, "The name of the old god is derived from the legend. Maybe you are right, but who can be sure?"

"I think we can send people there to investigate carefully." Another said: "The land of eternal winter outside the Great Wall is not under the jurisdiction of the Iron Throne, and no one can kill us anymore."

"How could it be that there is no, the savage is more unreasonable than the Iron Throne."

"We can send soldiers to follow the savages' equipment behind." said the thin middle-aged man: "They will cooperate naturally, and they must cooperate if they don't cooperate."

"That's right."

"I agree to go and investigate."

"It's been more than ten years, and I finally got such a clue. How could I not investigate it carefully?"

...

The colleagues in black all expressed their opinions on this. Although the old man in the central office did not feel anything special about the bone fragment, he did not dare to say that he had found nothing at this moment. After thinking about it, he nodded in agreement, but expressed his different opinions.

"It is not our Kohl's own business, we should notify others."

This made others agree, so the old man looked at the bald middle-aged man dressed in a guard below the stairs: "Savico, go and call Neken, and we said we found clues to the door."

Necken is the name of a red-robed monk. Although most of the Kohall people believe in the Black Goat God, a small number of people believe in the King of Light, and Necken is the leader of the priests of the King of Light here.

However, after the words were finished, the guard did not move, but said, "Sir, I'm just about to report to you, Necken is dead."

"Dead?"

These words caused a group of black robes to look at each other, and one of them frowned and asked, "How did you die?"

"I'm dying of illness, sir."

"Who is in charge now?" asked the thin middle-aged man.
Chapter completed!