A Western fantasy journey that began with Game of Thrones - Chapter 300 The Missing Baron
“I heard it was the second oldest Greyjoy who did it.”
In a tavern in King’s Harbor, a drunken Ironborn lowered his voice and spoke to his companions. He looked cautious, but in fact his voice was loud enough for everyone in the tavern to hear clearly.
“The leader Euron ran away with his group ten years ago. It is said that he made a fortune in the Eastern Continent, and then hired someone to kidnap King Greyjoy.”
“real?”
The companion was surprised when he heard this: “Why is he doing this?”
“What else can you do?”
The drunkard sneered: “Of course I want to be the boss of the Kraken family and kill King Balon. Isn’t it Euron who has the final say in the Greyjoy family?”
After saying this, before his companion could respond, a guy dressed as a businessman not far away sneered and retorted.
“How is this possible? Our King Balon still has two sons. Who is the one who can take on Euron?”
“And who doesn’t know that Euron has betrayed us.” Someone on the other side echoed, “He wants to be the leader, and we will never agree!”
“Yes, I disagree!”
“Traitors are not qualified to be leaders!”
“Let him fuck his asshole! Don’t even think about coming back to cause trouble for us!”
…
There was a chorus of echoes in the tavern, full of ridicule and dissatisfaction. It was obvious that the guy named Euron was not welcome here.
King’s Harbor is the largest port in the Iron Islands. Since people here don’t like Euron, it basically means that all the ironmen in the Iron Islands despise his existence.
But the drunkard who spoke first had a different opinion.
“King Balon’s two sons are no longer considered Ironborn.”
He said loudly: “They have become two little sheep in the green land! They can only bleat! How can the Greyjoy family let them inherit?”
“We still have Miss Asha!” someone retorted.
“Yes, Miss Asha is very suitable to be the leader!”
“But she is a woman.” This was said by another person, who had previously spoken sarcastically about drunkards.
“What can women do? Wouldn’t they give you black noses and swollen faces?”
“No woman has ever sat on the Seastone in the Iron Islands!”
“Never means never…”
…
A group of Ironborn shouted at each other and unknowingly changed the topic and started talking about who was more suitable to inherit the Greyjoy family. Their words seemed to have identified the missing Balon Greyjoy. A dead man.
It is normal to have this kind of thinking, just because King’s Harbor is located on Pyke Island, and Pyke Island is the territory of the Greyjoy family, so the local people know that the Greyjoy King is in Pyke City, that is, Greyjoy Missing from the castle of the Joy family.
If he disappears in the castle, where can he go?
There was no other possibility, so he naturally fell into the sea.
Pike City was built on several cliffs, and the towers were not closely spaced. They were separated by sea water and a suspension bridge. And because the ironmen were bold and bold, and would throw axes at each other at every turn, the suspension bridge was extremely unsafe.
I often heard that a servant or a groom or a cook in Pike City accidentally fell off a bridge and disappeared. Fortunately, the body could be fished out afterwards. Unfortunately, the body could not be found, and there was basically no possibility of survival. .
Now that King Balon fell off the bridge, how could he survive?
Therefore, at this time, basically no one on Pyke Island, or even in the entire Iron Islands, thought King Balon was still alive——
Except for those in the know.
“No one seems to suspect anything.”
In the corner of the tavern, two people silently listened to the discussions of the people around them. They did not withdraw their attention until the topic was replaced by the news that someone on Gudeng Island set sail towards the deep sea in the far west to find a new continent.
“How could these idiots know what’s going on?”
One of the two, a big man wearing an inconspicuous gray linen cloak, laughed when he heard this.
He had long gray-black hair and a calm voice, but the hand holding the wine glass looked strange. The roots of his five fingers were connected to thin wrinkled flesh membranes, which seemed to have frog-like webs.
“I hope I can hide it from some smart people.” The thin middle-aged man sitting opposite the big man sighed, “Let me tell you, it would be fine if the king explicitly rejected Baratheon. What are we afraid of?”
“He is the son of the Drowned God, how could I refuse?” The webbed gray-haired man shook his head with a helpless expression, “If we really want to see him, we have only one way to send troops.”
Just by hearing these words, a smart person would be able to guess that this person is actually the missing Balon Greyjoy. Unfortunately, the corner here is very inconspicuous, only illuminated by a dim candle, which makes it blurry. During this time, the appearance of the two people could not be seen clearly. No one around them paid attention to them, and they did not expect that the person they were talking about would be in the tavern.
“So Renly is really the son of the Drowned God?”
The thin middle-aged man said suspiciously: “Although I haven’t heard about what happened ten years ago, I do know that the Drowned people wanted to support an archbishop, so they created a son of the Drowned God. The Drowned people are inherently divine. Damn it, what happened on Old Wake Island was probably their fault.”
“How can ordinary people create divine means?”
King Balon retorted: “Besides, there is a hidden secret. You don’t have to doubt that he is indeed the son of the Drowned God. But I didn’t expect that the son of the Drowned God of our Ironborn would be reincarnated in the Baratheon family.”
“What can Baratheon do? If he is not on our side, then he is not the Son of the Drowned God.” The middle-aged man’s words were full of meaning.
“Don’t say this again!”
Baron glared at the other party when he heard this. Seeing the indignation on his face, he explained helplessly, “I am very sure that he is the son of the Drowned God. As for why I am sure, don’t ask, just believe me. Besides, even if it is not the case, you also know the influence of the son of the Drowned God in our Iron Islands. It is not that you say it is not. For so many years, those Drowned people have used the name of that person to win the hearts of the people.”
The thin middle-aged man sighed when he heard this.
“Yes, it made us dare not spread the news that the son of the Drowned God came. Those Drowned people are really damned.”
“But they will know it sooner or later.”
Baron also sighed, picked up the wine glass and drank the wine in it, with a very depressed expression.
He couldn’t help but be depressed. At this time, the war in Westeros was just beginning. The Baratheons and Targaryens were fighting endlessly in the riverlands, constantly opening up one battlefield after another, but they never decided the winner.
In this case, the most obvious way for the Iron Islands is to wait and see, not to intervene without authorization, and wait until the situation becomes clear before making the final decision. Or if the war intensifies and sweeps across Westeros, then it is better to take advantage of the situation and seize the interests that the Iron Islands want.
However, the Son of the Drowned God is a member of the Baratheon family. At the same time, judging from his past actions, he obviously supports the current King Robert Baratheon. When he comes to the Iron Islands at this time, it is difficult for Balon to guarantee whether the Son of the Drowned God will stand on the side of the Iron Islands or on the side of Baratheon.
Logically speaking, the Son of the Drowned God should protect the Ironmen, but Balon dare not take the risk of assuming that he will really consider things from the perspective of the Ironmen-
Who can guess what the gods think?
For some reason, he is sure of Renly’s identity as the Son of the Drowned God, so after learning about the identity of Baratheon, he suspects that there may be other plans, such as the gods have made some arrangements.
However, can the Drowned God’s plan be the same as the Iron Islands’ plan?
He couldn’t see it from a distance, but now he thought it was best for them not to take sides rashly.
So Balon could only pretend to disappear to avoid that person’s visit. In this way, even if the son of the Drowned God arrived in the Iron Islands and won the full support of the Drowned People, he couldn’t expect to successfully send troops from the Iron Islands.
In other words, when the current leader of the Iron Islands “died”, the most important thing for the lords and nobles who were in charge of the army was to elect a new leader, rather than to send troops in a state of disunity.
Even the Drowned Priests could not object to this.
It was impossible to elect a new leader quickly, even if the son of the Drowned God appointed him, because he had to consider the issue of persuading the people.
In this way, this matter would inevitably be delayed for a long time until the war situation became clear.
But, would that person really be kept in the dark?
Balon doubted this.
The son of the Drowned God had mysterious means and seemed to have the ability to predict the future. Could his plan really be kept from him?
