evening.
The light group that rarely appears in the winter season has disappeared into the horizon.
The cold wind is biting.
A vast wilderness at the edge of a great forest.
The people who were waiting did not feel cold at all and were chatting and discussing happily.
"Who do you think will win the first prize in this hunting competition?"
"I don't know. Anyway, those who have already come out should not be able to win first place..."
"I think it's our Lord Duke..."
"The Duke is old, I think Lord Robb Stark can win..."
"I think that kid Jon can win. I've seen his strength before..."
"Not only are you from Winterfell participating in the hunt this time, but we are also from King's Landing. His Majesty the King is still here..."
"His Majesty the King is getting older. I think that "Hound Dog" is very likely to win the first place..."
"It's a pity that Ser Jaime Lannister of the Kingsguard didn't come, otherwise he would have the greatest chance of winning first place..."
"Don't mention the "regicide". If he wasn't the queen's brother, who would remember who he is..."
"You must think that because you are strong, you will definitely win the first place?"
"This is a hunting contest, not a martial arts tournament..."
"Is there anything wrong?"
"When it comes to strength, haven't you thought about the "sharp shooter" Morgan that the Stark family recruited not long ago?"
"I think Mr. Morgan is the one who is most likely to win first place..."
"Who? Sharpshooter Morgan? The new retainer of the Stark family?"
"What's the point of you arguing like this? You'll find out soon..."
"Hey, it's a pity that I'm not good at shooting, otherwise I would be able to participate in this hunting competition..."
"The first place has one thousand gold dragon coins, one thousand gold dragon coins!"
"Not only one thousand gold dragon coins, but also the reputation of first place in the hunting competition. This is personally recognized by the king and queen..."
"It's so enviable..."
"Who says it's not..."
A group of guards and soldiers who part-time carried prey stood together and chatted.
Not far ahead of them.
A dozen members of the hunting team had already left the forest first.
But among these members.
The best hunting results were two wild boars of average size.
The worst was the killing of two hares and two birds.
Luck is sometimes hard to explain clearly.
But if you are not strong enough, it will be useless no matter how lucky you are.
It was almost dusk.
It was already very close to the meeting time mentioned in the morning.
Presumably other members of the hunting team, as well as His Majesty the King and the Duke, are already on their way back.
A group of guard soldiers and members who had finished the hunt frequently looked towards the edge of the forest.
at this time.
A huge figure suddenly appeared at the edge of the dim forest.
"Giant bear, my God..."
"Such a big giant bear, damn it, get up quickly..."
"Wait, something's wrong..."
"That giant bear is dead. Look carefully..."
"Really, there's someone down there..."
"It's unbelievable that he carried the carcass of a giant bear..."
"Someone actually hunted a giant bear, and it was such a big bear. Oh my god..."
"..."
I saw the figure that suddenly appeared at the edge of the forest, carrying an astonishingly large bear carcass.
Everyone waiting at the edge of the forest was excited.
Time passed slowly.
Watching the figure carrying the huge bear carcass walking towards the outside of the forest.
Everyone is looking at that figure.
Finally, when the other party walked out of the dark forest, his figure immediately became clear.
"It's Morgan!"
"It's Winterfell's new marksman Morgan!"
"Oh my God, I knew it was his!"
"You don't know how amazing that arrow he shot at the training ground was..."
"Who is Morgan?"
"The Stark family recently recruited a swordsman. I heard that he is also a marksman..."
"I heard that the marksman's arrows are all missed, but I don't know if it's true..."
"It must be true. Otherwise, how could we hunt such a giant bear? It's a giant bear, far beyond what a wild boar can compare to..."
"Is this how powerful a marksman is?"
"That kid is going to get rich..."
"..."
The moment Morgan walked out of the forest carrying the giant bear carcass.
The people not far away immediately started talking and exclamating.
Morgan's hearing is very good, and he doesn't care what others say.
He lifted up the huge bear carcass and threw it to the ground.
"boom..."
There was a boom.
The ground shook slightly.
At this time, a group of guard soldiers and other hunting members immediately stepped forward.
The onlooker mode started.
Several hunting members who were relatively acquainted with Morgan came forward and gave Morgan a lick... oh no, it was a compliment.
In Winterfell, everyone who is well-informed knows Morgan to some extent.
But it's limited to the inner castle of Winterfell, and even the winter towns are barely there.
Now, he hunted a giant bear of this size in a hunting competition jointly held and participated by His Majesty the King and the Duke.
It’s really hard to even think about becoming famous.
Those present could no longer imagine any other prey that could compare to this adult giant bear.
This hunting contest.
It can be said that Morgan's first place is already guaranteed.
And in front of kings and dukes.
This kid is going to be prosperous.
Looking at the huge giant bear carcass in front of them, this was almost the thought of most people at the scene.
The cold wind howled.
As the sky starts to get dark.
The northern wilderness in winter is getting colder and colder.
After Morgan shocked everyone at the edge of the forest by carrying the giant bear carcass, he also shocked several soldiers who returned from hunting one after another.
Among them is Robb Stark.
It didn't take long.
Two figures appeared at the edge of the forest.
A tall man with a resolute face.
The other figure is also tall, but more bloated and majestic.
Watching these two figures appear.
A group of people waiting outside immediately came forward to greet him.
King Robert Baratheon and Duke Eddard Stark of Winterfell were smiling as they walked, and were about to call the soldiers in front to carry the carcasses of prey to them.
But as soon as the two of them walked out of the forest, they saw a huge corpse lying there at the edge.
The two of them stopped instantly.
King Robert Baratheon looked at the corpse on the ground in front of him, and immediately looked back at his old friend beside him, when he saw his old friend looking over.
The king's eyes were full of surprise, shock, and a hint of helplessness.
In addition to the same surprise and surprise in Ed Stark's eyes, there was actually a hint of dumbfounding on his face.
Robert Baratheon immediately stepped forward, carefully looked at the already cold corpse of the giant bear, squatted down next to the giant bear's head, and looked at the arrow that was shot deep into the eye socket. .
There was no trace of injury anywhere else on the giant bear corpse in front of him.
Except for this eye socket.
This shows that this huge and ferocious beast was killed by one arrow.
Facing such a ferocious giant bear.
The arrow's archery skills were accurate and powerful.
There is no doubt that archers are required to have extremely high archery skills and abilities.
This is no coincidence at all.
This requires absolute strength.
Who is this guy?
King Robert Baratheon immediately stood up and looked at everyone and asked, "Whose prey is this?"
"Your Majesty, it is mine..."
Hearing the king's question, Morgan came out from the side.
"very good!"
"This is the most powerful prey I have seen hunted in many years."
"You are indeed a very good marksman..."
Robert Baratheon walked up to Morgan Stone, patted his shoulder, and said.
Then he turned around and called the other soldiers, and followed him to carry the prey carcasses.
Watch the king walk away.
Thinking of the other party's attitude just now, something seemed wrong.
Morgan immediately walked up to Ed Stark: "Sir, His Majesty the King, is this...?"
His Majesty the King just showed something strange.
Morgan wasn't the only one to find out.
Others who knew something about the king's character found out.
"It's okay, you'll know in a minute."
Facing Morgan's doubts, Ed Stark just smiled.
It didn't take long.
When King Robert Baratheon and several warriors carried a huge prey out of the forest.
Morgan finally knew that something was wrong with the king's attitude just now.
It turns out that Robert Baratheon's prey was also a huge giant bear.
Only compared to the one Morgan hunted.
The giant bear in front of me was obviously a size smaller.
Morgan's visual inspection revealed that the giant bear standing in front of him should be close to three meters tall.
And the one he killed was three and a half meters tall.
The corpse of the giant bear in front of him was covered with injuries, and the most fatal one was the sword that had penetrated the bear's chest.
It is still inserted into the giant bear's chest and has not been removed.
When Morgan saw this, he realized that he had seen the king's hair disheveled and dirty before, his body was dusty, and his leather armor and cloak had obvious signs of being torn.
This is obviously the trace left after a fierce battle between the king and the giant bear.
This also shows the strength of the king.
At such an age and with such a bulky body, he could actually fight a ferocious giant bear that was three meters tall.
Back to the topic.
Looking at the bigger giant bear that Morgan killed, there were no other external injuries except for the arrow deep in the eye socket.
Compare between the two.
Regardless of the size and strength of the prey; or the hunting method of the hunter.
There is no doubt that Morgan is the better one.
It's no wonder that King Robert Baratheon is in a depressed mood.
Kings are human beings too.
There are also seven emotions and six desires.
Robert Baratheon's desires were stronger than anyone else's.
Someone has changed at the moment.
I would never feel comfortable in this situation.
Only the person involved knows the hardship and danger of dealing with a giant bear.
I originally thought that the first place winning prize was already guaranteed.
Unexpectedly, an inconspicuous Morgan appeared in the middle.
Robert Baratheon now understood clearly what his old friend Eddard meant by the marksman he mentioned to him early this morning.
Time passed slowly.
The cold wind howled.
It was getting darker and darker.
When a group of cargo warriors tied up many prey.
Following King Robert Baratheon's order.
The huge hunting team, holding torches high, began to return, moving quickly towards Winterfell.
"How about it?"
"Morgan's archery skills are pretty good, haha..."
At the front of the team, Eddard Stark looked at his bloated old friend beside him and said, but he couldn't help but laugh.
"Ha ha..."
Being laughed at by his old friend, Robert Baratheon couldn't help but shook his head and said with a smile: "I really didn't expect it."
"My first bear was actually going to be hunted in the North."
"What I didn't expect is..."
"Someone actually hunted a bigger and more ferocious bear on the same day as me."
Robert Baratheon laughed, and then thought of the extremely accurate, neat, crisp, and fierce arrow that shot the giant bear. He turned to look at his old friend: "That boy is really good at shooting. How did you find it?" ?”
I heard the king ask about this.
Ed Stark smiled and said: "He is not only good at shooting..."
At this moment, he thought of the scene where he encountered Jaime Lannister who was causing trouble at the welcome banquet yesterday, and Morgan helped to rescue him, allowing Lannister to leave in embarrassment.
...
after an hour.
It got completely dark by then.
The hunting team finally saw the huge dark castle ahead.
After the king and Eddard Stark walked into the inner castle of Winterfell with a group of hunting members and warriors, they realized that something seemed wrong in the atmosphere in the inner castle.
Ed Stark decisively stopped a servant who was walking around. After questioning, he learned that his second son, Brandon Stark, accidentally fell while climbing the city wall today. Now, I don’t know life or death.
Immediately after listening to this, Ed Stark's originally good mood immediately fell to the bottom.
Getting ready to greet the king.
Robert Baratheon immediately said that he wanted to visit Brandon together.
The entire hunting team immediately followed and quickly headed towards the main castle of the inner city.
in the team.
Morgan was stunned when he heard that student Brandon Stark had slipped and fell off the city wall and was unconscious.
He carefully recalled the few plots left in his memory.
All I know is that Brandon Stark seemed to be in a wheelchair and turned into some kind of "Three-Eyed Crow".
There are not many other memories of him as a cheap student.
Swear by the system.
His understanding of the world is really limited.
Except for some impressive characters and plots, he really didn't think about Brandon Stark's slipping and falling off the city wall.
Otherwise if you know about it.
He would find a way to bring the other party along today no matter what.
But because he knew that Brandon Stark was not really dead, he just fell into a deep coma temporarily.
Morgan's mind also calmed down.
Bran, who only focused on learning and teaching, fell into a coma.
With only three days left to fish and two days to dry the net, Rickon Stark was very playful.
It's entirely conceivable.
The rest of Morgan's career as a swordsman was even more leisurely.
But I will definitely not be idle for long.
Because the king couldn't stay in Winterfell for long.
If Ed Stark agrees to the king's journey south, he will definitely follow him.
What Morgan wanted to do.
Of course I want to follow Ed Stark to King's Landing.
The reason why he came to Winterfell to show off his strength was for this matter.
Now, based on my performance these days.
Morgan already had a lot of confidence in his mind that Ed Stark would take him with him once he went south.
Of course, if the other party is unwilling to take him with him.
He will also find a way to leave Winterfell and head to King's Landing.
But in that case, even Morgan could enter the palace to visit Ed Stark and the others.
But the weight and trust level are far different.
Eddard Stark, who is old-fashioned and adheres to traditional virtues, may become more disgusted with himself because of his rash departure from Winterfell, and will no longer like him.
This is entirely possible.
Therefore, following the Duke of Winterfell and the king's team to King's Landing is Morgan's best choice.
...
The sad news that Eddard Stark's second son Brandon Stark fell into a coma made the atmosphere in Winterfell heavy.
But the hunting contest was previously decided by His Majesty the King and the Duke together.
The king's word is an imperial edict.
The king's decision must be carried out.
Even if the atmosphere is heavy.
Winterfell was also at noon the next day.
The hunting competition evaluation and award ceremony was held in the huge square in front of the main castle.
this day.
The castle gates of Winterfell were wide open.
People in the winter resort town who have been interrogated can also be informed of the rules and enter the inner castle to participate in the hunting competition evaluation ceremony.
When Morgan stood in the crowd at Winterfell.
Looking at the high platform a little further ahead, the two judges, Catelyn Tully, the Duchess of Winterfell, who was wearing an exquisite dress and a poor look on her face, and Queen Cersei Lannister, who was dressed in a beautiful dress and smiled like a flower, sat on the throne. .
Watching the soldiers carrying the specially selected prey onto the square.
The hunting competition competition award ceremony has begun.
