Under the dark night.
A vast wilderness.
The raging fire was particularly conspicuous in the vast dark wilderness.
Aphra stood outside the huge bonfire array and waited with extremely anxious expression.
Even though owner Morgan told her he would be fine.
But she still felt extremely anxious, not because he didn't trust his master, but because she had never heard of such a fact.
This made her worried.
But she couldn't disobey her master's orders.
Now she could only pray that the master would be fine as he said before.
She didn't want to see anything happen to her master.
She really didn't want to go back to the days of the past.
Since my father went bankrupt.
Her life at home became more and more difficult.
After my father was forced to visit by debt collectors.
The mother was forced to receive guests.
Then the younger sister was sold by her father.
Then there is myself.
She no longer wanted to think about the tragic situation at home.
And since she was sold to the middle-aged and bloated slave trader.
Her life was even more miserable.
Locked in a dirty, smelly house with a group of girls.
Being guarded every day.
As for the food, it was also the worst food.
Although he won't starve to death, he certainly won't be able to eat enough.
But these are not the scariest.
The most terrifying ones were the guards, or the slave owners, and the men who were brought to see them by the slave owners.
Their eyes looked at them as if they were picking and choosing livestock.
Sometimes when those people like a girl, they will even be taken directly to another room to be raped.
She remembered it clearly.
Except for her, almost all of the more than ten girls who were imprisoned in the same batch as her were forcibly raped by those people.
As for why she survived.
It was because she heard the fat slave owner say that her virginity was valuable.
Only then did those people give up their thoughts.
Although she knew very well that the fat slave owner had never really moved his greedy and lustful eyes away from her since he bought her.
Among the many girls who were sold into slavery under various circumstances, the vast majority actually hoped that they could be bought as soon as possible instead of suffering in the hands of slave traders like a prison cell.
on auction day.
The fat slave owner will make all the girls take a bath, wash their hair, and then put on the same rough but clean linen clothes.
Just to get a higher price and more money at the auction.
Then, she met her current owner, Morgan.
Although her life in the hands of slave traders was not long.
But from what she heard from other girls, guards, and even slave owners around her, she knew that it was really rare for her to meet a master like Morgan.
Therefore, she didn't want to let go of her master, didn't want to lose her master, and she didn't want to go back to the hellish days of the past.
Outside the bonfire square.
Aphra had a lot of thoughts in her mind and her expression was anxious.
Within the square array.
Morgan endured the sting and burning of the flames, and kept feeling the movement of the dragon egg in his arms.
As the surrounding charcoal begins to lose energy, the fire continues to decrease.
Morgan thought it was another wasted effort.
at this time.
There was a sudden fluctuation in the dragon egg with black exquisite and complex lines in his arms.
The next second.
Morgan suddenly opened his eyes and looked at the black dragon egg in his arms. His face was full of excitement, surprise and disbelief!
But it's true.
He has been mentally monitoring the movement of the dragon egg in his arms.
And Morgan felt the fluctuation of life just now very clearly.
If sometimes what you see with your eyes may not be true.
But things that are felt spiritually are less gullible.
There was a reaction inside the dragon egg.
That can only mean one thing, that is, the dragon egg is still "alive", which means that the dragon egg is likely to be hatched.
And this slight fluctuation in life shows that the method of hatching dragon eggs is correct, and it also shows that he is on the right path of hatching.
As long as it can continue to hatch.
It is very possible for him to hatch this dragon egg and get a giant dragon baby.
Dragon cubs are so precious.
This can be seen from the fact that Aegon I Targaryen, the ancestor of the Targaryen dynasty, used three adult dragons to unify the entire seven kingdoms of Westeros.
Now the Targaryen dynasty has fallen.
The two remaining Targaryen brothers and sisters could only survive by marrying into the service of the greatest Dothraki lord.
At this time, if I could hatch a giant dragon cub...
"call..."
Looking at the black dragon egg in his arms, Morgan, who was full of thoughts, couldn't help but take a deep breath and suppress his inner excitement.
He raised his head and looked at the dwindling fire around him.
Morgan actually had the urge to continue hatching in one go.
But considering that we have to travel tomorrow.
He still stopped thinking about continuing to incubate.
Anyway, the journey ahead is still very long.
There is no need to rush this evening.
Thinking of this, Morgan stood up and was about to take the dragon egg back into the dimensional ring space again when he suddenly discovered that the complex black lines on the surface of the dragon egg seemed to have become darker, and it looked a little glossier than before.
If the previous dragon egg looked more like a hard dragon egg-shaped stone.
But now it is obviously more like an egg, with the appearance and texture of a real dragon egg.
This is obviously a good thing.
Morgan felt happy and put away the dragon eggs.
At this time.
Suddenly, the cry of the little slave girl Aphra came to my ears.
Morgan looked up and saw Aphra's eager face and watery green eyes with tears in the corners of her eyes outside the charcoal fire array.
"Okay, isn't this okay..."
Morgan stepped on the still red charcoal with his bare feet, walked up to Aphra and smiled.
Just seeing the master's naked body at such a close distance, even if it was not the first time, after the worry disappeared, extremely shyness immediately surged up in her head, making Aphra's face quickly turn red again.
Aphra quickly turned her head shyly.
Looking at Aphra's appearance, Morgan burst out laughing.
Incubation is over.
Morgan got dressed and took Aphra back to the campfire next to the carriage, set up the cooking pot again and started preparing for a midnight snack.
He had just struggled to resist the scorching flames in the charcoal campfire, which was extremely draining.
You definitely need to eat and supplement at this time.
The skinny Aphra also needs to take in a lot of nutritious food to supplement her body and strive to eat back to normal as soon as possible.
Watching one after another food and spices appear out of thin air in the master's hands.
Aphra on the side had already widened her eyes.
But she wouldn't ask anything.
Compared with the owner who can shuttle back and forth in the raging fire or even be burned for more than half an hour and still remain unharmed.
In Aphra's perception, the magical ability in front of her was nothing.
Today is the first night of sleeping outdoors.
While Morgan was cooking midnight snack, he was teaching Aphra how to cook midnight snack.
Because I need to rush during the day.
For two lunches, I basically ate dried meat, biscuits and other dry food that can be stored for a long time.
It’s not until late night that I start cooking hot food for dinner...well, and in the morning.
Morgan taught the methods and steps of cooking midnight snacks very carefully, and Aphra also learned very carefully.
When the rich aroma of food is cooked in the pot tonight.
Aphra has learned a lot.
Next, you can try cooking.
End of a late night snack.
The night is already getting a little dark.
Although it was already the end of winter and the beginning of spring was about to usher in, the nights in the wilderness of Essos were not that cold.
But Morgan was no longer prepared to sleep outdoors.
He spent a lot of money to buy a spacious two-person carriage carriage just for sleeping in the wild.
Aphra laid out the bedding in the carriage.
Morgan was not pretentious this time. After feeding the two horses, he returned to the carriage and took off his clothes and lay down.
And when Aphra lay down in her thin pajamas, she was hugged by Morgan.
He could clearly feel Aphra's whole body shaking.
However, Morgan didn't do anything else after hugging Aphra. He just hugged her and fell asleep. Not long after, a slight snore came out.
Aphra, who was held in her master's arms, was nervous, flustered and a little expectant at first.
Preparing and waiting for the arrival of the owner.
But the owner never made any other movements and soon started to purr.
Only then did Aphra realize that her master was just sleeping with her in his arms. She was not disappointed, but instead breathed a sigh of relief.
She knew that she was now covered in bones and would be uncomfortable to hold.
Men don't like women who are too thin.
This is what the other girls told her when she was still locked up in the slave traders' cell.
So she decided to eat more next time.
I strive to be able to eat as soon as possible and get back to the shape I had when I was still at home.
The master is going to Slaver's Bay this time.
She has never traveled far, and she is a little curious about what Slaver's Bay is like, but she is more concerned about whether the master will buy other slaves in Slaver's Bay, where the most slaves are traded...
Close to the master's strong, hot and powerful chest.
Aphra fell asleep quickly as she was thinking wildly.
The night grew darker.
Just when Morgan was sleeping peacefully in the wilderness of Essos continent with his beautiful little slave girl in his arms.
The situation in the palace in the Red Keep of King's Landing far across the Narrow Sea.
Great changes have already taken place.
Let's push the time back more than half a month ago.
At that time, Morgan was still floating on the Narrow Sea.
Inside the Red Fort.
The agreed time of three days has come.
Queen Cersei Lannister knew that she had been deceived and prostituted for nothing before she could wait for Morgan to come.
But when she sent people to search all the places where Morgan had stayed in King's Landing, they couldn't find Morgan.
No matter how angry Cersei Lannister is, it won't help.
But Morgan is just a nobody after all.
After Queen Cersei Lannister was angry for a while, she remembered Morgan's deception in her heart and ignored it.
Because dealing with Eddard Stark, who has returned to the position of Prime Minister, is a big deal.
The youngest brother Tyrion Lannister was captured, and his younger brother Jaime Lannister was forced to flee King's Landing.
It was obviously the Stark family who took the lead and acted unruly.
The king's husband, however, allowed himself to endure it, knowing that Tyrion was still in the hands of that bitch Catelyn Tully of the Stark family.
Lannister "pay all debts"!
How can Queen Cersei Lannister tolerate this?
Therefore, the conspiracy she prepared against her husband, King Robert Baratheon, also began as he went hunting outside the city.
the other side.
Inside the Stark family castle in the noble district.
The day after Morgan left King's Landing, former Prime Minister Eddard Stark was in the study on the second floor, flipping through the thick "Genealogy and History of the Major Nobles of the Seven Kingdoms" in Westeros that he borrowed from the Grand Maester. Books time.
Suddenly an amazing secret was discovered.
He looked up the "Baratheon family" and found that except for the current king Robert Baratheon's children, who all had blond hair, the other members of the Baratheon family all had black hair.
What's strange is that Robert Baratheon's illegitimate children who have been identified all have black hair without exception.
Such a discovery quickly made Eddard Stark suspicious.
Soon, it was discovered that the Lannister family in Casterly Rock City has always had blond hair.
Think of the discord between Queen Cersei Lannister and King Robert.
Eddard Stark has realized what happened.
Then think of what the intelligence chief Wallis warned him about.
Ed Stark has become vaguely aware of some things and conspiracies.
However, he is an honest man, disdainful and not good at conspiracy.
So after finding out that Prince Joffrey, Myrcella, Tommen Baratheon and other children were not the children of King and good friend Robert Baratheon.
Eddard Stark went to Queen Cersei Lannister the next day to explain his discovery and persuaded her to take the children and leave King's Landing.
It's just that Queen Cersei Lannister didn't go as Eddard Stark wished.
Seven days later.
Kingdom Robert Baratheon’s hunting convoy returned to King’s Landing ahead of schedule.
At the same time, news that the king was seriously injured by a wild boar quickly spread throughout King's Landing.
For a while.
The undercurrent in King's Landing continues to surge.
...
The continent of Essos.
From the Free City of Pentos to the Wilderness Road of the Free City of Norvos.
An exquisite two-horse four-wheel carriage was speeding down the road.
When the orange light cluster high in the western sky disappears into the horizon.
The sky also quickly darkened.
"Go over there and spend the night under those two trees tonight..."
In the carriage, Morgan stuck his head out of the window and pointed to the wilderness with two crooked-neck trees a little far ahead.
Aphra, who was driving the car, nodded and pulled the reins skillfully, and the carriage immediately drove towards the two big trees with crooked necks.
It didn't take long.
Park the car.
Morgan fed the horse, and Aphra started to set up the pot and light the fire to cook dinner in a very familiar way.
I have been away from Pentos for more than half a month.
Aphra has grown from a cooking novice to a master.
Not only does driving now require Morgan's hands-free, but so does cooking.
Although Morgan was free from work at hand.
But mentally I couldn't rest at all.
Because he could feel that the dragon egg in his dimensional ring was about to break out of its shell.
Since the first day I left Pentos.
After the dragon egg fluctuated for the first time.
Morgan hatched every night after that.
Then, he was not disappointed, the fluctuations in the black dragon egg became more and more violent as the incubation time increased.
Just last night.
When it was hatching in the charcoal fire array, Morgan could feel the life inside the dragon egg beginning to hit the egg shell.
This convinced him.
Maybe it's tonight, maybe it's tomorrow night, maybe it's the day after tomorrow.
Anyway, just for these few days.
The life inside the dragon egg is about to break out of the shell.
How can this calm him down?
So I just finished dinner.
Morgan immediately began to set up a charcoal fire circle on the flat wilderness around the two crooked-neck trees.
After a lot of work.
A huge charcoal fire array was set up.
Morgan couldn't wait to walk into the only open space in the center of the circle.
Aphra stood outside the charcoal fire array and obeyed the instructions to light the charcoal fire array again.
The center of the fire array.
Feeling the heat rising rapidly around you.
Morgan could clearly feel the dragon egg in his arms quickly becoming active again.
It seems that only flame can activate the life inside the dragon egg.
Just like yesterday.
After waking up, the contents of the dragon egg immediately hit the black eggshell again.
Time passed slowly.
The surrounding flames are getting hotter and hotter.
The movement of the dragon egg in Morgan's arms became louder and louder.
Finally, when the temperature of the charcoal fire array reached its highest value.
The movement of the dragon egg in Morgan's arms suddenly stopped after a violent blow.
Immediately afterwards.
"Click..."
"Kakakaka..."
One after another, crisp cracking sounds were heard.
Morgan's eyes were fixed on the rapidly cracking dragon egg beneath him.
The next second.
A little thing with horns on its head, two wings on its back, and a black body emerged from the egg shell.
