Under the clear blue sky.
Seabirds fly in the sky.
Light waves constantly hit the coastline, creating snow-white spray.
Under the warm sunshine of early spring.
The temperature is getting warmer.
The mouth of the Worm River, in front of the huge port pier.
The number of ships coming and going is increasing day by day.
On the pier, there are sounds of bargaining, noise, arguments, and bustle.
The winter ice and snow have just melted.
Astapor Pier has quickly become busy.
"Roar..."
Suddenly, a shocking roar came from the distant sky.
this moment.
The local residents are fine.
All the tourists and businessmen who had just arrived in Astapor immediately changed their faces when they heard this, and subconsciously looked up to the sky.
I saw a huge figure with black and red body and wings flying high in the sky in the distance.
"Look, look at the sky..."
"Oh my god, what kind of monster is that?"
"Monster? No, that's our Lord Governor's dragon. Haven't you heard of it?"
"Oh my God, that's a dragon. The rumors are actually true..."
"Look at that figure and those wings. I can actually still see dragons in my lifetime..."
"Am I dreaming..."
"Mom, look, there is a dragon in the sky. Everything written in the book is true. It turns out there really is a dragon..."
"Is that a dragon..."
"..."
All the tourists and businessmen who had just arrived in Astapo looked at the black shadow that was quickly disappearing in the sky, shouting and talking about it.
The local residents are much calmer.
When I hear the roar of the giant dragon, I just take one look at it out of habit and then do whatever I have to do.
Of course, it's really nice to see those bumpkin's who have never seen a dragon shouting and yelling, it just gives them a sense of superiority.
Since the change of governor.
There are more and more businessmen and tourists in Astapo.
It’s hard to say that the Governor’s dragon didn’t contribute to this.
city centre.
Governor's Mansion.
In the study room on the second floor.
Morgan, wearing a blue exquisite robe, was sitting at the desk, looking at two light yellow letters in his hand.
For a while.
Fold the letter into the thick "News from Westeros" book on the side.
Morgan stood up and walked to the study window, looking at the crowds of people on the street in the distance outside in a daze.
This past half a year.
There are constant wars in Westeros.
In particular, Robb Stark, whose father Eddard Stark was killed, sent his army south and fought several battles with the Lannister army representing the Iron Throne.
Although both parties have their own wins and losses.
However, the "King in the North" Robb Stark's side has obviously won more times and achieved greater results. Even the newly appointed captain of the Kingsguard "Jaime Lannister" was also defeated by Robb. The Stark side took prisoners.
But just when Robb Stark's army seemed to have the upper hand.
Located in the western sea of Westeros, the "King of the Iron Islands" Balon Greyjoy sensed the opportunity and brazenly sent troops south to attack the north.
And in a very short period of time, they captured towns such as Cailin Bay, Deep Forest Castle, Rock Coast, Torun Square City, etc.
In the end, even "Winterfell", known as the capital of the North, was captured by the "traitor" Theon Greyjoy's sneak attack.
This is the news that came from Westeros more than three months ago.
When Morgan learned the news, he recalled in his mind the thin, arrogant young man he had seen in Winterfell.
Because of his personality, he didn't have much communication with Theon Greyjoy when he was in Winterfell, and he couldn't even talk about understanding him.
But Morgan knew that the other party had been detained in Winterfell since childhood.
But Eddard Stark treated Theon Greyjoy as an adopted son, and did not treat him differently or be indifferent because of his status.
And when Ed Stark was killed, the situation in the north was in desperate need of help.
Instead of being grateful for the help, Theon Greyjoy led his army to attack Winterfell, which really made Morgan shake his head when he heard the news.
That's really a white-eyed wolf.
Of course, it doesn't matter that Morgan has a bad impression of Theon Greyjoy.
Except for the capture of the northern border.
There is also the matter of "King of Dragonstone" Stannis Baratheon arriving at Storm's End with his troops and beginning to attack his brother "King of Storm's End" Renly Baratheon.
There is still no trace of his student Arya Stark, whom Morgan specifically told.
There is also no news about Jon Snow.
But King's Landing received news of the resurrection of the dead from the Great Wall in the north.
The news left Morgan somewhat silent.
Because of his memory, he certainly knew that there were White Walkers in this world.
News comes that the dead have been resurrected.
This means that the White Walkers in the north are beginning to move.
The five kings fight.
Coupled with the invasion of the White Walkers on the Great Wall of the North.
Westeros is indeed in chaos at this time.
In addition to the above news.
Morgan just received a piece of heavy news from Westeros this morning.
Renly Baratheon, the "King of Storm's End" who was fighting against his brother Stannis Baratheon at Storm's End, was assassinated.
A large number of lords from the Stormlands under Renly Baratheon and many lords from the River Bend surrendered to Stannis Baratheon.
in this way.
Originally supported by the Stormlands and the Riverlands, and also winning the "Rose of Highgarden" Margaery Tyrell, the King of Storm's End, known as the most powerful among the "Five Kings", came to an end.
"King of Dragonstone" Stannis Baratheon's strength has greatly increased.
But Westeros is still too far away from Astapor for the time being.
Morgan was simply concerned.
But news came that Daenerys Targaryen, who was expelled by him, settled in the largest slave city "Meereen" more than half a year ago and started causing trouble.
Morgan couldn't sit still.
As the largest and richest city among the three slave cities in Slaver's Bay, Meereen has long been regarded as his own.
More than half a year ago.
After learning that Daenerys Targaryen landed in Meereen.
Morgan then stepped up his efforts to obtain news about Meereen.
That Daenerys indeed deserves to have the halo of the protagonist and is called the child of the plane.
It was pretty decent a few months ago.
But in the past two months, the other party seemed to have formed a mercenary group, with four to five hundred people under its command.
The news reached Morgan's ears last night.
He has a certain understanding of Daenerys Targaryen.
Since the other party has gathered troops under his command, she will definitely choose to cause trouble in Meereen.
"Roar..."
at this time.
The shocking roar in the sky resounded over Astapor again.
Morgan came back to his senses and looked up at the huge figure of Siglia flying freely in the sky.
Then he turned around and walked out.
"Owner..."
As soon as the study door was opened, one of the tall personal maids "Carol" wearing a light yellow exquisite maid outfit and standing guard outside the study spoke immediately.
Morgan nodded, looked at the other maid and said, "Tess, go inform Black Rat that I have to go to the military factory..."
"Yes, Master."
The maid named Tess walked quickly downstairs.
Morgan strode towards his bedroom.
Behind him, Carol followed immediately.
Return to the master bedroom.
Morgan just raised his hand.
Carol immediately stepped forward to change her master's clothes.
Take off your robe and put on your tight-fitting clothes.
Soon, under the service of the personal maid Carol.
When Morgan finished dressing up, he came to the castle on the first floor.
The Unsullied Thousand Captain Black Rat and several Unsullied soldiers were already waiting in front of the prepared carriage.
He got into the carriage surrounded by people.
Morgan led Black Rat and a group of Unsullied people straight to the street behind Astapor.
Half an hour later.
The carriage traveled through an empty street guarded by heavily armed Unsullied warriors.
Keep going straight along the street.
It didn't take long.
The carriage came to the end of the street.
In front of the end, a wide passage leading underground was flashing with red fire.
Got off the carriage.
Morgan led Captain Black Rat down the heavily guarded passage.
Soon, a huge underground factory appeared in front of Morgan.
Burning torches light up the underground space.
There are a lot of shirtless slaves wearing only shorts and still sweating profusely running up and down.
The sound of metal banging and banging was heard continuously.
Fiery red magma...
Far exceeding the scorching heat of the weather outside.
This place used to be the arsenal of the great slave owners of Astapor, but now it naturally belongs to Morgan.
"Owner..."
"Owner..."
At this time, a tall young man and several people came up quickly.
The leader was none other than Captain "Cockroach" of the Unsullied First Squadron, who was in charge of the military factory, and several of his military factory subordinates.
"How is the forging of the armor going?"
Morgan asked as soon as he opened his mouth.
Naturally, he was not asking about the armor worn by ordinary warriors.
Such a trivial matter was not worth asking him personally.
What Morgan was asking about was the dragon armor worn by his dragon Siglia.
Yes, he has decided to attack Yunkai.
With Daenerys Targaryen's dragon being killed by a giant crossbow in his mind, he was not prepared to risk his Siglia naked in battle.
Put the armor on Siglia.
This was an idea and plan he had long ago.
"Reporting to the master, most of it has been completed. According to Master Clive, it will take about four days at most, and it should be completely forged."
Cockroach immediately spoke.
"Take me to see..."
Morgan nodded.
"Master, please come with me..."
Cockroach said and immediately led the way.
The entire military factory is not small in scale.
Speaking of which, there are three slave cities in Slaver's Bay.
In other words, Astapor has a military factory that can forge weapons, armor and equipment in large quantities.
The reason is naturally because the reputation of the Unsullied slave warriors has spread throughout the world.
In order to provide a large number of weapons and equipment to the Unsullied warriors, the military factory came into being.
As for the sister city of Yunkai, its defense basically relies on untrained slave armies and paid mercenary groups.
As for Meereen, because the city is larger and richer, the big slave owners who rule Meereen have established a spear regiment with extremely luxurious equipment, as well as more slave armies.
Fortunately, Morgan occupied Astapor.
Otherwise, it would be really difficult for him to forge suitable armor for Siglia, who was now six to seven meters long.
Not just because the forged armor is too big.
Also because of the complexity and cumbersomeness of forging the armor worn by the dragon.
No one had thought of putting armor on the dragon before.
There is no precedent at all.
Fortunately, Morgan seems to have seen similar situations in the film and television plots deep in his memory.
Only with a certain direction can we have long discussions with the chief equipment forger in the arsenal. For this reason, Morgan made several drawings on Siglia before deciding on the shape and structure of the armor for Siglia.
It has been more than a month since the day I started forging.
Centurion Cockroach took Morgan all the way to the busy forging platform flowing with fiery red lava.
At this time, a white-haired old man wearing soaked short-sleeves and a bald Mediterranean style said hello immediately when he saw Morgan.
This old Mediterranean man is naturally Clive, the chief equipment forging master of this military factory.
After a few brief conversations.
Mediterranean Clive took Morgan to the last largest forging platform.
This forging platform was specially built to forge armor for the dragon Siglia.
Soon, under the command of Clive.
The slaves brought in several large pieces of steel armor of different shapes.
For example, the largest single piece on the forging table is a thick, sharp, hook-shaped steel armor with a length of more than one meter.
This is the armor worn on Siglia's abdomen.
The largest number of semicircular armors is the armor used to equip Siglia's neck.
The dragon's belly and neck are fatal locations and are also the most vulnerable to attack.
The armor designed by Morgan and the Mediterranean Blacksmiths is also specifically designed to protect these two positions.
The abdomen is defended with pieces of large steel armor.
However, because Siglia is too big, when the time comes to equip these armors, the entire piece of sharp hook-shaped steel armor will need to be burned red and then forcibly embedded into Siglia's abdomen.
This equipment method is a bit cruel, but it is to better protect Siglia.
There was nothing Morgan could do.
However, Siglia has rough skin and thick flesh, and is protected by strong cuticle scales, so it is not a big problem.
At the neck, semi-circular armors are connected and tightly wrapped.
Compared with the red-hot brand embedded in the abdomen, the neck armor is much easier to equip.
Of course, Siglia is growing rapidly.
In less than a year, it has grown to a length of six or seven meters.
The armor tube forged this time won't take too long.
However, with the experience of forging armor for the first time, it will be much easier to forge it later. Just enlarge the proportion of the current armor.
Wearing the blue-black steel armor on the forging table.
Morgan reached out, touched it, and knocked.
After getting the completion time of the dragon armor from the mouth of Chief Mediterranean Forge Master Clive.
Only then did he leave the arsenal with Captain Black Rat.
The completion date for Siglia's armor has been determined.
Then the plan to go to Yunkai naturally began to be put forward on a daily basis.
That afternoon.
Morgan held a pre-war meeting in the castle.
The meeting was attended by a number of core personnel including Grand Secretary Missandei, General Manager Aphra, fourteen Unsullied commanders, the new army commander Barristan, and several senior officials from the city hall.
The meeting was about...no, not a discussion, but an order...
Morgan is issuing mission orders for the personnel responsible for this expedition to Yunkai.
The meeting begins.
Morgan took the lead in overturning one of his previous plans, which was to abandon Astapor when he went to Yunkai, and at the same time looted the remaining slave owners in Astapor City.
Now he is not ready to do this for the time being.
He estimated that the melee in Westeros would not stop for a while.
And Siglia also needs some time to continue to grow.
Also, it will take time to capture Yunkai and Meereen;
It will also take time to collect the wealth of these two cities and prepare a large number of warships to go to Westeros.
Astapor was ruled well by him, and the military factory was of great use.
Therefore, before taking Slaver's Bay and leaving the continent of Essos, he would not consider leaving Astapor again.
Astapor was just at the rear of his army at this time.
This meeting decided on the troops to go on the expedition; it also decided on the military personnel to stay in Astapor.
The time for the expedition to Yunkai was also set: ten days later.
The first day of the conference ended.
The city hall, arsenal, and most importantly the Unsullied Legion, as well as Barristan are preparing to formally mobilize the new army.
The wheels of war begin to roll.
The entire Astapor was filled with silent smoke.
Four days after the meeting.
The Siglia armor was completed on schedule.
Under Morgan's comfort.
On the fifth day, Siglia was strong enough to finish wearing the armor, becoming the first dragon in Westeros to wear steel armor.
The eighth day of the conference.
All troops are ready.
The tenth day of the meeting.
Army attack!
