"Oh my! Princess, how can the ancestors of the Stark Family look so much like the Others from the legends?"
Looking at the corpses shimmering with a dark, icy glow under the dim light, even the usually bold Vada couldn't help but feel a little terrified. She quickly drew the sword from her waist, warily observing the ice corpses on the ground.
Meraxes, however, was very interested in the ice corpses before her. She sniffed around the ice corpses, seemingly quite hungry.
Daenerys, who had already prepared herself, wasn't too surprised. She squatted down and brought her hand close to the ice corpses, carefully sensing the magical energy within them.
These ice corpses accumulated very strong, cold magical energy, just like a human refrigerator. No wonder the temperature in the Stark Family crypts was so low. Daenerys and Meraxes, who had established a connection with the Weirwood, were not repulsed by this energy.
"It is said that the Others were created by the Children of the Forest using the bodies of the Stark Family ancestors. And isn't there also the legend of the Night King at The Wall? So, it's not hard to understand why their ancestors would transform into this ice corpse state."
Vada tried to calm herself down. At this moment, her mind was filled with terrifying childhood legends about the Others.
"Are you talking about the Night King of Long Night Fort? Before today, I also thought that was just a boring story old nannies used to scare children at night."
The Night King was a legendary Lord Commander of the Night's Watch, who lived in the Age of Heroes. His name is unknown. There are many theories about his origins, such as the Bolton Family, Magna Clan, Amber Family, the Flint Clan of the mountain tribes, the Norrey Clan, the Woodford Family, and so on.
Of course, the mainstream theory is that the Night King came from the Stark Family, and possibly named Brandon. He was the thirteenth Lord Commander of the Night's Watch and a fearless warrior.
He fell in love with a woman whose "skin was as pale as the moon, eyes like blue stars… skin as cold as ice." After bringing her back to Long Night Fort, the Night King crowned her his queen, and they began their thirteen years of cruel rule.
During this time, countless members of the Night's Watch were cruelly harmed by them through blood sacrifices. Afterwards, the Night King was defeated by the combined forces of his brother, the King in the North, and Joramun, the King-Beyond the Wall.
After he died, people discovered that he had offered sacrifices to the Others to gain power, so all records about the Night King were destroyed, and his name became taboo, never to be spoken of again.
In Maester Hammon's book, "The Watchers on The Wall," although the Night King's origins are not mentioned, it records that the Night King was ultimately defeated by Brandon the Breaker, King of Winter, and Joramun, King-Beyond the Wall, fighting together.
However, other Maesters of the Citadel do not believe these stories, though some admit that in the early days of the Night's Watch, there might have been such a Lord Commander who wanted to establish an independent kingdom. Some believe that the so-called queen, who was like a corpse, was a woman from the First Men's barrows who wielded dark magic—the daughter of the Barrow King.
They used dark magic for blood sacrifices to gain terrifying power, which allowed them to control people's thoughts and actions. And it could grant them the same eternal life as the Others. Those members of the Night's Watch who were blood sacrificed became their cold puppets under their control.
However, as time passed, no one in the Seven Kingdoms believed this was a true story that had ever happened. In fact, in the southern kingdoms, no one believed that such a terrifying existence as the Others had ever truly appeared.
"Meraxes, Dragonflame!"
This was already deep within the crypts. Aside from servants occasionally coming in to replenish lamp oil, even members of the Stark Family generally wouldn't enter here. And the light here was dim, so even if there were traces of Dragonflame burns, they would be hard to discover.
Meraxes's control over Dragonflame was quite precise now. The scorching red-pink-purple Dragonflame was poured entirely onto the ice corpse, without causing much impact on the surrounding ground.
The scorching Dragonflame roasted it for several minutes before igniting the ice corpse, and the flames that rose from the corpse were ice-blue. But before the flames could extinguish, Meraxes swallowed the entire corpse in one gulp.
Seeing a dragon devour a corpse for the first time, Vada didn't dare to look directly, subconsciously turning her head away.
Once the entire corpse was swallowed, Meraxes turned her gaze heatedly towards the stone coffins deeper inside.
Vada, seeing this, uncertainly asked Daenerys,
"Princess, you're not going to pull out all the ancestors of the Stark Family and feed them to the dragon, are you?!"
Daenerys teased with a look that said, "You guessed right,"
"Would you rather see them turn into the Others?!"
Vada was speechless, and the childhood images in her mind became even clearer.
"Then let's pull them all out!"
So, Daenerys then searched coffin after coffin, and used Meraxes to open all the stone coffins with magical fluctuations. Without exception, all the corpses were perfectly preserved and had turned into ice corpses.
So Daenerys mercilessly had Meraxes pull them all out, ignite them, and devour them. The more she saw, the more Vada gradually got used to it. And she even easily discussed the appearances of those Stark Family ancestors with Danni.
"Princess, have you noticed? These Stark Family ancestors who can turn into ice corpses all look very similar: black hair, long faces, and tall builds."
"Is this the power of bloodline?!"
Daenerys nodded in agreement,
"Strong lineage! This is why those ancient families or families with some kind of magical power prefer to intermarry. Only by ensuring the purity of the family bloodline can they better continue and unleash the magical power of their bloodline."
Fortunately, Meraxes was there, otherwise it would have been quite difficult to open and restore those heavy coffin lids. After continuously devouring more than twenty ice corpses, she finally couldn't eat anymore.
So Daenerys had her move all these ice corpses to the base of the ruined tower not far from the crypts. After working until it was almost dawn, Meraxes successfully moved over a hundred ice corpses.
Daenerys quickly used telepathy to summon Dreamfyre and Little Balerion. Although Dreamfyre and the others had also established a faint connection with the Weirwood on Holy Flame Island, they clearly weren't enthusiastic about the ice corpses. In the end, Daenerys had to chant a spell to force them to spew Dragonflame.
Dreamfyre's Dragonflame was clearly much more powerful, instantly igniting over a hundred ice corpses. Watching the ice-blue flames burn from the ice corpses, Dreamfyre and the others finally developed a desire to devour them.
To prevent the light of the Dragonflame from alarming the Winterfell guards, Daenerys told them to quickly have Dreamfyre and the others devour all these corpses while they were still hot.
With Dreamfyre there, she could directly swallow several ignited ice corpses in one go. So, in a short while, the dragons devoured all these corpses. Daenerys also completed the message transmitted to her by the Weirwood in the Winterfell Godswood.
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