"Sorry, but my mercy extends only to my own subjects. From the moment you brought the greyscale virus into Ny Sar, you should have been prepared to burn in dragonfire."
"I, Danyla Targaryen, have never shown my enemies mercy or forgiveness!"
"Dragonfire!"
Now that she knew where they had come from, Danyla ordered the dragons to breathe dragonfire.
"Screee!"
Myracis's purplish-red dragonfire was the fiercest, engulfing them in an instant. Yet amid the hooded figures' agonized screams, a cloud of gray mist suddenly burst out, darting about like a startled venomous snake.
Hognara's blue-violet dragonfire instantly enveloped it, then swiftly ignited and consumed it. Only Hognara's dragonfire, with its unusual properties, could accomplish that.
Though Hogdera's and Hogras's dragonfire was also powerful, neither had a chance to put it to use this time. Their flames mingled, however, melting the abandoned temple outright.
Under successive blasts of dragonfire from the dragons, the mysterious hooded figures soon turned to ash.
Just then, Danyla discovered something surprising. As the mysterious figures died, a cool stream of magical energy slowly flowed into the Dragon Egg Fossil hanging at her waist.
Danyla could clearly sense that the egg's pulse of life had grown noticeably stronger. She could not help wondering,
Could burning Stone Men come with this extra benefit?!
To make sure no more infiltrators remained in hiding, Danyla spent several days with the dragons thoroughly searching the occupied stretches of the Rhoyne basin.
To her surprise, the so-called Shrouded Lord had sent more than a dozen groups to spread disease in her territory. Some people in the villages near Andas City had even contracted greyscale.
Furious, Danyla spread the method of treating greyscale with weirwoods.
All they had to do was cut a greyscale patient's skin and let a weirwood absorb the blood. The