With the help of Aurelion, Aegon, and their dragons, the Dragon-Taming Tower was soon completely cleared out. Only then did Danyla discover that it contained a vast network of passages connecting numerous enormous chambers that had been blocked off. Its total area rivaled that of a castle.
Deep within the Dragon-Taming Tower, the Underground Fire Vein made the temperature intensely hot, and dense, violent fire-attribute magical energy filled the air.
"No wonder the Valyrians built this Dragon-Taming Tower so far from the Fourteen Flames. The environment here really is suited to hatching and raising young dragons."
Standing before a churning underground hot pool where the Dragon-Taming Tower connected to the Smoking Sea, Danyla could not help marveling.
Only Danyla and Aurelion could endure the heat nearby. Even Aegon and Aemond, both Dragon Warriors, dared not approach.
The four young dragons, including Azure Scales and Vermilion Claws, loved the environment here. Every day, they returned to sleep after hunting and eating their fill.
Soon, the Second Legion arrived with the craftsmen. With three adult dragons and four young dragons helping, it took only half a month to build a brand-new, massive Dragonstone Fortress centered on the Dragon-Taming Tower.
An enormous Dragonstone Wall, twenty to thirty meters high and stretching for dozens of kilometers along the coast, completely separated the fortress from the Smoking Sea's venom-like waters.
During this time, Danyla successfully planted a weirwood forest on the peninsula extending west of the Dragon-Taming Tower into the Smoking Sea, using the carcasses of sea monsters hunted by Vermithor and the others.
She also personally covered the docks and the walls of the Dragonstone Fortress with new runes in the Continental Common Tongue. This made the air around the fortress increasingly fresh.
The nearby trees became much more normal as well. The river