Varys? Spider? Master of Whisperers from Small Council, that one from Essos is too... a "man" without a little brother?
Gary is no stranger to this intelligence chief. Although he had no chance to meet Varys when he was at King's Landing.
But Gary, who has watched the series "Game of Thrones", knows a lot of Varys's secrets.
Varys handed Gary a roll of white paper, "Your Excellency, please accept the secret message."
Gary took the white paper and asked coldly, "How did you know I was here?"
Varys stood up, put his hands into his sleeves, and came directly opposite Gary. "You don't know something, my Little Birds is spread across the entire continent. There is no secret that I don't know."
He smiled and said, "Of course, there are some secrets that I missed, and I have no way of knowing them. For example, why is your left hand always wearing a glove..."
Gary didn't want to have too much communication with people who were good at scheming. He opened the secret message and briefly glanced at it. "Your Majesty asked me to go to Pentos to assassinate the two orphans of Targaryen?"
He sneered, "I am Wizard, not an assassin. Your Majesty may have found the wrong person."
Varys said calmly, "Your Excellency has done a lot of extraordinary things. He killed the accompanying Theon knight by letting a tiger kill him, massacred the Tyrell cavalry at the gate of Highgarden, deceived Citadel into falsely conveying His Majesty's orders... I know these things, and His Majesty also knows them."
Gary put his hand on the hilt of the sword. As long as Varys dared to say the word "dragon", he would immediately kill this rootless man.
However, Varys seems not to know the existence of Krysalis.
He sensed Gary's murderous intent, "Don't panic, Your Majesty. Your Majesty values you very much. As long as you can complete this task, those things can be forgotten."
Gary also stood up and looked directly into Varys's eyes fiercely. "Since you have so many Little Birds, why don't you help His Majesty solve the problem and kill the two orphans of House Targaryen."
Varys was not frightened, and he answered lightly, "Little Birdss have no fighting power, how can they complete the assassination? However, I have been ordered to send assassins many times to assassinate them, but they all returned without success. Someone is secretly protecting the Targaryen orphan, you should pay attention."
Aren't you the one who secretly protects them? You're a stinky baldhead!
Varys was born in Essos, and together with Illyrio, they started from scratch by selling information. Now, Varys has become the king's Master of Whisperers, and Illyrio has become the governor of Pentos.
This Master of Whisperers, on the surface, is serving the "new royal family" House Baratheon. In fact, he still misses the old master in his heart and wants to restore Targaryen.
King Robert asked Varys to send assassins to Essos to assassinate the Targaryen brothers and sisters, but he did not dare to disobey.
But what happens after the dispatch? He will definitely send another group of people to intercept and kill the originally dispatched assassins.
Gary was silent for a moment and asked, "What if I refuse?"
Varys smiled and said, "This merchant ship is full of my people, and they will send you to Pentos. What His Majesty means is that he wants to see you come back with two heads. If you dare to disobey, then one of your childhood friends will suffer."
"What do you mean?" Gary asked with an unkind expression.
Varys took a step back in advance, "Your Majesty has a deep friendship with House Stark, and he will not punish House Stark's direct descendants because of you. But I heard that you seem to have a good relationship with an illegitimate child named Jon? That child is optional, and I believe Mrs. Catelyn will also be willing to help..."
Before he finished speaking, Gary grabbed Varys by the collar, lifted him up, and gritted his teeth and said, "How dare you try to touch him?"
Varys stood on tiptoe and smiled kindly, "Your strength is indeed as rumored, comparable to the Mountain. But you have found the wrong person. This is not my idea, it is all His Majesty's."
If it weren't for this dead eunuch's reminder, how could King Robert notice such a transparent person like Jon·Snow.
Gary let go and spat in displeasure. "I can go, but I also want to warn you that once anything happens to Jon·Snow, I will definitely come back and kill you and all your Little Birds!"
Varys was used to threats, so he smiled and bowed, "Then I wish you a safe journey, and I will resign."
He got off the boat slowly and stood on the shore waving goodbye to Gary.
The merchant ship also set off at this time. Gary stood on the deck, holding on to the wooden railing, wanting to rush down and kill the bald man directly.
It's a long way to go to Essos. If we just delay, we will lose two or three years.
Three years later, the story line of "Game of Thrones" officially begins, and Robert will be crushed to death by a wild boar.
At that time, Robert could not protect himself. Even if Gary did not complete the task, Snow would not be affected when he came back.
Therefore, Robert's threat is almost useless. Its only function is to add trouble to Gary and make him feel unhappy.
Oldtown is very far from Pentos. Merchant ships need to go around the entire south coast of Westeros and then sail to the Narrow Sea in the north to reach Pentos of Essos.
Narrow Sea is the sea area between Westeros and Essos. King's Landing only needs to cross Narrow Sea to reach Pentos on the opposite side. The straight-line distance between them is similar to that from King's Landing to Highgarden.
Taking a boat from Oldtown to Pentos is five times longer than the distance from King's Landing.
The journey that originally took less than a month was suddenly extended to five months, which is really wise.
However, this was a helpless move. After all, the original destination of this merchant ship was Volantis to the south of Essos, not Pentos to the west of Essos.
Three months later, Gary was still traveling on the sea. At this time, he could vaguely see the shadow of Sunspear on the shore.
That is the castle of House Martell and the center of power of Dorne.
Seeing Sunspear means that they will soon change their route to the north and enter Narrow Sea.
Gary stood alone on the bow, waving a wooden stick, constantly reviewing Iaijutsu. However, his movements were very slow, and he must be in poor condition.
Ever since he learned that the people on the ship were all Varys, he had never eaten anything on the ship.
Because in his opinion, Varys will definitely not let him live until Essos. These people are very likely to come to kill him.
"You, what are you doing? Ah!"
A conflict suddenly broke out on a merchant ship. The captain and several boatmen were killed and their bodies were thrown into the sea.
At the same time, Raven on the ship was also disposed of.
The remaining boatmen all came to the deck of the merchant ship with sharp knives in hand.
Gary punched the wooden stick and seemed to have expected this scene. He laughed and said, "I thought you would take action earlier, but I didn't expect you to wait for so long."
The leading boatman said with a grim smile, "You are joking, we have to get rid of His Majesty's spies before we can take action. Previously, His Majesty's spies were following us everywhere along the coast, and we had no chance to take action. Now that we are in Sunspear's territory, His Majesty has no spies nearby. We only need to clear out the spies on the ship, and then we can send you on your way."
So, the person they just killed was Robert?
Gary observed their sword-holding movements, "Aren't you boatmen? Mercenary? Are you so confident that you can kill me?"
The leader, Mercenary, did not dare to neglect, "We have also heard about your deeds. That's why we have been wandering on this sea for three months. Seeing you slowly weakening, we dare to take action today."
Gary's heart skipped a beat. Did they know that he was seasick?
Yes, he was still seasick. Especially on such a long voyage, the frequency of vomiting increased, which made him physically and mentally exhausted.
In addition, he could only fish and eat every day, and his nutrition was completely inadequate, and his face was so thin and sunken.
No wonder these Mercenary saw his miserable appearance and felt that they had a good chance of winning.
Gary It is true that I don't have the strength to lift the sword now, but this is the ocean, there is water everywhere, and even the wood is wet.
"Which of you will be at the helm?" he asked suddenly.
The leader Mercenary smiled and said, "You don't need to worry about this matter. After we kill you, we will naturally have a way to get ashore."
"Noisy."
Gary stamped his feet suddenly, and a patch of white frost began to spread from under his feet, covering the entire deck in less than two seconds.
The hoarfrost extends along the hull of the ship to the sea surface, carrying seawater with it and returning to the deck against the current.
Mercenary has gone through life and death, killed countless people, and has never seen any scene? Only this fantastic scene now, I have never seen it before.
They all realized something was wrong, "Do it quickly! He knows Magic!"
Unfortunately, it was too late, the sea water had already flowed to Gary's feet. He stamped his feet again, and an ice spike rose up from the ground, instantly piercing the leader Mercenary.
"Tick tock."
Blood flowed along the ice spikes on the deck, and then quickly froze, like a red carpet.
Gary said with great indifference, "I ask again, which of you will be at the helm?"
Only then did everyone realize what Gary meant. Those who can take the helm will live, but everyone else will die.
Mercenary people are only seeking money. If their lives are gone, there is no use Gold Dragon.
They cherished their lives and did not want to die, so they talked in various directions.
"I can! I am always assisting the captain in steering the ship at the stern!"
"Your Excellency! If you want this ship to arrive at Pentos smoothly, it's not enough to have a captain who can take the helm."
"Yes, we also need crew members who can retract and lower the sails."
"Yes, if there is extreme weather, it will be too busy for one person."
"I can cook, I'm a cook!"
"I'm very strong and can help with some heavy work!"
"And I... ah!"
Mercenary, who had no time to speak later, was pierced by ice spikes that suddenly appeared under his feet.
On the deck, there were more than a dozen corpses of Mercenary suspended by ice spikes, like small red trees. The scene was very spectacular.
Only the six people who spoke first survived. They were dripping with cold sweat and stood there tremblingly, waiting for Gary's order.
Gary turned around and looked at Sunspear on the coast, resisting the urge to go ashore.
"Come back next time and get down to business first."
One of them, Mercenary, asked tentatively, "Sir Stark, are we going to change the route to Volantis?"
These Mercenary had communicated with the original crew before taking over the ship, so they knew that Gary was going to Volantis by boat.
"No, go to Pentos. I've been bullied like this, how can I do it if I don't come to repay you?"
Gary knocked on the deck with the wooden stick in his hand, "Clean it up and throw the corpses down to feed the fish."
"Yes... yes!"