Chapter 43: The North Remembers
Stannis as the powerful commander at sea, sailed through to the black water bay with a lot of ships while Renly commanded the on land army from Storms end. They were to meet at kings landing on both sides.
The brothers had decided to fight thw Lannister men together but they still don't see eye to eye on several issues so in the end they decided to act separately. Olivia has someone deliver his antidote and the one for Bolton every week through her subordinates in the green castle.
Renly is ambushed at night when they were about to reach the city. Stannis suffered casualties from the wild fire at black water bay, Olivia had told Renly to be careful of the wild fire, but Renly did not warn his brother.
Stannis had received a letter stating where the Lannisters are laying in wait but Stannis never warned his brother. Both suffered heavy casualties and ran back to Storms End and Dragon stone.
Just as the battle is finished and the Lannisters have managed to push back both brothers and are now exhausted. They are about to go inside the city to rest and celebrate victory the next day. Suddenly the ground shook and many men came out of nowhere running towards the remaining force with great momentum.
The real battle has only just began. The Northmen cut through the enemies' armor with Alfred's blades like cutting through flesh. All the armies of the North are here, no one knows when did they come, how long did they wait, all they know is they have to fight because many are blacking their way into the city.
The men of the North became like hunters and cut down the enemy while they are dazed. The men of the Lannister army may be tired but they are no push overs as well so they became fierce knowing this is the only way to live.
Bolton faced a strong Lannister man and he fought like a beast. The king in the North kept searching for the mountain but did not see him anywhere. It turned out when Olivia had the mountain molest Queen Cersei, Tywin Lannister finally realized the kind of dog he had raised and boxed him up nicely before sending him and his friends off to Dorne.
Tywin new the Dorne kingdom now has a powerful fleet while his own hasn't been recovered from the last war with the Greyjoy. He was buying himself time and also giving the mountain a punishment for daring to put his hand on his daughter. As a result, the mountain is not in the battlefield to protect Tywin Lannister as Robb slowly makes his way towards his position breaking all defenses in his way. The closer he got the angrier he became.
The Lannisters are surrounded on all fronts with the city gates and more men at their backs. "Robb, Wait!" He didn't get to say any more as the valerian steel went through his stomach making a long cut spilling out the great Tywin's innards all over the ground. Robb cut off Tywin's head ready to walk inside the city.
The men started to cheer but Robb just told them to "Open the gates, no sacking or harming anyone else, we came for king Jeffrey!"
The guards and the doors both fell. "We have come for king Jeffrey and we will be out of this place, bring him to us and you will return to your rest. Refuse, and we will turn this city up side down burn every corner and butcher every blond haired boy before we leave. The North remembers!" Robb's voice sounded from the large throne room doors.
"The North remembers!"
"The North remembers!"
"The North remembers!"
Cersei couldn't believe that her father actually lost and now these peasants want her child. She let go of Tommen whom she was about to poison and Stood up trying to look dignified. The northerners will never go back on their word so she will still have Tommen to be king.
Tyrion came out of nowhere and faced Robb. "I see you have gotten your due." A complicated look on his face as he saw his father's head thrown carelessly on the side.
"You heard me, bring the king and we go our separate ways, refuse and you will not like what come next." Robb still remembers why Olivia left the revenge of their father to him. She wanted it to be honorable just like their father.
"The king has been smuggled out of the city I'm afraid." This time a blade almost cut his face off. Robb walked towards the throne. "Then every blond haired person in this city dies today. Men!"
"Wait!"
Two men came in with Jeffrey cursing them for being traitors. Seeing him again, Robb swung his sword and the head dropped to the ground. He didn't even talk to the screaming Cersei and left the throne room with tears on his eyes. He really wants to kill this entire family but he will leave that to the gods.
The moment the scary men left the city, the people of kings landing who have suffered from hunger this entire time opened their previously horror stricken faces and looked to the red keep. No one knows who shouted but soon Cersei picked up the poison and wanted to kill both himself and the boy Tommen.
The noise outside became louder and louder but it never reached the throne room. It turned out as soon as the North finished taking their dead and getting on their black boat, many Lannister men came out of the woods having fled the battle earlier. Their numbers is around 20 at most but they are trained men who can kill many unarmed civilians.
Tyrells came to 'help' the remnants of the crown a day later with food. In actuality they want to have all the power at court since the Lannisters are weak. They know that if Cersei survives she will be their puppet now.
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The North did not kill Cersei because a power hungry person like that will hold on to the throne at any cost and this will have the southerners fighting each other for as long as possible while they go home to prepare for the long winter.
Stannis is gloomily staring at the flames while Renly is dying at Storm' s end. "You said I was the prince that was chosen!" Stannis shouted at the red woman.
"Hahahaha..." A booming laughter sounded in the dark space of the meeting room. "A prince who was promised. Hahahaha..."
The two people heard the laughter but they couldn't find anyone no matter how hard they tried. It turns out this is the echo of Olivia who is watching the pair using her new power.
It has been a few months and she is getting the hang of the whole watching the world but never part of it. This is her source of entertainment as she goes through the gruesome process of enhancing her power both physically and magically.
The bad thing about it is that she can lose track of time as she watch others lives go on.
The good news are the castle structure in the red wasteland has long been completed. The workers are now just finishing with the fitted glass and internal plumbing system. They had to dig very deep from where Olivia had located the different sources of water.
Olivia's blue print of the castle is large enough to house a little over ten thousand people just so she can host the workers and the guards who will protect the territory.
To facilitate the work, Olivia grew several trees from those under ground to allow some shade and breeze to pass in this place. She is planning on completing the rest of the construction with her magic spells.
Her dragons told her if she grew stronger they will help her build the sturdiest structures in all the k own world. Hearing them, Olivia drew several blue prints of otherworldly buildings.
The mining process is still at the same pace which is very slow compared to the construction pace. Olivia is delighted to find the structures of the castle and its surrounding walls are very sturdy and made with cold stone. Cold stone gets colder the hotter it's surrounding environment gets.
Olivia ate the pill to increase her magic after reaching the red waste abandoned city many miles away from her new home in the red waste lands.
Her heart started beating wildly which for some reason slowed down the speed of the world around her. She tried meditating, but the pain felt like her body is going on an elevated heat stroke.
Sweat, steam, then flames. "Aaaaaaah!" A painful scream tore through her throat leaving her gasping for breath but it is just the beginning.
It became apparent that her life is hanging at a delicate balance. She began hallucinating her previous life's humiliation and desperation for power. Even so, she couldn't hold on.
Seeing her dying in front of them like this, they recite a spell to halt her breakthrough and Morpheus gave her a large drop of his essence blood. She knows how to refine powerful bloodlines it just never occurred to her that she will be doing such a thing with her children's blood.
In her heart she is disdainful of how weak she is. Without any pretentiousness she took the precious gift from Morpheus and refined it. The magic and the blood goes well together but it changed something in her, she can't put her finger on it but something is definitely different now.
From the depth of her eyes a bright purple flame flickered and then disappeared. She looked at the skies and released a beastly roar to the heavens. Her beasts joined her and a powerful psychic wave burst out of her body demolishing the old structures around her. then a large deep red flame engulfed her entire body turning the ground into black glass.
When she opened her eyes next, they are no longer purple grey but deep purple. The flames around her extinguished from her single command. She knows without a shadow of a doubt that she is stronger and has greater control of her power now than before.
She turned and gave her beasts a pill each. Their own evolution is more exaggerated than her own. For starters they went to sleep and stayed asleep while their auras continued to rise and then black and white flames surrounded Morpheus and Aeryn respectively turning into a cocoon cutting off the magic that was bursting out a while ago.
"To think a level three middle grade pill would have such miraculous effect."
Olivia began to examine herself while she stood guard on her own. She is aware that her own breakthrough failed and if there was no dragon blood she would have died in burst of power. Human bodies are inherently weak.
Even after she forged her body that much it still couldn't contain the magic power inside that single pill. Sighing, she tried looking into her body's new situation. No mater the world, dragon blood is still a good thing.
Then she saw it, the thing that changed in her body. Her bones have been refined, her muscles, blood and tendons are now no longer as frail as before. In fact she is as strong as a peak fourth stage body cultivator, all from a single drop of essence blood.
She can fight for days without any rest now. Her punches can probably shatter a small mountain. In short, her body is strong it's her magic she is worried about. If she has enough magic, there is a possibility that she can turn this waste land into a paradise. Few things would please her more.
It's crazy that she had just refused a n immortality fruit but her lifespan has suddenly increased steadily by a few centuries. If she is not killed of course.
The sun sat and rose several day and nights. Olivia started to get lonely when a deep powerful roar sounded and then another. Just as two large ships went passed going towards New Ghis island.
They probably felt scared and didn't stop to investigate and tried to accelerate their ships. The two dragons are now larger than before, the most obvious change is the frontal legs they have grown. The two of them look taller more majestic and the aura around them is thick with extraordinary heat.
They released flames into the air until they entangled up in the air. Olivia floated in the air and approached them, it burned all her clothes and her skin couldn't stand it either.
She dropped to the ground with second degree burns that healed at a visible speed. "That burned."
"Are you okay?" Aeryn asked worried.
"Why would you do that?" Morpheus can feel the harm it did to her body.
"I didn't go swimming in the flames, I only approached a small distance. Your evolution was powerful." She went to the pile of clothes and put something on.
"Approached? That was the combined attack from our flames mother!" Morpheus screamed but it sounded like a roar, only she can under stand it.
"Yes I did a stupid thing, lets move on to your new shinny pair of legs." Olivia threw herself on Aeryn's front leg playfully which resulted in the dragon kicking her leg forward throwing her far away and raising red dust in the air as her body smacked on the ground.
"Hahaha...are you shy?" Olivia got up from the ground with no broken bones but clothes full of dust. They saw that their combined breakthroughs destroyed the abandoned city.
"Come on, learn how to use your new limbs. catch me if you can." They played and drank water that Olivia found below the ground near the castle.
The construction in the red waste land territory is taking shape. First there is a massive wall covering large space for the castle made from red bricks of the red waste soil mixing it with the improved construction concrete that was used in the Haunted city.
Olivia is not shy with compliments to her hard working people. She is also planning to build a beautiful city here just so they can live here if they want. The city will have to first have the water system as she can not have this hot place smelling like the old kings landing.
Using her new found power, she and the dragons pulled the water from three different underground rivers.
The sudden increase in her magic has helped her in learning spells of other elements such as earth spells and water drawing spells. This previously abandoned property will become hers in every sense of the way.
First she isolated the fire magic from the ore mines directing it to a small area which made that spot very rich in fire magic. There are a few of these spots because there are a few fire elements ore mines in these lands.
She made a few sets of caves for her dragons and future dragons because such concentrated fire magic will help them get stronger.
"We will rest here now, mother can get us when she needs us." Aeryn said heartlessly. The both of them chose a cave and sat down with contented smiles. The fire magic caresses their bodies like a mother's warm embrace making the two dragons unable to leave the place.
They can hide their own caves from prying eyes with magic but Olivia has already used earth magic to make majestic underground caves. She knows they are way too attached to her to actually live here but their words still resonated with her.
Olivia took this time to visit the nearby forests and pick up herbs she might use. To make good time she flew over to New Ghis Island.
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