It's truly ironic, a dangerous, terrifying, evil, and strange Shadowbinder would actually become a servant of R'hllor!"
On the deck of that small Volantis warship, a woman wearing a black hooded robe and a plain white mask with only three round holes for the eyes and mouth.
Looking at the black smoke in the sky that sometimes gathered and sometimes dispersed, she let out a sneer.
Beside her stood a thin man wearing a robe full of beads, with skin as pale as a corpse, a face covered in twisted runes, and lips of a strange blue color.
Hearing this, he chuckled and said, "Heh heh, indeed. Among all the extraordinary beings in Asshai, the most loathsome are Shadowbinders and blood mages.
If it were in the past, they wouldn't dare show their faces so openly.
But times have changed!
Dragons have flown to Essos and are slaughtering cities on a large scale, gods big and small are showing their divine power and issuing oracles, and groups of new extraordinary beings are constantly emerging.
If we cannot adapt to this world that is becoming incredibly insane, then we will ultimately be eliminated!"
"This is a crisis, but also an opportunity!
Darryl the male sorcerer, have you noticed that the magic elements that have been gradually silent these years seem to be active again?"
Hearing the masked woman's question, Darryl immediately nodded and replied, "Of course, I feel like I am only one step away from becoming an immortal.
That's why I wanted to seek assistance from the Red Temple.
Eira the mage, your Cloudsky mages have a greater need for magic when breaking through, so that's why you took on this task, right?"
"Yes, if it weren't because I was about to break through, I wouldn't have taken on this task at the risk of facing a dragon directly.
But I didn't expect that red-robed woman to be a Shadowbinder. Now it seems it's not as dangerous as I expected.
While dragons are indeed at the top of the extraordinary beings in this world, dragon riders are simply too fragile.
Relying on external objects for power is ultimately illusory; true power comes from within oneself!"
While these two extraordinary individuals were talking, the Volantis soldiers on the deck of the small warship kept their distance from them.
It was clear they had expressions of fear and disgust on their faces.
It seems that in the eyes of ordinary people, male sorcerers and Cloudsky mages are no different from the Shadowbinders and blood mages they spoke of.
In the sky on the other side, Jacaerys had already noticed the strange black smoke drifting from his right side.
There was no way around it; it was hard not to notice something in the empty high sky.
"Dracarys!"
Womax obeyed the command and spewed black Dracarys that covered the sky to the right.
Since both the Dracarys and the smoke were black, Jacaerys couldn't tell for a while if the target had been eliminated.
Whoosh!
A gentle breeze blew past, and strands of black smoke, barely visible to the naked eye, quickly condensed behind Jacaerys, finally forming a black figure shrouded in black mist.
The black figure raised its right hand high, then condensed a black one-handed axe from the black smoke, and swung it fiercely towards the back of Jacaerys's neck.
Jacaerys, who sensed the movement behind him, didn't even turn his head.
He reacted extremely quickly, directly drawing vigilance from the right side of the dragon saddle with his left hand and placing it horizontally above the back of his head, while with his right hand, he drew Blackfyre from the left side of the dragon saddle and thrust it behind him.
Clang!
Whoosh!
vigilance collided with the black one-handed axe, producing a sound as if solid objects had collided.
However, when Blackfyre pierced the black figure, it only created a circular hole the size of a fist.
The magic-breaking property of the Valyrian steel longsword seemed to have no effect on this black figure.
Swish!
Jacaerys, who had blocked the sneak attack from behind, suddenly turned to his left, and vigilance in his left hand sliced the black figure in half at the waist.
Blackfyre then made a vertical slash from top to bottom, and the entire black figure immediately dispersed into a cloud of smoke.
And before the black figure dispersed, Jacaerys roughly recognized a familiar face through its relatively clear facial outline.
Shadow assassin!
Jacaerys hadn't recognized what the black smoke was before.
But he now found that the physical characteristics and the weapon used by this black figure were similar to a familiar person, Beoro.
Thinking back carefully, wasn't this the shadow assassin born from the 'Red Woman' Melisandre and Stannis XXOO in the TV series from his previous life, sent to assassinate Renly?
Whoosh!
Just as Jacaerys was thinking, the dispersed black smoke condensed again directly in front of the dragon saddle.
The initial surprise sneak attack from behind hadn't succeeded, so it was even less likely to succeed now.
Jacaerys sliced it into black smoke again with a few sword strikes as if cutting vegetables.
But this black smoke was completely like an unkillable dog skin plaster, constantly repeating the process of condensing, dispersing, condensing again, and dispersing again.
It seemed determined not to disappear until Jacaerys was killed.
Moreover, Jacaerys could clearly feel that this shadow assassin was being controlled by someone.
Because it always attacked him by utilizing blind spots in his vision.
Since he couldn't kill it, then he would kill the person casting the spell and controlling it in the dark!
According to his memory from his previous life, Melisandre had specifically asked 'Onion Knight' Davos to take her nearby before assassinating Renly.
Therefore, the controller of this shadow assassin was near Mi Jie Island.
Combining the information that the black smoke had just drifted from the right side, the other party couldn't be hiding on Mi Jie Island to the left, using the psychological trick of the light under the lamp.
So it could only be the Lys and Volantis Joint Fleet on the sea surface to the right.
As for which ship... there was no need to distinguish!
Roar~~
Womax let out a dragon roar, and Silverwing and Seasmoke, who had almost completely burned down the enemy warships around Mi Jie Island, immediately gathered by its side upon receiving the command.
Ding ding ding!
The three dragons dove towards the Joint Fleet on the right in a 'pin' formation.
Most of the crossbow bolts were blocked by Womax, whose dragon scales provided amazing defense, while the remaining small portion were easily dodged by Silverwing and Seasmoke.
Hoo hoo hoo!
Black, gray, and silver-white Dracarys exploded on the sea surface to the right, and the warships of the Joint Fleet were swept into the terrifyingly hot Dracarys storm.
After incorporating the high-temperature characteristic of Vhagar's Dracarys, Womax's black Dracarys was extremely deadly to ordinary people.
Some enemy warships around it were not directly affected by its black Dracarys, but a large amount of seawater instantly evaporated into white water vapor due to the high temperature of the black Dracarys,
It was then carried by the impact force of the Dracarys and spread out in the form of a shockwave.
Ah!!!
The high-temperature water vapor didn't have much impact on the surrounding enemy warships, but it scalded the soldiers of the Joint Fleet, causing them to let out heart-wrenching screams.
Their exposed skin instantly turned red and swelled, and then in a very short time, thumb-sized blisters appeared.
The countless blisters, enough to drive someone with trypophobia insane, then burst open, revealing bright red, moist flesh.
The closer they were to the Dracarys storm, the more soldiers of the Joint Fleet were scalded to death by the high-temperature water vapor.
And even if those Joint Fleet soldiers on the outer edges were lucky enough to survive, the infection caused by the large-area burns would also take their lives.
After one dive, the three-color Dracarys storm directly carved out a sea channel full of charred ship debris and corpses within the Joint Fleet.
This Joint Fleet surrounding Mi Jie Island had fifteen large warships and over a hundred medium and small warships.
Due to the difference between naval combat and dense formation land combat, even Womax and the other two dragons, which could spray Dracarys over a large area, would need at least three or four rounds to burn them all down.
So Jacaerys kept swinging his sword to disperse the shadow assassin while mentally commanding Womax to take Silverwing and Seasmoke for a second dive.
But he didn't expect that as soon as they turned around and began to spray Dracarys, Jacaerys found the target in the raging Dracarys storm.
Because it was too obvious!
Around the small warship flying the Volantis tiger head flag, there seemed to be an invisible protective shield.
The fiercely burning three-color Dracarys automatically extinguished when it spread around it.
The extinguishing of Silverwing and Seasmoke's Dracarys was barely understandable.
But Womax's Dracarys had incorporated the characteristic of Glutton and could burn for a while even in seawater.
Needless to say, the controller of the shadow assassin must be on this ship.
Concentrate all firepower and burn it down!
Jacaerys had no intention of leaving anyone alive and directly ordered Womax and the other two dragons to turn around and fly towards that small warship.
But as soon as Womax and the other two dragons approached, that small warship instantly split into over a dozen identical ships.
This move was very familiar to Jacaerys, as he had already seen it during the assassination at the Tears of Blood Tower in Tyrosh.
No matter how many fake mirror images you create with illusions, I will directly break through with force!
Womax and the other two dragons hovered above the group of small warships, each spraying Dracarys towards one small warship.
The mirror image warships created by illusion naturally couldn't resist the hot Dracarys and shattered and disappeared after a moment of distortion.
The controller of the shadow assassin either because they were targeted by the dragons or finally realized that they couldn't kill Jacaerys in this way.
The shadow assassin that had been Entanglement Jacaerys suddenly collapsed and turned into black smoke, dispersing into the world.
With his hands free, Jacaerys took out his custom-made telescope to observe the small warships below.
To avoid prolonging the situation, he wanted to find the real warship body by observing the flaws in the illusion and quickly eliminate the potential threat.
The male sorcerer Darryl, who was casting the illusion, even replicated every movement on the deck of the small warship to make the mirror image real.
Hmm? That is!!!
Through the high-magnification custom-made telescope, Jacaerys clearly saw the red-robed woman who had just walked out of the ship's cabin.
Hoo hoo hoo!
Womax suddenly went all out, pouring the black Dracarys from its gaping maw onto the sea surface without reservation.
The mirror images of the small warships shattered and disappeared one after another, and it was estimated that they would all be burned down by the three dragons in less than five minutes.
On the deck of the real warship body, the red-robed woman who came out of the ship's cabin said a few words to Eira the mage, and then began to pray quickly.
And Eira the mage also cooperated extremely well by chanting in High Valyrian.
Whoosh, whoosh whoosh!
After the chanting was completed, an invisible breeze blew from Eira the mage's side towards the ink-colored dragon in the sky.
During its slow movement, this breeze gradually turned into a strong wind, a gale, and finally became a tornado with a diameter of about ten meters.
The red-robed woman also completed her prayer as the tornado formed.
First, tiny sparks appeared within the tornado, and then, defying the laws of physics, they directly ignited the tornado.
Whoosh whoosh whoosh!
This flaming tornado, which was orange-red on the outside, continuously rotated in a counter-clockwise direction.
Wherever it passed, seawater, ship debris, and corpses were all swept in, torn into large and small pieces, and then burned to ashes.
The terrifying power was truly frightening!
But with them causing such a commotion, how could Jacaerys not know where the real body of the small warship was?
Jacaerys controlled Womax to flap its wings and fly to the side of the flaming tornado, preparing to bypass it and strike directly at the heart.
But this flaming tornado, which had been moving slowly before, suddenly accelerated under the control of Eira the mage, and hit Womax in an instant.
Of course, this flaming tornado was still a bit miniature compared to Womax's huge size and couldn't completely engulf it.
So Eira the mage's main attack direction was the dragon saddle on its back.
The three extraordinary individuals on the deck of the small warship breathed a sigh of relief when they saw Jacaerys engulfed by the flaming tornado.
Even if they were extraordinary beings, in this flaming tornado, they would either be torn apart or burned to death.
Without the dragon rider, it would be very simple for the male sorcerer Darryl's illusion to deceive these three dragons with limited intelligence.
Whoosh!
Bang!
A figure covered in orange-red flames pierced through the Dracarys tornado and crashed onto the deck of the small warship like a meteor.
The deck couldn't withstand this level of falling force and was directly smashed through by the figure.
Crack!
A right hand wrapped in orange-red flames reached out from the pit on the deck, and the figure that had fallen from the sky immediately climbed out.
Needless to say, this was naturally Jacaerys!
The tearing force of the flaming tornado could not break through his trait defense, and the temperature of the orange-red flames covering his entire body only made him feel warm.
"********"
Eira the mage was the first to react. She spread her hands towards Jacaerys and chanted a long string of spells in a very fast, low voice.
Gasp, gasp!
Jacaerys immediately felt the surrounding oxygen rapidly disappearing, and his breathing became extremely difficult.
A thought flashed through his mind, and he immediately knew that it was this masked woman's strange method that had previously defended against the Dracarys.
Without oxygen, Dracarys with even the best traits cannot burn.
Clang!
Jacaerys held his breath, drew Blackfyre from his waist, and then charged towards Eira the mage like a speeding car.
Bang bang bang!
Crack, crack!
A group of Joint Fleet soldiers around were ordered by the red-robed woman to step forward and block him.
But as a series of crisp bone-breaking sounds rang out, they all spewed blood and were sent flying backward.
Anyone who played games in their previous life knows the consequence of a warrior getting close to a mage.
Bang!
The approaching Jacaerys punched her white mask, sending Eira the mage flying four or five meters away.
This was still with him wanting to understand these strange spells and holding back most of his strength.
Otherwise, her fate would have been the same as the male sorcerer Darryl.
"Wait…"
Looking at Jacaerys's might, the male sorcerer Darryl, his face full of horror, opened his mouth to speak.
But he had only said two words when his head was smashed into a pulp by a casual punch from Jacaerys, who had no interest in illusions.
Whoosh~~
Having dealt with the two extraordinary beings, Jacaerys, whose breathing had returned to normal, took a deep breath.
While casually patting off the flames that clung to him, he spoke to the red-robed woman, "Do you know why I came down myself?
Because I have a strong curiosity about you, or rather, something on you.
How about it? Will you hand it over yourself, or should I do it myself?
Lady Melisandre!"