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Chapter 20 - Chapter 98: The Second Devouring Transformation, Battle of Three Rivers

Jacaerys didn't pay attention to Rhaenys's actions; her willingness to come to the rescue already showed her stance.

He turned his head to look at the Wendewater Bridge and found that the battle there was also basically over.

sunfyre, covered in iron armor, was also constantly knocking down trees and running towards Womax.

Only then did he have time to carefully check the attribute panel.

[Pet Name: Womax, Owner: Jacaerys Velaryon.

Body Length: 32.12 meters, Wingspan: 75.54 meters.

Pet Attribute Slots: 10 / 10.

Attribute Quality: Blood and Fire (Purple): Fire Resistance + 100%

Trait: Pet shares Fire Resistance with owner.

Glutton (Purple): Appetite + 100%, Growth Speed + 100%

Trait: Devour high-level creatures to gain explosive growth speed.

Valyrian Dragon Lord (Purple): dragon creature attack damage + 100%, dragon Wei + 100%

Trait: Tame dragon servants with the might of the dragon king (Number of dragon servants: 2 / 3)

Agile (Blue): Agility + 50%

Dragon Slayer (Blue): Damage to dragon creatures + 50%

Hard Skin (Blue): Defense + 50%

Iron Wall Military Advisor (Blue): Provides owner with 50% defense bonus.

Fragrance of Plants and Trees (Green): Wood Attack + 20%

Masochist (Green): Defense + 20%, Attack - 20%

Diet (Green): Appetite - 20%

Current Attribute Points: 128]

The special reward attributes of purple quality are amazing; they can forcefully tame enemy dragons into dragon servants, but unfortunately, there is a limit of three dragon servants.

Womax likely tamed sunfyre with a blue attribute before because it was severely injured and on the verge of death.

Therefore, Jacaerys cannot use this to estimate the success rate of taming a healthy dragon with a purple attribute.

Of course, Vermithor's dragon claws were being continuously burned by the black-grey Dracarys at the time, but that could only be considered a minor external injury.

After much deliberation, Jacaerys set his taming target on Silverwing, the smallest and youngest of the three enemy dragons.

And judging from the previous performance of Vermithor and Vhagar, when taming a dragon servant with the might of the dragon king, it seems that all the dragon Wei is concentrated on the target.

However, the time spent taming Silverwing was too short at that time.

If it weren't for Womax's thought of successful taming, Jacaerys wouldn't have known what happened at all.

Roar~~

After Womax devoured Vermithor down to a skeleton, it only managed to let out a brief dragon roar.

Strands of blood-red mist rose from the surface of its dark green dragon body.

These blood-red mists rose faster and faster, then began to spread around.

Perhaps because of the dragon roar Womax emitted, Silverwing and sunfyre simultaneously came to Jacaerys's side and showed him their backs.

Jacaerys glanced at sunfyre's back armor, which had a metallic sheen, and turned to climb onto Silverwing's dragon saddle.

Whoosh, whoosh!

Silverwing flapped its wings and flew towards the Wendewater Bridge, and sunfyre also ran on the ground, closely following.

Not long after they left, a huge blood cocoon about thirty meters high and sixty meters long completely enveloped Womax.

Since he had the experience once, Jacaerys did not stay by Womax's second cocoon transformation like before.

After returning to the vicinity of the Wendewater Bridge on Silverwing, he immediately had Korman begin the post-battle work.

After all, on the ground north of the Wendewater, there were still many intact Green Party cavalry armors and hundreds of frightened warhorses without masters.

But what surprised Jacaerys the most was seeing Criston, who was extremely disheveled after his White Knight armor was removed.

This unexpected surprise gave him leverage to exchange for little Aegon.

After a while longer, Lucerys finally arrived late on Arrax.

This child was naturally full of curiosity about the giant blood cocoon and Silverwing, and Jacaerys, having nothing to do, dotingly told him the story of fighting three dragons alone.

The results of the battle of Wendewater were gratifying, not only adding a dragon that could fight without a dragonrider to Jacaerys's forces.

It also gave Womax the opportunity for a second devouring transformation.

Moreover, Jacaerys's ground forces now had no obstacles on their way to King's Landing, and the naval forces also recaptured Dragonstone without needing to fight.

By then, they could attack King's Landing from both land and sea simultaneously.

However, during the time King Jacaerys traveled from Storm's End to the Wendewater, other areas of the Seven Kingdoms were also engaged in large-scale battles.

...

The Reach, in the area of the Rose Road near the mouth of the Mander River, an army of about twenty-five hundred people was rapidly marching from south to north.

One of the leaders of this army was earl alan beesbury of honeyholt.

His grandfather was earl lyman beesbury, whose throat was slit by Criston.

Therefore, alan had firmly stood on the side of the Blacks from the very beginning.

He and the other leader, alan tally of house tally, were known as the 'Two Alans'.

The two of them had been entangled with the House Hightower army, which outnumbered them five to one, in the Mander River basin for over half a month.

A few days ago, after receiving ravens from the earl of Goldengrove and the earl of Bitterbridge, who had just defected to the Blacks, they feigned defeat and gave up the Rose Road.

Kill!

When the Two Alans led their army to the predetermined battlefield, they immediately found the House Hightower army in fierce battle with the combined forces of Goldengrove and Bitterbridge.

They unhesitatingly ordered their soldiers to ambush the House Hightower army from the rear, and the scales of victory immediately tilted towards the Blacks.

Attacked from front and back, the House Hightower army gradually began to collapse.

If there were no surprises, this last force of House Hightower would be annihilated here.

Whoosh, whoosh!

A magnificent dragon with deep cobalt blue wings and claws, crown, and belly scales that shone like copper foil suddenly appeared in the southern sky.

Roar, roar, roar!

When this cobalt blue dragon swooped down at high speed and breathed cobalt blue Dracarys, the army under the Two Alans instantly suffered devastating blows.

The morale of the House Hightower army, which was originally bound to lose, was greatly boosted by the appearance of the cobalt blue dragon.

After being attacked by the dragon, the Two Alans still tried to rally their remaining forces to continue fighting.

But to the north of the Rose Road, the main force, the combined army of Goldengrove and Bitterbridge, retreated first.

However, the swooping cobalt blue dragon relentlessly pursued them and breathed Dracarys for a while until it felt tired before changing direction to rendezvous with the House Hightower army.

And when the cobalt blue dragon returned, the House Hightower army had already routed the last remaining forces and captured the Two Alans.

Crack!

The cobalt blue dragon landed on the Rose Road, and a handsome young man with silver hair and a sunny face jumped off the dragon saddle of the cobalt blue dragon.

"Without Prince Daeron, we would definitely have lost this battle!"

"Hooray, long live Prince Daeron!"

"Long live Prince Daeron!"

As the handsome young man walked forward, the surrounding House Hightower soldiers cheered loudly for him.

Daeron Targaryen, the youngest son of Viserys I and queen Alicent.

Perhaps it was a pre-arranged plan by Alicent and her father, but Daeron was sent to Oldtown to study from a young age.

Since he had never returned to King's Landing and there were basically no positive or negative rumors about him.

Daeron was almost out of the sight of the Seven Kingdoms' lords.

But he had actually been growing up healthily, just like his cobalt blue dragon, Tessarion.

Daeron, who had no princely airs at all, smiled and nodded in return to the soldiers' cheers.

Then, he came before ser Hobart Hightower, the acting lord of Oldtown, and said, "Ser Hobart, I have proven my ability.

I hope you will no longer keep me in Oldtown."

hobart frowned upon hearing this and replied, "But this was earl mondon's order."

"earl mondon is dead!"

Prince Daeron shouted with a mournful expression, then turned to look northeast and murmured,

"Perhaps, if earl mondon had taken me with him back then, the outcome would have been different!"

In fact, earl mondon insisted on keeping Daeron in Oldtown back then, firstly because two princes had already participated in the battle of Shipbreaker Bay.

He and Ser Otto were both worried about accidents, so they specifically kept one male heir to the Iron Throne.

Secondly, earl mondon was worried that Jacaerys would launch a dragon attack on Oldtown, so he specifically had Daeron and Tessarion participate in the defense.

After all, in battle, having a dragon or not is completely different.

Through this battle, Ser Hobart had already felt the terrifying combat power of dragons.

Therefore, he no longer insisted on earl mondon's last wish and agreed to Prince Daeron riding his dragon north with them.

After the battle of the Mander River, the entire western coast from dorne to the lower half of The Reach and the westerlands was firmly controlled by the Green Party.

...

Riverlands, Trident River basin.

earl humfrey brecken of stonehedge was leading the House Bracken soldiers and some remaining strong family forces, hastily retreating towards Harrenhal on the gods eye.

Although in a state of defeat and flight, his eyes were full of unwillingness.

Nothing else, earl humfrey ambushed forrest frey, who was leading his army south, at the crossroads of the Trident River.

However, at the critical moment, Daemon, who was leading four thousand knights of the vale, attacked from the flank.

Under the impact of the powerful steel torrent, he had to leave most of the strong family soldiers to cover the retreat, and then led the remaining forces to flee in a panic.

After this battle of the Trident River, the Green Party could only rely on the geographical advantage of Harrenhal for defense.

From the vale to the upper part of the Riverlands and then to the north, all were firmly controlled by the Blacks.

...

The battle of Wendewater, the battle of the Mander River, and the battle of the Trident River are collectively referred to as the Three Rivers Campaign.

After the Three Rivers Campaign, the Green Party, which was originally in a dominant position, had gradually fallen into a disadvantage.

Jacaerys's land and naval forces were pressing towards King's Landing, and it seemed like the decisive moment for a battle to determine the winner had arrived!

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PS: I only wrote over eight thousand words today, because I know the lords don't like the battles of the other two sides, so I tried to use concise language to introduce the background.

The setting of Daeron going to Oldtown from childhood and being out of sight is from the TV series script, probably because they didn't choose a good actor!

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