Chapter 56

Viserys tore open the envelope and extracted its contents, then unfolded it to view.

Ferrego Antarion is the current Aquaman.

The Sea King of Braavos is the ruler of the free trade city-state of Braavos. His personal guard is called the chief swordsman of Braavos, and the messy-haired Scilio Freer is standing below. hold such an important position.

The current Braavos Sea King Ferrego Antarion lives in the Sea King Palace in the city.

The title of Sea King is not hereditary. After the death of the previous Sea King, the new Sea King will be selected from all citizens by the Governor of Braavos and the Gatekeeper according to a mysterious and inexplicable process.

Once chosen as Aquaman, he will serve for life until his death.

And the letter Viserys is holding now is a handwritten letter from Ferrego Antarion.

The content of the letter is not very long, and it only expresses a simple purpose.

Moreover, Viserys could see that the timeliness of this letter seemed to be a little 'expired'.

This letter from Ferrego Antarion was written before Viserys and the Targaryen fleet left for Storm's End.

After all, Braavos is also thousands of miles away from Dragonstone Island. After Aquaman got the news of this naval battle, it was too late to take back the letter.

And this letter was not written to him, but in his name.

After all, after Viserys was crowned, he was a wandering king who had an appeal to the Iron Throne in a sense, and his bloodline was pure and impeccable in law.

But the letter was actually addressed to his mother, Queen Layla.

In the letter, Aquaman of Braavos persuaded Layla to take Viserys to abandon Dragonstone and come to live in Braavos.

Braavos will provide active protection and protection for the descendants of the Dragon King, which is more elegantly called "political refuge".

At the same time, Sea King also implicitly stated in the letter that "at some critical time" he may consider supporting Targaryen's "just appeal" for the Iron Throne of Westeros.

The entire handwritten letter was written in Valyrian language, and it seemed that Sea King was a bit more accurate than this messenger.

But Viserys didn't change his face as he read the whole bullshit in the letter.

Braavos may really need their poor orphans and widows, but it is definitely not for the reasons of 'justice', 'jurisprudence' and so on as written in this letter.

Orys Baratheon, the first Prime Minister after the Conquest, was in ancient legends the illegitimate brother of Aegon I, who also had Targaryen blood.

However, these are just rumors, there is no concrete evidence, and illegitimate children do not have legal inheritance rights.

And Robert Baratheon ascended the Iron Throne by virtue of his grandmother's blood.

Robert's grandmother was Aegon V's daughter, Rayleigh Targaryen, so as a Targaryen's 'relative', he was qualified to sit on the Iron Throne.

Therefore, Robert is more justifiable than the people of the Arryn family, the Tully family or the Stark family.

Viserys ignored the bullshit above, but he noticed that a person was vaguely mentioned at the end of this handwritten letter.

Ferrego Antarion wrote in the letter that he invited Queen Layla and Prince Viserys to Braavos, and then secretly arranged for a mysterious person to meet Queen Layla and Viserys.

The identified identity is a Valyrian word similar to 'in-law', indicating a 'relative of the woman's family'.

Viserys' Valyrian language is still enough for daily communication, but after leaving the Red Keep, there is no such communication environment, and it will inevitably become unfamiliar.

He carefully pondered the meaning of Neptune's words, and then read it several times, and it seemed that he had some comprehension.

This is the reason why he looked at the letter from a different perspective. Viserys began to look at this letter with himself as the center, and did not understand it for a while.

Now that I have come to my senses, if I look at this letter from the perspective of Queen Layla, the meaning of this sentence is very easy to understand.

Queen Layla's 'family'?

Queen Layla has three children, Viserys and Daenerys, one is just a child and the other is even just a baby, only the eldest brother Rhaegar is married.

And although a lot of messy things happened later, the in-laws will definitely not refer to the Stark family in the north.

"Donne."

Viserys understood slightly, and the pimples between his brows loosened a little.

"Dorn actually wants to contact his mother?"

Viserys knew that the Iron Throne was currently negotiating with Dorne. In fact, Dorne had long since separated from Targaryen because of the sleaze of his father Aerys and his brother Rhaegar.

But at this juncture now, Dorn actually contacted Braavos to pull the strings.

And Braavos, as the middleman, did not know why he agreed to secretly arrange a meeting between Dorne and Targaryen.

"But... hasn't their iron vault been loaned to the Iron Throne during this time?"

"Aren't they afraid they won't get the money back?

still…

They want to use this to make a fuss and manipulate the war to make the Iron Throne owe them more money.

Viserys thought about the whole thing.

Or again.

Braavos just simply didn't want the Seven Kingdoms on the other side of the Narrow Sea to truly reunite and cause them a little trouble.

"That's a little subtle."

Viserys frowned, holding the letter in his hand, sinking slightly into contemplation.

He didn't know how far the negotiations between Dorne and the Iron Throne were now.

It is even more unclear what Dorn's true attitude is, whether it is a real reconciliation with the Iron Throne, or just a false impression.

And now Dorn took the initiative to contact Targaryen because of the meaning of Prince Doran, or was it just a secret move by a group of people in the Martell family who were dissatisfied with this peace talks.

He knew nothing about it.

Viserys understands Dorne's caution. After all, they are negotiating with the Iron Throne. If a ship is sent directly to Dragonstone, then the negotiation will not need to be carried out, and war will break out in Westeros again.

but

What this letter shows is more than that.

If Viserys understood correctly, the letter meant for Queen Layla to take her to Braavos and Dorne to meet.

In particular, it was pointed out that the Targaryens and the Martais were still related.

Then he used a pro-to-pro address, indicating that it was a 'relative of the woman'.

Viserys squeezed the letter in his hand, and suddenly had a bad premonition.

"Does this Martai family have any daughters?"

"They won't be staring at themselves again."