Chapter 117: The Beast's Blood Boils

Early the next morning, Jhiqui began to help Daenerys wash and dress up. This was the first time that Daenerys officially participated in a large-scale event as queen, so of course no aspect could be sloppy.

A white linen dress with the local characteristics of Meereen was specially customized. The dress is a bit cumbersome to wear.

Gold-edged tassels were wrapped around the waist, chest, and shoulders. Jhiqui had to learn how to wear them after several lessons from the family of the Great Lord of Meereen.

Although Daenerys was extremely unaccustomed to this kind of dress, she had to follow the ancient traditions of Meereen in order to gain the recognition of the former slave owners of Slaver's Bay.

After spending a lot of time dressing up, Jhiqui brought Daenerys's queen's crown, a three-headed dragon crown made of gold, ivory and emerald.

This crown was made for Daenerys by the local royal family when she was in Qarth. She had never worn it before and only planned to wear it today because she was invited to watch the competition.

The Meereen Arena is located on the west side of the city. It is a circular building covering a very large area.

When Daenerys and others arrived, the arena was already full of people. The arena, which could accommodate tens of thousands of people, was almost full. In addition to the locals of Slaver's Bay, there were also nobles and merchants from all over the world who came to watch.

Although there are arenas or fighting stadiums in other places, none of them can match the scale and fame of Meereen. Some people even come here from thousands of miles away to seek excitement and vent.

Entering the arena and listening to the crazy roar of the crowd in the stands, Daenerys felt very uncomfortable.

With a somewhat stiff expression, he sat on the main stand of the arena with the other ministers.

Shortly after she sat down, an arena manager, dressed in fine clothes and with meticulously groomed hair and beard, walked into the arena.

After standing in the center of the venue, she solemnly introduced Her Majesty the Queen Daenerys to the people who came to watch the competition.

Most of the local people in Slaver's Bay have seen Daenerys, but the nobles and merchants who came from far away were seeing Queen Daenerys for the first time.

They had long heard that a woman from the dragon family Targaryen, a descendant of the Valyrian Freehold, liberated the Slaver's Bay and broke the rule of the slave owners that had lasted for hundreds of years.

Some people came to Meereen not only to watch the end-of-month tournament finals, but also to see the Targaryen Queen and her three dragons.

I want to see what a dragon that has disappeared from this world for more than a hundred years looks like.

However, not only did they not see the two big dragons that often circled over Meereen, they didn't even see the little dragon that always stayed on the queen's shoulder. They were very disappointed, and their interest in watching the competition was greatly dampened.

After the arena master introduced Daenerys, the competition officially began. The first to come on stage were a Dothraki roaring warrior holding an Arak scimitar and a heavily armored warrior holding a spear and a shield.

As soon as the Dothraki Howling Warrior came on the field, he immediately attracted the attention of Daenerys and her two bloodriders. Even Daario, who had returned from Yunkai, began to pay attention to the game.

Daario once participated in the Meereen tournament and won the monthly championship, and the weapon he used was the arakh.

When he first started learning martial arts, he had used swords and spears, but he felt that they were not very comfortable. It was not until he watched a Dothraki competition that he found a weapon that suited him - the arakh.

He used it to win victory after victory and killed countless enemies.

Seeing that the first person to come on stage was a Dothraki, Tyrion couldn't help but look at Daenerys who was paying attention to the competition.

It seems that the Lord of Meereen really attaches great importance to the monthly finals held for Queen Daenerys. Knowing that she was once the largest khalasar on the grassland, Khaleesi specially arranged a Dothraki to participate in the competition.

Although the Dothraki are better at fighting on horseback, they are also very good at fighting off horseback.

Facing a heavily armored spear-wielding warrior, he made full use of his agility, moving around the warrior's side and finding the right opportunity to strike the spear warrior.

The two men fought back and forth. Although the Dothraki warrior was hit by the spear, he was not stabbed in the vitals. The spear warrior was repeatedly disturbed by the arakh and was chopped several times. After his helmet was knocked off, the Dothraki warrior cut off his head with a scimitar.

Looking at the flying heads and the blood spurting into the sky, the crowd around the stands instantly went crazy.

Excited howls and angry curses filled the entire arena. A woman watching the game even took off her shirt and waved it wildly, not caring at all about the many eyes around her.

Seeing the Dothraki win, Rakharo and Aggo also shouted loudly to cheer for their fellow people.

Daario was also very excited. The victory of the Dothraki reminded him of the jubilant scene when he won the end-of-month championship.

Although Daenerys was very uncomfortable seeing the spear warrior being beheaded, she also breathed a sigh of relief.

The Dothraki's methods are somewhat cruel, but Daenerys still hopes that he can win.

After the Dothraki went down, three pairs of people came up to compete.

There were warriors who wielded two-handed swords, as well as those who used spears and one-handed swords. In every case, the match ended with one side dying.

The ways of death varied, some were stabbed in the chest, some had their throats cut, and the worst one was almost cut in half by someone wielding a two-handed giant sword.

After the three victorious contestants left the arena, the arena manager led the four victorious contestants onto the stage and announced the start of the final.

It is conducted in a free-for-all format, and whoever survives to the end will be the monthly champion and receive generous rewards.

After seeing four people die in succession, Daenerys became a little restless. After hearing the arena manager announce the rules for producing the champion, Daenerys felt even more uneasy, but she had to sit down.

Looking at the people of all kinds with distorted faces in the amphitheater, listening to their excited howls, roars and curses, Daenerys didn't understand why they liked watching this bloody duel so much.

Looking at her ministers, Jorah and Tyrion were obviously not used to this kind of bloody fight, and Missandei felt similarly.

The two bloodriders, who are also Dothraki and have always been indifferent to life and death, were very excited and wished they could fight against others. Daario also looked eager to try.

What Daenerys didn't understand was that Yara, also a woman from the Iron Islands, was also very excited, which reminded her of the Iron Islands' saying "It is better to take by force than to till the soil", and she guessed that Yara must have done a lot of looting.

During the game, two more people died, including the Dothraki warrior who won the first game, so Daenerys almost couldn't hold on to the end of the game.

Just as the remaining two people in the arena had decided the winner, the Unsullied who was responsible for guarding the outer perimeter of the arena suddenly ran quickly towards the stands where Daenerys was.

Grey Worm, who was standing vigilantly behind Daenerys, immediately noticed something was wrong and ran towards the Unsullied. After hearing his report, his face changed and he immediately gathered the surrounding Unsullied to get closer to Daenerys.