Chapter 322: Arrival at Valyria

"There are too many secrets hidden in this world, what we see is just the tip of the iceberg."

"And beneath it lies the abyss."

Viserys stood at the bow of the ship, speaking these words. He was dressed in simple clothes, a longsword at his waist, his silver hair braided neatly. He looked clean, radiant, and drew frequent glances from Mira standing beside him.

Even though Viserys had attempted to disguise himself, leaning towards an unattractive appearance, he was still strikingly handsome, irresistibly drawing the gazes of the girls.

Viserys began to speak.

Not far away, the sailors and mercenaries aboard the ship could already see the edge of the Valyrian continent.

This peninsula, once tightly connected to the continent of Essos, was shattered by a cataclysm, splitting into many fragments of varying sizes.

The smallest fragments were no more than a few dozen meters in length and width, mere islands, and even smaller ones were like reefs in the sea. The complex sea conditions in the Smoking Sea were largely due to the shattered continent, with hidden reefs everywhere. One careless move could lead to shipwreck.

This time, they were preparing to explore the main fragment of the shattered Valyrian continent.

Here lay the core secrets of Valyria and immense wealth.

From the rise of Valyria five thousand years ago, it enslaved the entire world, accumulating immeasurable wealth.

This is what attracts countless fearless explorers every year to explore the ruins in search of lost treasures.

"Why do you say that?"

Viserys sighed, and the girl standing next to him asked in confusion.

She didn't understand what Viserys meant by his words. What secrets? What iceberg?

But Viserys didn't explain much either, only that the troubles they had encountered along the way had led him to this heartfelt exclamation.

If in the outside world, no one would ever think that the Smoking Sea harbored so many horrors and secrets.

"It's nothing, just something a friend once told me," Viserys said, shaking his head.

"She warned me that the dragons have been reborn, that all the magic in the world is returning, and to be careful of those who wield special powers."

"They may suddenly reclaim their power and disdain worldly authority, wantonly disrupting the normal order."

Just like a person who has been starving for too long suddenly being able to feast, they might eat too much and harm their own body.

These were the words Melisandre had warned Viserys with.

Before she left Pentos for the Wall, she cautioned Viserys to be careful of these people.

Witches, shadowbinders, warlocks, skinchangers, and so on.

They all wielded fearsome powers, and their powers had all returned.

"Really?"

"Are they really that powerful?"

The red-haired girl was slightly stunned upon hearing Viserys's words.

She had never thought that ordinary people could wield such powerful forces, even threatening worldly authority.

Although Mira didn't live in Westeros, she lived in the relatively free city-states, but she understood the importance of lineage.

In Volantis, families without ancient lineages tracing back to Valyria had no chance of rising. Even free citizens were second-class citizens, and slaves were even worse off.

Slaves were slaves, and the children of slaves were also slaves, generation after generation, never able to turn over a new leaf.

But Mira, thinking back to the series of terrifying events they encountered after entering the Smoking Sea, couldn't help but shudder, seeming to believe it somewhat.

This mysterious power was too terrifying.

Since the first outbreak of the grey mist,

all the survivors had become much more cautious.

The grey mist didn't always have negative effects, the specific reasons for which the survivors couldn't figure out.

Perhaps only by uncovering the secrets of the Smoking Sea could they solve it.

For now, when the grey mist suddenly gathered, they had to quickly find a place to hide, evade those who had become servants of the mist, and they could survive.

And when the grey mist dispersed, they wouldn't be infected.

Viserys, Mira, and the one codenamed 'Iron Fist', along with a group of survivors on the ship, helped each other and formed a secret alliance.

Even so, the twenty ships sailed in the grey mist for a full three days.

According to the nautical chart, they should have already left the Smoking Sea, but it wasn't until the evening of the third day that they barely saw the traces of land.

During these three days, several riots occurred on the ship, and the survivors suffered heavy casualties.

Those sailors and mercenaries enslaved by the grey mist dragged them out one by one, and then killed them.

Viserys also expended a lot of effort during these grey mist riots, as a large number of infected sailors and mercenaries tried to kill them.

Mira was even infected once, her eyes turning blood red, but luckily Viserys found out in time and slapped her awake.

When she woke up, Mira covered her face and said she had been slapped by a sea monster, asking Viserys what had just happened to her.

But Viserys didn't say much, just telling her she had been dreaming.

And he found that his body seemed to have a higher resistance to the grey mist than others. Viserys had run and evaded during the time the grey mist was thick, inhaling a lot of it.

However, aside from coughing, Viserys didn't notice any discomfort.

And Viserys also confirmed what Gendry had said at that time, he seemed to have indeed seen the figure of a sea monster.

During one evasion, Viserys was separated from Mira. He killed two pursuers, one of whom he choked and threw into the sea.

At that moment, Viserys seemed to see a huge shadow swimming past under the ship in the deep, boiling sea.

It had countless 'long legs', each tentacle was more than ten meters long. It wrapped up the body of the mercenary and dragged it under the sea.

It didn't attack the ship.

Viserys was stunned for a moment when he saw this, even thinking he was seeing things.

Because the surrounding mist was too dense, and the sea was constantly boiling, he didn't see clearly, and then the huge figure disappeared.

As Viserys and Mira were chatting on the ship, the captain standing at the highest point finally spoke through the horn.

"We've arrived at the ruins of Valyria!"

"Everyone prepare to disembark!"

The flagship not far away also sent out flag signals.

Now that they were close to the continent, the grey mist had thinned a lot, and they could see the flag signals.

And having arrived at this ancient and mysterious continent, the flagship seemed to have become much more low-key, fearing that the melodious horn sound would attract some unknown existence.

"Drop anchor!"

Boom—

The captain gave the order, and with the sailors' efforts, the ship was finally secured.

Viserys, Mira, and a group of mercenaries jumped off the ship, setting foot on this land for the first time.

"So this is Valyria."

The silver-haired young man stepped on the soft, muddy ground beneath his feet. It looked no different from ordinary land, with broken stones on the ground and traces left

by previous explorers.

Viserys then lifted his head to survey the quiet surroundings. The sun was setting, casting long shadows from the trees.

But a sudden sense of unease rose in his heart.