Chapter 153: Suspicion of Varys

"Dragonstone!" Kevan answered decisively.

"Why are you so sure?" Cersei asked again, while also raising a question in disguise and seeking the opinions of others.

Kevan glanced at the other royal ministers and answered confidently: "Dragonstone is the ancestral home of the Targaryen family and the best location to attack King's Landing. There is no better landing point than there." After he said that, he looked at the other royal ministers.

Cersei followed her uncle Kevan's gaze and looked at the others. Seeing that no one objected, she turned her gaze to Varys, the chief intelligence officer.

"Varys, have you received any information from Daenerys regarding the landing site?"

Varys, who was putting his hands in his sleeves and slightly closing his eyes, did not expect Cersei to ask him. He raised his eyelids and said calmly, "Such a secret is hard for my little bird to find out."

Hearing Varys' answer, Cersei looked at him and continued, "That's true, but can you explain why it took more than 20 days for us to get the news that Daenerys was coming to Westeros after she left Meereen?"

Cersei had long been very dissatisfied with Varys's performance. Although King's Landing had known that Daenerys was coming to Westeros three days ago, Cersei still thought that Varys's news was delivered too late.

"Your Majesty, the speed at which my little bird can transmit messages is limited. If we also had dragons, I think we would have received the news a few days earlier." Varys answered Cersei's question calmly without any panic.

As soon as she heard the word dragon, Cersei was about to ask but was choked back. Of course, she had also heard the news about Drogon burning Ghis, and her fear of Daenerys came from this.

Euron, who was originally leaning on the chair, opened his one eye and looked at Varys when he heard Varys mention the dragon.

The battle in Meereen caused him to lose an eye, the eye he was very proud of. If he had not fallen into a state of suspended death after his eyeball was blown out by the black dragon, it would be hard to say whether he would have survived.

Although he survived, he suffered from headaches and occasional attacks of epilepsy.

It made his already abnormal personality even more bizarre and erratic.

After escaping from Meereen, he went to find Cersei, the Queen Regent and the actual controller of the Seven Kingdoms.

Although Cersei is not as young as Daenerys and her blood is not as noble as her, she is still a queen behind the scenes and occupies King's Landing.

There were not many allies for Euron to choose from, which eventually led him to King's Landing.

What made him happy was that Cersei was much easier to talk to than Daenerys, and the two of them hit it off immediately, each getting what they wanted, and working together very happily.

This greatly compensated for the psychological and physical damage Euron suffered in Meereen.

After failing to control the black dragon and having his eyeball exploded, he thought he could live freely in King's Landing for a while. However, he did not expect Daenerys and her black dragon to come to Westeros so soon, forcing him to face the terrible black dragon again.

Although severely injured by the black dragon, he is not a man who gives up easily. He also learned from Cersei that Qyburn was developing a powerful weapon specifically for dealing with dragons.

The giant scorpion with a crossbow is more powerful than the one installed on his ship. He doesn't believe that the black dragon that can withstand ordinary crossbows can also withstand the attack of the giant scorpion.

Euron was very upset when he heard Varys mention dragons. He stared with his one eye and said, "It seems that you admire Daenerys' dragons very much. You don't want to join her, do you?"

Cersei had always doubted Varys's loyalty to King's Landing. After hearing Euron's words, she stared at Varys, wanting to hear his explanation.

"Lord Euron, don't you think dragons are powerful? I heard that the eyes under your eyepatch are given to you by dragons!" Varys didn't take Euron's questioning and Cersei's doubts seriously.

After Varys finished speaking, Euron remembered that this beardless eunuch intelligence chief must be very clear about his battle in Meereen. He snorted coldly and said nothing more.

Seeing Euron's expression, Cersei and others confirmed their original guess that the reason why Euron had one eye was indeed related to Daenerys's dragon.

"Uncle, how do you think we can stop Daenerys and her dragons from landing on Dragonstone?"

Cersei didn't notice that Varys was obviously abnormal, and brought the topic back to the previous issue.

Hearing Cersei's question, Kevan, the veteran who had been on many battles, couldn't help but frown.

He could immediately come up with several countermeasures to deal with the human army, but he had no good methods for dragons. It seemed that the only thing he could count on was the scorpion crossbow that the new national teacher Koben was developing.

Although he also heard the news that Daenerys's black dragon ignored the crossbow attack and burned Ghis, he was deeply skeptical about it.

The giant crossbow has always been the most powerful weapon against dragons. Dorne relied on it to resist the repeated attacks of Aegon the Conqueror.

He also shot and killed the giant dragon Meraxes, which was ridden by Aegon's sister Rhaenys, and Rhaenys fell from the dragon and died together with him.

Although Aegon and his sister Visenya carried out a crazy burning of Dorne afterwards, they still failed to make Dorne surrender.

Ultimately, Dorne was the only one of the Seven Kingdoms that was not conquered by Aegon the Conqueror, but rather by marriage.

Kevan didn't believe that there would be a dragon that was not afraid of the giant crossbow. Moreover, according to his niece Cersei, the giant scorpion developed by Qyburn was much more powerful than the ballista left by Ghis.

"Although the walls of Dragonstone Castle are high and easy to defend, the troops that can be stationed there are limited. Moreover, without the threat of ballistae, it is difficult to stop the giant dragon from attacking the city..."

After thinking for a while, Kevan expressed his analysis, but he did not finish it. His plan was to abandon Dragonstone and concentrate his military forces to defend King's Landing.

Although Daenerys has an army of 100,000, 30,000 of them are new recruits and more than 40,000 are Dothraki who are good at fighting on horseback.

There are 100,000 people in King's Landing and the private army of the nobles. As long as Daenerys does not attack the city immediately and gives Qyburn time to develop the scorpion crossbow, she will no longer be afraid of them.

Even if Daenerys chooses to attack Dragonstone after landing, as long as she takes into account the residents of King's Landing and does not use dragons to burn the city on a large scale, Kevan will be able to defend King's Landing.

"Are we going to give up Dragonstone?" Cersei understood what Kevan meant.

After Stannis left Dragonstone, Cersei sent troops to occupy it. She didn't expect that her uncle Kevan would now hand it over to Daenerys. How could she be willing to accept that?

After Cersei finished speaking, she didn't hear Kevan's response. She looked at Euron, the Lord High Lord of the Admiralty, hoping to hear a different opinion from him. As for the other people present, it would be useless for her to ask.

If there was no black dragon, Euron still had plans to snipe Daenerys's fleet at sea, but after suffering a great loss at the hands of Drogon, he gave up the idea of ​​a sneak attack. Now without the scorpion crossbow, he has no good solution.

Seeing that Euron didn't say anything in response to her questioning gaze, Cersei felt a little discouraged. She, the regent queen who was in high spirits, was unwilling to give up territory before the two armies even met.