Chapter 8 Valariyan Wine

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291 AC (Jon 8)

Jon pov

A lot has changed in year, due to gold borrowed from the bank the construction is happening very quickly , Ben was able to get workers , builders , Stonemasons, metalworkers from all over the world

This made construction faster by many times, the construction of the main keep was nearly complete with all the pipes for plumbing , a working lift , huge underground cellar , the walls were lined with Valariyan fire runes that help keep the heat inside the keep even with the harshest winters

It took me a few moons to design the keep with mergering the parts of winterfell and Valariyan architecture,even with that I made sure that no builder was able to completely understand the design and layout of the keep

I instructed the workers on building the individual parts rather and the full structure, the structure was complex enough even if they know all the parts they can't copy the design

Other than the keep the workers are starting to build glass gardens ,and other structures of the castle, but it would still take years for the entire to castle to complete

The construction is not the only thing going smoothly , I am making great progress with my skills

I completely mastered the sword and started working on other weapons, and the only skill that was going slowly wraging was solved by the guidance of tor of the children of the forest

I can now wrag and share minds of small animal like little birds or cats, tor says he haven't seen a man like me with so much potential for wraging

Other wrags need a strong connection with animals to skinchange, but I can naturally connect with any animal very quickly

This is how I sent a letter to Monford velaryon without the fear of letter getting lost or intercepted, I asked him to meet me at the red temple

Right now I am in a ship at white harbour ready to leave for Myr to the red temple, I thought it would have been faster but it still took a year to gather everything for Valariyan wine

A moon later

Red temple

I arrived in Myr a few days ago, I had to check if the red priest here are just fanatics or crazy burning people alive zealots through little birds and animals

The red priest here seem sensible and not fanatics and honour the vows they take, the high priestess actually works to help people with the red temple

So here I am waiting in the red temple to meet the lady kinvara , ah here she is

"Welcome my prince, the red priests are at your service"

"It took a while for you to get here my lady"

"The flames showed us that our lord's champion would come today but the council was not sure how to address you my prince, that took a while finally we decided I would treat with you today sorry for delay my prince"

"It's ok, as you know the long night is coming, I need the red priests in the coming war "

" We are here to serve you my prince"

"Aye but let's make one thing clear no burning people"

she just nodded

"If we are clear on that than let's get down to business, bring me the dragon skull you have in the temple"

"Right away my prince " she said and a while later a few red hands brought big dragon skull before him

If the biggest dragon skull was the size of carriage than this skull was quarter of that, still big but not nearly as big it could be

I went in front of the skull and took out big chunk of dragonglass, suddenly my hand was covered with fire

All the red priest were in awe of what I was doing but I was not paying attention to that

No I have not awakened yet, I am not immune to fire but I have perfect control on my own fire so it can't burn me, this is the highest level of fire magic

This was theorised but never proven, even if fire magicians can live upto 150years no one has been able to achieve this level of control, the highest level they were able to achieve was controlling a part of fire that was not their own, the best Valariyan fire magicians could use fire from the surrounding with their own

It took me nearly 3 years to finally master the Valariyan magic and now it will pay off, as the black dragon glass melted in my hand a drop of my blood mixed with it , the whole thing turned red with a slight glow

Then the hot liquid slowly covered the dragon skull with red veins like pattern, then suddenly every thing changed, the dragon skull increased the magic in air by multiple folds

The red priest were still in awe of what I just did , they can slightly feel the difference in the air even if they are not magicians

"Empty the cellar and move the skull there" they just nodded and got to work

I handed lady kinvara a list " Get everything thing on this, as fresh as possible and the more you can get the better"

The list I gave her was the ingredients for the Valariyan wine, most of them are comman fruits and herbs easily available, most wine made have mostly the same ingredients but the process of making the wine is where the magic happens

For the last six moons I have been working with woodworkers to make wine barrels, and lined them with Valariyan spells with dragon glass and my blood , I made 520 barrels of which 500 I brought here to make wine

Each barrel is 6 feet high and 3 feet wide, I made them move the barrels in the cellar with the skull

The process is really simple they just have to smash the ingredients together and put them in the barrels and rest the barrel does on itself

It would normally take a full year for the first batch to be ready but with the dragon skull it would be done in just a moon