Chapter 175: The Secret of the World

"Are you from Dragonstone?" The middle-aged man looked at Drogon in surprise and asked Shireen.

"Yes, you are?"

"I am Marwyn, and I am on my way to Dragonstone." Marwyn said something that surprised both Shireen and Drogon.

Drogon knew that the Citadel would send scholars to each faction to serve as doctors, teachers, consultants, and other positions to help lords or nobles.

Unexpectedly, Daenerys asked Marwyn to go to Dragonstone not long after she arrived at the Citadel.

Thinking of the two strange statues of a man and a woman at the entrance of the academy, drogon began to wonder if the academy had other ill purposes in sending scholars to various places.

"The Citadel did not send me to Dragonstone. I asked to go there myself. I am also the only one in the Citadel who was promoted to a Doctorate in Magic and Mysticism."

Marwyn said, holding up the silver necklace around his neck. "I am the only one wearing the Magister's necklace made of Valyrian steel."

"Do you know magic?" After hearing Marwyn's words, Shireen asked curiously. This was also what Drogon wanted to know.

"No, I acquired the Valyrian steel necklace through my study of magic, not my ability to do magic," Marwyn explained.

Shireen wanted to see some magic, and was a little disappointed to hear that Marwyn didn't know any.

"Doesn't he know magic? Dragon's breath is magic, and dragons are born magical creatures." Marwyn said to Drogon.

Drogon agreed with Marwyn's words, but he didn't know how other non-magical creatures used magic.

"Dr. Marwyn!" Just then Sam finished his work and walked over to Shireen and the others.

Marwyn nodded to Sam and left the hall.

Sam took Shireen to a few houses east of the Citadel, where Gilly lived.

When she opened the door, she saw Gilly reading a book at the table. When she looked up, she was surprised to find that Sam had brought a strange girl with him. There was a strange creature on the girl's shoulder that she had never seen before.

Sam introduced the two to each other. Gilly didn't expect that Drogon was a dragon, and she stared at him for a long time.

After sitting down, Sam reiterated that he was not sure about the treatment of greyscale, and asked Shireen to wait patiently while he looked up the information about the Citadel.

After settling Shireen down, Drogon left the Citadel and flew towards Dragonstone.

After leaving the old town, he did not return along the same route, but flew towards the mountains in the east.

At night, the Citadel was silent. A small black shadow flew silently into the largest building in the Citadel. The black shadow was Drogon who was pretending to leave.

He had heard before that the Citadel contained many secrets of the continent, and he also wanted to learn more about Valyria, the gods, and magic. The Citadel was undoubtedly the best place.

During the day, Drogon learned the location of the library from Sam's introduction to the Citadel, which was in the tallest building of the Citadel.

Flying in through a half-open window high up in the library, drogon saw rows of books filling the ten-story library. He couldn't help but admire the profound heritage of the Citadel.

It is estimated that the academy founded by the Mother of Dragons will find it difficult to surpass the Citadel in terms of foundation within a hundred years. It can only surpass the Citadel in terms of scale, number of students and influence.

Seeing so many books, drogon even had the urge to pack them up and take them away, but it was just a thought. If he really did that, those books would never appear in the academy, otherwise the academy's reputation would be completely ruined.

Although drogon could not see completely at night, he had no problem seeing the words on the book with the night light coming through the small window.

I took a quick look at the book catalog and found a wide variety of items, including medical books, alchemy, art atlases, Westeros history, and some family histories.

He flew up and down, busy for a long time but couldn't find the content that interested him. He couldn't help but doubt whether the academy really had such secret knowledge.

After looking around, he found that in addition to a lounge, there was a larger locked room next to the door on the first floor of the library.

He flew to the door of the room and pulled the copper lock twice. It was very strong and could only be broken violently.

He flew to what was probably the administrator's lounge room, got in through the narrow window, opened the drawer, and sure enough, saw a bunch of keys.

He took the key and went to the next room. He inserted the key into the keyhole and turned it. The copper lock opened with a click.

There are many bookshelves in the room, but not many books. The books are not arranged as compactly as outside, but very loosely.

When he opened the first book, Drogon saw what he wanted to read - "The Doom of Valyria and the Silence of the Gods".

After the Valyrian Freehold was destroyed by the Doom, few miracles appeared around the world, and it seemed that the gods had fallen silent.

It was not until the red comet appeared, the glass candles were lit, and magic reappeared in the world that rumors of a god performing miracles occasionally came from various places.

At the same time, news came from the grassland that the descendants of Targaryen had hatched a dragon.

The red comet, the reappearance of the magic dragon, the revival of the magic tide and the appearance of the gods all appeared at almost the same time. The Academy guessed that there must be some connection between them, but it didn't know the specific relationship.

Putting the book down, he picked up another one next to it, which talked about some forbidden magic, blood magic or necromancy.

To perform it, it either requires blood sacrifice, living sacrifice, or some obscene rituals.

Drogon also learned the origin of magic from a book. Not everyone can practice magic, and the Citadel had investigated the identities of those who cast magic a long time ago.

It was discovered that almost every one of them had a god they believed in, and the school concluded that magic was a power bestowed by the gods to believers.

But there is one exception, and that is the Dragon King family of the Freehold of Valyria.

In addition to possessing magic dragons, they also possessed certain magics, among which dragon dreams with predictive abilities could be considered a type of magic.

But the Valyrian nobles never believed in any gods. I don't know if the reason why they know magic is because they have been living with dragons for a long time.

Seeing this, Drogon couldn't help but imagine the scene of the Mother of Dragons rubbing fireballs in her hands.

The room was almost entirely filled with records of the world's secret events and taboos, which Drogon found very enjoyable to read.

After finishing one book, he picked up another one that was extremely relevant to him, "The Unnatural Evolution History of Dragons", which was full of knowledge about dragons.

From the birth and hatching of a dragon to its taming and weaknesses, it is described in detail.

Drogon even suspected that if the author was given a dragon, he might become a dragon rider.

The book says that dragons were created by magicians using blood magic to transform lizard dragons and pterosaurs.

Drogon clearly remembered that dragons were first discovered by the Valyrian dragon family from the Fourteen Fire Peaks, but he didn't know where the basis for the speculation in this book came from.

After flipping through it, he picked up another book next to it and found that the book in his claws and the previous book were written by the same author, named Bass.

One of his books profiled him as the Hand of the King to Jaehaerys I during the Targaryen reign, a position that lasted for forty years.

He was not only a politician and scholar, but also a monk who had in-depth research on mysticism.