Chapter 141: Land of Disaster

In Jon's room, Melisandre was facing Jon with his clothes stripped off. Jon looked at the seductive Melisandre, raised his hand and then remembered Ygritte who was about to come to the Black Castle, so he quickly put down his hand and turned his head away.

Melisandre didn't expect that Jon could hold back in front of her. She straightened Jon's head and asked him to look at her, but Jon simply stood up and walked out of the room.

Looking at Jon's back, Melisandre couldn't help feeling a little frustrated. It seemed that she had never failed in her attempt to absorb power before. She didn't expect that Jon, the young commander of the Night's Watch, could actually hold back.

But for the sake of Stannis's Iron Throne, Melisandre will not give up easily, and she considers whether she needs to find another way to gain Jon's power.

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In the Bay of Sorrow, two days after the Meereenese army set out, the fleet suddenly turned and headed south. Daenerys, who was basking in the sun on the deck, noticed something wrong with the lead ship and took Drogon to the cockpit.

"What's going on? Why are you turning?"

Hearing Daenerys' question, the older helmsman adjusted the direction and said, "Your Majesty, the right is the devil's land, the Sea of ​​Smoke. The fleet must go around it."

"Are we at the ruins of Valyria?" After hearing what the helmsman said, Daenerys walked out of the cockpit and returned to the deck. Looking at the black clouds rolling in the northern sky, Daenerys knew that they might not be black clouds but the smoke that lingered in the sea of ​​smoke all year round.

The Valyrian Freehold is a group of cities built on the Valyrian Peninsula connected to the Long Summer Lands.

After the Doomsday, the Valyrian Peninsula was torn into several small islands, and coupled with the volcanic eruptions and gushing fire, the Valyrian Freehold was completely engulfed.

The gushing underground fire and thick smoke meant that no dragon in the sky could escape disaster, and most of the dragon eggs and the dragon king's family were destroyed in the doomsday catastrophe.

The surviving Valyrian nobles waged a brutal war for a century against the leaders of the surrounding Free Cities, Slaver's Bay, and the Bay of Woe, which they had once ruled.

This ultimately led to the complete destruction of the Valyrian Freehold in the course of history.

Standing on Daenerys' shoulder, Drogon looked at the gray sky and rolling smoke in the distance. He could actually feel the chaotic and complex extraordinary atmosphere from afar.

He had originally planned to visit the once glorious Valyrian Freehold, and now he wanted to find out more.

"Drogon, what are you going to do? You can't go there!"

As soon as Drogon flew off Daenerys' shoulder, he heard her anxious cry.

Drogon knew that the Sea of ​​Smoke was a restricted area for explorers and that almost no one who entered survived. Euron said that he got the Dragon's Horn from the Sea of ​​Smoke, which was indeed very likely.

And the strange smell on his body may also come from the sea of ​​smoke.

Looking back at the Dragon Queen, Drogon waved his claws at her to reassure her, then flew towards the distant smoke.

Seeing that Drogon did not listen to her advice and still flew towards the smoke area, Daenerys knew that Drogon was very opinionated and she could not stop him. She could only watch Drogon's disappearing back on the deck and worry.

Seeing that the queen's black dragon had actually entered the devil's land, the sea of ​​smoke, the sailors on the ship were all horrified.

They had heard from old sailors more than once about the horrors there.

Very few people who enter survive, and the few lucky ones who come out either go crazy or die of strange diseases, which makes some explorers who are eager to try give up the idea of ​​entering.

Although Shireen and Tyrion, who were standing beside Daenerys, did not know the horror of the ruins of Valyria, they guessed something from the terrified expressions on the sailors' faces, and they couldn't help but worry about Drogon in their hearts.

As he approached the smoke-filled sea, Drogon saw not only the heavy gray smoke in the sky, but also a huge vortex connecting the sky and the earth and flashing lightning in the vortex.

Is that a tornado at sea?

Looking at the huge vortex, drogon was confused, but if it was really a tornado, why was there still smoke in the sky for a long time?

Faced with the lightning, drogon did not dare to be careless and hurriedly lowered his altitude. Although his body was strong, he was not yet able to withstand the lightning.

As he approached the whirlpool, Drogon felt a tearing force pulling him towards the center of the whirlpool.

Although his young body was light, his strength was extremely powerful. He certainly didn't care about this tearing force, so he increased the frequency of flapping his wings and stayed not far from the vortex.

It was indeed a tornado at sea. Looking up at the huge black vortex connecting the sky and the sea, drogon suddenly had the urge to go in and find out what was going on.

However, he quickly suppressed this impulse. He didn't want to commit suicide blindly before figuring out the general situation of the ruins of Valyria.

After avoiding several huge tornadoes moving back and forth, Drogon officially entered the sea of ​​smoke of Valyria ruins known as the Devil's Land.

Looking at the small craters and reefs smoking everywhere in the boiling sea water under the gray sky, drogon understood why even the powerful sea tornado could not suck away the smoke deposited here.

Not to mention exploring here, it's not easy to get in, and survival is even harder. The reefs hidden under the sea are difficult to avoid even for the most experienced helmsman.

Not to mention the ubiquitous black smoke in the air, which makes it difficult to breathe. Even Drogon couldn't guarantee that he wouldn't be poisoned and faint if he inhaled too much smoke.

Although he had never seen hell, this place was very close to the hell he imagined.

He went deep into the sea of ​​smoke and carefully felt the strange smell he had sensed on the boat.

The more he felt it, the more confused he became. He had already memorized the strange smell on Euron, and could tell the difference between that smell and the smell on the small conch.

But the special smell here was so complex that it was difficult for him to distinguish. He could only be sure that this complex smell contained the smell of Euron and the little conch.

There were also several auras that he had never encountered before. These auras had one thing in common, that is, they were sacred and grand, and could make ordinary people feel that they were not to be desecrated.

Although that sense of grandeur had little effect on Drogon, he could sense it.

He knew that the special aura came from the gods of this world, and now he felt several auras at the same time. Could they all be the remains of the gods?

He saw the huge buildings collapsed on the larger land in the sea of ​​smoke and the remains of the city that fell into the sea and slowly became reefs.

Drogon recalled the destruction of the Valyrian Freehold described in the Valyrian history books he and Daenerys read together.

On the day of the catastrophe, volcanoes within a 800-kilometer radius of Valyria erupted almost simultaneously, and the erupting fire even burned all the giant dragons soaring in the sky. Thick smoke and ashes filled the sky above Valyria.

The volcanic eruption brought about strong earthquakes and tsunamis.

All the magnificent castles and houses in the prosperous city of Valyria were collapsed and engulfed.

The huge waves formed by the tsunami hit Cedar Island in Slaver's Bay, hundreds of kilometers away from Valyria, destroying the buildings and townspeople on the island.