Shoot
< Timeskip 1 month Later>
<112 AD, Kingslanding port, Aethan Valaryon POV>
It has been one month since I came to kingslanding. There were no major incidents that happened during this time that affected me. However I heard about something that happened about 10 days ago. Daemon Targaryen the commander of the city watch has commanded the city watch to deal brutal punishments to the criminal elements in the city. This has not effected to us much as the area that we are staying under is pretty much secure with regular patrols and guards day and night. Small folk are not even allowed to come after the sundown. Nothing much happened after that.
My 50 party members are doing what I have asked for. I join them in their training sessions occasionally to keep track of their progress. I must say the Party module is too OP. with the increased physical qualities and increased recovery rate the training time has increased. Which in turn effected their skill level.
All of my party members skill in Swordmanship,horseriding&joust and archery has reached black Iron Level. Ser Harrion's skill level has increased to silver level on all three. With the increase in skill level the 50 men team is equivalent to 500 regular guards.
When coming to me along with my personal training for the past month and 50% contribution from the party members experience in training & combat, my skill had another great breakthrough. Even though there are some people who have reached my level in skill, what makes me deadly is the combination of my enhancement due to the Hear-shaped herb and the skill. I would be invincible. And I plan to winn all 3 events that I am participating.
"Mina open status."
ß STATUS à
NAME: Aethan Valaryon
AGE: 16 years
BODY: Black Panther level MAGIC: -- locked--
LORD'S TALENT: Life Drain(Black Iron)
SKILLS: Swordsmanship(Gold), Archery(Gold), Horse Riding combat(Gold), Sea faring(Bronze)
PARTY-
PARTY MEMBERS: Members[49], Captains[1]
PARTY SKILL SLOT – (3/3)
INVENTORY: 1 diamond enhancement ticket
ß. à
All three of the skill I have added to the [PARTY SKILL SLOT] have reached gold level. It will take much more time to upgrade again as there seem to be having a quality change. If I manage to get to diamond level someday I am sure that I will be strong enough to slay dragons. For now my only adversey is Men and I am strong enough to go at them. So, I am not bothered about it now.
My mind is now on the mission tab. I received a mission sometime ago while I was having supper with my family. I came back to my room and looked at the mission.
[Ding…Mission alert]
[
Mission: Win all 3 competitions that you are participating in.
Reward: Dragon Claim Ticket, Unlock Magic, 1 gold skill ticket
]
[Do you accept? Y/N]
I was shocked to see the mission. Not because of the difficulty but because of the rewards. I can finally have my dragon, unlock magic and get a skill which is at gold level directly without the need for grind.This is almost like a dream.
"I accept." I said out loud.
'Tomorrow is the start of tourney. From what I gather, tourney will be for 7 days. 1 st and 2 nd day are for Archery, throwing, horse riding, weight lifting, weight throw etc.,. 3 rd and 4 th day are for meele combat and finally on 5 th and 6 th day are for joust which is the highlight. Finally on 7 th day there will be a feast to celebrate.'
'All these competitions will be held in different grounds and the joust will be held in the grand tourney ground.'
'Queen Aemma will be in labour any day now according to Maester Mellos. This is what my father confirmed. I know that Queen Aemma will die along with her new born son one of these days. Most probably during the joust days. I am not going to say anything regarding this as no one would take my words seriously and I may get punished for speaking something ominous.'
Thinking about this I finally slept to rest my body to keep in top shape.
<Next Morning Tourney grounds, Archery>
"Now we have first round of contestants" Said the one holding the archery tornament.
All the contestants went forward. I am in the list of fourth round of contestants. I am now holding a wierwood bow that my father gave me week ago. It has a strong pull. I believe anything within 250m is an easy target. With my skill 300m is also an esy target but above 300m I cannot guarantee a bulls eye. My father tried to get a golden wood bow but that will take some time to get here.
Soon it was my turn. The target was set at 50m. It was easy for me to get a bulls eye. I knocked the arrow and pulled the bow just enough to strike the target.
*thwakk*
And my arrow hit the bulls eye. The person incharge and his assistants wrote my name and said that I will be proceeding to next round.
For the next three rounds the distance increased by 50 m each. Tomorrow would be the final round.
I can see some of my men managed to pass the rounds and got to the finals.
<2nd day Tourney grounds, Archery>
"Now the final 20 contestants from hundreds of archers across the realm will test their skills against each other. Contestants please step forward at the mark."
All 20 of us took a step forward and stood at the pre arranged marks that are directly opposite the targets.
"The target starts at 200m and increase by 10m for each round. The one who stand tall till the end is the winner and takes away 10000 gold dragons. Everyone please cheer for our contestants."
The crowd cheered for us wildly.
"Knock"
"Aim"
"Release"
*Thwakk*
My arrow hit bulls eye without any surprise.
In this round 4 were eliminated. In the second round. 3 were eliminated.
Finally on the last round only 3 of us stood.
"What an impressive display of the skill and hard work" The Master of revels said in a loud voice.
"Dear Lords and Ladies of the realm. Let me introduce you to the last three contestants."
"On the left we have Ser Eddard Tully, second trueborn of Lord of the Tridant. In the middle we have Lord Luwyn crobs, lord of the whitelands. Finally on the right we have Young lord and heir to the Hightide Aetan Valaryon. Please give a warm applause."