Chapter 131: Mance
Redamon looked at the Ghost licking Jon's body, and immediately ordered his men to clean up the bodies in the Black Castle and burn them together.
Aemon was very optimistic about Jon, a young man with a strong sense of responsibility and good fighting skills. It's a pity.
On the other side, Tomed was terrified after being caught by Korakshu and thrown into the sky. Fortunately, Korakshu flew steadily enough in the dragon spirit state.
At the bottom of the Great Wall, several giants were trying to open the iron gate. Not far away there was a fallen giant corpse with a giant crossbow arrow stuck in it.
Just now, the leader of the giants had lifted the iron gate and rushed in, and the remaining giants were eager to rush in to help.
The average height of giants is about 3.5 meters, and the leader giant is about four meters. According to legend, there was originally a kind of giant in Essos that was twice as big as the giants in Westeros, but they became extinct and died at the hands of humans.
Giants are a humanoid species with emotions. Although they are not very smart, their intelligence is at the level of a ten-year-old child.
There were a total of one hundred giants in Mance Rayder's army, 20 of whom were male giants who followed Mance Rayder south, and the rest stayed in Hardhome.
"hold head high--"
The roar of a giant dragon came from the sky. Several giants who were trying to pull out the iron gate looked up and saw scarlet flames.
But the flames did not burn them, they just flashed past their heads.
Then Korakxiu flew very boldly at a low altitude, allowing all the savages to see Korakxiu's figure.
"Dragon, the Night's Watch has a dragon! Bows and arrows, quickly get the bows and arrows!" a savage shouted quickly.
Faced with the savages' panicked reaction, Korakhuu let out another terrifying roar.
After becoming smart, Korakshu enjoyed watching these two-legged animals panic.
Mance Rayder's face changed drastically, and he looked at Korakshuk gliding at low altitude in panic.
He took advantage of the Night's Watch's absence to attack the Wall, but he never imagined that a dragon would appear on the Wall.
"Bow, bow!" Mance Rayder shouted.
Soon dozens of archers were ready. Looking at the giant dragon rushing towards him, Mance Rayder swallowed.
Seeing the opportunity and just about to give the order to shoot, a dark shadow fell from the sky.
Before Mance Rayder could react, a man fell on him.
Although he couldn't see who the person was for a moment, Mance Rayder quickly grabbed the person's neck.
"It's me, Lord Mance, it's me, it's me!" Tormund yelled.
Faced with this man who had once competed with him for the position of the savage leader, Mance quickly let go of his hands.
"Why is it you? How did you get off the dragon's back?"
"I didn't come off a dragon's back. I was thrown off a dragon's claws," Tormund said, retching.
"What's wrong with you? Where did that dragon come from?" Mance Rayder asked hurriedly.
In response to Mance Rayder's questions, Tormund quickly gave a brief account of the matter.
Mance Rayder frowned. House Targaryen?
He had the impression that the dragons of House Targaryen had long been extinct. How could they appear again, especially at the critical moment of their attack on the Wall?
With a bang, a loud noise came from behind. Mance Rayder turned his head and found that a dragon had landed behind him.
Caraxus quickly stepped forward and roared at Mance Rayder.
Mance Rayder's face was covered in saliva, which smelled of sulfur.
But it doesn't have the fishy smell as imagined.
At this time, a large number of savages had surrounded Korax, including several giants.
After Jack rolled off the dragon's back, he came directly in front of Mance Rayder.
"Mance Rayder, Lord Commander of the Wildlings, can you ensure that you can command all the tribes?"
Mance Rayder was stunned. He didn't expect Jack to ask this question.
But he still said: "Almost, about 80% of the tribes will obey my orders."
"Very good. I can let you pass through the Wall, but in exchange, you must serve the Targaryen family. I can decide to give you the new land for the wildlings to survive."
"Even if I agree, the crows won't agree." Mance shook his head, "Unless one of the crows and the wildlings is completely defeated."
"There are no more ravens now, only the Royal Night's Watch of House Targaryen, an army of night watchmen loyal to the crown."
Jack's words stunned Mance Rayder. Tormund had only told him Jack's origins.
"How can I trust you?" Mance Rayder demanded.
Mance Rayder was of medium height, with long legs, a sturdy build, and broad shoulders and chest.
He used to have long brown hair, but it was now mostly grey, and laugh lines appeared at the corners of his mouth.
He is an unremarkable middle-aged man who loves music.
Mance Rayder was once a wildling child adopted by the Night's Watch, but later he was injured during a patrol and was rescued by a wildling woman.
While he recovered, the wildlings repaired Mance's torn cloak with red cloth.
After returning to the Wall, the commander of the Night's Watch asked Mance to change into a uniform black cloak.
This minor infringement on his personal freedom led Mance to abandon the Night's Watch and follow his heart's desire to live among the wildlings.
Now, many years later, Mance Rayder has been named the King-Beyond-the-Wall and leads the wildlings to fight against the Night's Watch.
But in fact, Mance Rayder trusts Jack much more than the Night's Watch, because he was the one who defected from the Night's Watch after the Rebellion.
He also met Robb Stark and Jon Snow as children.
Jack said nothing, as Korakshuu directly spewed out dragon fire, cutting off the waists of several large sloths not far away. The blazing fire dispelled a lot of the darkness around them again.
"Because you have no choice. Either you lead the free people to submit to me, or you are burned to death by dragon fire, or you are killed by the White Walkers."
Mance Rayder didn't expect Jack to be so direct.
He also knew that the savage had no choice, and he said this just to get Jack's guarantee and preferential treatment.
"I have to discuss this with the others. There are still some women and children in Hardhome. You must accept them as well."
Jack was not at all surprised by Mance's answer. He had no intention of giving up on those women and children.
"No problem. After you surrender, you will all be my people. I will naturally solve your survival problems, but you also need to obey my arrangements and fight for me."
Upon seeing this, Mance immediately dispersed the surrounding savages and ordered an immediate halt to the attack.
Seeing this, Jack returned to Korakshu's back and said, "Gather the leaders of each tribe first. I will have someone open the tunnel and let some people enter the Great Wall first."
After saying this, Korakshuu took off into the air and flew towards the Black Castle.
(End of this chapter)