On the Summer Sea, Daenerys's fleet has been sailing from Meereen for twenty days and is about to arrive at Volantis, one of the nine free trade cities closest to Meereen.
Volantis is about 1,500 kilometers away from Meereen by land, but it is much farther by sea.
It's like making a big U-shape around the Long Summer Lands and the Ruins of Valyria.
The twenty-day continuous sailing made the soldiers who were sailing on a ship for the first time very uncomfortable.
The Dothraki who continued to face the poisonous water were feeling worse than death, and some even regretted following Daenerys and Drogon to Westeros.
Daenerys decided to rest in Volantis for two days before continuing her journey.
Before arriving in Volantis, someone reported the situation in Volantis to Daenerys.
Volantis is extremely large in area and has a superior geographical location. It connects the nine free trade cities and the Slaver's Bay and the Bay of Sorrow. It is an extremely prosperous port city.
It is the earliest colony of the Valyrian Freehold and is known as the "Eldest Daughter of Valyria".
Volantis adopts the "three-headed system", which is jointly governed by two members of the Elephant Party and one member of the Tiger Party.
Volantis once considered himself the legitimate ruler of the Valyrian Freehold, and to this end launched a war to conquer the free trade cities of Lys and Myr, which were closer to them.
Just as they were about to attack the more distant Tyrosh, they provoked a violent backlash from the other Free Trade Cities, who united to fight against it.
Even Westeros joined in the war, and it was finally ended by Aegon the Conqueror riding his Black Death, Balerion, who almost reduced the disputed lands north of Volantis to a scorched earth.
They had sent a fleet to the ruins of Valyria in an attempt to recapture it, but not a single person emerged from the entire fleet as they were all swallowed up by the sea of smoke.
There are rumors that the Tiger Archon had listened to the harpy's instigation and planned to join them in sending troops to Meereen to deal with Daenerys, but was stopped by two Elephant Archons.
Hearing that even Volantis had tried to attack Slaver's Bay, Daenerys couldn't help but reveal a hint of sarcasm on her lips.
Fortunately, the two consuls of the Xiang Party were wise, otherwise they would have become their vassal cities like the new and old cities of Ghis.
Approaching the port of Volantis, Daenerys ordered the fleet to stay where it was, leaving only two warships and the lead ship to go to the port.
Before the three ships reached the port, two large ships sailed towards them.
When the big ships approached, they stopped, and a small boat was lowered from one of the big ships and came under the ship Daenerys was on.
On the small boat were three middle-aged men in gorgeous clothes. The sailors pulled them aboard, and the three soon saw Daenerys and her ministers standing in the middle of the deck.
When they came before Daenerys, the three of them bowed and called out "Her Majesty the Queen" to greet Daenerys.
After introduction, the three people were found to be the three archons of Volantis.
"Your Majesty, to congratulate you on your trip to Westeros to unify the seven kingdoms, Volantis has prepared generous gifts for you. They are all on those two ships. I hope you will accept them."
The archon named Nesiso in the middle handed a piece of exquisite parchment listing the gifts to Barristan who was beside Daenerys.
Taking the list from Barristan, Daenerys glanced at it briefly, nodded, and asked, "Which one of you is the Archon of the Tiger Party?"
As soon as Daenerys finished her question, the middle-aged man on the left of the three people, who looked a bit dignified, shuddered slightly.
The other two were also slightly stunned when they heard Daenerys' question, and at the same time looked at the middle-aged man who had just shivered.
"Your Majesty, I am Malachor Megaya, the governor of the Tiger Party." Malachor said with a bitter taste in his mouth, taking a step forward.
"I heard that you once planned to attack Slaver's Bay?" Daenerys looked at Malachor and asked with a smile.
Hearing Daenerys' question, Malachor's knees weakened and he almost fell to the ground. He said with trembling lips: "Those must be rumors. How dare we attack you!"
"Hmph! You are wise! I accept your gifts! My fleet needs to rest in Volantis for a few days. Can they go ashore?" Daenerys asked Malachor with a warning.
"Of course, you can stay as long as you want!" Seeing that Daenerys did not pursue his original decision any further, Malachor wiped the cold sweat from his head, took a step back, and answered together with the other two archons.
When the three archons of Volantis heard the news that the new and old Ghis were burned down by the black dragon's flames and surrendered to Daenerys, they were very relieved.
Fortunately, the two archons of the Elephant Party did not agree with Malachor's suggestion to send troops to attack Meereen, otherwise they would have followed in the footsteps of the new and old Ghis.
By then, the Elephant Party might not suffer too much loss, but the Tiger Party will definitely be handed over by the Elephant Party like the Harpy.
Even if the Tiger Party is not destroyed by then, it will surely lose its only seat as consul.
They prepared two ships full of gifts because they were afraid that Daenerys would find out that they almost sent troops to the Slave Bay. They didn't expect that Daenerys would actually bring up this matter.
However, from what the Queen said just now, it seemed that she was not going to pursue the matter any further for the wrong decision they almost made, which made the three of them feel greatly relieved.
With Daenerys's current thousand warships and three dragons, destroying Volantis would be a piece of cake.
After Daenerys ordered her men to take over the two large ships, the three archons were not in a hurry to leave.
Instead, he introduced Daenerys to the landmark buildings, various features and glorious history of Volantis, and invited Daenerys and her ministers to visit Volantis.
After receiving two ships of generous gifts and originally planning to rest for two days, Daenerys gladly accepted the Archon's invitation.
The fishermen, merchants and others on the dock breathed a sigh of relief when they saw Daenerys and others accompanied by three archons getting off the ship.
When they saw the densely packed large ships on the sea heading towards Volantis, they thought that Volantis was going to go to war with another country and began to pack up their goods in a hurry. Only now did they realize that it was a false alarm.
No longer nervous, they had time to observe Daenerys and the others, and soon spotted Drogon on her shoulder. They hadn't expected a little dragon to be so majestic and beautiful.
As we walked down the pier, we saw several gorgeous elephant carriages pulled by gray-white dwarf elephants waiting there.
The dwarf elephant is much smaller than a normal elephant, only slightly taller than a horse, and is driven by a shirtless young man with a wheel tattooed on his face.
Looking at the leather collar on the young man's neck, Daenerys frowned slightly. She hadn't seen this kind of slave collar for a long time since the liberation of the Slave Bay.
She knew in her heart that now was not the time to worry about this. In addition to the Slave Bay, there were still many slaves in other parts of the world, otherwise Jorah would not be doing the job of selling slaves from Westeros.
Slaver's Bay is simply the largest slave training area in the world.
Daenerys turned her head and looked around, and found several slaves wearing collars with different tattoos on their faces, including flames, tiger heads, and even flies.
The man with the tiger head tattoo is the guard of the Tiger Party's governor Malachor.
Following Daenerys' gaze, the three archons quickly understood what Daenerys was looking at, and they all lowered their heads slightly and pretended not to see it.
Although Volantis did not train or sell slaves, they often went to Slave Bay to buy slaves. Even the free people here had two or three slaves in their homes.
This is also the reason why they believed the rumors spread by the Harpy.