On the one hand, she was eager to reach Westeros, but on the other hand, Pentos was ahead, and she planned to rest there before going directly to Westeros.
Shortly after the fleet entered the bay, Drogon, standing on Daenerys' shoulder on the first ship, flew into the air and saw Pentos in the distance.
He was very familiar with this place and had been to the Governor's Mansion several times to get food.
Knowing that they were about to arrive in Pentos, Daenerys found it difficult to calm down.
Here she was given to Khal Drogo by her brother Viserys and Illyrio, the Magister of Pentos.
She was so helpless and cowardly at that time. Three years later, when she came back again, she had an army of 100,000, a thousand warships and three giant dragons that could burn cities and plunder the land.
This was something she had never dared to imagine when she left Pentos.
The next stop of Pentos will be Westeros, which she has been thinking about day and night. How can she not be excited?
The fleet moved forward a little further and several small boats came towards them.
Two people came down from above. One was Illyrio, the governor of Pentos, who Daenerys was very familiar with. The other was no more than forty years old, with the same shiny beard as Illyrio.
"Your Majesty, welcome to Pentos. I am Prince Ashiborn Leliva of Pentos." The forty-year-old middle-aged man introduced himself.
Daenerys nodded to Ashbery. She knew that the prince was the nominal ruler of Pentos, but the real power lay in the Governor's Council.
The prince is more like a scapegoat in Pentos, although he enjoys certain rights of first night.
But whenever Pentos lost a battle or its crops failed due to natural disasters, the people of Pentos would slit the prince's throat as a sacrifice to the gods to appease their wrath.
"Congratulations, Her Majesty, on returning with your army!" Illyrio bowed slightly to Daenerys.
Daenerys looked into Illyrio's eyes, trying to determine whether he had married her to Khal Drogon for money or to restore the Targaryen family.
But what disappointed her was that she only saw joy in Illyrio's eyes and nothing else.
"You have contributed to this as well!" Daenerys said meaningfully, recalling her panic and helplessness when she was ruthlessly sold to Drogo by him and her brother.
"At first, I hoped that you could take back the Iron Throne with the help of Khal Drogo. I didn't expect such a misfortune to happen later."
Illyrio understood what Daenerys meant and said with some regret.
Daenerys knew he was referring to Drogo's death, which was indeed beyond everyone's expectations, and the reason was due to her own excessive kindness and stupidity.
Daenerys did not dwell on this matter. It was indeed difficult for her to continue hating Illyrio. After all, he had given her the three dragon eggs as a wedding gift.
Without them, there would be no Drogon, Rhaegal and the other three dragons, let alone today's army of 100,000 and a thousand warships.
Pentos also offered generous gifts and invited Daenerys to go ashore to rest.
Daenerys arranged the fleet and walked to the dock with Illyrio to the arranged accommodation.
The fleet planned to rest in Pentos for a day before continuing on its journey.
After declining the invitation to a banquet from the Prince and governors of Pentos, Daenerys was invited by Illyrio to his courtyard.
After sitting down, Illyrio took out the information sent by Varys.
Stannis burned the wildling leader to death and incorporated the wildling army; the Eyrie did not hand over Sansa and her sister; Euron took more than 200 ships and soldiers to join Cersei, but Euron's mental state seemed to be very bad, and his neurotic screams could often be heard in the Red Castle.
Cersei re-armed the Church's Warrior Sons and used them to capture Margaery, the Little Rose of Highgarden, and her brother Loras, forcing Highgarden to send troops to the Eyrie.
Upon hearing the news from the Church of King's Landing, Tyrion's first reaction was that his sister Cersei had gone crazy. Otherwise, why would she restart the Warrior Sons and allow the theocracy that had been suppressed with great difficulty to revive?
After hearing these pieces of news, Drogon didn't expect that the Queen of Sex would still go after the High Sparrow. He just didn't know if the scene of her parading through the streets would happen again.
As for Euron, he was not dead, but it was almost the same as I thought. There must be something wrong with his brain, otherwise he would not have roared so loudly in the Red Castle.
Daenerys didn't know the consequences of Cersei's restarting the Warrior Sons until Tyrion explained it to her. However, for her, the more chaotic Westeros is, the happier she is, as this will give her an opportunity to take advantage.
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King's Landing was in chaos after receiving the news that Daenerys was leading an army of 100,000 to Westeros three days ago.
Daenerys' sudden arrival reminded Cersei of how helpless she was when she held her son Tommen and almost fed poison into his mouth when Stannis was about to break into the city.
With an army of 100,000 and three flying dragons about to arrive at the city, Cersei no longer has time to attack the Vale and hurriedly recalls the Highgarden army to return to King's Landing.
She also withdrew part of the Lannister army that was besieging Riverrun, and recruited the private army of King's Landing nobles to guard King's Landing. If it weren't for the fact that Ramsay the Flayer was far away in Winterfell in the North, she would have wanted to call them back as well.
Fortunately, Euron, who is good at naval warfare, led more than 30,000 people to form an alliance with her. Although he made her a little unbearable, she could feel more at ease with these more than 30,000 navy.
Daenerys' sudden arrival caught Cersei, her ministers, and the nobles of King's Landing off guard.
Some nobles even prepared to flee King's Landing before Daenerys arrived.
The Targaryen girl, who originally ran the small Slave Bay only a few thousand miles away and had only more than 10,000 troops under her command, suddenly led a thousand warships and an army of 100,000 to approach Westeros. Everyone who heard the news was shocked and even doubted the reliability of the intelligence.
After Cersei confirmed again and again with Varys, she realized that the information was true, and that was the reason why Daenerys suddenly had so many more soldiers and warships.
Part of it was gained by defeating Euron, and a large part of it came from the Dothraki on the Dothraki steppes.
Cersei couldn't understand why the Dothraki, who had always plundered the free trade cities around the grasslands and the Slave Bay, were willing to follow Daenerys to Westeros.
Even if Daenerys had been the Khaleesi of the Dothraki khal, why would the Dothraki, who always respected the strong, be willing to obey the leadership of an 18-year-old girl?
This puzzled Cersei and the ministers.
The only thing that made them feel fortunate was that 30,000 of the 100,000 troops were new recruits who had never experienced war. This was also the only good news they received.
In the Royal Council Chamber, Queen Regent Cersei is presiding over a meeting to discuss how to deal with the upcoming Daenerys and her dragons.
"Uncle, where do you think Daenerys will land in Westeros?"
After Varys reported the information about Daenerys, Cersei asked her uncle Kevan with a smile.
Upon hearing the news of Daenerys' arrival, Kevan had no time to quarrel with his niece Cersei. He withdrew from the army besieging Riverrun and returned to King's Landing to serve as the Hand of the King to stabilize the panic of the nobles and people in King's Landing.