An hour later, Jon saw the seriously injured Stannis. After being stabbed in the abdomen, he only received a simple bandage and fled on horseback with the soldiers.
After the wound burst and he lost a lot of blood, he fell into a coma. Jon didn't expect Stannis's injury to be so serious.
After spending some time with Stannis, he learned from Bran that Stannis was a fanatical believer in the Lord of Light, willing to perform blood sacrifices to borrow power, and even used witchcraft to murder his brother Renly.
But when the Army of the Dead marched south and no noble or powerful force was willing to send troops, Stannis was able to bring his remaining troops to support the Night's Watch.
Although his motivation for supporting was to recruit the wildlings and expand the military, he did his best to defend against the White Walkers and was even seriously injured.
After spending some time together, Jon had developed a little respect for him.
In front of the bed, the red-robed woman Melisandre sat in a chair with a dazed look on her face, looking at the dying Stannis.
She had already learned about Stannis's condition from the doctor, which made her a little confused as to why Stannis, the chosen son of God and the reincarnation of Azor Ahai, was so fragile.
Could it be that the prophecy he had seen in the fire had other meanings? Was Stannis not the reincarnation of Azor Ahai, the chosen son of God?
Think about the events she has experienced since she followed Stannis. Except for the smooth assassination of Renly at the beginning, Stannis's army has been slowly declining since the Battle of the Blackwater and the attack on King's Landing.
Even the leech curse she had painstakingly performed only succeeded in killing two false kings, and the battle at the Wall left Stannis severely wounded and on the verge of death.
The reason why she came to Westeros from Asshai in the far east was to find the reincarnation of Azor, the chosen son of God, the legendary prince, according to the prophecy in the ancient book.
The ancient book of Asshai once predicted: After the long summer, the stars will weep blood, the world will be shrouded in coldness and darkness, and a prince will hold the "Messenger of Light" to kill the alien gods and dispel the darkness. That prince is the reincarnation of Azor Ahai.
Azor was a hero more than 8,000 years ago in the Aegon calendar. He spent two hundred days and nights forging the Lightbringer in three times. During the last forging, he offered a blood sacrifice to his wife Nissa to finally complete the Lightbringer.
He used the Lightbringer to defeat the White Walkers, ending the Long Night that lasted for a generation at the time.
Melisandre wanted to get revelations about the prophecy from the fire, so when she saw Stannis in the flames, she became convinced that Stannis was the reincarnation of Azor, but now she has doubts about the original prophecy.
"How is Your Majesty?" A question interrupted Melisandre's thoughts.
Jon entered the room and glanced at Stannis, who looked pale, and asked Davos, the Onion Knight, who was sitting on the bed with Melisandre.
"The situation is not good." Davos looked worried.
When Melisandre saw Jon coming in, her eyes suddenly lit up.
When she saw Jon in the fire that burned the wildling king Mance to death, she thought Jon was the same person as Gendry, the illegitimate son of Robert, the former king of the Seven Kingdoms.
Blood contains energy, and I can draw strength from it. Now it seems that I may have misunderstood what the Lord of Light wanted to express. Jon may have a more important identity.
Could it be Azor Ahai reincarnated? Melisandre asked herself.
However, she has not completely given up on Stannis, whom she has been following, and she still needs to confirm Stannis's identity one last time.
"Davos..." Stannis suddenly woke up on the bed and called Davos' name.
"His Majesty."
Davos approaches Stannis to hear his final words.
"Help...take care of Shireen for me." Stannis glanced at his wife Selyse, who was sitting on the bed with her head down, then turned back to Davos and said.
Davos told Stannis the news about Shireen after returning from Dragonstone.
Stannis just nodded silently at the time and had no intention of asking Daenerys to return his daughter. Perhaps he thought Shireen would live better on Dragonstone than here.
After hearing what Stannis said, Davos' eyes moistened and he nodded slightly.
During the Rebellion, Davos smuggled onions and pickled fish into Storm's End, which had been besieged for several months and was almost out of food, allowing Stannis to survive until the last moment.
Even though Stannis cut off Davos's little finger because he was a smuggler, and imprisoned him in the dungeon for offending Melisandre during the Battle of the Blackwater, Davos did not hold any resentment towards Stannis and always followed him loyally.
Stannis also trusted him quite a bit, appointed him as the King's Hand, and adopted most of his opinions.
The more than ten-year vassal relationship between the two is about to end, and Davos feels uncomfortable.
"Your Majesty… Your Majesty!"
As soon as Davos nodded, Stannis tilted his head to one side, and he didn't respond even after Jon called him twice.
Selyse glanced at Stannis, who was motionless, then stood up from her chair and walked out of the room.
Davos was silent for a while before he began to move Stannis's body and prepared to take it out for cremation.
The army of death is approaching, and the Night King can sense any dead body, so Davos can only take emergency measures.
"Don't burn him yet." Knowing Davos' intention, Melisandre spoke out to stop him.
Davos looked at Melisandre in confusion, wondering what she wanted to do with Stannis's body. If she wanted to use it for a blood sacrifice or something similar, Davos would never agree.
"I'll try to resurrect Stannis," Melisandre said bluntly.
While capturing King Robert's bastard Gendry, she learned the shocking fact that Thoros from Myr had resurrected Lord Beric six times.
To this day she still hasn't figured out why the King of Light she believes in would waste his divine power to resurrect the seemingly useless Berry six times.
For the chosen one whom she has always followed, she must of course try to resurrect Stannis.
If he can be resurrected, then he may be the reincarnation of Azor. If he cannot be resurrected... then it means that he has been continuing a mistake for a long time.
Staring at Melisandre, Davos tried to tell whether what she said was true or not. Although resurrecting the dead was a little unbelievable, Davos, who had personally seen Melisandre give birth to the Child of Shadow, had no doubts about her strange abilities.
Jon was shocked to hear that Melisandre was going to resurrect Stannis.
He learned about Melisandre's various strange methods from Bran, and just now he witnessed her ability to enchant soldiers' weapons with fire at the Wall.
He hadn't expected that Melisandre had the ability to resurrect the dead.
"Shall we do it now?" Davos asked, putting Stannis down.
"Clean his wounds, I'll go get ready." Melisandre said and left the room.
Returning to the temporary room arranged for her, Melisandre sat on the bed and recalled the spells she had learned.
She was not good at resurrection and had never performed it before, because even she herself thought it was unbelievable to resurrect the dead. So when she saw Lord Beric being resurrected six times by the red monk Thoros, she was extremely shocked.
She was not sure about resurrecting the dead, so she returned to the room mainly to calm her uneasy mood and secondly to master the resurrection spell.
After silently reciting a spell in an unknown language several times, Melisandre gradually calmed down. Seeing that the time was almost up, she returned to the room where Stannis was staying.
Stannis was lying on the bed, shirtless, having been washed.