A Song of Ice and Fire: Wrath of the Sleeping Dragon

"Your Majesty, the most exalted Emperor of the glorious Valyrian Empire," a red-robed giant, standing seven feet tall with skin as black as tar, his face adorned with white hair and winding flame-like tattoos covering his cheeks and forehead, entered the conference room and spoke with a slight bow.

"I have found a way to repair the Wall at the edge of the world."

Moqorro's opening words stunned the entire room. Everyone present, including Viserys, was momentarily taken aback.

"Hey, you Red Priest, what did you say?" Rickard Karstark, Lord of Karhold and the Grand Steward of the North, also known as the 'Sun of Winter,' boomed from the other side of the room.

Due to the sudden onset of the Long Night, Robb Stark, who was originally scheduled to return to Winterfell to assume the role of Governor of the North, was temporarily stranded in King's Landing. Although Robb was eager to return to the North and make his mark, his mother, Lady Catelyn, shared the same sentiment, leaving Robb with no choice but to comply.

As a result, Rickard Karstark remained the Grand Steward of the North.

His face was filled with disbelief, for the Wall stood seven hundred feet tall, over two hundred meters high, far beyond the reach of current architectural capabilities.

The people of the North regarded the Wall as a miracle, and Brandon the Builder was hailed as a godly man. He lived during the Age of Heroes, and House Stark gained great honor through Brandon's deeds, earning them the title of Kings of the North.

"Yes," Moqorro replied, standing tall in the conference room, facing the gazes of numerous imperial commanders. His eyes swept over the people in the room.

Eddard Stark, Rickard Karstark, Jeor Mormont, Prince Oberyn, commander of the Second Imperial Legion, Hendry Bracken, representative of the Riverlands, the sole heir to the Twins, Harry Strickland, former paymaster of the Golden Company and now Lord of Bitterbridge.

The Stormlands had sent a female commander, Lady Brienne of Tarth. Her stature was no shorter than the men in the room, perhaps even taller. She furrowed her brows, her blue eyes scrutinizing Moqorro.

In fact, Moqorro had already gained some understanding of these imperial military leaders. None of them could be underestimated.

However, his gaze still locked onto the silver-haired young man in the center. He wore a light robe and a crown of Valyrian steel adorned with a glittering red gem.

Viserys' fingers bore a ring with the Targaryen family crest, stained with traces of ink. At this moment, his fingers tapped the table lightly. After a long moment, he spoke.

"How to repair it?"

He didn't ask Moqorro where he had found the method, knowing that even if he did, the other party might not tell the truth. Volantis was the 'eldest daughter of Valyria,' and it held many secrets.

When Moqorro first came to King's Landing, Melisandre had warned Viserys not to trust his words easily.

These fanatical followers of the Lord of Light were different from her. They were more extreme and unscrupulous, as evident from their later seizure of control over Qohor.

Moqorro probably didn't expect Viserys not to ask where he had found these methods. This caused the words he had prepared to be swallowed back, and his tone faltered slightly.

"Black stone."

"Magic."

"Dragonfire."

The giant with flame tattoos covering his bald head then spoke in a deep voice, uttering three words.

The combination of black stone, magic, and dragonfire could rebuild the black stone structures of the glorious Valyrian civilization.

These structures contained the power of magic and dragonfire, sufficient to prevent some terrifying things from passing through the Wall.

The Valyrians possessed the knowledge to construct these black stone structures, but the history of the Wall clearly predated the rise of the Valyrians. Brandon Stark, the Builder, also did not have dragons, yet he had black stone.

It was a mysterious black stone that appeared in various corners of the known world, wherever ancient wonders existed. In that era, ancient people from all over the world inexplicably chose this black stone. Perhaps it held the secrets of the age.

Before the Wall collapsed, no one knew its internal structure. Now, through the broken and collapsed sections of the Wall, traces of black stone remnants could still be vaguely found. Brandon the Builder used black stone as the foundation and employed magic and ancient spells to make the Wall stand firm.

Strictly speaking, the method provided by Moqorro was not a way to rebuild the Wall, but rather to use Valyrian techniques to fill the gap in the Wall.

But as long as it worked, that was enough.

He had originally wanted to use the excuse that he had found this method beyond the Wall, but since Viserys didn't ask, he naturally didn't mention it.

Because the secrets of black stone construction and the forging of Valyrian steel had been lost with the destruction of the Freehold, but in fact, the city-state of Volantis still retained copies.

After all, Volantis was the earliest colony of the Freehold at that time, and many Valyrian nobles even resided there.

Therefore, after the Doom, the great empire collapsed overnight, and the methods of forging Valyrian steel and building black stone structures were lost to the world, with only Volantis possessing copies.

However, perhaps due to insufficient technical conditions or insurmountable obstacles, Volantis, despite secretly possessing these secrets and claiming to be the heir of Valyria, never made them public and never utilized them, only storing them in the depths of their warehouses.

In recent years, there had been occasional explorers claiming to have found the method to forge Valyrian steel, but they were all fake. The craftsmen of Qohor also claimed to have mastered the technique of reforging Valyrian steel, but because Valyrian steel had become extremely rare, few people sought to reforge it, making it impossible to verify.

However, now that Qohor had also fallen into the hands of the Red Priests of Volantis, the technique of reforging Valyrian steel might have also fallen into their hands.

Therefore, the method Moqorro claimed to have found to repair the Wall was actually given to him by the High Priest Benerro.

As for what purpose the High Priest wanted to achieve, that was not something a Red Priest like Moqorro could know.

"Black stone, magic, dragonfire."

The conference room fell silent. The numerous imperial commanders couldn't understand or comprehend, for these were the secrets of the Valyrians.

But they all saw the pensive expression on Viserys' face, the only Valyrian present.

"You offer it, what reward do you seek?"