Chapter 650: Final Strike (90,000 Tui Plus Change)
Dragons are decisive strategic weapons at this time, once the dragon appears on the battlefield, his enemies will inevitably fall into an extremely unfavorable situation, although Daenerys and Jon have two dragons, and the Night King only has one Viserion, but judging from the situation of the TV series, the Night King's driving skills are obviously better than Jon and Daenerys, and it is not impossible to win with one enemy and two.
That means that there is a high probability that there will be a hole in the defense line built by Winterfell, and it will be attacked by strange ghosts into the Divine Wood Forest, and the final decisive battle will begin soon, and Shen Long will definitely have to hurry up and bring Arya over to help.
The TV series has not explained why the Night King has to kill Bran with his own hands, can't he send his men over? He still has a lot of strange spirits under his command, and there are so many ghoul armies, he only needs to sit in the rear and slowly use the ghouls to consume the soldiers of Winterfell, isn't there only one way for Bran to die? Why risk it yourself?
Shen Long looked through the original book, and it didn't seem to be explained in the original book, but some senior fans made more reliable guesses about this matter, which involves the common patricide plot in Western literature.
The Night King is not a naturally born intelligent being, but a war weapon created by the Children of the Forest, just like Ultron created by Tony Stark, the artificial intelligence in the Terminator.
This can cause the Night King to hate the Sons of the Forest who created him, and the Three-Eyed Raven, and to kill the man who created him with his own hands, either to prove that he is the new master of the world, or to simply seek revenge.
Throughout the TV series, the Night King has not personally shot much, once he killed the old three-eyed crow face to face, and once shot down Veserion with a spear, maybe to break the magic created by Brandon the Builder and the Children of the Forest, and enter the south of the Great Wall, and killing the Three-Eyed Raven may be this kind of patricide plot.
Bran inherited the inheritance of the three-eyed crow and became the new three-eyed crow, so the Night King naturally had to kill Bran with his own hands, and as soon as Bran died, his wish could come true, so he was so obsessed.
While running quickly towards the Divine Wood Forest, while looking up to observe the air battle between the Night King and Daenerys and Jon, the new pilot Jon was the first to lose, Rego was injured by Veserion, and Drogon was also facing an unfavorable situation, without the containment of the dragon, the army of ghouls gradually broke through the defenses of Winterfell, even if it was three flame trenches, they could not stop them.
The armies of the Unsullied, the Dothraki cavalry, the Vale, Winterfell, and the Lannisters hurriedly retreated around the city to the rear, intending to enter the city through the southern gate and rebuild the defense line with the help of the walls.
Bronze Jonn supported them with wildfire on the walls, giving them a precious chance to retreat, and some of the soldiers who had risen up turned back to stop the ghouls, allowing the remaining army to escape.
The ghouls had already begun to attack the city, and some of the ghouls had even entered Winterfell and the Sacred Grove, and the Night King paid a considerable price for Daenerys and Jon's pursuit, as he was shot down from Veserion's back and happened to land near the Sacred Grove.
At this time, Bran was only protected by Theon-Greyjoy with a handful of Iron Isles Iron Folk who used dragon crystal arrows and spears to deal with the surrounding ghouls, but fortunately they built a simple fortification around the Heart Tree, instead of just a few people standing there to fight, as in the TV series.
When Shen Long and Arya arrived, they happened to see Theon's last moment in his life, after being given a good guy card by Bran, Theon launched a decisive charge at the Night King with a spear in hand, but all this was useless, and the Night King easily broke his spear and killed Theon.
Now, there was no one else between the Night King and Bran, and the Night King slowly wanted Bran to walk over, Bran raised his head and rolled his eyes, and suddenly, there was a sound of flapping wings from above the Heart Tree.
A flock of ravens pounced from the air towards the Night King and the ghosts and ghouls below, and these ravens had sharp dragon crystals tied to their beaks and claws, and without paying attention, one of the ravens was caught by the ravens with their claws with dragon crystals, and they instantly shattered into ice chips, and some of the surrounding ghouls also fell.
The rest of the strange spirits reacted immediately, either picking up the ice crystal sword or drawing the ice crystal spear, and began to deal with the ravens, the Night King only raised his head slightly, Bran's action did not bother him too much, he raised his hand and waved it lightly, drove away the ravens coiled above his head, and continued to walk towards Bran.
Seeing that the Night King had arrived in front of Bran, and that the ravens controlled by Bran had been almost killed by the strangers, he recovered from his white-eyed state and looked at the Night King indifferently, and the Night King's right hand was raised to the hilt of the sword that he was carrying on his back.
"Well, this is the time! Remember what I told you last night, you only have one chance! Shen Long grabbed Erya's vest, Erya's knees arched slightly, and then jumped suddenly, Shen Long took the opportunity to throw her towards the Night King, and then quickly took the bow and set up arrows, and swished three arrows at the Night King.
The Night King's body flashed slightly, and he dodged Shen Long's arrow, and his body slammed back, and the hand that was originally going to hold the sword stretched forward, just choking Arya's neck.
"This is the time!" Shen Long shouted loudly, of course he guessed this scene, and conducted several simulation drills with Arya.
Arya reacted quickly, and as soon as her left hand was released, the Valyrian steel dagger fell naturally under the effect of gravity, and when it fell to her waist, Arya caught the dagger with her right hand and stabbed forward, just hitting the gap in the middle of the Night King's armor, and stabbing the dragon crystal dagger inserted in his body.
At this moment, even the air seemed to freeze, everything seemed extremely silent, and suddenly there was a click, and there was a cracking sound from the Night King's chest, and the dragon crystal dagger that had been inserted into his chest for I don't know how many years had finally shattered, and the cracks spread along the dragon crystal dagger to the Night King's body.
The Night King gave Arya a blank look, then turned into a cloud of ice chips, Arya fell to the ground and coughed, and around him, the rest of the strangers also shattered like the Night King, they were all created by the Night King, and now that the Night King is dead, they have also lost the source of their magic.
The remaining ghouls transformed by the Night King or other strange spirits slowly fell to the ground, and the shouts of killing that permeated and outside Winterfell slowly stopped.
Arya and Shen Long looked up at the sky, only to see that a little morning light had appeared on the horizon, the long night had passed, and the dawn and sunshine were finally coming.
Whew, Shen Long also breathed a sigh of relief, this time the task was finally completed.