Chapter 140 Surprise Attack
"No…not so many, just…just one will do." Kiko looked at the gold coin Aka handed him, swallowed hard, and said with difficulty.
His ideal price was one gold coin, but he didn't expect that the Dragon God would give him five. He wanted them very much, but he was afraid that when he returned, the people of Karasa would scold him for being greedy, and he might even be kicked out of Karasa by Kao.
"The Dragon God doesn't take back what he's said, so you should accept it!" Knowing Drogon's temperament, Aka didn't ask for Drogon's opinion again and continued to hand the money to Kiko.
Kiko hesitated for a moment, then looked at Drogon and Daenerys before reaching out to take the gold coins.
When Kiko sold a small seashell for five gold coins, not only were the people around him dumbfounded, but even Daenerys found it incredible.
Five gold coins are no small sum. It wasn't that she was heartbroken about the gold coins, but rather that the value of the little conch shell far exceeded her expectations.
Furthermore, judging from the fact that Akka took out his money bag and asked Drogon about it, it was definitely not the first time he had paid for Drogon. Daenerys did not expect that Drogon would have someone specifically in charge of his money in the Dothraki Sea.
She used to think that Zhuo Geng just liked the shiny appearance of gold coins when she saw him putting them into his money bag, but now she realized that he always gave money when he came to the grassland to forage.
Looking at the five gold coins, the merchants who had just haggled with Kiko to buy the conch shell were filled with regret. They also felt that the conch shell was extraordinary.
However, the price of one gold coin was too expensive, and after trying to blow the conch shell, they found that it was not much different from an ordinary conch shell, so they hesitated and did not buy it.
Unexpectedly, the conch shell was sold for a high price of five gold coins in the blink of an eye.
Not only did they fail to make any money, they also missed the opportunity to befriend Queen Daenerys, so how could they not regret it?
After obtaining the conch shell, Zhuogeng studied it for a while but couldn't find anything special about it, so he had to give up for the time being.
After strolling along the Avenue of the Gods on Daenerys's shoulders, Drogon found no other items with a special aura. Although somewhat disappointed, he did not insist.
Reverting to its adult size, it carried Daenerys away from the Dothraki holy city of Viss, watched by everyone.
Upon returning to Meereen, Daenerys summoned Daario and Yara, ordering them to hurry up and build a ship or find a way to acquire one from elsewhere.
Upon hearing the order to build ships, the two were very puzzled. With the number of warships they currently had, they had enough to transport the army across the Narrow Sea, and there was no need to build any new ships. They even thought that Daenerys had miscalculated the numbers.
"Your Majesty, our ships are sufficient for our soldiers to cross the Narrow Sea; there should be no need to build more," Dario voiced his doubts.
"That's not enough, because we need more people to come with us to Westeros."
"There are others?" Dario and Yara asked almost simultaneously.
"You'll know when the time comes. Let's build the ships as soon as possible! Let's build two hundred ships first."
Daenerys wasn't sure how many Dothraki would come to Meereen; she estimated it to be around ten or twenty thousand.
Two hundred ships could carry twenty thousand soldiers, and Daario and Yara couldn't understand where Daenerys could get so many people from.
Two days later, the soldiers guarding the city reported in a panic that nearly 10,000 cavalrymen were approaching the city walls.
Tyrion and the others also learned from Daenerys that new troops would be joining, but they were not flustered after hearing the soldiers' report.
Moreover, based on the direction Drogon flew off in with Daenerys that day, they vaguely guessed where the new army might have come from.
Once it was confirmed that the visitors were indeed Dothraki, Daenerys ordered the soldiers to reopen the city gates, and she personally went out to greet them.
The first to arrive was Jacocao, accompanied by two medium-sized khalasars.
According to Jaco, there were other karas coming after the three karas. Apart from the warriors who stayed behind to protect the elderly, women and children, almost everyone else would come. It was estimated that at least 30,000 people would come in total.
Daenerys hadn't expected so many people to come, and hurriedly had Missandei settle the newly arrived Dothraki.
At the same time, Dario and Yara were instructed to expedite the construction of the large ship.
A day later, several more khalasas arrived, and together with Jako and his men, the total number of Dothraki was 45,000.
Two days later, just as Daario and his men were worrying about the slow shipbuilding process, Daenerys suddenly received three hundred large ships from the former slave owners and Gith nobles of the three cities of Slaver's Bay.
Daenerys hadn't expected them to be so generous, and even wondered if they wanted her to leave Slaver's Bay sooner, which was why they were contributing so many ships, enough for the expedition.
Once Tyrion had enough ships, he began planning what would happen after Daenerys left.
Daren remained in charge of Slaver's Bay, while he remained stationed in Meereen, with Yunkai and Astapor each leaving five hundred Unsullied and one thousand new recruits to garrison the area.
The Meereen garrison consisted of two thousand troops, with five hundred Unsullied remaining and the rest being new recruits.
The Unsullied Sparrow was left in Meereen to help Daeron maintain order in the three cities.
With Giese surrendering and the harpy severely wounded, as long as Daenerys remains safe in Westeros, Slaver's Bay will be fine.
Three days later, with everything ready, nearly 100,000 troops and 1,000 large ships set sail from Meereen in an orderly fashion.
Knowing that Daenerys was about to leave Meereen for Westeros, the people of Meereen spontaneously came to the city walls to bid farewell to their queen.
Daenerys not only freed the slaves of Slaver's Bay, but also found a way for them to live a stable life.
Now that they were about to leave Slaver's Bay, they only hoped that Daenerys would be able to successfully seize the Iron Throne in Westeros; otherwise, they might be forced to wear leather collars by slave owners again.
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Standing on the Wall, looking at the densely packed army of wildlings, Jon knew that if they launched another attack, the Night's Watch, with the remaining forces from the last siege, would have no chance of holding the city.
Just as he was considering whether to go out of the city to negotiate, he suddenly received a report from his subordinates that the savages under the Great Wall had been attacked.
Upon hearing this news, Jon assumed that the White Walker army had reached the Wall. However, when he went out to check, he discovered that it was not the White Walkers, but rather several thousand human cavalrymen who had ambushed Mance's army.
Looking at the flaming red heart banner carried by the cavalry from afar, Jon Snow didn't even recognize which noble family's emblem it was.
However, the flags did not prevent him from observing the battle situation. He discovered that although the cavalry numbered only five thousand at most, each of them was brave and skilled in battle.
They charged into the unsuspecting savage army as if it were nothing, charging back and forth several times until the savages were completely scattered. Then, in coordination with the infantry, they began to surround and kill the scattered savages.
Jon knew that although the wildlings claimed to have an army of 100,000, most of them were old, weak, women and children, and the actual number of warriors was only about 20,000.
Moreover, the combat experience of these 20,000 men was limited to fighting wild beasts outside the Wall or dealing with scattered Night's Watch rangers, which was no match for a real regular army.