Ice and Fire: Reign of the Dragon

"What? The elephant cart of the Varese family went to the Senate?"

Lamar Cyrenaica, who had just come out of the brothel, was stunned for a moment, and then he immediately understood something and whipped the slave who carried the sedan chair.

"Stupid, what are you waiting for? Go to the Senate." He hurriedly looked at the slave who had just sent him out and whipped him again. "Go find Madam Clevna and Lord Vagadu and tell them that the trouble of the Tiger Party is coming. Let our people go to help. Hurry up!"

The slave ran to the mansion of the Visama family in a hurry.

"Hurry up." Another whip was whipped on the slave who carried the sedan chair. These slaves dared not to be angry and could only speed up their pace with all their strength.

"The ass of the gods." Lamar hated the strange rules of the Varese family at this time.

The Volantis kept slaves, and it was even said that every free man in Volantis had at least 5 slaves. It can be said that slaves supported the entire economy of Volantis.

Therefore, Volantis established many rules related to slaves, just as they believed that only slaves and foreigners would let their feet land on the dirty ground.

Therefore, the nobles of Volantis generally choose to travel in sedan chairs. The more slaves carrying the sedan chair, the higher the status and wealth of the nobles. Free civilians will also travel in carts pulled by dwarf elephants.

Yes, dwarf elephants are abundant near Volantis. Free people with some assets can afford to buy dwarf elephants for transportation, and civilians with little money can also rent elephant carts for travel.

The Varese family is more unique. Although it is one of the most powerful nobles in the Black Wall, since the reform of Cleolius, at least in name, the Varese family has no slaves. Cleolius himself hates riding sedan chairs. So starting from him, the Varese family's way of travel has become a faster elephant cart. Of course, in order not to be so unconventional, Cleolius still made some compromises.

He spent a huge amount of money to buy several huge southern forest elephants from the colonial towns of the mysterious Sothoryos continent in the south. These giant elephants are not as beautiful as the dwarf elephants, but each one is very powerful, at least twice as big as the dwarf elephants.

After Longzel paid the price of anemia for a long time, the Varese family successfully tamed these two male elephants and six female elephants. They were raised in the zoo of the Varese mansion.

So on this day, a rare and strange scene appeared in the black wall.

The nobles who got the news, whether they were from the Tiger Party or the Elephant Party, gave up the luxurious golden sedan chairs far away from the Senate.

There were more elephant carts pouring into the black wall on this day than any other day.

"You are worthy of being the son of the old wizard." Mrs. Clevna, who sat on the elephant cart with the help of her family, was full of emotion to the Archon Vagado Cyrenaica opposite.

Vagado is a skinny old man with silver-gold hair that has been dyed with gray frost, but his eyes are unusually clear and azure blue. "Madam Clevna, no matter what he wants to do, the Tiger Party idiots have given him a good reason to profit from the two-party struggle."

"We still have to help him." Madam Clevna looked at the hurried parliamentarians indifferently. "Even in the Bloody Era, assassinating important figures of the enemy party is not a decent act."

"Do you have evidence that Mogul Bentalo hired Regret to assassinate the boy?" Vagadu looked at Madam Clevna's lavender eyes with a little mystery.

"The Regret House, the base of the Regret House in Volantis, has our investment." Madam Clevna whispered. "Although we cannot interfere with the actions of the Regret House, our spies have seen the Bentalo family enter the Regret House with their own eyes."

Vagadu nodded in understanding. "It seems that the intelligence work of the Cyrenaica family is still not done well enough."

"The parliamentarians of the Elephant Party should help each other. Lord Vagadu." Madam Clevna responded with a smile. "Now we should talk about the spoils."

"An old woman who refuses to listen to anything." Vagadu rubbed his teeth and complained in his heart.

"No matter what, the Vareses family will take a large part. Do you have any doubts about this, madam?"

Madam Clevna shook her head. "Of course not, but according to what Longzel Vareses has done during this period, he will most likely choose gold as compensation."

"We will pay for the discounted gold." Vagadu made a decision. "The slaves will be paid at a discount, and the land and manors will be left behind."

Clevna frowned.

"What exactly does he want to do?"

The Senate.

People entered the hall built in the style of the Senate during the Valyrian Free Fortress period, and soon it was filled with members of the two parties.

Of course, there were more members of the Elephant Party, and they almost filled two-thirds of the seats.

The Tiger Party was sparse.

The Tiger Party's Archon Belisio Megia sat calmly in his Archon seat, while the Bentalo family's seat was empty.

The door slowly opened.

The sound of crisp footsteps came slowly.

"The inheritor of the ancient bloodline, the law enforcer on the sea, the commander of the Silver Blood Army, the hereditary noble of Volantis, the alternate senator, Lord Longzel of the Vareses family has arrived."

Aslan Longdel shouted out Longzel's name with full energy, and stood respectfully on the side of the mosaic rotunda of the Senate.

"Lord Longzel Vareses, what is the reason for you to convene the Senate meeting?"

Mrs. Consul Clevna spoke first.

"I want to accuse someone of hiring the Regret Guest to murder the noble Blackwall nobles. According to the Volantis Blackwall Code, I have the right to ask the Senate to conduct a thorough search and find the murderer."

"Lord Varese." A member of the Tiger Party raised his hand to ask a question. "You need to provide evidence to the Senate to prove that the assassination really happened."

Longzel nodded at the door.

Lynn Valtaken walked in without saying a word, dragging a head with a broken body, and threw it directly on the mosaic floor without saying a word.

The blood-stained face still has strong Qarth features.

The members in the seats whispered.

"What can a corpse show?" A member of the Elephant Party shouted.

Longzel looked up in the direction of the voice.

It was Lamar Cyrenaica, and Longzel nodded slightly.

"Members, I believe you all know that my father has some abilities beyond ordinary people." Longzel glanced at the members.

These nobles of Volantis are no strangers to magic. During the reign of ancient Valyria, Volantis was the most popular colonial city for the dragon kings, and it was also one of the most prosperous ports in the world. Many magicians from Asshai have demonstrated their abilities in the city. The red-robed monks of the Great Temple also often demonstrate their fire magic.

There are even many nobles who support magicians in their homes.

"He left me a potion that can make the dead speak." Longzel took a bottle of slightly reddish potion from Lin En.

"In fact, it's just my blood mixed with something else."

Longzel said in his heart.

He poured the potion on the corpse.

A strange scene happened. The corpse suddenly trembled violently, as if something was about to grow out of the place where he had been cut off.

A hoarse, but extremely clear voice came from the throat of the dead.

"Bentaro, kill, boy, little, I'm sorry."

The whole room was silent.

It seemed that the effect of the medicine had passed, the corpse stopped trembling, and the budding flesh that had just sprouted also stopped growing.

"My Lords." Longzel looked around. "Do you need any more evidence?"

He was not worried that the death of the two guys from the Bentaro family would affect his plan. Alexio's death was his own fault. As for little Cavedo, no toxins were detected in his body. All doctors, even the red monks, could only judge that he died of cardiac arrest caused by excessive drinking, but Mogul didn't believe it.

What's more, Mogul didn't attend the Senate meeting at all.

"I'm sorry." Belisio, the governor of the Tiger Party, lowered his head. "Lord Vareses, we didn't know about this."

He looked at the Tiger Party councilors around him. "Where is Mogul Bentaro?"

"My Lord Governor." The councilor replied. "Lord Mogul encountered misfortune on his way here today. An out-of-control dwarf elephant knocked down the golden sedan chair of the Bentalo family, and Lord Mogul was unfortunately trampled to death by the dwarf elephant."

"Lord Vareses, I'm sorry, there is no way to punish the murderer according to the law."

"Therefore, what I ask for is compensation, Lord Archon."

"Lord Vareses, according to the law, all the property of the Bentalo family can be used as your compensation." Archon Vagado kindly reminded. "Lord Belisio, I believe you will not cover up your colleagues who have committed crimes."

"Of course not." Belisio rolled his eyes at Vagado and said kindly. "Lord Vareses, look..."

"I'm not greedy." Longzel looked at the three archons and said loudly. "But the Bentalo family tried to assassinate my brother, which violated the bottom line of the Vareses family. And the family is preparing to send out a fleet again to clear the pirates in Lys and Tyrosh and protect the trade routes of Volantis. At this critical juncture, the Bentalo family actually did such a thing, which is really unbearable."

"He is going to clear the pirates?" Mrs. Clevna thought to herself. "But what does this have to do with cashing in property? Is he building a fleet?"

"So I asked the Senate to confiscate the land and property of the Bentalo family and compensate the Vareses family with enough gold and ships."

He formally announced the plan of the Vareses family to the Senate. "I will continue my father's path, and after clearing the trade routes, I will start the great voyage again, consolidate the trade routes to Yidi and Asshai. And further open up the southern route."

"I see." Such a sentence sounded in the hearts of several archons at the same time.

No wonder he was in a hurry to cash in his property. It turned out that he wanted to continue the great voyage career of the old wizard. Support, must support. In any case, the Great Voyage is a move to make the pie bigger, which is beneficial to Volantis.

As for the Bentalo family, they have already agreed to eat it up, so why worry about it.

"Lord Varese, we are willing to participate in your Great Voyage plan."

"Lord Longzel, I can provide ships, please consider our family."

"Go to hell, why are you a Tiger Party member mixing with our Elephant Party members. Lord Longzel, we can also provide ships and funds."

Upon hearing that there is a new Great Voyage, these nobles can't sit still. It's great that there are people willing to take on this kind of high-risk and high-profit business.

The Senate was noisy in an instant.

"Silence——"

Vagado Cyrenaica finally suppressed the noisy voice with a full voice.

"As you wish, the property of the Bentalo family will be compensated to you in the form of gold, warships, and merchant ships. As for your great voyage plan, do you need the assistance of the Senate?"

"Not for now, but when we return this time, we may need the resolution of the Senate."

Longzel said with a smile.

Today's first update is checked in, and the second update will be released around 23:00. I am a new author, please give me more criticism and corrections. I have extra work today, and the update will be earlier tomorrow on the day off. I will make some stability adjustments to the update time later.