Chapter 202: Flames Burn the City

Chapter 200: The Burning City

Qarth is an extremely large city in the southeast of Essos. They claim to be the gateway between the north and the south, the bridge between the east and the west, and located at the center of the world.

To some extent, this is not an empty statement. They control the Jade Sea Gate and have the largest port in the known world.

The Volantis laughed at Braavos, which is composed of islands, and said that it would sink in their port, but they would never dare to brag in front of the Qarthes.

Qarth not only has a huge port, but also has merchant ships from all over the world docked. They are extremely rich.

Therefore, the architecture of this city is very spectacular, magnificent, and even luxurious.

There are three layers of city walls alone, and its shape can be called a world wonder.

The outer wall is made of red sandstone, 30 feet high, and carved with various animals; the middle wall is made of gray granite, 40 feet high, and carved with lifelike battle scenes; the inner wall is made of black marble, 50 feet high, and the wall is covered with erotic carvings.

The outer gate is inlaid with copper, the middle gate is inlaid with iron, and the inner gate is inlaid with many golden eyes.

At this moment, just outside the exquisite and solid outer wall, the Dothraki, whom the Qarth people hate the most, are stationed.

The smell of the khalasar makes them feel extremely disgusted, but they can't do anything about these Dothraki troops.

The strength of Qarth, or the advantages of all the city-states in Essos, is based on their naval fleet, and some ships are even as big as the palace.

Of course, Qarth also has an army responsible for the defense of the city.

Each warrior wears exquisite copper scale armor, a long-beaked helmet with copper teeth and long black feathers, and is fully equipped.

Some of the warriors ride camels and form a camel cavalry.

This kind of cavalry is very restrained against horse cavalry, because horses are afraid of the smell of camels.

However, this does not mean that the Qarth people have much advantage when facing the Dothraki.

Because the cavalry has soldiers in addition to mounts, the Qarth people hate and fear the Dothraki.

Especially after the troops led by the royal family Mathos Mararovin were annihilated at the Kaiser Pass and the Yunkai coalition was defeated.

This fear has surpassed the pride of the Qarth people.

They dare not send troops out of the city to expel the Dothraki army. The original mission of Harsha was to harass, but now it is a siege.

The fact is that there is not even a blade of grass growing on the Red Wilds, let alone trees that can grow into timber.

Harsha has no siege weapons and has no way to take Qarth. The port and trade market in the city are still open day and night.

The two armies can only confront each other across the city wall. The soldiers speak in a language that neither of them can understand, and curse in the air, but this curse is harmless.

Harsha is not anxious, but also very worried.

The former is because reinforcements are on the way, and he believes that the great khal can always solve the problem.

The latter is to worry about Mungo. What can the great khal do?

This is a barren land and a long distance. It is impossible to bring siege weapons or transport wood.

That would require a lot of manpower and logistics, and it would take a long time to reach Qarth.

But soon, he knew.

A black figure fell from the sky, its huge wings flapping in the air, stirring up gusts of wind, its eyes like boiling magma, and when it opened its mouth to roar, its sharp teeth revealed, as if it could bite everything.

It flew over Qarth, making long and vast dragon roars.

"God! What is that!"

The Qarth people shouted, everyone stopped, opened the window, looked up at the sky, and then showed a stunned expression.

"Is it a dragon?"

"It's a dragon, how can there be a dragon!"

The Qarth people had never seen a real dragon, but they were not unfamiliar with it. Every square in the city had a delicate fountain in the shape of a dragon, lifelike, just like the figure they saw now.

"It's a dragon, it's a dragon!"

"The dragon is here, it's a miracle!"

Everyone immediately became excited and was extremely excited to see the giant dragon with their own eyes.

At that moment, the warning bell suddenly rang, echoing in everyone's ears, the cheers stopped, and the excitement turned into fear in an instant.

A flame shot towards the city, and even the most dull-witted people knew that they were wrong. This dragon was an enemy, not a friend.

Unfortunately, it was too late. The gems on the tower reflected the red flames in the sky. Amid the screams and howls of humans, disaster came.

Greytrn roared and rushed towards the city wall. A rain of arrows rushed towards him, hitting his scales and falling back to the ground.

It opened its mouth wide, revealing sharp teeth, as if laughing at these people's presumption.

Then, high-temperature flames shot out from its mouth, illuminating the entire city wall and turning into a huge golden pillar of fire.

The copper armor of the Qarth soldiers melted, their bodies burned black, and their blood boiled and evaporated, but they burned into balls of fire without pain, burning into charcoal, adding fuel to the pillar of fire.

Even the red sandstone walls were not immune and began to melt in the high temperature.

Greytorn continued to dance above, and all the paths it flew through were filled with blazing flames.

With a flick of its tail, the towers that blocked its flight collapsed like a landslide.

It dived again and again in the rain of arrows, spewing flames. To it, those raining arrows were more like annoying mosquito bites.

Grethen was a little angry, so one house after another fell into the sea of ​​fire, collapsed in the high temperature, and countless flames shot straight into the sky.

The people of Qartheen fled in all directions, jumped into the water, or found a place they felt safe to hide.

No one dared to face Grethen's punishment anymore. People who had praised the dragon before could only wail and cry in pain.

At this time, looking at the flames burning everywhere, a trace of human emotion suddenly flashed in its red eyes like magma.

It seemed to remember something, and finally reacted, and hurriedly flew towards the city wall again.

Then, the only remaining, determined Qartheen soldiers and the sturdy city wall, like fragile butter, burned and melted, and collapsed.

Grethen let out a shocking roar towards the equally panicked Dothraki outside the city, rushed into the sky with all his strength, and flew away.

Everything fell into silence. This is the dragon, a dragon that is enough to conquer the world.

The scorching wind blew mercilessly through the burning city, accompanied by the wailing of the Qartheen. They walked around in a daze, lamenting the destruction of the city and the death of their compatriots.

However, the Qartheen had no time to mourn.

One after another, horseback figures walked out of the ruins, with flames flashing in their eyes.