King of The Wall

2020-11-02

Chapter 10 Interrogation and Self-Defense

"So, you brought back two Broken Swords for the purpose of Prove that you and Gary are not deserters, but the heroes who killed the Others?" After listening to Igor's account of the whole journey of the northbound patrol, Commander Mormont stared at Igor with a serious look, as if to find out in his face and eyes Evidence of its lying.

Igor took a breath: "I wouldn't call oneself a hero, because I did flee from where the fighting took place ten days ago, neither saving Ser Waymar Royce nor his body. But I think , it's more important and meaningful to go back to the Wall to pass on the important warning signs of their presence than to fight the Others and get killed."

"Obsidian does kill the Others, as many legends say. That's how it is recorded." Maester Aemon, who was no longer out of sight, fiddled with the homemade obsidian dagger handed in by Igor, visibly interested in what he said: "If I remember correctly, you are a foreigner, and recently I'm just learning the writing of Westeros, how can I know these legends so clearly?"

"There are also legends circulating in my hometown. I saw The Wall..."

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The ghoul horse that Others rode was still hung with oatmeal as horse food, after killing Others, Igor was at several hundred meters Frightened and ran away horse to retrieve oneself outside. After feeding it all the oats and taking a break, Igor returns to the Wall with a seriously injured Gary on his back.

Now, sitting in the fire-warmed Conference Hall, for the first time, he has a face-to-face interaction with so many of the Night's Watch Legion bigwigs. For a full year after being forced to join the Wall's garrison, he had tried his best to attract the attention of these Night's Watch executives, and now he had his wish, but was tried as a deserter suspect: "Maester Aemon, you are a learned man. , then you should understand a truth - if the legends everywhere have similar records of an event from a long time ago, then it is very likely to be true. Others did exist, and it is back now."

The blind old man nodded, although he didn't know what happened, at least the second half of the words of the Night's Watch soldier in front of him made sense.

"hmph, in my opinion, it's just to avoid punishment, deliberately inflicted a wound, and then find something to break the sword, so as to make the illusion of a hard fight." Standing aside Alliser Thorne, Night's Watch recruit instructor coldly snorted, "This guy is slick in training and lazy when he gets the chance, can he kill an Others? Even if this thing exists?"

Igor did not refute. Of course, the recruit instructor did not deliberately target him. As a testing engineer who was engaged in technical work before crossing the border, although he was not a powerless person, he was probably more "pampered" than many nobles in this world. ”, not to mention the Night's Watch minions who were born at the bottom. When he first came to The Wall, it was really difficult for him to accept such high-intensity training, and he stole a lot of laziness. Although he still passed the training in the end, he undoubtedly left a bad impression on Alliser Thorne.

Then again, the nobleman who was forced to join the Night's Watch because of the fall of the Targaryen Dynasty he supported was a cynical, mean, and unsympathetic man, speaking in a tone full of contempt for the Night's Watch Legion Not many soldiers like it up and down, Igor is impossible to get his favor even if he obediently and honestly even goes to training hard.

"Ser Alliser, have you seen the Broken Sword?"

"More good swords than you've ever seen."

"Then please Look, the two Broken Swords I brought back." Although the recruit instructor is considered a superior, but now oneself is a ranger, and the fate is not up to Alliser, Igor does not intend to be polite to him: "The sword of Night's Watch is It is made of steel, and the characteristic of steel is its strength. It is not as brittle as glass or ice cubes. No matter how strong or fast you break the steel sword, there will inevitably be deformation at the break. , but this is not the case for the two Broken Swords. I deliberately brought back all the fragments and the upper and lower parts. If a few adults put them together, they can find that these fragments can be reconstituted exactly as one. A complete steel sword, if you don't look carefully, you can't see where the break is."

Commander Mormont raised his eyebrows, followed his words, and put together the Broken Sword. Said that, except for a few small gaps at the broken edge of the blade that could not be recovered, the entire sword was still straight and sharp, and it was almost impossible to see that it had been broken into two pieces and a pile of fragments.

"How could this be?" Lord Commander continued, politely.

Low temperature will reduce the bonding force between metal atoms, and increase the rigidity or brittleness. Simply put, the colder it is, the less it can withstand stress and deformation... Of course, this remark can't be compared with this group. It has been explained by the "ancients" of physics, and, in this hellish magical world, who can guarantee that what oneself knows is everything?

"It is said that Others used Ice Magic, and the steel swords were frozen and cracked." Igor used a local explanation, "I don't know the exact reason, but I can guarantee that no matter how many adults find it No one, by any means, can make the same steel sword break like this... Lord Commander can show the Broken Sword to the Chief Craftsman, Chief Service Officer or Smith Donal of Castle Black, if anyone can restore a similar My steel sword is broken, though treat me as a deserter."

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Donal Noye: Castle Black's one-armed Smith, former House Baratheon's personal Smith and soldier , joined the Black Shirts after losing an arm at Storm's End. Before that, he followed Stannis Baratheon to the north and south, and his footprints were all over the Seven Kingdoms. It is said that Robert killed Rhaegar Targaryen on Trident and he was the one who forged the Warhammer. In the original plot of wildling's attack on Castle Black, he died fighting the Giant King "Mag the Mighty" in the tunnel under the Wall, and he can be regarded as a Legendary character.

Igor's past is nothing to be commended unless he just killed an Others, but he was engaged in material testing before crossing, and there was an impact testing machine next to his original office. A whole bunch of Metal Attributes can test the device. When it comes to blacksmithing, he can't compare to Smith Donal, but compared to the theoretical knowledge of metal materials, all Smiths in this world combined are not his opponents.

In order to make the steel sword look like this, there must be at least a low temperature environment of minus 200 degrees Celsius. Even in the modern world before Igor's crossing, only very expensive equipment can provide such conditions. Let a medieval-level Smith make a temperature of two hundred degrees above zero or even two thousand degrees easily, below zero? Might as well just go and get one of the Others and come back and let it do the cutting steel sword...

Igor's determined expression and confident words infected the Night's Watch officers sitting behind the long table, all of them from Uncommon, but Igor is not some hillbilly from a nook... He is a Night's Watch soldier, and these noble masters in front of him may decide his life and death, but don't try to scare him with the so-called "noble".

"I sent someone to examine the wound on Gary's chest." Maester Aemon broke the silence, "It's strange, the wound was caused by a sharp object, but showed typical symptoms of severe frostbite, and it was limited to the wound. In a very small area inside and outside... It took a few people half a day to remove all the necrotic parts. I don't know if Donnel can break the steel sword into this shape, but I know, I can't make such a wound ."

Among the three people who have the right to speak, one of them is the first to believe in oneself. Igor's face was silent, but he was greatly relaxed in his heart: no matter what era or where he went, it was always easier for someone with knowledge and insight to communicate with him, and the life of oneself was mostly saved.

The Lord Commander glanced at the silent Chief Ranger beside him: "Benjen, this is your man, what do you think?"

The boss of all Rangers, Night's The only House Stark member in Watch Legion lifts the head. This thin but vigorous man was studying the evidence brought back by Igor from start to finish, when asked by Lord Commander at this moment, he understood that it was time for oneself to make a statement.

"We are Night's Watch, guarding the northernmost point of the kingdom." The younger brother guarded by North said, "But we don't know much more than the southerners about the vast uncharted territory north of Wall... ...I haven't seen Others, but I don't dare to assert that this thing doesn't exist. Seeing is believing, in a few days I will personally take my elite rangers north to find the Others that Ser Waymar Royce and Igor said, as for now ..."

Under Igor's staring eyes, Benjen paused and pronounced the sentence: "The most important thing right now is to inform the family of Waymar Royce's disappearance first, and try to give the They explained one by one. As for Igor, he should be locked up first, and I will let you lead the way next time I go to patrol north. Whether what I said is true or false, it will be up to you oneself to prove it.”

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Sure enough, he was going to lead the way, and Gary guessed it right.

Igor secretly admired the old soldier's prediction, and was lifted out of the Conference Hall by two black clothed brothers. Before going out, he heard the last words of Maester Aemon and Benjen Stark: "Before you bring me Before the people go north, there is something to do. Raven brings news, the Prime Minister is dead, the king is on his way to North, Lord Edd asks you to take time to go back to Winterfell and greet him with him.”

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(end of this chapter)