"Like the Children of the Forest, like Valyria? Are they afraid of the birth of a new god?"
"Heh, the Valyrians don't just want to become gods. They want to kill gods. They are an absolutely self-centered race, and the most feared race by those in power in all of Westeros' history. So they suffered an unprecedented blow. A direct blow from the gods."
Lu Xuan began to understand what the Green Prophet meant. It was saying that the entire world of Ice and Fire was actually a pasture for the gods. However, they only preferred herbivores, and any carnivores that appeared had to be completely exterminated because they might bite them.
The Children of the Forest, though gentle in nature, possess magical talent. Crucially, during their war with humans, they created the bizarre phenomenon of magical warriors. This made those beings feel threatened. Therefore, the magical warriors transformed into the Night King, becoming another kind of calamity-level creature.
Perhaps they found the Night King quite useful. So they kept him around, letting him reappear from time to time to assert his presence. He's like a fixed antivirus program. Whenever instability arises in the human world, he immediately comes out to clean it up, maintaining the world's stability and preventing its decadence and corruption.
Then came the rise of the Valyrian Freehold. These guys were even more formidable. First, they allied with the gods to outwit the dragons, then turned around and broke free from the gods' control. They even planned to develop god-slaying weapons, completely transforming themselves from pawns into players.
Lu Xuan guessed that the gods were in an awkward position at the time. Because conventional antivirus software was completely useless against the Valyrians.
Imagine the Night King leading his so-called undead army to invade the Valyrian Peninsula. Instead, hundreds of dragons emerge to cleanse the area, dragging the Night King back and dissecting him. Keep in mind, the Valyrians are already using magical lenses for cellular and even genetic research. The Night King in their hands... well...
Left with no other option, the gods resorted to more direct methods. They took forceful action and directly destroyed the Valyrian Peninsula.
"So, the attack on me back then was also at their behest?" Lu Xuan asked, having figured everything out.
“That’s right, in fact, we feel that the gods fear you even more than they did the Valyrians. They have never targeted a human so directly. We even feel that you have frightened them.”
"Okay, if I'm really that threatening, why don't they just take action?"
"It's quite simple. They paid a heavy price when they annihilated Valyria. As gods, they possessed all sorts of laws, enabling them to do things that are inconceivable to humans. However, the human world cannot bear that kind of power. This is thanks to their destruction of all magical races, leaving the energy fluctuations in the human world almost zero. Just like a sailboat, with wind, the boat can sail easily. But without wind, it can only rely on pure human power, which requires a huge price. They expended too much last time, and even though the world's magic has become active again, they cannot directly intervene in the human world for a short period of time."
This reason is perfectly reasonable. However, at this moment, the silent Night King suddenly spoke.
"No, it's not just for that reason. I can sense that they don't want to attack you directly. There's something about you that frightens them. It's not just what you've done, but something deeper."
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Chapter 333 The End (Part 2) End of Volume
When Lu Xuan regained consciousness, the battle continued. However, some subtle changes had occurred. The Night King was unkillable. Even if Lu Xuan killed it here, it could quickly regenerate in the far north. The Green Prophet was the same; over a long period, it had become a being of unparalleled power, capable of possessing various creatures. It too was an impossible being to kill.
Lu Xuan now knows that both the Green Prophet and the Night King are merely tools for the gods to control the world of ice and fire. A closer look at the history of the entire world will reveal this.
In the world of ice and fire, those emerging and progressive civilizations, or the winds of change, were completely extinguished. Families, lords, slaves—these old and unchanging things, on the contrary, survived to the very end.
In the original books, Daenerys' rise clearly carries the flavor of great upheaval. That's why she eventually dies. Although the TV series' version of her death is somewhat far-fetched, thinking about it now, perhaps her death was inevitable. Throughout history, pioneers of change have invariably paid the ultimate price.
The only pity is that in this world, even paying the ultimate price can't awaken anything. Look at Daenerys' death; nothing in the Seven Kingdoms changed. Nobles, lords, knights, commoners—everything remained the same. They even gave Highgarden to Bronn... (To paraphrase a Bilibili user, this move saved Bronn five thousand years of struggle!!!)
Lu Xuan's arrival has drastically altered certain aspects of this world. Although Lu Xuan has no intention of pursuing a communist path, the highly centralized feudal dynasty system has terrified the gods. That's why they are willing to go to any lengths to kill Lu Xuan.
However, after his failed attempt last time, Rahlo went into hiding and disappeared without a trace. The Three-Eyed Raven, on the other hand, had some other ideas.
In the higher planes of the A Song of Ice and Fire universe, there is more than one true god, but none of them can easily intervene. However, the Three-Eyed Raven and the Night King can. Although neither of them can be considered true gods, they are undeniably capable of wielding divine power. This is because they are the only two gods exiled to the mortal realm.
One played the bad cop, the other the good cop; the Night King came out to destroy the world, and the Three-Eyed Raven came out to save it. After annihilating those 'reactionary' forces, the Night King chose to die. Then life in the human world continued.
This is the script for the entire A Song of Ice and Fire universe. Interspersed in are the Valyrian theatrical films, the kind where the gods themselves intervene. And then the whole world remains forever unchanged. Only a bunch of idiots are left, spending their days scheming about Game of Thrones... you cut me, I stab you. They've turned A Song of Ice and Fire into a song of killing and sex.
Lu Xuan's appearance this time introduced a completely new variable to this unchanging script. This gave Night King and Three-Eyed Raven, who had always been playing a supporting role, a new idea.
If the script remains unchanged, they'll never have a chance to rise. The Three-Eyed Raven had once vaguely observed the future. The original Daenerys wasn't enough to break this script. But after Lu Xuan appeared, everything changed. The future became chaos, and he could see nothing. This was a huge blow to the Green Prophet, since the magical side of this world always loved all sorts of mystical prophecies. And Lu Xuan's appearance directly smashed that thread...
But later, the Three-Eyed Raven realized something. Lu Xuan's appearance might not only be a threat, but also an opportunity—a chance to break this cycle of fate. So he accepted Lu Xuan's invitation and, during his battle with the Night King, revealed the truth to Lu Xuan.
The three continued their battle, with Lu Xuan and Daenerys locked in a fierce fight against the Night King, while the Three-Eyed Raven provided support from the sidelines. The four-way battle raged on, creating a scene of utter chaos. The entire Black Castle was reduced to ruins.
At some point, there was no one left alive around Castle Black. Most of the Night's Watch members were either dead or had retreated to other castles. Countless wights crossed the ruins of Castle Black and charged towards the various castles in the North.
Roosevelt has been having a bit of a headache lately. Thanks to the butterfly effect, he didn't die at the hands of his bastard son, Ramsay Bolton. He remains in Winterfell, suppressing the resistance through various bloody methods. In the past year alone, hundreds of Northmen have been skinned alive. And yet, the rebellion in the North shows no sign of abating.
Roosevelt was fretting over this every day, and he had almost lost all of his remaining hair. Just then, winter arrived, and the ghouls returned to the world.
Sometimes Roose Bolton even wondered if he was truly being punished by fate. The Stark family had been ruling the North for so many years without a care in the world. Why was it that when it came to him, it felt like the whole world was against him?
He didn't intend to concern himself with the matter of the ghouls; after all, there was the Wall. If the Wall couldn't be defended, there was nothing he could do. He had to admit, it wasn't that he was short-sighted; it was that all the nobles of the Seven Kingdoms were roughly the same...
But while he wanted to escape, Daenerys wasn't about to. She rode her dragon around Winterfell, spreading news of the wight invasion to everyone. Now Roosevelt had no choice but to confront her.
However, Daenerys did nothing to Roose Bolton. Despite numerous petitions from Winterfell residents for her to seek justice for the Stark family, she refused, citing non-interference in the internal affairs of the Seven Kingdoms. Thus, the responsibility for the wights in this region fell to the Bolton family.
Roosevelt was so frustrated that he even considered pushing Sassanid Stark out of office and reinstating her as Lady of Winterfell. He simply didn't want to fight the undead legions.
In fact, looking at the entire storyline reveals that, apart from the Northern army led by Robb Stark in the first half, the Seven Kingdoms didn't have many capable armies. The Lannisters had the most ornate armor, the best equipment, and the largest numbers, yet they were repeatedly defeated by the North.
If it weren't for Old Tywin's skillful maneuvering, he probably would have been hung up a tree by Rob to defecate.
The wealthiest Highgarden couldn't even last a day before being wiped out by the utterly incompetent Lannisters!!! (This is a TV drama plot, which is even more absurd than anti-Japanese war dramas; it's downright idiotic).
At the Red Wedding, the North's most elite army of five thousand was wiped out. Now, the main force of the North consists of his Bolton family's direct descendants. How could he possibly send such an army out to kill people?
Roosevelt was determined not to send troops. Then the wights came to him of their own accord.
At first, there were only a few scattered ghouls. They were quickly cleared out by the patrols outside, who were also equipped with some dragon crystal weapons. But soon, more and more ghouls appeared at the foot of the city walls. Several patrols didn't even have time to return to the city before they were overwhelmed by the countless ghouls.
From Dreadfort to Last Hearth, and even Winterfell, the wights seemed endless, relentlessly assaulting the castles. The most dangerous thing about the wight army is that it only grows larger with each battle. Once a castle falls, everyone inside, living or dead, becomes part of the wight army.
Winterfell, an ancient city built entirely for military purposes, was not something an ordinary army could conquer. Yet the army of undead could simply pile on top of each other and charge forward. That frenzied momentum sent chills down the spines of Winterfell's soldiers.
Lu Xuan learned something during his previous conversation with the Night King: even if it dies, not all the wights will perish. Only a portion will die, but most will become ownerless wights. Furthermore, it will be reborn within the remaining White Walkers, becoming a new Night King. This is the guarantee that the storyline can continue to loop.
Therefore, Lu Xuan didn't hesitate to use deadly force. The Night King defended desperately, but ultimately couldn't withstand the combined might of Lu Xuan and Daenerys. He was tragically killed by the two. Of course, this was only the beginning. The White Walkers' calamity had only just begun. As agreed, the remaining White Walkers would continue leading their wight army to attack the Seven Kingdoms, ensuring that all the people of the Seven Kingdoms felt the warmth from the North.
Hearthglen was the first to fall. Then came Dreadfort, the Bolton family's stronghold. Winterfell held out only marginally. But the Eyrie, within the Seven Kingdoms, fell.