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#262 - Chapter 36: The Attack of the White Walkers (I)

That day, Bran awoke once again from the cold, hard throne. He rubbed his eyes, his heart filled with dissatisfaction and anger. He turned to the Green Prophet beside him, and said in a stiff tone, "Every time I'm about to see the things I truly long to see, you ruthlessly drag me back to this reality!" His voice carried a hint of helplessness and frustration.

The Three-Eyed Raven quietly looked at Bran, its eyes deep and wise. After a moment, the Three-Eyed Raven slowly opened its mouth and said, "The scenery at the bottom of the sea is indeed beautiful and enchanting, but if you indulge in it too much, you will eventually drown." Its words were like a stone thrown into a calm lake, causing ripples.

Bran gritted his teeth and retorted, "I just want to take another look at my home, to see my family. Compared to this dark cave, it can bring me more warmth and comfort." His eyes revealed a longing for the good old days.

The Three-Eyed Raven shook its head slightly and said softly to Bran, "The strongest roots are often rooted in the dark and deep underground, that is where the source of power lies. Darkness will become your cloak, protecting you from harm from the outside world; darkness will also transform into your solid shield, resisting all storms. In the embrace of darkness, you will be nourished and become even stronger." The Three-Eyed Raven's words seemed to possess a mysterious magic, causing Bran to fall into deep thought.

Greensight is a dream with allegorical qualities, accessible to almost all skinchangers. The Green Prophet's ability allows one to return to the past through dreams; in his words, what you see are the memories of this continent.

At this moment, Liu Yuan braved the cold wind, traversing through the icy and snowy terrain. He carefully stepped on the accumulated snow, afraid of making the slightest sound. The dark, surging tide of wights behind him had long since faded into the distance, but the sense of oppression they brought still lingered in his mind.

Recalling the scene of that day, Liu Yuan had planned to delve into the Three-Eyed Raven's lair to find out what was going on. However, fate is always full of drama. Just as he approached his target, something unexpected happened. Those wights, originally hidden in the depths of the glacier, actually crawled out of the ground one after another! As if summoned by some mysterious force, they marched in unison towards the northwest. This strange phenomenon aroused Liu Yuan's strong curiosity, after all, the Three-Eyed Raven was there and couldn't run away. So he decided to temporarily abandon his original plan and follow these wights to see what was going on.

And so, Liu Yuan followed them for a whole day and night. Because the wights moved slowly, the journey seemed particularly long. But at the same time, more and more wights joined the growing ranks. Seeing this situation, Liu Yuan decisively changed his strategy. Instead of continuing to follow these guys slowly, he might as well speed up and go ahead to investigate the situation. When he crossed a mountain peak, the scene before him stunned him!

All he saw was a valley filled with densely packed wights huddled together, their sheer number astonishing. And in the very center of these wights, there stood a circular stone circle. The ordinary stones had now become as crystal clear as ice, emitting a bone-chilling cold. In the very center of this stone circle, there also lay a huge, withered weirwood tree, but it had been sealed by layers of solid ice.

Just then, a group of pale-faced Others carrying infants slowly entered the stone circle. Liu Yuan's eyesight was excellent, and he could even clearly distinguish that some of these infants may have just been born, while others were only a few months old.

These Others held a mysterious ritual in the stone circle. When they reappeared, the eyes of the infants had already turned into a faint blue.

One of the Others with horns on his head pointed with an ice spear, and then let out a deafening roar. Immediately afterwards, all the wights, as if they had received an order, turned their bodies in unison and marched in the direction indicated by the Other. Seeing this situation, Liu Yuan couldn't help but feel shocked, and cried out in his heart, "Not good!" He hurriedly shrank his neck and prepared to slip away.

The army of wights displayed before him at this moment could be described as magnificent! In addition to the common humanoid wights, there were also extremely large giants and ferocious and terrifying beast corpses mixed in, marching together. After a rough estimate, the number was as high as hundreds of thousands! Although the number was indeed much smaller compared to the massive zombie groups in the Resident Evil world, the strong sense of oppression it brought was incomparable.

More importantly, he was shocked to discover a magnificent army of black-clad and black-armored White Walkers! Without a doubt, this was a true army. These White Walkers were dressed in uniform armor, holding cold and sharp ice spears and ice swords in their hands, their formation was neat and well-trained. Not only that, this army had both infantry and cavalry charging into battle.

It should be known that the average combat power of this group of White Walkers is close to the peak of the Second Order. There are even many outstanding individuals who have successfully broken through to the Third Order. If they were placed among ordinary human soldiers, they would simply be able to defeat a hundred with one, sweeping across the battlefield. Faced with such an unprecedented situation, Liu Yuan was shocked. In fact, his army had engaged in fierce battles with White Walkers many times, but had never encountered such a systematic and well-organized White Walker army.

However, what Liu Yuan didn't know was that this White Walker army was actually forced out by him. The White Walkers have always followed a traditional tactic, with one or two powerful White Walkers leading a large number of ferocious wights, rampaging and killing along the way, and constantly expanding their power like a snowball.

But when faced with Liu Yuan's army, these methods completely failed. Liu Yuan's army was generally equipped with dragon crystal and Valyrian steel weapons, which could easily destroy the wights, and even the White Walkers in charge of command often became the target of "decapitation operations."

Therefore, the leader of the White Walkers, the Night King, had to change his strategy, no longer slaughtering humans on a large scale, but instead adopting the method of raising and plundering wildling infants. White Walkers, as magical creatures, cannot naturally reproduce offspring.

They need to transform humans into White Walkers through a special ritual, but this process has extremely high requirements for the physical container. Only when the transformation is carried out in infancy is the success rate the highest, and if they are infants with powerful bloodlines, the conversion rate will be relatively higher. In addition, White Walkers grow extremely fast, and usually only need three to five years to develop into mature individuals.

This is the reason for the tacit understanding between the White Walkers and Craster. Craster's father was a Night's Watch ranger. Judging from his physical characteristics, he was likely a direct relative of the Stark family and was quite powerful.