Chapitre 38: Order in the city
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What to expect in the new arc
the chapters will be more focused on politics and kingdom building, the battles will be mainly between soldiers and rebels (resulting in massacres if they don't surrender).
There will be a lot of use of religion as it is a powerful weapon.
the iron fist will probably fall on the most fanatic rebels, applying fear tactics against them.
the crusader will be released and will be sent to cause chaos.
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POV of Friedrich von Roon
'This disgusting city is already making my head hurt'.
'It's crazy to think of this city being the capital of the seven kingdoms, its non-existent sewage system and so many other problems more'
Crime was out of control even before our men caused turmoil in the streets, and the damned rulers did nothing, they had thieves, smugglers, murderers, swindlers and the worst of all, a business that was legal
'Damned degenerates'.
Prostitution is legal, you have brothels and pleasure houses where men with full pockets go and spend their hard-earned money on the pleasures of the flesh, an aberration, I don't understand how these westerosis consider that you can't do business with the human body.
They prohibit slavery, but prostitution all right, doing business with the use of the human body is immoral.
The nauseating smell of the city, was another problem, the savage culture of these animals, where they relieve themselves everywhere in the city, urinate on the walls and throw their waste out of their windows into the streets, making it a boiling pot of diseases.
With these problems, we have had to face during our occupation, luckily, the public unrest is not as bad as we thought it would be, the supreme septon is silent for the moment and with him all his followers.
Here there are no events like in tumbleton where we have calls from the septon to attack our warehouses and attack the craftsmen who collaborate with us
Or when the artisans ruin at will our orders to waste our time.
'Damned savages'
'I must finish these books and go guard the port, the smugglers are coming back'
As I was still concentrating working on organizing books with information on the productivity of the smiths we had forced to work with us, one of my men opened my door
''Herr Roon, someone wishes to speak with you,'' said one of my men.
''Tell him I am busy and I am not receiving anyone'' I said without looking at the soldier.
''We have told him the same thing on several occasions, but he insists and does not want to take no for an answer'' replied the soldier.
I stared at the soldier
''Do you think I care what information a Westerosi can give me that has not been obtained by one of our spies?'' I said annoyed.
''I understand Herr Roon'' said the soldier leaving the room.
'These westerosis are going to drive me mad''.
I was about to resume my work, but again I was interrupted by the same soldier.
''What is it this time?'' I said with a serious tone.
''Herr Roon says that it is vital information and that it could put our king at risk'' said the soldier a bit worried
''Ahh, well let him pass'' I said putting my hand on my face.
The soldier withdrew and a bald man entered.
''What do you want?, be quick I'm a busy man'' I said looking at the man
''Lord Roon, I thank you for your valuable time, I am...'' said the man.
''Forget the formalities, get to the point'' I said, annoyed.
''I am Varys, former spymaster to the late King Aerys''said the man.
''Ah, the man with no balls, eunuch, yes I heard of your pathetic fall from power, now again I'll tell you once more, straight to the point'' I said staring at the eunuch
''I wanted to inquire about the fate of a specific person, without having any chance of being able to leave the castle, I don't know what has happened in the last few days, since...''' Varys said
''To the point damn it'' I said annoyed.
''What happened to Asten, the man who took my place when I lost my royal favor'' said the eunuch in a serene voice.
''Asten, Asten, Asten, Asten, I don't remember that man...''' I said.
'Ah, I remember now, it's the Finn with his false name.'
''Yes, I remember, the king gave him a pass, to leave the city in exchange for valuable information''I said looking at Varys
''Oh, lord Roon what happens Asten is a dangerous person, someone ambitious and hungry for power, as long as he roams free through the seven kingdoms, there will never be true peace, it is essential that he is hunted down and apprehended as soon as possible, to avoid permanent damage to the kingdom'' Varys said
''No, I cannot, my king's word would be at stake, I cannot, give an order against my king's word'' I replied sharply to the eunuch.
''Lord Roon that man is dangerous and we must ....''the eunuch tried to say.
''ENOUGH, I have no time to waste on this crude attempt of yours to take revenge on the one who defeated you in politics, if you waste my time again I will make sure you are impaled alive and believe me our torturers are masters of that technique, you will suffer for days and since they already beat us to your balls you will not have to wear them as a necklace'' I said with a gloomy tone to the eunuch.
It seems that my attempt of intimidation worked because he opened his eyes and showed a frightened face
''My lord I... I...'' said the eunuch.
''Are you wasting my time westerosi?'', I asked staring at the eunuch.
It seemed that the eunuch wanted to answer me something, but he preferred to leave before I truly sent him to execution
'These damned savages, hungry for power'.
I finished what I was doing and started to get ready to go out to check our jobs.
I put on my tabard and placed my hands on the door of the room.
Furthermore, I took three deep breaths
'Well, let's get this over with'.
I opened the doors and found that there was a huge line of nobles who kept pestering me to talk to me.
''Lord Roon'' said a nobleman.
''Lord Roon'' said a woman with heavy make-up.
''Lord Roon'' said a merchant.
''Lord Roon'' said other nobles.
My guards prevented them from throwing themselves at me as I continued on my way ignoring all the westerosis
There were several attempts to get my attention, but I couldn't waste my time with unimportant matters.
As they were probably trying to bribe me or buy my loyalty so that the nobles would end up in a better position when the rebels arrived in the capital.
Leaving the castle of the capital I was greeted with the nauseating smell of the streets.
I took out a handkerchief and placed a huge amount of perfume that we took from a local merchant and used it to cover my breathing passages.
Having a nose numbed by the perfume was better than having to breathe in the puking scent of the streets.
All my men followed my example
''Herr Roon where are we going'', asked one of my captains.
''We have to check how the work on that vault is going'' I said looking at the hill where there was a structure that had been forgotten by many in the city.
Walking through the streets, we observed how some of the normal life of these people had begun to return to normal, since the small-scale commerce was recovering.
The tedious task of having to climb the hill was quickly completed because the higher we climbed, the cleaner the air we breathed.
And finally, we arrived at the dragon pit
The place where the Targaryen supposedly had dragons, creatures that became extinct, but there is still this huge hold that fills the entire hill with a system of tunnels that lead to large cells where they must have kept them imprisoned.
''Herr Roon, how can we help you?'' said an engineer who was supervising the work.
''How is the progress of our forced helpers?'' I said watching how several prisoners work removing debris from the bowels of the vault.
''Everything is going according to the report I sent you this morning, we are working as fast as we can, if you want to speed up the work we need more hands, there are many collapsed tunnels and we have to remove a lot of debris and corpses.... well, skeletons about what happened here several years ago'' said the engineer.
''I understand, in the same way I want to supervise this personally, the king said that this would be of great importance for our future and it must be done in a meticulous way'' I said while I started to enter the great dragon vault.
This style reminds me a bit of roman constructions, although much more somber because whoever ordered this fortification to be built preferred black
'At least someone has a good taste for color'.
There were many engineers at work making sure that the tunnels did not collapse and several Prussian guards making sure that the work did not stop at any moment
Most of the prisoners were former gold cloaks, and men-at-arms of the noble houses we captured in the fighting, including many men we captured in some castles in the crown lands area, making nearly eight thousand workers fourteen hours a day helping with the repair work.
Everything is going smoothly at this rate, in a few days we will have all the tunnels empty for whatever ideas my king may have.
'Perhaps I could call in a few thousand of the prisoners in the reach who are working on preparing the ground, for our future fortifications, no, it would take too long, it would not be efficient.'
While I was thinking about what to do, a boy was calling the attention of the engineers while he had an object stored in a piece of cloth.
The engineer saw the contents of the cloth and immediately looked at me with his eyes.
"HERR ROON" said the engineer calling me.
I walked towards the surprised couple
''What's going on'', I asked trying to see what was on the cloth.
''look Herr Roon, the Valyrian steel'' said the engineer showing me a piece of metal that was deformed because it had to melt while the chaos happened when the vault collapsed
'It seems that I am a magnet for Valyrian steel'.
''Wow, very interesting we have more steel, what do you think this piece of metal was before it was deformed'', I said looking at the piece of metal.
''From the size..... I would say a sword.... but the real question, how the hell did the Valyrian steel manage to melt, we have tried everything and still, we have not managed to melt it, even in the ashford blast furnace we could not do anything the steel was intact..... this vault must have become a titanic sized furnace when the small folks attacked this place''I said the engineer surprised.
''Name'' I said looking at the prisoner who found the metal.
''uh, uh, Dontos, uh he..rr Roon?'', the boy said
''Ah, clever boy'', I said, smiling.
''I release you from forced labor, you are free, but you still can't leave the capital, until our army returns from the north, the gates won't open for anyone'' I said as I took the metal carefully and turned to leave.
I stepped out of the vault and placed the handkerchief over my nose, there was still a long day left to make sure everything was working properly.
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