Bab 162: Chapter 162: Injuring Rob Stark

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"Go!!!" Said Raymont as he stepped back, giving the field to the two to perform while paying attention to the fight. Although the group liked to cause trouble here in Winterfell for Ned and his family, they did not want to harm anyone when they did so. They would lose their face if they allowed such a thing to happen. That was why Raymont would pay attention to their every move in order to interfere in the fight if he saw that someone might get injured.

Rob, who had some confidence, thought that he could gain standing in this fight if he defended like this till he found a flow in Axil's movement, raised his shield high while looking at Axil like a hawk. As for Axil, who fought hundreds of times in a life and death battle and put his life in danger many times, he knew what to do.

When Axil saw that Rob used his shield like that trying to defend as much as he could, Axil decided to make a fake attack to create a flow so that he could get Rob out of his shell. At that time, he would manage to strike and end this fight in one move.

Although Axil's favorite weapon was the spear, just like his father, Edward, he was better with a sword and shield, but he did not want to admit it. He wanted to defeat his father with the spear.

The sword in his hands right now was none other than Dawn, Arthur Dayne's sword, who was well-known in all Westeros. After defeating Arthur and capturing him after the fight in the tower of Joy and falling out with house Dayne after they joined hands with the Martel and Rhaegar to fight him, Edward decided to take this sword as his reward. Even Ashara agreed with Edward's decision since the one who would use the sword was her husband and her children. Plus, she thought Arthur did not deserve the sword anymore after he caused their sister's death.

After Axil managed to become a knight, Edward gave him that sword to accompany him in his journey towards greatness. Axil, the youngest knight in history at the age of fifteen, exceeding Edward's record by five whole months, had that sword for two years since then. With a shield and black scale armor made from Valyrian Steel that Edward found in the hands of the magisters of Qohor, Axil was the invincible war god. Edward did not know how many swords those crazy forgers and nobles from Qohor did they reforge to make that fucking armor.

Anyway, Axel, who thought of this plan while looking at Rob, started implementing it directly without a second thought. He raised his shield in front of him after calculating the distance between him and Rob. Axel counted the number of steps separating the two before deciding to make a fake charge directly with his shield raised this high in Rob's direction.

Rob, who did not experience real life and death fights before and did not kill anyone with his hand as Axel did, thought that he saw the flow that he would use to defeat Axel. He believed that this was his chance and made the decision to move to the side to dodge Axel's charge and attack with his shield and sword from Axel's back after he missed him, or that was what he thought.

Axel, who held the shield in front of him and knew the number of steps that he needed to make and when he would have to stop his charge and redirect his attack, stopped his action in Rob's previous location and bashed the shield to the side to hit Rob directly taking Rob by surprise. Rob, who was raising his sword at that time and did not think that Axel would pull this move, did not expect that and could not use his shield to defend in time and took the hit head-on with his body and sword, making him step back with some blood coming out of his nose and mouth.

There were some screams of horror and panic after seeing this scene since the crowd did not expect that their lord's son would bleed after the fight had just started. The one that her expression changed much was none other than Lady Stark. She did not expect her son would get injured this easily, and her heart started to feel pain after seeing him like that. The other Stark children stood up from their seats after seeing this scene as well, and the young ones looked concerned about their brother.

Raymont, who saw this scene and knew that his brother was an idiot, was about to interfere to stop Axel, who did not know mercy when he fought anyone and would take any opponent seriously. Fight meant killing in Axel's dictionary. But before he could come close to stop this fight before anyone got more injured, Rob, who got hit by Axel's blow and was bleeding already, raised his hand to stop Raymont from coming any closer since he intended to continue with this fight. He was not planning to give up this easily and would not care about such a small injury. How could he allow this hit to affect his dream of gaining a name for himself if he managed to defeat Axel?

He raised his shield again and looked at Axel like a hawk this time and came close to Axel, step by step. The two started exchanging blows for a minute or something after Rob got into Axel's range of attack before Axel decided to end this fight at that time and increased his attack output. Rob could not hold on any longer and could not keep up with Axel's attacks and got pushed back again and again. Axel used his sword, Dawn, and managed to shatter Rob's sword after a final shield bash that made him fall to the ground.

At that time, Raymont did not wait any longer and used his Valyrian Steel sword, Glory, to stop Axel's Dawn headed towards Rob to deal the final blow before pushing him back. He then looked at Rob, who was on the ground, to check how he was doing after receiving Axel's blow.

"You ok down there, Rob." Said Raymont with a little loud voice as he looked at Rob, who got crushed on the ground. He was afraid that Axel's last blow might have caused some severe damage to Rob, who got injured at the start of the fight because of Axel's powerful hit with his shield. Raymont knew they could not just wound Lord Stark's heir like that in Winterfell. They would make him lose face by doing something like that, and that action was not acceptable for Ned or Edward himself.