Chương 43: -Chapter 39-

Cedric arrived and kneeled on one knee while saying in a breathless voice and his armor stained with blood: "Your Majesty the remaining Tullys have retreated with the noble families of the Riverlands and the lords who did not participate in the battle and have barricaded the doors in the granaries, we can't get past their doors and they have enough provisions to last months or more, they have sent us a conditional surrender request"

"No, I will not accept their surrender, especially not on conditions, I will drag them to court as the traitors they are, nothing more nothing less"

"YOUR MAJESTY" roared Tywin clearly displeased that I insist on not accepting the Tullys' surrender but it was a matter of pride and revenge, two things extremely precious to me.

"NO THEY ARE PLAYING WITH US" I yelled, these dogs started all this by denying me and now that they have lost they were threatening me I had the choice between pulling back my army and fighting with Stannis and continuing to siege them taking a huge risk or to take it upon myself and negotiate the terms of their surrender.

In both cases, they were winning because they could end up rehiring men and training them to then attack me a second time after I fought with Stannis.

"Of course they are playing with us they have enough supplies to last more than a year and not us, we cannot afford a prolonged war in the Riverlands and they know it perfectly, if you accept peace and you deny yourself you will lose the support and trust of all nobles so they know they are the masters of the game"

"I know"

"Then give them what they want but bleed them first, take their lands, gold, silver, ships and invent taxes to bleed their coffers, but you must leave them the lordship of the Riverlands" I said.

"NO I will not allow any Tully to keep power under MY reign" I said looking into the eyes of the old lion.

I let out a small sigh and then said in a heavy tone: "If they want to play very well, I had not intended to use it so early in this war but so be it they asked for it"

I walked out of the command tent and said:

"Bring me the sealed crates"

"Your Majesty Your Majesty are you sure you want to do what you are doing" said Samwell in a hesitant tone.

"I am going to do it Sam and no one will stop me you know the words of my house, don't you?"

"Fire…and Blood"

"Arm the catapults" I yelled looking at the siege weapons built by my new slaves.

"The catapults cannot be used with this substance" said Samwell frowning quickly understanding what my plan was.

"I will make it happen just do as I say" I said confidently.

-10 minutes later-

"Apart from the soldiers in charge of loading the catapults and trebuchets I want you all to back off understood?" I yelled at my men who quickly obeyed and ran in the opposite direction.

"You too Lord Tywin" I said to the old lion, still perched on his horse waiting to see what trick I was going to pull out of my hat.

He hesitated for a second then he backed his horse once out of range I lit two fireballs in my hands and burned the crates my soldiers had brought me and the crates exploded in a green-colored blaze.

At that moment I heard Sam say:

"Fire with all the siege weapons NOW"

About 50 sacks of stones of a ton and 500 stones of 100 kg flew straight at Riverrun castle, the green blaze started to surround me and I manipulated the wildfire to fly in the sky like a wave of fire.

The wave of fire attached to all the projectiles to enhance them giving them unprecedented explosiveness to all the projectiles, a rain of emerald embrace fell from the sky and ravaged the entire Riverrun castle which kept collapsing and it was only the beginning.

I extinguished the flames around me and in the eyes of my men, I saw many expressions but the most recognizable and most present were either admiration or fear and both were welcome.

I turned my head towards Tywin Lannister who was sitting on his steed gaping I said:

"Form ranks…Encircle the castle and capture all the nobles who come out and surrender kill all the others without exceptions"

-The evening-

In the great hall of Riverrun castle after the fire had calmed down without calming down I gathered all the captive nobles for a preliminary judgment.

"Listen to me all I am King Aegon…"

"Pff bastard" said Knight Jordan Mallister

"Well done knight you just signed your death warrant" I said with a big smile.

I turned my hand very violently and his neck twisted at a 180° angle he fell in one fell swoop and I said:

"I imagine you all want a death like his quick and without pain but I warn you I will honor my grandfather by sentencing you to immolation by wildfire if you do not hold your tongue in my presence"

"You think you scare us?...we were on battlefields before you came out of your father's balls bastard" said Jonos Bracken who had seen his bastard son and surely heir die under his eyes to protect him from a flaming beam.

"Hahahahaha...and unfortunately for you all that experience served you nothing at all Lord Jonos Bracken" I said smiling at Lord Bracken I continued saying:

"Right now my army and the army of Lord Tywin Lannister are ravaging your lands pillaging your wealth and capturing your family as you did with mine you will understand what it feels like to lose everything I am going to make you live it"

"You Bastard you're going to attack women and children don't you have any honor?" said Brynden Tully.

"honor....hahaha is it honor that made you massacre my family?" I said looking at the so-called honorable knight Ser Brynden Tully.

"You judge us? it wasn't just us...the Starks, the Baratheons, the Lannisters...ALL lined up against your family but you only judge the Tullys...you bastard you don't judge us don't hide behind a false pretext you are avenging yourself on Cat through us you dirty dog" said Hoster Tully.

I smiled at these two cowards who fled the battlefield to come and retreat in their castle like turtles and I said with a predatory smile filled with intense jubilation:

"In reality...it's true...I am avenging myself, I am avenging my family that you betrayed for greed...I am avenging my father and my mother whom I did not have the chance to know, I am avenging your daughter and I am avenging for many other things"

I stopped to scrutinize their expressions and what I saw was only pure hate with a good dose of fear.

"But you know what's the worst? It's that by refusing me your allegiance, you offered me the opportunity to avenge myself, I will never touch the Starks nor your daughter because as hateful as she is she is the wife of my uncle and my brothers and sisters came out of her womb but you...YOU offer me a first-choice revenge" I said before getting up and leaving the Great Hall of Riverrun.