Chapter 573: The Power of Faith

The power of the old god is closely related to the number of people who believe in him and the number of weirwoods.

Holland Reed then invited Viserys to sit on the ground, and the two talked on the ground, and Viserys was not too dirty, so he sat on the ground and talked to the chief commander of the Zedi people.

He told more secrets of weirwood.

He naturally knew that Viserys had the power of the old gods in his body. The Zedi people did not seem to be weaker than the children of the forest. They were also one of the oldest races in Westeros, and they were born in this area. in the swamp.

Holland Reed believes that the decline in the power of the Old Gods has something to do with the decline in the number of people who believe in weirwood across the continent.

In addition, the massive felling of weirwood has also affected the display of the power of the old gods, and even crossing the narrow sea has become extremely difficult, not to mention affecting the entire world.

In the past, the children of the forest were able to pray to the weirwood, and cast a terrifying magic to cut the arm of Dorne, preventing the ancestors from crossing the sea, but now it may be difficult to kill a person.

And according to Holland Reed's analysis, a diametrically opposite view is drawn from the children of the forest.

He thinks that Viserys' current existence should not belong to the old gods or the green prophets, but to be somewhere between them, an ordinary person who has mastered the power of the old gods. Of course, Holland Reed looked at Viserys again. At first glance, it may not be ordinary.

The expression of the commander of the Zedi people was a little tangled, because he prayed to the heart tree but could not detect the existence of the heart tree, but the person in front of him did have the power of the old god.

Afterwards, the two talked for a long time, and Holland Reed asked Viserys about the changes in the world today. When he learned that the humans had finally defeated the White Walkers, and that the Targaryen army had swept through the six kingdoms, he still had some ideas. Incredible.

Because when he "hanged", the king over his head was still Robert Baratheon, but now Robert Baratheon is behind bars.

Then he asked where his son and daughter were now, but Viserys just shook his head slightly, he had never paid attention to where the sister and brother Mera Reed and Jiujian Reed went. , even he hadn't seen each other.

But they probably didn't die in the coalition. After all, the two of them were just children. Even if the coalition was crazy, they wouldn't let the two children go to the battlefield. Maybe they were with their own people.

And then Viserys also humbly asked the other party a few questions, about the Old God, the Green Prophet, and the Son of the Forest.

Viserys was intrigued by Holland Reed's statement that the power of the Old God stemmed from the weirwood and the number of people who believed in him.

Because he has fallen into a bottleneck and the way forward is blocked, he can only choose to continue to improve other attributes, and he also deliberately carried out some tests on how to take the last step.

For example, he used to hide the existence of the black mist, but now he deliberately shows it on certain occasions, manifesting himself in front of people, the throne room of the Red Fort, the Eagle's Nest in the valley, etc.

And the legend of the king mastering magic to fight against the White Walkers has gradually spread throughout the Seven Kingdoms, and this is not just a legend, but more people have seen it with their own eyes.

With the evidence of so many nobles, and the Red God believers sparing no effort to promote the Son of Destiny, the people at the bottom are even more convinced that the king above them is really the one who carries the Destiny of Destiny.

What exactly is the power of faith, Viserys is still difficult to explain, after all, he is only a toddler and has just come into contact with this level.

However, through a dialogue with this mysterious Zedi commander, Viserys seems to have some understanding of the gods of this world.

They seem to be in great need of the power of faith, but they cannot easily interfere with the human world. Perhaps a little revelation can only come down when they receive prayers or pay a great price.

Maybe this is the reason why the ancestors cut down the weirwood in large quantities, but the old gods were indifferent?

The silver-haired youth sat on the ground and secretly guessed.

However, if this is the case, in a sense, human beings actually have a great initiative in the face of the gods.

Especially human kings, because they can decide what their country and countless subjects believe.

Could this be the reason why the King of Light took the initiative to contact him back then?

However, even though Viserys's own strength is good, he is more powerful than most people in this world, but in some areas he is still a beginner, even extremely small, and he must work hard to keep up.

If nothing else, he will actually die. If there are people in this world who want to kill him besides the gods themselves, they may go through a series of means, such as burying him in the depths of the land several kilometers below, or throwing him away. On the endless sea, there is no place to settle around, and he can still be killed.

Of course, all this is based on the fact that he was captured alive and lost his consciousness, and he had to let Bellerion leave his side.

"Then how do you want to punish him?"

Then Holland Reed mentioned his old friend Eddard Stark, who wanted to plead for Eddard, but didn't know how to open his mouth.

After all, the other party once started a war against the Iron Throne, but there was a reason for it, because Viserys' father, the Mad King, first burned the other's father and brother to death.

"You want to plead for Ed?"

And Viserys had a lot of thoughts, still thinking about what just happened, and then raised his head and said.

Holland Reed nodded cautiously.

"He's a good guy."

"There are many good people in this world."

The silver-haired youth shook his head slightly.

"He's my friend."

The commander of the people of Zedi then hurriedly added, and Viserys looked at his cheek earnestly, nodded, and told him the truth.

"Ed may have a chance to survive, of course, it depends on how he chooses."

The sun was setting, and the sky outside was getting darker.

Viserys was about to leave, and he asked Holland Reed if he could take him out of the neck for a while, but the commander of the people of Zedi shook his head and rejected him.

Neck Ze is extremely dangerous for outsiders, but it is like home to Zedi people. When Zedi people return to their own homes, they naturally don't need to be picked up by others.

And since he came back to life and didn't turn into a weirwood, he still had some things to do in Grey Water Watch.

He told Viserys that he would come to King's Landing before the trial, to participate in this grand ceremony on behalf of the Zeddites, to swear submission to the king, and to retrieve his sons and daughters by the way.