Since the decision has been made to attack dorne, which has never been completely conquered, sufficient preparations must be made before the war.
King Jaehaerys's preliminary tactical plan was to attack dorne simultaneously from the sea, land, and air.
The House Lannister army from the westerlands, the House Tyrell army from The Reach, and the main force from King's Landing would attack Prince's Pass and Skyreach.
The Conqueror Fleet and the Valyrian Fleet would attack Torrhen's Square from the Dorne Sea in the northeast.
As for King Jaehaerys, he would directly command the dragons to take Sunspear, the capital of dorne, from the sky.
Since the Conqueror Fleet and the Valyrian Fleet were heading to dorne, they would inevitably pass through the Stepstones sea area.
He then temporarily left Rudy and the The Unsullied Legion on Mi Jie Island.
However, before returning to King's Landing, King Jaehaerys first had Ela demonstrate to him how to activate the life gem.
As for the test subjects, they were naturally the more than a thousand Joint Fleet captives.
Ela spent nearly half a day drawing a huge magic circle on an open space with the life gem as the center.
Subsequently, Womax's huge dragon body appeared above the group of captives.
Since fresh blood was needed, it was naturally impossible to directly spew black Dracarys hot enough to melt steel.
So it descended directly from the sky and executed these more than a thousand Joint Fleet captives through close combat.
This process was naturally extremely bloody; the Unsullied, who had no emotional fluctuations, were naturally unaffected, while a considerable number of Valyrian soldiers vomited profusely.
What surprised King Jaehaerys was that Ela was also unmoved by this bloody scene, looking as if it was commonplace.
A Cloudsky mage who used elemental magic had undoubtedly spilled the blood of countless ordinary people, not to mention other extraordinary individuals.
So there was a reason why the extraordinary individuals in this world were feared and loathed by ordinary people.
Under the effect of the magic circle, the blood spilled across the open space surged towards the life gem at the very center like living things.
An ordinary adult has about five kilograms of blood, and the total blood from these more than a thousand people was close to seven thousand kilograms.
But in less than ten minutes, it was completely absorbed by the thumb-sized life gem.
And this only caused a barely noticeable small red dot to appear on the surface of the life gem.
So the hundred thousand people Ela mentioned before were just her estimated minimum number.
Exchanging the lives of a hundred to two hundred thousand people for a few hundred more years of life?
This is simply... too worthwhile!
After this experiment confirmed that Ela's method was feasible, King Jaehaerys was immediately overjoyed.
Although he was only fourteen years old now, the lifespan of ordinary humans was fleeting.
He didn't want to look up to the sky and shout "I really want to live another five hundred years!" before dying of old age.
Moreover, King Jaehaerys was very confident that under his rule, Westeros would enter an unprecedented era of prosperity.
Food, economy, and population would all grow rapidly.
A hundred to two hundred thousand people? They could be gathered in as little as three to five years, or as long as ten to twenty years.
Oh right, King Jaehaerys suddenly recalled the scene in the original show where Melisandre drank a deadly poison but was unharmed.
After asking Ela, she explained that this was also one of the many additional functions of the life gem.
In other words, after reactivating the life gem, King Jaehaerys would make up for his last weakness.
After King Jaehaerys arranged some pre-war preparations for Rudy, he set off from Mi Jie Island to return to King's Landing, naturally bringing Ela with him.
Long-duration high-altitude flight was boring, and since he was idle anyway, he began to ask about the magical methods Ela used during the previous battle.
Ela had nothing to hide from this new boss who she couldn't beat and who wasn't a mage extraordinary.
She used many magical terms to describe her magical abilities, and King Jaehaerys roughly understood by guessing based on his personal experience.
Cloudsky mages are mages who primarily manipulate air elements, and Ela's magic is very... scientific!
The air shield that blocked Dracarys before and the magic that suffocated King Jaehaerys were both applications of the same magic.
That was the rapid extraction of oxygen from the local air using magic power.
Of course, Ela's original words didn't mention oxygen, but rather a type of air element self-named by Cloudsky mages.
And the visually exaggerated tornado was created by rapidly heating the air with magic power while simultaneously extracting a large amount of oxygen and gathering it overhead.
The air affected by Ela's magic power would form a huge temperature difference in a short time.
The huge temperature difference caused the upper and lower layers of air to convect at super speed, forming many small air vortices in a very short time.
After that, she only needed to continuously increase her magic power to expand these small vortices and drive them to oscillate, easily forming artificial tornadoes.
Ela, this air expert, is very useful!
Upon hearing the description, King Jaehaerys's eyes immediately lit up, and various ways to use Ela popped into his mind.
Used in liberating productivity, one could completely build large steel furnaces and use Ela as a human oxygen enricher to make the flames reach higher temperatures.
As well as many other similar areas of life that require oxygen enrichment and pressurization.
Used in combat, she could completely become a Dracarys enhancer for dragons.
As everyone knows, the higher the oxygen concentration, the faster and more intense the combustion reaction.
With Ela's full assistance, it is likely that even a young dragon like Arrax could spew Dracarys whose power is not inferior to that of an adult dragon.
If Womax's black Dracarys were enhanced, its power would likely exceed everyone's imagination.
And don't those rats in dorne like to drill holes in the mountains?
When the time comes, find the caves where they are hiding, and have Ela slowly extract the oxygen from the caves...
The boring journey became interesting amidst King Jaehaerys's many ideas, so he felt that the return journey time passed by without him noticing.
As soon as Silverwing and Seasmoke returned to King's Landing, they voluntarily flew back to the dragonpit.
With the huge size of the three dragons, the Red Keep guards had discovered them as soon as they entered King's Landing and reported it layer by layer.
So when Womax carried King Jaehaerys and Ela back to the Red Keep, Baela, Lucerys, Stone, and others were already waiting in the royal garden.
Since Ela had no materials to remake her mask magic artifact, she was currently not concealing her extremely high beauty at all.
When Baela saw that King Jaehaerys had only been out for a day and already had another beautiful woman, she immediately rolled her eyes.
But she knew her position in King Jaehaerys's heart, so she didn't have too many other thoughts.
But the House Lannister sisters behind her were different; after seeing this extremely beautiful foreign woman, a sense of crisis immediately arose in their hearts.
As the two golden flowers of the westerlands, the thought that they were not as beautiful as this foreign woman actually arose in their hearts.
But this won't do!
Before setting off, duke jason had instructed this pair of golden-haired sisters on their mission to King's Landing this time... to strive for the queen's position as much as possible.
King Jaehaerys's reputation in the Seven Kingdoms was very bad now, and they were somewhat reluctant before.
But after witnessing his heroic figure riding a dragon into the sky yesterday, they had made up their minds to complete their father's mission as soon as possible.
If King Jaehaerys really emulated Aegon the Conqueror and married two queens, one would naturally be Baela, who grew up with him since childhood and was once engaged to him.
And the other one must come from among them sisters.
Serella and Tissara exchanged glances, understanding in their hearts that they needed to take the initiative and do something next.
King Jaehaerys, who jumped down from the dragon saddle, first chatted with Lucerys and Baela, who were concerned about him, and then immediately ordered Stone to prepare for the Small Council meeting.
He originally wanted Baela to take Ela to get acquainted with the Red Keep and King's Landing.
But Ela had no interest at all and kept quietly reminding him that she lacked magic materials to make a new mask magic artifact.
King Jaehaerys still quite liked Ela's straightforward personality, focused on magic.
He smiled slightly, turned his head, and ordered Dario to go to the Red Keep's ice cellar to fetch some frozen dragon bones and dragon hide.
These all came from Dreamfyre; Womax had not refreshed Glutton's cooldown at that time, so King Jaehaerys had the Dragon Guard cut up its body and refrigerate it.
dragon blood and dragon meat contained extremely hot energy and could not be refrigerated and preserved at all.
So at that time, to avoid waste, it was directly made into feed and fed to the young dragons in the dragonpit in batches.
As soon as she saw the legendary dragon materials, Ela became so excited that she danced with joy.
Afterwards, she asked King Jaehaerys for many alchemy tools, then plunged into an empty room in the Red Keep and began her research behind closed doors.
After leaving two royal guards to serve Ela, King Jaehaerys went to the room where the Small Council meeting was to be held.
As for whether Ela would take the opportunity to escape, seeing her current fanatical appearance, the probability was very small.
Moreover, with Womax monitoring every move in the Red Keep, she couldn't escape even if she wanted to.
As King Jaehaerys's personal domain, the Small Council quickly passed the resolution to conquer dorne.
What surprised King Jaehaerys was that his call to arms had not yet been sent out via ravens.
Serella and Tissara then came together and proactively stated that the westerlands were willing to send an army of six thousand to suppress the traitors of dorne.
Seeing how sensible the Lannister family was, King Jaehaerys's hostility towards them immediately lessened considerably.
He immediately praised duke jason's loyalty and then put forward a rather special request.
After the main business was finished, this pair of golden-haired sisters began to use words and body language to seduce him.
However, they chose the wrong timing.
King Jaehaerys was currently focused on gaining a long lifespan and was temporarily not in the mood to discuss life with this pair of golden-haired sisters.
The two golden-haired sisters, who were asked to leave King Jaehaerys's chambers, felt that their confidence had been severely hit.
After calming down and thinking carefully, they decided to persuade their father to increase the westerlands forces for the campaign against dorne and to double their efforts to fulfill that special request.
Since seduction failed, they would use their family's resources to increase their leverage.
ravens carrying the king's command quickly flew from King's Landing to Casterly Rock and Highgarden.
The Lannister family and House Tyrell immediately summoned their respective vassals and began preparing to send troops.
After all, if they dared to be perfunctory, King Jaehaerys, this evil dragon, might visit Casterly Rock and Highgarden before attacking dorne.
After seven days of intense preparations, the Conqueror Fleet, which was to go to Mi Jie Island to meet Rudy and the The Unsullied Legion, set off first from Blackwater Bay.
On the morning of the eighth day, Aegon's Square in King's Landing.
The news of the new king's campaign against dorne had already spread throughout the Seven Kingdoms, and many commoners gathered early at this necessary route for the expedition to watch the spectacle.
Clank, clank, clank!
Squads of infantry legion, equipped with worn-out armor and arranged in relatively neat formations, entered Aegon's Square in high spirits.
This infantry legion of five thousand five hundred men was composed of the Frey Family, House Blackwood, and crownland families who wanted to show their loyalty.
The commander was the Master of Ships, earl samwell, who was riding on the side of the army with a beaming face at this time, listening with his ear turned to the many exclamations and praises from the commoners of King's Landing.
Following the infantry was a cavalry legion of around four thousand men.
More than half of the cavalry legion were knights of the vale who had lost Eyrie and were heavily rewarded and taken under King Jaehaerys's command.
The remaining small half were cavalry squads of second-generation lords sent by many lords of the Seven Kingdoms to gain experience and familiarity.
In their opinion, the new king had several dragons after all, and while he might not be able to completely conquer dorne, he certainly couldn't lose on the battlefield.
These cavalry squads of second-generation lords not only had messy marching formations but were also quite noisy, chatting loudly.
Lord Forrester, who was in charge of commanding the cavalry legion, rubbed his head with a headache upon seeing this.
He didn't understand why your majesty King Jaehaerys specifically put these guys into this expeditionary army.
Clip-clop, clip-clop!
Behind the noisy cavalry legion was King Jaehaerys's main force.
This army was a multi-branch mixed formation, including melee infantry mixed with Unsullied and Baratheon soldiers.
There was also the ranged Crossbow Legion, as well as logistics units transporting sunfyre and supplies.
This main force truly deserved to have been personally trained by King Jaehaerys.
They could be seen advancing silently with neat, unified steps, forming a stark contrast with the cavalry squads of second-generation lords who had been chatting without restraint earlier.
A chilling, iron-blooded aura rose amidst the neat footsteps and the clanking of mail armor, instantly causing the surrounding commoners of King's Landing, who had been pointing and discussing, to fall silent.
Especially sunfyre on the giant custom-made carriage; anyone who was scanned by its emotionless golden dragon eyes would feel a tremor in their heart.
Many timid commoners of King's Landing even quietly wet their pants.
Whoosh, whoosh!
Three massive adult dragons, led by Womax, flew from the direction of the Red Keep; the huge shadows they cast from the sky instantly darkened the light in Aegon's Square.
This wasn't all; Arrax, Tyraxes, Moondancer, and other three young dragons also took flight from the dragonpit.
Moreover, it was clearly visible that there were dragon riders sitting on the backs of these three young dragons.
The commoners of King's Landing might not understand what was unusual about this, but the lords of the Seven Kingdoms knew what it represented.
With seven dragons participating in the battle, dorne had no chance of winning this war!
Rumble, rumble!
After the expeditionary army of King's Landing departed, carriages and ox carts filled with commoners drove over one after another.
Their number was at least five times that of the previous army.
Many commoners of King's Landing who were watching immediately greeted them with teary eyes, urging them to be careful.
Yes, these commoners would also participate in this dorne war.
This scene was not only happening in King's Landing, but also in Casterly Rock and Highgarden.
Soldiers and commoners fighting together, this was the special request King Jaehaerys made to the westerlands and The Reach!