Chapter 131: The Age of Riot

Since the day of Mungo's public speech, everything went very smoothly, and he never encountered any unexpected situation that might hinder development.

With his support, Bono sent out many clever freemen, who hid in the Holy City like black shadows.

Observe and track any caravans coming to trade, and those spies who tried to find out the truth about the Dothraki.

Soon, a large amount of mixed information was continuously passed up through a single line of communication, and finally summarized in Mungo's hands.

Only then did he realize that his declaration and actions of liberating slaves had a far more profound impact on the city-states in Essos where there was slave trade than he expected.

Just south of the Dothraki Sea, in the Slave Bay in the Gulf of Sorrow, located in the Summer Sea, a huge slave riot unprecedented in history was set off not long ago.

The merchants who came and went said that the severity of this incident was far worse than the action of the creators of Braavos to hijack the fleet of the Valyrian Empire.

Slaver's Bay is a region with cultural and geographical significance. It is the absolute center of the world's slave trade and once gave birth to one of the oldest cultures and countries in the world, the Ghiscari Empire.

After the fall of the empire, the huge city of ancient Ghis turned into ruins. However, although the failure of the war cut off the bloodline of most of the ancient Ghis, the surviving people of the empire built new cities on the ruins.

After thousands of years of development, three Ghis cities have once again become the ruling power of Slaver's Bay: Astapor, Yunkai and Meereen.

Although the current Ghis people all speak the High Valyrian language of the conquerors, their behavior is the same as that of the ancient Ghis people. They are always extremely proud to maintain the Ghis tradition and manipulate the absolute pillar industry here, the slave trade.

Their ruling class is the largest slave trader, exploiting slaves in an extremely cruel way to maintain an extremely luxurious life. What they do is only beyond, not inferior, even the lightning in the hand of the ancient Ghis harpy symbol has been replaced with shackles.

According to the interrogation of spies, the cities in Slaver's Bay have been in a peaceful competition, and they are willing to do everything to prevent the outbreak of war.

Even when the Dothraki tribes invaded, they preferred to pay tribute to the horse kings rather than repel them.

However, the horse king's move to liberate slaves has seriously threatened the rule of the slave owners in the three cities. They are very angry and want to declare war on the Mongol tribe.

After personally meeting the messenger of Malachor Megaya, the governor of Volantis, he quickly sent an envoy to Volantis by boat, but only caught up with the governor's funeral.

However, the news brought back by the messengers made the slave owners panic. They no longer dared to mention the words of actively attacking or destroying the horse kings. They only hoped that Mongol would not attack them and liberate their slaves.

Except for Astapor, which was not afraid of any threats under the defense of the Unsullied, other cities immediately began to prepare for self-protection.

Since the army of the city here is composed entirely of the descendants of wealthy slave traders, most of them have overeating and obesity due to their corrupt lifestyle.

They also regard joining the army as something fun like a stage performance. The soldiers wear gorgeous cloth armor and style their hair in strange shapes. They are flashy and have no combat effectiveness at all.

So, Yunkai chose to hire any mercenary group that could be hired, but only 3,000 mercenaries were not enough to protect the city.

Meereen is the largest and richest of the three slave cities, and they quickly established a spearman group with extremely luxurious equipment.

The soldiers are equipped with the traditional copper scale armor and 14-foot spears of the ancient Ghis Empire, but this untrained legion does not seem to be reliable.

Time passed slowly, Qohor was broken by the Mongo tribe, and the news of the defeat of the Unsullied was brought to the Slaver's Bay by the sailors along the sea breeze, including the slave owners of Astapor, all became more panicked.

Their eyes swept over the weak slaves and stayed on the slave fighters performing bloody competitions in the arena. They whipped the slave fighters who disobeyed orders and forced them to join the city defense army.

But the slave owners did not notice in time that the eyes of these slave fighters were shining with the light of yearning for freedom.

Because along with the trade winds came the slave liberation declaration issued by Mongo outside the city of Qohor and Volantis.

The slave owners of Astapor treated slaves particularly cruelly. They not only created the highest achievement of slaves-the Unsullied, but also liked to make slave children fight with wild beasts.

Therefore, the riot started here first. The slave fighters who were released from the iron cage of the arena rose up in rebellion with shackles under the instigation of a former butcher named Cleon.

They sneaked into the slave owner's great pyramid through the underground passage and successively seized control of the army and the rule of the city.

In retaliation, they castrated all the children of the former slave owners and trained them as new Unsullied.

Meereen and Yunkai were busy cursing the stupidity of their allies while defending themselves against the attacks of the slave rebels from Astapor.

At the same time, they sent a large number of spies to the Dothraki Sea, hoping to learn in advance whether Mongol would invade, so as to avoid being attacked from both sides.

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Inside the stepped pyramid of Vaes Dothraki.

After Bono detailed the intelligence from Slaver's Bay, he saw the khal sitting on the throne, bowing his head in thought, and waved his hand. He immediately lay down and touched the ground with his forehead to show his loyalty and farewell. Then he stood up and prepared to leave.

At this moment, Mungo suddenly raised his head, and his dark and shiny eyes, like a hungry beast smelling the scent of prey, said:

"Your news is very timely, letting me know the situation outside the Dothraki Sea. I hope you can go there in person to investigate. If the situation there is really so absurd and corrupt, our army can continue to advance southward, and perhaps we can take this opportunity to seize Slaver's Bay."

Bono turned around suddenly, with a suppressed flame of excitement flashing in his eyes, and he said in a trembling voice:

"Thank you for your trust, I will set out to the south immediately."

The Holy City was an extremely terrifying place for him. Even a gust of hot wind could make him feel the biting cold of wind and snow. He was very willing to leave here.

"Bono, remember, the current situation is completely different from when you followed Drogo westward."

Mongol slowly stood up from the throne, walked down the platform, and said quietly:

"Under my leadership, you threw yourself into the darkness without complaint, which made me see your loyalty, but I must warn you one last thing, grasp the general trend of the times, the great cause of the Dothraki is unstoppable, and all opponents standing on the opposite side will be crushed into dust."

"I must tell you that I, Mongol, is the Manifest Destiny!"

After hearing these words, Bono prostrated himself on the ground again, his eyes firm, and he nodded fiercely. He seemed to be able to hear the sound of the surging tide rolling on the reefs and sandstones.