Chapter 98 - The Rumors of Impending Doom (Patreon)

Even though dealing with the annoying Toydarian was a pain in the ass, he was surprisingly professional at the business, and he would have prepared everything best to his capabilities within a few days. 

There were many things that Watto needed to put together, and it was somewhat of a lengthy process.

The process of dealing with a Slave Crest was rather a delicate manner that needed to be handled carefully and precisely. And as any other respected slave merchant, there was a lot of paperwork to be done. 

Within the Valyrian Freehold, the business with the Beyonder slaves or the people who had the strong aptitude to become a Beyonder needed to be reported to the authorities. The Freehold's government was very keen on keeping tap on the numbers of the Beyonder slaves all around the place.

They were... in the end, possible danger if left unchecked.

So the government was keeping a list of all of the Beyonder's slaves and those with the Beyonder Aptitude that were ever bought or sold in the Freehold, who sold them, and who bought them.

Through this method, they were able to tell the approximate number of Beyonder slaves within the entire Valyrian Freehold. The punishments for not adhering to the Laws around the Beyonder slaves were extremely strict and often resulted in one losing his head.

"It was please doing business with you as well, Watto."

Valkorion stated that he was prepared to leave the shop with Camille when he noticed that the Toydarian had flown closer to them.

"If you have anything that you want to buy don't hesitate to come to my shop. I would be remaining the Volantis for one more year, before I would be moving back home."

Valkorion raised his brows at that, because it was most curious that it was just a few years before the Doom of Valyria. It seemed that with this act, the Toydarian had saved his life.

Rather ironic but also welcomed news because Valkorion planned to buy more slaves... like a hell of a lot more. And everyone needed to be of Pure-Blooded Valyrian origin or at least some other species that were powerful enough to be useful when they left the Freehold.

Still, this was the time when it would be remembered as the foundation of the Trifarian Brigade. 

Valkorion then left the Watto's Slave Shop together with Camille as they returned back to the headqueaters of the Ferros Chamber of Commerce within the Volantis.

As they chatted about various things, Valkorion considered the future, as only thirteen years remained until the Doom of the Valyrian.

According to his calculations the Doom of the Valyria will take place at the Year 9,898 of the Faerûnian Callendar. Valkorion planned to abandon the Valyrian Freehold completely just a few years before the actual Doom. 

"Did you catch the latest rumors from the Capital?"

As they were heading towards the headquarters of the Ferros Chamber of Commerce, Camille asked him about this. Even though she wasn't gossiping, what had happened and was still happening was a huge thing.

"I never took you for spreading gossip... it's rather out of your character. First, you are smiling in public, and now you are listening and spreading gossip? One would really think that some Evil Spirit has possessed you."

Valkorion said with a mocking voice as he looked at his companion while Camille started sternly back at him, already plotting some sort of revenge. For that one, he was sure, because she never took any slight fade away from the nothing.

"Idiot. Whatever... it's rather huge news. Apparently, one of the Dragonlord Houses, the Targaryens, are going to migrate out of the Freehold due to the inevitable Doom of the Valyria. Though none took the warnings seriously, because of the power that the Freehold holds and even without the great numbers of High Sequence Beyonders in the Valyrian, there are still countless bonded Dragons, Wyrms and Great Wyrms... but... the Targaryens are still moving out their possessions to the Dragonstone and decided to remain there."

He knew that there were already rumors that the Dragonlord House, the Targaryens were going to move out, but there was nothing concrete. Most of it were just some randoms tlaks about one Dragonlord Family moving some of their forces out of the core Freehold territories.

"And, what do you think about it?"

Valkorion knew that the Valyrians were extremely convinced about their invisibility and in fact, he could understand where this kind of arrogance was coming from. They were the strongest and most unchallenged global hyperpower.

Even the mighty High Elves from the Sothoryos were weaker than the Valyrians because the Freehold had the highest number of High Sequence Beyonders, and they had Dragons. Once a Dragon reached the Adulthood Phase, they were essentially Sequence 4 Extraordinary Creature.

Once they passed the mark of one thousand years old or were elevated by other means, they were Seqeunce 3 Extraordinary Creature, and according to the Camille, it wasn't hard to find people within the Valyrian Freehold that held bond contracts with the Wyrms and Great Wyrms.

Mighty beings that were comparable and even stronger than most High Sequence Beyonders.

So, the Valyrians were really convinced about their invisibility.

"Something is not right... While the Clan Ferros didn't belong to the Dragonlord Families, we are just mere Mercantile Clans, even though we are aware of the special Bloodline Innate Abilities of the Targaryen Lineage. And the messages from the dreams are not to be discarded lightly. And if you count everything that has been happening around in the Freehold for the past years, something is brewing..."

Camille Ferros knew that something was happening in the shadows, she noticed very subtle signs as if someone was attempting to hide them and was doing rraather good job hiding them from the sight of the Dragonlords.

She knew that no matter what the Targaryens would present at the Conclave, the rest of the Dragonlords would most probably dismiss it as a baseless claim. They were heavily convinced that their Demigods, Dragons and True Gods would protect them.

But she felt that something was amiss. 

"Well... I didn't want to say it right now, but I am too thinking about leaving the Freehold and heading to the Valoran. I got the feeling that something very bad would happen in the Freehold, and with the Targaryens having Dreams about about it as well, it confirmed my decision."

Valkorion wanted to get the people that he was close to out of the Valyrian Freehold. He knew that the Doom would happen because he already had a theory about it, and he knew that it was related to the 'Them', to the Astral and Lord of Light (the future one, most obviously).

And he suspected that whatever would cause the Doom of the Valyria would be the Apotheosis Ritual for 'Him' to become a True God. It was the most plausible explanation that could be and it would explain a lot. 

According to Mellisandre, there was no King of Angels among the Beyonders of the Freehold, and it seemed that the Red Temple had been plotting the downfall of the Freehold for a very, very long time already.