House of The Dragon-A God Amongst Men
Chapter 436: Divine Intervention II

Chapter 436: Divine Intervention II

(Third Person POV)

Cutting Sorcery is a very powerful ability that Drakken uses.

It takes the concept of cutting, slicing, and slashing and is utilized as an offensive sorcery. Invisible cuts, slices, and slashes are fired off at any speed desired, and they hit the target. Not many of this world are immune to the power of Cutting Sorcery as they are easily cut clean.

Drakken uses Cutting Sorcery as a form of nearly impenetrable defense, using small slashes to clash with incoming attacks, acting as parries. He can do this almost instantly and at any direction from his body. This gives the impression of having an invisible barrier that no attack, whether melee or projectile, can get through.

If someone can land a blow on Drakken, it is because he allows it.

Shred is a technique using Cutting Sorcery. Drakken fires off dozens of slashes continuously at a target, essentially shredding them completely. When he focuses on any person, only blood remains as the entire targeted area disappears within a second or two, making it seem like they were obliterated.

Drakken can use Shred to destroy larger areas, which require more power and concentration, but should Drakken were capable of it, he could do it in an instant.

And that is what he just did.

He used Shred at a 200-meter radius around him and Sylas, completely eradicating any building and person within the range. All but those who bore the Mark of the Trinity. Those who worshipped Drakken were spared from death.

This was done on purpose, not because Drakken cared for their safety. Drakken did this to add more to the belief that the Trinity is the best choice to make.

This would be considered divine intervention by the followers of The Trinity.

And they would take this seriously from that point on.

Now, Drakken was holding the man’s mouth shut after shoving a golden coin down his throat. The man was clutching his hand as he looked at him with nothing but fear.

"Sylas." Drakken said seriously, "You know what to do, right?"

Sylas gulped, "Well...."

"You already did this." Drakken said, "I want you to do it again."

"But isn’t it overkill?" Sylas asked him, "You already proved your point."

"There is no such thing as overkill when dealing with nonbelieving scum that will stop at nothing when going for our family." Drakken said as he looked at him, "Now.....do it."

Sylas nodded slowly, "Fine."

He raised his hand and focused his power on the golden coin which was ingested by the young man forcibly.

"Combust"

Suddenly, the man’s entire body burst into golden flames, his entire body immolated by the Goldfyre that was detonated by the golden coin. Drakken stepped back and watched as his body collapsed to the ground, being turned into molten gold, pooling on the ground.

"Hm...." Drakken said as he tilted his head, "This power....it is quite effective. How do you like it?"

"Well...." Sylas said, "I like it a lot to make golden constructs for my Mothers....."

"Hm." Drakken looked at him, "That’s all you care about, huh?"

Sylas shrugged, "I mean...."

"Whatever." Drakken said with a shrug as he walked up to him and grabbed his shoulder,

"We’re leaving."

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"This is a serious incident." Alysanne said while she sweated, "Jaehaerys. We cannot cover this up at all. The damage is too much. We don’t even know how many people died...."

She was looking out the window, seeing a cloud of dust slowly disperse in the air. It had been nearly an hour after the Shredding Incident, and the Red Keep had heard the news not too long after. It didn’t take much for the King and Queen to realize it was Drakken’s doing.

But after hearing that Lord Sylas was kidnapped by the sons of Penrose, Jaehaerys didn’t really protest much to it. He did find it a bit too much, for Drakken to murder innocent people but he was not going to confront Drakken at that moment.

"Are we going to let him just murder innocents?" Aemon asked with a scowl

"What are you going to do, Aemon?" Jaehaerys asked him, "You’re going to challenge him again? With what happened with Lord Riktor and now Lord Sylas, Drakken has every right to lash out."

"You agree with it, Father?" Aemon asked

"Of course I don’t." Jaehaerys said with a serious frown, "But what do you want me to do? You want me to confront him and possibly risk the entire city be destroyed? You must be insane if you think he won’t do it."

"I hate to even admit it..." Alysanne said, "But Jaehaerys is right...It is not right, it really isn’t....all those lives lost.....but this is Drakken’s message to everyone. He destroyed Parchments because of what happened to Riktor. And now this..."

"Even so...." Aemon said, "This is getting out of control. The people will have something to say about this. The Lords of the Realm-"

"They already know what Drakken is about." Jaehaerys cut him off, "They know the kind of danger they are in should they try to protest. We are lucky that Drakken has decided to be calm and have the Realm in a time of peace. But all of this? It’s a miracle how he hasn’t marched his armies to conquer and destroy everything."

"Do what you want with the aftermath, Jaehaerys." Drakken suddenly appeared, "I don’t care."

Aemon looked at him with a scowl, "You....."

Drakken snapped his fingers and Aemon disappeared, being teleported away.

Alysanne looked at Drakken, "What is your whole point, Drakken?" She said, "We understand that you’re protecting your son.....but....murdering innocents...."

"You are a parent, Alysanne." Drakken said seriously, "You understand the message as well."

Jaehaerys stared at him with a serious expression, "What’s next?"

"Straight to the point." Drakken said as he took a step forward, "We’re going back. After that...Alyssa Targaryen is being summoned to Harrenhal, so she will go. She will take Rhaenys and Rhaella Targaryen with her and there will be no protests."

"Do you really think I will risk my granddaughters going over there?" Jaehaerys said seriously

"I don’t care." Drakken said, "They will go. And..."

He extended his hands and black tendrils shot from his arm and into Alysanne, injecting into her body which caused her to buckle violently.

"A-Agh!" she shouted

"What are you doing?!" Jaehaerys exclaimed

"Nothing much." Drakken said as the tendrils immediately shot back into his arm, "Just a quick little modification."

"What did you do?!" Alysanne panted as she was on her knees, "Drakken!"

"Eternal Youth, Alysanne Targaryen." Drakken said, "Jaehaerys, thank me later."

Jaehaerys looked at his wife and noticed that she was de-aged a bit, some of her wrinkles were gone and her skin was a bit fairer. Alysanne seemed to be only a bit older than their eldest daughter, Alyssa. This surprised Jaehaerys, and he simply stood there, a bit taken aback by this.

"What.....?" Jaehaerys said, "Why would you...?"

"Alysanne knows, doesn’t she?" Drakken smirked

Alysanne widened her eyes as her face went pale, "No." She said softly, "No,no,no! Drakken, you said-"

"Fate can be rewritten." Drakken said, "I did say that. But I want to keep you idiots on your toes....."

"Let’s see where this goes."