While Asshai was engulfed in a monster disaster, Lynd had already flown over Great Morak Island.
He saw an army attacking the only large city on the island, Faros City, and among the troops, he spotted the banner of the Golden Company, indicating that Daenerys intended to thoroughly clear out the remaining forces of the Qarth Thirteen before her official meeting with Nymeria.
When Daenerys took Qarth, she also took the relatives and companions of the Thirteen, placing them under house arrest, and the defense forces on Qarth Island were immediately subdued.
However, she was unable to immediately take Great Morak Island, which was separated by sea.
This was because Daenerys's main army consisted of Dothraki, and even though they had submitted to Daenerys, most of them were unwilling to fight across the sea.
Secondly, with the forces Daenerys had at the time, she could barely hold Qarth and Qarth Island, and there was no extra strength to launch an overseas war.
However, the situation was different now.
Daenerys had purchased a large number of Unsullied from Slavers Bay, and she had also hired several mercenary groups and incorporated some of Qarth's army, which made her available troops much more abundant.
This was why she planned to take Great Morak Island, a resource-rich island, to secure her rear.
Seeing this, Lynd didn't mind lending her a hand, so as he flew over Faros City, he had Deltos directly spray a stream of dragon flame at the city gate, shattering it to pieces and helping the besieging Golden Company overcome the most difficult obstacle.
During this process, Lynd also noticed that Deltos seemed to have undergone some changes after the trip to Styria.
For example, his dragon flame was no longer just a high-temperature pillar of fire; after incorporating other powers, it could produce different effects.
For instance, when burning the Faros City gate, he infused the dragon flame with the magic of lightning, causing the dragon flame to explode upon hitting the target, resulting in secondary destruction.
Deltos stated that this might be because his control over his own magic had improved, leading to new techniques in using his magic.
What made Deltos most happy was that the wing representing his fire magic was about to mature; it wouldn't be long before he could simultaneously use three different types of magic, which was undoubtedly good news for Lynd.
When unleashing the great thunderstorm that destroyed Styria, Lynd also discovered that if he coordinated with Deltos, the power of his runes would double, even reaching the destructive power of a certain strategic weapon from his previous life.
This was still the effect when Deltos had not fully matured.
If Deltos fully matured and the magic contained within all four of his wings was unleashed, he felt that the magical power produced by his cooperation with Deltos might increase significantly, though he couldn't imagine to what extent it would increase.
Therefore, after Lynd flew back to Valyria, he continued to leave Deltos in the ruins, as the blackstone there, unlike the blackstone in Asshai and Styria, was of great help to his growth.
Lynd, meanwhile, rode Lava Dragon Nessario back to Summerhall Castle.
Upon returning to Summerhall Castle, Lynd immediately expanded the Miracle Fleet and instructed the two organizations, the Miracle Fleet and the Miracle Merchant Guild, to expand eastward with Qarth as their center, and also to begin exploring Sothoryos using Morak Port on Great Morak Island as an outpost.
Lynd's grand expansion of the Miracle Fleet also attracted the attention of various factions in Westeros, but they lost interest once they discovered that Lynd's objective was the distant eastern Essos and Sothoryos.
Only Dorne expressed a desire to cooperate with Lynd and sent Manfrey Martell, the acting lord of Sunspear, to Summerhall to discuss cooperation matters.
It seemed Doran Martell had decided to change his strategic direction and instead strengthen his relationship with Summerhall, binding Dorne and Summerhall together completely.
Lynd was naturally pleased with Dorne's cooperation.
Although he currently had funds and resources, he was genuinely short on manpower, especially those skilled in navigation, which were particularly scarce.
Although he had accelerated the training of personnel, these individuals could not yet stand on their own in the short term.
Now, Dorne's participation provided Lynd with a large number of experienced captains and sailors, perfectly filling the gap in manpower and allowing Lynd's eastward expansion and southward advance plan to bypass the preparation phase and enter the implementation phase directly.
In contrast to Dorne's active participation in Lynd's eastward expansion and southward advance plan, the nobles in Westeros were completely uninterested in affairs concerning distant continents.
They were more focused on the current war in the Seven Kingdoms.
During Lynd's absence from Westeros, the situation in the Riverlands remained unchanged, in a standoff, while Stannis Baratheon surprisingly landed at Stone Dance Castle and confronted Renly of Storms End at the border of the Crownlands and the Stormlands, leading many to wonder if Stannis had gone mad.
Because in the eyes of most people, Stannis should have cooperated with the North at this time to attack King's Landing or jointly attack the Westerlands, but instead, he ignored the most important enemy and attacked his own brother, so it's no wonder some people thought Stannis had lost his mind.
But only those who truly knew Stannis understood that he had to do this.
He had to obtain the title of Duke of Storm's End and head of the Baratheon family before taking King's Landing so that he could legitimately sit on the Iron Throne, and this legal and honorary legitimacy was what Stannis valued most.
Compared to Stannis's perplexing actions, most people following the war focused their attention on Robb Stark, the Young Wolf Lord who had declared himself King of the North, because his recent performance in the war, despite having just come of age, was simply too astonishing.
He first bypassed Golden Tooth through a secret mountain path, captured the undefended Branded City, and when Golden Tooth sent troops to reinforce, he completely abandoned Branded City and ambushed Golden Tooth's relief army halfway.
Tens of thousands of Golden Tooth reinforcements were slaughtered, with only a few thousand escaping back to Golden Tooth.
Fowler Prester, the Commander of the Golden Tooth relief army, and his generals died in the battle, and from then on, Golden Tooth completely lost its deterrent power over the Riverlands, only able to passively defend within its walls.
After defeating the Golden Tooth reinforcements, the Young Wolf Lord Robb returned to reoccupy Branded City, and then, within a few days, successively captured Cliff Rock City, forced the surrender of Haystack Hall, and pointed his forces directly at Sarsfield City.
Unlike Golden Tooth, Sarsfield City was not a fortress city, but a normal inland castle.
There were no strategic points to defend here, and if the Young Wolf Lord wished, he could completely bypass this castle and directly attack Casterly Rock.
This situation even panicked Tywin.
He immediately wrote to the lords of Haystack Hall, Cornfield, and Feastfire, ordering them to send troops to support Casterly Rock, while also spending heavily to recruit soldiers in Lannisport, and he also wrote to Fairy City, asking Fairy City to send a fleet to threaten Cliff Rock City and seize the opportunity to retake it.
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