8 Preparations for the final battle

Aleksanteri POV King's landing

my king has given me orders and I will fulfill them, now I am preparing to enter camouflaged to king's landing intending to discover the secrets of the city, our group is composed of 20 of the best in infiltration of the Finnish regiments.

''you know in 2 by 2 we do not want them to suspect us when we enter, when we are inside try to move around the taverns of the city to exchange information, every week one of you will leave the city and meet with the men we have in the woods, and we will send a crow to our king with all the information obtained, do everything you can think of, but do not raise suspicions, is that clear?'', I told my men.

''yes sir'' they all answered

after finishing our meeting I and another one of my men went to the old gate, the first thing we saw was a group of guards at the gate, we approached slowly and saw how they were checking the cargo of a merchant, we could pass without any problem, they did not notice a couple of poor farmers in rags.

''We split up here, then we'll meet in the most crowded taverns we find'' I said to my companion without looking at them.

I moved through the streets without them noticing my presence, I dedicated myself to listen to the streets, taverns and guard posts.

''did you hear, the crown is recruiting all men fit to fight, they want to end the rebel threat from the north before it gets out of control'' said a man who worked moving boxes

'' is that so? And how much are they offering for one to enlist?'', asked his companion.

''20 silver stags plus meals.''

''mhhh, I earn a little less, but I don't want to risk my life for a couple of extra coins''.

So, they are recruiting? But not to attack my king, I must keep looking for more information.

I continued my movements throughout the city, but I didn't find anything to awaken my spy instinct, I was moving near the upper-class areas until I saw something interesting.

When we were in The Reach my men caught many children with their tongues cut out, according to the information they took from some of them is that they were spies trained by the master of whispers who taught them to read and write; however, he cut their tongues, so they could not betray him; however, all the information was taken from them through pencil and papyrus and this child acted the same when I was hunting them to kill them.

I was watching him for about 20 minutes, the boy looked everywhere and began to climb the walls, I followed him through the streets without losing sight of him, until he went down an alley near the complex of The Red Keep and I saw him entering through a sewer, a little small, but I managed to enter, then I was guided by the sounds of the echoes of his footsteps, generating a mental map of the maze where he had just entered.

I went up, turned and went around several times through these tunnels, until I saw again the boy moving a lever, which opened a door that was camouflaged with the wall, the boy passed, and I was ready to follow him until I heard whispers on the other side of the wall.

I put my ear to the wall and concentrated on listening.

''the new servants arrived, I need more healing plants, the maester spent them all on treating the queen's wounds,'' said a voice that I barely managed to hear ''yes, but they are still showing them around'' said the second mysterious voice.

''when they finish, send them to the market to look for these plants that maester Pycelle needs''.

Interesting, the queen has wounds, but why?, when I heard footsteps coming towards me, I knew I was out of luck and decided to return, leaving the tunnel I went to see if I could meet with one of the new servants to get information.

I went to the door of the castle until I saw a large group of servants leaving the castle, they all seemed new in their job, something happened that many were replaced?, one caught my attention too much of the group because he looked a lot like me, this gave me an idea...

I was following him for about 30 minutes watching his routine, he wandered around the market buying healing plants and fruits during that time I planned to use his position, replacing him but I had to study him first.

for the next 4 days I followed him every time he was out of the castle and when he finished his work, apparently he was not one of the servants that slept in the castle, I learned how he spoke, I mastered his accent, I learned how he acted with his friends, I walked like him, until I started to think like him, that night I followed him for his typical walk to return to his house, when he was about to enter his house, I approached him and broke his neck and quickly entered his house preparing to kill all his family to keep the lie, but to my surprise he lived alone

the next day I got up and put on his clothes hoping they would not recognize me, our resemblance was similar, but not the same, the guards looked at me, but let me pass, apparently I did not raise much suspicion; however, now I should be careful I know nothing of what he did in the castle.

''ASTEN come here, why were you late today'', an elderly woman asked me

''I'm sorry I had trouble getting here, the streets were very crowded'' I answered the woman.

''look I know you have to help in the kitchen; however, I need you to go and clean up the great hall, it happened again'' she said with a somber tone

''you mean? I said in a questioning tone

''come on fool I told you the first day, if you don't pay attention when you serve the king it will burn you like what happened now'' as she said this she passed me a bucket with water and a mop

''do it fast we don't have all day'' pointing where I should go

I was walking through all the doors until I opened what I think is the great hall, there was a big black stain in the middle and I started to clean it when I finished I came back to what seemed to be the head of the servants.

''Did you finish Asten?'' she asked me

''yes, I finished cleaning the ash'' I answered her

''well here go and buy everything on this list I need you as soon as possible to help with the food'' giving me a papyrus and some coins.

Apparently Asten the identity I am impersonating was a kitchen helper and was in charge of cleaning and shopping at the market for fresh food, no one seemed to recognize me, everyone seemed to assume that I was Asten and there were no problems.

One moon of stay as a servant I learned several things about court intrigue, they are different from the Prussians, the Prussians hate intrigues, but still, they mastered them not to be mocked by other nobles foreigners, but in the Prussian court everyone said what they wanted no secret dealings, here there are many intrigues many plans and so little time to listen to them all.

I had finally mastered the secret tunnels of the Red Keep, this made my spying mission much easier, when I had time off from my work as a servant I would lose myself in those moments where I discovered many secrets.

The crown is desperate, they are not only recruiting, they are asking for help from the Martells of dorne, and they responded by sending an army of almost 20,000 men to help the desperate situation of house Targaryen, this information will be vital for my king if he wishes to intercept them on the road.

When I used the tunnels I managed to reach the tower of the king's hand, as the new hand of King Wisdom Rossart did not have many servants, it was easy for me to clean nearby where I discovered many letters of purchases of weapons, armor and horses as well as the amount of the crown forces about 30000.

But what surprised me the most was a plan where they were hiding many containers of the king's favorite liquid ''Wildfire'' around the city, the king's hand had a detailed map of where these reserves were, if my memories don't fail me that thing is uncontrollable when it reacts, remembering how they burnt several of my fellow servants in the great hall

as for if I found someone if he wanted to defect or betray the king, there was not much luck, almost everyone who had doubts of the mad king government had already left the city, but I discovered an entrance to the castle that can be entered outside the city near the sea seems to be the drainage tunnels but worse is nothing

for the moment I will stay in this place waiting for orders from my king, but for the moment I must continue cleaning the floors of the great hall, since I am very good at it and the mad king does not seem to be interested in burning me alive like others.

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Friedrich Wilhelm POV

While I was reading Aleksanteri's weekly report, he surprised me again, I did not understand how he had so much ability for people to always believe everything he says, he managed to impersonate a servant that looked like him and so far, we know almost all the crown's plans, currently about 20000 dornish men are coming through the Stormlands trying to avoid my armies.

It is not something they need to worry about because I have no interest in crushing them, I need the rebel forces to be as exhausted as possible from the conflict so that my bargaining position will be as strong as possible when this conflict is over.

My plan is to move together with 20,000 of my knights to support the battle between the crown and the rebels, leaving an army between the goldroad and king's landing to prevent the Lannister from reaching the capital before me after the great battle.

My doubts now reside in whether I should avoid the death of Ellia Martel and her sons or let her die, if she lives it is very likely that dorne will not make much fuss about what happened and will accept the government of the future king Robert, but if she dies this will avoid doubts about Robert's position on the throne and will avoid more civil wars to see who has the piece of metal on his head.

Another option would be to get the Rhaegar children out of the city by faking their death, but we would have to get bodies of children according to their age, maybe Aleksanteri can take care of that and negotiate with the Martells, so they don't try to press the claim of Ellia Martel's children.

I was so focused, I didn't feel Charles come in.

''my king, I have the reports you requested about the looting of the fields and the cities'' said Charles leaving on my table many papers

''thank you, Charles, finally we will know how much we have gained in this war'' I said to Charles, and he left.

Let's see, in total we looted almost 30 million gold dragons in coins and unminted ingots, between weapons and armor we will have something close to half a million dragons, we have in silk clothes close to 2 million gold dragons, we have almost 15 million gold dragons in jewels, the furniture is close to another half million leaving us with an approximate of 48 million gold dragons at the cost of having looted everything we left no stone unturned, only the septs were saved from my long hand, but without counting the ransom of the lords of the reach or their castles.

As for food I have reserved the seeds of my world, since these are more productive and resistant for the great amount of time by natural selection, we have enough wheat for 4 years, we have captured almost 200,000 heads of cattle, and we have almost, 70000 extra horses.

As for the fleet, we captured almost 50 HighTower war galleys and 180 merchant ships that we ''borrowed'' from the merchants.

The objectives of this war were accomplished, only that I will not have a place to settle my men when the conflict ends, maybe I will have to see if it is possible to get or buy a place in essos or in the north, well now I just have to concentrate on helping Robert to get his crown and everything should be fine.

After much thought, I got up and headed north with my men, I would march with an army of 60,000 soldiers leaving 40,000 in Goldroad in case the lion was faster than me in arriving.

I also sent a letter to Aleksanteri to keep me informed of any news and to disarm the deposits of Wildfire that the royalists had placed as the last option that the mad king had and also to see if it is possible to get 2 bodies of children with physical characteristics similar to the children of Rhaegar.

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