As the armies of the seven kingdoms marched they soon found themselves at their destination, before them was the mountain of the Players.
Even from this distance, the many lords and knights could see the strange creature that called the mountain their home, and as they marched closer to the mountain they soon found themselves looking at the Players.
Their army was made of nothing but children with a few adults that looked as if they were about to pass themselves, and yet no one dared to fire a single arrow or charge toward the Players.
The reason was the many strange creatures that stood amongst the children, no, amongst the army.
Creatures that had the bodies of men, but the heads of bulls, held massive axes and swords.
Lions whose bodies looked as if they were made of silver roared with anticipation for the fight to come, but what struck everyone the most were the dragons that flew over everyone.
In the end, nothing happened, both Robert Baratheon along with the Lords of the Seven Kingdoms spoke directly to the guild leaders and came to an agreement.
The mountain of Aincrad along with its many creatures would not set foot on Westeros and in turn, no ship, no horse, and no man from Westeros would set foot in the mountain.
It's been three years since that day.
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A lone horse marches towards the mountain, Its rider is tired and anyone who looks at the man's face can see how exhausted he is.
Still, the man rides on, he was given a task and he must fulfill it.
"Stop!" a guard shouts and so he stops moving.
"I bring word from Walder Frey, head of Hous Frey, he invites the Players to his wedding with his wife." the man says to the guard before handing him the invitation.
"The treaty does not allow us to enter your lads." the guard said to him.
"Yes, but considering that the mountain is a part of the River Lands Lord Frey hoped that we could at the very least be on friendly terms with you." he says to the guard.
"Tell your lord that we will only attend, if no one tries to get us to marry someone, or tries to get us to let them into our mountain, or tries to attack our mountain while we are gone." Thinker says to the messager, as he walks through a door that was placed in the stone wall that now surrounds Aincrad.
"Lord Frey told me to tell you, that he simply wishes to extend his hand of friendship to the Players of the mountain, nothing more.'
'If you wished to open trade with him and his house that is up to you, he merely wishes to not have to worry about you and him being enemies as our lands are close to one another."
"This is the reason that he is inviting the people of Aincrad to his wedding." he answers Thinker who nods.
'Tell your lord that we accept his invitation." Thinker says to the man who immediately smiles brightly, before shaking Thinker's hand.
Thinker the Leader of the Guild known as the Army watches the messenger ride away and lets out a breath of relief.
They had arrived here three years ago and were forced to fight over and over again with the knights that live in this world, not to mention that they nearly went to war with the people that lived here.
In all honesty, he was glad that they ended up in some version of medieval Europe.
If they had ended up in Japan during the same time period, he wasn't sure that any of the Players would be able to look at themselves in the mirror, because of how many people they had to kill.
Still to think that they could finally start contacting the outside world again.
Aincrad had been a mess these last few years, considering that everyone who had died in the death game was suddenly alive again and remembered that they had died before waking up here.
Then there was the issue of having to build the wall that now surrounds the mountain that keeps both the locals outside of Aincrad and the monsters inside.
He uses his help screen to tell everyone what just happened and everyone agrees that he did the right thing.
If they could make one ally then there was a chance that they didn't have to always be on their guard.
So everyone that was somewhat important began to look for their best clothes and by that, they meant armors that didn't have dents or scratches on them.
The people who saw them march through the Riverlands must have thought that they were either an army or something dangerous considering that they hid whenever they saw them.
In the end, they finally arrived at the Twins, or the two towers that have a bridge in between them.
The inside of the castle is dark and somewhat damp and while the people that make up the house mostly look thin with weasel-like faces. None of the players felt the need to comment about their appearance.
Walter Frey the lord of the e house welcomed them with open arms and a smile on his face and presented his fifteen-year-old wife, something that shocked most of the Players because Walter Frey was already an elderly man.
Yet none of them said anything about it, as arranged marriages like this one were common during this time.
Since this was the first time that they were ever welcomed anywhere the Players felt the need to give something to the man that offered a friendly hand to them.
So they presented the man with seven barrels filled with gold and eight barrels filled with wine.
To the woman that made this event happen they presented her with a necklace that was made out of every precious stone in Aincrad.
As the day passed and night took over word about the Players being present at the wedding soon reached every noble house within Westeros, before it reached Kingslanding and it was then that King Robert Baratheon looked at the messenger with cold eyes before telling the man to go away.
Robert Baratheon had been in many battles and he had learned to feel when a fight was coming, but he couldn't see any danger, the Players had indeed broken their deal.
But at the same time they were invited into his kingdom, the Freys had sent a messenger to them, meaning that the Players had been given the chance to enter the Riverlands and not be attacked.
So he chose not to attack the mountain, instead he chose to punish the Frey's for their insult, by taking half of everything that the Players had given them.
Robert felt the wind change and he didn't like what he felt, something else had happened and he could feel that it wasn't good.
