From Hogwarts to Strixhaven

The next target of the Lonely Mountain Expedition is Rivendell, which means "valley" in Elvish.

Gandalf introduced that the lord of this place is the half-elf Elrond, a knowledgeable elder. The reason why the Lonely Mountain Expedition must visit Elrond is to unlock the secret of the Lonely Mountain map.

Although Ivy can also use the magic of deciphering ciphertext to handle all this, now his spell slot is one less, and he doesn't know when it will be restored, so he naturally has to be thrifty. Therefore, when Gandalf and Thorin discussed the map, Ivy didn't say a word.

In order to alleviate the dilemma of lack of spellcasting resources, Ivy has been riding on the golden horn and thinking for a whole day. In the end, he decided to invest all the experience gained from the adventure along the way into the profession of [Splendid Warlock]. As spontaneous spellcasters, the source of magic power of warlocks is themselves, and maybe they can bypass the restrictions set by Ilúvatar on the Middle Continent.

In addition, Ivy is also going to ask Gandalf, who is also a wizard, for advice on how to use the sword. In any case, the beast bite sword cannot be made into a useless decoration.

Moreover, Gandalf is the first melee mage in the mouths of many netizens. Maybe Ivy can get the possibility of a new career from him.

When Ivy invested all the 2400 experience points from killing the ogre into [Splendid Warlock], he successfully upgraded the career that had been maintained at level 1 for more than a year.

When the Splendid Warlock reached level 2, Ivy brought a new career feature: elemental super magic.

This career feature allows Ivy to obtain 2 spell points that can be used for super magic, and one more can be obtained for each level up, up to 22. And when the spell that requires super magic contains any description of elements, the spell points required for super magic are halved.

The spell points obtained from [Elemental Super Magic] are the same resources as the spell points of the [Super Magic Instructor] specialty, which means that Ivy's level 3 career level gives him a total of 5 spell points, and two super magic options.

However, the warlock's spell points can be used for more than just super magic. Warlocks can also use spell points to create spell slots, up to five-ring spell slots, and the spell point consumption for one to five-ring spell slots is "2/3/5/6/7" points respectively.

The 3rd level of the dazzle warlock gave Ivy two new super magic options, and he chose [Extreme Spell] and [Cautious Spell].

The former allows Ivy to spend 2 spell points to directly take the maximum value of all variables in a spell, while the other allows Ivy to leave a small space in a spell with a huge killing range to protect his own units from friendly damage. This is very necessary for the Lonely Mountain Expedition of up to 15 people, otherwise Ivy is likely to miss the opportunity to fight because of his concerns about friendly forces.

It is a long way from the Ogre Forest to Rivendell, and it takes several days to ride a horse, not to mention that the dwarves ride ponies with shorter legs.

During this period, Ivy managed to figure out the specific ancient rituals and general ability types of the beast bite sword.

The Beast Bite Sword is a weapon that can be used from level 5 to level 20, and can provide up to 12 different ancient abilities.

After Ivy was ready to get a new profession from Gandalf, she synchronized this elven curved sword with the profession of [Scribe Mage/Ancient Fighter]. In this way, as long as she completed the primary and intermediate ancient rituals, Ivy could directly use the ancient abilities up to level 14. It was more or less a bug. After all, he was the one using the weapon, so he would definitely choose a solution with stronger combat effectiveness.

Just when they were about half a day away from leaving the Ogre Forest, an uninvited guest came to the door.

The movement in the woods made all the dwarves alert. Thorin raised his hand and everyone drew their weapons. The dwarves mostly used heavy weapons such as hammers and axes, but there were also dwarves who used less-advanced weapons such as slingshots and iron pots for self-defense.

Ivy hoped that the person who came would be an orc, because the prerequisite for the primary ancient ritual of the beast-biting sword was to kill five orcs in a battle.

"Thief! Flame! Murder!" The man who rushed out of the woods, driving a sled pulled by rabbits and shouting the above words, was a man who was even shabbier than Gandalf.

The rabbit sled crashed straight into the middle of the Lonely Mountain Expedition and stopped in front of Gandalf.

"Radagast!" Gandalf loudly stated the relationship between the visitor and him, "Brown Wizard! My old friend!"

"Another wizard?" The dwarves were excited, and even Bilbo, who was frowning because he had provoked the ogre before, smiled.

The legendary figures appeared in front of them one after another. Isn't it a good sign?

"Well..." Gandalf got off the horse and talked to the brown-robed wizard standing on the sled, "What brought you here?"

"I came to find you, Gandalf." The brown-robed wizard's beard and hair covered with bird droppings looked very serious, "Something bad is going to happen!"

Gandalf waited for Radagast to explain further, but the latter tried three times but failed to speak. Even when Pombo, the most patient of the dwarves, began to get impatient, the brown-robed wizard spit out a stick insect from the tip of his tongue.

"...Many spiders appeared in the forest, huge spiders, they may be the descendants of Ungoliant..."

"...And their source is Dol Guldur..."

Just as the brown-robed wizard finished his warning, a new visitor arrived. Everything was as logical as the connection in a storybook.

The howling of wolves resounded through the jungle. Even Mr. Baggins, who had spent his whole life in Bag End in the Shire, could hear that the visitor was not a good person.

"Worg!" Kili, who used a bow and arrow and had a pair of good eyes, was the first to discover the enemy who was eyeing them covetously, a surprisingly large black wolf.

The black wolf jumped down from a high place and disturbed the pony under the dwarf's crotch, causing chaos in the whole team.

The only ones who were not affected were Ivy and the golden horn under his butt. The holy golden unicorn snorted a series of loud snorts and lowered its head to charge at the wolf in the middle of the team.

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The wolf, who had been showing off his power all his life with his sharp teeth, claws and huge body, never understood until his death when there were horses that were not afraid of wolves in Middle-earth?

The golden horn on the unicorn's head was like a spear, piercing through the gap between the worg's shoulder blades and throwing it away.

Seeing the brave performance of the golden horn, the dwarves who had been hit by its hooves rushed to cheer for it.

Gandalf and Radagast did not feel relieved. Both wizards understood that the worg was just a sentinel of the dark forces, and there was a greater danger chasing them behind.

"This is the worg of Gundabad!" Gandalf shouted loudly, "It is the natural enemy of the pony!"

"Let me lead them away!" The rabbits pulling the brown-robed wizard's sled performed much better than the ponies, so Radagast recommended himself at this time.

"I'll go with you!" Gandalf made a decision immediately, "Ivy! Let your partner lead the ponies to the direction of Rivendell. He is a qualified leader! As long as we enter the territory of the elves, these wargs will not dare to act recklessly!"

"I don't know the way!" Ivy touched her thigh that was rubbed sore by riding a horse for a long time and shouted to Gandalf.

"Your partner knows! He can understand our direction!" Gandalf did not give Ivy time to refute. He turned around and rode his horse in the opposite direction with the brown-robed wizard's sled.

"I didn't know that Golden Horn had such a skill..." Ivy complained in a low voice, leaned over and patted Golden Horn's neck, "Take us to Rivendell! Golden Horn! The Rivendell of the Elves!"

In addition to trying his best, what else can Ivy do?

Fortunately, Golden Horn seemed to know the way as Gandalf said. After a neigh, he jumped to the front of the team and led the ponies under the dwarves to shuttle through the woods.

Success! Yeah!