How to break into a ring

The dragon has finally been vanquished (never mind by whom), and the dwarves' adventure has been a resounding success!

If this is a story, then at this point, it should end happily. The protagonists are dwarves. They took back the treasure. This adventure is the most precious and worth talking about experience in their lives.

Fay looked at Smaug who was seriously injured and unable to get up, he was worried.

Because there is only one thing left for the dwarves, and that is to climb the crumbling lonely mountain beyond recognition, kill the dragon, and avenge their former compatriots and country!

Fay didn't think he was capable of stopping the dwarves, or the people of Laketown, from coming to kill Smaug.

"Get up, unless you want the Lonely Mountain to be your grave!" Fay shouted into the dragon's ear.

Although it was a dragon, without it Faye felt that he could not have killed the Nazgul.Of course he couldn't drag Smaug up, he could only try to wake up the big guy from his stupor.

Smaug's huge body twitched, and he weakly opened his red-gold eyes.

It glanced at the completely collapsed nest, then at the dazzling reflection of the gold coins and jewels below the river valley, and continued to close its eyes, with black smoke puffing from its nostrils.

"..."

Wasn't hacked to death by the ring spirits, but was pissed off by the fact that the treasure rolled away?

Fay thought for a long time, but couldn't find a comforting sentence to say.

——If the old ones don’t go away, the new ones won’t come. Healing the wounds is more important than anything else? OTZ is instigating the dragon to continue attacking the town in the future!

"...At least you're still alive!" Fay resolutely persuaded Smaug.

The dragon made a strange humming tone from its nostrils.

Fay was still figuring out what it meant, when he suddenly heard Smaug laughing in a low voice: "The Lonely Mountain will not be my tomb, neither humans nor dwarves will come here...you wait Just watch."

"What did you do?" was Fay's first reaction.

Smaug's tone of conspiracy against the villain boss refreshed his understanding of this dragon.

"Me? I didn't do anything." The giant dragon barely moved its head, and then changed to a more comfortable lying position that would not press on the wound. It looked at the magnificent scene under the sun and elongated its tone, like reading a riddle "Look, those jewels that fill the vales, that turn to lakes of gold, the riches that once lay flat under my belly! How sweet are their cold touches, Lord Girion's necklace, the dwarf king's ring, Mithril Forged mail, mountain heart gem..."

At first, Fay had a strange expression, thinking that Smaug had been hit hard and was so stimulated that he was speechless, but as the dragon slowly chanted about its collection, Fay suddenly understood!When he heard the gemstones of the Heart of the Mountain, Fay couldn't help but pick up the key point of Smaug's aria: "...you say, who can resist their temptation?"

"Haha!" Smaug was very satisfied, it really thought that Faye's "acquaintance" was too pleasing to the eye.

He killed the Ring Spirit, and didn't take advantage of its serious injury to pick up the most precious things in the jewelry and mudslides - Fay's generosity of not even asking for five gold coins before, obviously left a good impression on the dragon.

"These treasures will still be mine in the end!" Smaug announced haughtily. "Let them start the looting now!"

It turned out that Smaug was right.

The dwarf woke up from the initial ecstasy, and immediately stopped the people in Changhu Town from salvaging gold coins, because this was the wealth of the dwarf kingdom, and of course it belonged to the dwarves.They want to re-establish the kingdom under the mountain here, and restore that glorious history.

The people in Changhu Town are not rich, or their lives are not very ideal, and because of this, they will sing the songs of hundreds of years ago, envious of the life of their ancestors at that time.

Besides, the riches that Smaug had taken, though most of them belonged to the dwarves, but some also came from the destroyed Dale-town.The ancestors of some people in Changhu Town lived there...

The petty and greedy mayor of Changhu Town wanted to scoop up all the gold coins in the lake.

There are also some righteous warriors in Long Lake Town. Although they don't want the treasure of the dwarves, Smaug burned many houses in the town a day ago. The dead have no money to bury, and the orphans and old people left behind have no money to support.So they advocated negotiating with the dwarves, and Changhu Town would get a part of the dragon's treasure.

This request was flatly rejected by the dwarves.

The dwarves believed that if they hadn't trekked all the way to the lonely mountain, the humans in Changhu Town would never have even dreamed of seeing a single gold coin!Even when they ventured into the dragon's lair on the Lonely Mountain, no human dared to go along with them to challenge the dragon (even if anyone would go, the dwarves would not agree).

The people of Laketown were even more annoyed. They mentioned that they had saved the dwarves on the sandbar, and accused Laketown of not being attacked by Smaug if it were not for the dwarves.

"What about our country?" the dwarves roared, swinging their axes. "No one is entitled to share the treasures of my people. The dragon also took their lives and homes, more than you!"

As for Smaug?

People in Changhu Town thought that the dragon was dead, and the dwarves didn't say that they didn't defeat the dragon because of the treasure.

There are also dwarves who want to climb up to confirm the life and death of the dragon, but they are really inseparable, and so many people are snatching gold coins and jewels noisily, the dragon has no reaction at all, it must be dead.

The most important reason why the dwarves and humans have not escalated to bloodshed is the most important reason - Gandalf the Grey stopped, the wizard kept persuading both sides to calm down, and did not dare to take a step away, but the situation is still the last thing Gandalf wants to see The situation developed.

Gold coins and jewels full of river valleys and lakes! !Even a crow can fly back to make a bird's nest with a ruby ​​in its mouth!Those who pass by, as long as they want to take it, can the thirteen dwarves stop it?

They were so furious that they sent their companions to inform the nearest dwarf settlement in the Iron Hills overnight, and the rest of the people searched desperately for the mountain heart gem along the lonely mountain valley, because its value was higher than the gold of the entire river. , and at the same time the most glorious proof of the dwarf kingdom, it is the family heirloom jewel of the royal family.

The people in Changhu Town got the news that a large number of dwarf warriors would come, and they immediately thought of the wood elves, the ally they had the most dealings with, so they went to Mirkwood to deliver a message.

The dwarves have not forgotten what happened in Mirkwood.

"Whoever gets the heart of the mountain, I will stand against him!" The dwarf shouted angrily, and even spread to the half-collapsed lonely mountain with the wind.

This is already the third day that gold coins have flowed into the Long Lake.

None of the wounds that the Ringwraiths had inflicted on Smaug were vital. The worst wounds were actually caused by falling from the sky.Smaug looked at the gold coins scattered among the stones, and his heart ached again, and he yelled for Fay to help pick them up and put them under his head.

Fay pulled out the leather bag lost by the dwarf from under the collapsed tree trunk, and touched some dry food, as well as felt blankets, brown cloaks, flint, a knife for peeling potatoes, a water jug... these are good things, if you want to find them in Middle-earth To pretend to be a traveler, one must have belongings.

A person appeared on the wasteland with empty hands and nothing, with the words "I'm suspicious" written on his forehead.

Fay easily put the scattered gems and gold coins into his leather pocket. When he heard the dwarf's angry shout, he stood there in a daze for a long time.

I always feel like I've heard the same thing somewhere.

The gem of the heart of the mountain... that white gem that is said to have more than 1000 facets. If the king of elves gets this treasure, maybe the dwarves and elves will go to war directly.Is there any way for the people of Long Lake Town to find the Heart of the Mountain, and then hand it over to Thranduil——

Fay suddenly woke up from the evil thought!

He couldn't help laughing, even if the elves and dwarves go to war, under the threat of the demon king Sauron, all races in Middle-earth will eventually unite.Fay can't wait to draw a line with Sauron, why should he bother to do such a terrible thing.

"...Have you got a good idea?" Smaug asked slowly, shifting his body.

"no!"

Fay came back with half a pocket of gold coins and precious stones, and before he could dump it, he froze suddenly: "Smaug, do you know wizards?"

"Wizard?" Smaug kept his body still and raised his head vigilantly, "Yes, they look like elders among humans, holding something like a cane, but the cane emits dazzling light and flames. I heard about them 2000 years ago, and they're still alive!"

Smaug suddenly smelled an unusual smell, and immediately turned his head to follow Fay's line of sight.

A gray peaked hat appears beneath the rock.

Then a brown cane, and an old face.

After climbing to the top of the mountain, the gray-robed wizard Gandalf slowly stopped.He didn't seem surprised that Smaug wasn't dead, and just stared at Fay.In fact Gandalf at last began to wonder how the dwarves had killed the dragon, for it was out of character for the dwarves not to boast about the experience.

After listening to the dwarf's description, the wizard immediately felt that something was wrong. A person mysteriously appeared in the dragon's lair, with black hair and red eyes, exactly the same as Bilbo's previous description.

There is also a black knight riding a flying dragon, that is the Ringwraith!

The Ringwraiths going to attack Smaug must have something to do with Bilbo's vision!

"Wizard, you have stepped into my territory!" Smaug roared first.

The roar of the giant dragon stunned the crowd who were snatching gold coins and jewelry at the foot of the mountain, and many timid screamed and started to run back.

It wasn't Smaug that Gandalf was wary of. He could tell that the dragon was seriously injured. The gray robe wizard's target was Fay, and he couldn't figure out the position and origin of this person at all.

Radagast said the man was a wizard, and Bilbo told him he was a mysterious warner. The dwarves described him as a wizard who knew the magic spell to open doors, and rode on the back of Smaug to fight the Nazgul.

Gandalf stuffed his pipe into his pocket, and there was no smile on his wrinkled face: "I salute you, the traveler who claims to have crossed the sea."

Fay didn't know how to answer, so he could only vaguely imitate: "... Salute to you, gray-robed wizard."

At this moment, Smaug suddenly spread his wings and lifted Fay onto his back.The giant dragon jumped down the collapsed cliff, and amidst the horrified shouts of countless people, it flew crookedly high, but at a very fast speed.This notorious dragon finally disappeared into the sky.

"He is not a wizard, nor is it our ally, I have this hunch!"

After Gandalf went down the mountain, he met Legolas who came from the dark forest. The gray-robed wizard held his staff and said without raising his head, "There will be more serious things. I have a bad guess. It may take Go to Rosslorien and confirm."

Legolas brought Gandalf even worse news.

——The Holy White Council was still a step behind. When the wizards and elves came to Dol Guldur, the dark fortress of the undead was already empty. There were no Orcs or Ringwraiths. It was just a dark ruin.

Sauron has left Mirkwood.

Volume Two: Journey to the Unknown