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Chapter 5020 5023 [The real adventure is about to begin]

"Hey~" Bilbo ran over to check.

Thank goodness, even though the dwarves sang scary words, they didn't destroy any of the tableware.

This is no wonder, as every dwarf is not only a strong warrior, but also a skillful craftsman.

Their casting skills are inherited from their creator, the Valarë, and in many aspects even the elves are inferior to them. Therefore, although cleaning up these cups, plates and bowls looks dangerous, it is actually not dangerous at all.

Bilbo couldn't help but breathe a sigh of relief when he saw this.

"Hahahaha~" When the dwarves saw his appearance, they couldn't help but burst into laughter.

Just then, there was a heavy knock on the door.

"Boom, boom, boom~"

Everyone stopped smiling immediately.

"I suppose he has arrived," Dwalin said to Gandalf.

Gandalf nodded. "He has arrived."

Afterwards, the dwarves went to the entrance hall to greet their leader, Thorin Oakenshield, a descendant of the Dwarf King of Lonely Mountain.

Sure enough, as soon as the door opened, a tall and imposing dwarf was seen standing outside.

"Gandalf~" The dwarf looked at Gandalf, "I thought the place you mentioned was easy to find, but I got lost twice. Fortunately, I saw the mark on the door, otherwise I might have missed it again."

"Marks on the door? What marks? I just painted the door a week ago." Bilbo asked in confusion.

"This is the mark I drew this morning," Gandalf explained, and then introduced, "Bilbo Baggins, come and meet the leader of our adventure, Thorin Oakenshield."

Bilbo Baggins was stunned and didn't know how to start.

Thorin came over and looked Bilbo up and down. "So... this is the Hobbit. Tell me, Mr. Bilbo Baggins, do you often go to war?"

"What?" Bilbo was surprised.

"Axe or sword? Which weapon do you use?" Thorin asked again.

"If you want to know, I can play Conker," Bilbo said with an awkward laugh, "but I don't understand. What's the connection?"

Conker is a traditional game of the Hobbits, in which players knock chestnuts against each other. The one whose chestnut is broken wins.

"Just as I thought." Thorin nodded when he saw Bilbo's reaction. "He doesn't look like a thief, but more like a grocer."

Hearing his comment, the dwarves also laughed.

To them, Bilbo did look short and thin, not as tall, strong, burly and powerful as the dwarves.

……

Thorin Oakenshield was then invited into the living room.

He was offered tea and porridge and cakes.

"What's the news about the Iridron Conference? Have other families sent people to participate?" Balin asked with concern.

He was the oldest dwarf in the team and had served the dwarf king Thrain II. "They are all here." Thorin nodded as he ate his oatmeal porridge. "Emissaries from all seven kingdoms have come."

The dwarves have seven ancestors, each of whom gave rise to their own race. Therefore, the dwarves are divided into seven major groups, namely Longbeard, Firebeard, Broadback, Ironfist, Hardbeard, Blackhair, and Stonefoot.

Among them, the Longbeard Clan is also known as the Durin Clan. Their ancestor Durin I woke up on Mount Gundabad and subsequently established the city of Khazad-dum, which is Moria that appeared in the movie "The Lord of the Rings".

Khazad-du-M has fallen several times, to the orc army controlled by Sauron, and to the Balrog who escaped during the War of Wrath in the Second Age, and was renamed Moria, which means "Dark Rift".

After the fall of Khazadum, the Durin clan went to the Lonely Mountain to develop and built the city of Erebor in the belly of the Lonely Mountain. But unfortunately, Erebor was finally captured by the evil dragon Smaug, and the Durin clan lost their home again.

For this reason, Thror, the king of the Durin clan, once wanted to lead the dwarf army back to Khazadum. But at the gate of Khazadum, they fought with the orcs entrenched there, led by the white orc Azog.

In the end, Thror was beheaded by Azog, and Thror's son, Thrain II, was frightened and went crazy. Seeing this, Prince Thorin stepped forward and fought Azog fiercely.

During the battle, his shield was knocked off, but Thorin still fought hard. He raised an oak as a shield and successfully cut off one of Azog's arms, so he was named Thorin Oakenshield.

Although the orcs were defeated due to Azog's injury, they retreated to Moria, which was still easy to defend and difficult to attack, preventing the dwarves from retaking Moria.

They could only go into exile again, heading to the Blue Mountains, where they lived for more than a hundred years, until the raven brought them hope of victory.

Because there is a prophecy circulating among the dwarves, "When the birds of the Old Kingdom fly back to Erebor, the reign of beasts will end."

Now the ravens have returned to Erebor, and the dragon Smaug has not appeared for sixty years, so everyone believes that the dragon is likely to have died of old age.

In this way, Erebor is likely to be an empty city with huge wealth, and whoever enters first can get huge wealth.

That is why Thorin convened a meeting of the seven dwarf kingdoms to discuss how to retake Erebor.

……

"What about the dwarves of the Iron Hills? Are they willing to join us?" Dwalin looked at Thorin and asked.

The Iron Hills Dwarves also belong to the Durin Clan. After the fall of Khazadum, the Durin Clan wandered around, some settled in the Lonely Mountain, and some went to the Iron Hills.

Although several centuries have passed, they are all of the same bloodline as the Durin clan, so naturally they are much closer than the other dwarf kingdoms.

"No, they won't come." Thorin put down the spoon in his hand and said dejectedly, "They said this adventure is our own, so we have to go alone."

Hearing him say this, the dwarves made sounds of disappointment.

"Are you really going on an adventure?" Bilbo asked in surprise.

Although there was a table of dwarves in front of him, he still couldn't believe this fact.

"Bilbo, dear, go and get some candles," said Gandalf, and then he took out a piece of paper from his arms. "In the far east, across mountains and rivers, through forests and wilderness, there stands a lonely mountain..."

As he spoke, he opened the parchment and saw that it was a map with a lonely mountain on it and a dragon on top of the mountain.

"Lonely Mountain?!" Bilbo returned at this time, saw the map, and read out the name on the map.

"Yes, Oin saw the signs. As the prophecy said, the ravens have returned to the mountains, and the reign of the beasts is coming to an end," Gloin said.

Everyone nodded in agreement; they all believed in this prophecy.

"Beast!? What beast?" Bilbo asked curiously.