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Chapter 5021 5024 [Mission Target: The Evil Dragon Smaug]

"It's the evil dragon Smaug, the greatest disaster of our time." Dori explained to him kindly, "Fire-breathing, razor-like fangs, claws like meat hooks..."

"Yes, I know what a dragon is," Bilbo said, waving his hands quickly.

The dragons are terrible creatures created by Melkor (also known as Morgoth), the first great boss of Arda. Morgoth endowed them with powerful bodies, terrifying strength, long lifespans, and insidious and cunning minds.

They are divided into two types: fire dragons and cold dragons. Fire dragons can breathe fire, while cold dragons cannot. But they all love gold and are extremely greedy for wealth.

Moreover, the gold corroded by them will be infected with a strange disease called "Dragon Disease". People infected with this disease will be extremely greedy, lose their nature, and will not even care about their own lives for money.

Because the dragon is too evil and terrible, and often plunders people's wealth, legends about it are all over Middle-earth, but few people have heard of it, but have seen it with their own eyes.

Bilbo had only heard of the legend of dragons but had never seen one.

"I'm not afraid. I want to join in. I want to let it taste the dwarf's iron rod." At this time, Ori saw that everyone's morale was a little depressed, so he stood up and said loudly.

"Sit down." His brother Dori pulled him down. "Even a full-scale army would find it difficult to harm it, not to mention that there are only thirteen of us."

"And they are not the most powerful and intelligent thirteen." Balin sighed.

"Hey, who are you referring to?"

"I'm not a fool~"

"I am a powerful warrior!"

When the dwarves heard him say this, they all defended themselves angrily.

……

"Although we are few in number, each of us is a warrior, and everyone will fight to the end and would rather die than surrender." Philip said, slapping the table.

"Yes, and we have a wizard with us," Bofur said, looking at Gandalf. "He can certainly kill hundreds of dragons."

"Then...then I dare not say." Gandalf denied it awkwardly after hearing it.

Although he is a wizard and a Maia, his powers are limited.

In the middle of the Second Age, shortly after Sauron forged the One Ring in Middle-earth, he was discovered by the Villamanwe.

In order to defeat him, Manwë held a meeting in Valinor and finally decided to send three Maia, transformed into humans, to lead the humans, elves, dwarves and others in Middle-earth to form an alliance to fight against Sauron.

The reason for limiting their divine power is because they are worried that once the war between gods begins, Middle-earth may be destroyed.

In those days, the Valar launched the War of Wrath to deal with Melkor. Although they successfully exiled Melkor and killed most of his servants, such as orcs, dragons, balrog, evil wolves, etc.

But Middle-earth also suffered a great blow. The western northern region was shattered, and the sea roared into many cracks, and there was chaos and noise everywhere.

The rivers ceased to flow or changed their courses, the hills were levelled and the valleys rose, and Sirion was no more, and most of the land west of the Blue Mountains, including part of it, lay in ruins and soon sank beneath the waves.

Because of this, although Gandalf is a Maia, he can only exert a small part of his divine power. Most of the time, he can only play a guiding and auxiliary role, and his combat power is not even as good as that of the Elf Queen Galadriel.

Of course, he couldn't defeat Smaug, the dragon created by Melkor. After all, Smaug was one of the most powerful dragons in the Third Age, and a single dragon destroyed the city-states of Dale and Erebor.

……

"How many are there?" Beaver asked curiously.

"What?" Gandalf said, pretending to be stupid.

"Give us a number. How many dragons have you killed?" demanded Bofur.

His persistence made Gandalf very embarrassed for a moment, and he had to rely on smoking his pipe to cover it up. "Why, you can't tell me?"

"Of course he can speak, he's a wizard!"

"Gandalf is very powerful. I have great faith in his abilities."

"Then why can't he give a clear answer? Is he hiding something?"

Seeing this, the quick-tempered dwarves started quarreling first.

"Please don't quarrel, please don't quarrel." Bilbo saw this and hurried forward to stop them.

But it had no effect, none of the dwarves were willing to listen to him.

"Enough~~" At this moment, Thorin shouted loudly, which stunned everyone, "If we can see these signs, do you think others can't see them?

Rumors have begun to spread that Smaug's dragon has not appeared for sixty years. Countless eyes are coveting the mountains in the east, thinking, hesitating, and weighing the pros and cons. The treasure of our Durin clan is being coveted.

Are we going to sit back and watch others take away our wealth, or are we going to seize the opportunity to take back our homes and our wealth?"

"Of course I have to take it back!"

"Arms up, arms up!"

"We will definitely win!"

"No one can take away our wealth!"

Hearing Thorin's words, all the dwarves were immediately outraged.

"But the front door is blocked and we can't get in at all." At this time, Balin said quietly.

When the evil dragon Smaug invaded Erebor, he crashed into the front gate of Erebor. Now the front gate is pressed down by a huge rock weighing hundreds of tons. Without a large team, it is difficult to move the rock.

With just thirteen dwarves like them, it would be impossible even if they kept fighting until they died.

Sure enough, after hearing what he said, everyone shut up.

No matter how brave and unyielding they are as warriors, it will be of no use if they cannot enter Erebor.

……

"That may not be the case, my dear Balin," Gandalf said suddenly, and then took out a key from his arms.

“……”Everyone was stunned when they saw this.

"How did you get it?" Thorin asked in surprise, staring at the key.

The key belonged to Erebor and had been held by the King of the Dwarves until it was lost. Even Thorin hadn't seen it for a long time.

"Your father Thrain gave it to me to keep," Gandalf explained. "Now it is yours." He handed the key to Thorin.

"If there is a key, then there must be a door." Philip said with an idea.

"These runes say that there is a secret passage leading into the underground hall," Gandalf said, pointing to the runes on the map.

"That's great, we don't have to go through the front door, there are other ways to get in." Everyone was excited when they heard this.

"But we have to find the door first. The dwarf's door is invisible when it is closed." Gandalf reminded, "The answer is hidden on this map, but I can't decipher it.

But I know there are people in Middle-earth who can crack it. My plan requires both secrecy and courage. If we are careful and alert enough, I believe we can succeed. "