American TV series: Start with the little Sheldon's wool

Chapter 603: Moria Mines and Rock Giants
I am so happy here that I don't miss Shu~

During the few days that Mike stayed in Rivendell, he re-experienced what it means to have the best of both worlds.

The female elves appear to be more cold and detached than each other, but they are unexpectedly "hot" inside.

Moreover, those who pursue Platonic love care more about their own "feelings" and will not demand that their partner be loyal to them for no reason.

This view of love is similar to: only caring about having it once, not caring about how long it will last.

Or for them, giving means "gaining".

In Mike's opinion, they are definitely the choice of "perfect lovers".

However, Mike's "dissolute" behavior during this period also made the elf princess Alwen's attitude towards him worse and worse.

Two days ago, the other party was so angry that he returned to the Golden Forest with his grandmother, using the attitude of "out of sight, out of mind".

……

On this day, at the entrance of Rivendell, King Aaron and a group of elves sent Michael and Gandalf out of the land of the Noldor elves.

After a rest, Gandalf has recovered and is ready to catch up with the dwarves of Durin. Michael is going to the Gondor defense line, which is on the same route as the other party, so he also chooses to set off today.

"By the way, Lord King Aaron. I met Aragorn in the northern Highlands before, and he asked me to say hello to you on his behalf." Before leaving, Mike conveyed greetings to the Elf King on behalf of Strider.

"Aragorn is a good boy." King Airon smiled and nodded, as if he had received the other party's greetings. Then he looked at Michael and Gandalf and said, "Then I wish you a safe journey too~"

Where there is a gathering there is a separation, and the Noldor elves also have their own mission in Rivendell.

Mike turned around and waved to a few beautiful female elves in the crowd, and agreed to meet again next time. Then he rode the half-breed horse provided by the elves and continued south along the Misty Mountains with Gandalf.

As for the young eagle Guan He, he had returned to the northern highlands a few days ago.

I don’t know if I will be beaten when I get back.

"At the speed the adventure team is going, they should be close to the Moria Mine now. I hope they don't run into any trouble before then..."

Gandalf, who was concerned about the safety of the dwarves, had been riding for a whole day and was now leaning on a small hill eating dry food.

Judging from his expression, he seemed to be planning to travel overnight.

The geographical location of Rivendell is considered the dividing line between the east and west of Middle-earth.

The further east you go, the probability of encountering danger will increase dramatically.

Moreover, deep in the mines of Moria, there is a Yama whose strength is comparable to that of Maia. I just hope that the dwarves do not alarm it when passing by there.

"Come, have some hot soup~" While taking a break, Mike took out kitchen utensils and ingredients from his private space and made a pot of broth.

Looking at the wizard who was eating dry food, he filled a bowl and handed it to him.

"As far as I'm concerned, resisting the forces of darkness is the general trend. Even without the dwarves, there will be others to stop the dark creatures of Mordor from invading Middle-earth..." After eating the hot food, Mike couldn't help but persuade the wizard.

The other party is just too responsible, which is why he always makes himself look embarrassed.

"Resisting the forces of darkness is the responsibility of all of us, including the dwarves..." Gandalf did not think there was anything wrong in helping the dwarves take back the Lonely Mountain Pass.

This is probably due to his personality. A very responsible person will not give up his persistence just because of a few words of persuasion from others.

Then, Gandalf quickly finished his broth, went to the half-blood horses, took out a few handfuls of beans and fed them.

Obviously, he was preparing to travel again.

Looking at the other person's appearance, Mike shook his head and said nothing more.

The next morning, Gandalf, who had been traveling all night, looked at the gray sky and stopped to say, "Looking at the weather, there may be a heavy rain soon. Besides, we are not far from Moria, so we should be able to catch up with Thorin and his men soon."

"So, I plan to wait until the rainstorm is over before continuing."

Mike naturally had no objection.

So, the two of them found a hillside covered by rocks and prepared to rest for a while.

Not long after, when Mike built a bonfire, the sky outside suddenly darkened, and then a strong wind blew, with lightning and thunder in the dark clouds.

A heavy downpour came...

"I don't know if the adventure team has found a place to shelter from the rain in this weather. And Bilbo, without me watching over him, I don't know if he has taken good care of himself..." Looking at the heavy rain outside, Gandalf became worried again.

Thorin may be a qualified leader, but he is definitely not someone who cares about other people's feelings.

This can be seen from the fact that the Hobbits have never been able to integrate into the dwarf team.

"Good things will come to you naturally. There's no point in worrying." Mike found a comfortable place to sit down and began to prepare breakfast for them.

Until now he still couldn't understand why Gandalf was the only one who made himself a life of hard work when there were so many powerful people on the righteous side of Middle-earth.

Of course: I don’t understand, but I respect!!!

Just as Mike was about to prepare breakfast, the ground beneath his feet suddenly shook violently, the scene was comparable to a magnitude 10 earthquake.

"It looks like we can't have this breakfast." Looking at the debris scattered on the ground, Mike directly put the food back into the space.

"They are rock giants, not far from Moria. I hope Thorin and the others are not affected..." Gandalf looked at the two rock giants over a hundred feet tall in the valley in the distance, with a look of shock on his face.

The rock giant is a natural creature that appears in the wild on rainy days and represents the power of nature.

They are neither good nor evil, and have no purpose, but every time they appear, they are accompanied by landslides and earthquakes.

"Those two rock giants seem to be fighting for the body..." Gandalf seemed to have discovered something again.

Amidst lightning, thunder and heavy rain, two rock giants in the distant valley were fighting each other instinctively.

Although the movements are slow, they are powerful.

Every time they clashed with each other, huge rocks would fly everywhere and the earth would tremble. The falling rocks would then be sucked into the body of the rock giant on the dominant side.

As a result, the two rock giants, each hundreds of feet tall, gradually saw a difference in size as they fought.

One of them slowly shrank in size, while the other began to expand, gradually reaching a height of two hundred feet, even exceeding the nearby mountain range.

The battle was about to end due to the huge gap in strength, but at this moment a third rock giant suddenly stood up at the bottom of the valley.

This rock giant that appeared last had absorbed the rocks that dropped during the battle between the previous two giants, so its size exceeded two hundred feet when it appeared.

Then, the duel between the two "people" in the valley turned into a three-way melee.

"Their fight has spread to Moria, I must go over to take a look..." As Gandalf watched the battle between the rock giants escalate and the battlefield expand, his expression gradually became solemn.

Just as he had guessed before, if the dwarf adventure team's journey had not been delayed, they should be right near the Moria Mines now.

The sudden riot of the rock giants was not good news for the adventuring team or Gandalf.

"Let's go and take a look. The rainstorm will soon stop anyway." Mike agreed with the wizard's suggestion. He also wanted to go closer to see what kind of light balls the rock giant could emit.

Besides, this sudden rainstorm was more like a thunderstorm, which came and went quickly.

When the two walked out of the shelter, the sky had gradually cleared up. "This way~" Mike, who had obtained the power of the water ring from the elf princess, held up a vacuum umbrella in the rain, and then after identifying the direction, he called the wizard to run along the gravel path towards the Moria Mine.

[Heart of the Earth (Characteristic)] x3... [Earth Energy*+1000w] x3...

[Natural Strength (Characteristic)] x3...

As Mike and the others arrived outside the Moria Mine, the sudden storm in the sky stopped.

As the storm passed, the three rock giants fighting in the valley gradually calmed down.

If the previous scene was not still vivid in people's minds, anyone who saw the three entangled rock piles in the valley would simply think that they were a naturally formed rock mountain range.

"The harvest is not bad. The abilities of these three rock giants are a bit similar to those of the earth demon Dikui..." Mike, who had once again received a large wave of attribute light balls, was silently calculating in his mind.

The ability of the characteristic light group to bless him is not that great now. Therefore, Mike now pays more attention to the improvement of energy value, so as to make a transition to the life level.

The total energy value income during this period has allowed Mike, who has reached the mythical level 9, to fill nearly one-tenth of his energy slot at this level.

It can be said that the future is promising~

"My worry has come true. Thorin and his men must have been in the battle zone of the rock giants..." On the other side, Gandalf, who was concerned about the safety of the dwarves, picked up the weapons left by the dwarves in the rubble. "This is all my fault. If I had set out earlier, perhaps the dwarves would not have suffered this disaster."

The wizard couldn't help blaming himself when he thought that the dwarves might have been accidentally injured in the battle with the rock giants just now.

"It's too early to say this now. If you want to know what happened to Bilbo and the others, you should at least find them first." Mike reminded the wizard that now was not the time to pursue responsibility.

"You are right. Our most urgent task now is to find someone." Gandalf calmed down and became reliable again.

Then, he followed the traces left by the adventure team and found a cave.

"I recognize this blanket. It's what Thorin and his men used when they rested... It seems they were lucky. They must have avoided the main battlefield of the rock giants and came here. Then for some reason, they fell into the deep pit below..." After studying the scene in the cave, Gandalf looked at the large pit artificially dug on the ground.

I have to say that the wizard's brain is very useful. He guessed the whereabouts of the adventure team based solely on the traces left on the ground.

"Let's go down and take a look. I just hope they haven't encountered the monster deep in the mine." The situation was still not optimistic, Gandalf said, and he was about to crawl into the big pit under the ground.

"No need to go through so much trouble~" Mike condensed a ball of faith power and threw it at the wizard, making him float up and fly down the pit with him.

Here I would like to talk about the wizards in Middle-earth. Although they all have demigod bodies and all kinds of strange abilities, they do not have the ability to fly.

Every time I go out, I have to hurry like an ascetic.

Mike had reason to suspect that Ilúvatar was intentionally restricting the abilities of the Maia for the sake of his own "grand music".

"The Great Goblin King...

The invincible Goblin King...

The almighty Goblin King...

Hail the Goblin King..."

"..."

At this time, in the mines of Moria, the goblins who had captured the dwarves were singing songs of praise to the Goblin King.

The rhythm is very cheerful~

On the platform, a fat goblin wearing a crown and nearly three meters tall was clapping his hands to the rhythm of his subordinates with funny movements.

Goblins are actually the same species as goblins, but those in the forest are called goblins, while those hiding in underground caves are called goblins.

As for the goblins in the mines of Moria, except for the tall and fat Goblin King, the other goblins are generally about one meter tall and skinny.

Perhaps because they have been hiding underground for so many years, their skin tends to be pale.

This makes them look even more disgusting than the green goblins in the forest.

Thorin and others are now surrounded by such a group of ugly creatures.

"There are too many goblins here. We must make some noise to attract their attention. This will help Thorin and the others escape." After analyzing the situation, Gandalf raised his wand and knocked on a huge rock beside him.

The huge rock exploded into many small rocks, which smashed towards the goblins below.

At the same time, Gandalf also summoned a lighting spell, which shone directly to the bottom of the mine like a flashlight.

Compared to the goblins who are afraid of sunlight in the deep forest, the goblins who hide underground for many years are more sensitive to light.

The broken boulders attracted the attention of the goblins, and when they looked up, they were blinded by the wizard's illumination magic.

"Good chance... It's Gandalf... He's here to save us..."

While the goblins were controlled by the strong light, the dwarves surrounded in the middle exchanged glances with each other, then fell to the ground to pick up their confiscated weapons, and then helped each other cut the ropes tied around their bodies.

This set of processes can be described as very smooth and tacit.

By the time the goblins reacted, the dwarves had already begun to break out.

"Come here~" Above, Gandalf was also guiding the dwarves.

There are at least tens of thousands of goblins in the mine below. It would be very difficult to escape from them, and it would be an almost impossible task for the dwarf team.

But there is always a way out. In order to mine the ore in the Moria mines, many wooden ladders were built on the stone walls.

This gave the dwarf a chance to escape.

The dwarf team formed a battle formation, quickly fought their way out, and then fled upwards along the wooden stairs.

On the other side, Gandalf also went down to meet the dwarves.

For a time, it might actually be possible for them to succeed.

"Come on, chop off their heads. I want to use their heads to exchange for a bounty from the Demon Lord..." The Goblin King on the platform shouted greedily.

As the Dark Lord Sauron revived, he began to connect the dark creatures in various parts of Middle-earth. Although the goblins were not strong, they were also the target of the Dark Lord's wooing.

"Help me, Mike~"

Many ants can kill an elephant. As the goblin king spoke, tens of thousands of goblins climbed up the ladder.

They were already very familiar with the mines, and they quickly used human wave tactics to block the way of the wizards and dwarf team.

So much so that Gandalf had to ask Michael above for help.

"give it to me!!!"

Having watched enough of the show, Mike immediately made an OK gesture and jumped down, summoning the flaming holy sword in the middle.

Then, a huge flaming sword flew out, splitting the Goblin King on the platform and the platform it was standing on into two.

Amid the splatter of debris and blood, the Goblin King didn't even have time to scream before his body fell evenly to both sides.

Then, the platform collapsed in flames.

(End of this chapter)