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Chapter 771 The Lord of the Rings begins, Gandalf is offline

Half a year after Li Ming returned to Shabad, he had completely digested the expanded territory.

Then he led his army south again, fought all the way to the seaside, turned west, and extended the border to the Blue Mountains, adjacent to the Shire, and only separated by a mountain from the Grey Havens where Frodo and others crossed the sea to the west in the plot.

This journey expanded the territory controlled by Li Ming by more than five times!
Judging from the map, Li Ming's territory is not much smaller than Gondor.

Of course, in terms of population, Li Ming is still far behind. Gondor has a population of just over 200,000.

Li Ming's place is sparsely populated. Even with such a large territory, the total number of residents is only 50,000, which is not as many as the Rohan people.

But this is enough for Li Ming to establish a new kingdom.

Arda, Third Age 3010.

Li Ming officially established the new kingdom. Since the area west of the Misty Mountains belonged to the Eriador region, the kingdom was named the Kingdom of Eriador.

There is no need to use Arnault's banner at this time.

The capital was still set in Shabad. Although Akshan and others had proposed to build a new royal city, Li Ming refused.

After several years of expansion, Shabad has become quite presentable. The most important thing is that it is close enough to Isengard. If Saruman does anything unexpected, Li Ming will be able to discover it first.

When the Kingdom of Eriador was established, Gondor was the first to send people to congratulate it, because Li Ming deliberately left a large neutral area between Eriador and Gondor. Since the two countries' territories were not adjacent, there would naturally be no disputes.

Soon after, large powers such as Rohan and Valley State sent envoys to congratulate.

Even the Lord Commander of the Shire, Firrubras III Took, sent gifts to Bree and asked someone to bring them to Li Ming.

Aragon, the only remaining royal family of Arnor, also came to participate in Li Ming's celebration and was warmly welcomed by Li Ming.

Li Ming even deliberately invited Aragorn to stay for a few days, treating him to delicious food and drinks every day. He also took the opportunity to make a few remarks about a certain elf lord, saying that his place was not as xenophobic as the elves, who didn't even give him a meal.

Aragorn could only smile bitterly at this. He had already returned to Rivendell and knew that Li Ming was acting like a rogue there. However, Li Ming did make great contributions to the humans west of the Misty Mountains, so he didn't know how to express his gratitude.

However, Li Ming did not simply want to mock Rivendell, he really had high hopes for Aragorn.

Aragorn is the typical template of a destined king in the West. He possesses qualities such as compassion, magnanimity, and bravery. Even when Li Ming established a country on the territory of his ancestors, Aragorn had no complaints. Instead, he enthusiastically provided a lot of useful suggestions to the Kingdom of Eriador.

This is much better than Li Ming's previous life, when some unspeakable creatures held a storybook and talked about recovering the country and carrying out inhumane destruction.

Another five years passed, and Li Ming heard the long-awaited reminder.

[Ding, the soul gem has been analyzed successfully. You can claim it after leaving the current world.]

Here comes, finally here!
At this point, Li Ming has finally completed the analysis of all six Infinity Stones. Although they are temporarily unavailable due to the origin mission, Li Ming is still very happy.

One of the great goals of coming to this world has been accomplished.

And this is not the only good news Li Ming received this year. He also made progress in his research on the Supreme Ring.

Now Li Ming is confident that he can combine the casting techniques of the Lord of the Rings and the Lantern Ring to recast the Supreme Lord of the Rings so that his Supreme Lantern Ring can control it.

Not only that, Li Ming also made a golden ring, the style and size of which were exactly the same as the one on Frodo's hand. It could also make one invisible when worn, and even elven inscriptions would appear when thrown into fire.

A fake One Ring.

Li Ming intends to use this ring to replace Frodo's real ring, but the fake is only half finished now, because it does not have Sauron's magic power, nor the bewitching power of the One Ring.

Li Ming has found a way to copy these characteristics from the Supreme Ring, but this requires him to obtain the Supreme Ring.

So all the problems came to Gandalf.

"This old man, why is he so slow in looking up information..." Li Ming thought idly, "Could he be looking for a lover?"

Of course, this is Li Ming's injustice to Gandalf. After all, the last appearance of the One Ring was three thousand years ago, and during that time there were wars, plagues and other events. It is extremely difficult to find records on how to identify the One Ring in Middle-earth, which is only based on written records.

So, in this era when people had to communicate by shouting, travel by walking, and there were no electrical appliances, Li Ming spent more than two years researching technologies such as space compression, matter conversion, and planetary transformation.

In May of the year 3018 of the Third Age, Aragorn suddenly came to visit Shabad and explained to Li Ming that the rangers who had been active near the Shire and Bree would withdraw.

After several years of development, the Kingdom of Eriador has become much more prosperous. Its population is about to exceed 10000, and its army remains above . Therefore, when Aragorn ends his operations in Eriador, he should also inform Li Ming.

Aragorn did not tell Li Ming what he had done before, but Li Ming, who was familiar with the plot, knew it when Aragorn stated his purpose.

Gandalf finally confirmed that the ring in Frodo's hand was the long-lost One Ring!

This shocked Gandalf. After all, he had never thought that someone close to him would win such a first prize. It was really a case of being in the dark.

In the movie, Gandalf urged Frodo to set off quickly, but in the novel, Frodo planned to set off after his birthday on September 9.

It seems that this world follows the setting of the novel regarding the departure time.

So Gandalf and Frodo agreed to take him to Rivendell to discuss the next plan.

Before this, Gandalf asked Aragorn to guard near the Shire to prevent people from Mordor from coming. Now after Gandalf confirmed the whereabouts of the ring, he said that he would take over the rest of the matters. After Aragorn completed his mission, he withdrew his men to look for his long-lost lover Arwen.

After Aragorn left, Li Ming immediately sent his most capable man, Akshan, to Bree, and asked him to closely monitor all affairs of Bree related to the Shire.

Li Ming's guess was confirmed in the following time. At the end of June, Akshan came personally to report that a white-robed wizard gave a letter to the owner of the Prancing Pony Inn and asked him to help deliver it to the Baggins family in the Shire.

But because Akshan declared martial law when he arrived in Bree, the letters were intercepted at the city gate.

Li Ming opened the letter and checked. It was indeed a letter from Gandalf to Frodo, asking him to set off for Rivendell immediately.

Because at this time Gandalf already knew that Sauron had learned from Gollum that the One Ring was in the hands of a Hobbit named Baggins, so he guessed that Sauron would send someone to snatch it.

Gandalf had to hurry to Isengard to seek help from the white wizard Saruman and had no time to go to the Shire. Aragorn had left again, so he could only ask the familiar owner of the Prancing Pony Inn for help.

Moreover, the Ringwraiths had not arrived yet, so Gandalf felt that Frodo and his companions had enough time to set off.

Li Ming couldn't help laughing.

Now that the letter has fallen into Li Ming's hands, it means that the unsuspecting Gandalf has fallen into Saruman's hands.

It was worth it that he helped Saruman keep the secret for so long, otherwise it would have been difficult to get Gandalf off the line.

Since Loren is leaving temporarily, Li Ming will accept the Supreme Magic Ring.

(End of this chapter)