Bringing the MC system to Middle-earth.

Chapter 387: Old Friends, Farewell

"Come on, Jet Shadow, show your true speed..."

Outside the wall, Gandalf patted Shadowfax gently, and the next moment, Shadowfax rushed out quickly, and in the blink of an eye only his back was left.

"so fast."

Looking at Gandalf's back, even Levi couldn't help but sigh.

In terms of maximum speed alone, that horse was a little faster than the speed horse he had trained, and its endurance was also quite good.

So Gandalf went to the White City, all alone.

Pippin and Merry stood beside Levi and looked at Gandalf going away. They looked a little disappointed.

"Is Frodo really all right?"

"It's okay now. I have news about them."

Levi answered, "Frodo, and Sam, and Gollum who led the way, they have now reached Ithilien safely, and are getting closer to Mordor."

"The real test has just begun."

Listening to what Levi said, the two Hobbits were both thoughtful.

Merry seemed to have made up his mind and turned around and walked towards the hall.

Pippin stood there, staring at Gandalf as he left, still in a daze.

When Levi was about to leave, suddenly, he took out his sword.

"There must be something I can do, right?"

He raised his head and looked at Levi with expectation.

Levi stopped.

"you?"

"Yes, I do."

Pippin, who is always naughty and frivolous, said sincerely: "Frodo and Sam are fulfilling their important mission in the most dangerous place... My friends are suffering, and I can't sit back and do nothing."

"Please let me do something, I can also contribute my own strength."

"I will not refuse even if I die."

Looking at the determined hobbit, Levi thought of something and suddenly smiled.

“You can do something, and you can even help Frodo directly, but it requires great courage and will, and it may even leave you with lifelong trauma and shadow.”

"Even so, are you going to do it?"

"I do!" Pippin answered in the affirmative without hesitation.

"Very good, Peregrine Tooke."

Levi bent down slightly, supported his shoulders, and said, "Then from this moment on, you are an apprentice ranger."

"You will stay by my side for the next few days and carry out the mission with me - a mission that only you can do."

"I am very honored."

Pippin answered with great force.

Levi looked at Pippin, then looked in the direction where Merry left, and suddenly smiled.

"You know, when you and Merry are together, it always reminds me of the two old friends."

"Alger and Alvin, they are both very good guys, just like you two, they have a very good relationship and are always inseparable. They act together no matter what they do."

"They were all apprentice rangers who came to Rohan and Gondor long ago and fought the Orcs in the wilds."

Pippin nodded and said, "It does sound very similar to me and Merry. Although we haven't been to Gondor yet, Rohan is right under our feet."

"Where are they now, Water City or Roadside Castle?"

"In the roadside fort."

Li Wei looked to the north and said, "They have been staying in the roadside fort for more than 20 years. They are buried side by side on the green grass, with their tombstones leaning against each other."

"The dark night of life never stops for anyone, Pippin. I still remember them vividly, as if those two young and lively boys were still standing upright in front of me, waiting for me to assign them new tasks."

"It was like... I'd turn my head and they'd be somewhere behind me, sitting together on some rocks or grass, weapons aside, discussing what had happened the previous day."

Pippin listened in a daze, and couldn't help turning his head to glance behind him, but all he saw was an empty flat ground. Nothing.

"Well, there's nothing to see, we should get going."

Levi patted Pippin on the shoulder, motioning him to follow him and the Water City army that was retreating quickly.

"Wait, but Merry..."

Somehow, Pippin suddenly felt reluctant to leave his good friend.

"He has his own things to do, too."

Levi pointed at the entrance of the hall in the distance.

"look."

Pippin looked over with great effort, and saw Merry talking to Théoden.

At this moment, Rohan has decided to rush to Gondor's aid and is mobilizing urgently.

On the one hand, it was due to the request of Aragorn and Boromir, and on the other hand, a messenger from Gondor arrived not long ago, bringing the token of Denethor, a red arrow.

That meant war was coming, and Gondor needed Rohan's help.

Théoden had long wanted to help Gondor, and now that he had received a formal request for aid, he did not hesitate to mobilize and recruit soldiers to fulfill the long-standing Oath of Eorl.

It was at this time that Merry came to him.

The hobbit suddenly drew his short sword and knelt on one knee before Théoden.

"I have a sword."

He held his sword in both hands, looked up at Theoden, and said:

"Please accept it, Your Majesty Theoden."

"I, Meriadoc of the Shire, offer my services to you."

Meri is also trying to do something with his actions.

“And I embraced it.”

Théoden smiled and gently lifted the hobbit to his feet.

"From now on, I appoint you, Meriadoc, as 'Squire of Rohan' and you will serve me."

Merry nodded excitedly and accepted the appointment immediately.

So the King of Rohan had a hobbit servant riding a pony by his side.

Meanwhile, as Theoden was recruiting soldiers, some men began to become restless.

"I really want to gather a fully armed dwarf army, riding goats or wild boars, with our heavy crossbows and chariots, we will be invincible."

Looking at the gathered Rohan cavalry, Gimli also felt a fire burning in his heart. He thought of the army in his hometown and the elite dwarf troops with their armor shining with cold light.

"Your kin need not come here to fight, Gimli."

"I'm afraid they are at war now too," said Legolas, who was riding on the same horse as Gimli.

"Haven't you heard about the dangerous situation in the brown land before the black gate?"

"The Lonely Mountain stands on the same front with the Free Cities and the Woodland Kingdom, and is in a tense confrontation with a powerful enemy."

"Elves, dwarves, and humans, the three parties have united again..."

Legolas muttered, and Gimli listened, lowering his head awkwardly, and was unusually silent.

As darkness sweeps in, no free force still awake feels safe.

Over the next three days, the army continued to gather, coming from nearby cities and fortresses to support Gondor.

The dark green banner of Rohan fluttered in the wind, and the horses on the banner seemed to actually begin to leap, along with the cavalrymen.

"Behind the walls of Minas Tirith, the destiny of our time will be revealed..."

Theoden felt something in his heart and took a last look at the golden palace on the hill - Meduseld.

Afterwards, there was no looking back.

(End of this chapter)