I reforged the glory of the magic ring in Middle-earth
Chapter 104 Enslavement
Chapter 104 Enslavement
After confirming that the so-called mercenaries were actually Oaks in disguise, Tanes and the other two left the area immediately without staying any longer.
Bilbo looked at Tanis and Millicent in confusion, and subconsciously looked in the direction of the mayor's house: "What should we do now?"
Tanis pondered for a moment, then said to Bilbo and Millicent, "The situation is too complicated now. We need to split our forces into three groups to improve efficiency."
Bilbo blinked, waiting for Tanes' next words.
Tanis looked at Bilbo first. "Bilbo, I need you to return to the inn now and tell Thorin and Gandalf what we have discovered. Put the dwarves on the alert. Azog and Thorin are sworn enemies, and word of our entry today has surely not spread. If the Orcs hear of it, I think they will definitely come after Thorin."
Bilbo nodded, then looked at Millicent. "What about her?"
Millicent put on a gentle smile and watched Tanes take the initiative to say, "I think you want me to go to the market in Long Lake Town to protect Balin, Fili and Kili?"
Tanes praised, "You guessed right, Millicent. Compared to Thorin and his companions in the inn, Balin and his companions, who are smaller in number, are more likely to be targeted by the Orcs. Not to mention that the townsman earlier warned us that the mayor might cause trouble for the caravan. When you meet Balin and his companions, take them back to the inn immediately. If the mayor's men try to stop you, I allow you to use force if necessary."
Millicent nodded. "I'll judge based on the situation."
Bilbo tilted his head. "What about you, Tanis? You won't come back with me?"
Tanes shook his head, then looked in the direction of the mayor's house and said coldly, "I have to go to the mayor's house to see what's going on with him. To be honest, I'm really not good at playing tricks, so my approach has always been to get rid of those who play tricks."
From Bilbo's perspective, Tanis simply turned the corner and disappeared.
He had seen this happen before, back at the Prancing Pony when Tanis had vanished in the same way to catch those who had designs on Thorin.
Bilbo subconsciously reached into his pocket and gently touched the golden ring in his pocket.
I wonder which one is less likely to be discovered, the invisibility after wearing the ring or Mr. Tanes' invisibility.
Half an hour later, at the mayor's house.
The mayor of Long Lake Town looked like a puppet inflated by greed. He was wrapped in an overly loose brocade robe with a sable collar. The wavy patterns embroidered with gold thread were twisted into funny arcs around his bloated waist, as if even the fabric was resisting wrapping around this body soaked in mead.
Two raisin-like eyes were embedded in that round, dough-like face, and three wrinkles on his eyelids due to years of fake smiles, which maintained a hypocritical and kind arc even when he was silent.
His secretary, Alfred, had a face as thin as a rat, a pointed nose like a probe for sniffing out power, and a stiff fake smile always hanging between his sunken cheeks.
The townspeople of Long Lake Town call him "Flatterer" Alfred, but in fact he is more like a parasite crawling in the mayor's house.
But both the obese mayor and his sycophant Alfred were now crawling on the warm wooden floor.
The ornate wooden chair that the mayor was supposed to sit on was kicked to the ground by a tall Oak, who stepped on it with his dirty left foot, staining the velvet cushion on the wooden chair.
"We don't have enough manpower. We need more Orc troops. You must let more of our people enter the Long Lake Town, so that those self-righteous dwarf scum can taste the pleasure of being attacked from both sides." The Orc had a sunken skull embedded with black iron sheets. He gave orders to the mayor in a condescending tone in the human common language that he was not very proficient in.
After he said this, he rolled his ugly eyes and added: "These are the orders given to you by the great Smaug."
When the mayor heard the word "Smaug", he seemed to have lost his soul, and he and Alfred kowtowed heavily on the wooden floor several times.
Then he stood up, his eyes dull, but a warm, flattering smile on his lips: "Of course! Of course! I will satisfy my great master. Lord Bolger, please speak well of me to Master Smaug. The golden statue I am forging for him will be finished soon!"
Bolg, the son of Azog the Pale Orc, this time led a group of elite Orcs to hide in Long Lake Town under the orders of his master.
Of course, Bolg's master is not Smaug, but the Dark Lord Sauron.
If the Dwarven army from the Iron Hills had not noticed Lake-town, then Bolg would have led this ambush to give the Dwarves a big surprise when they fought against his father's Orc army.
If that damn dragon was willing to take action, Changhu Town would have been destroyed long ago, and even capturing Iron Hills would have been a piece of cake.
But after accepting the kindness of its master, the dragon only wandered around Changhu Town and then lay down in the sea of gold coins on Lonely Mountain and fell asleep.
This greedy lazy bum doesn't deserve his master's kindness at all.
When Borg thought of this, he looked at the mayor of Long Lake Town and Alfred with disgust.
Haha, these two puppets whose souls are controlled by the dragon are really poor guys.
Borg narrowed his eyes and said, "Forget about the statue of Lord Smaug for now. Prioritize its orders. How can you have enough gold to build a statue for Lord Smaug?"
The mayor immediately said, "Yes, my guards told me this morning that a dwarven caravan has entered Long Lake Town. They have quite a few valuables, including gems and gold coins."
Bolger frowned and asked, "Dwarf?"
The mayor nodded vigorously, maintaining a fawning smile. "Yes, the dwarves. They arrived early this morning and are now staying at the only inn near the west gate. Don't worry, I'll definitely leave all their goods and gold here."
Borg thought for a while, a sinister smile on his face.
It remembered that its father Azog was punished by its master for losing a group of elite wolf cavalry warriors.
And Borg also knew why these wolf riders disappeared.
They were sent by their father to hunt down the Dwarves of Durin's lineage. Bolger knew this very well, and the Dwarves' destination was the Lonely Mountain.
Therefore, Bolger suspected that this dwarf caravan was the same dwarves that his father had paid a heavy price to hunt down but failed.
If he killed these dwarves, would it mean that he was stronger than his father?
Then he would be able to gain more strength and power in front of his master, instead of hiding like a coward in the human town like he is now.
But Bolger also remembered that there were powerful wizards among those dwarves.
It was because of the wizard that the elite wolf cavalry was completely wiped out.
Therefore, Bolger asked cautiously, "Are there any men wearing white wolf armor in their group? Are there any particularly old gray-robed wizards?"
The mayor was stunned for a moment, then stealthily kicked Alfred, startling the parasite, who was nearly dozing on the floor. "Wake up, idiot! Lord Borg is asking you if any of the dwarven caravans that entered town this morning included men in white wolf armor or wizards in gray robes?" the mayor cursed under his breath.
Alfred looked at Borg with his equally dull eyes, then patted his chest and said confidently, "I swear to you, Lord Borg. I saw it clearly from nearby when the dwarf caravan came in. Besides the dwarves, there were only two knights in tattered armor, a dirty old man, and a very beautiful red-haired female swordsman."
Bolger narrowed his eyebrowless eyes and threatened, "Are you sure? If I find out you, a human scum, are lying, I will throw you into the frozen lake in Long Lake Town to feed the fish."
Alfred quickly said, "Everything I said is true. I saw it with my own eyes. There were only four humans in the caravan, definitely not the two people you mentioned."
Without them? These dwarves would be like lambs to the slaughter.
Borg's eyes flashed with brilliance, and he couldn't wait to hide his face back in the helmet, and was about to call on his men to attack the hotel.
"Where are you going?"
A human voice asked a question in Bolg's ear. He turned his head and glared at him impatiently: "Mind your own business, human."
But Borg immediately realized that the voice just now was not made by the mayor or Alfred.
At the same time, a sharp cold light flashed before its eyes, causing Borg to feel a palpitation of horror.
"when--"
The black dagger collided with the black Oak sword, making a crisp sound.
At the critical moment, Borg managed to pull out his weapon and block the sudden attack.
However, the strangely shaped dagger still cut Borg's forehead, and black blood gradually dripped from the wound, blurring his eyes.
"Huh? Your skills are quite interesting. You are not an ordinary orc, right?" A slightly surprised human voice sounded, causing Borg, whose eyes were blurred by his own blood, to look in the direction of the voice.
At some point, a human knight in tattered armor appeared in the mayor's house, and the mayor who had just talked to him and the human named Alfred were both lying unconscious on the ground.
Borg's reaction was quick. He didn't ask who the other person was, and there was no pause.
Instead, he planned to flee towards the exit, swinging his sword to make a noise to let the Orcs outside know he was under attack.
Borg had originally planned to do so, but he suddenly felt a sharp pain that penetrated deep into his soul from the place where his eyebrows were cut by the dagger, and then black and red flames filled his vision.
Then, Borg didn't know what happened, as his consciousness fell into eternal darkness.
Tanes opened his mouth slightly, reached forward, and then retracted his hand.
He didn't expect that after just a slight use of the black knife dagger, the Oak was like fuel meeting a spark, and was ignited by the tiny black flame of the Death Rune.
Not even a corpse was left behind; it turned directly into ashes.
Tanes originally just wanted to make the orc unable to resist so that it would not make any noise and alert people outside to what was happening in the house.
After all, he still wanted to pry some information out of this Oak, but how come the other party died all of a sudden?
More than ten minutes ago, Tanis used the invisibility veil to sneak into the mayor's house.
Originally, Tanes was prepared to use some extreme measures to directly interrogate the mayor about what he wanted to do, but before he could show himself, he saw the orc burned to death by the black flames swaggeringly kicking the mayor off his seat and arrogantly occupying his place.
Tanes then resisted the urge to attack and waited until they finished talking before knocking the mayor and his secretary unconscious. He then captured the Oak alive and tried to interrogate him.
When the opponent barely blocked Tanes's sure-fire attack, Tanes thought in his heart that Oak, who had such skills, must be a big fish.
But it died immediately.
Tanes looked at the black knife in his hand with a conflicted expression, shook his head and put it away. After confirming that the mayor's room was locked, he prepared to wake up the mayor and the mayor's secretary who had been knocked unconscious by him and interrogate them.
When the mayor was awakened by Tanes with a splash of cold water, the Faded One immediately noticed that something was wrong with his eyes.
"You, you are... uh uh..." After seeing the stranger Tanes, the mayor immediately wanted to scream in fear and panic, but Tanes covered his mouth obediently.
Alfred was still unconscious, but even if he woke up he would be unable to help the mayor call for help.
Because Tanes had tied up the thin secretary tightly, stuffed a piece of cloth into his mouth, and wrapped it with several rounds of cloth strips to ensure that he could not make a sound.
Tanes looked at the mayor expressionlessly through the wandering knight's helmet.
He found that the other person's eyes seemed to have lost their souls, and were very inconsistent with the expression on his face.
It was this strange feeling that made Tanes frown and use his hands to pry open the mayor's eyelids for a closer look.
He murmured, "This state is somewhat similar to the puppet made by that old man Selvis... Smaug actually has the means to enslave human souls?"
Tanes was in a dilemma. The other party's soul was enslaved, so he would definitely not be able to get anything out of him.
Then he knocked the mayor unconscious again, woke up Alfred, and wanted to check on the mayor's secretary.
As a result, Tanis discovered that Alfred, like the mayor of Lake Town, had his soul enslaved by Smaug.
Just when Tanes was at a loss, the shrill cry of a raven suddenly came from outside the window. Alfred's whole body convulsed like a puppet, and his neck tilted back at an incredible angle.
He now looked like a giant dragon perched on a golden mountain, just waking up with its head raised.
"Oh, another weak human? What have you done to my enslaved servitors?"
Alfred had a cunning and evil expression on his face, but Tanis knew that the person talking to him was not him at all, but the evil dragon in the Lonely Mountain.
(End of this chapter)
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