I reforged the glory of the magic ring in Middle-earth

Chapter 136 Latarn vs. Smaug

【【【Azog!!!】】】

Smaug's angry roar echoed throughout the palace of the Lonely Mountain as he stepped out of his lair for the first time in over a hundred years.

But Azog had long anticipated that if the invading human soldiers escaped from Smaug's lair, it would definitely be the first target to face Smaug's wrath.

Therefore, he arranged for some poor Orc slaves to stay in the palace hall outside for Smaug, while he himself had already hidden with the Orc army in various corners of the Dwarf's huge palace.

Smaug didn't even glance at the shivering Orc slaves as the dragon's flames swept through them, leaving a trail of charred corpses.

You can't escape, humans! I smell the dwarven stench on you!

It roared and rushed towards the gate of the Lonely Mountain.

When Smaug broke out of the mountain, the whole Lonely Mountain trembled.

Amid the roar of the dragon's wings spreading, the stone pillars in the palace broke in half and the granite base cracked like a fragile eggshell.

Half of Smaug's Lonely Mountain Gate was lifted high into the sky and broken into thousands of pieces of stone in the airflow created by the dragon's wings.

The reliefs of the dwarf kings carved on the rock wall were scratched by Smaug's dragon claws, leaving five grooves more than ten meters deep. The broken stones fell off, and the statue of Thorin's father, Thrain, was smashed to pieces in the fall.

At the same time, a continuous muffled sound was heard from the interior of the Solitary Mountain.
The dome of the Dwarven hoard collapsed like a torrential rain, piercing the mountain of gold below. The hoarded Dwarven treasures collapsed in the tremor, and a metallic torrent of gold and gems poured down from the heart of the Lonely Mountain, then slowly overflowed the gates of the Lonely Mountain, as if the mountain were bleeding golden blood.

Smaug flew across the sky, and the thick clouds were torn into pieces, as if the sky was torn open by a dragon's claws.

The dwarves in Dale naturally saw the scene when Smaug rushed out of the Lonely Mountain. When the dragon's roar came into their ears from far away, the feeling of fear that once made the dwarves feel gradually filled their hearts, and even the spears and axes in their hands were shaking.

Ori's shield slammed to the ground with a clang, and the sound made his brothers Dori and Nori look sideways. The shield fell to the ground and reflected the afterimage of the swooping dragon.

Even Balin began to panic. Smaug's figure swooping towards Dale was exactly the same as he remembered when he rushed towards Lonely Mountain.

The melted armor, the carbonized beard, and the screams solidified in the dragon's flames all turned into cold sweat soaking Balin's back.

Smaug deliberately flew low over the ruins of Dale Town. His dragon eyes arrogantly admired the fear of the dwarves and humans below him, and roared again.

Smaug's dragon roared against Thorin's eardrums, and he heard the cries of the dwarves.

That was not the scream of his compatriots who were standing beside him now, but the cry of his compatriots who died tragically in Smaug's dragon fire one hundred and seventy-one years ago.

Thorin covered his ears tightly, blood slowly flowed out of his ear holes, and his pupils were filled with bloodshot.

The hallucinatory screams in his ears overlapped with Smaug's dragon roar at this moment, turning into ice spikes that pierced his spine.

"Smaug!!!!"

Thorin roared and propped himself up, the Frozen Shell Axe emitting icy mist in his hand.

Smaug rose again, but instead of choosing dwarves, his second dive found more interesting prey.

It was a banner, embroidered with the same red lion that was on the armor of those lowly humans who had offended him.

The battle flag of Latarn was now fluttering on the tower of Riverdale.

Smaug hovered in mid-air with a dexterity that belied his size, his neck arched back, a magma-like light shining through the scales deep in his throat.

Thorin was very familiar with this posture. His compatriots were burned to charred bones while accumulating power in this way.

"No!"

Thorin suddenly rushed forward, trying to rush to the direction of the Red Lion Legion, and used the Frozen Shell Axe in his hand to create a large amount of ice mist to resist the dragon flames.

He didn't care if the dragon flames would vaporize him, or if Azog was watching this farce.

One hundred and seventy-one years of blood debt boiled in Thorin's veins, and now Smaug was attacking the army of his best friend. He wanted to rush into the dragon's flame and drive the axe Tanes had given him into Smaug's eyes.

Dain, who had been standing with Thorin, reacted quickly and hooked his waist armor with his hammer, shouting: "Are you crazy, Thorin! That's Smaug!"

Fili and Kili reacted and came back to their senses from the panic of seeing Smaug, and hurriedly hugged their uncle tightly.

The moment Thorin turned around, all the dwarves saw the tears on his face, tears of anger melting in his eyes.

He croaked, "Because it is Smaug, it must be ended by Durin's blood."

At the same time, the Breath of Smaug finally arrived.

The orange-red column of fire shot towards the Red Lion Legion. Smaug was ready to listen to the wailing of humans, but the flame was twisted by the purple gravity field at the last moment and scattered into the sky and disappeared.

In Smaug's wide-open dragon eyes, a strange man wearing golden lion-head armor quickly rose from the ground.

The commotion Smaug made in Lonely Mountain could be seen even in Lake-town.

Tanes had already received the news from Latarn and knew that Azog had started his plan, so he was riding fast with Gandalf and Bilbo to the town of Vale.

When Tanes wrote to Thranduil to tell him that his son was in Lake-town, Thorin left and returned to Riverdale.

Gandalf looked solemnly at Smaug's arrogant figure in the sky, his fingers under his gray robe quietly clenching his staff.

He said, "The noise Smaug makes is far more lively than the drums at a dwarf's feast. Tanes, are you sure Latarn can really withstand his attack?"

Tanes rode on Torret without turning his head. "You still have the leisure to use such metaphors at this point. It means you already have the answer in your mind."

Gandalf coughed lightly. "It's mainly to give me some peace of mind."

Tanis sighed. "I was confident at first, but now that you've brought Bilbo along, I'm completely unsure. This is a war between the dwarves and Smaug and the Orcs. The people of Lake Town have also been ravaged by Smaug, and I'm allied with Thorin and his men. But Bilbo Baggins, the Hobbit, has no reason to be dragged into this."

Gandalf looked at Bilbo, who was sitting in front of the saddle in his arms, and said, "But he insisted on going to Dale instead of staying in Lake-town." Bilbo only then recovered from the shock of seeing the dragon with his own eyes. After hearing Tanes' words, he immediately replied, "No, no, no, of course I have a reason to be involved. I signed Thorin's contract, remember? And I always have a hunch that Thorin and the dwarves in the expedition might need my help."

After hearing what Bilbo said, Gandalf looked at Tanis with a look that said "that's it".

Tanis was about to say something when Bilbo shouted, "I think Thorin and the others might be in real trouble. Although Smaug knocked a big hole in the Lonely Mountain, those black spots coming out of the gap are obviously not rubble."

The hobbit suddenly stood up on tiptoe in the saddle, and Gandalf was so frightened that he hurried to help Bilbo.

But Bilbo ignored all this. His pupils reflected the black tide surging from the foot of the mountain. He shouted, "It's Orcs! There are also many trolls! Damn it, Azog wants to take this opportunity to attack Thorin and his men! No, no, there are many more things flying out of the Lonely Mountain, they seem to be... bats? We must hurry to Dale to inform Thorin and his men and Tanis's army!"

Gandalf quickly pushed the hobbit back into the saddle. "Calm down, Mr. Baggins. Smaug's wrath is far more dangerous than that of an orc. We are too conspicuous now."

Bilbo took a deep breath. "I know, but Thorin and the others are still on the front lines, and Azog has managed to get an entire bat army from who knows where..."

Tanis said, "Just some bats flying in the sky? Don't worry, Bilbo. Latarn is here, and nothing can fly without his permission."

Even though Tanes said this, he still rode Torret a little faster.

On the other side, Smaug looked at Latarn who was gradually coming to the same height as himself. He had never seen a human who could fly, not to mention that this human's physique was too huge compared to the humans he had seen before.

Therefore, Smaug's curiosity was aroused, and he was ready to communicate with this human.

Once this human communicates with him, Smaug plans to launch a surprise attack and melt this strange human with his fire.

It was true that it was curious, but that didn't mean Smaug was stupid enough to think that he couldn't hurt him.

Even Smaug sensed the dangerous aura emanating from the other person the first time he laid eyes on him.

Smaug looked at the other person and found that he was only about a hundred meters away from him. For Smaug, this distance was no different from standing in front of him.

Then it spoke: "Interesting people ahh ...

Before Smaug could finish his words, gravity magic bound his dragon wings while Latarn looked at him as if he was a fool.

Then Latarn raised his hands high, and Smaug's huge body suddenly stopped in the air. The dragon's wings flapped desperately but could not break free from the purple restraints. The whole dragon suddenly fell to the wasteland near the outskirts of Long Lake Town.

Smaug let out a deafening roar, his golden pupils filled with fear and disbelief.

"boom!!"

Smaug's huge body hit the ground, causing quite a shock.

Latan in the sky frowned slightly, looked up and looked around, thinking silently in his heart: Gravity magic is indeed a bit subtle in this world. This dragon should have been killed by its own weight.

But on the ground, Smaug was screaming in pain. Although his wings were broken in a strange twist, his limbs and head were still normal.

Simply put, Smaug lost the ability to fly, but on the ground he was still the invincible dragon.

【【【This is impossible——! 】】】

For the first time, Smaug's roar was mixed with shock and anger, and his golden dragon eyes reflected the looming figure in the sky of Latarn.

It tried to fly again, but the severe pain in its dragon wings made Smaug unable to move at all, especially when it realized that the gravity around it was becoming more and more wrong, and even raising its head took a lot of effort, the dragon finally became panicked.

Latarn descended from the sky, floating not far from Smaug's slightly lowered dragon head. He slowly drew the Starbreaker Greatsword from his waist and said without any emotion, "Welcome to the ground, lizard."

However, the panic emanating from Smaug disappeared in an instant, and the ferocious dragon head suddenly raised up, and the long-brewed hot dragon flame shot directly at Latarn.

Latan's cloak fluttered in the heat brought by the dragon's flames, the Star-Breaking Greatsword crossed in front of him, and purple gravity magic fluctuations spread wildly with him as the center.

The right side of Smaug's body and dragon claws suddenly collapsed three meters downwards, as if an invisible giant hand pressed it to the ground. The dragon's body tilted, and scorching dragon flames passed by Latarn.

But Smaug actually used the gravity of his body to stare angrily at the human who had humiliated him with his golden dragon eyes, and his slender dragon tail like a steel whip swung from the left and hit Latarn.

"Humph!"

Latan snorted coldly, drew his sword and slashed vertically. A huge noise erupted when the Star-Breaking Sword collided with the dragon's tail.

Latarn was driven back dozens of meters by the huge force of the dragon's tail, but the Star-Breaking Sword also left a deep wound on Smaug's tail covered with dragon scales, which was visible to the bone.

This time, Smaug did not roar in pain. After the dragon's tail whipped Ratan away, he exerted force on his limbs and opened his ferocious teeth to bite at Ratan, who had not yet stabilized his body.

But the gravity magic was pressed on the dragon's head again, causing Smaug's head to tilt downward, and his fangs narrowly grazed Latarn's breastplate, scraping off sparks.

【die! 】

Smaug tried to use dragon language to interfere with Latan's thoughts, but the dragon's tail dripping with blood did not give Latan any chance and swept over again suffocatingly.

But this time, the dragon's tail was knocked back by the rock ball created by Latan using gravity magic.

The broken rocks on the ground floated up into the air at some point and were squeezed into a meteor shower by Latan's gravity field and smashed towards the dragon.

Smaug immediately spewed out dragon fire, and his breath collided with the rain of stones, exploding dozens of fireballs in the air.

On the city wall of Riverdale, Millicent, who did not return to Lake Town with Tanes, was looking at Riverdale with a serious expression.

When she saw the fiercest battle between Latarn and Smaug, she finally couldn't help but want to cross the city wall and join the battlefield between man and dragon.

But she was stopped by Freya, who was also watching the fight.

Millicent looked at the Latarn Royal Guard Knight in surprise and blurted out, "Why are you stopping me?"

A muffled thud echoed from beneath Freya's lion helmet. "Because the general wants no mercy. He said he would personally fight a dragon."

(End of this chapter)