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

Chapter 138: The Ringwraiths Attacking Lake Town
Just as the Orc army emerged from the Lonely Mountain like a tide under the roar of Azog, dark clouds suddenly rolled up in the sky above Long Lake Town.

The few remaining rays of sunlight were completely devoured, and the entire town fell into a sticky darkness. Even the ripples on the lake surface solidified into lead gray.

The veins on the back of Bernard's hand, which was holding the knight's broadsword, bulged as he heard the sound of tiles being stepped on by something, making a tiny crackling sound, coming into his ears from all directions.

"ignition!"

As Bernard subconsciously used the prayer [Golden Tree Oath], Egon's roar on the watchtower tore through the silence.

Dozens of torches lit up almost at the same time, and the dancing orange-red flames tore through the darkness, instantly illuminating the terrifying outlines clinging to the city walls or roofs.

Spiders the size of carriages dangled upside down from the outer walls, debris of rotten grass clinging to the hairs between their articulated segments. More giant spiders poured out like a tide from the darkness beyond the reach of the torches, their compound eyes a cold, dark green in the firelight.

Bernal finished his prayer at this time, and a golden light surrounded him and the surrounding storm soldiers.

After finishing his prayer, he immediately issued an order to the Storm Troopers: "We have guests! Let us entertain them well on behalf of the original owner of Long Lake Town!"

The giant spider's eight limbs scraped across the roof tiles, making a teeth-grinding scraping sound, and its huge body nimbly pounced on the storm soldiers below.

The stormtroopers used their leather shields as a wall, their spears piercing through the gaps like thorns.

The moment a big spider hit a shield, the spear tip from behind pierced its abdomen, and the smelly green spider venom splashed on the leather shield, corroding it and producing wisps of green smoke.

The two elves, Legolas and Tauriel, drew their bows as light as the moon and stepped lightly on the tiles of the roof. One arrow after another flew through the air, piercing the compound eyes of one giant spider after another, causing them to fall into the cold lake beside the house with a hissing sound, stirring up waves.

At the same time, Egon's arrows also provided extremely accurate support to the small-scale battlefield that was caught in a tough battle, rescuing several storm soldiers who were accidentally attacked by the giant spider.

Tauriel landed beside Bernard without making a sound. After shooting a large spider that was about to attack Bernard, she said, "Tell your soldiers to be careful of the spiders' abdomens. Not only do they produce silk there, but they also store their venom. Aim for their eyes or jaws whenever possible; these two areas are their most vulnerable."

Benar loudly spread Tauriel's words, and the storm troopers who heard Benar's words shouted to pass the news to more comrades who were fighting with the giant spider.

Another big spider climbed up the city wall silently and quickly. Tauriel drew out her dagger and skillfully cut off the joints of the spider's legs like a silver snake, cutting it into a motionless target lying on the ground, which could only open and close its mouth in anger and helplessness.

"Or maybe just make their legs look like they're killed like this," Tauriel added.

Bernard raised an eyebrow, thrusting the tip of his knight's broadsword into the skull of the unfortunate creature transformed into a spider-pig, and replied, "It would be more convenient to just chop off their heads."

Legolas also landed at this time, his expression revealing uneasiness. He said, "Tauriel, something feels wrong to me. These spiders... there must be something strange about them, but I don't know how to describe it."

Tauriel nodded in agreement, glancing up at the darkening sky. "I know exactly what you're feeling, Legolas. It's those strange black clouds overhead. They were never seen when the giant spiders roamed Mirkwood."

Bernard frowned. "No, the key isn't the dark clouds overhead, but the people hiding in the darkness with them. I always feel like there's something, or some creature, lurking in the shadows, staring at me. That haunting feeling of being watched is making me uncomfortable."

Just as Bernal finished speaking, a shrill scream cut through everyone's heart.

Screams came from the dock as a stormtrooper's throat was cut by a sharp blade, and blood mist sprayed onto his companion's terrified face.

Immediately afterwards, the dull thud of iron boots hitting the ground came from all directions of the dock.

Nine dark silhouettes emerged from the darkness, clad in evil, twisted black iron armor. Inhuman screams could be heard from beneath the hollow visors from time to time.

When the storm soldiers faced the nine approaching evil figures, they seemed to be under a spell of immobilization. They let out screams of terror and fled in all directions in a disorderly manner. They were soon knocked to the ground by the giant spiders around them and lost their voices.

Legolas' pupils shrank suddenly. "It's the Nazgûl!?"

Then he immediately drew his bow and shot an arrow at the Ringwraiths.

But the moment the arrow left the string, a Ringwraith raised his hand to crush the arrow shaft, and threw the broken arrow with his backhand, piercing the chest of a storm soldier who was in fear.

Tauriel's expression grew serious as she warned Benar beside her, "Beware of these Ringwraiths, or the Nazgûl. They are the Dark Lord's most powerful servants, untouchable by mortals. Their breath is poisonous, and their cries stir fear and despair in the hearts of the people. Those poor soldiers were driven into fear and despair by their screams."

Just as Tauriel was telling Benar the information about the Ringwraiths, a Ringwraith holding a black sword appeared and disappeared in the darkness. He jumped onto the roof as easily as a ghost, screamed, and leaped towards a Storm Knight below. The evil sword tip, carrying a foul cold wind, was aimed at the gap on the Storm Knight's neck.

"clang--"

The loud sound of metal clashing was so loud that it hurt people's eardrums. Contrary to the Ringwraith's expectations, the Storm Knight not only did not panic, but reacted very quickly and turned around to block with his sword.

At the moment when the swords collided, the Storm Knight saw the enemy's appearance clearly: it was a two-meter-tall human figure wrapped in iron armor, black mist was swirling under the visor, and the inscriptions etched on the surface of the armor seemed to be oozing sticky dark blood.

"what?!"

The Storm Knight skillfully deflected the Ringwraith's longsword and slashed back. The sword tip slashed across the Ringwraith's breastplate, but only scraped a string of pale sparks on the armor.

The Ringwraith seemed unaffected and stabbed the Storm Rider's heart with its sword.

At the critical moment, the Storm Knight turned around and blocked with his excellent swordsmanship.

Sparks flew as the swords clashed, and the Storm Knight was suddenly shocked to realize that the opponent was unharmed and that his previous attack had not caused any substantial harm to the Ringwraith.

He immediately shouted, "Be careful! Physical attacks won't work on these weird armors!"

Hearing this, Bernal's face darkened. He saw eight more shadows emerge from rooftops, alleyways, and even from piles of corpses. Stormtroopers fell one after another in their wake. Some Stormtroopers, having overcome their fear and despair, pierced their enemies' chests with their weapons, but the blows were as ineffective as phantoms, and they died instantly.

The panic caused by the Ringwraiths gradually spread among the Stormtroopers. Only those Storm Knights who were invincible at the border gritted their teeth and resisted the influence of the Ringwraiths, defending their own lines.

Bernal jumped off the city wall and rushed into the battlefield where a Ringwraith was. He used the knight's sword in his hand to block the black mace in the Ringwraith's hand and saved a storm soldier who was in panic.

Then Bernal quickly knelt on one knee, and the other hand that was not holding the sword flashed with golden light. The prayer [Golden Tree Shelter] was instantly performed. The golden light shone on Bernal and the surrounding storm soldiers, and briefly dispelled the fear and despair in their hearts.

The flash of golden light stung the Ringwraith's eyes, causing him to subconsciously raise his hands to block his sight.

The surrounding stormtroopers who had escaped the influence of fear immediately raised their swords or spears and stabbed them into the empty heads of the Ringwraiths, but this had no effect except causing them to scream more shrilly.

Out of the corner of his eye, Bernard noticed that a Ringwraith had floated past the watchtower where Aegon was. He immediately struck the Ringwraith in front of him, causing it to stagger backwards, while shouting, "Aegon! Watch out below you, a Ringwraith is passing by!"

Aegon was using his dragon claws, which had been prayed to by the Dragon's Bite, to tear apart several giant spiders that had climbed up his watchtower. When he heard Bernard's words, he looked down suddenly and saw that the Ringwraith's blade had already stabbed in front of him.

He hastily raised his longbow to block, leaving a shallow mark on the dragon bone bow, but fortunately the bowstring was not affected.

Then Egon raised his big foot and kicked the Ringwraith out of the watchtower. Then he saw the other party floating in the air and retreating a few steps as if nothing had happened, raising his sword to stab again. He couldn't help but curse: "Damn it, what the hell is this thing!"

His kick just now had no force. Under normal circumstances, the opponent's ribs should have been broken. However, on the Ringwraith, it only caused the armor on his chest to dent inward a little, and the Ringwraith moved as usual as if he had no sense of pain.

Aegon was in a bit of a mess because of the Ringwraiths' sneak attack on the watchtower, and Bernal was in an even worse situation.

The Ringwraiths seemed to know Bernal's strength. When he suppressed the first Ringwraith, another four Ringwraiths quickly joined the battle between Bernal and the Ringwraiths.

They were called over by the scream of the first Ringwraith, because this Ringwraith had just seen the "magic" cast by Bernard to dispel the fear of the surrounding soldiers. More importantly, the golden light made him feel threatened.

So this Ringwraith shamelessly used the method of calling people over and called four Ringwraiths over.

Noticing more Ringwraiths approaching, Bernard immediately shouted to the Storm Knights and Storm Troopers who were trying to help, "Stand back and deal with those giant spiders! Leave this to me!"

Before he could finish his words, his inner alarm bells rang and he immediately dodged to the side. The cloth roof hanging on the house next to him was torn into shreds by the sword wind of a Ringwraith that fell from the sky.

The Storm Knight could only reluctantly lead the Storm Soldiers away from here. He knew that ordinary soldiers staying here would only cause trouble for Bernal, so it would be better for them to go to a place far away from the Ringwraiths and eliminate those big spiders.

Bernal rolled sideways again to avoid the flames swept across by the second Ringwraith holding a flaming sword, and at the same time threw the knight's sword in his hand fiercely at the third Ringwraith holding a dagger. The sharp knight's sword penetrated into the opponent's armor and temporarily nailed it to the wall behind him.

The fourth one held a heavy iron hammer. He was taller than the other Ringwraiths. Even Bernal was a few inches shorter than him.

When he saw Bernard throw the knight's broadsword at his companion, he immediately let out a sharp roar and raised his sledgehammer to smash at the seemingly unarmed Bernard.

Bernal quickly stood up with one hand, and suddenly the World-Eater Scepter appeared in his hand and slammed it to the ground. A red vortex exploded from the tip of the staff. The Ringwraith holding the sledgehammer staggered due to gravity, and his armor made a metallic scream of twisting.

Facing the pressure of five Ringwraiths at the same time, Bernal also chose to use the World-Eater Scepter as his weapon.

However, the use of the World-Devouring Scepter's combat skills just now made Bernal's face even more solemn, because the World-Devouring Scepter in his hand did not give back the physical strength he had plundered from the opponent.

In other words, the other party may not even be a living person.

What a weird enemy! Even when facing those black knife assassins who are good at assassination, Bernal has never felt so difficult.

And Bernard also discovered that the cry of the Ringwraith holding the sledgehammer seemed to attract another companion, which means that Bernard would have to face the siege of six Ringwraiths at the same time.

The Ringwraiths slowly floated in the air, forming a circle around Bernal and blocking all possible escape routes.

Legolas's roar rang out above the Ringwraiths: "Dark Thing!"

The two arrows that followed the sound accurately pierced the hollow helmet of a Ringwraith, causing the Ringwraith to scream in pain for the first time.

The elven prince's silver hair flew in the light of the torch, but unfortunately the quiver on his back was empty. However, Legolas still managed to attract the attention of the Ringwraith.

As Legolas engaged the Ringwraith, he cried out, "Tauriel!!!"

Tauriel also jumped down from the roof. Having used up all her arrows, she stabbed the Ringwraith with the silver blade in her hand, who was also holding a dagger. The blade cut into the seams of the iron armor, causing the Ringwraith to roar like sandpaper rubbing against it.

Tauriel spun around and delivered a flying kick, sending the dagger flying backwards and the iron helmet slamming into the stone wall, sending sparks flying.

Bernal looked at the remaining four Ringwraiths and smiled kindly, "Excellent, now it's one against four."

Then he raised the World-Eater Scepter above his shoulder armor with both hands and took the initiative to rush forward. At the same time, he loudly asked the two elves who came to support him: "How can we kill these Ringwraiths!"

Legolas nimbly dodged a Ringwraith attack before replying, "Weapons blessed by the elves of the First Age can harm them!"

As Bernard swept the World-Eater Scepter, sending two Ringwraiths flying, he was struck hard on the back by the hammer-wielding Ringwraith, causing him to stumble forward a few steps. "Oh, that's fantastic! Where can I get a weapon like that now? Can you give me your blessing?"

Tauriel was kicked back by the Ringwraith she was fighting, knocking her against the wall. She landed right next to Bennar. After hearing his words, she coughed in pain and said, "There is another way. That is to directly destroy the armor they are wearing. This will temporarily make them roll back to their master."

(End of this chapter)