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

Chapter 23 Soul Collector

"Octopuses are pissing! Wargs are running! If you want to know why, ask the wizard Tanes!"

Fili, Kili, and Dwalin, who were singing improvised lyrics with their fellow dwarves in Hyde Fortress, suddenly felt the earth shake, and then golden light shone into the house.

The vibration came suddenly, but it went away quickly.

The golden light disappeared, leaving only the dwarves in the house, picking up the things at hand to be on guard and looking at each other in confusion.

"What's going on?" Qili asked, holding on to the table while holding a dry baguette in his hand.

Philip first looked around and saw that none of his compatriots were injured, then he breathed a sigh of relief.

Dwalin was leaning against the window, holding a silver fork with half a sausage stuck in it, emitting a fragrant aroma in the air.

But Dwalin stared out the window in a daze, and exclaimed to Fili, Kili, and other dwarves in the house: "By Durin... come and see, a huge castle has suddenly appeared outside."

Fili and Kili looked at each other after hearing what Dwalin said.

Fili spoke first: "Why am I not surprised at all?"

Qili calmly sat back in his seat, dipped the dry baguette in the honey and milk in the bowl, and ate while mumbling, "I have an idea, brother."

Philip also sat back in his seat and continued to eat his breakfast - a bacon and cheese bread: "What is it?"

Qili chewed a few mouthfuls of food and swallowed them. He said, "When the time comes, we need to build a house outside the Blue Mountains. We can ask Mr. Tanes for help. He only needs to wave his magical staff and lightly point at the open space, and a well-equipped fortress or castle will appear."

He narrowed his eyes as he spoke, "Wait, does Mr. Tanes have a staff?"

Fili smiled. "Maybe he could just smash it into the ground with that giant sword of his."

Qili's eyes lit up and he agreed, "You can also whistle at his whistle that can summon spirit horses!"

"And then the castle appeared!" the brothers said in unison.

Dwalin had returned to his seat by the window by then, and the seat he had vacated was quickly refilled by other curious dwarves.

Dwalin put the slightly cold sausage on his fork into his mouth and said to Fili and Kili, "The location of the fortress seems to have changed, just like the outpost yesterday."

Philip asked curiously, "How big do you think Mr. Tanes's new castle is? Is it the same as Hyde Fortress?"

Dwalin shook his head repeatedly: "Hyde Fortress? No, it's much bigger than Hyde Fortress. It's not just a castle, it's more like a territory."

He chewed the food in his mouth and searched his mind for towns of similar size. "This territory is probably about the same size as the old River Valley City, if you include the territories outside the castle."

After hearing this, Qili quickened his eating pace and said, "Then I have to go out and take a look. I was born in the Blue Mountains, but I've never seen the ancient river city. Besides, Mr. Tanes told me that he has found a teacher who can teach me magic, so it's a good opportunity for us to go there together."

Philip was also shaking his body happily and eating faster like his brother.

Obviously, he didn't want to be left here by his brother, and wanted to go with him to see if he could learn a magic trick or two.

Inside the towering castle of Morn, Tanes was standing on the city wall that was once held by the former lord Edgar.

The city of Moren at this moment was not like it was at the border, with bodies everywhere that had fallen from the battle between King Greg's army and the hybrids, and no corpses floating in the wind on the gallows.

In the most open space in the castle, the pile of corpses of the Golden People that had been massacred by the hybrids and piled up into a small mountain was gone, replaced by the golden tree that was emitting a faint glow and standing tall.

However, the huge castle was very quiet. Apart from Tanes, there was no one else present, whether they were King Greg's army, hybrids, or innocent golden people.

Tanes walked alone through the castle, examining various areas.

Kenneth Hyde was right. The interior of the Moren Castle was indeed well-equipped, with craftsmen shops that could produce various tools and weapons, trading areas for foreign merchants to conduct trade, and independent houses where nobles lived.

More civilian residential areas are still on the plains outside the castle.

The ruins of the town before Minchirias have completely turned into the territory of the city of Morn summoned by Tanes, and are no longer as desolate as before.

The sudden rise of the castle also made the Orcs in the distance, who had not yet completely given up hope, realize that this land had its owner again.

He placed Hyde Fortress northwest of the city of Morn, close to the Brandywine River, and further northwest of the Brandywine River were the Blue Mountains where the dwarves lived.

Tanes was built to prepare for future exchanges and trade with the dwarves, and Hyde Fortress was placed here to facilitate the dispatch of patrols to protect the dwarves who will come and go for trade in the future.

Of course, Hyde Fortress is still very close to the territory of Moen City. According to the previous map, Hyde Fortress is at the outermost edge of the previous town ruins.

Fili and Qili had not expected that they would be moved to a farther location in the time it took them to have breakfast.

They would probably have to walk for half a day before they could reach the castle of Moren City.

The post station and small outpost where Teacher Seren was located were placed by Tanes not far to the northeast, near the towering city wall gate outside the city of Moren.

Because Teacher Se Lian didn't like crowded places, she didn't object after she noticed the change in her position.

However, today she suddenly needed to walk a longer distance to Hyde Fortress for breakfast, and Seren had some small opinions about this.

In this way, the three landmark buildings with military guarding forces are distributed in an inverted triangle.

Whether Hyde Fortress is attacked or the post and outpost are attacked, the city of Moren can quickly send troops to support and meet up with friendly forces.

If the Orcs tried to attack Morn again, they would surely be noticed by the soldiers of Hyde Fortress and the outposts.

Not to mention that outside the castle of Moren City, there is a golem guarding quietly, which is about ten meters tall and has an extremely exaggerated search range.

As soon as the Orcs approached the city wall, they would be sensed by the golem guards and then happily sent away by the exaggeratedly huge arrows shot by them.

After successfully summoning the city of Moren, Tanes did not call the residents over as well.

First, in order to summon the city of Morn to Middle-earth, the Golden Tree almost exhausted all the souls of the orcs and wolfs it had absorbed.

Secondly, Hyde Fortress had been summoned yesterday due to the Orc attack. Not only was there an extra fortress, but there were also a dozen more mouths to feed.

Tanes didn't want the food shortage problem that the dwarves had finally solved with their support to reappear.

He never dreamed that one day he would be restricted by the issue of feeding others.

However, Tani believed that he would not have to worry about this problem soon. The city of Moren had already appeared. After waiting for the first batch of crops to mature, he would plant some specialty plants from the border area and use them to trade with the dwarves of the Blue Mountains.

In particular, Tanes noticed that the dwarves were very fond of the drink "wine", so when there were enough food reserves, they could use it to brew wine.

Tanes believed that the wine brewed from grain that matured under the blessing of gold would be more delicious than ordinary wine.

As for the policy of trade with the dwarves, he has decided to leave this task to Kenneth Hyde. After all, Kenneth was summoned here to do this.

Tanes quickly left Morn's castle and arrived near the outer city walls. Standing atop the walls and at the gates were the Grek King's troops, who had arrived from the outposts. It was clear they had quickly adapted to Morn's presence.

But their number was still too small compared to the huge city wall.

Oh, manpower.

Tanes sighed in his heart, and then thought that more manpower would consume more food.

Oh, food.

Tanes changed his words and continued to sigh.

"Why are you sighing?" Teacher Seren's mature voice sounded on Tanes' right.

Tanes looked in the direction of the voice and found that the other person was wearing the witch's hood and was staring at him, as if he had been looking at him for a long time.

He asked, "Do you have anything to ask me, Teacher Seren?"

The witch's hood swayed up and down, and Teacher Seren nodded and said, "Well, come with me to the basement. I have something to show you."

Then she extended a white jade-like finger from her dark blue wizard robe and pointed at the golden tree shining brightly in Morn City: "It's related to it."

Ok?
When Tanes heard that it was related to the golden tree, he immediately became excited and followed Seren.

Because the bodies of the orcs had returned to the trees, the underground passage of the inn was covered with marks left by the pumpkin-headed soldiers hitting the walls. There was no sign that a massacre of orcs had taken place last night.

The originally dark basement became bright because Seren opened the door of his small room, and the bright blue light of the pyroxene filled the entire space, making it bright.

Selian walked quickly into her room, and before Tanes could follow her in, she saw that the other party was holding a rectangular dark blue pyroxene crystal the size of her forearm.

"Next." Se Lian said concisely.

Tanes took the pyroxene crystal from the other party and immediately found something strange.

He felt that this pyroxene crystal seemed to have life. The lines in the pyroxene were like blood vessels in the human body, and they were even pulsating slightly.

"What is this?" Tanes frowned. He remembered something very similar, which he also got from his teacher Seren.

To be more precise, the thing he was thinking of was obtained from Teacher Se Lian's body.

Se Lian chuckled. "It seems you still remember the [Source Stone] that your master gave you, my good disciple."

When Tanes heard the words "source pyroxene", he was afraid that the pyroxene in his hand would fall, so he quickly grasped it tightly and asked in confusion: "Teacher, what are you doing? Are you planning to..."

Selian took off the witch's hood, revealing her beautiful appearance, and interrupted Tanes' words: "Don't think too much, my apprentice. What is contained in this is not my soul, but a blank."

Tanes's expression became even more confused.

Se Lian continued his explanation in a calm tone, "Just now, Master observed the corpses that had experienced the tree-returning phenomenon, and then discovered that the golden tree was growing at a speed visible to the naked eye. Then, the city of Moen inexplicably appeared. If you think normally, it's not difficult to guess that the golden tree you planted requires a large amount of souls as nutrients, which are then transformed into golden blessings in order to summon those things from the borderland, right?"

Tanes nodded. There was nothing to hide about this.

But he knew that his teacher Se Lian asked him to come alone for more than just this matter.

Sure enough, as Tanes expected, Seren's next words surprised Tanes.

"The tree-returning phenomenon only occurs within the Golden Tree's reach. Beyond its range, the souls in the corpses cannot be transformed into blessings. Therefore, I created this thing for you. It's based on the soul-storing [Source Pyroxene], but this piece of Pyroxene has a very large soul storage capacity."

"I've modified the magic a bit so that it can act like the Golden Tree's homing phenomenon, attracting departed souls and absorbing them into this pyroxene. This way, the souls of creatures you kill outside the Golden Tree's domain won't dissipate naturally, and you can use this magic to collect them and bring them back to the Golden Tree. As for what to call it, just give it a name."

Se Lian said in one breath, his calm look did not seem like he had created something remarkable.

Of course, it is also possible that from Serlian's technical perspective, making such a thing is indeed effortless.

Tanes exhaled and said, "Let's keep it simple. Let's name it according to its function. Let's call it the Soul Collector."

With this thing, Tanes no longer has to worry about not having enough Orc souls to feed the golden tree's growth.

At the same moment, all the Orcs in Middle-earth suddenly felt a chill for some unknown reason.

Selian nodded, but did not continue speaking. Instead, he raised his eyes and looked at Tanes.

Tanes blinked, not sure why his teacher was looking at him like that.

Se Lian looked at Tanes' innocent face and sighed slightly: "Go and bring back some breakfast for me. You have separated the post station and Hyde Fortress too far apart."

"Okay, I'll go right away."

Even though he was the King of Elden, Tanes still obediently helped her bring back breakfast after hearing his master's words.

With the help of Torret, Tanes quickly arrived at Hyde Fortress and saw Qili, who had finished breakfast and was a little dejected in the square.

Beside Qili, Fili was comforting him, but the latter could not hide the lost expression on his face.

Tanes stopped to get his breakfast and looked at Roger, who was standing behind the two men with a helpless expression. He asked loudly, "What's wrong with them? It's not common to see Fili and Kili with such expressions."

Fili and Kili saw Tanes coming and forced themselves to salute him.

Roger, standing behind them, bowed gracefully to Tanes and explained, "They said you recommended them to come here to learn magic, so I didn't refuse and chose the simplest pyroxene magic, [Starlight], to teach them. However, these two dwarves seem to have no magical energy reserves at all and are unable to cast any magic."

"Hmm... I understand." Tanes pondered for a moment and nodded.

Then he noticed the hope in Qili's eyes when he saw him, and said to Roger, "Anyway, thank you for your hard work, Roger. I think I have a way to solve their problem."

Tanes thought of Thorin holding the Frozen Shell Axe and saying that he felt his physical strength was obviously depleted after performing his combat skills.

It is possible that dwarves are indeed unable to perform magic, but they can perform combat skills.

Then he called out, "Fili, Kili, bring me some breakfast from the kitchen, and then come with me, and I will teach you myself."

　Asking for recommendation tickets and monthly tickets~ (macho man kowtows)
　　In fact, the range of Moren City starts from the moment you enter the city wall and can be shot by the golem guards.

　　Perhaps for gameplay reasons, the game does not include areas outside the military area inside the castle and the civilian residential area in front of the castle.

　　But in fact, according to the words of Irena, the daughter of the castle, we know that the city of Moren is a town with a large number of civilians and nobles living in it, and there are also a considerable number of hybrids who are enslaved and become lowly servants.

　　Therefore, I reasonably expanded the size of the territory of Moren City, making it roughly the same as the ancient river city in the movie.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)