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

Chapter 29 Roger and D
"Hah, Roger."

D whispered, then turned around and watched his former good friend inching closer. After a moment of silence, he said, "How long are you going to dawdle?"

Roger quickened his pace and trotted up to the two of them.

He took off his wizard's pointed hat, a slightly awkward expression on his face, and greeted D, "Long time no see, Dallion."

D looked at his former friend and couldn't help but sneer, "You know how to say hello to me now? When you stopped me from hunting the Deadborn, your tone wasn't this friendly."

Tanes thought Roger would be a little angry, but he only smiled faintly. "But when you brought me, unable to move, from the underground of Stonewell City back to the Round Table Hall, you didn't complain at all."

D immediately retorted, "Because I can't stand the thought of someone being stupid enough to die from touching the remains of a dead prince."

The two of them kept bickering like this, with D basically saying something and Roger responding politely with a neutral tone.

The relationship is pretty good, but I have the illusion that I shouldn't be here.

Tanes coughed lightly and interrupted the conversation between the two: "I'm going to interrupt your conversation about reuniting as friends. I actually have a mission for you two."

After hearing Tanes' words, D immediately stopped criticizing Rogier and said to Tanes, "Well, since you have become the King of Elden and have not betrayed the Golden Rule, I am very happy to obey your orders."

It's not that I haven't betrayed the Golden Rule, but you and Roger were both dead at that time, so I didn't know about it.

Tanes thought about the endings of the laws he had chosen in certain reincarnations, while concealing his guilty conscience. He said seriously, "I need you and Roger to go to an abandoned port called 'Longdedale' to investigate the situation there and along the way. If everything goes well, it will become our territory. D, you should have noticed that this is no longer a border area. Roger arrived two weeks before you, so he is quite familiar with this world. He will explain the basic situation to you along the way."

When D heard the question was about the Golden Tree territory, he immediately agreed without hesitation: "I'm very happy to expand the territory for the Golden Law."

Tanes glanced at Roger, who nodded in agreement, then glanced at D, and said with some concern, "Is everything okay between you two?"

Roger put his wizard's pointed hat back on and smiled faintly, "Although Dallion can be stubborn at times, he's a man who clearly distinguishes between public and private matters. He will never let a mission you've assigned him fail because of personal issues."

D responded without hesitation, "Lord Tanes, please rest assured. I will carry out your mission perfectly while keeping a close eye on Roger to prevent him from being attracted by anything strange along the way."

Roger just shrugged and said nothing.

After receiving their assurances, Tanes said in a relaxed tone, "Okay, I believe you. Let's set off tomorrow morning and attend the party we've prepared for you tonight. I'll also arrange for someone to prepare dry food and other necessary supplies for your journey."

After listening to this, Roger extended his hand elegantly and politely, inviting D. "Please come in, Darien. Before the dinner, let me introduce you to the territory of Tanes, as well as the dwarves and elves who have come to help."

After D followed Roger away, Edgar and Irena, father and daughter, also walked towards Tanes.

However, when the father and daughter saw the lion hybrid beside Tanes, they subconsciously became alert.

Sure enough, the conflicts and prejudices between normal humans and hybrids are not so easy to disappear.

Hybrids are actually similar to ominous creatures, regressing to their ancestors and experiencing the Life Furnace phenomenon. They are still human in nature, so they also have the same emotions, intelligence, and rationality as normal humans.

However, during the later Golden Rule Era in the Borderland, they experienced a reversion to their ancestors and grew tails, wings, and scales on their bodies, making them considered as ominous as a bad omen, and eventually became slaves with no status at all.

But the hybrids are different from the demihumans in Hyde Fortress. Demihumans are not humans, but another race.

Moreover, demihumans generally have low intelligence and live in groups in caves or ruins.

However, even among the demi-humans, there are individuals with higher intelligence - the tall demi-human queen and the extremely agile demi-human swordsman. These two individuals are able to use low-level pyroxene magic.

Edgar brought his daughter Irena and tried to ignore the lion hybrid. He knelt on one knee before Tanes and expressed his gratitude, "I don't know how to praise you, Your Majesty Tanes. You have restored my daughter's sight, and this truly moves me."

Irena winked at Tanes cutely with her lively eyes reconstructed by the blessing of gold, then pulled up her skirt slightly with both hands, crossed her legs and saluted.

Tanes pulled Edgar up from the ground, accepted the thanks from both father and daughter, and said, "Then pledge your loyalty to me, Edgar. It is your duty to protect the safety of Morn with your life, isn't it?"

Edgar nodded solemnly, then glanced at the lion hybrid. After a moment's hesitation, he said with a firm expression, "Your Majesty Tanes, although you may blame me for what I am about to say, I still want to advise you: hybrids are unreliable and not trustworthy."

He even uses "they" instead of "them" here.

The lion hybrid didn't react excessively to Edgar's words, or perhaps he had expected Edgar to say that, and even felt tired of hearing such words and found them a bit boring.

Anyway, the new King of Elden summoned him here from the borderland that was terrible for him and his compatriots, and also bestowed the Golden Blessing on him. The lion hybrid no longer cared about what people like Edgar thought of him.

In other words, the lion hybrid now only wants to follow Tanes.

After Edgar finished speaking, the lion hybrid just silently looked at Tanes with his lion-like face, ready to listen to what Tanes had to say.

But Tanes hadn't spoken yet. Instead, Roderica, who had been silent until now, couldn't help but speak up. "Sir, I think your attitude towards hybrids is too prejudiced. I can't guarantee that all hybrids are good, but they are certainly not all bad, just like Mr. Xiugu, who taught me the knowledge of spirit training."

The elderly Xiu Gu simply tugged lightly at Roderica's sleeve and shook his head slightly, signaling her to wait for Tanes to speak.

Ok?
Edgar looked at the blonde girl who was protected by two hybrids with some surprise. After seeing her clothes, he immediately realized that the girl was a member of the royal family of the Golden Tree.

This made Edgar even more confused.

Shouldn't the royal family of the Golden Tree hate hybrids even more?
Tanes said at this time: "I will make arrangements for the issue of hybrids, and it will not affect the lives of normal people in the territory. Edgar, I now appoint you as the deputy of Nefeli Lu, the current lord of Moren City, to assist her in handling all matters big and small in Moren City. Nefeli was in the fields outside the castle before, you can find her there. With you who are familiar with Moren City, I believe your work will cooperate very well." Edgar wanted to say something, but finally swallowed it back, accepted Tanes' appointment, and left with his daughter.

"call."

Tanes breathed a sigh of relief and looked at Shugu and Roderica. Facing these two, he didn't have to think too much, so he wore a relaxed expression.

Xiu Gu looked at Tanes in silence, with an inexplicable emotion flashing in his eyes. Finally, he asked, "Do you still need a lowly blacksmith like me to forge weapons for you, my king?"

Then an expression of surprise appeared on Xu Gu's old face, because Tanes gave him a tight hug and didn't let go for a long time.

"Whether you want to rest or continue forging weapons, you can now choose according to your own will, Xugu. There are no shackles to lock your ankles here, and no Marika's orders to bind your soul." Tanes had a smile on his face.

He said, "You are free now, Xiugu."

When Xiu Gu heard this, he stood there in a daze, then raised his rough and broad hands to cover his face, his hunched body trembling slightly.

Roderica was very sensible and patted Xiugu's back gently, silently accompanying the elderly hybrid.

Tanes did not urge him, but waited quietly for Xugu to put down his hands.

Xiu Gu replied, "My life is all I can do with iron bars and ore, Your Majesty. Please allow me to swing my hammer and continue forging weapons for you."

Tanes smiled and nodded. "Okay, but this time I'll give you a more spacious blacksmith shop where you won't be chained to the stone wall. When you feel tired, you can stop your work at any time, come out to breathe some fresh air, or go back to your room for a good sleep."

Then he looked at Rodlika, who was also happy for Xiugu, and said, "Go ahead. There are still many empty rooms in the castle. You and Xiugu can go and choose two as your rooms."

"Okay, Lord Fader." The blonde girl agreed in a cheerful voice. She knew that Tanes had something important to discuss with the remaining lion hybrids, so she was very sensible and left with Xugu.

Now, only Tanes and the lion hybrid remained under the golden tree.

Tanes suppressed the relaxed smile he had just shown when facing Roderica and Xiugu, and then looked at the lion hybrid with a calm gaze.

The lion hybrid lowered his furry head to show that he was all ears to Tanes's arrangements.

"Don't you have anything to say about what Edgar said before?" Tanes asked.

The lion hybrid shook his head calmly: "I understand the prejudice these normal people have against us hybrids. What's more, in their eyes, not long ago we were slaves that they slaughtered and oppressed."

Tanes asked again: "Aren't you afraid that I will be as prejudiced against you hybrids as they are?"

The lion hybrid made a smile and replied, "The way you treated that old hybrid just now, and the way you bestowed your blessing upon my people, have already shown me that you are different from those I have encountered before."

"Xu Gu is doing me a favor because he has done me a favor. The golden blessing can be given and can naturally be taken back." Tanes said.

The lion hybrid was silent for a moment, then softly asked, "But we hybrids have long lost everything, even our former glory. Great King Elden, no matter what you arrange for me and my people, how much worse can it be compared to the situation at the border?"

Tanes pulled a straight hybrid sword from his space backpack and inserted it, along with its scabbard, into the golden grass in front of the lion hybrid. He said, "Take it and lead your people to ensure security outside Morn City. After Roger and D bring back news of Longdedale, bring your people with me. That will be your new home."

The lion hybrid stretched out his long and strong hand, touched the hilt and gripped it tightly, pulling the hybrid sword out of the grass and hanging it behind his back. His tall red body bowed to Tanes.

half a month later.

Southeast of Minchirias, in the direction of Takiedel, Roger and D, the two figures slowly appeared one after the other in this land that had not been set foot on for a long time.

"Another ruin destroyed by floods. The floods this land has suffered are far beyond your and my imagination." Roger said to D behind him, looking at the ruins of a small town in the distance that was obviously destroyed by the water, with many green plants growing on it and half of it submerged in water.

Because D was wearing his armor, his pace was a little slower than Roger's.

After hearing Roger's words, he spoke in a strong voice from under his helmet: "Remember to mark it on the map, Roger. By the way, how many ruins have we passed by?"

Roger took out a pen and a map from his pocket, on which they used pens to simply record everything they saw along the way, whether it was a jungle, a swamp or a town that had been abandoned for many years.

This is also the reason why they spent half a month but still haven't reached their destination.

Roger counted the house symbols sparsely drawn on the map and asked D, who had come to his side, "This is the eighth town ruin. Dallion, do you want to go inside the ruins this time?"

D nodded without hesitation. "Of course. Lord Tanes also asked us to investigate along the way, so we naturally have to go in. And more than half of these ruins are submerged in water. There must be the Deathborn we encountered earlier. We must eradicate them."

Roger sighed, pointed at the map, and said, "I need to correct you again, Darien. According to the map Tanes gave me and some of the annotations on the map, the monster we encountered in those ruins was clearly an evil creature called 'Mulip' in Hobbit folklore (Note 1), not a Deathborn at all. And there is no way that a Deathborn could exist here. The reason for the Deathborn's birth is..."

D immediately interrupted Roger: "Oh! Spare me the tirade, Roger. I don't care what the monsters are called. As long as they are evil, they will not escape the punishment of the Golden Rule!"

　Note 1: Mulip comes from The Adventures of Tom Bombadil and appears as a water ghost.

　　This book was also written by Mr. Tolkien, and Tom Bombadil is also a mysterious character living in the Middle-earth worldview.

　　Since it is the image of a water ghost, I think it is more reasonable to appear in Minchirias, a place that suffered from floods and where many people died.

　　
　
(End of this chapter)