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Chapter 104: Cutting out the Heart and Bones
The Cruciatus Curse is one of the three unforgivable curses.

Unlike Avada Kedavra which is used to kill lives, it is essentially the most vicious black magic spell created to torture people.

This kind of torture not only involves physical torture, but also torture of the soul. Even those with the strongest will cannot withstand this kind of pain. Long-term torture can even cause a person to have a mental breakdown and turn into a living dead.

To Dui's surprise, the Cruciatus Curse was even more powerful against the dragon Smaug than the Killing Curse.

Smaug was tortured by the Cruciatus Curse and didn't even have the strength to take off. He could only roll and twist on the ground in pain, screaming and groaning.

"Have mercy on me! Wizard, have mercy on me, I surrender!" Smaug finally couldn't bear it anymore and began to wail for mercy.

Everyone looked at the giant dragon begging for mercy in pain in front of Dui in shock, and they were unable to recover for a long time.

The dwarves in particular were more shocked and complicated.

The giant dragon Smaug, who had caused heavy losses to the dwarves and left them broken and displaced, was actually tortured into surrender by Dui?

Dui was not fooled by Smaug's sweet words. Although the Cruciatus Curse could cause the dragon great pain, it was not fatal.

Once you stop the spell and give it a chance to catch its breath, it will immediately resurrect on the spot and become even more difficult to deal with!
So he concentrated all his energy on malice and increased his output of magic power.

"Heart-breaking and bone-cutting!"

"Ah!!!" The giant dragon screamed even more painfully, and as it rolled and struggled violently, the surrounding mountains were constantly destroyed.

Smaug was tortured to the point of excruciating pain, but he did not lose consciousness. He gathered his last burst of strength and smashed his tail like a battering ram at the giant stone pillars that served as support.

The stone pillars instantly shattered under the heavy blow, and without support, the main gate mountain quickly collapsed, and countless huge rocks fell down.

Faced with the impact of countless huge rocks, Dui had to distract himself and cast a spell to add a layer of protection to himself.

Taking advantage of Dui's distraction, the dragon Smaug seized the opportunity, quickly spread his wings, soared into the sky, and flew away into the distance.

"I will remember today's humiliation, wizard, and I will seek revenge! I will reduce everything you care about to ashes!"

Before leaving, the dragon Smaug still made harsh remarks.

The dragon's gaze fell on the brightly lit Changhu Town in the distance, his eyes full of malice.

"You will be my first targets of revenge! You will bear my endless wrath!"

Watching the dragon flying towards Lake-town, Gandalf looked anxious and worried: "Smaug is going to destroy Lake-town, we must stop him!"

"I'll go after him!" Dewi picked up his broom and was about to chase him, but Gandalf immediately stopped him and said, "I'll go with you!"

Time was urgent, and Dui and Gandalf had no time to talk to Bilbo and the dwarves. They immediately got on their brooms and chased after the dragon at the fastest speed.

As for Lonely Mountain, without the dragon, there is no need to worry about their safety.

The dragon was very fast. When Dui and Gandalf caught up with it, the dragon had already started spewing dragon flames over Long Lake Town.

Changhu Town below was in chaos and panic.

The mayor was about to escape with a boatload of gold, silver, and jewelry, but because the items he carried were too many and too heavy, he and the entire boatload of gold, silver, and jewelry were burned to ashes by the dragon's flames.

As a descendant of Girion, Lord of the Valley, Bard took out his ancestral black arrow, went to the highest tower and aimed at the dragon high in the sky, trying to find an opportunity to hit the dragon.

Seeing this, Dui and Gandalf rushed towards the dragon without hesitation.

"Duir, send me to the top of the dragon and stop Smaug from going crazy!" Gandalf said loudly.

Without saying a word, Dui raised the broom head high and flew straight into the sky at a ninety-degree angle.

The broom carried the two of them directly above Smaug's head.

Without waiting for Dewi to react, Gandalf immediately jumped off the broom and landed heavily on the back of the dragon Smaug, raising his sword high and thrusting it into the dragon's back.

The dragon's scales were so hard that even a sword could only penetrate halfway before getting stuck.

For the massive Smaug, this was like a toothpick piercing his flesh—painful but not fatal. Finding Gandalf on his back, Smaug repeatedly tumbled through the air, trying to shake him off.

But no matter how hard he tried to shake it, Gandalf held on tightly to the sword stuck in the dragon's back, like a cockroach that could not be shaken off, which made Smaug very angry.

He no longer cared about continuing to spit fire at the Long Lake Town below, and turned around to spit fire at Gandalf on his back.

"Heart-piercing and bone-destroying!" Dui's attack followed closely.

The dragon's body stiffened, it let out a scream of pain, and its body quickly fell downwards.

Just as it was about to crash into the lake, the dragon spread its wings and flew up again.

The cunning dragon used the distance of falling to avoid the attack of the Cruciatus Curse and did not give Dui another chance to get close.

Seeing the dragon playing guerrilla warfare with him, Dui noticed Bard on the tower below who was aiming a black arrow at the dragon. Remembering that Bard probably didn't know the dragon's weakness yet, he flew over immediately.

"Bard, there's a gap in the dragon's chest where your ancestor Girion shot it off with a black arrow. Try to aim there."

Hearing Dui's words, Bard's eyes lit up and he immediately searched for the weakness on the dragon's chest.

Dui continued to chase Smaug on his flying broom, trying to force him to come to Bard's side and let Bard complete the feat of slaying the dragon again.

The dragon is too difficult to deal with. Now he just wants to use the inertia of fate to see if he can get rid of the dragon Smaug?
The dragon Smaug was still frightened by Dui's Cruciatus Curse. Seeing him approaching again, he immediately increased his speed to create enough distance between them.

But it wasn't just Dewi who was causing him trouble. Gandalf on his back hit him hard on the back with his staff.

The huge impact force brought by the staff made the dragon feel like it was hit by a weight of ten thousand tons. It staggered and fell down, almost hitting the ground heavily.

Dui also caught up and immediately cast a Cruciatus Curse.

The dragon was instantly in a state of despair and fled towards Bard in a panic, not noticing that there was a black arrow aimed at it in front of it.

"For Changhu Town and for River Valley City!" Bard shouted and shot the black arrow with all his strength.

The black arrow shot directly towards the gap in the dragon scales on the dragon's chest.

Just when everyone thought the black arrow was about to hit the target successfully, it was caught by a giant claw.

The dragon caught the black arrow and sneered in his eyes: "Do you think I'll be hurt again after being hurt once?"

As he spoke, he threw the black arrow high up, raised his head and spewed out scorching dragon flames, which quickly melted it into a pool of molten lava.

He then applied the molten lava from the black arrow directly to the gap in the scales on his chest to fill it.

This scene hit Bud hard.

And Dui was even more shocked.

He had thought that Bard would succeed in killing the dragon as his original destiny had led him to do.

But I didn’t expect such a huge change to happen now.

But if you think about it carefully, it is understandable.

In the original trajectory of fate, Bard was able to shoot Smaug only because of luck and coincidence.

The most important thing is that the dragon had no opponents at that time. Even if it left Lonely Mountain, it was only because it knew that Long Lake Town was cooperating with the dwarves that it wanted to take revenge on the humans in Long Lake Town.

So the dragon Smaug died largely because of his arrogance and carelessness.

But this time it was different. The dragon Smaug was severely injured by Dui and others and was forced to flee from Lonely Mountain. His mentality had changed drastically and he became very cautious.

Naturally, the success rate of killing him with a black arrow is much lower.

(End of this chapter)