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Chapter 152 Reclaiming Mirkwood
Seeing the pair of yellow vertical eyes, Spider Queen Senasa looked despair.

"No!" accompanied by a sharp scream.

The Spider Queen fell to the ground in an instant with reluctance.

The densely packed eyes seemed to be covered with dust and became extremely dim.

His breath also dropped sharply and he became extremely weak.

"Huh? Not dead yet!" Dui raised his eyebrows, a little surprised.

The spider queen is not dead yet after looking into the eyes of the basilisk!

Could it be that because Herpo the Basilisk is still a child, the Death Eye's power isn't strong enough?
Dui could only guess this.

But it also shows how powerful the Spider Queen is.

After all, other spiders would die instantly if they were stared at by the basilisk.

Seeing that the Spider Queen was not dead, Dui had no intention of giving her life. He directly summoned the divine spear Aegros and stabbed it hard into the Spider Queen's head.

The sharp spear head instantly pierced through the Spider Queen's defense, and then burst out with a destructive force, directly crushing the inside of the Spider Queen's body into a pulp.

The Spider Queen died instantly and was completely dead.

Thranduil looked at the spear in Dui's hand, and a hint of envy flashed in his eyes.

"They say no one can withstand the spear of Gil-galad and the sword of Elendil. Aegros and Narsil are indeed worthy of their reputations!"

The status of the Divine Spear Aegros among the elves is equivalent to that of the Holy Sword Nasir among humans.

It's no wonder that Thranduil was envious of such a magical weapon that embodies the craftsmanship of the Noldor elves.

However, at this time, Dui and others had no time to discuss the Divine Spear Aegros.

With the death of the spider queen, the other giant spiders instantly became leaderless, began to become chaotic and disorderly, and fled in panic.

Naturally, the elf warriors would not miss this opportunity and began to chase and kill them.

As for some of the giant spiders that escaped back to the spider's nest, Dui simply asked the basilisk Herpo to hunt them down or force them out.

Thranduil watched the giant spiders fleeing in panic as the basilisk chased them, and could not help but sigh to Dui:
"I really don't know how you managed to cultivate such a powerful and dangerous creature? It's so powerful at such a young age. When it grows up, I'm afraid it will be a creature as powerful as a dragon!"

"Your Majesty Thranduil, thank you for the compliment!" Dui smiled and shook his head.

He knew his own business. The basilisk looked very scary and dangerous, with deadly eyes and unpredictable venom.

But in fact, it has a very fatal weakness: the crowing of the rooster.

A rooster can make a basilisk flee in panic, and the crowing of the rooster can cause fatal damage to the basilisk.

Like the thousand-year-old basilisk in Slytherin, even after living for so long, it is still afraid of the crowing of roosters, and even lets the soul of Voldemort that possesses Ginny Weasley kill the rooster raised by Hagrid.

Therefore, before the basilisk's fatal flaw of being afraid of the crowing of roosters was solved, it was just a half-defective product and could not be compared with the dragon at all.

On this point, Dewi would like to ask Saruman for advice.

He remembered that after Saruman's blatant betrayal, he specially bred orcs who were not afraid of sunlight.

If Saruman were to come, he might be able to make up for the basilisk's shortcomings.

By then, the basilisk will have no flaws and will be a powerful weapon.

The elven warriors spent a day and a night chasing the fleeing giant spider in the dark forest.

Except for a few giant spiders that escaped from the forest, all other giant spiders were wiped out.

There are also giant spiders in the spider's nest, which are either killed by the basilisk Herpo or are dealt with by the elves after escaping the nest.

In this way, Mirkwood finally and completely belonged to the Woodland Kingdom again.

Thranduil was very happy about this and announced that he would hold a grand banquet to celebrate the victory after returning.

However, before returning to the army, Thranduil, in order to thank Dui and the basilisk Herpo for their help, specially asked the elven warriors to collect all the corpses of the giant spiders and hand them all over to Dui.

Under Herbo's guidance, Dui followed the spider web passage into the spider's lair.

Then he put the giant spider corpses scattered everywhere into the space bag.

The spider's nest was very huge, like a huge maze. Dui spent a long time to collect all the giant spider corpses and finally came to the spider hatching room.

The spider hatchery is a very large underground cave, surrounded by spider webs. Inside are huge egg bags woven with spider silk, which are filled with densely packed spider eggs, numbering tens of thousands.

Dui couldn't help but take a cold breath when he saw such a large number.

If these spider eggs were allowed to hatch, the number of giant spiders would increase dramatically, which would probably be a disaster for the entire Mirkwood!
However, these spider eggs have now been poisoned by the venom of the basilisk Helpo.

Each egg sac was bitten by Hailbo and a drop of venom was injected.

Although it was just a drop, after the toxicity evaporated in the egg sac, it directly killed all the spider eggs.

Even Dui couldn't help but give a thumbs up to Hailbo's desperate plan.

It's really poisonous! No wonder the Spider Queen is so angry and wants to kill it.

Dui collected all the spider eggs and preserved them with a freezing spell, on the one hand as a snack for Helbo, and on the other hand to see if they could be used to make potions?
By the time Dui had packed all the giant spider corpses, several space bags were already full.

The giant spider's venom also filled dozens of barrels, most of which was collected for him by the elves.

Especially the body of the spider queen Senasa, which was placed in a bag separately. Its venom was even more precious, so a full bucket was collected.

He also extracted and preserved the Spider Queen's nerves.

This is the best material for making wand cores, and it is also a wand that is biased towards attack and dark magic.

Although he couldn't use it, it could satisfy his collecting habit as a staff maker.

After the matter was dealt with, Dui and others returned triumphantly with the elven army.

The elves held a grand celebration banquet.

Dui, Elrohir, Elladan, and Arwen all became guests of Thranduil. Dui, in particular, sat at the same table as Thranduil.

"Duir, today, thanks to you and your pet basilisk, we were able to achieve such a great victory and recapture all of Mirkwood. The Woodland Kingdom and I are grateful for this!" Thranduil raised his glass and happily toasted Duir.

"A toast to you! A toast to our greatest contributor!"

The other elves were also smiling, and they all toasted Dui from afar with respectful eyes.

Dui raised his glass and responded, "Your Majesty Thranduil, you are too polite! Everyone present today, including the elven warriors, has made great contributions! We should all pay tribute to them!"

Hearing this, Thranduil looked even more appreciative.

The banquet lasted for a whole month. Finally, Dui declined Thranduil's repeated requests to stay and returned to Weathertop with Arwen, Elrohir, and Elladan.

As for Legolas, he stayed in the Woodland Kingdom for the time being.

Now the giant spiders of Mirkwood have been destroyed, and the southern forests have been reclaimed.

Therefore, the Woodland Kingdom needs to consider many issues such as the migration of forces to the south and the restoration of the southern forests.

As the heir to the Woodland Kingdom, Legolas needs to stay with Thranduil and handle things together.

I can’t return to Fengyunding in a short time.

Returning to Hogwarts Castle, Dui finally breathed a sigh of relief.

Elves have eternal life, so they don't see any problem with holding a banquet for a month.

But Dui felt a little tired.

Arwen went to the tree house in the garden to see the young eagle Thorondor, while Elrohir and Elladan went to the library to read magic books.

After meeting the butler Edward, Dui went alone to the place where the cellar dragon lived.

Smelling Dewi's scent, Smaug instantly woke up from his slumber and looked at Dewi with a wary look. His body instinctively blocked most of the treasure as if a robber had come.

Just when he was about to cry poor, Dui interrupted the words that were about to come out of his throat.

"Okay, I'm not here to ask for money this time!" Dui rolled his eyes at him unhappily. "On the contrary, I'm here to give you money!"

Hearing Dui's words, Smaug immediately swallowed the words in his throat and looked at him suspiciously.

"Really?"

"real."

As he spoke, Dui took out a space bag and poured it down. In an instant, many dazzling gems and diamonds flowed out and piled up into a small hill as tall as Dui.

These are gems given by Thranduil as a thank you for helping to recapture Mirkwood.

Seeing so many jewels, Smaug's attitude changed instantly. He kept flattering Dui and praising him to the skies, while he unnoticedly moved all the jewels to himself.

Dui didn't care about the behavior of this stupid dragon who was blinded by money, and turned to leave the cellar.

He first went to the potion room and refrigerated the giant spider venom and some spider eggs he had collected this time.

Then he went directly to the 30th floor in the middle of the tower and used the Traceless Extension Spell to expand a room countless times, making it the size of several football fields.

After some further arrangement, it turned into a small giant spider's nest covered with spider webs.

Dui waved his wand, keeping the entire room in dim light, with only the moon providing some light.

Then he placed a giant spider egg bag containing spider eggs into the nest and waited for them to hatch slowly.

After doing all this, he left the room, locked the door with magic and hid himself.

This place will be used as a breeding ground for giant spiders in the future, and later as a food reserve for the basilisk Helpo, as well as a collection site for giant spider venom.

Then go to the innermost wall of the second floor and say "open" in snake language to the small silver snake pattern on the wall.

The silver snake instantly came to life, bit its own tail, and turned into a snake-shaped door knocker.

Dui pulled the door knocker and the door to a hidden room was revealed.

Opening the door, Dui walked inside, which was a space as big as a football field.

Dui waved his wand and poured out all the giant spider corpses in several space bags.

Soon the corpses of the giant spiders piled up into a mountain.

Dui used his wand to carve runes on the surrounding walls, and as magic power was injected, the entire space became cold.

Then he walked straight to the wall opposite the door and said "Open" again in snake language to a larger silver snake pattern.

The silver snake coiled around the wall to form a circle and bit its own tail, then turned into a circular stone door and opened automatically, revealing a huge pipe leading to the bottom.

Dui did not continue down the pipe because below was a secret room that Dui had opened for the basilisk, located inside the mountain.

He took the suitcase containing the basilisk Herpo out of the space bag and opened it.

A somewhat bloated basilisk crawled out of the box, its bloated belly almost stuck on the exit of the box.

"Master, it's so cold!" The basilisk Herpo burped and shivered because of the air conditioning in the room.

Dui looked at the stuffed Herpo and was a little speechless. He pointed at the pile of giant spider corpses around him and said, "When you're hungry in the future, just come to this room and get food. Okay?"

The basilisk looked at the mountain of delicious food and immediately clapped its tail on the ground in joy.

There is so much food, enough for it to eat for a long time.

And as it eats more, it sheds its skin faster, and it becomes bigger and stronger.

After putting the basilisk in place, Dui left the secret room.

The door of the room disappeared again, leaving only a small, easily overlooked silver snake on the wall.

(End of this chapter)