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Chapter 168 Unknown Creature
"Smaug, take us down!"

Dewi and Gandalf quickly jumped onto Smaug's back.

Smaug fell freely towards the abyss with the two people on his back.

The abyss under Durin's Bridge was not dug by the dwarves, but was a naturally formed abyss crack inside the mountain.

The abyss is bottomless. Even the dwarves who once lived here did not know how deep it was, and no one had ever measured it.

Dui and Gandalf followed the giant dragon Smaug and continued to fall into the abyss. The cold wind around them was howling rapidly, making people's faces hurt.

They didn't know how long they had been falling. Was it ten minutes, an hour, or a day?
It was pitch black in the abyss, and you couldn't see your hand in front of you.

Fortunately, Dui and Gandalf were both clinging to the dragon's back, and the dragon Smaug blocked most of the wind, so they were able to open their eyes and observe everything around them.

Just when Dui was wondering if he had reached the depths of the earth.

Smaug quickly spread his wings, and his descent speed dropped sharply. He warned, "Master, the Balrog is below, and it is climbing up!"

Dui and Gandalf looked down into the dark abyss and saw a little fire flickering below, which was growing bigger and bigger.

In a pitch-black environment, the firelight is always so conspicuous.

Soon, they saw the fire demon waving a whip of fire and moving quickly up the stone wall of the abyss.

The originally cold air around became hot.

The fire demon below also noticed the presence of Dui and others above. Suddenly, he became extremely jealous when seeing his enemies. He let out an ear-splitting roar at them, and then rushed towards them quickly along the steep and smooth stone wall as if it were flat ground.

Dewi took out the last three bottles of fireproof potion, gave one to himself and Gandalf, and then fed one to Smaug.

After drinking the fireproof potion, Smaug felt a chill all over his body. The fire in his stomach was extinguished instantly, and for a moment he couldn't even spit out dragon flames.

"Master?" Smaug asked in confusion.

"Don't let the fire demon escape. Hold it tightly. Once it falls into the water under the abyss, its strength will be greatly reduced and it will no longer pose a threat to us!" Dui said.

The next moment, the Flame Demon's flaming whip arrived.

The long whip directly wrapped around Smaug's feet,
Smaug was surprised to find that the Balrog's flames seemed to pose no threat to him. He immediately bit the flaming whip and pulled it up along with the Balrog below.

Then he grabbed the fire demon tightly and fell down again with it.

The Balrog struggled continuously, releasing terrifying demonic flames that surrounded the dragon Smaug, along with Due and Gandalf on his back.

Thanks to the fireproof potion, Dui and Gandalf were not burned, but they also knew that the effect of the potion would not last long.

If they still fail to deal with the fire demon before then, they will all be severely burned by the flames or even burned to death.

As the dragon Smaug and the Balrog continued to fight, Dui and Gandalf also fell freely.

Gandalf's staff had been lost long ago. Holding the flaming sword and the smiting sword in each hand, he jumped up from Smaug, landed on the Balrog's back, and thrust the flaming sword into the Balrog's back. While falling, he fought with him with the other smiting sword.

Dui could only hear the rapid and sharp sound of the wind around him, and his eyes were almost closed, but seeing Smaug and Gandalf fighting with the Balrog, he gritted his teeth, grasped his staff, and released a spell with all his strength.

"The golden bell falls to the ground!"

As the spell was cast, all the people who were already falling rapidly suddenly felt like they were being dropped by a heavy weight, and they fell even faster.

The rapid fall turned the flames on the fire demon's body into a long fire tail.

The strong feeling of weightlessness made Dui float up, and he could only hold on to Smaug's dragon tail tightly to avoid being thrown away.

Soon, a gust of cold water vapor came towards me.

"Master, we are almost at the bottom of the abyss!" Smaug's voice came into Dui's ears amid the rushing wind.

Perhaps sensing the deep water below, the Balrog struggled frantically, and instantly erupted with terrifying, scorching flames, enveloping Dui, Gandalf, and Smaug in a sea of ​​fire.

Even with the protection of fire retardant, Dui still felt the burning sensation.

There was fire all around him, and even the breath he inhaled was flames. The clothes on his body and the space bag were all burned by the flames. With crackling sounds, everything in the space bag gushed out and flew in all directions.

But Dui no longer cared about these things. He quickly grabbed the divine spear Aegros, then jumped towards the Balrog, and inserted it directly into one of the Balrog's eyes, releasing the power of destruction.

The divine spear burst out with such force that it blew off half of the fire demon's head.

But the body of the fire demon is made of flames, and as long as the flames are not extinguished, it will not die.

The half of the fire demon's head that was blown off grew back again under the rapid replenishment of flames.

However, Dui showed a relieved expression.

Because when half of the Fire Demon's head was blown off, although he did not die, his thinking was temporarily suspended.

The result was that they had reached the bottom of the abyss.

"Shock absorber to stop speed!" Dui's voice sounded.

Dui, Gandalf and Smaug all instantly hovered dozens of centimeters above the water surface, avoiding being smashed into pieces.

The fire demon fell directly into the deep water without any deceleration, creating a huge splash.

At the same time, there is the crackling sound when water and fire meet.

After hovering for almost a second, Dui, Gandalf, and Smaug fell heavily into the water.

Dui instantly felt like he had entered an ice cave. The water around him was so cold that his blood vessels and heart seemed to be frozen.

It was pitch black all around, with no light at all.

Dui released a ball of light that illuminated the water surface at the bottom of the abyss.

Only then did I see Smaug, Gandalf, and the Balrog!
Dui quickly climbed onto Smaug's back, thus avoiding the consequences of freezing to death by continuing to soak in the water.

Meanwhile, Gandalf was still battling the Balrog. "Evil spirit, this is Ulmoth's territory. You have no power here!" Gandalf's voice, like thunder, echoed throughout the depths of the abyss, his sword gleaming.

As if to confirm Gandalf's words, the Balrog fell into the water and all the flames on his body were extinguished.

It became extremely weak and turned into a sticky, dark shape.

Although it is still powerful, it is much weaker than before.

His strength is not much different from Gandalf's.

"Master, you come down too!" A hissing voice suddenly sounded from the side.

Then the serpent monster Herpo emerged from the water and asked Dui happily with his eyes closed.

"Helpo!" Dui was stunned for a moment, then surprised.

When Helpo and the underwater watcher were thrown into the abyss by the fire demon, he was a little worried about Helpo's safety, but he didn't expect that he was fine.

He immediately ordered the basilisk: "Herpo, go and help Gandalf. Use your eyes and fangs to fight the Balrog!"

Upon hearing Dui's order, the basilisk Herpo swam quickly towards the Balrog.

Herpo is a very vengeful basilisk. Naturally, he remembers that the Balrog threw him down. Now he naturally wants to beat the Balrog who fell into the water.

It dived into the deep water, swam quickly to the bottom of the Balrog who was fighting with Gandalf, then bit the Balrog's leg directly and injected it with highly poisonous venom.

The fire demon felt pain. Although the basilisk's venom could not kill it, it could still make it weaker.

Dui was not idle either. He quickly summoned back all the things that fell after the space bag was burned using the Flying Spell.

"Gandalf, catch your staff!" Dui shouted to Gandalf and threw the staff over.

Gandalf was delighted when he saw his lost staff.

Facing a powerful enemy like the Balrog, the sword is not as useful as the staff.

He caught the staff successfully and instantly released a powerful spell, knocking the fire demon away.

"Avada Kedavra!" Dui's death curse followed closely and instantly hit the sticky-shaped fire demon.

The fire demon roared in pain and became weaker in an instant.

Faced with the siege of Gandalf, Due, Smaug and the basilisk, the Balrog stopped fighting and fled into a dark tunnel.

"Chase it! We can't give it time to recover!"

Gandalf took the lead and chased after him.

Dui saw that the tunnel was narrow and could not accommodate Smaug's body, so he could only let Smaug return the same way with the petrified underwater watcher.

And he rode on Hercule, and caught up with Gandalf and made him ride on him as well.

Herpo had a keen sense of smell and could track the scent of the Balrog without the guidance of Dui and Gandalf.

The dark tunnels at the bottom of the abyss were dug by an unknown object. They were interconnected and densely packed, as if they had dug through the entire underground.

Due noticed that Gandalf was looking at the dark tunnels with a look of unprecedented tension.

"What's wrong with you, Gandalf? Is there something wrong with these tunnels?"

Gandalf's voice was weak, as if he was afraid of disturbing some being in the darkness.

"May the Valar bless us! We won't encounter the creatures that live here! Otherwise, we will face a creature far more dangerous and terrifying than the Balrog!"

When Dewi heard Gandalf's words, his heart tightened.

"What kind of creature is that? It can make you so nervous?"

Gandalf shook his head. "I don't know what they are either. I only know that they are a very mysterious and ancient nameless creature. Not even Sauron knows what they are!"

"But I don't think we'll encounter them. The Balrog seems to know this place very well. If it's not confused, it won't take the initiative to face the nameless creatures underground."

But I don’t know whether to say that Gandalf has a crow’s mouth or that he has the gift of prophecy?

Just when they caught up with the Fire Demon, it seemed as if it encountered something that frightened it.

For the first time, a sound emanated from its inhuman, sulfur-smelling throat—not an angry roar, not a painful wail, but... a short, sharp, almost whimpering whine, filled with the most primitive panic.

The fire demon didn't bother to attack them, and didn't even look at them. He moved hastily and fearfully, running towards the tunnel leading to the ground.

Gandalf seemed to have sensed something and immediately became nervous. "Hurry up! Follow the Balrog and don't look back!"

The basilisk Herpo seemed to have sensed something, and with all his might, he carried Dui and Gandalf on his back and swam quickly in the direction where the Balrog was fleeing, as if there was some terrifying monster behind them.

Dui almost fell off the basilisk. He quickly grabbed the red feathers on its head to avoid being thrown off.

At the same time, the ground was shaking as if an earthquake had occurred, and countless broken lime chips fell from the top of the tunnel.

A strange "silence" suddenly descended - not silence, but all sounds, including the sound of rapid movement, breathing, etc., seemed to be absorbed and swallowed by a thick, invisible curtain.

Then, a deeper darkness spread in the deepest part of the tunnel.

It was not the absence of light, but a sense of "nothingness" brought about by existence itself, a pure darkness that could obliterate all colors and shapes.

An indescribable ancient whisper did not pass through the eardrum, but directly vibrated into Dui's soul.

It was a chaotic mess, filled with incomprehensible malice and pure, cold hunger.

An indescribable fear that came from the instinct of life gripped Dui tightly, like an icy snake coiling around his heart.

(End of this chapter)