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Chapter 172 Return to Moria

Since Galadriel agreed to help purify the Fire Demon's fire, she reached out and picked up the red magic crystal on the table that was emitting high temperature.

It seems like there is no warmth at all.

Then he walked towards the central fountain with the magic crystal, and Dui and others followed.

Coming to the fountain, Galadriel placed the magic crystal in the center of the fountain.

There once stood a crystal bottle, which was used to capture the light of the star of Earendil and thus collect the Light of Earendil.

Whenever night falls, when the star of Earendil passes across the sky, its starlight shines into the fountain and is reflected by the water in the fountain. Galadriel collects the starlight in a crystal bottle and makes the Star Vase.

Galadriel placed the magic crystal in the place of the crystal bottle, then slowly tilted the crystal bottle, and the flowing starlight liquid dripped onto the magic crystal.

When the two collide, there is a sizzling sound, just like water dripping on hot iron.

"The Light of Earendil is the final energy of the glory of the Two Trees. It has the ability to purify all darkness and evil, which is just right to purify the fire of the Balrog." Galadriel said slowly.

As she finished her words, wisps of evil energy emanated from the Balrog's magic crystal and were purified by the light of Earendil.

But at the same time, the liquid condensed by the Light of Eärendil was also offset and became less and less.

When Dui saw this scene, he immediately knew that he owed the great man another favor.

The light of Eärendil is not easy to collect. Every night when the stars are shining, a ray of starlight can be collected in the fountain. It takes about a year to collect starlight before it can condense into a drop of star dew.

And a whole bottle of Earendil's Light would take at least hundreds or thousands of years.

At the cost of consuming the light of Eärendil, the originally dark red magic crystal gradually faded and turned into a light red crystal.

Seeing that the star dew in Galadriel's bottle was almost empty, Dui took out his own bottle.

"My lady, please use this bottle of Earendil's light."

Galadriel shook her head.

"It is enough. The Light of Earendil only purified the magic crystal, but it cannot completely eradicate the polluted power of Morgoth. It will take some time to restore the Balrog's fire to its pure state."

As she spoke, she dipped her right hand into the fountain water and stirred it slowly.

The light of Nanya, the Water Ring on the finger, was faintly visible in the water. A powerful force merged into the water, and the spring water became silvery and sparkling, as if sprinkled with starlight.

The magic crystal was immersed in the spring water, and the violent and hot black flames in it became calm, and the temperature it emitted gradually decreased.

The flames were gradually fading at a speed that was difficult to capture with the naked eye, and the evil aura was also fading.

"From today on, I will regularly inject purifying power into the spring water until the Eternal Fire is completely restored to purity." Galadriel said, withdrawing her hand.

Upon hearing this, Dui couldn't help but ask, "How long will it take?"

"Not much," Galadriel said. "Three years is enough."

"Three years?!" Dui couldn't help but exclaimed.

Isn’t that much?

Well, for an elf, it’s not that long.

In order to obtain the Phoenix Animagus, Dui said he could wait.

But in this case, his research on the Philosopher's Stone would need to be accelerated.

At least we can't just sit and wait for these three years. At least we have to have a small goal on the road to immortality.

He left the Fire Demon's Crystal in the fountain pool for purification, while Dui stayed in Lórien to recuperate.

After a full month of recuperation, the feeling of magic overdraft and spiritual fatigue was finally eliminated.

During this time, Dewy also remade three flying brooms.

His and Gandalf's broomsticks were destroyed by flames during their fight with the Balrog.

This time he used the trunks of the Maolong tree as materials, which had better performance and faster speed. Dui named the three brooms "Nimbus", "Comet" and "Firebolt" respectively.

The Nimbus was his own, the Comet was Arwen's, and the Firebolt was Gandalf's.

Just when Dewi was living a happy life in Lórien, a letter from Moria was delivered to Dewi.

Dui opened the letter sent by the raven and read the contents while thinking that maybe he should find a few owls to act as messengers.

The letter was from Balin, stating that they had completely recaptured Moria.

Some of the Orcs of Moria were slain by them.

The other group that escaped to the west gate was burned to ashes by the dragon Smaug who was guarding outside the gate.

Not one escaped.

So Balin, as the Lord of Moria, formally invited Dewi and Gandalf to visit.

Gandalf also received the letter.

Even Celeborn and Galadriel received invitations.

Due and Gandalf would naturally not refuse.

But Celeborn refused.

He has always been distrustful of the dwarves because the dwarves coveted the Silmarils and killed his great-uncle King Thingol, which led to the destruction of his hometown Doriath.

He even hesitated to leave Eregion because he was unwilling to enter Moria. It was not until the fall of Eregion that he crossed the Misty Mountains and reunited with Galadriel in Lórien.

However, Celeborn could not refuse outright and thus offend the dwarves who used the mithril mines, so he prepared a gift.

Galadriel, in step with her husband, did not go either.

Arwen, at Dewi's invitation and on behalf of Lórien, went to Moria to attend the Dwarfs' feast.

The three left Lorien and traveled upstream along the Calebrant River until they reached the east gate of Moria in Dark Creek Valley. Balin personally greeted them at the east gate.

"Welcome! Gandalf, Doir, and the beautiful Elf-ladies! Welcome to Moria!"

Balin was in high spirits at this moment and gave Dewi and Gandalf each a big hug.

Then he warmly invited them to enter Moria.

The group arrived at the first hall.

Moria is a very large space, running through the largest mountain range in Middle-earth. It takes at least three to four days to walk from the east gate to the west gate if you don't get lost and walk straight.

So Bahrain temporarily used the first hall as his main living place.

The dwarfs' banquet was very lively and luxurious.

Dui was also secretly amazed when he saw the knives, forks, cups, etc. made of mithril in front of him.

A small piece of mithril is enough to exchange for huge wealth in trade, and a complete object made of mithril is even more expensive.

For example, the mithril armor that Thorin gave to Bilbo was enough to buy the entire Shire.

But here, it can be seen everywhere, such as the armor and weapons of the dwarf warriors, and various tableware, all of which are made of mithril.

These are all relics from the former Kingdom of Khazad-dûm, and have now been found by Balin and others, specifically used to entertain a few people.

Arwen, who sat beside Dewi, was equally astonished at the dwarf's extravagance.

As the White Princess of the Noldor, she and her grandmother Galadriel learned the Noldor's forging techniques, and naturally knew the value of mithril.

Like the Water Ring Nanya worn by my grandmother, the main body of the ring is made of mithril.

Even some of the more powerful elven swords were added with mithril to make them sharper, lighter, and even have magical properties.

I didn't expect that people here are so luxurious that they use mithril to make tableware.

But what surprised Dewi even more was that Balin had the dwarf warriors bring over a dozen large iron boxes and placed them in front of him and Gandalf.

"What is this?" Dewi and Gandalf both looked puzzled.

Balin raised his hand and motioned for the dwarves to open the box.

It was filled with finished products such as mithril utensils, accessories, handicrafts, and mithril ore.

"Gandalf, Doir, you defeated the Balrog and helped us recapture Moria. I cannot help but express my gratitude!" Balin said sincerely.

"Of course, I also know that these alone are far from enough to express my gratitude, so I also prepared this."

As he said this, two pieces of animal skin paper were brought to them at his signal.

There are Tengwa and moon characters written on it in mithril.

"To express my gratitude, I have written a contract: I will give one-tenth of the ownership of Moria's mithril ore to Gandalf and Doir respectively. I hope you will accept it!"

They were both surprised when they heard this.

Dui was surprised by Balin's generosity, even though before the expedition, Balin had promised to give him one-tenth of the ownership of the mithril once Moria was recaptured.

But he didn't expect that Balin would fulfill his promise so quickly. Not only did he give Gandalf the same share, but he also didn't drag his feet.

He has none of the greed and possessiveness for treasure that other dwarves have.

Should we say that he is indeed the calmest and wisest elder among the dwarves?

Dui naturally would not refuse this reward. After all, mithril, a precious magical metal, has so many uses that he naturally needs it.

So he readily used the silver pen provided by the dwarf to sign his name on the contract paper.

The silver pen is made of a special ink made of mithril and other materials. It will never fade and the writing will still be clear even after thousands of years.

The animal skin paper is also made of wear-resistant giant lizard skin and is soaked in special potions. It can still resist rotting after thousands of years.

These preparations are enough to demonstrate Bahrain's sincerity.

As for Gandalf, he refused the reward offered by Balin and only picked out a pipe made of mithril from the box.

In his words, he didn't have a large number of subjects and pets to support like Duir, so there was no point in asking for this reward.

Balin was not secretly happy about Gandalf's rejection, but instead looked a little disappointed.

Dui couldn't help but use the soul-reading spell to see what Balin was thinking.

It turns out that Bahrain is not just pretending.

Balin was truly grateful, so he gave Gandalf one-tenth of the mithril ore.

Of course, there is also a little trick, which is to bind the interests of Dui and Gandalf to Moria with mithril.

In this way, if Moria encounters any danger in the future, with the two powerful wizards, Dui and Gandalf, there will be no need to worry about Moria repeating the same mistakes.

Dui naturally didn't mind such little thoughts. Instead, he admired Balin's cleverness even more.

After delivering the mithril, Balin took a few people to the treasury.

Khazad-dûm once relied on the production of mithril to accumulate wealth even greater than that of the Lonely Mountain.

Even the ceiling is paved with gold, which is enough to show how huge their wealth is.

However, after the Balrog was awakened and the kingdom of Khazad-dûm was destroyed, all its wealth was plundered by the orcs and sent to Sauron's Barad-dûr.

Even the gold on the ceiling had been pried away, leaving only the bare black stone walls.

But even so, when Dui and the others arrived at the treasury and looked at the mountains of gold, silver and jewelry, they were still shocked.

This is another treasure that is no less than that of Gushan.

(End of this chapter)