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"Are you really here to save us?" a weak boy asked in a hoarse voice, his eyes fixed on the two men.

Gandalf nodded, his demeanor as gentle as a spring breeze. "This is the purpose of our visit."

Dui waved his hand and unlocked the large lock on the cage door, letting the villagers inside out.

Seeing the cage door open, the villagers walked out tremblingly, as if in a dream.

Seeing that there were only a dozen or so people who came out, Dui and Gandalf's mood sank.

"Are you the only ones left?"

The villagers fell silent instantly, enveloped in grief, and began to sob softly.

The boy who had asked the question earlier gave the answer. His eyes were red and he choked up as he said, "Everyone else was eaten by the ogres! Today I was supposed to be eaten by the ogres, but my mother persuaded the ogres to let me grow a little bigger before eating me, and then my mother took my place..."

Dui remained silent as he watched the boy wallow in grief and self-blame.

Gandalf walked up to the boy and gently patted him on the shoulder: "What's your name?"

"Edward".

"Edward, you have a truly great mother. She risked her life to give you a chance to live. Don't let her down; live well, carrying on her legacy!"

Gandalf's language is concise, yet powerful and persuasive.

Having rescued the villagers, Dui and Gandalf began discussing how to lead them out of the ogre cave.

Gandalf's idea was that Dui would be responsible for protecting the villagers, while he would go and fight the trolls.

However, this proposal was rejected by Dui.

Trolls are enormous and extremely defensive, with almost no weaknesses except for their fear of sunlight. It would not be easy for Gandalf to deal with five trolls by himself.

Although Gandalf was a Maiar, his power was restricted in Middle-earth. He was forbidden from using excessive power to directly interfere with the natural order and the choices of the inhabitants of Middle-earth, thereby disrupting the balance of power and races.

Moreover, his current body is also a mortal being, subject to the limitations of a human body, and he will feel pain, fatigue, injury, and even death.

Therefore, due to various restrictions, Gandalf preferred to engage in close combat with his staff and sword, rarely using powerful magic, at most a single light spell.

Seeing that Duy rejected his suggestion, Gandalf did not persist, but instead asked, "Then, Duy, do you have any good suggestions?"

Dui confidently pulled out a bottle of potion and said with a light laugh, "Ogres are not easy to deal with, so let's choose to outsmart them and achieve the greatest results with the least cost."

"What is this?" Gandalf asked curiously, looking at the potion in Duy's hand.

"This is a shrinking potion I made before. One drop can shrink a horse to the size of a palm, which is perfect for dealing with these ogres."

Gandalf's eyes lit up, and he immediately guessed Dui's idea.

"Are you planning to put this potion in the pot and feed it to them?"

"That's right."

Dui nodded, then tapped himself with his wand and used the Disillusionment Charm to become invisible again.

"Gandalf, protect the villagers. I'll go feed them the potion first, and then I'll send you a signal."

He then hurried toward the cave hall, needing to administer the drug before the ogres finished eating.

The villagers in the cave were shocked to see Dui disappear like that, but at the same time, they had a greater hope and confidence in escaping.

Dui had just arrived at the cave hall when he stumbled upon five ogres fighting over food in a large pot.

Dui quickly cast a levitation spell on his feet and tiptoed toward the ogres.

When Dui stood before the ogres, he felt the oppressive presence emanating from their enormous bodies even more acutely.

One hand can kill itself, or it can swallow itself whole.

Dui carefully slipped through the gaps between the ogres and moved closer to the cauldron.

But just then, one of the ogres stopped grabbing the food, sniffed around, and asked in confusion, "Is there the scent of a living person?"

Seeing the troll sticking its head in his direction, Dui stopped and immediately held his breath. He hadn't expected the troll to have such a keen sense of smell.

Seeing the trolls still sniffing in his direction, Dui quietly raised his wand, his voice barely audible: "Distract them!"

The ogre looked a little confused, sniffed again, and then immediately punched the ogre next to it angrily, "Was that your fart? It stinks!"

"Who farted? You farted!" The innocent ogre next to him immediately got angry and punched back.

The two ogres forgot about fighting over the food and immediately started fighting.

The other three ogres also stopped eating and started shouting loudly to kill each other.

Taking advantage of this moment, Dui quickly walked to the large pot.

Looking at the half-eaten sticky substance in the pot, and smelling the meaty aroma...

Upon thinking about what that thing was, Dui felt a sudden churning in his stomach and instinctively felt uncomfortable.

But in order to get rid of these ogres, he had to endure the discomfort, sneak up, take out a potion bottle, open it, and pour it all in.

A single drop of this medicine can shrink an ordinary animal to the size of a palm, but he wasn't sure how strong the magic resistance of these ogres was, so he had to increase the dosage to deal with them.

After adding the potion, Dui carefully retreated and came behind a boulder, quietly waiting for the result.

Before long, the two fighting ogres ended their battle and rejoined the fight for food.

Once the ogres had finished eating all the food in the pot, the effects of the potion began to appear.

"Huh? What's wrong with me? Why are you all getting bigger?" one of the ogres who was eating the fastest asked in confusion, but soon realized that he was the one who was getting smaller.

The distance rapidly decreased from six meters to five meters, four meters... one meter, fifty centimeters, ten centimeters.

While the other trolls were still in shock and confusion about how their companions had shrunk, they too began to shrink rapidly.

Finally, five ogres, each only ten centimeters tall, appeared in the same spot, looking around at the enlarged environment with fear and unease.

Then they saw a huge human appear in front of them, waving a huge wooden stick and conjuring a cage to lock them inside.

"Alright, Gandalf, you can bring the men out now!" Dui shouted loudly towards the depths of the cave.

As soon as he finished speaking, Gandalf and a dozen or so villagers came out.

"Is it resolved?" Gandalf asked.

Dui pointed to the ogres in the cage on the ground, "It's not over yet. They've been shrunk by my potion, and I'm not sure how long the effects will last, so we need to deal with them as soon as possible."

Gandalf glanced at the miniature troll in the cage, raised an eyebrow, and asked, "What are you planning to do?"

"I plan to clear out all the ogres in the vicinity to see if there are any living people still in the hands of other ogres. These ogres all live in the Ogre Forest and should know each other. I want to see if I can extract information from them," Dui explained.

"Do you need my help?"

"No need, let me try first." Dui shook his head, then pointed his wand at the five trolls in the cage and chanted the spell without saying a word: "Distract!"

As their bodies shrank, the five ogres' magic resistance decreased significantly, and they instantly became confused and disoriented.

"Tell me the locations of any other ogre caves you know in the vicinity," Dui said.

The five trolls regarded Dui as their closest kin and, in their state of confusion, revealed all the information they knew.

After obtaining enough information, Dui did not hesitate any longer. A small dagger flew out and instantly severed the heads of the five ogres like cutting grass.

Once the ogre died, the shrinking potion's effects gradually wore off, and its ten-centimeter body rapidly expanded back to its original size. Dark black blood gushed out from its severed head like a fountain, emitting a foul, fishy stench.