The Journey of the Demon Hunter

"Almost." Zelin nodded, took out the water bottle around his waist, raised his head and took a sip, then handed it to the mage girl. "Thirsty?"

"No." Virginia waved her hand. "The percentage of water in the mana potion is very high, I am not thirsty at all. And I will drink another bottle soon. The fire storm just now has almost exhausted my mana."

She yawned and stretched.

"Need some sleep?" Zelin asked.

Since last night, the demon hunters found traces of the orcs by the Anduin River, and they have not closed their eyes until now. Last night, Virginia had been reading "Dancing in Fire" with him. According to their previous thoughts, after reading the book, they lay on the boat to sleep, and waited until noon before entering the jungle. As a result, the orcs disrupted everything. Perhaps for the demon hunter, not sleeping for one or two nights will not affect his energy at all, but the mage girl can’t. She hardly sleeps. She has been rushing nervously during the day. At the end of the battle, After the tight nerves were relaxed, she became a little drowsy.

"I want to close my eyes for a while." Virginia rubbed the corners of her eyes. "If anything happens, wake me up immediately."

With that, she leaned against the wall behind her, preparing to sit and close her eyes for a while to rest.

Zellin reached out and embraced Virginia.

"What are you doing?" The mage girl suddenly opened her eyes.

"You can rest on me, you can lie down." Zelin held Virginia with one hand, and pulled the rope of the cloak with the other hand, untied the cloak and laid it on the ground. "Lying down, you need to rest well, leaning against the cold stone wall, you are easy to catch a cold. Close your eyes, relax, stretch out, I will prepare food, when you wake up, you can eat something more Regain strength."

"There are other people here." Virginia's cheeks were red, and she twisted her body. Seeing that Zelin didn't want to let go, she simply closed her eyes and buried her head in his chest.

"It's okay." Zelin embraced her, took out his package, and started to count the remaining potions, explosives, turpentine, and sword oil in it. "Take a good rest, relax, it's safe here."

Virginia didn't say anything, she closed her eyes and fell asleep deeply.

The dwarf ran in the rock hall, transferring the materials piled in other halls. The attack happened so suddenly that they could only temporarily find something to defend against the orcs. Even the crossbow arrows are not enough for them to shoot for too long, which is why the demon hunters plan to use explosions to block the gates.

Drag.

Dragging it down is good for the dwarves.

They can mobilize all the war materials in Moria to keep the orcs in that tunnel. After seeing the terrain of Moria, the demon hunters realized that they must not fall. Once this is lost, there are interconnected rock ladder hubs behind, through which many halls of Moria can be reached. By then, the orcs will be able to fully Taking advantage of numbers, it is impossible for more than twenty dwarves to stop the enemy.

Another point is to wait for the support of the wizard. Zerin didn't know the elves of Lothlorien, and didn't know how long it would take for them to react, summon an army, and start a counterattack when they discovered an orc army appeared in the forest. But the orcs went deep alone, and if no one made a quick fight, their situation would become more dangerous every time the time passed. However, Zelin believed that their rest time would not be too long, and the orcs would definitely find a way to clean up the rocks piled up at the gate. I am afraid that it would not take long to clear a passage.

"We need to find more crossbow arrows and move all the crossbow arrows to the roadblock." Bahrain said to Olin. "You take Lonnie to the arsenal and find out all the crossbows that can be shot in it, as well as all the arrows. Everyone must be equipped with a spear. By the way, bring some spears to the barricade and put it on the barricade. Replaced with the spear cut by the orcs."

"I'm going now." Olin patted the dust off his body. The battle just now made everyone here look embarrassed, but everyone knew that the real embarrassment was the orcs.

"Barnes." Bahrain looked at the other dwarf. "You go to other halls to find some sleek stones. When the orcs attack again, we can use rolling stones to deal with them."

"Understood." A dwarf with a golden twist beard stood up and patted the dirt on his pants. "Nick, Anton, hurry up and help, we have something to do."

"Wizard." Bahrain finally looked at the demon hunter.

"What's the matter?"

The dwarf glanced at the mage girl lying in the arms of the demon hunter, but there was no surprise in his eyes. Of course, there were more urgent things waiting for him, and he had no time to take care of him.

"Can you still use your spell that can cause a violent explosion?"

"I don't think that tunnel can withstand the second explosion." Zelin shook his head. "Our flames can still be used, but I think the orcs have suffered once, and they will not be fooled again. They have a lot of shields. The real key lies in your strong crossbows. We will find a way to destroy their formation. , Use fire and lightning to destroy them, but I think all of us must be prepared, we still don’t know who is leading the orcs, nor what decisions it will make. Bahrain, You saw the corpses of the orcs. Can you tell which tribe they came from? Who is their true leader?"

Zelin thought about dealing with Azog. Maybe he could find a way to kill the leader of the orcs. After losing the leader, the orcs who fell into chaos could not even stop the militia of River Valley City. Perhaps the elves' reinforcements can solve all this, but Zelin will never put all hopes on the help of others or things beyond his control.

"From various tribes." Bahrain sighed. "Your information is very accurate. This group of orcs is a coalition of orcs that have been forcibly combined. I have seen at least three different tribes in the battle just now, but there is one thing, I can be sure."

"What?"

"They are not northern orcs, they are from the south, they are probably from Mordor."

"Mordor...?"

"Bahrain! Bahrain!" a dwarf yelled and ran over, waving his hands in panic. "You must come here and see, there are orcs in the mine!"

The first thousand six hundred and sixty chapters assault

"Is it here?"

Standing on the stairs of the mine, Ze Lin knelt down and looked into the abyss under the stairs.

Moria is not a simple cave. The dwarves dig down in many places, so that a place similar to a cliff was dug in the mountains. They dig down layer by layer, and every time they dig a few meters to more than ten meters, they dig new halls and passages in the deep pit, and connect different halls in the deep pit with stairs and long bridges. Moria is not so much a city in the mountains, it is more of a giant city composed of mining platforms. This is a city and a mine.

"Have you seen the orcs with your own eyes?" Bahrain asked the dwarf who had come to report. Zelin and Bahrain decided to investigate. You don't need to let everyone go. Before the situation is determined, running around blindly is just wasting the rare repair time. The orcs in the mine have not yet been determined, but the orcs outside the gate are already carrying the fallen rocks.

"Look, this is the shield of the orc. I found it in the tunnel below." A dwarf with a brown beard—if Zelin remembers correctly, he seems to be Dein—is holding one. Shield. "This is not something left by the orcs in the past. When I found the shield, there was not much dust on it. Then I saw footprints in the dust near the shield. It must not belong to a dwarf. I suspect that an orc is still in Mori. In the sub-pit."

"This is impossible. We have been living in the mine for four years." Bahrain shook his head in disbelief. "Now you want me to believe that we have been neighbors with orcs for the past four years? I know that these orcs can live in various caves like our dwarves sometimes in the deep mountains, but this time? A few hours ago, the orcs were still outside the gate and we could not kill each other, but now they ran into Moria?"

"But we can't ignore any possible threats." Zelin stood up, and the stone bridges below disappeared into the dark abyss. The dark vision that the demon hunter was proud of was meaningless in this abyss, and there was nothing below. Bright, and too deep. "I think this is a warning, Bahrain, I don't want to hear the roar of the orcs from behind while defending against the orcs behind the barricade. I know this sounds incredible...Where does this tunnel lead?"

"I don't know."

Looking at Zelin's puzzled eyes, Bahrain shook his head again. "I really don't know. I entered the Moria Mine for the first time four years ago. I have read all the books related to the Moria Mine. We dig too far here, too deep, some The mine tunnel has collapsed in these hundreds of years. The oldest of us can’t tell where each mine leads to. I only know that under our feet is the Mythril Pit. You know Mori Why is Ya the most important place for our dwarves? Because only here can we find Mithril. But even so, Mithril is hard to find. We can only dig down and dig into other places, hoping to find more Mythril mines. I dare say that no one can know where these mine tunnels lead to unless the miners back then."

"Sorcerer, you know spells, can you figure out if there are orcs?" Dein asked. "Use your spells to find a way."

"I'll try to figure it out." Zelin squinted his eyes slightly, and he pointed to a sloping stone step opposite. "Bahrain, do you know where that road leads?"

"Where?" Bahrain stretched out his head, set up a shed in front of him, and looked in the direction pointed by the demon hunter. "Oh, that road, I don’t know where that road leads down, but I know that I can go up to the nineteenth hall, and then go up the stairs of the nineteenth hall to the Moria Hall. , Sorcerer, after we rebuild Moria, you must go to the hall to take a look. There can be a banquet where thousands of dwarves can participate at the same time. The dragon will appear small in front of the towering stone pillars. After passing Moria’s hall, and then through the west mine pit, you can see the first hall and the Masabur hall, which is the historian’s hall. Our original base camp is there. I have asked Oin to take it with him. People go back to the Masabur Hall and fetch the food and water we left there."

"Are we going to find the orcs?" Dein asked.

"No." Zelin shook his head. "Our primary goal is not to determine whether there are orcs in the Moria Mine. Even if we now know that there is a group of orcs in the mine, what can we do?"

"Kill them." The dwarf replied simply and neatly.

"Then in order to deal with the orcs in the mine, we have to ask the companion guarding the roadblock to help." Zelin made a move gesture. "The scale of Moria is very large, we may waste a lot of time to find the group of orcs, maybe half a day, maybe a day, or longer, and then we fight with them, maybe during the period someone will be injured and unable to fight, etc. We wiped out the orcs, and when we returned victoriously, maybe the enemies outside the east gate had already been killed in front of us. We killed more than a hundred orcs without any loss, but this does not mean that we already have a huge advantage. Wait for us After defeating the orcs outside and ensuring safety, we have enough time to clean up the mice in the mine."

"But you just said, we might be flanked back and forth?" De asked rhetorically because of unknown. "Are we going to expose our back to the enemy?"

"Quiet, then listen to the wizard's advice, Dein." Bahrain waved his hand. "I believe the wizard has not yet stated his plan."

"The first thing we need to do is to close the passage." Zelin stretched out a finger. "Bahrain, among all the people here, you know Moria best. I hope you can take people and close any passages that can enter the second hall from the west, or tell me which steps lead to us. I’m going to blow up the stairs where I’m in. Even if there are orcs, they won’t be able to fly over."

"Wait, if so, once there are orcs in Moria? Don't we want to re-cede most of Moria to orcs?"

"As long as we are still alive, Moria will be ours sooner or later, and the corpse cannot regain lost ground and defeat the enemy." Zelin explained. "The attack of the orcs is planned. We don't know if the traces of the orcs appearing under Moria are misjudgments, or whether there is a group of orcs who sneaked into Moria by bypassing the gate along a mine tunnel we don't know, or During the orc occupation, the Moria pit was dug long ago and connected to other settlements of the orcs in the Misty Mountains. If this is not Moria, it is a well-preserved lone mountain, we have every reason to confront the orcs head-on, and Defeat them again, just like defeating Azog."

Zelin was worried about whether the orcs were attacking frontally, and at the same time they sent a small team to bypass the line of defense and enter Moria from a place they didn't know. In this way, it was not that they blocked the orcs outside the door, but the orcs surrounded them in the alley. In this way, procrastination will put them in trouble

"Just do what the wizard said, this is the best way right now." Bahrain sighed heavily, and he patted Dein on the shoulder. "Don't worry, we are only temporarily surrendering this place to the orcs. Soon, we will be able to completely take Moria back. Moreover, if we think about it in a better place, no one of us can be sure whether there is really in Moria. Orcs."

"Some of these tunnels are thousands of years old, but we have to destroy them with our own hands... Wait! What sound is this?!"

In the dark abyss, rhythmic thumps hit the eardrums of the three people present like heartbeats. The voice came from the abyss, long and short. They clenched their weapons one after another, staring at the shadows all around vigilantly. The sound of horns and drums echoed in the silent hall, passing through the complex tunnel like a spider web.

Suddenly, a light of fire appeared under the abyss, and soon, the fire gathered into a long dragon, like a fire snake crawling out of a cave, twisting its body and advancing toward the cave on the other side of the cliff. With the help of the flame, Zelin saw the following situation. The orcs held their torches, flapped their drums and horns, strode forward with the drums, crossed the dark caves, and walked up the stairs. The passage was almost twenty meters deep under the long bridge where the demon hunters were located, and they didn't seem to notice that someone above them was looking at them.