Chapter 216 Sleepless Night
The supreme ring, the ring that controls all.
Sauron forged a total of twenty magic rings by himself or with the help of others. Nine of them were held by powerful humans. Some of them were kings, some were powerful warriors, and some were famous wizards.
But no one knows their specific identities. There are only some ancient rumors that three of them are nobles of Númenor. It is said that the Witch-king is one of them. Another one with a clearer identity is the ruler from the Dongyi, who is now the Eastern Shadow Khamul.
So far, the only Ringwraith who has not been directly defeated by Levi is the Witch-king.
It can be said that he is the last card of the "Ringwraiths" group.
Of course, it doesn't matter if the Witch King is defeated once. He can just be resurrected once more. It doesn't matter who defeats him. At most, it will weaken their morale a little. It will remain the same as before.
But it is important to know exactly where the defeat took place.
It's okay anywhere in Middle-earth, but not at the gate of Gondor.
If Gondor is defeated in this historic way, it will have something to say about it in the future.
Come back.
Four of the Ringwraiths have clear origins, but no one knows who the remaining five are, including Levi. Even the elves or wizards may not be clear about this matter.
"Witch King?"
"No, that's not right, you're not."
At the crossroads, Levi stood up, stared at the Ringwraith walking slowly towards him, and asked loudly: "I have been waiting here for almost a day. Where is your leader? He is not at the crossroads at all. Where did he go?"
The Ringwraith did not answer, but slowly approached.
The afterglow of the setting sun shone through his dark soul onto the road behind him, leaving behind some dim halos.
In front of the broken statue of the King of Gondor, he drew out the broken sword from his back.
A broken sword that, given its length, can only be used as a dagger at best.
"Are you planning on fighting me with this thing?"
There was no response, and the Ringwraith remained silent. He looked at the person in front of him and walked forward step by step, his steps slow and steady.
"Don't talk."
Yes, these Ringwraiths really keep their mouths tightly shut when it is not necessary. If they have to open their mouths, it is mostly to let out a shrill scream to instigate fear in the opponent.
They are essentially a group of evil ghosts who have fallen and cannot be liberated. Although they retain the ability to move and wisdom they had in life, their self-awareness has been eroded. Everything they do is for their master, Sauron.
"It doesn't matter."
Seeing that the Ringwraiths who were coming towards him had no desire to communicate, Levi also drew out his ancient elven sword - Nemesis.
"He didn't dare to face me, so he sent his men to die. This is indeed a good move. Maybe he can save a little bit of face."
If it was just an unknown person coming to the door to make a fuss, the Witch King would definitely ignore him and would look down on him at all.
But the person who was shouting was Levi. His every move affected the nerves of many people, and what he did would spread very quickly.
The Witch-King must respond, one way or another.
"But what good will that do?"
The light in the sky gradually dissipated.
When the last ray of light faded from the world, the figures of the Ringwraiths suddenly disappeared.
Ding! Levi turned around abruptly and used his nemesis to block the broken sword that was heading straight for his neck.
Swoosh——
With a swing of the sword, an unstoppable force came, and the Ringwraith couldn't stop retreating, almost unable to hold the weapon in his hand.
Block.
Unfortunately, the disarmament that followed failed.
"My skills have already been maxed out..."
"How about you try backstabbing me again?"
Hearing these words, the Ringwraith looked up at the black-armored warrior in front of him, and felt a sense of oppression coming over him, and a long-lost emotion called tension rose in his heart.
This feeling is just like when I was still a human and faced a giant beast many years ago. The only thing I could do was to try my best and risk my life.
As he looked up, Levi rushed forward, and suddenly, the Ringwraith's figure disappeared again, avoiding his attack.
At this moment, time seemed to slow down - or rather, the speed of the Ringwraith sped up. He landed on the crown of the broken statue, slowly drew out his bow, aimed at Levi's head, and shot arrow after arrow. Almost in an instant, he shot out five arrows in a row, and each arrow hit the head accurately.
Boom!
At this moment, Levi suddenly felt dizzy and the rune shield on his body flashed five times. Each flash caused him to lose two or three points of shield value.
This wave of attacks actually cut off a small portion of the rune shield.
The attack power is quite high, but it can't break defense.
Turning his head to look at the place where the arrow came from, Levi quickly drew his bow and raised his hand to shoot back.
The flaming arrow was approaching rapidly, but the Ringwraith simply swung his broken sword slightly and cut the arrow down from mid-air without even moving his feet.
“Interesting.”
Levi's thoughts became active, and his fighting consciousness, which had been dormant for a long time, was finally called upon again today.
On the crown of the ruined statue, the Ringwraith raised his bow, nocked an arrow, and was about to shoot down when suddenly a hook with a float caught on his armor.
Fishhook?
Caught off guard, an irresistible strong pulling sensation came from the fishhook, and the Ringwraith fell directly off the statue, while Levi was waiting for him below with his sword raised.
"Do you know what baseball is?"
Just when this seemingly fierce blow was about to fall on the Ringwraith, the deep figure flashed again, and the Ringwraith dissipated in mid-air. The next moment, it was behind Levi and took out the broken sword again. Levi turned around and blocked it with his backhand. The strong shock made the Ringwraith's hand holding the broken sword stiffen. Taking this opportunity, Levi chopped again and knocked the broken sword aside.
The sound of iron clashing could be heard.
The Ringwraith pounced forward almost instinctively, reaching out one hand for the broken sword on the ground. The movement was so fast that it seemed like he had accelerated. However, Levi did not stand by and watch. He immediately launched a sprint sword skill. As a cloud of dust rose behind him, he caught up to the Ringwraith at an incredible speed with an afterimage.
By the time the Ringwraiths got the broken sword, Levi had already struck down his nemesis.
——The power of the ring was activated, and the Ringwraiths' movements suddenly accelerated, but they could only use their broken swords to block their nemesis with great effort. Levi continued to exert force, so the long sword pressed the broken sword of the Ringwraith and kept approaching him.
Roar! In the end, the Ringwraith couldn't help but scream, but it didn't scare Levi, but it was effective. This scream emboldened the Ringwraith himself. He held the broken sword tightly and used all his strength to block Levi's sword, winning a glimmer of hope for himself.
The figure once again disappeared from the world, and the Ringwraiths escaped into the world of the dead. The next moment, they appeared in the distance again. However, when he turned around to look at Levi's position, he found that Levi had also disappeared, and there was only a piece of purple particles in his place.
The Ringwraith looked left and right blankly, and at a certain moment his heart suddenly tensed up, as a large hand grabbed his helmet without warning, and no matter how he struggled he could not get rid of it. He tried to fight back, but he was unable to break the rune shield in such a hurry, and in the end he could only be dragged helplessly and slammed into the base of the statue.
The edge is right in front of us.
Click.
At the critical moment, the Ringwraith broke free from the hand and rolled to the side, avoiding the stabbing sword. He turned his head and saw that the base of the stone sculpture was pierced by the sword like mud.
Then, the sword began to move.
Zira——
A piercing sound was heard, and the long sword deeply inserted into the stone scraped the base and drew a long groove. The Ringwraiths had to lean against the base and roll to one side continuously to avoid this overbearing attack that tested the material of the sword.
It was not until the entire base of the statue was cut open that the Ringwraiths finally got a chance to breathe.
“Aa ...
A roar like a leak in the wind came out of the throat of the Ringwraith, and a short-handled axe hammer condensed in his hand, attacking Levi at an extremely fast speed. When the axe hammer met the breastplate, there was a sound of "dong!". With this blow, even Levi, who was wearing the next-level alloy armor, actually took a small step back.
Although the hammer was small, the power it unleashed was no less than that of a dwarf's sledgehammer.
Without giving the opponent a chance to launch a combo attack, Levi raised his sword and fought the Ringwraiths head-on. The result was evenly matched. The Knockback II enchantment took effect, and the pressure from the longsword was no less than the impact of the behemoth.
The two sides exchanged blows again, and a rumbling sound echoed at the intersection, like thunder, startling the butterflies in the flowers so that they could not fly steadily.
As the bombardment and collision continued, the pressure on both sides continued to increase. The evil power wrapped around the axe and hammer became thicker and stronger as the Ringwraiths swung their weapons. Levi's attack power became higher and higher as the combo continued, until after more than a dozen encounters - his attack power was accumulated to the maximum limit.
At this time, the Ringwraiths seemed to have gathered enough strength to prepare for a fierce attack.
Boom!
A huge noise exploded where the two men were joined, and the axes and hammers in the hands of the Ringwraiths dissipated. The whole Ringwraith was knocked back and rolled far away. He hurriedly got up and quickly raised his head to observe.
But it was still a step too late.
The next moment, a sword pierced through his armor and pierced his chest, setting his spirit on fire.
"ah--!!!"
Like the other Ringwraiths, this one screamed in agony after being set on fire.
He struggled to grab the sword in front of his chest with both hands, trying to pull it out, but no matter how hard he tried, he couldn't move it at all.
Just because Levi hasn't let go yet.
The health bar, which was not very thick to begin with, continued to plummet. The Ringwraith's hands fell to his sides, and he stopped resisting, as if he had accepted his fate.
"It's really interesting. Soran has hidden someone like you?"
So this guy was slacking off in Dol Guldur.
Or was it because he ran too fast and he didn't have time to make a move?
Who knows.
Through the blazing flames on the Ringwraith's body, Levi looked carefully at the ring on his hand.
If as expected, it should be one of the nine commandments of mankind.
The Rings of Power are just as their name suggests, each of them has magical powers. The reason why the dwarves have countless wealth is because the Seven Rings of the Dwarves have the ability to replicate gold, which almost touches certain laws of the world.
At this moment, Levi had the urge to take off the ring and study it, but in an instant he became alert and gave up this inexplicable idea.
No, not necessary.
"But, does an ordinary ring have this kind of power..."
Recalling the abilities displayed by the Ringwraiths before him, Levi said meaningfully:
"Very interesting. You don't look like an unknown person. Although you have never fought with the Witch King, I don't think he can be that strong. After all, he didn't even dare to come to the duel."
"In my opinion, you are more suitable to be the leader of the Ringwraiths than him. Have you ever thought about stepping on the Witch King and replacing him?"
"Your master will be pleased to see this, too."
His subordinates were actively fighting for power and becoming stronger. For Sauron, this was absolutely a good thing and there was absolutely no reason to stop it.
Anyway, no matter how much trouble there is among the Ringwraiths, they cannot be killed off. No matter what the outcome is, they will still have to serve him in the end.
"I can help you do that."
Levi sent out his own righteous instigation.
Of course, he wasn't thinking of engaging in any scheming or power struggle on a whim, nor was he trying to support a Ringwraith as an insider - such a thing was simply impossible based on underlying logic.
"I'll trick you all out and chop you all off."
——This is his truest thought.
The Ringwraith, who continued to be burned by the flames, did not reply and just kept his usual silence, but his expression told Levi that he was not at ease.
The feeling of the spirit being set on fire is much more painful than the burning of the flesh.
"I have never seen such power in Dol Guldur. Who are you?"
"A guy like you would not be unrecorded in history, at least not without a title."
Levi kept asking questions like a stand-up comedian, trying to extract some useful information from the Ringwraiths.
It’s a pity that this Ringwraith was like a mute and refused to say a word no matter what.
Maybe he really was a mute, or maybe during the long time he was enslaved by Sauron, even his ability to communicate independently had been erased.
Forget it, there’s no time.
The health bar can't hold up anymore.
Levi shook his head and gave up asking.
He drew his sword and let the Ringwraith fall to the ground and continue to burn without looking at him.
"Unfortunately, no."
When the health bar burned out, the Ringwraith finally took advantage of this gap to say the only words he had said since he met Levi.
Suddenly, a shadow swept across the sky, and the seriously injured spirit was pulled back to the evil black tower of Mordor by a force, waiting for the next resurrection.
Levi turned his head suddenly and stared at the black cloak that had been burnt to ashes on the ground and the empty shell of armor that had lost its soul support.
Did he speak just now? Wasn't it hallucination? That's interesting.
The Ringwraiths, each one of them can really give people a different surprise.
"A powerful warrior who has gone unsung..."
"Unfortunately, I still couldn't use my full strength."
The golden apple was not eaten, the potion was not drunk, many items in the backpack were not used, and even the rune shield was not broken.
Although his losses were not great, it depended on the specific circumstances. This Ringwraith did have many unexpected and powerful methods.
If it weren't for the rune shield, just the armor on his body, the five arrows shot at his head almost in an instant would have left him with only half his health.
Half crippled in an instant.
Add to that the axe and hammer that gets stronger the more it hits, and the ability to poison people with just a roar... If it weren't for the sword skills that provide layer-on-layer power bonuses that get stronger with each hit, it would be really easy to be knocked down at this moment.
——Those tiny accumulations that seemed to have little presence finally took turns to show their effects today.
It is the combination of those items, which do not look particularly strong when taken individually, that has made Levi what he is today.
Click.
The slight movement beside him attracted Levi's attention.
Next to the remaining armor of the Ringwraith, there was a broken sword that had fallen to the ground, with many signs of rust on it.
After a slight pause, Levi picked up the sword.
[Broken Straight Sword]: Attack +1.
"That's it?"
He is using this thing to fight himself?
Where is the Morgul sword that every Ringwraith has? Levi took a deep breath, and for some reason, he felt a little aggrieved.
Shaking his head, he put away the broken sword and returned to the territory to continue digging underground space and building various facilities.
No enemy attacked that night.
As the sun rose, a ranger stationed near the crossroads rode across Osgiliath and headed straight for the White City Palace.
This was not a peaceful day in Gondor.
"well!"
At night Turgon sat up in his bed, and looked at the veil above his head, and then at the ground, but he could not close his eyes.
After a moment, he put on his coat, walked to the terrace, looked out at the lush starry sky, and sighed again.
The news of the Crossroads quickly spread throughout the streets of White City, and everyone was asking when the hero who killed the Ringwraiths would return.
That Levi, he really gave Gondor a great sigh of relief.
"Why did I treat him like that in the palace that day?"
Turgon rubbed his face, feeling distressed.
Someone is going to have trouble sleeping tonight.
(End of this chapter)
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