Chapter 269 Undercurrents In
2954, the long-dormant Mount Doom erupted again. The boiling magma flowed downwards and a large amount of dust rose into the sky above Mordor.
Since then, Mount Doom has erupted frequently. People who are closer to Mordor can always see scarlet light and billowing black smoke when they stand on high places and look east.
It was also in this year that the last batch of refugees from Ithilien moved into Gondor. From then on, only soldiers from Gondor and Mordor remained on this land, and it truly became a place of dispute.
It was also when this group of refugees retreated that Levi came to Gondor again. On the one hand, he was alarmed by the situation on Mount Doom and came to check it out. On the other hand, he also came to check out the situation at the base here and cover the refugees' retreat.
By the way, since he had nothing to do, Levi simply helped Gondor repair the walls of the ruined city of Osgiliath and the huge arch bridge for passage.
Levi worked so quickly that by the time the news got back to Gondor, he had almost finished building half of the city wall.
To show his importance, Ecthelion set out directly from the White City to express his gratitude in person, and then sent his son, Denethor, the then commander of the White City, to assist Levi.
This tall young commander obeyed Levi's every word and was not vague about what he was told to do.
With the full cooperation of Gondor, it wasn't long before the city wall was restored to its original state and the arch bridge was open to traffic.
The military traveled back and forth on it, and ships passed through the bridge tunnel below - mainly merchant ships from Lubianbao and crew members who graduated from Lubianbao School who were passing by here on a trial voyage.
After doing these things, Levi left. As for things like compensation, he did not mention anything at all.
All he could say was that Gondor was almost like his own home.
When Levi returned to Roadside Castle, it was exactly the time when the batch of trainee rangers graduated two years ago.
During the ceremony, Levi personally pinned medals on outstanding rangers.
The number of selections for outstanding rangers is not fixed. Anyone who has made outstanding contributions and has strong personal abilities may be recommended.
Of course, the recommendation standard is not low. The first point is to be recognized by other people in the team.
And the Outstanding Ranger Medal is not only awarded during internship, but can also be obtained by rangers who make outstanding contributions in their future service career or prove themselves to be capable and experienced.
However, if you want to get this medal in a short period of time, you have to make some achievements.
Just like Aragorn, he was formally recommended only after he challenged a troll to prove his personal strength, sneaked into the enemy camp alone to bring back important intelligence, and came up with a strategy to unexpectedly raid and destroy a medium-sized camp of at least two hundred orcs with only a few dozen people.
In fact, the things he did have already exceeded the standards, and if he did even half of them, he would be rated as an outstanding ranger.
But it is obvious that Aragorn is not a man who is content with what he has to do. He always makes some unexpected and bold moves.
Compared to what he had done, the other four might be a little bit inferior, but they were all worthy of the title, either they were strong and agile enough, or they had other outstanding things, or they had participated in enough battles and their accumulated achievements were quite outstanding.
“Well done.”
Levi finally put the medal on Aragorn and asked:
"So, do you have any plans for the future? Do you want to continue to stay with us? With your ability, you can directly lead a full-strength assault team of 200 people. If you work for a few more years, you may even become a commander."
To be honest, when Aragorn heard this condition, he hesitated for two seconds.
Being the commander of the army here, there is really no one who can control it except Levi.
Of course, the commanders of the territory’s armies are carefully selected and will not do anything that requires our attention.
"It's nice here, but—"
Aragorn opened his mouth and replied, "There is a greater need for my help."
"Good boy."
Levi said, "Go ahead, come back anytime."
After saying that, he grabbed his shoulders again and made him turn around to look at his teammates.
Arwen, who was also wearing the medal of excellence and was the leader of Aragon's team, came over and said, "I know you don't belong here, but this can always be your home."
They hugged.
That night, the entire team saw Aragorn off.
Aragorn was also quite moved when looking at these comrades.
“I will never forget the experiences I shared with you, nor everything I learned here.”
He raised an eyebrow at Arwen.
Yawen couldn't help but raise his eyebrows as well.
“That’s all you learned?”
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Isengard.
Compared to when the White Dao Society was held a year ago, the place has changed a little bit now.
The most obvious point is that there are more people guarding the tower, and the walls and iron gates at the entrance to Isengard, that is, on the south side of the plain in the valley, have also been reinforced.
The owner here seems to be guarding against something.
"Oak."
"Dirty and stupid, without any merit, like a reptile, useless."
At night, at the edge of a forest, a conspicuous white figure stood on a high ground, looking down at the herd of orcs with their heads down below.
"You guys want to work for me?"
Saruman looked at the group of Orcs with disgust.
"We will swear, swear to you!" And the Orc chief fell upon his face.
"Your will is our goal. We will do whatever you want us to do, as long as you can protect us..."
While making promises, Chief Oak felt bitter in his heart.
Didn’t those damn barbarians say that the white-robed wizards would accept us? What a bunch of liars! “Can you do anything?”
Just then, Saruman's words showed a hint of hope.
"Even if I ask you to disobey the Dark Lord's orders?"
The Orc leader froze.
Although Sauron is nominally the master of all Orcs and Wargs, his control over this area is not as strong as that over the Orcs in Mordor itself.
The difference is that the leader inside Mordor is only recognized by Sauron, but the Orcs in the Misty Mountains can give birth to their own leaders, and if the leader is strong enough, he can even bargain with Sauron to a certain extent.
Sauron controls the Orcs in Mordor directly, but this side is indirect.
Their ideological imprint is not that strong.
"We do."
The Orc leader made the decision.
Sauron was too far away to shelter them, but Saruman was close at hand.
"Huh, looking at it this way, maybe you are not completely useless."
"Go, live in a dark place. You must obey all my orders, and you cannot touch the places I forbid. Do you understand?"
"We understand, Master."
The Orcs left.
Saruman looked at the group of Orcs and narrowed his eyes slightly.
Now, the Dunlendings and the Orcs who lived near Dunlendings were at his service.
The Dunlendings were obedient to Saruman because he ignored their presence on Rohan territory, allowed them to cross the border through Isengard, and even supported them in "taking back the land."
The Orcs, on the other hand, were protected by Saruman and worked for him in secret.
Of course, neither the Dunlendings nor the Orcs would dare to extend their malice to the Lonely Lands or even the entire land west of the Misty Mountains.
They will set foot on the territory of Rohan in the name of "revenge" and "reclaiming their homeland".
The border dispute is about to begin.
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Thousands of years ago, Rohan was not an independent country, but a province of Gondor. At that time, it was called "Calennathonn". At that time, the Dunlending people were nominally vassals of the Kingdom of Gondor.
Until the royal bloodline of Gondor was cut off, the number of Gondorians living in the land of Rohan gradually decreased. They concentrated in the east, closer to the capital of Gondor. Correspondingly, the number of garrisons on the border of Dunlân also decreased.
As a result, the Dunlendings frequently crossed the border and migrated to Rohan, occupying the land of Rohan.
Until the invasion of the Balchoth, when Gondor was almost destroyed, the Éotheod, the ancestors of the Rohirrim, came from the north and saved Gondor.
In the end, Calenardhon was granted to the Eothéod by Gondor and allowed to establish a country - and that's how Rohan came into being.
Later, the people of Rohan saw that there were so many barbarians of unknown origin in this place, so the king gave an order to expel the Dunlending people.
From then on, the Dunlending people called the Rohan "robbers" who took away their homes.
(End of this chapter)
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