Chapter 44: Separate Action
"Levi, wait a minute!"
On this side, Levi killed dozens of orcs and a dozen wargs, leaving only one small leader.
Gandalf hurried over and looked at the last survivor.
"I thought you had forgotten our purpose."
"Don't worry, I can control my sword."
Levi drew back his sword, while Gandalf pressed his staff against the Orc's breast to prevent him from rising and striking back.
The so-called purpose of the two was naturally to obtain intelligence on these Orcs.
"Tell me, you dirty fellows, what are you doing here?"
"Hehe, damn wizard, we will skin you alive sooner or later..."
Boom! Gandalf struck him hard, and the Orc was left with only a bloody skin.
"Tell me your purpose, and I will give you a quick death!"
"We will kill all humans in this area, and everything will belong to us!"
Gah——
After saying this, the little leader died.
Levi looked at Gandalf.
"Are there still people living around here?"
Gandalf nodded slowly, frowned and said:
"As far as I know, there are some."
"Many years ago, before evil spread and the Kingdom of Rhovanion fell into ruin, when Mirkwood was still called the Great Greenwood, many free people lived near this fertile river valley. However, now the forest has been polluted, it is dark inside, and there are many dangers nearby. It is no longer suitable for living. Most people choose to move to a safer place to live."
"There have indeed been many people living here, both humans and hobbits. Some of them have left here, some are still wandering, and some have not had time to leave and are still gathering in this area."
"We have to do something, Levi."
Gandalf picked up his staff, hit the little leader to prevent him from pretending to be dead, and called Levi to set off.
"Where are you going?"
"It's not me who should go, it's us - we should go and warn the possible residents nearby and tell them to leave as soon as possible to avoid being killed by the Oaks!"
"No, no, no, Gandalf, I think it is enough for you to do this."
Levi stood there and didn't move.
Gandalf turned around.
"What about you?"
"I'll go kill Oak, and the problem will be solved, right?"
Levi felt that there were too many oaks nearby.
Hearing this, Gandalf paused for a moment.
If anyone else had said that, the wizard would have hit him hard on the head with his pipe to sober him up.
Since the Orcs are preparing for a large-scale plundering, they will not send out just a few scattered teams, but will definitely send out a plundering army with a total number of at least several thousand.
For a man to face thousands of orcs alone is a death sentence no matter how you look at it.
Generally speaking, this is the case.
But if it was Levi, as long as those orcs didn't gather together all the time, maybe...
Gandalf nodded and said, "That makes sense. Then we will part ways here. You should be careful in your actions. I will come to support you as soon as I finish my work here."
"May your actions go well."
"the same as you."
In the Anduin Valley on the east side of the Misty Mountains, the two separated and ran in different directions.
Levi opened the system map and found that this area was covered with fog that had not yet been explored.
"That's great. Let me take a good look at the map."
Boom!
night.
An orc holding a torch kicked over a fence and set fire to the wooden houses along the road. In the light of the fire, his lumpy faces looked extremely hideous and terrifying.
"unlucky!"
"Another abandoned village."
"Where's the scout? Tell him to come over here. Didn't they say there's someone here?!"
A shorter Oak came over, bending over, and said timidly, "I did see a fire here just now. Maybe, maybe they are hiding..."
As he was speaking, another orc suddenly came over to report the news, and it seemed that he had discovered something at the entrance of the village.
The little leader immediately led his men over.
"The ashes are still warm from the burning..."
"There must be someone nearby, find him!"
Just as a circle of orcs were about to disperse and search separately, the wolf suddenly sounded the alarm and growled towards the shadows.
The little leader looked over and saw a human in a plain linen robe slowly emerging from the darkness.
"Ahaha, I found you!"
The Wargs rushed forward excitedly, and the Orcs raised their butcher knives, already thinking about how to divide the unfortunate human.
However, only a faint blue light flashed, and the human slowly smiled.
Wait, this person—is not right! The little leader stopped the wolf from charging forward and took two steps back.
After a moment.
Looking at the burning corpses of orcs and wargs in front of him, and then looking at the direction where the orc leader fled, Levi felt a little regretful.
I didn't ride a horse this time, so I really couldn't catch up with the wolf.
"Very clever."
As soon as he saw me, he knew to run away.
Without caring where the Orc ran, Levi continued at his own pace, opening the map bit by bit, looking for abandoned villages or lone Orc groups.
During the carpet-style search, the days, some quiet and some noisy, passed by unknowingly.
"Chief, we saw fireworks in the village over there. Should we go in and search?"
When they heard that there might be human activity in the village, the surrounding wolves and orcs began to get agitated and were already impatient.
At the end of the team, someone couldn't help but let out a sigh, his eyes filled with numbness.
Are people going to be enslaved again? Obviously, even if Gandalf's warning was timely and Levi killed as many people as possible, there were still many people captured by the Orcs under large-scale plundering and looting, either as food or as slaves.
This is a squad of Orcs responsible for escorting the looted human slaves.
Compared to other looting teams, they are more numerous, more powerful, and more vicious.
Although he was confident in his own strength, at this moment, after listening to the scout's report, the leader still asked cautiously: "Fireworks? Just one or many?"
"A lot. There are more than one house."
"Are those houses old or new? Are there any signs of human activity?"
The scout scratched his swollen head and tried hard to recall:
“Some of the houses are very old, but they seem to have been cleaned. I even saw some clothes being hung out to dry in the yard…”
“Are there a lot of weeds on the roadside?”
The scout shook his head. "No, there are few weeds. I can see the situation inside at a glance."
"good!"
The little leader gave a cruel smile.
It seems that this is not a trap set by that person, but a real village! He pointed to a small group of only a few dozen orcs and ordered: "You stay here to watch these slaves, and the rest of you follow me. We will eat human flesh tonight!"
"Hahaha--"
A pack of Okgar wolves rushed towards the village.
However, after entering the village and searching every house for a while, they were dumbfounded.
"Why is there no one here?"
Oak looked at the bonfires burning in some chimneys and the leather clothes hanging on wooden racks in the yard, and wondered what was going on.
Until suddenly, there was a burst of noise coming from the team responsible for guarding the slaves in the distance.
Orcs and Wargs flew up into the sky, flaming, and fell screaming.
Under the night sky, this scene is extremely conspicuous.
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