Chapter 59 Blocking the Door Again
"They should be waiting for us."
Gandalf said this at the pass of the Misty Mountains.
“That’s in our plan.”
"That's hard to say." Levi looked around at the terrain. This place was still the same as the last time he came here, with no changes.
"Well, even if they really didn't wait for us, it rained so hard, they would definitely find a place to rest. While they are resting, we can always catch up with them."
"Huh?"
Gandalf suddenly stopped and looked at a cave beside him.
"This is the front hall of the Orc Town. It is a gate specially built by the Orcs to facilitate attacking passers-by. Because of their existence, no one has walked this road for a long time."
"Speaking of which, I once planned to find a more or less upright rock giant to block this place, but they were really difficult to communicate with, so in the end it didn't work out."
The knowledgeable old wizard narrated the history of this place. As he spoke, he walked forward a few steps, squatted down, and touched the ground.
"The mechanism here shows signs of having just been triggered..."
"Oh no, Thorin and the others must have been caught!"
“This is not good…”
"Then let's go down and rescue them?" Levi also took two steps forward, looking left and right, knocking on the wall and touching the ground.
"Don't waste your energy. The goblins in these orc towns are very smart. The gates they set up cannot be opened from the outside."
Gandalf stood up and said, "But I know there is a back door that we can sneak in through. Perhaps we can..."
"Maybe we can dig in."
Levi took out a fully equipped diamond pickaxe and asked Gandalf, "Give me some direction."
"Just watch. If I don't dig a hole through the front hall door for him, I won't be called Levi."
hiss--
Gandalf stroked his beard and took a deep breath.
I almost forgot what this guy is capable of.
“This way!”
Boom boom boom boom…
The diamond pickaxe left an afterimage in Levi's hand, and a neat rectangular passage two meters high continued to extend underground at an extremely fast speed.
Levi was digging in the front, while Gandalf was holding a torch in the back acting as a light source.
"Wait a moment."
After digging for a while, Gandalf suddenly told Levi to stop.
"We should be close now. Let me take a look inside first."
He took out his cane and knocked it on the ground.
A transparent circle of light burst out from its body, ignoring all obstacles on the way and continuing to expand and extend.
The circle of light passed over the rock layers, across various debris, and covered a large group of goblins in the cave, but they were unaware and continued to do their own things.
Gandalf rarely casts a range detection spell.
Before entering Middle-earth, wizards were subject to many restrictions, one of which was that they could not show their divine power too much in front of mortals, which resulted in Gandalf often having to solve problems with swords and sticks.
But in front of Levi, this restriction seemed to be relaxed a lot.
Of course, it's just a slight relaxation. If it's completely released, he might be able to cut off the entire mountain.
You know, in the unlimited "War of Wrath" in the ancient era, an entire continent was sunk.
"Right over here, I see them."
Gandalf pointed in a direction and said, "Dig fifty meters this way, and then down."
Boom boom boom boom…
Levi continued to swing the pickaxe, knocking off the rocks one by one, and soon he arrived at the place Gandalf said.
Pop.
Another stone was dug out, and a light came out from below.
We have arrived at the center of Orc Town.
Levi stuck half of his head out and saw a fat figure sitting on a flat stone, interrogating the thirteen dwarves who were surrounded.
On the ground were their confiscated weapons.
After confiscating the weapons, the goblins continued to search the body and soon found a bunch of silver tableware and candlesticks engraved with the small words "Made in the Valley".
"It's made in the Valley of the Second Era. It's garbage. I can't even give it away."
The Orc King casually threw aside these antiques that were at least three thousand years old. They really didn't like the elves' things.
As for why these things were found...
It was a "souvenir" that some dwarves took away from Rivendell.
Obviously, his automatic pickup function is better than Levi's, and he can pick up the items directly without knocking them down.
"Oh my, look who I found, isn't this Thorin Oakenshield?" After checking the spoils, the Orc King suddenly saw Thorin among the dwarves, and his face immediately broke into a smile.
"I know your head is worth a lot - dead or alive."
"Go tell Azog that I have captured the dwarf king. Tell him to bring the reward."
A goblin was sent out to deliver the message.
Just as the Orc King was about to continue to deal with these dwarves, a goblin picked up a sword that he had confiscated from the ground nearby, pulled it out and took a look at it.
“Uhhh—”
As soon as he pulled it out, he was startled and quickly threw the sword aside. The Orc King glanced at the ground and was also frightened. He stepped back repeatedly and even accidentally stepped on a smaller goblin behind him to death.
"It's 'Bite Sword', the one that has slashed the necks of thousands of orcs!" he shouted.
Wow——
The goblins around suddenly moved away and formed a circle, and none of them was willing to get close to the sword.
Even though the original owner has been dead for many years, the sword still retains its power.
"You damned guys!" The Orc King was strangely angry.
"Punish them! Beat them to death! I'll skin them and cut off their heads!"
Snap! Some goblins raised their whips and lashed at the dwarves, some threw the dwarves to the ground and beat them with their fists and feet, and some raised their bone blades to kill them.
"It's time for us to go!"
When Gandalf saw the dwarf was in danger, he immediately jumped down first.
At this height, even Levi, who has the fall protection enchantment, has to think twice.
This old guy is good, he jumps as soon as he says so.
Levi ate a golden apple in advance.
"Then I will..."
Boom! Before Levi could jump down, a dazzling white light suddenly burst out from the cave, and a powerful airflow exploded outward from Gandalf. The debris under his feet flew far away in an instant, and a large group of goblins around him flew out uncontrollably like a typhoon and fell into the deep valley.
Even the Orc King, who was relatively far away, was affected. His sturdy chair made of metal and wood was blown away by the huge impact force. His fat body rolled to the ground and he cried out in pain.
Boom! The white light dissipated.
At this moment, except Gandalf, there was no one standing here. The goblins who were nearby had long disappeared, and those who were far away were all crawling on the ground to avoid the storm.
Even the Orc King, who was of his weight, had to lie prone on the ground.
Thorin opened his eyes.
"Gandalf..."
The wizard drew out his sword, and the fire ring on his hand glowed faintly.
"Take up arms and fight!"
The fire of hope in their hearts was ignited. The dwarves pushed away the nearby goblins, took back their weapons, and followed Gandalf to kill.
"That's the enemy sword!" The Orc King recognized the sword in Gandalf's hand.
It has to be said that as the king of goblins and one of the leaders of the orcs in the Misty Mountains, he is indeed knowledgeable.
He recognized all the swords that Gandalf didn't recognize. It was hard to say which of them had existed in Middle-earth longer, but in fact the lifespan of the Orcs did seem to be quite long. Even Azog was at least two hundred years old now.
After recovering, the Orc King immediately raised his skull scepter in anger and commanded the goblins to chase forward.
After the first attack, perhaps because there were too many people present, or perhaps for some other reason, Gandalf was no longer able to cast the same powerful spell as before. He just drew out Glamdring and led the dwarves to break out.
A group of goblins followed closely behind them. After the initial shock, they immediately reacted and surrounded them in an overwhelming manner. For a while, there was a lot of noise, and there were enemies everywhere, from top to bottom, left to right, front to back.
No matter how powerful you are, thousands and thousands of goblins can't defeat fourteen of you?
The group soon fell into a disadvantage.
However, at this moment, a nightmarish black figure fell from the sky, and with a slash of the sword forward, it created a small vacuum area.
"ah!"
The Orc King took another step back.
"It's him, that vicious human, the enemy of Orcs!"
Levi swung his sword casually, and the long sword passed through the goblin's neck. The goblin blocking the way in front of him froze in place, his eyes darting around, and for some reason his body suddenly became uncontrollable.
Levi raised his hand and gently patted the goblin's head.
Click.
A head fell to the ground.
This sword is a little too sharp.
Many times it can deal more than 12 points of damage - that's just a minimum number.
Generally, when the enemy has little armor, they are cut in half and killed instantly.
At the narrow entrance, Levi was blocking the way alone. Every sword he struck would sweep away a group of goblins. Those goblins that were swept away were like fire bombs, knocking down the goblins that squeezed in from behind again.
This is the power of the sweeping blade. Every attack will directly cover an area and hit as many as possible.
Levi began to want to try adding the knockback enchantment. When this enchantment is realized, maybe it won't be as useless as in the game.
Behind Levi, the dwarves ran forward and couldn't help but look back.
At this moment, there was not a single goblin between Levi and them, and a buffer zone was cut out directly.
"Stop looking and get going now!" urged Gandalf, although he could not help looking a few times himself.
The Orc King was surrounded by the goblins, who closely protected him behind him, staring at the sword in Levi's hand.
He did not recognize the sword that made him feel cold in his heart. He had never seen it or heard of it before.
But from now on, Levi let him know.
Stroking the sword in his hand that was shining with cold light, looking at the group of goblins in front of him who were hesitant and dared not move forward, Levi said the same words again: "Come on, try to get past me."
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When I was looking through the information, I found one thing. In "The Hobbit", both Gandalf and Gollum called the orcs in the orc town Goblin, and the orcs outside who were more warlike were called Orc. There were two names for orcs in the same work.
Although from the original material, Orc or Goblin both refer to the type of "Orcs", and it is okay to call them either name, but based on the above clues, it can be inferred that Tolstoy may have made some distinctions between the types of Orcs. When he described the smaller and more cunning orcs in the caves, he called them "Goblins", and when he wrote about the orcs who were often active outside and liked plundering and war, he called them "Occs".
For various considerations, the names in the original work are still used here, and a distinction is made between the names of the two ethnic groups.
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By the way, I would like to thank again the friends who are willing to help correct typos. Sometimes it is really difficult to find the typos by yourself, and this can at least improve the perception of those who come later.
(End of this chapter)
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