After the Battle of Five Armies, peace was finally restored in the North.
As the greatest hero in this war, Wayne's deeds were widely circulated among the dwarves, elves, and various forces around Lake Town. Not only the lower-class people, but also the top leaders of various races, the wizards who maintained the order of Middle-earth, and even the Elf Queen Galadriel were all shocked by Wayne's powerful strength.
Thorin and Dain were lucky. Although they were starved for several days after resisting the attack of the Orcs by creating a cave-in in the narrow mine of Lonely Mountain, they were rescued after the Orc army was cleared out.
As their savior, and even the savior of the entire dwarves of the Kingdom under the Mountain, Wayne received the highest courtesy from all the dwarves.
Thorin even proposed to forge a twenty-meter-high golden statue for Wayne in the palace of Lonely Mountain to commemorate his friendship with the dwarves.
As for the woodland kingdom of the Mirkwood, King Thranduil also expressed similar gratitude. It was because of Wayne's existence that the Silvan Elves were able to preserve so many people during the siege of the Orc army.
The Elf King said that if Wayne needed help or wanted to make any requests in the future, their Woodland Kingdom would do their best to help him as a way of repaying the favor. The Sylvan elves valued their promises, and they would still be valid even if hundreds or thousands of years had passed.
As for the hundreds of refugees in Long Lake Town, after considering it for a few days, Wayne still refused their request to serve as king. He proposed that everyone move back to the deserted River Valley Town and rebuild their homes there.
In order for Riverdale Town to develop peacefully, Wayne created the Riverdale Town Council and selected ten capable and prestigious people to serve as councilors. In the future, the entire Riverdale Town will no longer implement a dictatorship, and important matters will be decided after discussion and voting by the council. The wealth accumulated by the mayor at the time was retained as development funds for the entire town.
Of course, Wayne did not gain nothing for this small town. He was granted the position of permanent president of the town by the council, and was able to participate in various affairs of the town at any time and even had a veto power.
Before leaving, after consulting with the council, he took in twenty members from the surviving orphans in the town, all of whom were children aged between five and ten, and planned to bring them back to Wayne Manor in Shire for training.
Of course, this was just an external statement. In fact, Wayne planned to bring these children back to the wizarding world, to Kaer Morhen, let them join the Witcher Cult, and train these children from an early age.
Although it is uncertain whether these children can be trained to become demon hunters, even if they become loyal staff members, it is a good gain.
However, this gain was just a little extra for Wayne. What really made him very satisfied was the reward for the mission after completing the Battle of Five Armies.
During the Battle of Five Armies, including an epic quest and a master quest from Thorin, and a master quest from King Thranduil, he gained nearly 5,000 experience points, two master treasure chests and one epic treasure chest.
In addition to these two tasks, he also had a master-level quest to destroy the orcs in the Misty Mountains, which he received from King Elrond and had just completed.
The experience gained from these tasks allowed Wayne to increase his level by three levels, reaching a full level of 20, and his ability points increased by three points, reaching 11 points.
He couldn't help but sigh that advanced tasks were indeed upgraded quickly.
In just less than half a year of traveling in Middle-earth, his level was raised by seven levels, and the number of high-level treasure chests he obtained was so large that he felt like he was dreaming.
Now, his system has saved two epic treasure chests, five master-level treasure chests, more than forty expert-level treasure chests and nearly two hundred ordinary-level treasure chests.
He planned to return to the wizarding world to find the Lady of the Lake, choose a lucky day, borrow some luck from an unlucky guy, and then open the treasure chests together.
By then, his strength will surely be greatly improved. Just thinking about the treasures in the epic treasure chest makes people look forward to it.
In addition to the rewards brought by these plug-ins, he also gained a lot of things in this journey to Middle-earth, including gold worth 1.8 billion orens in Lonely Mountain, an order for 10,000 sets of knight armor, 100 top-quality war horses in Rivendell, and collections of books from two major elven tribes, two ancient elven swords, two finished sets of mithril armor and the promise of eight sets of mithril armor, etc. These are all extremely rare treasures, and ordinary people would find it difficult to get any of them in their entire lives.
However, the most important gain from this trip to Lonely Mountain was not these material things, but the connection or favor with the leaders of various races. With this relationship, when he encounters something that needs help in the future, he will have more choices and more opportunities.
Different from the conspiracies and intrigues between the kings in the wizarding world, these leaders in Middle-earth are trustworthy and can be relied upon. As the saying goes, a promise is worth a thousand pieces of gold, and their promises are countless times more valuable than a thousand pieces of gold.
After dealing with the affairs in the north, Wayne said goodbye to his friends one by one. Although everyone tried to keep him, the witcher was not from the same world as them, and it was impossible for him to stay in the north for a long time, so they parted reluctantly.
This time, in order to make the return journey faster, Wayne specially asked the dwarves to build a large, cable car-like carriage, which was hung behind the Deathclaw. It was specifically used to transport the children. However, with Bilbo's height, he could also ride with the children.
In this way, it took them less than a month to pass through the Mirkwood, the Misty Mountains, and arrive at Rivendell of the Sindar elves, the legendary Rivendell.
In Rivendell, Wayne was once again warmly received by King Elrond. In order to commend his achievements, the king held a banquet for him for three days and three nights. Together with the entire Sindar elves, they sang and danced, drank fine wine, and shared the victory and joy.
In this beautiful holy land of the elves, he also met Princess Arwen and the future Emperor Aragorn again.
The beautiful elf princess was still very enthusiastic towards Wayne, or rather overly enthusiastic. During her stay in Rivendell, the princess would come to find him every day, sometimes to chat, sometimes to talk about her lonely experiences in the north, and sometimes to go with him to visit Aragorn, who was practicing sword diligently.
This time, perhaps because Wayne's achievements were too dazzling, even King Elrond no longer stopped his daughter from interacting with Wayne, but this was a different kind of torture for Wayne. The Sindar elves are very loyal in their feelings, and a playboy like him is not a match for a pure elf like Princess Arwen. He also doesn't want to win the favor of this elven girl by deceiving others.
So, during a conversation, Wayne deliberately revealed to the princess that he already had a girlfriend, and more than one. This made Princess Alwen's face change immediately, and then she said goodbye and left in a daze.
In the following days, the Elf Princess deliberately avoided Wayne until the day he left Rivendell. The two did not meet again. But Aragorn made a surprising decision.
After hearing about Wayne's brilliant achievements, he showed infinite respect and admiration, and kept trying to find ways to continue learning swordsmanship from the demon hunter.
But Wayne was about to leave Rivendell, and even leave Middle-earth, and might not come back for several years, so it was difficult for him to agree to this request.
As a result, this kid brought King Elrond one day, and under the witness of the Elf King, wanted to become Wayne's formal apprentice, go out on adventures with him, learn swordsmanship together, and promised to respect Wayne as his father, which surprised him very much.
King Elrond did not seem to object to such a request, and even seemed to be interested in matchmaking.
After considering for a long time, Wayne agreed to this request and made an agreement with Aragorn that he would teach him swordsmanship and arrange his life until he came of age.
The reason why he agreed to this request was not because Wayne was impressed by his identity as the future Emperor of Man. Perhaps that was a little bit of the reason, but the most important thing was that Aragorn was a very sensible child and had a very high talent for swordsmanship. Even if he did not go through the witcher's Green Grass Trial, in terms of swordsmanship and physical fitness, he would be able to surpass most witchers in the future and become the top swordsmanship master.
He was also excited to see such a good seedling. If he could train Aragon into a master, not to mention a good tool, he would definitely get dozens or even hundreds of times the return in the future.
When they left Rivendell, in addition to the child Aragorn, there were also a hundred elven knights from Rivendell and a hundred elven warhorses that King Elrond promised to reward Wayne.
The Elf King was truly a benevolent leader. In order to help Wayne deliver the warhorses to their destination, he simply sent out a hundred knights to accompany him. In addition, he also gave him books on how to tame these elven warhorses.
So, after leaving Rivendell, Wayne's team suddenly became much larger. They traveled together for more than half a month, climbing mountains and wading through rivers, passing through towns and wilderness, and finally returned to Wayne Manor in the Shire.
As the owner of the manor, after returning to the manor, a grand celebration was held for a week. Wayne not only entertained all the guests from afar, but also made Bilbo, who participated in the expedition to Lonely Mountain, a famous hero among the Hobbits.
Although this kind-hearted Hobbit did not care much about such reputation, Wayne felt that as a warrior who had fought against the orc army with the expedition team, he deserved people's respect and appreciation.
After the carnival, peace returned to the manor.
Wayne finally found an opportunity to return to the wizarding world with his great harvest and those who traveled with him.
Although more than nine months had passed in Middle-earth, in the wizarding world, only less than two months had passed.
(End of this chapter)
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