Of course, Thranduil thought of the bottle that Ziljan had given him, and the bottle that had only drunk a small taste was really not very good!

If the current elf king was not very clear about the effect of the bottle of wine, and planned to dispose of the residual wine according to the female elf's proposal, then the elf king, who came around to Vernor in a few minutes, made the decision that he would rather be scolded than treasure the residual wine. www.biquge.info Anyway, because she drank the wrong thing and did something excessive, it seemed forgivable to her? At least now Vernoll doesn't seem to be angry.

Despite bowing his head and dodging, Thranduil saw Vernor's reddish face, fresh kiss marks left by him at the corners of his mouth, and a few fresh scratches.

Placing his hand behind him with the huge gem, Thranduil said to himself as he said yes: Next time you drink that wine, don't forget to take off all the rings!

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One evening in the early autumn of Triage 2, Elrond summoned Lindil after treating the wounds of the last patient.

With only two elves left in the room, Elrond's infectious power that made all living beings feel like a spring breeze was gone. He frowned and paced a few steps around the hall, then said to Lindil, who had been waiting with his hands down, "Find out my armor." By the way, put all the soldiers of Ringu into a state of standby, ready to fight at any time. ”

"What are you...... What are you going to do?"

Lindil thought about it, and he couldn't think of where there was war. As a creature who didn't know what the consequences of the Ring would be, Lindil believed that the most peaceful time in Middle-earth had arrived. Although the remnants of Sauron have not been completely erased, those stupid creatures will not be able to make any big waves without Sauron's command. Upon returning to Ringu, considering the increasing number of creatures coming for treatment, Lindir proposed to disarm the soldiers who were supposed to be stationed at the entrance to the territory. Elrond did not object, but left fifty soldiers to take turns patrolling. Suddenly offered to take out armor that has not been useful for more than a year, and put all the soldiers on standby, can there be any other reason than the imminent war?

Lindill, who was extremely disgusted with the war, clenched his fists nervously, and even his voice trembled a little. "Could it be...... Is there another war?"

Then I must transfer all the money in the treasury to a place that the lord doesn't know about as soon as possible. Otherwise, he would definitely use Rivendell as a place to prepare war supplies, as he did three years before the start of the "Last Alliance Campaign". He also selflessly donated all the assets of the territory. Many of those assets are intimate jewelry used by Princess Lucien. Perhaps, even Queen Mirian once wore it.

"There is no war. It's just that in a few days, the Woodland and the Lonely Mountain will conduct a joint military exercise in the Graton Plains, and the Elven King has written to me to take care of the fleeing Oaks. In case they were shocked by the military exercise, they panicked and strayed into the Ringu. Elrond, whose gaze had been on the map, did not notice Lindil's nervousness, but instead reached out and pointed at the Graton Plains. Naturally, he didn't notice that Lindil breathed a long sigh of relief and nodded to signal that he was leaving.

"But why Graton Plains?"

Without waiting for a response, Elrond withdrew his gaze from the map and found Lindill, who hated war, standing beside him, and couldn't help but laugh inwardly at himself for asking the wrong person. Lindil was a bard before he came to Ringu, and he was so disgusted with war that he naturally did not know about it. It is better to expect him to answer questions about military exercises than to expect the remnants of Sauron to voluntarily lay down their extravagant knives and stay away from the killing.

With a wave of his hand, Lindil hurried to follow through on the matter, and Elrond took down the map and spread it on his desk before the other party had fully walked out of the room. After repeatedly mapping the location of the Plains of Glatton, the Woodlands, and the Kingdom of the Lonely Mountain, Elrond discovered places that he could not comprehend at all.

As a qualified war herald, Elrond discovered the strangeness of the military exercise venue through the map.

In terms of the location of the Lonely Mountain and the Woodland, the plain between the Lonely Mountain Kingdom and the Gray Mountains is the best place for military exercises. That location is so close that the Lonely Mountain Kingdom does not need to transport materials in advance for military exercises, and can directly transport them from the kingdom every day. For the Woodland Kingdom, that location is also the closest venue. Why did he abandon the nearest site and choose the Plain of Graton? Even if the King of the Lonely Mountain was so focused on accumulating money that he didn't know anything about war, it was impossible for the dwarves to have no captain of the guard who didn't know the common sense of war, right? Even ordinary soldiers knew that the farther away the battlefield was, the more supplies would inevitably be consumed in military exercises.

All right. Regardless of the reason why Thranduil, who has been accustomed to the huge consumption of military exercises since he was a child, and has strong economic strength, he is willing to go far and far, regardless of whether the dwarven king really does not understand the common sense of war. As long as you are a creature who is not blind, you can know the distance from the Lonely Mountain to the Graton Plains through the map. None of the officials and soldiers of the two kingdoms stopped the wrong decision on the battlefield?How could a calculating dwarven king come up with several times more money to make the Lone Mountain King spend at least a day crossing the woodland kingdom to the Dagraton Plains to participate in military exercises?

"It's impossible!" the wise man who shook his head again and again stopped his finger on the location of the withered wasteland.

Although he was not a great general, Elrond, the absolutely qualified war herald, discovered another truth that defied common sense. From his observations, the Grey Mountains and the remnants of Sauron hidden in the withered wastelands were the closest hidden dangers of the two military exercise nations. According to the theory that military exercises can also serve as a demonstration of military strength to the enemy and dismantle potential dangers, the two countries should choose to reconcile the plains between the wasteland and the lonely mountains, rather than the Glaton Plains!

Cross the Anduin River from the westernmost point of the Graton Plains, and about an hour further west is the misty mountains of Oaks. No matter how you look at it, the Okpa there will not and dare not pose a danger to the woodland kingdom. The Misty Mountains are a long way from the Woodland Kingdom, that is, they have to cross the river and cross the entire plain to reach the westernmost border of the Woodland Kingdom. No matter how stupid Oakes is, he would not be so stupid as to pull out the mountains and wade through the mountains and rivers to run to the woodland military flag, which is still a terrible deterrent to them.

Conducting military exercises in the absence of war must be the beginning of Thranduil's mentality of being prepared for danger in times of peace. For the largest country in Middle-earth, it is naturally a good thing to have a king with such a strong sense of crisis. However, with Thranduil's brilliant war mentality, he would not be unaware, let alone willing to let go of the opportunity to conduct military exercises and deter potential enemies at the same time. It is impossible that even I know where the best venue for military exercises is, and he doesn't know at all!

Elrond had a feeling that his mind had been completely turned upside down.