"Why don't you stay here a little longer, my friend?" asked Thrandier, who hurried into the palace in his armor. He's been very busy lately, because after discovering that the magical plants brought by Ryan are not less lethal to those evil spiders in the woods after experimenting. He began to lead the elves to build a green defense line to fence off the woodland near the capital for the time being.

So he has been leading people to set up a defensive line outside the city for a few days, and just now he hurried back from outside on a bighorn deer when he heard that Ryan was leaving.

"Everybody's welcoming, but I'm here to trade. I heard that if you go down the rushing river near the Elf King's main hall, you can reach Dachanghu Town. In the town of Long Lake, continuing along the Rushing River, there is an abandoned riverdale city. I want to rebuild it as the core of my trade in this place. ”

Hearing that he was going to occupy an abandoned human town, Thranduil had no objection to this. Anyway, it had nothing to do with the elves, not to mention that the city had been completely abandoned, and there was nothing morally wrong with occupying it.

But Thranduil was a little worried about Smaug, the dragon that destroyed Riverdale decades ago. However, after watching Ryan demonstrate how to break through a three-meter-thick rock with a normal piece of steel, he was relieved and had hope that Ryan would defeat the dragon.

So after weighing the pros and cons for a while, after several hesitations. Thranduy made up his mind and commanded Prince Legolas, who was standing aside, "Legolas, Mr. Ryan is probably in need of some local guides and help this time. So lead a squad of elves to help him. ”

With that, Thranduy turned to Ryan and pleaded, "I hope you can keep Legolas safe this time, and if Smaug is too strong, please retreat in time." I don't want to have elves die for something like this. ”

Thranduil was more of a politician who looked more out of the interests of his own group. So he didn't kill Smaug for the sake of humanity like Gandalf did, and this time he sent his son out, mainly to get closer to Ryan. It is convenient to be able to communicate with each other in the future, because what Ryan brought this time has fully proved its value, and he has used those plants to reclaim the land around the royal city.

Ryan certainly understood what he was doing, because he had done it in previous worlds.

Legolas was excited, and he felt that this time he could finally leave his hometown and see the outside world. By the way, I took the opportunity to leave my father to get in touch with Toriel.

Yes, Ryan discovers that Legolas and Toryl have a faint affection. In the movie, Toril is supposed to have met Kiri when she was looking for comfort after being hit by Thranduil. Chili, on the other hand, saw Toril half-truthfully when he was between life and death after being poisoned. It was only under this kind of mistake that the two developed feelings.

Now that none of this has happened, naturally the whole thing is different from in the movie. After leaving Thranduil, Ryan discovers that the relationship between Legolas and Toryl is rapidly growing, and by the time Ryan and the others leave the Dark Forest, the two have become a full-fledged couple.

After entering the town of Long Lake at night, Ryan first went to find Bud, the descendant of the King of the Riverdale State. Bud is a middle-aged man who makes a living by selling ferries. Upon learning of Ryan's intentions, Bard tried his best to convince Ryan not to do so, as he feared that Smaug would come to Longlake to take revenge on the inhabitants.

"I swear I have a way to kill Smaug and give everyone a better life. These spirits can testify to me that I have that ability. Bard looked at the elves with some suspicion, and Toriel stepped forward to tell Bardleen about the changes he had brought to the elves in the dark forest.

"If that's the case, you'll need to show me this, and if you can do what you say, I'll give you the position of King of the Valley, and I'm just a commoner anyway. But you have to swear that even if you fail, you won't be able to lure Smaug over. Bard lowered his head and thought for a moment after listening to Toriel's words, then looked up and said to Ryan.

After all, Bard's ancestors had shamed the family by missing the opportunity to shoot Smaug, so he only wanted to defend the people here now, and he didn't have much attachment to the throne.

"Okay, I promise you. Ryan assured him, and then joined Bud's team and set off. When Bard left, he also carried the family's black arrow on his back. Ryan took out some gold and silver and gave it to Bud's wife as a reward for Bard going out with him.

"Thank you. Seeing this, Bud thanked him on the way. Because they came out with horses, they came to the ruined city of Riverdale after most of the day.

The city is now a dead ruin, and some people tried to stay after Smaug destroyed it. But Smaug flew in the night to hunt them for food, especially the Pure Maiden. After a few times, there was no one left in the city.

After taking a rough look inside the city, Ryan began to release a large number of steam robots and began to rebuild the city. The sound of machinery running and the roaring light of the boiler fire brought the dead ruins back to life.

Bard was a little nervous about it, for he feared it would bring in Smaug. Under his explanation, Ryan figured out that Smaug was actually free to enter and leave the Lonely Mountain, which meant that the group of dwarves in the movie were actually just hoping to find the Akon Gem through the secret passage without alarming the dragon, and the Lonely Mountain was not closed.

Ryan had only seen the synopsis of the movie with the Hobbit, and he had thought that the dragon would only run out of the lonely mountain after the dwarf opened the door at the beginning of the plot. But now this is not without a solution, Ryan took out a few sets of Gauss cannons made by mixing alchemy using the principle of Gauss rifles in the Fallout World and placed them on several commanding heights near the Lonely Mountain. The cores of the armor-piercing bullets made from the remelted Black Arrow with Valyrian steel and a small amount of Mithril were distributed to each Gaussian cannon.

"Leave it to us. After learning how to use the Gauss cannon, Bard and the elves began to prepare for battle at the exit of the Lonely Mountain. Since there was only one place in the entire Lonely Mountain for the dragon to fly out, it was enough for them to wait for Smaug to fly out when he was provoked. Ryan believes they should be able to hit Smaug accurately as top scorers.

More than a week later, Riverdale was almost finished. But Smaug still didn't come out of his cave.

"I think maybe it's because there are so few of us that we can't lure the dragon out. Bard voiced his analysis after hearing Ryan's concerns.

"But we can't wait here, Riverdale is about to be repaired, and Smaug can't grow there. So I decided to find a way to blow it out. ”

"It's not too difficult to get Smaug out of the cave. After seeing the Gauss cannon with armor-piercing bullets specially made with alchemy pierce a dozen meters of rock in one blow, Bard was confident of defeating Smaug. "I think if we make enough noise at the gates of the Lonely Mountain, Smaug will come out. Because it's a grumpy dragon, it will never allow anyone to do things on his doorstep. ”

"Okay, then we'll leave tomorrow during the day. I'll find a way to get Smaug out, and then we'll take it out together. Finally, Ryan clapped.