“……”

Seymour fell silent again.

He could see that Thranduil had been counting on the teacher he was talking about from beginning to end, and had no intention of relying on himself to get back the white diamond necklace.

It's really judging people by their appearance!

He is more than a hundred years old, and he is a long-lived old man among human beings.

Is it so unreliable to look young?

Seymour sighed slightly, his heart had never been more eager to grow up than he was now.

"I got it......"

Seymour still nodded, and just as he was about to say that he would try to contact the teacher as much as possible, a violent footstep suddenly came in from outside the hall.

The three men in the hall turned their heads in unison.

I saw Taurrell walk into the main hall with a few elves, knelt down on one knee towards Thrandil, and said in a deep voice with a solemn expression on his beautiful face.

"King, there has been a movement in Dogul, and the dark creatures in the southern part of the jungle have rioted."

"Send an army to suppress it immediately! Legolas, the recruitment of the squad is put on hold for now, and you lead the convoy and other elven rangers to the south to find out the cause of the Doguldu uprising. ”

Thranduil did not hesitate to give one order after another.

Legolas, who was on the side, also arched his hand quite simply, turned around and walked towards the outside of the hall, his movements were crisp and neat, without the slightest drag of mud and water.

Taurrell gave another respectful salute and rose to follow Legolas.

"Wait, I'll go with you!"

Seymour confessed to Thrandeil and hurried after Legolas.

……

……

Half an hour later, countless woodland elves appeared on the border of the Jungle River.

The Woodland Kingdom is located in the northeastern corner of the Dark Forest, next to the Jungle River, which runs through the Jungle, and about a third of the way to the east, there is a not-so-wide tributary of the Jungle River.

At the end of the tributary is the Black Forest Mountains, located at the eastern end of the central region.

At this moment, Legolas and his escort quietly crossed the Jungle River and followed its tributaries to the Black Forest Mountains.

Snort -

The sound of a sharp blade cutting through rags sounded, and a wolf with dirty hair and a hideous expression was cut in half by Seymour's waist, and countless blood and internal organs were poured all over the ground, and a thick fishy smell suddenly filled the air.

The wolf that had never died wailed in pain until a sharp blade was inserted into his head, and its voice was silenced.

The team continued on its way.

Legolas frowned slightly, approached Seymour and whispered.

"Seymour, you don't have to push so hard, just cut its throat, I know you can do it."

"I know it too, but ......"

Seymour stumbled, Joon with a hint of embarrassment and confusion on his face.

When he was in the Sword Domain, Seymour had already been trained by Lin Yi to have a thick nerve, not to mention a wolf, even if it was a whole hideous army of necromancy, he could charge at them without changing his face-

Until today, at least, Seymour thought it was.

It wasn't until the wolf pounced on him with its bloody jaws wide open that Seymour changed his mind.

It's not that I'm afraid, it's that the wolf's mouth is too hot!

As soon as he got closer, Seymour choked on the smell.

Add to that the yellow teeth of its tartar-filled mouth, and the translucent, viscous liquid hanging from the teeth......

Seymour would rather die immediately than be close to the wolf.

So before the blade of the sword pierced through the wolf's head, Seymour deflected his body and turned the blade around, and with a single sword, he cut the wolf's waist and abdomen in half.

No wonder the woodland elves love to use bows and arrows!

Seymour wanted to speak and stopped, and then stopped and stopped, and in the end he could only turn into a deep sigh.

"Do you have more bows and arrows, give me a pair!"

"You can also use a bow and arrows?"

"Of course, what elf doesn't know how to use arrows?"

"yes, then let me see how your archery skills are!"

Legolas took the bow and quiver from behind and handed it to Seymour.

At this time, there was a sudden sound of rustling not far ahead.

Legolas and the others suddenly stopped all their movements and leaned against the mountain wall with bated breath.

After a long time, the sound of rustling faded away, and Legolas turned his head and whispered.

"There's a cave not far ahead, which runs straight through the Black Forest Mountains, from where we can go straight through the defenses of the dark creatures, but beware, the cave is inhabited by a group of giant spiders, all of whom are descendants of the spider-like evil spirit Ongorian!"

"And this kind of place." Seymour was slightly surprised, and then asked suspiciously, "Since this place can run through the entire Black Forest Mountains, why don't you encircle these spiders and take this cave into your hands?" ”

"Because they don't wear the same pants as Dogul."

"So they won't attack us?"

"No, of course they will attack us, but they will also attack other dark creatures, leaving these spiders here will allow us to make sure that Dogul has not discovered this passage, and secondly, it will be a line of defense, and it will not cost the lives of the woodland elves, so why not?"

“…… Reasonable. ”

Seymour nodded thoughtfully, feeling in his heart that the world of adults is really difficult to understand, and followed Legolas and the others into the cave.

Upon entering the cave, Seymour discovered that it was more of a narrow rift than a cave, except that the cliffs on both sides met at the very top.

On the gray-black earth, many black trees grow, and the thick trunks twist and grow upwards, supporting the entire top of the cave.

The cavern was dark and dark, as if it were shrouded in the unfading midnight.

In particular, the dark shadows around the trunks seem to be darker than the real night.

As the crowd approached, Seymour realized that the black shadows were all made of layers of cobwebs, and many of the thick tree trunks had some large white cocoons hanging from them.

"What about spiders?" Seymour asked quietly.

"I should have gone to forage for food, looking at the appearance of these round cocoons, this time the spiders may have encountered a wave of rich enough food sources......"

“…… Like what? ”

"Maybe orcs or dark creatures, who knows?"

Legolas's gaze crossed over the cocoons above, and he said in a rather affirmative tone, "Don't worry about him, it won't be elves anyway, these cocoons are not half the size of elves." ”

"No way!"

A faint, slightly anxious voice came from the side.

Everyone was startled, and they all vigilantly put up their bows and arrows, pointing at the line of defense where the voice came,

Then they were amazed to find that a short halfling had appeared at some point beside the stone, and was now holding his hands high, his little face full of anxiety and panic.

Legolas raised an eyebrow, the arrow aimed at the short man.

"Dwarves?"

"No, of course not, I'm a hobbit!"

The short man exclaimed, and Taurrell looked at him carefully, and saw that the short man had wide soles, stiff pads and thick brown curly hair, slightly pointed ears, curly hair, and most importantly, no beard......

Sure enough, it's not a dwarf!

Taurrell walked up behind Legolas and whispered his judgment in Elven language.

Legolas nodded, and quickly lowered his bow and arrows.

"Hobbit, you're lucky today, I don't have time to deal with you, get out of here, you can get out of this cave from the direction we came, and if you're lucky, you'll be able to meet my people outside, and if you're kind enough, they'll come to your rescue."

Seymour didn't speak, didn't stretch his bow, just stood there and looked at the hobbit.

Legolas and the others may regard Fangcai's incident as a momentary mistake, but Seymour will not, because his nerves have been in a tense state since he entered the cave, and his surroundings have been observed by him for the first time.

So Seymour was sure that there was absolutely no figure behind that stone!

But the facts were clearly contrary to his judgment, so Seymour thought that the hobbit must have something special to escape his perception and sight so easily.

In fact, in a sense, Seymour's judgment was correct.

Because there was really nothing behind the stone, it wasn't until Legolas expressed his intention to leave that Bilbo Baggins took off the One Ring from his hand and withdrew from his invisibility state.

This group was none other than Bilbo and the dwarves who had infiltrated the dark forest.

It must be said that the dwarves did not live up to Gandalf's expectations, and after entering the dark forest, they quickly deviated from the safe path left by the elves, and were dazed by the enchanted fog of the forest.

Until the dark creatures rioted, Bilbo and the dwarves were chased everywhere and rushed into the Black Forest Mountains in a panic, where they were captured as desserts by the giant spiders.

Only Bilbo Baggins, the hobbit with the highest magic resistance, was still conscious, and he wore the One Ring before the giant spider died, and escaped the giant spider's attack.

Originally, Bilbo had chosen to leave, but his good nature prevented him from making that choice.

He bravely ventured into the cave to save them all, but he could not have done so alone, for the cocoon hung too high for Bilbo to reach.

Therefore, after some brainstorming, Bilbo decided to pick up some sharp flake stones on the ground, smash the spider silk hanging from the cocoon, and then use the sword [Stinger] to cut open the cocoon and rescue the dwarf inside.

However, after meeting the elves, Bilbo's plans changed.

"I can't just leave, my companions are still hanging on it!"

Bilbo said with an anxious expression.

Legolas frowned and looked up at the cocoon.

"Your companions...... Also a hobbit? ”

“……”

Bilbo's expression froze, and he suddenly remembered that Gandalf had spoken about the tense relationship between dwarves and elves, but he had said it tactfully, so Bilbo did not have an accurate judgment on the relationship between the two races.

Should...... You won't die without help, right?

Bilbo swallowed and spoke cautiously.

"No, they're dwarves."