Chapter 31: The Mines of Moriath (1)
World of the Ring, Middle-earth, Mount Calranras.
After a long time, most of the people finally recovered from the shock just now, first the demigod-level magic like that natural disaster, and then the real natural disaster, if it weren't for Li Nan's Klein force field, everyone would have died in the avalanche just now. Gandalf had already blocked the lightning attack, and he simply didn't have the power to stop the avalanche again.
After relieving himself, Boromo shouted, "We must get out of here, if Saruman gives us another massive lightning attack, then all of us will surely die We will march along the mountains until we reach the Rohan Pass, and then through the West Valley to my city, where we will be safe." β
Aragorn retorted, "No, Rohan's Pass is too close to Issinger, he can use magic to attack us at such a distance, if we send it to the door ourselves, then won't he use more magic?" We can even send an orc army to pursue us, and we must not pass through the Rohan Pass. β
Only then did the dwarf Golden Thunderbolt say, "Since it can't be done from above, let's go below, I've said it many times, let's go through the Moriah Tunnel!" It's my cousin Balin's territory, and we'll pass through the Karranas Mountains safely, I swear! β
Gandalf gasped violently, and he slowly looked at the crowd: "This magic takes a long time to prepare, and it also consumes a lot of energy stones, and it is impossible for him to use it again in a short time, but if we continue to stay here, it will not be long before we are struck by lightning again." Let Frodo decide, three paths, which one should we take! β
The four hobbits were all carried on their backs, but they were still shivering from the cold, and the weakest of them could not stop the cold at the moment, and Frodo looked very bad, he tried to look at the people around him a few times, and then said with difficulty: "Let's walk the Moriah Tunnel." β
There is still a continuous journey from Mount Karanras to the Moria Pit, and it will take at least a few days in between, and everyone is very nervous during these days, one is to guard against Saruman's scouting crows, and the other is to prevent the magic that may fall at any time, even though Gandalf repeatedly declares that no more magic can fall, but everyone still can't relax, and this mood is not until everyone comes to the outside of Moria's pit, which is the lowest point of the valley, and next to the mountain wall is a deep lake, anyone who knows the plot knows, Beneath the lake was a gigantic octopus monster, and it was this octopus monster that drove the characters into the Moria's tunnel, leaving no room for manoeuvre, as it shattered the gate.
"Here we are, Wall of Moria." Jin Pi said proudly, pointing to the towering rock face.
"I'll go, it's spectacular." Li Nan looked at the rock wall in front of him, the naturally formed rock wall would definitely not be so straight, obviously this was the masterpiece of the dwarves.
"This is the faΓ§ade of Moria, and if I'm not mistaken, there should be an entrance," Gandalf said, pointing to the cliff on the other side of the lake.
Frodo looked at the wall for a moment, then said, "But I didn't see anything. β
Golden Thunderbolt proudly explained, "You can't see the dwarf's gate when it's closed. β
"Then I'll see." Gandalf was lying on a mountain wall looking at something, and it took him a long time before he said, "That's right, this mountain wall is inlaid with Isildine metal, a magical metal that reflects moonlight or starlight, and can also memorize certain languages. Before he could finish speaking, the clouds in the sky had gradually spread, and the moonlight shone straight from the top of the sky to the ground.
Sure enough, a layer of silver light appeared on the mountain wall, and these silver lights gradually formed a gate-shaped pattern, and dozens of strange runes were engraved on the pattern.
Gandalf breathed a sigh of relief at the gate, pointed to the silver gate with his staff, and then said as he read the words on the door, "It reads, 'Gate of Turin, Lord of Moria, open your mouth to be a friend, and then you can enter.'" β
One of the hobbits, Pippin, asked curiously, "What does that mean?" β
Gandalf smiled lightly and said, "It's very simple, if it's a friend, you can enter this tunnel by saying the code, hehe, I happen to know the dwarves' words of prayer to their friends." β
With that, Gandalf took his staff and continued to face the silver wall, and he uttered a strange incantation in his mouth, but it was not until he had finished the incantation a long time later that the silver wall remained unchanged, which confirmed that the incantation had no effect in the slightest.
Gandalf looked at the silver gate strangely, and then he recited other spells to himself, looking at his appearance as if he was very unwilling, but this spell was useless at all, the gate was still standing quietly, but this time Gandalf couldn't get off the stage, he had no choice but to get close to the mountain wall and try to push a few times, and said to himself: "I used to know all human, elf, and even half-orc spells, but"
The hobbit Pippin asked, "Then what are you going to do?" β
"If you knock on this door with your head and you still can't get it to open, then sit there quietly and let me figure out how to do it until I come up with the spell to enter!" Gandalf suddenly became angry, and he spoke loudly to the hobbit, while he himself sat helplessly by the mountain wall.
Ten minutes later, Gandalf had tried a few common spells, but he still couldn't open the door, and now he was in front of it, pushing it hard. Li Nan also looked bored, so he asked the reincarnators of the other teams, "Anyway, Gandalf did this, when will it end?" Shall we give him a hint? β
Gunnil next to him smiled: "Don't disturb Gandalf's thoughts, let it be, let it be." β
Li Nan shrugged his shoulders and said, "Okay." So I think there should be a big octopus in that lake, right? Wait, who's interested in slaughtering it? β
Gunniel said: "Then leave this one to our Arctic team to deal with first, this monster is a water attribute, and we have a greater demand for water attribute power stones." Of course, we will withdraw from the competition of the Fire Demon. β
"No problem." The first to agree was Zhang Heng of the Demon Team, although the effect of the power stone is very large, but the attribute also limits the scope of the power stone. The Demon Team has a special need for water-based power stones.
"We don't have a problem either." At the same time, Luo Yinglong of the Tianshen team also agreed.
"No comment." Nyos of the South Flame team also agreed.
"Since everyone is okay, then the octopus will be dealt with by you, it has sensed us now." As Li Nan said, the spiritual abilities of each team could feel that the octopus in the lake was swimming towards this direction. At this time, it was a very strange phenomenon, since the expeditionary force set off, the main god's shield on the spiritual power scan seemed to have disappeared, and those with mental abilities could use mental power skills normally.
So the time passed slowly, and Gandalf could not decipher the so-called introductory secret word with all his might, and all the people sat on the rocks next to them to recuperate, but the hobbit could not stop, except for Frodo, who seemed to be in a bad state of mind, the other three were all looking for something, and after a few minutes, they actually found a long branch, and some tenacity, which actually hooked some insects and planned to fish by the lake.
When the bait had been thrown into the lake, Aragorn came back to his senses and hurriedly stopped him: "Don't play in the water, there is probably something in this water, otherwise it would not be so quiet nearby, in short, you three should also be quiet." β
The hobbit was Merry, and he shook his head and said, "But we only have dry food, why don't we catch some fish and bring them up for food?" And what can be here? Fish-people? β
When he spoke, he didn't see a tentacle on the water rushing by, and even the people around him only saw an afterimage, Merry suddenly became excited and said: "Look, what a big fish, I don't know how long no one has come in this lake, there must be a lot of big fish in it, haha, everyone is waiting for me to add food to you." β
"Maybe it's for us to add food to other creatures" Aragorn pulled out his matching sword, and sure enough, a few seconds after he drew his matching sword, several thick tentacles came out of the water, and at the same time, a huge octopus had appeared in front of everyone, it was a huge octopus with a length of fifty meters, and its size was many, much larger than the one in the original movie plot.
Most of the people present were stunned, one is that this octopus appears abruptly, and the other is that its appearance is very shocking, I have to admit that big things can always make people feel very shocking, this huge octopus with a length of more than fifty meters, what it brings to everyone is an absolutely terrifying shock.
"Well, that's not what I want to catch." Merry said dumbfounded, looking at him really scared stupid.
And the people of the Beibing team had already prepared, the archer who had exchanged for the elf clan reacted very quickly, and when the tentacles of the octopus rolled in front of everyone, he shot more than a dozen arrows, and after the arrows hit the tentacles of the octopus, those tentacles were instantly frozen, and they fell to the surface of the lake.
The wounded octopus let out a horrible scream, causing several hobbits to cover their ears with their hands.
Then a huge magic circle appeared in the water where the octopus was, and then ten chains made of ice shot out of the magic circle, and then the ice chains tightly bound the octopus's body. However, there were too many tentacles of the octopus, and many of them broke out of the bound range of the chains in time, and then shot at the Ice Arctic team who was casting spells.
And when the tentacles were about to hit, the ice spell casting preparation was completed at the same time, and then a wall of ice suddenly rose on the bank of the river, and the huge ice wall blocked the tentacles' attacks.
"The Frost Age." Gunnell, the captain of the Northern Ice Team, made a shot, which was his own skill. An extremely cold ray hit the octopus, and then instantly engulfed the entire huge octopus, along with the surface of the nearby lake. Because the lake is covered in ice, the temperature at the site is significantly lower. An ice spear was then shot from the back of the group, piercing the octopus's head, and a fist-sized power stone fell from the octopus's shattered head onto the ice. Then the power stone slowly floated up, and then flew towards Gunnil, the captain of the Northern Ice Team. Gunnir stretched out his right hand, and the B-grade power stone fell into Gunniel's hand.
Gripping the power stone tightly in his hand, and then putting it in the storage space, Gunniel smiled and forced the other characters to ask, "Aren't you hurt?" β
"Okay, that's amazing." The dwarf Golden Thunderbolt was also taken aback when the octopus appeared, but he didn't expect that when he just reacted and was about to fight the octopus, the octopus had already been killed by members of the Northern Ice team.
However, although there was nothing wrong with everyone, a fishy smell had already spread at the scene at the same time as the octopus first appeared. Li Nan really couldn't stand this fishy smell, so he didn't care about the plot, and directly gave Gandalf a hint and said: "Gandalf, I think the dwarves' messages shouldn't be some secret words or anything like that, for the dwarves, they are more realistic." The meaning of this sentence should be that we say 'friend' and then we can go in and say friend in Elvish. β
Gandalf obviously didn't believe in Li Nan's words, but he couldn't think of a way, so he could only try the method Li Nan said. So he sat on the ground and did not want to get up, but sat there and said the word friend in the elven language.
And the others also don't believe Li Nan's words very much, things are confidential, how can you, an outsider, know?
Li Nan also shrugged his shoulders indifferently. But the truth slapped them in the face again, and when Gandalf had finished speaking, the lighted door suddenly opened in the middle. "Finally the door opens."
After hours of waiting, everyone felt at this moment that Li Nan might be a more reliable captain than Gandalf.
"It turns out that the secret language is just so simple, I really didn't expect it" Gandalf apologized to everyone embarrassedly and said: "It's originally an elven language, I shouldn't have translated it at all, but just read it out, and the door can be opened." The time when this pit was built was indeed a relatively plain and peaceful era. Alright, let's get inside! β
"You'll soon see the enthusiasm of the dwarves, haha" Golden Bolt said as he walked at the head of the line, "Blazing fire, cool beer, chunks of barbecue, haha, this is my cousin Balin's home, how can this be just a tunnel?" β