Chapter 143: Saruman's Confession (Late Second Update)

Legolas picked up the golden bolt coughing up blood, his breastplate dented by the Witch King's kick, and Aragorn injured his arm while fending off the Witch King's last sword, making it difficult to lift the sword in his hand. Gandalf calmed his slightly messy breathing from the fierce battle with Saruman, and walked out of the room where Saruman was staying, and confronted the Witch King of Angmar.

The Witch King of Angmar made a strange gesture, and a clear voice came out of his mouth.

"Saruman has failed his master's expectations, he has no more value, Gandalf, will you be willing to join my lord, and when the time comes, whether it is strength or power, the master will be able to meet your demands."

"Tell Sauron that I'll bring the defeat to him again." Gandalf said righteously.

"What a pity!" The Witch King stopped talking nonsense and raised his sword to his chest.

Gandalf was the first to attack, he waved his staff to draw a rune in the void, and then used his staff to slam the ground hard, and a mighty righteousness emanated from Gandalf.

Gandalf's first spell was not an attack spell, but an auxiliary spell, and Hu Bin recognized this spell as the "Grace of Light" that Gandalf had attached to the holy sword for himself, and this spell was cast by Gandalf himself, and the power was many times greater.

Although the Majesty of Light is not capable of intimidating a figure of the Witch King's level, it can greatly weaken the influence of dark energy on Gandalf, and it seems that the white-robed old mage wants to melee the Witch King, and the additional Cat Agility and Breeze Acceleration later prove this.

The Witch King of Angmar was not allowing Gandalf to amplify himself, and the dark energy in his body gradually spread, and finally turned into an illusory armor. Hu Bin's eyes widened when he saw that armor, it was an exclusive skill energy armor only available to senior expert-level warriors, which could greatly resist the damage caused by spells, and also had a fairly high immunity from the effects of various negative spells. And the strength of the Witch King is far more than that of an expert, and the process of condensing his armor gave Hu Bin a lot of inspiration.

The two men both took the initiative to attack, Gandalf with a sword in one hand and a staff in the other. Performing sword skills is accompanied by a lot of hidden spell casting actions, and if the opponent is not careful, they will be interfered with by these spells, and then they will be injured by the sword skills. However, the Witch King of Angmar ignored Gandalf's sword skills and spells, and broke through the defenses built by Gandalf's sword staff head-on, and then repelled Gandalf with his fists.

"I ask you once again if you will submit to my lord." The Witch King of Angmar flicked his sword in a good moment, then held it on his chest and questioned Gandalf as he rose from the ground.

"Darkness will be repelled by light." Gandalf grabbed his staff and sword in his hand and chanted the words.

"Go to hell and find your light." The Witch King of Angmar was finally enraged by Gandalf, and he moved to kill. The Witch King raised his sword in both hands, as if to split Gandalf in half. And if Gandalf can't defend himself against this powerful slash, then he will undoubtedly be killed.

"Ente!" With a shout, the huge fist struck the Witch King with a scorching wind, so that he had to withdraw his sword to dodge, of course, the Witch King of Angmar was not so easy to deal with, he dodged the fist attack while leaving a scar on it with his long sword, and a large amount of energy contained in the long sword was injected into the gap, and the subsequent energy burst exploded the entire fist.

When the Witch King saw the appearance of the sneak attacker, he subconsciously clenched his weapon, and in front of him was a monster covered in magma and flames. And the fist that had just been split by him also grew out in a wriggling.

The lava giant form is a move that appeared after Ente fused the heart of the fire demon, the power of this move Hu Bin has never tested, according to Ente, even he can't control the power of this move, and it is easy to cause damage to allies. And the price of using this trick is to burn a large amount of Hu Bin's mana, and Hu Bin's state can only support it for about three minutes. After the transformation is over, Ente will default to a damaged state, which can be said to be a suicidal move.

But these are not the reasons that restrict Hu Bin from using this trick, what really bothers Hu Bin is that the materials that make up Ente's body will become a piece of residue after using this trick. There are very few stony materials that can withstand the rampage of Lava Hearts.

None of these constraints could hide the power of this move, and when he transformed into a lava giant, Ente had a semi-elemental physique. The whole body will turn into liquid magma except for the core, and the body is covered with heat and flames, and can change part of the body, such as elongating or shortening his arms, while Ente's original core is fixed deep in the chest, but the core can move through the body when transforming into a lava giant.

Although the strength of the Witch King is very strong, every blow can give Ente a lot of trauma, but Ente only needs to spend a short time to fill his missing body, and can even temporarily fill some less important bodies into the wounds, which makes it as strong as Angmar Witch King unable to defeat Ente in a short time.

Hu Bin sat tiredly on the ground not far away, the lava giant transformed into a continuous extraction of energy felt very uncomfortable, although the Witch King of Angmar wanted to directly solve him as a summoner several times, but he couldn't get rid of Ente's entanglement, with Jin Li and others protecting Hu Bin behind him, the Witch King simply dismissed the plan to eliminate Hu Bin and began to concentrate on dealing with Ente, the result of this was that Ente's injuries became more and more serious every time, and in the face of the dark and full of momentum of the Witch King, even Ente's metamorphosis recovery power was somewhat inhibited.

"Reed, can you help me restrain Angmar for a moment, even for a moment, and nod if you can." Gandalf's voice came directly into Hu Bin's mind, and Hu Bin looked at Gandalf in the distance in surprise, and found that he was looking weak and guarding the witch king, but his eyes were secretly aimed at this side. Hu Bin nodded lightly without hesitation, and then issued an order to restrict the Witch King with the help of the spiritual channel between him and Ente.

After receiving the order, Ente gave up pestering the Witch King, he made a deep breath movement, but in fact, he was squeezing the energy in the core, Hu Bin felt that the loss of magic power accelerated instantly, and as the energy output increased, Ente's body also expanded in a circle.

"Magma Cage!" After Ente finished growing, he rolled over to the Witch King of Angmar, and after paying the price of a few swords, he managed to trap the Witch King in his body, although the magma had an extremely high temperature. But it didn't hurt the Witch King under the protection of the energy armor in the slightest. However, Ente's goal was achieved, and he took the initiative to lower his temperature, causing the magma inside to begin to solidify, and firmly imprisoning the Witch King's body in place.

Gandalf seized the opportunity to abandon the staff in his right hand, took out a hedron full of positive energy from somewhere, held it in his hand, and began to chant the incantation loudly, and by unknown means, the incantation was quickly completed.

The hedron in Gandalf's hand dimmed as the spell was completed, but a dazzling pure light continued to coalesce into a spear of light with the sword in his hand at its core.

Gandalf pointed his spear in both hands at the Angmar Witch King in the lava-shrouded Witch King, and then rushed forward in desperation. The spear of light easily pierced the void that Ente had deliberately left behind. Then he reacted violently with the armor on the Witch King's body, and finally pierced the armor's defenses before the light ran out, and inserted it into the Witch King's body.

Hu Bin's head sank, and his energy was finally exhausted, and Ente gradually cooled and solidified while losing his energy supply, and finally crumbled into a cloud of rubble, revealing the Angmar Witch King in the middle.

"Your moves didn't hurt me at all, Gandalf, is this your last struggle. I was so disappointed. The Witch King said as he looked down at the sword in his abdomen.

Hu Bin saw that the armor on the Witch King's body was showing signs of regrouping, and he couldn't help but start thinking about escaping, but how far could he run with his current appearance, if Aragorn and Gandalf and the others were all lost here. Then what awaits him is a total failure of the main quest, and he can't afford to lose.

"I don't want to hurt you at all, Angmar, go back to your lair." The last rays of light dissipated. The runes on the sword were revealed.

"After all, you were summoned by Saruman, and although you can stay here until the summoning time is exhausted, there is also a spell called banishing the summoned creatures. Don't underestimate the wisdom of the mage. Gandalf drew his sword, an inherently extraordinary sword that had been shattered by the twin effects of rune inscriptions and dark energy erosion.

"Enemy fencing, it's a pity." Gandalf sighed as he watched the long sword that had accompanied him for many years come to an end, and he wanted to go to King Elon to ask if the sword could be repaired.

Feeling as if he was about to be pulled back to his original place, the Witch King of Angmar roared angrily, and he took a deep look at the crowd before raising his sword, and just as they were on guard, he threw it in the direction of the imprisoned Saru.

"Do not expect from him to receive news from my lord." With the Witch King's angry roar, he dissipated into the air in a plume of black smoke.

The few surviving people gathered together and surrounded the subdued Saruman in the middle, and the white-robed mage at this time completely lost the peace he had at the beginning, he heard the words of the Witch King of Angmar clearly, the Demon Lord had given up his covenant with him, and all the power and power he had given up to gain was in vain, and most importantly, his shoulder was pierced by the Witch King's blow before leaving, the power of the curse had penetrated deep into his body, and he had little time to live.

Frustration and despair gripped Saruman, the mage who had given up all resistance and simply sat there dumbfounded, cursed slowly eroding the last bit of life force.

"Gandalf, am I doing something wrong?" Saruman asked suddenly.

"Yes! You are arrogant, vain, and think very highly of yourself, and you never take me and Radagast in your eyes, which can be forgiven, but your ** of power exceeds your insistence on justice, and you voluntarily fall into darkness, your sins cannot be forgiven, and you can never go back. Although Gandalf said these words in an angry tone, Hu Bin still heard the deep sadness between the lines.

"Yes, my sins are unforgivable, my ** lost my eyes, my arrogance buried my reason, fortunately, I woke up before I died, it's not too late!" As if freed from despair and despair, Saruman slowly reached into the hem of his shirt and pulled out a key that hung around his neck.

"Ozekta is yours today, Gandalf, and this key will open the secret warehouse beneath the dungeon, where all my wealth is and everything I know about Sauron, but fortunately I kept one hand at the time. Just pay a small price for my crimes. Saruman calmly confessed this, his eyes as if he had seen through life and death.

"The books?" Gandalf asked in surprise.

"How could I destroy something more important than my own life, it's just copies, no matter what, I'm a mage." Saruman said this with a sly smile and closed his eyes peacefully, ending his life of sin.

……

Isengar has been taken over by the Kingdom of Rohan, and with the fall of Saruman's faction, the humans are still facing the threat of the Demon Lord Sauron, but they are not helpless. King Hiyodon graciously pardoned the barbarian captives who had invaded the kingdom. And after retrieving a life, they returned to the place where they used to live, and they could no longer afford to invade Rohan.

Gandalf took the troubled Merry on the journey to Gondor, while Hu Bin, Lynn and Ta Dun returned to the Fagon camp, where there were many orcs who had escaped from Isengard, so that the numbered ones could still receive a lot of quests, although the rewards were not as rich as Gandalf's time, but it was better to be safe.

But Hu Bin and the others didn't come here to clean up the orcs, he was asked by Gandalf to come here to talk to the Elder Tree Hu, to see if he could solve the problem of the way out for the tree man race. It just so happened that Hu Bin also wanted to know what the connection between the tree man in the Lord of the Rings and the ancient tree of knowledge in his city temple was.

An unknown tree man led them to a clearing deep in the Fagong Forest, where representatives of various tree people were already waiting, but what left Hu Bin speechless was that they were greeting each other, and this greeting had been going on for most of the day.

"Since you don't want to solve the problem of endangerment quickly. Then allow me to come back tomorrow. Hu Bin made up his mind to come back tomorrow, but if this group of tree people continued to grind like this tomorrow, he would decisively give up the possible opportunities here and rush directly to Gondor.

The third and final main quest opens with Isenger. Hu Bin was required to contribute more than 1% to the camp in the Battle of Baicheng, and Hu Bin was not too clear about the calculation of the contribution, but with a melee weapon like Stone Giant Ente. I believe that there is nothing wrong with completing this task, let alone using the last chance to communicate with the initial space.

The Dead's Mandate ultimately failed, and in that case Hu Bin couldn't do anything to Saruman at all, but there was nothing to lose except for hanging a negative buff limited to this world, and Hu Bin finally knew why the numbered one left his soul behind, because he deprived Graham of some of his luck.

Originally, Graham would have died on the Ozarkta, but due to the intervention of the numberers, he finally escaped from the Ozarkta, and those numberers gained a certain amount of luck because of interfering with his fate, of course, luck is not always a good direction, and these numberers need to die in place of Graeme. The weak luck of this group of people was not enough to cause their souls to mutate, but with their deaths, the luck of losing the carrier gradually concentrated on the survivors, and the last numbered person who died finally reached the bottom of the conditions for soul mutation and became a special ghost.

Thinking of the space's desire for Horcruxes, Hu Bin vaguely understood the space's plan, allowing the numberer to enter the mission world to interfere in the process of the world, and then plundering the world's luck and absorbing it through the return of the numberer, which is the origin of the rating value. And Hu Bin thought that the curse on his body can also be regarded as a kind of luck, so he can get additional scoring rewards after returning. Hu Bin, who was still a little concerned about the reduction of luck by two points, suddenly became excited.

Speaking of Graeme, although he escaped in Isengard, he was wanted by all the numbered people in the human camp, and news of him would come from time to time. But Graham is also a warlock with good strength, he has been operating in the Rohan Kingdom for so long, it is impossible not to have some secret networks, the numberers often just get his traces and want to encircle and suppress, they will be noticed by him and slip away, this guy is worthy of being listed as a side mission target in space, and it is really very difficult to deal with with with the blessing of luck.

After losing all his teammates, Ta Dun joined the team of Hu Bin, who was suffering from the same disease, but Hu Bin felt that the biggest reason for him to join was because of Lin's existence.

The three of them were rewarded handsomely on their trip to Ozokta, and Lynn received twenty enchanted crossbows from Gandalf, which were almost as powerful as the rare crossbow in her hand.

Tadun is fascinated by all kinds of strange skills, he found a book in Saruman's collection about the use of special methods to temporarily harden the body, Gandalf saw that he liked it and gave it to him as a reward, and Tadun really learned a skill called local hardening from this book, which can greatly increase the defense of some limbs, and can even block the slashing of ordinary weapons. Of course, such a powerful skill also has a big limitation, that is, the hardening range is only half the size of a palm, and it can't even cover the face. Also, if the joints are hardened, unless you want to break the joints, you don't want to move.

Hu Bin got his wish and obtained the remaining two puppet cores, but unfortunately Saruman overdrew their cores in order to stimulate the combat power of the sixth-layer puppet guards.

And the next morning, Hu Bin found a tree man to lead the way, ready to see if the greeting of the group of tree man elders was finished, he did not let Lin and Ta Dun come with him this time, because this meeting with Shu Hu may involve some of his own secrets. (To be continued......)

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