Chapter 16: The Three Rings of the Elves

There are twenty rings in total......

Elves have three rings, dwarves have seven, and humans have nine......

Of course, that's 3,000 years ago.

Long years have passed, but in this Middle-earth continent, it seems that time has not passed much, and the country ...... Castle...... Race...... Artifact......

It's still the same as it was three thousand years ago, and even some of the old antiques who participated in the first "War of the Ring" are still alive and well.

Three thousand years is more like spending three thousand days for the ancient and slow-paced Middle-earth.

Middle-earth was once home to many nations, not even including the "minority enclaves" like the Hobbit kingdom of the Shire, which had no kings, no officials, and no decent army.

"Kingdom of Linton", "Kingdom of Erialdo", "Duchy of Rovanian", "Kingdom of Rune"...... These names full of brilliance and glory were like the "Second War of the Rings" final battle in the movie, symbolizing the "orthodox" country of mankind "Gondor", and similar to the ancient Mongolian "Hussar Country Rohan", like this huge scale of countries, there were dozens of them three thousand years ago.

Although the Demon Lord Sauron's magic power is boundless and the evil flames are monstrous, it is simply impossible to defeat all these behemoths and conquer the entire Middle-earth continent by force.

Similarly, in the eyes of these powerful national kings, Sauron, who rules the Ggros Basin centered on the Doomsday Volcano with dark magic, is just a rich man in a poor place where there is no grass, and he doesn't need to pay attention to it at all, of course, as a powerful dark mage, the alchemy and black magic of the demon lord Sauron are still "passable", so the "Ring of Domination" that he dedicated to the kings should also be a good magic prop.

In this situation where the strength is not equal at all, the Dark Lord Sauron, with only nineteen rings, has made nineteen of the most powerful nations ...... Three elven kingdoms, seven dwarven kingdoms, and nine of the most powerful human kingdoms are completely destroyed.

It's just nineteen magic rings, and the nine most noble kings of mankind, from the moment they put on the rings, they were polluted by the endless dark power, corroded **, completely lost the "human heart", betrayed their country, and became the most powerful force under the throne of the demon lord Sauron...... "Knights of the Ring".

The dwarves were a little luckier than the humans, they received seven rings from the demon lord Sauron, but the dwarves were born with a strong ability to resist curse magic, so the seven dwarven tribal lords who got the rings did not incarnate as dark creatures like the Ring Knights, but their souls were still polluted, and the dwarven kingdom became greedy and selfish, cunning and stupid.

In the battle with the Demon Lord Sauron, the dwarven tribe did not participate in it on a large scale at all, and even hid the entire tribe deep underground, completely ignoring the future of Middle-earth. Not only does it not interact with other races such as humans and elves, but even the seven dwarven tribes have little contact with each other, which leads to the original plot of the first movie, where one dwarven tribe was slaughtered by the dark army of the demon lord Sauron, and the other dwarven tribes didn't even notice how many years had passed, even after the dwarves in the city had turned into dry bones.

The kingdom of the Dwarves almost exists in name only.

Only elves...... Because the Demon Lord Sauron used some of the elven magic casting technology when forging the magic ring, that is, the ring of power (Ringsofpower), the elves were the first to discover the conspiracy of the Demon Lord Sauron, and sealed and purified the "Elven Three Rings" given to them by the Demon Lord Sauron, and even borrowed a little of the power of these three rings. But even so, the plot of the Demon Lord Sauron has actually achieved its purpose. …,

In the end, the human country "Gondor", which was not in the eyes of the dark lord Sauron, and did not even have a part in the ring, was closest to the doomsday volcano, but gathered the last strength of mankind and became a strong wall to resist the demon lord Sauron, and formed an alliance with the elven kingdom that was not seriously injured, and launched the first "Lord of the Rings War" against the demon lord Sauron, and finally Esidor the son of the king of Gondor, Elendir, cut off the ring in his hand with the holy sword "Nasir", forcing the demon lord Sauron to give up his body and seriously injuring his soul.

At this point, the First War of the Ring has come to an end, and the source of everything, the whereabouts of the twenty rings, will cause a new bloody storm.

"The seven rings on the dwarves' hands don't know if they are still in the dwarf kingdom now, and those dwarves live underground, it's really sad to find those turtle grandchildren, I still say the same thing, to find the dwarves is simply useless and a waste of time!"

At the Tavern "Raven and Twilight" north of Brelan, a tall man with a giant sword on his back shouted, and a man in white robe at the same table immediately retorted, "Then what do you say?" Do you go to the nine 'Ring Knights' and snatch the 'Human Nine Rings' in their hands, or directly attack the Elven Kingdom and snatch the 'Elven Three Rings' from them? By the way, I almost forgot, Narya (RingofFire) in the Three Rings should be in Gandalf's hands now, and it is not difficult for him to blow him up alone, with the power of your level forty-seven-th 'Demoman'. ”

The white-robed man's words were sneering, and the angry man gritted his teeth, but he couldn't refute anything, his space combat profession was one of the soldier's branch advanced professions. Demoman', as long as the combat resources in his hand are sufficient, under the indiscriminate bombardment of various scientific and technological bombs, his destructive and destructive ability is even above that of elemental mages of the same level, it is not difficult to destroy a city, but when it comes to single-handedly bossing, he has no confidence, and at this moment, a middle-aged Taoist priest wearing an apricot yellow Taoist robe and carrying a metal long box on his back did not move, but he spoke: "Okay, everyone don't fight, how can the magic ring be a good thing to have, and I am not afraid of everyone's jokes, Before I met you, I also tried to snatch the One Ring directly from the protagonist of the plot, and I had a few tricks with Gandalf for this......"

"Daoist Lin, you've already fought Gandalf, so what's the result?" Everyone asked with great interest, this middle-aged man known as Lin Daochang, his strength is obvious to all, and he is also a well-known lone traveler among players in this class, and his fight with Gandalf, an important character in the plot, is undoubtedly very important, and everyone can't help but prick up their ears.

Seeing them like this, the corners of Lin Daochang's mouth moved slightly, and he sneered slightly, but he still continued: "To be honest, Poor Dao is definitely not that old man's opponent, but ......"

"But what?"

Lin Daochang smiled coldly, but said confidently: "But after all, he has not yet been promoted to the stage of 'white-robed wizard', and I haven't found any elven fire rings in his hands, if you can assemble a decent scale and fully staffed crusade team, it will not be difficult to overthrow him, in my opinion......"

Daoist Lin's gaze looked around the entire tavern, and after sweeping over the bodies of the more than thirty "retail" gamers here, he sneered and said, "If there are people here, it will be enough." Although Gandalf has players around him, in my opinion, he is just a 'retail investor', and it is not a hassle to clean up. ”

Hearing what he said, the "Raven and Dusk" tavern, which had basically been chartered by gamers, suddenly steamed with an aura of greed and adventure......... who was Gandalf? It is an important plot boss, a representative of the positive forces, one of the holders of the Three Rings of the Elves, and the strongest guardian of the One Ring.

If you can push him, the benefits you can get can be imagined.

The people who can sit in this tavern now are all powerful people who have survived the bloody "first purge", all of them are powerful and intelligent guys, don't look at some people with rough faces, shouting when they talk, but they "pretend to be pigs" and don't know how many "tigers" they have eaten.

Fortunately, the people here are still calm-minded and mindful of the city, although each is greedy, but no one is willing to make a bird, and they are all waiting for the reaction of others.

This tavern is just a temporary gathering place for a group of "retail investors", which is a natural product formed after a large group of gamers have formed a group, and the retail investors have repeatedly suffered losses, so although everyone gathers together, they can't trust anyone other than themselves, and no one wants to expose themselves rashly to the public's eyes, after all, "the praying mantis catches the cicada and the yellow finch is behind", and whoever wants to be it will not be a "praying mantis" or a "cicada". Even the middle-aged Taoist Lin Daochang, including Lin Daochang, didn't say a word.

But in this very awkward atmosphere, in the strange atmosphere of a tavern where needles could be heard, the door of the tavern was pushed open from the outside, and then two men and two women walked in from the outside, and this strange combination attracted everyone's attention as soon as they entered the door.

For no other reason, in this small team, there are plot characters mixed in.

PS: Start paying off debts.