Chapter 317: The original sin of greed, self-inflicted

"Cousin......"

Since the dwarf Jin Li stepped into Moria, after seeing that this once prosperous underground kingdom had turned into an empty and dead tomb, although sad and angry, the countless dry bones on the ground did not include his cousin Balin, so in the heart of this kind and simple dwarf, there has always been an unattainable and ethereal hope, that is, he hopes that his cousin is still alive.

Even Jin Li himself actually knows quite well that Moria, in silence, actually died and the country was destroyed, and no information was revealed to the outside world, then, it means that the person who destroyed Moria or Shili is indescribably strong, after all, it is not a novelty to be able to make Moria's extinction, but after the destruction of Moria, no one in Middle-earth Shijie even knew, and even the dwarf clan base camp in the Lonely Mountain did not get even any information, which is terrible.

However, the dwarf Jin Li knew that his hope was too slim, but he still simply thought that as long as he did not see the bones of his cousin Balin, then he must still be alive!

It's just that when Gandalf led them into the only preserved haode room in the whole of Moria, when the dwarf Jin Li saw the pure white sarcophagus in the center of the room, bathed in the cold moonlight, which seemed so lonely, lonely, and sad, this simple and kind dwarf could no longer control the sadness in his heart, because even the little hope he had was shattered!

He saw the sarcophagus of his cousin, Lord of Moria, Bahrain!

Grieving and mourning dwarf golden thunderbolt. Lying on top of his cousin Bahrain's sarcophagus. Weep out loud!

Gandalf bent over. Reaching out and picking up the dusty, large, dusty book that had been placed in front of the sarcophagus, brushing off the thick dust on the cover, he opened the book and studied it carefully, while the others began to examine the room, which was not very large, and which was scarcely furnished. Aragorn and the others are all strong men who have experienced a hundred battles and have rich experience, so just after walking around, they know that this should be a room used by the dwarves to worship, and there is nothing special, if there is anything special, it is that all the dwarves in Moriali have been exterminated, and almost all the rooms have been broken into, but. This room was the only one that no one had ever entered except for them and a few dwarves!

There is also a more strange or weird place. In this small room, there was a dry well, and on the edge of the well there was a dry dwarf skeleton, even if he died, he firmly clung to a long, rusty thick chain, and this chain was tied to a huge iron bucket, and it seemed that the dwarf had dragged the iron bucket from the well with all his strength before he died.

Except for Gandalf and Zhu Xing and others, no one here knew that this kingdom of Moria, which had flourished because of Mithril, had been silently exterminated because of Weishenme.

And at this moment Gandalf was looking through the thick record, yes, this bulky, big and thick book was actually the memorabilia of the Kingdom of Moria! It is the priest of the dwarven clan who records the deeds of the kingdom of Moriath day by day, in other words, this thick book is the history of Moria!

As Gandalf studied and flipped through it, the mystery of Moria's extinction began to be unveiled by Gandalf little by little, although Gandalf, who was Maia, knew that the Ancient Flame Demon who was sealed in Kezador had broken the seal, and he also knew that the brutal and crazy Ancient Fire Demon would break the seal and make Moriath a place of extinction, but he did not know the relationship between the dwarves and the Ancient Fire Demon.

However, through this history of Moria, Gandalf finally learned the secret!

Although the dwarves are simple, kind, rough, bold, and persistent, they look very similar to the hobbits, but they are such a race, and they have also obtained the seven magic rings made by the demon lord Sauron, which can be seen that the dwarves are far from being as simple as they seem! Because, although the dwarves have many advantages, their love for mineral deposits and their dedication to digging are like the greed of dragons for treasure.

When the dwarves, with their obsession with mineral deposits and their dedication to digging, hoarded treasures that made the entire Middle-earth Shijie crazy in the dwarven kingdom of the lonely mountain, the golden dragon Smaogo, which the dwarves called a nightmare, appeared, with the wings of the dragon that covered the sky and the sun, as well as the flames that could melt steel, and the strong body that was not afraid of the sword, drove away the dwarves, turned the lonely mountain into their own lair, and took the treasure accumulated by the dwarves for countless years. Drove the dwarves out of their homeland, the Lonely Mountain.

Although, later, with the help of the hobbits Bilbo Baggins and Gandalf, the dwarven royal clan Thorin Oak Shield and other dwarven warriors returned to the Lonely Mountain, killing Smaisaogo to retake the Lonely Mountain, for which Thorin presented Bilbo Baggins with an extremely rare Mithril Chainmail. However, the dwarves' obsession with minerals and their dedication to digging have not been intimidated by Smaogo's nightmare, and they are still digging hard all over Middle-earth, accumulating their favorite underground deposits, even if they can't use them up at all, but they still enjoy digging ......

Among them, Moria, led by his cousin Balin, who is a dwarf golden bolt, is the most crazy!

In the history of Moria, which Gandalf opened, Balin led these dwarves to dig day and night the largest Mithril vein in Shijie, Middle-earth, and they were completely confused by the mysterious brilliance of the ingot, and they ignored the priest's warnings, and kept digging underground and into the mountains of Karranras for the ore rich in Mithril, Zuihou, in order to transport the Mithril ore, From that abyss, an endless staircase with no end in sight was built, leading to the top of the snow-capped mountains of Karanras!

At the end of the abyss of the Endless Steps, the dwarves' original sin, which can also be attributed to greed, finally caused the dwarves of Moriath to encounter another terrible nightmare!

This terrible nightmare is the Elder Flame Demon sealed in the abyss of the Caesardom!

Unlike Smaogo, who loves treasures, the Ancient Flame Demon represents destruction and destruction, they are the spokesmen of destruction and death, although Smaogo caused heavy casualties to the dwarves of the Lonely Mountain, but, after all, Smaogo did not exterminate the dwarves of the Lonely Mountain, but only expelled them from the range of the Lonely Mountain, but the Ancient Flame Demon was not so good-hearted!

When the dwarves of Moria dug the seal in ignorance and released the Ancient Flame Demon, the Ancient Fire Demon, who had been imprisoned for countless years, immediately turned the underground abyss into a sea of fire, turning all the dwarves who dug here into ashes, and at this time, Moria was also attacked by the orcs, these orcs were extremely numerous, and these orcs were directly surrounded by Moria, and then took advantage of the ancient fire demon to wreak havoc in the abyss under the surface of Kassadom, launched an attack, so that the dwarves of Moriath were attacked on the back, and were caught off guard, and were killed by the orcs in their homeland, and because the commander of the orcs, the demon lord Sauron, Jihua, was very thorough, therefore, although Balin tried everything he could, Zuihou was unable to pass on the news until he died of his injuries.

"When the ancient drum from the abyss sounds, that is, when the Ancient Fire Demon appears......"

Just as he felt that he saw this, he suddenly heard a series of crashing sounds from near and far, which made the gray-robed wizard suddenly startled, threw down the heavy history book of Moria, picked up his staff, and raised his eyes to look around, just in time to see Pipin, a habitual troublemaker who was used to causing trouble, standing innocently on the edge of the dry well, and retracted one hand unnaturally.

"If you dare to touch things again, I'll turn you into a toad!"

Gandalf lifted his throat and half-relented, for when he entered, he saw a dry dwarven skeleton and a long, thick iron chain and a large iron bucket along the edge of the well, which were now gone, apparently touched into the well by the troublemaker Pi Ping, and the series of crashing sounds must have been the sound of these things hitting the wall of the well, not the drums that sounded in the abyss before the appearance of the Ancient Fire Demon mentioned in the history books. (To be continued.) )