"Mellon—" (Elf: friend)

Taurrell's elven language is pretty standard—as an elf, her accent is definitely more standard than any dwarf who has ever walked through Morrell's mines. And of course, this secret door will naturally not refuse her.

The door opened in front of her, and the turbid air overflowed with the change in internal and external air pressure. There was no smell of blood, but there was an extremely faint fishy smell. Even the nose of an elf could not distinguish it, but the best of the reincarnated ones were able to accurately discern the inner properties of the breath.

Li Shuaixi sniffled.

His nasal cavity evolved dramatically under the power of the black light. Massive, dense, and efficient olfactory units are secretly generated and then operated. And after a few seconds, a definite result was reached.

"It's half-orcs, the original kind. It is also mixed with a small amount of trolls. The ratio is about 135 to 1, and the number of orcs should be more than 150,000, and they should be spread over six areas with a certain distance...... These six areas are distributed in a ring, and there is a large cavity in the middle......"

"Black Domain." Zhan Lan nodded. "My spiritual power can't penetrate there...... There is a strong sense of obstruction, and there is a possibility of a breakthrough with all the power of the explosion. There must be some very powerful monster entrenched there, and it is a level that requires concerted efforts to be able to deal with. ”

There are outsiders here, and there is no need to say everything.

But everyone knows that at the center of the Moriath Mines is the wild Firefiend, one of the fallen Maia who once followed Morgoth's rebellion. It was awakened from the depths of the earth because the dwarves had dug too deep, and these daredevils who loved to dig also won the end of 'death' for this reckless act.

There was no fresh blood in the air, and there was no smell of corpses in the air.

Taurrell pursed her lips, if she still had a nostalgia for life, then her eyes must have been full of wonder at this moment. However, she didn't, so the intelligence analysis of the reincarnators was just a swift wind in her ears, and the wind was thrown behind her head, and she strode into the ruins with a lantern of the elven Xidu.

Hordes of bones shine in the area of light - unlike other Western worlds, the dwarves in the Lord of the Rings worldview are created as gods. They are dirt and rock in nature - when dwarves die, they do not leave behind corpses that can be corrupted, but simply turn into dirt and rock. And these dwarves a few years ago, or even more than a decade ago, stood quietly in the form of stiff stone statues in this area only a few dozen meters away from the exit.

Even when they die, they still stand like warriors. Their petrified arms were still raised high, their uncorrupted tomahawks and sledgehammers about to behead the enemy in front of them.

They can't do it anymore.

Taurrell stood in front of them, as if trying to raise his hand to touch the petrified bodies, but stopped before the gesture of raising his hand was made. She's just a Sylvan elf after all. The hostility of elves and dwarves to each other is a natural instinct inherited from their respective creators from the beginning of their creation.

The agreement with Torrell is actually completed here.

The dwarves eventually rushed within a few steps of the doorway, but were still unable to cross the last of the area. Then, the last dwarf in the mines of Moriath may also prove that he has died here.

But this is not the end of the Samsara mission...... None of them.

"There may be survivors in the depths of the pit." Jiang Yu walked to Taurrell's side and waved his hand, expelling the dark mist in front of him. "We haven't seen the orcs here, and we can't be sure they're the ones who attacked your people."

"The commission we agreed on is not over yet."

Taurrell opened her mouth slightly in surprise—she looked at the reincarnators with disbelief. Then, it turned silent.

She may have thought it was some kind of pity. Or Justice...... At least the reincarnations of the Middle-earth team, before opening the battle mode, even one by one wrapped themselves tightly to prevent information leakage. But at least the non-combat appearance and previous behavior can be regarded as roughly biased towards neutrality.

"Thank you." She bowed her head slightly. "I'll lead the way."

She no longer hides the secret of her identity.

"I'm from the Black Forest, on the other side of the Misty Mountains. Sixty years ago, when the Dwarven Expedition traveled west to recover Morrell, I traveled with them for a period of time because of some of their origins...... They were fighting well, and many of the Orcs entrenched in the pit were wiped out. One of them was even crowned King of Morrell in the Central Hall, and before I left, sent the news of Moria's recovery to many of the surrounding realms. ”

She shook her head slightly.

"I thought the next battle would be easy, and I really wouldn't be able to stay in the cave for a long time. So I bid farewell to Balin, the King of Moria, and his companions. and settled in the settlements west of the Misty Mountains...... Until, the day when the power of darkness rises and the people of the same clan embark on a journey westward comes. ”

The source of the story is not spoken, perhaps because it involves some personal emotion.

But a secret ceases to be a secret when it is blurted out, even if only for a short time — she had a very small outpouring of emotion when she spoke of sixty years ago. Mixed with nostalgia, pain, sorrow, and a heartbreaking love, Zhan Lan captured her emotional spectrum and made it into a fan chart and put it in the Psychic Link group chat, with the guess that 'this guy's lover is dead, and most likely a dwarf'. And as long as you still have the quality of 'emotional intelligence', no one will get to the bottom of this kind of thing.

Chu Xuan has no emotional intelligence.

But Chu Xuan has more attention to the place.

"Sixty years ago." He nudged his glasses slightly. “…… As far as I know, the predecessor of the Moriath Expedition was the Lonely Mountain Expedition. And you used to live in the Black Forest...... You fought in that war, and you saw the last famous dragon in Middle-earth fall? ”

And Taurrell responded to him immediately.

"Yes, sixty years ago. When that war broke out, I experienced ...... Something. She didn't want to say much about it.

However, there is another thing she would like to say more. But it is more meaningful than the former.

"I did see the fall of Smaug...... I saw Bard the Dragon Breaker hit it with a black arrow. I saw it wailing and fleeing away into the northern wasteland. Thranduil...... The king said that it had been wounded incurably, and that it would never dare to set foot in the land of a lonely mountain again. And after that, it's ......"

"Wait! Dragon breaker? Not a dragon slayer? Jiang Yu's eyes widened, this is not good news. Smaug didn't die? Didn't Bard kill it and then become Lord of Riverdale with this feat? ”

Torrell gave him a strange look.

"It should be a human falsehood." She said she was patient in explaining. "That Mister Bard did become King of Riverdale by defeating the dragon. But he didn't kill it—the dragon's scales were so thick that even if a special black arrow hit the dragon's heart, it would only hurt it, not penetrate it. Smaug was mortally wounded, but did not die. I saw it flee with my own eyes, and it was only after it left that the Orcs attacked and fought with the elves and dwarves. ”

Very good.

The reincarnators looked at each other, and there was chaos in their hearts—Smaug, the last dragon recorded in the story of the Lord of the Rings. It may not be the last one that exists, but it is the last one that is still moving. And it has extraordinary combat effectiveness, and importantly, it had an alliance with Sauron during his lifetime.

Its power is basically fatal to the army. There are not many creatures that can exert the ability of mass annihilation under the Great Barrier of Iluvita, and it is one of them. There is no doubt that when the darkness of Mordor spreads across Middle-earth, and Sauron gradually recovers his vitality and combat effectiveness, he will definitely find ways to fish his alliance out of the wounded ground, so as to strengthen the situation of his own battle.

- "Uh...... I think, just a fire dragon, it shouldn't be a big deal? ”

Zheng Zha, speak hard in the Psychic Link.

- "It doesn't seem to be very powerful, and it's also the last descendant of dragons. Compared to ancestors such as Ankaragang, it does not have much combat power. Feel...... At most, it's a weakened Fire Demon level? ”

Ankara Gang is the most powerful dragon, the secret creature of Morgoth. It died at the hands of a powerful elven warrior in the First Age. And Smaug, as a descendant of Vera's creation, obviously does not have the level of the fallen Maia of the Fire Demon.

That sounds like the truth.

The reincarnators quickly discussed and came to a unanimous conclusion—even Jiang Yu, who had seen the Hobbit trilogy. Of course, there is a more crucial element here.

- We don't have the free hands to deal with Smaug anyway. Even if we get out of here, we have a pretty good schedule to work on.

Jiang Yu said, and pointed out areas that deserve more attention.

- And if the worldview of the Lord of the Rings changed sixty years ago...... Does this mean that in the depths of the Moriath pit. Are there really remnants of dwarves hiding there?

It's quite possible. The direction of the Lord God's mission increases the likelihood that this speculation will become true.

This is the end of the brief discussion among the reincarnators. Unaware of this, Taurrell naturally took over the task of leading the way ahead as a sentinel. And soon, she found some noteworthy traces.

(End of chapter)