The shadow of war diluted the joy of victory, and while the news of Smaug's fall excited many northerners, the shadow of the impending army of tens of thousands of orcs also terrified many.

When the news gradually spread, what Wayne didn't expect was that whether it was Thorin's dwarven clan or Sylvan's elven clan, everyone was excited, although they all entered the tense stage of combat preparation, but they did not show any panic and timidity.

The hatred between the good races of the north and the evil Orc has a long history, basically dating back thousands of years, countless ancestors turned into dry bones in the war with the Orc, they are natural mortal enemies, destined to only one side to survive, there is no possibility of compromise at all.

Even the refugees from Changhu Town, whose total number was less than 600, did not flinch at all, and they jointly asked Ying to participate in this battle.

Most of their relatives and friends died in the recent orc raids, and now even if they are crushed, they want to avenge their relatives and friends.

This is a bit embarrassing Lord Wayne, the rest of the refugees in Hegu Town are old and weak women and children, three melons and two dates, there are less than twenty soldiers left in the past, barely forming a militia squad, as for the rest of the civilians, they basically have no professional combat training, and they are also delivering food to the battlefield, and they may even help.

However, for the sake of unity, and the anger of the crowd, Wayne still went to King Thrandui to buy two hundred elven light crossbows, and bought many weapons and equipment, and then arranged for the militia captain Jerry and the sharpshooter Bud to select a hundred refugees who were barely able to fight to form a combat team, and before the war began, they were trained to train them to become light crossbow shooters.

As for the others, if they can't join the army but really want to contribute, they are all arranged by him into the logistics team, and they will not directly participate in the war, but they can be regarded as doing their part to deal with the orcs.

No one knew when the orc army would arrive, so they were trying their best to reorganize the ranks, but at this time, there was a problem between the dwarves and the elves that was quite obvious.

The Lonely Mountain and the Woodland Kingdom were a few days away, and neither the dwarves nor the elves could abandon their homes to help defend them, and they could only fight alone in their territory until the orc army had determined their goals.

But this is a very dangerous situation, if the elves and dwarves can't get together, they will be very easy to be broken by the orc army, or even directly attack, crushing them with absolute numbers, which is very dangerous.

After receiving the news of the orc army, Thorin's old watch Deine was unequivocal, and immediately returned to the iron hills where the northern dwarves lived, and in less than a week, he returned to the lonely mountain with a thousand heavily armored iron foot troops, as well as a large number of dwarven residents and various dwarven life items.

They decided to defend the recaptured kingdom of Yamashita to the death, and in the near future, most of the dwarves of the Turin clan will be regathered in the lonely mountain, and continue to mine the treasures in the lonely mountain, and redevelop the kingdom of the dwarves, making it a paradise for the dwarves again.

And that's exactly what Gandalf wanted.

The reason why he launched this expedition to the lonely mountain was to hope that the dwarves of Middle-earth could reunite in the kingdom below the mountain, and drag down the orcs and other dark forces in the entire north, so that the dark races of the north and Mordor would not be united to form a more threatening evil alliance.

In a way, Gandalf's purpose has been achieved, and in order to protect his homeland, the dwarves of the Turin clan and the Sylvan elves of the woodland kingdom will definitely fight to the death against the Orcs of the north.

However, these have little to do with Wayne, his participation in the battle of the Five Armies is not for any world peace, or to save the world These noble things, of course, those are just incidental effects, Lord Wayne's most important task is to complete various commissions and improve his strength.

So, he came to the Lonely Mountain again, and in the palace of the Lonely Mountain, which had been restored to its golden glory, he saw Thorin sitting on the throne.

The handsome dwarven prince had changed into gorgeous dwarven royal armor, wearing a crown of jewels on his head, and his solemn expression revealed a light of wisdom.

After meeting Wayne, Thorin behaved very enthusiastically, always revealing his respect and gratitude for the witchers in his words and deeds, and Wayne also showed his respect for the King of the Mountain.

After all, people respect me, I respect people, and the king of the mountain, Thorin, is also one of the high-end and energetic characters he has met so far.

"Wayne, thank you for the gift you gave me, I love it so much that I have hung it on the wall outside the palace."

"I believe that anyone who sees Smaug's head in the future will understand that we Turin have an iron will, revenge and kindness, and we have a spirit like gold."

Wayne almost burst out laughing when he heard Thorin call their dwarves a golden spirit, but this time, he hadn't come to meet the new king of the mountain, just to chat.

Since retaking the Lonely Mountain, Thorin's mental state seems to be much better than before, and he is no longer as gloomy as he was when he first met.

The current king of the mountain, between every move, has a more kingly bearing, both in appearance and temperament, which makes people can't help but feel respect.

Before Wayne could speak, Thorin spoke:

"We'll talk about the rest later, Wayne, the commission I promised you, a third of the Lonely Mountain Treasure, and the ten Mithril Armors we promised."

"After these days of counting, the gold that belongs to you has been moved to another room by us, and you can send someone to transport it at any time, and the gates of the kingdom under the mountain are always open for you."

"However, I'm sorry that the ten Mithril Armors I promised you, our craftsmen searched the entire Lonely Mountain, and only found two finished Mithril Armors and enough materials to make three Mithril Armors."

"The remaining five pieces must wait until we continue to mine the resources of the Lonely Mountain, or when we recapture Moria, and have enough Mithril to continue to build for you."

As he spoke, Thorin's tone paused slightly, and a smile appeared on his face, saying:

"Of course, my friend, we dwarves will never break our promises, even if it takes decades to obtain those Mithril, we will not give up our efforts, but if you are willing to accept our commission to recover Moriah and help us defeat the fire demons and orcs within Moria, you will be rewarded handsomely."

"As for the integrity of our dwarves, you should have realized it, my friend."

As Thorin's words fell, Wayne's mind immediately heard the sound of the system's prompt.

Bite! The task is triggered, [Destroy the Fire Demon] is epic, is it received?

Suddenly hearing the prompt of an epic task, Wayne subconsciously wanted to take the task, but soon he realized that this task is not something that can be completed at this time period, he can only take one task a day, if he takes this task, today's trip will be in vain.

So, Wayne showed an indifferent smile on his face and said:

"Thorin, my friend, of course I can accept Moria's commission, and I don't think there is any problem in getting rid of a fire demon."

"However, that's a few years away, and you'll have to consolidate the kingdom under the mountain first, recall enough inhabitants, and train more dwarven warriors."

"Otherwise, even if we take Moria, you won't find that many dwarves to live in, will you?"

Looking at Thorin's smile at his words, Wayne continued:

"Thorin, let's put the matter of Moria on hold for the time being, and when the time comes, we will discuss the detailed contract."

"My main purpose in coming to you this time is for the upcoming matter of the orc army."

"This army is huge, more than ten times or even dozens of times more than you dwarven warriors, although I don't mind helping you deal with these orcs for free."

"But as an adventurer, I'm still used to being commissioned to do the work."

As he spoke, Wayne looked at Thorin's face, which had become very serious because of the matter of the orc army, and said:

"I don't think it's as good as this, we sign a contract of entrustment, the content of which is, I will take action in this war, help you, and kill the commander of the other party's army."

"As for the remuneration of the commission, for the sake of our friendship, I don't embarrass you, I just need the blacksmith masters of the Yamashita Kingdom to help me customize 10,000 sets of knight armor and weapons, and it's not free to help me make it, I will also pay the corresponding remuneration according to the value of these armors, how about it?"

Thorin was slightly stunned when he heard this, first thinking about the necessity of this contract, and then surprised by the reward that Wayne was asking for, and his heart was suddenly quite moved.

If Wayne would pay for the cost of making the knight's armor, then their commission this time would basically be equivalent to a prostitution.

And if Wayne can kill the other party's commander after the war starts, like he did with Smaug, it will definitely be a very meaningful thing for the dwarves, and it can be said that he will make a lot of money.

Being able to make a good friend is a joy for anyone.

With a smile on his face, Thorin stepped down from the throne, grabbed Wayne's wrist, and said:

"No problem, this commission will be done according to the conditions you said, and I will have someone write the contract later, and then officially conclude this entrustment contract with you."

"But before I do that, I'll take you to see the gold that belongs to you, and the Mithril armor you want."

"Haha, I dare say that if you want to take so much gold, and want to bring it back to the Shire, to bring it back to your Wayne Manor, you may need to prepare a few hundred wagons, or a caravan of thousands of people."

Listening to Thorin's joking words, the two quickly bypassed the antechamber of the Lonely Mountain Palace, bypassed several passages, and came to a large and spacious room.

There, piles of gold were neatly piled up there, piled up into a huge mountain of gold hundreds of meters wide and dozens of meters high, in addition to those gold coins piled up like a mountain of gold, on the other side of the room, there were a large number of gold vessels, sculptures, jewelry, and all kinds of valuable jewelry, which were stored in dozens of huge wooden boxes, exuding a strange and attractive light.

Thorin stood in front of Wayne with a proud expression, opened his arms, and said in a heroic tone:

"Wayne, all the gold in this room belongs to you, please trust the credibility of our dwarves, a third of all the wealth in the treasury of the Lonely Mountain, not a single gold coin is missing."

"With this gold, you are already the richest adventurer in all of Middle-earth, far more than many kings."

As he spoke, Thorin took out a delicate wooden treasure chest from the corner of the room, opened the lid of the box, revealing the extremely delicate chain mail inside, which did not look much different from ordinary silver, and said rather painfully:

"As for this, they are the only two pieces of Mithril chain mail that we have left in Gushan, light as goose feathers, thin as cicada wings, and invulnerable, the top inner armor."

"The other three pieces of Mithril chain mail, which we will complete a month after the end of the war, are both a reward for your commission and a symbol of friendship between the Turin clan and you."

Wayne looked at all of this with satisfaction, and reached out to take out the two pieces of Mithril armor, and put them in his hands to carefully watch and play with them, waiting for Thorin to leave because he had something to deal with.

He patted the black money bag on his body with some unsatisfied feelings, and shouted softly.

"Vivien, come out quickly, you're here for a big day today."

………………

Three days later, even though the Fortune Elf had an extremely strong ability to handle property, the mountain of gold in that room still made Vivien tired enough, and it took three days to complete the collection of the gold.

And Vivien's final result also made Wayne's heart unable to calm down for a long time.

1.8 billion Oren, yes, if you convert this wealth to Oren, it is 1.8 billion.

This is a number that most people can hardly imagine, even if it is a big noble, a king, or even an emperor in the south, I'm afraid they can't imagine it, what is the concept of hundreds of millions of gold coins?

And now, Wayne is the owner of these gold coins, and he has a wealth that rivals that of the world.

It is a force that can control the world, and in some ways, it is even more powerful than the legendary gods, and the influence it can have is more profound.

Regardless, no matter how excited Wayne was in his heart, Thorin didn't break his promise, and Wayne got what he deserved.

This mission in Middle-earth has completed the most important part.

(Attending the wedding today, I'm tired, and I'll start to return to normal updates tomorrow, eight ks a day, that's all, Mo Mo Da!) ）

(End of chapter)