Chapter 1146 1128. Vitality
“Pure and vigorous vitality.”
??The witcher murmured, and with El Cat''s confused look on his face, he reached for his alchemy leather bag and started to take something out of it.
?The three dwarves on the ground were pale, their pupils looked dull due to uncontrollable dilation, and their mouths were moving but too weak to make a sound.
Lan En looked at them and finally took out a square object from the alchemy leather bag.
It was a package wrapped in large green leaves.
After visiting Tom Bombadil''s home, Old Tom gave them cookies made by his wife Goldberry.
This is pure and vigorous vitality!
“‘Destiny doesn’t realize itself’. Ha!”
??The witcher''s eyes seemed to flash across the sight of the sturdy little old man with a red beard extending out from under his blue hat.
He chuckled and immediately opened the large wrapped leaves, revealing the biscuits inside.
?The sun shines down from the sky, perhaps due to reflection, and there is a golden shimmer on this biscuit.
The sweet smell of the biscuits still smells like freshly baked ones to this day.
The biscuits made by Mrs. Goldberry are a bit like compressed rations, thick and large in one piece.
?Lan carefully opened it, divided it into three pieces, and stuffed it into the mouths of Thorin, Kili, and Fili.
Almost as soon as it entered the mouth, Lan En''s [spiritual vision] clearly saw in his wide-open eyes that a pure and strong life force began to faint from their bodies.
The lack of body fluids, various other substances, and the collapse of the physiological system caused by the lack of these substances.
?Just the names of various substances that could fill several large sheets of parchment are no longer a problem with such strong vitality.
?Thorin, Fili, and Kili, who were already in a dying state, suddenly took a deep breath almost at the same time.
“Suck~”*3
It''s like the soul has returned to the body and needs to take a breath to activate it.
“Well done, well done! Lan En!”
??Feli''s re-condensed pupils first looked at the sky blankly, and then he raised his head toward the witcher with great effort and gave a thumbs up.
"Yeah, good job. But...ah! Can you give me a drink before you sew my chest up with needle and thread?"
Qili''s body was twisting in the residual pain, his face was grimacing, but he was too sensible to move his newly sewn chest, so he looked particularly strange.
Lan En, who was half-kneeling on the ground to observe them, breathed a sigh of relief. Now he finally leaned back and sat on the ice, lowering his head and smiling.
The flannel ball jumped up and meowed happily.
Qilin no longer stood in front of others, and everyone gathered around with joyful expressions.
Dwalin immediately fell on top of Thorin, who was still confused, and cried loudly.
The elves looked on with smiles. They could empathize with this scene and offered their blessings.
Gandalf relaxed his shoulders that had been tense since the war began, and even had his pipe in his mouth again.
He walked to Lan En''s side: "This is really wonderful technology, especially for saving lives."
?He clicked his pipe twice and then blew out a puff of white smoke. The white smoke turned into smoke rings and floated into the sky.
“There’s nothing better than saving a good life, isn’t it?”
"Yes, the great and wise Gandalf." Lan En, who was sitting on the ice, tilted his head and glanced at him, "By the way, how do you think I got involved in these things? Do you have a clue?"
The old wizard''s expression did not change at all, which really made Lan En admire him in this regard.
He said calmly and firmly: "It must be Manifest Destiny."
Lan En had no choice but to deal with this old wizard who became full of ghosts and ghosts once he was out of the urgent and serious state.
On the dwarf side, Thorin, who gradually came to his senses, showed a toughness far beyond that of his two nephews.
He stood up with difficulty with the help of Dwalin and walked towards Lan En.
??The King Under the Mountain stopped in front of the witcher. His face was now covered in blood and his lips were white. But there was no gloominess in his eyes, instead they were extremely free and easy.
The two people looked at each other silently. After a long time, Lan En shook his head and smiled.
He took out a gem from his arms. It was an extremely bright gem that even the elves were obsessed with.
Then he turned his wrist and threw it to Thorin without any regret.
“Arken Gem!”
Dwalin admired the name of the gem in a low voice.
Thorin, who was being supported by him, the King of the Lonely Mountain who was crazy about this gem a day ago, now just reached out and caught the dwarf''s most precious treasure from mid-air, the King''s Gem that symbolized power.
“I delivered the goods ahead of schedule, but you won’t break your promise again, right? King under the mountain?”
??The witcher said with a joking smile.
?Thorin did not answer him, but casually handed the gem to Dwalin beside him for safekeeping.
"If there was no gold in this world, we would have been heroes long ago." As he spoke, he also showed a weak but relieved smile to Lan En and Gandalf next to him.
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The victory of the war was no longer in doubt after the arrival of the big eagle and the skin-changer Bion.
Beorn the skin-changer is the man who jumps off the back of an eagle and turns into a giant bear in mid-air.
??This guy looks fierce, but he is quite gentle in contact. If Lan En describes it, he is a bit like a bear that concentrates on licking honey and accumulating fat.
The battle lasted all day, although the decisive battles ended in the morning. But after the orcs were defeated, these vicious and vicious killers fled in all directions.
Elves, dwarves, and humans all pursued the orcs.
Victory in a battle is gratifying, but in comparison, the greatest and most important benefit is to eliminate the enemy''s effective strength through victory.
"They will flee into Mirkwood, or other corners of the wasteland. But it doesn''t matter, the dwarves and elves will entertain these guys well. This victory will bring peace to the north for decades, even hundreds of years."
As night drew near, Gandalf spoke to Lan, smoking his pipe.
“Nothing is more precious than peace. Isn’t that what fighting bravely is for?”
By this time they had entered the solitary mountain. After all, almost the entire plain outside the mountain was destroyed during the day.
?The giant earth-devouring worms made a mess of the terrain, and the dirty blood and corpses of the orcs were spread across the entire land.
?In order to prevent people from dying in the cold night, the dwarves of the Lonely Mountain welcomed humans and elves into the mountain.
Without any precautions or vigilance, let everyone rest here and hold a celebratory banquet.
Gandalf and Lan took a break from their busy schedule and took shelter in an opening in Mount Elbor.
?At that time, the fire of the evil dragon in Gushan was reflected from these huge openings, and could be seen clearly even as far away as Changhu Town.
?According to Gandalf, Azog, under the authority of Sauron, united almost two-thirds of the orcs in the north to form an army and marched to the Lonely Mountain.
?But now the whole army was routed, one-third of the troops died on the spot, and even his own life was lost.
This is self-evident for the changes in the situation in the north.
The eagles left as quickly as they came after the battle was decided.
?Thorin retained them in the end, and at least gave them to the leader of the eagles, the Wind King Guanhe, a luxurious crown.
??And declared that the Lonely Mountain dwarves will always be the allies of the Great Eagles.
But in fact, the reason why the Great Eagles came to the Lonely Mountain battlefield this time was partly because of their hostile stance towards evil, and partly because of Gandalf''s personal relationship.
Because Lan En saw many big eagles and the Wind King Guan He deliberately reminiscing with Gandalf when they were flying away.
Bilbo also told him that Gandalf once called a group of large eagles, allowing their expedition team to escape a wave of orcs on the edge of the cliff.
“I saw Guan He glance towards me when he was leaving to talk to you.”
With his palms resting on the strong and rough city wall fence of the dwarves, the witcher asked Gandalf next to him with interest.
“Is it talking about something relevant to me?”
At this time, one of Gandalf''s hands was bandaged, which showed that he was not relaxed during the day. But even so, after the old wizard relaxed, he smoked his pipe non-stop to relax himself.
??The old wizard who was blowing out smoke rings just now stuffed a bunch of pipe grass into the pipe pot again, ignited a big flame on the tip of his finger wearing a ring, put it into the pipe pot and lit it.
“Oh, you mean this?”
?Smoke curled up from the corner of Gandalf''s mouth, but it was quickly stretched and blown away by the refreshing cold wind of the snow-capped mountains.
??The old wizard looked at the witcher with a smile on his lips.
“The Eagle is the messenger of the great Valar-Manw?, king of Arda. Guanh told me that a lord admired your swordsmanship very much, especially when you slew Smaug on the Lake.”
“An adult?” Lan En was confused.
"[Lord of the Waters] Ulmo." The old wizard opened his mouth and spit out an obviously very big name, which made the blue benefactor stunned.
?According to Lann''s previous borrowing in Rivendell, this name represents one of the Valar, the ruler of water in the world of Arda.
But then, Gandalf said nonchalantly.
"But you don''t need to care about anything. The great Ulmo is bold and resolute. He is just expressing his appreciation for you, nothing more. In fact, when Guan He said it to me, he couldn''t be sure that it was Ulmo''s time. Sadly, it was still a message that needed to be delivered by a messenger, but it was told to me just to be on the safe side.”
?Lan shrugged and decided to ignore the topic.
??However, it has to be said that his water-like swordsmanship, which was born out of [Wei Mingren], has been recognized by a master of water, which satisfies some of Lan En''s small complacency.
It was a starry night, and the gentle moonlight shone together with the starlight, shining on the wasteland and the long lake system in the distance.
The scattered ice floes on the ice make the reflection of light even more dreamy.
The clouds in the sky are silhouetted by the moonlight, making the world and wasteland appear vast and boundless.
“What a beautiful world.”
?Lan En relaxed his shoulders and placed his elbows on the dwarf''s guardrail. The hot breath of his sigh drifted away in the cold wind.
(End of this chapter)