Chapter 60: Smaug
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After a busy day's work, Nitin prepared to go to the master bedroom on the third floor to report to Ling Qi on the day's summary.
Everything is running in order in the town, the money that has been greedy for ink is back in the treasury, and the abundance of wealth has rejuvenated and overloaded the dilapidated machine.
The only trouble in recent days has been the matter of conscription training.
There are not many strong men in Changhu Town, and there will not be more than one hundred and fifty at full play, which means that at most one army of eighty people can be put together, which is already the limit.
This number is not as good as that of the mead, and it is indeed a little weak compared to the towns.
But it's also helpless, after all, this place has gone through a chaos, and the geographical location is relatively remote, not many adventurers will be willing to wander around the place where the fire dragon is entrenched.
Of course, the land of honey wine is not even a town, after all, it is located in the key traffic point, backed by the rich and comfortable Shire, and there are many human settlements around, attracting countless homeless people and mercenaries.
Even so, there are only one hundred and fifty regular soldiers registered in the Land of Mead!
It is simply impossible to recruit a force of 200 men from the small town of Changhu in ten days.
Do you want to use all kinds of military force? Or even let the old and weak, women and children go to the battlefield together?
The source of soldiers is only one of the problems, and training is another.
Although Nitin has undergone strict military training in the land of honey, he lacks Charles's unique methods, and even if he adapts that plan to the ground, the effect is extremely limited, and it would be good to have soldiers on the battlefield within half a year, and it is not enough to care about their combat effectiveness.
Even if a general is a powerful general, unless there are special means, it will take 100 days to train a useful soldier, which is still taking into account the high quality per capita of Middle-earth.
Ten days, to make him Nedin from the town of Long Lake, which had just suffered a catastrophe, to sign a usable army of 200 people, he promised very well, and now he could only shake his head and smile bitterly.
Not to mention 200 people, 100 people can't get together!
Before the change of ownership, there were only sixty or seventy registered soldiers in Changhu Town, and those miscellaneous soldiers and ruffians were also veterans, and now there are only more than half left.
In order to seize power, he was happy to kill at that time, but after the killing, trouble came.
Nitin had thought of several excuses, and was considering which one should be used to persuade the lord to abandon that crazy idea.
When he reached the lord's bedroom, he found that the door of the house, which had been closed when the morning came, was already hidden.
Relying on his status as a close confidant, Nitin cautiously pushed the door in, but to his astonishment, it was completely empty, and even the beds were neatly folded.
As the lord of a land, Ling Qi actually said goodbye without saying goodbye...
On the other side of Long Lake, there is an abandoned harbor, once called Riverdale Town, which was a good place, but it was abandoned along with Long Lake City when the dragon attacked.
Riverdale is at the foot of the Lonely Mountain, not too far from the deceased Dwarven Kingdom, across the lake from the current town of Long Lake.
This place was actually a trading transit point between the Dwarven Kingdom and Long Lake City, which was the trading center of the north, specializing in exporting gold, silver and jewels excavated by the dwarves of the Lonely Mountain.
Irub's diamonds are fascinated even by the elves of the Dark Forest!
The prosperity of Long Lake City and River Valley Town is inseparable from the relationship between Lonely Mountain, and although it is already in the past tense at this time, there are still many people who remember them.
At least in Changhu Town, there are many people who grew up listening to such stories, and they still remember the treasures piled up in the lonely mountains, but they can only regard it as an after-dinner conversation, as a tribute to the good old days.
Walking through the ruins of Riverdale and climbing up the lonely mountain of white rocks, Ling Qi smelled a strong, dry smell in the air.
For three days and four nights, he still could not recover from the wound on his finger, as if the cut was more than flesh and blood, but he could not remain indifferent.
The Day of Turin was not a rope around his neck, but Thorin must have been in a hurry, not counting his two teammates who had temporarily parted ways.
What if they could convince the impulsive dwarf to endure the urgency of the moment?
He could wait, but he couldn't bear the silence.
Just this morning, he suddenly felt a little whim, and felt that he should do something, as if something was urging him to do it.
It's like fate!
"If that's really my story, then let me see what kind of role I'll play. ”
Everyone occasionally has similar, absurd, crazy thoughts, such as: I am the protagonist of this story called reality.
Some people are convinced of this, and they are crazy.
Some people were yy at the time, and then they threw it out of the clouds, which is a dreamer, but it is very ordinary.
Ling Qi wouldn't jump off a cliff to test the hardness of his bones just because he believed he was the protagonist, but he might as well have more courage and more attempts for this.
You may never make a mistake if you don't do it, but again, you will never succeed if you don't do it.
In fact, the protagonist is not a rare thing, as if he is immortal by luck.
They will die the same, they will get sick all the same, they will all need to eat and drink Lazar.
They just carry more responsibilities for their fate, more intersect with the trajectory of macro history, are responsible for advancing part of the historical process, and leave one popular story after another in the history books, nothing more.
When more of those people come together, there will be colorful sparks, and that is a complete history!
Therefore, everyone can become their own protagonist, only because everyone has a different position in the long river of fate, everyone will leave traces of different shades!
Everyone is the protagonist, but the protagonist is also big and small.
When the small protagonist of a small script meets the big protagonist of a big script, when they appear on the same stage, the small protagonists are reduced to supporting roles, or even tricks.
History is like a long river, paved by time, and fate brings a trickle, and they converge together to see the reality.
In the real world of Middle-earth, evil is still frantic with lost power, and justice is on the verge of falling apart because of the variables of fate.
The source of all variables is hidden in another dimension, and it is a treasure as huge as a mountain in the distorted horizon.
Ling Qi has never been a greedy person for money, but he has to admit that he was moved to see such a huge amount of wealth!
As long as there is no world where wealth has not lost its effect, such mountains of gold can completely allow countless people to charge the gods one after another, without fear of sacrifice!
Sharp and dizzy.
"Tsk, no wonder Thorin always has such a vigilant expression every time he mentions the treasures of the Lonely Mountain, as if the people around him are robbers and thieves. ”
Ling Qi continued to walk forward, not touching the gold coins, which was not his goal.
If he had unlimited storage space, he would definitely empty the entire treasury. But if he had to choose between wealth and reason, he would not be obsessed with anything outside of him.
The main quest Dragon Slaying and Treasure Hunting must be completed, and the optional quest Hundred Yen should also be victorious, but unfortunately at this time, even the mission target is beaten, and I really don't know what the outcome will be.
Then, it is likely that a large amount of special equipment in his storage space will be intercepted, and a third of the treasure in front of him may be the biggest gain of his mission!
If, we don't consider the changes in ourselves, the gains and values they represent.
Walking in the golden sea, only the pure heart can be indifferent, most people will feel light or heavy vertigo, look left and right, and even can't help but lie down and roll.
Ling Qi was also lost under the treasure mountain, but instead of being obsessed, he was a little unable to distinguish the direction.
The lonely mountain covers an extremely wide area, almost a mountain range, and the dwarf kingdom in the mountain has almost hollowed out the belly of the mountain, the flat area is not small, and the depth is even more terrifying.
Ling Qi was very skeptical, if the fire dragon didn't come, would the dwarves dig directly into the center of the earth and eventually follow in the footsteps of some close relatives in other planes.
With a bang, the entire mountain was wiped out along with the huge dwarven kingdom!
After passing through seven or eight halls with similar styles, it was determined that the PP boy in the storage space was still in a long-term standby state, and Ling Qi could only judge his distance from the largest treasure house by the thickness of the gold coins under his feet, but fortunately, this seemed to have some effect.
From the relatively normal environment of the kingdom to the dizziness of the gold, this proves that the dwarves do not have enough gold coins to store, but only a lot of frightening.
If you are careful, it is not difficult to find that the closer you get to a certain direction, the higher the surrounding gold mountains will be piled up, and the thicker the gold coins on the ground will be!
I believe that the place he is going must be the treasure house of Thor, the king of the dwarven kingdom who is greedy for money!
There must be the most treasure there, and it is possible that less than eight cubic meters can be used to hold something good worth more than a third of the total value of the treasure.
The gold coins there are probably no longer piled up like mountains, but directly become an ocean, overwhelming!
Of course, his target, Smaug, is probably there to bathe and enjoy!
Legend has it that dragons like to sleep except for treasures, so sleeping in a pile of treasures should be one of the dragon's favorite things to do.
Pray he's sleeping when he enters!
Ling Qi's Concealment Skill is a divine skill in this world, perhaps it is unprecedented, even more powerful than the Supreme Ring's stealth ability to deceive mortals. At least when he passed by Thranduil in the Forest Elf Kingdom, the other party didn't notice!
It's a pity that this ability, which has only recently been completely unblocked, still has one of its biggest shortcomings!
When in a state of seclusion, the moment he wants to reconnect with the material world, he must disarm this ability. Because the retreat has taken him out of the material world, and then he will not be able to interfere with reality.
At the moment when he lifted his retreat, he couldn't even control his breath accurately! Of course, this doesn't matter to the weak, it is the most direct warning to the strong!
That moment will be when he is at his weakest, the moment he enters the material world from the dimensional space, he will expose the most fatal flaw, but he will not be able to react in any way!
Of course, if the enemy is weak, they won't be able to react at this moment!
If this were not the case, he would not dare to suddenly apply a harsh hand to Bilbo. He is very weak, but he is very troublesome, either he does not move, and once he does, he cannot leave any aftermath.
It was precisely because of this that he gave up on Thranduil in the first place.
Otherwise, even if he had devoured the power of the Ring too much at that time, his own power was unbalanced, and even his soul was distorted. If he is sure, he will still cut Thranduil under the sword, and let him become food for himself!
Being strong is his only purpose, and he will do whatever it takes to do so!
It's definitely worth taking the risk to become stronger, and as for the rest, it doesn't matter anymore.
Standing under the dragon's eyelids, Ling Qi stared at the closed eyelids, his heart pounding rapidly.
Others can only see the behemoth hidden under the golden mountain, like a small mountain range with the naked eye, and the occasional dragon head comparable to a locomotive has made the most fearless brave people even urinate.
The fear in Ling Qi's heart was even greater, because his perception was sharper, but his will was also stronger!
In contrast, Charles' kind of dragon power is a complete joke!
Standing in front of it, even if it was separated by a barrier in space, he could still feel its violent and fiery aura!
In the face of this purest dragon power, do ordinary people really have the courage to attack it?
It's not that Ling Qi hasn't faced legends, he has had demon clones, he has seen Sauron, but he never thought that the real legendary aura, the high-level legendary aura that is close at hand, can be so violent in such a plane where personal power is suppressed to the limit!
The dragon spewed out large strands of gold coins with every breath it breathed, like two intermittent golden fountains.
Ling Qi approached it, examined it, and thought about how many lives it would take to fill it in order to give himself a chance to strike a fatal blow!
(ps: The hidden skill has been fine-tuned, it's not good to be too bt, it's explained earlier, over.) )