Chapter 340 The Last Fire Dragon Is Extinct

Woodland Kingdom.

After being discovered by Thranduil, Thorin began to lose his defense.

Thorin sneered at the elves and felt that the elves owed them. He also condemned Thranduil in the hall and spoke rudely.

It can only be said that the elves have a good temper, otherwise these dwarves would have died countless times.

But Thorin and his team were punished soon. The woodland elves were not as polite as the valley elves. They directly imprisoned all the dwarves.

"You stay here and slowly decay. Hundreds of years are just a blink of an eye for the elves. I have the patience to wait for you all to decay."

"Imprison all these dwarves!"

Except for Bilbo who used the One Ring in advance, all the others in Thorin and his team were captured and imprisoned.

Thranduil did not want Thorin and other dwarves to go to Lonely Mountain. He was not optimistic about the actions of these dwarves, and he did not want the Woodland Kingdom to be affected. After all, the dwarves reproduced very quickly, and the population could double in a few hundred years.

No matter how big the loss was, the population could be restored, but the elves were different. As an immortal species, it was difficult for the elves to reproduce. It had been thousands of years since the end of the War of the Ancients, but their population had not recovered to the population of the ancient times.

In fact, the era of the elves was over. Thranduil knew very well that the Fourth Age of Middle-earth was about to begin, and the Fourth Age was the era of humans.

With the advent of the human era, the elves would naturally wither more and more, which is why the elves of the Golden Forest and Rivendell chose to leave and go to Aman. The Silvan elves of the Woodland Kingdom were unwilling to leave Middle-earth.

When the elves were born, the gods liked the elves very much, after all, the elves were good-looking. The gods of this century have a serious tendency to be obsessed with appearance, so they invited the elves to Aman and allowed them to live with the gods.

At that time, some elves went to Aman, but some elves were reluctant to leave their homeland and were unwilling to leave Middle-earth. The Silvan elves were unwilling to leave.

Now the era of the elves is about to pass, and the era of humans is about to come, but these Silvan elves still want to stay in Middle-earth.

Thranduil had the dwarves imprisoned, and at this time, an elf scout came.

"Your Majesty, we found a large number of orcs wandering outside the forest."

"Have they entered the forest?" Thranduil asked.

"At first, some orcs entered the forest, but they were shot by the vigilant scouts, and those orcs retreated, but they have been nearby." The elf said.

"Keep alert." Thranduil said.

After hearing that the orcs came here, Thranduil knew that things could no longer develop according to his ideas. The actions of the dwarves attracted the attention of too many people, and now after hundreds of years, Sauron has returned, and those orcs are ready to unite with Smaug of the Lonely Mountain.

Once the orcs and Smaug unite, the power of darkness will increase greatly, and the elves, humans, and dwarves will be in danger. Thranduil has a clear understanding of the situation on the continent. After receiving the news from the orcs, he has guessed what these orcs want to do.

But with the new and old grudges added up, he will not let the dwarves have an easy time and will make them suffer. In the next few days, these dwarves were imprisoned.

Gandalf launched the Lonely Mountain Expedition because he saw the crisis of darkness coming again and wanted to kill Smaug before the two sides reached a contact.

Thranduil knew that he could not continue to imprison Thorin and his party, so he asked the elves in charge of guarding the prison to secretly let them go, relax their vigilance, and let them escape.

And in order to be more reasonable, Thranduil held a banquet, and even the elves who were guarding were invited to leave the prison. After no one was watching over these dwarves. Bilbo immediately emerged from invisibility.

"Bilbo, it's really you!"

"Great! You are definitely qualified as a thief!"

"Bilbo, help us open the lock!"

"Hush! Be quiet!" Bilbo said in a low voice: "The elves have all gone to the banquet."

"Keep your voice down, don't alarm them, I'll go find the key to rescue you!"

The dwarves immediately quieted down. Bilbo became invisible again, and then sneaked to the guard post. At this time, the elves guarding here were already drunk.

Thranduil specially asked someone to send wine to the guarding elves.

Seeing the drunk elves, Bilbo immediately walked up carefully and stole the key of the cell from one of the elves. Then he ran back to the prison quickly and rescued the dwarves with the key.

Soon the dwarves who regained their freedom moved their bodies. The prisons they were imprisoned in were all single rooms, and the small ones could only stand. It was not pleasant to stay there for several days.

The dwarves who regained their freedom found an empty wine barrel and got into it, then fled the Woodland Kingdom directly from the river.

Just as the elves were having a banquet, the guards came to report: "The group of dwarves escaped."

Hearing this news, Thranduil was not surprised. He put down his wine glass and said: "Legolas, you lead the team to clear out the orcs around here, don't let them affect our banquet!"

"What about the dwarves?" Legolas asked.

"Don't worry about them, let them drift with the river. Since they choose to go to Lonely Mountain, let them go. We just need to do our own things!"

Although he was confused, Legolas still accepted the order and led a team of elves to the river mouth.

The dwarves rode on the barrels and moved forward on the turbulent river, and finally stopped at a fishing port. Then the dwarves entered the Long Lake Town with the help of Bard.

After a simple rest for a night, Thorin said: "Since everyone has rested, let's prepare tonight and go to Erebor tomorrow!"

"Thorin, it's still early now, should we wait for Gandalf?" Fili came over and asked.

"We can go first or wait. If Gandalf doesn't come by the last minute, then we will do it ourselves!" Thorin said.

Gandalf was in Dol Guldur at this time.

Dol Guldur was once the residence of the woodland elves. After defeating the Second Age and migrating northward, it was abandoned. However, not long ago, an evil force occupied this place.

From the outside, it looks dilapidated and silent, as if there are no people or creatures moving around. But, in fact, everything here is an illusion.

Gandalf came here to investigate, and another wizard, Radagast, also came here.

"It seems that there is a hidden spell here. His doing this means that his strength has not fully recovered and he dare not appear in public."

"Radagast, go and give a message to the lady of the Golden Forest. We need support. We must force the enemy out! I will go in and investigate first."

"Okay, be careful." Radagast said, and immediately flicked the whip, and the huge rabbit immediately took him away.

Seeing Radagast leave, Gandalf immediately drew out his long sword, holding the staff in his left hand and the sword in his right hand, and entered the ruins.

After entering here, Gandalf soon encountered the hidden Ringwraiths. But facing Gandalf who was holding two weapons, the Ringwraiths were no match at all. Gandalf raised his staff, a bright light rose instantly, and then the long sword in his right hand chopped over.

The Ringwraiths screamed and wailed as they hid in the shadows.

Then the staff in Gandalf's hand shone brightly: 'Let all the dark dimensions appear here! '

As soon as the words fell, a silver-white light instantly bloomed in all directions with him as the center. The dazzling light instantly swept everything. After releasing this spell, Gandalf consumed a lot of energy, but the spell was very effective.

Nine phantoms were driven out directly from the shadow world.

These Ringwraiths were once kings, the most powerful human beings in the past era. Now even if they have lost their freedom and self-awareness, they are still very difficult to deal with.

Gandalf was very powerful, holding a staff in one hand and a sword in the other to fight with these Ringwraiths. Gandalf cut off the arm of a sword spirit with a sword, and another staff emitted light, and the flames instantly enveloped another Ringwraith.

At this moment, a Ringwraith with hideous armor suddenly attacked from behind.

"Dang!"

The sound of metal clashing rang out, Gandalf blocked the Ringwraith's sneak attack and fled out. There were more and more enemies around, and Gandalf didn't dare to fight them anymore. He wanted to escape first and wait for others to come and attack together.

These Ringwraiths were no match for Gandalf alone. Gandalf wanted to escape, and those Ringwraiths couldn't stop him at all.

Boom!

A heavy hammer suddenly fell down, and then a pale figure appeared in front of him, and a large number of orcs rushed up.

"Light drives away evil!"

The dazzling light flashed, and the orcs who rushed out of the darkness were directly stabbed by the strong light, screaming and fleeing.

Without these orcs blocking him, Gandalf immediately ran out, and the Ringwraiths and orcs behind him also reacted and chased him closely.

Gandalf knocked the rock wall with his staff, knocking it down directly. The huge stone smashed the pursuing orcs to death and blocked the road.

Gandalf, who had successfully escaped, was about to breathe a sigh of relief when a space fluctuation suddenly appeared in front of him.

Boom!

A phantom like a huge pupil of an eye appeared in front of him and stopped Gandalf.

"Sauron!"

Gandalf couldn't help but exclaimed.

"You can't run away! Wizard!"

"Light can't defeat darkness!"

In the endless darkness, Sauron's voice echoed in his soul, and the rolling black fog attacked, and Gandalf was about to be drowned in an instant.

Sauron, who was discovered, ordered the pale orcs to lead the orc army to the Lonely Mountain. On the other side, after receiving the funding from the mayor of Long Lake Town, the dwarves also began to march towards the Lonely Mountain.

Under the last light of the Turin New Year, the dwarves found the back door to the interior of the Lonely Mountain, and then Bilbo went to steal the Arken gem.

However, Bilbo was too naive to face the giant dragon Smaug, and Smaug soon discovered his smell.

The dwarves who stole the gem had to fight with Smaug here. As the largest and last fire dragon in the Third Age, Smaug was undoubtedly very powerful.

However, the huge palace of the Kingdom under the Mountain allowed these flexible dwarves to take advantage of various complex terrains to hide. Smaug's huge body was very inconvenient in such a complex environment.

After several spittings of flames, the dwarves were not burned to death. Instead, the dwarves successfully ignited the furnace and melted a large amount of gold into liquid. They wanted to use the boiling gold to burn Smaug to death.

Richard sat on the dome of the palace, watching this cat-and-mouse game. As a fire dragon, Smaug could not be harmed by melted gold or even boiling magma.

At this time, Smaug's form was also fully revealed. Richard discovered that Smaug was a flying dragon, and its front claws were connected to its wings.

The melted gold completely angered Smaug, and Smaug stopped fighting with these dwarves. He decided to take revenge on the humans in Long Lake Town first.

The huge Smaug rushed out of the lonely mountain and flew directly to Long Lake Town. The people in Long Lake Town began to flee.

The huge figure of Smaug appeared in the sky, and then the fire dragon opened its mouth and spit out a ball of flames, which instantly ignited Long Lake Town.

At the same time, Bard, who had already arrived at the watchtower, picked up the last black arrow and aimed at Smaug with the help of the wind crossbow. At this time, Smaug exhaled several times, and the endless flames turned the Long Lake Town directly into a sea of ​​fire.

A huge gust of wind whistled, and the dragon flew over the sky. Seeing Bard on the watchtower trying to resist, he immediately mocked:

"Humans who dare to resist?"

"What do you think your weapons are for? Are you here to tickle me?"

The arrogant Smaug directly lowered the flight altitude, wanting to play a trick on this human. After seeing Smaug approaching, Bard instantly discovered the missing scales on Smaug's chest.

"Grandpa didn't lie to me, he shot the dragon, and the missing scales are proof!"

At this moment, Bard's heart became calmer, and the trigger in his hand was immediately pulled, shooting out the spear-like black arrow.

The black arrow was like having eyes, and instantly sank into the skin without dragon scales, leaving Smaug no chance, and fiercely pierced its heart.

"Ah!!!"

Smaug screamed, and his huge body struggled to fly into the sky.

But at this moment, a figure appeared on the dragon's head, and the next second a scepter shining with golden light hit Smaug's head hard.

Smaug, who was flying, felt a sharp pain in his head, and the powerful force directly knocked it down from the sky and crashed into the water. Smaug's eyes lost their luster at this moment, and his huge body also lost its vitality.

The most powerful and last fire dragon in Middle-earth in the Third Age died.

ps: I was too busy decorating my house, so I will only update once today.