The Journey of the Demon Hunter

"Bilbo is a hopeless altruist." Zelin shrugged. "But I like this kind of person the most, and it is my honor to be friends with this kind of person."

When night fell, the soldiers who chased the orc deserters returned to the camp one after another, and the battle that had almost affected the entire north came to an end. The north does not know how many orcs will survive, but it is certain that when the valley city is rebuilt and the Lone Mountain becomes a new kingdom of dwarves, the remaining orcs in the north will no longer be able to pose a threat to this area. Peace, coupled with the treasures of the lone mountain, the Smaug Wasteland destroyed by the dragon will become a new land of prosperity.

As night fell, people were busy cleaning the dead bodies, caring for the wounded, and burying the dead. This is a victory worth celebrating. Perhaps in the future, people who write books will record this with joy and joy, but now, in the face of so many wounded and dead, no one can show happiness. This It was a disaster, and the people who survived were only fortunate and sad.

As for the treasures in the Lonely Mountain, no one has any objections. Thorin will become the new king of the mountain, leading his people to rebuild the kingdom. People in River Valley City will get enough gold to build their homes in River Valley City. As a thank you and an apology, Thorin gave Bud valuable gold, but Bud only left a part of it, and all the rest was given to those who had relatives who died in the battle. In the spring of the coming year, the people of River Valley City will send people down the Anduin River to the south to find artisans and rebuild the entire city.

The elves got what they deserved. After this war, no dwarf will still question the elves, and not many dwarves will continue to hate those who face the orc army with them and fight all day with the elves and Human.

After the hunting of the great eagle came to the Lonely Mountain, Thorin gave the Eagle King a golden crown, which represents the alliance between the dwarf and the great eagle for generations. Everyone got what they deserved. The invasion of the orcs not only failed to destroy the north, but instead united the races living in the north.

As for the Demon Hunter himself, he is not in a hurry to take his share. There is still some time before the portal opens. He can take a good rest and learn as much as possible about the world. Since coming to this world, the demon hunter has never rested, whether it is an orc or an evil dragon. In particular, his business has not yet been completely completed, to establish a stronghold for directional navigation in the new world.

The place where the portal opened is near the town of Long Lake in the past, where only ruins are now left. It's about a day's journey from River Valley City, but the wide lake is no small trouble. If possible, he hopes to be able to use part of the gold to allow craftsmen to slightly repair the ruins near the portal, at least to build a place where they can stand and dock the canoe.

It is said that there is another wizard living in the nearby dense forest, the brown-robed wizard Rhidagast, who lives in a wooden house under the big tree, and the white-robed wizard Saruman, who is far from the border of Rohan, lives in Isengard. In the high tower. The wizards of this world don't have any special requirements for the place of residence. Perhaps they told the people in River Valley that a wizard planned to build a settlement on the ruins of Long Lake, and it is estimated that there will be no trouble.

It just so happened that the corpse of the evil dragon is a good research material, whether it is a demon hunter or a warlock cooperating with a demon hunter, it may be used. He didn't know what he could study, but if he threw the body at the bottom of the lake like this, Zelin would definitely feel sorry.

"Aren't you going to the Lonely Mountain?" Bud took his children and ran into the Demon Hunter at the gate of River Valley City. "Sorin is inviting us to discuss the next thing about Lonely Mountain and River Valley City. I thought, You should be eligible to participate. You saved the people in Long Lake Town and River Valley City more than once."

The war is over and people's lives will continue, but today, their most important job is not to rebuild the city, but to clean up the corpses near the city and on the battlefield as soon as the winter passes.

"You are the king of River Valley City, Bud." Zelin shook his head. "Wait until there is a banquet and invite me again. I want to take a walk around and pay attention to whether there are any orcs left alone near River Valley City. "The demon hunter touched his pocket. "If I can't arrive on time when the banquet starts, remember to save some for me."

"We will wait for you."

"Then I will look forward to the banquet prepared by the dwarves."

Zelin lowered his eyes and looked into his pocket. The telescope lying in it was glowing.

Chapter 783: Portal Issues

It was very time for Francesca's communication, and the demon hunter was planning to contact the elves. It's a pity that this telescope can only be used unilaterally by the elves. Zelin doesn't have enough chaotic energy to drive the telescope, let alone learn directional navigation technology for positioning. To learn such troublesome and difficult magic formulas, it is better to let him practice more swords, or do some training.

"Can you hear my voice?"

"Good evening, beautiful lady, even if your voice is separated by a world, I can hear you clearly."

There was a silver bell of laughter from the other side of the telescope.

"I guess you must have found something good to be happy about in this other world." Francesca's laughter was mixed with the sound of turning pages. Since she became the queen of Baihua Valley, she has to deal with these documents almost every day. Various plans, plans and arrangements. Zelin could imagine that the elf should be in his study in Baihua Valley, writing the plan for the next Baihua Valley under the light of the magic lantern.

"Of course something worth celebrating happened. In fact, I just received an invitation to a banquet to participate in tonight's celebration." The elves and dwarves brought a lot of food to treat the fighting warriors, during the day. They clean up the remaining orcs and remove the corpses. At night, everyone needs a time to rest. This is true for humans and dwarves, and elves are no exception.

"Perhaps I shouldn't continue to bother you? Remember to tell me how many bunches of parasites you have received tonight."

"Okay, okay, let's stop joking, Enid."

Zelin coughed a few times. In order to prevent the elves from taking the joke seriously and terminating the telescope communication, the demon hunter quickly changed the topic "It just so happens that I have something to discuss with you. Remember that I was talking to you before." Did you talk about the golden treasure?"

"You got it?"

There are no fluctuations in the elf's voice, but for an archmage who spends thousands of crowns every year just for magic experiments, it is estimated that there are few numbers that surprise her. After all, magic is an extremely expensive thing.

But this time, Zelin can be sure that Francesca will change her mind as long as she can see the scale of the Lonely Mountain Treasure.

"Not all, just part of it."

"Well~ I think your castle's expenses for the next year should be solved." Zelin can imagine how the elf nodded while writing and drawing on paper. "It's done well, I will soon be able to Calculate this time the portal’s operating period and the theoretical distance that the chaotic energy can project at the extreme value and...oh, I almost forgot, you haven’t learned magic."

"I'm glad you remembered before my headache." Zelin shook his head, and the cold wind blew from the back, bringing a little smell of the battlefield. But for the people in River Valley City and Gushan, this is a fortunate thing. They won a great battle and survived this great battle.

"But there should be nothing difficult to get you. You found a treasure in two days? Famous treasure hunters will feel ashamed when they face you." The elf's words paused, "But don't be proud," I also found a breakthrough. This time the portal is very... special. I hope you haven’t left the portal too far. This time the cycle of the portal is very short. I don’t understand why this effect is caused. It stands to reason. In a short period of time, the theoretical chaotic energy decay period cannot be reached at all."

What follows is another bombardment of knowledge about formulas, theorems and theoretical values. However, the demon hunter can still understand the meaning of Francesca. For some unclear reason, the period of the portal was short beyond her expectation. This may prove that the portal theorem summed up by the casters may be wrong and deviated, so in order to verify this, she had to temporarily postpone her plan to visit Tousant.

"Wait, Enid, you said that according to the plan, you should be Towson going to the south today?"

After clarifying her meaning from many professional terms in the words of the wizard warlock, Zelin quickly found the problem. Just the second day after the Demon Hunter arrived in this world, Francesca got in touch with him through a telescope and told him that he was going to Tousant in about two days, hoping that Baihua Valley could open a new trade route. .

But now, he has been in this world for more than ten days, nearly half a month, but the elf told him that only two days have passed?

"Is there any problem?"

"If I hadn't seen the illusion, in this world, I would have experienced almost 15 sunrises and sunsets."

The elf was silent for a while before speaking slowly.

"This is a...very valuable subject. Time, so it can be explained. Time is not the same, resulting in the return speed of chaotic energy through the portal to another world, faster than our world." Zelin I heard the voice of Francesca pushing away the chair on the other side, "I'm going to contact Ada. I will contact you in a while. Well, it may be a few days for you. According to you The portal will still open normally during the time you are in in another world. You have fifteen days left, or it may be shorter. I hope you don’t leave the portal too far away."

"No problem, I will wait for your news. Oh, yes, when the portal opens, please help me prepare a few more carriages."

Seeing that the light of the telescope was about to dim, Zelin suddenly remembered this very important thing.

"What?"

"The carriage that carries gold."

After all, the light of the telescope dissipated and turned into a lens emitting a slight heat.

Zelin put the telescope back in his pocket again. It seemed that after going to Yanan for the second time, the question of time seemed to become blurred. A world where time is not equal? The demon hunter heard Francesca said that the elves recorded some worlds experienced by the White Ship fleet. Among them, there was a very long world of one day, but most of the world was covered by desert, only some were huge and large. Dangerous sandworm lives.

But this world obviously does not belong to one of them.

In the end, Zelin shook his head and threw away all his cranky thoughts. He is not a scholar, and the last thing a demon hunter lacks is time. Instead of thinking about time, he might as well attend the banquet held by the Lonely Mountain Dwarf early. Nowadays, demon hunters have some co-workers with spellcasters, and they will be willing to study these issues related to magic.

Chapter 784: New Stronghold

"Are you planning to go to the ruins of Long Lake Town?"

"The body of the evil dragon Smaug was still lying there. I was soaked in the cold lake water for so long. Its body should have begun to loosen." Since Gandalf had no good way to deal with Smaug's body, Zelin had no choice but to use it. The method he would use in the past. Soaking in the water, he still has a month left anyway. After drinking the killer whale potion, he has enough time to slowly deal with this corpse, which is full of treasures. An evil dragon, an invulnerable dragon. Demon hunters sometimes encounter gliding lizards and pterodactyls. The leather of these sub-dragons can be sold at high prices in the market. A large part of Zelin’s master armor is Made from the leather of a gliding lizard.

He can try to use dragon scales to transform the master-class armor. After many years, the armor of the demon hunter has been transformed from the original chain armor and leather armor to the best master-smith armor. , Maybe Lafarque of Buckland can handle these scales, and then make further improvements to the armor of the Demon Hunter.

"People are reluctant to go back to Long Lake Town now. If a wizard is willing to live in that place, someone should be willing to go back and rebuild some houses on the edge of Long Lake Town and settle down."

After a whole day of cleaning up, the day after the end of the Gushan War, people can relax and start celebrating this hard-won victory. Zelin and the Bud family came to the gate of the Lonely Mountain together. The ground was still so muddy, but for at least a few decades, only friendly people walked on this land. The loss was heavy, but for the Gushan area and even the whole world, it was worth it.

"Why do you need someone to return to the edge of Changhu Town? River Valley City is so big that your population can be accommodated when your population triples."

The guards of the Ironfoot Army stood at the gate of Gushan. Seeing Zelin and Bud approaching, the two dwarves raised their hands in a friendly manner. Especially the Demon Hunter, apparently, when Thorin returned from the battlefield, the dwarves who followed him asked him about the battle and the course of Crow Ridge. It seemed that only a moment, the hundreds of dwarves in the lone mountain knew how their king fought side by side with wizards, hobbits, and elves, and finally took the head of the orc king under Crow Ridge. Zelin didn't know how Thorin told the dwarves around him at the time, but one thing was for sure, no matter which world, the story told by word of mouth would show a certain deviation after being retelled by more than ten people.

"Because we will continue to trade with the elves of the Woodland Kingdom, it will take a day for the truck to get out of the dense forest, and it will take longer to get around Long Lake. Now we are not threatened by dragons and orcs. The shore of Long Lake Town is right. It is suitable to build a dock stronghold, so that we can ship the goods from River Valley City directly through the Great Lake and into the dense forest."

"Have you started to prepare for the next development of River Valley City?"

"In the past, the prosperity of River Valley City benefited from trade routes. I will try my best to try to bring the prosperity and prosperity back to the river valley just like my ancestors."