Chapter 247: Giant Eagle and Magic Carpet, Killing People and Stealing Houses? (1/2)

Chapter 247 Giant Eagle and Magic Carpet, Killing People and Stealing Houses?

Although Thorin was rescued in time, Bilbo and the dwarves were not in a much better situation. They fought and retreated under the siege of dozens of Gundabad wolves.

At this time, the butterfly released by Gandalf flew back, and the gray-robed wizard finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"Gaius, are you going to use magic?" Gandalf asked meaningfully.

Aaron put away his wand as if nothing had happened and replaced it with the elf's long sword.

As long as I am not embarrassed, others will be embarrassed.

"Sorry, I took the wrong weapon."

"Forget it." Gandalf smiled and shrugged, "The reinforcements have arrived."

The cry of eagles came from the sky, and suddenly there were some huge shadows in the clouds, and more than ten giant eagles flew from a distance.

They were even bigger than the wargs. They grabbed the wargs with their sharp claws and threw them off the cliff. Their huge force pushed down the trees and crushed the enemies. With a flap of their wings, the fire in the woods rushed towards the orcs.

The appearance of the giant eagle caught the orcs off guard, and the pressure on the expedition team was greatly reduced.

Including Thorin, the dwarves and hobbits who were fighting were all caught by them, thrown on the backs of their companions, and flew into the sky.

"So, the giant eagle is the reinforcement you invited?" Aaron asked in astonishment.

"It's obvious."

"Why didn't you say it earlier?" Aaron said speechlessly.

"Because I'm not sure if they can get here in time."

Aaron rolled his eyes at him and jumped down from the pine tree.

But what followed him was not the giant eagle, but a dark blue blanket, on which Doli and Oli were sitting at a loss.

"Flying props?" Gandalf murmured, "It seems that Gaius is more mysterious than I thought."

After the voice fell, the pine tree could no longer support it, and Gandalf fell down with it, landing on the back of a giant eagle.

"Dori, Oli, don't look like you have never seen the world." Aaron teased.

"We just didn't expect it." Oli was still a little shocked, "I really thought I was dead when I fell."

"It's incredible." Dori murmured, "Aaron, you actually have such a treasure."

"Ancestral, ancestral." Aaron said perfunctorily, and controlled the magic carpet to fly to the side of a giant eagle, pointing at Thorin it was holding.

The giant eagle immediately understood and put the unconscious Thorin Oakenshield on the dark blue blanket.

"Is Thorin okay?" Bilbo shouted.

Aaron checked his pulse and heartbeat, then looked at the wound on his body, and his brows gradually relaxed.

"Still alive, the wound is not fatal, just need some time to recover."

Everyone breathed a sigh of relief. If Thorin died, they would lose the core of the team, and the expedition plan would end in vain.

"This blanket." Bilbo said thoughtfully, "Did you give it to me before?"

"That's nice!" Aaron smiled proudly, "This thing can definitely take you home safely. Neither orcs nor ogres can threaten you."

Bilbo nodded subconsciously. As long as he didn't encounter enemies in the air, he would be invincible with this magic blanket.

"Why didn't you take it out before?" Bilbo asked. "Don't get me wrong, I'm not blaming you, but this magic item can play a greater role. If you use it to travel..."

"This really won't work." Aaron shook his head immediately, "First of all, my magic carpet can't squeeze in an expedition team, it's not that big;

Secondly, it can't fly all the time, it needs to rest;

Finally, do you know what overload is?

It can still bear the weight of four people and maintain a certain flying speed, but if you add one more, such as Bombur, it's probably a problem to take off.

In summary, the efficiency of our team using it to travel is not as fast as walking.

And when we set out, we had a group of ponies as mounts, so there was no need to take it out at all."

"So that's it!" Bilbo suddenly realized, and others couldn't find any faults.

"Instead of asking me, you might as well ask our grey wizard.

If he could find the giant eagle at the beginning, our efficiency would probably be increased several times!"

"Ahem!"

Gandalf had just taken a puff of cigarette when he choked on this sentence and started coughing, and then met everyone's strange looks.

"Everyone, don't look at me like that." Gandalf explained, "First of all, we need to crack the secrets in the map, and it is undoubtedly the most appropriate to search while walking.

Secondly, the journey should be more meaningful, otherwise how can you have the opportunity to see Rivendell and find the lost magic weapon."

"Yes!" Aaron curled his lips in disdain, "We were almost eaten by ogres and almost killed by orcs several times."

"Isn't everything fine?" Gandalf smiled awkwardly, "The most important thing is that the giant eagle tribe also has its own mission. It is a great honor for me to be able to spare some of them to come and rescue people."

Everyone looked at each other, and Gandalf's reason also convinced them.

The giant eagle carried them all night, crossed countless mountains and ridges, and only in the early morning did it gradually drop the expedition team on a mountain peak.

Aaron put away the magic carpet and carried it on his back openly.

Gandalf walked to Thoringen, put his right hand on his face, closed his eyes and chanted a spell.

After a while, Thorin slowly opened his eyes, and the wounds on his body healed miraculously.

"Where is the halfling?" Thorin asked slightly weakly.

"It's okay, Bilbo is here, he is safe."

Thorin breathed a sigh of relief and stood up with the help of Dwalin and Kili.

He looked at Bilbo seriously and asked in a questioning tone: "What are you doing? You almost killed yourself."

"Thorin." Aaron said unhappily, "I think you should be more polite. Bilbo was the first one to run over to save you.

He doesn't have much fighting power. He was already desperate to do that."

"I know." Thorin walked up to Bilbo, "I said you would be a burden, that you couldn't survive in the wilderness, and that you didn't deserve to adventure with us."

At this point, Thorin paused and gave Bilbo a hug, "I have never been so wrong in my life."

"Sorry, I doubted you." Thorin apologized with some shame.

"I also doubt myself." Bilbo said indifferently, "I am not a hero, nor a warrior, or even...not a thief."

"But you play a greater role than them." Aaron smiled, "If you hadn't saved the souls of this team, there would be no point in us entering the Lonely Mountain."

"The Lonely Mountain." Thorin murmured.

He looked into the distance, where a towering mountain stood.

"Our destination." Aaron looked excited. "I thought it would take several months, but I didn't expect the giant eagle to send us here."

"Elubor, Lonely Mountain." Gandalf said with emotion, "The last great dwarf kingdom in Middle-earth."

"Our home." Thorin said with a smile.

At this time, a bird flashed past their eyes, flapping its wings and flying towards the Lonely Mountain.

"It's a dodo, the bird has returned to the Lonely Mountain." Oin said, which was exactly in line with the omen he read, meaning that the reign of the evil dragon would come to an end.

"My dear Oin, it's a thrush." ​​Gandalf said.

"Let's take it as a sign!" Thorin raised his mouth slightly, "A good sign."

"You're right, I believe the worst part is over." Bilbo said.

Hearing this, Aaron subconsciously wanted to refute.

Seeing the Lonely Mountain does not mean that everything is over. On the contrary, Smaug is the worst part.

But looking at the smiles on the faces of others, he didn't want to spoil the mood and destroy the lively atmosphere.

......

The expedition team continued to move forward, but they underestimated Azog's killing intention towards Thorin Oakenshield. After all, the hatred of a broken arm was irreconcilable.

The pale orc led a group of orcs to chase them for more than half a month before they barely caught up with them.

The howling of wolves came one after another on the top of the mountain. Azog rode the white wolf and looked down carefully, hoping to find the target.

But after looking around and finding nothing, he drove the white wolf away from the top of the mountain.

"Let's go!" Aaron said in a low voice.

"Let's go." Bilbo nodded slowly, "Go back and tell Gandalf and the others!"

Just as they were about to leave, a roar of a wild beast suddenly came from one side.

The two looked at each other, carefully poked their heads out, and found a huge black bear.

It crawled on a huge rock, roared at the distance, opened its huge mouth, and showed its mouthful of sharp teeth, as if looking for prey.

Gulu!

The two swallowed a mouthful of saliva together.

Bears are absolutely invincible to the Hobbits, and are even more terrifying than orcs.

Aaron sensed something different. It was not a bear, or more precisely, not an ordinary bear, but a powerful magical creature.

Past experience told him that such magical creatures were very dangerous, so he should hide if he could.

The two of them did not speak tacitly, but sped up to avoid the black bear's sight.

They breathed a sigh of relief when they returned safely to the dwarves' camp.

"How far is the enemy from us?" Thorin asked.

"Very close, no more than a few leagues (one league = three miles)." Bilbo panted.

"But this is not the most dangerous." Aaron added.

"The orcs smelled us."

"Not sure, but it's only a matter of time before they find us at this distance."

"Did they see you?" Gandalf asked.

"Absolutely not." Aaron said firmly, "The leader was Azog, Bilbo saved Thorin from him, and I almost shot him in the throat.

If he saw us, he would definitely chase us at all costs, but he didn't do it."

"That's good." Gandalf looked at the dwarves proudly, "See what I said? As quiet as a mouse, an excellent candidate for a thief."

The dwarves responded one after another, and they admired Gandalf's vision in choosing people.

"Excuse me, although I signed the agreement, I never thought of myself as a thief.

Bilbo Baggins, this hobbit has this potential, after all, his footsteps are very light." Aaron said, "In addition, we encountered a more dangerous creature.

My intuition tells me that it is a hundred times more terrifying than Azog."

"What kind?" Gandalf looked solemn, "Like a bear?"

"Yes, almost, but much bigger." Bilbo said.

"You know?" Aaron looked at Gandalf in surprise, "What exactly is that bear?"

"Skin-changer."

Aaron:......

I will never ask this kind of question again, the answer is incomprehensible.

"There is a house not far from here, we can go there to hide."

"Is the owner of the house an enemy or a friend?" Thorin asked.

"Why are you asking this at this time?

We are not only being chased by a group of orcs, but also by a monster. Who knows if it will find us." Aaron said speechlessly, "It would be best if the owner of the house is a friend, but it doesn't matter if it is an enemy. With so many of us, we can kill and rob the house."

Hearing this, everyone looked at Aaron in astonishment, and some of them even stepped back half a step unconsciously.

"Killing people to silence them and robbing houses, it's hard to imagine that this is coming from a child under fourteen years old?" Balin's eyes twitched slightly, "Your family education really scared me."

"Is there something wrong with what I said?" Aaron was confused, "To be kind to the enemy is to be cruel to yourself, there's nothing wrong with that!"

"There's nothing wrong with that, they just find it hard to accept, and I find it hard to accept it either.

In addition, the owner of the house is neither an enemy nor a friend."

"A stranger?"

"No, he will either help us or kill us."

"Do we have any other choice?" Thorin said in a deep voice.

Before he finished speaking, the roar of the giant bear had reached everyone's ears.

Aaron spread his hands, "At present, there seems to be no choice."

Gandalf led the members of the expedition team towards the house, and was discovered by the orcs during the period. Azog immediately led a team to chase and kill them, forcing them to speed up.

Roar!

When they were about to chase out of the woods, the roar of the beast came from behind.

The expedition team and the orcs stopped at the same time and turned around to see a huge black bear roaring and rushing over.

When Asog saw the giant bear, he knew he could not defeat it, so he had to give up the dwarf who was about to catch up and retreat from one side with his men.

"This way, hurry up, run." Gandalf roared.

Everyone came to their senses and immediately followed him to a house not far away. Bombur even showed a speed beyond the limit, catching up from the last to the first in a very short time.

He showed everyone what "potential" is. He was obviously several hundred pounds but could surpass everyone when running for his life.

"Come into the house quickly, come in quickly." Gandalf counted the number of people at the gate. When he confirmed that no one was left behind, a huge black bear appeared in his sight, and he ran inside immediately in shock.

At this time, several dwarves were knocking on the door, but no matter how loud the noise was, the owner of the house had no intention of opening the door.

"Let me do it." Aaron ran over immediately. There was no door that could not be opened by the unlocking spell.

But when he walked in, he found that the door was bolted from the outside, which meant that there was no one in the house.

"Don't these people have eyes?" Aaron complained in his heart, but he did not hesitate at all, unbolting the door and pushing open the door in one go.