Chapter 339 Lonely Mountain

Ancestor Bard failed to protect the property of the people, and eventually the people no longer believed in him and no longer recognized him as the lord. This is also the reason why Bard was just a fisherman after the establishment of Long Lake Town.

After Richard finished engraving the rune for Black Arrow, he left Long Lake Town and flew directly to Lonely Mountain. Lonely Mountain is only a few dozen miles away from Long Lake Town. At the foot of Lonely Mountain is a ruin, where the once glorious River Valley Town is located.

The evil dragon Smaug used dragon breath to directly turn this town into ruins. Until now, there are still traces of dragon breath on the ruins of this town. In the center of the town ruins is a straight black line, which is the dragon breath that Smaug spewed out.

The scorching dragon breath burned the earth into magma, and then cooled down to form its current appearance.

Richard came to Lonely Mountain, and the main entrance of Lonely Mountain was blocked by boulders. The dwarves' idea was to enter the Lonely Mountain through the secret passage behind it, steal the Arkenstone, use the Arkenstone to exchange for troops from other dwarf kingdoms, and then kill Smaug together.

But this idea was naive. Not to mention whether the dwarf army could kill Smaug, they couldn't take the Arkenstone alone. You know, dragons have an unimaginable talent for calculating and recording wealth, and they will remember every gold coin they have.

What's more, it is a precious gem like the Arkenstone. Thorin's plan will only anger Smaug, which is why the elves are not optimistic about Gandalf and Thorin's plan.

According to the original timeline, after Smaug got angry, they had no means to deal with it at all. If Bard hadn't been lucky enough, he would have shot Smaug's chest with a black arrow without scales, and successfully killed Smaug in seconds. The entire Long Lake Town, including the dwarves who came to support, would all be burned to death.

Richard came to the gate of Lonely Mountain, which was blocked by huge rocks. Richard stretched out his hand and pressed lightly on the wall, and a faint spiritual light instantly sank into the rock.

——【Fossils into mud! 】

The rock that was originally as hard as steel softened into mud, and Richard easily opened a passage from the rock to enter the interior of Lonely Mountain. Then he casually released another spiritual light.

——【Turn mud into stone! 】

The passage turned into hard rock again at this moment.

The space inside Lonely Mountain was not as cramped as imagined. On the contrary, it was very tall and vast, supported by various huge stone pillars, full of the tall and rough aesthetics of the dwarves.

Richard's figure disappeared into the darkness, and then began to enter the hall. Soon he found some gold coins on the ground. One side of the gold coin was cast with the head of the dwarf king, and the other side was the shape of Lonely Mountain, with very delicate workmanship.

Walking through the front hall and around the tall corridor, the next second, he almost saw countless gold piled up in the entire hall. Even though he was mentally prepared, Richard was still shocked by the gold in front of him.

In the hall that is tens of meters high, countless gold is piled up here. The originally wide hall now seems to be crowded with gold.

All the gold excavated by the Dwarf Kingdom over the past hundred years is piled up here. In the center of this hall, a huge golden statue of the Dwarf King that is tens of meters high stands.

Richard speculates that such a giant golden statue weighs at least thousands of tons, and it is very likely to be more. The gold in the hall is more than enough to cast a few more such golden statues.

With so much gold, it is no wonder that Smaug would set his sights on this place.

Even Richard, the great arcanist, had a moment of heartbeat for the gold in front of him.

Such a lot of gold is enough for him to use the limited wish spell to find those elemental giants and make a wish to increase dozens of attributes.

The wish spell requires the consumption of soul crystals, gold, magic gems or other high-value things. Gold is usually used the most. The gold consumed by the arcanists of the Supreme Arcane Council in the past few thousand years is incalculable.

Otherwise, according to the ability and productivity of the Supreme Arcane Council, the gold produced in so many planes would have caused inflation long ago.

Gold has always been a common item in alchemy. In many cases, some alchemical materials can be replaced by gold or magic gems.

Richard calculated that there are at least 100,000 tons of gold here. These dwarves are really good at digging. How big is a ton of gold? A cube with a side length of 37 cm is a ton of gold.

A standard hand-pulled suitcase can hold two tons of gold, and how big is the hall in front of you? The length and width are more than 200 meters, and the height is also 100 meters. Among them, gold occupies almost all places on the ground, and the thickness of gold is more than 10 meters.

It has to be said that the gold reserves here in Gushan are amazing.

And sitting on the Golden Mountain, a giant dragon with a body length of tens of meters, covered with hard scales and bone spurs, is sleeping on the gold. In addition to gold, there are many colorful gems on this Golden Mountain.

No need to guess, Richard also knew that it was the evil dragon Smaug. Its body of nearly 100 meters made it look very huge, and its huge and ferocious claws left no doubt about its destructive power.

In the Golden Mountain, a large number of magic gems were placed casually, and the most eye-catching one was the Arken gem. This gem was as big as a fist, and the gem was extremely pure and beautiful. No wonder it made the dwarves crazy.

In addition to this gem, in this golden gem mountain, Richard also saw a string of exquisitely made gem necklaces, which were inlaid with a white gem. It was the gem necklace that Thranduil commissioned the dwarves to make.

Smaug buried half of his body in the Golden Mountain and was sleeping soundly. Richard's arrival did not alert him. At this time, it was easy for him to kill the dragon.

[Species: Dragon; Name: Smaug;

Strength: 41, Agility: 10; Constitution: 32; Intelligence: 18; Perception: 25; Charisma: 24;

Abilities: Dragon Wing Slap, Dragon Scale Armor, Flame Breath, Flying, Tearing, Dragon Might, Dragon Tail Sweep, etc.

Weakness: A scale is missing from the chest.

Challenge Level: Level 18]

Smaug is very strong, and his size is comparable to that of the ancient red dragon. In addition to not having magic, his melee ability is very strong. Of course, his combat power is not as good as that of the ancient red dragon, after all, he has no magic ability.

Richard did not take action. He bypassed the Golden Hall and entered the Lonely Mountain. There was more than just gold in the Lonely Mountain. Entering the warehouse below, Richard saw a large number of iron ingots, copper ingots, silver ingots and other metals.

These are the metals mined by the dwarves. In addition to these metals, Richard successfully found mithril in the warehouse. Mithril is a metal that is rare in the multiverse.

But the output in Middle-earth is relatively high, probably because Middle-earth was born not long ago.

Richard saw that there were several tons of mithril ingots here. Richard did not hesitate at all and directly put all the mithril into his private space.

So much mithril made him rich all of a sudden. As far as he knew, the amount of mithril in the warehouse of the entire Supreme Arcane Council was not even half of that here.

I have to say that Lonely Mountain is really rich.

Richard collected the mithril, then collected the white gem necklace, and cast a spell to make a fake white gem necklace again. After completing these, Richard left Lonely Mountain quietly.

Next, he was ready to watch a big show.

Just after Richard left the Woodland Kingdom, the dwarves of the Lonely Mountain team had successfully arrived at the Goblin Town. After a fight, everyone was dispersed by a large number of goblins.

In the crisis, Bilbo fell into the lower level of the Goblin Cave, and then saw Gollum and the Supreme Ring in his hand.

Bilbo took advantage of Gollum's inattention and quietly picked up the ring. Finally, he successfully escaped from the Goblin's nest, and then the group set out on the journey again. Next, the Lonely Mountain Expedition Team arrived at the Black Forest smoothly.

This forest was shrouded in darkness. Thorin wanted to go through the Black Forest to the Lonely Mountain and get rid of the pursuit of the Orc army behind him.

"It's too dangerous here." Another dwarf said.

"We don't have so much time, those Orcs won't give us a chance to detour!" Thorin said in a deep voice: "Don't waste time, let's hurry up and pass through the forest."

Thorin led the team across the river and then walked into the woods.

The dry trees were strange, and the branches were full of spider webs. The Black Forest was filled with fog everywhere, and everyone had to pass through here carefully. Soon everyone in the expedition was in a drowsy state.

Hiss!

A burst of insect chirping sounded, and the next second, a huge spider fell from the sky, grabbed a dwarf and wanted to drag him away. The remaining dwarves were awakened instantly, and they were also frightened by the ferocious spiders, and then they immediately waved their weapons and started to attack.

Only then did they realize that they were surrounded by a large number of spiders.

Countless densely packed huge spiders crawled here, and the number was enough to make people with intensive phobia feel numb.

"Run!" With an order, these dwarves could no longer care about many things. At Thorin's order, many dwarves immediately attacked the spiders and rushed forward.

Bombur, who was the largest, the most fleshy, and the slowest, became the first target of the spider's attack. While shouting, he frantically attacked the spider's head with a hammer, and the spiders were smashed one by one.

But the spiders were not afraid, and they continued to chase frantically, and many spiders also blocked with spider silk. If you are not careful, you will be entangled by the spider silk.

Fortunately, the others did not give up on him and helped him get rid of the spiders and continue to run forward. A large number of spiders were chopped to death by the crowd, but there were still spiders jumping down from the trees to attack.

In panic, even Bilbo stabbed a spider to death with his dagger. Another spider tried to bite him, but the light on his body flickered slightly, and the spider was killed directly by a force.

The group rushed forward frantically, and soon they would pass through the forest, as if the crisis was about to be overcome. Suddenly, a bowstring sounded in the jungle.

"Bang, bang, bang!"

Long arrows flew out from the branches, accurately nailing giant spiders to the ground. In just a blink of an eye, hundreds of spiders were shot to death by these bows and arrows.

Following the bows and arrows came a group of elves wearing green robes and armor. These elves moved on the branches very flexibly, and they could also shoot arrows continuously.

The spiders that were chasing were soon killed by them and fled in a panic, but these elves did not stop, but pointed their weapons at the dwarves in front of them.

"Don't resist. The moment you start, we will shoot you into targets!"

"Dwarf, I will be happy to do so!"

The leading young elf aimed his bow at Thorin. The elves in the Woodland Kingdom are not as good-tempered as the elves in Rivendell, not to mention that the last time the dwarves broke the contract, the white gem necklace they embezzled belonged to the Woodland Kingdom.

They were very restrained in not shooting these dwarves immediately.

Thorin, who understood this, hesitated for a moment and did not act rashly.

"Collect their weapons and take them back to be imprisoned!" Legolas said directly.

"Don't touch my things!"

"We'll go!"

The elves escorted the dwarves back to the Woodland Kingdom, but Bilbo successfully escaped the capture of the elves through the invisibility of the Lord of the Rings, and then quietly followed them.

The elves escorted the dwarves to prison, and then Legolas personally escorted Thorin to the palace.

The door closed and Thorin was led to the front of the throne.

"Tell me, what do you dwarves want to do here?" King Thranduil looked at Thorin and asked.

"We were just chased by an army of orcs and came here in panic!" Thorin did not want to tell the elves their purpose, let alone the elves of the Woodland Kingdom.

Until now, the dwarves believe that the elves of the Woodland Kingdom did not abide by their agreement to help them when they saw Smaug attacking the dwarf kingdom.

It is believed that the Woodland Elf Kingdom has an unshirkable responsibility for the fall of Lonely Mountain.

"Do you think I don't know that you want to go to the Lonely Mountain?" Thranduil said expressionlessly.

"I won't let you pass!"

"Why! What does it have to do with you if we take back the Lonely Mountain!" Thorin said angrily.

"Because of that giant dragon!" Thranduil said.

"You have no ability to deal with that giant dragon, but you will only anger the giant dragon!"

The Woodland Kingdom is too close to the Lonely Mountain. Once the giant dragon is angered, their Woodland Kingdom will most likely be attacked first.

Since the end of the First and Second Era, the number of elves has been continuously decreasing. The current population of the elves is far less than that of ancient times. Any war will cause a large reduction in the population of elves, which will lead to the death of the elves.

As the king of the Elf Kingdom, he cannot let the Elf Kingdom decline.

Even now with Richard's help, Thranduil still doesn't want to provoke the giant dragon. You must know that the elves' bows and arrows cannot deal with the giant dragon. If they want to kill Smaug, the elves will have to pay a huge amount. price.