Chapter 249: Hunting Orcs and the Little Monster Gollum

Wayne didn't look at the expressions of the others. He walked to Thorin's side and looked at the already somewhat unfocused pupils of this handsome Dwarf. He reached into his space bracelet and took out a gorgeous blood-red potion.

This was a potent healing potion purchased from the Azeroth World Auction House. It was rare in quantity and extremely precious. Basically, this bottle of medicine cost him two thousand Orens, which was worth the mansion he bought in Wyzima back then.

As a potion with such an expensive price, its effect was of course very powerful. With the vitality of the Dwarves in Middle-earth, one bottle of this potent healing potion, as long as they didn't die on the spot, could basically hang their lives and not let them die from serious injuries.

Wayne reached out and pried open Thorin's chin, poured this blood-red potion directly down, and then took a roll of clean bandages from his waist bag to bandage Thorin's left broken arm and neck.

Until the treatment was over, he looked at the complex expressions of the other Dwarves of the expedition team and Gandalf, who were anxious, expectant, and hopeful, his face eased slightly, and he said:

"His life should be saved, but his body is very weak. It is best not to move for the next few days. Let's rest here for a few days."

"Wait until Thorin's injury stabilizes before continuing on our way."

Hearing Wayne's good news, the other Dwarves immediately cheered, and even Gandalf breathed a sigh of relief.

This Grey Wizard walked up and held Wayne's shoulder, showed a smile, and said: "Thank you for your hard work, Wayne."

"Let me contribute some effort next."

As a Maia of the lower world, although Gandalf lost many abilities and memories because of his incarnation, he still had many magic abilities as a Wizard.

After Wayne nodded and stepped aside, Gandalf walked to Thorin's side, held his chest with one hand, chanted a spell in an unknown language, and used a spell similar to a stabilization spell to help the injured Thorin stabilize his condition, accelerate recovery, heal wounds, etc.

Although he didn't have the healing items that could bring the dead back to life like Wayne, he was not useless. The Grey Wizard was good at fighting dark power, breaking curses, and other magic similar to military advisors and sages, and was not proficient in other spells.

Soon, under the joint treatment of the two, Thorin's injury stabilized. Although he was still pale because of excessive blood loss, because of their treatment, he had fallen into a very stable sleep.

Seeing this situation, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, including Wayne.

It wasn't that he cared much about Thorin, because he suddenly thought that although the master-level task of capturing Azog alive had been completed, he had accepted two other tasks on Thorin, one master-level and one epic-level.

If the task NPC had an accident and died, would his task fail because of this? Such a situation had not happened before, so it was unknown, but if it were, it would be a huge loss.

It seems that I will find a chance to test it later, but at least this time, I can't take risks. Before all tasks are completed, I must ensure Thorin's personal safety.

Thinking this way, he first took out cooking tools and, with Bilbo's assistance, cooked a rich lunch for everyone, specially boiling a pot of nutritious meat soup for the unconscious Thorin.

After everyone had rested, he let the Deathclaw, who had already finished his killing addiction today, guard the camp, while he found Balin, tricked him into accepting a task to continue hunting the Orcs of the Misty Mountains, and left the hidden camp alone.

In fact, the members of the expedition team, including Gandalf, did not agree with Wayne continuing to take risks in the Orc Town.

However, he still withstood the pressure and persuaded everyone with the reason that his strength was high.

This was not because Wayne was diligent. As a young man who liked to enjoy life, he was of course willing to live a relaxed and happy life.

Mainly because he discovered that the Oath of Victory Sword had become sharper and stronger after killing a large number of Orcs.

Thinking of the special effect of this sword, a driving force instantly surged in his heart.

The Oath of Victory Sword in his hand was a sacred weapon that could grow constantly, a symbol of the knight gifted by the beautiful Lady of the Lake.

In the Wizard World, the distribution of monsters was sparse and remote, and it was difficult to have the opportunity for large-scale slaughter.

But in Middle-earth, there was a natural distinction between good and evil. A weapon like the Oath of Victory Sword, which could become stronger by killing evil creatures, was really very well-matched in this world and had a natural advantage.

Anyway, since he was idle, it was also a good thing to complete an expert-level task every day while Thorin was recovering from his injuries, and by the way, improve the strength of this weapon.

Thinking this way, Wayne soon followed the original route, returned to the entrance of the Orc Town in the Misty Mountains, and began his monster-brushing journey.

Because of the help of the Invisibility Cloak and the magic flying carpet, plus his strong hand as a top-tier Witcher, after entering this dark and gloomy cave, Wayne turned into a powerful assassin who came and went without a trace, and began a precise and efficient assassination.

He would take the initiative to avoid the main force in the Orc Town, use the cover of the Invisibility Cloak, and choose lone targets to start with.

With his current strength, as long as the other party was in a remote place and could not notify more Orcs to come for reinforcements.

Whether it was one target or several targets, even if facing ten Orcs, with his rapid speed, he could quickly behead them with the Oath of Victory Sword before the other party could react, and even directly push them into the mine to destroy the corpses.

Often when the enemy discovered the abnormality here and brought a large group of people to check, they would only find those corpses with distorted bodies and full of fearful expressions.

And with the help of the magic flying carpet, with the cover of darkness, he could quickly change the crime scene, realizing the law of coming and going without a trace and killing randomly.

Just like this, Wayne wandered in this huge Orc cave while hunting those suitable targets. In just one day, more than three hundred Orcs died under his butcher knife.

Such a terrifying killing speed immediately aroused the fear of the surviving Orcs in the Orc Town.

Because they had also discovered that in this dark and narrow cave that they used to treat as their home, a powerful assassin who came and went without a trace and was cold and ruthless had appeared.

This terrifying assassin turned the Orcs living here from hunters into prey, and they had no understanding of this newly appeared terrifying assassin, and had no way to deal with him, and could not even discover his existence at all.

Thus, the second day, the third day, the fourth day, the cold slaughter proceeded silently.

A large number of Orcs were killed ruthlessly every day, and a feeling of panic spread rapidly throughout the Orc Town.

Wayne would return to the camp to rest every night, report his task progress, and enjoy the admiring gazes of the team members.

During the day, he would go to Balin to mix an expert-level task and continue his killing work. Anyway, during the Battle of the Five Armies in the future, these Orcs of the Misty Mountains would likely become his enemies again. If he could reduce their number as much as possible now, it would be much easier when fighting in the future.

Of course, besides these purposes, Wayne also began to spend time, according to the details in his memory, coming to the bottom of the mine to find the figure of the little monster Gollum.

He didn't want to destroy the plot because of his joining and make this One Ring an unstable factor in the future.

Even if he couldn't hand over this ring to Bilbo, the Hobbit, for safekeeping, he couldn't let it stay in Gollum's hands either.

Otherwise, if something unexpected happened, this One Ring with huge influence would fall into the hands of dangerous people.

However, five days passed in a row, and nearly 1,300 Orcs in the cave were killed by him, almost half of all the Orcs here.

Unfortunately, Gollum's figure was still not seen. This little thing was very smart. It is estimated that it was also because it discovered the abnormality in the cave and discovered that a large number of Orcs were abandoned at the bottom of the mine, so the little thing hid itself somewhere.

Its body shape was thinner and smaller than a Hobbit. If it really hid in some corner, it was indeed very difficult to find.

However, the efforts of these few days were not without harvest. Besides killing a large number of Orcs and reducing future enemies, he also discovered a large amount of metal ore in the Orc Town, the quantity far exceeding his expectations.

The Orcs living in the Orc Town had similar habits to Dwarves. Every day, besides satisfying their food needs, the thing they loved most was digging ore and expanding caves.

However, unlike Dwarves, the Orcs here, because of low intelligence and no trade with other clans, did not need gold or wealth, and their own forging skills were very primitive, and they could not even consume the ore they dug.

For thousands of years, Wayne discovered that the metal ore here had piled up like a mountain, and all of them were stored by them in some hidden caves, the quantity uncountable.

It's a pity, although metal ore has a very wide range of applications and all forces lack metal, in the Misty Mountains, both smelting and transportation are too difficult.

Even if Wayne wanted to sell them to Vivian and simply exchange them for coins, the little guy directly waved his hand and said that the most basic ore like iron ore and copper ore was not worth money at all.

The Goddess of Wealth even found dozens of planets composed directly of various metal ores and did not lack these basic resources.

Moreover, selling to the Loot Exchange also required a discount. Although it was not that they didn't accept it, with Vivian's power, wanting to collect all these ores back to the Loot Space would take one or two months, and the money gained was not much.

After considering for a long time, Wayne gave up this choice and could only temporarily record this intelligence and wait for an opportunity to use it later.

Soon, time came to the eighth day of his hunting Orcs. After a week, nearly two thousand Orcs had died under his assassination.

More than half of the population was killed, and now the entire Orc Town was like a ghost domain, and there was no longer the scene of the past.

The remaining Orcs no longer dared to stay in this cave, almost scattered in a rush, turned into zero, and all escaped from various channels hidden in the cave, scattered to every corner of the Misty Mountains, and it was difficult to be found again.

This made Wayne's hunting work difficult to continue, and he could only put all his energy into the matter of finding the little monster Gollum.

And there was good news from the camp side. The Dwarf Prince Thorin finally woke up after being unconscious for a week.

Although his body was still very weak, under the help of Gandalf's magic, he had begun to recover rapidly.

For the life-saving grace of Wayne and Gandalf, Thorin solemnly stated that he would always remember this kindness, and the Durin clan would always be friends of the two. Once they needed help, they would definitely get the help of the Durin clan.

To this, Wayne accepted it happily, and at the same time, he also hoped that Thorin could be a Dwarf who kept his promise as he promised.

And when Wayne told everyone that the Orc Town in the Misty Mountains was empty, all the Orcs had escaped or died, and told the expedition team this shocking news.

Everyone fell into shock and could not recover for a long time.

The entire Orc Town in the Misty Mountains, with a population of thousands, could be said to have suffered a heavy blow and was completely destroyed in less than half a month just because of Wayne's one-man attack.

As the most powerful Orc force in the mountains, the destruction of the Orc Town was the luck of all surrounding races and countries. With fewer of these bastards who burned, killed, and looted, the surrounding residents could live a peaceful life for a period of time.

At least for decades, it would be difficult to form a large Orc force in the Misty Mountains.

This was a feat that could be recorded in history, and everyone was shocked and revered by the strength of Wayne, this hero.

And unlike the expedition team's worship of heroes, Gandalf's gaze toward Wayne became more complex.

In his heart, Wayne's status had risen to the same level as powerful figures like the Witch-king of Angmar, becoming a figure he had to pay attention to at all times.

Time soon came to the tenth day. Under the careful care of everyone, Thorin had improved a lot. Although he could not participate in any battle, he could barely continue to ride a horse.

At this time, because he had been solved by King Elrond, he knew that he had to arrive at the Lonely Mountain at a fixed time to open the secret passage of the Lonely Mountain, otherwise he would have to wait another year.

So even though everyone tried to persuade him, Thorin insisted on setting off as soon as possible and could not take care of his injured body too much.

And Wayne, after the persuasion failed, also agreed to this decision. However, on this day, he still tricked Balin into an expert-level task, using the reason of finally exploring the Orc Town to go to that cave for the final investigation.

Of course, this was just a superficial reason. The real reason was that on this day, through the method of rolling dice, Wayne already knew that this was his lucky day.

He was prepared to find an unlucky guy later, absorb his luck, and then enter the cave for the final investigation to find Gollum and find the figure of the One Ring.

If he failed this time, he could only wait until the Lonely Mountain mission was over and then spend time specifically looking for this little monster.

(Sorry, reader masters, I only wrote nine thousand words, so I will continue to work hard tomorrow and update another nine thousand words, mua!)

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