The Shopkeeper of All Worlds in the British Wizarding World

Chapter 373 Slaying the Dragon
The next morning, when the sun had just risen and shone on the gate of Lonely Mountain, Ryan arrived here. After taking out two tons of exploding cherries, he found a place to hide himself and detonated the pile of exploding cherries.

Instantly, the gate of the Lonely Mountain was covered with debris, and even Lion, who was hundreds of meters away, felt the ground shaking. Naturally, Smaug could not fail to feel such a big noise. Just a few seconds after the explosion, an angry dragon roar came from the belly of the Lonely Mountain. The sound of flapping wings from far to near indicated that the evil dragon would soon leave its nest.

Bard and the elves stared at the gate of Lonely Mountain nervously, while Ryan held a handful of thick yellow talismans in each hand.

"Boom!" The gate of Gushan was suddenly knocked open, and a giant dragon over 140 meters long flew out. At this moment, Ryan threw all the yellow talismans in his hands and shouted: "Suppress!"

Countless golden seal characters appeared out of thin air and surrounded Smaug. The dragon's speed suddenly slowed down after it came into contact with these golden seal characters.

Naturally, Smaug also discovered the location of Lion who attacked him. Just when he was about to kill the vulnerable little bug with a blast of fire, he suddenly felt a fatal attack approaching. Unfortunately, at this time, he was restricted by Lion's magic and could no longer dodge.

"Sizzle." Six golden-red rays of light appeared almost simultaneously and hit Smaug, who was moving slowly in the air. After being processed by alchemy, the long-rod armor-piercing bullets, which were extremely tough, broke through the protection of the dragon's skin in an instant under the acceleration of the powerful electromagnetic force. In particular, the three turrets on Smaug's left accurately hit the place in front of the dragon's left chest where the scales had been knocked off more than 60 years ago.

The high-speed, hot bullet penetrated Smaug's body and exploded under the influence of the rune, destroying all the internal organs in his chest. After a wail, the huge dragon fell from the sky.

After struggling on the ground for a few times, the light in Smaug's eyes gradually faded away. Finally, he stopped breathing and lay there motionless, his eyes still staring at the sky.

"Absorb." Ryan used the ancient rune to activate the life magic, and a gray-white shadow floated out from Smaug and formed an apple-sized smoke ball in front of Ryan's chest. At this time, the rose crystal that was sent to Bard as a liaison flew over and sealed the smoke ball with a purple crystal with silver threads.

However, there was a tiny white flame in the middle of the smoke ball, but everyone who looked at it could feel the power of immortality. This should be the eternal fire.

In the world of The Lord of the Rings, everything comes from the eternal fire. The great god Ilúvatar himself is an eternal fire, and so are the Valar, but they are regarded as gods and prefer to use their flesh bodies when they come to the mortal world, rather than appearing in front of everyone in the form of a ball of fire.

The secret of immortality of all the immortals lies here. After their death, their souls will return to the Temple of the Underworld, Valamandos, where they will sleep and wait for the final great movement of Ilúvatar.

Ilúvatar created the world and the Valar created species by relying on the Eternal Fire. However, only Ilúvatar gave the entire race of the elves the Eternal Fire. The other Valar were not up to the standard, so they could only create short-lived species.

A Maia like Gandalf can at most obtain the right to use the Eternal Fire, not even think about the ownership of it.

Only Morgoth, as the villain, was willing to spend a lot of money to send the Eternal Flame to create dragons and Balrogs, and even to teach Sauron the power in the end. It was for this reason that Sauron, who obtained part of the Eternal Flame of the Valar, could become the most powerful among the Maia.

After killing the dragon, Ryan had intended to use the dragon soul to baptize his five dragons. Unexpectedly, he got such an unexpected reward. Naturally, Ryan immediately opened the space door and asked Rose Crystal to give this thing to Teacher Luo Zhen. Because among the people he knew, only Teacher Luo Zhen would be interested in this thing and had the ability to study it.

"We, did we kill Smaug?" When Rose Crystal came back from the space gate, Bard and the elves also ran to the side of Smaug. Looking at the huge dragon corpse that was like a small hill, all the humans and elves present exclaimed. Everyone's face showed a look of shock. "Yes, we did it." Llane looked at these shocked people and said, "Times have changed, gentlemen. With the death of Sauron, the power of these evil dragons has gradually faded, and we have mastered unprecedented power. So, we successfully killed the last dragon in Middle-earth."

After crying over the dragon corpse, Bard showed a relieved expression on his face. Then he knelt on one knee to swear allegiance to Ryan. Ryan announced that he would be the vice king of the valley in the future and would exercise all the rights of the kingdom in his absence.

After Smaug's death, the construction of Dale City returned to normal. Soon, many refugees who had fled to Long Lake Town returned to Dale City at Bard's call.

After discovering the decrease in income, the mayor of Changhu Town once sent troops to try to capture the people who had immigrated to River Valley City. As a result, they were all captured by Ryan's robot army halfway. It can even be said that the whole process was very peaceful. After discovering that a group of invulnerable robots surrounded them, these soldiers directly dropped their weapons and raised their hands to surrender.

After all, most of these soldiers were from Changhu Town, and many of those who had moved to River Valley City before had various relationships with them. After knowing the current situation of River Valley City, they were naturally unwilling to fight.

At the request of these people, Ryan, Bud and a team of robots rushed into Changhu Town and captured the mayor and his lackeys. After a public trial, they were sentenced to exile. Amid the cheers of the people on both sides of the street, the mayor and his lackeys were driven out of Changhu Town. Ryan took the opportunity to publicly announce that he would not take a single cent of the treasure left by these people, and would use it all for the construction of the town to win people's hearts.

As everyone was busy, Changhu Town slowly shrank and was no longer the town that had grown abnormally after accepting a large number of refugees. Instead, it resumed its previous status as a material transfer and trade center near River Valley City.

At the same time, the popularity of River Valley City was restored, and all the buildings were renovated. Many completely destroyed places were rebuilt with new factories and residences. Ryan used the memory input device to quickly train a large number of skilled workers, and the production of River Valley City was restored.

In two months, these abandoned places seemed to have regained their former vitality, and caravans gradually appeared. The first big business in the valley came from Thranduil, who ordered two energy towers and 300 robots from Lion through the bird.

"I always thought that you elves didn't like these rumbling machines, so I didn't recommend these things to you at that time." When Thranduil came with a group of elves to take over the goods, Ryan answered the question of why the Elf King didn't take out the good things at that time.

"I don't really like it." Thranduil nodded and admitted, "But our population is too small. As long as it can save manpower, we will welcome it, especially these uh-robots. They can greatly reduce the casualties of soldiers in battle."

After staying for one night, Thranduil returned to the forest with more than 100 robots, the energy tower parts and a dozen engineers who helped with the installation. Of course, he also promised that regular caravans would come to the valley for trade in the future.

When saying goodbye to the Elf King on the tower, Llane was surprised to find that Legolas did not leave. It turned out that Thranduil allowed Legolas and the small group of elves to stay temporarily as a channel of communication.

"I asked for it," Legolas shrugged. "So that I could be with Tauriel."

(End of this chapter)