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Chapter 207 Magical Hybridization
Dui did not agree to the terms of surrender offered by the Black Barbarians.

He shook his head and said, "I will not help you fight the Rohans."

The Black Barbarians looked disappointed.

Rohan is more powerful than the Black Barbarian tribes. Without the cooperation of a powerful figure like Dui who possesses a dragon, how could they have reclaimed the land they had dreamed of for generations?
"But if you are willing to put aside your hatred and live in peace with the Rohan people, Gandalf the Grey and I will do our best to persuade the King of Rohan to let you return to your homeland."

Dui added.

Although he did not want to get involved in the conflict between the Black Barbarians and the Rohans, he also did not want to leave such a hidden danger.

The Black Barbarians have been trying to reclaim their homeland, and if they find no way to do so, they might really resort to desperate measures and secretly continue to collude with Saruman and even Mordor.

Just then, Gandalf had been trying to make peace between the Black Barbarians and the Rohan, and had even gone to the capital of Rohan to meet the king.

The King of Rohan was not a stubborn man, and under Gandalf's persuasion, he was willing to make peace. After all, if the problem of border unrest could be resolved once and for all, it would be a good thing for Rohan.

Upon hearing Dui's words, the Black Barbarian chieftain felt a surge of hope mixed with a sense of resentment.

In their view, the Rohan people were robbers who had seized their land and should all be driven out.

However, he dared not tell Dui such a thing.

After all, Dui's willingness to help was already a great favor to them. If they were not satisfied and made excessive demands, they would be offending the Dragon Lord.

Dui instantly grasped the Black Barbarian chieftain's thoughts, but he didn't pay much attention to them.

He told the Black Barbarians that if they were willing to make peace, he and Gandalf would organize a meeting between the Black Barbarians and the Rohan, and then the two sides would discuss and decide on a peace plan that would be acceptable to both sides.

Dui didn't linger in the Darklands any longer; he turned around, mounted his dragon, and returned to Eisengard.

Upon returning to Osankta, Dui entrusted the matter of the Black Barbarians to Gandalf.

Gandalf was happy to handle the matter, as he had always wanted to bring peace between the Black Wildlands and the Rohan so that they could jointly confront the threat from Mordor in the east.

So he mounted his flying broom and headed to Edoras, the capital of Rohan, to persuade King Sengir to make peace with the Black Barbarians.

Dui, who remained behind, unexpectedly discovered Saruman's methods and experiments in cultivating Orcs while browsing through the books and scrolls he left behind.

The contents of the document made Dui frown: Saruman had experimented with hybridizing orcs with humans, as well as trolls with orcs, in an attempt to create a stronger war machine that was not afraid of sunlight.

Looking at this content, Dui recalled the magical creature hybridization and breeding method he had obtained from previous check-ins.

Isengard's strategic location is extremely important, almost controlling the vital route for Rohan and Gondor to the west. If the pass is blocked, Rohan and Gondor will lose their rear retreat and support, leaving them isolated and helpless.

Therefore, if Sauron's Mordor forces want to invade Rohan or Gondor, the best course of action is to first take Isengard, cutting off Rohan and Gondor's retreat, so that they can annex the two countries once and for all.

Having lost his territory, Saruman will certainly not give up so easily, and is likely already secretly plotting to reclaim Eisengard.

Therefore, facing Eisengard, which is being closely watched by various forces, Dui cannot stay here all the time.

The only solution is to leave someone here to guard the house, in case it gets robbed while he's not around.

Dui originally intended for Smaug to stay here, but Smaug only wanted to stay on his gold mountain and sleep, and had no intention of leaving the dragon's lair at Windrise.

Seeing this, Dui did not insist any further. He thought that perhaps he could use the method of hybridizing magical creatures to create a group of guards here.

If you want to conduct experiments, you naturally need test subjects. Dui simply sent the giant eagle Saurondo and the dragon Smaug out to capture some ferocious beasts.

Zorondo captured a lion and a dire wolf.

Smaug even captured a tall, pure white wild horse from the Rohan steppe.

These wild horses belong to the Miarlas breed, whose lineage can be traced back to the beginning of time, originating from Nahar, the mount of Oromi, the goddess of the hunt, and thus considered descendants of the divine steed.

Therefore, unlike other ordinary horses, it was not afraid of Smaug's dragon might, and it was incredibly fast. It took Smaug quite a while to catch it.

Under the resentful gazes of Saurondo and Smaug, Dui drew a vial of blood from them.

Dui then began his experiments with magical hybridization.

He first chose to try hybridizing a giant eagle and a wild horse. In the magical world, the hippogriff is a hybrid of a griffin and a horse, but there are no griffins in this world, so he used a giant eagle instead.

So he used magic to fuse the blood of the giant eagle and the blood of the wild horse, creating an embryo, which he then implanted into the wild horse's body.

By the way, the wild horse is a mare.

Although captured, this wild horse was very untamed and extremely difficult to control. When Dui implanted the embryo in it, he was almost kicked by it.

After the embryo was implanted, Dui released the mare into the enclosure.

Dui himself couldn't guarantee what kind of hybrids would be produced next.

Dui did not stop there and continued with other hybridization experiments.

He fused dragon blood and dire wolf blood to create an embryo, which he implanted into a captured female wolf, allowing it to develop. He then hybridized dragon blood with lion blood, giant eagle blood with lion blood, and even returned to Wind and Cloud Peak to obtain basilisk blood and Kraken octopus blood. He then hybridized lion, dragon, and basilisk blood; basilisk blood with giant octopus blood; and dire wolves, basilisk blood, giant octopus blood, and dragon blood…

It can be said that Dui combined everything he could think of, and then specially captured a group of female wolves from the Misty Mountains to serve as the breeding mothers.

Having done all this, Dui now simply needs to wait.

Magical hybridization is not a panacea. As time goes by, some of these hybrid embryos die in the womb due to genetic conflicts, while others even cause the mother to die as well.

Before these hybrid creatures were even born, Gandalf returned from Rohan and successfully persuaded the King of Rohan to negotiate with the Black Barbarians.

Thus, at the border of Rohan, at the Aisen River crossing downstream of Aisengard.

Brog, the leader of the Black Wildlands, and Sengir, the king of Rohan, met and made peace for the first time. In addition to Dui and Gandalf as witnesses, the regent prince representing Gondor was also present.

The King of Rohan and the Prince Regent of Gondor both expressed their respect for Dui, who had replaced Saruman as Lord of Aisengard.

After all, Eisengard's location was too special, almost controlling the transportation lifeline of both countries' rear, so they couldn't help but pay attention to it.

After two weeks of intense negotiations, the two sides finally reached a peace agreement.

The Black Barbarian chieftain promised to cease harassing the Rohan borders; and the Rohan also guaranteed not to expel the Black Barbarians and would make the territory near the Aisen River, which served as the border, the Black Barbarians' homeland.

But to everyone's surprise, after the peace was reached, Brog, the leader of the Black Barbarian Lands, swore allegiance to Dui and asked to become his vassal.

Dui hadn't expected the Black Barbarian chieftain to make such a choice.

With his ability to manipulate minds, the Black Barbarian leader's thoughts were laid bare.

Although peace was achieved, the leaders of the Black Barbarians still distrust Rohan and Gondor. To prevent the Black Barbarians from being oppressed in the future, attaching themselves to a strong leader is one way.

And Dui, the ruler of Aisengard, is undoubtedly the best choice.

Therefore, between submitting to Rohan and Gondor, he chose to pledge allegiance to Dui.

Dui did not want to add any burden or responsibility to himself, so he refused the allegiance of the Black Barbarians.

But ultimately, persuaded by Gandalf and repeatedly requested by the Black Barbarians, he had no choice but to accept their allegiance.

As for the King of Rohan and the Prince of Gondor, they had no objection to this, and were even happy to see it.

Just as the Black Barbarians distrusted the Rohans and the Gondorians, they also distrusted the Black Barbarians.

They had already heard of the name of the black-robed wizard Duir, and they would feel much more at ease if Duir were in charge of these barbarian people.

Thus, in the presence of Gandalf, the King of Rohan, and the Prince Regent of Gondor,
Brog, the leader of the Black Barbarian Lands, knelt and swore allegiance to Dui, promising to obey his commands.

Dui's status has also expanded from the original Lord of Windcloud Peak to include the territories of Eisengard and Black Wildlands.

Having accepted the allegiance of the Black Barbarians, Dui also allowed them to live near Eisengard.

Brog, the leader of the Black Barbarians, was delighted to hear this. Southern Eisengard was a vast and fertile grassland with a warm climate, but Saruman had disliked being disturbed.

Therefore, this region bordering Eisengard and Rohan has long been uninhabited.

Now that Dui has given him permission, Brog is naturally eager to lead his people to migrate here.

Dui's actions, besides showing favor, were also intended to have the Black Barbarians form a defense around Eisengard, preventing outsiders from easily entering Eisengard.

As the Black Barbarians and the Rohans reached a peace agreement, the Black Barbarians gradually migrated eastward from the Black Barbarians, appearing in the Aisen River basin on the western border of the Rohan Kingdom, where they herded livestock and hunted.

Brog, the leader of the Black Barbarians, led a portion of his people to camp on the grasslands outside Eisengard, living in traditional tents, forming the first line of defense to protect Eisengard.

Just as the people of the Black Barbarian Lands were thriving, Dui in Aisengard also saw the first wave of results from his magical hybridization experiments.

The new species he created by hybridizing a giant eagle and a wild horse is now ready to be born.

Under Dui's expectant gaze,
With a painful neighing, the mare finally gave birth to a foal.

The foal was trapped inside the amniotic sac and struggled incessantly.

The mare, perhaps influenced by maternal instinct, instinctively licks the foal to help it break free of the amniotic sac and clean its body.

But after it finished licking the foal, it looked at its child with a look of shock and doubt.

It turns out that this foal has the head of an eagle, the body of a horse, and a pair of bare fleshy wings on its back. Moreover, the lower part of its forelimbs is not a horse's hoof, but an eagle's claw.

"A winged beast with a hippogriff's head and a horse's body?" Dui said with some surprise.

He never expected that the hybridization of the giant eagle and the horse would result in a new species similar to the harpy-headed, horse-bodied winged beasts of the magical world.

After all, the hippogriffs in the magical world are a hybrid of griffins and horses, completely different from this one.

(End of this chapter)