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Chapter 42 Departure
A group of 16 people walked out of Bag End one after another, ready to set off facing the rising sun.

Bilbo walked last, holding a bag in one hand and the dagger given to him by Dewi in the other, looking at his home reluctantly.

"Let's go." Dui patted the hobbit's shoulder and didn't say much.

But before leaving, he pulled out his wand and waved it at the door lock.

Everyone was confused when they saw his actions.

"Dui'ir, what are you doing?" Bilbo asked curiously.

"I'm cursing your door locks to prevent anyone from occupying your house while you're away," Dui explained with a smile.

The dwarves took a deep breath when they heard this and looked at Dui in horror. The word "curse" was extraordinary and made people instinctively think of evil things.

Bilbo was even more shocked. He frantically said, "No, it doesn't have to be that serious, Doyle. Remove the curse!"

The good Hobbit's face turned red with anxiety, and he was deeply afraid that others would be cursed.

Dui waved his hand and soothed him, "Don't worry, this is just a minor curse. It will only make anyone who tries to break the door lock grow hair all over their body. It's just a warning, not serious."

This was a small curse he learned from curses and counter-curses. It had no lethality and was considered a prank curse.

Bilbo heaved a sigh of relief after hearing Dewy's explanation. As long as it wasn't a curse that would harm anyone, it would be fine.

When Gandalf heard this, he looked at Dui in surprise and asked, "Dui, do you know anything about curses?"

"It's not research, I just have a little understanding." Dui waved his hand.

Gandalf looked at him meaningfully, but he didn't believe that he really just understood.

When leaving, Dui did not forget to take the only pot of mandrake left in the greenhouse.

Dui plans to use this pot of mandrake to keep seeds. After it blooms and bears fruit, it will produce magic seeds. As long as he finds a piece of land with abundant magic to plant it, Dui will not need to use magic to water it and transform it. What grows will be the magical plant mandrake.

And the cry of Mandrake can also play an unexpected role at certain times.

Dewy set out from Bag End in a carriage pulled by Derpy the pony as usual, and Bilbo and Gandalf also shared a space in the carriage.

As for the dwarves, there were too many of them to fit in, so they could only walk to the village first, and then set off on horseback from the Green Dragon Inn.

After a brief stay at the Green Dragon Inn, everyone continued on their journey, heading straight east along East-West Avenue.

After walking for several days, we crossed the Brandywine Bridge and finally left the Shire.

When they passed the Old Wood, Dewi stopped for a moment and went into the wood with Gandalf. They cut a branch from a vine called Huorn and then left the wood amid the angry rustling of the trees.

He had previously promised to make a wand for Gandalf, and this piece of vine wood was the wand shaft he chose for Gandalf.

Because Gandalf's staff is made of grapevine wood, Dui does not need to use different types of wood to adapt it to Gandalf. It is most appropriate to directly choose grapevine wood.

Thorin was somewhat dissatisfied with Due and Gandalf's behavior of leaving halfway and delaying the journey, but apart from looking a little unhappy, he didn't say much.

The group continued to move forward and soon arrived at the area of ​​the ancient mound.

Because of the delay in the old forest, the group was unable to leave the ancient tomb area before dark, so they had to choose to rest temporarily in an open space.

“Everyone be careful tonight. Although this place isn’t close to Ancient Tomb Hill, we still need to be wary of undead,” Gandalf solemnly warned the group. Hearing this, everyone became alert. Bilbo gripped his dagger tightly, his eyes scanning the surroundings, feeling as if an undead might leap out of the darkness at any moment.

Thorin was even more dissatisfied. He glanced at Gandalf and Dewi and snorted coldly, "If you hadn't entered the Old Forest on the way and delayed us for so long, we would have left the Barrow-Downs by now and wouldn't have had to be so cautious!"

Dui frowned. If it weren't for the deal with Thorin, sometimes he really didn't want to bother with this guy.

Gandalf was not angry at Thorin's accusation, but still apologized with a smile: "I'm sorry, Doir was generous enough to make a wand for me, but I was a little impatient, so I dragged Doir to the old forest to find suitable wood."

"But there's no need to worry too much. Corpses generally don't leave the vicinity of the ancient tomb easily, so we just need to remain vigilant."

"Okay, I'll prepare something for you so that everyone can have a good night's rest." Dui also stood up and waved his wand.

The carriage quickly deformed and expanded, turning into a yurt large enough to accommodate everyone. The grass on the ground turned into a thick and soft blanket, and the leaves turned into green sleeping bags.

Seeing the changes that happened with Dui's wave of his hand, everyone was stunned and shocked.

"Am I drunk? Or am I hallucinating?" Bombur, the fattest of the dwarves, asked in confusion, feeling a little dizzy.

The other dwarves also widened their eyes and couldn't help but touch the changing objects around them with their hands. After confirming the real touch, they were even more shocked.

Thorin was also very shocked. He stared at Dui, not knowing what to say. He found that Dui's ability had exceeded his cognition.

Bilbo, on the other hand, was relatively calm. After all, he had witnessed all kinds of magical spells of Dewi before, so he accepted it well.

Gandalf looked around, then picked up a sleeping bag and said cheerfully, "It seems we are all blessed for the rest of our journey. It will be much more comfortable to stay in an inn than in these conditions!"

Dui didn't stop casting spells. He continued to cast spells around the yurt before saying to everyone, "Alright, everyone, go inside and rest. I've set up a magic barrier around it. No need to stay up all night. We can continue our journey tomorrow morning when it's light."

After witnessing Dui's magical magic, everyone had no objection to his words and went into the yurt to rest.

At midnight, snoring sounded like thunder in the yurt.

Thick dark clouds covered the sky in darkness.

Outside the yurt, apart from the sound of horses chewing grass, the surroundings were completely silent, without even the chirping of insects.

I don't know when,

A chill came over me and the temperature around me dropped rapidly.

The fog appeared inexplicably and approached the yurt silently, as if to swallow it up.

A dozen or so ponies outside the yurt suddenly became restless, kicking the ground with their hooves and blowing air out of their noses, trying to break free from the reins.

Suddenly, a tall black shadow rushed out from the fog at a speed that was difficult to capture with the naked eye, ignoring the frightened and restless horses, and rushed directly towards the yurt.

It smelled the scent of living people from the yurt, and a lot of living people.

Just as the corpse demon showed a ferocious smile, thinking that it would break into the yurt and rush in to kill people in the next second, it ran into an invisible and solid barrier.

The huge impact force caused the corpse demon to bounce back directly, and also caused ripples in the invisible barrier.

(End of this chapter)