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Chapter 45: Sweeping the Ancient Barrow Mounds

After the remains of the corpse demon were buried, everyone returned to the yurt and continued to sleep.

"Well, what's the matter? What happened?" The fat Bombur crawled out of the sleeping bag in a daze, looking at the people who came in with confusion.

Everyone suddenly fell silent and looked at each other.

The situation was urgent just now and everyone thought everyone was up, but they didn't notice that one person was missing.

Gandalf and Due watched this scene with a smile.

Thorin looked at his silly companion, took a deep breath, and said unhappily, "It's okay, go to sleep."

"Ah? Oh!" Then Bombur really shrank back into his sleeping bag, and soon he began to snore loudly.

Everyone was speechless again, but still with various emotions, they all crawled into their sleeping bags.

It was already late and they had to leave early tomorrow.

The next morning, everyone woke up from their sleep.

Watching Dui wave his hand and turn the huge yurt back into a carriage, and the carpet and sleeping bag disappearing, everyone felt like they were just dreaming.

Before setting off, everyone had one more thing to do.

That is sharing the spoils.

There was a large bag of jewelry and accessories left behind by hundreds of corpse demons last night, not to mention dozens of relatively complete ancient swords.

Gandalf proposed that the spoils be divided equally among all.

But Thorin directly refused. He believed that the dwarves did not contribute to the battle last night, and all the wights were dealt with by Gandalf and Due, so there was no reason to share the spoils.

The other dwarves agreed with Thorin. Although they loved jewels very much, their pride would not allow them to accept charity.

Faced with the stubborn dwarves, Gandalf no longer insisted, but he himself did not have much demand for treasure, so he only picked the most intact ancient sword as a weapon, and then left the rest of the spoils to Dui.

Dui looked at the spoils that all belonged to him and suddenly proposed to everyone, "Yesterday, I severely injured the Witch King of Angmar, and his minions, the wights, have also lost their power. Why don't we take this opportunity to attack the dragon's lair and take the wight treasures in the ancient tomb?"

The dwarves' eyes lit up at this proposal, and even Thorin, who only wanted to reach the Lonely Mountain as soon as possible, did not object.

They refused to share Dewi and Gandalf's spoils, but that didn't mean they didn't desire the treasure.

Especially since the dwarves were not wealthy at the time, Thorin Oakenshield had to make a living by forging iron to support his people, exchanging resources from nearby humans. He even had to offer the treasure of the Lonely Mountain as a reward in exchange for the cooperation of Dui and others in joining the expedition.

Although Gandalf had no interest in the corpse treasure, he also supported Dewi's proposal.

So instead of continuing forward, the group turned around and headed deeper into the ancient mound.

The sky over the Tomb Hill is always so gloomy, the mountains are shrouded in fog all year round, and it is silent and desolate.

However, compared with the last time he came to the Barrow Hill, Dui found that the fog in the mountains had dissipated a lot and the dark clouds in the sky had become thinner.

The group moved forward without encountering any obstacles and successfully arrived at the location of the ancient tombs.

Perhaps it was because the Witch-king of Angmar was severely injured and the wights lost the support of the Witch-king's power. There was no sign of any wight activity on the Barrow-downs, and it became very quiet.

Gandalf tapped the ground with his staff, constantly using magic to probe the ground. After sensing something, he reminded the others, "The wights are asleep and won't wake up anytime soon, but we still need to be careful not to disturb them." Upon receiving this information from Gandalf, the dwarves were immediately excited. Without the threat of the wights, the jewels buried in the ancient tomb would all be theirs!
So the dwarves began to rob the tomb.

Dwarves are naturally good at digging mine tunnels, so digging a tunnel leading to the tomb is not a problem for them at all.

The Barrow-Downs were basically burying the kings and nobles of the Dúnedain, and the burial objects were naturally priceless treasures. Under the patronage of the dwarves, the burial objects in the tomb were looted.

As for the corpses sleeping in the tomb, whenever they were encountered, they were basically eliminated by Dui and Gandalf to prevent them from reviving.

The dwarves stayed at the Barrow-Down for three days and visited hundreds of tombs. Finally, because they were running out of food, they reluctantly gave up the tomb-robbing work.

The final harvest made everyone very satisfied. Except for Gandalf who gave up his share, everyone else's pockets were filled with gold, silver and jewelry, even Bilbo was no exception.

The dwarves were all delighted, even Thorin, the most serious one, had a much gentler expression at this moment.

Everyone left the ancient tomb with a lot of harvest.

Before leaving, Gandalf sent a purification package to the Barrowdown, purifying and suppressing the evil power imposed on the Barrowdown by the Witch-king of Angmar to the lowest level.

In any case, in the short term, there is no possibility for the corpse demon sleeping in the ancient mound to revive.

As for why the evil power of the Witch-king of Angmar was not simply eliminated, in Gandalf's words, unless the Witch-king of Angmar could be destroyed, the power he exerted on the Barrow-Downs would never disappear.

Back on the main road,

The group continued on their journey and finally arrived at Bree Town around noon.

Bree is a small town inhabited by humans. It is located in the middle of the Eriador Wastes. The East-West Avenue and the North-South Avenue intersect here. The transportation conditions are excellent, and many traveling merchants, rangers, etc. will stop here.

Occasionally, elves would even pass through here, heading west along the East-West Road to Lindon Grey Haven, and then take a boat across the sea to the west.

They came to the Prancing Pony Inn in Bree to rest for a while and replenish some supplies.

The wealthy dwarves were very happy to enjoy themselves. They waved their hands and said, "Boss, bring up all the wine! We want to drink to our heart's content today!"

Besides their love of money, the dwarves also love to drink, especially the spicy kind.

When the innkeeper heard what the dwarves said, he suddenly became very enthusiastic. The dwarves not only liked to drink, but also had a large capacity for drinking. The amount of alcohol they drank was measured in barrels instead of cups.

So no owner would refuse such a guest, and he immediately ordered the Hobbit servants in the inn to bring out barrels of fine wine from the cellar and place them in front of the dwarves so that they could drink enough.

At the same time, Dui's check-in system also responded.

[Hogwarts Sign-in System: Locating Bree Town - The Prancing Pony Inn, do you want to sign in?]

Dui remained calm and said silently in his heart: "Sign in."

[Successful sign-in. Congratulations on obtaining the Floo Powder recipe and Floo Network app!]

A wave of memories flooded into his mind, and Dui's eyes suddenly widened.

Floo powder? This time the sign-in was actually this thing.

(End of this chapter)