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Chapter 55 Rescue the Villagers
"Are you really here to save us?" a weak young man asked in a hoarse voice, his eyes fixed on the two of them.

Gandalf nodded, his whole body aura like a spring breeze, "This is why we are here."

Dui waved his hand to unlock the big lock on the cage door and let the villagers inside out.

Seeing the cage door opened, the villagers walked out trembling in a trance, as if in a dream.

But when they saw that there were only a dozen people coming out, Duei and Gandalf felt depressed.

"Are you all alone?"

The villagers fell silent for a moment, each one filled with sadness and sobbing softly.

It was the young man who had just asked the question who gave the answer. His eyes were red and he choked up as he said, "Everyone else was eaten by the ogre! I should have been eaten by the ogre today, but my mother persuaded the ogre to raise me a little bigger so that she could eat me, and then she took my place..."

Looking at the young man who was in grief and self-blame, Dui remained silent.

Gandalf walked up to the boy and patted him on the shoulder. "What's your name?"

"Edward."

"Edward, you have a very great mother. She used her own life to fight for your chance to live. Don't let her down. Live well with her share!"

Gandalf's language is concise, yet powerful and convincing.

After rescuing the villagers, Due and Gandalf began to discuss how to lead them out of the troll cave.

Gandalf's idea was that Dewi would protect the villagers while he would fight the trolls.

But this plan was rejected by Duy.

The trolls were huge in size and had strong defenses. They had almost no weaknesses except being afraid of sunlight. It was not easy for Gandalf to deal with five trolls alone.

Although Gandalf was a Maia, his power was restricted in Middle-earth. He was forbidden to use overly powerful power to directly interfere with the natural order of Middle-earth and the choices of its inhabitants, thereby breaking the balance of various forces and races.

Moreover, his current body is also a mortal body, subject to the limitations of the human body, and can feel pain, fatigue, injury, and even death.

Therefore, under various restrictions, Gandalf preferred to wield his staff and sword in close combat, and rarely used powerful magic, at most a light spell.

Seeing that Dewi rejected his proposal, Gandalf did not insist, but asked: "Then Dewi, do you have any good suggestions?"

Dui confidently pulled out a bottle of potion and chuckled, saying, "Trolls are difficult to deal with, so we'll use our wits to outmaneuver them and maximize our results with minimal effort."

"What is this?" Gandalf asked curiously about the potion in Dui's hand.

"This is the shrinking potion I made earlier. One drop can shrink a horse to the size of a palm. It's just right for dealing with these ogres."

Gandalf's eyes lit up and he immediately guessed Dewi's idea.

"Are you planning to put this potion in the pot and feed it to them?"

"Yes."

Dewi nodded, then pointed at himself with his wand and used the Disillusionment Charm to become invisible again.

"Gandalf, you protect the villagers. I will go feed them the potion first, and then I will send you a signal."

As he said that, he rushed towards the cave hall. He had to drug the ogres before they finished eating.

When the villagers in the cave saw Dui disappear like this, they were shocked and their eyes widened, but at the same time, they also had a little more hope and confidence to escape.

Dui had just arrived at the cave hall when he saw five ogres fighting over food in a big pot.

Dui quickly cast a levitation spell on his feet and approached the ogres quietly.

When he came in front of the ogre, Dui felt more clearly the oppressive feeling brought by the ogre's huge body.

He can kill himself with one hand, or swallow himself with one bite.

Dui carefully slipped through the gaps between the ogres, moving closer to the cauldron. But just then, one of the ogres stopped grabbing food, sniffed the surroundings, and asked in confusion, "Is there the scent of a living person?"

Seeing the ogre stretching its head towards him, Dui stopped and held his breath. He didn't expect the ogre's nose to be so sensitive.

Seeing that the ogre was still trying to sniff towards him, Dui quietly raised his wand and said in an inaudible voice: "Confuse the audience!"

The ogre looked a little confused, sniffed again, and then immediately punched the ogre next to him angrily, "Was it you who farted? It stinks!"

"Who farted? You farted!" The innocent ogre next to him was immediately fed up and hit back with a hammer.

The two ogres didn't even bother to fight for the food and started fighting immediately.

The other three ogres also stopped eating and shouted to kill each other.

Taking advantage of this opportunity, Dui hurried to the big pot.

Looking at the half sticky stuff left in the pot and smelling the meat.

When Dui thought about what that thing was, his stomach suddenly churned and he instinctively felt uncomfortable.

But in order to get rid of these ogres, he could only endure the discomfort, quietly approach, then take out the potion bottle, open it and pour all the liquid in.

Just one drop would shrink an ordinary animal to the size of a palm, but he wasn't sure how strong the magic resistance of these ogres was, so he could only increase the dosage to deal with them.

After adding the potion, Dui carefully retreated, came behind a huge rock, and waited quietly for the result.

After a while, the two fighting ogres ended their fight and rejoined in the fight for food.

Once the ogres had finished eating all the food in the pot, the effects of the potion began to show.

"Huh? What's wrong with me? Why are you getting bigger?" One of the ogres who ate the fastest said in confusion, but soon found that he was the one who was getting smaller.

It quickly shrank from six meters to five meters, four meters... one meter, fifty centimeters, ten centimeters.

While the other ogres were still shocked and puzzled as to why their companions had become so small, they also began to shrink rapidly.

Finally, five ogres, each only ten centimeters tall, appeared at the spot, looking at the expanding environment around them in horror.

Then they saw a huge human appear in front of them, waving a huge wooden stick in his hand, creating a cage and locking them in.

"Okay, Gandalf, you can bring people out now!" Dui shouted loudly towards the depths of the cave.

As soon as he finished speaking, Gandalf and a dozen villagers came out.

"Is it settled?" asked Gandalf.

Dui pointed at the trolls in the cage on the ground and said, "It's not over yet. They've been shrunk by my potion, and I'm not sure how long the effect will last, so we need to deal with them as soon as possible."

Gandalf looked at the tiny ogre in the cage and raised his eyebrows. "What are you going to do?"

"I plan to clear out all the ogres nearby and see if there are any living people in the hands of other ogres. These ogres all live in the Troll Forest and should know each other. I want to see if I can torture some information out of them." Dui explained.

"Do you need my help?"

"No, let me try first." Dui shook his head, then pointed his wand at the five ogres in the cage and chanted the spell without saying a word: "Confuse the audience!"

The magic resistance of the five ogres decreased significantly as their bodies shrank, and their minds became confused in an instant.

"Tell me the locations of other nearby troll caves you know of," Dui said.

The five ogres regarded Dui as their closest kind and told him everything they knew in a state of confusion.

After obtaining enough information, Dui no longer hesitated. A small dagger flew out and instantly cut off the heads of the five ogres like cutting grass.

As the ogre died, the effect of the shrinking potion gradually wore off, and its ten-centimeter body quickly expanded back to its original size. Jet-black blood gushed out from its severed head like a fountain, emitting an unpleasant fishy smell.

(End of this chapter)