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Chapter 97 River Valley City

Facing Thorin's questioning, Dui was indifferent.

"Since I promised to help you recapture Lonely Mountain, I will not break my promise."

As for whether the other party lives or dies in the end, he has no control over it.

Anyway, he only agreed to help him retake Lonely Mountain, and did not agree to other requests.

Thorin didn't understand the deeper meaning of Dui's words and smiled when he heard them.

"I'm glad to hear your answer. Don't worry, when I recapture Lonely Mountain, you will not only receive one-tenth of the treasure according to the contract, but also gain the friendship of our entire Dulin clan!"

And just at this moment, a cry of surprise was heard.

Gandalf soared into the sky on his flying broom and flew very flexibly and freely in the sky.

With those nimble turns and thrilling dives, Gandalf seemed to be stuck to his broom. His skills and speed were comparable to those of the best Quidditch players. He didn't look like an old man in his seventies or eighties at all.

Looking at this scene, Dui was so jealous that he was about to burst into pieces.

Why is there such a big gap between people?
He hadn't even told Gandalf how to ride a broomstick; he had figured it out on his own.

And she flies better than him!

Gandalf was like an old naughty boy who had found his favorite toy. After riding his flying broom for a while, he finally landed with a feeling of being unsatisfied.

"Haha, this flying broom is so useful! If I had it, I could go anywhere in Middle-earth!"

Seeing that Gandalf was very pleased, Dui smiled and said, "If you like, I will make you a flying broom when we finish our trip to Lonely Mountain."

Gandalf's eyes lit up, and he had no intention of being polite to Dewi.

"Don't worry, Duyle. I will make you the most powerful staff and teach you one of my unique tricks."

He even winked when talking about the little tricks.

Dewi was very curious about the unique little tricks that Gandalf mentioned.

After all, as a Maia, Gandalf's unique skills must not be ordinary.

It’s a pity that Gandalf deliberately tricked Dewi and didn’t intend to tell him now.

Seeing that Bilbo and the dwarves were also looking at the flying broom with envy, Dewy gave the broom to them to try out.

But it was obvious that the dwarves and hobbits had no magic power, so they naturally could not drive the flying brooms, so they had to regretfully give up the idea of ​​flying on brooms.

However, you can't ride it yourself, but you can be carried flying.

Gandalf was very willing to be a rider and take these people to the Valley one by one, and let them experience flying.

So amid the dwarves' exclamations, the dwarves Kili, Fili, Balin... one by one boarded the "Gandalf" flying car and headed for the final destination, Dale.

Dewi also took a ride on Gandalf's carriage, and then never wanted to experience it again.

The old man drove even faster than this young man, and he was driving at full speed the whole time.

During the whole process, Dui was worried that the broom he had worked so hard to make, which had just been produced, would disintegrate and become scrapped in the air.

However, it was not until Gandalf brought back the last and fattest Bombur, and the broom did not fall apart, that Dewi secretly breathed a sigh of relief.

Thanks to the help of the flying broom, everyone arrived at River Valley City earlier than expected.

River Valley City is located at the foot of Lonely Mountain, and everyone is not far from the finish line.

[Hogwarts Check-in System: Location: Riverdale, check-in?] The system reacted immediately as soon as Dui landed.

Dui's heart moved, and he muttered silently: "Sign in."

[Successful sign-in, congratulations on obtaining "Wizard's Oath"! ]

Seeing the title of the book, Dui flipped through it curiously.

It turned out that this was a book about magic contracts, which recorded a variety of contract magic, including the Unbreakable Oath Curse, the Fidelius Curse, the Blood Covenant, etc.

The Unbreakable Oath Curse is an extremely strict magical contract. The person who makes the oath must abide by his promise. If he violates the contract, he will be killed by the magic backlash.

The Fidelius Charm is a magic used to keep secrets. It requires a secret-keeper to hide the secret in his soul forever. Unless the secret-keeper reveals it on his own initiative, no one else can discover the secret by any means, not even truth serum or legilimency.

As for the blood covenant, it is interesting. People who make a blood covenant cannot harm each other. Dumbledore and Grindelwald had made a blood covenant in the past. Moreover, the greater function of the blood covenant is that they can share each other's souls and magic power, which is a magical contract of life and death.

Dui was very happy to get the contract magic.

Although contract magic is not offensive, it is very useful and powerful in some aspects.

He even had an urge to force Thorin to sign a new magic contract, so that when his dragon disease came back, he would not dare to break the contract.

But after thinking about it, I decided to forget it. There’s no need to make things so complicated.

If at that time Thorin dared to violate the contract and not give him the share of the treasure that was originally agreed upon.

Then he would know how irrational it was to offend a wizard.

After signing in and obtaining the contract magic, Dui became more familiar with a wider range of magic and began to study its contents with great interest.

The people who arrived at River Valley City were not in a hurry to go to Lonely Mountain immediately.

Instead, he lived in a house that Dui had repaired with magic.

For there is still some time until the Day of Durin.

According to the information on the map analyzed by Elrond, as long as they reach the back door of the Lonely Mountain on Durin's Day, and when the last ray of light of the day shines on the keyhole, they can open the back door and enter the Lonely Mountain.

Everyone stayed in River Valley City and began to discuss plans and preparations for entering Lonely Mountain.

Seeing that Thorin was still stubborn and wanted to go to Lonely Mountain, and the other dwarves would not disobey his orders, Gandalf could only give advice and improve the dwarves' rough plan in order to prevent Thorin and others from making things worse and angering the dragon Smaug.

Everyone has only one mission, which is to steal the Arkenstone without the dragon noticing.

Avoid direct confrontation with the dragon Smaug.

As long as Thorin gets the Arkenstone, he can officially become the King under the Mountain, and use it to call on the seven tribes of dwarves to gather their strength to fight against the dragon and retake the Lonely Mountain.

It’s just that the dragon is very familiar with and sensitive to the smell of dwarves and humans, and once you get close, you will be detected by the dragon.

Therefore, Bilbo, a hobbit with stealth ability and unknown to the dragon, became the only choice.

As long as Bilbo secretly stole the Arkenstone from the dragon, they would not have to face the threat of the dragon.

But this plan was strongly opposed by Gandalf.

Because the dragon has already awakened, any movement cannot be hidden from the dragon's eyes. Even if Bilbo has the hobbit's stealth talent, it is difficult for him to avoid being discovered by the dragon.

Letting Bilbo steal the Arkenstone from the dragon, what's the difference between this and letting him die?
But in the end, Bilbo's initiative made Gandalf silent.

(End of this chapter)