Wizard: This witcher is neglecting his duties.

Chapter 246 Hunting Orcs and Little Monster Gulu

Without looking at the expressions of the others, Wayne walked up to Thorin and looked into the handsome dwarf's somewhat unfocused eyes. He reached into his spatial bracelet and took out a beautifully designed, blood-red potion.

This is a powerful healing potion purchased from the World Auction House in Azeroth. It is rare and extremely precious. This one bottle cost him two thousand Orens, which is equivalent to the mansion he bought in Vizima.

As such an expensive potion, its effects are naturally very powerful. Given the vitality of the dwarves in Middle-earth, this bottle of potent healing potion can basically keep them alive, as long as they don't die on the spot, preventing them from dying from their serious injuries.

Wayne reached out and pried open Thorin's jaw, pouring the blood-red potion down his throat. Then he took out a clean bandage from his pouch and bandaged Thorin's severed left arm and neck.

After the treatment was over, he looked at the other dwarves in the expeditionary force, and at Gandalf's complex expression—a mixture of anxiety, anticipation, and hope—and his expression softened slightly. He said:

"His life should be saved, but he's very weak. It's best if he doesn't move around for the next few days. Let's rest here for a few days."

"We'll continue our journey once Thorin's condition stabilizes."

Upon hearing Wayne's good news, the other dwarves immediately cheered with excitement, and even Gandalf breathed a sigh of relief.

The grey-robed wizard stepped forward, put his hand on Wayne's shoulder, smiled, and said:

"Thank you for your hard work, Wayne."

"Let me do my part next time."

Although Gandalf lost many of his abilities and memories as he became the Maiar of the lower realm, he still possessed many magical abilities to be called a wizard.

After Wayne nodded and stepped aside, Gandalf walked to Thorin's side, placed one hand on his chest, and chanted a spell in an unknown language. He used a spell similar to a stabilizing charm to help the injured Thorin stabilize his condition, speed up his recovery, and heal his wounds.

Although he didn't have healing items like Wayne's that could almost bring someone back from the dead, he wasn't entirely useless. The grey-robed wizard was good at fighting dark forces and breaking curses, similar to the magic of strategists and sages, but he wasn't particularly proficient in other spells.

Soon, with the combined treatment of the two, Thorin's condition stabilized. Although he was still pale due to excessive blood loss, he had fallen into a peaceful sleep thanks to their care.

Seeing this, everyone breathed a sigh of relief, including Wayne.

It wasn't that he cared so much about Thorin, but he suddenly realized that although the master-level mission to capture Azog was already completed, he had accepted two other missions from Thorin, one master-level and one epic-level.

If the NPC questing the mission dies unexpectedly, will their mission also fail? This has never happened before, so we don't know, but if it does, the loss would be enormous.

It seems we'll have to find an opportunity to test it out later, but at least this time, we can't take any risks. Thorin's safety must be guaranteed until all the missions are completed.

With that in mind, he first took out his cooking tools and, with Bilbo's help, cooked a sumptuous lunch for everyone, and specially prepared a nutritious meat soup for the unconscious Thorin.

After everyone had rested, he left Deathclaw, who had already had his fill of killing that day, to guard the camp. He then found Balin and tricked the old dwarf into giving him a mission to continue hunting orcs in the Misty Mountains. He then left the secluded camp alone.

In fact, everyone in the expedition team, including Gandalf, disagreed with Wayne continuing his adventure in the orc town.

However, he still managed to convince everyone by arguing that he was highly capable.

It's not that Wayne is particularly hardworking; as a young man who enjoys life, he naturally prefers to live a relaxed and happy life.

The main reason was that he discovered Excalibur had become sharper and stronger after killing a large number of orcs.

Thinking about the sword's special effects, a surge of motivation immediately welled up in his heart.

The Excalibur in his hand is a sacred weapon that can grow ever stronger, a symbol of the knight bestowed upon her by the beautiful goddess of the lake.

In the wizarding world, monsters are sparsely distributed and located in remote areas, making it difficult to have opportunities for large-scale killings.

However, Middle-earth has a natural division between good and evil, and Excalibur, a weapon that grows stronger by killing evil creatures, is a perfect fit for this world, possessing a natural advantage.

Since he had nothing better to do, Thorin could complete an expert-level mission every day while he was recovering from his injuries, which would also help improve the weapon's strength. It was a good idea.

With that in mind, Wayne quickly retraced his original route and returned to the entrance of the Orc Town in the Misty Mountains, beginning his monster-hunting journey.

With the help of the invisibility cloak and the magic carpet, coupled with his formidable skills as a top-tier witcher, Wayne transformed into a powerful and elusive assassin once inside the dark and gloomy cave, beginning his precise and efficient assassinations.

He would deliberately avoid the main force in the orc town and, with the help of his invisibility cloak, choose lone targets to attack.

With his current strength, as long as the opponent is in a remote place and cannot promptly notify more orcs to come and reinforce him.

Whether it's one target, several targets, or even ten orcs, with his swift speed, he can kill them quickly with Excalibur before they can even react, or even push them into the mine to destroy the evidence.

Often, by the time the enemy discovers the anomaly here and arrives with a large force to investigate, they only find those twisted corpses with expressions of terror on their faces.

With the help of the magic flying carpet and the cover of darkness, he can quickly change his crime locations, making him appear and disappear unpredictably and commit random killings.

And so Wayne roamed the enormous orc cave, hunting down suitable targets. In just one day, more than three hundred orcs fell to his blade.

This terrifying speed of killing immediately instilled fear in the surviving orcs of the orc town.

Because they had also discovered that in this dark, narrow cave, which they had once called home, a mysterious, cold-blooded killer had appeared.

This terrifying killer instantly transformed the orcs living here from hunters into prey. They had no knowledge of this newly emerged killer, no way to deal with him, and couldn't even detect his existence.

And so, on the second day, the third day, and the fourth day, the cold-blooded killings continued silently.

Every day, large numbers of orcs were mercilessly slaughtered, and a sense of panic quickly spread throughout the orc town.

Wayne would return to the camp every night to rest, report on his mission progress, and bask in the admiring glances of his squad members.

During the day, he would go to Bahrain to complete an expert-level mission before continuing his killing spree.

In any case, these orcs from the Misty Mountains will most likely become his enemies during the future Five Armies War. If he can reduce their numbers as much as possible now, it will be much easier when the battle comes in the future.

Of course, besides these purposes, Wayne also began to spend time, based on the details in his memory, going to the bottom of the mine to look for the little monster Gulu.

He didn't want his involvement to disrupt the plot and make the One Ring a destabilizing factor for the future.

Even if we can't entrust the ring to Bilbo, that hobbit, we can't let it remain in Gollum's hands.

Otherwise, due to some unforeseen event, this powerful One Ring might fall into the hands of a dangerous person.

However, after five days, he had killed nearly 1,300 orcs in the cave, almost half the total number of orcs in the cave.

Unfortunately, Gulu was still nowhere to be seen. The little thing was very clever. It probably discovered the strange things in the cave and found a large number of orc corpses thrown to the bottom of the mine. The little thing probably hid somewhere by itself.

He was even smaller than a hobbit, so if he really hid in some nook or cranny, he would be very difficult to find.

However, his efforts over the past few days were not entirely fruitless. In addition to killing a large number of orcs and reducing future enemies, he also discovered a large amount of metal ore in the orc town, far exceeding his expectations.

The orcs living in the orc town have similar habits to dwarves. Besides satisfying their food needs, their favorite thing to do every day is to mine ores and expand their caves.

However, unlike the dwarves, the orcs here are intellectually inferior and do not trade with other clans. They do not need gold or wealth, and their forging skills are very primitive, so much so that they cannot even consume the ores they mine.

Over thousands of years, Wayne discovered that the metal ore here had piled up like mountains, all of which had been stored in some hidden caves, and the quantity was countless.

Unfortunately, although metal ores have a very wide range of applications and all factions lack metals, both smelting and transporting them in the Misty Mountains are too difficult.

Even though Wayne wanted to sell them to Vivian and exchange them for money, the little guy simply waved his hand, saying that the most basic ores like iron ore and copper ore were worthless.

The goddess of wealth even found dozens of planets composed directly of various metal ores, which were not lacking in these basic resources.

Moreover, selling them to the loot exchange would result in a discount. Although they weren't refusing to buy them, with Vivian's power, it would probably take one or two months to collect all these ores into the loot space, and the amount of money gained wouldn't be much.

After considering it for a long time, Wayne gave up on this option and could only make a note of the information for the time being, to use it when he had the opportunity in the future.

Soon, it was the eighth day of his hunt for orcs. A week later, nearly two thousand orcs had died at his hands.

More than half the population was killed, and now the entire Orc town is like a ghost town, no longer the same as it used to be.

The remaining orcs dared not stay in the cave any longer. They scattered and fled through various passages hidden within the cave, dispersing to different corners of the Misty Mountains, making them difficult to find.

This made Wayne's hunting work much more difficult, forcing him to focus all his energy on finding the little monster Gollum.

Meanwhile, there was good news at the camp: the dwarf prince Thorin had finally woken up after being in a coma for a week.

Although her body was still very weak, she had begun to recover rapidly with the help of Gandalf's magic.

Thorin solemnly expressed that he would always remember Wayne and Gandalf's kindness in saving his life, and that the Turin family would always be their friend, and would definitely help them whenever they needed it.

Wayne readily accepted this, while also hoping that Thorin would be a dwarf who kept his promise, just as he had promised.

When Wayne told everyone that the orc town in the Misty Mountains was deserted, and that all the orcs had either fled or died, he delivered this shocking news to the expedition team.

Everyone was stunned and remained so for a long time.

The Orc Town in the Misty Mountains, with a population of several thousand, was severely damaged and completely destroyed in less than half a month due to Wayne's attack alone.

As the most powerful orc force in the mountains, the destruction of the orc town was a blessing for all the surrounding races and countries. Without these ruthless and murderous bastards, the surrounding residents could enjoy a period of peace.

It will be difficult for a large orcish force to form in the Misty Mountains for at least several decades.

This was a feat worthy of being recorded in history, and everyone was shocked and in awe of Wayne's power as a hero.

Unlike the expeditionary force's adoration of heroes, Gandalf's gaze toward Wayne became more complex.

In his mind, Wayne's status had risen to the same level as powerful figures like the Witch-King of Angmar, making him someone he had to keep a close eye on.

Time quickly passed to the tenth day. With everyone's careful care, Thorin's condition improved significantly. Although he was unable to participate in any battles, he was able to continue riding his horse with great difficulty.

At this point, having received the riddle from King Elrond, he knew that he had to arrive at the Lonely Mountain at a fixed time to open its secret passage; otherwise, he would have to wait another year.

So despite everyone's repeated attempts to dissuade him, Thorin insisted on hurrying on his journey and not worrying too much about his injured body.

After failing to dissuade him, Wayne agreed to the decision. However, on this day, he still tricked Balin into giving him an expert-level mission, using the excuse of a final exploration of the orc town to conduct a final investigation of the cave.

Of course, this is only the surface reason. The real reason is that Wayne already knows it's his lucky day by rolling dice.

He planned to find an unlucky soul later, absorb his luck, and then enter the cave for a final exploration, searching for Gollum and the One Ring.

If this attempt fails again, then we'll have to wait until the Lonely Mountain quest is over before spending time specifically searching for this little monster.

(Sorry, dear readers, I've only written nine thousand words so far. I'll try my best to write another nine thousand words tomorrow. Thank you!)

(End of this chapter)