"Hua, hua, hua..." Suddenly a sound came from the bushes in the distance, and several archers raised their bows and arrows.
"Ah! Fire! Death! Murderer!" A figure riding a sled pulled by a dozen rabbits rushed out.
"Radigast!" Gandalf saw who was coming and quickly waved his hand to let everyone put down their weapons.
"Radigast the Brown? He should be a high-ranking wizard like Gandalf, right?" Roland thought to himself. Because there were no Valar or Maia in Middle-earth in this world, Roland really couldn't understand the rank of this Brown Wizard who was at the bottom of the original book.
"Don't be nervous, this is Radagast the Brown Wizard." Gandalf introduced him to everyone.
"Radigast, how come you are here?" Gandalf asked curiously.
"I'm looking for you. Green Forest is sick!" Radagast said mysteriously in a low voice.
"Hmm?" Gandalf looked at him in confusion.
"Uh..." As Roland knew, poor Radagast had forgotten what he was going to say.
Suddenly, Roland's expression changed. He turned around and surveyed the surrounding scenery. Sure enough, Radagast opened his mouth and pulled out a stick insect...
"Ugh~" A knight who saw this scene vomited immediately.
Even the thick-skinned dwarfs had their eyes twitching, and Bilber's expression suddenly changed, his face turning blue and purple.
Roland was glad that he didn't see the scene of eating, otherwise his eyes would be in danger.
"Ha! It's a stick insect!" Radagast finally shouted happily.
"Ugh!" Several knights who had just controlled their churning gastric juices could no longer hold it back.
"The Green Forest is sick. Darkness has fallen upon the land, nothing has grown. The air is filled with a stench of decay, and the worst of all are the webs."
"Net? What net?" Gandalf asked in surprise.
"It's spiders! Very big ones. I can be sure they are the descendants of Ungoliant. I followed them all the way and found that they came from Dol Guldur!" Radagast said seriously.
"Dol Guldur? The old fortress?" asked Gandalf in surprise.
"It has been abandoned for a long time!" said Gandalf.
"No! No! A necromancer was entrenched there..." Radagast began to recall, his voice filled with fear.
"Hey! Have a hit of Old Toby's tobacco. It'll help you calm down." Gandalf handed over the pipe.
Looking at Radagast who took a deep breath, Gandalf said, "Now are you sure that it is a necromancer?"
“…” Radagast didn’t say anything but took out a cloth bag from his arms.
"This is definitely not a weapon from the human world!" he said with certainty.
Gandalf opened the cloth bag with a bitter face and took a look. His face suddenly changed drastically. He was about to speak...
“Ouch!”
"What is that? Are there wolves in this forest?" Bilbo asked curiously.
"Damn it! All troops on alert! It's a wolf!" Roland's face changed.
"Clang!" Renault drew out his sword.
"Roar!" A majestic figure leaped out from the shadows. This time, the wolf was obviously stronger than the ones Roland had encountered before.
"Die!" Kaslo raised his spear and prepared to throw it, but the Badaniyan archer who had been on alert was faster than him, and a sharp arrow instantly pierced the wolf's eye socket.
"Damn it! Warg spy!" Gandalf's face changed drastically.
"We are being hunted! The orc army is nearby!" Roland said in panic.
"Ah!" A knight was knocked down by a wolf. Fortunately, his teammate beside him was reliable and chopped off the wolf's head with one sword.
"Leave the woods!" Roland forced himself to calm down.
"Sir! How should we go?" Renault came to Roland at this moment.
"Gandalf! Take us to Rivendell!" Roland shouted.
"This way!" Gandalf pointed the way quickly.
"Why go to Rivendell? Do you think those damn elves will help us?" Thorin said angrily.
"My friend, if you want to be drowned by the flood of orcs, then go ahead! Turin's bloodline will end today! I will not take the knights of Lagrande to be buried with you!" Roland said coldly.
"If you think 13 dwarves can fight against the army of orcs! Then do as you please! Knights! Let's go!" Roland turned his horse and rushed out.
Thorin should feel lucky. After all, in the original book, they lost all their ponies. Now at least they still have a means of transportation.
Sure enough, in line with the principle of a good man not to suffer a loss in front of him, Thorin finally brought his men to follow.
"Gandalf! You take them away! We will stay behind to cover your retreat! Otherwise, no one can leave!" Roland roared.
"Leave here! All Badanian archers, listen up! Follow them and keep them safe!" Roland said, turning his horse's head.
"Brothers of the Holy Knights, let's go to the plains!" Roland called on the knights to rush to the plains beside them.
Sure enough, the orc army was attracted over there, and they didn't notice the departure of that small group of people at all.
…
"No!" Thorin said painfully while sitting on his horse.
"Let's go back and save them!" At this moment, Thorin has not been affected by the curse of Lonely Mountain. He is still the dwarf who is extremely loyal to his friends.
"Come back! They paid a huge price to let us go! We can't let them down!" Gandalf stopped his foolish behavior.
"We should look for elves!" a Badanian archer spoke up.
"This place is very close to Rivendell. There should be elven cavalry and rangers on guard around here!" another Badanian archer analyzed.
"Yes~ We should seek help from King Ailon!" Gandalf's gaze penetrated the distance.
…
"Line up! Form a battle array!" Roland stopped his horse and let it rest for a while.
"Come down and leave it to you to command!" Roland said to Renault.
"Yes, sir!" Renault took on the task with concern.
"Don't worry, Kaslo will support us at any time!" Roland patted his shoulder with a relaxed look on his face.
Being out of everyone's sight meant that Roland's strongest force could now go all out. The dragon riders were simply an unstoppable force for the orc wolf riders who were hunting the dwarves.
"You don't know, do you? Kaslo is a dragon knight, the kind that rides a flying dragon." Roland asked Renault, who looked confused.
"Um... no one really told me..." After saying that, Renault gave Kaslo a deep look. It's true that appearances can't be judged by appearances. This handsome guy has a dragon in his pocket! No wonder Lord Roland wasn't panicking at all and even sent the others away.
“Ouch!”
"roar!"
A disorderly group of wolf cavalry appeared in the sight of Roland and others, about two or three hundred of them.
"Damn it! That's it?" Roland almost spit out his words.
"Ah, hehe." Renault, who had originally looked nervous, laughed dryly at this moment.
"This..." Caslo covered his face.
Everyone was terrified. The orcs that fled were so few in number. Roland, Reno, and Kaslo all covered their faces... How humiliating! Telling others that a knightly order had scared three hundred orc wolf riders so badly that they had fled from the woods to the plains, even preparing to use a flying dragon to fight... Roland glanced around. No outsiders, good! Otherwise, he could have considered silencing them.
"Guys! Get him!" Roland was instantly possessed by the soul of the mountain king. He shouted slogans in a childish manner, raised his spear, and rode his horse.
"Knights! Charge!" Renault blushed as he ordered the Knights to use the charge skill. The war horses rushed out in neat steps. Looking from the sky, under Renault's command, 100 apprentice knights actually performed a difficult wall charge.
"Ride like a wall!" Renault shouted!
"Boom!" The next moment, the steel wall hit the orc heavily.
…
"Congratulations to the host for successfully starting the main quest: Lonely Mountain Expedition! Unlock the sign-in function: you can sign in once a day to receive various random rewards!" As soon as the battle ended, a light curtain appeared in front of Roland's eyes.
"Holy crap! I thought you were dead, you lousy ring! Turns out I've only just found the main storyline..." Roland grew increasingly angry and grief-stricken. He'd assumed this system was just a rewarding system for achieving achievements, and he'd figured out how to use it. But now someone told him he hadn't even opened the actual page...
"Sign in!" Roland signed in for the first time with a dark face.
"Successful sign-in. Congratulations to the host for winning the 90th place among the Badaniyan Archers."
"Oh my god? System, can I understand that you are mobilizing troops for my upcoming War of the Ring?" Roland said that this system is really cute.
Because this Battle of Five Armies excluded interference from other players (Roland laughed like a pig), the Orc coalition had only 30,000 people, 500 Dwarves, 3,000 Elves, and a few hundred Humans. It can be said that Roland was the straw that broke the camel's back. It was no longer straw, but could be called sugarcane.
With the daily accumulation of Charr warhorse rewards, Roland can fully arm these 90 Badanian archers and use them as heavy cavalry. In this way, 200 fully armed mobile forces plus a Halo Paladin and a Dragon Knight can completely defeat the orcs with the cooperation of the coalition forces.
