Chapter 280: Balrog (1)

Isengard, above the Osank tower that soars in the sky, the white-robed wizard Saruman is in his mage tower at this time, using the crystal ball of true knowledge and Sauron who is far away in Mordor Baradota. Evil Eye conducts routine contact and military information sharing.
While Saruman reported Isengard's combat readiness and military developments to Sauron's Eye, he was also secretly observing the Orc forces under Mordor Sauron and silently compared the gap between the two sides.
"Middle-earth is undergoing fusion"
"Now, who else can stop the army of Isengard and Mordor?!"
Saruman held a virtual hand above the crystal ball of true knowledge, while silently maintaining his magic power output, he also closed his eyes and communicated with the evil eyes of Demon Lord Sauron.
Of course, he didn't forget that he was secretly observing Mordor's combat readiness through another crystal ball of true knowledge far away in Baradota.
Then, he saw from the crystal ball: a group of heavily armed orcs phalanx, chanting slogans from the Barado fortress, they were walking through the long black Barado bridge. , Constantly walking in the direction of the Doomsday Volcano in the distance, presumably, he must be ready to make a turn to the Minas Demon Cave and participate in the full-scale attack on the Kingdom of Gondor to the west.
The number of them, seemingly boundless, one after another passed the Balado Bridge, it looks like a group of black human-eating ants!
Saruman calculated it secretly before. If calculated according to the number of nearly 150 people in each phalanx, almost all of these he saw during the time he was in contact with Sauron had already exceeded one. More than ten thousand?
This is amazing!
In the Middle Landlord World of the Cold Weapon Age, this desperate number of troops is sometimes equivalent to nearly half the number of citizens of a small human country, right?
"There is also the ability to fight against Demon Lord Sauron and my white robe Saruman? And the power of our Twin Tower Alliance?"
Seeing this, although praised, Saruman was actually secretly surprised.
Because, he found, it seems that Sauron's military power is far stronger than himself? This is very bad! It is not conducive to the balance between the two forces, and it is not conducive to the future, after the unification of the Middle-earth world, he Saruman will gain more say in the new order!
"Devil Sauron, as long as we join hands, I believe we will be able to unify Middle-earth!"
So, thinking of this, Saruman had to remind Sauron again that the two of them actually cooperated with each other and joined forces. They would never become the dominant party just because the other side's army is more powerful. !
The reason why Saruman turned his back on Aoli, the of the earth, came to cooperate with Sauron, but he was ready to get enough benefits, and he was definitely not a clown who came to serve as his servant or wave the flag!
"Nonsense! It will be me who can unify China. Both of you armies are too backward. If you are backward, you will be beaten!"
Suddenly, Saruman and the Demon Lord Sauron who was chatting with him remotely were surprised that this kind of relatively secret magical dialogue using the crystal of truth, there was a face that looked like a little human girl suddenly so without warning. The earth is inserted into the communication screen of the two sides' true knowledge crystal?
Then they found that this little girl, and the faint rows of human soldiers behind her, seemed to be screaming and lining up, as if they were attacking a certain city? !
"It's you? I know you"
"Little witch, all of my nine ring spirits were killed once! As a result, I wasted a lot of strength and finally resurrected them."
"You will definitely pay for it!!"
After seeing that it was this little girl who was eavesdropping on the conversation between the two of them, it turned out to be this little girl. In the picture, Sauron's evil eye suddenly spewed out more violent flames and began to exude intense pressure. And strong mental willpower, seems to want to use this method to control or permeate this little girl's thoughts?
However, he soon realized that his means of controlling the enemy seemed to have failed?
Because, no matter how hard he tried, except that Saruman’s expression on the side became more and more tense and sweating profusely, she seemed to have been affected a lot. That little girl, she was still the same as before. With that grinning look, haven't stared at him angrily?
"I know you too! Are you the pitiful big lich with only one eyeball left?"
After seeing the other person staring at her fiercely, Annie also made a grimace and stared back.
"At that time, it was obviously your subordinates who came to provoke me first, and would blame me if they were killed by me?"
"Also, you don't have to waste your point of useless mental power. Don't think that your eyes are so big that you can stare at you! The deterrence of your spiritual will alone, even if you stare for ten thousand years, It's definitely not mine"
Little Annie was still laughing heartlessly, how could she be affected by the little bit of mental pressure from the other party? That absolutely does not exist!
You must know that she is not only a powerful arcane mage, but also a transcendent being who has touched the knowledge of the gods, she is not the kind of mortal with weak will or low soul strength!
So, in Annie's eyes, this little trick of the other party is just a trick that children can only play. It is purely a waste of magic?
"Huh! Little human witch of unknown origin"
"What on earth did you spy on the conversation between me and Saruman this time?! Is there another crystal ball of true knowledge in your hand?"
After realizing that his own means really could not help the other party the slightest, Sauron's evil eye simply closed his hand, and then gradually reduced his own evil eye and returned to normal. At the same time, he began to stare at the crystal of truth. Human little girl.
Sauron didn't quite understand why this little witch could invade their crystals.
Although their Middle-earth world possesses extraordinary existences like the creation Airu and a large group of Villamayyas, the magical civilization does not seem to have gained much development, even if they are stronger than their Maya, it is just the top of the sky. Throwing a big fireball or playing lightning, more often, still prefer to go shirtless and play melee combat?
Otherwise, it wouldn’t have happened that Sauron was carrying a big mace, driving Wushuang among the coalition of humans and elves, and then accidentally overturned, and was chopped down by the human king with a broken sword. Quit the finger thing!
Therefore, when he discovered that the little girl could invade their crystals, what Sauron thought of the first time was: Is it possible that the opponent also has a crystal ball of true knowledge?
You know, the True Knowledge Crystal and the Silmarillion were created by the greatest Elf Fino in the Double Tree Period. There are only seven in total. It can be said that they are one of the unique treasures in Middle-earth!
Sauron only knows that there are four of the known true knowledge crystals!
Among them, Sauron’s one was transferred to his Baradota in the third era in 2002, when his subordinates captured Minas Isir. Started to be used by Sauron, allowing him to monitor the entire Middle-earth world!
The other one is placed on Isengard’s Osank Tower, and it has been controlled by Saruman until now.
The third one was always placed at Eros Tirion of the high elves of the Noldo clan. Those elves were very cautious and rarely used it, and Sauron had never contacted the crystal.
And the fourth one is Minas Tirith, which has always been placed in the capital of Gondor. Sauron has passed it to the regent of the human kingdom of Gondor, Dineth II, completely ruined!
The remaining three, the largest main spar, had already rolled down into the Anduin River during the war and were missing. The other two were also carried by the last emperor of Arno, Yafan. When fleeing, after the crash and sinking of Frochel Frozen Bay, he was nowhere to be found!
So, Sauron was a little wondering, how did this little girl suddenly intervene in the conversation between him and Saruman? Is it possible that she also has a crystal ball of true knowledge in her hand? Maybe it was the biggest one that fell into the Anduin River?
"Huh? What messy crystal ball? How do you communicate through that kind of thing?"
"I'm actually on the White Goose River right now! It's not too far from that Isinger!"
"And you are so blatantly conducting ultra-long-distance communication, and the mana fluctuations are so big, of course I can find out! How about? Is it super powerful?"
Annie was proud, but it was a pity that the white-bearded old man Saruman who was staring at her and the big lich with only the evil eyes of the soul left, they obviously had no time to play with this little girl, so They were just staring at each other coldly.
"Well, you two are so boring!"
Seeing the indifference of the two of them, Annie could only curl her lips boredly.
"I just wanted to take a look at your strengths secretly! I found out that you two are really fouls! You see, one of them is so spicy! And the other one is still playing?! "
Annie has just seen the melting pot under Saruman Issinger from the two crystals of true knowledge. There are countless half-orcs building armors and weapons, and there are countless strong orcs transformed by magic that are being manufactured in batches by the other party. Come out, just what she saw, the two of them together, the army is estimated to be tens of thousands, right?
And now at this time, where is her Alicia United Kingdom? It is estimated that all the Musketeers add up to a thousand people?
"Oh? After seeing our strength, do you want to join us?"
Sauron seemed to see some army figures from behind the little girl, and then he quickly made up his mind.
"Trust me, little witch, your personal strength has been recognized by me! If you join our great cause, I think we can rule the entire Middle-earth world more easily!"
"At that time, I can even set aside a part of the land so that you and your subordinates can enjoy the supreme rights of Middle-earth! Then, even the true gods of Amen Island will be afraid of the power we have."
"What do you think of my suggestion?"
Sauron's evil eye began to tempt the little girl, thinking that at the beginning, Saruman had only seen his unmatched strength of Mordor before joining them with all his heart.
"No! This proposal is not good at all!"
Without even thinking about it, Annie quickly shook her head.
"I think it's better to be like this: if you both swear to submit to me now, I won't beat you in the future! What do you think of my suggestion?"
How could Annie choose to join them? One of the opponents is an old man with a white beard, and the other is an evil-eyed lich with only a soul left. The face value is too low, she will not go with them!
And if they were replaced by them to surrender themselves, as their own subordinates or doglegs, then Little Annie could just hold back and reluctantly accept these two ugly guys?
"Humph! You will regret it!"
Without being too speculative, Evil Eye Sauron snorted after knowing that he was being peeped and played with by this little witch, and directly shut off the true knowledge crystal on his side, completely cutting off communication.
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Later, Saruman, who had not been able to speak, stared at the little girl in silence for a while, and did not know what he was thinking, and soon cut off his mana output, leaving Osank in the tower. This really knows that the crystal has changed back to a black crystal ball without any image.
"Waiy? Is there anyone else? I haven't finished speaking yet, so boring!"
Outside of the city wall of Sabade on the north bank of the Swan River, watching the magic communication in front of her become gray again, and she can no longer see the slightest sight on the other side, Xiao Annie had to whisper and disperse herself. Spells.
She finally found two powerful guys who could chat and solve boredom or something, but they ran away without saying a few words? It's really boring!
"The Lord Anne Witch, the evil eye and the guy in the white robe that just appeared inside, are Saruman and Demon Lord Sauron, right?"
At this time, Groyin, who had been watching tremblingly, finally asked such a sentence.
Following the capture of the town of Metres a few days ago in the woodland of the Dortena Mountains, they continued to lead an unnamed army of nearly 800 people, once again coming to the north bank of the Swan River, preparing Besieged the city of Sabade, which had at least thousands of defenders and tens of thousands of residents.
Then, when Renas came forward and shouted to persuade the other party to surrender as soon as possible, the little girl wizard next to him suddenly opened a magic communication that made Groyin feel very strange, and he was lucky enough to see it from the inside. The figure of Demon Lord Sauron and the white robe Saruman.
"Didn't you see all of them? Why not ask?!"
Annie gave the dwarf angrily.
The white-robed Saruman and Evil Eye Sauron's characteristics are so hot to recognize, who else besides them? Therefore, she now disdains to answer his question.
"Huh? There seems to be something more fun!"
"Old man Ge! Later, you will tell Lenas and let her decide how to fight this small town called Budd! I will go ahead and do some more important things!"
"That's it, goodbye!"
After taking a glance in the direction of the Misty Mountains to the east, Annie called out in surprise.
Then, she hurriedly confessed to Groyin. After speaking, she did not wait for the old dwarf to react. It was a teleportation spell, which disappeared into the original in an instant under everyone's astonished eyes. I don’t know where it was transmitted
"Old Ge Ge?! That must not be talking about me, right?"
Seeing the little girl who disappeared suddenly, Ge Luoyin couldn't help turning his head and looked around. He was clearly called Ge Luoyin. Then, who was the old Ge man in the little girl's mouth?
Does this little witch like to give others an nickname? !
The old world will burn in flames
The forest will disappear, and a new power will rise
Me, Saruman!
Will use the sharp weapon of the orcs and the sonorous iron fist to arm my army and launch my own war
After the routine exchange between himself and the demon Lord Sauron was destroyed by a little girl who inexplicably inserted in, the white robe wizard Saruman, who was secretly vigilant in his heart, couldn't wait to come to his Isengard underground and began to patrol. With his huge underground project that combines the production of strong orcs, smelting steel, and building armor and weapons!
This is a military underground fortress and steel melting pot that served his war!
Just now, he actually saw it: Demon Lord Sauron, that Maya who lost his body was just using himself! And Saruman, why is he taking advantage of him?
It's just that Sauron's strength now far exceeds his own, so he can only choose to be patient for the time being!
Therefore, in order to plan for the future, Saruman felt that it was necessary for him to expand his military power as soon as possible! Only a powerful army of strong orcs, as well as more steel and weapons, can win enough benefits for himself in the new Middle-earth changes in the future?
"I need them to be fully armed and ready to go in two weeks!"
After inspecting the underground facilities, Saruman directly issued an order to a tall orc manager who was responsible for this matter.
"But, my lord!"
"They have too many strong orcs. It is impossible for them to be fully armed in such a short time. Our weapons and armor are far from enough!"
The time for their half-orcs to build here is really too short. Under the rush, the steward felt that it was impossible to create so many weapons and armors for those new strong orcs to use in two weeks.
Although the production of weapons and armors is still going on in an orderly manner, but in those quagmire-like magical transformation furnaces, their speed at squeezing strong orcs is too fast!
Their half-beast artisans produce weapon armors, and need to smelt metals with ore and turn them into molten iron. Finally, they can be shaped into steel knives and plate armors. This takes a lot of time, and the daily output has been fixed.
However, their strong orcs were dug out one by one from the quagmire melting pot of magical transformation. It didn’t take long. The number far exceeded the production rate of weapons and armors. I wanted to remove them within two weeks. If all the weapons are fully equipped, according to the current capacity, this Orc manager feels that it is absolutely impossible to complete the task!
Those strong orcs now have thousands of people. Where can they find weapons and armors for thousands of people? Unless Saruman is willing to nail a few nails to a piece of wood like the Dunland Barbarians do for his military use, or tie a piece of open-end iron directly as a weapon?
"Humph!"
After looking at the river and forest in the distance, Saruman quickly made up his mind.
"Build a river dam to intercept the water! Then, the stove is activated day and night, I need more weapons and armor!"
"But we don't have so much fuel! The entire trees near Isengard are almost cut down by us! We, you, are seriously short of fuel!"
Ironmaking and steelmaking all require fuel, and when Isengard has no coal, their orcs are now about to chop up the vicinity of Isengard into a piece of white ground.
"Have you seen it? At the door of Isinger, a whole forest of Fargon burned it!"
Although Saruman himself knows that there are some very powerful treants in the Fargon Forest, he does not think that those treants who can only sleep, have low intelligence and have no organization in the sand will have anything to do with his Isengard. Threat!
Even if one or two of them violently resist at the time, he believes that the half orcs or strong orcs under his hand can easily burn each other without even having to do anything by himself?
After that, Saruman sneered and turned his head and left!
He now needs to meet the leader of the Dunland barbarian. While accepting his allegiance to his direction, he has already planned to let their barbarians act as vanguard cannon fodder before his army comes out. Within the territory of the Luo Khanate, consume the other's vitality.
Then, after his own army was armed, he took the entire Rohan in one fell swoop! In Saruman's view, this is a breeze! Because, the current Luohan has already been almost penetrated by his subordinates, and Grima, who is a consultant of the Luohan Kingdom, Qiaoyan, has long controlled that old king!
So, by now, is it almost time for his army of Saruman to harvest the fruits of victory?
Once Saruman has taken the entire territory of Rohan, he and Mordor can form a two-sided siege to the largest kingdom of mankind, Gondor.
At that time, it will be just around the corner to wipe out Gondor and take down the entire Middle-earth in one fell swoop!
After all, now Haradrin in the south of Mordor, and the Luen tribe in the east, have reached an offensive and defensive alliance agreement with Demon Lord Sauron! Once they have completely conquered Gondor, the remaining scattered northern human forces and elves or dwarves, waiting for them, will only be destroyed!
Perhaps by then, those nasty elves might be able to escape to the gods' Amen Island in advance by boat?
However, at that time, in the entire Middle-earth world, no one can change the fact that the world will be ruled by Saruman and Demon Lord Sauron!
If you can really get there, even Airu and Vera can only choose to watch, right? Because Saruman knew that they would never be able to withstand the consequences of another war between humans and gods. If they didn’t want to destroy Middle-earth and Arda, then the Vera would only be able to acquiesce that Middle-earth was The established fact of the rule of the Morgoth side!
As for the little girl wizard who was coming from the north and threatened to attack Isengard, Saruman didn't pay much attention to him. Just before, in the true knowledge crystal of the three people's dialogue, he had already seen that the opponent's army was just a mob of hundreds of people, and even the armor and weapons were very crude!
Therefore, he didn't think that little girl would be any threat.
"Yes, my lord!"
Seeing Saruman leaving, and after turning his head to look at the dense Fargon forest in the distance, the orc manager responded with a grim expression.
In fact, it has long wanted to play Fagong Forest! That piece of ancient forest that has grown for countless years, the trees are tall and big, the wood is tight and strong, it must be very resistant to burning! No matter how you look at it, they are much stronger than those in the original Isinger!
Cut off two of them at random, and those steel furnaces that can supply them are burned for several days?
If it hadn’t been for Saruman to speak before, and if it had some worries about the rumored Fagong Forest in its heart, it would have sent people to cut down the trees a long time ago, and it would have waited until now. Start?
"Evil Balrog! Don't want to defeat me!"
The gray-robed wizard Gandalf had been severely burned by the flames, but he was still holding a long sword and was fighting the flame demon for his life!
You read that right, he is holding a long sword, jumping up and down to fight the Balrog for countless peaces!
Swordsmanship specialization is full of talent points, body skills are also at the master level, and eloquence is also at the advanced level, but on the contrary, Gandalf who has only selected fireball and light spells for his own skills, he is actually a deep hidden. The master of swordsmanship, not the gray-robed wizard you have seen and familiar with!
To be more precise, his true profession should be a magic sword master? !
So, he fell into the endless abyss with the Balrog in the mine of Moria, and fell into the deep pool of water together. After luck, he was not killed by a sword. , Fighting fiercely with the Balrog all the way, along the man-made ladder dug out by the greedy dwarves, called the endless ladder, from the depths of the ground, intermittently hit the top of the Silverhorn Peak, Siraxigir Above the peak!
Now Gandalf keeps rejoicing in his heart. Fortunately, when he chose a career and added talent points, he just added a lot of physique and stamina against the ridicule of others. Otherwise, he would have died long ago. I know how many times I have died!
Here, on an artificial stone platform made by this dwarf, on the top of this world where blizzard and lightning, Gandalf, the melee mage of Middle-earth, has been braving the flames in front of him. The flame demon with a pair of huge wings kept wandering and fighting.
In the offensive and defensive battles between you and me, occasionally, Gandalf could also make several marks of different shades on the body of the Balrog with the elven sword in his hand.
Of course, more often, he was actually being crushed and beaten by the Balrog, and from time to time he was knocked over by the opponent's huge force and hit on the huge stone pillars, causing a lot of big rocks from this world. Here is the top of the mountain, rolling and falling towards the bottom of the clouds
"Huhu"
How long he and the Balrog fought, Gandalf can’t remember.
Maybe a week, maybe half a month? He doesn't know, and he has no time to calculate! Right now, he could only breathe heavily, while firing at full fire, no longer able to hide his strength, and at the same time vigilantly guarding against the flame demon on the other side.
This guy in front of me is really too difficult to deal with! Now Gandalf is a little bit convinced, maybe this terrible Balrog was really transformed from the Maya who followed Morgoth in the ancient times? Otherwise, how could he be able to fight so hard when he is going all out?
Fortunately, Gandalf himself is also a very powerful Maya!
That's why he was able to continue to hold on even though his whole body was severely burned. Has he not fallen into a disadvantage yet? And if you change to a normal mortal fighter, whether it's physical strength or strength, under this huge gap, you don't know how many times you have been killed by the Balrog, right?
Rather than as it is now, Gandalf can still use an elven long sword head-to-head against a huge, powerful Balrog constantly competing.
There are generally two kinds of rumors about the origin of the Balrog: Some say that they are evil creatures created out of thin air by Morgoth! Some say that they are actually the products of those who followed Morgoth after the fall of the gods and were transformed by him.
But no matter what kind, their power is beyond doubt!
Gandalf has seen relevant records: According to the rumors, some of the Maya gods have become slaves of the Dark Lord Morgoth. They are extremely vicious, cruel and vicious, and later become this kind of devil-like existence! In the high elven language, they are called Valaroka, and in Middle-earth, they are called Bolog, meaning "powerful devil"?
Of all the creatures created by Morgoth, undoubtedly only the dragon has the most powerful force.
But compared to the dragon, Bolog's body is slightly larger and heavier, and he doesn't have the excellent flying ability of the dragon! Although their faces are a bit human-like, they also have giant horns with the symbol of devil, and they also have nostrils that spray Liu Hang's poisonous gas, and their mouths that are like giant dragons that can breathe flames at any time.
Wherever they walked, the earth would be burned, thick smoke was like a dark cloud covering the sky, leaving a shadow behind it, and their limbs could spiral around and climb some steep places.
Gandalf had already seen this kind of ability when he was climbing the endless ladder!
The main weapon of the Balrog is a terrible fire whip! This whip, made up of multiple flames twisted and weaved, is this kind of thing on the previous Moria mine pit bridge, which dragged him Gandalf to the bottom of the endless abyss!
Of course, the Balrog can also use the power of fire to condense other weapons, such as scepters, axes, and fire swords, but more often, the Balrogs still like to fight with their fists and claws, such as now .
Bang!
With a muffled sound, when Gandalf swung his sword to resist, he was directly hit by the opponent's claws on the body of the sword. The tremendous power caused him to be knocked into the air again and hit a huge stone pillar. It made his internal organs feel intense pain and shock.
However, Gandalf rolled quickly and fled to the other side again, avoiding another attack from the opponent dangerously.
"Go back to your abyss, Balrog!"
Gandalf shouted aloud, then jumped forward and slashed his sword at the opponent's neck.
At the end of the final battle of the First Era, after the demon lord Morgoth was overthrown and driven into the void by the gods, his men, including the dragons, Sauron, and the Balrog all fled. .
Compared with the daring masters of art, Sauron, who dared to continue to stir the wind and rain in Middle-earth, the cowardly Balrogs, in order to escape the punishment of the gods, they simply buried themselves in the mist. The deepest part of the mountain range has never appeared in Middle-earth for thousands of years, until the greedy dwarves dug up mithril and dug out the one fighting Gandalf in front of them.
"Oh! Damn it!"
It's a pity that the Balrog's body is extremely large, and the other party just waved his hand and he mercilessly slapped Gandalf out of the sky with a paw.
"Your end is here! Evil Balrog!"
Seeing the flame demon flapping its wings once again and leaping towards him with open arms, Gandalf's eyes lit up and he saw a great opportunity!
He knew that he himself would never continue to fight the flame demon like this, otherwise, it would be him that ultimately failed!
After all, whether it is physical fitness or the horrible portable flames, the opponent's advantage is too much stronger than himself. He really can't go on like this anymore. With physical injuries, hunger and cold, He felt more and more powerless
He must now make the final decision: risk a final desperate blow to the Balrog who exposed his heart!
Then, Gandalf suddenly raised the long sword in his hand, and instantly guided a beam of powerful lightning strikes down and tied it to his sword. He planned to take advantage of this excellent opportunity to take advantage of the rage The power of lightning plus his sharp sword directly penetrates the heart of the Balrog to achieve the effect of killing it with one blow!
"Come on, you evil existence!"
After taking a silent breath, Gandalf yelled after holding his lightning-emitting long sword with both hands. He knew that he would only have the last time he had a phone meeting.
"Wow! What a big flame demon, big and fierce, people find it really cute!"
Suddenly ~EbookFREE.me~ when Gandalf was about to die and step forward, the voice of an untimely little girl rang on the top of the world.
This made Gandalf, who was about to strike a fatal sword, staggered under his feet and almost fell to the ground. He even thought that this was just an auditory hallucination before his death!
Therefore, he gritted his teeth quickly, settled down, brazenly rushed towards the flame demon who was also rushing towards him, and let his long sword pierce directly towards the opponent's heart.
"Wow! Old man Gandalf, hurry up and stop! It is mine now, so you are not allowed to kill it again!!!"
At this time, the little girl's voice rang again.
Then, Gandalf suddenly realized that he himself didn't seem to be auditory hallucinations just now?
Because, at this time, a fiery red transparent shield is just like the same wall. When he himself is about to collide with the Balrog, it promptly separates himself from the opposite Balrog, and The attacks of both of them could only hit this transparent and strong light curtain in vain, but at the same time they could not help each other