Chapter 124 Are you awake? The operation was successful

"What else do you want from me!"

Smaug couldn't understand this damn human being at all. He had completely let go of his self-esteem and was willing to swear surrender. What else did the other person want?

This damn madman! Butcher! Devil!

"Don't be afraid, it's just a small operation." Tang Sen said: "It will hurt a little, just bear with it."

He ignored Smaug's wailing, took out some mithril weapons, and called the dwarves forward.

The scene was bloody and bloody. When the golden-red heart appeared in front of everyone, Smaug almost had no energy to speak.

It just said hoarsely and heartlessly: "Since you plan to kill me, why bother to torture me and humiliate me?"

"Isn't a living dragon that is loyal to you more useful than a dead dragon?"

Tang Sen said: "Your loyalty still needs to be proven slowly, but my credibility is beyond doubt."

"I said, you will be the first dragon in Middle-earth who can see his own heart while alive."

He held a sharp arrow and slowly slit an aorta in his heart.

The strange thing is that the golden-red blood did not spurt out. As the aorta was completely divided into two sections, Tang Sen could see that the huge, almost one-meter-wide heart was still beating healthily, and in the artery

The blood is still flowing.

It's a pity that Smaug was stunned at the moment when Townsend used the knife and did not witness this miracle.

Until Tang Sen took out a whole heart, the dwarves were stunned.

"This...is it alive or dead now?" Shalin asked confused.

Travelers always have some strange methods, which the dwarves all know.

"Of course it's still alive." Tang Sen glanced at her and said, "I don't have to kill it, do I?"

"..."

You've been tossing it for nearly a night, and it seems much crueler than killing it.

For some reason, the dwarves suddenly felt that Smaug was pitiful. Damn it! That was a dragon! And it was the dragon that occupied the Lonely Mountain! How could they have such a strange idea?

All I can say is that this giant dragon is really miserable.

"Next, it's time to wake up our sleeping beauty... Well, Smaug should be a male dragon... right?"

Tang Sen had no intention of checking the other person's gender. He came to the front of Smaug's head, leaned close to him, and said softly:

"Surrender...or death?"

Smaug, who was in a coma, trembled violently.

"Submit!" It opened its golden pupils and shouted reflexively.

Then it realized its current situation and looked at Tang Sen in confusion: "I...am not dead?"

"The feeling of death is completely different from coma, Smaug." Townsend said:

"The operation was successful, congratulations."

"Surgery?" Smaug's vision swept across and saw the dwarves with complex faces, the still-bright gold, and then the beating golden-red heart.

Well, this heart looks so beautiful.

No, why is it still beating? And, where did the heart come from? It's so big, it doesn't look like it was taken out of the chest of a dwarf or a human.

Smaug felt something was wrong in his heart. He slowly lowered his head and looked at his chest.

There is a bloody hole there, empty.

"Ah——"

A scream that was completely different from the powerful roar of the dragon sounded. No one could have imagined that a giant dragon could make such a sharp sound.

"Then...that's my heart? My heart was taken out?"

It almost fainted again. No, it felt like it was dead. Everything now is an illusion. Yes, it must be an illusion.

"It's not an illusion." Tang Sen said with a smile that seemed devilish to Smaug: "I have fulfilled my promise, Smaug."

Only a devil wants this kind of promise to be fulfilled!

"Don't worry, nothing will happen to you." Tang Sen explained: "I am a professional."

"I have to congratulate you. Now you no longer have to worry about being shot through the heart by an arrow from an archer or something like that."

You make it sound like this is a good thing...

Smaug looked at Tang Sen with complex eyes, this human who called himself a traveler. He had seen the other party's mysterious and cruel methods, and he knew that even without the restraint of the oath, he probably would not have the heart to resist him anymore.

"By the way, in return for your surrender, I will give you a gift."

As Tang Sen said this, he walked up to the heart and poked it curiously, making Smaug tremble all over.

It can feel it! It’s like the heart is still in its own body!

Very sensitive!

Then, it saw the silver-white mithril appear, slowly wrapping the heart in it, leaving only space for the heart to barely beat.

"In this way, your heart will be as indestructible as your dragon scales." Tang Sen said with satisfaction: "Do you like this gift?"

Don't like it!

Smaug nodded repeatedly and said: "Your generosity is impressive."

"In addition to helping you resist attacks, these mithrils also have another function." Tang Sen smiled mysteriously and motioned Smaug to focus on his heart.

Then, in its frightened eyes, the mithril wrapping the heart slowly grew spikes outward, like a sea urchin.

"Smaug, you don't want these spikes to grow inward, do you?" Tang Sen said slowly.

"I don't want to! I definitely don't want to!" Smaug shook his head wildly.

The spikes shrank again, and the mithril became smooth again.

"Don't worry, I won't do this if it's not necessary." Tang Sen comforted.

Smaug felt threatened... comforted.

Tang Sen was satisfied with Smaug's attitude, so he asked the dwarves to stuff the heart back into the dragon's chest.

The self-healing ability of the dragon's flesh and blood is very strong, and the incised wounds will eventually heal. Tang Sen has no treatment method. He only controls the mithril to completely cover the places where the dragon scales were pried off.

On the outside, Smaug looks as healthy as before. No, he no longer has the flaw of the dragon scale, he is healthier than before.

"Well, congratulations, Smaug, you are free again."

The mithril ropes that bound Smaug were slowly loosened, and Tang Sen took back the mithril ring.

But Smaug remained motionless.

Its body like a mountain exudes an aura of loss and despair.

"Looks like our dragon needs some time alone."

Tang Sen said: "By the way, say goodbye to the gold here."

"Gold..." Smaug suddenly raised his head: "Farewell?"

"We still have a lot to do next, Smaug, your days of being able to sleep in gold are over."

More sadness and despair than before surged out of Smaug's heart.

"Okay, we should go find Thorin Oakenshield." Tang Sen led the dwarves out of the hall: "He needs to fulfill his previous promise."

As the group of people drifted away, the desperate screams of the giant dragon were heard from behind.

"No! No! No -"

......

Everyone found Thorin on the throne of Erebor.

The dwarf royal family is sitting upright, eyes closed, and has been sitting on the throne for who knows how long.

And above the throne, the dazzling Heart of the Mountain, the Arken gemstone, which had been missing for hundreds of years, was inlaid again, exuding the brilliance of royal power.

The dwarves were all silent.

Logically speaking, seeing this scene again, the dwarves should be so excited that they burst into tears and roll on the ground, but the man sitting on the throne, the former king in their hearts, not only abandoned them in the name of Durin

, and fled shamefully during the battle.

When the dwarves were knocked away by the giant dragon again and again, and almost thought they were going to die there, the king should have been sitting on the throne, indulging in the illusory kingship.

"You are here."

He finally opened his eyes and looked down at everyone: "I heard the wail of the dragon. It seems you succeeded."

"Now, you traitors are ready to seize my throne and take away my wealth, right?"

"Thorin!" Balin said solemnly: "Your Majesty Durin, we have never thought of betrayal."
To be continued...