With just a few casual glances, Allen could confirm that Ouyin was right. This 16th Hall should have been home to many very noble people. The carvings in many places here still have traces of gold.
, even on the ground where Allen stepped, you could see a striped road paved with silver.
Moreover, there are large swaths of depressions next to the lines. It is obvious that the orcs occupying this place dug out the silver ground into this shape.
Presumably when the Durin dwarves were at their most powerful, this place should have been paved with silver and topped with gold. This was really rich.
But after a period of searching, Allen discovered that all the rooms here had been looted by orcs without exception.
All the doors that were supposed to be closed were violently broken open. Inside the stone palace with intricate carvings, everything that could be destroyed had marks of being slashed and stabbed with swords.
Not to mention there is nothing worth taking away, all that is left are some broken containers.
Watching all this, Ouyin's originally excited face quickly turned to sadness, and then to anger that was visible to the naked eye. This was sadness for what had happened to the kingdom, and anger at the barbaric behavior of the orcs.
Allen, who was walking aside, could clearly see Ou Yin's expression. He could only sigh helplessly and patted Ou Yin's shoulder gently, indicating that he should calm down and not make any impulses.
things come.
You must know that this team of yours is basically doing things under the noses of the two groups of orcs. There is no room for any mistakes. Even an angry roar will alarm hundreds or even thousands of enemies.
Of course, Allen didn't feel good. Although he was mentally prepared, he was still very disappointed. If he couldn't find loot in the place where the Durin royal family lived, then it might be even more difficult in other halls.
But what Allen didn't think about was that most orcs were often savage and violent when they raided this hall, because they needed to move faster than their companions in order to grab more, better and more clocks.
Something interesting.
Therefore, when these robbers robbed the 16th Hall, they just used the weird swords in their hands to destroy everything they could see, and then took away all the valuable things, leaving only the floor.
It was a mess, but the search was not particularly careful.
As for the dwarves, they are a race that is very obsessed with wealth, and most of them have some construction skills, not to mention the royal family of the Durin clan. Whether it is mining, metal skills and stone construction, they are among the people of the clan.
They are all outstanding among them.
Of course, members of the royal family with these natures cannot display all their wealth in plain sight.
There will always be some people who hide their favorite things in secret places for them to enjoy quietly in the dead of night.
Therefore, when Ouyin, who had calmed down his mind, came to a rather grand stone hall and pushed open a stone door on the dark and shiny wall with a slight knock, Allen showed a rather surprised expression.
He really didn't expect that the dwarves actually had such a trick, and because they were in his own home, these secret rooms didn't require any keys to open like the back door of Gushan. All he had to do was find the right mechanism and push it gently.
The stone door opened.
And the scene behind the stone gate finally made everyone feel the joy of harvest for the first time after setting off.
Not to mention the jewelry placed on the shelves, the sets of silver armor, plus many weapons and shields of the same color, made Allen feel that his trip was well worth it.
When Moria was still producing mithril, the price of this special metal was ten times as high as gold in the outside world. It was indeed very precious, but for the Durin royal family who occupied Khazad-dûm, this was actually nothing.
What.
Just like Thror, who once ruled the Lonely Mountain, would not lack gold, silver and jewelry, the dwarves who owned the entire mithril vein at that time did not lack mithril, at least at the beginning. Otherwise, Thorin
Why would you give Bilbo a chainmail made of mithril?
You must know that this mithril armor was made by the dwarves in the Lonely Mountain. At that time, they had no way to obtain mithril anymore.
In this not particularly large treasure room, Allen also found a letter opener made of mithril on a wooden table. After being placed for thousands of years, it still looked like brand new, with a sharp blade.
With a shining blade.
This made Alan silently complain in his heart, how rich the Durin dwarves who once occupied Moria were, even if they were paved with silver and topped with gold, such precious mithril was also used for daily necessities.
, this is a bit extravagant and wasteful.
And in the Sixteenth Hall, there are many stone halls like the one Allen is in, and there are even bigger and more magnificent ones than this one. I wonder if there are secret rooms for hiding wealth like here.
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But in any case, Allen's team will probably be very busy in the next period of time. The contents of this secret room are enough for them to make two trips to and from the first hall.
When everyone first decided to explore Moria, of course it was not just Allen's team that set out. Hermione and Orui, with twelve Twilight Knights, also started from the second hall.
Explore below.
Their goal is very clear, which is to go straight to the armory in the Third Valley. According to Ori, there should be very few orcs there, but Allen knows that there is a greater danger there, and that is the Balrog.
Allen used his ability to check the location of the monster before setting off, but after consuming a lot of dinars, the information he got was extremely unclear. The scene he saw was a little bit in the vast darkness.
firelight.
This chapter is not over yet, please click on the next page to continue reading! This is a bad result, but it is good news. This shows that the Balrog is very far away from Allen at this time, at least it must be
It was very deep underground, but just in case, he still asked Hermione to take away all the sapphire sigil bows.
Because Allen knew that although the Balrog was very large, it actually moved very, very fast, but he was not sure how fast it would be. It was always a good idea to make more preparations.
Allen didn't expect to be able to defeat the Balrog by relying on the ice power of the sapphire sigil bow, but it really alarmed the fallen Maiya. The arrow carrying the ice was able to delay the Balrog's pursuit.
It's also good, at least it can buy everyone some time to prepare and run away.
Daine needs to stay in the first hall to command the more than 20 elf rangers left behind to guard the gate of Moria and the Khazad-dum Bridge to ensure that everyone's retreat will not be cut off by the orcs, especially
It's Khazad-dûm Bridge.
At first, Daine was unwilling to accept this task. Instead, he hoped to explore the upper levels of Khazad-dûm with Allen and see the former kingdom of the Durin clan, Ironfoot, who had lived for more than 150 years.
Dyne had never commanded an elf before, so this made him feel a little strange.
But the task of guarding the retreat for everyone is a very important thing, and the elves, who have never lived in the mountains, also need a dwarf to assist them in dealing with possible accidents in the next time, which always requires
It's much better than just leaving the elves alone.
Moreover, although the elves who follow Alan are also called Noldor elves, they are not a native race of Middle-earth. They have no understanding of the things between dwarves, humans, and elves, and they don't care.
Since Allen hopes that they will temporarily obey Dine's command, as personal guards, they have no objection to it.
The meeting came to an end, and at Allen's insistence, Daine accepted the task.
After Allen and Hermione set off, he also focused his defense on the Khazad-dûm Bridge, and arranged several sharp-eyed Noldor rangers at the entrance to the second hall, asking them to monitor the hall at all times.
Movement inside.
In the two or three days since the two teams left, the second hall was not particularly peaceful. There were always some sneaky guys coming out of various passages in the hall in twos and threes, and then quietly heading toward the gate of Moria.
Go.
Daine adopted a strategy of killing all the orcs who wanted to go out to look for food, and asked the elves to transport all the corpses to the Dark Creek Valley for burial, so as to prevent their rotten smell from alerting other orcs.
As for the large army of orcs, Daine has never seen it until now.
After all, the two groups of orcs occupying Moria are fighting in the upper level at this time, and they want to show off there. I'm afraid they don't have many troops sent to watch the gate, and since the last "dwarfs and orcs war"
"From now on, no one will be willing to come near this place.
Not to mention Moria, there are very few people who are willing to enter the Dark Valley. After all, the Red Horn Gate is also a place where orcs often plunder. This passage connecting Eriador and Rovanian has long been cut off.
Therefore, there have been no major surprises in the past few days.
However, when Allen led his team and appeared in the second hall carrying large and small bags, Daine was extremely surprised. He knew that the ancestors were in a hurry when they withdrew from Moria, and they must have stayed behind.
Made a lot of wealth.
But this place has been vacant for nearly a thousand years. Those savage orcs who are keen on looting have looted the entire Khazad-dum more than once. It is really unexpected that so much wealth can be found at this time.
However, it is always a good thing to gain more. Although the Durin clan who occupies the Lonely Mountain does not lack wealth, they do not have much mithril reserves. Naturally, the more of this precious metal, the better, and throughout the whole
Before the team set off, he negotiated with Allen on behalf of Thorin and the result was that the loot would be seven and three would be opened.
They get 30%, and Allen gets 70%. In Dine's opinion, this is a more reasonable distribution plan. After all, the plan was proposed by Allen, and most of the troops are also Allen's personal guards.
Moreover, the cloaks they wore, the supplies consumed during the journey, and the horses stored in Lothlórien were all prepared by Allen. It can be said that Allen took the biggest risk in this exploration.
Whoever takes the higher risk will get more loot. The dwarves still understand this simple truth, especially Din, who is smarter than others among the dwarves.
In Allen's view, this distribution plan is acceptable. After all, the resources he wants to obtain were all belonging to the Durin clan thousands of years ago. Although the dwarves voluntarily gave up Kaza because of the Balrog.
Dumu, but they never said that they would voluntarily give up the ownership of those wealth.
Moreover, when Dine and Allen were discussing the terms, they made a special statement, that is, if the expedition team finds an heirloom belonging to the Durin family, it must be distributed to the dwarves, and the dwarves will also give up part of themselves.
Loot, to thank Alan for finding their treasure on this adventure.
In fact, when he discovered the treasure room in the Sixteenth Hall, Alan used his own abilities to start looking for the heirloom of the Durin family, the Ax of Durin.
In his memory, Balin, who had recaptured Moria in a short time, found this treasure, so theoretically speaking, the ax should still be in Moria.
However, Allen, who quickly found the Ax of Durin, had a very strange expression on his face. He originally thought that the Ax of Durin was stored in a secret room like the many treasures he found.
However, this is not the case. The short-handled battle ax that was supposed to emit silver light was now regarded as an ordinary trophy and was thrown into a pile of armor that was not suitable for orcs.
Among them, it can be said that it is unremarkable.
The stone room where the trophies only exist is full of chaotic orcs, and a tall but dark-faced guy is sitting on a funny but very rare throne and thinking.
It's funny because the throne is made of many dwarf armors, and it was obviously very perfunctory when it was built. It can be said to be crooked and awkward. There are also more than a dozen dwarf helmets randomly inserted into the wood.
on a stick as a decoration for the throne.
However, the surface that was supposed to be silver was all turned into pitch black by the orcs.
It is said to be rare because Allen knows that the entire throne is probably armor made of mithril, but the orcs have not mastered the method of handling mithril and cannot refining the armor.
And this black-faced orc leader was unwilling to dedicate all his trophies to Sauron in Mordor, so he built such a weird throne to show his identity.
And the heirloom of Durin's family, the Ax of Durin, is inserted as a decoration on the back of the throne. It really has no prestige.
However, if Allen wants to get it, it may really take some effort.