After the Anduin Valley enters the Frost Moon, the temperature will drop day by day. As the last month of the year, this situation will generally last until after the New Year, when the temperature will improve.
Today, Maia Arien seemed to be absent-minded, driving the spaceship carrying the sun, dodging in the clouds.
Wilderness Town lacks sunlight, and the temperature is much lower than in the past. Under normal circumstances, most people are not willing to go out of their homes.
But now, the city of Wilderness Town is full of busy people, creating a lively scene in the biting cold wind.
Because the annual New Year's banquet will be held in a few days.
Jamila, who is mainly responsible for this matter, issued the order to prepare the New Year's banquet in the name of the cabinet a few days ago.
Under the call of the lord's order, a large number of villagers signed up enthusiastically and began to assist the officials under the cabinet in making various preparations for the banquet.
In the cold wind, they were wearing thick clothes, with warm smiles on their faces, and they cooperated with each other to set up a large number of tents around the site.
From time to time, people would drive horse-drawn carriages or ox-carts to bring large amounts of firewood from outside the city and pile them into brick bonfires.
Judging from the work enthusiasm of these residents and the expressions on their faces, they are in a good mood.
I don’t know if this good mood is for the reward given by Allen, or for the upcoming carnival.
It should have started from the year before last. On the day of the New Year's banquet, the residents of Wilderness Town would put on their best clothes and attend the banquet held by the lord.
Some versatile residents will also set up a performance stage at the banquet venue, and perform some spontaneously organized performances under the light of the rising bonfire, making the banquet even more lively.
This year, the lord of Wilderness Town, because his pockets were bulging, and in order to reward this positive attitude, he took out some silver coins and prepared to award them to the residents who prepared the performances carefully.
From all these signs, we can see that this year’s banquet will be even more lively.
What makes the residents even more happy is that on this day, their lord will invite all the citizens attending the banquet to have a meal. This opportunity is rare and usually only happens once a year.
Although mellow wine is not allowed under the lord's regulations, delicious food can be eaten as much as you like.
As long as you like it, as long as you don't waste it, as long as there is something in the banquet, you can eat whatever you want and as long as you want, until the banquet ends at midnight.
In previous years, the food prepared by Allen has never been shabby. Beef, sheep, deer, fish and other kinds of meat can be eaten openly, fried, roasted, stewed, boiled in various ways, and you can also participate as you like.
The choice of subjects for the banquet.
This year's banquet may feature many different flavors, such as dried meats, sausages, and hobbit delicacies from the Shire.
There are also many varieties of staple food. The chefs will prepare some honey bread, meat pies, steamed buns, etc. However, these staple foods may not be particularly liked by the residents. Just prepare less, otherwise they will have to go door to door after the banquet.
Distributed door to door,
The dazzling array of delicacies prepared by Allen at the banquet are simply a rare thing for the townspeople in Wilderness Town who have just struggled to get enough food and clothing. Most residents can understand that this is the kindness and kindness of the lord.
mercy.
The difference this year is that the banquet celebrating the victory in the Battle of Gushan will be held together with the New Year's banquet.
Allen's plan is to hold it from noon to evening, which is simply double happiness for most people in Wilderness Town.
Originally, Allen planned to issue medals to the soldiers who participated in the war or the families of the soldiers who died during the afternoon on the day of the banquet, and hold a ceremony in front of all the townspeople to increase the soldiers' sense of honor and loyalty.
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However, the dwarves are too strict about gold-carved ornaments. According to Frey's original words, "Everything coming out of our dwarves' hands must be of high quality."
As a result, Allen asked how long it would take, and Frey's reply was that it would be at least until next summer.
Therefore, the matter can only be put on hold for the time being, but the medals must be issued. Allen ordered Fatis to arrange for all officers to issue relevant notices to the soldiers. Once the medals are ready, a ceremony will be held to issue them.
give them.
"Guys, hurry up. Lord Allen has already given instructions. As long as the venue is set up and a warm day is chosen, the banquet can begin."
"good!
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As the officers shouted, there was a loud response from below. These were the soldiers who had returned from the Black Forest.
During their operation, they did not find anything unusual in the Black Forest. After receiving the news, Allen felt a little more at ease.
After these soldiers came back, they immediately participated in the work of setting up the venue under the leadership of the officers.
With their help, the venue layout has been greatly accelerated. It may be completed in less than two days, and then it will be time for the carnival.
In the far southeast of Wilderness Town, there is also a very busy place. It is a dark place wrapped by the Gray Mountains and the Shadow Mountains.
This is Mordor, the base camp that the Dark Lord Sauron has painstakingly managed. The sky here is always filled with dark clouds, and it is an evil place where even the sun cannot shine.
To the northwest of here is an extremely desolate plain, which is called Gordorus.
This plain is filled with smoke and ash-filled deserts. Since the sun has not been seen all year round, it is extremely difficult to see any beautiful life except for dark stones and gravel everywhere.
However, there are a large number of orcs living in this place that scares kind people, and they have built large tracts of dilapidated houses here.
They are either tents made of various fabrics, or simple outposts made of wood or stone. These various, crisscrossed houses form one ugly orc gathering point after another.
But those countless gray-black orcs live like a fish in water in this sunless and harsh environment.
It is worthy of being a minion of the Dark Lord, and it is also worthy of being a life transformed by Morgoth specifically to destroy beautiful things.
The Gray End Mountains and Shadow Mountains surrounding Mordor are extremely high and protect this evil place very well.
If someone wants to send a large army to conquer the dark lord Sauron who has threatened Middle-earth for two eras, then the Udon Valley between these two mountain ranges may be their only choice.
But what makes people despair is that on the outskirts of the Udon Valley is the Gate of Morannon built by Sauron using the power of the Supreme Lord of the Rings.
It is also often called the Black Gate, which is a huge metal gate with eerie fang towers on both sides.
Sauron's minions patrol it day and night, overlooking the Death Swamp and the War Plains outside the Black Gate.
If you want to attack Sauron's base camp through here, you must either use flying troops and seize control of the gate by surprise attack, or you must be prepared to use the lives of soldiers to kill the enemy.
If you are a small number of people, you can also climb all the way to Ulith Ugoll through Minas Morgul, and enter Mordor from there, which is the route Frodo chooses in the movie.
In addition, the Harlanders in the south and the Runes in the north guard both sides of Mordor. As long as you attack either side, you are likely to be attacked by at least two groups of enemies. It has to be said that Sauron will run this place.
It's like an iron bucket.
The Gray End Mountain Range and the Shadow Mountain Range are covered with snow all year round, making it extremely difficult for ordinary people to pass through. When the weather is warm, the snow will turn into snow water and flow down the hillside, eventually flowing into the Nurnen Inland Sea.
Of course, it might be more accurate to say it is a dark and huge lake.
Surrounding this lake is a large area of quite fertile land called Nuln, located in the south of Mordor.
There are a large number of naked and skinny human slaves cultivating the land here. Sauron will use most of the food they produce to feed the army he has gathered, and what is left for those human slaves is only enough.
It's just to ensure that they don't starve to death, or what if they starve to death? Zoro doesn't care.
Starving to death is actually not the most desperate thing. What is even more desperate is that if the world does not change, then the descendants of these human slaves will also be Sauron's slaves forever.
The number of these human slaves has been increasing over the years, and most of them come from the territory of Gondor.
However, the only thing that gave these humans some comfort in their despair was that the land of Nurn was one of the few places in Mordor where the sun could be seen.
But now, some poor humans have come to the Gorgoroth Plains where the sun cannot even be seen. They were driven by the orcs to the end of the long slopes of the Gray End Mountains. This is the old site of Barad-dur, and it has
Another more well-known name is the Evil Black Tower, or Sauron's Big Eye.
This is the base camp where the Dark Lord rules the Mordor region. Here you can overlook the entire Gorgoroth Plain and the large land beyond the Black Gate.
At the end of the Second Age, during the siege of Barad-dur, when the Ring was cut off from Sauron's hand by Yinsildur's sword, Sauron's form was destroyed. At that time, Barad-dur
Durr was also destroyed, but because the Ring was not thrown into the flames of doom by Yinsildur, the foundation of Baradur has remained to this day.
Sauron's loyal servants, the nine Nazgûl, have been silently preparing for their master's return for hundreds of years, and now the time has come.
In fact, Sauron's original body was buried with the entire island when Númenor sank. Only his soul escaped from the sea at that time.
The form that Sauron used to kill Gil-galad and Elendil at the end of the Second Era was formed by the power of the Supreme Lord of the Rings. Therefore, at that time, the Supreme Lord of the Rings had just been killed by Yinsildur.
Under the pressure, Sauron's soul could no longer hold on and suffered heavy losses.
Now, Sauron, back in Mordor, urgently needs the power of Barad-dur to help his soul maintain a stable form.
However, those human slaves who were driven here, in such an extremely harsh environment, and coupled with the inhumane beatings of the Uruks, would soon die here and fall into the mouths of some evil things.
"Pa" "Pa" "Pa"
"You scum, move faster, haven't you eaten yet?"
The shouting Uruk overseers waved their whips wantonly, beating the human slaves who were working.
And their kind, the ordinary half-orcs they nicknamed Snaga, could not escape the fate of being whipped.
It turned out that in order to speed up the construction, the nine Nazgûl also summoned a considerable number of Snaga to build the Tower of Barad-dûr together with the human slaves, so that their masters would not appear like a black smoke in the sky every day.
Floating everywhere.
At this time, the black smoke was flowing fiercely back and forth in the high sky near Barad-dur, and within the black smoke was a team of wolf cavalry who was reporting the situation to him.
Obviously, only the news of Azog's defeat and death in Gushan could make Sauron so excited.
A stream of gloomy sounds accompanied by black smoke spread from the sky to all directions,
This chapter is not over, please click on the next page to continue reading! "The plan has failed, Azog is dead, stupid humans, greedy dwarves, fragile elves, they will surely perish."
As Sauron's thoughts turned, Kohamul in the Ring Spirit drove the flying beast under him to fly toward the northeast, where the Rune people lived.
This Ringwraith will follow his master's orders and go to summon the leader of a Dongyi tribe, but Hamul knows that soon the east of Rovanion will no longer be peaceful.
Allen knew nothing about the movements of Mordor. He was sitting opposite Kress, thinking about how to speak.
At this moment, Kress, who was sitting upright, was thinking crazily in his mind about whether he had done anything recently that would make Allen angry.
"Is it because Allen found out about teasing Yatiman before? No, he should have scolded me long ago!"
"Did someone see me secretly wearing Sister Yamila's necklace? That's not right, I returned it right away? I remember there was no one around?"
Kress, who was sitting on the chair, went through all his recent memories and couldn't find the reason why he was suddenly summoned by Allen alone.
This kind of special treatment made her feel a little scared.
Kress, who has lived in poverty since she was a child, has actually seen quite a lot of the dark side of human nature. When she was young, the ugly faces of her relatives when they robbed her family's land left a deep impression on her young heart.
As she grew up little by little, and even started to help the lord and do some shady things, she saw more and more dark sides of human nature.
At that time, Kress believed that all lords or nobles were the kind of guys who were bright on the outside but dirty on the inside.
Fortunately, her life did not last long. That day, she met Allen who was under siege in the back alley of a pub in Veruga.
At that time, the lord was just the leader of a small mercenary group, and his combat effectiveness was far from as powerful as it is now.
In the back alley of the tavern, Allen was holding a gleaming elite scimitar and entangled with several masked assassins in the snow.
Under the leadership of a thoughtful person, the noise in the tavern even covered up the sound of their fierce fight.
Kress, who was passing by, could tell at a glance that the young man under siege was almost unable to hold on anymore, and his life would disappear on the snow here at any time.
Originally, according to Kress's personality at the time, she would most likely not mind such nosy matters.
At a glance, Allen was dressed as a young man from a noble family. The continent of Calradia was in such chaos, and countless nobles died under assassinations.
Rescue a noble young man? Kress has little interest in this.
However, fate obviously had some plans for this little girl. Of course, it is also possible that the actions of those masked assassins were too obscene and touched Kress's sense of justice hidden in his heart.
With the help of several flying knives, Allen quickly eliminated the enemy in front of him. Since then, Kress has followed Allen. She was less than 14 years old at the time.
The top-grade elite scimitar in Allen's hand, as well as the top-grade horse that was later named "Sapphire", were also given to Kress by Allen as a thank-you gift at that time.
From then on, Kress, who followed Allen, started a different life.
Under Allen's care and scolding, the little girl has changed a lot, but over the years, this bold little girl has become more and more concerned about Allen's scolding.
Therefore, whenever Allen calls her alone, she feels that she is on the verge of being scolded.
"Kress, I heard from Beorn that you have mastered the ability to communicate with animals, is that true?"
"Ah? Ah! Yes, boss, is there anything you want me to do?"
Kress felt a little anxious, but immediately became excited again. As long as Allen didn't scold her, everything could be discussed.