A certain sword soul's infinite journey

Chapter 401 Heading towards the Lonely Mountain!

Looking at the bewildered black-haired man, Legolas said indifferently: "These are just deposits. I will give you the same amount of gold after the matter is completed."

The black-haired man was surprised and delighted, and quickly lowered his head to check the bag in his hand.

After confirming that it was indeed real gold, the black-haired man raised his head melancholy.

"It seems that your destination is really that lonely mountain..."

"Didn't I tell you before?"

"I thought you guys were testing my courage before, but seeing these heavy gold..." The black-haired man shook his head and did not continue.

"So?" Legolas frowned slightly, "Are you going to answer or not?"

"Yes, of course!" The black-haired man stuffed the gold into his arms decisively, looked at Seymour and Legolas and said in a deep voice, "But I have one more request."

"Say."

"I want to send this gold to my family with my own hands."

"..."

Seymour couldn't help twitching the corners of his mouth when he saw the black-haired man's expression of death.

"You think too much, this journey is not life-threatening for you, because you only need to send us to the foot of the lonely mountain, and the rest of the journey is our own business."

Seymour explained to the dark-haired man with a smile.

But the black-haired man didn't believe it at all, and kept saying that he had to hand over the reward to his relatives before he could rest assured.

In desperation, Legolas had no choice but to appoint an elf to follow him back.

Seymour immediately put forward different opinions. He stopped Legolas' behavior, took Bilbo instead, and followed the black-haired man back to his home in Long Lake Town.

In Seymour's words, they will go together later, and getting to know their companions in advance will help the next journey.

When it was all said and done, Legolas could only agree.

The black-haired man didn't raise any objections either. After all, he had obtained so much gold in advance, and he would never let himself leave the pier alone.

Walking on the road in Changhu Town, the black-haired man felt the heavy gold in his arms, and his heart was as heavy as the gold.

That is the lonely mountain inhabited by evil dragons!

Thinking of the stories he heard when he was young, the black-haired man felt a moment of silence in his heart.

In his eyes, these golds are no longer just hard-earned hard-earned money, but expensive hard-earned money.

The descendants of Girion have fallen to such a state...

The black-haired man couldn't help laughing at himself.

Seymour turned his head and glanced at him, thought for a while and said.

"Let's get to know each other, my name is Seymour Salomanda, an elf, as you see, and he is Bilbo Baggins, a hobbit of the Shire."

"...Just call me Bud."

The tone of the black-haired man Bud is not very kind, but it is still calm.

Seymour continued to ask, "What do you do?"

"I am a member of the Changhu Town Guard, an archer."

"what?"

Both Seymour and Bilbo opened their eyes a little, wide-eyed.

"Are you a member of the Town Guard? I thought you were a boater or a fisherman!"

"What's strange about this." Bud glanced at them. "There's nothing to do in the guard, so we all find some side jobs to support our families."

"Why, do you have very little salary?"

"It's more than a little." Bud sneered, "The current mayor of Changhu Town is a greedy miser. We call him a 'money bag' in private. I can also understand."

Both Seymour and Bilbo nodded understandingly.

Seymour thought for a while and said in a low voice: "If you want, we can teach that mayor a lesson before we leave."

"Forget it!" Bud shook his head, "My family will still live in this town."

"What if we kill the mayor?"

"No, I'm afraid the new mayor elected will be even more greedy than this."

"..."

Seymour curled his lips and decided to change the subject: "Who are the relatives in your family?"

"One wife, three children."

"No wonder you are so short of money."

"..." The corner of Bud's mouth twitched slightly, and he turned his head and glanced at Seymour, "What about you? Are the whole group going to Lonely Mountain? In that case, I may not have enough boats, and I need to borrow some more."

"No, we are the only ones going to Gushan."

"Only you?"

Bud paused slightly.

Seymour smiled and said: "With fewer people, the target is smaller, and the chance of being discovered will decrease accordingly, and your chances of coming back alive will increase. Why, you still want to form a fleet, before you get close to the lonely mountain Was it discovered by Smaug the Dragon in the Lonely Mountain when he was still alive?"

"..."

Bud smiled wryly again, shook his head and walked forward.

"It's almost there, my home is in front of me."

"Go quickly, we are waiting for you here."

Standing in this somewhat remote alley, Seymour pulled Bilbo to stop.

Bud turned around in surprise: "Aren't you afraid that I will run away with the gold?"

Seymour shook his head: "You have a wife and three children, and we have an entire elf guard and dozens of energetic horses. Even if you want to run, how far can you run?"

"makes sense."

Bud nodded, turned and walked into a house.

Through some dilapidated windows, Seymour and Bilbo vaguely saw that Bard handed over the bag of gold to a fairly good-looking woman. Beside the woman, there were several shorter figures. His child is gone.

Not long after, Bud came out accompanied by the woman.

"Okay, we can go."

Bud walked up to Seymour and Bilbo calmly.

Behind him, two small girls hid behind the door and looked at Seymour secretly. They seemed to be amazed at the beauty of the elf, but the expression of Bard's wife was much calmer. After seeing Seymour and Bilbo, she was just deeply moved. bowed.

"Thank you for your generosity!"

"It's what Bud deserves."

Seymour nodded and returned the salute gracefully.

Bilbo on the side was taken aback for a moment, and quickly imitated Seymour in returning the salute.

Saying goodbye to Bud's family, the three returned to the pier again.

Legolas and the elves had stocked Bard's ship with enough food and other necessities such as tents.

Seymour and Legolas hugged and bid farewell, and one man, one elf, and one hobbit boarded the ship like this, and drifted towards the Lonely Mountain under the watchful eyes of many elves at the pier.

The blue waves are rippling, and the boats are floating.

Seeing the pier and Legolas getting farther and farther away, Seymour couldn't help but look away, and turned to look at the real destination of this trip - Lonely Mountain!
Looking at the suddenly protruding mountain in his field of vision, Seymour couldn't help feeling a little excited and moved.

Although this journey has not been accompanied by Master from the very beginning, but also because of this, he has embarked on a real adventure, an adventure that truly belongs only to him.

Legolas, Tauriel, Thranduil, Thorin Oakenshield, Bilbo Baggins...

Elves and dwarves, dragons and braves, these story bridges that could only be seen in novels and video works, now really happened to him.

This couldn't help but make Seymour very excited.

With more interactions with the characters in this world, Seymour becomes more and more addicted to this adventurous atmosphere.

If at the beginning Seymour participated in order to complete the trial task or experience the experience of 'adventuring with the master', then now Seymour is taking the risk simply to complete this adventure.

The same is true of Bilbo on the side.

But he was not as clearly aware of his yearning for adventure as Seymour was, but he found a very sufficient reason for himself——

That is to steal the white diamond necklace and the Akon gem, and rescue Thorin and other dwarf friends!

On the boat drifting downstream, while rowing, Bud skillfully avoided the hidden reefs according to the river map, while silently looking at Seymour and Bilbo opposite with different expressions.

After a long time, he suddenly asked, "You are not dwarves, why do you have to go to the lonely mountain?"

Seymour came back to his senses and looked at him suspiciously.

"What do you mean, do the dwarves have to go?"

"...Not necessarily, but there are similar sayings."

"What do you say?"

Seymour was puzzled, and Bilbo turned his head curiously.

Bud pondered for a while, then sighed: "There have been some ballads about the king of the mountain in Changhu Town since ancient times, which described the arrival of the evil dragon and the demise of Hegu Town, and also predicted that one day in the future, the death of the Dwarf King The orthodox heirs Thor and Thorne will return here, gold will flow from the mountains, and the earth will be shrouded in new laughter and songs..."

"Do you believe in these prophecies?"

"I do hope it actually happens," Bud said with a sigh.

Seymour patted him on the shoulder with a smile: "Don't worry, it will happen! But not with a group of dwarves driven away by a dragon, but with an elf and a hobbit!"

Bud: "..."

Bilbo: "..."

This is what he said, it has nothing to do with me!
Bilbo pursed his lips and looked aside, but in the depths of his heart that he didn't even realize, a throb called excitement and longing was slowly fermenting.

(End of this chapter)