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Chapter 213 Fate, Struggle!
Rohan West.

Near human settlements, villages, and towns near the Eshin River.

At this time, flames were everywhere and thick smoke billowed.

A team of old leather armor, armor, and even no defensive equipment, just wearing sweaters, yellow-faced and black-toothed warriors crazily ravaged the people belonging to the Kingdom of Rohan.

Men, children, and the elderly were massacred at will, and women were either insulted on the spot or kidnapped directly.

A lot of cries, screams, fighting, madness, and excited cries resounded through the entire sky.

The troops who burned, killed and looted here were naturally from the vanguard army under Isengard Saruman, the black barbarians who hated the Kingdom of Rohan extremely.

Also followed the attack of the black barbarians.

Saruman's long-coveted war against Rohan has begun.

Edoras.

Inside the Golden Palace.

When Theoden's eyes receded from the darkness, it became bright.

When she saw clearly the beautiful figure crouching in front of her was her niece Eowyn, whom she had not seen for a long time.

Theoden's extremely chaotic head is also rapidly becoming sober.

When he looked away from the face of his niece who was weeping with joy, he looked up and saw a tall, familiar figure in a white robe standing there, he couldn't help but look surprised and said: "Gandalf"

"Enjoy breathing freely again..."

Gandalf nodded to him, and spoke softly.

Hearing Gandalf's words, the memories in Theoden's mind were already recovering quickly in such a short time.

With some difficulty, he stood up slowly with the support of Éowyn, and looked at the people in front of him, especially the "Chief Adviser" Grima, who was so pale and frightened that he was trampled under his feet by the dwarves.

At this moment, the chaotic memories in Theoden's mind were almost linked together.

"No wonder my recent dreams are always dark."

"It seems like I'll never wake up"

Theoden looked down at his dirty hands slowly clenched, and murmured.

"As long as you can hold the long sword, I believe you can easily regain your former strength."

Gandalf said with a smile, and stepped back slightly to stand with Morgan.

The voice fell.

A footstep sounded quickly.

In the main hall at the back, the warrior leader who saw the king's attribute couldn't hide his excitement, and immediately brought a long sword and handed it forward.

"His Majesty."

The warrior leader spoke excitedly.

Theoden stretched out his hand to hold the hilt, and slowly drew out the long sword.

"Whoa."

The trembling hand at the beginning gradually became stable as he slowly pulled out the long sword.

"Wow!"

Finally, when Theoden pulled out the long sword completely, his hand holding the long sword no longer trembled.

At this moment, Theoden had already remembered everything.

He turned his head suddenly and looked at Grima who was being trampled by the dwarves. The anger on his face reached its peak in the instant he was awake.

Theoden stepped forward immediately, and just stepped down the low steps, which immediately made his extremely weak body shake. The nearest Morgan reached out to help Theoden.

Eowyn, who was in front of the throne, stepped forward quickly. She was anxious and supported her uncle, and at the same time grabbed Morgan's hand.

Morgan smiled at EOWIN.

Immediately realizing the wrong grasp, Éowyn let go of Morgan's hand.

A faint blush flashed across his face.

At this time, Theoden had already stood firm, holding his sword and walking towards the restrained Grima with an angry face.

Morgan immediately let go of the other party, allowing Éowyn to support King Theoden.

Seeing the king coming, Jinli immediately raised his feet, and Grima looked at the king approaching with a sword, his expression extremely terrified.

Theoden raised his hand and stabbed at it with a sword, but he was still too weak, and his movement was half a beat slow, and was dodged by Grima who hurriedly crawled back.

"Your Majesty, Your Majesty, please let me go."

Grima backed away with a sound of panic.

Theoden chased after a few steps with an angry expression, and then he was a little out of breath.

Everyone seemed to know that the king was going to take care of Grima himself, but no one else took any action.

Seeing the situation, Grima didn't dare to run away. He just looked at the panting king and hurriedly shouted in panic, "Your Majesty, I really only want to serve you, Your Majesty!"

"Serve me?"

"Is it to use magic to let you manipulate me like a puppet?"

"You almost made me crawl on the ground like a beast, Grima!"

Theoden gritted his teeth and said bitterly, the anger in his words was not concealed at all, and there was no need to conceal it.

"boom!"

Theoden slashed again, but was dodged by Grima again.

"Your Majesty, that was not my intention."

"It's all Saruman!"

"Saruman asked me to do it, Your Majesty!"

Sensing King Theoden's killing intent, Grima defended loudly, and stepped back even more quickly.

"catch him!"

Seeing Grima who wanted to run, Theoden immediately made a sound.

next second.

The warrior leader and another warrior immediately pushed Grima to the ground.

At this moment, Grima, unable to escape, saw Theoden approaching and immediately screamed like a pig.

"Your Majesty!"

"Forgive me, see that I have been loyal to you all these years."

Grima cried and struggled.

"To shut up!"

"I will forgive you"

Theoden who stepped forward shouted angrily, and then raised his long sword: "So, today is the day of death!"

After Theoden finished speaking, he immediately chopped down the long sword in his hand.

At this time, Morgan followed Theoden, watching Theoden raised his sword and slashed at Grima. He had no intention of helping Grima like Aragorn in the memory plot.

He remembered that in the plot memory, Aragorn helped Grima block King Theoden's long sword, but what he got was a mouthful of phlegm from the real villain Grima.

Morgan can't be as generous as Aragon.

If he were Aragorn, when Grima spit out that phlegm, he would definitely not be able to resist killing Grima.

Even if he knew that Grima was related to Saruman behind him.

But Morgan didn't care, so he wouldn't wrong himself for other things.

It was as if he was watching Theoden swinging his sword at Grima indifferently right now.

At the same time, he has always been a little curious, if Aragorn hadn't stopped him in the plot memory, would Theoden have killed Grima?

Now, the answer is at hand.

"No, Your Majesty!"

Grima, whose hands were pinned down, watched Theoden's sword falling with a cold light in his hand, and shouted in horror, "Your Majesty!"

"what"

With Grima's frightened sound, the long sword fell down.

"puff"

Blood splattered.

Theoden cut one of Grima's legs with his sword.

Theoden was obviously going to end Grima's life just now, but the opponent struggled to break free, avoiding the sword of Theoden, who was weak at this time.

"what"

"Your Majesty, please forgive me, Your Majesty!"

Grima looked at Theoden's long sword raised again in horror, begging miserably.

Inside the Golden Palace, all the ministers and guards stood aside and watched coldly.

Given the crimes committed by Grima, it would not be too much to die a few times.

Not to mention anything else, it was his crime of not giving Rohan's only prince "Theojed" a good treatment, which led to his death.

Grima is pretty darn good.

Therefore, Morgan didn't have any intention of speaking for Grima like Aragorn.

He watched all this with interest.

Morgan wondered if Grima was going to die here after all.

But Gandalf, who was standing beside him, couldn't stand anymore.

The moment Theoden raised his long sword and struck down again, Gandalf stepped forward and stopped Theoden with his hand.

"Your Majesty, you have already punished him, so it is better to save his life."

"Such a guy, he will get the retribution he deserves, and he will die where he is needed more."

Gandalf stopped King Theoden from speaking in a deep voice.

Though he did not explain everything, Theoden could understand what Gandalf was saying.

Although Theoden really wanted to kill Grima.

However, the meaning hidden in Gandalf's words made him sober up a lot, and it also reminded him of the correct words that Gandalf came to persuade him, and he was saved by Gandalf just now, and now Grima's leg is gone. was scrapped.
Various thoughts quickly flashed through his mind.

After a while, Theoden let go of the sword in his hand.

It's just that he was a little unwilling to let Grima go like this.

next second.

Theoden pushed away Gandalf and Éowyn beside him, strode forward, and kicked Grima hard on Grima's bloody leg that had been slashed open.

"what!"

"what"

"what"

Grima groaned in pain.

Oshidun lifted his feet several times in a row until he was out of breath and then stopped.

"Throw him out."

Taking a few deep breaths, Theoden looked at Grima in front of him and said in disgust.

The warrior leader and a warrior immediately set up Grima's weak body and dragged it outward.

After Theoden finished speaking, he turned around and walked slowly towards the throne behind him.

Everyone around watched this scene and immediately began to discuss it.

Morgan looked at the traces of blood being dragged out on the ground of the hall, and at the back of Grima, who was howling in pain like death, and his thoughts were ups and downs.

After all, that fellow Grima did not die here.

Without Aragorn, Gandalf appeared and stopped him, which is unexpected and reasonable after thinking about it.

Without my own intervention, the development of the plot will continue to develop in an orderly manner according to the original track.

But his own participation: For example, he just killed Grima.

The plot will definitely change.

But for Morgan now, unless he feels the need, he will not change the plot randomly.

After all, the unchanged plot is the biggest benefit for him.

Dang Grima's screams disappeared outside the main hall door.

Morgan turned his head, and King Theoden had reappeared standing in front of the throne, looking seriously at everyone in the hall.

Everyone bowed at once, as did Morgan and several members of the expedition.

Theoden sat down on the throne amidst the etiquette of the crowd. Looking at the crowd standing up, he suddenly noticed that a figure was not there.

"My son, where is Siojed?"

King Theoden looked at the people in the hall and said.

The voice fell, and the entire hall fell silent for an instant.

The four members of Morgan's expedition are fine.

Eowyn and all the ministers of Rohan indeed lowered their heads with ugly expressions.

No one dared to answer this question for Theoden who had returned from sobriety.

At this moment, the entire hall was extremely silent.

Theoden glanced across the faces of the ministers below, and all the ministers he swept immediately bowed their heads in shame, wishing to lower their heads into their crotches so that the king could not see him.

Seeing everyone's reactions, Theoden, who was originally only puzzled, seemed to have thought of something, and his complexion quickly became ugly.

"Eowyn, my dear boy."

"Tell me, where is Chiojed?"

Theoden looked at his niece and asked softly, with a serious face.

"His Majesty."

"Xiaojie said that he was seriously injured and died last night."

When Eowyn talked about this, tears welled up in her eyes.

The voice fell.

Theoden's body was stiff, and his face froze for a moment.

"Siojde was seriously injured and died"

Éowyn's words made Theoden, who had just woken up, feel confused again.

Theoden only knew that his son Theoded, the only son, was dead
Watching King Theoden sitting on the throne in a daze.

None of the people below made a sound.

Morgan, Gandalf, Legolas and the others couldn't help but sigh in unison when they heard Éowyn's words.

They still remembered that before coming to Edoras, Eomer was still worried about Xiojiede's condition, but it turned out to be doomed.

At this moment, the entire Golden Palace was silent.

in the afternoon.

The gloomy sky began to rain lightly.

Edoras.

Purged of Grima, the greatest betrayer, King Theoden returned sober.

Such an important day should have been celebrated with a big banquet.

But the whole Edoras was shrouded in deep sadness.

The death of Prince Theojed made the Rohan kingdom in a precarious state even more difficult.

Two days later.

The continuous golden hall is inside a side hall.

The bonfire was strong, illuminating the entire hall brightly.

Two half-grown children with ordinary clothes and tired faces were sitting on the long table and gobbling.

Above the main hall, King Theoden, dressed in delicate and simple clothes, sat upright with a serious face.

Beside him sat Gandalf in white robes.

Morgan and Eomel sat at a table and were eating.

Legolas sat at the table with Gimli.

Eowyn squatted beside the older girl of the two children and kept asking her questions.

Finally, after asking clearly, Eowyn stood up and said: "Without any warning, the black barbarians are sweeping across our border west of Rohan. They killed and slaughtered our unarmed people, burned and looted everything they saw along the way." .”

The voice fell.

Theoden, who was sitting on the exclusive throne above, looked more serious and frowned.

"The black barbarians are only a small part of Saruman's strength."

"I think you also heard what Éomer said, the most powerful warriors under Saruman's command: the army of Uruk orcs who are not afraid of the sun has not even begun to move."

"We must not give in, we must confront them head-on, otherwise Saruman will only become more rampant"

After Gandalf answered, he immediately looked at King Theoden beside him and advised him.

The four-person team has been in Edoras for several days.

Start the next day.

Gandalf began his main purpose here: to persuade Theoden to fight against Saruman.

However, Theoden was obviously unmoved.

In front of them, the two children who fled from the edge of the Eshin River in the west of Rohan obviously gave strong support to what Gandalf said.

but.
Theoden glanced at Gandalf beside him, then stood up without saying a word, and left the throne.

Gandalf sighed inwardly, and immediately turned to look at Eomer.

It's just that Eomer, who helped Gandalf and tried his best to persuade Theoden at the beginning, seemed to have understood King Theoden's thoughts, but now he was just silent.

"I understand what you want me to do."

At last Theoden spoke: "But I would not let any more people die."

"Rohan's situation is very dangerous now, and I can't risk fighting."

Theoden looked at Gandalf, and slowly spoke his decision.

"Saruman's army is about to attack, so what will His Majesty the King decide?"

Hearing Theoden's words, Gandalf's complexion sank as quickly as he saw, and he asked back.

Theoden took a deep breath: "Leave Edoras and go to Helm's Deep (Helm's Deep)."

(End of this chapter)