[The Silmarillion] Romimus

"You two, go explore the way with me first." Romemos casually pointed to the two Balrogs closest to her, "Others, half of them stay in the city and continue to clean up the battlefield, and the rest, I Give you half an hour to gather, and then follow the mark I left to chase those fish that slipped through the net."

The two Balrogs named by Romimos stood there hesitating.

Romimos glanced at them sideways, sneered disdainfully, turned his head and left: "I don't care, you don't want to go, there are many people who want to compete for the first place."

These Balrogs used to be Gothmog's subordinates, and they used to look down on Romimos just like their leaders. Who would have thought that the other party would become their quasi-boss at this moment, but they had to obey his orders? Naturally, there are 1 dissatisfaction in her heart, but after weighing the pros and cons, she also knows that what Romimoth said is right. If Gondolin can really be wiped out, then Melkor must be overjoyed, and it is not impossible to give them any rewards. ; Take a step back, Gothmog is dead, what good is it to fight against Romimos?

The two big men who were more than twice as tall as Romimos looked at each other again, and obediently followed.

"Did you hear that?" Glorfindel stopped and looked back with a solemn expression, "Those things are catching up."

Agamos also heard the rumbling thunderous voice, and was very surprised: "How could it be so fast?! This road was secretly repaired by Princess Idril, so it should not be discovered so soon! "

"There's no time to think about how they caught up." Glorfindel said decisively, "Hurry up and take everyone away, and I will try my best to buy you time."

"Are you alone?" Agamos flatly refused, "No, we don't know how many of them there are, but I bet there are more than one Balrog, you can't deal with them alone, I will stay with you."

"Don't talk about these useless things!" Glorfindel frowned. "We are both gone, what about the woman and the child? This road is not easy, and they can't go far by themselves. Fortunately, Angband The large group may not be able to catch up for a while, I will eliminate their vanguard and join you as soon as possible."

Agamos hesitated for a short moment before compromising: "Then you should be careful."

Glorfindel watched the fleeing elves of Gondolin go away, finally heaved a sigh of relief, and turned around to stand ready. At this time, the enemy's footsteps were also very close, and Glorfindel could clearly distinguish them. The loud sound of four feet.

Two Balrogs... Glorfindel smiled wryly in his heart. If he fought one by one separately, he might have a slight chance of winning, but if he had to fight two at the same time, the chance of winning was extremely slim, but even so, he could only Fighting to the death without retreating, until the last breath left.

As the heavy footsteps of the Balrog got closer, he could already see the faint light of the flames from the other side of the valley, and the scorching air waves came from there one by one.

In the increasingly scorching and bright firelight, a shadow first appeared from behind the valley.Glorfindel hid behind a rock, drew his bow and set his arrow, and waited with bated breath, only to shoot the arrow as soon as someone appeared on the opposite side.

Then the man came out from the corner without any haste. His long hair was as black as the shadow of sunset, and his eyes were as bright as the sunset glow of flames.

Glorfindel froze there, his limbs seemed to be frozen instantly.

His first reaction was that Lan Wen was caught by Angband and was forced to lead the way for them, but then he realized that Lan Wen didn't know this secret passage at all, and second, she didn't look like that at all. The fear and despair after being caught was very calm.

"Glorfindel." Romimos raised his head and looked straight at the place where he was hiding, with even a hint of a smile in his eyes, "Come out, I know you are there."

Glorfindel also imagined that if Lan Wen could speak, what kind of voice it would be, perhaps sweet and gentle, perhaps as clear as a bell, but he never imagined that it would be such a deep and mellow voice, even though it was very Pleasant, but completely inconsistent with Lan Wen's usual temperament.

No, that's not Lan Wen at all.

"If you don't come out, then I'll go over." Romemos said, and immediately did what he said.

Just when she was only one step away from Glorfindel's hiding place, Glorfindel jumped out from behind the rock wall like lightning, and pointed the bow and arrow ready to fire at the center of Romimos' eyebrows .

"Who are you?" He heard his own voice struggling out from the back of his throat, like a stranger's voice.

Romemos stopped in his tracks, his eyes flickered, and he answered simply: "Romimos."

Glorfindel's heart sank.

Romimos, the fallen Maia who is as famous as Sauron and Gothmog, is one of the most terrifying demons in the rumors of Angband.

"Where is Lan Wen?"

Romemos gave an odd and twisted smile. "I thought it was obvious enough," she said, "Can't you guess?"

"...you killed her." Glorfindel's voice was full of despair, he looked at Romimos as if he was looking at some disgusting monster, "You still use her face? You don't deserve it at all, no matter how beautiful your skin is, it can't cover up the disgusting inside you."

"Yes, yes. I know you don't want to admit being cheated, even though you and Exilion have suspected me at least a year ago, and you have worked so hard to hide such a big project from me, it's really hard for you guys ’” Romimos sneered, and suddenly changed his tone, “But in any case, I will always be grateful to you, Glorfindel, whether you brought me back to Gondolin, or now I can find Here, it’s all thanks to you, you really helped me a lot.”

Glorfindel didn't realize it for a moment. He was indeed the one who brought back "Lan Wen" back to Gondolin, but: "Why did you find it thanks to me?"

"The ring I gave you," Romemos reminded him thoughtfully, "you really have been wearing it as I said, and I am very happy."

Before she finished her words, the arrow that Glorfindel had been hanging on the string whized out, passing between her eyebrows in an instant, and piercing her head. The distance was so close that she was always on standby at the rear. The two Balrogs in front of him didn't have time to make any moves.

Romimos' body fell straight backwards, and before it touched the ground, it turned into patches of light and dissipated. Just as Glorfindel felt something was wrong, his neck felt cold, and Romimos' short sword was gone. It came from within inches of him diagonally behind.

Such a surprise, if it were someone else, Romimos would have succeeded ninety-nine percent, but unfortunately, the opponent happened to be Glorfindel.He didn't even look back, he clasped Romemos' wrist with a backhand based on his intuition and experience, and then turned around, with the other hand grabbing her shoulder, Romimos was thrown out in a flash. The whole set of actions takes place in just half a second.

Romimos was thrown out in one fell swoop, hit the rock wall beside the mountain with a bang, and then fell hard to the ground with a bang, Glorfindel really didn't show mercy to her, this almost made Romimos Mimos thought all the bones in her body were broken. Fortunately, she is a Maya. If she were an ordinary woman, her brains would be thrown out. Even so, Romimos lay on the ground in pain and could not scream After making a sound, it took a long time before he took a breath and half stood up, looking in the direction of Glorfindel with tears in his eyes, the two Balrogs were already wrestling with him.

Although most elves have an instinctive sense of fear towards the Balrog, Glorfindel is still an opponent that cannot be underestimated. In addition, he is full of grief and anger at the moment, and he is already ready to die. If it is a one-on-one battle , then it is really hard to say who will win and who will lose, but these two Balrogs are not stupid.

Even so, Glorfindel still seized a gap, slashed off the left leg of the Balrog in front of him, severely wounding it.

The Balrog let out an earth-shattering roar, fell down, and knelt on the ground with one leg. Glorfindel pursued the victory and swung out another sword, but he didn't expect that the Balrog ignored the pain and grabbed Glorfindel with his claws. The blade of Del's long sword prevented Glorfindel from drawing back the blade, and at the same time the temperature around it soared, and within a minute or so, Glorfindel's sword was forcibly gripped into powder.

At the same time, taking advantage of Glorfindel's momentary immobility, the Balrog threw out a fire whip from his right hand and entangled Glorfindel's left hand, while the other also saw the timing and shot at the same time, entangled Glorfindel. right foot, forcing him to half kneel down.Under the flames of the whip, Glorfindel's wrists and ankles were scorched in a circle of scorched black marks in an instant, his face instantly turned pale, and beads of sweat rolled down his chin and the ends of his hair It dripped and quickly wet the ground below.

The two Balrogs laughed contemptuously and excitedly, and they couldn't wait to turn to Romemos to ask for credit and show off their power: "My lord, what do you want to do with this thing?"

Romimos' chest was still churning with blood, and he limped up to Glorfindel, holding back his discomfort. The air was filled with a burnt smell.

Romimos couldn't help but sighed inwardly, drew out the long sword, and put it on Glorfindel's neck: "If I had acted more swiftly, you would have suffered less, wouldn't you?"

Glorfindel didn't respond, he just clenched his teeth, his body trembling slightly, whether it was because of the extreme pain caused by the torture, or for some other reason.

Although the two Balrogs next to them spoke out, their expressions were obviously urging Romemos to hurry up and stop pushing, and Romemos also clenched the hilt of his sword tightly.

However, just when Romimos was about to swing his sword, a hand suddenly stretched out from the slanted stab, and tightly clamped her wrist, making Romimos unable to move at all.

The sudden change caught Romimos off guard and was taken aback, but when she turned her head and saw the person who stopped her, her expression was even more horrified, as if she had seen a ghost.

"You can't kill him." Lan Wen said to her.

"You..." Romimos squeezed out a few syllables through his teeth, "Why are you here?! You should be dead, I killed you with my own hands!"

"No, I just hid temporarily, but I will always be with you, just like I can't get rid of you, you can never abandon me." Lan Wen's face was calm, "So give up, you can't do it. "

"Shut up! Shut up! Why do you say that?!" Romimos became furious, "Of course I can kill him, and I won't hesitate at all! If you didn't grab me like this—"

Lan Wen tilted her head, pondered for a moment, and let go of her hand: "Well, I won't stop you, if you are really willing to kill him, just go ahead and kill him."

Romimos froze there, cold sweat rolling down his forehead and temples, "Lan Wen" really did not stop her as she said, and just watched her quietly from the side, with Glorfindel's neck at a distance from her The blade of her sword is less than two inches, and as long as she twists her wrist slightly, she can kill the opponent without any effort, but just like when she choked Elendil's neck, her hand holding the sword seemed like It was like lead, no matter how hard she gritted her teeth, she couldn't shake it.

"Even if you don't want to admit it, I am a part of you." Lan Wen had an expected expression, "You think you can completely separate me from you, but you are wrong, you can only temporarily Just ignore me. Do you think I'm the one who's shaken? No, it's always been you."

After a long time, Romimos lowered his head slightly, the sword in his hand was still on Glorfindel's neck.

She had said long ago that she should not have stayed so many years in Gondolindor.

"Let go of him first." She said in a low voice, and before the Balrog protested, she pretended to be majestic, "Don't make me say everything twice!"

Those two Balrogs naturally refused to accept it, and you were not the one who took so much effort to catch the elf, how could there be any reason to let it go so casually?But they also couldn't guess what kind of medicine was sold in Romimoth's gourd, and the military orders were like mountains, at least on the surface, Romimoth was indeed their immediate commander now.So the two looked at each other, and after hesitating for a while, they still took back the whip together, but they were a little more annoyed at Romimos in their hearts.

However, Romimos is too lazy to care about their psychological activities. It is not a day or two that she and Gosmog and its subordinates have been at odds with each other. Compared with trying to curry favor with them, she has more headaches now. How can I go to Tur to settle accounts.You see, she couldn't just say to Glorfindel directly, "Get out of the way, and I won't kill you."

Romimos knows Glorfindel, or most of these Noldor elves have this virtue, and they don’t turn back without bumping into the south wall. It is much more difficult to persuade or threaten them to change their minds than to kill them. As long as Glorfindel With only one breath left, I am afraid that even if she tries her best, she will not be able to take another step forward from here.

In other words, she has only two choices: simply kill Glorfindel directly, and naturally no one will stop her; but if she chooses not to kill Glorfindel, it means letting go Everyone alive, including Tour.

Romimos didn't really want to drive Gondolin to death. Although Tull killed Maeglin, she was really angry, but she hadn't lost her mind enough to kill Glorfindel in order to avenge Maeglin. The point of killing them together.

The problem now is that she can't be so unscrupulous when she can obviously catch the other party in one go. If she really does this, the two Balrogs next to her will definitely report the matter to the Melkor and Sauron are still undecided how to add fuel to the plot, and she will not say that she wants to leave Angband by then, it will be fine if Melkor doesn't skin her.

After a while, Romimos sighed, his expression suddenly softened, and he even stretched out his left hand to caress Glorfindel's face, and gently wiped away the sweat from his temples.

"I'm not hard-hearted either. Anyway, you and I have been together day and night for hundreds of years. How could I have no feelings for you and just kill you?"

Glorfindel's face turned green.

"I really can't bear to kill you." Romimos flapped his drooping eyelashes one by one, and whispered softly, "So, as long as you come with me, I'll spare your life, how about it? "

Glorfindel's eyes, which had been empty since he was captured by the Balrog, finally refocused at this moment. He raised his head and stared at Romimos, like staring at some disgusting monster.

"You are dreaming." He said word by word.