[The Silmarillion] Romimus

For a moment, Glorfindel had mixed feelings.

He had to realize this clearly. That person was never a dumb orphan with a poor background, nor was she a well-behaved and shy beautiful girl, nor was she even just a cunning and cunning liar. Descending into the world, the real god who is second only to Vera in power and talent in Yiya is another existence that is not the same as "Lanwen" in the slightest.

Of course, on the bright side, at least they have hope to get rid of these two Balrogs, right?As for the reason for Romimos' sudden help, Glorfindel didn't want to think too much about it. He would rather believe that Romimos was so angry that he couldn't swallow this breath and wanted to use his hand to teach those two things a lesson, and he didn't want to admit it. The two of them really have that disgusting so-called "feeling".The person who spent hundreds of years with him was Lan Wen, not some Romimos.

Romemos winked at him and mouthed: "Make a fist."

Glorfindel subconsciously complied, and was annoyed when he realized it.He and Lan Wen have been together for too long, so long that the other party doesn't need to say it, Glorfindel can immediately understand her meaning with a look and a gesture, and naturally he doesn't think about whether the other party is not at ease, but now , obviously he still couldn't help treating Romimos as Lan Wen, which is not a good habit, if Romimos thought about it, it might be more than enough for her to use this to kill Glorfindel a hundred times without repeating the same.

But this time he was overthinking. When Glorfindel clenched his fist reflexively, nothing terrible happened. Instead, the light at his hand flowed rapidly like running water, and condensed within a few seconds. It became the shape of a long sword, exactly the same as Glorfindel's previous one, except that it was much lighter in weight, or basically weightless.

"Get out of here!" Glorfindel hadn't recovered, and Romimos's exasperated shout sounded from the side, "Why are you so dazed?! I gave you the sword, cut it! !"

Glorfindel reacted, dodged the Balrog's oncoming attack with a sideways move, took a small step back, and before the Balrog could retract the whip in his hand, he forced himself forward with his feet, swung his sword straight cut off.

In fact, Glorfindel had no idea what the effect of this blow would be. Although Romimos said solemnly that he was holding a sword in his hand, it was too light and had no real sense at all. Mimos was deliberately playing him, but he is really unarmed now, so he can only bite the bullet.

The Balrog could block it before it had time, and repeated the same trick. It reached out to grab Glorfindel's blade, trying to destroy the opponent's weapon with flames and brute force, but this time it missed a false grab, what? He couldn't hold it either, Glorfindel's sword passed through his palm like a phantom, there was no pain, no resistance, and there was not even a sound of cutting muscles and bones.

The Balrog grinned, wanting to laugh and taunt the elf and Romimos for a meal, this kind of deceitful little trick couldn't hurt a single hair on it.

But before its laughter came out of its throat, something fell to the ground with a plop. It was half a huge palm and two fingers. words of blood.

"Idiot." Romimos sneered, as if everything was in her expectation.

The Balrog belatedly realized that the situation seemed to be a little bad. They had never paid attention to Maya, who had never shown her true strength. If they had known this earlier, how could they have been so arrogant?

"You, you liar!" it yelled at Romimus in horror and fear, "You have never served Lord Melkor wholeheartedly, you—"

Its curses and curses could not be finished, and Glorfindel did not give it another second. He jumped high into the air with his feet, and Romimos looked at him. For a moment, his He was almost taller than the gigantic monster in front of him, his blond hair shone like the sun above the sky, his eyes were blue and deep like a stormy sea brewing in the distance below the sea level, his face was even more majestic and handsome than many Mayas, There was astonishing power in his well-defined arms, and he cut off the head of the Balrog in front of him with a single sword. The huge head rolled to the ground, still emitting flames and billowing smoke, but it seemed to be burnt out after a while. It went out like a burnt coal fire, and a few sporadic scarlet sparks finally lit up, and then the whole body turned into a slag-like powder.

Glorfindel fell to the ground lightly, and before he had time to catch his breath, a scream came from Romimos, which made his nerves tense again in an instant.

It turned out that the other Balrog finally saw that Romimos was not a good person, so he gave up attacking Glorfindel and went to her instead. What other strange tricks, just holding a huge ax and a fire whip, pressing forward step by step, not giving Romimos a chance to stop and play tricks.

Romimos managed to gain a bit of Maiya's prestige just now, but when he needed to face it head-on, he faltered in an instant. Being chased by the Balrog, he fled here and there, in a state of embarrassment. To hide, I can only cover my eyes and resign myself to fate.

Fortunately, Glorfindel arrived in time and repelled the opponent without delay. The Balrog knew that he was powerful, and he could suppress the opponent by relying on his body full of fire, but now it was useless, and he was terrified at first. , Did not dare to fight recklessly, but was beaten back again and again, and was forced to the edge of the cliff. When dodging, he panicked and stepped on the air, and fell down like this.

When Romemos opened his eyes tremblingly, he saw Glorfindel looking down at her sternly.

She was just about to say something, when a flash flashed in front of her eyes, the sword in the opponent's hand brushed her temples and pierced into the stone wall behind her.

It's really a turn of events, Romemos thought of the scene when he held a sword on the opponent's neck not long ago, and wanted to laugh but couldn't.

"Really? After working together to defeat the enemy, the first thing you have to do is kill the person who helped you?"

"It's two different things." Glorfindel replied blankly, "Besides, you've done it all yourself."

"Yes, I betrayed Gondolin, and I deserve to die." Romimos was not afraid of him at all, instead he raised his head and looked at Glorfindel provocatively, "In that case, why don't you let the Balrog Wouldn’t it be enough to kill me with one whip? Why bother to save me? And it’s still twice.”

Glorfindel avoided her gaze.

"Just admit it, you actually still like me." Romimos said excitedly, looking expectant, "Isn't it?"

Glorfindel was silent for a long time before shaking his head.

"No," he said, "I pushed you away in a knee-jerk reaction because you looked so much like her—"

"with who?"

"Lan Wen."

Romemos couldn't help laughing: "What is like? Am I not Lan Wen!"

"No, you are not her. Lan Wen is a mute. She is not as 'powerful' or 'smart' as you, nor is she as vicious as you. She is a simple and good girl."

"It's all my show, it's fake." Romimos said angrily, "If you say so, there has never been such a person as 'Lan Wen' in the world!"

The corners of Glorfindel's mouth twitched upwards. He probably wanted to laugh at himself, but he didn't.

"No, she used to exist." He insisted.

"Where? Is it in your brain full of fantasies?" Romimos satirized him.

"I loved her in my heart," said Glorfindel quietly, "but now she died with Gondolin."

"Well, that's what you said!" Romimos went mad with anger, "Since you hate me so much, then you might as well kill me with a sword, right now, do it!"

As soon as she finished speaking, she regretted it, what if Glorfindel was really willing to kill her...

"I will not kill you." Glorfindel sighed, and he let go of the hilt of his sword, which shattered into light and disappeared. "Any one of Gondolin could kill you, But I won't, no matter what you think, you really didn't kill me at that time, and we will not owe anyone else in the future, so you can do it yourself."

"So we're even now?" Romemos immediately regained his spirits, "Then let's start all over again, shall we? I'm wrong about what happened before, and I won't do it again, okay?"

"You don't really feel that you are wrong at all," Glorfindel pointed out.

"Yes, I just want to make you happy." Romemos readily admitted, "How?"

Glorfindel stared at her for a long time (like looking at a strange flower), then shook his head: "No."

"You're so short!" Romimos became furious. After being angry for a long time, he finally lowered his head in compromise. "Okay, then what do you think I should do to satisfy you?"

"I just said that I won't kill you this time. It doesn't mean that I forgive you. What you have done this time cannot be forgiven by simply apologizing, not to mention that you are not sincere at all." Groffin Del said bluntly, "To be honest, I'm starting to regret it now, and I will never show mercy when I meet you next time. But if... if you really want to make amends..."

Glorfindel felt terrible, knowing that Romimus could no longer be trusted, but he still had a glimmer of hope—what if she really wanted to change her ways?

"First of all, you can't continue to make mistakes. If Angband's army is really behind, you are the only one who can stop them from going forward."

Romemos nodded: "That's easy to say."

"Then you have to go back to Aman Continent to confess your sins to the Villars and sincerely repent..."

Romemos' eyes changed instantly.

"You want me to go back to Aman Island?!" She interrupted him loudly, took a step back, and tensed her back like a cat that has encountered an enemy.

"This is your only chance for redemption, you can no longer go your own way!"

"Do you know why I escaped from there in the first place? What did I pay for it? Do you know what will happen to me if I go back?!" But Romimos was so excited that he couldn't listen to Glorfindel at all. "I can promise you anything, but this is the only thing, absolutely, impossible!"

"...Then I have nothing to say to you." Glorfindel turned cold, "You really are hopeless."

"I'm hopeless? Haven't I made enough concessions for you? Why can't you think for me?!" Romimos was angrily and aggrieved, "You—"

Her complexion changed suddenly, and she reached out to pull Glorfindel, but it was still a step too late.

Glorfindel only felt his hair sink suddenly, and then a huge force dragged him down.

It turned out that the Balrog didn't completely fall off the cliff just now, but climbed on a protruding rock on the cliff. At this moment, it regained its strength and took advantage of the quarrel between Romimos and Glorfindel. While chattering, he made a sudden move, wrapped his whip around the hair of Glorfindel, who was facing away from the cliff, and pulled him down with all his strength, and the rocks it was clinging to could not withstand such a big toss, click With a snap, the two fell off the cliff.

Romimos was only a few inches away from catching Glorfindel, watched him fall, and was about to save someone, but Thorondo arrived at this time, volleying He rushed towards her, a pair of claws sharper than the sharpest dagger, grabbed her shoulder fiercely, and Romimos could only run away in a hurry.

"Lord Romimus, you are back. How is the situation ahead?" The group behind Angband was still about to continue hunting down the elves of Gondolin, "Why did you come back alone? What about the people with you? Are you injured?"

"..."

"My lord? My lord!"

Romemos suddenly came back to his senses: "Huh? What's wrong?"

"What's the matter with you? What's going on in front?" the leader of the Angbands, smacking his lips impatiently, asked again.

Romimos kept his head down in thought, his eyes changed several times, and finally he closed his eyes and sighed.

"Turn around and go back!" When she opened her eyes again, she ordered without doubt, "We have been tricked, this road is wrong, there is an ambush ahead."

Although those Balrogs and orcs were a little puzzled and dissatisfied, but looking at the glaring wound on Romimos's shoulder, and the fact that they didn't see the Balrog who went to explore the way with Romimos back, no one was there. Openly raising objections, but it is inevitable that there will be more murmurs and ridicule towards Romimos in the team.

"I told you earlier, this direction is heading towards the base camp of Angband, no matter how stupid those elves are, they can't fall into the net, right?"

"Okay, who made us lead an embroidered pillow that has no skills but loves to be smart? It's bad luck, what else can we do?"

So a large group of people returned to the city of Gondolin to seek pleasure and plunder everywhere. They either robbed or smashed all the valuable things in the city. Gotta go up and chase some fish that slipped through the net.

After three days and three nights of commotion, until the formerly glorious Gondolin was in a mess and completely destroyed, Romimos returned to the court with the troops of Angband.