Lord Stark

Thranduil was indeed well-informed, and he gave an affirmative answer. He had indeed seen this, but it was in Moria.

Moria was an underground city of dwarves 2000 years ago, but after the third era, it was occupied by half-orcs, and the dwarves were forced to retreat to the Lonely Mountain. Later, the Lonely Mountain was occupied by Smaug, and the dwarves tried to return to Moria, but many became slaves to orcs.

Since Moria was favored by the dwarves back then, and a large number of tunnels were dug underground, and a magnificent underground city was built, it shows that there are rich minerals here. Dwarves do not live everywhere, they yearn for wealth Therefore, there are often a large number of mine veins where they are located, and Moria is rich in mithril. Even now after the dwarves have withdrawn, some half-orcs still drive slaves to mine mithril there.

Mithril never exists alone, it is generally an associated mine of gold, silver and other minerals.The elves also participated in the construction of Moria, and Thranduil still remembers this. In the mine veins, Thranduil has seen similar stones. Thinking about it now, these are actually energy crystals. Then, Is it too late to take Moria back now?Taking advantage of the time when the half-orcs suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Gushan?Thranduil thought deeply.

As a king, Thranduil had already begun to imagine the scene when the wood elves monopolized these energy crystals, and he subconsciously ignored the fact that Moria was originally the territory of the dwarves.But it doesn't matter, anyway, it is no longer owned by the dwarves, whoever has the ability will take it away?It's just that at this time, people are a little angry at Roselorien, who is the closest to Moria. They can always occupy the best place, which is too unfair.

Legolas still knows a little about Moria. It wasn’t called this place at first. It was called Khasad-dum. After it fell into the hands of half-orcs, it was called Moria by the elves, which means the dark crack. , below is the bottomless abyss, and it is said that Morgoth's subordinates, the Balrogs, stay below.It is obviously impossible to conquer Moria under their noses, with the current strength of the wood elves.

In the end, Thranduil said regretfully: "I think it's probably not going to work in Moria. Even if there are no orcs, there are other dark races there. You know, Sauron suffered a lot there. , not to mention, there are Balrogs over there, those are not easy to provoke, one Balrog is enough to defeat an army!" Speaking of this, Thranduil felt a little distressed, he seemed to see countless little coins Qian flapped his wings and flew away.

Legolas thought for a while and asked, "Are there no such energy crystals in places other than Moria? Otherwise, where did the ones in Mirkwood come from? Will the dwarves have them?" in stock?"

Thranduil said contemptuously: "What do the dwarves know? They know gold and gems. These energy crystals don't have much brilliance. They look like stones, and they can't be used to make weapons and armor. The dwarves don't care. I will collect these specially! Think about it this way, how many good things they have missed after occupying Moria for thousands of years! However, since these appear in the Mithril mine vein, maybe there are other mine veins, maybe, we should go to Look for the lonely mountain?"

Legolas reminded: "But Ada, the Lonely Mountain is now the territory of the dwarves again!" But he still has a cousin, who is also the king Dann of a dwarf kingdom. In addition, Thorin has several followers. Therefore, Lonely Mountain was brought into the rule of the dwarf kingdom again, and many dwarves migrated here again. However, because the breath of Smaug has not completely dissipated over there, it is difficult to grow food. Therefore, there are not many dwarves who have moved here. The food has always been dependent on the trade with humans. The humans near the lonely mountain are so short of food that they are about to flee the famine. Naturally, the dwarves can't call for excess food.

Thranduil's face became even more unhappy, but he finally said: "We can go and exchange with the dwarves! Hmph, let them take advantage again!"

Matthew thought for a while and said, "Dwarves are not good at fine operations. I think I can teach the elves how to engrave magic runes on energy crystals!"

Thranduil said very reservedly: "The wood elves are grateful for your generosity, and the wood elves will always be your friends!"

Matthew smiled and said: "No, it's nothing. To be honest, as mages, we want to see more possibilities. Besides, we don't want this world to be controlled by darkness and go to destruction. After all, we are the order camp Besides, this is not a big deal for us!"

Thranduil still said: "No matter what, this is very important to us!" Thranduil looked deeply at Matthew, and then said: "The reason why the wood elves moved to Mirkwood back then, instead of going to The more fertile place is because my father once received a prophecy. In the prophecy, humans occupied Middle Earth, and the elves and even dwarves had no place to stay! In order not to be disturbed by humans, they invaded our territory, dark Although the dense forest is relatively barren and affected by dark forces, relatively speaking, humans will not come to disturb our lives!"

Legolas' eyes widened instantly. No wonder when he patted his chest and said that he would purify the entire forest with Matthew Loki and the others, although Thranduil didn't expressly object, he found an excuse to draw a range , in short, a certain buffer zone must be left to prevent humans from entering. After all, the periphery of Mirkwood is the settlement of humans. In the future, humans will multiply and grow. In order to survive, they will expand outward. Either Mirkwood , or the Lonely Mountain, if they find that there are dark forces entrenched in the Mirkwood, they will naturally give up expanding to the Mirkwood and turn to other directions.

Thranduil showed a smile on his face: "If the elves have mastered the technology enough to change Middle-earth, it will be different!"

Thranduil was proud but not conceited. Smaug was very powerful, but he died under the dragon-slaying arrow of a human. Although the vast majority of human beings are mediocre, there can always be one or two in every generation, or even more. Many heroes come out, and their fertility is very strong, even if they suffer heavy losses in the war, they can recover quickly.Therefore, Thranduil has always been wary of humans, but now that he heard some of Matthew's ideas about loading spell organs, he immediately saw the benefits.

The elves can completely load the corresponding magic organs on themselves, and they can even load this on their own bows and arrows.With the physique of the elves, even with the same magical organs, the power exerted will be far better than that of humans. In this way, even if the population has a disadvantage that is difficult to close, but in terms of strength, combined with factors such as terrain Well, even if humans take human lives, they may not be able to do anything to the elves. At that time, at least Thranduil can keep Mirkwood, and avoid going to Aman to see the faces of the Noldor elves.

Thranduil almost wanted to thank Lord Elrond of Rivendell. If it wasn't for the letter from him, how would he know that these two foreign mages would be so powerful?Moreover, the most important thing is that their thinking is very different from their Middle-earth life, which makes Thranduil inevitably feel that the elves probably have such a long lifespan that after so many years, their thinking has become rigid.When people see a rabbit that can emit magic, they can think of making all intelligent creatures emit magic. Looking at them, they have already had a series of inspirations, which is really surprising.Thranduil even had some fear deep in his heart. If these two mages first arrived in this world and entered the territory of Modo, then Sauron may have made a comeback and swept the Middle Earth!

Matthew had no idea that Thranduil had turned so many thoughts in his mind. Matthew's thinking has never been that of a ruler. His thinking has always been very simple and clear, and it can even be said to be rude. What he believes in is power, not power. Machinations, of course, money is also a kind of power.The energy crystals found before have no attribute tendency, and the energy is relatively peaceful and pure, and it is easy to use.

Matthew is already discussing with Loki how to use these energy crystals. As a mage who once designed a portable magic net for the army, Matthew's first thought is to design a corresponding magic vehicle for the legion.

The mainstream in this world is cavalry, even dwarves, they will also domesticate big goats with curved horns as mounts, the main arms of dwarves are heavy cavalry, and the mounts of elves are generally big horned deer, humans can ride horses, and half-orcs have wolves ...In short, this world is dominated by cavalry. Unless infantry is heavy infantry, otherwise, there is little room for development.

Therefore, Matthew waved his hand at this moment: "You can throw away the armor on the mount. There is a constant stone skin spell on the mount. This is much lighter than heavy armor and does not affect flexibility. If it is well designed, it can cover To the knight! You can know the duration of the stone skin technique by looking at the spiritual power of the mount. I think, for a war, the time for real hand-to-hand combat should not be very long!"

Legolas' eyes lit up when he heard it, and he followed up with his comments: "I think it's possible to set an automatic recovery spell on the quiver. Every time I hit it for a while, the arrows won't be enough!"

Loki also added: "The melee weapon should be equipped with blood devouring technique, which can make the opponent's blood flow continuously. Well, the stun technique should also work!" Loki was already excited at the moment, and he felt that he should analyze these energies The composition of the crystal, see if it can be artificially synthesized. If possible, the weapons on Asgard should also be updated once, and a few new components have been added. I hope they will not be like Thor, just thinking about it. It's really a bit stupid to have a straight frontal hard bar.

Other elves also began to talk about what kind of spells they need in battle. Surprisingly, they prefer auxiliary spells rather than attack spells. They hope that they will be more agile and have more stamina. Strong, more able to adapt to long-term battles, not like that rabbit, waving is an attacking magic.

And Thranduil waved his hand directly, and ordered people to prepare to go to the dwarves to discuss the transaction.