The Collection of The End

—Third Age, 3018, October 5 —

Weathertop.

"This was once the great watchtower of Amonsuel, but now it's just an ancient ruin that barely shelters the wind and rain," Aragorn said, looking at the ring-shaped ruins that are almost the same color as the rock in front of them. "We are tonight. Camp here."

"In the age when it was intact, the gem'Palantíri', also called the true spar, was placed on the top of the tower. It can be used for distant viewing or to communicate with other true spars," Frodo said: " We are being chased by the ring spirits, is it really good to camp in such a conspicuous place?"

"The Ring Spirit thinks so too," Aragorn took out four daggers, or should be called short swords, and handed them to the Hobbit: "I will go around and make some traces of misleading them. You stay here and try to protect yourself. "

"Can you make a fire and cook?" Sam removed the cauldron he had been carrying since Brie from behind. "Uh, you know, we have to eat supper."

"Hey! Are you stupid?" "Fire at the sentry tower?" Meri and Pippin immediately condemned.

"...Yes, but you can't leave this circle." Aragorn took the long sword behind his back, poked it to the ground, and drew a large circle around the ruins.

In this process, whenever he completes one-third of the arc, there will be a dark red streamer appearing on the arc, which are "Laas", "Yah" and "Nir" in order.

"That looks like some kind of pre-Second Age rune," Frodo said.

"Perhaps, there will always be some things that are so old that the elves are not clear. Their meanings are,'life','search' and'tracking'." After Aragorn finished painting, he jumped out of the circle: "True The position can be used to confirm whether there are living creatures around, and the effect of the reverse position is to hide the life within the affected area from being tracked. As long as you don't leave this circle, even if the ring spirit passes by from outside, you will not be able to detect it."

"Then you don't have to go out, right?" Frodo said: "It's dangerous outside, I'm worried."

This kid is endless, right?

"It's necessary," Aragorn decided to ignore Frodo's words behind: "If they can't find the trace of our passing and leaving, they are likely to start searching nearby, even if they don't doubt this place, they will definitely come to search. "

"That-"

"I might spend more time without waiting for me." Aragorn flicked his cloak, turned and left.

"I'll build the stove!" "I'll make a fire!" Meri and Pippin cheered and started to work.

"Hey, Master Baggins, what do you want to eat tonight?" Sam started looking through his cooking bag.

"Roasted tomatoes and fried cabbage." Frodo replied.

"Oh, can you have some meat? I hate vegetarian dishes."

"That's why you are so fat."

"..."

—

"[Bakins—sizzle—]"

"[Bakins-hu-]"

When Frodo was awakened by the hoarse voice of the ring spirit and the overflowing chill, he saw five black knights in black robes gathering outside the ruins of the wind and cloud top guard tower, communicating with each other in an incomprehensible way.

After a while, four of them galloped away in different directions, and the tallest one turned over and jumped off the nightmare, and the black robe rolled into the ruins of the guard tower.

Obviously, Aragorn’s misleading work was so good that the ring spirits couldn’t tell which side was the real goal, so they turned to Fengyunding, the most obvious landmark, as the center, and divided them into areas. track.

"Ba Jin—" Sam was awakened at this moment, and he subconsciously wanted to say something, but Frodo covered his mouth.

However, the circle drawn by Aragorn also seemed to have a certain masking effect on the sound. The ring spirit was only pacing slowly in the ruins of the guard tower, and had no idea of ​​killing it with the sound.

At this time, Meri and Pippin also woke up and covered each other's mouths very decisively.

Frodo noticed that every time the Ring Spirit walked to the edge of the circle drawn by Aragorn, it would turn around and leave without warning, but it didn't notice it.

However, with the increase of similar behaviors, the runes "engraved" on the circle gradually faded. It was originally like a burning campfire, but as time passed, it was gradually developing toward the burnt firewood.

"—" "—" Meri and Pippin had obviously noticed this too, and began to scribble at Frodo and Samby.

"What they mean is, be prepared to attack first. After the rune expires, no matter which side the ring spirit finds first, the people on the other side will immediately start a backstab on it." Sam lowered his voice to an extremely low level. Said to Frodo quietly.

"—" Frodo gave a thumbs up to Meri and Pippin, then took out his short sword and gestured to them.

"[Hiss-Hoo-]"

Zizi-Boer.

As the ring spirit walked to the edge of the circle again, the runes on the sword marks left by Aragorn were finally completely extinguished, and the ring spirit's original random pacing movement also stopped, slowly turning his head to look at Frodo And Sam.

"Oh! Bad guy! Uncle Sam is not afraid of you!" Sam vigorously winked at Meri and Piping, and then rushed towards the ring spirit who had not drawn his weapon with his dagger.

Huh! Snapped!

Ring Spirit raised his hand and slapped Sam flying against the ruined wall on the other side, and then slowly walked towards Frodo, who was receding.

"You're looking for this, aren't you?" Frodo pulled out the necklace from his collar as he stepped back, and shook it at the ring spirit.

"[Hiss—]" Jie Ling "stared" at the ring, and stretched out his hand as he moved forward, as if he was ready to grab it directly.

"Drink!" "Hey!"

Taking advantage of the ring spirit's attention, Meili and Piping took the opportunity to violently, one after the other thrust the two daggers into the back of the ring spirit's large black robe.

Puff puff.

"[Ga—]"

Although only the sound of piercing the cloth was heard after the dagger hit, the ring spirit uttered an unusually sharp roar, and the whole "person" instantly ignited a blazing flame. The armor pieces fell one after another as if they had no support, and turned into ashes and scrap iron.

"Hey! Frodo! Did you see it?" "The two of us—"

"[His—Call—]" X4

With the sound of unusually familiar voices, Meili and Piping turned their heads stiffly, and unsurprisingly saw the other four ring spirits standing there with their swords drawn out of their sheaths.

"I see, you have to fight four." Frodo said.

"..." Meili and Pippin were not even in the mood to respond. They reluctantly raised their swords to the Ring Spirit, but they kept retreating in a hurry under the pressure of the black knight's heavy steps and sharp swords.

[Only by putting on the ring can they be saved] The Lord of the Rings bewitched at the right time.

"Coincidentally, I think so too-aren't you looking for it? Come on!"

Frodo pulled the ring from the necklace, the ring spirits roared, and put it on the index finger.

——

【簌簌簌簌...]

[Scared scared...]

The moment he put on the ring, Frodo's ears rang loudly, like the whispering voices of countless people, and the scene in front of him changed accordingly.

Originally dark sky, earthy yellow stone ruins, bright bonfire.

It has become a deep blue sky with an unusually huge vortex, a ruined building whose surface is so dark that it does not reflect light, and a flame whose color is pale and feeble, and whose brightness is even weaker than that of the ring spirit over there.

Of course, ring spirit.

After Frodo put on the ring, the "black knights" became tall and powerful pure white spirit bodies in ancient armor.

"Sure enough...they won't be killed on a real level, maybe they have a chance in this state...but it can't be today," Frodo provocatively hooked the ring spirits' fingers with the ring. Then turned around and ran.

"[Found—Baggins—]"

"[Hand over the ring-]"

The ring spirits gave up Sam, Meri and Pippin directly, and chased Frodo wanderingly.

"Is that what Uncle Bilbo saw when he used it to prank? But the feeling must not be mine." As the surrounding environment becomes brighter after wearing the ring, Frodo can clearly see the road without a torch. After escaping from Fengyunding, he ran all the way.

[In the shadows, there is only death—]

After Frodo put on the ring, he stopped bewitching and said triumphantly in a tone of victory.

"Although I have a very strong idea of'giving the ring to the ring spirit', it is too unreasonable and I can easily deny it," Frodo ran while watching the "Pure White Ring" which was gradually getting closer Ling": "I hope the'Strider' will arrive in time like his name."

Huhuhu—

"[Hand over—Ring—]"

Although the hobbit was quick and dexterous, he was too short in the end and was soon chased by the ring spirits. When the ring spirits reached out to catch him, Frodo suddenly turned back and turned his hand. The ring was pulled down.

call-

Jin Ling, who had changed back to the appearance of "black knight" and "faceless ghost", was caught off guard.

"Just as Uncle Bilbo did," Frodo said to himself as he ran: "Wearing the ring will disappear into the real world. If you want to track it, you must use the perspective of the'soul world', and once you get used to it From the perspective of the soul world, if I suddenly take off the ring, they will lose the target in their eyes. And out of the confidence that the body is in the soul world, when they chase me, they didn’t ride those nightmares, and now they can only chase me on foot. The real danger is the next time I wear the ring to get rid of the "Black Knight". After all, they will not be stupid enough to be shaken twice by me with the same trick."

—

Puff.

"Damn... shameless..."

Frodo was shaking on his pierced shoulder.

He really failed to dangle the ring spirit twice, because when he put on the ring for the second time, he was ready to perform the trick again, a huge eye of flame suddenly appeared in front of him. Compared with the ring, he needed him himself. With the "bewilderment", this eye could force him to freeze in place and unable to move.

"[I saw you—]" There was an indescribable voice from that eye, and just hearing a sound that made people feel terrifying.

In the next moment, the dangling ring spirits caught up from behind and pierced his ringed arm with their swords.

This time, no matter how strong his will was, it was useless. The unconscious arm lifted up on its own in an abnormally obedient manner, and stretched the ring on his finger to the ring spirit that exuded white light in front of him.

"If'Strider' can catch up, I won't talk about the weird sentences from Uncle Bilbo's collection..." Frodo muttered to himself.

Zheng—

With a crisp sound of gold and iron strikes, the white spirit body was about to catch the ring's paws and was blocked by a sudden emergence of golden sword light, and then emitted black smoke that seemed to be scorched.

Puff—

The sword light that blocked the ring spirit drew a V in the air, and the ring spirit in front of Frodo was cut in half diagonally. He could clearly see that the spirit body of the ring spirit turned into one after the sword light was cut The big canopy white light spot, and then straight to the huge vortex on the top of the sky dome.

"Didn't I say, don't go out of that circle?" A figure appeared with the sword light, holding a sword in one hand and a torch in the other, easily pushing the remaining three ring spirits back.

"Ah, uh..." Frodo originally planned to explain, but was shocked by the situation in front of him and couldn't speak.

The deep blue sky, the dark earth, and the white ring spirit, and before all this, Aragorn, with its dazzling golden light, stood in front of him like a mountain.

Is it an illusion created by the rest of your life?

Frodo raised his hand and rubbed his eyes, the bright golden light on Aragorn still dazzling.

"Don't take off that **** thing?" Aragorn turned his gaze on Frodo's finger, and shouted.

It's really hell... Frodo glanced at the overwhelming flames and took off the gold ring with one hand.

"[I have seen you—]" The terrifying voice finally left a word, and it slowly disappeared from Frodo's eyes.

"Drink! Ha!" After taking off the ring, Aragorn in Frodo's eyes lost the golden light, but his strength did not change as a result. He hacked and "dead" another ring spirit in three or two. See the remaining two. The situation is not good, take the initiative to retreat and retreat.

"Why did you leave for so long..." Frodo asked.

As he spoke, the hobbit's arm pierced by the ring spirit felt a sharp pain that was so strong that it even blurred his consciousness, and his legs fell back as soon as he weakened.

"Hey!" Aragorn waved his hand and threw the torch to catch Frodo: "Hold on, don't fall asleep! Creatures stabbed by the'Morgul-knife' will become wandering souls as long as they fall asleep. !"

"I will insist...even if it's for you..." Frodo said.

"..." Aragorn's arm shook, as if trying to throw him out and forcibly holding back.

"It's really troublesome... This kind of injury has to be suppressed by Athelas grass, and then go to Rivendell to be treated. I don't know if he can hold on." Aragorn muttered, his short stature supported Fro. Many leg bends picked up the Hobbit and walked towards Fengyunding.

Frodo hooked the corner of his mouth, and the "Strider" really threw him out, and decided to remain silent for the time being.