“Aragorn…”

"In the eyes of me, the dwarf, it's not a good choice for us to come here! Gandalf is almost crazy now, and I think we may really have no need to listen to him again?"

The dwarf Jin Li held the long-handled battle axe in his hand tightly, and looked at the gloomy cave environment around him, which made him feel a little scared.

Even though he was an adult dwarf who lived underground for a long time and was extremely familiar with and adapted to the cave environment, he was really unwilling to come to this undead land called Ding Fu!

In Jin Li's opinion, this place is really too evil!

In fact, this matter starts a few days ago: They waited for two days in the Golden Forest of Roslorien. After the elf king Ailon brought the recast Nasir Sacred Sword, the Irandil Sword known as the "Fire of the West", and the Anduril was handed over to Aragon's hands, Gandalf strongly asked the three of them to come here, hoping that Aragon could recruit the undead army here?

This can be said to be Gandalf's last struggle. This stubborn old man did not allow his plan to fail! Of course, this is also the last chance for Aragon, the 39th generation grandson of Essidor!

Therefore, the old man urgently hoped that Aragon could appear on the battlefield of Minas Tiris as a savior, use shocking means to defeat the orc army, and then try to forcibly take down the royal power of the Gondor Kingdom!

Since Dineser didn't give it to him, Gandalf had other ways to get it! Some things were impossible to stop the Prime Minister of Gondor.

"Look, this man must have suffered some painful torture before he died..."

The elf prince Leglas, who also followed Aragon into this undead land, did not care about the complaints of the dwarf Jinli at all. He just walked to a stone gate and stared at a conspicuous corpse that was lying on the ground with curiosity.

"He was desperate and tried to cut through the door with his sword and escape? However, he failed in the end."

Leglas looked at the fully equipped corpse carefully. He was stomping on the stone door with his hands and fell helplessly on the cold ground in a strange posture. Judging from his wide skeleton, he was obviously a strong man, and seemed to have a very extraordinary identity?

This can be seen from the whole body armor that the other party is still wearing.

The chain mails were also covered with a beautiful golden color, and they were also wearing a gold-patterned helmet on their heads. Even the golden belt could be vaguely seen inlaid with several precious garnets. If the intact harness and horse corpse were added on the side, and the broken sword, then his noble identity would not be difficult to guess.

"This is an ominous place, the home of the undead... We must be more careful and never repeat the mistakes of this Rohan noble..."

After staring at the surroundings with sharp eyes for a while, Leglas grabbed his battle bow tightly and prepared to attack at any time.

"You're right, Legras."

"From his harness and armor style, if I remember correctly, he should be the son of Buli, the former king of the Golden Palace of Medusi, and the former crown prince of Rohan - Bado!"

Aragorn, among the three, also came over and squatted down to look carefully, but he did not dare to touch the corpse rashly. He just stood up and sighed in a low voice after observing silently for a while:

"May the flower of my heart never wither..."

"The 16 royal tombs of the Luohan Cavalry Kingdom are now covered with grass. In such a long time, he is lying alone in front of an unopenable door..."

Where exactly does this door lead to? Why does he want to go there so much?

I'm afraid no one will know again...

After muttering for a while, Aragon felt that no matter why Bado came here, how similar was his experience to them and others?

Today, they also had to enter this land of the dead and the home of the dead.

If the three of them could not complete the task required by Gandalf, perhaps they would have the same fate as the former crown prince of Rohan Bado: they turned into an unwelcome corpse, lying lonely in a corner of the place, waiting for later generations to discover and sigh?

"You don't want to know what's behind this door?"

Compared with this dead former crown prince of Rohan, Jin Li was actually even more curious about what was behind this closed stone door? Why did this person try to open it before he died?

Could it be... there are some valuable things in it, such as endless gold or other treasures?!

"Hold your curiosity for the time being, Jin Li, if I were you, I wouldn't want to open that door..."

"I feel a strong sense of malice here! Obviously, the undead here do not welcome us living people who break into this place! If we still want to go out alive, it is best to be vigilant at any time!"

Aragon, who held a torch in his left hand and Nasir's Holy Sword in his right hand, warned him seriously at Jin Li who seemed to want to approach the stone gate, and then took the lead and continued to walk to the depths of this undead land first.

"You guys hurry up and keep up, don't look at the ground, and don't worry about the tentacles of the undead!"

After feeling a huge platform and the sound of wind in front of him, Aragon rushed forward quickly.

He needs to continue exploring to find the undead here, and... what to do, he himself doesn't know...

"Oh... so many...skeletons..."

It would be fine if Aragorn didn't remind him. After he said this, Jin Li's body became stiffer. Then he lowered his head and looked at the corpse path, which was composed of almost all human skulls around him.

"Hey! You two guys wait for me!"

After seeing the elf Leglas having disappeared into the fog of the undead with Aragon, Jin Li was so scared that he was shocked.

Then, he began to run slashing on these skulls without hesitation, and kept pulling the smoky undead arms that were trying to hold his smoky undead arms, and chase them towards them like running away.

...

When the three of them finally crossed the land of skulls and several winding aisles, they came to a huge rock building like a gate of the underground fortress. Here, there was a huge platform covered with stone slabs, and in front of the platform was a deep abyss, and on the other side was the gate of this building?

Is this an underground fortress for the mountain people in the past?

"Who broke into my territory..."

At this moment, a misty and sinister voice suddenly rang out in this empty underground square.

When Aragon, Jinli and Leglas turned around in the direction of the sound at the first time, they realized that on the originally empty platform, a figure of a deceased person wearing a crown and ragged clothes slowly appeared?

"Are you the ruler of the undead here? We are the ones who come to ask your undead to fulfill a promise!"

After discovering a dead soul who can speak and seem to be able to communicate, Aragon finally felt a little comforted.

As long as these undead can communicate, it would be great. He was afraid that the other party would not be able to communicate, and he didn't know how to command or control the other party. At that time, the most deadly thing was!

"Hahaha...the undead here is not allowed to pass by!"

On the translucent skeleton face of the undead, the mouths that were not as flesh-blooded as the skeleton were opened and closed one by one, making the three of them unable to judge the other's general attitude based on their expressions.

"I'm sure you will allow me to pass!"

Just as Aragon was about to take two steps forward and talked carefully with this guy who seemed to be the leader of the undead, the other party suddenly opened his mouth and burst into laughter coldly.

Then, after the other party's laughter echoed in this underground cave or mountain fortress, the gateways on the cliffs began to light up. What followed was that countless ferocious undead soldiers began to be awakened by the other party, and quickly stepped on the cliff or mid-air without any foothold, floating directly towards the three of them.

“This road is not open…”

"Now, accept your destiny of death...and then, join us..."

The undead leader, who was wearing a crown, sneered like that, holding the sword in his hand, and rushed towards Aragon with a bad expression.

“!?”

Seeing the opponent's movement, Leglas quickly pulled out an arrow and quickly pulled the bow, instantly piercing his elf arrow into the opponent's head!

Unfortunately, that precise elf arrow did not cause any damage to the undead?

In fact, this long arrow just now pierced through the heads of the leading undead and dozens of minions behind him! But it seemed as if it was shot into the air, without any obstacles, and shot straight into the distance and disappeared in the darkness.

“Hahaha…”

Then, the undead leader continued to sneer, held up his sword and rushed up, and used his weapon, which was also phantom-like, to slash straight towards Aragon's head!

choke!

A metal collision sounded when the swords intersected. To the unexpected of the undead leader: the blow it originally thought would have killed, his illusory undead energy sword body would be blocked by the enemy's long sword?

"How is this possible?!"

When it was stunned, Aragorn took two steps forward, grabbed the other party's neck with one hand, and placed his holy sword under the other party's neck.

"I am Aragon, the son of Araton, and the 39th generation grandson of Essido!"

"I came here to ask you to fulfill your promises and accept my call and fight for me! How about it? Tell me, your reply?!"

After threatening the other party with a sword blade, Aragon pushed the other party away with force and held the holy sword in front of him so that all the undead could clearly see it.

"This is absolutely impossible! Essido...he has already lost his inheritance!"

Seeing this suddenly, the undead mountain people king still felt a little unbelievable.

He remembered that the Essido who cursed them and made them look like this, had he been extinct for a long time? Why is there an inexplicable thirty-ninth generation of grandson emerging now?!

This matter actually starts from the second era of Middle-earth.

At that time, near Baishan in the northern part of Gondor, a group of humans lived, and they were called people in the mountains.

They once regarded the demon king Sauron as a faith and a god. However, after the founding of the Kingdom of Gondor, the king of the mountain people had to lead his subordinates to swear allegiance to the king of Gondor Essidor!

They had vowed that they would respond to Essidor's call and participate in the war against Sauron.

However, when the real war came, these mountain people refused the summons of the King Gondor. They did not dare to fight with the gods they once believed in, nor did they dare to fight with the demon king Sauron. Therefore, they shamefully turned their oath and refused to respond to the summons of Essidor!

So, Essidor, who was so angry that he used the power of the Holy Sword and the rules here in the Middle Earth, and cursed the other party with the power of the divine contract.

Regarding this matter, Essidor once said: If the mountain people do not fulfill their promises, they will never rest in peace, and the curse will continue until the other party is willing to fulfill their oath!

So, those mountain people who hid in the mountains and did not dare to confront Sauron, as time passed, they became dead because of Essidor's curse, and their country died.

Even their souls have been wandering in the Middle Earth world, and their coldness and loneliness will never be freed from...

"However, the truth is not!"

"Now, you look at me, look at the Nasir Holy Sword in my hand, and then look at the double snake ring in my hand!"

After showing his identity, Aragon used the holy sword in his hand to threaten the undead leader and some seemingly high-level undeads.

"I command you: obey my call, regain your honor, and fight for me! And I will regard you as fulfilling your promises and lifting the curse on you!"

“…”
To be continued...