[Hobbit+HP] The truth of elves

The door was knocked open, and there were not many elves who really saw what was going on inside the door.

"Come in immediately and close the door!" Thranduil hadn't recovered the ability to move, but his thinking was extremely clear.

"but……"

"Hadion! Execute!" Thranduil's voice became a little harsher, frightening the commander of the imperial guards to act subconsciously without any hesitation.He pushed a few guards around him into the room together with Galian, turned around and quickly closed and locked the door.

Inspired by this action, the well-trained elf guards immediately escorted Thranduil around and guarded her in the middle.Hardion and another guard who was one step behind searched the environment of the room as quickly as possible, and completed the first move only after confirming that there was no threat.

"Are there any other elves outside?" Thranduil asked with a frown.

Ha Dien looked around and immediately shook his head: "No, this time I came to look for you without notifying the other nobles, and only brought out a guard. Just now we were the only ones outside the door."

"Your Majesty, how are you injured?" Galian immediately stepped forward nervously when he saw Thranduy's expression softened.But for a while, he didn't dare to touch the Elf King at all.Because the scene was too tragic.

Most of Thranduil's clothes were already soaked in blood, and the sofa he was sitting on was also not spared. Not far from the sofa, there were daggers, blood-stained bathrobes, and a strong dark atmosphere lingering in the room.

Galian couldn't tell where Thranduil was injured or how badly he was injured.

After making sure that there were no other witnesses, Thranduil was not completely relieved: "How did you get in?"

Galian didn't get a response, and his mind was still concerned about Thranduil's injury.Only Ha Dien quickly responded to the Elf King's inquiry with an almost instinctive reaction speed: "Just now we followed you to the Long Lake, and the guards of the Long Lake saw you coming to this lake. But we have not been able to see you The City Lord's Mansion, until a strong dark breath erupted in the lake just now, we found the entrance following Lucius' message. The guards scattered nearby did not follow. After we entered, we found that they did not come in. Maybe everyone has gathered by the lake now, do we need to welcome them in?"

"No need." Thranduy quickly sorted out all the situation in his mind, and he was relieved after confirming that there was nothing missing for the time being.

Lucius' spell was still in effect, and it would take some time for Thranduy to break free from this restraint.

"However, you all..." Galian anxiously looked around, not convinced at all.But after all, the Elven King looked at him too seriously, and he didn't dare to approach him despite Thranduil's order.

"I'm fine." Thranduy's voice was very steady, without any force.

It was also because of this that the elves finally recovered from the previous strong visual impact, and carefully looked at everything in front of them.

Observing under such circumstances, they gradually discovered something worth noting.

Thranduil's face and expression did not look extremely weak at all.

Judging from his calm expression, the situation clearly did not match the amount of blood sprayed around him.

What happened before?

Moreover, why has the Elven King been sitting upright and motionless since they entered the door?

At this time, the few guards who entered the room were the ones who had been with Thranduil for the longest time, that is to say, they were more or less aware of his old injuries.

Thranduil tried to hook his fingers again, and began to react.The speed of this power mobilization is obviously faster than the previous thousands of years.But when he thought of the price behind this promotion, Thranduil was not happy at all.

He worked hard, and finally he was able to slowly lift his right arm and put it on his left arm which was still bruised.Grabbing the place where the dagger cut his shoulder, he easily tore off the cloth on his left arm.

The wound was still bleeding, but the skin there was no longer the scorched black it used to be.

"You are..." Galian saw the Elf King's movement and his arm at the same time, his eyes filled with disbelief.

That's not what the usual disguise can show.

"This injury has been healed." Thranduy sighed.

"But how is it possible, Lord Elrond didn't say..."

"Is it Lucius?" Harden asked quickly, "Has he found a way to cure you?"

"Can Lucius really heal this injury?" Galian asked again.

"Of course, he said that as long as..." Hadien was about to say the method that Lucius had mentioned, when he suddenly stopped, and the excitement on his face slowly turned into panic.He raised his head to look at the Elf King's eyes, the uneasiness in his heart increased, and he couldn't say anything later.

"What the hell happened?" Garian murmured, his eyes swept over the bathrobe again, and his shock surged again.Although the clothes on the Elf King were torn, they were neatly dressed, the same as before he disappeared, so the bathrobe definitely could not have belonged to him, "Lucius... the one who was here just now was indeed Lucius, right? What method did he use?"

Hearing this question, Thranduil glanced at the bathrobe at his feet, his eyes darkened again.

"Lu... Lucius once said that the wound is a trace left by the rules, which can only be transferred, but cannot be eliminated. If you want His Majesty to get rid of the shackles of this scar, the only way is to find someone who is as powerful as His Majesty. And the voluntary soul will perform a sacrifice, and the curse will be transferred to that soul, and it will bear the injury instead of His Majesty." Hadien clenched his fists, and he had already guessed the truth.

"What?!" All the elves widened their eyes at the same time.

"Could it be that Lucius..." Galian quickly followed Hadien's description and thought of the possibility, "Could it be that he..."

If something like this did happen, it would be obvious who the other part of the bloodstain in the room belonged to.

"Your Majesty, Lucius..." Hardy stumbled, unable to finish his sentence, "Are you okay?"

Is it okay?

No one can answer this question.

"He transferred the curse to himself, but I didn't see the extent of his injury at all. This matter must not be known to anyone other than you." Thranduil's cold eyes swept over one by one The guards in the room, "including Legolas."

"Send more troops to find Lucius immediately, and don't miss any trace." Thranduy ordered, "He is probably injured, so don't hurt him again."

"Yes!" Hadien bounced almost immediately.

However, Gallian immediately stopped Ha Dien from leaving, and quickly asked, "Wait a minute, Your Majesty, I don't think we can go out now. Shall we find out Lucius' intentions before we act?"

Lucius' defection to Sauron did not escape the sight of the Holy White Council.Originally, after listening to the confrontation between Lucius and Thranduil told by Hadion, Galian thought he could explain Lucius' decision.

But after standing on the opposite side, Lucius voluntarily sacrificed himself to heal Thranduil at the cost of his own life. What exactly does this mean?

In his heart, Galian was never willing to believe that Lucius would break with Thranduil completely.If the true emotion of a soul can be broken at will, then everything that happened between Lucius and the Elven King before that would not be so complicated.

Between Lucius who assisted the ring spirits and Lucius who had to heal the Elven King at such a price, Galian preferred to believe that the second one was the real him.

However, after stepping into the dark world to make a killing, Lucius would still appear here. If he did such a thing, the situation would become extremely complicated.

"Does what he did have anything to do with the current unclear situation on the mainland?" Gallian couldn't help muttering, he really couldn't figure it out.

Thranduil's face was tense, and he did not deny Galian's blocking of Hadion.

The Elf King didn't know what Lucius wanted to do.

But just now, when Lucius was lying on his back and talking, his right hand, which was not stained with any blood, rested on the back of his shoulder, and wrote a name, a name that started with S and ended with A.

This reminded him of another message that was sent to the Woodland Kingdom along with the Rohan Battle Report.

Now Lucius shows the world that he decided to break with the elves because he was deceived.This reason seems to be sufficient, but it is not necessarily the truth.Suppose only three points of Lucius' anger are true, and the rest is just following the trend?So what is he really thinking now?

In fact, the situation in front of him was chaotic, but it wasn't chaotic. It wasn't really as unclear as Gallian said.Because whether it is Sauron or the Holy White Council, the purpose and power of the opposing parties are basically clear.The biggest variable is not what they have, but what they each use in their quest for victory.

Sauron's resurrection was not at its peak, and the strength of the two camps really wasn't that big of a difference.This was originally a battle that required countless hardships and deaths to gradually polish the final result, but because of the presence of the Supreme Lord of the Rings, a completely different situation has emerged here.

Lucius passed a name with such a subtle action, but it actually conveyed two meanings: Saruman is a spy buried in the Holy White Council, and Sauron already knows the existence of the Supreme Lord of the Rings.

Thranduil had faintly doubted about the spies before, and Saruman's existence had indeed kept the Holy White Council in the clear and passive for a long time.

Now that Thranduil knew Saruman's exact position, the light and dark positions of the opposing sides were subtly reversed.

However, just knowing Saruman's identity does not mean that the situation is really broken, and even expelling and killing Saruman immediately will not be of much use.On the contrary, the key to victory is to let Saruman continue to exist according to the situation and use him at the right time. This is also an opportunity created by Lucius for the Holy White side.

There will never be many such opportunities, maybe even this one time.

Lucius was far less dormant than Saruman, and the power he could use in that camp was also very limited.Moreover, Thranduy had no idea how long Lucius could last after absorbing the curse.

The light that shines from the darkness...

If what Lucius is doing now is really like the prophecy said, it illuminates the way forward for them, and how to explain that they will eventually fall into darkness?

Is this darkness the darkness of Sauron, or the darkness of the curse, or the darkness of complete disappearance?

If Lucius, who doesn't have a complete elf bloodline, dies, he won't have any chance to "do it again".He will neither be sheltered by the elven blood for the chance to wait for rebirth, nor will he be a pure human being and cannot leave this world to be freed.

No matter how much Thranduil had burdened himself, he never hoped that Lucius would pay as much or even more than himself.

If the ending really turned out like that, it would be something Thranduil would never want to see!

To save Lucius, one must get to know Sauron as quickly as possible, and thoroughly, without regrets, and only then can Lucius be brought back safely.

"Convey the order to search Mirkwood." Thranduil clenched his fists, "Also, call the healer."

Lucius managed to hide everything that happened in the Santo's Mansion, and Thranduil had to cover the rest of the lie.

The next day, the news that the seriously injured Thranduil was carried back to the Woodland Kingdom spread throughout Long Lake.

The Woodland Kingdom also immediately entered an emergency state of alert.

The Silvan elves are still looking for Lucius.But this time, the scope of their search extended from the forest to Changhu Town.

The news soon spread to the area of ​​Changhu Town.

Ordinary Silvan elves didn't know the inside story, and they believed that Lucius really attacked the elf king, and they kept increasing their search efforts in anger.

But even so, they were unable to find any news about Lucius' whereabouts.

Later, another news broke the deadlock.

The dwarves who passed the Old Forest Road to Rivendell encountered an ambush on the way, and the Old Forest Road was completely cut off by an unknown force.In an emergency, two elf teams that were performing search tasks in the forest rushed to support.

In the end, the dwarves and the messengers of River Valley City crossed the dark forest with difficulty and escaped from birth, but only one of the two elf squads rushing to help escaped from the ambushed road.

The elf fighters lost control of the old forest road, and the life and death of the missing elf team was unpredictable.

Knowing all this, the Silvan elves became even more angry, and Hardion and Galian secretly felt a little more relieved in addition to the heavy burden.

The destruction of the old forest road was not an easy task. The entire business road was completely out of control in a short period of time, and it was impossible without Lucius' handwriting.

The camp of light has lost a line of defense, but this at least shows that Lucius is still safe now.

But soon, the two elves were completely speechless again, because Anis was among the missing elves.

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