The Lord of the Rings: Lords of Middle-earth

"System sign-in!" Roland opened his eyes in the morning and had a daily happy sign-in time. Although the system did not provide many things that could be used at this stage, it was better than nothing.

"The sign-in is successful. Congratulations to the host for getting the lava forging furnace (small)*1."

"Lava forge? Is this thing useful for my adventure? Where do I have the ability to forge magic equipment now... Wait for the forging!" Roland was complaining about the system when his eyes suddenly lit up.

The next second, Roland rushed out of the tent and ran towards Mr. Radil's residence. Mr. Radil was playing with the five griffin eggs at the moment. Because no one knew how to hatch griffins, they had to hand over the eggs. The mage who is the incarnation of wisdom comes to take care of it.

As soon as he saw Roland running over, Radil, who was originally cheerful, turned pale with fright. He said with a cold face: "Your Highness, even if you are in a hurry, you still have to wait for me to finish eating, right? It's not daylight yet. You just came over here to urge me to get to work?" Mr. Radil showed an unhappy look.

Roland scratched his head in embarrassment and quickly explained: "Sir Radil, you misunderstood. I just got a small lava forging furnace by chance..."

"My Highness, please don't be too ambitious... We can't afford magic equipment with our current financial situation..." Before Roland could finish his words, he was interrupted by the frightened Radil. In his opinion, Rag Lang finally Wang went crazy! The country is in such a state of decline and still thinking about magic equipment. I really thought this was the period when the empire was at its strongest.

"No, I mean, do you think it's feasible to build a blacksmith shop based on a lava forging furnace?" Roland said with a smile.

"Pfft!" Radil pointed at Roland. He had completely forgotten that this was a disrespectful act. Roland, who came from Modern Blue Star, did not care about this disrespectful act in the eyes of others.

"Your Highness... you are crazy... do you know what the lava forging furnace is for?" Radil asked weakly, thinking that Roland didn't know what that thing was for.

"You know, isn't it just a furnace for making all kinds of magic equipment? I think since he can forge magic equipment, it should be no problem to forge ordinary equipment, right?" Roland said indifferently.

"Did you know that every time you start a furnace, you need a magic crystal or a magician's magic power..." Radil felt that Roland was simply whimsical. You can use such a high-end furnace to forge ordinary equipment... Could this be the "money power" of the royal family? "?

"The main thing is that I just remembered that a lot of the soldiers' equipment is worn out. Although we are not in a position to replace them with new equipment now, can we at least repair it?" Roland said.

"Is a treasure like the lava forging furnace really suitable for blacksmithing?" Radil looked at Roland with a strange expression. In his eyes, maybe this was because Tian was not distressed.

"But we can't let soldiers go to the battlefield with blunted weapons and damaged armor, right? We can't rely on dwarves... It's better to keep the lifeblood of equipment in our own hands." Roland didn't care about the lava forging furnace. He was the man who killed the man from the old forest road. He harvested nearly a thousand magic crystals from the Shadow Spider along the way. The consumption of the small lava forging furnace was not large. One magic ring was enough for a long time.

"Alas..." After hearing Roland's words, Radil stopped insisting and just sighed. He understood that Roland was right, letting soldiers go to the battlefield with those gadgets was simply a crime.

"Then why does His Highness come to me now that he has already decided?" Radil looked at Roland in confusion.

"I don't want you to come here and build a professional blacksmith shop..." Roland said coyly.

"..." The corners of Radil's eyes twitched and he resisted the urge to pull out his staff and call Roland in the face. Did this earth mage really become a construction worker? Is Master Fa living such a lowly life now?

The inner hint left by the system made Radil unconditionally loyal to Roland, even if it really embarrassed a war mage. Radil responded and went out to choose a location.

"Down here is a series of supporting facilities... I can make do with the tools, but the iron felt is a bit difficult... How about borrowing some from the dwarves?" Roland thought.

"Caslow! Go to Irube and ask the dwarves there to borrow some iron felts. Buy some steel back by the way." Roland finally decided to ask the dwarves for some. Anyway, there are many things in Irube, so there is no need for them. How much is it worth? Castro casually threw a storage ring that can store 100 cubic meters of dead objects. This thing was also given by the system when signing in. For others, space rings are hard to come by, but for Roland, they are just useless. Isn't it difficult to use the huge space of Lord of the Rings?

As the sun rose, people came out of their respective shelters one after another. After eating some black bread, the 50 Batanian shooters went out to fish with their fishing nets. Now the river is flowing rapidly. The fish in it have become the source of life for Rapid River City. The remaining shooters were responsible for guarding and sentrying, while the knights of the Holy Glory Knights and the Lagrand City guards were preparing to start a new day of construction work. The residents of less than a hundred people also made food at home, and for a while, smoke curled up from the cooking pots. , the whole town is full of life.

"Your Highness, the blacksmith shop is completed. As long as you prepare all the tools, it can be used normally." Radil came to Roland's side in a flash, startling Roland.

"Oh! Okay, thank you very much." Roland thanked him.

"Reno, go check among the residents and see who knows how to blacksmith. We need a blacksmith." Roland glanced at Reno.

The newly arrived Lagrand City guards were okay. The swords and lances of the knights who first followed Roland were worn to varying degrees. Although the arrows of the Batania archers had been replenished several times, there were still huge gaps. And the starsilver steel armor-piercing arrows they originally brought with them... that was one less than one. The inventory was emptied out in The Desolation of Smaug. In the end, Roland sent people to collect them but they didn't get back a few. However, Smaug in The Lord of the Rings More than four hundred arrows stuck in the corpse were preserved.

"King, this citizen once worked as a blacksmith." After a while, Renault came back with a person behind him.

"What's your name?" Roland looked at the shrinking man in tattered clothes in front of him.

"Back to Your Highness...my name is Ren Xiaoqiang..." the man said with chattering teeth.

"Don't be afraid, you know how to blacksmith, right?" Roland reassured him.

"Yes……"

"Then can you repair and forge weapons?" Roland asked the question he was most concerned about. Once he could make weapons, then Roland's rapid infantry would be available.

"Yes, yes." Ren Xiaoqiang nodded repeatedly like a kowtowing insect.

"Well, that's right. When Caslo comes back, take him to the blacksmith shop to repair the equipment of the knights." Roland told Renault.

He turned and walked towards the blacksmith shop. He was going to install the precious lava forging furnace. The advantage of this thing is that there is no need to add fuel. The hellfire lava contained inside will automatically release hellfire when stimulated by magic power. , the high temperature of hellfire is enough to forge most materials.

While Roland was busy installing the forging furnace, the archers who had been fishing came back in a hurry.