Chapter 24 - Sauron Orders

Gray walked from behind the tree and greeted everyone. But his face was a little weird it this time.

Seeing Gray, Gandalf, and the dwarves were surprised, they know that the man standing in front of them is Gray, but his look really changed much from the last time they saw him.

Gray didn't care about their surprised face but was thinking about what just happened to him before a minute.

When he was killing the Goblin, he was able to hear whispers on his ears, saying: "The Master, I want to go back to the master"

As if a little child wants to see his parents and kept nagging.

Gray realized that its the ring's voice. Even though he doesn't know why he can hear this voice so obvious, but he knows its probably the crown reason, so he ignores it. After all, the crown's innate ability is to shield his mind, so can the ring really control him?

But as if the ring realized that it cant control Gray, it started to actively scream in his head. This really annoyed Gray.

"Stinky ring, let me see, how will you reach your master when I take you out of this world." Gray even started Arguing with it.

And then wanted to take the ring out of his finger, but before he could do this. The crown on his head suddenly activated and some weird black smoke came out from it.

When Gray saw this, he really panicked, he thought that the crown will awaken for the second time!

When the crown awakened for the first time it took 10GB from him, and Galadriel said that every time the crown awakens, it will take ten times the amount of the last time! which means 100GB will be sucked from Gray, and all he has are 35GB which also means the crown will kill Gray directly.

But lucky this didn't happen instead, the crown sent a cloud of black smoke to the ring on his finger.

After the smoke entered the ring, some changes happened to it, First, its original bright gold color slowly becoming dim, as if it's losing its light, secondly the characters on the ring were shining a black light. But what made Gray really annoyed was that he couldn't use the ring to become invisible again nor he could take it off, from his finger.

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After what happened, Gray's desire for Elven Genes becomes even more. The Crown on his head is like a time bomb, who can feel safe with such a thing on his head!.

"Mr. Gray, are you alright?" Bilbo saw Gray standing lost on thinking, he came and asked.

Bilbo word awakened Gray from his thought, He looked at Bilbo and smiled saying it not a problem.

After that everyone back to their journey.

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"WHAT THE HELL????" Gray is absolutely sure things shouldn't be like this!.

Shouldn't we be under Azog's attack right now?! Where is he? were they late?.

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Dol Guldur, also known as the Hill of Dark Sorcery.

For others, it's just an old empty fortress, but it's just an illusion Sauron made for the outside world.

"Useless, you all are useless, can't you find just a dirty dwarf for me!" Azog was standing there scolding his man madly because they didn't find Thorin and the other dwarf's location for him.

Azog hatred for Thorin is very deep, Every time he remembers how Thorin cut his hand. His arm seems to be in pain again.

"Master, master, the dwarves, we have news about them" Suddenly in orc ran fast and entered the fortress wanting to report something.

When Azog heard the news related to the dwarves, his eyes brightened a lot.

After that, the orc servant reported everything that happened inside the Goblin cave for Thorin.

"Invisible person helping Thorin?" When he heard about such a thing he was surprised.

"Bolg!" After some thought, Azog called one of the orcs around him Blog his son.

"The master gave me a task to lead the army, I don't have time to follow those dwarfs scam, You go instead of me and bring Thorin head for me" Even though he wishes to kill Thorin by himself but he can't ignore his master words at the same time.

"Good" Blog turned and wanted to leave after getting the order.

"WAIT"

Suddenly, a monsters flame appeared in mid-air, a terrible heat wave scared all the orc around, and the wolfs around lowered their head scaredly not daring to make a sound.

The flame took the shape of a big eye, a black pupil, if you looked it at carefully you can see a black pupil is a person standing in the middle of the flame.

"Master" Azog and all the orcs around kneeled down when they saw this Eye. After all, the identity of this huge pupil is Sauron! Their master.

"Is it true that an invisible person who appeared in the Goblin cave!" Sauron muffled voice comes from the flame, full of pressure and majesty.

"Yes, my master, as reported even the Goblin king was killed by that invisible person" Azog said what he knows.

"Azog!" After hearing Azog word Sauron sound has become more excited and said: "I allow you to mobilize all the orcs, but you have to bring that person to me"

"What!" Azog was stunned by this order, didn't the master want him to prepare for the war in the lonely mountain? He couldn't understand why his master wants to do this.

"Do as I say" Sauron said with a harsh voice.

"Yes my master" Even if he doesn't understand, all that Azog has to do is to follow the orders, besides this is also good for him in this way he may be able to kill Thorin by himself!.

"Remember, All I want is the invisible person, failure is not allowed" The flame slowly fading in the air, and Sauron's voice echoed in the fortress.

"The whole army, get ready!" Azog shouted and said. His eyes were bright and full of energy!

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For everything that happened in Dol Guldur, Gray and the others don't know.

at this time Gray was walking with the party and were thinking why the plot changed, but after some thoughts, he realized that his own existence already changed many things, it's already good that the plot was almost the same till now. But if he knows that even Sauron plans changed because of him, he properly won't think in this easy mentality.

Along the way, Gray found many orcs were trying to spy in them, and without exception all of them were killed by him. Maybe because of the Crown reason, he found that his senses where much stronger than before and were able to notice many things he didn't before.

All this fell to Thorin and the dwarves eyes. They felt lucky that Gray was with them, without him the journey would have become much harder.

Soon they met Beorn the skin-changer. Gray floated up and attracted him away, so Thorin and the others stole the horses and run away. Speaking of Beorn, his ability is really strong, but Gray doesn't have much space in his Disk, and he doesn't know how much the size of the elven gene. After all, it's a race gene, not mutant human genes, so it should be bigger then the gene he copied before.

Everything went smoothly until they reached the edge of the forest, also the place Gray wanted to reach! Mirkwood!