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Of course, this was ultimately a plot world derived from The Lord of the Rings films, one that could be considered a real world. As such, some differences from the movies were inevitable.

So, after Wang Zhen and the others entered the plot world, what they faced were no longer the undeserving Ringwraiths from The Lord of the Rings films, but true kings who had once founded and ruled kingdoms—kings truly corrupted and tainted by the evil will of Sauron, the Dark Lord within the One Ring, imprisoned within the Ring itself, existing between life and death, neither dead nor capable of dying: Ringwraiths!

This strange change had already been confirmed in Wang Zhen and the others' earlier battle with the Ringwraiths!

Naturally, the change in the Ringwraiths' strength also led Wang Zhen and the others to a rather unpleasant conclusion: the The Lord of the Rings plot they were now experiencing was not nearly as simple and straightforward as in the films. Clearly, the combat level of all Middle-earth had been raised accordingly.

Such an increase in the overall power level of the plot world naturally made Wang Zhen and the others' scalps tingle.

After all, this was only the Nine Nazgûl. In the films, there would also be the white-robed wizard Saruman casting magic from afar, using lightning to trigger an avalanche; summoning crows to search for the Ring-bearer party; the tentacled monster in the lake before Moria's gates; the ancient Balrog sleeping beneath the Bridge of Khazad-dûm at the bottom of the mines; Uruk-hai capable of forced marches lasting days and nights, moving as fast as galloping horses; towering war elephants several meters tall; and more. All of them would be strengthened.

Even more terrifying were Saruman,