The Lord of the Rings: Lords of Middle-earth.

Chapter 171 The Dance of the Dragon Warrior
"Kill!" Peter Groh rode the Star Dragon and took the lead, his icy blue dragon breath carrying the power of stars as he violently charged through the streets.

Several orcs who couldn't dodge in time were hit by the dragon's breath. The annihilating breath instantly disintegrated their bodies, leaving only the parts that weren't touched by the breath intact.

"Hah!" A sharp crossbow bolt flew in from below at an angle.

"Damn it! Dragon Hunter Crossbow!" Peter Gro cursed under his breath, and could only pull the dragon reins to lift Skye into the sky.

“Skiy, watch out for the bugs down there! They’ve got dragon-hunting crossbows hidden there!” Peter Gro warned, as this position made the Star Dragon’s belly extremely vulnerable to attack.

"Understood!" the enormous star dragon Sgae said slowly, speaking in human language.

“Give me vision sharing. I need to sense the movements of these scum. My mental power is suppressed by evil energy here, and I can’t detect things too far away,” Peter Gro sighed.

"Alright!" After a melodious dragon roar, Star Dragon Sagai instantly connected with Peter Gro's battle aura using his dragon power.

Peter Groh's eyes lit up, his mind cleared, and his pupils transformed into magnificent vertical pupils. Fine dragon scales quietly appeared under the skin of his cheeks. At this moment, Peter Groh had entered a dragon form.

Dragon Transformation is a more advanced combined attack skill than the Knight class's "Man and Rider as One" technique. Everyone who signs a contract with a dragon can enter Dragon Transformation. The only difference is the nature of the Dragon Transformation. The higher the degree of the contract between the two parties, the greater the effect and area of ​​the Dragon Transformation. When a person truly achieves absolute harmony with the dragon they have contracted with, their Dragon Transformation will be a terrifying dragon-human form. In this state, the person has the appearance of a human and the combat power of a dragon, and is hailed as having combat power comparable to that of a true god.

A surge of dragon power coursed wildly within Peter Groh's body. The dragon's powerful spiritual energy burst forth, sweeping across the ruins before him. Suddenly, Skye's dragon eyes narrowed, and Peter Groh's eyes also narrowed...

"I saw what you saw! Kill them!" The scene in Peter Gro's eyes was exactly what Skye had seen. In a stone chamber several meters underground, a huge dragon-hunting crossbow was slowly drawn back by dozens of orcs. One of the orcs was carrying a bundle of what appeared to be black arrows and trotting toward the crossbow.

"An immersive dragon-hunting tower in an elven city? This thing is still working?" Skye asked curiously. Such an ancient artifact should have decayed long ago. This was a defensive weapon created by the early elves to prevent dragon attacks. It was usually hidden in the city, but when needed, it would be raised by a mechanism, and a huge dragon-hunting crossbow would rise to the surface to attack the attacking dragon. After firing a casket of 5 black arrows, the entire tower would sink down again to reload the arrows to prevent the dragon-hunting crossbow from being destroyed by the dragon. In order to resist the dragon's attack, the top of the tower would be covered with a defensive magic circle and a magic-blocking circle to prevent the dragon's melee destruction and dragon language magic.

"So many years have passed, and it's still usable, but the defensive and anti-magic arrays are no longer effective. Those things require mages to maintain them," Peter Gro said calmly. To them, this thing was just a bit of a nuisance. They would dismantle it as soon as it showed itself. Weapons targeting dragons were the most abhorrent and disgusting thing to dragons. At this moment, Peter Gro, who had entered his dragon form, also felt the aversion to that building deep in his bloodline.

"Star Torrent!" Peter Grolong brandished his spear, pointing it at the rapidly rising Dragon Hunter Tower below.

"Boom!" Star Dragon Sgei took a deep breath and opened his mouth wide, chanting obscure dragon magic. As the last character fell, a complex magic circle appeared deep in his throat. The next second, Sgei forcefully exhaled it!

"Hiss~" The dragon's power, like a bolt of lightning, formed a huge torrent that gushed out from its mouth. The annihilating power unique to the Star Dragon instantly disintegrated the Dragon Hunting Tower buried deep underground. After years of decay, the Dragon Hunting Tower, having lost the protection of the anti-magic array and the defensive array, was nothing more than an ordinary building. How could it possibly stop the Star Dragon's breath?
"Hey! Peter! If I'm not mistaken, those people down there look like your team. They seem to be in trouble!" Skye's dragon eyes showed Peter Gro. At this moment, the last of the allied forces was being held back on a set of steps. The orcs above were attacking them from above, raining down logs, rolling stones, and arrows. This force of over eight hundred men could only cower at the bottom of the steps, relying on the shield wall of dwarves and humans to defend against the attacks from above. Only the elves in the army were firing arrows from time to time to suppress the orcs.

"Where is my commander? We need him!" a guard from the Valley State cried out in pain, a bullet piercing his leg, but he had no time to bandage himself while on guard duty.

"Someone, please subdue these orcs!"

"They've gone mad! Could all the orcs be attacking us here?!" A dwarf was nearly driven to despair by the barrage of arrows. He could tell from the dents on the back of his shield how badly he had been hit from the front, but he had no intention of investigating what had happened.

"Fight back! Elves! Slaughter them! Don't just take the hits! We can't wait for them to charge down!" an officer spontaneously gave orders.

"Whoosh!" A burst of air swept past, and to everyone's astonishment, a massive dragon's breath, hundreds of meters long and nearly ten meters in diameter, descended from the sky, plundering the front of the group for over a hundred meters!

The intense firepower immediately ceased. That single attack had killed at least several hundred orcs—that was the fighting power of the Sky King! The remaining orcs scattered, leaving the main road and hiding in the streets on either side…

"Bang!" The heavy dragon body fell from the sky onto a stone house, and the already crumbling stone house collapsed with a crash. Sge shook his head to remove the dust.

"How is the situation?" Peter Groh asked anxiously, sitting on the dragon saddle.

"Sir! You've come at just the right time! If you had come any later, you would have been collecting our corpses!" the soldiers jeered.

Peter Gro smiled but didn't speak. It couldn't be that exaggerated. Did the allied forces just lose to the orcs? No! Fighting from below to above would result in heavy casualties. No one would willingly trade their lives for these worthless orcs. Besides, the orcs couldn't do anything to them because... the defenses of the Three Kingdoms of Lonely Mountain were truly too solid!

The dwarves and the Vale Kingdom, whose territory is backed by mines, are the best equipped, followed by the soldiers of the Kingdom of Akvia, which is near Swiftstream City. They all wear heavy armor made of alloy or fine steel, while the elves, due to their class restrictions, are forced to wear leather armor.

"Let's go! We'll raze this place to the ground!" Peter Groh angrily drew his longsword.

"Whoosh~" The azure dragon power spread along his arm to the tip of the sword, and a terrifying aura brewed in his body. The dragon power condensed into dragon scales and adhered to his body surface. Dragon Warrior... descended!
(End of this chapter)