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

Chapter 204 The Wild Boar of the Earth
"Hey! You're cheating! How can you use battle aura to block it?" Seeing that he couldn't even touch Roland in his water fight, Nyx instantly felt aggrieved.

"Oh God! You've used magic, I can't just stand here and take the hits, can I?" Roland laughed as he dodged the water balls that came flying at him. For a great knight, dodging these water balls that had no magical fluctuations was a piece of cake, and Roland could even dodge them in fancy ways.

"Hmph!" Nyx, with his puffed-up cheeks, suddenly pulled out his staff. Guided and enveloped by magic, hundreds of water spheres the size of human heads floated up from the stream and began to rotate around Nyx.

"Um... my beautiful, kind, lovely, gentle, virtuous, intelligent, and considerate fiancée... isn't this a bit inappropriate?" Roland's eyes were full of helplessness. This was too terrible! It was just a water fight... did they really need to use magic?
"Hmph! Too late! Serves you right for bullying me! Serves you right for not playing with me, for hiding from me!" Never try to reason with an enraged girl... because you'll always be the one who suffers!

"Oh my God!" Roland screamed in agony as he was struck. The magically enhanced water sphere was truly extraordinary; not only was its cohesion stronger, but most importantly, it could resist the evaporation of battle energy, which was why it hurt so much!

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After venting her frustrations, Nyx finally calmed down, regaining her languid and ladylike demeanor like a docile cat.

"Good heavens..." Roland sighed helplessly, holding a large string of fresh white fish in both hands. Today he had truly witnessed what Nyx meant by "fishing off the clam"...

Have you ever seen someone catch fish by blocking a stream with a waterspout? Have you ever seen a mage catch fish in the water with their bare hands? Have you ever seen a mage freeze a body of water with water magic and then "pick up" fish from it? Roland witnessed it all today! Roland could only admit his ignorance and outdated thinking; it was truly inappropriate! This girl was not only his delicate fiancée but also a second-tier mage capable of killing!
"Hey? Your Highness Roland? Did you and Prince Nyx have a good time today? Look at our spoils!" Badr laughed and pulled Roland to a huge creature.

"Good heavens! Is this a pig?" Roland was immediately stunned by the thing in front of him. A pig that was ten meters long and as big as an elephant? Look at those steel teeth that were half a meter out of its mouth. Roland had no doubt that one bite would leave two holes in even plate armor!

"That's right! I didn't expect to encounter this thing either! A genuine high-level magical beast—the Earth Boar!" Baldr proudly patted the boar's huge tusks, his eyes full of pride.

Roland glanced at the wounds on the creature and immediately guessed how the poor thing had died. Being kited so relentlessly by the centaurs must have been quite unpleasant... To be honest, if the centaurs hadn't refused to give up an inch of the forest, and had actually started running around and engaging in guerrilla warfare with Roland, he would have easily collapsed with his strength at the time. So, sometimes, a brain is a good thing!
Roland glanced pityingly at the wretched Earth Boar, then squinted at his Baron Tupter. Hmm! Muscular! Super strong! Just not so bright.

"These are for you!" Suddenly, Bader pulled a bloodstained cloth bag from the bag hanging on his back and handed it to Roland.

"What is this?" With curiosity in his heart, Roland opened the bag, and the moment he opened it, a huge and surging magical aura rushed out! It was full of magic crystals! The most ferocious earth-yellow crystals among them must be the magic crystals of this earth-rabid boar.

“This is this year’s tax. I understand that as nobles we have to pay taxes to the country. We don’t have any money, so this is the only way we can pay off our debts. After all, this is all we can get from hunting and fishing,” Baldr said, blushing. “No…no problem! Of course!” Roland, holding a bag of magic crystals in his hand, couldn’t help but ask, who said centaurs don’t have money? They have a form of currency that’s even more valuable than cash!

"There's one high-grade magic crystal and thirteen low-grade magic crystals here." Seeing that Roland didn't object, Baldr breathed a sigh of relief, his face full of smiles again. He smiled ingratiatingly at Roland, his eyes full of flattery. After all, since arriving here, the centaurs had lived a self-sufficient life, without expulsion, war, orc harassment, and even less killing! This was simply the place these simple-hearted centaurs had always dreamed of!
"I'll show you my skills tonight, I'll cook it myself! It's been a long time since I've had such good ingredients!" Badr said proudly.

"Yes, I'm looking forward to it!" Roland nodded. After all, high-level magical beasts aren't as common as cabbages; they're not something you can just see anywhere.

"You must have put in a lot of effort to hunt this thing, right?" Nyx playfully kicked the enormous creature.

"That was His Highness Nature! But how could it possibly resist us centaur knights! We couldn't catch up with it! We couldn't hit it with our attacks either! In the end, it bled to death!" Badr pointed to the dense arrow wounds on the fat boar that was as big as an elephant.

Roland pulled out a broken arrow and laughed. A wooden arrow with a steel tip! It seemed that without the help of the Kingdom of Lagrang, these centaurs would have had to pay a heavy price to take down this boar, since not many people could pierce its skin with a wooden arrow!
"Are the weapons still working?" Roland suddenly asked Badr.

"It works very well! Thank you for your kindness, King Roland! Our people will forever remember your kindness!" Baldr said sincerely. After all, it was the Lagranges who gave them iron and steel weapons and armor, so that the centaurs no longer had to fight bare-knuckle with wild beasts. This greatly reduced the probability of the centaurs being injured or killed. If it were before, Baldr would have had to go around this earth-monster, because there were not many centaurs in the entire race who could cause it any harm! It was Roland who armed the centaurs, making them truly fearsome heavy cavalry!

“The kingdom will not mistreat its subjects,” Roland said meaningfully.

"We are willing to die for Your Highness!" Baldr immediately knelt down and said. If not now, when? The centaurs were just stubborn and obstinate, not stupid.

"Alright! So the eastern part of the kingdom is entrusted to you to guard. You may not be able to defeat the invaders, but you must do a good job in intelligence gathering! I don't want to find out about the invasion when the enemy from the east is already at the walls of Swiftstream!" Roland decided to give the centaurs a warning, after all, no one could predict whether the chariot warriors from the east would suddenly attack. After all, those two thousand or so had crippled the remnants of the Crusaders! Roland didn't look down on the chariot warriors from the east; their fighting prowess had stood the test of time!

"Let's go! Let's have a drink! I brought some fresh ale from Swiftstream!" Roland patted Baldr's horse. Although the ale was very ordinary, even classified as a cloudy drink, it was the only beverage available in Swiftstream at the moment. If Roland weren't the king, he wouldn't have been able to get any! Swiftstream, lacking food, had no surplus grain to brew a beer.

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