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

Chapter 208 The Language of the Dragon

"I'm very curious how such a large group of wandering orcs ended up in our territory?" Roland looked at Omske with a somewhat unfriendly expression, his face full of displeasure and questioning!

It should be noted that the knights of Swiftstream City patrol and eliminate potential threats in the surrounding area every day. Their activity range is within a 20-kilometer radius of Swiftstream City. Therefore, the fact that they were attacked by a large group of orcs a dozen miles away from Swiftstream City was enough to enrage Roland.

"I'm sorry, Your Highness... it was our dereliction of duty!" Omske lowered his head in shame; he was undeniably responsible for the large group of orcs that had appeared within the border.

"Fine! From now on, we must ensure that large groups of orcs are not allowed to appear within the country! Not all citizens have equipment and guards like mine!" Roland sighed, finding it hard to imagine these down-on-their-luck, wandering orcs storming into the fields of Lagrange farmers as they worked...

"Rest assured, Your Highness! I swear by the honor of a knight! No orc will set foot on our land!" Omske solemnly pounded his chest.

“No one can stop them from entering our territory. All we can do is clear them out in time! After all, they have feet on their bodies, and we don’t have a Great Wall to stop them from entering… Although I don’t want to admit it, I have to say… our borders are full of holes!” Roland rubbed his forehead, feeling extremely troubled.

"From now on, send troops to protect the farmers at work! At the very least, there must be sentries on patrol! I don't want my farmers to die in orc attacks!" Roland's eyes were filled with anger. These orcs roaming the wasteland were like a leech, a scourge to the bone! They were disgusting, unbearable to look at! A thorn in his side!

……

"Orcs attacked?" Yun Feng crossed his arms and glanced at Roland, who was still sulking, and teased.

"Within our borders! In my own land! In the country my soldiers and people protect! Such a large orc tribe has moved here! And we knew nothing about it!" Roland roared. He wanted to ask those poor patrolling knights, "How exactly are you patrolling? This time you attacked me on my way home, next time will you launch a sneak attack during your king's sermon?!" (At this moment, a certain third party walks by, muttering: "This isn't going to end well, is it?")
"You're fine, aren't you?" Yun Feng shrugged indifferently.

“These days, just surviving is a blessing! Nowhere is absolutely safe! In this era of dwindling hope, we can only desperately try to stay alive. We are always in crisis... and that has never changed.” Yun Feng took a sip of Ye Lu’s drink and continued.

"The drink is good. I'll ask for more next time I go to the centaur's place!" Yun Feng praised the centaur-themed drink that Roland brought back.

"Sigh, is there any large-scale detection array that can detect enemy entry from tens of kilometers away?" Roland decided to seek help from the kingdom's only wise man.

"..." Yun Feng looked at Roland with pity, as if he were looking at a fool.

"Your Highness...do you consider yourself His Majesty now?" Yun Feng gave a wry smile.

“Back in the Lagrange Empire, His Majesty the Emperor ordered the Empire’s sages to create a mythical alchemical array—the Eye of Insight! That thing can monitor evil auras within a radius of a hundred miles of itself… Do you know how expensive that thing is?” Yun Feng’s face was full of pain.

"How high... can it be?" Roland asked tentatively. Although he had seen that strange alchemical artifact, which resembled a magnificent eye, in the game before, he didn't really know its exact price. "That thing is enough for you to arm a thousand-strong knightly order with Sun and Moon Alloy from head to toe..." Yun Feng glanced at Roland and said.

"Pfft!" Roland spat out a mouthful of water! What? A Sun and Moon Alloy for a thousand-man armed force? What is Sun and Moon Alloy? Let me explain: it's a mixed alloy of adamantite and mithril! Just think about the exorbitant value of adamantite and mithril, and you'll know how priceless Sun and Moon Alloy is. Anyway, I've never seen that stuff in the daily check-in system. I've encountered mithril ingots and adamantite blocks a few times, but I gave them all to Yun Feng. But I've never actually seen Sun and Moon Alloy before.

"So stop dreaming! That thing is beyond our means. Even if you sold this territory and all its people, including us, we still couldn't afford to build one of those things." Yun Feng poured cold water on his enthusiasm.

"Could we make a simplified version? Something with a radius of about 20 miles would be fine!" Roland asked.

“We still don’t have enough materials! At least we need the eye of a Phantom Dragon! Where are you going to find a Phantom Dragon? Those things are not easy to hunt! As pure top-tier dragons, ordinary people can’t hurt them at all. Even the Phantom Dragon Eye of the royal family was passed down from their ancestors. This kind of spiritual dragon cannot be kept without absolute overwhelming power. After all, the difficulty of hunting Phantom Dragons is second only to Silver Dragons and Gold Dragons…” Yun Feng glanced at Roland with a sad look and took a sip of his drink, his tone full of desolation.

“Indeed, the probability of an evil dragon appearing in the Illusionary Dragon is too low. Even if it is an evil dragon, we don’t have the ability to find it and kill it. Besides, we can’t keep the dragon’s corpse after we kill it…” Roland sighed helplessly as he thought about the Dragon Island floating in the western sea thousands of miles away.

At least the current Kingdom of Lagrang doesn't have the grandeur of the Lagrang Empire in the game—where the entire nation mobilized to build a dragon rider regiment of just over fifty men! That was a force capable of sweeping through Middle-earth, and even Dragon Island would have to consider the opinions of the dragon riders. In a real battle, the combination of dragon riders and dragons was no weaker than two giant dragons!

"Increase patrols! I'll make more magic signal flares and distribute them to the people so they can sound the signal if they encounter danger. The rest will be a test of how quickly our knights can provide support." Yun Feng spoke with an air of indifference, as if life and death were preordained by fate.

"That's all we can do..." Roland opened his mouth but could only sigh in the end. After all, he couldn't afford to support a large number of cavalry! The north was an excellent pasture, but population, equipment, and production capacity limited Roland's options for expanding his cavalry force in large numbers and at low cost. If Roland had 500 light cavalrymen on standby, he would be in a much better position. At least he wouldn't have to waste precious knights' time and energy on patrols.

“By the way, Your Highness! Take a look at this! It was left to you by your ancestors! It’s time to return it to its rightful owner!” Yun Feng thoughtfully called out to Roland, who was about to leave, and carefully took out an old book from the spatial ring hanging around his neck and handed it to Roland.

"What is this?" Roland took the book in great shock. He could clearly tell that the book was made of real paper!

“That’s right! It’s Lagrange paper! The empire’s treasure! The royal glory! Our secret!” Yun Feng looked at Roland with satisfaction as he recognized the item.

"It will tell you what you want to know! Your Highness, please return! Our alchemist lineage has kept it for a long time, and we hope you will find something of value in it!" Yun Feng smiled as he saw his guest off, his eyes filled with deep anticipation and nostalgia, clearly indicating that this book was no ordinary item.

Filled with intense curiosity, Roland returned to the tent; Nyx hadn't returned yet. Taking advantage of this lull, he quickly and carefully opened the book. Although it was old, it wasn't damaged at all! It was clear that the alchemists had taken excellent care of it.

"The Language of the Dragon!" The three large, elegant characters on the title page immediately caught my eye.

(End of this chapter)