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

Chapter 802 Another Burden Arrives
As the guardian dragon nurtured by the McDoug family, Twilight Dragon Chaser has protected them for over a thousand years. He is a true young dragon! Although not yet fully grown, his combat prowess is already nearing its peak. This is because light dragons, compared to other dragon races, are less reliant on physical strength; they are more accustomed to using powerful dragon language magic to bathe others in the might of the dragon race! Therefore, while Chaser's physical development is not yet mature, his mastery of light dragon language magic is already approaching its peak! Furthermore, Twilight Dragons possess some time-related characteristics, placing them at a high ecological level among dragons!
At this moment, as a giant dragon with maxed-out dragon language magic began to focus on locating, the information of the entire area was revealed to him as if stripped bare. The places his dragon eyes scanned transformed into three-dimensional images constructed in his mind, and he quickly determined his location.

"The Red River is ahead of us! Downstream is the Swift River! The place where they intersect is the capital!" Chasing Light analyzed to his knight.

"Then what should we do?" Maple Forest Xilan looked at her dragon, somewhat at a loss. As one of the last Lagranges to be sent into the Time-Space Sleep, she was just an innocent child when she entered. Her brother died in the North and his body was never found. Her cousin lost contact with the family in Romanian. The burden of the entire McDougal family fell on the shoulders of a sixteen-year-old girl. As a noblewoman of the McDougal Duke family, she should have been living a carefree life, but the destruction of the empire destroyed all of that.

"Of course, we should return to the Empire! But we need to protect these people and our clansmen first!" Zhui Guang said with a headache. The young lady was naive and he could only act as her old servant to clean up her mess.

"Oh." Fenglin Xilan nodded thoughtfully.

“Dragon God…” Chasing Light’s head was pounding. Other people’s dragons were worshipped like ancestors, but McDoug’s dragon had to be a steward who did everything. This made Chasing Light feel the gloom of dragon life more than once.

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"Dragon Rider!" Chasing Light suddenly stopped flying. He spread his wings and flew backward against the wind to stop his momentum. At the same time, white dragon armor quickly climbed onto his body.

It's not that I'm judging others by my own petty standards, but after all the changes of time, no one knows whether the person coming is friend or foe. To put it bluntly, far more dragons and dragon riders died in the internal strife of the empire than when the empire was destroyed!

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"Kardo! This feels so different! Is this what it means to be a Dragon Rider Commander?" Caslo exclaimed, feeling refreshed as he rode on the dragon's back. It was a qualitative change; the feeling of becoming one with the dragon after becoming a Dragon Rider Commander was clearly different from before!

"I don't know if the Dragon Rider is handsome, but I did see a Twilight Dragon not far away! Let's prepare for battle! I saw dragon armor on him!" Kaldo complained.

"Dragon armor? Dragons don't usually have that kind of rare item!" Caslo was taken aback, then picked up the dragon spear.

"Weiss! Something's up!" Caslo's voice rang in Weiss's mind.

"I saw it a long time ago..." Weiss's lips twitched. As a Dragon Knight Commander, was he daydreaming? Wasn't he afraid of being shoved off a dragon's back by a spear?
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"Something feels off. Where did this demonic dragon come from? Does the empire have any families that possess demonic dragons?" The Dragon of Light narrowed its eyes and began to recall.

"Who are you people?" The dragons were flying very fast, and the two dragons arrived in an instant. Caslo and Weiss looked the Twilight Dragon and the knight on its back up and down.

"Imperial Dragon Knight Commander?" Chasing Light asked, after all, the scene before him reassured him a lot. The imperial standard dragon armor and dragon spear obviously could not have been passed down. What intrigued him most was this demonic dragon knight.

“Caslo, the Dragon Knight Commander of the Kingdom of Lagrang! Who are you…” Caslo and the others couldn’t discern anything from Chasing Light, since they weren’t carrying any identification.

"The McDoug family's dragon knights?" Caslow suddenly said, because he saw the McDoug family's emblem on the dragon armor that was chasing the light—a protective red maple leaf!
“Yes! The guardian dragon of the McDougal family, Chasing Light! Maple Forest Xi Lan, the direct heir of the McDougal family.” Chasing Light was too embarrassed to say that the girl behind him was his knight, after all, this young lady needed him to serve her.

“That’s it! Do you have any other people? Your people received your distress signal!” Caslo nodded, finally managing to connect after flying so many times. “People?” Maple Forest Xilan seemed very excited.

“Yes, one is the half-crippled dragon rider, Maple Forest Orchid, and the other is the frost hero, Maple Forest Ice Orchid.” Caslo nodded.

"Brother! Clan sister?" Fenglin Xilan was clearly excited.

"Chase the Light! Take me to them quickly!" the little ancestor immediately exclaimed.

"Alright, girl, we have a large group of people behind us, and we need to ensure their safety!" Chasing Light coaxed his knight.

"How many people?" Caslo asked curiously. After all, he was a Duke of the Dragon Army, so there was no reason for him to be stingy. If something could be passed down, there must be some good stuff.

"A thousand city guards and more than 20,000 civilians—this is the last remaining spark the McDougal family can preserve." Clearly, Chasing Light had adopted the McDougal family's identity to exonerate his own.

"You've worked hard! His Majesty will not forget your loyalty!" Caslow nodded. He also understood the difficulties faced by the McDougal family. As a family that was almost wiped out in the civil war, it was already a great honor for the emperor to have the resources to protect a remnant of the empire.

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“Xi Lan…” Feng Lin Bing Lan hugged Feng Lin Xi Lan and said excitedly.

"It's good that you're alive, it's good that you're alive!" Maple Forest Orchid kept wiping her eyes and muttering to herself.

"Long Xi, you seem to be living forever... When are you going to die?" The shrunken, kitten-sized Chaser of Light squatted beside the equally miniature Holy Dragon Long Xi and teased.

"Yeah, he's almost dead! He hasn't gotten any better all these years..." Long Xi nodded seriously.

"Come on! You think you can fight against the turbulent flow of time in the river of time? You're dreaming!" Chasing Light scoffed, "It's already a miracle that I survived, thanks to the protection of the Dragon God!"
"So you made a contract with this girl?" Long Xi didn't answer the question but instead asked Zhui Guang.

"What else? You and your master have disappeared without a trace! The family's only high-ranking Maple Forest Ice Orchid has also vanished. If I don't contract someone to create a dragon knight for the family in name, do you know how difficult life will be for the family?" Zhui Guang gritted his teeth in hatred. If they hadn't all disappeared, would he have had to work as a nanny for a girl?
"Hmm, it must be hard on you! Being a nanny for a little girl!" Long Xi nodded in satisfaction. He could obviously tell the relationship between the two at a glance. After all, they had been in the same family for so many years. Who among them wasn't a thousand-year-old dragon?
"Please save me!" Chasing the Bald Head Avenue, he was a dragon, not a mother hen. Taking care of a little girl was already exhausting, let alone having to look after the McDougal family. In his final moments, the patriarch of the McDougal family was actually Chasing the Head himself...

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"Hiss!" Roland gasped. This was the so-called McDougal family? Their numbers were barely better than the Lionhearts of King's Landing. They even brought a rookie dragon knight; the only useful thing about them was the soldiers and people they brought…

"Another burden on my shoulders?" Caslo was completely bewildered. When did the Dragon Knight become as handsome as a kindergarten principal?