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

Chapter 819 Ismir's Ambition

"The rules of this sword are sharpness and penetrating space... It's a pity it came out a little late, otherwise that space-type Ringwraith would have been in for a rough time!" Maple Forest Orchid said softly. Divine artifacts all possess the power of world rules, and the first generation Dragon Slayer Sword possesses two rules: sharpness and penetrating space! These respectively represent extremely strong defense-breaking ability and the ability to disrupt spatial stability.

Maple Forest Orchid gripped the first-generation Dragon Slayer Sword and slowly slashed it twice in the void. Instantly, two dark spatial rifts appeared in the air where the sword's blade passed, a manifestation of the divine weapon's rules! Osbayar became a god on his own, without inheriting any other divine positions, but his divine status was not passed down either. The dragon rider families of the empire could only refer to him as the Silver Dragon God. As a spatial-type professional, his divine weapon was naturally imbued with spatial abilities. This Dragon Slayer Sword was indeed a formidable offensive divine weapon! Its ability to specialize in spatial attacks made it one of the top divine weapons!
"Don't even think about it. You'll only be able to make do with it! It's not like it's a special equipment for paladins. It won't make much difference to you. The only advantage is that it gives you a guarantee to escape from spatial turbulence! As for attack... this thing is just icing on the cake at best. Your original Dragon Slayer Sword is just as good as it, except that it doesn't have spatial rules..." Long Xi muttered. The biggest use of this thing for Maple Forest Orchid is that it allows him to directly use the rules to suppress and break the effects of many spatial confinement skills.

"Not bad, it's a divine artifact left by our ancestors after all!" Maple Forest Orchid was quite open-minded about it.

"By the way! How come the Ten Thousand Dragons Chant is with His Majesty the King?" Long Xi asked hesitantly. You should know that this thing is a heirloom of the Nyx family. In history, only three families—the Nyx, the Anthony, and the McDougal—have possessed the artifact of Osbayar.

"I don't know, but the current queen is the Grand Duchess of the Nyx family... so those who know, know!" Maple Forest Orchid shrugged.

“Okay, but it has nothing to do with us anyway, since that gun never belonged to us…” Long Xi said with a wry smile. Long Xi knew exactly how much weight McDougal had at home.

"Sigh, I should be thinking about what to do with those two girls instead..." Just thinking about her two adopted younger sisters, Fenglin Youlan, gave her a headache. The kingdom was in a turbulent region, and dragon knights, as high-level combatants, couldn't just be decorative. Fenglin Shulan was alright; she just couldn't become a dragon knight. But Fenglin Xilan would actually have to fight the Dark Alliance's aerial forces in the future. Based on Fenglin Youlan's current understanding, it was questionable whether Fenglin Xilan would even survive until after the war... Of course, this wasn't meant to belittle Zhuiguang; it was simply that Fenglin Xilan was weak. Seeing this, Fenglin Youlan wished she could pull her off the dragon's back and ride in her place.

"..." Long Xi was silent for a moment, then tucked in his tail, folded his wings, and squatted down in Maple Forest Orchid, pretending to sleep. Maple Forest Orchid clearly saw the loneliness and sadness in Long Xi's eyes out of the corner of his eye. For a dragon, losing its original dragon power is undoubtedly a kind of pain, and for a mount dragon, being unable to carry its knight into the blue sky is an even greater torment!
"You've suffered so much these past years..." Fenglin Youlan whispered, stroking Longxi's wings.

“It’s alright. Even if you don’t recover, the McDougal family will take care of you! Even if I die, I still have my son… The family will always support you!” Maple Forest Orchid said solemnly.

"Forget it, I'm already a useless piece of trash. Staying with the family would only be a burden. How could the family's guardian dragon possibly want someone like me?" Long Xi laughed self-deprecatingly. A useless dragon that can't even transform into a dragon, keeping him as the guardian dragon would be a disgrace to the family. They can't afford to raise a dragon, let alone a crippled one? It directly lowers the prestige of the McDougal family by several levels.

"When you pass away, I'll go back to Dragon Island to wait for death. Anyway, Dragon Island won't despise me. It doesn't matter if I'm a useless dragon." Long Xi said to himself.

"...The McDougal family isn't so poor that they can't afford to support you, is it? Your injuries were for the sake of the family, no one will mock you!" Maple Forest Orchid said calmly.

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"So the kingdom has no reinforcements?" Ymir asked urgently, looking at Ismir who had just returned from Lulong Fortress. From the empty space behind Ismir, Ymir knew that Ismir's request for help had failed.

"Well, the kingdom won't support our soldiers. Actually, I was prepared for my pleading poverty to fail..." Ismir waved his hand dismissively. Following the principle of taking what he could get, Ismir went to Lulong Fortress as usual to plead poverty with Reno, just like Liu Bei, crying and begging to get things from the kingdom. He was prepared for this failure; after all, Reno wasn't blind. He still had nearly three hundred natural guardians after the battle! The kingdom certainly wouldn't be blind to that! For a lord's pioneering territory like his, three hundred professional soldiers was already a considerable force. "That's true, the kingdom is unlikely to bolster its forces here," Ymir nodded.

"So we have to find something to do ourselves, we can't just sit around doing nothing. If we can't fight the Ringwraiths, can't we go fight the monsters?" Ismir smiled mysteriously. The Ringwraiths were hiding in Dordogo and it was difficult to attack them, but the other monsters in the Mirkwood were easy to find!
"So what are you planning to do?" Ymir asked curiously.

“Here!” Ismir nudged the armored earth dragon at his feet and nodded.

"Wait a minute? You're going to attack this thing? You've lived a long time, haven't you?" Ymir followed Ismir's gaze and landed on the armored earth dragon.

“These things are social creatures! Most of them are groups of several armored earth dragons... These things are not easy to deal with!” Ymir scratched his head. He was able to deal with this armored earth dragon only because it was alone. For Ymir, who inherited the glory of the last Senate Guard, it was a piece of cake! But a group of armored earth dragons would make even dragons on the ground think twice.

"Let's find a way to get a few, and we can form an Earth Dragon Knight Order!" Ismir said proudly. What kind of pioneering nobles are they if they have no fighting spirit? Wouldn't it be better to go back to farming?

"My Dragon God! You really dare to think this way? Lord Pioneer? Earth Dragon Knights? Do those two things even have anything to do with each other? Do you think you're the second son of the Grand Duke? Even if the Grand Duke of King's Landing gave his second son a Pioneer team, they couldn't create an Earth Dragon Knights, could they? You're not just being incredibly audacious!" Ymir's spittle flew everywhere, showing how excited he was. After all, Ismir really was too daring to think this way.

"Hey, hey, hey! Calm down, calm down. The Earth Dragon Knights are just a name. We don't really plan to form a hundred-man Earth Dragon Knights..." Ismir retorted after being angrily accused by Ymir of being audacious and daydreaming.

"That's still a tough question. Where will the knights come from? How will we feed these soldiers? And most importantly, where will the earth dragons come from?" Ymir asked, posing a soul-searching question.

"..." Ismir glanced sideways at Ymir.

"Me? I can capture a whole group of dragons by myself?" Ymir, who was watching the drama unfold, almost had a stroke. Did she really think she was a sixth-tier Imperial Guard?

"That's why we're trying to find a solution! We still have so many soldiers. We've used poison, traps, and all sorts of underhanded tactics on them. How can we not take down a few earth dragons?" Ismir encouraged Ymir.

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