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

Chapter 828 The Last Baikal
"You...know him?" Adolf Heinrich asked tentatively. Why was this man suddenly bursting into tears? Had he suffered some kind of shock?

"What happened?" Roland was jumping up and down in a panic. He could hear and see that something was wrong, but because of the height, he couldn't understand the specifics at all.

"This is the spacetime freeze created by the Baikal family of the Hand of the North!" Maple Forest Orchid wiped away her tears and said, her voice choked with emotion.

“The Baikal family? The Hand of the North? How did you recognize them?” Adolf Heinrich exclaimed in shock.

“Because the last Baikal to master the ability to freeze time and space was my wife! Lilith Baikal!” Maple Forest Orchid’s eyes were filled with sorrow.

"..." Adolf Heinrich pursed his lips, because the Baikal family was a family that was clearly recorded as being wiped out. The entire Baikal family had been wiped out in the northern wilderness before the empire was destroyed.

"When I entered the River of Time, I actually came to the North to find her..." A few tears welled up in Maple Forest Orchid's eyes. The main reason he fought alone against those chimera dragons and other random air knights was to find his wife who had disappeared in the North. When the Baikal family was destroyed outside the North, his wife urgently left the McDoug family to go to the North to provide relief, but then disappeared. It was under these circumstances that Maple Forest Orchid arrived at the northern border and fought to the death. In fact, he didn't originally need to exchange blows with those low-level air knights!
“I’m not particularly good at spatial manipulation! Maybe you should let Yunfeng take a look!” Adolf Heinrich was originally eager to try, but after hearing Fenglin Youlan’s words, he instantly lost interest. What if it was his wife’s remains or something… Adolf Heinrich would feel guilty for the rest of his life if he caused any problems.

"Give it a try, I can't wait!" Maple Forest Orchid said solemnly.

"Long Xi, please! Please help me again!" Feng Lin You Lan cried out.

“I will do my best, but don’t have too high hopes…” Long Xi shook his head. This was his knight, and he couldn’t ignore him, even if he had only a fraction of his abilities left.

"Is there anything I can do to help?" Dain leaned closer, trying to offer some assistance.

"No need, thank you for your kindness. Staying down here is the best help. No one knows what will happen if this stable spatial structure is disturbed, so stay away from here! By the way, please help take our Emperor away!" Adolf Heinrich waved his hand.

Space is the most stable yet most volatile property in the world. It automatically constructs a stable framework, just like in real space. Unless extreme violence is used or a spatial node is found, it is impossible to tear space apart. The frozen spatial rift is based on the same principle! Once the originally stable spatial structure is destroyed, it will likely cause a massive spatial explosion. Sharp spatial fragments will mercilessly cut everything this dimension encounters.

"I beg you, Lord Adolf!" Maple Forest Orchid said solemnly, taking a deep breath.

“I did my best! This kind of spatial blockade is the most I’ve ever seen in my life!” Adolf Heinrich frowned. This was not something Adolf Heinrich was good at. The mysteries of space were extraordinary. Even spatial sages would not dare to say that they could survive in space unscathed, let alone a non-professional like Adolf Heinrich.

“I will try to pry open the spatial nodes to see if I can break the balance…” Adolf Heinrich explained.

"Excuse my bluntness, but how did this thing achieve this? Without any support for a stable space, it must have a terrifying energy source, otherwise this frozen spatial rift could not possibly continue to exist!" Adolf Heinrich turned his head and asked, feeling that Maple Forest Orchid must know something.

"Wait a minute? The Baikal family? Isn't that the Hand of the North?" Roland heard it clearly from below. Was he about to gather both fists of the Empire?
"It's time to go, Your Majesty Roland, we must leave!" Dain grabbed Roland and pulled him away.

"By the way, Your Majesty, is there anything you can do to help?" Maple Forest Orchid suddenly asked.

Roland knew he was subtly asking Doss if he could dismantle this space, since the Golden Holy Dragon's spatial abilities were in some aspects no less than the Silver Dragon's. "It's just a spatial partitioning field of a divine artifact. The reason you can see it now is because it needs to enter the dimensional space to absorb elements and convert them into energy. Let them pry it open without worry. The spatial field of a divine artifact is very stable and won't cause a spatial explosion!" Doss said lazily.

"As for whether the people inside are alive or not, I can't sense it either; the artifact has blocked all information!" Dos's voice disappeared.

"It's alright, you can pry it open without me coming. This is probably a spatial force formed by something, and the structure is very stable!" Roland shouted.

Adolf Heinrich and Maple Forest Orchid exchanged a glance, both seeing the joy in each other's eyes; Roland's intention was quite clear.

"Then let's do it!" After watching Roland and Dain disappear, Maple Forest Orchid nodded to Adolf Heinrich.

“Then I’ll get to it!” Adolf Heinrich said with some concern.

"Crack!" The light element, condensed to its extreme, transformed into a cone of light under the mental constraint of Adolf Heinrich and then pierced into the space. The originally calm space began to tremble, and fine cracks appeared on the smooth, mirror-like spatial barrier.

"Is this a stable structure?" Adolf Heinrich stared wide-eyed at the cracked spatial barrier, the fine cracks spreading like a spider web across the entire barrier.

“I have a bad feeling…” Adolf Heinrich felt like he had been tricked; this thing didn’t look very stable at all.

"How about we retreat a bit?" Adolf Heinrich suggested to Maple Forest Orchid. This thing was really dangerous now; the fine spatial rifts were chilling.

"This thing is twisting and expanding?" Adolf Heinrich observed in shock, only to see that the originally smooth space was now completely bulging out, with things trying to squeeze into the world barrier from the void.

"Not good! Let's go!" Adolf Heinrich stared in surprise at the increasingly protruding spatial barrier and tried to pull Maple Forest Orchid away.

"..." Maple Forest Orchid did not move, but calmly stared at the distorted and chaotic spatial barrier.

"If we don't leave now, it will be too late!" Adolf Heinrich said solemnly. A spatial explosion at this distance would be terrible for even a demigod, let alone a sixth-order being!

"Crack!" The fine crack paused, and then a silver-blue light appeared. Adolf Heinrich instinctively tried to pull Maple Forest Orchid away by using Blink, but when he appeared several thousand meters away, he found that Maple Forest Orchid had already been swallowed by the silver-blue light.

"Pop!" It was like a bubble exploding, and the sound of space shattering was smaller than everyone expected.

"Hiss~" Fine spatial fragments grazed Maple Forest Orchid's body, bounced off by his dragon armor covered in dragon power, with only a few spatial fragments scratching a few fine cuts on his face.

"Welcome back (jokingly: resurrect!), my love!" Maple Forest Orchid laughed, his entire body radiating holy light that completely engulfed the two of them...