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

Chapter 829 Eternal Ice Heart!

"So? You've been sealed in this space for countless years?" Roland stared at Lilith with the curiosity of a curious child. He had gained a new understanding of the tricks the system was playing! Amazing!
“Yes, when the family suffered a misfortune, I couldn’t contact the family and had to go to search for them alone.” Lilith sighed. The reason she went alone was because she went as the legitimate daughter of the Baikal family, not as the matriarch of the Maddug family. That was the destiny and war of the Baikal family and should not involve the Maddug family. Lilith knew this much!

“Fool, why did you leave without saying goodbye! Do you know how hard I searched for you? We are family! We could have faced this together!” Maple Forest Orchid sighed, her eyes slightly red, as she hugged Lilith.

Good heavens, who knew this guy was such a romantic! Roland's lips twitched. This guy was interesting; he could even see through what Lilith was trying to say. Was this guy just too infatuated or too naive? For nobles, personal relationships and transactions were inseparable. The McDougal and Baigal families hadn't reached the point of being life-or-death allies. In the entire empire, apart from a few families closely related to the royal family, it was difficult for other families to achieve that. Lilith clearly didn't want to drag the McDougal family into this mess, but Maple Forest Orchid was practically offering herself up!

"How did you survive?" Roland asked Lilith, puzzled. After all, he had checked Lilith's stats, and her status as a Holy Sage was undeniably impressive! It meant that she could master and use magic of all attributes except for evil magic! However, this did not mean that she could create a space and maintain a space equivalent to a demiplane drifting through time!

Roland has to admit that the McDougal and Baikal families are truly talented! They actually managed to assemble a couple with the Holy attribute... What? Are they keeping them to have Holy attribute offspring? Unfortunately, Holy attribute isn't part of the fixed inheritance sequence, so their child will definitely be Light attribute! After all, Light is the first attribute in the fixed inheritance sequence of Holy attribute! The probability of two Holy professionals combining naturally skyrockets to 100%.

"I survived thanks to the Eternal Ice Heart! You should know that the Empire's Twin Fists also possess inherited artifacts. The most famous Eternal Ice Heart of the Baikal family is in my hands!" Lilith smiled weakly. Although they had returned to Swiftstream City, and Lilith had recuperated for a few days under the care of Maple Forest Orchid, the damage to her essence caused by the prolonged spatial freeze was not something that could be recovered in a day or two. In fact, her survival was only thanks to her ancestors kowtowing to the Dragon God in the afterlife!
Roland knew that the Eternal Ice Heart was the most powerful artifact of the Baikal family in The Lord of the Rings! Known as the Undead, the Eternal Ice Heart wasn't actually made of ice, but rather from the heart of a silver dragon with spatial properties! Its effect was to freeze space! Players had used it countless times to save others during world quests; as long as space was frozen, you wouldn't die, but would remain in that final state, waiting for a priest to revive you!
"Aww!" Roland nodded knowingly. No wonder she survived; she used this thing to freeze herself hiding in the void, successfully exploiting a bug! No wonder Maple Forest Orchid was covered in blood when she was pulled out, and her healing skills never stopped! At that time, the hole in Lilith's abdomen was so wide that you could see her back! Even her spine was shattered! So everyone didn't linger and just grabbed Lilith and ran! Roland and Maple Forest Orchid used holy skills to heal her along the way, and finally managed to get back to Charlie Prologis. Charlie Prologis simply and brutally cast a resurrection spell, and Lilith came back to life, while poor Charlie Prologis turned pale and withered.

"Wait a minute! How did this thing end up in your hands?" Roland was taken aback. Lilith married Maple Forest Orchid, so shouldn't the artifact of the Baikal family have been returned to the Baikal family? How could she still have it? Wasn't that given to the Maddug family?
“It was entrusted to me by my people! When I found them, the main branch and branches of the family had all been wiped out in battle... Apart from the vassals and subjects who spontaneously resisted, only a few relatives of the maternal relatives remained in the entire clan…” Lilith shed tears. She had tried her best, but she was forced to flee and was chased by a sixth-level orc. In the end, she was hit by a forbidden spell and was on the verge of death. She had no choice but to activate the artifact to seal herself.

"This is all the Dragon God's arrangement!" Fenglin Youlan murmured, holding his wife in his arms. He believed that his reunion with his wife must be the Dragon God's arrangement and mercy!

"Come on! It's the system's arrangement!" Roland thought to himself.

"That's not right either! How did you recognize that thing? I thought the activation state of Eternal Ice Heart was hard to recognize!" Roland recalled the way Eternal Ice Heart was activated; that completely sealed state was not the usual usage state of Eternal Ice Heart!

"Um, I was once frozen by her..." Maple Forest Orchid awkwardly rubbed her feet, recalling an unpleasant past. "Back then..." Maple Forest Orchid blushed, preparing to recount something.

"Wait, wait! Stop! I don't want to hear your love story!" Roland stopped him, not wanting to experience the stench of love! After all, with his wife gone, there was no one to show off their affection, and before the king stopped showing off his love, no one could show off their affection in front of the king!

"..." Maple Forest Orchid shut its mouth and remained silent.

"Alright, you two can enjoy your sweet nothings! I won't disturb you any longer!" Roland turned to leave. He had already learned what he needed to know, and since both of these star-crossed lovers were "crippled"—one a dragon whose essence was damaged, and the other a human whose essence was damaged—they both needed to recuperate. Therefore, Roland had no intention of becoming a third wheel.

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"How is it going? How are things in Vladivostok and Longya Fortress?" Roland asked Adolf Heinrich.

"Fortunately, there's nothing that's out of their depth. Apart from the occasional attacks from the monsters in the water, nothing else has happened." Adolf Heinrich shook his head.

“Let’s send Maple Forest Ice Orchid to garrison Dragon Cliff Fortress! It just so happens that Maple Forest Youlan’s wife is back, and that kid has stopped chasing after his sister and is now always pestering his wife.” Roland thought for a moment and said to Adolf Heinrich.

"Yes, I'll go inform her. A high-ranking guardian should be left there! Otherwise, if we encounter a high-ranking aquatic magical beast attack, it'll be really difficult to handle!" Adolf Heinrich nodded. He couldn't possibly expect Verin Angus and Vladivostok to deal with high-ranking magical beasts, could he? Verin Angus was manageable, but in Vladivostok, he'd be lucky if Duke Joelster didn't yell at him to death!
"Yes, everyone be on high alert. Remember, we're destroying the Eastern Yi chariot people, not the orcs! Those orcs who reproduce like cockroaches are far from being a match for us!" Roland said seriously. He knew that there were at least tens of millions of orcs in the Central Plains! North of the Northern Wasteland, those orcs were killing each other like they were raising poisonous insects!

Thanks to the advantage of distance and strategic depth! We can wear down the orcs advancing from the north simply by relying on supplies; otherwise, the kingdom would be facing hundreds of thousands of orcs pressing in!