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

Chapter 850 Unveiling the Bloody Wound

The next morning, Maple Forest Orchid's excited voice spread throughout Swiftstream City. Soon everyone knew the good news: Maple Forest Orchid, one of the kingdom's only two Holy Dragon Knights, had recovered from her injuries and returned with her dragon!

In an instant, the morale of the entire city of Lagrange soared to a visible level. Everyone understood what a Holy Dragon Knight Commander meant! In this age without gods, he was a demigod! The appearance of a Holy Dragon Knight Commander was enough to extinguish the unthinkable thoughts of many.

"Roar!" Long Xi's clear and melodious dragon roar resounded throughout the entire city of Lagrange. Standing atop the tower, she spread her wings, blotting out the sky! Large swaths of shadow fell as she spread her wings.

"Congratulations!" Everyone gathered around Maple Forest Orchid to congratulate her, while Long Xi lowered her head and looked happily at her knight holding his wife's hand, constantly responding to everyone.

……

"What's wrong, Light Chaser? You don't seem very happy. Are there still conflicts among the dragons of the McDougal family?" Roland stood next to Light Chaser, who had a deep expression on his face, and patted his scales.

This is not an exaggeration. Everyone has their own conflicts, let alone long-lived dragons. In their long lives, dragons will always find a few dragons that they don't get along with. Conflicts between dragons often occur, but they are not as radical as those between humans. At most, they will fight when they meet, but it will not escalate to the point of killing a dragon.

This is very common in the Anthony family. The dragons of the Anthony family, who mainly fight fire and lightning dragons, are all hot-tempered. Fighting is a common occurrence. Fire and lightning dragons are bound to have some minor conflicts with each other. Therefore, the renovation rate of the Anthony family's manor lawns has always ranked first in the empire! This is also why most of the dragon knights stationed abroad by the empire are from the Anthony family. It's just that if the dragons of the Anthony family gathered together, they would cause trouble. Do you think those dragon knights really like to wander the world for no reason? Out of necessity, everyone has to disperse the dragon knights of the Anthony family. This way, they can be guaranteed not to destroy themselves before being killed by external enemies.

“No, not at all…” Zhui Guang shook his head with a complicated expression, his gaze fixed on Long Xi, who stood proudly atop the tower.

"What's wrong? Are you in love? Have you taken a fancy to Long Xi?" Roland teased.

"Yes...no! I didn't!" He quickly slipped up, staring at Long Xi's gaze, and then immediately corrected himself.

"Tsk tsk tsk!" Roland didn't say anything, but his actions clearly showed his meaning—do you think I believe him?

"You've already taken a liking to her, yet you look so complicated? What's wrong? Are you afraid she won't like you back? Shouldn't the Twilight Dragon be considered a high-ranking dragon? You're only slightly lower than the Holy Light Dragon, aren't you?" Roland asked, somewhat puzzled.

"Do you really think she's fully recovered?" Zhui Guang suddenly asked quietly, his eyes filled with helplessness and despair.

"What do you mean?" Roland was taken aback, then calmly brought up the system interface and directly locked onto Maple Forest Orchid to check the status of the contracted dragon. What he saw shocked him!
Zhui Guang didn't doubt Roland's shock at seeing the system. He assumed Roland was surprised by his words, so he shook his head helplessly.

"She used the moonlight! She used the power of the moon dragon in her bloodline!" Zhui Guang's voice was weary; he didn't know how to save Long Xi.

"..." Roland frowned. He had just seen Long Xi's status bar on the system showing a pseudo-heal and dragon magic prohibited status. With the explanation from Zhui Guang, Roland finally understood how serious this matter was.

"This..." Roland's expression also turned serious. If what Zhui Guang said was true, then Long Xi at this moment was just a large flying lizard!

"Doesn't Youlan know?" Roland suddenly asked seriously. If Maple Forest Youlan didn't know, that would be fine, but if he knew and tacitly approved... Roland simply couldn't imagine it. If that were the case, Roland would have to consider replacing the head of the McDougal family! After all, as the oldest family in the empire, they couldn't just disappear for no reason, but the king still had the right to replace them with a flesh-and-blood patriarch!
“He doesn’t know. If he did know… he definitely wouldn’t have let Long Xi do that!” Zhui Guang sighed.

"How do you know that Long Xi used Moon Essence?" Roland asked, staring at the spotlight.

"She told me herself. I realized something was wrong, but it was too late to stop it..." Zhui Guang said with some heartache.

"Let's think of another way. As long as we're not dead, everything can be changed!" Roland sighed. At this point, this was all they could do.

“By the way, don’t tell Youlan about this! I’ll tell him!” Roland suddenly looked up at Zhuiguang and said. “I don’t want Youlan to resent you for not stopping Longxi…” Roland continued, then turned and left.

……

"Your Majesty, you don't seem happy?" After a chance encounter with Roland in the afternoon, which had put Roland in a great mood, Maple Forest Orchid asked curiously, looking at Roland's ashen face. He didn't understand why Roland had such a long face when everything was going well.

"Where's Long Xi?" Roland asked, glancing at Maple Forest Orchid's shoulder.

"I'm at home with Lilith!" Maple Forest Orchid smiled.

"Idiot! Haven't you realized what happened yet?" Roland said, rubbing his head in exasperation.

"How did you become the Dragon Rider Commander? Don't you see anything wrong with it?" Roland complained.

"???" Maple Forest Orchid was stunned. Was King Roland on fire today? He just came at me with a barrage of attacks? I don't think I made any mistakes today, did I? Maple Forest Orchid quickly pictured the scene above in her mind.

"How did Long Xi recover? You didn't have any doubts at all? You weren't even a little suspicious?" Roland was shocked by Fenglin Youlan's slowness. He waited for a long time, but Fenglin Youlan still didn't notice anything wrong. The recovery of damage to one's origin usually takes at least a year! Who can suddenly recover from an injury to their origin? Do you think you ate some kind of rare treasure?

"Didn't she recover from the injuries she sustained across the river of time?" Maple Forest Orchid scratched her head.

"She used Moon Essence! Idiot! You don't know your dragon has Moon Dragon blood, do you? Do I need to explain the effects of Weeping Moon Essence to you, McDougal's dragon knight!" Roland rubbed his temples.

“Moonlight…Tears of Moonlight! How is that possible! How did you know?” Maple Forest Orchid’s knowledge of dragon riders was clearly up to par; she only took a few seconds to react before staring at Roland with a deathly pale face.

"Have you forgotten that my dragon is a golden dragon?" To avoid betraying Chasing Light, Roland made up a pretext. After all, it was reasonable for a golden dragon, as the royal family of dragons, to be able to see the changes in other dragons, right? In any case, none of them were golden dragons.

"..." Maple Forest Orchid showed no melancholy and turned away, staggering back.

"Don't let her go into battle until the kingdom finds a way to cure her!" Roland's voice faintly came from behind. Maple Forest Orchid paused for a moment, then sped up and ran.

"Sigh..." Roland sighed. He had thought he would have another top-tier mobile force to use, but in the end it was all for nothing.

……

“Long Xi…you…” Fenglin Youlan burst through the door and rushed to Long Xi’s side amidst Lilith’s puzzled and surprised gaze.

"What's wrong? My knight?" Long Xi blinked and asked curiously.

"Your injury..."

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