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

Chapter 875 The Shocked Aragorn
"Your Majesty, what are we going to do?" Fenglin Xilan asked timidly, pulling Fenglin Shulan along.

"Good girls! Just wait patiently in the castle!" Roland patted the two little girls' heads.

"Sir Ravian, can I trust you?" Roland then turned his head and asked.

"..." Ravian tightened his grip on the sword, then glanced at Nyx before forcibly suppressing his anger.

“Very good, it seems I can trust you! While Nyx and I are away, please keep a close eye on these two children. If anything happens to them, I regret to inform you that you will most likely be killed by the McDougal family!” Roland said with a regretful tone.

“…” Ravian ground his back teeth, feeling powerless to even complain.

"Alright, you two stay with him and don't run around. We're going to the Gray Mountains these days, so be good and wait for us to come back!" Roland instructed the two girls.

“Yes, Your Majesty, then our dragon…” Maple Forest Shulan timidly looked at Roland’s shoulder, where the miniature golden dragon Dos was suppressing the equally miniature purple thunder dragon Zilian, and in the air beside it, a miniature twilight dragon Zhuiguang was watching the show.

“Them? Oh! Right! I’m just borrowing them for a short while, I’ll return them to you soon!” Roland pointed to the two dragons that had broken away from their knights.

"Then you must be careful!" The two little girls waved innocently at Roland, unaware that Roland had actually committed a major taboo for dragon knights—separating the dragon from the knight.

Clearly, Chasing Light, who had long considered himself a mere figurehead knight, was completely indifferent. As the millennium-old guardian dragon of the McDougal family, he knew perfectly well that the king would not harm his knight. But Purple Chain was different. Acknowledging Maple Forest Shulan did not mean that he acknowledged King Roland. To him, apart from his own knight, everyone else was probably a stranger! So he was quite excited.

Unfortunately, it was all for naught. Doss easily suppressed him with a combination of high-ranking bloodline and dragon might! Now he's listlessly accepting the Emperor's judgment!
"Let's go!" Roland waved to the two little ones, then pulled Nyx along and walked out.

Unlike her usual fluffy dress, Nyx is wearing a large mage cloak and a pair of convenient leather pants today. As a dragon mage, she also rides dragons. Obviously, no one would ride a dragon while wearing a dress, right?
"Thank you, Dragon God! You look beautiful today!" Roland said gently, kissing Nyx.

"If a fight breaks out, hide in the back. Don't stand there like an idiot in front! Dragon magic doesn't require close-quarters combat!" Roland instructed.

"And you! Weiss! The fighting power of griffins should not be underestimated. You'd better stay behind them and support them, don't rush out to fight alone! Vili is not afraid of those griffins' claws, but you can't!" Roland tapped Weiss's helmet. Wearing the Sernar Soul Dragon Armor, Vili was basically no longer someone that ordinary griffins could shake! The dragon armor gave the dragon terrifying defensive power, allowing them to move freely through all kinds of terrifying firepower.

"Doss! Keep an eye on Purple Chain! Don't let him get carried away! He's the weakest one here!" Roland tilted his head and instructed Doss, who was perched on his shoulder. In terms of combat strength and bloodline, Purple Chain was certainly not the worst, but in terms of team fighting, he was undoubtedly the weakest. Without a knight's command or training from the Imperial Dragon Rider system, he only had the fighting instincts of the dragon race and the experience of his ancestors, so he was undoubtedly unable to integrate into the tactical system of the Imperial Dragon Riders! After all, apart from Purple Chain, this wild dragon, the other dragons were either from the Lagrange Empire or had Imperial Dragon Riders commanding them. Even Chasing Light, who was also without a knight's command on this trip, was familiar with the Imperial Dragon Rider combat system.

“Yes! He can’t cause any trouble!” Doss nodded.

"Alright! Caslo! Gather everyone and get ready to leave!" Roland said to Caslo, who was still strapping equipment onto Kaldo.

“Yes, Your Majesty! Wait a moment while I tie up these magic-suppressing ropes!” Caslo nodded.

"Yunfeng, are you going?" Roland asked politely, looking at Yunfeng who was seeing him off.

"...If so many dragons can't handle this, what am I supposed to do?" Yun Feng said to Roland, who looked like a farmer, with a dark face. He didn't need a group of dragon knights to handle the situation, and he wouldn't be of any use if the dragon knights couldn't handle it. Asking him about such a trivial question was just asking himself a headache.
"Alright, I was originally planning to take you out for a walk to clear your head!" Roland said seriously. "Hehe! I really thank you, Your Majesty! Take care! I won't see you off!" Yunfeng looked at Roland, the "King of Empty Promises in the Middle Kingdom," and said with a fake smile.

"Take care, and make sure you take good care of the family, or I'll break your legs when you get back!" Roland said with a smile and waved to Yun Feng.

"Go!" As Roland took off first, the colorful Smurf suddenly grew larger, then let out a clear cry and soared into the sky, disappearing from sight.

"hold head high!"

"Ow!"

The people of Swiftstream City looked up in astonishment at the sky. In the clear sky, giant dragons spread their enormous membranous wings, casting their shadows onto the snow-covered earth. The people of the city cheered. This was the mighty power of the Dragon Kingdom! This was the oppressive aura of the dragons! Even gods would give way to them in the face of such a horde of dragons.

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"Gods! Is this the Kingdom of Lagrange?" Aragorn stared in disbelief as he counted the enormous figures soaring into the sky. Standing on the dock and gazing across the river, Aragorn had excellent eyesight and could see the dragons flying in the clear blue sky.

"Yes! They went north? Such a large group of dragons went north? Has the northern dwarves' battle line been breached?" Unlike the astonished Aragorn, Legolas, who was familiar with the affairs of the north, broke out in a cold sweat after a moment's thought. For this kingdom, known as the Dragon Kingdom, to send out all its dragons, one could only imagine how rotten the north must be!

"Oh no! We have to go north and see! The Woodland Kingdom must be completely unaware of this!" Legolas said worriedly. No one understood Thranduil's isolation better than him. The Woodland Elves, with their closed-off kingdom, were probably the last power to know about the changes.

"..." Aragorn really wanted to say to Legolas, "What the hell? Just how closed off are you Woodland Elves? How could you react so strongly?"

"Okay, okay, I'll go pay the bill!" Without hesitation, trusting his friend, Aragorn grabbed his luggage and rushed downstairs.

"It's too late to run away! Take this and buy two horses! We have to ride after them!" Aragorn tossed Legolas a fist-sized bag of gold coins, gesturing for him to buy horses.

"Thanks, but I'm not so poor that I need help from friends!" Legolas tossed the gold coins back along the same path, slung his weapon over his shoulder, and jumped out of the window again. This time, however, he didn't go down to the street below, but instead used the rooftops to leap and tumble forward.

"Haven't you been captured enough by the city guards?" Aragorn couldn't help but clench his fist as he watched Legolas's departing figure.

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“Aren’t we being a bit too conspicuous?” Nyx whispered, leaning against Roland’s chest. To conceal Dos’s identity as the Golden Dragon, Roland planned to ride with Nyx before arriving.

“Sometimes a sword can’t just be hidden away; it needs to be taken out and wielded when necessary, otherwise the hidden sword will lose its deterrent power!” Roland said meaningfully.