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

Chapter 917 There are still chess players playing!

"Damn it! What did this come from? I shouldn't have taken that dragon scale!" Roland complained, realizing he was too naive and had been tricked by the old silver coin!

"Calm down, Roland, things aren't that bad yet..." Doss said calmly.

"I don't even know where this news has spread, how can I stay calm..." Roland said frantically, looking at the snow-covered world.

"Now that you're in your world, come out and show yourself. Hiding won't get you anywhere!" Doss ignored Roland and spoke loudly into the void.

"Interesting child! I sense a familiar presence in you!" Asata appeared quietly, his eyes filled with praise and satisfaction for his junior.

"Ah?" Roland jumped up in fright. How could such a huge dragon suddenly appear beside him? If this thing were to harm him, Roland would have no way to stop it. Although Roland possessed several divine artifacts, even divine artifacts were not invincible, especially when facing a dragon king who might have once slain a god!

“Calm down, Roland. This is his Dragon Soul Space, which you can think of as his spiritual world. He has no ill intentions. If he does…” Doss shook his head and didn’t speak. If he did, the backlash from the Dragon Rider Contract would be enough for Doss to crush his remaining Dragon Soul along his spiritual space.

“Child, I feel a sense of familiarity with you. Have I seen you before?” Asata’s gaze was full of scrutiny as he kept looking at Dos.

“You probably haven’t met me, but you must have met my father…” Doss slowly shook his head, a hint of nostalgia and sadness in his eyes.

"Your father?" Asata frowned and pondered.

“Meyer Astell!” Dos gave the answer before Asata could even search his memories.

"Oh! Him? He's your father, I see... Hmm? Wait! Who did you say??" Asata's voice suddenly rose eight octaves, and he appeared next to Doss in the next second, staring intently at Doss.

"No... does this dragon have a grudge against your father?" Roland's voice trembled as it echoed in Dos's mind.

"Yes! Absolutely right! So similar! So similar!" Asata suddenly shouted, startling Roland so much that his legs almost gave way and he collapsed to the ground.

At this moment, Roland's mind was filled with nothing but the chance encounter with the ancient dragon king, whose immense strength and profound spiritual power made him seem like a monster, whom he could not defeat despite his best efforts! (It was not a chance encounter, nor was it an insurmountable defeat.)

"...My father was a partner of Osbayar..." Doss's speechless voice echoed in Roland's mind.

“Uh…” Roland’s eye twitched. This development was a bit beyond his expectations. How could this be connected to Osbayar? And wasn’t Osbayar’s dragon called Astell? Okay… Mayer Astell!

"Child, how did you end up in this era?" Asata looked around Dos with a kind gaze before finally asking in confusion. After all, his father was a powerful silver dragon from countless years ago, a time span so vast that even dragon kings had their remaining intelligence erased and fallen into corruption!

"Um... let me interject. I'm the one who saved him. When I found out he was still a..." Roland, feeling like he was meeting the parents, decided to speak up to save himself. He'd been caught by the Dragon King having a contract with a golden dragon... Heh, his family is getting serious!

Asasta raised his eyelids, a playful glint in his eyes, as he looked at Roland, who was gesturing an egg shape with his hand. He then glanced at Doss's eyes and, seeing that Doss did not deny it, nodded in agreement.

"You saved him with your life essence, I should thank you, and the dragon race should thank you even more!" Asata said sincerely, because after the Goddess of Life fell, her divine essence and fragments of her divine essence were not collected by the dragon race but were left to scatter throughout the world. The Lagrange Empire had collected some of the life essence and divine essence fragments back then! "Uh? Yes! Ah no, you're welcome! Doss is an important friend of mine, it's only right!" Hearing Asata's words, Roland almost broke out in a cold sweat. After all, he wasn't sure if this unfamiliar dragon king would tear him apart. Considering the crazy appearance of Purple Chain back then, Roland's heart sank.

"Very well, very well! It seems that someone has finally made a move on this chessboard! You and I are both pieces! Very well! This game is not over yet!" Asata looked at Dos with kindness and sorrow in his eyes, the shadows of the younger generation and the old friend overlapped at this moment.

“So alike! You really look like your father! He was the most powerful silver dragon! The proudest warrior of the dragon race!” A few tears welled up in Asata’s eyes, then turned into wisps of light that danced in the air.

"Excuse my bluntness, but you're not in good shape. Is there anything I can do for you?" Dos looked at Asata's dragon soul. Although he didn't know the specifics of his condition, his dragon soul was rapidly weakening.

"I have no regrets! Dragon God! Is this what you've been waiting for? Did you foresee this day coming?" Asata suddenly laughed, and the light fragments from his tears flowed around him, forming two star rivers!

"The Dragon God?" Roland frowned and pulled Doss protectively in front of him. Gods were already extraordinary, but the Dragon God was even more so! To bring up a god in a world without gods was terrifying! Don't forget, this world doesn't have gods!!

“The history of this land has been altered! It’s normal that you don’t remember the gods!” Asata saw Roland’s confusion and began to explain.

"After Ragnarok, before the Dragon God fell, in order to prevent the power of faith from resurrecting the gods, he used his supreme divine power to erase the traces of most of the gods' existence! Except for a few gods who barely survived, all the other gods were erased! But it seems that there are other players in the game! They also erased the history of the Dragon Clan and the Lagrange Empire! It's normal that you don't know these things!" Asata said to himself.

"Boom!" Roland's mind exploded instantly, going completely blank! Wasn't this a world a mix of movies? How could it be connected to a patch world from a game? Did the Lagrange Empire really exist? Did those Viramayas really exist? Did Ragnarok really happen? That history…

"System... what exactly is going on?" A strange feeling rose from the bottom of Roland's heart.

“Even if it was the Dragon God’s arrangement, I will still thank you, child, for being the executor! Thank you for allowing me to see the Golden Dragon’s bloodline continue unbroken after countless years!” Asata smiled.

"Oh! Right! I have a deal to make with you! I'm sure that child already told you!" Asata suddenly realized something.

“Uh, I know…” Roland nodded blankly.

“Yes! But that deal needs to be changed now!” Asata smiled slyly, revealing a triumphant look on his face.

“I understand that I shouldn’t deprive you of your rights as a dragon knight, and besides, I can’t supervise whether you fulfill your obligations after I die…” Asata said.

“That one has a covenant…” Roland added weakly.

“Foolish boy, do you think the bloodline of the Golden Dragon is just for show? The Dragon Emperor can bypass the oath sworn by the Dragon God, and right now there is only one Golden Dragon in the Central Plains. Guess who the Dragon Emperor is now?” Asata’s gaze was strange and calm.

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