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

Chapter 729 The Out-of-Control Baby Dragon

"Knock, knock, knock!" A series of urgent knocks echoed in the quiet night, creating an eerie and terrifying atmosphere in the dark castle.

"What's wrong with you in the middle of the night? Or is Queen Nyx about to give birth?" Caslo complained angrily after being woken up by the knocking in the middle of the night. He put down the sleeping Ajax in his arms with some dissatisfaction. It was clear that Ajax felt very safe in Caslo's arms. She only frowned slightly in Caslo's arms before falling asleep again with her little mouth pouting.

"What are you doing... Ouch!" Caslo had barely opened the door when he was grabbed and pulled out by the person outside, and then the door closed softly with a "click".

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"Omske? Give me a reason not to beat you up!" A dangerous glint flashed in Caslo's eyes. Apart from Roland and Nyx, anyone who woke him up from his deep sleep for no reason could trigger his hidden passive ability—morning grumpiness!

"Still sleeping? Your apprentice's dragon egg has hatched!" Omske said in a low voice, waving his arms anxiously with exaggerated gestures.

"Huh? Let's go! Let's go find him!" After hearing Omske's words, Caslo instantly snapped back to reality, his mind cleared, and all his morning grumpiness vanished.

"Not here! Come with me!" Seeing Caslo dash out without saying a word, Omske quickly grabbed him and dragged him outside.

"Hmm? I may have just woken up, but my mind is not confused! Shouldn't my disciple live over there?" Caslo pointed to a staircase in a certain direction and affirmed.

"I forgot to tell you, your apprentice's dragon hatched with a bit too much noise, so His Highness decided to move it outside the city!" Omske said with a somewhat embarrassed smile.

"Your Highness knows too?" Caslo asked in shock. Could he be the last person in the entire castle to find out?
"Stop talking! You'll see for yourself!" Omske grabbed Caslo and dragged him to a castle window without saying a word, then jumped out.

Kaslow did not resist, letting Omsk pull him out of the window. Omsk then carried Kaslow in a low-altitude flight. However, after glancing at Stream City a few times, Kaslow's eyes widened. A section of the city wall in the southeast direction had disappeared, and a surrounding block had become rotten and dilapidated. The dense evil power around him caused Kaslow's pupils to shrink sharply.

"Stop looking, it was your apprentice's dragon that did it! Fortunately, there were no casualties, and no one stayed in those shops overnight! But the city walls were severely corroded by the dragon's power!" Omske gave Caslo a brief explanation, which made Caslo frown deeply.

After flying for several minutes, Caslo finally spotted his target in the wilderness south of Swiftstream City. At this moment, Weiss was somewhat disheveled, raising his hands to try to calm his dragon, while Adolf Heinrich and Yunfeng were using their magic to suppress Weiss's dragon as if facing a formidable enemy. Meanwhile, Darian Nightblade stood guard in front of Roland, who was leisurely watching the show.

"They're here?" Roland raised his eyelids slightly and waved to Caslo as a greeting, then continued to watch the evil dragon, trapped by multiple spells, thrashing about in the magic circle.

"Your Highness, what is this...?" Caslo stared in astonishment at the dragon in the magic circle. This thing was almost as big as his father, wasn't it? What? Did it take hormones in the womb?

Watching the dragon, at least ten meters long, roar within the magic circle, Caslo felt for the first time that his knowledge of dragons had reached a blind spot. "Kardo!" Caslo blew his dragon flute, pulling the equally exhausted Kardo out of the alternate dimension.

"What's wrong? You've caught another dragon and are planning to slay it?" Kaldo's lips curled into a playful smile when he saw the evil dragon trapped in the magic circle. What dragon likes a dragon? Given Kaldo's playful nature, it was already a sign of restraint that he didn't make any sarcastic remarks.

“Slaughter my ass! This is from that dragon egg! It only hatched today!” Caslo added at the end.

“This size… kid? Where’s the dragon crystal?” Kaldo suddenly turned his suspicious gaze to Weiss, while a hint of seriousness appeared in his narrow dragon eyes.

"Dragon Crystal? Oh! Right! The Dragon Crystal is here... inside?" Weiss quickly reached into his pocket and, sure enough, found nothing.

"So... this guy won't have been slaughtered by the City of Rapids, will he?" Kaldo asked Caslo timidly as he looked at the dragon in the magic circle.

"No, but a section of the city wall has been demolished!" Caslo shook his head. Although it looked quite serious, with Lord Radil around, these were minor issues.

"That's good! This is a side effect of him absorbing that dragon crystal... well, it's not exactly a side effect, but more accurately, an imbalance of power caused by his inability to control his own strength! His attack on the city wall was probably an outlet for that uncontrollable dragon power!" Kaldo said with lingering fear. Luckily, the dragon chose to unleash its power on the city wall; if it had happened in the city center, it would have given Roland, who was watching the spectacle, a real shock! You see, evil power is a top-tier attribute, the antithesis of holy power! It's the epitome of destruction! It even destroyed a section of the sturdy magic-patterned stone wall!
"Luckily, your garrison didn't activate the city's magical shield... otherwise, that evil power gathering in the city..." Kaldo said, his heart pounding with fear! After all, a magical shield is like a pot placed on top of a city, blocking external attacks while allowing specific attacks from within to penetrate and strike the outside. Obviously, the evil power wasn't among the specific attacks recorded by the magical shield, and the consequence would be like setting off a cannon and then dumping a pot on top of it... Boom! The entire Swiftstream City would be thrown into chaos!

"What happened?" Caslo shook his head, ignoring Cardo's expression of looking at him as a lucky guy, and went to Viss's side to ask.

"I suddenly felt a huge energy beside me while I was sleeping, so I woke up and saw that the egg had hatched. My dragon body kept growing and eventually it squeezed through the window and flew out. I could only notify His Majesty Omske to intercept it..." Weiss said timidly with his head down, looking like he had made a mistake.

"You just stopped it like that?" Caslo turned his head and pointed at Omske. Good heavens, he had almost turned Jiliu City into a Mogao Cave by stopping it.

“I can’t kill him, so I can only try to drive him away… but who knew this thing would act like it’s taken a berserk potion!” Omske scratched his head.

"Brilliant!" Roland said slowly after watching for a while, giving a thumbs up to the others.

"If I hadn't stayed up late tonight, I almost wouldn't have known!" Roland said with a wry smile. He had personally witnessed how terrifying the dragon power gathered beside the city wall was. In fact, the reason why the dragon rampage did not cause too much damage was that the golden dragon Dos directly used his dragon power to annihilate and assimilate most of the evil dragon power that had escaped. Otherwise, Swiftstream City would have become a ghost town by now!
"I'm sorry, Your Highness, it was my dereliction of duty!" Caslo admitted his mistake immediately.

"Forget it, it's none of your business. Who knew that a dragon cub would turn into this after eating a dragon crystal? I knew it would skip the infancy stage, but I didn't know it would cause its power to go out of control!" Roland covered his eyes, laughing and crying at the same time. He almost had half of the kingdom wiped out in one fell swoop because of his carelessness!