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

Chapter 824 The Sacred Flying Dragon
After speaking, Renault didn't look at anyone, but instead glanced at the dragons beside him. Clearly, he didn't trust these dragons. Although they were all loyal to the kingdom, Renault didn't dare to gamble on whether their loyalty was to the kingdom or to the Golden Dragon.

"Alright, General Renault, we're all on the same side! Doss's intention is to capture him!" Roland gently stroked his dragon.

"That's good!" Renault was clearly relieved. Having the support of the Golden Dragon and not having it were obviously two different things. For them, this was now a struggle between two royal families, not a war between humans and dragons!
"Your Majesty!" Ismir bowed respectfully to Roland.

"Thanks to you, Lord Ismir! The Kingdom will not be stingy with its rewards!" Roland nodded with a smile. Ismir's discovery at least made the Kingdom less strategically passive!
"Thank you, Your Majesty!" Ismir smiled. It seemed that at least a hereditary title was secured, even if it was just the lowest hereditary lordship! Anyone with real power would have to look up to him!
"I'll have to trouble you to lead the way! We need to finish this quickly!" Roland replied with a smile, patting him on the shoulder to encourage him. For the Northern Territory, which was besieged on all sides, Roland was really worried about mobilizing so many high-end combat forces, which meant that the entire eastern part of the kingdom was basically wide open!
“It is my honor!” Ismir nodded respectfully, showing his heartfelt respect for the king who had elevated him to the ranks of the nobility.

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"Pfft! So this is the Golden Dragon you were talking about?" Led by a group of high-level professionals, everyone advanced at an incredibly fast pace. After finding the right direction, they soon saw the forest lake where the dragons gathered, as Ismir had mentioned. However, before Ismir could even boast about his achievement, the spotlight from the group made everyone burst into laughter.

"Hmm?" Ismir looked at the source of the sound with a puzzled expression until he saw the spotlight on Maple Forest Orchid's shoulder. Then he shrugged and showed a puzzled expression.

“It’s definitely not a golden dragon…” The once menacing Doss on Roland’s shoulder had transformed back into the lazy lizard.

"It's just a four-legged flying dragon!" Chasing Light's voice was somewhat mischievous.

“But this four-legged dragon can easily crush you to the ground!” Long Xi said quietly, perched on Maple Forest Orchid’s other shoulder.

"Sacred Flying Dragon! An ancient and mysterious bloodline! Once considered by the dragon race to be the only bloodline of the dragon royal family! However, later research by the dragon race revealed that they were not. This ancient flying dragon originated from a bloodline atavism! Their history is as ancient as that of the Golden Dragon! You? Forget it!" Long Xi looked at Zhui Guang and slowly shook his head. Even if he thought highly of Zhui Guang, Zhui Guang was not qualified to fight this thing! How could a mere Twilight Dragon possibly handle the dragon race that is closest to the emperor?
"No? A Sacred Wyvern? Such a thing exists?" Roland was also stunned. He had never seen this thing in the game before! How could such a thing exist? Come to think of it, a dragon species that is close to a golden dragon can be classified as a wyvern?

"Isn't this thing a dragon?" Roland secretly activated his Dragon Eyes to take a closer look at the sacred dragon in the distance. The dragon seemed to sense that someone was spying on it and stood up alertly.

“Look closely at his crown! It’s just a simple bone crown! And his physique is almost fully developed; he’s now entering adolescence! He only needs time to accumulate the experience to reach the peak of his life!” Doss said slowly.

Roland only realized, thanks to Doss's reminder, that this thing was indeed very different from the kingdom's dragons in terms of its head! The dragons all had two or more horns on their heads, making their heads look ferocious and majestic! But this sacred dragon only had a slightly ornate bone crest on its head and no ferocious horns. In addition, it did not have the ferocious appearance of a dragon. Compared to the sharply defined scales of the young dragon, this dragon's scales were extremely smooth!

"Dragons possess powerful magic resistance and vitality, and they focus more on defense against physical attacks! However, wyverns can use their smooth, snake-like scales to refract a lot of magic, thus increasing their magic resistance." Kaldor flew to Roland's side. No dragon here knew more about this than him, after all, he was a dragon that evolved from a wyvern, and he understood wyverns better than other dragons.

"How do we deal with this?" Roland tilted his head, pointing to the scattered dragons around the lake. "It's up to you!" Yunfeng and the others exchanged glances.

"What I mean is, can we capture them all and take them back? After all, the kingdom now has its own knight system, and it can afford to support dragon knights!" Roland thought for a moment. Since they had decided to fight Sauron in the North, preparations for war would naturally begin from morning till night! Although the lifespan of a dragon, which is a few hundred years, is not as terrifying as the lifespan of a giant dragon, which is thousands or even tens of thousands of years, it is still enough to keep up with the War of the Ring in a few decades!

"More than thirty flying dragons... that's still quite challenging!" Yun Feng looked up and said with some worry.

“After all, they’re harder to catch once they fly!” Adolf Heinrich nodded in agreement.

They could easily capture a dozen or so dragons by rushing out like this, but to wipe them all out in one fell swoop was practically a pipe dream, after all, there was a sacred dragon that was said to possess the combat power of a high-ranking dragon! To deal with it, they would need at least two sixth-tier dragons or dragon knight commanders!
"Then we'll need to use some tricks!" Maple Forest Orchid revealed a mysterious smile.

“We have quite a few people here who know forbidden spells!” Caslo and Maple Forest Orchid exchanged a glance, and the two dragon rider commanders smiled wickedly in perfect unison, as if they were birds of a feather.

"Are you two crazy? How many would survive a forbidden spell?" Darian Nightblade covered his face, speechless. These dragons might not be able to withstand the forbidden spell! Even if they could, the young dragons would definitely die from it. Darian Nightblade didn't believe he had the ability to train dragons with a blood feud to become mounts for the kingdom's knights. Even if he did manage to train them, he wouldn't dare ride them!

"Does a forbidden spell necessarily have to be lethal? Think about what you encountered outside Lagrange City?" Caslo turned his head and tilted his neck, prompting Darian Nightblade to recall.

Darion Nightblade instantly thought of those pitiful totem shamans whose throats he had slit, their near-divine prohibitions... Huh? Anti-air!
"It's just that they're harder to catch when they fly, but we have plenty of sixth-tier cultivators here! A few forbidden spells can compress their movement space! As long as they can't escape, we can handle them, right?" Maple Forest Orchid said casually.

"Then how do we ensure that the forbidden spell won't be detected by them?" Roland asked, puzzled. You see, the reason a forbidden spell is forbidden is precisely because of its terrifying noise. It's like they're already warning you from a hundred thousand miles away that the forbidden spell is about to hit you! If you don't run now, when will you?
“Then we’ll need some strategy and tactics!” Yun Feng and Adolf Heinrich understood what Caslow and the others meant. As for Roland’s questions, they said they were no problem; there’s always a way to solve problems!

“It seems we need to act tonight!” Adolf Heinrich looked at the sky; it was still a bright, sunny afternoon.

"Come on, let me discuss how to put them in our pockets!" Yun Feng clapped his hands lightly, signaling everyone to gather around.

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