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

Chapter 1024 Devastated
"Too many! We can't stop them at all! General! We need help!" an officer cried out to Ravian in terror.

"Who can we ask for help? No one can save us! We have to find a way to escape from here ourselves." Ravian saw things clearly. As the vanguard, he knew he had no teammates behind him, and the elven ranger was probably still far away! The two sixth-tier heroes commanded by the Fourteenth Legion Knights were also cautious, and Ravian believed they wouldn't be as reckless as he was. Now, they could only rely on themselves!
"Damn it! Nobody told me we were going to fight this thing!" a knight roared, igniting the spider silk with his battle aura.

"Dragon God above! I miss the kingdom's archers! I was wrong, brothers of Battania! Come and save us!" a knight cried out, the silken traps of the Shadow Spider unbearably tormenting him! Thanks to the mutual care of Ravian and his comrades, the knightly order hadn't suffered any casualties, but many knights had been injured in the fall from the sky! These knights could be dragged from the battlefield and abducted at any moment…

"Guerrilla Knights! Fire at full power!" Ravian could only order his few guerrilla knights to provide ranged suppression! After all, releasing the Battle Qi Flame Blade consumed too much energy, and these knights might not be able to withstand it! What if they all went out of fire halfway through? In such a critical situation, not having Battle Qi was no different from courting death.

"Our battle energy is being depleted too quickly! We need to cease fire and recover!" an officer reported from Lavian. The initial barrage of firepower was indeed overwhelming! But the subsequent lack of firepower was even more troublesome. Battle energy doesn't just appear out of thin air! A second-tier knight's battle energy can sustain a high-intensity battlefield charge, but it's definitely not enough for this kind of reckless, brutal consumption!
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Cloaked figures darted and weaved through the dense forest canopy, rapidly approaching. Their faces were resolute, and they gripped finely crafted mithril longbows, the dragon sinew bowstrings gleaming with magical runes. Their close-fitting dragon-hide armor ignored any scrapes from debris, and to maintain agility, they wore only greaves and arm guards polished from dragon scales. Some carried runic battleblades in their hands. Close to nature, they wore no helmets, only dragon-scale headbands that shimmered in the sunlight filtering through the gaps! These were none other than the Elnino Rangers summoned by Roland! The renowned Dragon Hunter Rangers!
"No! General! There's a massive disturbance in the canopy on both sides!" A knight looked at Lavian in horror. For a knightly order that had only recently been formed, teamwork was merely a figment of their imagination. In the instant of danger, these knights spontaneously split into several small groups. The original members of the Cross Bauhinia Knights huddled together, and some legionary knights huddled together... Lavian looked at the knights in disarray and instantly wanted to chop down the knight who had shouted. The sudden, instinctive split of the knightly order almost made him laugh in exasperation!
"Together they're a pile of shit! Scattered they're a sky full of stars, right?" Ravian sneered. Each of these knights, individually, was an elite, standard-issue knight, not a single one was a mediocre amateur! But their combined fighting power... Ravian could only say that it was an eye-opener for him!

"Bang!" A terrifyingly loud noise rang out, so loud that it even silenced the chaotic knights for a moment!
"What is that?" A knight looked up at the sky and saw a clear trail left by something that had passed through the dense canopy of trees!

"Bang!" Another terrifying sonic boom rang out, and this time everyone could see clearly what it was—a streak of light! Brilliant! Stunning! Like a shooting star! Its final target was a giant shadow spider!
"What is that?" a newly joined knight asked in a low voice.

"Reinforcements!" A slight smile appeared on Ravian's lips, and the urgency in his eyes finally turned into a hint of relief, and he instantly relaxed.

“Thank Your Majesty! These are Elnino Rangers! Dragon Hunters of the Kingdom! His Majesty has not abandoned us; he has been watching over us!” Ravian murmured. He knew Roland was a Golden Dragon Knight, so he automatically assumed that Roland was watching over them through the Golden Dragon's extraordinary abilities.

(Roland: I didn't turn it on, because I never turned it off! What dragon knight's methods are better than the system? You've written "danger" all over my face, don't I see that?)

"Sigh..." Lavian sighed as he gazed at the streaks of light and the deafening sonic booms in the sky. He thought that His Majesty, who was watching him, must be very disappointed. He had embarrassed Queen Nyx, making such a huge mistake on his first time leading troops, and now King Roland had to clean up his mess... Thinking about this, Lavian suddenly felt that his future was bleak and hopeless, and he had a strange feeling of having eaten too many "red beans" in the dim light!
"Kill!" The Elnino Rangers were incredibly fast, possessing the same high mobility in complex environments as other rangers! They rapidly approached the location of the Cross Bauhinia Knights through the treetops, while their long arrows provided occasional support as they flipped and leaped.

"Squeak squeak squeak!" The giant shadow spiders in the treetops emitted a trembling buzz. After communicating in a special way, the giant shadow spiders also discovered these "little things" that posed a great threat! So they abandoned the knight tug-of-war game that was within their grasp and turned to meet the Elnino rangers!
"Pfft!" The silent Elnino Ranger simply swung his rune blade, which was infused with mithril. The curved blade, gleaming with a terrifying light, sliced, chopped, and hacked... The Shadow Giant Spider's hard, sharp, spear-like limbs were cleaved and cut like firewood under the Elnino Ranger's skill-enhanced rune blade.

"Pfft!" After the Shadow Giant Spider's sharp forelimbs were deflected by the dragon-hide light armor, the Elnino Ranger took a step forward and cleaved the head of the overconfident Shadow Giant Spider in two. As the light in the spider's compound eyes disappeared, the Elnino Ranger flipped over without hesitation and landed on the Shadow Giant Spider's back, stomping on it. Using the recoil, he pulled out his battle blade and floated towards another battlefield, leaving only a convulsing corpse falling into the dark forest!

"This is a massacre..." The knight, who was slowly retreating, looked at the Elnino Rangers flying overhead and the falling fragments of the Shadow Spider corpses, and finally understood the true value of the Dragon Slayer Ranger!

"You bunch of trash!" A voice suddenly rang out, and an Elnino ranger pulled out a dagger, stuck it into a tree trunk, and then fell steadily down the tree.

"Where is your commander? Is he dead or not? If he's not dead, then he should be dead! Who taught your knights to become separated from the covering infantry in the dense forest?" The ranger, who looked like an officer, began with a tirade of reprimands.

"Excuse me, sir, I am the commander of this knightly order. And you are?" Ravian felt a slight wariness as he looked at the unfamiliar face. After all, the Elnino rangers of the kingdom were few in number, and he had seen them all more or less, not to mention the officers! He knew them all! However, Ravian quickly relaxed, since the Elnino rangers' attire was not something that just anyone could impersonate.

"I am the captain of this legion. Ask His Majesty for more information! Now I have to go and clean up this mess for you!" Elnino the Ranger waved his hand abruptly, his eyes filled with disdain and contempt, which made Ravian swallow back the words he wanted to say.