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

Chapter 1050 The City Wall Rising from the Ground!
“Fine…” Earl Lemon said bitterly. A severed head shattered all his illusions. His border fiefdom had been breached; a peaceful winter was now a pipe dream. The orc's blade was already at his throat!

"Have the laborers tamp down this soil! Making breastwork will at least stop the wolf riders' charge!" Count Lemon ordered, looking at the dug-out mounds.

"It's too late!" Grand Duke Oakrian Yaso stretched out his hand, felt the air for a moment, and shook his head. The air was cold, which would make the laborers' ramming efforts less effective and more counterproductive.

“Our defenses are far too rudimentary… Wooden fences can’t stop wolf riders!” Count Lemon groaned in anguish. To him, the wooden palisades surrounding the city were no different from wooden fences; a wolf rider could easily leap over them. Such defenses were practically useless.

"No! We can do it! We have water!" Grand Duke Oakrian Yaso's gaze sharpened as he looked at the small canal dug by the Dragon King Chewu and gave a wicked smile.

"What are you going to do?" Earl Lemon's heart clenched as he looked at Grand Duke Oakrian Yasso's eerie smile. Could he be up to some strange greens thing?
"Hehehe! Good children! You think you can just leave after offending your master? Heh heh!" Grand Duke Oakrian Yaso let out a sinister laugh.

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Meige Lanxinghai was furious. He was one of the few intelligent beings among the half-orcs, and when he saw the knight who looked like a fool charging into a war beast, he knew he was in deep trouble! Human knights meant regular troops, and he was there to raid, not to run into a human regular army too soon. Although the Rohan Kingdom's border troops were not very good and could be easily wiped out, it would still be time-consuming and laborious!
"Roar! Assemble our troops! Let those bastards stop wasting their time in the ruins!" Mei Ge Lan Xinghai roared furiously. A bunch of brainless pigs! What's in the ruins? What can they dig out? These wretches have even eaten the corpses! Are they planning to let the dire wolves gnaw on the grass roots?
"We have to find a human town! Damn it! That damned knight! It must be him! Bastard!" Meige Lanxinghai roared angrily, trying to soothe the hungry wolf beneath him. The knight's alarm must have reached other villages on the border, otherwise, several villages wouldn't be deserted, with only a few abandoned livestock indicating that their owners had left in a hurry... The problem is, what good are those chickens and ducks? Did we, hundreds of wolf riders, travel thousands of miles just for two chickens?

"Is that the only settlement nearby?" Mei Ge Lan Xing Hai asked impatiently, casually summoning a scout cavalryman.

"Yes, sir!" the scout cavalryman replied timidly. Standing before him was a rare sixth-tier orc overlord, though his aura was still unstable from his recent advancement. He was undeniably sixth-tier! It's no wonder orcs share some striking similarities with certain greenskins; with their sheer numbers, I figured they could easily produce a sixth-tier orc! And sure enough, a few sixth-tier orcs would occasionally pop up, showcasing the orc race's tenacity and the power of my calculations! Roland couldn't fathom how, without potions or a plethora of extraordinary items, the orcs managed to find a sixth-tier orc amidst the chaos.
It's just that Grand Duke Okrian Yaso didn't know that the other side was led by a sixth-tier overlord, otherwise he would have already charged out. After all, it would be a bit beneath him to actively chase after orc soldiers, as he hadn't yet reached the point where he would punish anyone who dared to offend the Kingdom of Lagrang. But if it were a sixth-tier enemy, that would be a different story!
"The heads have been delivered?" A cruel smile appeared on Mei Ge Lan Xing Hai's hideous scarred face. He could already imagine the panic of those humans. After all, he had inquired about the situation here. Although this was Rohan's border region, Rohan clearly intended to gradually abandon it. Not only were their troops gradually shrinking, but they also had very few high-level professionals left. Wouldn't it be easy for him to capture them? Of course, if the humans collapsed on their own, it would be even easier for him.

"Yes, sir!" The scout cavalryman grinned maliciously, clearly imagining the thrill of indiscriminate killing and the scenes of plunder.

"Very good! Although I didn't want to alarm the human nobles too soon, it's obvious they're out of luck!" Meige Lanxinghai smiled cruelly. He was still cautious when facing a complete kingdom. He originally wanted to slowly erode this place by cutting it in half with a dull knife, but the knight's vigilance forced him to take action against the local nobles. Otherwise, he and his men would have a hard time getting through this winter!

As a half-orc with a brain, he knew that the number of commoners who died was insignificant, but a count-level nobleman… Meige Lanxinghai felt somewhat uneasy. After all, even a count with a fiefdom outside the capital had a complex network of relationships. If he were to be killed, a bunch of people would probably cry out about bonds and kinship, seeking revenge against him! After all, killing him would grant him a portion of the count's inheritance, and Meige Lanxinghai never underestimated human greed…

"Hmm, let's capture them and use them as hostages! We should be able to get a lot of valuables in return!" Mei Ge Lan Xinghai scratched the scar on his face, feeling a surge of joy. A win-win situation! Worth winning twice! "Pigs! Let's go! Let's go to the human towns! Let's send them back to an era dominated by fear! Awooohohoho!" He then started howling excitedly.

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"Explain this to me... what's going on?" When he stood in front of the New Lemon Territory, Meige Lanxinghai could no longer laugh, because he saw a city rising from the ground! There was also a moat surrounding it, and the water was splashing crisply against the reinforced riverbank.

"My lord... that's not how it is! When I saw them last time, they didn't have these things... no!" The scout cavalryman was gripped by Mei Ge Lan Xinghai by the neck, his whole body trembling and his eyes filled with fear.

"Hehe! Hahaha!" Mei Ge Lan Xinghai looked at the ugly half-orc's terrified face and suddenly felt nauseous. Then he twisted his hand, and with a crack, the half-orc instantly went limp.

"Thump!" He casually tossed the corpse aside, and immediately the sound of tearing and biting followed.

"Of course I know it didn't exist before! Did they conjure it out of thin air? Pfft! You're lying to me!" Mei Ge Lan Xing Hai, the sixth-tier overlord, suddenly chuckled inexplicably. It turns out that no matter what kind of creature it is, it really will laugh when it's speechless.

"Although it looks like we've built some defensive structures, my little darlings can't wait... Whatever!" Mei-Ge Lan-Xing-Hai glanced at the pack of dire wolves behind him, their eyes gleaming with green light, and immediately made up his mind. Seeing that the walls weren't high, the dire wolves should be able to easily jump over them. With that in mind, Mei-Ge Lan-Xing-Hai decided to take the risk. After all, it didn't seem like there were any large war machines here, so it shouldn't pose much of a threat to them...

"You swine! Attack! The time to drink your fill of blood has come! Cut off their heads! For the Beast God!" Mei Ge Lan Xing Hai's body was enveloped in battle flames, and the aura of a sixth-tier overlord instantly spread out!

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