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

Chapter 134 Heavy casualties
"Kill!" With a thrust of his lance, Ravian knocked a chariot over, and the sharp lance pierced the three enemies on the chariot.

"Roar!" With a roar, Ravian lifted three dying enemies up with a powerful thrust of his muscular right arm.

Lavian's roar seemed to send a signal, sounding the horn for the remaining twenty-two Cross Bauhinia Knights to launch a counterattack! One by one, the knights hidden in the formation raised their lances and charged forward.

The whole scene was cruel yet incredibly realistic! In fact, even the most devoted general would not deploy his precious knights on the front lines as cannon fodder for defense. Knights are a purely offensive unit! Charging on horseback is their destiny! Hiding knights among the infantry to launch a counterattack is a desperate yet exceptionally effective method for Lavian.

"We have too few knights..." This was Lavian's helpless sigh to Grand Duke Nyx afterward. In the end, the Grand Duke chose to remain silent, after all, in that situation, prioritizing the most effective fighting force was the choice any normal person would make... No one could expect a knight commander who led twenty-two knights to charge against a thousand enemies to do better! (Horin could only stay by the Grand Duke's side to protect her because of his arm injury.)
"Counterattack!" the surviving Crusader officers roared furiously, swinging their weapons at the enemy until they fell or they themselves were killed.

At this moment, the Crusaders of the Principality of Nyx unleashed unparalleled fighting power under the suppression of the Eastern Barbarian charioteers. One after another, the lightly armed infantrymen launched a counter-charge against the chariots that had lost speed due to being stuck in the pile of corpses. The members of the Cross Bauhinia Knights were the sharpest blades of this counter-offensive force!

"Roar!" Suddenly, two thick streams of acid rained down from the sky, spraying the crusaders below. The crusaders, instantly covered in acid, screamed and fell to the ground. The areas where the acid hit were immediately corroded deep enough to expose the bone, and eventually even the bones were corroded, broken, and dissolved...

"Two-headed dragon air knight!" The crusaders' offensive below halted instantly. A single air knight riding a wyvern could change the outcome of a battle of this scale. The crusaders, who had been in high spirits, began to lose their morale instantly, their charge becoming hesitant, and they frantically dodged the two-headed dragon's flight path.

"Damn it! I forgot about this thing!" Ravian's expression changed instantly, and a feeling of helplessness welled up in his heart.

"Not good! It's the enemy's two-headed dragon air knight! Your Highness, we need to restrain him! Otherwise, our army will collapse!" The wounded Hollin stared solemnly at the two-headed dragon soaring freely in the sky.

"Roar!" Suddenly, the two-headed dragon roared to the sky, flipped over, and pounced towards where Grand Duke Nyx was.

"Your Highness! Leave this place! Protect His Highness as he leaves!" Hollin drew his longsword with his intact right arm, a touch of frost creeping onto his face. It was his dereliction of duty; he had allowed the guards to surround His Highness the Grand Duke. The enemies driving the chariots in the distance couldn't see this, but the air knights in the sky could see it very clearly, which directly led to the Grand Duke's position being exposed!
Perhaps the Dongyi people were not highly cultured or civilized, but the principle of "capture the king first" is universally applicable. The two-headed dragon air knight immediately realized that the figure surrounded by guards on the battlefield must be someone of great importance.

"Damn it! How dare he!" Nix's eyebrows shot up instantly, a hint of anger appearing on her delicate face. How could she, a grand duke of a nation, be in such a sorry state? A mere sky knight dared to come and hunt her down; this infuriated Nix.

In fact, she would never know that in the game's history, she was not only hunted down, but was ultimately impaled from the bottom up by barbarians with spears and turned into a specimen displayed at the site of the Crusade's annihilation... "Damn it!" Nyx finally clenched her fists and made up her mind. Of course, she, a mere second-tier mage, was powerless to stop this two-headed dragon, which was at least a high-level magical beast, but don't forget that as a duke, she carried the foundation of a duchy—even if it was the weakest duchy!
"Listen to the wind's song! The sky plays the symphony of death! Howling wind! Follow death!" Nyx chanted as he tore apart an ancient blue scroll in his hand.

Fifth-tier wind-type single-target spell—Death Song! Activate!

Visible wisps of azure energy swept out, swirling and coiling... spreading towards the two-headed dragon at a seemingly slow but actually swift speed. The howling wind along the way sounded like a melodious tune, giving everyone a sense of security, but... that was just an illusion! The two-headed dragon clearly sensed the terrifying power contained in the azure energy. Before its knight could give the order, it automatically turned and fled, its escape speed even faster than its pursuit.

Is all this useful? Nyx coldly stared at the disheveled figure fleeing. When a fifth-tier spell locks onto you, regular speed becomes ineffective. You either dodge the attack by jumping through space or try to defend yourself in various ways. In any case, you can't outrun it, unless you are a magical beast that is good at speed, in which case you might be able to escape the tracking range of the spell. After all, single-target spells are all locked and tracked before being released.

Sure enough, the azure currents quietly crept up the two-headed dragon's body. The dragon, over twenty meters long, let out a mournful cry, its two heads thrashing wildly, its dragon power surging out in an attempt to resist the ever-increasing azure currents… The knight on the dragon saddle crumbled and disintegrated the instant the azure currents touched him; it wasn't just currents! It was almost solidified wind element! The fate of being swept away by the elemental torrent… this sky knight had already given everyone a live demonstration.

In fact, a whelp is still a dragon! Its terrifying magic resistance is no joke! Even a whelp with mixed bloodlines like a two-headed dragon can withstand high-level magic. However, whelps are clearly not giant dragons; their magic resistance is still inferior to that of pure-blooded dragons. Even the two-headed dragon, which couldn't compare to flying dragons, could be proud after withstanding a few single-target fifth-tier spells. A terrifying torrent of wind elemental energy silently covered the two-headed dragon's body. Its wings, which were flapping wildly, were the first to give way. A terrifying burst of elemental power easily shredded its thin, fleshy wings into mincemeat! Next came its limbs. With its scales flying, the two-headed dragon howled and plummeted from the sky. Without its wings, it could no longer fly…

"Boom!" As a heavy object weighing tens of tons fell from the sky, the solid ground was instantly dented.

"Awooo~" The two-headed dragon roared mournfully. Despite its limbs being strangled by the wind element, revealing its white bones, the two-headed dragon still stubbornly lived on!

With a "poof!" cracking sound, the scales on the dragon's belly finally lost their protective function, and in an instant, wind elements surged, and internal organs and bits of flesh flew everywhere...

In other words, this sub-dragon is beyond saving...

"Phew! It's really tough!" Hollin witnessed the whole process. Even when the two-headed dragon died, the scales on its back, neck, and head were not torn apart by the wind element. This should be the last act of defiance of its dragon bloodline! The dragon bloodline greatly enhanced these parts, giving them terrifying magic resistance!
"Hmph! How dare you try to take advantage of me! I'll see if you live or die!" Nyx said fiercely, brandishing her pink fist.

(End of this chapter)