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

Chapter 521, Breakthrough
"Go find the cavalry of the Kingdom of Akvia first. They are all human! Their resistance to the corruption of dark forces is not as good as that of dwarves!" the centurion ordered directly. With his command, the entire knightly order made a large circle and headed west.

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"General! We seem to be surrounded!" A knight from the Kingdom of Akvia rushed towards Maple Leaf Purple, carrying a skull devoid of soul flame.

"I'm not blind!" Maple Leaf Purple narrowed her eyes. Their cavalry consisted of only a small squad (ten men) of knights, the rest being light cavalry and heavy cavalry. Clearly, facing the undead soldiers who were unafraid of casualties, fearless in the face of death, and with their morale always high, these human knights were hesitant and restrained. The undead's method of trading blows for wounds made all the cavalry uncomfortable. At the same time, the clawed skeletons hidden among the skeletons kept attacking the careless cavalry. More and more cavalrymen were retreating from the battle line, clutching their bleeding wounds. Their ashen faces made Maple Leaf Purple secretly anxious. The corpse poison might not kill them in a short time, but it was enough to render them unable to fight. Whether they could survive until they were treated was another matter.

"Find a way to get out!" Maple Leaf Purple roared at the sparse undead around them. Although the number of undead was small and the situation was still under control, Maple Leaf Purple had personally witnessed a continuous stream of undead crawling out from underground.

"Damn it! We can't just sit here and wait to die! Knights! Rally to me!" Maple Leaf Purple drew her longsword and activated her Glory skill!
"Boom!" Eleven streams of battle aura of various colors suddenly shot straight into the sky. Although they could not match the momentum of the Knights, they were still terrifying enough. Even the soul fire in the eyes of the undead flickered a few times.

While it cannot achieve the same damage-sharing effect as the Knights' Glory activation, the boost it provides to all knights is enough to transform this knight squad.

"Kill! For the kingdom! For His Highness! For our families!"

"Charge out! Let's go home!" Maple Leaf Purple roared.

Although there were only eleven knights and nearly a hundred cavalry, driven by their survival instincts, they charged forward with the terrifying momentum of a thousand troops. Fortunately, no high-level undead were born here, only some skeleton soldiers and their advanced forms.

As Maple Leaf Purple swung her longsword, pale bone fragments scattered everywhere, and dozens of skeletons blocking the way were instantly reduced to fragments under the iron hooves.

"Go!" Seeing the breach opened, Maple Leaf Purple's eyes lit up with joy. He took the lead and led the cavalry to break through the breach.

"Boom!" Seeing the flash of cold light, Maple Leaf Purple had no time to think. Instinctively, with his rich combat experience, the Great Knight raised his longsword to block.

"Pfft!" A tremendous force struck, and Maple Leaf Purple was sent flying backward from the horse, spitting out a mouthful of blood in mid-air. The longsword in her hand also bent at the spine.

"Thump!" Maple Leaf Purple, who had rolled to the ground, ignored the broken ribs in her chest and scrambled to her feet, avoiding the whistling iron hooves behind her.

"Scatter!" he roared hoarsely.

"Clang!" The sound of taut chains rang out, his pupils contracted, and then several knights in front of him were thrown away.

"What the hell is this thing?" The cavalryman, who did not recognize the Abomination, trembled as he looked at the mountain of flesh blocking their escape route.

"Crack!" Seeing that the road ahead was blocked, the last cavalryman had no choice but to turn around and engage in a melee with the skeletons chasing after him.

"Fight to the death! We'll fight as many as we can escape!" Maple Leaf Purple strode towards Abomination, dragging her bent longsword.

"Knights, heed my command! Dismount and fight on foot! For the glory of knights!" Maple Leaf Purple raised her shield and charged toward the Abomination.

"Boom!" A massive sword beam composed of battle aura flames slammed into the Abomination, whose entire body was shrouded in death energy. The fire-type battle aura caused the death energy to contract sharply, melting away rapidly like ice and snow meeting sunlight. However, a large amount of death energy quickly surged out again, covering it completely, as if the attack had had no effect whatsoever. "Clang! Clang!"

All the knights surrounded him, wildly swinging their weapons and unleashing various skills. Soon, the Abomination began to falter. Suddenly, the death aura around the Abomination contracted sharply. Maple Leaf Purple's pupils shrank, sensing something was wrong. Just as she was about to speak, a violent explosion rang out the next second.

Caught off guard, Maple Leaf Purple and the other knights could only raise their battle aura shields to defend themselves, but they were still blown away.

"Agh!" The Abomination pulled a grotesque bone knife from its mangled body. Maple Leaf Purple's first thought was, how did that thing get hidden there...?

"Get out of the way!" Maple Leaf Purple kicked the knight who was lying on the ground, and the next second, the spot where the knight had just been lying was suddenly cleaved into a mess of dirt.

"Damn it!" Maple Leaf Purple blocked with its sword, but the knight's sword, which had borne a weight it could not bear, actually broke in half!

"Get lost!" A knight saw Maple Leaf Purple staring blankly at the broken sword and hoisted his shield up, unleashing his battle aura as he charged at the monster. Brilliant battle aura flames burst forth, and the massive abomination was knocked back a few steps, but that was all!

"This thing's hide is too thick! We can't break it! His strength should be at the peak of the third tier!" A knight approached, panting heavily.

"Here comes the general!" Someone threw a steel spear to Maple Leaf Purple, but Maple Leaf Purple didn't care. She casually picked up the spear and charged towards Abomination.

"Kill it! Slaughter it!"

"Hurry up! The cavalry can't hold on much longer!" A knight turned his head and looked at the cavalrymen who were mostly swaying on their horses. He gritted his teeth and charged toward the Abomination.

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"By the Dragon God! They're surrounded!" a Lagrange vanguard knight exclaimed in shock as he looked at the Akvia cavalry trapped in the middle of the undead.

"Why don't they break out of the commanding officer's encirclement?" a captain asked the centurion, puzzled.

“If we don’t deal with that abomination, their knights will be tied up forever, and those cavalry won’t be able to break out of the undead’s encirclement quickly!” The centurion rolled his eyes at the knight captain. Did he really think Akvia was a knightly order like Lagrange?

"Prepare the wedge formation! We must rescue them; any further delay will result in deaths! The North cannot afford any more deaths!" the centurion said slowly.

"For glory! For Lagrange! Imperial knights charge!" The centurion led the charge, and the knights, activating skills such as Glory, Mercy, and Justice, crashed down on the undead army below like waves.

"Sizzle!" The battle aura spear in the centurion's hand, formed from the combined battle aura of the entire knightly order, instantly tore the Abomination, which had just suppressed the Akvia knights, to pieces, and the scattered death aura quickly dissipated into the air.

"Go! Mount your warhorses! Get out of here! We can't delay! The dwarves may also be in danger!" The centurion of the vanguard knights did not stop charging, leaving only his voice to dissipate in the air. With the charge of the Lagrange Holy Light Knights, the once seemingly enormous undead army was instantly torn to pieces.

(End of this chapter)