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

Chapter 889 Mutated Skeleton

After hearing that Nyx had arranged for Lance to enter Pingnan City, Roland had no other comments. After all, Nyx had already made the arrangements, and Roland didn't intend to worry about it. Moreover, although Baron Lance's ability was mediocre, he still had the strength to govern a region!

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"So where do these undead come from?" Lance frowned, frowning at the mess in front of him. Although the undead did not capture the town, the knocked down wooden and stone walls and the dilapidated wooden houses all showed the dilapidation and desolation of this place. A large number of people were rummaging through the ruins with sad faces, and their numb figures were like zombies. Those who didn't know would think that the undead army had broken through the city and turned these people into zombies!
"What's the situation?" Lance looked at Knight Commander Lavian anxiously without any further ado.

As Roland's number one public enemy, Queen Nyx's guardian, Nyx's family defender, the principal knight of the principality, and the leader of the Cross Bauhinia Knights, Knight Commander Lavian was the chief general sent by Nyx to solve this matter. His deputy was the rock hero Mogus sent by Duke Joltea! At this moment, he was standing beside Lance and looking at him seriously.

"The situation is not good! There is a curse! But it's not the Barrow Wights! This group of undead is very strange!" Ravian shook his head. He had seen what the plague curse brought by the Barrow Wights looked like! But judging from the current situation, it was definitely not something that a piece of trash like the Barrow Wights could do!

"There is a hint of dragon power in this curse! I won't be wrong! After all, there are many dragons in the kingdom!" There was a hint of doubt in Ravian's eyes.

"What do you mean?" Lance also frowned. Dragon power and other things would not appear casually in nature! Unless...

"There can't be a second kind of evil dragon, right?" Lance said tiredly as he closed his eyes. Weiss's Willy was more terrifying than he thought! Willy had not yet shown his most terrifying curse power!

"That shouldn't be the case! Cases like Weiss' are rare, and the Purple Chain of the McDougal family was also an unexpected existence... There are almost no wild dragons in Middle-earth at present!" Ravian said after thinking for a while.

"A sub-dragon? Or a demon dragon? This dragon power must be from the dragon clan! The appearance of dragon power in the curse is probably not right!" Lance picked up a piece of scorched earth from the ground, his eyes full of anxiety. The kingdom's control over this wasteland is very low, so low that no one dares to pat their chests and say it is safe. The dragon riders and dragon riders' patrols can only find traces of large-scale groups of monsters at most. If high-level monsters or some other monsters are really trying to hide, throwing them into the vast Lagran Plain is like looking for a needle in a haystack!

"The situation is out of our control! Ask for help! At least one clergyman needs to come and take a look!" Knight Commander Lavian shook his head and sighed. If it was just a simple curse of the undead, it would be fine, but if it was mixed with dragon power, it would be a problem! Fortunately, there are many dragon species in the Kingdom of Lagran, and everyone has frequent contact with dragons and has noticed this weak dragon power. Otherwise, the consequences would be disastrous!

"Well, that's the only way! Gather the troops and gather the people! Let's get through this period first!" Lance frowned. If it weren't for the long journey, he would have prepared to evacuate the population of this town. Unfortunately, because Roland was anxious to open up the connection between the east and west of the kingdom, he did not allow the city to spread out steadily, resulting in insufficient supporting facilities in the towns along the way. In this case, there is no evacuation area that can accommodate the population of a town!
"Let His Majesty Mogus be prepared! We need to be wary of the undead attacking at night! At least... before the priests arrive!" Lance patted Ravian on the shoulder.

"Don't worry! As long as the kingdom's soldiers remain standing, no civilians will be sacrificed!" Ravian nodded firmly. ...

"Your Majesty Mogus? What are you looking at?" Ravian found Mogus kneeling on one knee with his back to him.

"Sorry... I didn't mean it..." Ravian walked over and saw the former lord of Pingnan City lying on a stretcher covered with a white cloth. His neck was completely torn apart by something, with his trachea and blood vessels exposed, and his entire neck was a bloody mess!
"It's okay!" Mogus slowly covered his face with a white cloth, hiding his broken remains.

"Ryukin Vladivostok! He was once praised by the family as the Golden Years... His ability is not inferior to Vladivostok! He was also a key training target of the family, but he is better at military life... So the Duke sent him to garrison Pingnan City. I still remember the excitement and pride of this child when he set out to become the governor of Pingnan... In such a short time, he is gone forever!" Mogus looked at Ryukin Vladivostok who was lying there cold. This younger generation who was praised by the family as the Ryukin Years, should have supported the future of the family, but he fell here in frustration!
"Did you see anything?" Lavian noticed that Mogus was in a low mood and quickly changed the subject.

"Something's wrong, these undead are not right! Skeletons can't have such speed! The fatal injury comes from the high-speed claws! But look, the claws of these skeletons..." Mogus picked up the collected undead remains and gestured. After all, both of them were high-level professionals. Not to mention that these things were chopped to pieces after death, even if they were alive, they could be chopped again! So the two of them began to mutter around the claws.

"Is this a skeleton? How did the claws become hooks? How did the ribs close and become bone armor?" Ravian said that he was not well-educated and had never seen this thing before. The undead must also respect the laws of nature. It makes no sense for a human skeleton to turn into a beast skeleton. Even if it is transformed, it is a super undead creature made up of countless skeletons like a bone dragon. It is not even worthy of the worst skeleton soldier!
"Something is affecting them. This is the case with all the skeletons! This abnormal mutation must be caused by high-level undead!" Mogus confirmed.

"We must get rid of the source! Otherwise, there are so many corpses sleeping underground..." A trace of fear appeared in Lavian's eyes. Simple skeleton soldiers are just experience babies and line fillers! A Flood Infantryman with a mace can hit a dozen without breathing, but now these mutant skeletons with claws and bone armor to resist attacks can already restrain ordinary soldiers one-on-one and kill ordinary soldiers instantly!
"Yeah! If a lich or something comes and gives them a bloodthirsty halo!" Mogus didn't continue speaking but looked at Lance. Both of them saw the fear in each other's eyes. (Wind Skeleton: Are you thinking about me?)

"I hope our knights can hold back the enemy!" Ravian sighed. This place has experienced two undead sieges. The Lord of Ryukyu City was killed in the second wave of attacks. No one can guarantee that there won't be a third wave of attacks.

"Don't worry! It will happen! The dragon riders are still here!" Mogus pointed to the arrow tower on the city wall, where the dragons were lying on it, basking in the sun comfortably. However, the arrow tower was a bit small for their body size.

"I hope so!" Ravian looked at the five dragon knights who were accompanying him, and always felt a little uneasy and worried.

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I've been stuck with the paperwork for two days, and I'm still busy with recruitment... Oh, I'm ready to be unemployed after graduation, my family.