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#181 - Nine Ringwraiths + nine dragons!

"Sauron's reinforcements? Speaking of which, these kinds of bats did appear in the original story, but they were later torn apart by the giant eagles who came to help."

Just as Liang Yue was slightly distracted, these bats, which were constantly circling in the air, joined the battle in the army formation below at the urging of a beastly roar.

One by one, the black bats flapped their wings, harassing the dwarf cavalry, preventing them from concentrating on the battle as they had before.

After a moment, cries of agony erupted from the ranks of the dwarves. Liang Yue focused his eyes and saw that the faces of the attacked dwarves were covered in scratches.

Some unlucky ones even had their eyes gouged out!

Taking advantage of this opportunity, the orcs organized a line of resistance and began to fight back against the cavalry, who had lost their momentum.

Seeing this, Liang Yue stopped wasting words. With a flip of his wrist, an assault rifle was already in his hand.

However, just as he was about to start sniping the bats from afar, he suddenly heard Gandalf's shout in his ear.

"Liang Yue~ Liang Yue! Don't worry about those bats! You have more important opponents now!"

Liang Yue turned his head at the sound, only to see the old wizard running towards him with long strides, a sword in one hand and a staff in the other, his expression full of anxiety.

Following the direction he indicated, Liang Yue looked towards the edge of the eastern horizon.

There, several separate black dots were flying towards the Lonely Mountain.

A chilling aura seemed to be permeating the air.

In just a few breaths, they became larger and larger in people's sight, and the gradually revealed outlines caused the dwarves' and elves' offensive to stagnate.

Thorin, seeing that the situation was not good, immediately shouted the retreat order, quickly leading the remaining goat riders back.

Queen Thranduil on the flank retreated even faster than the dwarves. After a skillful turn of the horse, she led her cavalry back to the front of the elven phalanx.

Then, a group of ignorant bat-like creatures thought they had scared off the enemy, and then launched a pursuit.

However, just as Gandalf had said before, those bats that seemed arrogant and rampaged in the sky above the battlefield were not worth worrying about at all.

After only one round of arrow rain from the elves, more than half of them were shot down.

The rest screamed and flew towards the rear of the orcs.

"What are those? Dragon riders?"

Looking at the flying units getting closer and closer in the sky above, Liang Yue's face suddenly became serious, and a strong sense of excitement grew in his eyes.

Gandalf, who had arrived beside him, took a deep breath and looked at those figures seemingly bathed in darkness with a solemn expression. Then, he explained to himself in a cadence.

"Sauron once used tricks to obtain the craftsmanship of the elves, and used it to create some rings of amazing power. He gave three of them to the elves under the sky.

Seven were given to the dwarves living in stone caves, and nine were given to the human monarchs who were destined to die. The nine undead riding on dragons in front of you.

They were once the kings of the nine human kingdoms, and they all had remarkable achievements in their lives, but after death, they were controlled by Sauron and eventually became slaves of the nine rings."

"The Nine Ringwraiths~ I've heard about them for a long time!"

After listening to the old wizard's words, Liang Yue no longer hesitated, reached out and pulled out the Dragon Slayer Greatsword from the ground, and then slowly walked towards the gradually cleared battlefield.

"Liang Yue, they must be here for the One Ring, be careful!"

Huh? According to this little old man, he doesn't seem to be planning to fight side by side with me…

Arriving at the center of the battlefield, Liang Yue looked up at the Ringwraiths in the sky above.

Then, he aimed at the nine dragons flapping their wings beneath them.

Immediately, this guy couldn't help but feel ecstatic in his heart~

"Nine Ringwraiths, that must be considered elite leader monsters? Plus their dragon mounts, that's eighteen~"

At this time, the dragons being ridden by the Ringwraiths in gorgeous black armor were naturally not comparable to the previous evil dragon Smaug.

Judging from the size alone, Smaug was 140 to 150 meters tall, while these guys were only 13 to 14 meters long.

At a glance, you can tell they are sons of the breed~

In addition, looking at the slender scales of these little dragons, Liang Yue felt that they were similar to fish scales, and some parts had been severely damaged and decayed.

Thinking about their current origin, as mounts for the Ringwraiths, special undead creatures, it is very likely that these dragons are also undead creatures transformed by undead rituals.

And Gandalf also said that Smaug was the last dragon in Middle-earth.

This undoubtedly also shows from the side that these dragon knight mounts are not living things.

"Not alive, but not difficult to deal with~"

Looking at the nine black-armored Ringwraiths hovering in the air in front of him, flying high there in a condescending posture.

Liang Yue knew that aerial combat would definitely be unfavorable to him. Not to mention that the giant eagle Rachel had mysteriously disappeared again, even if the little female eagle was here now.

Because he can't fly himself, aerial combat is definitely his weakness.

Therefore, in order to reverse this very unfriendly battlefield situation, Liang Yue decided to lure them down first~

The Nine Ringwraiths were very cautious at this time, and the dragons under them carried them to fly more than a hundred meters above the ground, almost shoulder to shoulder with the clouds above their heads.

At this height, even the elven archer squads could not do anything about them.

However, Liang Yue had noticed before that the dwarves in the Lonely Mountain City were pushing dusty bed crossbows and carrying long steel crossbow bolts, rushing out of the city gate.

So unless necessary, those Ringwraiths would definitely not easily swoop down and take risks.

However, Liang Yue knew clearly at this moment their weaknesses and what they desired in their hearts~

So, under the attention of the two armies in front and behind, holding their breaths and concentrating, this guy suddenly raised his left hand, and then gently pinched it with his thumb and index finger.

The next moment, the golden One Ring immediately appeared between his two fingers.

Liang Yue then grinned at the Ringwraiths in the sky above, showing a friendly smile, and then shook the One Ring in his hand~

"Whoosh~~"

In an instant, a gust of wind suddenly blew across the entire world.

The heavy atmosphere in the field, like the eve of a storm, was finally broken.

For a time, a chaotic and unclear whisper suddenly sounded on the vast battlefield, accompanied by the blowing of the wind, as if possessing some kind of magic, making people upset and uneasy!

That scene was like nine old women lying next to your ears, murmuring, forcibly instilling all kinds of emotions such as scolding, persuasion, scolding, laughter, temptation… into everyone's ears, and you can't help but listen…

Liang Yue can almost ignore this kind of mental attack and doesn't care at all, but the dwarves and elves behind him can't.

However, at this time, he didn't have time to look back.

After putting away the One Ring, he kept staring at the nine Ringwraiths in the sky above~

"Ah~~!!!"

Immediately afterwards, accompanied by a sharp howl that seemed to tear the eardrums, the orcs on the opposite battlefield began to charge.

Leading the way at the front was actually the pale orc Azog, whom Liang Yue had met once!

At the same time, the Nine Ringwraiths above the orcs also urged the dragon knight mounts under them, drawing a smooth arc in the air and swooping down rapidly.

In the blink of an eye, they had surpassed the orc vanguard below.

Their flying skills seemed exceptionally skilled. After rapidly descending to a height of more than ten meters above the ground, they changed direction and maintained a flying perspective parallel to the ground.

Wrapped in the gale, they roared and pounced towards Liang Yue from all angles in front of his line of sight~

Seeing this, the excitement in Liang Yue's eyes grew even stronger. After quickly scanning the nine targets, he slowly raised his left hand.

The posture was as if he was holding something!

"System, this time I want ten thousand!"