Anthony Dos!

As the first rays of sunlight fell upon the land, an unnamed woodland in the Misty Mountains still bore all manner of impact craters. Trees had been snapped, and the earth had been churned up...

Roland lay quietly amid a bed of dead leaves. His lifeless eyes had long lost their light, and his body was cold and stiff. Holy Shield Ailiyar was strapped to his left arm, but even a shield as powerful as Holy Shield Ailiyar had failed to protect him... Myriad Dragon Chants lay slanted nearby, while the Dragon-slaying Sword embedded in his chest still emitted a piercingly cold gleam. His severed right arm had fallen several meters away. The whole scene was desolate and tragic...

No one knew that the king of the Lagrange Kingdom, renowned throughout Middle-earth, had died in battle here. Just as he had come to Middle-earth without a sound, he had departed without a sound...

Before Roland died, the system had displayed some kind of window, but he had had no time to care about it. Nyx's smiling face filled his mind.

Crack! Something heavy hit the ground.

Roar! A deep dragon roar scattered the beasts lurking nearby.

"Is this the place, Kurt?" A young man asked in a grave voice. He had black hair and black eyes like Ajax's, and his appearance was at least fifty percent similar to hers. Black hair and eyes were an extremely rare bloodline in the Lagrange Empire, signifying royal blood flowing through his veins. (Dragon Knight Families possessed royal bloodlines, after all. There was plenty of intermarriage among nobles.) The thorned rose crest on his chest also revealed his identity.

"It seems we came too late..." Anthony Dos looked sorrowfully at Roland's corpse.

"A brave Sacred Dragon Knight!" Anthony Dos's mount, Thunder Dragon Kurt,