Knight Lord: Start with Daily Intelligence

The fact that the flag of the Bauhinia family actually condensed the powerful effects of two runes was a pleasant surprise for Su Li.

He excitedly hugged Ingrid's slender waist, kissing her cheeks and earlobes, and said, "Baby, this surprise really makes me even happier."

"My mood will be even better all day today. Tell me about the effects of these two runes."

Ingrid was very used to Su Li's kisses and said calmly, "You should have already heard about the effect of the Fear Rune."

Su Li nodded. Barros had introduced the Fear Rune to Su Li before. An army fighting with this flag would give the illusion that they were taller than their enemies. Dwarves were already powerful opponents, and a giant dwarf army would be enough to scare the most powerful enemies!

This rune, when paired with powerful knights, was enough to unlock the effect of inducing fear.

Then Su Li asked with concern, "What about the Holy Rune?"

"This rune enhances the innate magic resistance within each dwarf to form an aura, greatly increasing the soldiers' resistance to magic and divine spells."

Hearing the effect, Su Li frowned and asked, "Activating the dwarves' innate magic resistance, does that work on knights?"

Ingrid said calmly, "Normally it doesn't. But with the blessing of Anarake's giant spider silk, it can greatly activate the human's own magic resistance, and the effect produced is no weaker than the dwarves' talent."

Hearing Ingrid say this, Su Li understood somewhat. Although humans don't have as strong magic resistance as dwarves, they are naturally somewhat resistant to magic. Otherwise, magic damage to humans would be holy damage, generally overwhelming.

With the blessing of Anarake's giant spider silk, these hidden magic resistance abilities of humans are enough to form a holy aura to resist the damage of magic and divine spells.

Su Li smiled and kissed Ingrid's cherry lips, and said, "Your rune flag is too timely, it can greatly increase our chances of winning against the demon army."

"Is there anything you want? I'll prepare a gift for you when I defeat the demon army and come back."

Ingrid stared at him, and after a few seconds, she said lightly, "I want to go back to the forest witch."

Su Li was stunned for a moment, and then asked, "Why? Are you... unhappy living here?"

Ingrid turned her head away and said calmly, "No. It's too noisy here, I'm not used to it."

Su Li breathed a sigh of relief from the bottom of his heart. He thought that this woman's tenderness for so long was all fake.

He slowly slid his hands down her shoulders, wrapped around her slender waist, leaned close to her cheek, and asked, "If you leave, what will I do?"

"You have other female courtiers."

Su Li stared into her eyes: "But none of them are you."

Ingrid met his gaze, was silent for a few seconds, and then said lightly, "If you want me, come to the forest hut, I can stay with you."

A smile appeared on the corner of Su Li's mouth: "Okay then."

Ingrid's beautiful eyes trembled, she looked at him expressionlessly, without saying anything.

And Su Li kissed the beautiful witch's cherry lips, and said, "I promise you. You want to go back to the forest hut, but you didn't say which forest hut. I'll build you a beautiful tree house under the Blessed Wisteria Tree. Like the beautiful gardens of the halflings, no one in the territory is allowed to approach. Except for me, no one will disturb you."

In Ingrid's clear eyes, a hint of surprise appeared, and a bright smile bloomed on her face like a summer crabapple.

This solution satisfied her very much.

So she took the initiative to offer a kiss, and whispered in Su Li's ear: "Want to try the effect of these stockings?"

Of course Su Li wanted to!

And the effect of these stockings was indeed delicate and smooth, giving Su Li a completely different experience.

He didn't expect Ingrid's round, budding toes to be so flexible, feeling more agile than a knight.

The morning's practice ended, and after finally appeasing the conflicts of the female courtiers, Su Li walked out of the room and came to the restaurant.

At this time, it was almost noon, and the halfling chefs were already preparing lunch.

Su Li simply skipped breakfast and invited the military commander of the territory, Knight Orstein, to have lunch together.

When Knight Orstein arrived, Su Li first asked with concern, "My commander, were you injured in last night's fierce battle?"

Knight Orstein laughed and said, "A little injury, completely insignificant with my physique. With the help of the Hospital Knights, I quickly recovered."

Su Li nodded. The territory had elite-level Hospital Knights, and their main duty was to manage healing, so there would indeed not be too many problems.

Then Su Li focused on military affairs and asked, "How was the breakthrough situation last night?"

The territory cooked a hundred-pound light-scaled fish yesterday. The fat fish was cut open, as thick and tender as beef.

After being boiled with water, herbs and seasonings, three large pots of fish soup were produced.

Then the halflings distributed it bowl by bowl to the knights and armed squires.

Generally speaking, the principle of distribution was that the knights ate meat, with each piece of fish meat weighing half a pound. The armed squires drank the soup. Although the meat in the bowl was not even the size of a silver coin, the fish soup was full.

It could be said that the territory gave everyone a chance to break through. Whether they could break through depended on their personal understanding and effort.

Knight Orstein took a bite of steak and replied calmly, "Lord, last night's light-scaled fish had a very considerable effect. After a night of precipitation, the statistics today, not including the personnel of the Knights, show that 17 knights in our territory have achieved major rank promotions, including two knights who have been promoted to the elite level."

"In addition, 29 knights have achieved rank improvements within their rank, which is very significant."

Su Li smiled in surprise and asked, "Did this battle inspire the knights so much? It seems we need to build a larger Lion Ring Arena."

Knight Orstein shook his head and said, "It's not just because of the inspiration from our battle, but more importantly, the strength of our army has increased. The scale of the territory's army is different from what it used to be, so even with the same breakthrough probability, the number increased at one time will be greater."

Su Li nodded slightly: "In this regard, we should indeed make some statistics. How many soldiers do we have now, my commander?"

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Su Li could only ask Commander Orstein about this question.

Because with the expansion of the territory, the composition of the army has become more and more formal, and it is more like a noble feudal territory.

Now, Commander Orstein's army is not like before, basically subordinates of Hillde, that is, high-level attendants directly under Su Li.

He now has soldiers contributed by subordinate appanage lords, such as the Baram Autonomous Territory, which provided an entire squadron of soldiers, including two squads of elite soldiers.

There are also many knights, armed squires of the church, and militia organizations. For example, the Church of the Sun Goddess organizes free people to participate in training every day off, and the dwarves of Hessen Town also have their militia organizations. The direct superiors of these militias cannot reach Su Li, but are the military commander of the territory.

Of course, the most elite army in the territory is undoubtedly Su Li's directly subordinate high-level attendants, including the most knights, equipped with the most sophisticated equipment and armor.

Commander Orstein is very outstanding in commanding the army. He immediately reported like a treasure: "Your high-level attendants currently total 186 people. All of these people are at least at the trainee knight level, and there are a total of 44 elite knights."

44 elite knights! 142 knights!

Su Li immediately took a deep breath. He knew that the strength of his subordinates had soared, but he didn't expect it to rise to this extent!

Formal knights and trainee knights were okay, this could be considered an increase or decrease. It was only about four times more than when he left Bauhinia Castle.

But how did the elite knights increase to so many! It had almost increased tenfold!

"44 elite knights, just the salary alone is 220 gold crowns a month! Without doing anything for a year, maintaining such a knight attendant would cost nearly 3,000 gold crowns. Where did they all come from! Where did so many elite knights come from?"

Just yesterday, the joy of harvest day made Su Li complacent.

The current development situation of the territory looked full of hope. He simply calculated that he could earn 5,000 gold crowns a year just by relying on farming, industry, and the production of some fantasy items.

With so much money, he could raise an army and still have a little financial surplus, which could be used for investment and production, and he could buy some beauties to enjoy.

Even thinking further, he could save enough betrothal money to find a powerful noble to marry, arrange a marriage, learn from the Habsburg dynasty, engage in a country-building strategy, reasonably use bloodline to unite the country, and obtain sacred imperial power.

Then, after he had enjoyed enough, he could still have a sum of money left for his sons. The inheritance of the Bauhinia family must not be broken, it can't be that when his sons go out to venture, he can't even come up with a sponsorship of 300 gold coins!

But all these beautiful and easy plans came to an abrupt end today!

The output from his less than two thousand civilians farming could not even supply his own high-level attendants.

If there were no additional large sums of money income, these 186 knights alone could eat him bankrupt.

This is really, it's wonderful to expand the army, but it's heartbreaking to raise soldiers.

Su Li was now curious, where did so many knights break through! Especially the elite knights had already broken through to 44!

Knight Orstein said calmly: "Isn't this very normal? The slaves you originally bought and the surrendered prisoners had nearly two teams of elite knights, and then they ate fire velvet rabbits, light-scaled fish, and moose finches again and again, which led to the promotion of fire attribute, light attribute, and wind attribute knights."

"We haven't even started counting the elite knights among the immigrant believers of the Sun Goddess."