Knight Lord: Start with Daily Intelligence

Hearing Su Li's question, Knight Orstein not only didn't waver but became even more confident.

"Lord, as you said, from a conventional point of view, this tactic does seem contradictory. But with your prophetic guidance, we believe it can all be perfectly achieved!"

"We are clearing the fields to resist the Green Dragon, to prevent it from wreaking havoc. And taking the initiative is to avoid the enemy's strongest point and strike them unexpectedly. We believe that with your guidance, Lord, we can control the battle and not be controlled by the enemy!"

Good heavens, Su Li instantly understood Commander Orstein's true intentions.

The followers of the Church of the Radiant Goddess were truly putting the art of war into practice: "Invincibility lies in one's self, vulnerability lies in the enemy. Therefore, a skilled warrior first makes himself invincible and then waits for the enemy's vulnerability."

With the assistance of the Daily Intelligence System, the Black Forest Territory's army was almost impossible for the Green Dragon to ambush.

However, when this powerful knightly legion went to war, if the Green Dragon Legion was negligent in its defenses and the knights succeeded in a surprise attack, the Green Dragon Legion would suffer heavy losses!

These quasi-divine knights were truly working together to seize the initiative on the battlefield with their tactical deployments.

This is what the art of war means by controlling the battle instead of being controlled by the enemy, so that the enemy will be unable to do anything.

So Su Li followed suit and decisively adopted this plan: "Then proceed according to Commander's plan. Let this Wing of Deceit know that our Black Forest Territory is not to be trifled with. If it wants to act mighty and destroy all the surrounding territories, then we will wipe out all its forces and destroy its lair!"

Knight Orstein immediately gave a solemn military salute and said, "I request to send troops out immediately, to launch another attack before the Green Dragon awakens, and inflict heavy damage on the Green Dragon's dependents."

"Agreed!" Su Li also said ambitiously, "My Commander, I will open the armory and equip the army with the finest equipment. In the coming time, you can freely mobilize all the armies within the territory."

After speaking, Su Li looked at Laun and asked, "Minister of Seals, how many fine rune-inscribed armors do we have in the territory now?"

Laun immediately replied, "After our collection and forging, we now have a total of 23 sets of vibranium rune armor and 175 sets of star steel armor in the territory. This includes 100 sets of star steel armor bought by the Minister of Foreign Affairs from the Dwarf Redbeard Fortress and a dwarf cannon bought with dwarf oath gold."

"A dwarf cannon?" Su Li's eyes lit up.

Minister of Foreign Affairs Hatzkling said, "That's right, Lord. This is the task you gave me. I have spent 1,000 dwarf oath gold to buy one of their powerful weapons from the Dwarf Redbeard Fortress, and it is being escorted by the dwarf reinforcements, which are expected to arrive in the next few days."

"Dwarf reinforcements are about to arrive?" Knight Orstein was overjoyed and excitedly said, "Please tell us about this cannon. After all, most of our knights have never seen the powerful firearms of the dwarves."

Hatzkling was also quite excited about this. The dwarves' powerful war machines were not like the halflings' dual-purpose farming tools. This cannon had great power and could bring unparalleled assistance to the Black Forest Territory's army.

"This type of cannon was first invented and put into use by the dwarves of Raging Falls Pass, but as time passed, other dwarf fortresses also mastered this technology and began to produce their own cannons. As one of the most powerful war machines, a cannon can easily tear a heavily armored enemy to pieces, scatter a group of enemies' formations, raze enemy towns and fortifications to the ground, or knock down large monsters."

"But they are also temperamental weapons. Even the best dwarf craftsmanship can sometimes cause problems with cannons. If the barrel cracks or the fuse igniting the black powder is accidentally lit in advance, it can cause devastating consequences."

"In addition to fixed gun emplacements, many dwarf families also prepare cannons mounted on tractors to bring them to the battlefield when the war starts. These deadly war machines are deployed in hidden locations on the battlefield and use their long range and high accuracy to show off their skills. Due to their exquisite craftsmanship and excellent quality, many dwarf cannons have been in service for centuries and are loved by gunners as old as they are."

Cannons that can be used for centuries? The dwarves are indeed as stubborn and rigid as the legends say.

But no matter what, this powerful cannon can greatly increase the chances of winning this battle against the Green Dragon.

With the addition of this great weapon, the Black Forest Territory's army immediately began to act swiftly.

After the meeting, Commander Orstein resolutely led his troops to set out. He was going to enter the forest for a thorough sweep, so he took a large number of main forces out of the Black Forest Territory. Except for the Black Forest Guard Knights, who were still guarding the key points of the territory with three squadrons, the remaining Gryphon Knight Legion and elite knights were all dispatched.

Equally swift as the army was the dwarven engineering corps. After the military operation plan was deployed, the dwarven elders and engineering masters also reported on their work priorities.

The territory currently has a total of 378 Imperial dwarves and 66 dwarven engineers. In addition to the necessary mining and collection, the rest are all invested in the territory's military construction.

Cooperating with them are 467 ogres, all of whom are residents of the Halfling Autonomous Territory.

With the return of the halfling caravan, Su Li successfully reaped a profit of 800 gold crowns, as well as Uric's U-shaped scepter. This is the symbol of the Church of Uric.

Worshippers of Uric use a “U” shaped salute. It is performed by placing the thumb under the middle and ring fingers on the palm, with the index and little finger sticking up. This salute is used before battle and to greet other Uric believers. If it is reversed, it is a grave insult to the sect’s enemies.

As soon as this scepter was in hand, Su Li assigned it to the champion-level captain of the Black Forest Guard Knights, Beastslayer Gerold.

In addition to this scepter, the halflings brought back a considerable number of magical items and witchcraft items, as Su Li had expected.

Su Li received 4 magic traps, namely two Wells of Souls and two Petrifying Gazes.

The effect of the Well of Souls is extremely powerful. It is a trap hidden underground. As long as the prey steps into this area, they will feel their life force being rapidly drawn away, and their strength and will gradually weaken.

This type of trap is usually set in ancient tombs or ancient ruins to protect the peace of the dead from being disturbed.

But when the enemy is lured by the knights of the Church of the Radiant Goddess to the preset battlefield and is shrouded in this trap, the weakened opponent will instantly suffer heavy losses when facing the violent impact of the heavily armored knights.

The Petrifying Gaze is particularly concealed. This trap is usually hidden in the eyes of statues or murals. When a creature looks directly into these eyes, it will be petrified. This type of trap is used to protect secrets that are not meant to be discovered or as a punishment for greedy explorers.

There are many statues or shrines around the roads of the Black Forest Territory. If this trap is hidden in them, the monsters will be caught off guard.

In addition to magic traps, other magical and rune items also included a rune sword, a dragon blood warhorse, and a powerful frenzy potion.

A caravan trip yielded 800 gold crowns plus so many rune items. The profit can be described as extremely generous.

If there was one of these caravans every month, Su Li wouldn't have to do anything else. Investing in a caravan once a month would yield 10,000 gold crowns a year.

But obviously, wealth is not so easy to obtain. When the halfling Bakins came to Su Li for investment for the second time, Su Li directly rejected the investment request with the assistance of the Daily Intelligence System because the next trip would not yield much profit at all.

Su Li was more interested in buying the rune items in his hand that he had obtained on this trip. After all, the things Su Li received only accounted for one-third of the trip.

This halfling also knew that before the war, it was the time to make a fortune, so he sold the props he had harvested in the territory to the knights who intended to make contributions.

War does indeed promote the prosperity of a force to a certain extent, boosting the territory's production, consumption, and other aspects.

In the Black Forest Territory, everyone is clear that the battle with the Green Dragon is related to the life and death of the territory, and also related to everyone's wealth and glory.

Therefore, from the lord of the territory, Su Li, to the various knight families and manor owners, to the ordinary armed attendants, free people, and even slaves, everyone is doing their best to improve their strength.

As long as they can survive, they will be able to enjoy endless gold, silver, jewelry, wealth, and land. Once defeated, everything now is just a fleeting moment.

Therefore, most people are buying all kinds of weapons and equipment. In addition to building fortresses, the dwarves also formed a dwarf guard militia, which was composed of warriors from the dwarf community. They are not the most elite warriors, but they are extremely wealthy, so everyone bought a thunder rifle, which is considered an expensive item even in the Redbeard Fortress.

If this squadron of thunder riflemen has the best line of sight on the battlefield and delivers the ultimate output, its power may not be weaker than an elite knight regiment.

In addition to the dwarves, the followers of the Church of the Radiant Goddess have also begun to fully form a free people's group. Lord Rongen is reorganizing these warriors who are determined to protect their homes with the Black Forest Guard.

Most of them are trying their best to buy themselves a main weapon and a set of chain mail, and at the very least, they must buy themselves a set of leather armor and an iron sword.

Their needs are so urgent that the huge demand for weapons and armor from thousands of people directly broke through the territory's market.

In a short period of time, the territory was simply unable to meet their armament needs.

Su Li urgently transferred 300 spears, 200 steel long swords, 200 bows, and 100 sets of chain mail from the armory to the market, but in the face of huge demand, it was just a drop in the bucket.

There are still a large number of people in the free people's group who are only wearing leather clothes and holding farm tools such as clubs and dung forks.

It's not that Su Li is reluctant to take out more weapons to distribute to these rabble, but his armory really doesn't have any extra weapons.

Even these urgently transferred equipment were pieced together after he ransacked the treasury.

There was no way, his main equipment was used to arm the knights and armed attendants.

After all, while the number of free people's groups is increasing, the scale of his professional army is also expanding rapidly.

Not to mention anything else, just the three direct attendant regiments he newly formed consumed a large amount of armor, weapons, and equipment.

The equipment forged by the dwarves in the territory in a month, in addition to replenishing the losses of the army, also had to meet the needs of the expansion, so naturally there was not much left.

During these days, the dwarves had to build fortresses during the day, practice shooting formations in the evening, and forge weapons and armor at night, which made the iron-dun-like dwarves a lot thinner.

But fortunately, the arrival of the dwarven reinforcements greatly alleviated this situation.

On the third day after the territory as a whole entered mobilization, the dwarven reinforcements arrived on the south side of the Crimson Highlands, already close to the Greenleaf Hills.

So Su Li, who was immersed in cultivation, rarely left the bedroom and personally led the army out of the city for more than thirty miles to meet them.

Although the scale of the dwarven army was not as large as the last time, the level of sophistication of the equipment has been greatly improved.

Su Li personally dismounted and held the shoulders of the dwarven commander Dogrin, and said with a smile, "My friend, thank you for your arrival. The Black Forest Territory will not forget your helping hand in times of crisis."

Dogrin said in a loud, muffled voice: "Dwarves never break their oaths. My friend, I heard from your Minister of Foreign Affairs that the Green Dragon is about to wake up, so we dwarves of the Redbeard Clan rushed over overnight."

"I brought 480 dwarven warriors, including a squadron of dwarven rangers, a squadron of thunder riflemen, and two squadrons of dwarven mountain shield formations. I also brought you a dwarven caravan with as many as hundreds of sets of dwarven armor and thousands of dwarven weapons, as well as a large number of dwarven handicrafts."

Su Li smiled and patted his broad shoulders, and said: "My friend, your arrival has really solved my urgent need. Why do I feel that your strength has improved again?"

Dogrin laughed excitedly, he raised the vibranium battle axe in his hand, and said: "My friend, you are right. The battle with the demons has greatly increased the wealth of our Redbeard Clan. We have not only forged a large number of armors, but also used dwarven oath gold to purchase a large number of rune equipment and star iron armor."

Then he pointed back: "Do you see that shield formation that shines with a dark and cold light? That is a powerful phalanx of all-star iron armor. Their silver shields and silver armor cannot be easily cut through by even a great-horned beast."

"Haha, good, with your joining, our infantry line will be much more stable." Su Li said with a smile: "We will definitely be able to defeat this Green Dragon and seize its gold!"

Dogrin nodded excitedly. Robbing the Green Dragon's gold was also something the dwarves yearned for.

The reason why so many dwarves were willing to come to the Black Forest Territory to help was inseparable from his fanatical propaganda.

He had been to the Emerald Ring and witnessed the mountains of gold and treasures piled up in the dragon's lair. So after he returned to Redbeard Fortress, he tried his best to render the richness of the dragon's lair.

If there were no dragon butchers in Redbeard Fortress, I am afraid that some people would have been unable to resist the temptation and set off to the dragon's lair in advance.

But undoubtedly, his rendering was a success. A large number of dwarves are willing to fight alongside the lords of the underground mountains again and re-divide the treasures in the dragon's lair.

The dwarves thought they would still be the main force this time, but until they saw Hild, Dogrin was shocked to almost lose his ability to think.

“Hilde! My friend, are you… have you advanced to Chosen-level?”

Hilde gripped her runic sword with heroic spirit, nodding faintly, and said, "As you see, Dogrin. We will surely achieve victory over the Green Dragon."

Although vaguely sensing everything, Dogrin was still shocked and gaping upon hearing Hilde's confirmation: "My friend, you only just broke through to Champion-level after the battle with the Chosen Demon, right? In this short period of over a month, less than two months, how could you have such a rapid breakthrough!"

Hilde faced the golden light of the sun, her cheeks seeming to glow, and she calmly said with heroic spirit, "Grace be to the Sun Goddess, everything came naturally."

Hilde's breakthrough was far smoother and more natural than Orshtein's.

No one knows the answer she gave to the inquisition of the Rongen Doctrine, or how much divine favor she received at that time.

Su Li always felt that her cultivation aptitude had improved far more than the reported two times, perhaps even three times.

The Sun Goddess's own sets of doctrine books contained enough divine grace to elevate a Champion Knight to a Chosen Knight. Now, Hilde, with two or three times the cultivation aptitude, diligently studied these books. Before she even finished reading them, she successfully broke through to Chosen-level yesterday.

As for how to arrange the remaining books, Hilde originally wanted Su Li to finish reading them, but Su Li simply didn't have the patience, so he simply left them to Hilde, letting her continue reading them and strive to break through to mid-level Chosen Knight.

After all, she was now guiding Su Li in his cultivation. The higher her strength, the faster Su Li's cultivation would be.

And last night, in just one night, Su Li finally experienced the powerful charm of a Chosen Knight.

Perhaps there were not many formal knights in the entire empire who had the opportunity to pin a powerful Chosen Knight beneath them, ravaging and conquering her to their heart's content.

One must know that a knight at the Chosen Knight stage has reached the realm of spiritual communication. She can freely control any part of her body, achieving any state she desires, and can freely change her body size.

30 meters is the limit of her height transformation. In this state, she is simply a Valkyrie.

And when she serves Su Li, she can transform to any height.

For example, Su Li's favorite were the three states of 185, 260, and 3 meters.

The first one goes without saying, in this state her legs are longer than Su Li's life, coupled with her heroic spirit, Su Li's sense of conquest explodes. In this state, she is the perfect goddess.

The second one can take advantage of Su Li's perfect advantages. After all, with the blessing of the Dragon Blood Stone, Su Li is also exceptionally majestic. Usually, when dealing with these female courtiers, he has to be careful and cannot exert his full strength. But Hilde in this state can cultivate with Su Li to the fullest, intimately to the end.

However, facing the powerful resilience of the Chosen Knight, even with the blessing of the breathing technique, Su Li found it difficult to maintain a single cycle.

The third one gives Su Li an unprecedented fresh experience. It makes him feel like he has conquered a powerful giantess.

Of course, the process of cultivation was not smooth sailing.

The difference between Su Li and the Chosen Knight's physique was too great. If Hilde didn't have any feeling, Su Li almost couldn't cultivate.

Even if Hilde deliberately relaxed her body, Su Li couldn't last long.

This greatly stimulated Su Li's competitive spirit, otherwise, leaving such a transcendent temperament, perfect figure of a female courtier unable to be intimate, he would be driven mad by Hilde's body.

So with Hilde's cooperation, he also successfully cultivated to the rank of Elite Knight.

Elite Knight, at this step, he can be considered to have entered the hall of transcendence.

Facing ordinary mortal slaves, he alone can become an army, able to slaughter a dozen or even dozens of flesh and blood mortals.

At the same time, at this stage, he can finally materialize his bloodline ability, showing unparalleled power.

Also at this stage, the knight's extraordinary abilities begin to differentiate, colorful and brilliant, extremely exciting.

The family bloodline ability that Su Li unlocked was [Scarlet Blood · Royal Authority].

When he fully activates his bloodline, he will gain dragon-like royal authority. A powerful deterrent halo will form around him. Enemies weaker than him will be forced to kneel on one knee and kowtow to him before they can get up.

Enemies stronger than him will also briefly enter a weakened state, with their movement speed and attack speed greatly reduced.

This bloodline ability has unparalleled power whether it is in preventing assassinations or on the battlefield.

Imagine a group of goblins and jackalmen excitedly and cruelly howling and launching an attack, about to come into contact with a human infantry formation. As a result, Su Li suddenly activates his royal authority, and the powerful halo covers them. They kneel down without any ability to resist, simply sending their heads in front of the human formation's butcher knife, waiting to be slaughtered.

Su Li activating his bloodline ability once would probably result in a dozen monsters being directly beheaded.

This is the powerful ability brought by the bloodline from the Zijing family. His bloodline characteristics are extremely powerful even among many elite-level and even champion-level knights.

However, incompatible with this powerful scarlet blood ability is the fact that the second divine art ability he obtained is very... special.

It is said to be special because this divine art ability has no powerful manifestation, but it is crucial. It can be seen that he is extremely valued by the Sun Goddess, and even many Chosen Knights may not have this divine art.

Divine Art · Flawless Body - You deny the power of chaos with the Sun's blazing flames, allowing Violette to protect you from chaos corruption.

This means that the Sun Goddess has imprinted a very powerful mark on him, making it almost impossible for him to be corrupted by chaos demons.

You must know that the four chaos gods like to lure the Chosen Knights of the righteous camp to fall, become champions or even greater demons of the demons, and lead troops to destroy the world.

With this divine art, it means that Su Li has become Violette's person, and he doesn't have to worry about demons creating endless noise in his ears, forcing him to go crazy or fall.