Knight Lord: Start with Daily Intelligence

Su Li's advancement was, of course, a significant improvement, but compared to Hildred, it seemed insignificant again.

Upon reaching the Champion level, Hildred gained new bloodline abilities and divine spells.

These were [Crimson Blood · Golden Light Shield: When fully activating the light attribute bloodline within, it can form a powerful shield around oneself, similar to an arcane shield, to resist a large amount of damage from enemies on the battlefield].

[Divine Spell: Holy Guidance Arrow: Violet, the Goddess of the Blazing Sun, allows her followers to use the power of archery to thwart opponents and gain an advantage. After using this divine spell, Violet's followers can fire a psionic arrow imbued with Violet's divine power, capable of accurately hitting the target, even penetrating magical defenses. Subsequent damage to this target by followers of the Blazing Sun Goddess will be infused with a trace of Violet's divine damage.]

Her Crimson Blood ability wasn't just about providing a layer of defense; it would significantly improve as Hildred's strength increased. At the Chosen level, with a more surging bloodline energy at her disposal, the Golden Light Shield would protect her like an iron bell, making her defense extremely strong. While the bloodline ability was active, she could almost ignore most attacks.

And at the Chosen level, the improvements she gained were even greater!

All Chosen ones receive the same bloodline ability after breaking through: [Crimson Blood · Divine Descent].

A Chosen Knight has two ways to activate this powerful ability and transform into a mighty divine general. The first is to forcibly burst blood, praying at the start of battle to allow divine grace to enter the body, making the bloodline more vibrant, and then activating the ability directly at the beginning of the battle.

The advantage of activating the ability through divine grace blood bursting is that the divine general state lasts longer, and the combat power is more powerful. The disadvantage is that after forcibly bursting blood, one can no longer use other bloodline abilities. Even if the divine general state is canceled and bloodline abilities are used again, there is a high probability of exploding and dying. Unless one reaches the Legendary level, at that stage, a Legendary Knight can do whatever they want and activate the Divine Descent state anytime, anywhere. It is even rumored that a Legendary Knight can gain the strength of the divine general state even in a normal state.

Of course, as a Chosen Knight, there is a second way to activate the divine general state: through bloody battles, killing a large number of enemies, and putting oneself in a state of bloodline excitement and being covered in blood.

In this case, the Chosen Knight can activate [Crimson Blood · Divine Descent] without hindrance. However, the disadvantage of this activation method is that the time is relatively short. As the Crimson Blood cycle in the divine general state takes too long, the excited blood will gradually cool down, and the divine general state will be解除 in a few minutes. The advantage, however, is that through continued fighting, one can smoothly activate the second, third, or even fourth or fifth divine general states.

One thing worth mentioning is that a Chosen Knight cannot use other Crimson Blood abilities in the divine general state; using other Crimson Blood abilities will terminate the divine general state prematurely. Only at the Legendary level can one do whatever they want and still use various abilities smoothly in the divine general state.

But no matter what, the divine general state of a Chosen Knight is their most powerful manifestation. Perhaps in a normal state, it would be tricky for a Chosen Knight to be besieged by several Champion Knights. But once he activates [Crimson Blood · Divine Descent], the battle turns into a crush. If a Champion Knight fails to dodge, the Chosen Knight can obliterate him with one blow.

Now, the only problem Su Li faced was that there was no powerful weapon worthy of Hildred's Chosen-level strength.

Once she activated the divine general state, the rune sword in her hand was too small, and she had to rely on physical combat like a dragon.

At least a Mythic-grade weapon would have the ability to change size at will, like Skaven Bloodrage's chain axe, which could change with its body shape.

But not every Mythic-grade weapon has this ability; it depends on the runes inside and the materials used during forging.

Before Hildred had a Mythic-grade weapon, the greatest effect of her transforming into a divine general state was to cooperate with her divine spell to unlock the enemy's fear.

The divine spell she gained at the Chosen level was [Enemy-Terrifying Divine Wrath: You can guide Violet's anger onto your face. Any enemy who successfully attacks you in melee may be dominated by fear].

A knight in the divine general state cannot use [Crimson Blood] abilities, but can use [Divine Spell] abilities without hindrance.

After Hildred reached the Chosen Knight stage, she had three [Crimson Blood] abilities and three [Divine Spell] abilities.

In terms of skill changes, she may not be weaker than a High Elf mage.

The battle between a fifth-circle mage and a Chosen Knight may not necessarily be won.

And a green dragon naturally possesses the strength of a fifth-circle mage once it grows to the juvenile stage, and also has the melee ability of a Chosen Knight.

Dragons in this world master dragon language magic and are the strongest masters of arcane secrets.

Defeating a green dragon is really not an easy thing.

So although Hildred grew into a Chosen Knight, the Black Forest Territory still dared not to be careless, and army construction was equally urgent.

The arrival of the dwarves greatly alleviated the previous equipment shortage in the Black Forest Territory.

At least a thousand fine weapons met the needs of the entire Free Militia.

Only in terms of armor, the Free Militia was still insufficient.

The dwarves only brought 130 sets of armor, of which 50 sets were star iron armor they purchased for trade, and 80 sets were fine-grade dwarven armor sold on the market. Su Li exchanged all of these star iron armor for beer, beef, and venison.

Beer was especially needed by the dwarves, even more urgently than food.

If the dwarves didn't have enough food, they could mix some gravel into their black bread, as long as it could fill their stomachs.

The dwarves don't crave delicious food as much as their distant relatives, the halflings. As long as they can fill their stomachs, they don't care what they eat.

But not having beer is absolutely impossible!

After a hard day's work, the dwarves sweat like rain from the underground mines, only bringing back a large amount of ore, which puts a great burden on their bodies. They rely on a pound of beer to relieve fatigue.

Dwarves don't like brandy; they think this kind of wine is too delicate and not strong enough. Legend has it that the intensity of dwarven beer is enough to be used as fuel to drive dwarven equipment engines.

And now is the time when the Gray Mountains Province urgently needs beer. The dwarves' ancient relic, the Golden Hair Comb, has been recovered, and the Redbeard clan dwarves have defeated a Chosen-level demon army.

Within the Gray Mountains Province, from the dwarven king to the mountain lords, everyone is enthusiastic and plans to hold a grand banquet to celebrate.

But for well-known reasons, very few dwarves or organizations can store more than two barrels of dwarven beer, so the caravan came to the Black Forest Territory this time to purchase a large batch of human beer.

Although these beers are as light as water compared to dwarven beer, a sufficient quantity can make the dwarves tipsy.

The first batch of beer brewed in the Black Forest Territory was almost entirely exchanged by the dwarves.

The caravan is urging the brewery to speed up the progress, after all, there are more than two million pounds of grains there. Later, when there were not enough barrels for storing beer, the dwarves even helped for free, cutting down oak trees in the oak forest and returning to make barrels.

The price of this beer is very low, or rather, the purchasing power of the empire's currency has always been very strong. 1-3 copper coins can buy a large glass of fragrant beer.

The price of a barrel of beer is only 1-3 silver coins, and the price sold to the dwarves is not possible at the retail price. In fact, they purchase in batches, and a barrel is only 90 copper coins.

A set of star iron armor can be exchanged for more than 15,000 barrels of beer.

The exchange ratio of extraordinary to ordinary is so exaggerated.

However, Su Li didn't feel much loss, because most of the beer is water! 2 million pounds of grains can brew more than 13 million liters of beer.

Su Li likes this trading model, and the dwarves also like it.

But according to Dogelin, this kind of transaction may not last long.

Because the Redbeard clan is ambitiously expanding, they believe that in the next period of time, the dwarves will usher in a peaceful, prosperous, and developing time. They will usher in a harvest of farms to brew a large amount of dwarven beer.

The open space and cultivated land of the dwarven fortress are located on the jurisdictional territory between the border and the fortress, usually constructed into vast and spectacular terraces on the mountains.

If the weather is good in the next few years and the war subsides, then the harvest of these above-ground farms will be very good, which can increase the food supply in the fortress's underground agricultural hall.

The dwarves, of course, not only have these farmlands on the surface, but also some dwarven farms scattered outside the border, in some hidden valleys, but they will not be too far from the fortress. Most of the boundary farms can only be reached through secret passages known to the dwarves. In fact, it is true that very few people can accidentally break into these dwarven farms.

If there are no wars this year or next year, these dwarven fortresses will produce a large amount of food for the dwarves to brew their own beer.

For the dwarves, they still prefer the beer brewed by the dwarves themselves. Dwarven beer has transcended the realm of art and is not just a drink. In fact, wine has become an indispensable part of the dwarven health diet.

The nutrients contained in dwarven beer are enough to support a dwarf for several weeks on its own. Every dwarven settlement, no matter how big or small, will have at least one brewing master, usually the elder of the brewing clan. It is said that the brewing master's personal ability and foresight—more important than any other dwarf—are crucial to the development of the local dwarves. During the Goblin Wars, dwarves often relied on beer to save their lives, and even the livestock raised by the dwarves survived on beer.

This incident is actually an encouragement to Su Li. The Gray Mountains have ushered in peaceful and tranquil days, and it is now his turn to the Black Forest Foothills!

While the dwarves are ambitiously farming, the Black Forest Territory is also seizing the time to reclaim fields and autumn planting, striving to sow the seeds into the ground before the Green Dragon War arrives.

After all, once the war arrives, humans will not be able to farm on a large scale.

Although dwarves prefer their own brewed beer, the grains needed for brewing are no different. The Black Forest Territory intends to become the border granary, as long as it is responsible for selling the grain. As for whether others buy it to eat or to brew wine, that is not the business of the Black Forest Territory.

However, continuing to grab and plant fields is not easy. The free people's energy is attracted by the upcoming war.

They are trying to find weapons and equipment and conduct military training. The monastery of the Church of the Blazing Sun is crowded every day.

Not only because Rong En is training believers with the Black Forest Guard Knights, but also because a batch of weapons and equipment, including fine plate armor, is distributed here every day!

That is plate armor, forged by the dwarves who came to the territory. More than 400 dwarves worked day and night to forge and polish it very finely. The armor is thick and solid, and the polished armor surface is shining brightly.

In the empire, this kind of plate armor is not a forbidden equipment. Mercenaries, adventurers, and colonists are allowed to privately own it.

After all, this world is very uneasy. Leaving the main roads of the plains, you can see terrible beastmen, green skins, and cultists between the wild rubble and in the hills and forests.

Colonists also need powerful armed forces to expand outward, and it is very necessary to provide these colonists with plate armor and halberds.

Of course, the most fundamental reason is that the imperial army has more advanced armor, and rune vibranium armor has a crushing effect on ordinary people and even ordinary knights.

This leads to relatively luxurious equipment for ordinary people in the empire. Some farmers and manor owners have plate armor, while ordinary people wear chain mail and leather armor.

The wealth of the Black Forest Territory has also attracted a large number of mercenaries and brotherhoods, such as the Lighthouse Brotherhood, who came here because of the Black Forest Territory's development order.

These people are more pursuing wealth, willing to take risks for greater benefits.

Only the slaves in the Black Forest Territory still serve as the main force in farming, with Agriculture Minister Fandar and Pastoral General Manager Aemonde presiding over the territory's production.

They summoned more slaves and halflings to develop, and the scale of farming below Bjorn Bay even increased.

Water conservancy facilities, under the full-scale development of ogre workers, covered every newly reclaimed fertile field.

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Aemonde has lost a lot of weight during this time. He drank vitality potions to the point of poisoning!

In order to accelerate the growth of the territory's plants and animals, he was drained of his vitality and magic time and time again, relying entirely on drinking medicine to replenish it.

However, the medicinal properties of the medicine in this world are much greater than those on Earth, and the pharmacology that medicine is three-point poison is particularly obvious here.

After a few days of tossing, this old druid fell into a state of floating, and the corners of his eyes were blue.

But such a big price brings unparalleled benefits.

Su Li's closest mount, Deathclaw, has finally taken shape. It is now extremely large, with a height of more than 4 meters and a wingspan of nearly 15 meters when unfolded. It stands in front of the ogre, taller than most ogres.

This size obviously exceeds most griffins. The height of ordinary griffins is between 2.5 meters and 3 meters, which is twice as high as a war horse.

If calculated by pony, the height of Deathclaw is as high as three ponies, which is a well-deserved super-heavy cavalry.

A serf riding a pony, standing in front of Deathclaw, looks very much like a monkey riding a dog.

The huge size of Deathclaw alone is enough to bring unparalleled oppression, making the serfs dare not resist at all.

However, this was only Deathclaw's wild state, not counting the armor the family had forged for it.

With the arrival of the dwarves, Barros and Dogrin joined forces to forge a set of gilded heavy cavalry armor for Deathclaw, based on its current size.

This set of armor was not only heavy but also exquisitely crafted, representing the highest level of forging skills in the territory.

The main body of the armor was made of fine steel and gilded on the surface, shining brightly in the sun, all of which highlighted the nobility, majesty, and elegance of the Griffin.

The breastplate and backplate were designed as flexible plate armor to ensure that the Griffin was not restricted during flight. Each piece of armor was carefully polished with sharp edges, which could protect the Griffin from harm and serve as a weapon when necessary.

At the same time, the armor was decorated with the golden emblem of the Bauhinia family, a symbol of family honor and identity, showing the close connection and loyalty between the Griffin and the Bauhinia family.

The Griffin's head was protected by an exquisite visor. The front of the helmet was decorated with the Griffin's sharp beak-like design, which increased its deterrent power without hindering its sharp vision. The sides of the helmet extended into armor plates that protected the neck, covering the base of the wings to ensure that the Griffin's neck and wings were not injured during high-speed flight or combat.

The most striking feature was the sharp metal ram on the Griffin's head, which was specially designed by Barros and Dogrin to not only enhance the Griffin's attack power but also make it more deadly and powerful when charging. These rams, combined with the Griffin's natural features, made every dive in the air full of devastating power.

As the saying goes, clothes make the man, and a saddle makes the horse.

Deathclaw and the entire Demigryph Knight regiment were equipped with this sophisticated gilded armor, and their majesty and magnificence were greatly enhanced.

In these days, Su Li couldn't put Deathclaw down, and even slightly reduced the time he spent on his favorite cultivation, riding Deathclaw in the sky every day.

Humans can never resist the temptation of flying in the sky.

At this moment, Su Li even regretted that he had not cultivated well in the past. His current strength was completely unworthy of such a powerful Griffin.

If he had the strength of a champion, then he could ride the Griffin to charge into battle!

However, his troubles could not be understood by others.

In half a year, his cultivation progress had soared from a beginner trainee knight to a beginner elite knight.

This could not be described as rapid; it was simply defying the heavens!

You must know that Su Li's guardian knight, Schwartz, spent half a year to advance from a beginner trainee knight to an intermediate trainee knight.

Even after following Su Li for half a year, with all kinds of opportunities, all kinds of magical beast meat, and a massive amount of divine grace showered on him, he only advanced from a beginner elite knight to an advanced elite knight.

A large part of the reason why Su Li was able to cultivate so quickly was actually due to Hilde and the dwarves' golden hair comb.

As a God-chosen knight, Hilde intimately helped him sort out his breathing rhythm every day, using mouth-to-mouth contact to guide him in running his breathing technique. He was fully cultivating with the aptitude of a God-chosen.

This made Su Li even a little reluctant to return the dwarves' golden hair comb. If he had another period of cultivation, he might even be able to advance to the champion level.

During these days, in addition to riding Deathclaw in the sky, Su Li's most important job was to supervise the cultivation below Bjorn Bay.

Although the threat of the Green Dragon was imminent, the territory's farming business could not be abandoned.

The food supply in the castle could supply 400 knights for a year or two, but it could only supply 4,000 people for one or two months!

Su Li remembered very clearly that the food stored in his castle only accounted for about a quarter of all the food.

So theoretically, if he could withstand the Green Dragon's invasion and the Black Forest Town was not destroyed, then the Black Forest Territory's food would be enough to last until the end of this year or the beginning of next year.

In this case, if the autumn planting was completely delayed and there was no harvest, then there would be nothing to continue with next year.

As the lord, Su Li had to personally sit in Bjorn Bay to stabilize the slaves' hearts and let them continue to farm steadily.

And the effect was very significant. The slaves were originally panicked when they heard about the existence of the Green Dragon's family, but these days they could see the lord riding the Griffin flying above Bjorn Bay every day, and see the powerful God-chosen knight fully armed, with a sword standing on the dam overlooking the bottom. The slaves' panicked emotions were relieved, and their hearts calmed down.

Seeing that the lord was so calm and composed, they all thought that the territory had full confidence in dealing with the Green Dragon.

They heard that the territory's marshal had already led troops into the forest, and perhaps victory was just around the corner. After all, since they entered the territory, they had heard about a glorious victory every month.

It seemed that as long as the lord was there, victory was a matter of course. Under the lord's command, the territory would usher in one victory after another.

This made Su Li somewhat understand why the rulers at the top of the empire always liked to implement a policy of fooling the people.

These slaves don't need to know too much, as long as they believe that shouting for the blessing of the gods can solve the problem.

While Su Li was standing on the dam overlooking the bottom, the Minister of Agriculture, Fandal, walked up to Su Li and said excitedly, "Lord, the territory's farming scale has reached its peak today. As you predicted, today is indeed the peak of the Morning Dew Goddess's divine power tide. The wheat, herbs, and medicinal herbs planted today will all have a bumper harvest."

After saying that, he sighed, "It's a pity that the Green Dragon Legion is about to arrive. After we finish sowing, the fertile fields will probably not be carefully taken care of. The fields will be full of weeds, the farmland will be abandoned, and the wheat seedlings will be affected."

Su Li comforted him, "It's not a big problem. Didn't you say that after the autumnal equinox is the season of withering vegetation? Perhaps the weeds in the field will not be as lush as in summer."

Autumn-planted grains take nearly half a year to grow because after the autumnal equinox, the vegetation withers, not only do the weeds grow slowly, but the crops also grow relatively slowly.

Fandal nodded and said, "That's true. I hope that our war with the Green Dragon can end soon. If the war ends in two or three months, we can make timely repairs, and the impact on the autumn-planted grains will be relatively limited."

Su Li couldn't judge the prospects of the war, so he could only change the subject and said, "My Minister of Agriculture, tell me something pleasant. Don't you have any good news here?"

"Yes." Speaking of this, Fandal became energetic again and said, "The results of the herb planting are gratifying."