Knight Lord: Start with Daily Intelligence

Chapter 200: The First Extraordinary Grain - Emerald Sprout

Led by Hilde, two elite nuns from the Church of the Morning Light and a female knight from the Medical Knight Order quickly entered Su Li's room.

Su Li was already very tired. He had never been so exhausted since becoming a lord! He had been fighting fiercely for nearly a day and a night since last night.

Not only did he not practice his knightly skills, but he also personally wielded a warhammer, going to the battlefield to chop people down, and chased after a large number of monsters all the way.

This kind of hard life was not suitable for him.

He had suffered enough in his previous life, and he was here to enjoy himself in this life!

So he yawned, wanting to quickly deal with the last of the government affairs, go back to practice, and then sleep.

Fortunately, the ladies who entered were all elite-level, and their figures and appearances were very outstanding, which pleased Su Li, and his mood improved a lot.

Hilde pointed to the three who came in and introduced, "Lord, this is Sister Isabella Grace, Sister Ivy Laurel, and Healer Selena Leah."

Sister Ivy was a mature woman, looking like she was between 30 and 40 years old, full of charm.

Isabella was younger, probably between 23 and 27, the prime of a woman's life, with skin so tender it seemed like you could pinch water out of it, and her chest was very full, almost bursting out. Even more tempting was that under her green robe, the high-slit skirt almost completely revealed the beautiful luster of her long legs.

Their church was really as generous as ever, really showing off the good stuff!

Which man wouldn't have his blood boiling at the sight of such bursting white plumpness and the rounded, lustrous, beautiful legs? It would definitely promote fertility.

Su Li decisively chose to hand the seed to the generous Sister Isabella and asked, "Does your Church of the Morning Light recognize this seed?"

Isabella opened the gray cloth bag, and emerald fluorescence emerged from it. Isabella's eyes widened instantly, and she said in surprise, "Emerald Sprout? Hasn't High Priest Fandal not cultivated it yet? Lord, how do you have so many Emerald Sprouts!"

Su Li's eyes lit up. The people from the Church of the Morning Light really recognized this seed!

"You mean Fandal is cultivating this seed? What are its effects?"

Isabella took out an ear of wheat from the bag, gently pinched it with her fingers, and held it in front of her eyes, saying, "Yes. This is an extraordinary spiritual grain. High Priest Fandal uses [Descent of the Sun], which allows the wheat fields to produce this extraordinary ear of wheat with a very low probability."

"According to the church's estimation, even with the fertility and prosperity of our territory, we will only harvest a few hundred of these at most during this year's harvest."

Everyone excitedly gathered around to watch. Was this the first extraordinary grain in the territory?

Within the empire, this was a food that only forces like earls and dukes could enjoy. These ordinary people had only heard of its name and had never seen its appearance!

Earl Stein looked at the seed Isabella was holding with great interest. It emitted a faint green light, which was particularly crystal clear under the light. The exterior also had an exquisite spiral shape, as if nature had endowed it with magic.

"What is the value of this seed? What are its effects?"

Isabella stretched out her plain white palm and placed the Emerald Sprout in her palm. Then, she slightly circulated her divine power, and a green light slowly bloomed from the Emerald Sprout.

"The general effect of this Emerald Sprout is to enhance vitality. In fact, it is somewhat wasteful for nobles to eat this. Because the main function of this food is to enhance the endurance of knights above the God-Chosen level, it can allow the God-Chosen Knight's Divine General state to be maintained for longer."

"But the nobles may be addicted to the vigorous state of vitality after eating it, which leads to a large amount of precious materials that should be used on the battlefield to cultivate powerful warriors being used on the nobles' tables and enjoyment."

Su Li had no way to deal with the nobles' extravagance, debauchery, and wasteful traditions.

The darkness, corruption, and despair of the empire were all-encompassing. It was unrealistic to expect them to be honest, dedicated, and loyal to the country.

Moreover, things that could increase vitality, equivalent to having a longer health bar after eating, even if it was temporary, which noble wouldn't like it?

Su Li didn't want to pretend to be high-minded and accuse anyone. If there were more of these things in the territory, Su Li would definitely eat them too.

Then Su Li asked, "You said just now that this is a general effect, are there any special effects?"

Isabella nodded and said, "According to the different spiral runes, there will also be different effects. For example, the effect of these seeds is to increase elemental resistance and slightly increase resistance to dark, chaotic, and death-type magic."

"Some seeds also have natural healing abilities, which can accelerate wound healing. Or increase magical affinity, which can enhance an individual's perception of magic after consumption. For mages and priests, it can slightly improve their spell effects and spell success rate."

"This is just the effect of the Emerald Sprout. Above the Emerald Sprout are the Azure Sprout, Crimson Sprout, and Golden Sprout, and so on."

"According to the grade of the extraordinary grain, an Emerald Sprout generally costs one gold crown. However, the effect of one Emerald Sprout on a God-Chosen Knight can be said to be minimal, and at least several hundred are needed to produce an effect."

Good heavens!

Su Li immediately had a clearer understanding of the extravagant lives of the nobles.

A noble's bowl of rice cost hundreds of gold crowns, eating up the income of hundreds of farmers for a year.

However, the knight lords in this world were brutal, but they really stepped up when things happened.

In this battle, facing the powerful and terrifying wyvern, ordinary armed servants were trembling and afraid to step forward, but the knight lords smashed such a powerful monster to death with one hammer each, fulfilling their oath to protect the territory.

So after sighing, Su Li quickly gathered his thoughts and asked, "I heard that using the blood of captives to irrigate this kind of seed can make it grow quickly. Can we plant this extraordinary grain in our territory?"

Sister Isabella and Sister Ivy exchanged a few words in a low voice. They seemed to be arguing, and their opinions were not very unified.

But they couldn't make Su Li wait too long, so Sister Ivy reported their views to Su Li: "Lord, we have hardly heard of methods for planting extraordinary grains in large areas. As far as I know, extraordinary grains are produced in a wide wheat field that absorbs enough life force and divine power under the effects of [Pure Zone], [Natural Order], and other effects. Generally speaking, in an extremely fertile and extremely suitable natural environment, a lush green wheat field may produce one Emerald Sprout. Even tens of thousands of acres of fertile land with the most optimal growth conditions may not be able to grow a few hundred."

"So I think this extraordinary grain is almost impossible to plant in large areas. But Sister Isabella believes that our territory has purple spirit fields, and there is a vacant space in the Bauhinia Manor, where we can try to sow these seeds. Then irrigate them with the water of Lake Reveille and cultivate them with the Descent of the Sun divine spell, and it is very likely that we can plant a field of spirit grain."

There was indeed a blank purple spirit field in the Bauhinia Manor, located in the northwest direction of Ingrid's Fantasy Garden, with an area of about 100 square meters.

This summer, Tal's wildness was rampant, and there were many rainbow hailstorms. According to Lunadeshan's introduction, Tal would not be as violent every year as it was this year. This year, Tal seemed to be turning over, and it opened the prelude with a storm from the beginning of summer.

Next year, it was likely to return to normal and gradually become sunny. At that time, there would not be so many rainbow hailstone outbreaks. Maybe only 1-2 purple spirit fields would be obtained in a year. It might not even be enough to expand the existing spirit field scale.

More importantly, these spirit fields have a spirit power lifespan and need to be replenished with rainbow hailstones regularly to maintain soil fertility.

This year, Tal's violent wildness made the number of spirit fields in Black Forest Territory very considerable, but it was hard to say whether this number could be maintained next year.

If there were new spirit trees, how to cultivate them would involve the territory's management and planning layout.

Su Li also pondered for a moment, whether to hand over this last piece of purple spirit field to the Church of the Morning Light to take the risk of cultivating this spirit grain.

"Sir Ron, how many Emerald Sprouts did we harvest in this battle?"

Ron immediately replied, "The specific scale has not been counted in detail, but through our search, basically every few monsters had one of these seeds. I guess this should be the way the Green Dragon solved the military food supply, and each team had someone carrying it. The estimate will not be less than 1000."

Su Li asked in surprise, "The Green Dragon actually used this method to solve its legion's supply? Could there really be a field of extraordinary spirit grain in its Emerald Ring."

Was this a Green Dragon who could farm?

Hilde frowned and thought for a moment, and said, "When I entered the Emerald Ring, I didn't find any wheat fields there. Moreover, 1000 seeds are just a small bag of grain, it is likely that its Emperor Dragon father left it to it."

"That makes sense." Su Li pondered for a while, and said, "But where did that Emperor Dragon father get such a bag of extraordinary grain? Perhaps there really is a way to plant this plant in the forest or among the elves."

After thinking for a long time, Su Li decided to try it.

If he could really grow extraordinary grain in the territory, then this farming would really produce results!

Even if this spirit grain only yielded a dozen or even a few seeds per ear of wheat, one acre of spirit field would still yield thousands of gold crowns.

Now the most concern was the germination rate of these seeds. These seeds planted in the purple spirit field also needed a certain spacing to have enough nutrition and fertility for them to develop.

As for the specific planting and cultivation methods, Fandal still needed to continue to research and try with the nuns.

With so many seeds, there could be at least three mature cycle experiments.

Then Su Li solemnly said, "I will send two-thirds of these seeds to your monastery for research. At the same time, I will lend you the purple spirit field of Bauhinia Manor for cultivation. I hope you can shoulder the important task of the agricultural college and cultivate these seeds into a fertile field. Fandal and Sister Isabella will be responsible for this project."

Sister Isabella was obviously younger and full of vigor. Hearing this, she immediately solemnly put away the bag of seeds in her hand and excitedly replied, "Lord, we will do our best to cultivate these seeds into good seedlings."

These seeds may be Su Li's biggest loot harvest in this battle.

If they were successfully cultivated in the future, each harvest could bring Su Li thousands of gold crowns in income.

The territory already had as many as four or five projects that could provide thousands of gold crowns in income.

This meant that the farming business in Black Forest Territory was booming and was already taking shape. When everything took shape next year and the year after, Black Forest Territory's finances would have a fiscal revenue of 20000+ gold crowns in agriculture alone.

This alone was enough for Su Li to maintain a 500-man elite knight.

You must know that an imperial baron can only have about 1000 heavy cavalry. Even if they have special industries and extremely rich baronies, the scale of elite knights that can be maintained will not exceed 2000. 3000 people is already an earl-level army.

And the standard legion size of an imperial duke is 10000 heavy cavalry. Like Suland Province facing the invasion of the green skins, the first wave of failure was due to the failure of the three dukes forming a 40,000-strong human coalition on the Vissen Plain, which led to uncontrollable consequences.

If Su Li could show farming results in the pioneer lord assessment next year and the year after, which was enough to maintain 500 elite knights, the probability of him passing the assessment and being directly promoted to baron would be higher.

After talking about the exciting loot, it was time to count the combat losses, which was depressing.

Su Li looked at Healer Selena Leah. This knight was tall and hot, but her face was not as delicate and beautiful as the nuns. Although her facial features were correct, her skin was relatively dark and rough. What was more striking was a winding scar on her right face. Obviously, as a medical knight, she had also charged bravely.

Su Li remembered that there were many female members of the Medical Knight Order, but like other knight orders, the high-level positions were dominated by men, and asked, "Healer Selena, I remember that the knight commander of the Medical Knights was not you before, but a burly middle-aged male knight."

A trace of sadness flashed in Selena's eyes, and said, "Are you talking about Healer Galahad? He sacrificed himself in the fight against the skin wolves. In order to save the lives of more foot knights and armed servants, he had been fighting on the front line."

"He saved the lives of 9 soldiers and dragged down 23 injured soldiers. But in the end, he couldn't save himself. When he was guarding the wounded to retreat, he and two knights of the Medical Knight Order were surrounded by more than 20 skin wolves."

"They all died heroically, resisting the monsters' siege back to back. Each of them had dozens of wounds all over their chests and limbs, but there were no wounds on their backs. They died facing the monsters head-on, never retreating even half a step until death."