Knight Lord: Start with Daily Intelligence

Iron can burn fairies?

Su Li really didn't know about this. He immediately took off the ring on his hand and handed it to Hilde.

The territory is indeed short of rings, but Su Li, as the lord, is fully equipped with two perfect-grade rune rings.

After he took off the iron ring on his hand, he turned to look at this primitive girl. Although she was only the size of a four or five-year-old child, her body was curvy, and her proportions were perfect.

Her chest was like two small buns, exceptionally full, with beautiful curves. The key point was that despite her short stature, she appeared to have long legs due to the excellent proportions.

This is truly a perfect and legal loli. Fortunately, Su Li is not a lolicon; otherwise, a lolicon seeing her primitive attire, which only uses a vine and leaves to cover her private parts, would probably become excited immediately, pull the vine aside, and start an enthusiastic knight training with her.

Since Su Li is not interested in lolis, and only likes young ladies who are over 175 cm tall with slender waists and long legs, he was very calm and composed.

He then said to Viduggia, "Hello, water fairy, welcome to move to my territory."

Viduggia puffed out her cute cheeks and looked at Su Li, saying, "Your attitude towards us doesn't seem very welcoming. We have to pay you humans two laurel flower gems every month. Shouldn't we coexist peacefully? Why do you oppress us?"

Su Li laughed and said, "How can this be called oppression? At most, it's a tax. In the empire, only death and taxes are unavoidable. You occupy such a large area of beautiful scenery with clear waters and verdant hills, and build such a large gem pool as your home. Shouldn't you give me some return as a usage fee?"

Viduggia stared at Su Li with wide eyes and asked, "Then what about you? Where do you live? Do you need to pay taxes?"

"Me?" Su Li pointed to the huge stone castle and towering towers on the distant hillside outside the forest, saying, "I live in the most dangerous castle on the foothills plain outside. From here all the way to the Gray Mountains in the north is my territory. So I don't have to pay taxes, but everyone has to pay taxes to me."

"Then why do we have to pay taxes? This gem pool was clearly built by myself."

Su Li could only shrug and say, "It's like you're renting a house. You can decorate the house beautifully, hang beautiful gems in it, and paste exquisitely decorated artworks. But that doesn't mean that the house and this piece of land are yours. The land and the house belong to its owner. If you want to use it, you can only pay rent. Do you understand?"

Viduggia still shook her head and said, "I don't understand what rent is. In the world of us water spirits, everyone is family and can live together."

Su Li immediately laughed and said, "Since we are family, then we should share our good things together, right? I gave you this beautiful scenic area with clear waters, verdant hills, and the fragrance of flowers and birds. What do you share with us? Kappa said that I am his best brother, so I shared three magic springs with him."

Viduggia frowned cutely and looked at the somewhat simple and honest Kappa. The big otter stretched its round head and neck, still not sure what was happening, and probed, "That's right, Viduggia. This human is different from other humans. He is my best bond. Today, I will take you to see other magic sources. With his order, those humans with knives and swords will no longer drive us away."

Although Kappa has strong combat abilities in the pool water, and can even use water control to defeat a small team of elite knights who enter the water, drowning them in the bottomless pool water,

On land, before even approaching the magic spring, an elite knight with a knife and sword can chase it around like a chicken, making it look embarrassed.

As for the water fairy Viduggia, not to mention that ordinary iron can burn her. Her combat power on the shore can be said to be negligible. Even in the water, her combat power is only slightly equal to nothing.

She was unwilling to let Su Li's three magic springs attract Kappa away, so she immediately said, "I am the master of the gem pool, the water fairy, the dominator of magic, the expeller of metal, and I also have many treasures. If you don't take Kappa away, I can give you 5 jin of aether gold every month. These metals are attracted by the gem pool every month, precipitating from the clouds into the pool water. I have to expel them together to avoid them burning other natural spirits. If you like it, I will give it all to you."

"Aether gold!"

"Aether gold!"

The engineering master and the dwarf rangers behind Su Li instantly exclaimed, their eyes widened like copper bells, shocked and bloodshot. Their gazes were like iron filings attracted by a magnet, irresistibly staring at the thin figure of the primitive girl on the water in front of them.

Seeing them looking as if they wanted to devour the girl alive, Su Li knew that he must have found a treasure again! Aether gold must be very important.

So Su Li asked Dogrin, the dwarf ranger behind him, "My friend, what is aether gold?"

Dogrin's high-pitched and loud voice immediately resounded between the hills, and even a flock of waterbirds were startled and flew away. A group of small sprites were even frightened and hid under the leaves.

His tone was both excited and fanatical: "Lord, aether gold, also known as the Breath of Grongni, is an extremely precious metal. It is lighter than air and is distributed in every realm. In its natural state, its density is smaller than air, so it exists as a corrosive and shiny gas or gas-liquid coexistence state in the clouds above."

"In our dwarven mythology, when Grongni focused on his magnificent works, the metal dust falling from his hammer and his breath mixed together to form the aether cloud in the air."

"Under normal circumstances, to obtain aether gold, an aether refinery must first be built to accelerate the extraction and refining process. These aether refineries are mainly used to concentrate, distill, and refine those unprocessed aether ore."

"Processed aether gold can be compressed into columns or lumps and ejected to pressurize melee weapons."

"So its function is self-evident! Lord, you must be able to guess."

Su Li's eyes lit up, and he immediately asked excitedly, "Radiating out in columns or lumps? So it can be used to create God-chosen weapons?!"

All the dwarves nodded heavily at the first time, and Dogrin was even breathing rapidly, filled with fanatical expectations: "Lord, as long as the news that our territory has aether gold spreads out, the entire mountains will go crazy. Dwarves will not let go of any chance to create rare-level equipment, just like humans will not let go of any chance to become a God-chosen knight."

"The reputation of forging rare-level equipment will immediately make a dwarf a forging expert in one aspect. In the future, when this equipment is passed down, generations will remember the name of its creator. This is an unparalleled temptation for dwarves who value reputation."

"In the future, there will definitely be champion-level, or even God-chosen-level, dwarven forging masters coming to Black Forest Territory. No, no! Not in the future. I know there are several champion-level dwarves in Redbeard Fortress and Dragon Rock Forge who have always longed to create a rare-level equipment. I think I can immediately write a letter to tell them this news, and they will frantically rush over within these two months."

"As long as we have 20 jin of aether gold, we can try to forge the first God-chosen-level weapon! We have actually collected other materials such as star iron, cold-forged steel, vibrating gold, silver steel, and meteor iron in our territory."

Many of these metals are not necessary. The key depends on what attributes and abilities the dwarves want to create for a rare-level equipment.

And one thing is for sure, Su Li's treasury is very rich. The dazzling array of gems, pearls, armor, rune weapons, rune props, and even precious metals are on a scale that is enough to make a dwarf envious.

In terms of gold crowns alone, he has an entire room in his vault, with three large boxes packed with treasure chests, totaling 26,889!

This is the result of Phyllis counting it for him seven times with great interest, and it's definitely not wrong.

Half of this is the harvest from selling Holy Wisteria fruit pods, one-third is from spoils of war, taxes, and trade income, and the other third is from the opportunities given by his daily intelligence system. This source is very diverse, including stolen goods from the Thieves' Guild, property from the Church of Ranod, inheritance from ancient ruins, and even some relics from strange caves and creature nests.

For example, harpies, they like to bring other races back to their caves to eat them clean, but the armor and wealth on these adventurers, travelers, and even ogre mercenaries are left behind and discarded in the corners of the caves.

Su Li almost wiped out the harpies in this battle. Before the harpies wandering in other directions came over to occupy this territory, the daily intelligence system revealed the location of this empty nest to Su Li.

Su Li's main army couldn't enter, but he could easily send halflings who were good at stealing to take their wealth back.

The harpies piled these abandoned props and wealth in a corner of the cave like garbage, almost piling up into a mountain of garbage.

But after peeling off the dusty feathers and dust on top, the golden wealth below was revealed, with hundreds of gold crowns, dozens of dwarven oath gold, and even an ogre's vibrating gold club, giving Su Li a large amount of unexpected wealth.

Similar to this situation, the daily intelligence system also revealed the location of a large number of precious and rare metals to Su Li.

He himself didn't care much, but Phyllis liked to tell him happily and sweetly about how much wealth was accumulated in the castle when Su Li was lying on her cool and beautiful legs. At this time, she was particularly happy and sweet, full of longing for the future, feeling that life was full of hope and becoming more and more prosperous every day.

She didn't have much ambition. She knew very well that with her status as a female courtier, she could never become the lord's legal wife.

She would be very satisfied if her child could be widely recognized, not despised as a bastard, and have a legitimate identity.

Although the children of female courtiers are not considered bastards, they do not have inheritance rights.

She carefully pleased Su Li, but only hoped that one day, after Black Forest Territory grew stronger, Su Li could seal this child as a kingdom knight even if he didn't give the child inheritance rights. If he could be sealed as a baron, that would be even more perfect, and she would laugh in her dreams.

As long as Su Li gave this child a little paternal love, it would be completely reasonable to seal him as a kingdom knight if the child fought bravely.

Phyllis had inquired that one of Su Li's cousins in the Bauhinia family did not have inheritance rights, but also obtained a village as a fief because of his brave fighting.

Su Li also doted on her very much. In order to satisfy her hobbies and encourage her to exercise more, he promised her that as long as she counted the wealth in the castle once, he would reward her with 10 gold crowns.

So she relied on her own labor income and diligently earned more than 70 gold crowns, and was working hard towards the goal of 80 gold crowns.

So under her chanting, not only her, but even Su Li was familiar with the wealth of the territory.

There were 27 kinds of precious metals in Black Forest Castle alone, including silver steel, anvil steel, dragon breath steel, star meteorite iron, fire rock gold, night shadow silver, storm lead, frost iron, dream tin, blood pattern red steel, and so on.

For example, storm lead is the best material for casting thunderous muskets, and dragon breath steel and dragon bone steel are the most resilient metals, which can be used to forge the top swords, halberds, hammers, axes, and plate armor.

The quantity and scale of these precious metals may not be comparable to a dwarven king, but they are definitely enough to make a dwarven lord jealous.

It should be known that this is not easy.

Dwarven lords are usually very old. In the long years, they attach great importance to the accumulation of precious metals in mining and trading.

Moreover, dwarves have always been the richest race on the continent.

It is possible that the types and scale of rare metals in the treasury of an pioneering lord like Su Li may exceed that of a dwarven lord, which is a great achievement enough to shock most people.

Dogrin had been eyeing Su Li's rare metal treasury for a long time. Every time he wanted to withdraw any materials, he personally went to the warehouse to move them, regardless of his status.

Every time he saw the glittering precious metals in these warehouses, his eyes were fanatical and he couldn't wait to stuff these precious metals into his chest.

Such a huge rare metal treasury is an unparalleled temptation for any dwarf!

After seeing it, every dwarf will have the same idea without exception, wishing to move everything back to his home, take it as his own, display it in his warehouse, and admire it every day!

And every time at this time, Phyllis would be extra cautious, and must carefully stare at this dwarf with her little sister Avril, who looked fanatical and seemed to be dominated by greed at any time, so as not to let him steal any precious ore.

This is undoubtedly an insult to the dwarf!

It will make the dwarf feel that his reputation has been tarnished.

But Dogrin is a dwarf ranger, and he is originally an alien among dwarves.

He was actually very fortunate that Phyllis was staring at him without blinking.

Otherwise, he was also afraid that he would do something that he would regret and lose all his reputation and prestige.

Once he betrayed his friend's trust and stole his friend's ore, then he would only have one ending - to become a butcher.

The butcher of the dwarves refers to those dwarves who have been humiliated, frustrated in love, or lost their dignity in other ways. They left the traditional society and turned to seek sweet liberation: death.

They went to hunt the most dangerous monsters, hoping to reach a glorious end. Most of them died fairly quickly, but the few who survived became members of a strange cult of troll butchers. Their existence was solely to usher in the end of days and, by doing so, redeem the shame they had suffered in the past.

Although the Butchers were powerful, no dwarves were willing to accept them, because it was unclear what they had done that had damaged dwarven dignity and reputation.

Theft is one of the most serious crimes in dwarven society, and Dogrin didn't want to go down that path at all.

But Su Li still trusted him, after all, this dwarf was true to his word and had an excellent reputation.

When they first arrived in the Black Forest Territory as a small team, they heard that the Black Forest Territory was about to face a black dragon invasion, so they generously promised that when the Black Forest Territory needed them, they would travel thousands of miles to help and smash all the monsters with dwarven battle axes.

And they did indeed do it. Even after witnessing the power and violence of the Chosen of Khorne, they still came to the Black Forest Territory as determined as ever, and fought regardless of casualties, and would continue to persist until the green dragon was repelled.

Su Li had actually given him more than 10 kinds of rare metals, totaling 13 jin.

Now that there was even more powerful Aether Gold, Su Li generously patted him on the shoulder and said, "My friend, don't worry. I will definitely give you this metal, and you will forge the first Chosen-level equipment for our territory."

"Hahaha!" The dwarf laughed heartily, his chest open. The thought of a rare weapon being named after him made him tremble with excitement: "My friend, you are indeed the dwarves' truest friend, never letting a dwarf's expectations fall short. I will definitely strive to forge a powerful champion-level weapon next month!"

"You should think in advance, do you want a warhammer or a rune sword?"

Su Li really had to think about this question.

The territory's twin pillars, Orstein and Hilder, are now showing such strong aptitude that they are simply unmatched by the champion army!

There is no need to say how strong Hilder's aptitude is. Even without Su Li's training and without a proper cultivation path, her original trajectory could have led her to the champion level.

That time, during the test of the doctrine of the Church of the Blazing Sun, Su Li always felt that her answer was not that simple. It was likely that her cultivation speed was not doubled but tripled.

Otherwise, it would be difficult to explain how she cultivated to the Chosen level so quickly.

And it is worth mentioning that even with Hilder clearly receiving the grace of God's baptism, the advancement speed of Knight Orstein is not much slower than Hilder.

At first, Su Li thought it was the grace bestowed by the gods after he defeated a powerful enemy.

The knights and knight orders of this world have this kind of blessing. In a war, if they kill enough monsters, they will be promoted. If the gods bestow blessings, they will soon gain golden experience points, golden shields, and golden armor, and their combat power will be very different from ordinary knights.

But after this battle, he discovered that it was not that simple.

The bloodline of this Lion of the Blazing Sun may have its own unique features.

Constantine, the leader of the Sun Halo Knights, who was once a small rank above him in strength, also participated in the outpost battle, and also made great achievements and gained a lot of divine grace, but Leader Constantine has not yet reached the point where he is about to break through to the Chosen level.

Moreover, it can be said that if Su Li doesn't help him and find him a chance.

It is very likely that he will be stuck at the high-level champion level for the rest of his life.

Even in the Flame Sun Knights, which is full of talents, there are not many branch leaders who are at the Chosen level.

Therefore, Knight Orstein is likely not relying on divine grace, but on his own bloodline and aptitude, which are very amazing. In the Black Forest Territory, a territory with constant battles, his promotion speed is comparable to that of Hilder.

Su Li is not a nepotistic lord. He will not favor Hilder with weapons just because she is closer to him.

In fact, Orstein's relationship with Su Li is now also very close. The two are both grateful for their acquaintance and appreciation, and they are also comrades-in-arms who work together with one heart. This is another kind of solid friendship, and its reliability may not be weaker than love.

Who to give the weapon to still depends on their battle merits, and who will benefit the situation more after they get it.

So Su Li patted Dogrin on the shoulder and said, "I still need to think about what kind of weapon to forge during this time."

"But I have a question. Even by next month, we will only get 10 jin of Aether Gold from the gem pool at most. It doesn't seem to be enough to meet the minimum requirement of 20 jin for forging a Chosen-level weapon. How can you be so sure that it can be forged smoothly next month?"

Dogrin laughed heartily and said, "I am so sure. Lord Lord, don't worry, as long as you release the news that you are about to forge perfect-level weapons and equipment in the territory, the dwarves will bring their own precious metals and request to join the forging."

"Many dwarven forging masters, like me, have a considerable collection of rare metals in their hands. As long as you can gather more than half of the metal for the main body of the forging, other dwarves can help you make up the shortfall. They usually just don't want to take it out. After all, if it's completely pieced together, who can get the naming rights and ownership of this equipment would be enough to argue about for hundreds of years."

This is indeed the case, with the dwarves' greedy, stubborn, and narrow-minded character.

If several people take out similar amounts of Aether Gold and precious metals, they may turn against each other because of the quarrel, and the Book of Grudges will be full of other people's scolding, insults, and exposing shortcomings during the quarrel.

But if Su Li can take out most of it, and take absolute dominance, other dwarves may tend to sell the Aether Gold to the territory. The Black Forest Territory only needs to prepare enough dwarven oath gold.

Most importantly, the Black Forest Territory can continuously produce Aether Gold. Although 5 jin per month is not much, it is enough to make the dwarves lose all their bargaining power. They will do their best to please Su Li in order to obtain a little Aether Gold sales share from Su Li!