Knight Lord: Start with Daily Intelligence

Soon, a dense swarm of four to five hundred kobold warriors wielding flails, spears, and bows poured out of the mine.

Among the dense pack of kobolds, an exceptionally tall kobold leader emerged, holding a massive adamantine battle-axe, baring a mouthful of canine teeth, and glaring menacingly at Hildred.

“The one and only supreme master from the Grey Mountains to the Bloodpine Great Forest?” It glared fiercely. “Another human fool here to die. I’ll just chop off your head and give it to the master. The master will surely reward my contribution! I, Daug, will lead the tribe to become the most powerful kobold tribe in history!”

This time, Hildred was genuinely shocked, staring incredulously at the kobold leader who was over two meters tall: “An elite-level kobold warrior?”

Kobolds are not known for their combat prowess; few among them are even qualified warriors. A robust, two-meter-tall kobold warrior like this one is one in ten thousand, extremely rare.

More importantly, it was actually wielding a powerful adamantine battle-axe. Although limited by their primitive technological level, it wasn’t inscribed with any runes, the sheer weight of such a large piece of adamantine was enough to shatter any opponent's bones.

“Retreat! This situation is beyond what we imagined.”

Kobold leader Daug revealed a cruel smile, extremely pleased with Hildred’s shock and the human soldiers’ panicked retreat.

He raised his right arm, the massive axe held overhead, reflecting a chilling light in the sunlight: “These foolish humans actually think they can escape from our swift and fierce kobolds. Warriors, chase after them and turn them all into our food!”

At his command, hundreds of kobolds howled excitedly, surging forth to launch a fierce pursuit of the retreating human armed attendants.

Su Li stood on a low hill on the south side of the mine, watching the kobold队伍 surge past beneath his feet, the corners of his mouth curving up slightly. Kobolds are a race with low combat power, and their brains don’t seem to be very bright. No wonder they’ve always been at the bottom of the food chain.

With a wave of his hand, the knight bugles behind him sounded simultaneously, the stirring sound echoing through the valley, causing the pursuing kobolds to tremble in fear.

They looked up at the hill in terror, only to see Zhu banners fluttering on the hill, elite knights in red robes and black armor having already deployed their ranks, swooping down like eagles spreading their wings!

Human knights! A large number of well-equipped heavy armored knights, launching a charge without any hindrance!

Even the most foolish kobolds could understand what was about to happen.

Their cruel sneers and high morale were instantly crushed by this violent impact. They howled in terror, desperately fleeing, regretting that their parents hadn’t given them a few more legs.

The battle had become a rout. Su Li, with just one strike, had decisively crushed this kobold tribe.

The tactics were so perfect that even the Orstein Knight couldn't help but praise him: “Lord, you really should believe in our Radiant Sun Goddess. I believe your abilities will surely be recognized by the goddess and bestowed with divine grace.”

Su Li waved his hand, he was too busy. Fandal said he should believe in the Dawn Goddess, the halfling Harriet said he should believe in the Hyacinth, and the Orstein Knight said he should believe in the Radiant Sun Goddess. He didn't have the energy to take care of so many goddesses.

“We can talk about faith later. What are the spoils of this battle?”

The Orstein Knight immediately said: “The spoils are extremely rich. We captured more than 360 kobolds, obtained 6,000 pounds of iron ore, 200 iron ingots, and most importantly, a full 75 pounds of adamantine.”

“Also, in the kobold cave, we found no human prisoners, they may have been eaten. But we found 8 dwarven pickaxe miners, slaves they captured to mine.”

Subsequently, various spoils were cleaned up and gathered. After taking inventory, the harvest from attacking this kobold tribe far exceeded Su Li's imagination.

In addition to the 8 dwarven pickaxe miners, there were actually 32 Imperial Gold Crowns and 8 Dwarven Oath Golds in the mine!

Dwarven Oath Gold is the most special gold coin among the dwarven tribes, and can be used to buy any precious items they can forge in the Goldsmiths' Guild, Rune Blacksmiths' Guild, Engineers' Association, and Weaponsmiths' Guild. Those advanced dwarven equipment that are usually forbidden to be traded to outsiders, when you take out enough Dwarven Oath Gold, even the most stubborn dwarves will compromise and reluctantly trade the advanced equipment to you.

Generally, Dwarven Oath Gold does not circulate on the market, but even at the lowest exchange rate, one Dwarven Oath Gold can be exchanged for 10 Imperial Gold Crowns.

These were originally tributes that the kobold tribe was going to hand over to their green dragon master, now they were all plundered by Su Li.

Su Li did not order the remaining kobolds to be killed, nor did he turn them into ogre dinners. Except for the kobold leader Daug who was killed, the rest were all released.

There are still five months before the young green dragon, Wing of Deceit, Eliria wakes up. During this time, these kobolds will not pose any threat to the territory, so Su Li boldly treated them as mining slaves, raiding them every once in a while, taking away ore and adamantine. After all, Heisenling is currently short of manpower and cannot spare hundreds of people to mine.

Finally, the remaining dwarves pulled the mine carts and followed Su Li back to Heisenling. They were to serve as Perros Dragonhammer's blacksmith assistants, working for Su Li for at least a hundred years before they could get rid of their slave status.

As soon as Su Li returned to the castle, Perros Dragonhammer excitedly greeted him. When he saw so much adamantine and iron ore, his beard trembled with excitement.

“Hahaha, Lord, your boring castle finally has some fun! This mountain of iron ore and this shining adamantine are where dwarves should be. If you give me the control of these riches and let me stay away from those crude and low-level farm tools, I am willing to give you a barrel of my personally brewed troll brew in exchange for two pots.”

“Troll brew?” The 8 dwarves who followed Su Li into the castle couldn't help but gulp, a sound of swallowing saliva coming from their throats. Their eyes were shining at this moment!

Every dwarf is a drunkard who loves wine like life, and the two most important things in their lives are drinking and forging!

And troll brew is the most popular wine among dwarves!

This is a fine wine brewed with troll innards and wild berries, and traditional troll brew is drunk from troll skulls as containers.

Of course, Su Li declined this kind of horrific dwarven wine!

The dwarves in this world are almost like demons. They are especially cruel to their mortal enemy, the trolls. Every part of the trolls is perfectly utilized by them, and even dried troll skin is used by the dwarves to make coats, boots, and cloaks.

At this moment, Perros was wearing a troll coat, his round eyes widened, filled with fanaticism. If ordinary human children saw him in this appearance, they would probably be frightened and have nightmares every day.

Su Li glanced around at the dwarves' fanatical and longing gazes and said: “My chief forging master, I accept the fine wine you contributed, you can dispose of all this iron ore according to your wishes. If your masterpieces satisfy me, then this barrel of fine wine, I will generously reward you with, and let you drink to your heart's content!”

Accepting the dwarves' gifts and gaining their favor. And then rewarding them with the gifts they offered. This wave is undoubtedly a win-win for Su Li! He felt like he was a little smarty.

But the effect was extremely remarkable!

All the dwarves were trembling with excitement, Perros pounded his chest with his fist excitedly, a loud bang, he shouted excitedly: “Praise your generosity and wisdom, Lord! You are simply the most perfect partner for the dwarves, the dwarves will never let a friend down. Just wait and see, I will definitely forge two sets of the most perfect rune armor and a large number of fine dwarven heavy armor for you!”

The other eight dwarves also swept away the listless spirit of becoming slaves. That was troll brew! They might not even be able to drink it once in the fortresses of the dwarven mountains. Now that they had this opportunity, they immediately started transporting ore and began to melt it down with great enthusiasm.

This made the Grand Chancellor Laun, who heard the news, exclaim. He looked at these iron blocks who were almost tireless and seemed to be full of endless energy, and sighed: “Lord, how did you do it? It's simply an amazing genius. Are you a natural chosen lord? Even a stubborn dwarf like Perros Dragonhammer can be willingly driven by you.”

Su Li raised an eyebrow and asked: “Isn’t this a simple matter?”

Drawing big cakes! In his previous life, he ate too many big cakes and was forced to death by KPIs.

Seeing Su Li's calm and breezy expression, as if he didn't care. Laun couldn't help but raise his tone: “Simple?! You don't know how lazy Perros has been during this time! He is listless every day, like a walking dead, especially after he puts on that troll coat, he wanders around without working, I don’t know how many slaves he scared.”

“I scolded him several times, but he was completely indifferent, just muddling through every day, and never doing a little more! But you have only been back for less than half an hour, and they seem to have been reborn, this lively look is completely different from this morning!”

Su Li waved his hand calmly and said: “Maybe he has found a career he likes, so he is enthusiastic.”

Like Su Li, he goes to work like a funeral when he does work he doesn't like. But he is simply happy to engage in careers and hobbies he likes, such as farming, such as "knight training".

Then Su Li said: “My Grand Chancellor, put this matter aside first. Now report to me on the situation of the territory. How has the territory developed during the time I was away? I hope you can have detailed data, for example, what is the preparation of our territory's tools? If we add a batch of serfs, are there enough tools?”

“Of course, my respected Lord.” Laun straightened his chest, his expression proud and confident. As a high-achieving student of the Mordheim Empire Griffin Military Academy, now is the time for him to show his self-worth.

He smiled brightly: “Regarding the development of the territory, I happen to have good news to report to you in detail.”

Good news?

Su Li couldn't help but raise the corners of his mouth. Nothing is more pleasant than having good news waiting for him in the territory just after his triumphant return.

Su Li asked Hildred and the Orstein Knight to settle the troops and spoils, then turned to Laun and said: “Follow me to the castle hall and talk in detail about the situation of the territory and your good news.”