Knight Lord: Start with Daily Intelligence

Eirelia, the Green Dragon, has been having a very uneasy time recently, with the war against the Black Forest Territory of humans being like opening Pandora's Box.

Since the beginning of this war, the forest has never been peaceful. Due to her diminished strength and reduced prestige, wars and rebellions occur daily. Internal challenges and external invasions cause the war to rage on, with smoke and fire everywhere, making the entire forest seem to cry.

Forests are always much more dangerous areas than plains. The dark, twisted shadows of the trees hide too many evil monsters and unknown dangers.

Before this, Eirelia had no idea that so many evil forces were lurking in the forest.

For example, the expansion of the Poison Blood Swamp, where Nurgle's followers discarded plague cauldrons, contaminating the water source. The plants and creatures inside mutated into a large number of plague monsters: Rotting Giant Hounds, Plague Priests, and writhing swarms of hundreds of slimy Nurglings, spreading the plague everywhere.

Although the Green Dragon's minions won the battles, they were also infected with the plague, and many died around the Poison Blood Swamp.

Even more troublesome for Eirelia was the appearance of Slaanesh's Shadow Fiends. Suddenly appearing Chaos Rifts spewed out large amounts of purple miasma, transforming the plants in the affected area into carnivorous thorn vines, and the animals grew extra eyes and tentacles. Any creature that entered this pink mist uncontrollably fell into various deadly pleasures.

When Eirelia was purifying this area, she accidentally inhaled some of the poisonous mist. This pink mist was filled with a sweet and fishy fragrance.

Since then, the skin under Eirelia's dark green scales has been flushed. Every night, the heat and excitement in her body often caused her dragon claws to dig deeply into the rock.

The white mist she exhaled during her rapid breathing had a pinkish glow, and the soft scales on the inside of her thighs twitched uncontrollably.

"This damn... Chaos toxin..." Every night, the Green Dragon panted and cursed, but her voice could no longer connect, and the tip of her tail always curled into a spiral against her will.

She clearly saw that in the gaps of her breastplate, the originally golden reverse scales were turning a lurid rose-red.

Whenever the night wind brushed against the area where the scales met, it would stimulate an electric-like tremor throughout her body.

She once suspected that her strength had been improved in the battle with humans, allowing her to grow from a young dragon to an adult dragon. After all, although she was defeated in this battle, she also went through fierce fighting.

Otherwise, it would be difficult to explain her bodily reactions like a female animal in heat.

She eagerly hoped that she could fall asleep and calm her hot body through sleep.

But the result was just the opposite. Two manic Dragon Apes broke into her dragon's nest and almost took the opportunity to tear off her wings and tear off her dragon's neck while she was sleeping.

Without the Elemental Giant Bear Ostanica guarding her door, she could hardly rest in peace.

And these two Dragon Apes were her biggest enemies, the Beastmen Legion from within the Blood Pine Forest. The two brothers led a huge herd of Howlers, constantly invading her territory from the east.

Her angry roar shook the earth, but it could not reverse the situation at all.

Because her most powerful dragon language magic was always fragmented by the sweet panting overflowing from her throat. Without this powerful magical ability, the Green Dragon's body, which was not good at close combat, could not beat these two violent Dragon Apes.

If she fought blindly, she might even be brutally killed in the dragon's nest by these two primitive and savage monsters, like gorillas tearing apart their prey.

A series of crisis responses weakened her strength and state too much.

This filled her with unwillingness. In her heyday, she could shatter these two barbaric and stupid creatures with just dragon language magic.

But fortunately, Earl Stein discovered the abnormality here while leading troops to clear the forest and decisively provided assistance.

Although many knights in the territory had a blood feud with this green dragon and couldn't wait to eat her flesh, as followers of the god of tactical strategy, they understood the green dragon's current role as a barrier for the territory.

Without the Green Dragon acting as a frontier guard on the east side of the territory, they would not be able to clear the monsters in the western part of the Blood Pine Forest with ease, and might even be directly destroyed in the next wave of monster attacks.

If the Beastmen Legion where these Dragon Apes were located took the Green Dragon's previous territory and expanded their sphere of influence, their strength might even exceed that of the Green Dragon. Without waiting until next year, the integration of these monsters in the center of the Blood Pine Forest and the western part of the Blood Pine Forest would lead to an imbalance of power, and the monsters all over the mountains and plains would directly destroy the Black Forest Territory.

Everyone knew that the lord's greatest wish now was to farm peacefully and never expect to fight another arduous war of resistance.

So even if they harbored hatred for the Green Dragon, they fought bloody battles and repelled this Dragon Ape invasion.

But when the war ended, the Green Dragon Legion had suffered heavy losses, leaving only more than 3,000 monsters.

When the news reached the territory, the State Council was seriously considering whether there was any need to support this puppet. Some people had suggested that such a weak puppet had lost its value, and it would be better to kill it directly and seize the remaining dragon's nest treasure to accelerate their own development.

But Oliver finally resisted the impulse. Wealth can increase rapidly, but the population cannot be restored quickly.

Even if another 100,000 gold crowns were added to the Black Forest Territory, the Black Forest Territory would not be able to fully restore its population in just a few months.

So, Oliver decided to send out the [Black Steel Redemption Knight Order] to help the Green Dragon stabilize this vast forest area.

The [Black Steel Redemption Knight Order] was another project invested in by Oliver. This project was a private army funded by the territory. The soldiers were composed of elite knights from the forest bandit group, wandering knights deprived of their fiefdoms by the empire, and knights from the territory who had committed crimes or deserted in battle.

These people were basically soldiers that Su Li didn't want. For example, the knights and trainee knights in the bandit group in the Blood Pine Forest were sold to slave traders by Su Li. He was reluctant to sell the elite knights, and he was unwilling to reorganize and expand the army, so he simply threw them to this Redemption Knight Order.

His positioning was somewhat similar to that of a free militia and a mercenary group, selling military services to other nobles and caravans through "War Merit Redemption Certificates."

Many people in it should have been executed, especially during the decisive battle, when the army in the west of the city collapsed all over the mountains and plains, which had seriously violated the territory's Order No. 227.

However, killing so many knights at one time was not in Su Li's interest, so he gave them a chance to redeem themselves.

All personnel in this knight order do not receive Su Li's salary, and they are responsible for their own profits and losses. However, 60% of the profits must be turned over to the State Council.

The commander of this Black Steel Redemption Knight Order was Giles, a handsome man whom Su Li had recently admired. He was also the last owner of the territory's three tiger-striped griffins. He named the griffin Tiger Soul · Doom Stripe.

His talent did live up to Su Li's appreciation of him. In about a month, he successfully built a framework for this knight order. The core was 17 elite knights, 35 formal knights, 46 trainee knights, and then a group of ambitious bandits, gamblers, adventurers, and mercenaries as armed attendants. This knight order had a total of more than 260 knights and attendants.

For the first month, they had been training in the Mirror Swamp in the south of the territory. The muddy terrain effectively prevented anyone from escaping, and then they successfully and initially gathered military morale.

The gamblers and mercenaries inside all owed a lot of debt, some owed gambling debts, and some owed prostitution fees in brothels. The people who ran these places were not kind people, and many brothels were even backed by Su Li's shares. All the people in charge were like wolves and tigers. The debts they lent out were all high-interest loans that rolled over. Anyone who dared not repay the money would have thugs and law enforcement officers from the Red Brotherhood to help them collect the debts.

When they caught gamblers who were overdue in repaying their debts, they really dared to take out the other party's organs and sell them to alchemists and pharmacists.

People from the Hendricks sect specialize in doing these things. They are very much like a combination of Eastern strategists and Western political brokers. They act as go-betweens and help the territory accomplish many things. For example, recruiting refugees and reorganizing the badland vagrants are their forte.

Their activities are full of the dark and brutal colors of this world.

So, facing these thugs, the desperate debtors tried every means to raise funds.

After receiving the first task, they decisively entered the forest and began to sell military services to the Green Dragon.

And this military service fee was really not cheap, one dwarf oath gold per day, which is at least 10 gold crowns per day. This is equivalent to the price offered by the Fallen Wolf Mercenary Group to Su Li.

The reason why Su Li insisted that they earn dwarf oath gold from the Green Dragon was entirely for the territory's most important investment!

[Purple Bauhinia Holy Flame Foundry]!

This was the rich result Su Li obtained after spending a lot of money to buy shares in the Gray Mountain Dwarfs' artillery guild.

As we all know, no matter how stubborn the dwarves are, they cannot refuse any request made by someone holding dwarf oath gold.

In theory, if Su Li had enough dwarf oath gold, such as tens of thousands or hundreds of thousands, then he could come to the dwarf city with these dwarf oath gold and point at the other party and demand that the other party legally merge and become an affiliated force of the Bauhinia family.

If he had enough money, he could buy the towns in Gray Mountain Province one by one.

Of course, Su Li didn't have that much money, so after weighing the pros and cons, Oliver asked Foreign Minister Hatzkling to arrive at Gray Mountain with all the dwarf oath gold seized in this battle, and in an irresistible manner, bought 0.5% of the shares of the Dwarf Gray Mountain Artillery Guild.

Then, relying on this reasonable claim of shares, the State Council invested in the Black Forest Town Artillery Guild and allowed the dwarves to build a [Purple Bauhinia Holy Flame Foundry] in Black Forest City.

The holy flame is gunpowder. This thing is the dwarves' unique racial talent, so this is actually a dwarf artillery factory in Black Forest Territory.

At present, the workers in this artillery factory are relatively low in strength. The highest is only elite level, and there are no cannon casting masters, so they cannot manufacture cannons.

A month has passed, and more than a dozen dwarves have barely built a mortar by piecing together, scavenging, and trading.

Although mortars are not as advanced as cannons, they are already a very reliable primary artillery. They were originally designed to launch hollow explosive shells, and when the solid ammunition of cannons can only hit a few unlucky people, mortar shells can explode when they hit the enemy's team, releasing a large number of sharp metal fragments to tear apart those unfortunate enemies.

Mortars are famous for repelling a large number of green skin sieges during the Goblin War - especially its shells are not just stones, but also captured live goblins.

The green skin's dive destruction catapult is based on this experience of the dwarves, which is one of the strongest artillery units of the green skin. A goblin is installed on the gun mount, and this goblin is also called the doomsday paratrooper. How high it can fly depends largely on the quality of their hand-sewn leather wings, but if there is a more important factor, it is how tight others can pull the string.

When launching, the operator pulls the doomsday paratrooper back with all his strength, and then releases his hand, making a loud 'bang'! The doomsday paratrooper rushes through the sky like a bullet, quickly rushing into the clouds and then begins to fall. The little guy will use the glider to hover and guide himself to the selected target. With the speed brought by the fall, most goblins will scream, and the closer they get to the ground, the louder and more piercing the sound.

The enemy often does not have time to be afraid, and the downward-rushing doomsday paratrooper will quickly become a dense black spot that rushes over. When the goblin touches the ground, the green skin may turn into a ball of meat sauce, but if he can effectively use the glider for cushioning and also has a little luck, he can bounce off the ground. In either case, the doomsday paratrooper can cause considerable damage to the enemy he rushes towards.

This huge scream and whistle has become one of the most terrible nightmares of the Order camp. And the green skins are very worshipful and yearning for this position. They enjoy all kinds of cool activities such as racing and racing. Such a cool thing is enough to make them crazy, and it can also bring death and fear to the other party, and blow the dwarf piles into a brain that sprays higher than the fountain. This has simply become one of the most popular professions among goblins.

The reason why the territory attaches so much importance to this dive destruction catapult is only one reason: Earl Stein reported that the goblins in the Blood Pine Forest are suspected of having this weapon.

This means that humans may engage in artillery battles with goblins.

If they engage in artillery battles at the current level, then humans and dwarves may not be able to defeat the green skin's dive destruction catapult. After all, those goblins really have gliders tied under their arms and can shoot very accurately.

Human mortars and cannons are only the most primitive artillery and are not as good as the top artillery of the green skin forces.

If humans want to win them by just buying cannons, it will be very difficult and cause huge losses.

Therefore, they can only build an exclusive artillery factory in Black Forest Territory at all costs.

This [Purple Bauhinia Holy Flame Foundry] can currently build a mortar in 1 to 2 months. If there are enough materials and various rare metals in the future, it may also speed up to one mortar per month, or even build powerful organ guns.

But according to the current progress, by the end of next year, the territory will be able to successfully cast 10 mortars.

Although this thing has negligible killing power against advanced infantry and cavalry, it is extremely effective against the goblins, hobgoblins, and kobolds charging over the mountains and plains, blasting away large swathes at a time. These monsters also have relatively low morale. Perhaps a concentrated barrage from 10 mortars could shake the morale of a goblin squadron, causing them to scatter and flee.

Regardless of its killing power, it's really useful for delaying the enemy's offensive.

More importantly, if Black Forest Territory expands outwards in the future, attacking the castles of other pioneering lords, this mortar will play a very important role.

At that time, just a hundred or so knights with two or three hundred armed attendants will be enough to besiege the castle. These 10 mortars can take turns firing, bombarding it for a hundred or eighty days, which will be enough to exhaust the defenders' repair materials and blast open the walls.

This army doesn't need to worry about the enemy troops rushing out, because their weapons are truly as described in the 'Black Forest Armory Record,' with flame patterns engraved on the blades.

Black Forest Territory's [Fire Tip Crystals] are so abundant that even a fine-grade weapon has fire tip crystal patterns inlaid on it.

These gems usually look inconspicuous when inlaid on halberds, warhammers, and swords, like ordinary gemstone decorations. However, when the battle becomes intense, and the knights unleash powerful blows or combos, the blade will immediately be covered with a layer of blazing red flames, dealing powerful fire damage upon hitting the enemy.

And if it is a rune weapon, the effect is even more powerful. It can significantly enhance the power of fire, leaving a flammable mark on the enemy upon impact, immediately granting the enemy the characteristic of fearing fire. Subsequent attacks on him, even ordinary damage, will cause a burning effect.

Moreover, all the fine-grade weapons newly forged in the territory are quenched using magic spring water soaked with white flowers from the Moon Crown Tree. Once they approach a demon, these weapons will emit a divine golden light.

Such a weapon with enchantment + fire tip crystal engraving is extremely valuable. As a specialty of the territory, it is already renowned in the Northern Border Prince Territory and is regarded by many knights as a contemporary famous sword, highly sought after.

Such a weapon is priced as high as 20+ gold crowns, almost catching up with the price of dwarven heavy armor.

It is said that a mercenary king, Drak Zohr, once used two of these swords to win the heart of a baroness from the Border Prince Territory.

And the reason he was able to obtain two of these weapons was entirely due to his martial prowess. He won the championship in the territory's Lion Ring Arena tournament twice in a row.

Su Li even made a small profit from him, earning more than 400 gold crowns through betting.

However, such information is now rarely prompted, after all, there are only 10 pieces of information per day. If one of them reveals the championship of the arena, although Su Li won several hundred gold crowns, in the long run, he may lose thousands or even thousands of gold crowns. After all, each piece of information may help him obtain an opportunity, or create a miracle or specialty for the territory.

Only when there is nothing particularly noteworthy in the information that day, or when the betting funds in the arena are very high, will the daily information reveal a betting information to him.

Perhaps in the future, when the territory's scale is large enough, and the population of Black Forest Town changes from two or three thousand to twenty or thirty thousand, and each arena bet involves thousands or tens of thousands of gold crowns, then it will be worth Su Li's special attention.

Now he uses this fine weapon as a reward for the arena tournament, entirely to attract adventurers, gamblers, and mercenaries to Black Forest Territory.

After all, the Blue Heron Mercenary Group has set up a mercenary base in Black Forest Territory, and they are expanding their staff and forming a new mercenary branch. A large number of mercenaries coming to Black Forest Town is very conducive to expanding their manpower.

After so many days of replenishment, their manpower has gradually recovered to more than 20 people. However, the Fallen Wolf Mercenary Group, which joined the Black Forest Territory Free Militia with them, was relatively miserable. They only replenished 3 new members, but they had 20+ knights killed in battle and a dozen knights injured (most of the wounded were healed). In total, the reduction in personnel was close to half, and only 3 new members were replenished, which was simply a drop in the bucket compared to the demand.

So when Su Li temporarily didn't hire them, they escorted the caravan to Maleburg, intending to recruit a new group of people there to replenish the mercenary group's combat power.

The caravans traveling between Maleburg and Black Forest Territory naturally mainly transport Black Forest Territory's specialties.

It is worth mentioning that, with Oliver's various investments, the territory also has a new "unscrupulous" specialty.

That is [Blood Salt], a specialty brought back by a smuggling gang in the territory from the distant Gray Mist Coast. It is formed by distilling sea dragon blood and seawater, forming a mixed salt block that can enhance the physical fitness of knights and warhorses and is widely circulated on the black market.

Although the knights in the Lion Ring Arena always claim that this is cheating, it is always sold out before each competition.

The price of this sea salt is as high as 1 gold crown per pound, and the State Council has hoarded more than 2,000 pounds for Su Li.

But even the shrewd Oliver doesn't know who is behind this smuggling network.

However, he is very sure that the reason why this [Blood Salt] is sent to Black Forest Territory for sale is likely to be to divert people's attention, so that people do not know its true source direction. Ordinary people easily associate the name [Blood Salt] with another legitimate specialty of the territory, [Blood Pine].

With the destruction of the Forest Green Dragon's forces, the lumberjacks entering the Blood Pine Forest no longer need to bribe the monsters in the forest, which has greatly increased the amount of Blood Pine wood felled.

Half a month ago, a caravan of more than 100 carriages, fully loaded with valuable Blood Pine wood, Blood Salt, leather, herbs, brandy, dwarven jewelry, fine weapons, and other specialties of Black Forest Territory, set off for Maleburg.

They will purchase a batch of slaves, cattle, livestock, seeds, sausages, witchcraft props, daily necessities, and various luxury goods in Maleburg and return to Black Forest Territory.