Knight Lord: Start with Daily Intelligence

In the wake of the fierce wind and snow, the twelve chosen knights of the Eternal Light Order were the first to break through the air currents. Their mithril heavy armor flowed with liquid holy light, and intense bloodline flames emanated from their spinal column positions, illuminating the entire gate, as if endless bright light shone into the reception hall from the outside.

The hard ground suddenly cracked with stigmata-like ravines, and Duke Archibald's griffin slowly entered, stepping on the ripples of light and flame. Each step of this blessed and powerful griffin left crack-like traces of light on the ground. The pupils beneath the Duke's silver mask were like two miniature suns, and the snowflakes in the air vaporized wherever his gaze swept.

"Eternal Light does not shine on the land of sin," his voice carried an oracle-like gravitas. The "Dawn Star" longsword hanging at his waist automatically floated into the air, and the holy relic bones inlaid on the sword's pommel were steaming with scorching psionic energy. The flag of the Fleur-de-lis family fluttered in the face of this aura. "But the merciful light allows ants to choose their method of death—"

Dugrin, with his volatile temper, glared angrily at these uninvited guests who had barged in. All the pent-up anger erupted. He grabbed his battle-axe, stepped on the armrest of a chair, and roared, "Come on! My battle-axe is already thirsty! Anyone who wants to try it, I'll let them taste just how fierce the flames of the forge can be!"

Archibald snorted coldly, and a massive shockwave instantly struck Dugrin. This dwarf, as sturdy as an iron ingot, flew backward, armor and all, smashing through chairs and slamming heavily into the wall.

Su Li coldly watched Archibald walk into the room, surrounded by a large number of knights. He gripped the hilt of his sword and said, "I thought we could start with civilities, but now it seems unnecessary!"

As his stern voice fell, hundreds of high-ranking direct subordinates instantly drew their swords. Hundreds of golden-armored knights surrounded the reception hall, and the cold light of hundreds of sharp swords illuminated the wind and snow!

"Start with civilities?" Archibald smiled contemptuously and said, "A small border territory like yours dares to talk to me about etiquette?"

He held a golden scale in his hand, the pointer shaking violently for a moment before quickly and directly pointing to Phyllis, who was sitting next to Su Li.

"If it weren't for this woman having the blood of Libowitz, you wouldn't even be worthy of seeing me! Even your father isn't worthy of licking my boots!"

Then he looked at Phyllis with a sharp gaze: "Grand Duchess Femannieu is dead. The Province of Suland needs a new heir. You need to come back with me! I will support you to become the new Grand Duchess of Suland. As long as you obey, I guarantee you wealth and glory."

Archibald didn't even bother to sit in the seat prepared for him by Black Forest Territory. This wasn't a negotiation, but a notification.

With his strength and status, he didn't care what others thought. Just like a dragon doesn't care about the thoughts of ants.

After he finished speaking, he was about to take Phyllis away, never imagining that anyone would dare to refuse his order.

Two chosen knights were about to step forward immediately, one on each side, to escort Phyllis away.

But just as their arms were about to grab Phyllis's shoulders, a brilliant and blazing red sword light suddenly slashed towards their arm armor!

A tyrannical and powerful aura suddenly erupted. Even a chosen knight could not completely ignore this blazing sword.

The two Eternal Light Knights simultaneously withdrew their arms in surprise, looking at the wielder of the sword.

The one who unleashed this sword was Su Li himself. He placed one hand on Phyllis's shoulder and held his longsword upside down in the other, looking sternly at the legendary knight across the long table, and coldly asked, "This is my territory, and Phyllis is my woman. Do you have my permission to take her away?!"

Hearing Su Li's firm and resolute tone, Phyllis excitedly raised her head, gazing up at Su Li's face, her face filled with a happy smile, her hands involuntarily cupping and tightly gripping Su Li's hand on her shoulder.

"That's right! I don't want any elector's position. I just want to live in Black Forest Territory and be with you, Lord Su Li."

"Heh! Idiots, do you think your opinions matter?" Archibald sneered, crossing his arms over his chest, his head held high, glancing contemptuously at Su Li, like a high and mighty ruler looking down on lowly ants: "Dare to draw your sword in front of me? Then be prepared to pay the price! Seize this woman for me!"

With his order, two chosen knights in silver armor immediately stepped forward again. This time, their movements were much more brutal, the powerful swings of their arms even creating fierce gusts of wind.

Su Li immediately swung his sword to slash at these claws that dared to cross the line, but the next moment, a sound of clashing metal suddenly rang out. Before Su Li could see clearly, his longsword was knocked away by a silver longsword. An Eternal Light chosen knight instantly knocked away Su Li's longsword, and then the cold blade directly pressed against Su Li's shoulder, pressing his entire body down and back into the seat. Another half a centimeter and it could have directly cut Su Li's throat.

However, at this moment, this chosen knight instantly flew backward like a cannonball, a front kick hitting his right abdomen hard. He didn't have time to react, and his body was bent over like a shrimp, and he was smashed hard into the wall more than ten meters away. The dented wall immediately spread a large number of cracks, and the entire room was shaking.

After kicking away this knight, Hilda bent down to help Su Li tidy up his collar, held his left arm with both hands, and helped him sit up straight.

The other knight had already been repelled by Orshtein's warhammer, and even had to wield his silver longsword to desperately resist Orshtein's violent attacks!

Archibald glanced at the two locked in a fierce battle, with flashes of swords, and only then did a hint of interest appear on his head held high. After waving his hand forward, two chosen knights immediately stepped forward to pull out a chair for him.

Then he sat alone in the middle of the long table with a legendary longsword, facing more than a dozen ministers of the Black Forest Territory.

Behind him, ten powerful chosen knights were not able to take a seat, all standing solemnly on both sides of Archibald, the majestic heavy armor and powerful bloodline aura further setting off the unparalleled power of this legendary duke.

In contrast, everyone sitting here in the Black Forest Territory did look like a group of third-rate ants.

Archibald did not call a stop to the battle between the two chosen knights. He just watched them fight bloodily, then raised his head and looked forward with a condescending attitude: "Interesting, they can actually fight on par with my Suland Province's newly battle-hardened chosen knights. It seems that talking to you is not a disgrace to my dignity."

"But! Boy, do you think this qualifies you to negotiate with me?"

Su Li snorted coldly and said indifferently, "Negotiate? Duke Archibald, you don't seem to see the situation clearly. Everything in Black Forest Territory, from the air to every blade of grass and tree, is my property. You barge in without a word and want to forcibly take away my courtier. I don't know what I have to negotiate with you. The Fleur-de-lis bloodline never negotiates with robbers!"

"Bold! You dare to slander the Duke!" A chosen knight immediately flew into a rage, the eyes exposed by the mask turning blood red. He drew his sword and was about to teach the young man in front of him a lesson for his insolent words.

But the next moment, a silver-white heavy armored figure flew backward from a distance, directly crashing into his arms. This chosen knight reacted extremely quickly, turning his right foot and slightly sideways, then dodged the impact of this figure, then extended his left arm and grabbed the other's shoulder. His shin armor was firmly planted in the ground, retreating a full half meter before stabilizing his body.

On this figure flying backward, there was a warhammer mark burning with rune psionic energy on the chest and abdomen. He was the knight who was fighting fiercely with Marshal Orshtein, and was smashed over hard.

This meant that in this sword-shadow and bloody chosen knight contest at the negotiating table, the Suland Province's chosen knight had actually fallen behind!

Archibald's gaze suddenly turned cold: "The prophecy of Our Lady of Justice shows that the Nightingale should rest beside the Golden Crown. A small pioneering territory, although interesting, is still too tender to challenge me! I will take her away, who can stop me?"

Before he finished speaking, he had already drawn his longsword, the silver light like water, illuminating the entire room. The sword light was like a crisp dragon's roar, directly piercing towards Su Li's throat.

Another golden sword light instantly lit up at the same time, and Hilda fearlessly stood in front of Su Li, meeting the sword of the legendary knight.

But Archibald only snorted coldly, and the longsword vibrated, and Hilda instantly flew out, directly smashing through the thick load-bearing wall, flying out of the room dozens of meters, falling several times heavily in the snow, and then fell in the snow, spitting out a mouthful of scarlet blood.

The symbol of a legendary knight! With the body of a mortal, they possess power comparable to that of a divine general.

The Green Dragon Elyria leaned on the chair with her chin propped up, and looked indifferently at Su Li, who was pointed at by Archibald's longsword, and said indifferently: "Naive. You have now seen the gap between the legendary level and the chosen level."

Su Li clenched his fists at this moment. When he saw Hilda supporting herself with her longsword and standing up from the ground on one knee, he withdrew his gaze, his eyes bloodshot, filled with anger, staring at Archibald, and using his throat to meet his cold sword: "If you have the ability, kill us all. If you want to take Phyllis away, unless you step over all of our corpses! I want to see if you, as a duke, have the courage to risk the world's condemnation and slaughter a pioneering territory!"

Archibald gripped the golden scales in his hand and smiled contemptuously: "Hehe, threaten me? Then let fate witness the struggle of the ants!"

The next moment, his longsword suddenly swung, and a flash of blood instantly erupted, permeating Su Li's body, splashing Phyllis's beautiful face.

The amulet of fate in front of Su Li's neck suddenly exploded, and a raging flame burned in front of his white shirt, and the excruciating pain at this moment clearly came from his left palm.

The piercing pain made Su Li couldn't help but hug his left palm and howl in pain: "Ah!"

The blood color stained all of Phyllis's eyes, and the next moment, sad tears burst out of her eyes. She tore off a piece of her skirt immediately, regardless of everything, and her fingertips trembled as she quickly tied the gorgeous silk to Su Li's broken little finger. The gushing blood instantly stained the white skirt red.

"Lord Su Li... Lord Su Li... It's okay, it's okay, it won't hurt soon..." Her hot tears dripped onto Su Li's blood-stained palm, but the warm tears made Su Li feel no warmth at all.

The ten fingers are connected to the heart, and the broken little finger and the splashing blood made his face twisted and hideous, staring at Archibald opposite him.

Ingrid's strength is still too far from that of a legendary knight. Even with the blessing of the four-leaf clover's magical ability, the amulet of fate she made could not withstand Archibald's attack, but only reduced it from cutting off his palm to cutting off a finger.

But even this extent had already exhausted all the spiritual power of this amulet, and it shattered and burned completely in an instant.

This meant that Archibald's next sword could easily cut off Su Li's palm.

"Let the eternal radiance witness—" Archibald lightly flicked the tip of his sword, and that severed finger floated in the silver holy light and gradually crystallized into a blood amber, "This blood amber will always remind you of the price of overstepping!"

"How is it? Ant, have you seen it? There are many things in this world more terrifying than death. The next sword will cut off your left palm. I want to see if your mouth is harder or your backbone is harder."

After speaking, a brilliant silver light erupted again on his sword.

Hilda's melodious hymn instantly sounded, and she forcibly activated the divine general posture. The brilliant sword light illuminated the entire manor, and she was about to rush in and fight this legendary knight to the death.

But even in the divine general posture, she would not be Archibald's opponent. As a legendary knight, Archibald could still use his bloodline abilities in the divine general state and could easily knock Hilda away again.

And even more despairingly, behind Archibald were 12 chosen knights. Without him even needing to take action, these 12 chosen knights had already stopped nearly a hundred golden-armored Black Forest Guards who were rushing over madly.

These chosen knights of the Suland Province had just experienced an epic war with the orcs, and each of them was an absolute elite who had emerged from a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood.

They easily knocked down dozens of Black Forest Guard knights. No matter how these knights roared, they could not overcome this huge gap and fell to the ground in disarray.

Even the Green Dragon Elyria couldn't stand it any longer and joined the battle, but she couldn't reverse the situation at all. Three chosen knights wielding longswords attacked her. If it weren't for the incredible power of the emerald scepter in her hand, she might have been the first to fall in this narrow space.

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Because internal wars between human knights still have to hold back, after all, the Border Prince Territory is currently the main direction of the Empire's expansion. No matter what, the Eternal Light Knights could not massacre knights belonging to the same camp.

Even if they really killed Su Li and a large number of knights of the Church of the Goddess of the Blazing Sun, it was likely to trigger a war of faith between the two churches.

If it really came to that point, let alone Archibald being just a duke, even if he successfully controlled the entire Suland Province, he would not be able to withstand the anger of the Church of the Goddess of the Blazing Sun and the Imperial Electoral Council.

Especially the Church of the Goddess of the Blazing Sun, which is not a weak and reasonable church. On the contrary, even their priests are knights with powerful martial arts, domineering and unreasonable.

Archibald forcefully invaded the secular territory chosen by the Radiant Sun Goddess and slaughtered a large number of her knights, which meant the truly powerful Radiant Sun Goddess's knight order would undoubtedly retaliate.

It wasn't just someone's privilege to have the big guys come after you when you beat up the little ones.

Even the Grand Knight Commander of the Flame Sun Knights might personally take action and chop off Archibald's head to vent the church's anger.

In terms of martial virtue, the Church of Verena, the Goddess of Justice, was far inferior to the Church of the Radiant Sun Goddess. Their church was more famous for scholars and bureaucrats, and even the Province of Suland wasn't known for its martial prowess; otherwise, the provincial capital wouldn't have been breached by the Greenskins.

However, Archibald indeed didn't dare to kill Su Li, but he definitely had the confidence to chop off a few of Su Li's fingers, or even his entire hand.

He ignored all the surrounding flashing swords and continued to stab towards Su Li's bloodied hand with a dazzling sword light: "Dare to refuse me? Then you must pay the price! Let's see how long you can last!"

"Ah!" A scream rang out, the sound like a cuckoo crying blood. Phyllis threw herself on Su Li, crying and shouting, "Stop! I promise, I'll go back to Suland Province with you! Don't hurt Lord Su Li anymore!"

The sharp blade pierced Phyllis's tender skin, entering about an inch from her smooth back, and beads of blood immediately flowed down her smooth spine.

Archibald's face remained cold, and he didn't withdraw his long sword. He just used the blade to hold Phyllis and Su Li, coldly saying, "You have no right to negotiate with me!"

Phyllis suddenly picked up a bloodied long sword that had fallen to the side, placed it against her fair neck, and looked at Archibald with resolute eyes, saying, "If you dare to continue harming Lord Su Li, I will immediately kill myself here!"

Archibald's eyes instantly burned with raging anger. He gripped his long sword and glared down at Phyllis with a murderous aura: "Bitch, you dare threaten me!?"

Phyllis immediately cut the sword into her neck, the blade easily breaking her delicate skin, and a strand of enchanting blood flowed out: "I was originally a lowly woman, but Lord Su Li let me know what happiness and joy are. If I leave Lord Su Li, there's no point in me living! I'm not afraid of death, but your ambition will be reduced to ashes! Tell your people to stop immediately!"

Archibald snorted coldly and laughed in anger: "A small apprentice knight dares to threaten me. You really don't know the immensity of heaven and earth."

"Roar!" Then he roared, and the huge sound waves directly caused Phyllis to fall to the ground in pain, and the long sword also fell to the side with a clang.

It turned out that when the difference in strength was too great, even wanting to die was a luxury.

After Phyllis fell, she painfully covered her abdomen, and the violent shock caused blood to flow between her legs.

Archibald's cold, hard boots stepped over a pool of blood and stood in front of Phyllis. His powerful heavy armor covered all her vision, and then Archibald slightly lowered his head, looking down at Su Li and Phyllis who had been knocked down, his eyes like looking at two defeated dogs: "I want to take you away, it's just a notice. You! From beginning to end, you have no room to resist!"

Su Li supported his body and leaned against the back of the chair, spitting out a mouthful of blood. His eyes stared fixedly at Archibald: "With the blood of the Bauhinia, in the name of the Radiant Sun Goddess, when the blood stains the night of the southern border of the empire, I will definitely cut off your head and decorate my scabbard!"

Archibald chuckled: "A small borderland pioneering knight, not even a noble, dares to boast so shamelessly. Without this woman, you don't even have the qualifications to see me."

"However... if you've said so, what if I risk killing you? Does the Empire and Violet really go to war with a duke like me for a small pioneering knight like you?"

Priest Rhone roared from the side: "Archibald, you are too arrogant and despotic! Bullying the weak? You, a duke, are wantonly slaughtering a borderland pioneering territory, then don't blame our Radiant Sun Church for launching a chase and slaughter against you. I don't believe you dare to kill our entire territory! As long as one of us survives, your crimes will definitely be announced to the world!"

"The Defiler Eldred only dared to use the Green Dragon to threaten the territory, but you dare to defy the world!"

Hearing Rhone's roar, Archibald finally paused. The Defiler Duke Eldred was controlling another heir in line.

Even with his always bold and reckless style, he didn't dare to directly destroy a pioneering territory. The importance of the borderland princely territory was currently too high, involving the attention of the entire empire.

If any noble in the empire could indiscriminately slaughter the pioneering lords of the borderland princely territories without any reason, how could the empire promote the subsequent policies? How could it guarantee that other pioneering knights could come and manage with confidence?

Especially now that the Black Forest Territory was actually very unusual. Su Li commanded a series of brilliant victories, making them famous, and even in the capital of the empire, the nobles would occasionally talk about their achievements, and the real high-level officials and strong people of the empire praised them.

Su Li was almost universally recognized as the chosen one of the Radiant Sun Goddess Violet.

At this time, killing this rising star, Archibald would not only face the anger of the high-level officials of the empire, but also affect his reputation and power. Those who supported him behind him would carefully consider their cooperation with him.

And this was a price he absolutely could not bear. It should be known that the Province of Suland was not repelling the Greenskin invasion by his own power alone. On the contrary, several elector princes formed a coalition army and entered the Avellan Palace to drive out those dirty Greenskins.

Since ancient times, it's easy to invite gods but difficult to send them away. The power of these elector princes has finally infiltrated the Province of Suland, and they will definitely gnaw off a large piece of profit before giving up. Every elector prince hopes to support their own agent to help them extract the benefits of the Province of Suland.

This was also why the political struggle in the Province of Suland had lost its bottom line, and many things were not even decided by these Suland dukes themselves.

A single wrong step could lead to complete defeat, allowing other dukes and elector princes to achieve the final victory.

Especially at this time, Phyllis also resolutely stared at him: "If you dare to harm Lord Su Li, I would rather die than let you succeed. You can keep an eye on me for a while, but you can't keep an eye on me for a lifetime. As long as I commit suicide on the road, you and your ambition will all be destroyed, allowing other dukes to seize the final victory in the political struggle!"