Knight Lord: Start with Daily Intelligence.

Chapter 330 New Intelligence and Improved Team Strength

A pleasant night of cultivation with Ingrid left Su Li feeling completely relaxed and happy.

Only when the bright sunlight shone on his face through the gaps in the wisteria petals did he stretch happily and get up in a cheerful mood.

The first thing he saw when he opened his eyes was a picture of a beautiful woman sleeping soundly. Ingrid was still fast asleep, her head resting on his shoulder, and her soft breathing was very reassuring.

Last night, the witch was exhausted from all the hard work, dealing with the intense training alone. She was on the verge of tears, which filled Su Li with a sense of conquest.

Indeed, women are one of the things that give men the most confidence and a sense of conquest.

Su Li gently kissed her soft forehead, then leaned back on the pillow in a cheerful mood, naturally activating the daily intelligence report for the new day.

[Because you are lying down, today's prophet information has been updated]

[1: Dr. Hertwig Teichman, the renowned leader of the Shroud Order: A cult of nearly 40 members, known as the Shroud Order, roams the newly expanded territory. As a branch of the Church of Mor, this organization takes a more proactive approach to Mor's mission compared to the mainstream church. Its members include warriors, priests, and vampire hunters. Its leader is the renowned Dr. Hertwig Teichman. As a doctor and scholar who uses his expertise to track vampires, Dr. Teichman fights against the undead for personal vendettas. In his youth, he was a highly respected physician in Norn. He saved countless lives, and his reputation grew accordingly. It seemed he was destined for a peaceful, prosperous life, continuing his medical practice. But this was not the case. A corpse was discovered in the back alley of a dilapidated bar, with a wooden stake protruding from its heart.] The guards brought the body to Teichman, hoping he could unravel this bizarre murder. In his investigation, Teichman unwisely removed the stake. That very night, the vampire rose from the dead. By the time Teichman realized it, the doctor's beloved fiancée, Katarina, had been pierced through the creature's neck by its fangs. In a fit of rage, the doctor picked up the stake and plunged it back into the monster's chest. But for Katarina, it was too late. Katarina died, but to prevent her from rising again like the undead, the doctor pierced her heart with a hawthorn log and decapitated her. That same night, the doctor approached the Shroud Cult. From that moment on, he dedicated himself to preventing similar tragedies from ever happening again. He possesses talents such as a calm mind, a heart of stone, keen senses, elegant wisdom, and the ability to scheme. He also masters academic knowledge (necromancy, theology), tracking skills, disguise, and basic healing. His 38-strong force, including shroud spies, undead assassins, and vampire hunters, will be crucial allies in purifying your territory and fighting the undead.

[2: Exiled Scholars: A group of agricultural scholars from Tyrell have fled to Hesse due to political persecution. They carry with them the [Image of Hybrid Wheat], a technology considered by many in the Empire to be blasphemous and corrupting. If you provide them with shelter and construct a 30-meter-high Tier 3 Scholar's Tower, and allocate 50 Gold Crowns weekly for research expenses, you will unlock increased seed drought resistance (at least 30%) and enhanced irrigation. There is a low chance of obtaining [Pearl Wheat] from common wheat seeds.]

[3: Vibranium Mine: Unbelievable good news! The arrival of a large number of Grayrock Clan dwarves and their prospecting activities have led you to discover a new giant iron mine at the bottom of the Slag Valley northeast of Gray Lady's Pass, containing abundant vibranium. However, be wary, as this area lies at the crossroads of the Blackwood Territory, the Grayrock Clan, and the Redbeard Clan. Since the area beyond Gray Lady's Pass is generally considered to be within the Gray Mountain Province, the dwarves will claim mining rights. Using force to expel them will trigger hostility from the dwarves. Sending your troops to the area in advance, working alongside the dwarven prospecting teams, and seizing the initiative is a wise choice, greatly increasing your negotiating advantage. This will allow you to claim 60% of the ore; exceeding this percentage due to greed will trigger a three-way dispute. The Dwarven Kingdom will support the Dwarven Clan's claims, as this mine was discovered within the Dwarven Province.]

[4: The Legend of the Silver Horned Goat: The Black Forest shepherd Xuan Cheng witnessed the legendary "Moonlight Silver Horned Fighting Goat" in the Greytooth Mountains. Its silver horns can cure sheep diseases, and its droppings greatly fertilize pastures, making other rams stronger. This is not a rumor; the creature appears on the cliff top on the last moonlit night of spring, then leaves the area via ridges and cliffs. Offer three bundles of fresh moonlight alfalfa and pickled silver carp to gain its friendship. Successfully adding it to the flock will significantly improve the health of the territory's fighting rams, and there is a chance that stronger fighting rams will be produced among the mountain rams.]

[5: The Scarecrow Legion: In Björn village, the scarecrows made by peasant women from battlefield remains have secretly come to life as [Skeleton Guardians]. These scarecrows, somewhat similar to the Mordred Guardians, can autonomously drive away crows and goblins, ensuring a bountiful wheat harvest, but they secretly collect the teeth of humans and wild beasts. After gathering enough intelligence, they will relay information to the surrounding necromancers. Timely dispatch of Mordred Knights to purify these Skeleton Guardians is crucial, as they have already attracted the attention of the [Nightwalker Corpse] messengers.]

[6: Golden Harvest Parade: The 12-meter-tall wheat statue of the Dawn Church in your territory has been completed. Your timely intervention prevented the savagery and desecration of it by cultists. The priests and believers of the Dawn Church in the Black Forest will carry this enormous statue in a carriage through the entire territory during the harvest season. Ensure the smooth progress of the parade, and finally deliver the wheat to the Maiden's Ring. The reputation of the Maiden's Ring will be further enhanced, and you may even attract a champion-level Dawn Church priest.]

[7: The Opportunity of the Holy Expedition: The Imperial Electoral Council in Mordheim has reached an agreement, at the strong insistence of your court lady, the highest-ranking lady of the Surland Province, the Holy Elector of the Empire, Princess Phyllis, that the target of the Imperial Holy Expedition has been set at the border princely territory of Mount Oka. This Holy Expedition will greatly inspire the morale and spirit of the Empire. You can announce this news at the Summer Solstice Celebration and call upon knights to join the expedition and gather at Maleburg. If you can form an expeditionary force and lead a large number of knights to Maleburg in response to the Empire's call, you will receive extremely high honors. The Imperial Marshal will reward you as a role model, and the Church of the Sun Goddess will also send a devout priest to your territory to gloriously spread its doctrines.]

[8: Premium Wildflower Honey: This year's abundant blooming flowers in Rotten Canyon have provided excellent raw materials for brewing honey in the territory. Don't rush to harvest the honey; the sedimentation will form a higher grade of [Golden Wildflower Honey], which possesses extraordinary psionic effects. It can effectively purify the purple wind, provide vitality to the elderly, and treat illnesses in the young. It is also an important ingredient in the premium potion, [Toughness Potion].]

[9: Golden Wheat Burst: The piety and offerings of your territory have greatly pleased the Dawn Goddess, who has generously bestowed a bountiful reward upon the outskirts. Deploying a Dawn Goddess Priestessate (at least 24 nuns) to chant the "Festival of Harvest" day and night beside the wheat fields will not only cause the farmland to produce golden wheat ears but also activate [Gift of the Earth]. Golden wheat ears greatly enhance the quality of [Ale] and [Dwarven Ale], while the ground sun wheat flour increases the power of gunpowder. The Gift of the Earth allows severed wheat stalks to regrow ears of wheat in the next season, bearing fruit (but still requires care like illuminating the farmland, only saving the process of sowing seeds)].

[10: Dawn Goddess's Blessing: The Dawn Goddess's divine power tide has changed in the new quarter. Next quarter, apples, rapeseed, barley, soybeans, and radishes in the territory will receive significant divine blessings, guaranteeing a bumper harvest with an increase in output of over 40%!]

After reading today's daily intelligence report, Su Li was filled with boundless energy. This was truly delightful intelligence!

The arrival of the harvest season makes the already vibrant and promising territory even more lively.

He got up, dressed, and left the treehouse to check on today's harvest.

Hilde had prepared a sumptuous breakfast for him and then leisurely enjoyed it with him.

Today's breakfast was exceptionally lavish, featuring Su Li's favorite smoked venison, halfling pies, and the territory's newest specialty, rose sausage. Made with the hind leg meat of silver-bristled wild boar from the Bloodpine Forest, combined with rush pith, thorn peppers, wild roses, and spices from the Green Leaf Autumn Forest, it was incredibly tender and delicious. Each bite was bursting with juicy, flavorful meat juices, and infused with the natural fragrance and freshness of flowers and herbs—a favorite among the knights. This sausage was practically sold out every morning as soon as it hit the market in Blackwood Town, snapped up by the knightly families' squires. Merchants, landowners, and workshop owners still couldn't get their hands on it, only able to sample this wildly popular delicacy at the knightly families' banquets.

Su Li has recently become very fond of this delicious food, especially when paired with refreshing fruit tea. After drinking a cup, he feels full of the vibrant energy of nature. He can eat two of these a day, which weighs a full 3 kilograms!
It's possible that he's been more active and exercising more lately, which has increased his appetite. He could never have imagined in his past life that he could eat 3 pounds of meat every day. The key point is that this isn't just a meal every few days, but 3 pounds of meat every day. And this is just an appetizer. His diet also includes fresh shrimp, fish slices, smoked meat, pies, cheese, bread, and so on. It seems that eating 5 to 8 pounds of food a day is easy for him, and when he's exercising a lot, 10 to 12 pounds a day is commonplace.

This also gave him a slight tendency to develop a potbelly. Oh, and it's worth mentioning that it's hard to say whether powerful generals in this world are muscular or not, but they are definitely broad-shouldered and thick-waisted!
Humans and orcs are extremely different in this respect! Every powerful warrior has a big belly. For example, the legendary goblin Gollum rose to power by stuffing himself with food and surviving. It is said that he once ate the flesh and blood of several trolls and his stomach and belly were not ruptured by the mutated flesh. From then on, he became a legend and led the goblin tribe and the greenskin army to almost destroy the last stronghold of the elves after their migration.

As for the other greenskin warlords, big guys, and trolls, they all have huge bellies, fierce fangs, and wear heavy armor, wielding giant axes, which allows them to unleash their unparalleled ferocity.

On the contrary, if you don't have a round belly, you'll often be contemptuously called a human bean sprout by these green-skinned creatures.

In this respect, the greenskins respected the dwarves, only calling them short and never daring to mock them for their physique. This is because dwarves not only have high body density, but their waists are also incredibly thick, even surpassing those of the greenskins.

After Su Li finished eating, he drank a cup of hot milk, which warmed his whole stomach. He leaned back comfortably in his chair, rubbing his belly, and thought that when he reached Lian Po's age, he could probably eat a peck of rice, ten pounds of meat, and then drink five pounds of strong liquor.

The only problem is that with so many gluttonous knights in the territory, the pressure of feeding so many fierce generals and knights is enormous.

So Su Li looked at Hilde and asked, "What's the agenda for today? If there's nothing special, I plan to check on the harvest in the territory."

Harvest season has arrived in the territory, and with its expanding size, it's unlikely that all harvests will occur on the same day. Undoubtedly, the farmland area near the Maiden's Ring will be the first to yield a bountiful harvest.

It has sizable wheat fields and is the most important production area for exceptional wheat varieties and blood fields.

The bread that Hilde is currently eating is made from extraordinary wheat seeds. One important reason why there is also bread on Su Li's dining table is that its raw material is all extraordinary wheat seeds.

While eating this bread, Su Li and Xilude have yet to find out the limits of their vitality and endurance.

If a fierce battle were to occur in the future, given Hilder's current strength, she would surely be able to give people a huge shock.

Of course, all of this was backed by wealth. A single meal could cost more than 30 gold crowns. The extravagant lifestyle of the nobility meant that a single meal could equal the entire life's worth of a commoner or slave.

This is indeed very much in line with the manor system described by Dean Oliver.

Hilder had finished her bread and wiped her mouth with a handkerchief. She said calmly, "Today is harvest season, and your most important task is to inspect the agricultural harvest. If you have some free time, you can go to the Gem Pool. Thranville has already reached the elite level. She is our most important legendary seed for the future. You should get to know her better and bring her a gift."

"So fast?" Su Li asked in shock, "She's only been training for less than two months, right?" "Yes, to be precise, just a month and a half. Admittedly, her exceptional talent is one aspect, but on the other hand, the Gem Pool is indeed suitable for the Ice and Snow Valkyrie's training. We need to carefully nurture both of these aspects."

There are always people more capable than you, and there's always something beyond your understanding.

Su Li felt that it had taken him nearly two years to train from a trainee knight to an elite knight, which was fast enough. He did not expect that Seranville would only take less than two months.

Even though the Gem Pool is the most suitable and historically significant training ground for the Ice Valkyrie, her speed is still too monstrous.

Su Li had originally intended for her to participate in the territory's Glorious Arena, but now it seemed obvious that it was best to keep her talents hidden. Otherwise, if her talents were to be revealed and discovered by hostile forces, they might send assassins to eliminate this potential threat.

It is indeed very necessary to reconnect with her and strengthen our relationship.

Su Li nodded and said, "After I inspect the territory's harvest, I'll go to the Gem Pool. I remember the Gem Pool's output has also increased significantly. Perhaps the Ether Gold will soon be enough for the territory to forge its first Chosen-class armor."

Two rare-grade armors have already been crafted in the territory. One was awarded to Mor's Chosen Demst by Su Li, and the other Su Li plans to award to Seranville, so that she can participate in the war against Blue Mirror Territory, accumulate more combat experience, obtain more divine grace from the Goddess of the Sun, and thus further accelerate her cultivation speed.

The Chosen Armor Territory, a rare-grade armor capable of accommodating Chosen Knights transformed into Divine Generals, is not yet complete, requiring a large amount of Aether Gold. Perhaps I could keep an eye on that during my trip.

Hilder nodded, then asked, "My lord, is there anything you wish to arrange?"

“There are quite a few things to arrange today.” However, Su Li was in a good mood, so he calmly arranged them one by one: “First, have Dems go to the west of the territory to find Marshal Orstein.”

"Looking for Marshal Orstein?" Hilde asked in surprise. "Is the battle at the front not going well? Do you need to send a second chosen one to provide support?"

Su Li shook his head: "No, the main reason for sending Demst there is to recruit the Shroud Order. The problem of corpses in our territory has become quite serious."

There were a total of 10 pieces of intelligence, two of which were about how to appease the dead and prevent necromancers, which made Su Li take them seriously.

This indicates that the territory is relatively weak in this area, and that the intelligence system is helping him to address this shortcoming.

Right now, it's just that the scarecrow is made from the hemp clothing that the peasant women found somewhere on the battlefield, which caused the problem. Who knows if a large number of monsters will crawl out from underground in the future?

The chaotic winds of this world are very strong. Once the chaotic winds intensify, trees in this area will grow hands and feet, and stones will turn into skeletons. Neither the winds of Giron nor the winds of death are too strong, and neither is a good thing.

Just because nothing has happened at that mass grave now doesn't mean things will stay peaceful. Once the winds of death spread in a certain month, countless claws of death will emerge from the ground, followed by hordes of zombies and skeletons crawling out of the earth to seek revenge on the living.

The Black Forest Territory suffered heavy casualties back then, with even its own people dying. There was simply no energy left to properly dispose of the remains of those monsters. It's time to deal with the hidden dangers left behind.

Su Li didn't want to wait until the future, for things to change or some calamity to occur, and then regret it too late.

He has always preferred to be prepared and nip danger in the bud.

Once the Shroud Order arrives, they will be able to exhume these remains and rebury them, or at least send their souls to Mor's world.

Otherwise, even if they are all burned to ashes, once a necromancer controls their souls, he can use dark magic to link a large number of ashes and turn them into skeletons and zombies to take revenge on the living.

Su Li did a simple calculation: this cult had about 40 members, and including the Mor followers in the territory, there should be around 50. If they dug up and processed 3 corpses every day, they could process over 6000 corpses per month. It would probably only take about six months to clear all the remnants of the last war.

If the number of Mor's followers increases later, Su Li can provide them with more workers and tools, such as laurel flowers, gems, and fine wine, which will speed up the purification process even further. Perhaps it can be resolved in 3-4 months, completely eliminating any potential problems.

However, this workload is indeed enormous. With the high-intensity use of Mor's magic every day, it's hard to predict what kind of monsters they will become.

Upon hearing Su Li's reply, Hilde immediately frowned and asked, "Are the Night Wanderers targeting us?"

Su Li waved his hand and said, "No, so far no Night Wanderer apostles have infiltrated our territory. So the Night Wanderers are still some distance away from us and should not be near our territory. However, if this problem is not solved, they will be attracted here sooner or later."

To be honest, Su Li was actually looking forward to the arrival of the Night Wanderer Corpse.

Currently, the territory has a total of four Chosen Ones, all of whom are knights. If the dwarven alliance is added, the territory can assemble a powerful infantry and cavalry legion, which might give them a chance to completely eliminate this legendary necromancer.

It's important to know that the undead are among the weakest of all races in terms of combat strength; they primarily win through sheer numbers and gloom.

If it's a fair and square battle, and not led by vampires, this is the race with the smallest gap in strength between Su Li and a legendary figure.

If Su Li can lead a large number of Chosen Knights in a close-quarters assault and kill a legendary necromancer, then he will have a chance to resist the Lord of Maleburg in the future.

There's no way around it; he still can't give up his lust for the beautiful married woman, Bayonetta. If Bayonetta had come with him from Maleburg to Black Forest Territory last time, he should already have reached the Champion level through intensive training. Reaching the Saint level in the future wouldn't be a problem at all.

But if he can't even defeat the weakest legendary necromancer, then the lord of Maleburg is out of the question.

Hilde nodded, then asked, "I'll keep an eye on that. As long as we quickly improve our strength, we'll be well-prepared to deal with the Nightwalkers. My lord, do you have any other instructions?"

(End of this chapter)