Knight Lord: Start with Daily Intelligence.

Chapter 400 Battle of the Divine Generals
Under the protection of the storm and the divine power of the blazing sun, the Black Forest Legion transformed into an unstoppable torrent of steel. The horns of counterattack echoed across the Blood Lake, and every soldier became part of the storm, carrying pent-up anger and a thirst for revenge, crashing fiercely into the chaotic Green Knights' lines.

The dwarven warriors were no longer content with mere shield defense. Like roaring mountains, their rune tower shields, amplified by the storm, transformed into heavy battering rams, surging forward relentlessly! Each impact was accompanied by a chilling metallic creak and the muffled thud of shattering bones. The green knights, suppressed by the holy hurricane, their soulfire flickering, their movements sluggish, crumbled and fell like rotting logs under the dwarven onslaught. Battleaxes and heavy hammers slammed down with precision and ferocity through the gaps in the shield wall, their target the eerie blue soulfire core beneath the bronze helmets. With a crackling sound, the soulfire extinguished, and the towering bronze bodies sank into the blood.

The Black Forest Knights on the water were like fish in water. The Water-Splitting Pearl stabilized the "land" beneath their feet, the Holy Storm weakened the enemy's speed and strength, and the Radiant Sun granted them near-invincible close-range defense. Their wedge-shaped charge formation was unstoppable, their spears like a forest, slamming into the chaotic undead cavalry with unparalleled kinetic energy.

The knight's lance easily pierced the sluggish bronze armor, shattering the soul fire. Even when green knights struggled to swing their weapons, striking the knight's shield or plate armor imbued with the radiance of the blazing sun, they only triggered the fatal backlash! Golden holy light, like an enraged sun, flowed upstream along the trajectory of the attack, instantly scorching the attackers into twisted, smoking scrap metal and ashes! The knights roared, spurring their horses across the waves, carving out deathly paths burning with holy flames through the green knights' formation.

Heavy infantry followed closely behind, forming a steel meat grinder. Shields were tightly linked, and spears pierced out like venomous snakes from the gaps. Whenever a Green Knight attempted to break through, it was met with a solid shield wall and an instantaneous burst of holy counter-damage. In the sky above the battlefield, golden flashes of counter-damage light rose and fell, each glint accompanied by the utter annihilation of an ancient hero. The Green Knights' proud silent resilience now appeared so pale and powerless under the dual blows of the Black Forest Legion's ferocious counterattack and holy power.

The roar of mortars and cannons was like the heavy drumbeats of this symphony of destruction. High-explosive incendiary shells exploded violently in the relatively dense rear and center areas of the Green Knights, each blast sending up a massive mushroom cloud mixed with bronze fragments, burning bones, and foul blood. Orange-red infernal flames spread across the water, engulfing the undead knights caught within, burning them into twisted, charred metal skeletons. Solid armor-piercing shells from the cannons were like the Grim Reaper's ruler, drawing horrific straight lines, easily piercing and tearing apart knights and warhorses wherever they passed, creating gruesome alleys of flesh and metal in the silent torrent. Wherever the artillery fire covered, the Green Knights' formation was completely shattered, their charge abruptly cut short.

The lake of blood churned, thick smoke obscuring the sun. The number of Green Knights was dwindling at a visible rate. They remained silent, but their charge had been completely disrupted, their once impregnable formation now shattered. Every shield bash of the Blackforest soldiers, every charge of the knights, every roar of cannon fire struck the very core of the undead army like a heavy hammer. Mountains of bronze wreckage lay sunk to the lake's bottom, the dissipating ghostly blue soulfire flickering like fireflies on a summer night, briefly extinguishing before turning the murky waters into an eerie and despairing glow.

However, as the tide rapidly turned in favor of Blacksend, the eerie atmosphere of the battlefield was also undergoing a dramatic shift. With each Green Knight who fell and sank into the depths of the lake, now stained a dark red, the ancient, cold, death-infused eerie green psionic energy within them did not dissipate, but instead dissolved into the water like viscous ink! This dissipated energy, like living things, silently gathered and flowed beneath the murky blood and silt. At first, it was only in wisps, barely perceptible, but as more and more Green Knights fell, and the bronze remains piled up at the bottom of the lake, the eerie green psionic threads grew thicker and brighter, as if weaving a vast and eerie luminous network at the bottom of the lake.

When the number of Green Knights finally dwindled to less than half, and the bronze remains and dissipated psionic energy at the bottom of the lake reached a terrifying critical point, the quantitative change triggered a tremendous qualitative change!
The entire Blue Mirror Lake battlefield suddenly trembled violently, as if gripped tightly by an invisible giant hand! It did not come from artillery fire or battle, but from the depths of the lake, from the sunken, piled-up bronze wreckage and the lingering soul fire energy!

“Woo-hum-hum!!!”

A deep, soul-stirring resonance rose from the lake's depths, overwhelming all the fighting, gunfire, and howling storms. The murky blood began to swirl wildly, forming six enormous, bottomless whirlpools in the lake's center! At the whirlpool's core, a ghostly blue light erupted like a hellish furnace, no longer a faint soul fire, but a solid, blazing, and violent pillar of psionic energy!

Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom! Boom!
Six enormous figures, accompanied by a deafening roar, burst through the blood waves and soared into the sky from the center of the vortex! Lake water cascaded down from them like a waterfall, revealing their breathtakingly magnificent forms.

What appeared were no longer ordinary bronze knights, but giants enveloped in massive, almost tangible, azure psionic energy! Each one was over thirty meters tall! Fragments of ancient bronze armor were forcibly absorbed and fused onto their psionic bodies, forming grotesque and enormous armor outlines. Broken weapon re-coalesced in their hands, transforming into greatswords, spears, warhammers, and flails burning with azure flames, their size comparable to siege towers! In the eye sockets of their helmets, there were no longer two clusters of soul fire, but two miniature azure moons, burning with a cold and pure will to destroy.

Six chosen knights! No, at this moment, they are six divine generals from the ancient River Styx!
Their appearance instantly altered the landscape and rules of the battlefield. It was merely the first step—

Boom! ! ! !

A colossal foot, composed of azure psionic energy and encased in massive bronze greaves, slammed into the lake's surface. A terrifying shockwave emanated from the point of impact, spreading violently in a ring! The water's surface was instantly blasted into a massive crater tens of meters in diameter. The murky blood, as if pushed aside by an invisible wall, formed a ring-shaped wave tens of meters high, crashing outwards! Dozens of Black Forest soldiers and the remaining Green Knights who were fighting nearby were thrown and shattered like ants by this pure force shockwave! The silt at the bottom of the lake was blasted into the sky, mixing with the blood to form a mud rain that blotted out the sun.

"Roar--!!!"

One of the divine generals wielded a massive blade forged from countless bronze swords, burning with eerie blue flames. The blade didn't slash; instead, it swept across with overwhelming force!

Rumble, rumble! ! ! !
Where the sword's edge passed, the air was torn apart, emitting a shrill, ghostly howl. Below, the water's surface was cleaved open by the sword's force, creating a massive chasm a hundred meters long, revealing the dark silt beneath! The blood-soaked waters on either side of the chasm, like sheer cliffs, only collided violently a few seconds later with a deafening roar, churning up towering waves! Everything in the path of this attack—whether it was the remaining dwarven shield wall, the Black Forest Knights, or the unfortunate remains of the Green Knight caught within—was instantly reduced to dust!
Su Li, holding the Wind Wing Talisman high in the air, frowned slightly upon seeing this scene. A divine general wielding a spear charged towards him with the ferocity of a collapsing mountain, the spear now infused with violent power, its tip trembling and humming, tearing through the air and radiating a terrifying aura of earth-shattering force—a divine weapon capable of piercing mountains and tearing apart the earth! The spear was raised high above his shoulder, his muscular arm instantly tensing like iron, gathering devastating throwing power. In the next moment, that spear, a symbol of death and judgment, was about to transform into a streak of light tearing through the sky, precisely aimed at Su Li, who was riding on the back of the massive green dragon and had become the perfect target.

The appearance of the Green Knight God General brought him unprecedented pressure.

Su Li had already guessed before the battle that this battle might not be so easy to win, and that it was impossible to defeat the Green Knights so easily with just two Glory Artifacts.

But to my surprise, only halfway through the battle, six Chosen Knights appeared among the Green Knights!
That idiot Carlos didn't even mention that the other side had six Chosen Knights.

But this really can't be blamed on Mor's knights. It's mainly because no one had ever put such immense pressure on the Green Knights before, so the Green Knights themselves didn't know that when the battle became extremely fierce, a powerful Green Knight Chosen would appear.

This would be tantamount to suicide for ordinary territories to fight against these green knights.

Even in the Black Forest Territory, this was extremely risky. The colossal spear, burning with eerie green psionic flames and powerful enough to pierce mountains, tore through the air with a shrill whistle that distorted space itself, heading straight for Su Li, who was riding Eliria! Before the spear tip even arrived, the cold, deathly, and purely destructive pressure of a god-general level had already struck Su Li's heart like a tangible hammer!

"My lord!" Several angry shouts rang out from below.

At this critical moment, five pillars of divine grace, far more dazzling and condensed than before, imbued with a resolute will, erupted on the Blood Lake battlefield like five blazing suns tearing through the gloom!

"Holy Relic - The Eternal Shield!"

Hilde decisively activated the Glory Relic in her hand, then held the shield in front of Su Li. The most powerful ability of this Glory Relic is its [Faith Feedback], which can consume the durability of the Glory Relic to gain supreme power like divine protection, forming an absolute defensive divine grace shield.

boom----! ! !
The spear slammed into the light shield!

There was no deafening clang of metal clashing, only the terrifying roar of annihilating energy! The eerie green and incandescent light collided like two stars, unleashing a shockwave that devoured everything! But behind the light shield, Hilder was unharmed. The next moment, she decisively pierced the Green Knight general, whose weapon had been thrown from his grasp, with her sword. Simultaneously, Demst's obsidian general form appeared behind a Green Knight general wielding a burning greatsword, about to sweep across the battlefield. He had unleashed Mor's divine grace to its fullest extent! Countless ravens transformed into entities burning with blackish-purple flames, emitting soul-ripping shrieks! They coalesced into a destructive black tornado, instantly engulfing the Green Knight general! The blackish-purple flames frantically scorched the eerie blue psionic energy that constituted the general's body, emitting a sizzling, corrosive sound. The ravens' claws and beaks tore countless fine cracks into its massive psionic body, greatly hindering and weakening its movements!

Orstein's target was the Green Knight general wielding a giant hammer, whose mere step created a massive circular wave. Instead of a direct confrontation, he slammed his earth-shattering warhammer down onto the "water" beneath his feet! A golden-brown divine light erupted like a volcanic eruption, flooding the lakebed!
Rumble, rumble—! ! !
Centered on Orstein, the entire lakebed seemed to come alive! The iron-hard silt, mixed with the remnants of sunken bronze, arched upwards like an enraged dragon under Violet's divine power! Dozens of incredibly thick "pillars of light," their tips sharp as spears, instantly pierced through the blood, fiercely aiming for the Green Knight's chest, abdomen, and lower limbs! Although blocked by its psionic armor and massive bronze greaves, producing a screeching and cracking sound, and failing to completely penetrate, this sudden, ferocious attack from below successfully interrupted its charge, causing its massive body to stagger!
This scene was terrifying to watch, and even Su Li couldn't help but widen her eyes. During their first battle, Orstein had used this move, stomping his foot on the ground, causing the earth to crack instantly, like a volcanic eruption, spewing forth countless golden rays of light, accompanied by flying debris in all directions.

The intense flames of that time were only three or four meters wide, but now this enormous pillar of light is more than three or four meters wide and nearly a hundred meters high. Under its violent bombardment, the enemy was instantly severely damaged.

Dietrich, positioned relatively far back, decisively raised the religious icon of Sharya high. This icon, normally over ten meters tall, was a sacred object of worship for believers. But now, it seemed like Dietrich's prayer tool, held aloft by him. The icon emitted an unprecedentedly soft glow, and a massive golden runic barrier instantly unfolded around the five Black Forest generals, forming a hemispherical shield. When another Green Knight general, wielding a flail, swung his terrifying weapon—forged from countless bronze meteor hammers and burning with ghostly blue flames—at Hilder's flank, the emerald barrier trembled violently, groaning under the strain. Cracks spread instantly, but it ultimately withstood a blow powerful enough to shatter a hill! Though the barrier teetered on the brink of collapse, it bought his companions a precious respite.

"The blazing sun—descends!"

Finally, the newly chosen knight of the territory, Ron the Fiery Saint, erupted!
He stood at the center of the battlefield, his divine body not a physical suit of armor, but composed of pure, blazing, platinum-gold holy flames that seemed capable of melting souls! This flame lacked the ferocity of ordinary fire, yet carried a supreme will to incinerate all impurity and blasphemy in the world. He held no physical weapon, but instead raised his hands high, palms facing each other, where a miniature "sun," over ten meters in diameter and composed of extremely compressed platinum-gold holy flames, was frantically condensing!
"In the name of the blazing sun, let us purify the filth of the mortal world!"

Ron's voice, booming like a great bell, resounded across the battlefield. He hurled the "sun," imbued with the power of the blazing sun's origin, fiercely towards the Green Knight general, who was temporarily trapped by Durmst's Raven Storm and wreathed in black and purple flames!
The platinum "sun" silently swept across the battlefield, instantly evaporating the murky blood and revealing the scorched lakebed. Even the wisps of ethereal blue energy were incinerated! It hit its target with pinpoint accuracy!
Buzz—Sizzle—! !!
There was no earth-shattering explosion, only a chilling sound of annihilation! The platinum holy flames and the azure psionic energy that constituted the Green Knight's body clashed in the most intense of laws! Before the platinum holy flames, that resilient psionic body was like ice meeting a hot iron. The struck parts instantly vaporized and vanished. A massive, terrifying void, its edges flowing with molten platinum flames, appeared in the Green Knight's chest. Around the void, the platinum holy flames spread and burned wildly like a leech, continuously transforming the azure psionic energy into nothingness smoke. The Green Knight let out its first silent, soul-piercing scream since the start of the battle, filled with pain and shock! Its massive body convulsed violently, the psionic energy constituting its limbs and weapons becoming extremely unstable, as if it might collapse at any moment!

The five Black Forest Gods, each in their strongest form, forcefully blocked the first devastating attack of the six Green Knight Gods, and instantly severely injured one of them!

However, this is just the beginning.

The remaining Green Knight generals showed no emotion; their destructive will was like a cold, unchanging program. The giant hammer general, held back by Orstein's pillar of light, suddenly exerted its strength, its massive foot, wreathed in azure psionic energy, slamming down!
The massive pillar of light supporting it shattered instantly! Rocks within the pillar scattered like cannonballs! It broke free of its restraints, and its giant hammer, with the force to crush the earth, swept towards Orstein, who had just unleashed his ultimate attack and was slightly weakened!
The divine general whose spear had been blocked by Hilder's now-empty eye sockets glowed with an intense blue "moonlight." He abandoned the spear, and his massive psionic hands plunged into the blood-soaked ground! The next instant, two terrifying tentacles, like Styx serpents, formed from highly concentrated blue psionic energy and the remnants of sunken bronze, burst forth from the water. One lashed out at Hilder in mid-air, while the other, with a binding and dragging will, coiled towards the temporarily exhausted Ron!
The divine general, wielding a giant sword, withstood the burning black-purple flames on his body and the constantly tearing ravens. He raised the giant sword high, and a ghostly blue psionic sword aura that tore through the sky, carrying the deathly chill that froze the soul, slashed towards Dietrich, who was struggling to maintain the emerald barrier!

The last Flail God General, who was not directly attacked, took heavy steps, each step causing the lake surface to sag and giant waves to surge. Its target was none other than Su Li, who was struggling to maintain the [Holy Storm] at the heart of the battlefield!

The battle between the gods instantly entered a fierce, agonizing phase! Each collision caused the earth to tremble, and energy shockwaves cleaved deep trenches into the lake's surface, only to be filled in by the surging blood. Dissipating divine power and spiritual energy collided and annihilated each other, erupting in a dazzling, deadly aura. The sunken bronze remains were reduced to dust under the immense force, and the murky blood lake was churned into chaos.

Five against six, the Chosen Knights of Blackforest were plunged into an unprecedentedly fierce battle. Like rocks in a storm, they endured devastating attacks from all sides. The light of their divine bodies flickered erratically under the intense energy surges, and every parry, dodge, and counterattack consumed immense divine grace and willpower. Yet, their fighting spirit burned like a raging fire! For their lord, for their land, for the soldiers fighting valiantly behind them, they had to withstand this deathly torrent from the ancient River Styx!

At this critical moment, above the storm clouds that shrouded the battlefield, came the familiar, sharp cry of an eagle that seemed to tear through the sky!

"唳——!!!"

The sound pierced through the thick clouds and raging wind and rain, like a burning horn, instantly striking the eardrums and hearts of every Black Forest warrior! Then came the second, the third... merging into a stirring battle song! The thick clouds were stirred and torn apart by an invisible force, and blinding sunlight poured down like a divine revelation, illuminating the churning lake of blood and the ferocious divine general!
Several exceptionally robust griffin riders, their wings gleaming with a dark golden sheen, pierced through the clouds and hovered proudly high above the battlefield! On their backs were several griffin riders, led by Royal Griffin Edwin! Their armor shone brightly in the light piercing through the clouds, and they held aloft the battle banner symbolizing the Black Forest Territory!

Knight Edwin's voice echoed like thunder across the battlefield of Blood Lake: "Warriors of Blackforest! In Violet's name, let the sun shine upon Blackforest! For our homeland! For our lord! Crush them—!!!"

The sound and the sight were like molten lava flowing into the veins of a weary warrior!
On the ground, the Black Forest Legion, which had been struggling to hold on, instantly erupted in cheers!

"For the lord! Kill—!!!"

The pent-up fear, physical exhaustion, and helplessness in the face of the divine general were all ignited and dispelled at this moment by a more primal and ferocious sense of collective honor and fighting will! Every soldier, whether dwarf, knight, or infantryman, had an almost fanatical flame blazing in their eyes!
The Black Forest Knights roared across the water! The Water-Splitting Pearls shone brightly, their hooves shattering the blood-red waves! Ignoring the lingering shockwaves from the divine general's wave-riding, their spears formed a forest, once again creating an unstoppable wedge formation! Their target was the remnants of the Green Knights, who had attempted to regroup after the divine general's appearance but whose soulfire flickered at the sight of the griffins! Spears pierced armor, holy light reflected and burned, the knights like burning blades, slicing wildly through the chaotic undead ranks!

The heavy infantrymen clashed their shields, creating a thunderous roar of steel!

"Glory! Glory! Glory!" The unified battle cry even briefly drowned out the divine general's psionic resonance! Spears lashed out from the gaps in the shield wall like venomous snakes, each thrust carrying a death wish! The divine general's aura remained, but the soldiers' eyes were only on the griffins circling overhead and the blood-soaked chosen knights before them; fear was replaced by a more sublime will to sacrifice!
"May Violet protect us so that we may die a worthy death!" Hilde keenly sensed that she was being infused with an exceptionally strong divine grace, which greatly increased both her attack and speed. So she decisively abandoned defense and instantly transformed the power of divine grace into the ultimate charging force! Her whole body transformed into a shooting star burning with the flames of white-hot faith, ignoring the tentacles of the psionic serpent lashing at her. The chosen sword in her hand burst forth with light that pierced through all darkness and fiercely stabbed towards the back of the flail general.

*Whoosh—Boom!*

The flames of faith and the psychic energy of death fiercely annihilated each other! Hilder's chosen sword successfully pierced through, and the terrifying combat power unleashed by this strike shook the entire battlefield. The violent shockwave swept across a lake, and even the Water-Repelling Pearl could not stabilize the lake's surface, creating giant waves tens of meters high. This instant caused the massive Green Knight General to stumble, and his charge completely collapsed!

Orstein seized the opportunity decisively. With a furious roar, he leaped up and swung his warhammer down, unleashing golden divine grace with unprecedented intensity! This time, it was no longer a scattered beam of light, but rather all power concentrated into a single point!
[Divine Art - Hammer of the Sun].

Thump—Snap!

The golden beam of light and the warhammer slammed into the chest and abdomen of the divine general! This earth-shattering blow finally took effect, and the Green Knight God-chosen, who had suffered repeated heavy blows, was smashed directly into the bottomless depths of the water.

It's better to cut off one finger than to injure all ten. Our chosen knight's tactics have worked! The tide is turning!

(End of this chapter)