Knight Lord: Start with Daily Intelligence.

Chapter 113 The Beautiful Witch and the Amulet of Fate
These days, Su Li finally experienced the elegance and happiness of being a lord.

During this period, apart from holding a grand funeral, he did not do anything. He just looked through the intelligence every day and guided the development of the territory.

The working time in a day is only about one minute, and the remaining 26 hours can be used for rest.

That's right, the Imperial calendar is a little different from the Earth's. In addition to the 26-hour day, the Imperial calendar year is not 365 days but 400 days, divided into 12 months, each with 32 or 33 days. In addition, there are 6 "intermediate days" that serve as important anniversaries or holidays and are not counted in any month.

Each cycle consists of eight days, namely "First Day of the Week", "Working Day", "Tax Day", "Market Day", "Baking Day", "Tax Filing Day", "King's Day" and "Rest Day".

The only thing that stands out here is that taxation and military affairs are inevitable. Every day off is a day for the people to go to the monastery to receive training as militia.

After the Monastery of the Goddess of the Fiery Sun in the Hessen Territory was established, Captain Ron accepted Su Li's invitation and stayed in the Hessen Territory to serve as a priest of the monastery and also as a religious advisor to the Hessen Territory.

Every cycle, he would explain tactics, teach martial arts, and train formations to the subjects and knights in the monastery.

Although he had lost his cultivation, he still retained his experience and knowledge as a God-chosen knight. With his teachings and training, even Commander Orstein benefited greatly, and the overall combat effectiveness of the Hessen army improved by leaps and bounds.

Su Li felt that this army was almost becoming the army chosen by God.

In addition to the grace of the Monastery of the Goddess of the Fiery Sun, the Monastery of the Goddess of the Dawn also received gratifying grace.

After planting the consecrated wisteria tree, Fandral, the priest of the Goddess of Dawn, felt the approval and blessing of the gods and created three Earth Blood potions in the monastery.

In the previous battle with the goblins, only the Beast Slayer Jerrod consumed a Blood of the Earth, while Knight Orstein and Hilde had not consumed any potions.

This means that the territory now has a reserve of five Earth Blood potions, and the number can continue to increase.

Because there is less than one cycle left and the summer solstice is coming.

The summer solstice in this world is different from the summer solstice on Earth. It is the day when the gods arrive.

This festival is very important to both the Church of Rhea and the Church of Tal, as it means that the Goddess of Dawn has handed over the annual rings to Tal, the God of Summer and Wilderness.

Pastors of the two churches often hold celebrations together, and the gods will also bestow their grace.

At this important juncture, all priests, regardless of territory or north or south, will be bathed in divine grace. As long as they have sufficient strength, they can create a blood of the earth potion, which is considered a benefit for the entire sect.

The Heisen Territory is also preparing for this celebration, mainly because Lord Su Li is very interested in this celebration.

The summer solstice is a day to celebrate fertility and vitality. According to church customs, people will hold various celebrations to thank nature for its gifts and pray for a good harvest and prosperity.

Young couples adorn themselves with flowers, dance and drink, and sing hymns to Tal and Rhea to celebrate fertility and the cycles of nature.

Children born on the summer solstice are considered blessed and are thought to grow into intelligent, vibrant adults destined for great things.

In addition, church priests can also use the special energy of the summer solstice to make an amulet to protect themselves and their families.

People would choose some natural materials, such as stones, feathers, herbs, flowers, etc., weave or tie these materials together to form a small amulet, and then concentrate their minds in the sun or next to the fire, and infuse their blessings and protective intentions into it.

However, what Su Li likes most is the water baptism that people hold on this day.

On the summer solstice, water has a cleansing and healing meaning.

Young ladies dressed coolly will sprinkle water on themselves at water sources such as streams and lakes, or scoop up water with their hands and gently pat it on their faces and bodies to feel the coolness and purification of the water.

Then sit down, close your eyes, take a deep breath, feel the breath of nature, and express gratitude to the natural world.

Su Li naturally wanted to express her gratitude to Tal. So many young ladies dressed coolly, washed their whole bodies with water, and then sat there with their eyes closed for men to admire. Shouldn't they be grateful?
Of course, women also like this festival very much. During this festival, knights will take off their armor, show off their muscular bodies, and receive the baptism of the purifying water of the festival.

The key is that the times for both parties are staggered. Ladies usually baptize at dawn and dusk, while men baptize at noon when the sun is at its strongest.

Su Li couldn't help but sigh, Tal is indeed the God of the Wilderness, he plays wildly.

He even suspected that Tal had specially arranged this event just to see the beauties among the believers.

After all, there are still some remote and wild places that retain some traditional sacrificial methods, offering pure and beautiful girls in the territory as sacrifices to the gods to serve the gods.

Speaking of beautiful girls, we have to mention the castle's most recent visitor, Lady Ingrid, the forest witch in the Mirror Swamp. After feeling the powerful wind of Gillen, she also visited the consecrated wisteria tree in the castle.

He also gave Su Li a bag of [Crying Beauty Seeds]. This flower called [Crying Beauty] is also called [Golden Flower] or [Fool's Delusion] because many people believe that this flower can find gold, but the luck required is as much as chasing to the end of a rainbow.

Ms. Ingrid had given this to Su Li after seeing the clover under the consecrated wisteria tree, hoping for good luck. However, the masters of potions were usually more realistic, primarily using it as an important ingredient in antidote potions.

With all kinds of seeds, Su Li has been cultivating a medicinal herb field under the Holy Wisteria Tree during this period.

He was also bored, and he couldn't spend the whole day practicing knighthood with Phyllis.

After eating the moose sparrow meat and practicing every day, his current level of practice has reached the level of a high-level apprentice knight, and he will soon become a formal knight.

While practicing every day, he couldn't help but want to do something to add some fun to his life.

Under his personal leadership, 10 acres of medicinal fields have been reclaimed under the Zhusheng Wisteria tree in the past few days.

With the vigorous vitality of the Blessed Wisteria Tree, the Tranquilizing Flowers developed exceptionally well. Aside from the dead seeds, the rest successfully germinated. This germination rate wasn't something that could be achieved through cultivation techniques alone; it was entirely due to the infusion of spiritual energy.

Su Li counted them out of boredom and found that there were 327 seeds that germinated successfully.

This is enough to make more than two hundred Earth Blood potions.

There are now 86 vitality potions, 23 antidote potions, and 12 healing potions stored in his castle's warehouse.

Once the swift grass and boneset grass here mature, the territory will be able to produce 9 to 12 potions every day.

Su Li actually wanted the forest witch Ms. Ingrid to move into the castle. This witch was very sexy. Every time she came to the castle, she wore a dark green or fiery red hood, and her plump and slender legs were wrapped in seductive black stockings. Her pair of plump, big and white breasts were about to burst out from under the slim robe.

Lords from all over the world like to have witches as courtiers, because this is a purely comrade-in-arms relationship. Witches are generally more solitude and reclusive, and even if there is continuous artillery fire, it will not have any impact on the territory.

But Ms. Ingrid didn't know whether she guessed Su Li's purpose or because of her introverted personality, she declined Su Li's request and chose to stay in the tree house in the forest.

Of course, Su Li’s enthusiasm was not completely fruitless.

In addition to the effect of the consecrated wisteria tree, Ms. Ingrid agreed to Su Li's request to stay in the castle for a while every two or three days.

The main purpose was to make amulets under the tree. She could make simple amulets like cold resistance runes and reconnaissance wards in the tree house.

Sitting under the spirit tree, she crafted a powerful amulet that was difficult to complete under normal circumstances. It was called the [Amulet of Destiny], which allowed the wearer to dream of future omens before a battle, know the enemy's fatal blow to him, and thus allow the knight to completely block a fatal blow.

It is hard to say how effective this thing is on the battlefield, but for the lord, it is simply a magical weapon for preventing palace assassinations.

Su Li decisively spent a large sum of money to buy the amulet and equipped himself with it.

Ms. Ingrid only sold him this amulet for 200 gold crowns. If taxes are deducted, Su Li actually only spent 80 gold crowns.

No wonder every lord welcomes having a prophet's tree house or witch's hut in his territory.

He can make a fortune just by doing re-export trade.

So this is not an ominous witch, she is clearly his cash cow.

In order to gain the favor of the witch, Su Li personally made a swing for her on the wisteria tree, so that she could sit closer to the tree and make runes.

In order to bind the wizard to his territory, the lord did not hesitate to sacrifice his beauty and use the beauty trap on her.

Su Li was thinking under the tree about how to improve the layout of the square and the planning of the medicinal fields when Knight Orstein's excited voice came.

"My Lord, the army we sent into the Blood Pine Forest has returned victoriously."

The Blood Pine Forest is relatively far from the territory, and entering the dense and dangerous shade of the trees requires a large number of armed attendants to accompany the army.

That's why it took so long for the knights who cleared the forest to return.

When Su Li heard Knight Orstein's voice, he immediately asked with concern, "How were the results of this forest cleanup?"

Knight Orstein soon brought Gerald to the consecrated wisteria tree. Champion Knight Gerald was a follower of the Winter Goddess Ulric. He wouldn't attend the gatherings of the Church of the Sun Goddess on his day off, so he was the commander of this trip into the forest.

He immediately reported to Su Li, "Lord, our exploration and cleanup went very smoothly. We successfully defeated a group of forest bandits and two greenskin warbands, captured 65 prisoners, and retrieved the glorious relic, the Eye of the Drowned."

"Also, following your instructions, we found the shallows of the Brienne River valley in the northwest of the forest and successfully collected a Demonic Tide Clam there."

(End of this chapter)