Knight Lord: Start with Daily Intelligence.

Chapter 194 Blood Moon and Harpy
A blood moon hung high in the sky. As the mysterious day approached, the moon was no longer as delicate as usual, but emitted a heart-pounding red light, like the blood tears of a goddess, dyeing the sky above the battlefield a strange blood-red.

Suddenly, a sharp cry pierced the night's silence from afar. It was the cry of the harpies, messengers of the night, harbingers of disaster. With the first cry, black dots began to appear in the sky. At first, they were just a few scattered, but soon, as if drawn by some invisible force, they gathered from all directions.

As they continued to grow in size, their flight paths quickly formed a huge vortex. Their number was so large that it almost covered the sky and blocked the bright blood-red light source in the sky!

A thousand flies would have covered the sky, let alone these thousand harpies howling cruelly and with wings shining coldly?
They flew in swarms, like the incarnation of the devil, covering the entire sky and rushing towards humans under the blood moon like a group of bloodthirsty bats.

The knights guarding Su Li below shouted anxiously, "Lord, land quickly! Our air cavalry is not good at close combat, and its scale is extremely limited. It is impossible to stop such a huge wave of monsters in the air!"

Obviously, harpies are much more terrifying than bloodthirsty bats. They are extremely vicious and dirty creatures, and only occasionally show a little bit of intelligence, and this is often when they are thinking of some vicious ideas.

Because they are very timid, they usually roam around in large groups, traveling between mountains and valleys, looking for prey that is not on guard.

Harpies typically avoid attacking larger, better-armed creatures, a decision that requires a considerable amount of courage. However, once the harpies believe they have a significant numerical advantage, they swarm, screaming and snarling, tearing at their foes with their claws. Such combat offers no loyalty—if a harpy is slain in battle, its companions devour it, just as they would their enemies.

When the witch moon, Mosleb, reaches its peak in the night sky, the harpies become more dangerous than ever. Under the eerie light of this blood-red moon, the harpies are more ferocious than at any other time of the year, as they seem to be caught in a frenzy of relentless hunting. Villages and caravansaries everywhere double their guards during the full moon of Mosleb, lest their loved ones and property be swept away by the fierce winds created by the monsters.

Foul-smelling corpses are the favorite decorations of harpies' lairs. For those brave enough to enter a harpy's lair, there may be a great harvest here - for harpies, only meat is valuable, while gold and silver are abandoned and left unattended.

But this is also very dangerous for men. Harpies are all female, so they will tear apart and suck dry every male who enters their nest to reproduce. The wailing of men is the most exciting sound for these harpies.

Just as goblins capture human women for reproduction, harpies also capture lone farmers and hunters to satisfy their animal desires.

Therefore, it is very dangerous for Su Li to fly in the sky alone.

These terrifying monsters were roaring and hunting everywhere since they approached the military camp. Their sharp claws had already captured several halfling archers who were not as good as them, and a large number of harpies were frantically besieging the high-altitude arrow tower.

The combat power of a single harpy is similar to that of a goblin. If a goblin and a harpy engage in close combat in the wild, it is difficult to judge which of the two monsters will be able to tear the other apart, pin it down, and successfully vent their animal desires.

But in the ecological niche of war, the harpy's position is far ahead of the goblin!

Because war is not a one-on-one duel, the Harpies' noble flying status and fast movement characteristics ensure their unparalleled combat advantage.

They were like nomadic light cavalrymen holding sabers, whizzing past in groups, their sharp claws like the scythe of the god of death slashing through the bodies of human soldiers one after another, leaving huge wounds deep enough to see the bones.

Not to mention the halfling archers, even the elite armed infantry regiments of humans, if a soldier is left alone, will be easily torn into countless pieces under the siege of monsters from all directions.

The suffering of their enemies is the greatest pleasure for these cruel monsters.

They have already discovered Su Li, the griffin knight flying in the air, and hundreds of harpies are flying towards Su Li in groups.

Even a griffin with the ability to counterattack would inevitably be seriously injured when faced with so many monsters attacking from all directions.

So, regardless of the risk, Pegasus Knight Fastrick took off forcibly, came to Su Li, and shouted anxiously: "Lord, let's land quickly. The archers and thunder gunners have already formed their formation and will shoot down these harpies."

At this moment, Su Li had an extremely deep and intuitive impression of the sentence that the human camp is always under siege by countless monsters.

I'm afraid that humans will never be able to form an air cavalry that can match the scale of monsters.

The air cavalry in his territory, even including the swan archers, only numbered a dozen or so, while there were thousands of monsters.

These are the 10 Pegasus Knights. They would have to be in a very bad state to kill all these harpies.

So he didn't hold on, and just slapped the Death Claw that was eager to try, and landed on the ground rationally.

A large number of Hessian Guard knights immediately came up to escort. If the harpies dared to swoop down, they would definitely be blocked by the knights' iron-clad defense line.

A phoenix that has landed is no better than a chicken. If these harpies land and engage in close combat, the armed servants can kill them indiscriminately.

But their situation was not much better when they were not on the ground. In the arrow towers, watchtowers and defense towers, archers and dwarves were shooting frantically from the shooting holes.

The harpies' ability to maneuver swiftly comes at the cost of their own weight. Aside from their razor-sharp claws, they possess no other protection. Not only are they unarmed, they're also completely naked. Most harpies wear only a pair of dirty underwear from the waist down, while some are even completely naked.

This means that both musket bullets and halfling bows and arrows can easily penetrate their bodies. As long as the attack hits, it can immediately penetrate more than ten centimeters into the body, and the bullets can even directly penetrate their chest and abdomen.

A squadron of Thundering Musketeers on the ground fired a volley, and the harpies in the sky sprinkled blood rain all over the sky, and corpses, broken limbs and feathers fell like dumplings.

Dogrin roared excitedly. He raised a golden dwarven telescope and shouted, "These evil, despicable monsters, let me show you the power of the dwarves."

"The Prospector's Sniper Telescope has activated! Dwarves, snipe with all your might."

As he shouted, a green light came out from the golden telescope, instantly covering the entire Thunder Musketeers squadron.

There was turquoise rune energy surging on each dwarf's musket, and even the bullets fired changed from fiery red to turquoise, and this trajectory greatly improved the power, speed, penetration and accuracy.

With just one volley, the dwarves shot down more than 40 harpies flying quickly in the sky.

With such a high hit rate when hitting such a high-speed moving target, it can be said that this sniper shot was a perfect hit.

Moreover, Su Li witnessed with his own eyes that several green bullets pierced through the chests of the harpies and shot out from behind them, splashing a lot of blood, but the momentum remained unabated and continued to shoot into the bodies of the harpies behind them, causing terrible wounds.

Such a terrifying and accurate sniper shot was just an ordinary attack by the dwarf. The sniper effect of the telescope covered the Thunder Musketeer for a very long time. The Thunder Musketeer could still continuously shoot out a large number of turquoise projectiles and snipe and kill countless monsters flying in the sky.

Hild was following Su Li. Seeing this scene, his eyes lit up and he said, "I didn't expect that Doglin actually got such a treasure."

Su Li also looked delighted. He remembered clearly that the last time he fought against the demon army, Doglin did not have this treasure.

Now, more than a month has passed, and it's unknown whether he dug this treasure out from under the ruins, or purchased it from the mountains with a large amount of Dwarven Oath Gold. In any case, in his hands, this item can obviously greatly enhance the Rifleman's output.

Judging from the effects, this is definitely an ancient dwarf relic equivalent to a human holy relic.

While Su Li was observing, the dwarf roared again, raised the [Explorer's Sniper Telescope] and blessed another squadron of Thunder Musketeers.

The two squadrons fired cross-fire, and the harpies in the sky had no time to dodge. Blood and corpses kept falling, and the blood rain dyed the entire sky an exceptionally blood-red.

Unlike Su Li's expectation that they would charge forward in anger, these hundreds of harpies flying in groups lost their courage before they even got close to the dwarves, and fled backwards screaming.

This situation made Dogrin roar loudly. He had plenty of physical strength, and the consumption of using the ancient relics twice only made him slightly short of breath.

The monsters had already fled, so he immediately put away his telescope and shouted loudly: "Dwarves, follow me and continue to hunt these monsters."

The fleeing hordes of harpies greatly spread the monsters' fear, especially since the arrow towers and firing holes in the fortress continued to shoot arrows out. The flying bullets and arrows in the sky were causing casualties to the monsters every minute and every second.

The monsters that once covered the sky and the moon quickly became sparse under the continuous attacks. Hundreds of monsters were shot and killed, and the rest fled the camp in a panic.

But before the soldiers of the territory could cheer, a huge shadow in the distance spread its wings and came over like an overwhelming force, almost covering half of the blood-red moon.

"It's the Wyvern King Sandarion!" Hildreth immediately tightened the rune sword in his hand and looked up at the sky with a fighting spirit.

Dogrin also calmed down from his excited state and put away the large-caliber musket in his hand. Just now, he used this rune musket to shoot and kill 32 rampaging harpies.

But he had no confidence that this musket would still have the lethal power to kill a dragon of the God's Chosen level.

After all, the terrifying impression left by the Khorne Demon selected by the last God of War was too deep.

Hundreds of Thunder Musketeers concentrated their fire on the demon's huge body, but they were unable to kill it instantly.

Under the pressure of the Wyvern King, the harpies, who were in a state of fear and disarray, quickly reorganized their formation and flew in the sky. They were in a miserable state, and many of them had bloody wounds on their bodies. The blood flowed from their chests to their lower abdomens, and dripped from the inside of their thighs, dripping onto the ground.

But hardly a drop of all the blood fell into the soil!

Following the dripping blood, there is an extremely large army. They walked out from the shadows of darkness, growing larger and larger, occupying more and more land, and finally extending out densely, with a front line that has no end!
Countless pairs of blood-red eyes opened, illuminating the entire dark distance. The blood dripping from the sky sprinkled on them, greatly increasing their bloodthirsty savagery.

The first thing that emerged from the darkness was a large number of dog-headed men and gnolls howling to the sky. They were holding a variety of weapons, from machetes and spears to flails and shields, and finally hunting bows, crossbows and blowpipe arrows, everything!

Then came a large number of forest goblins. They were not tall and had slender arms, but were extremely noisy. They started yelling arrogantly the moment they appeared. They held daggers, short spears, and bows and arrows. If they found a suitable environment, they would attack with unscrupulous force, and even dwarves equipped with heavy armor could not withstand them.

However, their status was extremely low. In the middle of their army, there were large numbers of forest trolls and river trolls charging forward with leg bones, clubs and stone axes in hand. These monsters with low IQ did not know what dodging meant at all. Any goblin that stood in their way was trampled into meat paste by them.

The most eye-catching figures in the formation were the giants, towering over ten meters tall! Some carried boulders on their shoulders, while others wielded rough stone axes thicker than trees. These massive warriors were always armed with various weapons and armor scraps scavenged from the battlefield, but brute strength and size were the main reasons for their lethality.

Their IQ is not high, but their brains are definitely enough to wash a knight's whole body.

The ground forces were already so huge, and new monsters appeared in the sky. A large number of wyverns spread their wings and flew above the harpies. The strong winds they created by flapping their wings could even fly sand and rocks, making it impossible for weak monsters like gnolls and goblins to stand.

When they flapped their wings with all their might, the halflings' bows and arrows would be blown away by the strong wind and lose their accuracy.

Seeing this, Su Li was both excited and nervous. The good news was that the monster did rush towards him just as he expected.

But the bad news is, there are simply too many monsters charging towards us! The ones that have been exposed alone are already giving humans a great sense of oppression. And who knows how many more killer weapons are hidden in the darkness.

The sudden attack of just over a thousand harpies had already caused great chaos in the camp. The human army opened fire at full force, with gunfire ringing out and muzzle flames blazing in all directions, only to kill a few hundred harpies.

It will be more difficult to defeat this huge army of monsters now.

Dogrin immediately roared, "Hurry up and drag out our cannons! Use our cannons to show these monsters how powerful the dwarves are."

The four strong dwarves who were to operate the artillery immediately pushed the artillery out of the cave they had dug in advance and set it up on the flat platform they had prepared. This was the best shooting position on the east side of the entire stone mountain. Not only was the firing range open, but the terrain was also flat and commanding.

Three teams of dwarf warriors and one team of dwarf rangers were guarding here to prevent monsters from attacking the artillery position.

Around the artillery positions, there are fan-shaped fortifications built in advance by the dwarves with sandbags and shields to ensure that the monsters' catapults and arrows cannot cause effective damage here.

The artillery's firing arc had been calibrated during the day, so as soon as the artillery was pushed out, the dwarf stuffed a solid cannonball into it.

Following the commander's order, the deafening sound of artillery suddenly rang out, and the shells accurately hit a huge forest troll in the wave of monsters.

The high-speed rotating shells directly tore off half of the troll's abdomen, and the shells that penetrated the body even smashed several goblins behind the troll into pieces.

But this forest troll had no intention of falling down. He raised his thigh bone in his hand and roared to the sky in anger. At the same time, the wounds on his body healed quickly with the help of his [Regeneration] ability.

This is a racial characteristic brought about by the large amount of forest wood and medicine they consume. As long as they are not killed directly, they can quickly recover from their wounds with their regenerative ability.

Amid the rumbling sounds of artillery fire, Sandarion flapped his wings and swooped down from the light of the blood moon. His huge wings, tens of meters long, stirred up a gust of howling wind.

It didn't stop until it was two or three miles from the border outpost. It opened its terrifying maw, as big as a room, and roared, "My supreme master, the supreme ruler of the Western Territory of the Bloodpine Forest, the Wing of Deceit, Alyria Erebus Green Shadow, will bring death and destruction to all human territories!"

"Not one of you filthy, despicable, filthy treasure thieves will escape alive. I, the vanguard of the Emerald Shadow Legion, the king of the wyverns, will tear all of you to pieces!"

A huge sound wave gushed out of its mouth, even shattering the eardrums of some weak free people. Dozens of free people and halflings had their ears bleeding at the deafening sound, and fell to the ground with their heads in their hands in pain.

(End of this chapter)