Knight Lord: Start with Daily Intelligence.

Chapter 241 Tragic Victory and Humanity’s Revenge!

When cheers rang out across the mountains and when the sound of military music of victory resounded over the city, Su Li was still somewhat in disbelief. He clenched the war hammer tightly in both hands and sat down exhaustedly on the terrace of the castle.

His performance in this battle had completely exceeded his wildest expectations. As many as six or seven harpies died at his hands, and he even worked together with the dwarves to kill a powerful wyvern.

Especially when the fort was in danger, he truly didn't shy away from the arrows and stones, personally leading his guards to the fort, defending it at all costs. Actually, although they were called guards, not a single member was human. The only ones who accompanied him in the end were his two battle pets: Death Claw and the Lion Mastiff, Jinya.

It was the full-scale bombardment of the two artillery batteries that prevented the battle situation in the west of the city from completely collapsing. The monsters tried several times to form gangs and launched attacks on the streets, but they were all smashed to pieces by cannons.

The powerful firepower of the dwarven war weapons was no less powerful than the Chimera's terrifying fire breath. The monsters' fierce offensive was destroyed by the cannons, and they retreated in a dense rout.

Naturally, the green dragon could not tolerate this wanton bombardment, and it could be said that all of its air assault forces were sent up. The harpies that covered the sky and the sun rushed in in groups, and the huge bodies of the wyverns filled the area near the artillery position.

Even though humans and dwarves tried their best to protect Su Li, Su Li was once caught by the pterosaur and almost flew into the air.

It was Su Li's battle pet, the Golden Lion Mastiff, that desperately climbed onto the back of the wyvern, biting its wings regardless of its life to prevent it from taking off. Then Su Li suddenly had an idea and burst out with unparalleled courage. He hit the monster's abdomen with a hammer, forcing it to loosen its sharp claws in severe pain.

Until the end, Su Li was not sure whether his attack was the extreme reaction of a human in desperate situation or the result of the intervention of the Goddess of the Fiery Sun.

However, he didn't care about this matter. Because the gods of this world would really come in person and give believers unparalleled power, so that they could defeat powerful enemies in desperate situations.

Compared with this legendary experience, Su Li felt that he had not received the treatment that a chosen one deserved. He had never felt how much powerful martial arts the Goddess of the Sun had bestowed on him in battle.

If they were followers of Redma and Yurik, then in this battle Su Li would be comparable to a chosen knight of God, tearing apart wyverns with his bare hands, killing countless monsters, and easily crushing hundreds of enemies.

Of course, this may also be related to the fact that the Goddess of the Fiery Sun places greater emphasis on tactics. In the religious texts of the Church of the Goddess of the Fiery Sun, there are very few widely recognized records of which knights have truly felt her personal arrival.

She focuses more on inspiring her believers to use smarter tactics to win. At least in this battle, Hilde's tactics of burning the city with flames were as influential and valuable as those of a powerful God-chosen Knight!
Su Li stared blankly at the burning city in the distance and couldn't help but mutter, "In this hellish scene, are we really victorious?"

A hurried sound of footsteps came from the stone stairs of the city wall. A moment later, an anxious figure pounced directly on Su Li. The smell of smoke and fire mixed with the strong smell of blood on her body made Su Li's brain extremely confused.

But the other party didn't notice at all. Instead, he anxiously touched Su Li's body and asked with a choked voice: "Master, Master, are you okay? I saw blood dripping from your armor."

Su Li turned around in surprise, looking at the thin figure whose face was darker than the dwarf blacksmith who stayed by the furnace all year round, his eyes full of disbelief!
"You are... Avril? How did you become like this?"

Avril is Su Li's most delicate maid. Her usually cute cheeks are like juicy apples, which is in stark contrast to her current face covered in black ash, with only her lips still having a hint of red.

Avril was also filled with melancholy. At first, she thought it was just a simple letter delivery mission. She just had to follow the straight street and find Hildreth on the familiar street. If everything went well, it might only take half an hour for her to return to the young master she cared about most.

But the hardships and thrills of this trip exceeded all her experiences in the first half of her life.

Not only did she fight bloody battles all the way and overcome numerous obstacles, she also falsely passed on orders and forced the priest Rong En to set fire immediately, forcing a champion-level knight to give in to her.

Then she personally held the flag and stood on top of a tall building surrounded by blazing flames, supervising the battle of hundreds and thousands of human knights and soldiers. Any soldier who retreated half a step was executed on the spot by her in the name of the lord.

It can be said that her bravery and determination contributed at least half to the stability of the city's western front.

She had never thought that a weak maid like herself could become so tough and decisive for the young master's career and success.

Even though she was so frightened that her legs were shaking, she still bravely held the flag of the Bauhinia family and stood firmly on the tower, supervising the brave and desperate battle of nearly a thousand human soldiers.

But all this is in the past, and now she only cares about whether she can continue to live a stable life with the young master.

Su Li did not react much under her anxious inspection, because he could hardly get a clear sense of touch.

So facing Avril's anxious and concerned gaze, he could only shake his head blankly and said, "I don't know if I'm injured. I feel like my body hurts a lot, but I don't know where it hurts."

"Master, you must be injured to feel this way, and seriously injured! ...The blood on your armor is yours!"

Avril instantly broke down in tears. She hadn't cried when she was alone, facing the monsters' ferocious fangs. She hadn't cried when facing the ferocious and fierce battles between countless monsters and humans. But after hearing Su Li's answer, she couldn't control her emotions and immediately began to anxiously peel off Su Li's armor.

Su Li lowered his head and saw a hideous and terrible wound on the right side of his chest. Judging from the protruding flesh and blood, the bloody wound was at least ten centimeters long and two or three centimeters wide. The severed ribs and protruding bone spurs could be seen.

And on the abdomen that Avril was desperately covering, there was a huge, bottomless wound on his body, as if his body had been pierced by some sharp claws.

These are just the scars that Su Li can see, there may be more that he cannot see.

But he really didn't know when these scars were left. He only vaguely remembered that when the wyvern grabbed him, his abdomen was torn and hurt. He thought it was the wyvern that grabbed him. Perhaps the huge wound was left by the wyvern's claws. But he really had no recollection of the wound on his chest.

He didn't even know that he had such strong vitality. Even after suffering such serious injuries, he could still roar and fight with monsters, and might even kill a wyvern with his own hands?
It seems that eating so many extraordinary fruits and wearing so many scarlet pearls, dragon blood stones and various amulets on a daily basis are still effective. At least even if he gets beaten, he can withstand a few more blows.

Then Su Li raised his hand and wiped the tears from Avril's face, but it would have been better if he hadn't wiped them off. Once he wiped them off, the tears mixed with the cigarette ash on her face made her look like a harlequin cat.

So Su Li couldn't help but raise the corner of his mouth and said, "Don't cry, you don't look good at all when you cry like this. I don't want this young master to have such an ugly last impression of you before I die."

Avril burst into tears and cried heartbrokenly: "No! No! I don't want you to be in danger, Master!"

But there really was no medicine left in the territory. Even though Su Li was the most honorable lord, everyone could only watch as blood continued to ooze out of his body.

Dietrich, the strongest priest in the territory, was carried to the city wall. The condition of this Knight Commander of the Knights Hospitaller was no better than Su Li's.

His right arm had been broken by the flail, the broken arm bone penetrated the muscles and pierced out from the joint. What was more serious was that a huge knife wound cut into the center of his shoulder and neck. The heavy bleeding made him so weak that he could not lift his fingers.

He saw Su Li's injuries but was powerless to do anything. His divine energy had been exhausted last night and he could not use any healing spells.

He grinned at Su Li with a sad smile and said, "Lord... My Lord, have a drink, maybe it will work."

"Drink?" Avril nodded excitedly: "Yes, yes, the laurel gem is still effective. We can urgently brew another batch of medicinal wine."

Without waiting for her to finish, she immediately pounced on the nuns of the Monastery of the Goddess of Dawn who had died in the battle around her and began to fumble around, anxiously searching for the wine jugs they were carrying.

Before the war, in order to increase the amount of medicinal wine, the territory urgently placed the laurel gem in a large number of wine barrels and soaked them for a period of time. Although the laurel gem did not exert its full effect, it was better than nothing.

Finally, Avril found a half-empty wine jug on the body of a nun whose head had been gnawed off by a monster. She quickly helped Su Li pour the wine into his mouth and said, "Young Master, hold on. As soon as the bleeding stops, we'll move you to the Shalya Temple. The statue of Shalya is not far from here. You will surely receive the mercy and healing of Her Majesty Shalya."

Su Li covered the wound on his body and said to her, "I can bear it. Go and give Dietrich a few sips too."

"Also, how is Hildurdo?"

Avril quickly ordered the remaining lightly wounded soldiers to come and carry the wounded, preparing to transport them to Shalya's temple. She replied tearfully, "Hilde... has gone with her troops to continue pursuing the green dragon's army. I don't know how she's doing. The city is in panic, and everything is in chaos. Some say the green dragon's magic drained her of moisture, leaving her a near-dead, mummified corpse. Others say an awakened earth spirit tore her legs apart. Still others claim to have witnessed her right leg being chopped off while she was in divine general form. There are so many different stories, and I don't know which is true."

"But what is certain is that Hildurd must have been injured. However, she did not stop, but instead took away all the soldiers in the city who were able to pursue her."

Is Hildur still chasing?
This cheered up Su Li, and he couldn't afford to faint!

He had to adjust his state and lie down comfortably as soon as possible. Hirud was still waiting for his support. Without the support of his daily intelligence system, Hirud would easily be ambushed by the green dragon's army!

So Su Li gritted his teeth, climbed onto the Death Claw's back, patted the hard vibranium armor on its back, and said, "My friend, I hope you can be as sensible as Jin Ya today. We can persevere and fly to the statue of Shaerya."

This battle has proved Death Claw's nobility and strength. Although he is still very young in his heart, he did not flinch or fear in the face of a powerful adult wyvern. Wearing the vibranium rune harness that Su Li spent a lot of money to make for him, he tore a wyvern into pieces and protected Su Li as he killed a large number of harpies.

The price is that its wings may have been broken. The last time Su Li saw it flying was before dawn. Without untying its harness, no one knows what happened to it.

Even though Death Claw was weak, he still maintained his noble demeanor, holding his head high and chest out, refusing to show any sign of weakness.

Hearing Su Li's words, it chirped and flapped its left wing, signaling Su Li to come up.

After Su Li climbed onto it, it jumped off the terrace with all four limbs. Although its body was shaky, to the surprise of the soldiers on the city, it flew up smoothly, drew a not-so-elegant curve in the air, and headed straight for the Temple of Shaurya.

However, there were no medical staff in the temple. All the able-bodied soldiers and priests had already been called up to the front line when the operation was at its most intense.

The wounded soldiers here were even massacred by the harpies, and more than a dozen harpy corpses were left among the large number of corpses.

Su Li was not sure whether the wounded soldiers fought desperately and killed all the few harpies, or whether the harpies slaughtered all the wounded soldiers here and left satisfied.

In short, this temple that should have been full of love and glory was filled with splattered blood and scattered corpses. Even the scorching sun could not dispel the dead despair in this temple.

After Su Li jumped off the back of the Death Claw, he could only cover the wound on his abdomen and walked with difficulty to the bottom of the religious statue. He leaned his back against the magnificent statue, waiting for the next round of divine grace to accumulate as soon as possible and descend upon him.

Death Claw finally couldn't support his body and dignity anymore. He drooped his head weakly and leaned on Su Li's legs.

Su Li gently stroked the feathers on the back of its neck, pulled the corner of his mouth, and said with a forced smile: "Old buddy, since you became bigger than my bed, it has been a long time since we lay down together to sleep."

Death Claw whimpered and rubbed its head against Su Li's thigh, as if expressing its dissatisfaction with his words.

Griffins are naturally aggressive creatures with an average lifespan of only 5 to 7 years. They desperately hope that their owners can recover as soon as possible and take them to continue fighting.

Even if we can't get into the forest, we must at least make the green dragon and its minions pay a heavy price.

It’s a pity that they are all seriously injured, and now only Hildreth can carry out this revenge mission!
Although the defense of the Hessian city was over, the Green Dragon had found the Knight Corps led by Marshal Orstein and was leading his minions to frantically return for support, but this did not mean that the war between the two sides was over.

The atrocities of the invaders must be settled, and their cruelty and invasion must be repaid with blood!

The fire of human revenge will never be extinguished easily.

Blood for blood, tooth for tooth!
Even if it takes every last bit of strength, humans will use the sharp blade of justice to cut the monster's spine!
To this end, Hildreth almost exhausted all the active military forces in the city, formed a revenge army of thousands of people, and bit the monster army hard.

Humans' butcher knives chopped down all the monsters that fell behind without hesitation, and hundreds or even thousands of monsters died under the human blades every day.

But the monster army couldn't organize an effective sniper attack!

The reasons for this situation are far more than just the defeat in the war. There are many more important factors.

First of all, the Green Dragon was anxious to retreat and pursue, and did not arrange the most elite troops to cover the rear.

The so-called elite should be the first to advance and the last to retreat.

However, the green dragon's inherent greed for gold prevented it from making the most reasonable arrangement, so it chose to leave the tree spirits with weaker mobility and non-direct descendants behind, hoping that these tree spirits could use their lives to stop the human pursuers.

However, the death of Galeregon caused these retreating tree spirits to lose their will to fight. They did not want to work for the green dragon in the first place, so most of them dispersed on their own without waiting for the human army to attack.

Racial conflicts and political struggles within the forest have greatly weakened their overall combat effectiveness.

Hildreth decisively seized this opportunity and won four battles in a row, defeating the panicked legion of tree monsters four times in the Central Plains, the Sacred Forest and the banks of the Brienne River, completely crushing the legion. Thousands of monsters became scattered and no longer posed any threat to the human pursuers.

It was not until this time that the green dragon Alyria realized what a stupid mistake she had made. Without the cover of the tree demon army, the human army would be able to reach her weak throat from behind.

This made it even more afraid to stay for a moment. It paid the price of thousands and tens of thousands of tree demons before its direct lineage distanced itself from humans. If it stopped at this time and went to fight with humans again, it would be a waste of the time that the tree demons had bought for it!
It must rush into the forest with all its might while it is still some distance away from the human pursuers. Only by entering the forest can its minions survive. Only by rushing into the forest can it catch up with the human knights in front and block them on the outskirts of the forest before they threaten its dragon's nest. It must never let them reach the core area.

However, its roar and urging further exacerbated the collapse of the forest monsters. After two days and three nights of forced march, even the strong monsters were exhausted. A large number of monsters foamed at the mouth and fell on the march.

Instead of widening the distance between them and the human pursuers, they were actually being pushed closer by them!
The more they challenge the limits, the more the monsters realize that humans' resilience is only at the monstrous level.

In the eyes of most creatures, the terrifying human biped is also a terrible monster, and it is stronger and more resilient than most monsters. Anyone who thinks that humans are gentle in nature is wrong.

How could humans, able to occupy the continent's most fertile core, possibly be so docile? If all creatures in the world were monsters, then humans would surely be the most ferocious of them all.

Although humans always claim that there are four kinds of demons in the Old World, in the eyes of many species, there are undoubtedly five kinds of demons in the Old World!

During this long and rapid march, humans' terrifying resilience unsurprisingly crushed most of the monsters in the forest.

The weak can only be slaughtered by the strong. Those monsters that are exhausted and those wounded who fall on the roadside and foam at the mouth, without exception, all die under the blade of human revenge!
Humans, whose eyes have been stained red by blood debt, have hearts as hard as steel. They will not hesitate to swing their butcher knives at any monster they see. The corpses of the monsters stretch out on the road, with the dead lying side by side.

What made the knights even more excited was that the Sun Goddess greatly appreciated this behavior.

A crucial point in Violet's teachings is to show no mercy to the enemies of humanity.

These monsters have committed numerous atrocities in the Hessen Territory. The Goddess of the Fiery Sun encourages her followers to launch an expedition to clean up the evil!

So along the way, the knights gained a lot of divine grace while chasing and killing!
When they set out, there were only about 60 elite knights following Hildurd. After chasing them all the way, the number of elite knights actually exceeded 80 again, and the number is still increasing, and the growth rate is getting faster and faster!
In this pursuit battle that stretched for hundreds of miles, the longer the soldiers persisted, the greater their gains.

This results in the pursuing humans and the defeated green dragon minions having completely different mentalities!
Even for their own sake, human soldiers must grit their teeth and persevere.

The huge monster army was cut down by Hilde like peeling potatoes. When they evacuated from the city of Hessen, their number may have been as high as tens of thousands, but when they arrived at the border outpost, their number had rapidly dropped to less than 5000!

Most of the monsters either fell behind or fled to the forest beside the road under the cover of night.

After all, human development of this foothill area is still very recent. As long as you leave the sides of the road, there are small forests in both the north and south directions.

For the green dragon and the human pursuers, there is only one target: the Blood Pine Forest in the east, but for the monsters, they always have three choices!

Whether they flee to the north or to the south, this vast and flat land can provide them with a greater chance of survival.

At this time, the Green Dragon Legion was filled with an atmosphere of desperation and precariousness.

(End of this chapter)