Knight Lord: Start with Daily Intelligence.

Chapter 265: Stand Up and Expand the Griffin Size (Updated Starting Today)
Eliria gave Su Li only two days of rest before she impatiently set off for the Emerald Ring deep within the Blood Pine Forest. She had been away for over two weeks, and the situation in the forest was on the verge of getting out of control. She had to return to reorganize the situation.

Fortunately, she often sleeps and is very experienced in this area, so she was able to stabilize the situation quickly. Otherwise, she would not have the confidence to give Su Li only two days to rest before returning to continue to exploit him.

Su Li was also deeply fascinated by this Little Dragon Girl. When she took human form, she was the epitome of perfect creation. That body, captivating countless beings, perfectly embodied the concept of "the creation of nature." Her slender waist was as graceful as a willow branch, her long, straight, and well-proportioned legs, and her round, plump, peach-shaped buttocks were truly captivating. Most astonishingly, these seemingly incompatible qualities blended perfectly in her. Her skin was as delicate as satin, gleaming softly in the sunlight, as if it were fragile.

This peerless beauty exudes an innately noble aura in every gesture. Her every smile exudes the unique coolness and pride of a forest queen, like a flawless oriental fairy descended to earth. Her graceful and elegant demeanor makes one want to surrender to her. But who could have imagined that beneath this flawless exterior lies a dragon-like nature so starkly different from her outward appearance?
In the eyes of others, she was an inviolable goddess, a supreme being. But in that dimly lit room, filled with allure, all her purity was shattered, her clothes stripped, and driven by desire, her most primal side was revealed. She would let Su Li press her onto the couch, moaning in ecstasy under the hazy light.

This huge contrast creates a breathtaking charm in her, just like a snow lotus growing on a cliff, noble and cold on the outside, but with the most fiery vitality on the inside.

And in that secret room, whenever she was blindfolded, her expression of helplessness and anticipation was even more thrilling.

Perhaps the beauties who are noble, holy, inviolable and cannot be desecrated in the eyes of countless other people have all been blindfolded in a dim secret room and asked to stand up and kick.

However, Su Li's indulgence for three days and three nights really made his waist and legs ache, and he didn't want to think about any cultivation in the past two days.

He prioritized entertaining the dwarven demigod Gotrek.

The two of them can be said to be a good pair made in heaven. Su Li was tortured by the green dragon in the room for three days and three nights. He practiced in the dark and never went out.

Gotrek also drank so much that he felt dizzy and did not wake up for three days and three nights.

When they both remembered their business at the same time, they met in the living room. One of them had back pain and the other felt dizzy.

Moreover, both of them felt guilty, thinking that they had neglected the other, as the other party had waited for them for three days without rising.

Arriving at the reception room, Su Li collapsed onto the large blood pine couch. The velvet was so soft that Su Li sank right into it, his leg bones feeling as if they had been crushed. After three days and three nights of training, he was still suffused with the delicate forest fragrance left by Ailiriya.

Of course, Gotrek's situation wasn't much better. The dwarven demigod was found huddled in a corner of the tavern, an empty bottle clutched to his chest. His face was unnaturally flushed, and his breathing was rough, almost snoring. Dozens of overturned bottles and glasses lay scattered around him, their shattered pieces scattered across the floor.

Fortunately, with the help of the high-ranking attendant chief steward Hildurd, Su Li arranged the meeting process and the meeting personnel, so he could have the home advantage. When Gotrek arrived, Su Li had already adjusted for a while.

This made Gotrek lower his head from the moment he entered the room, not daring to look Su Li in the eye. After all, in his opinion, the big human friend not only had a huge favor to the Dwarf Kingdom, but also had waited patiently for him for three days and three nights.

When he came over, reeking of alcohol, the other party didn't seem angry at all.

"I..." Su Li was about to speak when he was interrupted by Gotrek.

"My friend, please stop! Your tolerance makes me feel ashamed! Three days and three nights... Please let me use my dwarf's battle axe to help you do something. Or, my friend, once you have resolved your issues here, I will personally take you to the wine cellar of the Dwarf Kingdom! Let you taste the real Dwarf wine!"

The service of a demigod-level dwarf?
Su Li's eyes widened immediately. This was the world's top combat power. With him taking action, chopping down a monster or something, as long as it didn't violate the principles of the dwarves, it could be said to be easy and invincible!
If he had come half a year earlier, Su Li would have easily chopped down Ailiriya.

But he was only excited for a moment, and soon he sighed, as if this promise was now of no use to him.

The bloodiest war has just ended, the tough winter is about to pass, and the ceremony of spring birth is about to begin. The world is about to be warm and full of flowers, and the way it opens is bright and gentle.

He really didn't have anything that required the dwarf demigod's help.

And the people he needs to deal with, such as the dukes of the Surander province and the lord of Maleburg, are not people that the dwarves can deal with.

If Gotrek continued to kill dukes and nobles for two or three more years, the human empire would be furious no matter how strong its relationship with the dwarves was.

If the nobles of the empire could allow a dwarf butcher to chop people to death at will and for no reason, then the empire would really have no need to maintain its rule.

So Su Li only thought for a moment before smiling and saying, "Your Majesty Gotrek, you are our guest in our territory. How can we trouble you to intervene again and again? If I must make a request, then I hope you can stay in our territory for a while, at least a month, to participate in our Spring Rebirth Ceremony and experience the customs and ceremonies of the southern part of the empire."

Hearing this, Gotrek burst into laughter, his voice shaking the entire room. "My friend, you are truly to the dwarf's liking! I agree to this request. Dwarves love lively celebrations. Staying for a month is no problem at all!"

"Come on, come on, big human beings, let's continue drinking to our heart's content!"

Su Li was overjoyed to hear Gao Trek agree so generously. It turned out that apart from venting for a few minutes, men still prefer to stay with other men and engage in various activities.

Dwarves have a natural love of food and wine, and the Empire has always been famous for its luxurious banquets. This dwarf demigod spent most of his life traveling within the Empire.

After happily accepting Su Li's invitation, a lively banquet soon began. Gotrek, as always, was generous and open-minded. After a few drinks, he put his arm around Su Li's shoulders and said with a hearty laugh, "My friend, this kind of banquet is just what a dwarf likes! Come, let's empty our glasses and let the singing fill the air!"

With this warm start, the dwarf soon forged deep friendships in the territory.

For half a month, he spent the entire half-month drinking competition with friends from all over the place in the Troll Skull Tavern, and enthusiastically praised Su Li's magnanimity and generosity.

The effect was very remarkable. Attracted by him, more than two hundred dwarves decided to settle in the Hesse Territory.

Among them is a dwarf jewelry master Moritz Antek!
The jewelry crafted by this dwarven master was priceless. He was incredibly wealthy, carrying over 370 Dwarven Oath Golds alone! Enough to spark the envy of countless others. However, this dwarven master didn't understand the principle of not showing off one's wealth. Instead, he seemed to be actively displaying it, giving off the air of an idiot's display of wealth.

But if someone really thinks he is an idiot and has bad intentions, the dwarf master will teach his opponent a lesson with the musket and battle axe in his hands!
He is not a nerd who only knows technology. On the contrary, he possesses terrifying champion-level strength. Even his seven apprentices have been honed to elite level strength by him.

All the villains who wanted to rob them were robbed by them.

So much so that the outside world was saying that only one-third of his wealth came from his careful jewelry carving, and the remaining two-thirds came from him tempting people to commit crimes and looting the loot from the plunderers.

And it is easy to convince him to make jewelry for you.

He likes adventure and traveling. As long as there is someone who can impress him with their adventure experience and has deeds more magnificent and legendary than his, he will create a precious jewelry for the other person as a gift.

This characteristic of his was very much to Gotrek's liking. After listening to him talk in the tavern and recount a lot of his wonderful and legendary adventures, Gotrek took his wine jug and sat down across from him. Then he slammed the table and said in a loud voice, "Your stories are also very good! But compared to our dwarf stories, they are still a little less thrilling! Come, let me tell you a real story!"

Of course, this sentence is simply Gotrek's catchphrase.

He has a very high sense of racial honor for the dwarves.

When Su Li took him hunting in the Blood Pine Forest, he also said: "This forest is really nice! But compared to our dwarven mountains, it's still a little less steep! But it doesn't matter, we will let it see the power of the dwarves today."

Then he went into the forest and embarked on a fierce and wild hunt.

When they came out, Su Li was carrying a sika deer, and the lion mastiff was holding his trophy, proudly walking out of the forest. But Gotrek directly carried a huge dragon ape, wildly knocked down a lot of trees, and walked out.

The two dragon apes that had been competing with Alyria for territory were killed, one dead and one injured. If the other hadn't run faster, he would have killed it as prey. This made Alyria happy for several days. According to her, the rumor in the forest was that a demigod was stationed in the human territory outside.

As a result, the entire forest force underwent a large-scale migration, and many monsters near the west of the forest fled in other directions.

This created a large power vacuum within the forest, allowing the Green Dragon and Griffin Forest to expand their spheres of influence.

Especially the griffins, they are hunting the surrounding goblins and goblins on a large scale so that they can safely lay more griffin eggs during the mating season after spring.

Although griffins are powerful, they are really different from humans and dragons.

Sometimes, to see how powerful humans are, all you need is a reference point. Of all the species in this world, only a few, such as humans, dragons, and rabbits, can estrus 400 days a year.

Among them, humans and dragons are the most similar. Not only can they go into heat every day, but the key is that they also have a reward mechanism.

Unlike rabbits, which are in heat but not fun at all.

Therefore, from all angles, the physical constitution and mental will of human beings are among the most terrifying among the many monsters and demons in the world.

Basically, for creatures in nature, seeing humans is no different from seeing demons, and their first reaction is to run away quickly.

Only humans and dragons are so compatible. Not only can they live in harmony, but they can also ride dragons!

Of course, the price was quite high. Every time Su Li finished riding, he had to hold onto the wall to get out.

In fact, it was proved that his physique was still far inferior to that of the Dragon God-level physique.

He has to at least reach the champion level before he can fight the Green Dragon on equal terms.

Fortunately, Hildurd will help him. The green dragon is trapped and is now very satisfied and comfortable. He stays in the tree house every day.

He hardly cares about the forces in the forest.

Anyway, the griffins will help her eliminate those forces that refuse to surrender. In order to seek refuge, many monsters have run into her territory, becoming her followers and minions, relying on the size of the legion to survive.

Griffins are typical spring mating creatures.

After entering spring, they will become particularly violent and may attack you even if you step into their hunting range.

Generally, knights would not enter the Griffin Forest in spring to tame griffins. Not only would they be mistaken for egg thieves, but also because griffins are restless and have bad tempers in spring, making them unsuitable for taming.

Therefore, the knights of the territory rushed to the Griffin Forest in winter to tame the last batch of griffins.

If this time is missed, the territory will have little chance to tame new griffins until at least next summer.

The progress of the taming is also very encouraging. Together with the griffin eggs stolen by the adventurers before and the half-griffins tamed by the knights, the number of griffins currently active in the territory, big and small, has reached 33!
This is indeed an extreme outbreak. The harsh winter in this world is equally harsh on all living things.

Even for a powerful creature like a half-griffon, hunting becomes extremely difficult in winter. The decrease in prey and the blocking of roads by heavy snow result in a low success rate in hunting, and many griffons become extremely thin.

On the contrary, humans can use the food stored in autumn to ensure that the powerful knights are in the best condition, and their chances of defeating the weak griffins will increase greatly.

Of course, such a high success rate is also closely related to Su Li sleeping with Ailiriya!
In the past, when knights entered the Blood Pine Forest to tame griffins, the biggest challenge was often not how to defeat the griffins, but the journey to the Griffin Forest!

Beneath the dark and twisted shade of the trees, there are countless monsters and dangers hidden. They may be attacked in various ways at any time and face countless monsters, many of which may even be more difficult to deal with than the griffins themselves.

Crossing this dangerous road has already depleted their condition to a very bad state. It can be said that when they encounter griffins, they often fight with low health, and most of them are killed by the griffins.

However, as Ailiriya was subdued by Su Li, most of her minions entered the mines to mine iron ore, fire spinel, crystal, blood pine, etc. and delivered them to Su Li. For human knights, the danger level of the western part of the forest was greatly reduced.

The territory is full of various excellent-grade armors, exquisite-grade and even perfect-grade equipment, which makes their combat effectiveness extremely powerful, and they can reach Storm Shadow Fortress very easily.

This fortress is being built rapidly, and its basic outline has begun to take shape. It can provide shelter for the surrounding human settlements and farmlands, as well as supplies for caravans, adventurers, and experienced knights entering the forest.

Subsequent construction only needs to continuously add new facilities and expand city walls and fortifications on this basis.

But this is not a simple project, because the fortress is built on the Blood Mist Hills, which means it is destined to be a complete military defense system, and the fortress is even just one of the forward strongholds.

A large number of camps, outposts, defense towers, granaries, barracks, etc. need to be built around this fortress.

These defensive facilities will be trimmed from the highest peak of the hill to the middle of the mountain, and even some camps guarding water sources will be distributed on different peaks of the hill.

Such a huge military stronghold and defense system consumed far more wealth than the infrastructure within the Hessen Territory. It would be impossible to complete its construction without 10000 gold crowns.

But 10000 gold crowns would be enough to consume all of Su Li's remaining belongings.

He gave much of his wealth to the green dragon Alyria, not as a lover, but for no reason.

It's even completely the opposite. Although they are husband and wife, they still calculate the accounts clearly. Even if they are husband and wife, don't even think about taking advantage of a gold crown from the green dragon!
不仅协议里，苏离要每个月给绿龙1000枚金王冠，让她派人开采矿石，每个月向领地缴纳300颗火尖晶石、1名精英骑士、50名奴隶以及5000斤铁矿石和10斤振金。

When the excess minerals mined by other green dragon minions are delivered to the Black Forest Lord, they must be clearly marked with a price, and the money must be paid in exchange for the goods.

The territory even had to spend money to buy fresh meat from Alyria's minions to meet the needs of 33 griffins.

While these griffins, large and small, enhanced the territory's strength, they also brought enormous food pressure to the territory.

So at the end of the year, Su Li solemnly announced that all ministers had to participate in the year-end audit.

Oliver, the president of the Provincial Council, presided over the meeting and had to explain to Su Li the financial revenue and expenditure of the territory this year.

Su Li and his subordinates have been working hard in the border prince's territory for a year without realizing it. At the end of the year, he has to review the results.

(End of this chapter)