Knight Lord: Start with Daily Intelligence.

Chapter 94: Exciting Breakthroughs

It is no wonder that the knights of this world particularly like the Knight Arena. Watching a high-level knight battle is no less than a feast for the knights, and it has an unparalleled enlightening effect on their strength.

Especially after eating the fire velvet rabbit meat, the knights of the Hessen Territory were in a state of boiling blood. They watched an exciting and fierce battle, and three or four of them broke through on the spot.

The next morning, the detailed statistics were completed, and the senior steward, Xilude, excitedly reported to Su Li, "Lord, our harvest yesterday was truly enormous."

"Thirteen armed squires have directly broken through to the rank of Apprentice Knight, three of whom do not have fire bloodlines. Eight apprentice knights have been promoted to full knights, and another three full knights have broken through to the rank of Elite Knight. It's worth noting that both of those who broke through are members of the Hohenzollern family."

"In addition to these rank-holders who achieved significant breakthroughs, 27 of the attendants also achieved breakthroughs within their respective ranks."

This huge surprise made Su Li excited and he turned off the panel of the daily intelligence system and jumped directly out of bed.

"Hahaha! Hirud, this is really good news. Nothing can boost morale better than achieving a large number of breakthroughs before the war."

There are a total of 51 people who have made breakthroughs of varying degrees of progress!

His elite army only had two squadrons with about 240 people in total, which meant that nearly one-fifth of the members had gained strength improvement.

Of course, such a huge improvement is directly related to the generous investment of Lord Su Li.

6 Tinder Rabbits! Calculated at 100 gold coins each, that's 600 gold coins invested.

In any world, the development of armaments relies on strong material guarantees.

Of course, Su Li did make a lot of money, adding 3 elite knights, 8 formal knights and 13 apprentice knights at one time.

Su Li was under a lot of pressure to support so many knights. He pondered for a moment, then said with a smile, "Have Sophie and William both achieved a breakthrough? It seems that it is necessary to grant Hohenzollern a piece of land."

The Hohenzollern family, the family of court judge Frederick, all have fire bloodline, so they gained the most from these waves of major breakthroughs.

For the three elite knights, Su Li only needs to pay their family a salary of 180 gold coins a year. In addition to various benefits and allowances, their family can get more than 200 gold coins from Su Li without doing anything in a year, which is enough to buy another elite knight.

So Su Li planned to grant them a piece of land, usually the size of a village, so he could leave them alone and earn a lot of money. No village could pay 200 gold crowns in taxes in a year.

Moreover, their family had a fiefdom, and they could help Su Li develop his territory. Their family had a lot of property, and they could buy slaves from the slave-hunting group on their own, and prosper and expand the entire Hessen Territory.

The territory of Hessen is too vast. If Su Li relies on himself alone, it will be very slow to develop it.

Su Li was just thinking about this. When he got up for breakfast, Lawn excitedly came into the castle and reported to Su Li, "My Lord, I received a surprising news this morning. The fire velvet rabbit soup has taken effect. A 16-year-old slave named Carl has awakened the bloodline of the Red Flame Owl on his own."

"Red Flame Owl Bloodline?" Su Li's eyes lit up. He knew this bloodline. It was a ferocious owl beast, capable of battling bloodthirsty bulls with brute force alone. Activating its abilities significantly enhanced the courage and critical strike power of surrounding soldiers. Many druids enjoyed transforming into this beast, increasing the attack power of nearby forest spirits and treemen. This allowed these weak, plant-based monsters to possess terrifying attack power, inflicting considerable damage on powerful enemy forces.

This slave actually awakened with just a bowl of broth and without any systematic training. This shows that the purity of his bloodline and his talent are very good.

So Su Li immediately instructed Hildurd, "My High-ranking Attendant, bring him to the castle yourself. From now on, he will serve as my Attendant-at-Arms, helping me feed my horses and maintain my armor. Also, in my name, grant him a set of dwarven armor and a fine longsword. When Knight Schwartz trains him, I will personally instruct him in combat techniques."

Hildre immediately nodded in agreement and said, "This is indeed a talent worth cultivating. In addition, the other armored guard you trained, Harry, has also made considerable progress in strength. He has already broken through to the intermediate-level apprentice knight."

Of course Su Li remembered this armed attendant. He had previously broken through to the level of an initial apprentice knight through his own efforts. After a day of motivation yesterday, he successfully broke through to the level of an intermediate apprentice knight.

While this speed couldn't compare to Su Li's, it was still quite fast. Two consecutive breakthroughs in just half a month would be an astonishing achievement in any other territory.

Only in the Hessen Territory, under the glory of Hilde, would he appear pale in comparison.

However, his strength was still quite impressive, and he couldn't be dismissed as just another apprentice knight. Back then, he was a warrior who, relying solely on his innate strength, could fight a giant horned beast to the death, truly demonstrating the meaning of a newborn calf fearless of a tiger.

If he were to fight to the death, even the Knights might not be his match.

After Hilde left, Su Li quickly ate a few bites of breakfast before rushing to the training grounds with Lawn. After yesterday's storm of intelligence, while today's intel was still stimulating, Su Li was completely comfortable with it, unperturbed. He felt a sense of calm, a kind of indifference that comes from having seen so much before.

The first piece of new intelligence is that Tal will demonstrate his divine power within seven days, and a hurricane will land from the gray fog sea in the south. In addition to the hurricane, it will also bring a lot of rainfall. If civilians are not evacuated in time and flood prevention measures are not carried out, a large amount of farmland will be submerged.

The presence of gods is everywhere in this world. While they certainly bring blessings and protection to mortals, they also often bring disaster. A single turn of events, a single sneeze from a god, can unleash a catastrophe on the human world.

Of course, this hurricane is not without benefits. It destroyed a large amount of ecology, but will also bring abundant treasures and props.

If he could survive this hurricane, various opportunities and treasures would appear everywhere in the Hessen Territory after the hurricane. With the help of the intelligence system, he would be able to pick up a large number of treasures scattered everywhere by the hurricane.

On the other hand, some witches and prophets were forced to come out of seclusion, leave the tree house, and take the initiative to show up and seek help from other forces.

This is exactly Su Li's opportunity. For example, deep in the Mirror Swamp, there is a forest witch's tree house. The system prompts her that she can reveal the location of a natural spirit.

The help she needs is not difficult. Just provide her with 2000 kilograms of wood and 500 kilograms of stone to help her reinforce the tree house.

Su Li briefly sorted out the intelligence and without wasting too much time, quickly refocused his energy on the current military training.

After all, this green tide is the biggest crisis at the moment. If the green tide cannot be defeated, then neither Tal's hurricane nor the forest witch's natural spirit will have anything to do with Su Li.

At this time, the training ground was full of soldiers undergoing training. The 800 soldiers occupied a small area, about the size of a school playground.

They were currently undergoing the most basic formation training. Once they had memorized their teams and positions, they would be taken out into the field tomorrow to familiarize themselves with combat formations. After a brief training session on assassination techniques, they would be ready to fight in battle.

Su Li asked Knight Orstein, who was walking towards him, "My Lord Commander, how are the results of the training?"

Knight Orstein's majestic face wore a proud smile as he excitedly replied, "The results are remarkable, my esteemed lord. Since a large number of soldiers and slaves were promoted yesterday, their training enthusiasm has skyrocketed. Many are eager to fight in battle, earn the goddess's grace, and thus change their fate. While this is just wishful thinking on their part—how could the esteemed goddess bestow divine grace upon lowly slaves? But it's good to let them have that hope, isn't it?"

Su Li nodded, then instructed Knight Orstein, "Don't forget to encourage our powerful knights and pass on my rewards. I will grant land and manors to the knights who have made outstanding contributions in this battle, allowing them to own their own territories!"

As Su Li’s motivation was announced, cheers suddenly broke out in the training ground.

Didn’t the knights follow Su Li to this remote land just to achieve great things and own their own manors and lands?

Now all this is finally about to happen to them, and all the knights are ready to fight a big battle and chop off a few greenskins' heads to increase their merits.

The soldiers' morale was high, so Su Li said to Knight Orstein, "Take a squadron of soldiers and follow me into battle. There's a cultist group coming from the north, and their vanguard has already reached the Green Leaf Hills. We must eliminate them immediately and prevent them from successfully exploring our territory. We can't afford to be attacked from behind by the cultists while we're fighting the Green Tide."

Laun asked in amazement, "We're about to have a decisive battle with the greenskins. Do we still need to attack everywhere?"

Su Li's attitude was decisive: "Of course, the more critical the moment is, the more we can't sit and wait for death. We must take the initiative to go out, capture the enemy, and enhance our combat effectiveness."

Knight Orstein's spirits lifted as he laughed heartily. "My Lord, your decision is undoubtedly correct. We must weaken all the enemies around us to ensure a greater victory in the battle against the greenskins."

With the help of Su Li's intelligence system, the group quickly found the cultists who appeared near Moonlight Highlands.

This is an evil church called the Red Crown. They believe in the evil blood god and ride huge flesh hounds, so they can appear near the green leaf land at an extremely fast speed. They passed through the Moonlight Highlands and it wouldn't be long before they found the buildings of the Black Forest Territory.

But unfortunately, their secret reconnaissance was discovered by Su Li in advance, so they fell into Su Li's ambush.

The 16 cultist battle-hardened knights were surrounded in a canyon by a squadron of Hessen soldiers. There was no possibility of breaking out, and all of them died in battle.

The harvest surprised Su Li. This group of cultists was unexpectedly rich. The 16 cultists brought two exquisite-grade long swords, which were the same as the war hammer in the hands of Knight Orstein, but with only one rune attached to them.

The weapon is called the Everburning Sword, and it is engraved with a fire rune that can cause fire damage and a burning effect. Su Li directly gave one to Sophie as a reward and kept one for himself.

(End of this chapter)