Knight Lord: Start with Daily Intelligence

As a descendant of the Emperor Dragon Scarladrack, the Green Dragon Elliria naturally had extremely high-level treasures in her dragon's nest.

Ornstain solemnly took out a dragon-shaped seal from his waist pouch and presented it to Su Li with both hands, saying, "Lord, this is the [Dragon Blood Charter] we found in the Green Dragon's lair. It is the most glorious sacred object under the Imperial Electoral system and can be used to create an exclusive emblem for our Thistle family!"

Create a family emblem?

Su Li's spirits immediately lifted. Didn't that mean the final piece of equipment for the territory's knights had finally been completed?

There were five types of equipment that could resonate with the bloodline of the Imperial Knights: weapons, armor, rings, amulets, and emblems!

The territory had previously been able to forge all the other four items in this equipment system, lacking only the emblem.

And now, this [Dragon Blood Charter] finally filled that gap!

He picked up the seal and examined it carefully. The base of the seal was a square made of dragon bone and reverse scales fused with mithril. At its core was a heart fragment inlaid with dragon crystals, which flickered with a faint light as the bloodline pulsed. Chains of dragon tendons and mithril were woven into a vow lock, and the words [My Blood is the Furnace] were engraved on the side of the seal.

Etched on the bottom of the seal was a line of the oldest Imperial script, the ancient Imperial [Edict of Expansion] written in dragon blood:

[Whoever holds this seal,

Shall use blood as chains,

To forge knights into a wall on the border,

And turn the charter into shackles of chaos]

Su Li immediately asked with concern, "How should this Dragon Blood Charter be used?"

Oliver, the Dean of the Provincial Affairs Office, was the God-Chosen of Verena and knowledgeable about everything. He immediately explained in detail, "Family emblems represent the glory of a noble family. Soldiers and knights who wear the emblem will inherit the bloodline characteristics and abilities of the lord. Therefore, you need to activate this seal with your blood, and every Thistle family emblem made in the future will require your blood."

Su Li was immediately shocked and widened his eyes. He would need to continuously draw his own blood to produce batches of family emblems?

He immediately looked at Oliver with anticipation in his eyes and asked, "Will it consume a lot of blood? Is one drop enough?"

Oliver shook his head decisively and said, "Of course not! In fact, the amount of blood consumed to make an emblem is enormous. Each emblem may require at least 150 milliliters of blood to be compressed into mithril, then hammered 800 times in the dwarven forges, and finally immersed in the Pool of Sharaya's Holy Water to form the ability to resonate with the bloodline."

"Therefore, for every lord, family emblems are very precious. Only direct descendants and the best of the high-ranking direct retainers can wear a family emblem and bask in the shared glory of the family."

Activating this Dragon Blood Charter required blood, and making emblems required 150 milliliters of blood?

Was he going to become a blood bag?

No wonder knight families valued bloodline inheritance so much. Drawing from one person would turn them into a dried corpse.

Su Li felt that if he didn't find a way to import a batch of blood bags from Thistle Castle, even if he had enough mithril, he wouldn't be able to forge enough [Thistle Family Emblems].

However, all of this was still far away. He first activated the Dragon Blood Charter with his blood. The Thistle family's blood flowed into the dragon crystal at the core of the seal, and the shape of the Dragon Blood Charter quickly changed.

First, the vow lock woven from dragon tendons and mithril completed its closure, and the furious prayers of the Church of the Blazing Sun were engraved on it. Then, the [Edict of Expansion] below disappeared, and the emblem elements of the Thistle family began to emerge.

At the center of the emblem was a dragon head pierced by the Holy Sword of Dawn, with golden holy crystals inlaid in the dragon's eyes. The wings were burning thistles, with petals that seemed to be tempered by dragon blood and fiercely burning. The edging was starbursts made of ground dragon teeth, and the bottom was a warhammer and longsword entwined with a dragon's tail, perfectly matching the characteristics of the Thistle family.

And when Su Li held this [Thistle Dragon Authority Emblem], he immediately clearly sensed the effect of the family emblem after it was made, which would possess the characteristics of the family's Red Dragon bloodline. Knights wearing the [Thistle Family Emblem] would have a weakened version of the [Dragon Might Domain], continuously emitting a dragon might aura within three meters, which would have a deterrent effect on low-level monsters and chaotic creatures. If it was worn by Champion-level knights and God-Chosen-level knights, the effect would be even stronger.

Even if a God-Chosen-level knight wore it, the Dragon Might Domain would expand to more than 30 meters and would have the fear-inducing ability of Dragon Might, causing a large number of enemy units to tremble in fear, too scared to even think about fighting to the end.

And a perfectly crafted emblem would also have another [Tyrant's Wrath] trait. The lower the wearer's health, the more the bloodline would boil, and the stronger the soldier's strength and speed would be.

This would obviously grant a knight the ability to burst out when near death. In a battle where the two sides were evenly matched, or even when the enemy was stronger than them, if the enemy couldn't directly kill the Thistle family knight, it was very likely that the originally advantageous situation would gradually be reversed! The enemy thought they had victory in their grasp, but they found that the Thistle knight was getting stronger and stronger, and even reversed the situation, achieving a counter-kill!

Especially when combined with the [Earth Blood] potion, Thistle knights in a near-death state could continuously restore their health, making it difficult to kill them, but their ability to kill would become stronger and stronger. Then, under the light of divine grace, hundreds of near-death knights, in a single, unstoppable charge, would directly break the opponent's military formation, causing the enemy to collapse and completely determine the outcome of the battle.

Afterwards, Su Li had the medical staff of the Church of Sharaya draw 450 milliliters of blood from his body. Although nearly half a catty of blood was drawn, making him feel dizzy and weak, as a powerful elite knight, and with the scarlet pearls and dragon blood stones he wore, and having eaten a large number of extraordinary spiritual fruits, his vitality was extremely strong. He only felt a little weak, and it didn't have much of an impact.

After giving the [Thistle Dragon Authority Emblem] and blood to Dogrin, Su Li instructed, "We have obtained a lot of mithril. Give these to the dwarven forging masters and forge a batch of emblems as soon as possible. At least our griffon knights must wear emblems of family glory!"

Su Li had already arranged the candidates for the three tiger-striped griffons. In addition to Hild and Ornstain, Su Li, after careful consideration, decided to bestow the third griffon egg to Handsome Gilles.

This was the best way to win people's hearts. When Su Li decided to bestow this tiger-striped griffon to Gilles, Gilles was so surprised that he couldn't believe it. He even suspected that the lord's thoughts were controlled by the desires of Slaanesh, coveting his body and hook.

But he quickly abandoned this terrifying idea. Although the lord was obsessed with beauty, he still had principles and would never touch any of the knights in the territory.

He could even restrain himself from beautiful women with slender waists, long legs, and big breasts, let alone a man?

After receiving the tiger-striped griffon egg personally bestowed by Su Li, this champion knight was even more excited and immediately swore in the name of the Blazing Sun Goddess to fight to the death for Black Forest Territory.

Looking at his excited expression, Su Li was basically sure that this knight was almost completely loyal, and as long as he didn't try to hook up with him, he wouldn't have any complaints or dissatisfaction.

And the reason why Su Li personally bestowed this griffon egg on him was of course not because of his beauty, which was even prettier than a woman's.

In fact, Handsome Gilles, although beautiful in appearance, perfectly demonstrated to everyone what it meant to be feminine rather than effeminate.

He was meticulous, ruthless, and his feminine personality made countless knights feel a chill down their spines when they saw him, and they didn't dare to offend him in the slightest.

Even Tyberoth, a high-level champion knight, didn't dare to provoke him too much.

In a fair one-on-one fight with real swords and guns, Tyberoth was naturally not afraid. But he was afraid of unknowingly falling into Gilles' trap and being ambushed by a group of insidious people.

This was also what Su Li valued in Gilles. After two bloody battles, this knight perfectly demonstrated his characteristics that were extremely in line with the teachings of the Church of the Blazing Sun. He was not only brave and good at fighting, but also extremely intelligent, a knight with both courage and wisdom.

It could be said that in terms of both wisdom and courage, Handsome Gilles was second only to Hild and Ornstain.

If Hild and Ornstain were at the level of peerless famous generals, then Handsome Gilles was at least a contemporary general who could stand on his own.

In this challenge for all champion knights to break through to the God-Chosen level, Su Li was most optimistic about this young knight. Although he was only at the early-stage champion level, his path to promotion to the God-Chosen level was the most stable.

In the battle against the Green Dragon's claws, the battle group he commanded performed outstandingly. He personally participated in the ambush in the Sacred Forest. When Marshal Ornstain led the main force to attack the monster siege army, he led more than 160 heavy armored cavalry to ambush the road where the Green Dragon's reinforcements were rushing to support. When the monster marching queue was in chaos, a fierce attack was launched, and hundreds of thousands of monster gnoll hunters in the ranged army fled all over the mountains and plains, and hundreds were killed.

Even more dazzling was the bizarre battle of the Blackwater River he commanded. He was extremely good at leading monsters into the battlefield he had preset for combat, which was also extremely in line with the teachings of Violetta.

He lured the enemy deep and led the monsters to the shallows of the Blackwater River, then ignited the dwarven detonators buried in the mud, blasting out a patch of tidal flat pits. Then the monsters were located in the depression and were directly submerged by the surging river water.

Watching the Green Dragon's claws struggling in vain in the turbulent river, and being swept away by the river in horror and despair, this feminine knight said his classic quote: "It seems that these villains do not understand what the conspiracy and art of war are."

It didn't matter whether the monsters understood or not. What mattered was that this feminine knight obviously understood what the tactics and strategies of the Blazing Sun Goddess were.

So Su Li planned to train him to become a partial general of the territory. When Hild was stationed in Black Forest Castle, and Ornstain commanded the large army, this young champion knight would ride the tiger-striped griffon and lead an army of hundreds or even thousands of people, as a flank or partial division to assist the main force.

In addition, Su Li couldn't trouble a great general like Ornstain every time for some small battles supporting strongholds. It was better to hand it over to Gilles to lead a small battle group to deal with, which would be more mobile and flexible.

In any case, Su Li had to at least ensure that these commanding generals wore the family emblem first. As for the elite knights of the entire knight order, let's wait a little longer. Su Li didn't have that much blood to draw out for the time being. He was here to enjoy life, not to be a blood bag for others.

Of course, this problem was also relatively easy to solve, as long as he sent someone to Thistle Castle to contact them and let his cheap father send some Thistle family bloodline over. Su Li had so many cousins and younger brothers, it was time for them to contribute their greatest value to the family.

Ordinary people could donate blood seven times a month. They were powerful knights, and donating blood 10 times a month was not a problem.

Those 10 blood brothers could help Su Li forge a considerable number of family emblems.

After Su Li arranged all of this, Marshal Ornstain took out the last emerald green bead from his marching bag and handed it to Su Li, saying, "This is the sacred object of glory we found in the dragon's nest, and it is also the only strategic-level treasure that the Green Dragon was willing to hand over."

Su Li immediately took the treasure from Ornstain's hand and looked at it in detail. The emerald bead seemed to be covered with a thorny crown forged from obsidian and star iron. In the middle of the thorns was a fluorescent liquid mixed with flowing green blood and ancient tree sap.

When holding it, it felt as if the entire bead had a heartbeat-like pulse, and at the same time, green mist beads were constantly condensing on its surface.

"Sacred object of glory? Which god bestowed this sacred object?"

Ornstain introduced, "According to the Green Dragon, in the most ancient times, the Green Dragons and Wood Elves of the Eternal Queen of Athel Loren jointly sacrificed a slain Great Unclean One of Nurgle to the nature god Kurnous."

"Legend has it that Kurnous forged the pain of Athel Loren being corrupted by Nurgle and the poisonous blood that flowed from the betrayal of the beastmen into this bead, as proof of eternal revenge against chaos. The holder must regularly sacrifice chaos skulls to the forest, otherwise the sacred object will backfire on the host, turning their flesh and blood into rotten soil to nourish poisonous vines."

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"So in many, many races, the prestige of this treasure has spread. The elves and green dragons call it [Tear of Athel Loren] to commemorate the eternal forest curse and gift, the beastmen are relatively rough and direct, calling it [Rotbane], vampires call it [Corrupted Blood Coffin], and chaos followers call it [Nurgle's Thorns] because of their deep hatred for it."

Nurgle's Thorns? That's a very majestic name.

But if it had purification and detoxification abilities, Su Li would prefer to give it a more appropriate name, the Antitoxin Bead.

Kurnous's revenge had nothing to do with Su Li. That was the god of the elves. Su Li was more concerned about: "What are the effects of this Nurgle's Thorns?"

"The effects are a bit complicated. The beneficial point is undoubtedly that it can purify toxins, allowing soldiers to march in forests and plague areas and be immune to erosion, and neither miasma nor plague can cause a large number of casualties."

"Even mixing the mist beads condensed on the bead with potions before the war can increase resistance to chaos corruption toxins such as Nurgle's pustules and plague clouds by more than 70%, and it is completely immune to conventional poison arrows, snake saliva, etc."

“After being actively activated, it can trigger the Emerald Cataclysm effect, reversing all poison domains on the battlefield. With the sacred artifact as the center, all poisonous attributes within a ten-mile radius are inverted. Nurgle's plague clouds transform into healing miasma, while allied healing potions will boil into corrosive acid. The regenerating flesh of Chaos Spawn will self-purify into rotten wood, and the blood of Imperial wounded will mutate into flammable poisonous slurry.”

“However, this will also cause those who have long-term contact with these toxins, as well as their subordinate soldiers, to gradually become 'forestified'. Their skin will show bark-like patterns, poisonous thorns will grow from their bones, and eventually, on the day of victory, they will turn into a living base for the sacred artifact.”

Upon hearing this, Su Li decisively threw the bead to Dietrich, deciding that this thing should be handled by the medical knightly orders.

They could decide when to use it to treat the soldiers' plagues and combat the miasma on the march.

Dietrich, however, had no qualms about this treasure. He stroked the rough thorn crown on the surface of the bead with his iron gauntlet, and said, “Don't be deceived by the name of purification. Kurnous never does good—he simply takes back the authority of destruction from Chaos and gives it to the forest. Now that we have obtained this bead, it will be more beneficial for us to seize the authority of the forest.”

Kurnous's relic of glory provides relatively limited assistance to the Black Forest Territory. Even its once-a-month activation of the [Emerald Cataclysm] effect requires very careful timing. At least with Su Li's current level, he can't think of any situation where using this relic of glory would be appropriate.

This is also a typical characteristic of relics of glory. Because they come from different gods and their effects are clearly targeted at certain racial characteristics, not every relic of glory is suitable for human territories.

Many powerful territories and lords will seal relics of glory in their vaults, only using certain peculiar relics for specific races and special battles.

No one dislikes having more of these things. Even if they are not used, placing them on various display shelves in the vault is a symbol of wealth and pleasing to the eye.

And right now, there is indeed an opportunity to acquire another relic of glory!

In this battle, Su Li did not fear strong enemies. He faced the massive Green Dragon Legion head-on, mobilizing nearly 5,000 elite troops to fight against tens of thousands of monster legions.

This was a typical war with a disparity in strength. The scale of the two armies once approached ten to one, and the difference in combat power was as high as four or five times.

The Green Dragon and its minions had an absolute strategic advantage. Even after repeated defeats, they still firmly held onto the hope of victory.

It can be said that if it weren't for their serious infighting and the excellence of the doctrines and tactics of the Church of the Radiant Goddess, they should have defeated the Black Forest Territory's army, destroyed the town at the foot of the mountain, and firmly suppressed the power of the Zijing family in a small castle.

But facing this critical situation, facing the impending collapse of the building, the humans did not fear, did not retreat. Thousands of knights and soldiers shouted the name of the Radiant Goddess and fought to the death.

Human courage is a magnificent hymn, human heroism is worthy of praise, illuminating the sun and moon, and full of heroic spirit.

Therefore, under Su Li's command, the humans won many battles, defeating the Forest Legion and covering the central plain with the flesh and blood of forest monsters, and piling up the corpses of the Green Dragon's minions under Black Forest Castle.

This epic victory in the Black Forest Territory undoubtedly strengthened the doctrines of the Radiant Goddess, attracting more knights and soldiers to devoutly believe in the Radiant Goddess Violet.

When believers hear of this glorious victory and magnificent battle, they will be more devout to the church, because examining the gods of the empire, perhaps no god's followers can win so gloriously under such a disparate comparison of combat power.

The army's triumphant return and proclamation to the Radiant Goddess are both a glory for both sides.

The Black Forest Territory enhances the glory of the goddess's doctrines, and the goddess will bestow divine grace and blessings on her brave believers.

Su Li then said to Marshal Orstein, “My marshal, your successful return with the army means that this war is completely over. We should make a vow to the Radiant Goddess to thank her for answering our prayers and for the divine grace and blessings she has bestowed.”

“Are the sacrifices for the proclamation and sacrifice to the Radiant Goddess Monastery ready?”

“Of course!” Orstein raised his chin, with pride on his face. Praying to the goddess and proclaiming victory is the most glorious moment for a knight, which means that he and his achievements have added glory to the goddess. He had already carefully prepared the sacrifices for this, and said, “We have prepared Violet's favorite flowers and swords in the forest.”

“They are: a garland woven from golden osmanthus flowers blooming on the forest cliffs, a wailing vine crown of a god-chosen treant, a shed scale from the Green Dragon's lair, and a golden halberd made by centaurs.”

The great affairs of the state are sacrifice and war.

Su Li would entrust other matters to the knights, but he would personally go to pray to the Radiant Goddess.

So he decisively waved his hand and said, “Then today, let the triumphant army enter the city for a celebration, and then the three armies will go to the Radiant Goddess Monastery to pray to the goddess and proclaim our epic victory!”

For today's celebration, the knights and believers of the goddess in the territory had already decorated the sedan with flowers, human skulls, and gold. They paraded Violet's beautiful statue and enjoyed the cheers and applause of the territory's army, people, and subjects.

After the grand ceremony, the triumphant knights followed Su Li smoothly across the stone bridge in front of Zijing Palace and arrived at the Radiant Goddess Monastery on the northernmost side of the territory. In front of this largest monastery in the territory was a new religious statue. The magnificent statue was already more than ten meters high, and solemnly and purely overlooked all the knights kneeling on one knee to her.