Knight Lord: Start with Daily Intelligence

Above, the blood moon hung high. As the mysterious day approached, the moon no longer appeared delicate as usual, but instead emitted a chilling red glow, like the blood tears of a goddess, dyeing the battlefield sky into an eerie crimson.

Suddenly, a sharp cry pierced the night's silence from afar. It was the screech of a harpy, a messenger of the night, a harbinger of disaster. With the first screech, black dots began to appear in the sky, initially just a few scattered points, but soon these dots, as if attracted by some invisible force, converged from all directions.

As their numbers grew, their flight paths quickly formed a giant vortex. They were so numerous that they almost blotted out the sky, blocking the bright, blood-red light!

A thousand flies would be overwhelming, let alone a thousand harpies, cruelly howling with wings glinting coldly?

Flying in droves, they were the embodiment of demons, obscuring the entire sky, swooping down upon the humans under the blood moon like a swarm of bloodthirsty bats.

Below, the knights guarding Su Li shouted anxiously, "Lord, descend quickly! Our aerial cavalry is not adept at close combat and is extremely limited in number. We can't stop such a massive wave of monsters in the air!"

Clearly, harpies were much more terrifying than bloodthirsty bats. They were extremely vicious and vile creatures, only occasionally displaying a trace of intelligence, and that was usually when they were devising some malicious scheme.

Because they were timid, they usually roamed around in large numbers, wandering through peaks and valleys, searching for unguarded prey.

Harpies usually wouldn't attack creatures that were larger and better equipped than them. Making such a decision required the monsters to muster their courage for quite some time. But once the harpies believed they had a significant numerical advantage, they would swarm in immediately, screaming and screeching as they tore at their enemies with their claws. There was no loyalty among them in battle – if one harpy was killed in battle, its companions would devour it, just as they would naturally do to their enemies.

When the Witch Moon Mösleib was in the night sky, harpies became more dangerous than at any other time. Under the eerie light of this blood-red moon, harpies were more savage and ferocious than at any other time of the year, because at this time the monsters seemed to be caught in a frenzy of endless predation. Villages and caravans everywhere would double their guards on this Mösleib full moon night to prevent their loved ones and property from being swept away by the gale of monsters.

Stinking bones were the harpies' favorite decorations for their nests. For those brave enough to venture into a harpy nest, it could be very rewarding – only meat was valuable to the harpies, while gold and silver treasures were discarded and ignored.

But it was also very dangerous for men. Harpy society was entirely female, so they would tear apart and drain dry every man who entered their nest for breeding purposes. The cries of men were the most exciting sound to these harpies.

Just as goblins would capture human women for breeding, harpies would also capture lone farmers and hunters to satisfy their bestial desires.

So it was very dangerous for Su Li to fly alone in the sky.

These terrifying monsters howled and hunted everywhere near the military camp. Their sharp claws had already snatched several unprepared halfling archers, and a large number of harpies were frantically besieging the arrow towers in the sky.

The combat power of a single harpy was similar to that of a goblin. If a goblin and a harpy were to engage in close combat in the wild, it would be difficult to say which monster could tear the other apart, pin them down, and successfully vent their bestial desires.

But in the ecological niche of war, the harpy's position far surpassed that of the goblin!

Because war was not a one-on-one duel, the harpy's noble aerial troop status and fast movement characteristics guaranteed their unparalleled combat advantage.

They were like nomadic light cavalry wielding sabers, swooping past in teams, their sharp claws like the scythe of the Grim Reaper, slashing across the bodies of human soldiers one after another, leaving behind huge wounds that exposed bone.

Not to mention halfling archers, even elite human armed infantry regiments, if a soldier was isolated, would be easily torn into countless pieces by the monsters' all-around siege.

The suffering of the enemy was the greatest pleasure of these cruel monsters.

And they had already spotted Su Li, the griffin knight flying in the sky. Hundreds of harpies were flying towards Su Li in groups.

Even with the counterattack trait of the griffin, it would inevitably be seriously injured when faced with so many monsters attacking from all directions.

So the pegasus knight Fasterick disregarded the risk and took off forcibly, coming to Su Li's side and shouting anxiously, "Lord, let's land quickly. The archer corps and thunder gunners have already completed their formation and will shoot down these harpies."

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

Humans were probably never going to be able to form an aerial cavalry force comparable in size to the monsters.

His territory's aerial cavalry, even with the swan archers, only numbered a little over ten, while the monsters numbered as many as a thousand.

Even if these ten pegasus knights killed all these harpies, they would be in a greatly weakened state.

So he didn't hold on, directly patted the eager Deathclaw, and rationally landed on the ground.

A large number of Black Forest Guard knights immediately guarded him. If the harpies dared to dive down, they would definitely be blocked by the knights' iron-barrel-like defense.

A fallen phoenix is not as good as a chicken. If these harpies landed for close combat, armed servants could start a massacre.

But their situation was not much better without landing. Archers and dwarves in each arrow tower, watchtower, and defensive tower were firing frantically from the firing holes.

The harpies' ability to move quickly was bought at the cost of their own weight. Apart from their sharp, scythe-like claws, they had no protection. Not to mention being unarmed, they were even unclothed. Most of the harpies only wore a dirty pair of underpants on their lower body, and some were even completely naked.

This meant that both musket bullets and halfling arrows could easily pierce their bodies. As long as the attack hit, it could immediately penetrate a dozen centimeters into their bodies. Bullets could even directly pierce their chests and abdomens.

A thunder musket squad on the ground fired in unison, and the harpies in the sky rained down blood, corpses, broken limbs, and feathers like dumplings.

Dogelin roared excitedly, he raised a golden dwarf monocular telescope and shouted, "These evil, despicable monsters, let you see the power of the dwarves."

"Prospector's Sniper Telescope effect triggered! Dwarves, snipe to your heart's content."

With his shout, a green light emitted from the golden telescope, instantly enveloping this entire thunder musket squad.

Each dwarf's musket had cyan rune energy surging, and even the bullets fired were changed from fiery red to cyan, and this trajectory was greatly improved in terms of power, speed, penetration, and accuracy.

The dwarves shot down more than 40 harpies quickly passing through the sky with just one volley.

With such a high hit rate against such a fast-moving target, it can be said that this sniper attack was almost perfectly accurate.

Moreover, Su Li personally witnessed several cyan bullets piercing through the harpies' chests, shooting out from their backs, splashing a lot of blood, but the momentum was still undiminished, continuing to shoot into the harpies behind, causing terrible wounds.

Such a terrible and precise sniper attack was just a normal attack by the dwarves. The sniper effect of this telescope covered the thunder musketeers for a very considerable amount of time. The thunder musketeers were still able to continuously shoot out a large number of cyan trajectories, sniping countless flying monsters.

Seeing this scene, Hild's eyes lit up as she followed Su Li, and said, "I didn't expect Dogelin to get such a treasure."

Su Li also showed joy, he remembered very clearly that Dogelin did not have this treasure the last time he fought against the demon army.

Now that more than a month has passed, he didn't know whether he dug up this treasure under the ruins, or bought this prop from the mountains with a lot of dwarf oath gold.

In short, this prop in his hands can obviously greatly enhance the output ability of the musketeers.

Judging from the effect, this is definitely a dwarf ancient relic equivalent to a human glory relic.

While Su Li was observing, the dwarf roared again and raised the [Prospector's Sniper Telescope] to bless another thunder musket squad.

The two squads fired alternately, and the harpies in the sky couldn't dodge at all. Blood and corpses kept falling, and the sky was dyed particularly blood red by the blood rain.

Contrary to Su Li's expectation of their furious charge, these hundreds of harpies flying in groups collapsed in courage before they even approached the dwarves, and screamed and fled backwards.

This situation made Dogelin roar loudly. His physical strength was very strong. The consumption of using the ancient relic twice only made him breathe a little faster.

And the monsters had fled, he immediately put away the telescope and shouted loudly, "Dwarves, follow me to continue chasing these monsters."

The rout of the harpies greatly spread the fear of the monsters, especially since the arrows were still constantly shooting out from the arrow towers and firing holes in the fortress, and the bullets and arrows flying all over the sky were causing damage to the monsters every minute and every second.

The once sky-covering monsters quickly became sparse under the continuous blows. Hundreds of monsters were shot to death, and the rest fled the camp in embarrassment.

But before the soldiers of the territory could cheer, a huge shadow in the distance opened its wings and came overwhelmingly, almost obscuring half of the blood-red moon.

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

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

But he was not confident whether this musket could still have lethal damage in the face of the God-chosen dragon.

After all, the terrifying impression left by the God-chosen Khorne demon in the previous battle was too deep.

Hundreds of thunder musketeers firing at the demon's huge body could not quickly kill it.

Under the pressure of the Wyvern King, the harpies who were in fear and chaos also quickly reorganized their formation and flew in the sky. Their state was miserable. Many harpies still had bloody wounds on their bodies. Blood flowed down their breasts to their lower abdomen, and dripped from the inside of their thighs, sprinkling sparsely to the ground.

But almost no drop of this blood fell into the soil!

Following the dripping blood downwards was an extremely large army. They came out of the dark shadows, their scale became larger and larger, their area became wider and wider, and finally extended densely, the front line was boundless!

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 wildness.

What poured out of the darkness first was a large number of gnolls and jackalmen howling to the sky. They held a variety of weapons, from machetes and spears to flails, shields, and finally hunting bows, crossbows, and blowpipe arrows, everything!

Then there were a large number of forest goblins. They were not tall and their arms were slender, but they were particularly noisy. They scolded arrogantly as soon as they appeared. They held daggers, short spears, and bows and arrows. If they found a suitable environment, they could output recklessly. Even dwarves equipped with heavy armor could not resist.

However, their status was extremely low. In the middle of their army formation, there were a large number of forest trolls and river trolls holding leg bones, clubs, and stone axes and charging forward. These monsters with very low intelligence did not understand what dodging was at all. Any goblins blocking their way were trampled into meat paste by them.

And the most eye-catching in the array were the giants with a height of more than ten meters! Some of them carried boulders on their shoulders, and some held crude stone axes that were thicker than trees. These big guys could always use various weapons and armor fragments scavenged from the battlefield to arm themselves, but brute force and physique were their main fatal reasons.

Their intelligence was not high, but their brains were definitely enough to wash a knight's whole body.

The ground troops 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 hurricane they stirred up together could even fly sand and rocks, making it impossible for weak monsters such as jackalmen and goblins to stand still.

When they flapped their wings with all their strength, the halflings' arrows could be blown away by the hurricane and lose their accuracy.

Seeing this, Su Li was both excited and uneasy. The good news was that the monsters did rush over directly as he had expected.

But the bad news was that there were too many monsters rushing over! The monsters that were only exposed gave humans a great sense of oppression. I don't know how many trump cards are hidden in the darkness.

The raid of just over a thousand harpies had already brought great chaos to the camp. The human army opened fire with all its might, gunshots rang out, and muzzle flashes scattered in all directions, only managing to shoot down a few hundred harpies.

Now, defeating this massive monster army would undoubtedly be even more difficult.

Dogrin immediately roared, "Quick, drag out our cannons! Let these monsters see the power of the dwarves with our artillery!"

Four strong dwarves operating the cannons immediately pushed them out from pre-dug caves, setting them up on prepared flat high platforms. This was the best firing position on the eastern side of the entire Stone Mountain, not only with a wide field of fire but also a flat, elevated terrain.

Three squads of dwarven warriors and one squad of dwarven rangers guarded this area to prevent monsters from raiding the artillery position.

Around the artillery position, dwarves had also pre-constructed fan-shaped defensive works with sandbags and shields, ensuring that the monsters' catapults and arrows could not cause effective damage here.

The firing arc of the cannons had already been calibrated during the day, so as soon as the cannons were pushed out, the dwarves loaded a solid cannonball into one.

With the commander's order, the cannon fire roared deafeningly, and the cannonball accurately hit a massive forest troll in the monster wave.

The high-speed rotating cannonball directly tore apart half of the troll's abdomen, and the cannonball that passed through even smashed several goblins behind the troll into pieces.

However, the forest troll showed no signs of falling; it angrily raised the femur club in its hand and roared to the sky, while the wounds on its body rapidly healed with the blessing of its [Regeneration] ability.

This was a racial trait brought about by their consumption of large amounts of forest wood and medicines; as long as they were not directly killed, they could rapidly recover from their wounds with the regeneration ability.

Amidst the rumbling of cannons, Sandarion flapped its wings and swooped down from the light of the blood moon, its enormous wings stirring up a gust of wind.

It wasn't until it approached within two or three miles of the border哨所 that it suddenly stopped, opened its terrifying mouth the size of a room, and roared, "I, the supreme master, the highest controller of the Western Bloodpine Forest, the Wily Wing, Aeryreia Erebus Shadowgreen, will bring death and destruction upon all human territories!"

"None of you filthy, despicable, and sordid treasure thieves will leave here alive. My Shadowgreen Legion's vanguard, the king of the wyverns, will tear you all to pieces!"

The huge sound waves spewed out of its mouth, even shattering the eardrums of some weak freemen. Dozens of freemen and halflings bled from their ears in this deafening sound, painfully clutching their heads and falling to the ground.