Knight Lord: Start with Daily Intelligence

Frost Rune Sword

After Hildur handed over thirty or so Snow Mist Beads to Su Li's armed attendant, Harry, she took out more than 50 gold coins from her bosom.

"Lord, after we killed a large number of Snow Corpse Demons, we braved the wind and snow to reach a cave on the top of the mountain. Inside was a powerful Bone Knight guarding the treasures within the cave, and these gold coins are what we found inside."

Gold coins were not in short supply in the territory, so Su Li waved his hand generously and said, "These are the spoils you have earned, and you deserve a share. Take out ten gold coins as your reward, and divide them among the four of you."

Knights in this world are members of the ruling class, so they still have certain privileges.

In addition to wages and manor production requiring taxation, lords generally do not tax such spoils and rewards.

Therefore, a revenue of nearly three gold coins per person is also a considerable income for elite knights. They have to maintain their weapons and armor, feed their warhorses, and support several attendants, so they also have considerable financial pressure.

The four knights were all invigorated, and the listlessness from the journey dissipated a lot.

Hildur then took a lengthened knight's greatsword from the warhorse's saddle, held it flat with both hands, and presented it to Su Li, saying, "Lord, this is our greatest harvest in the cave. It is the sword of the Bone Knight. He is tall, nearly four meters, riding a Nether Warhorse with flames burning on its hooves, and wielding this Frost Rune Sword, which gave us great pressure."

"Under his urging, this war sword was attached with a layer of silver moonlight. With a full-strength heavy blow, it could directly freeze a target. If it weren't for Her Excellency, Aemilia, using her ice-attribute bloodline to generate a shield to block in front of us, we might have been seriously injured in this battle."

Su Li grasped the hilt of the sword and lifted it up. A chill immediately rushed from his palm to the top of his head, and he felt his entire right hand stiffen.

As expected of a rune sword of a powerful knight, it feels like no elite-level knight can use this divine weapon.

Su Li waved his hand and reinserted the long sword into its sheath, and asked, "Hildur, can you use this sword?"

Hildur shook her head and said, "I can't use it either, Lord. This Frost attribute rune sword is best held by a water-attribute elite knight so that they won't be backlashed by the runes on the sword."

Knight Orstein took the long sword over to look at it and introduced it to Su Li, "This sword is engraved with two layers of runes. Through the azure inscriptions on the blade, it can be roughly determined that they are [Prayer of Conquest] and [Frostbite]. If it is not a knight with a water-attribute bloodline, it is easy to be backlashed by the power of frost if they use it."

He was a believer of the Sun Goddess, with outstanding wisdom, knowledge, and insight, and introduced to Su Li, "The Prayer of Conquest allows elite-level or above water-attribute bloodline knights to obtain the effect of scripture prayer when manipulating this sword. The power of frost freezes their own wounds, and uses the water attribute to accelerate wound recovery and slow down their own fatigue."

"Frostbite allows the opponent to be corroded by frost and snow, their movements become stiff and slow, and the damage they receive will be more serious. If the elite knight uses his own powerful bloodline power to launch a full blow, the heavy blow of the long sword will briefly freeze the opponent."

Su Li asked, "Such a powerful effect? How long can it freeze a monster?"

Knight Orstein had seen the power of Frostbite in the hands of other knights on the battlefields he had fought on, "The freezing time depends on the opponent's strength. The weaker the strength, the longer the freeze. Like Inferior Horned Beasts and Kobolds, if they are hit by Frostbite, they will be permanently frozen into ice blocks, and there is no thawing time. And powerful and brutal monsters like Great Horned Beasts and River Trolls can basically be frozen for one or two breaths."

One or two breaths? That's already very strong. Unless you encounter a powerful Troll Chieftain that requires a long duel by a powerful knight like Orstein to kill, otherwise ordinary Horned Beasts and Ogres, one full hit, these one or two breaths are enough to severely damage the opponent.

So Su Li patrolled around and found that the only elite knight in the army suitable for this rune sword was Aemilia, a hot-bodied but cold-tempered female knight. After all, there were only 8 elite knights in the territory, and two of them were fire-attribute knights.

So Su Li said to Aemilia, "Knight Aemilia, come here."

Aemilia had already anticipated what was about to happen, and even with her cold temperament, her breathing was a little hot at the moment.

She immediately jumped off her warhorse and knelt on one knee in front of Su Li, saying, "Lord, I am ready to dedicate myself to you at any time."

Su Li held the Frost Rune Sword and placed it on her shoulder, "I grant you the right to use this rune sword. Its power will be closely linked to your glory. I hope you can use it to cut off all the monsters that threaten our territory and protect our territory and homeland."

Aemilia's breathing instantly became heavy and rapid. A treasure sword with double runes was really given to her!

She was so excited that she could hardly believe it. Before, she was bought as a slave, and she had never had a high sense of belonging to the territory, especially since this territory had just been established, and everything was very barren, which did not match the identity of an elite knight.

But at this moment, she only felt the excitement in her chest spreading to her whole body, and she was extremely grateful for the Lord's generosity and trust. She took the rune sword with both hands, immediately hammered her chest with her fist, and solemnly swore.

"Gods above, I, Aemilia Wind Chime, swear by my sword, my blood, and my honor. Whenever and wherever, I will abide by the knightly virtues of loyalty and dedication. As long as I have a breath, I will use it to protect our territory, protect your glory, and protect our beliefs."

Su Li nodded with satisfaction. With the gods above in this world overlooking all living beings, oaths are still very valuable.

The main thing is that there is no dark scene of Sima Yi farting at the Luo River. Knights pay special attention to oaths, and once they swear, they will do their best to fulfill the oath.

Then Su Li waved his hand with satisfaction, let Aemilia get up and enter the team to rest, and the entire army prepared to enter the Golden Oaks Mine to take down this giant iron ore vein.

The target of this battle was the Kobolds hiding in the deep mountain mine cave, which was really not easy to fight. This terrain was not suitable for knights to gallop, and if walking knights were sent in to slowly clear them, it would take a long time. Su Li didn't want the army to leave for a long time, leading to the emptiness of the territory.

So Su Li decided to personally command this battle. This requires a little strategy and wisdom from the East, and cannot be a simple frontal attack.

Under Su Li's command, Hildur took off her Vibranium Rune Armor, only wearing a set of tight-fitting white robes for knight training, showing her graceful curves and beautiful figure to the fullest.

Then she led a hundred armed attendants into the Golden Oaks Mine, heading straight for the mine occupied by the Kobolds.

Her swaggering advance, looking like a spoiled noble lady who didn't know the immensity of heaven and earth, was very in line with the arrogant and conceited appearance of a noble's daughter who had just arrived at the border Prince's territory before being beaten up.

Frederick and Knight Orstein crossed their arms and held them in front of their chests, raised their chins high, and looked at Hildur, who was advancing in the distance.

They led the main force of the Black Forest Territory's knights, hiding on the two small stone mountains on the south side of the Golden Oaks Mine. When Hildur lured out the Kobold tribe, they launched a surprise attack from behind.

The two had completely different attitudes towards the Lord's tactics. Frederick believed that this tactic used despicable conspiracies and ambushes, which was no different from the lowly Beastmen and Goblins?

But the military commander, Knight Orstein, greatly appreciated it. He was a believer of the Sun Goddess, and his life and attitude were more flashy and fashionable than other knight orders, and he would even study war strategies that ordinary knights disdained, and study archery skills that many traditional knights despised. For example, the knight order sometimes uses a shield that can reflect light, using sunlight reflection to interfere with the opponent's combat, which is naturally not recognized by many knights.

The cultivation of the Sun Goddess's believers includes not only fighting, but also discussing strategies and strategic thinking in their spare time, including developing the use of trebuchets and cannons.

Watching Hildur gradually lead the army to the entrance of the Golden Oaks Mine cave, Frederick turned to Knight Orstein and asked, "Do you think Hildur can successfully attract the Kobold tribe?"

Knight Orstein raised his chin and said proudly, "Of course, don't you see who taught her? She is a very talented believer of the Sun Goddess. She can definitely complete such a simple war strategy easily."

But in fact, Hildur herself in front did not have as strong confidence as Knight Orstein.

The Lord asked her to take off her armor and dress up as a proud and tyrannical Duchess's daughter, an arrogant and self-righteous Imperial Princess, to provoke this Kobold tribe.

This made her have no confidence at all. The Imperial Princess and Duchess were too far away from her. She had never even seen them. How could she know what they were like?

She could only follow the fabricated image in the knight novels, raising her chin arrogantly, holding a gorgeous noble one-handed sword, and leading the troops to the front of the mine pit in a commanding manner.

The Kobold tribe had Kobold archers on the mine pit gate to guard, and they spotted this team from afar.

Hildur's strategy worked better than she expected! Because... the Kobolds didn't know what human Imperial Princesses and nobles were like either. Anyway, the image of arrogance and tyranny in the legend was too similar to Hildur's current appearance.

More importantly, Hildur's image was too dazzling. Whether it was her outstanding face or her peerless figure, she was as bright and moving as an Imperial Princess, extraordinary, making the Kobolds firmly believe that this was the pampered descendant of those great nobles who had just arrived at the border Prince's territory.

So when Hildur shouted that she was the only supreme master from the Grey Mountains to the Brienne River Valley, from the Blood Red Highlands to the Blood Pine Forest, the Kobolds let out a sharp laugh.

Hildur blushed in their laughter. She really felt that she might have performed poorly, so she shouted angrily, "You dirty monsters, I will cut you all into pieces with my sword and feed you to the dogs."

"Feed to the dogs?"

"Feed to the dogs!"

The Kobolds were instantly enraged by this sentence, and they screamed and cursed, clamoring to show these arrogant and self-righteous humans a lesson.