Knight Lord: Start with Daily Intelligence

“Divine Grace: Shield of the Sun.”

“Crimson Blood: Might of the Lion.”

With two roars from Knight Orstein, an incredibly brilliant golden light erupted above their formation. The Shield of the Sun allowed all the Black Forest troops to be protected by the power of the Sun Goddess, significantly enhancing their defense.

The arrows shot by the Black Arrow Bandit Gang were almost completely ineffective, unable to penetrate the armor enhanced by the Shield of the Sun.

As Knight Orstein's champion-level bloodline erupted, his body burst into a golden light, and a golden lion phantom appeared behind him. He roared as he launched his attack, the power of the lion fully infused into him. With a single blow, the earth trembled and the sky cracked! The Black Arrow Bandit Gang soldiers holding shields to block were instantly sent flying dozens of meters.

On the battlefield, both sides exclaimed in unison.

“The power of a Champion Knight!”

The Black Arrow Bandit Gang members cried out in despair, their morale instantly collapsing. Countless people wailed, “Divine manifestation, it’s a Champion Knight! Run!”

Lambert's face turned ashen in an instant. He couldn't imagine that in such a remote frontier territory, there would be a powerful Champion-level knight!

He stared intently at Knight Orstein, whose body was surging with golden light. Behind this Champion-level knight, it was as if a golden lion was possessing him, making his figure exceptionally burly. At this moment, his size had exceeded three meters. This aura of explosive spiritual energy was the mark of a Champion-level knight.

Upon entering the next stage, reaching the God-Chosen Knight level, activating the powerful bloodline power would trigger the [Divine Descent] ability, directly transforming into a divine general ten times the size, possessing the ability to tear dragons apart with bare hands and cleave giants with a sword.

If the opponent were a God-Chosen Knight, he wouldn't even have the courage to resist!

Now, facing a Champion-level knight, he forced himself to calm down, then drew his bow to its fullest extent, the black arrow in his hand aimed at the Champion Knight rampaging on the battlefield.

The black arrow in his hand was made of dragon scales, and after being enchanted by the dwarves at his request, it possessed the ability to ignore heavy armor.

He had three such arrows! As long as all three black arrows could hit their target, he still had hope.

However, just as he was focusing all his attention on aiming, he faintly heard an exclamation from behind. Before he could turn around to check, he suddenly felt a massive force strike him, and his whole body spun and flew into the sky. On the ground, there was a familiar body, drawing a bow and nocking an arrow, the black arrow streaking out with a long trail of fire. But alas, the arrow, losing its aim, deviated from the target by nearly ten meters. The opponent didn't even bother to glance at it.

Before his vision completely faded, Lambert finally realized that was his own body! He had been beheaded!

A heroic female knight, wielding a sharp sword, had severed his head, then raised her sword high, shouting something.

In her shouts, the members of the Black Arrow Bandit Gang hesitated, looking at each other, and finally dropped their weapons, kneeling in the muddy fields.

The Black Arrow Bandit Gang was defeated! Defeated so quickly that he didn't even see the enemy's face clearly.

Then his vision turned completely black, and he lost consciousness, not seeing a young and heroic noble stepping onto the battlefield, stepping on his head, full of vigor, as if a lord descending upon the battlefield.

Lambert, the famous leader of the Black Arrow bandit gang in Bloodpine Forest, was beheaded by Hild, slain on the fierce battlefield. The remaining members of the forest bandit gang were terrified, their morale collapsing.

Just as Knight Orstein had said, most of these forest bandit gangs were criminals without faith or honor.

As long as their leader was successfully beheaded and they were intimidated by a surrounding force, they didn't have much courage to resist.

After 13 of the 67 bandits were killed, the remaining 50-plus chose to surrender.

They wisely chose not to run. In this endless, flat grassland, running would undoubtedly provide the knights with the pleasure of hunting. Two legs could never outrun four. Only a few mounted attendants, relying on the mobility advantage of light cavalry and bows, escaped the knights' pursuit.

Soon, the armed attendants tied up all the bandit gang members, and after counting the numbers, Hild excitedly reported the results to Su Li.

“Lord, many of the members of this bandit gang are quite strong. Besides the 7 seriously injured, there are still 2 official knights and 4 apprentice knights among the remaining people. The rest are all at the level of ordinary armed attendants.”

The forest is truly a treasure trove of resources for frontier lords. It hides many talents who have fled inside for various reasons.

Su Li directly ordered: “Treat all the seriously injured and bring them back to the territory. Let Fandal treat them with all his strength. Even if they are crippled, they can still be serfs. Eliminate the old and weak and throw them into the slave camp. Only keep the official knights and apprentice knights and recruit them into our ranks. Keep a close eye on them. If they don't change their ways, hand them over to the court for trial and execution.”

Recruiting prisoners into the team will definitely lower the morale of the entire team. Neither the prisoners themselves nor the other knights in the team want them to join the army.

Some people might even run away under the cover of night, becoming deserters. Many bandit gangs in the forest are made up of deserters.

But Su Li is in urgent need of manpower now. He must gather all the soldiers he can recruit in order to fight against the powerful Green Dragon.

As for the morale problem, he can only rely on his special abilities to slowly improve it.

At worst, he will hold a banquet every few days, rewarding the soldiers with fine wine and fresh meat to boost morale.

Hild nodded in agreement and said, “I will recruit a team of elites from the bandit gang to serve as armed attendants, first serving these direct knights for a month.”

After arranging the prisoners, Su Li turned his attention to another issue: “How are the spoils of war?”

He was holding Lambert's three black arrows in his hand. Black light flickered from time to time on the arrowheads of the enchanted arrows, indicating that these three arrows were quite valuable.

Knights in this world generally don't use bows. Unlike Eastern knights who value mounted archery, where being able to shoot from horseback with both hands is considered a fierce general.

Most knights prefer close-quarters combat with swords and blood, ready to launch a fearless charge, piercing terrifying orcs, monsters, and even dragons with lances.

It is these brave and fierce knights, clad in heavy armor, charging into battle, that allow humans to fight against those terrifying demons and gods, those barbaric and powerful monsters.

But in such a large world, nothing is absolute.

Many lords also form their own archer corps. If there are enough warhorses, there are even more majestic mounted attendant archers. Majestic, of course, is relative to the common people. Being a mounted attendant is undoubtedly the identity that farmers most desire, because it means being able to serve as a warden and sergeant. Starting as an armed infantryman takes several years to climb to this position, and it is only possible to be promoted by fighting bravely on the battlefield.

Correspondingly, some knights also use bows, with the Knights of the Blazing Sun being the most famous.

Su Li felt that if he obtained a lot of bows this time, he could consider forming an archer corps for Black Forest.

Hild immediately reported: “The equipment of this bandit gang is relatively mixed, with hundreds of items such as hand axes, round shields, light armor, and studded leather armor. The quality is relatively poor and can only be smelted by the dwarves. However, the craftsmanship of the woodland yew bows in their hands is very good. More than twenty of them are of excellent quality, and we also found more than 300 cone-headed arrows.”

The quality of equipment in this world is quite varied. Ordinary bandits and looters use crude, inferior weapons and equipment. Generally, if something can be called excellent, it is considered qualified military weapons. The main forces of the various baronies and earldoms of mankind are equipped with weapons and armor of this level.

Further up, there are those forged by dwarves, elves, and human masters. Each one is a masterpiece. A set of masterpiece-level armor is worth at least dozens of gold coins.

For example, the dwarven heavy armor forged by Beros Dragonhammer, each set is a masterpiece-level heavy plate armor, shining with brilliance, thick and sturdy, selling for at least 30 gold coins a set. A barony's annual income, after expenses, cannot buy many sets.

And above this fine-grade equipment, it involves runes, each with its own unique rune entries.

Generally, equipment with one rune attached can become excellent, such as the three black arrows in Su Li's hand.

Adding two runes is very prominent, and can be called perfect-grade quality. Each one can be regarded as a family heirloom. Even in an earldom, there are not many pieces of perfect-grade equipment.

And equipment with three runes attached can already be called rare-grade equipment. Each one was once famous for a time and is a symbol of a noble's strength and wealth. An earl who has such a rare-grade piece of equipment, whether it is a weapon or armor, is enough to make him famous among the surrounding nobles. Whenever there is a banquet, this piece of equipment will be displayed, attracting countless people to watch and admire.

Su Li wants to form an archer corps, and starting with a large number of excellent equipment is already a very high starting point.

So Su Li handed the three black arrows to Knight Orstein and instructed him: “My commander, if we want to fight larger-scale battles, a ranged legion is essential. Make use of these excellent woodland yew bows. In addition to the 12 attendants reorganized from the bandit gang, recruit 12 more believers of the Sun Goddess and train them into archer attendants. This, plus the halfling archers, will give us 3 squads of archers.”

Knight Orstein was, of course, highly motivated by this opportunity to increase the number of Sun Goddess believers. If he could promote the doctrine and attract more Goddess believers, he might even be favored by the Goddess and granted more powerful divine grace abilities.

He immediately said: “I will respect your will, Lord. I will begin working on this matter as soon as I return to the territory. I guarantee that the archer corps will be formed before tomorrow, and then they will quickly form combat power in ten days.”

Su Li liked this guarantee. The sooner the combat power of the troops is formed, the better.

Then he returned to the territory with the prisoners and spoils of war. This bandit gang provided him with 23 gold crowns. When he put them into the warehouse under the castle, all the gold coins in the warehouse had piled up into a small mountain, with at least 1200 gold coins.