Pioneer Lord: Starting From Daily Intelligence

Chapter 129: Chapter 70: Medical Knight Order and the Guardians of the God of Death

The four members of the Hospital Knight Order include three women and one man, all powerful Elite Knights, blessed with the Divine Magic bestowed by the Goddess of Life, Shalya.

These Order Knights, in addition to their innate combat abilities bestowed by their bloodlines, also gain an additional Divine Magic gifted by the Goddess of Life.

This Divine Magic greatly embodies the Divine Authority mastered by the deities that the knights believe in.

For instance, the Sun Goddess Violet, who governs tactics and strategy, endows Knight Oerstein with [Eagle Eye Perspective], [Blazing Sun Divine Shield], and [Battle Prayer].

Particularly, the new magic [Battle Prayer] more perfectly showcases the character of Violet, the Sun Goddess, as it is a Divine Magic that most champion-level knights in the Flame Sun Knight Order would acquire.

When Divine Grace descended upon the territorial Goddess Convent, Knight Oerstein also felt the blessing of Divine Grace and smoothly acquired the Divine Magic after being promoted to champion-level.

This Divine Magic perfectly aligns with the style of devout followers of the Sun Goddess, for whom battle is a devout prayer ceremony, constantly refreshing prayers in battle to grant ally knights around them greater power, more powerful to destroy the enemies of the goddess.

It is a passive magical trait that can exert active beneficial effects, unbelievably powerful.

As long as Knight Oerstein continues in battle, he can intermittently grant buffs to surrounding ally soldiers, with intervals roughly equaling the time of a normal prayer.

Undoubtedly, Divine Magic occupies an extremely important position in the combat power of a knight.

Su Li, long interested in the members of the Hospital Knight Order, immediately asked Master Kote with great excitement: ”What are the Divine Magics of these four knights?”

Master Kote detailed in response: ”As you know, Her Majesty Shalya is the Goddess of Life and Mercy, and her symbol of Divine Authority is an eye filled with tears. Legend has it that the God of Fraud, Lanode, became divine by drinking a bottle of her tears.”

”This lady is undoubtedly kind and merciful, able to send healing and compassion to those wounded and in despair.”

”So, the four of them possess two types of Divine Magic, namely [Touch of Mercy] and [Spring of Life].”

”Touch of Mercy: This Divine Magic allows the user to deliver Shalya’s mercy and love through touch, capable of healing wounds inflicted by blades and providing emotional comfort and strength to the touched, dispelling their inner fears.”

”Spring of Life: This Divine Magic can summon a temporarily existing small Spring of Life, with waters possessing the divine power of Shalya’s tears, offering strong recovery and regeneration capabilities, allowing any creature drinking from it to rapidly restore vitality and stamina, and even curing some chronic ailments.”

”Followers of the Sun Goddess often gather believers during rest days, engaging them as territorial militia for military training, while followers of Shalya often organize charitable aid in communities on rest days, using Divine Magic to heal diseases and dispel corruption for the populace. These aids are mostly free (limited to rest day), but sometimes, to maintain the church’s operation, fees are collected, especially from the wealthy.”

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Upon hearing this, Su Li couldn’t help but sigh; such rarity indeed, in a world primarily characterized by despair, darkness, and desecration, there exists such a merciful and kind deity.

Her fate is likely not as beautiful.

Su Li asked, ”How did you acquire so many elite knights from the Hospital Knight Order?”

Su Li wouldn’t believe it if told they were captured by the Slave Capture Team.

There are four elite knights on stage, plus formal knights and Apprentice Knights of the Hospital Knight Order, with a number estimated to be no less than a dozen.

If their Slave Capture Team had captured so many, the scale of defeat of the Hospital Knight Order on the battlefield must have been enormous.

At least a sub-order of the Hospital Knight Order must have been obliterated.

This isn’t something a Slave Capture Team could accomplish.

Master Kote did not hide anything, explaining, ”We acquired these knights through formal sources. Our Slave Capture Team does not rely solely on capturing; collaborating with other forces is also an important source for slave traders to obtain slaves.”

”As for these members of the Hospital Knight Order, we bought them from the Vampires. In the southwestern province of the Empire, a Vampire Legion appeared. The Hospital Knight Order, in order to protect the civilian retreat, engaged the Vampire Legion before the Mole Black Guard Knight Order arrived, resulting in the loss of over a thousand knights.”

”The Vampire Counts sold the captured knights to city slave traders, and we acquired a batch.”

After listening, Su Li couldn’t help but sigh, unsure of how to comment.

This paragraph contains so much information.

The Empire is indeed perpetually under the threat of monsters. To the east, there’s the invasion from the Green-skinned Blood Hand Tribe, which has already shattered the coalition of three dukes. This has greatly increased the prestige of the beastman leader, Geba. Thrilled, orc and goblin tribes from thousands of miles around have flocked to join his army, launching a grand WAAAGH, aiming to destroy all civilized outposts along the way.

The Grand Prince of the Sulande Elector has urgently mobilized his army to counter this invasion of hundreds of thousands of green skins.

In the west of the Empire, a Vampire Count has appeared from the mountains, and Su Li doesn’t even know what’s going on. Isn’t the main force of the vampires centered around the Empire’s central region, in the southeast of the West Highlands?

How has a vampire undead army appeared in the southwestern mountains of the Empire as well?

And as for the choice of the Hospital Knight Order, Su Li is even more at a loss for words.

Emotionally, he unquestionably admires these Hospital Knights. To protect civilians, they have bravely launched charges, even when faced with undead forces dozens of times their number, fighting to the end to allow civilians time to retreat.

However, rationally speaking, in this desolate world, their acts of kindness and compassion can only lead to even more tragic and desperate outcomes.

The deaths of so many high-level knights, in the absence of members from the Mole Black Guard Knight Order, only provide a vast number of perfect corpses for vampires to summon more powerful Black Knights to strengthen the undead legion.

Mole is the divine spirit responsible for watching over death for humanity. It needs to be emphasized that he is not the God of Death, but the god of overseeing death, allowing people to die smoothly without desecration.

His followers are responsible for arranging funerals and doing their best to let the deceased rest in peace, while also fulfilling their duty to combat the undead.

In this land full of war, disease, and chaos, death is an eternal companion, an inescapable conclusion. But often, people cannot truly die.

For instance, vampires are one of the threats of death, pulling the long-slumbering dead from the ground and enslaving them with black magic, filling each summoned dead with malice.

The doctrine of Mole is to guard the peace of the deceased, protecting the dead. They observe all funerals and wake rituals.

No matter when or where, encountering an undead mage and undead creatures will result in their full efforts to eliminate them.

The doctrine demands they respect and empathize with the dead and their families, pay attention to their own dreams at night, never refuse to officiate at funerals, and unless given special permission by Mole, never allow the dead to be resurrected.

Mole bestows upon each of his elite knights a powerful divine magic, ”Eternal Rest.” His followers can intone solemn prayers over a corpse, ensuring the soul is sent to Mole’s kingdom, rendering the body permanently immune to necromancy.

Thus, citizens of the Empire, after the death of a family member, strive to gather gold coins if conditions permit, hiring an elite knight from the Mole Church to officiate the funeral, ensuring their loved ones are not disturbed by the undead after death.

In the Empire’s military, Mole Knights are an indispensable presence.

Where there are vampires, there will be reinforcements from the Mole Knight Order.

Within the Empire, this divine knight order’s numbers are second only to the Winter God Yurik. Unlike the churches of Yurik, Redema, and Violet, spread in a particular direction, his church and knight orders are scattered across all directions of the Empire.

If reinforcements from the Mole Black Guard Knight Order had been present, the situation in the southwest of the Empire might not have deteriorated to this extent.

However, Su Li only thought about it for a while before retracting his thoughts.

In such a large Empire, there are abundant talents and elites. Theoretically, the number of Holy Sanctuary Knights is not small. A legendary figure will emerge to turn the tide; the Empire’s crisis is not something for him to worry about.

If he has leisure time, he should think more about the crisis in his Hesse Territory. To the north, there’s the imminent possibility of a demon legion appearing, and to the east, there’s the powerful green dragon and its evil minions.

These monsters appear, and without legendary-level creatures to aid the Hesse Territory, he can only rely on himself.

So Su Li took a deep breath and said to Master Kote, ”These arrangements of the divine spirits and electors we cannot understand, better not to speculate recklessly. Let’s discuss the slaves, what’s their price?”

”These four knights of the Medical Knight Order are priced at 300 Golden Crowns, a bit higher than ordinary bloodline knights, but absolutely worth every penny! This divine magic alone is worth 100 Golden Crowns. A single treatment by them could save the life of an elite knight on the battlefield.”

”And in aid activities on rest days, they could bring substantial vitality to your territory, enabling some who lost the ability to labor to stand again...”

Su Li raised his hand, interrupting his eloquent persuasion.

Currently, the territory needs them to more enthusiastically and actively push slaves into the territory, so Su Li won’t haggle and bicker with him. Once they invest sufficiently in the territory, just a minor tax rebate will turn everything back around.

It’s the initial investment phase now; you need to spend money to make money. Su Li generously said, ”Alright, it’s a deal at this price. What about the other two transcendent beings?”