Pioneer Lord: Starting From Daily Intelligence

Chapter 173: Chapter 105: Full-scale Explosion of Agriculture and Animal Husbandry (Part 2)

This made Su Li very curious about the capabilities of various battle flags, and he asked Hilude with interest, ”What is the flag of the Sun Goddess Church?”

”Ordinary priests produce the Lily Battle Banner. With divine grace, a powerful priest might even create the Holy Lily Battle Banner.”

”The Holy Lily Battle Banner allows the brilliance of the Fiery Sun to shine upon the knights. A squadron of knights carrying the Holy Lily Battle Banner will radiate a dazzling halo on their bodies and weapons, with a layer of brilliant golden light coated on their weapons and armor, granting divine grace that greatly enhances both defense and attack power.”

The lily is the symbol of the Sun Goddess. Her followers, during festive celebrations and after victorious battles, carry her divine statue in grand parades adorned with flowers, gold, and skulls.

Both the lily and the skull represent the purity of humanity.

Thus, this Lily Battle Banner aligns well with the characteristics of the Sun Goddess, making the knights gleam golden, while the Holy Lily Banner is the super enhanced version of it!

In their daily life, the knights of the Sun Goddess blind their enemies with their brightness. Whether or not they are strong, a variety of cool and strong lights are certainly standard.

Su Li was also very eager about these battle flags and said, ”I hope that one day soon, we can obtain a Holy Lily Banner to allocate to our Hesse Forbidden Guard Knights.”

Through his personal selection and creation, the Hesse Forbidden Guard Knights were now taking shape.

He selected 24 elite knights to form this noble flower unit. The entire unit, at minimum, comprises elite level knights, and only champion level soldiers can become the Knight Commander, leading a team of elite knights.

Currently, Fastrick and Jerald are serving as the Knight Commanders of the first and second teams respectively.

Su Li provided them both with perfect-level armor, weapons, and runes.

He even distributed two pieces of Dragon Blood Stone to each of them, with one piece worn by the knight and the other tied in front of the war horse’s neck.

Meanwhile, all other soldiers were dressed in brilliant Star Iron Armor, all equipped with lances, armed with a sword and a shield each, and even their warhorses uniformly equipped with heavy armored horse armor.

These steeds are not ordinary war horses but rather strong horned horses that Su Li captured from the Green Hills, each with one long and one short horn on its head, making them one of the finest impact warhorses within the Empire’s borders.

With the support of the intelligence system, Jerald personally took action and even captured the horse king of the wild herd from Green Leaf Hills.

This robust steed is extremely powerful and possesses great wildness, making it the most magnificent warhorse in the entire Hesse Territory. Its diet even includes meat, allowing it to climb mountains and cross rivers with ease, navigating steep peaks and cliffs as if they were flat ground.

When faced with griffins, fierce birds of prey, other horses would tremble with fear, but only this horse king shows no fear. Instead, with a high-pitched whinny and powerful hind leg kicks, it meets the gaze of the griffin, always ready to fight.

Jerald gave it a resounding name, Thunderhoof, because when it gallops, the sound of its hooves is like thunder, awe-inspiring.

Besides such uniquely talented steeds like Thunderhoof, each of the Hesse Forbidden Guard Knights was allocated two horned horses.

All of this ensures that the Hesse Guard’s soldiers are elite, their warhorses are majestic, and their equipment is well-ordered, making them the elite of the elite, and all the soldiers of the territory consider joining this army a great honor.

Their charge is even more formidable, with banners and armor illuminating the world.

With the addition of a more powerful Holy Lily Banner, their military power and prestige would become even more magnificent and overwhelming.

To cultivate the sense of honor within this unit, even though there are more elite level knights in the Hesse Territory, Su Li did not incorporate them all but instead carefully selected, excluding newly joined captives, slaves, and knights with insufficient merit and performance from the selection.

After days of selection and promotion, joining the Hesse Guard Knights became one of the honors pursued by the knights.

An elite knight who fails to be selected for the Hesse Forbidden Guard Knights would feel extremely regretful and remorseful. Everyone would cast doubtful eyes upon him, questioning his previous bravery in battle, suspecting whether he had ever shirked or retreated on the battlefield, questioning why he did not achieve dazzling military exploits and heroic performance.

And those who successfully became part of the Hesse Forbidden Guard Knights strutted around with pride, garnering cheers from the crowd wherever they went.

Su Li himself once personally experienced this feeling of honor.

Due to the expansion of Hesse Town and the influx of new immigrants and trade caravans, many people did not recognize him as the lord.

Adorning himself with the armor and badges of a Hesse Guard Knight, his young and handsome face appeared on the street, instantly igniting cheers throughout the city.

Su Li smirked and left them with a very narcissistic boast: ”I roamed young in golden armor, mounted on a horse leaning against the arched bridge, attracting all the red sleeves!”

And this was not him deliberately showing off in the regalia of the Hesse Guard Knights, as it was entirely appropriate for him to don this armor and badge.

Because he is the Marshal of the Hesse Forbidden Guard Knights!

According to the Empire’s internal traditions, many electors, upon taking office, automatically assume the role of Marshal of the Territory’s Guard Knights simultaneously.

In the future, if he were to pass away, his son would, upon succeeding as the Lord of the Hesse Territory, also assume the role of Marshal of the Hesse Forbidden Guard Knights simultaneously.