Pioneer Lord: Starting From Daily Intelligence

Chapter 261: Chapter 130: The Four Divine Chosen Guards Beneath the Thorn Throne

The Two-legged Flying Dragon King is undoubtedly the first Divine Chosen Level challenge that Hesse Territory needs to face.

With the Green Dragon’s insidiousness and cunning, it certainly will not immediately gather all its main forces for a reckless showdown with Hesse Territory. Especially now that Hesse Territory has made a bold move, invading the forest, killing a large number of Green Dragon Followers, leaving a field of corpses, and burning numerous camps.

This has undoubtedly enraged the newly awakened Giant Dragon. If it were a Red Dragon, it would probably have furiously rampaged over and burned the entire territory to ashes. However, the Green Dragon is naturally dark and prefers scheming and plotting over direct combat.

Based on the judgment of Su Li and the Knights, after being given a harsh warning, this Dragon will surely overestimate the strength of the territory, believing it to be a powerful realm out to eradicate it. Therefore, it will certainly first test Hesse Territory’s strength cautiously.

The fact that it chose to nest in the forest rather than the Gray Mountain Range indicates that this Green Dragon possesses a somewhat cowardly nature, unwilling to provoke the more prosperous Dwarfs in the Gray Mountain Range and instead preying on these newly risen Pioneer Territories around the forest.

This means that it will be particularly cautious in wars against the strong.

And the Two-legged Flying Dragon Legion has always played the role of spies within its forces. It is very likely to lead the first batch of troops out of the forest to engage in battle with Hesse Territory.

In this battle, Commander-in-Chief Oerstein led the troops into the forest. Besides rooting out the nests and establishing authority through slaughter, another important task was to gather intelligence on the Two-legged Flying Dragon King.

In this regard, there have been quite fruitful results, as Knight Stein solemnly stated: ”In this battle, we captured a large number of prisoners, and through interrogation, we have obtained very detailed intelligence on the Green Dragon Followers Legion.”

”This Green Dragon is named Deceitful Wings·Irelia·Erebos·Cuiying, and it is said to be a descendant of an Emperor Dragon, possessing enormous wealth. As a result, it has gathered a large number of monsters in its army through bribery, recruitment, and conniving.”

”Under its Thorn Throne are four Divine Chosen Guards, namely Elemental Giant Bear·Ostanka·Ussol.”

”Chaos Monster·Chimera Skaros Frenzy.”

”Resentful Tree Demon·Gael Regon Visternwood.”

”And the Two-legged Flying Dragon King·Sandarion Fairwom, whom we have already known.”

Hearing all this, Knight Connor was left pale as a sheet, doesn’t this mean that Hesse Territory has to face the siege of five Divine Chosen Monsters?

But Su Li let out a sincere breath of relief, smiled, and said, ”Isn’t this somewhat good news mixed with bad?”

Hilude also nodded in agreement. When this grim reality finally revealed itself, everyone felt that the heavy burden on their shoulders seemed to lighten considerably.

The unknown is the most terrifying, for ignorance may lead to infinitely exaggerating the opponent’s strength.

Thus, the greatest fear of humanity comes from the unknown. That would even prevent formulating a response strategy.

Now, with Oerstein leading the troops deep into the forest to gather intelligence and uncover everything, the bad news for Su Li is, of course, that the monster’s strength is far greater than known.

But the good news is that our side finally knows the full strength of the opponent and no longer needs to be on edge, worrying they might still have a card up their sleeve after exhausting our main forces.

After taking a deep breath, Hilude said, ”It seems our early strategy of establishing fortified earthworks was the right decision. The number of Green Dragon’s wicked minions is far beyond our imagination. They should be gathering their forces now, preparing to charge out of the forest and destroy all human towns and villages.”

Oerstein nodded heavily and said, ”According to reports from the knights covering our retreat, they could already hear the furious and terrifying roars of the Giant Dragon as they were leaving the forest. This will be like a Wild Hunt Horn, summoning its wicked minions to gather from all directions beneath its throne.”

Su Li asked with concern, ”My Commander-in-Chief, based on your foray into the forest to gather intelligence, how many legions do you think the monsters have?”

The commanding capability of monsters is far inferior to that of humans; they simply cannot command thousands of legions.

However, never underestimate them because of that; they have also learned to adapt through years of warfare. Generally, a Beast King commands a warband, the scale being around 2000 monsters. The more experienced the Beast King, the more monsters they command, but the scale of the warband will almost never exceed 3000.

This time, Marshal Oerstein led the army into the forest, engaging in a battle with a monster army within the forest, clearly eradicating a warband of the Green Dragon Followers.

Such a warband is commanded by a powerful monster, consisting of multiple different tribes or several Beast Herds, occasionally mixed with formidable beasts lured or bribed to join them, such as Forest Giants, Forest Giant Ogres, etc.

Just how fearsome the Green Dragon Followers are doesn’t only depend on how many Divine Chosen Level monsters they have, but also on the scale of their warband, determining how many Forest Monsters are willing to serve as its minions.

And speaking of this, Knight Stein’s expression became very grave: ”My Lord, the number of monsters could very well exceed our imagination. This dark forest, filled with spider webs, is teeming with every kind of evil. We’ve only explored the vast area of the forest’s western region, which is populated with wicked Wizard Towers’ spires, garrison watchtowers, and mysterious ruins—many of which are now nests for fierce beasts, bandits, or mutants.”