Pioneer Lord: Starting From Daily Intelligence

Chapter 330: Chapter 151: Su Li’s Sado Philosophy and the Grand Heisen Castle (Part 2)

Mia instantly flew up with excitement, circling around Su Li, and said, ”Great, great. We hate the Green Dragons and all forest creatures; they always steal our water sources.”

”But I hate the Skaven Ratmen even more. I’ve already smelled the rotten stench of Skaven Ratmen from the river’s breath. There must be Ratmen nearby; you humans need to be careful.”

Ratmen have arrived?

Su Li’s eyes flashed with sharpness, and he said to Mia, ”Alright, thank you for this warning. It’s very important. I will dispatch my army to guard this area, not only against the Green Dragons but also to prevent the Ratmen’s stench and plague from corrupting here.”

Then Su Li bid farewell to these wondrous Forest Essences, leaving them to the care of Guardian Otter Kappa, who guided them to enjoy themselves in the Magic Springs scattered across the territory.

Meanwhile, Su Li, accompanied by Hilude and other ministers such as the Engineering Master, swiftly returned to Heisen Castle to inspect the territory’s defense deployment and military mobilization.

As soon as he returned to the territory, intending to check on the army’s training status, an attendant subordinate to Hilude immediately approached to report a piece of news.

After Hilude waved his hand to dismiss the attendant, he turned to Su Li and said, ”Lord, Marshal Orstein has returned with the Knights.”

Su Li laughed heartily, saying, ”Our Marshal must have brought us another glorious victory. Come, let’s go welcome our triumphant troops.”

It wasn’t particularly to welcome them; he was already planning to visit the training grounds between the castle and the outer walls to inspect the reorganization of the new army, so it was conveniently on the way.

Soon they passed through the heavy stone corridors and reached the high ground of the inner castle walls.

Dwarves were still constructing magnificent towers here, which were newly built in the territory and would house a Resentment Dragon-Hunting Crossbow, using powerful giant crossbows and Seeking Runes to damage the Giant Dragons.

The thick walls ensured that even if a Green Dragon clung to the walls to spew Dragon Breath, it couldn’t directly kill the defenders inside.

Below the Arrow Tower was a wide stone staircase, allowing Dwarves to continuously transport giant crossbows up to the Arrow Tower.

These Dragon-Hunting Crossbows were equipment Su Li acquired after strengthening relations with Redbeard Castle.

Recently, Redbeard Castle had no inclination for major wars. Dwarven lords tended to be conservative, even becoming complacent. They liked to stay in the mountains, ignoring outside affairs. Even though the current Dwarf Supreme King was ambitious, encouraging Dwarves to venture out and actively intervene in matters of other races, at least to combat evil and help their human big friends, the stubborn nature of Dwarves was not easy to change.

At least the lord of Redbeard Castle, having just experienced fierce wars with Demons, was enjoying rare peace and wanted only to guard his mines and mountain farms.

So even when the big lords down the mountain faced the invasion of the Green Dragon Legion, he only sent these Dwarves who volunteered for the campaign, essentially an expeditionary force of Dwarven volunteers.

However, he strongly supported the human war with weapons and equipment.

After Su Li paid a considerable amount of Gold Coins, Dwarf Oath Gold, and mineral trades, the Dwarves of Redbeard Castle, in addition to cannons, sold Su Li two Resentment Dragon-Hunting Crossbows.

So the Dwarves had been working overtime day and night to expand two tall towers on the city wall to properly place these Bed Crossbows.

Of course, the construction of the city wall hadn’t stopped.

The fortresses in the mountains built by Dwarves soared dozens of meters high. Many cities backed by the mountains had towering towers and lookouts, and the tall walls were nearly as high as half a mountain because these Dwarf Engineers would seize any opportunity to reinforce and heighten the walls.

Since the war ended, the Dwarves returned to Heisen Castle without rest and, under the Engineers’ command, repaired and heightened the city walls.

The current wall height had reached 16 meters, with some towering towers even rising over thirty meters—when arrows were shot from atop, they truly rained down like a storm.

When the monsters besiege, they aren’t even within range before being attacked by the arrows and rocks from the Arrow Towers.

This kind of arrow shot from high above has immense power and can easily pierce through chain armor.

Even Human-Skinned Wolves wearing armor or Great Horned Beasts in heavy armor wouldn’t dare to be repeatedly struck by such arrows.

The Greenfield Knights love this type of setting the most.

They are the only Knight Order in the entire Empire to abandon lances and longswords as their close-combat weapons, instead using bows and arrows.

Undoubtedly, they are Guardian Knights of the Sun Goddess.

Even among the followers of the Sun Goddess, other traditional Knights find this Greenfield Knights distinctively odd.

However, the members of the Greenfield Knights don’t care in the least; they consider gaining an advantage for the army using bows and arrows as encouraged by the Sun Goddess Violet.

This group of Knights are all infantry skilled in archery, well-versed in forest warfare and urban scrimmages in Terrabheim. Sometimes the Greenfield Knights also conduct joint training with the Flame Sun Knights to discuss neutralizing the charge tactics of elite cavalry using elite archers.

A powerful Greenfield Knight stood in the Arrow Tower, equipped with his enormous bow and enchanted arrows, aiming at the monsters ascending the siege ladders below, capable of inflicting terrifying damage.