Pioneer Lord: Starting From Daily Intelligence

Chapter 864: Chapter 104: Chaos Crisis · Oliver’s Three Strategies

As the finals of the Official Knight stage arrived, Su Li could finally enjoy a leisurely sleep.

In the Official Knight stage, even entering the door to the transcendent world, the rightful members of the ruling class still had their presence. The Lion Ring Arena temporarily suspended other matches to focus on their finals.

Meanwhile, the betting amounts at the casino soared once again after a brief decline, even surpassing the enthusiasm of the first day’s same period.

However, contrary to Su Li’s expectations of everything going smoothly, he discovered a major problem as soon as he refreshed the intelligence upon waking up.

With Flash Spear City’s gradual formation, at least the spire below Heaven’s Lance had already stood up, Heaven’s Lance shone brightly on the vast and dark Old World continent, attracting the attention of the Evil God.

The intelligence showed that among the three official candidates in today’s official stage competition, two would encounter problems!

One had been seduced by Treachery, another blessed by Khorne, and the last one wasn’t in good condition either, having taken too many potions, ”benevolently” blessed and poisoned by Nagash!

So after reading today’s intelligence, Su Li decisively got up and summoned Oliver, Hilude, Dietrich, and Vandar, a few ministers who had to suppress this matter.

By the time the ministers arrived, he hadn’t even eaten a few mouthfuls before speaking bluntly: ”What is going on with the Official Knight competition? I repeatedly reminded you that no accidents should occur. But now it has been corrupted by Chaos. You don’t want to see our much-anticipated knights on the finals stage all become the Evil God’s lackeys, right? Ending up as Treachery followers, battling a bloodthirsty Champion of Khorne. The only one left has grown full of pustules, with ulcers erupting, eventually giving rise to a large number of Nurglings!”

If the finals really ended up like this, it would become a joke and could even significantly impact the upcoming Elite Level and Champion Level finals.

Hearing Su Li’s severely critical tone, the group was slightly astonished, realizing that during these recent matches, some have been corrupted by the Wind of Chaos, becoming the Evil God’s lackeys due to extreme obsession and strong emotional fluctuations. But truthfully, the Empire’s citizens, in this dark and hopeless world, have become particularly numb and resilient, used to seeing Chaos Corruption in their lives.

Living in this world filled with the Wind of Chaos is akin to a weak version of the Demon Realm; who hasn’t seen a few humans corrupted into the Evil God’s lackeys? Especially when a large number of the audience are Transcendents, who are often the first to be alerted and called upon when Chaos Corruption appears in an area.

So in everyday life, seeing instances of falling and becoming the Evil God’s lackeys isn’t a rare occurrence. They wouldn’t think that the probability of corruption by the Evil Gods increased significantly during this Sun Goddess Church festival.

However, if three Chaos lackeys appeared in today’s finals all at once, it would surely become a stain on this Radiant Competition Festival.

Even if the upcoming Elite Level and Champion Level matches concluded perfectly, the Official Knights coming to compete next year would drop significantly. No one wants to struggle and fight their way to the finals only to become Chaos Monsters for sure.

People participate for honor and benefit; if achieving results means inevitable mutation and death, who would join such a competition?

By then, those people would surely become the main source of ridicule for the Radiant Competition Festival, and Su Li could even foresee the mockery.

”Are you talking about that competition where all the finalists fought each other as Chaos lackeys?”

”Are you aiming to win representing Khorne, or do you wish to become Treachery’s champion? But I’d advise you to choose Sado; after all, you can really feel delightfully thrilled before you die.”

”Compete? Not even a dog would go! Only the top three have rewards, and yet they all got corrupted by Chaos. Isn’t this like desperately seeking a path to Chaos Corruption?”

Thinking of these sarcastic remarks, Su Li felt a chill down his back, setting the tone before the meeting began: ”Absolutely not, the Official Knight finals cannot become a stage for a Chaos Evil God lackey brawl.”

As the planner and organizer of this festival, Oliver had a deep understanding of all the participants.

Now that this change had occurred, regardless of the consequences, he must immediately step up and bear the responsibility.

So he immediately said: ”Lord, today’s finals schedule is that the two semi-final winners will compete for the championship and runner-up, while the two losers will compete for the third-place position.”

”I’ve already studied these knights before, among whom Blood Roar Gangsir of the Yurik Church has the highest probability of winning the championship. As a follower of Yurik, the divine spirit he believes in always evokes a knight’s fury and courage in their hearts, giving him a decisive edge in such one-on-one duels. One could even say that in battle, Yurik’s followers are stronger than those of the Sun Goddess. After all, the Sun Goddess is the God of Tactics and Strategy, focusing more on the application of war tactics.”

”Gangsir was born into a military family in the northern Frost Fortress of the Empire, marked by the Wolf Head Battle Banner. It’s said that when Gangsir was young, he traveled the northern glacier, once single-handedly slaughtering a whole tribe during a campaign against the Norsca Barbarian Race, and perhaps in that battle, his subconscious was marked by Khorne due to excessive slaughter and triggering a blood sacrifice ritual.”