Pioneer Lord: Starting From Daily Intelligence

Chapter 1025: Chapter 147: Su Li’s Strategic Faction Ability: Green Knight

Can these Green Knights be defeated?

Su Li raised an eyebrow, looked at Carlos, and asked, "I know you have a bit of a dry sense of humor, but are you really not joking? What’s the difference between dispelling and purification? What does it mean to defeat them?"

Carlos raised his right hand, pressed his middle finger against his forehead, and said earnestly, "Of course, my Lord, I swear in the name of Mole... there is a big difference in this! Purification means we completely purify these Green Knights. Dispelling means we only disperse them!"

Su Li couldn’t help but clench his teeth secretly. He knew that when someone from the Church swore in the name of Mole, almost everything said afterward would be hard to take seriously!

What does it mean that purification is purification, and dispelling is just dispelling?

Isn’t that the same as saying nothing?

Demster saw that the Lord was barely containing his anger, with his brow twitching, and knew the situation was not good. He mumbled, "I said there’s something odd about him; we shouldn’t have let him in."

Hilude kicked his calf vigorously from behind, and Demster felt a force like a sweeping Giant Dragon, causing him to lurch forward suddenly, stumbling in front of Su Li.

He looked up at the Lord’s angry pupils and quickly explained, "My Lord, please don’t be upset, let me explain. What Carlos meant by purification is sending the souls of these Green Knights to Mole’s realm, and they would be gone forever."

"And dispelling refers to scattering them in the physical sense. However, their souls remain, and over time, combined with the convergence of the Wind of Magic, it won’t take long for these Green Knights to reform. This is what Carlos meant by the Green Knights being defeatable."

Su Li looked down at his anxious face, eyes suppressing anger, and asked, "Demster, do you think the tasks I’ve assigned you are too easy? I gave you nearly two months to investigate the situation at the lake bottom, to find the weaknesses of this Ghost Cavalry. In the end, after giving you so much support, so much funding, your reward to me is to have me take the army to fight these Green Knights?"

If after all this, they have to rely on the military and swords of the Hesse Territory to defeat these Green Knights, then what is the point of all the time wasted and wealth consumed?

Demster could feel the Lord’s anger on the verge of eruption, and he admired the Lord’s composure and demeanor, still able to remain calm.

If it were him, upon hearing such a result and report, he would have exploded long ago. It indeed sounded like a waste of resources, achieving nothing.

He hurriedly explained, "My Lord, my Lord, calm down! This was definitely not futile! Carlos and I used the Crimson Pearl to enter the lake bottom and conducted thorough investigations. After dozens of trips, even at the cost of over twenty brave Knights’ lives, we finally uncovered extremely crucial, invaluable intelligence! It proves that not only is it necessary for us to battle these Green Knights with Blue Mirror Territory, but it is also a strategic opportunity of a lifetime!"

Demster took a deep breath, trying to make his voice clearer and stronger: "The key lies in the ’rules’ and ’recognition’ governing the existence of these Green Knights!"

He pointed at the Boundary Stone fragment in Carlos’s hand: "We call this ancient Knight Order the Oath Knight Order, their deepest logic for existence is the ancient guardian oath — recognizing and guarding the true, powerful protectors of this land, who have the qualifications to resist the threat of Chaos! This is an imprint deep within their souls that cannot be entirely erased, even by death!"

Demster’s eyes gleamed with excitement: "Baron Grant of Blue Mirror Territory has not truly gained the Green Knights’ recognition! The reason they can drive the Green Knights to fight near the lake is that they used Manan’s Divine Magic as a shortcut, despicably stealing the Knight Order’s treasured possession, thus acquiring a portion of the ability to drive the Green Knights!"

He glanced at the expressionless Carlos beside him. Carlos nodded slightly and, using his distinct calm tone, added, "Through [Mole’s Words], communicating with the remnants of the ancient Knight Heroic Spirit at the bottom of the lake, coupled with our findings of ceremonial remnants around their lair... we can be certain. Baron Grant exploited the Divine Magic of their faith in Manan to infiltrate the core of the Green Knights’ lair during a critical period, possibly when the lake’s undercurrents surged or vortices formed, affecting the stability of Spiritual Energy in a highly risky manner."

Carlos’s voice carried a trace of icy disdain: "They lacked the courage and ability to directly challenge or awaken the ancient will of the Green Knights. Like thieves, they stole a fragment of the Oath Lance, which bears the Green Knights’ core oath power, likely related to the Boundary Stone, or a relic of a Knight Commander. They then used Manan’s dark magic to mimic the fragment’s aura, crafting a sort of ’false oath token.’"

"It’s like..." Demster interjected, struggling to find a vivid analogy, "like a vile beast trying to deceive a tiger by smearing itself with tiger’s urine to mask its scent. Using the imitated ’Guardian’ aura emitted by this ’false token,’ they deceived the Green Knights. They made the Green Knights assume that Baron Lanster’s army was ’one of their own,’ or at least allowed to ’operate within the Territory to combat external threats.’ Thus, the Green Knights responded to their certain guidance, fighting for Blue Mirror Territory around Blue Mirror Lake. But essentially, it is a fraudulent, unstable enslavement!"