Pioneer Lord: Starting From Daily Intelligence

Su Li unequivocally accepted the Marle Castle Lord’s invitation.

It’s absolutely not to find an opportunity to catch a glimpse of Sister Bei’s beauty!

The main reason is to gain greater benefits for the Hesse Territory. Marle Castle is the most prosperous city in the entire Border Prince’s Territory, and it is not an exaggeration to say that if the Castle Lord were to let a little wealth slip through his fingers, it would be enough to make the Hesse Territory soar.

But Su Li’s calculations didn’t last long before they fell through.

Because when he arrived at the magnificent City Lord’s Mansion, he didn’t see the City Lord at all!

He was received by the ”Legendary” Chief of Administration, Remir Marlon, who was once notorious for a scandalous affair and known as the ”Minotaur Master,” having an affair with a senator’s civil servant.

This civil servant’s attire was very characteristic of the southern part of the Empire, wearing a well-tailored deep red velvet jacket with a huge ruby button on the lapel. The sleeves and collar of the jacket were embroidered with intricate golden patterns, symbolizing his power and wealth.

Underneath was a white lace shirt, with a low-cut neckline revealing a few chest hairs, and around the waist, a gold belt studded with pearls.

The sheer number of pearls on it made Su Li’s eyes dizzy. All the pearls he brought were not worth as much as this belt.

Therefore, with a barely discernible cold smile on his deep-set face, after receiving Su Li, Remir directly said, ”What an unfortunate timing, Bauhinia Knight, our City Lord is not in the city recently. The Griffin Horse Knights were unaware of the higher-up’s whereabouts and inadvertently invited you over. But this was definitely not intended to neglect you, as all the Legendary Knights of the Empire have been summoned to Modheim to attend the Elector Count meeting. This is an Imperial summons, and our City Lord can’t refuse.”

What? The City Lord is actually a Legendary Level Knight?

This revelation caused a stir among Su Li and everyone behind him — indeed, the upper echelons leaking a bit of information is a secret forever out of reach for those in lower positions.

Many trading caravans come and go, all thinking the City Lord was merely a proxy put forward by the senators. Unexpectedly, the City Lord truly has incredibly strong power.

Su Li, too, took a cold breath; the woman he wanted to win over was the wife of such a powerful Legendary Knight? It’s not even about lacking the means at present, even if he managed to get Sister Bei into bed, if this Legendary Knight found out, his fate would be worse than Shabulin’s, right?

Fortunately, he quickly stabilized his mindset; after all, his purpose this time was just to take the opportunity to see what Sister Bei looked like, without a strong impulse to take this married woman away.

He immediately seized this good opportunity to ask, ”Why has the Empire summoned so many Legendary Knights to Modheim? I heard the Empire is planning something major? Does it concern this?”

”Of course, there’s no need to hide it from you. This news will soon be made public.” Remir seemed intentionally to make Su Li’s acquaintance, explaining proactively: ”Over the past year, the Empire has suffered many defeats, with a Vampire invasion in the southwest, a spreading Green Tide in the southeast, and even in Arabi, numerous Knight outposts have been destroyed by the Tomb King. This has filled the northern provinces of the Empire with ridicule towards the south. Notably, with the Midland Border Prince Graf at the forefront, various Princes have become especially assertive in the Electors’ meeting.”

”Therefore, to balance the Empire’s situation and to revive its might, our great Majesty has decided to launch a grand expedition, to elevate the Empire’s reputation.”

Launching another grand expedition?

Even Su Li, a transmigrator, couldn’t help but feel his blood boil at hearing the words ’grand expedition,’ enveloped by a grand sense of mission and glorious honor.

The grand expedition is one of the most sacred and majestic undertakings of the Empire, with every Emperor during their reign organizing a large-scale Knight grand expedition to conquer evil monsters or hostile forces, carrying out wars akin to the Peach Court Sweep.

During the grand expedition, the Empire’s people’s sense of glory and cohesion reaches its peak. Every grand expedition is an epic grand war, producing wave after wave of Divine Chosen Knights and Legendary Knights.

From the noble’s perspective, of course, this kind of grand expedition also holds a unique value and significance.

It is well known that within the Empire, there are vast numbers of well-trained, high-quality Knights of Chivalry who have nowhere to apply their knightly education and are left idle.

Due to the overwhelming numbers, they can’t find Kingdom Knights to serve or expeditions to raid...and proclaim justice.

Even competing for jobs like serving as stable security for Kingdom Knights is a matter for dozens of Knight of Chivalry.

Most of them are like an armed mob, similar to roving bandits, except that they have a horse, barely qualifying as mounted bandits.

Thus, organizing a sacred grand expedition at intervals also helps the Empire to consume the heavily overflowed number of Ranger Knights internally, giving these knights wielding a broken Iron Sword a sacred endeavor to pursue.

The last great expedition of the Empire was twenty years ago, under the leadership of the then Emperor, Merciful Heinz Van Buren. The expeditionary army, along with the Kislev coalition, decisively defeated the Chaos Army that had been raging on the Chaos Snowfield, slaying over 40 Dragon Demons within the coalition, among which the strongest Legendary Dragon Demon, Demon Shadow, Macster’s head was enshrined in the Empire’s Imperial Palace.