[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-exiled-from-the-start-and-dominating-the-wastela":3,"chapter-exiled-from-the-start-and-dominating-the-wastela-exiled-from-the-start-and-dominating-the-wastela-chapter-37":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"english","Exiled from the Start and Dominating the Wasteland with an Intelligence System",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":19,"prevChapterSlug":20,"totalChapters":21,"novelImage":22},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":16,"translator":17,"content_hash":18},1688637,2155,"Chapter 37 : Chapter 37","exiled-from-the-start-and-dominating-the-wastela-chapter-37",37,"\u003Cp>Chapter 37. The Black Crow Spreads Its Wings\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the council hall, the air seemed to grow heavy from words such as “over a thousand rebels” and “they could strike at any moment” falling from Eli’s lips.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet on Buck’s resolute face, the shock only flashed by for an instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was immediately replaced by a cold, razor-sharp edge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His hawk-like eyes narrowed slightly as his gaze passed over the map spread across the table.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was as if his sight had pierced through the wooden walls themselves and shot toward Lucerne City in the northwest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Over a thousand rebels?” Buck’s voice was not loud. It even carried a strange kind of calm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Young Master, you seem to have forgotten that I did not come empty-handed this time.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eli looked up. “Captain Buck, I know you brought reinforcements...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Buck slowly straightened to his full height, his towering frame like an iron fortress that could not be shaken.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He raised five fingers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Fifty knights of the Black Crow Knights. All have arrived.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He paused, and the corner of his mouth lifted in the proud curve that belonged to a top-tier powerhouse.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Among them, twenty-five are at the Silver Tier.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What?!” Eli’s mouth flew open wide enough to fit an egg.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He suspected he had misheard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Twenty... twenty-five Silver knights?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Buck gave a slight nod. His voice was steady and powerful, every word carrying the weight of a thousand pounds.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes. Including me, there are twenty-five at the Silver Tier. The remaining twenty-six are all at the High-Bronze Tier, and half of them have already touched the threshold of Silver.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing Eli so thoroughly stunned gave him a faint sense of satisfaction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So long as they do not hide inside Lucerne City like turtles in their shells, and dare to come out and fight us head-on in open ground...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A burst of golden battle aura suddenly erupted from Buck’s deep-set eyes, so intense it seemed almost tangible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The Black Crow Knights, fifty riders strong!” Buck’s voice rang like clashing steel.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Once we charge in formation, each of us can stand against ten! Fifty breaking five hundred would be effortless!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fifty against five hundred.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was not the arrogant boast of a madman, but a rational judgment founded upon absolute strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Twenty-five Silver knights, with a Gold Tier knight as the spearhead.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And behind them, a torrent formed by twenty-five of the most elite High-Bronze knights...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If such a force launched a massed charge across open ground, its destructive power would be enough to punch through an ordinary army several times its size in an instant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eli’s heart thundered wildly in his chest, and the roar of rushing blood pounded in his ears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he had received his father’s letter, he had known the Black Crow Knights were strong. He had never imagined they were this strong.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All of his earlier anxiety, all of his pressure, melted away like ice and snow beneath the sun in the face of this absolute power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His own soldiers, Bol and the other ten family knights, Wolfgang’s thirteen Wolf-kin warriors...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And now these fifty terrifying Black Crow Knights, each one worthy of being called a trump card.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Buck’s gaze swept across Sebastian, the silent old steward standing nearby, and a deeply peculiar look flickered through his eyes as he added,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And besides, Young Master... there is a true ace hidden here as well.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The dreadful shadow of that day still lingered in Buck’s mind, unforgettable even now.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>An ace?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eli froze for a moment, then followed Buck’s gaze toward Sebastian.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old steward remained expressionless, the eyes behind his gold-rimmed glasses as still as an ancient well, as though he had not heard Buck’s words at all.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And then Eli suddenly understood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course. This unfathomable old steward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could his father truly have sent him here merely to manage the accounts?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Sebastian’s strength... was probably far beyond what it appeared to be on the surface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His father had sent him the very foundation of the family’s hidden power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A surge of overwhelming joy, mixed with a shock too deep for words, crashed into Eli.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only now did he truly understand what it meant to possess the terrifying reserves of one of the Royal Domain’s foremost marquess houses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>What it meant to have the deep roots born of a century of accumulation.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was a gap so vast that someone like Grumm, a mere baron of a small city-state, could never even begin to imagine it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before a giant like House Black, Grumm and his thousand-odd troops were nothing more than a slightly sturdier buffoon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So that is how it is...” Eli slowly let out a long breath, and his tightly furrowed brow finally eased completely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All his earlier worry and caution vanished without a trace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His gaze fell once more upon Lucerne City on the map, and his finger struck it heavily.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Now we only need Brandon to send back exact information. Once we confirm the number of troops Grumm is sending, the direction they are advancing from, and the timing...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eli’s voice became utterly decisive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“We will strike first. We will catch them off guard and finish everything in a single battle!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The atmosphere in the council hall suddenly relaxed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hahaha, rest easy, Young Master.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The golden glow in Buck’s eyes receded, but that powerful confidence still clung to him like something tangible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Eli’s lips curved upward. “Earlier, the Governor of the Western Frontier promised me that if I could retake Lucerne, he would grant me the title of baron.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Oh? A baron?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That is good news! If the Marquess learns of this, he will certainly be very pleased.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All the while, Sebastian stood there in silence. He merely stared at the abrupt white hair atop Eli’s head, as if lost in some thought of his own.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>......\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the same time, far to the south of Obsidian Territory, deep within that hidden ravine wrapped in steep cliffs and dense primeval forest...\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The atmosphere there was utterly different from that of the council hall. It was filled instead with a near-frenzied scholarly obsession.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This is it! This is the place!!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Master Glenn Parr’s roar echoed again and again through the narrow rock fissure, shaking loose pebbles from the cliff walls.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, the short, sturdy old man had completely cast aside all dignity worthy of a master.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Like a monkey that had discovered a peerless treasure, he threw himself at a rock wall streaked with strange, dark blue veins of light, scrambling forward with both hands and feet.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His fingers, thick with calluses and burn scars, trembled as they greedily caressed the cold stone.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Energy turbulence! A spatial seam! Associated Starvein Rock! No mistake! Absolutely no mistake!!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He suddenly lowered his head and began clawing directly at the damp soil at the base of the rock wall with his bare hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without even looking, he grabbed a large handful and stuffed it straight into his mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Master Glenn!!” Estor was so frightened that his soul nearly left his body. He cried out sharply and rushed forward, trying to stop him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the side, even Scholar Alva lost his composure for once. His eyes behind his spectacles widened into perfect circles, and his mouth fell slightly open.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He completely forgot his usual scholarly bearing as he stared blankly at the towering rock wall before him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So it is real...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then Estor’s cry drew his attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“H-He is actually using the most primitive ‘earth-tasting method’ (eating dirt)... This old madman...”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Master Glenn paid no attention at all to their horror.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With his eyes shut tight, his cheeks worked vigorously as though he were savoring the finest delicacy in the world.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A twisted expression, mixed equally with pain and supreme delight, spread across his face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The coarse mud, mixed with gravel and unknown minerals, was kneaded by his saliva inside his mouth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ptoo!” A few seconds later, he spat the muddy slurry violently onto the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hahahaha!!!” Master Glenn exploded into deafening laughter, his graying hair and beard standing on end with excitement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It is here! It really is here! These are the fragments of Starvein Rock unique to the rock layers associated with mithril!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And this... this damned energy that makes the soul tremble!!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He waved his arms wildly, tugging his burn-marked leather apron into a crooked mess.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he suddenly spun around, his bloodshot eyes blazing like iron pulled fresh from a forge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He fixed a stare upon Estor, who had been frightened senseless by his wild behavior, and upon Leon beside him, who was equally shaken.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Boy!!!” Master Glenn’s roar nearly overturned the entire ravine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What are you still standing there for?! Go! Find me men! Find the strongest miners you can!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Bring me the best stone-splitting chisels and rock-breaking pickaxes! Bring them here immediately! Right now!!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He swung his mud-smeared arm as he shouted, his spit nearly spraying across Estor’s and Leon’s faces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And you!” He jabbed a finger at Scholar Alva, his voice hoarse and warped with excitement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Old man! Stop standing there in a daze! Where are all those precious instruments you brought?! Set them up at once!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Take the measurements! Find the energy nodes, the frequencies, and the weak points for me! Down to the inch!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>I want to know exactly where to bring the pick down so we can avoid those damned fissures without disturbing the treasure below!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Scholar Alva, infected by Glenn’s fervor, suddenly snapped back to himself as well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes! Yes! Energy mapping! Spatial analysis! Quickly! Bring over my instrument cases!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He began directing the apprentices who had followed them, his hands moving in a flurry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Estor looked at the two old men, both of whom had entered a state of instant madness, and felt his scalp go numb. He turned to Leon beside him for help.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only to find Leon looking back at him in exactly the same way.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their eyes met.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They both nodded at the same time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Go find the lord!”\u003C\u002Fp>",1666,"2026-06-06T13:50:45.567Z",1,"novelbin.me","787bafcba37cc63b9ffcbc2e240e9ccae58d60e23ce45cd01dfaaa4b21e24c73","exiled-from-the-start-and-dominating-the-wastela-chapter-38","exiled-from-the-start-and-dominating-the-wastela-chapter-36",112,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fexiled-from-the-start-and-dominating-the-wastela-cover.jpg"]