[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"origin-warlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence":3,"chapter-warlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-warlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-chapter-1":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Warlord: Starting with Daily Intelligence",{"chapter":7,"nextChapterSlug":18,"prevChapterSlug":19,"totalChapters":20,"novelImage":21},{"id":8,"novel_id":9,"title":10,"slug":11,"index":12,"content":13,"wordcount":14,"created_at":15,"updated_at":15,"volume":12,"translator":16,"content_hash":17},2338464,4572,"Chapter 1","warlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-chapter-1",1,"\u003Cp>The kingdom’s borders have long been unstable, with lords frequently meeting peril and death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To prevent vacant border lands from being seized by foreign tribes or demonic creatures.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Every three years, the kingdom selects several younger sons of nobility, bestows them with titles, and grants them border territories to reinforce border security.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lion Eagle Kingdom, Silver Shield City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The triennial challenge for younger sons is currently underway.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Noble lords, ladies, and young ladies attend in splendid, ornate attire.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Commoners and serfs, in tattered clothes, also flood in.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gervas felt the envious glances from the common serfs in the distance, and could not help but turn his gaze toward the higher seats, where the nobility’s young masters wore even more dazzling garments.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some are born in Rome, while others are born as beasts of burden.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though seated on the noble platform, he occupied the lowest position.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This world does not merely subject commoners to rigid hierarchies.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nobles themselves are divided into tiers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First tier: royal family, dukes, and marquises; second tier: earls and viscounts; third tier: barons and knights.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gervas belongs to the Gail baronial family—the so-called minor noble house.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Minor noble houses hold little land and possess thin foundations; beyond the eldest son, the younger sons’ lives are scarcely better than those of commoners.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Feeding horses, shoveling manure, hauling water, chopping firewood—Gervas, having crossed over half a year ago, has become expert at all of it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The worst part is, on the day they come of age, minor noble younger sons are cast out of their families to fend for themselves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And now, Gervas has only one month left before he turns seventeen!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Gervas? The younger son of the Gail family?” A voice beside him pulled Gervas back to reality.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The speaker was the civil magistrate of Silver Shield City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though the civil magistrate held only an honorary title and no land.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the civil magistrate of Silver Shield City—one of the largest cities in the southern realm—his status far surpassed that of a minor noble.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Your Excellency, I am Gervas. What is your business?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The civil magistrate smiled warmly. “Congratulations, younger son of the Gail family—you’ve struck fortune! After unanimous deliberation among the great nobles, to ensure fairness in this year’s challenge, the final title-granting slot will be granted free of charge to the younger sons of minor nobles!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And you, by lottery, have won this rare opportunity!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Your Excellency, such a wonderful opportunity—I truly cannot bear it. Could I please give it to someone else?” Gervas’s lips twitched as he stared at the temporary arena, enclosed by wooden fences, in the distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside the arena, a black bear, two and a half meters long and one and a half meters tall, drooled foul-smelling saliva as it roared incessantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Stranger still, black mist continuously oozed from its body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the effect of dark death energy corruption.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, this was a dark creature.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Compared to this corrupted black bear,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>goblins and half-orcs were utterly weak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The latter could be killed relatively easily with sufficient strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the former—if you don’t pierce its incredibly hard skull and crush its brain matter—no amount of disemboweling will have any effect.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That’s why, even though this was the final title-granting slot of the year, the great nobles still passed it on.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The opponent was simply too powerful—even the great nobles’ younger sons, who prided themselves on their strength, had no confidence in victory.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet, to maintain the challenge’s rigor, the title-granting slot could not be skipped.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Either you lose the challenge and a new round begins, or you forfeit the slot entirely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Such a precious slot was clearly too valuable for the great nobles to relinquish.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So their solution was to pick a unlucky fool to face this corrupted black bear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once the unlucky fool is defeated, they can redraw the opponent and restart the competition for the slot.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And why did this unlucky fool land so precisely on Gervas’s head?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That brings us to ten minutes ago, when several soldiers announced the matter, and each younger son pulled out silver and copper coins to shove into the soldiers’ hands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only Gervas, when he reached into his pocket, realized—holy hell, his pockets were cleaner than his face!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As he stared blankly at the soldiers, Gervas knew: the unlucky fool had been born.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Ding! Daily Intelligence System loaded successfully, system binding in progress…】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Daily Intelligence System loaded complete, latest intelligence refreshed…】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Intelligence One: The large bear in the arena was captured half a month ago, but due to a mistake by the Royal Hunting Team, they were forced to use magic scrolls—Flash and Shockwave—to subdue it, leaving the corrupted black bear nearly blind and deaf, retaining only its sense of smell. The hunting team concealed this to avoid blame.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Intelligence Two: Three hundred meters south of Kent Street in the southern district of Silver Shield City, inside a large tree, lies a hidden stash of ten gold coins—stolen by a servant from Lord Bote ’s estate. The servant’s crime was soon exposed; during a violent resistance, he was accidentally killed, leaving the stolen money buried for over a decade.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Intelligence Three: Outside Maple Village, thirty li east of Saint Peter City, lies a maple forest where a rare Red Spirit Fruit tree is about to ripen. Its fruit instantly enhances physical constitution and meridian strength—if not harvested within twelve hours, the Red Spirit Fruit will fall to the ground and lose its medicinal properties.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Intelligence Four: The civil magistrate of Silver Shield City’s wife will go to the estate of Lord Cato after the challenge to have an affair—yet she told the civil magistrate of Saint Peter City she was going on a countryside outing with other nobles!】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Intelligence Five: The beautiful maid Carolin, who serves Lady Mary, possesses a faint trace of ancient Lucky Bloodline. Legend says this bloodline is favored by the God of Fortune—carrying her beside you grants a bonus of luck to all endeavors!】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Ding! Daily Intelligence broadcast complete.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This… my system has finally awakened?” Gervas felt like bursting into tears.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Six months—do you have any idea how hard these six months have been?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’re sure you won’t go, younger son of the Gail family?!” The civil magistrate’s smile vanished, replaced by a cold, expressionless face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gervas looked pityingly at the man with the green grass on his head, took a deep breath, and said, “Your Excellency, I’ll participate—but I need compensation. Dark death energy can infect the body; if tainted, lying sick for months is the best-case scenario. I need money for medicine, just in case!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Twenty silver coins!” The civil magistrate’s eyes locked onto Gervas.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ten gold coins! Not a single copper less—I won’t step into the arena. If I get infected and can’t afford medicine, I’ll die painfully…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“One gold coin, boy. If you refuse again, I won’t mind having the soldiers ‘escort’ you onto the field…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Deal—but I need the money first, before I step in!” Gervas cut him off and agreed instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The civil magistrate blinked, then turned to the several soldiers beside him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The soldiers grimaced and pulled out their bribed money pouches.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After rummaging, they gathered only sixty or seventy silver coins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s not even a hundred!” Gervas shook his head firmly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The civil magistrate glared at the soldiers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The soldiers felt worse than losing their own fathers, and reluctantly dug deeper into their pockets to make up the remaining silver coins.\u003C\u002Fp>",1240,"2026-06-20T22:44:01.160Z","Qwen3-Next 80B","cf7c6c71f9466822e30f7a501fed6b1ba1daeded2b965731403304cf28056ec8","warlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-chapter-2",null,521,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwarlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-cover.jpg"]