[{"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-126":6},{"origin":4,"title":5},"chinese","Warlord: Starting with Daily Intelligence",{"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},2338589,4572,"Chapter 126","warlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-chapter-126",126,"\u003Cp>\"My lord, look—there really is a stone house ahead!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After traveling more than ten minutes into the Black Pine Forest, the path suddenly opened into an abrupt clearing.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Around it stood dense black pines, but the clearing itself, hundreds of square meters, held only ankle-high grass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the center of the grassy clearing stood a stone house.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The stone house’s surface was weathered by rain, yet not a single vine or plant covered it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My lord, this is incredible—its owner must have been a mage!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even Migen and the other knights could now deduce the original owner of the stone house was no ordinary person.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gervas wasted no time; he ordered Migen and the others to guard the perimeter while he and Lei Meng approached the house.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a creak, the door opened, revealing a simple front room just like the cave dwelling they had seen before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having learned from experience, Gervas rushed straight to the inner room—and there, in the alchemist’s workshop, he found numerous crystal test tubes, along with hammers, engraving tools, and feathers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the wooden table, cluttered with tools, lay a thick handwritten journal.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So where are my inscribed weapons?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gervas frowned slightly and picked up the journal, hoping to find answers within.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, his efforts were rewarded—he truly found clues inside this journal, which resembled a diary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This little house had been left behind by an alchemist who had reached the Mage-Technician realm.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Alchemists themselves are mages.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because mages hold noble status, most only turn to alchemy as a profession after realizing their talent is insufficient and advancement is impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, the vast majority of alchemists are Chuji  or  Zhongji  mages; even high-level mages who become alchemists are rare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet this one was a Mage-Technician-level Master Alchemist—his status was so high he could have been a guest of honor in the royal court.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This Mage-Technician Master Alchemist came to the edge of the Death Mountains at the request of a royal family member, to craft a legendary-quality magical ornament for them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The journal recorded that the alchemist had succeeded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, the legendary-quality magical ornament was certainly taken away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The inscribed weapon left behind might have been a spear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because the Master Alchemist mentioned it as one of only two magical items he crafted besides the legendary ornament.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It was prepared to aid his battle servant in hunting beast materials.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gervas put down the book but found no trace of the spear in the workshop.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He then retreated to the front room—but found nothing there either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wait!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gervas quickly exited the main house, remembering that beside it stood another small hut.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Opening the hut’s door, he found a smaller, even more rudimentary bedroom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clearly, this was where the battle servant had lived.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the corner beside the bed, Gervas finally saw a spear leaning against the wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Hey, my lord! It’s an inscribed weapon!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Lei Meng, following behind Gervas, immediately recognized its nature.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though covered in spiderwebs, the iron spearhead remained gleaming bright.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon closer inspection, fine crimson lines ran along the blade, filling its entire surface.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gervas swiftly took up the spear and found its wooden shaft ordinary, likely hastily assembled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only the spearhead was a genuine inscribed, enchanted item.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Amid the curious gazes of the knights, Gervas swiftly carried the spear to the edge of the Black Pine Forest.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he thrust it with full force into the trunk of a black pine, thick enough for one man to embrace.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Pfft!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hard black pine trunk shattered like tofu—the spear sank deep into the wood.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Migen and the others widened their eyes in shock.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Good heavens! Is it really that sharp? This is black pine!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"And just now, when the spear pierced the trunk, didn’t you see a flash of red light? Was I imagining things?!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I saw it too—it wasn’t my imagination! My lord, did you activate your battle aura just now?\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"I didn’t channel any battle aura!\" Gervas himself was unsettled—he had seen the red glow too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My lord, this is at least an Exquisite-grade inscribed weapon! Only Epic-grade inscribed weapons can passively activate their runes without battle aura!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But strangely, the passive enchantment glow on this spear is unusually strong. I’ve heard that Exquisite-grade weapons emit only a faint glow.\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yet if it’s not Exquisite, it can’t be Epic—because only a Mage-Technician-level Master Alchemist can craft Epic-grade enchanted weapons!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Those are beings the royal family treats with reverence! They’re exceedingly rare!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Is that so?\" Gervas’s eyes flickered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Well then—wasn’t the original owner of this house precisely a Mage-Technician-level Master Alchemist?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Also, ordinary weapons in this world have no grades.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For example, Gervas’s Starlight Sword, no matter how superior its materials, remains an ordinary weapon due to lack of enchantment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But enchanted weapons are divided into five grades: Ordinary, Fine, Exquisite, Epic, and Legendary.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The higher the grade, the rarer and harder to obtain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially Exquisite-grade weapons, which can be worth two or three hundred gold coins.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because only high-level mages can craft Exquisite-grade inscribed weapons.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As Lei Meng said, Epic-grade weapons require a Mage-Technician-level alchemist to forge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Without status or influence, you simply cannot buy one.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Could this spear truly be an Epic-grade weapon?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If so, that would be fantastic—Epic-grade weapons are not only expensive but also impossible to find on the market.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, Gervas could not yet confirm this, so he would have to wait and ask Lu Kasi upon returning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then Gervas slowly channeled his battle aura into the spear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hum!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As his aura flooded in, the runes on the spearhead instantly activated, radiating a crimson glow.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Beautiful!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gervas exclaimed, and with a swift thrust, drove the spear into the trunk again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The trunk was effortlessly pierced, accompanied by a thunderous explosion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The section struck by the spear shattered violently, the damage reaching nearly half the trunk’s depth, the surface charred black as if scorched by flame.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My lord, beware!\" Migen and the others suddenly cried out.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The trunk, having been shattered too deeply, could no longer bear the weight of its canopy—and began to crack and topple.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom! Boom! Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The black pine, thick enough for one man to embrace, crashed heavily to the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only then did Migen and the others relax—and they stared at the spear in Gervas’s hands, their eyes filled with longing and envy.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"My lord, this spear is incredible!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If a man were struck by this, he’d be blown to bloody pulp!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Indeed impressive—it’s worth its price of hundreds of gold coins!\" Gervas nodded in satisfaction.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"But my lord, I can’t fathom how that alchemist thought—such an Exquisite-grade enchanted weapon, and yet it’s just a spear!\"\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"If it were a knight’s lance, it would be perfect!\" Lei Meng couldn’t help but speak up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>\"Yes! If it were a sword, it’d be even better!\" Migen and the others agreed—the spear felt somehow beneath its worth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This wasn’t them undermining Gervas; they genuinely felt regret, for such a rare Exquisite-grade enchanted weapon was too precious to be a spear.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Nobles love to show off—in plain terms, they love to flaunt.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So beyond practicality, appearance matters greatly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Had it been a knight’s lance or a sword—the noble’s exclusive weapons—its value would have soared.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But a spear? Used by common soldiers in war—so even an Exquisite-grade one loses value.\u003C\u002Fp>",1216,"2026-06-20T22:44:01.160Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","14fd17419f8a4ff4dad4a127111971666da92a3a3310bf200ec641d3fc2599cc","warlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-chapter-127","warlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-chapter-125",521,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwarlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-cover.jpg"]