[{"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-23":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},2338486,4572,"Chapter 23: The Firehooves Appear!","warlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-chapter-23",23,"\u003Cp>“Good heavens, my lord, these are night-scented grasses—this entire patch must be worth several gold coins at least!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Laurent gasped, clearly stunned by the sheer expanse of night-scented grass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Correct, Laurent. Immediately order everyone to gather and pull up all the night-scented grass around the perimeter!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But do not touch this central patch—it’s the most lush and thriving!” Gervas gestured to a roughly hundred-square-meter area in the center.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The night-scented grass within this zone was the most dense and uniform—perfect for Firehooves.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes, Lord Gervas!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>While the soldiers struggled to pull up the night-scented grass, Gervas ordered four knights to quickly fetch eight thick tree stumps.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he had them hammered deep into the ground over a meter, leaving only one and a half meters exposed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once the stumps were secured, he carved matching notches at equal heights on each, then tied nooses to the ropes—done!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What is the lord preparing to do?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No idea. Is he fencing off the remaining night-scented grass to keep other animals from eating it?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But there are only two ropes—enough to deter horses at best. What about rabbits or goats?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Shut up, you fools! Do you dare question the lord’s orders? If you want to hang, don’t drag me or the guard squad down with you!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing his men murmuring, Captain Laurent immediately silenced them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They were mere soldiers, not the lord’s knights—they had no right to offer opinions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At this moment, Gervas, having finished setting the stumps, walked toward the group.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Among you, how many know how to throw a lasso?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The knight attendants had all been trained in lassoing, but Gervas wasn’t sure about the soldiers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To his surprise, a few soldiers in this border region had indeed learned the skill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My lord, I know how! Seven or eight years ago, Baron Ma Qiaoer tried to form a wild-horse capture team to hunt the Chaos Wastes—I happened to learn it!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Also, Zari, Harry, and Percy can lasso too,” Laurent reported.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Excellent!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All was ready—only the wind remained.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gervas then told everyone the Firehooves were coming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon hearing this, both the soldiers and the four knights stared in disbelief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But as always, if the lord said it, then it was true.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So everyone quietly followed Gervas and hid in the bushes fifty to sixty meters beyond the night-scented grass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Under the blazing sun, they squeezed into the damp, stifling undergrowth. As seconds ticked by, the soldiers said nothing aloud, but inwardly doubted whether the Firehooves would even come.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, Firehooves were top-tier warhorses worth seventy or eighty gold coins each—how could they possibly appear so easily?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finding ordinary wild horses would be more plausible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Clip-clop! Clip-clop!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as the soldiers’ thoughts wandered, hoofbeats drew near and captured everyone’s attention.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Looking beyond the bushes, they saw seven brown-red figures emerging at the edge of the grassland.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These seven figures were tall and powerfully built, their appearance majestic, their hooves striking like lightning.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“F-Firehooves!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The soldiers widened their eyes, clapping hands over their mouths to stifle any excited noise.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Firehooves’ defining trait was their brown-red hide—they were said to carry dragon blood, hence their coloration.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, their bodies were a full size larger than ordinary horses, standing around two point two meters tall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Some had even seen advanced Firehooves reach two point five meters.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Relax. Wait for my signal!” Gervas’s calm voice reached them just in time, steadying the excited soldiers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet now, the way everyone looked at their lord was filled with reverence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Especially the soldiers—they had never imagined their lord possessed such skill.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The original four knight attendants, however, had witnessed this many times before.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides, they truly believed it was Yueyue who had spotted the Firehooves, so their astonishment was muted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Firehooves were highly alert.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When they reached the night-scented grass, they did not immediately enter the field, but instead nibbled cautiously on ordinary tender grass nearby.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gervas knew it was the eight stumps that had alarmed them—even though they’d camouflaged them with branches and leaves, they still looked unnatural.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fortunately, the allure of night-scented grass was overwhelming; save for divine creatures like unicorns, no herbivore could resist.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gradually, the lead Firehoof ventured to the edge of the night-scented grass and took a few bites.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Finding no danger, it finally stepped into the field.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a few more bites, it lifted its head and neighed loudly—whereupon the others, as if granted permission, hurried over.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This beast—no wonder it carries dragon blood. Even the faintest trace grants it wisdom far beyond ordinary animals!” Gervas marveled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet the higher their intelligence, the greater their potential for control after taming—Gervas was delighted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ready—act!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As all seven Firehooves entered the night-scented grass field, Gervas gave the signal to capture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Pull!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At his command, over twenty men yanked the four ropes before them with all their strength.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a loud rustle, the tension spread across the ropes to the eight stumps dozens of meters away.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On each stump were nooses; as the ropes tightened, they snapped taut from within the night-scented grass.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The sudden commotion jolted the seven Firehooves mid-feast.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instantly, they panicked and scattered in all directions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But soon, they realized they could not escape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Four ropes now blocked their path.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Firehooves could not lower their heads, nor could they leap freely in the cramped space—they became frantic, darting wildly within the rope-bound enclosure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gervas knew these ropes wouldn’t hold them long. He charged forward first. “Lasso team—follow me!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Laurent and the others dared not delay—they sprinted after their lord, desperate to keep up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their gazes burned with hunger, hearts pounding, blood surging.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though the Firehooves wouldn’t belong to them, to have caught one worth seventy or eighty gold coins in their lifetime—this alone would be a tale to boast about forever.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just as a knight who slays a dragon gains a lifetime’s glory.\u003C\u002Fp>",970,"2026-06-20T22:44:01.160Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","6d90074198b88327293c6a540cc7b48d3a5c64c1b2aa6f063e04b8eb5746c7f8","warlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-chapter-24","warlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-chapter-22",521,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwarlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-cover.jpg"]