[{"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-351":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},2338814,4572,"Chapter 351: The Summoning Order Arrives!","warlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-chapter-351",351,"\u003Cp>“You are Lord Gervas?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Back at the castle, it so happened that the Eagle City contingent was still in the front courtyard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Upon learning of Gervas’s return, the lead man—a middle-aged fellow with triangular eyes and a hooked nose, dressed in silk ceremonial robes—studied Gervas.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His attitude was oddly arrogant.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That’s right, I am Gervas. And who might you be?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I am Randal, deputy to the Inner Councilor of Eagle City. I’ve come here personally to deliver your summons!” Randal tilted his chin slightly, then produced a scroll of animal hide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gervas narrowed his eyes. Wilard had already schemed against him—that much he knew.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now they sent a subordinate to deliver the summons in person? Was this a show of intimidation?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What summons? I recall the kingdom’s law: each vassal owes only two months of mandatory service per year; the rest of the time, one has the right to refuse summons.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Unless the vassal’s lord’s safety is in grave danger!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And I, Gervas, only months ago answered the kingdom’s summons, fought for two full months on the western frontier against the western tribes, and earned the highest commendation!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So what relevance does this summons have to me?” Gervas sneered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Randal clearly anticipated this objection. He spoke calmly: “Lord Gervas, you yourself said—only in emergencies threatening the lord’s safety. This campaign is in the northern frontier, concerning the beastfolk invasion!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Thus, this qualifies as an emergency!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’re lying. If it truly threatened His Majesty’s safety, it would be a full kingdom mobilization—the summons scroll would be painted red to signal dire emergency!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But your summons is identical to a routine one—nothing like the rumored emergency summons!” Before Gervas could reply, Lei Meng immediately countered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a knight captain from a viscount’s family, Lei Meng understood these matters well.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Randal hadn’t expected these country bumpkins to know so much—they’d exposed his lie instantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet he wasn’t fazed. With Wilard’s backing, he simply said: “I don’t know the details. All I know is the summons has been issued. Lord Gervas, please accept it!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If you delay military orders and fail to report to the northern frontier within the deadline, you’ll face punishment under kingdom law!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My lord, we cannot accept this summons—it’s clearly Wilard’s doing. We can appeal to the Viceroy in Eagle City!” Mi Gen, seeing the situation, immediately urged anxiously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They all knew full well the dangers of the northern frontier.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This summons must not be accepted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Not accept? Hah, knight—do you think you can refuse a summons just because you want to? The list of names was sent to the capital and the northern frontier before I even left!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Moreover, the assembly deadline is tight. If you wish to waste time, go ahead—by the time you finish your appeal, the capital’s arrest warrant may already arrive!” Randal mocked.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Inner Council’s machinations would never allow these fools a chance to turn the tide.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You—!” Mi Gen and the knights glared furiously, itching to tear Randal apart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Gervas remained calm. He waved his hand toward Mi Gen and the others.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then his gaze, sharp as ice, locked onto Randal: “I will accept the summons. I will join this campaign.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But tell Wilard this: when I return alive, he’d better wash his neck and wait.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Randal shuddered under Gervas’s murderous gaze and instinctively stepped back two paces.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet remembering he had dozens of guards and Wilard as his patron, he regained his composure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Lord Gervas, save your threats until you’re alive to speak them! This time, Lord Wilard himself is going—and he’ll serve as overseer of the Southern Legion!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With that, Randal showed no further interest in staying at the castle. He immediately gathered his men to depart.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My lord, let me take men and kill that dog!” Watching Randal’s retreating back, Mi Gen gritted his teeth.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What good would killing him do? He’s just Wilard’s dog.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Wilard would even welcome it—then he’d have a perfect excuse to harass us!” Gervas said.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet seeing Mi Gen’s frustration, Gervas changed tone: “Of course, he won’t die—but breaking his legs is perfectly acceptable.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Mi Gen, since you’re so angry, go to Black Pine Forest and ask the mother lizard to help you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If you move fast enough, you can still settle accounts before this fellow leaves.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mi Gen’s face lit up instantly: “Yes, my lord! I’ll go right now—and I’ll ask Captain Mick to send me on a griffin!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then Mi Gen vanished in a flash.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My lord, what do we do now? Though Randal is despicable, what he said isn’t false.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The summons was issued to you—clearly Wilard’s scheme—but the capital and northern frontier don’t know that.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So if we don’t go, we’ll be branded as evading the summons.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Moreover, though we can appeal, the entire kingdom is now focused on the war—they have no time to care about this!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Worse, if Wilard deliberately delays, by the time our appeal reaches the capital, the punishment may already have arrived!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After Mi Gen left, Lei Meng stepped forward.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As the knight captain with greater political awareness, he was more concerned about Gervas’s and Stormhold’s safety.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Lei Meng, don’t worry. Others see war as danger—but isn’t it also an opportunity?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Don’t you remember how I rose from baron to viscount in half a year?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But my lord…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No buts, Lei Meng. Fortune favors the bold! You can dodge today—but not the next time.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Rise in rank now, so you can properly deal with Wilard later.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The old Gervas had wanted to hide until becoming a “god.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But since that path is blocked, he had no objection to changing tactics—using this chance to raise his rank further.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, with his intelligence network, he’d hold the advantage in any war.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though the beastfolk are more dangerous, the opportunities are greater too.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes, my lord!” Lei Meng understood clearly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Wilard would never let their lord off the hook.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So even if they somehow escaped this time, there would surely be another.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>To truly end it, their lord must rise one more rung.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the rank of earl, he’d become part of the kingdom’s high nobility—no longer a petty noble anyone could trample.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for whether their lord could truly achieve it…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Recalling all the fortune their lord had enjoyed in the past half year, perhaps it was truly possible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, he’d never heard of any noble so favored by the God of Glory as their lord!\u003C\u002Fp>",1072,"2026-06-20T22:44:02.338Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","8dc272dd991a7d08eef78699f0aae6d4f14790ac269145bcdb4f1d13effb5a8c","warlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-chapter-352","warlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-chapter-350",521,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwarlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-cover.jpg"]