[{"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-430":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},2338893,4572,"Chapter 430: Familiar Scene!","warlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-chapter-430",430,"\u003Cp>“Gervas!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“This… this is impossible!” Willard’s face turned ashen, his expression filled with disbelief.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, upon hearing Solit say this, he had already sensed it deep down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the killer of his son being so powerful—such a staggering reversal—was something he could not accept!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Commandant Willard, I actually learned of this some time ago. I didn’t hide it from you intentionally; if the Duke of Shattered Rock hadn’t told us, I too would have been kept in the dark.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“During the earlier skirmish of the vanguard camp, everyone believed Mil had earned great glory and stolen the spotlight.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“In truth, every time Mil claimed the most orc heads, it was always Gervas behind him!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But Gervas is extremely cunning. To avoid drawing too much attention, he convinced Commander Lyne to conceal his deeds—even the Supreme Commander, upon hearing Lyne’s report, tacitly approved!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Roughly estimating, since the campaign began, Gervas has taken at least a thousand orc heads!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A thousand orc heads? Including the auxiliaries?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Of course not—including auxiliaries. Honestly, I’ve never seen a minor noble perform so brilliantly!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Fortunately, he’s too arrogant himself—he dared offend the Second Prince, so he absolutely cannot be allowed to live!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And my recent idea isn’t just about eliminating him—it also gives us an excuse to secure promises from the orcs outside the city, just in case!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Willard’s face flushed alternately pale and crimson.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After his last contact with the orcs, he had always lived in dread.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He feared that if the Supreme Commander or others found out, he would be finished.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Originally, as time passed, this fear had faded—but now Solit proposed doing it again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Commandant Willard, doing it once is the same as doing it twice!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Besides, last time there were no mishaps, so this time it certainly won’t go wrong!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“And with last time’s lesson learned, I’m certain the orcs won’t let that brat escape again!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Besides, don’t you see the current state of our army? Reinforcements could arrive any time—or never. Our grain supplies are dwindling daily.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“The soldiers are starving every day, too weak even to stand—how will they fight the orcs then?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Under these conditions, our army faces only two fates: either starve to death, or be overrun by the orcs before we even starve!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Either way, if we don’t prepare now, none of us will survive to return!” Solit, as a distant branch of an ambitious family, naturally prioritized his own interests above all else.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, kingdom and honor meant nothing compared to his own life.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Then what do we do? The walls are heavily guarded inside and out—there’s no way to send anyone out now.” Under Solit’s goading,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Willard’s once-cautious heart slowly eroded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>True—if death awaited him anyway, better to fight for a chance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But this time is different from last time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Last time, our army was outside the city, with plenty of room to maneuver.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Now we’re trapped inside—entering or exiting is extremely difficult, let alone secretly contacting the orcs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Willard, don’t worry about that. You just need to find reliable messengers, just like last time!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“As for entering and exiting the city, I’ll handle it. I can ask the Duke of Shattered Rock for help—he’ll gladly assist us if we say it’s to eliminate Gervas!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Good!” Willard nodded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If such a powerful figure as the Duke of Shattered Rock truly lent a hand, getting in and out of the city would be no problem.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon after, Willard and Solit began their actions.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Willard was responsible for finding trustworthy messengers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Solit went to the Duke of Shattered Rock and half-truthfully revealed their plan to target Gervas.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Both tasks proceeded smoothly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First, Willard—having served as an inner council official in Eagle City for so long—had no shortage of loyal subordinates.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After making promises and offering rewards, he quickly found a suitable messenger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for Solit, when the Duke of Shattered Rock heard they wanted to use the orcs to kill Gervas, he offered no resistance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He merely warned: the operation must be clean.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If discovered afterward, he would not lift a finger to help them.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, on the night of the next day, Solit led a figure clad in a linen cloak and hood up onto the city wall.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The guards on this stretch of wall that night were from the Shattered Rock Clan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Shattered Rock soldiers had already been instructed and showed no surprise at Solit’s arrival with the cloaked figure.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Quickly—the rope is ready. You can return before dawn without issue!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes! Yes!” The cloaked figure nodded eagerly, then stepped into the basket and was lowered outside the wall with the soldiers’ help.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Stepping out of the basket, he locked onto the orc camp’s fires and sprinted swiftly into the distance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Roar! Who goes there?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Orc lords, don’t kill me! I’m here to deliver a message—I wish to see the Orc King!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Before he even neared the orc camp, the cloaked figure was spotted by the orcs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He dared not hesitate and immediately shouted his purpose.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The orcs, weapons already drawn and ready to swarm, froze in surprise—and did not immediately slash him down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the Orc King’s tent, the cloaked figure trembled as he knelt before the Orc King.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Orc King held two letters, studying them carefully.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After a moment, he set the papers down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He pondered for a while, then said, “Moral, take a look.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes, Your Majesty!” Moral had already felt this scene was eerily familiar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When he examined the letters, he immediately recognized their familiarity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This noble messenger—wasn’t he the same one from last time?\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The only difference was that this letter claimed Mil was not the key figure behind their previous defeat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The true key was a man named Gervas.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And those spearmen and swordsmen who could stand toe-to-toe with orc champions—all were Gervas’s men.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Well, Moral?” The Orc King’s voice broke the silence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moral glanced at the kneeling human in the linen cloak.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Orc King understood—he had already been told in the letter not to know too much.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He ordered his men to temporarily remove the messenger, then spoke.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Your Majesty, this Willard once contacted me before. And the information he gave last time was accurate!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“He provided the exact locations of Mil and those spearmen.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“But strangely, shortly before we were about to annihilate Mil and his nobles, a human army arrived.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It not only ruined our plan to kill Mil’s men, but also caused over a thousand of my orc champions to return with only a hundred survivors!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“So I’ve never been certain—was that a human plot, or something else entirely?”\u003C\u002Fp>",1099,"2026-06-20T22:44:02.688Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","b546260c077cf3a0bb5c7aab6a4f7b2fac65c22970c1c730bd15130f3e52e227","warlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-chapter-431","warlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-chapter-429",521,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwarlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-cover.jpg"]