[{"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-456":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},2338919,4572,"Chapter 456: West? East?","warlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-chapter-456",456,"\u003Cp>“It’s him! It’s really him! Captain, he’s back!” Balini, upon seeing him, was instantly terrified, his voice trembling and his body shaking uncontrollably.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Damn it! Everyone, scatter and run!” Although he had never witnessed firsthand how Gervas slaughtered his subordinates.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet the deaths of three subordinates, combined with Balini’s now-shaking terror, were enough to prove the noble’s terrifying power.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, the Blood Bat Knight captain had no hesitation—he immediately chose to flee.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Moreover, he was the first to accelerate, and he played a small trick: he did not flee straight south, but turned sharply left.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Because under normal circumstances, the one fleeing straight south would likely be the first targeted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The other subordinates, though half a beat slower, instantly scattered in the next instant, fleeing for their lives.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Chueyue, let them experience what it means to face absolute speed—every trick is just showy nonsense!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Roar!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Chueyue loved these moments of bullying weaker opponents, especially since its speed had begun to surge.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With a roar, Chueyue bolted forward at full speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gervas, meanwhile, deliberately chose to pursue from the far right.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In barely a dozen seconds, he caught up to the first Blood Bat Knight.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Blood Bat Knight’s face turned pale. “Damn human—die—”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As if replaying the fate of the earlier three Blood Bat Knights, these knights met the same end.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One by one, they fell to the ground under Gervas’s “call-out.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, Gervas had eliminated the remaining four Blood Bat Knights, leaving only the captain who had fled first.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Damn human!” The Blood Bat Knight captain had already seen how Gervas killed his subordinates with a single strike.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the time, he had been relieved that Gervas had started chasing from the far right.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>That way, his subordinates would surely buy him plenty of time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But he never imagined that in less than ten minutes, Gervas had wiped out the others—and caught up to him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In response to the Blood Bat Knight captain’s curses, Gervas answered with his cannon.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet to Gervas’s surprise, at the very moment the cannon fired, the captain suddenly veered sharply right, lifting his Blood Bat’s left wing to shield his own body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Puff! Puff! Puff!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Instantly, all of Gervas’s cannonballs struck the Blood Bat’s body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Aaaah!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Blood Bat shrieked in pain, its body losing control and plummeting toward the ground.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Yet the Blood Bat Knight captain above remained unharmed!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“He actually knows how to do such fine maneuvering?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gervas genuinely felt a flicker of admiration for the captain’s cleverness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But it was still just petty cleverness.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gervas pulled Chueyue down, chasing after the falling Blood Bat.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then he pulled out another cannon, smiling as he aimed it squarely at the Blood Bat Knight captain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the dark muzzle of the cannon aimed at him once more, the Blood Bat Knight captain let out a desperate, furious roar.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had assumed the human’s strange magical device needed time to reload.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even ten seconds would have been enough for him to land and hide in the forest below.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now, the enemy had reloaded in the blink of an eye.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And now, he could no longer control his mount.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He dared not leave the Blood Bat’s body either—without its cushioning, he’d be dead or gravely wounded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Bye-bye!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Unfortunately, Gervas would give him no chance.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He waved his hand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Boom!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Puff! Puff! Puff!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Flames erupted; blood blossomed across the Blood Bat Knight captain’s body.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, the Blood Bat Knight captain, filled with resentment and humiliation, fell to the ground alongside his mount.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thud!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Blood Bat Knight captain—dead!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>……\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My lord is mighty!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Five or six minutes later, Mick and the others arrived belatedly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing the lifeless body of the orc captain beside them, Mick and the others erupted in cheers again.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was no flattery—it was genuine awe at their lord’s towering presence.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Only those who had fought the Blood Bat Knights firsthand knew how impossibly hard it was to chase them down.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Did you collect the Blood Bat claws?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My lord, all eight pairs of claws are here!” Mick pointed to a leather sack beside the griffon’s saddle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The Blood Bat Knights held the same status among the orc race as griffon knights did among humans.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, killing them earned greater merit than slaying ordinary orcs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>So, the claws—proof of the kill—could not be left behind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Good! Once we take this one’s claws, we head back!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Soon, the claws of the Blood Bat Knight captain’s mount were also taken.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As for the Blood Bat corpses, since they contained deadly toxins, even their meat was inedible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>When Gervas returned to Snowplain City, the battle within still raged.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though the orc race’s morale was crumbling,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>their numbers were still vast, and they had not yet been broken.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Seeing this, Gervas did not hesitate—he ordered Mick and the others to join the fray.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He then went to the small grove, reinstalled the cannons on their mounts, and summoned the artillerymen to join the city battle.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, half an hour later, the battle ended completely.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All twelve hundred orcs inside the city were eliminated; most of the conscript troops had fled.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Ha! We’ve won!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After capturing Snowplain City, Gervas’s men erupted in another round of cheers.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Gervas knew this battle had dragged on too long—he dared not let his men linger.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He immediately ordered them to clear the battlefield, set up cooking fires, and complete their rest and evacuation as swiftly as possible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His men, upon receiving the order, moved with lightning speed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One and a half hours later, the army resumed its march.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After passing through Snowplain City and traveling ten miles further, the land and sky opened up before them—they had finally entered the Northern Wastelands.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My lord, where do we go now? Should we head west?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Having seen such vast horizons for the first time, his men were exhilarated.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They also felt they had escaped pursuit—so surely, they were now safe.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“No! We head east!” Gervas gave a negative reply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“East? My lord… east is the orc race’s main stronghold! If we go there, aren’t we walking straight into a trap?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Mick and the others nearly thought they had misheard.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, the most logical choice was clearly to head west—detouring far around the orc-occupied zones and re-entering the kingdom from the western border.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though longer, and though they might encounter bandits or other races along the way,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Surely it was better than charging headlong into the orc race’s main army?\u003C\u002Fp>",1080,"2026-06-20T22:44:02.688Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","ae406c09f096eba46340ba71c194746fdf858f77fdc8757a6dfab84c493a5260","warlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-chapter-457","warlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-chapter-455",521,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwarlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-cover.jpg"]