[{"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-82":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},2338545,4572,"Chapter 82: The Lady Viscount","warlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-chapter-82",82,"\u003Cp>Choosing the roof of the largest building to land on, Gervas immediately heard movement below.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Boss, we’re rich now! A viscount! Hah! This must be worth two thousand gold coins at least—we’ll split half, right?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Two thousand gold coins? You’re underestimating this viscount. The Violet Family is famously wealthy in the borderlands; even if they had to pay double, they could manage it!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Four thousand gold coins? When would we ever spend it all? We’d never need to raid again, hah!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What’s four thousand gold coins? Use it to buy potions for further cultivation, and train more extraordinary knights—soon we’ll raid earls too!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Raid an earl? Boss, I can hardly wait!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Enough. Go tell the men to keep watch over the lady viscount. Under no circumstances must she be harmed until we receive word from the kingdom.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Also, warn the men—keep your hands to yourselves. If anyone so much as pulls a single hair from her, don’t blame me, Boss Scorpion, for breaking brotherhood!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes, Boss!” Sack felt a chill and instinctively shrank his head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Boss Scorpion, sensing his words were too harsh, added, “Of course, once this is over, the lady viscount won’t be left alive—we’ll let the brothers have a taste of her too!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Boss, you’re mighty!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After leaving the meeting hall, Sack headed toward a stone house on the side.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Outside this stone house, dozens of bandits formed layers of encirclement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>It wasn’t just guard duty anymore—it was a blockade.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Even if someone managed to infiltrate the camp, slipping silently into the stone house would be as impossible as climbing to heaven.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Boss Sack!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hmm. Boss said stay alert—no mistakes allowed!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Also, if anyone dares lay a hand on the lady viscount, you’re not just betraying the bandit gang—you’re betraying brotherhood. Understood?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Understood, Boss Sack!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Boss also said, once this job’s done, everyone will feast and drink till they’re drunk—sleeping with whores for months won’t be a problem!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After giving the bandits a pep talk, Sack returned to his own hut. The silent night held no further movement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Time passed second by second; the guards gradually grew lax. Then, a white figure silently descended from the sky.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Catherine was terrified.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The past week had been a nightmare.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A week ago, she, newly appointed as head of her family’s title, received a visitation letter from the Tulip Trading House.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The letter claimed the Tulip Trading House wished to establish long-term procurement of Violet Family’s crystal ores.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>For Catherine, newly installed, this was clearly something to take seriously.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They agreed to meet at the Violet Family’s own crystal mine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the appointed time, Catherine left the castle to keep the appointment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But five or six li from the mine, over two hundred bandits burst from the trees on either side of the road.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They killed her knights and guards, and kidnapped her, the viscount.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though the bandits didn’t harm her after the abduction,\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>the fact they openly declared themselves the Scorpion Bandits and intended to take her to the Chaos Wasteland made her sense what was coming.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had been trained as an heir—she had enough wit to understand.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If they weren’t afraid of her knowing their identity, then they meant to kill her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>These past days, she’d considered escaping, but the bandits were extremely cautious, keeping her chained to the wall the entire time.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Outside, footsteps echoed everywhere—escape was impossible.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I only hope when they kill me, they make it quick!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As a woman, Catherine feared something worse than death.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Just then, a straw suddenly fell from above.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But Catherine paid it no mind.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Another straw fell—this time landing directly on her head.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Catherine finally looked up.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In the next instant, her beautiful eyes widened.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The straw roof had been cut open into a small hole; above it was a young, handsome face.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The young man gestured for silence, then lowered a note tied to a rope.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“I am Baron Gervas of Stormhold. I know your plight. Give me a token—I’ll find you reinforcements!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Baron Gervas?” Catherine’s eyes instantly welled with tears, but she fiercely suppressed her excitement.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Calming herself, Catherine pulled a crystal hairpin from beneath her linen blanket.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The hairpin had been overlooked by the bandits because her hair had become disheveled after capture.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>She had kept it hidden, planning to use it at the final moment.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Gervas took the hairpin, overjoyed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had expected her to tear off a scrap of clothing as proof—this crystal hairpin was far better proof of her identity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He tucked the hairpin away, gave the lady viscount a reassuring glance, then pulled the straw back together.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>As long as the bandits didn’t deliberately climb onto the roof, they wouldn’t notice anything for a long time!\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“They kidnapped a viscount? The Scorpion Bandits have balls of steel!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>On the return journey, hearing that the Scorpion Bandits had dared to kidnap a royal viscount, the knights were utterly stunned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“If they weren’t bold, we wouldn’t have had such a perfect chance to annihilate them early!” Gervas sneered.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Hearing they would annihilate the Scorpion Bandits, the knights instantly perked up like they’d been injected with bloodwine. “My lord, what’s our next move?!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“You’re all so eager—I’m eager too. So, Lei Meng, this task falls to you.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>One day later, Violet Viscount’s Domain.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The castle gates stood wide open; anxious knights and soldiers came and went constantly.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Servants’ faces were filled with worry and unease.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The newly appointed Violet Viscount had been attacked and kidnapped by unknown bandits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The kidnappers left only a note demanding a large ransom in gold coins, then vanished without a trace—no one could even confirm if the viscount was alive.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In other noble families, servants might not panic so much, since there were many heirs.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But the Violet Family had only one blood heir: Viscount Catherine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>If Catherine met with misfortune, the entire domain would collapse and be reclaimed by the kingdom.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>And these servants and guards might even be punished for failing to protect her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Any news yet?” Lord Ryde asked the returning knights.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My lord, still no word. We’ve scoured every forest and hill around the domain—no trace at all!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The castle steward’s brow furrowed deeply; in just a few days, the middle-aged man looked ten years older.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Who are you? This is Violet Castle—commoners and peasants are forbidden to approach!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At that moment, a shout rang out at the castle gate.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>A man and his daughter in linen robes were stopped by guards.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Guard, I’m a distant relative of Lord Ryde. I’ve come to see him—could you please notify him?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“A distant relative?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The steward was immediately drawn to them—he had no memory of either.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Still, he instinctively walked toward the gate.\u003C\u002Fp>",1120,"2026-06-20T22:44:01.160Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","88d802a8ae4cc131245e916e4bed62c6c0649258b3859e38b9ab57fb17b5c20d","warlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-chapter-83","warlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-chapter-81",521,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwarlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-cover.jpg"]