[{"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-88":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},2338551,4572,"Chapter 88: The Baron Fario","warlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-chapter-88",88,"\u003Cp>“No need to doubt, serfs! With our great lord among us, the Scorpion Bandits are nothing!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Look at these flags—they were cut down from the Scorpion Bandits’ stronghold’s flagpoles!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Migen raised another flag: black background with a red scorpion.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This was the flag the Scorpion Boss carried during every raid, carrying similar symbolism to a commander’s banner.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The scorpion on it was originally white, but the Scorpion Boss soaked it in blood, turning it red to display his cruelty and ferocity.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“It’s truly the Scorpion flag! And there are more Scorpion flags on that wagon—the Scorpion Boss is truly dead!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Hah! The Scorpion Boss has been killed by our lord!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Does that mean we’ll never fear the Scorpion Bandits again?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Exactly! The Scorpion Bandits are destroyed—we no longer need to fear them!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The serfs finally came to their senses.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They hadn’t truly disbelieved—it was just that the news was too shocking, and they hadn’t had time to process it.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Cheer, people of Stormhold! The Scorpion Bandits are erased from this world!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Our lord is mighty!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Thank our great lord!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Our lord is mighty…”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Iron Wolf City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Inside a luxurious estate in the noble quarter of eastern Iron Wolf City.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My lord, something’s wrong!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“What’s happened? Why the panic?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My lord, the Scorpion Boss has been killed!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Moreover, the Lady has returned—and brought back the Scorpion Boss’s corpse, along with the captured second-in-command, Saigao.”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Who did it? Did the Kingdom’s army finally intervene? Woren, as border commander of Iron Wolf City, didn’t he send word to the Scorpion Boss the moment he heard?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Baron Fario frowned deeply.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Besides the Wild Wolf Brotherhood, the Scorpion Bandits were also a gang he funded.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But unlike the Kingdom’s street thugs, keeping the Scorpion Bandits stable long-term was beyond the means of a mere noble like him.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Thus, Woren, commander of Iron Wolf City, was one of the Scorpion Bandits’ pillars.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Fario provided the money; Woren supplied the gear and tipped them off about impending raids.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>In past Kingdom border bandit suppression campaigns, other bandit gangs were wiped out or wounded—but the Scorpion Bandits always escaped unscathed, thanks to this.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This time, they targeted the fallen Violet Family.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>They ordered the Scorpion Bandits to kidnap the Lady, demand ransom, then kill her.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Of course, this was only part of the plan.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Their true target was the Violet Family’s crystal mine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Once the Lady was dead, the Violet Family would collapse, its lands reclaimed by the Kingdom—and then they could seize the crystal mine.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>With his father, who served as a cabinet official in Eagle City, Fario knew this would pose no real difficulty.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He had believed the plan flawless—until a few days ago, when the Violet Family’s steward came to Iron Wolf City claiming the kidnappers were the Scorpion Bandits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Though an unexpected twist, it wasn’t yet irreparable.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>All he needed was for Woren to delay the border troops’ advance while warning the Scorpion Boss in time—so the Scorpion Boss could escape.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>But now came word: the Scorpion Boss was dead, and the Lady had returned.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>His first thought was that Woren had failed—that the Kingdom’s army had acted.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>After all, the Violet Family alone could never have defeated the Scorpion Bandits.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My lord, Commander Woren says he’s just as confused—he deliberately slowed the troops, yet the Violet Lady returned unharmed before they even reached the border!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“When questioned, the Lady claimed it was her own vassal army that annihilated the Scorpion Bandits!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Damn it!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Baron Fario slammed his fist on the table.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“My lord, what do we do now? The Lady still has a live captive!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“That captive doesn’t know us—but he knows the mole we bribed inside the Violet Family. Send men immediately to eliminate them. Clean it up completely!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Yes, my lord!”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>The subordinate hurried out. Baron Fario remained seething.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>This past month, he felt cursed.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>First, Rose the whore fled—and with her, the Wild Wolf Boss was killed on the border, his killer still unknown.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Then, their plan against the Violet Family, thought flawless, had inexplicably gone awry.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>“Is someone deliberately working against me?”\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>Baron Fario’s eyes flickered uncertainly—he could only speculate along these lines.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>He suspected other rivals in Iron Wolf City—never imagining it could be some insignificant minor lord.\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>…\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Ding! Daily Intelligence System has refreshed…】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Intelligence One: At the southernmost tip of Stormhold, sixty miles offshore, lies an island three times the size of Huoshandao.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【On this island dwell a herd of second-rank demonic beasts—Black Gold Mountain Sheep—whose population has grown over countless years to over one hundred sixty.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Intelligence Two: Fifteen miles east of Black Gold Mountain Sheep Island lies a beautiful coral reef.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【But for ships, these submerged islets form a deadly danger zone.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>At the reef’s edge rests a sunken ship, lost for countless years—only its mast, less than two meters high, protrudes above the water.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【All cargo and Sea God’s Feast aboard have vanished.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Only inside the captain’s cabin, within a finely crafted iron box, remains an extremely precious magical artifact… a Ring of Spatial Storage!】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Intelligence Three: This morning, Mil’s Baronial Domain will welcome a “secondhand caravan”—a trading group that buys used goods from the Kingdom’s interior and sells them on the frontier.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【The caravan carries secondhand longswords, leather armor, and plate armor—and more importantly, secondhand magic potions, magical accessories, and magic scrolls.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Of course, secondhand leather armor and longswords are tangible, affordable bargains—ideal for frontier lords seeking to cut costs!】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【But magic potions, magical accessories, and scrolls? Nine out of ten are traps—the merchants profit handsomely from these counterfeit magical items.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【They’re not outright fakes—but they’re practically indistinguishable from them.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Yet for petty nobles who love a bargain, they’re easy to fall for.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Of course, nothing is absolute—this caravan carries one genuine item: a third-rank magic scroll capable of summoning “Dance of the Fire Serpents.”】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【The merchant stumbled upon a large cache of expired scrolls from a fallen noble—but this one alone remained active, marked by a fire serpent emblem etched onto its base for distinction.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【The merchant is unaware of its value and will sell it at a rock-bottom price.】\u003C\u002Fp>\n\u003Cp>【Originally worth three hundred gold coins—it now costs only ten!】\u003C\u002Fp>",1030,"2026-06-20T22:44:01.160Z",1,"Qwen3-Next 80B","42afc6b7ab1e7d9accddcdf8a797adff7b98152cfda0bc6f3b9bbea5652cd026","warlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-chapter-89","warlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-chapter-87",521,"https:\u002F\u002Fnovelzhen.com\u002Fimages\u002Fcovers\u002Fwarlord-starting-with-daily-intelligence-cover.jpg"]