The Invincible Overlord of Heroes

After Ryan finished speaking, he left and returned not long after with the map and treasures.

The map is rolled up not with sheepskin, but with paper. Just looking at the style, you can tell that the map is huge and should be extremely detailed.

Wei Yihong did not open it. Since this was a transaction between the temple and Xu Lai, as the handler, he should naturally let the boss open it in person.

As for the treasure, Wei Yihong could see clearly that it was something like a trolley.

Now that Wei Yihong is no longer a hero, he can't see the properties of this treasure, so he can only take it back first.

As for the population and gold coins to be taken away, they must wait until Wei Yihong brings the promised equipment, even wood and stones, to the town.

After checking out the equipment Wei Yihong brought, Ryan seemed to be very satisfied, so the deal between the two parties was verbally agreed to.

Wei Yihong was not qualified to sign on behalf of Xu Lai, and Ryan did not want to conduct transactions in the name of the temple.

Anyway, such a deal is beneficial to both parties, and since the temple is the stronger party, there is no need to worry about Xu Lai not complying.

When Wei Yihong returned to Qingfeng Village with the map and treasures, it was already dark again. This was because the two of them came back on fast horses without any delay on the way.

On the way, Wei Yihong was already thinking about how to bring those 50 people back. Horse-drawn carriages were impossible. There were many horses on the grassland but no cars. Even carts were rarely seen.

If you walk, you probably won’t be able to get back in one day, so you have to consider transportation or accommodation on the way.

The person was left behind after he spoke rashly. Before meeting Xu Lai, Wei Yihong had to at least come up with a suitable solution.

Xu Lai had returned to the village early. In the afternoon, he and Su Ya divided their forces into two groups and cleaned up the entire area around Qingfeng Village.

However, in the entire Qingfeng Village, within a radius of 5 or 6 kilometers, there is no group of harpies that can continuously integrate.

Either they have gathered into a large harpy tribe, or other monsters have been killed, or they are too far away to be pulled over.

In order to prevent others from taking the opportunity to rob the resources they are stationed at, these wild monsters guarding the resources cannot run too far, and will give up immediately once they are unable to catch up.

Even if Giselle could control her speed well and give the harpies some hope of catching up, they would only run out for a hundred meters at most and still not be too far away from their home base.

Therefore, if the number of monsters and the group are not dense, Xu Lai's method of manually attracting monsters will also be ineffective.

Only the first day or two of each monster month can have such an effect, and only the monsters that can be dealt with by oneself. If they are giant dragons and titans, luring a group over will be a recipe for death.

However, the two large harpy groups that were wiped out in the afternoon also brought Xu Lai a resource pile of 30 units of iron ingots and a brand new harpy nest.

Although Xu Lai occupied the nest, he did not dare to recruit the five harpies inside.

If the already mixed troops are mixed with troops from hostile forces, the morale will be so low.

Now his unit's racial and camp morale bonuses are gone, but there is a 5-point morale bonus that lasts for a week. The previous winning streak effect has been upgraded to a victorious battle, and the bonus has been increased to 10 points.

So even without those two bonuses, Xu Lai's troops still maintained high morale, and the three key attributes of offense, defense, and movement were always increased by 5% more than usual.

Of course, the troops were just as he thought. All the low-level warriors had been upgraded, including the two level 2 infantrymen and the 8 spearmen. They were all promoted to level 3 light infantry by him in the afternoon. and level 4 pikemen.

Su Ya's nomads all advanced faster than his. Now he has 15 level 4 rangers and 10 level 5 mercenaries.

After Xu Lai planned to expand the mercenary force to 20 people, he would focus on developing the cavalry force. The power of the heavy cavalry on the frontal battlefield was still very terrifying, and it had to be established in scale before it could be seen.

But except for the cavalry units, the flying units such as Gargoyles have not been upgraded. There is really no time and no experience.

For this reason, Xu Lai also invested more than 3,000 gold coins. Thanks to the harpies, he picked up more than a thousand gold coins after fighting for a day.

Finally, when the accounts were settled in the evening, Xu Lai lost 1,500 gold coins. Su Ya's original deposit of 1,600 gold coins had been all spent, and Xu Lai had no money to allocate to her for the time being.

Xu Lai gained nothing from the battle in the morning, except for picking up some gold coins.

He personally fought on the spot, and as a result, a big tree grew out of the back of the Harpy.

It was a big tree similar to a banyan tree. It was not too tall, at least it did not exceed the big trees in the grove, but its area was getting larger and larger.

Every time Xu Lai eliminated a group of harpies, the thing expanded a little. After the thing was completely gone, Xu Lai took a look and found that the big tree even spoke, almost not frightening Xu Lai. Come.

Until night, Xu Lai still clearly remembered that when he approached the big tree, the big tree suddenly opened its eyes and said to him excitedly:

"Aha, explorer, as long as you give me 10 gems, I will pass on the knowledge I have accumulated over the years to you."

After Xu Lai's careful questioning, he found out that the so-called knowledge could help him advance to a higher level.

However, a battle in the morning had brought Xu Lai to the edge of upgrading. His experience was 99%. It was very possible that he could upgrade immediately by just shooting a wild monster.

So of course he refused to do it. After a battle in the afternoon, the level was successfully improved to about 15% of level 11. It felt that the upgrade was not cost-effective.

You know, with every level in the later stages, the experience will only become more and more terrifying.

He is still only at level 10 now, and several consecutive battles involving nearly a thousand or even more than a thousand people can only raise him to one level, so he is reluctant to let it go at night.

The same goes for Su Ya, but as a general, Su Ya only needs 2,000 gold coins to upgrade one level and bury it under the big tree.

Su Ya was upgraded earlier than Xu Lai. She was upgraded to level 10 in the morning. Not only did her attributes increase by 1, her characteristics as a civilian expert were also upgraded to that of a militia leader.

Militia leader: The attack, defense, and movement speed of the farmers and militia units under his command are increased by 3 points each, the health points are increased by 15 points, and the morale is increased by 10 points.

Militia leaders can train militia shooters and recruit nearby farmers to become militiamen during wartime.

Note 1: Only farmers who belong to you can be recruited as militia. The recruited militia can last for up to one week, and the food consumption is doubled every day. It cannot be recruited again within one month after recruitment.

Although the militia is also a rubbish unit, it is still level 1. The attribute improvement is real, and the equipment will also include more spears or bows. The key recruitment is free, and they only need to bear 1 more unit of food every day.

As a general from a peasant background, Su Ya's upgraded characteristics did not surprise Xu Lai. Moreover, in terms of this attribute, an ordinary peasant's combat capability would immediately increase several times in her hands.

If Su Ya can still fight within Xu Lai's sphere of influence, then Xu Lai's hero specialization and treasure effects can still be inherited.

When the time comes, the most ordinary farmer will be able to possess a fighting power that is no less than that of an ordinary third- or fourth-level warrior with multiple blessings.

The key thing is their number. Level 0 monsters like farmers should be the most productive in the human camp.

For the same consideration, Xu Lai did not spend Su Ya's 2,000 gold coins. He would wait until later when the price could not be raised.

With the task of upgrading the troops completed, Xu Lai's other goal, which is to capture the horse thieves' lair, must also be put on the agenda.

The grassland is not an environment suitable for ambush and hiding. Xu Lai wanted to hide from the horse thieves, get close to the horse thieves' lair, and then enter through the secret passage. His first task was not to be discovered by the horse thieves.

Therefore, such a task is only suitable for execution at night.

His vision was severely obstructed at night, and with the help of Watanabe, his strategy could be successful.

In this case, he would have to choose a dark and windy night. The moon was very bright these days, so he would have to wait patiently for a while.

It just so happened that Xu Lai also wanted to see if he could take the opportunity to complete the prophet's mission.

The two battles yesterday gave him hope of completing the mission with the Queen's tail feathers, and this morning he had accumulated more than 90 tail feathers.

I originally thought that I would be able to find a way to complete the task in the afternoon, but I couldn't gather many wild monsters throughout the afternoon. The Queen only managed to save one more tail feather, and she still needed 6 more.

Su Ya, on the other hand, never gathered a single queen tail feather because she didn't know how to gather monsters.

Xu Lai didn't blame her. After all, he decided not to tell Su Ya about this method because he was worried that the other party would be in danger.

I originally thought I could collect them all, but I didn't expect that I ended up missing a few.

There are only 6 feathers left, and Xu Lai will definitely not be willing to use witch tail feathers to replace them.

But now it would not be easy to save these 6 pieces, so Xu Lai directly set his sights on the Harpy Treasure House.

This thing was originally filled with the elites of the harpy clan, but now that it's the Moon of the Harpy, there's no way there aren't even 6 harpy queens in it.

I didn't fight in the past because I was worried that the troops would suffer heavy losses.

Now, Xu Lai's subordinates, excluding the two dawdling third-level infantry and flying troops, are all at the lowest level 4, and with his and Su Ya's attribute bonuses, how can he be afraid of a treasure house smaller than the previous one? There are so many harpy treasure houses.

It's just that it's dark today. After Xu Lai gathered his troops, his physical strength and arrows all needed to be restored.

Three more wooden houses were added today, and another three are being upgraded, and a lot of wood has been piled up. Su Ya arranged to still open the bow at night. By tomorrow, there should be three upgraded wooden houses.

The 9 wooden houses can provide rest for 45 soldiers, which will be enough for tomorrow's daytime battle.

It was at this time that Wei Yihong and Tahan hurried back.