The Invincible Overlord of Heroes

Later, Jian Yuan also reported the scale of the town to Xu Lai.

Compared with Qingfeng Town, this town where Nagas and humans live together can no longer be described as a small town. It should be said to be a large town.

There are no walls in the entire city, but there are quite a few sentry towers, watchtowers, and even arrow towers.

The town is very large and is mainly divided into three major areas, the human settlement area, the Naga settlement area and the mixed settlement area in the middle.

The core of a town is often located at the most central location. Of course, as the town owner continues to build, the original central location will shift.

Just like Xu Lai placed several major military buildings opposite the Swan Lake. Looking at the town area alone, the center should be in the Swan Lake, but where they are is on the edge.

Jian Yuan said that the other party was more xenophobic, and Xu Lai believed it, but if he said that they completely refused trade, Xu Lai did not believe it.

It's just that they don't trust outsiders. Xu Lai believes that as long as there is enough sincerity, this matter may not be unresolved.

On the contrary, as for Count Aini, Xu Lai really didn't want to be exposed in front of him, so he didn't communicate if he could, let alone take the initiative to do business.

"Okay, you go and have a rest first. Today you and Yan Feng go to have a squeeze. When Tahan and the others come back in two days, I will rearrange your accommodation for you."

This person really didn't talk about it. The day after Jian Yuan came back, Wei Yihong and Urdola returned to Qingfeng Town with a huge team.

The people who came this time were really old and young. Xu Lai took a quick look and found that the number was no less than two hundred.

Fortunately, Xu Lai rushed to build thirty wooden houses and upgraded six houses for three consecutive days, otherwise the resettlement of so many people would really be a big problem.

30 wooden houses can accommodate 150 people. After the original six high-end wooden buildings are upgraded to houses, each of them can accommodate 24 more people.

Of course, Xu Lai would not arrange it like this. Some important people still need a separate house.

For example, Xu Lai's old friend, Village Chief Lacy and his family, the priest Miss Elena, who was also kind to Xu Lai, the two priests of the temple, and the two trainee knights who were escorts.

Others had no choice but to squeeze in, which was better than dining and sleeping outdoors like before.

There were too many people, and Xu Lai didn't prepare enough food in advance. Fortunately, there were enough hot water pipes, and they also brought dry food with them.

Elena, the village chief and the others, and Xu Lai naturally delivered hot soup and hot cakes in person.

In fact, the weather is not too cold even in the middle of the night, but eating a bite of hot food makes my heart somewhat warm.

After two receptions in the middle of the night, Xu Lai and Su Ya had gained experience. Dozens of magic lamps were all hung up, and the whole town was brightly lit.

It was too late today and it was hard to say anything. After reluctantly settling down, Xu Lai asked everyone to rest.

However, Aaron, who is the police chief, and Yan Feng, who is on duty at night, can only continue to work hard.

Wei Yihong and the others didn't look very good. Xu Lai guessed that something must have happened at the Stone Castle.

Sure enough, after the resettlement matters were settled, Wei Yihong and Tahan followed Xu Lai back to his courtyard and reported on their trip at the pavilion on the pond.

Xu Lai's biggest demand for this transaction was met. A large number of gold and silver utensils and jewelry were much more stable than the antique calligraphy and paintings shipped last time.

This was also the last benefit provided by the horse thieves to Xu Lai. This last batch of artifacts alone was worth 100,000 gold coins. The price was suppressed by profiteers who were eager to leave. They only sold 80,000 gold coins and brought them back. There are only 60,000.

Of the 20,000 gold, a large part was collected by Count Aini as a transaction tax, while the other small part was used to purchase information and give gifts.

Fortunately, there was the experienced Ebokar in the team, who gave gifts to Count Aini's tax collector and valet in time. Otherwise, only half of the 80,000 gold coins would be returned, and that was for the sake of the temple.

In addition, in order to make up for the shortage of stones, Xu Lai not only sold a large inventory of weapons and equipment, but also provided an additional 100 units of iron ingots.

One unit of iron ingot has three large pieces, each weighing two or three kilograms. 100 units should be approximately 1,000 kilograms or one ton.

This may not be a big deal in other places, but the lack of ore in the grassland is an indisputable fact, and the unit price of iron ingots is usually extremely expensive.

At this time, a unit of iron ingots is worth more than a horse. The key is that if you have money, you may not have a place to buy it, let alone Xu Lai also provided a batch of finished equipment.

The total value of these things may only be worth tens of thousands of gold coins. The key is their current scarcity and importance, which is like a timely rain.

On the contrary, they were more valuable rare resources. The temple took away 50 units of gems, and the other 50 units of crystals were taken away by businessmen personally recommended by High Priest Ryan.

A total of 10,000 gold coins were given for 50 units of crystal, not including tax, which is equivalent to a unit of crystal worth 200 gold coins.

Crystals are not the most scarce commodity in the human race. The market price of the gems Wei Yihong left to the temple is 500 gold coins each. Buying them often depends on personal relationships.

The materials and strength provided by Xu Lai alone were equivalent to the combined total of several small towns in the rear, and they were also precious materials such as wood, stones, iron ingots, weapons and gems that other towns were reluctant to provide.

Under such circumstances, how could the relationship between the temple and Xu Lai be bad?

In addition to High Priest Ryan, who often dealt with him, several paladins stationed here in the temple had heard about the name of Qingfeng Town and knew about Xu Lai.

Of course, knowing that Xu Lai is useless, Xu Lai wants to see rewards for making such a big investment.

There is indeed a large supply truck in the temple, but currently, in addition to gathering strength to defend against the orcs, the temple is also at war with demons, and Yuwen Shaoguang of the Eastern Empire is also constantly asking for support.

Therefore, Wei Yihong failed to bring back the large supply vehicles, but he brought back two more medium-sized supply vehicles. Together with three vehicles, he could reserve 15,000 units of supplies.

Coupled with Xu Lai's own space backpack, the soldiers can also carry a certain amount of load, which is enough for Xu Lai's 500 troops to roam outside for a while.

If you want to bring more people, it is probably not possible to rely on supply trucks alone. Someone will have to lead the pack horses, and civilians will supply supplies at the rear.

Although medium-sized supply vehicles are precious, if there are only two, they are obviously not enough to trade with Xu Lai.

It's just that the supply truck at the temple can't be sold, so Wei Yihong stepped in and exchanged several precious spell scrolls.

One group dispel, one group healing, and one group rejuvenation.

Different from Xu Lai's strategic healing, group healing does not specify a unit, but a range. All friendly targets within the range will receive an instant recovery effect of 35 points of health.

The same is true for group dispersal, which dispels the enemy's buff spells within a specified range, or dispels one's own debuff spells.

As for rejuvenation, it is another kind of recovery spell. Its scope is similar to that of group healing. The difference is that rejuvenation does not restore instantly like healing.

The effect of mass rejuvenation is to restore 1 health point per second, lasting for one minute, and the total health recovery is up to 60 points, which is extremely cost-effective.

Of course, this recovery method is actually more suitable for units in the rear.

In frontline battles, life and death can almost be decided in an instant, and there is no way to give you a minute to slowly recover your health.

Spell scrolls are equivalent to wizards or priests. They store spells in prepared scrolls in advance. It is extremely difficult to make. The higher the level of the spell, the greater the chance of failure.

What the temple taught Xu Lai were not difficult spells, but they all had group effects and were obviously made by senior priests.

Moreover, in addition to these three spell scrolls, the temple also gave Xu Lai a "Friendly Medal", which was worth much more than the previous "friendly" medal, which was enough to offset the 2,000 temple contribution.

The above transactions, coupled with the temple's vague protection of Xu Lai and its turning a blind eye to the escape of the village chiefs and chieftains, can basically be called a fair transaction.

If that's all, then Wei Yihong doesn't have to report to Xu Lai so late at night, let everyone have a good rest, and the same thing will happen tomorrow.

The reason why Wei Yihong couldn't wait even half a night was that the battle between the stronghold and the humans was about to break out.

For this reason, one of the great nobles of the empire and the actual ruler of Pingfeng Grassland, His Excellency the Imperial Count Ani Kental, has officially issued a war mobilization order.

According to imperial law, after a war mobilization order is issued, all lower-level nobles in the noble territory must obey the order unconditionally.

All villages, towns, forts, castles taxed and ordered nobles had the right to withhold.

Within the territory, all adult males are automatically converted to militia status and can be unconditionally recruited into the army at any time.

The effects of war mobilization orders are so great that only the emperor has always been qualified to issue them. A few nobles must also obtain permission from the emperor or the Congress.

Now that the throne of the emperor is vacant, the great nobles in the Congress are fighting for power with each other. Some have even taken the title of emperor themselves, so what else can they do to grant permission to other nobles.

However, under special circumstances, nobles above count and above are also qualified to issue war mobilization orders if they receive the permission and support of the temple.

Generally speaking, the temple will not participate in the struggle for secular rights. In addition to the fact that the God of War does not allow internal strife, the temple's participation in politics will greatly weaken the power of the entire human race.

Previous experience has proven once that if the empire does not want to be divided again, the temple can no longer get involved in politics, at least not in high-level politics.

But when the human race faces an existential threat, the temple is qualified to authorize the issuance of a war mobilization order in the name of the God of War.

Apart from the organization Congress, the only thing that individuals can issue war mobilization orders is the emperor and the highest belief of the entire empire.

Now, since the temple has allowed Count Aini to issue a war mobilization order, it means that the situation has reached the edge of extreme danger. If one mistake is made, the entire grassland and even the humans on the grassland will be destroyed.