The Invincible Overlord of Heroes

It is said to be an abandoned castle, but from Xu Lai's perspective, it looks like a complete and huge castle.

Of course, if you can fly up and use strong light to clearly illuminate the back of the castle, you can see that most of the castle is covered by thick walls and rocks.

Before Xu came, he naively thought that he could dig through the three-quarters of the back.

Looking at it now, it is impossible to dig into the ruins unless that section of the dungeon is hollowed out.

However, only a quarter of the castle was already huge, and what appeared in front of Xu Lai and the others was a complete section of the city wall.

There is a high-level arrow tower, two intermediate arrow towers, and a huge castle gate erected on the city wall.

Outside the gate is a moat more than ten meters wide. I don't know where the river water is drawn from, coming down from the ground and returning to the ground.

There were many people standing on the city wall, all of them were wild monsters guarding the abandoned castle.

12 level 7 angels, 60 level 6 knights, and 72 level 5 priests.

There are 120 level 5 sharpshooters and 120 level 6 crusaders.

The rest are not worthy of Xu Lai's attention. The spearmen and griffons are both level 4, and there are only 240 of them, although the griffins are flying troops.

Finally, there are 240 additional farmers. It would be a pity to kill them. Even if these guys are just left on the farm, they can still collect 1 gold coin per person every month.

Besides, whether it is the grassland or underground, what is lacking is not land but workers.

In these two places, no matter how low the yield is, if a farmer goes to plant it, he can still get some extra gains in addition to feeding himself.

Not to mention the monthly payment of 1 gold coin, which is even more cost-effective than the herdsmen found on the grassland.

But although the opponent doesn't have a hero to lead them, they only have the attributes of wild monsters, but the numbers are there after all.

There are nearly 900 troops, and Xu Lai only has 10 people when he is full. Even if these 10 people are of high levels, they can't compare with the opponent in terms of military strength.

It's a pity, it's a pity, we still have to break through, and Xu Lai will definitely win this castle.

Waiting for Giselle, Nalu, and Elvi to recover their physical strength, and for Anna to recover some mana.

In the dark underground, there is no light at all.

Fortunately, the special underground mushrooms have multiplied here, and there are many braziers on the castle not far away, otherwise Xu Lai wouldn't be able to see clearly.

The city gate was closed, and Xu Lai never thought of bringing a catapult when he went out this time.

The foundation of Qingfeng City is still too weak. There are trebuchets, but they are only fixed ones, and there is no packaged trebuchet that can be assembled and disassembled.

Even if there is, Xu Lai is not good at assembling this thing.

Moreover, it takes people to control the catapult, it takes people to transport the ammunition, and it takes people to launch it. How can these people be good at this kind of thing?

Without a catapult, it is really not an easy task to attack the gate of the castle-level wall with normal attacks.

If you use ordinary weapons, you may consume dozens of weapons alone, which may not be enough.

Besides, they have a moat, and the only one who can attack the city gate is Giselle.

It would be even more difficult to break the door with arrows. It would be better to hope that Elvi would fly to the city wall and kill them all by herself.

Of course, it's not that Xu Lai doesn't believe in Elvi's ability. After all, there are only 12 angels at the highest level on the opposite side, the seventh level.

Moreover, even if these angels are at level 7, they may not be able to break through Elvy's defense.

So Elvi is invincible, and she has no problem massacring these soldiers by herself.

Xu Lai's only worry was whether Elvi's strength was sufficient.

After all, Elvi was the main force in today's battle, and she didn't rest for too long just now.

Therefore, Xu Lai planned to handle this battle by himself.

After all, this is an abandoned city. In theory, no one should live in it.

To be on the safe side, Xu Lai asked Elvi to take a flight and take a look inside and out.

After all, although three-quarters of the city was buried, there was still a quarter of the corner. Someone would have survived at that time.

If you live in it for generations, it may not be impossible.

Xu Lai has already replaced the Doomsday Blade, and Elvi obviously knows what Xu Lai is going to do.

Elvi was happy from the bottom of her heart for Xu Lai's caution, and of course she would not have any complaints.

Not long after Elvi took off, she had just reached the attack range of the shooters on the city wall. She was not greeted by a hail of arrows, but Xu Lai received the prompt.

"Affected by the intimidation effect of your advanced diplomacy, and because your reputation far exceeds the opponent's military strength, the opponent surrenders to you. Do you accept it?"

Xu Lai was stunned. He guessed that diplomacy should not be able to deal with these people, but he did not expect that the intimidation ability of advanced diplomacy would happen in this situation.

He originally thought that this special effect would only affect hostile troops, that is, dungeons, demons, and undead troops.

But Xu Lai launched an siege, and the troops who were originally friendly to him naturally became hostile.

If there is hostility, then instead of calculating the friendship between the two parties, we will mainly calculate the strength of both parties, and then make a 20% positive adjustment on this basis.

Xu Lai actually didn't know what the strength comparison between the two sides was.

Because in addition to quantity and level, the impact of heroes on soldiers will definitely be taken into account.

However, what Xu Lai did not expect was that reputation would also have an impact on intimidation.

In fact, it is not difficult to understand. It is self-evident which one has the stronger intimidation ability between a well-known terrifying figure and an unknown figure.

Anyway, this is very good news for Xu Lai.

He unceremoniously accepted the surrender of these people and directly obtained nearly 1,000 troops without spending a penny.

However, the morale was slightly affected, mainly because the basic morale was divided among them and dropped by more than ten points.

Fortunately, the overall morale is still above 90 points.

Moreover, the morale of these troops will gradually return to the basic 60 points, and the morale will still be at a high level by then.

These troops recruited soldiers, and Xu Lai assigned commanders to them on the spot.

The priest put Anna in charge, the angel was given to Elvi, and the shooter was Giselle.

The remaining ones, including knights, crusaders, etc., were all given to Naaru.

Compared to Naru, Jian Yuan is obviously more trustworthy, but Jian Yuan still has more important tasks to do.

I don’t know how long it will take to explore the entire castle and a quarter of the area.

After letting Elvi fly in and lower the suspension bridge and city gate, Xu Lai first found a dusty private house to stay temporarily.

Then let Naru take the peasants, follow Giselle, Jian Yuan and the others to go out to find the heart of the castle.

This is not an easy job. Even if there are 240 farmers here in Xu, it will still take a long time.

Something as important as the heart of the castle cannot be buried on the outskirts of the city, nor can it be buried in an unguarded place.

Therefore, this thing is most likely buried in the castle.

However, most of the city's castles were buried in ruins. Even if Xu Lai asked them to dig three feet into the ground, there would only be a limited number of places to dig.

Xu Lai didn't plan to stay here for too long, so he gave Jian Yuan and Nalu a day.

If you can't dig it out after 24 hours, just give up.

Whether or not he has the heart of the castle is not a big problem for Xu Lai.

He didn't expect too much from the Dracolich's phylactery after Elvi's reminder.

But if 24 hours passed, nothing was dug up.

Then he would find a way to destroy that small building in the sky.

This is the only remaining chance for Xu Lai to obtain the construction drawings of Yunzhong City.

If he couldn't obtain the blueprints by destroying Yunzhong City, then he would have to accept his fate.

Xu Lai has a way to destroy Yunzhong City. Among the great magician's books he just obtained, there is a spell called flying thaumaturgy.

He could only cast a spell, fly to the sky with the nearly a thousand troops, and cut it down with one sword after another.

Jian Yuan and the others took the farmers to work, but Xu Lai and the others couldn't take any time off either.

His space backpack does contain food for many people, and there is also a spare supply truck.

There was no way, Shenglong's appetite was too good, so Xu Lai had to make more preparations.

Therefore, there is no problem in providing food for these people temporarily.

But they are the only ones who can cook.

Fortunately, recruiting soldiers is not particular. Xu Lai bought a few large pots, boiled them all with white rice, and boiled several large pots of chicken soup, and he could barely cope with it.

There are only a few of them busy, so they can handle it and just take a bite.

In the evening, everyone could only eat dry food, but Xu Lai prepared hot soup for them.

Of course, the water from the moat outside is not used.

Xu Lai had tried the water there, and it was very toxic. With his physique, he would lose health points if he came in contact with it for a long time, and the others would lose at least a dozen health points every second.

In the supernatural world, it is normal for deep water to drown people for a while.

Therefore, in order to increase the power of the moat, human nobles would poison it in most cases.

The same goes for other factions, with towers burying magic mines and demons filling them with lava.

So Xu Lai and the others didn't even take a shower at night. They had enough food to go out this time, but the drinking water was probably too choked.

So many people need water, and water resources are immediately cherished.

Xu Lai found many wells in the city, but without exception, they were all dry and could not get a drop of water.

In the afternoon he visited the entire city, including the so-called heroic buildings.

The few remaining ones are basically in a state of abandonment. I don’t know if it is because they have been operated for too long and no one has operated them.

Without the heart of the castle and without authorization, Xu Lai could not visit.

However, after occupation, he can force access.

However, these recruitment buildings all seem to be dead. Even if they can be forcibly accessed, they are empty. Not to mention people, even the slightest information cannot be obtained.

Just like those abandoned private houses, they looked like they had been dry for who knows how many years. They were ordinary and without any characteristics.

In the whole city, only the city wall may still have a trace of vitality. (End of chapter)