The Invincible Overlord of Heroes

Xu Lai made his fortune by relying on diplomacy, and every time diplomacy appeared, he would basically do it.

Unless you encounter an emergency and urgently need to improve your combat effectiveness.

This is the same situation now.

It was only level 36 before, but now it has been upgraded to level 40. If he clicks on Master Diplomacy again, he will probably have to go to every big city to do a Doomsday Judgment in order to hope to continue to improve his specialization.

In a short period of time, he would not be able to gain another specialization upgrade.

Therefore, he gave up this opportunity to improve his diplomatic skills and upgraded the fire magic he had just acquired to an advanced stage in one step.

Among the four levels this time, Xu Lai only upgraded two specialties, one master level tactics and one advanced fire magic.

[Master Level Tactics]: Automatically make the hero learn the Flying Formation, the Extremely Far Formation, and the Powerful Demon Formation; when the hero is in command, all attributes of all warriors will be +20%.

Special effects 1. Ambush, 10% of the total force can be arranged in advance to hide somewhere on the battlefield.

2. Rapid reorganization. When your own soldiers run away due to morale collapse, they can be quickly reorganized around the hero.

3. Tactical strike. Before the battle begins, you can designate a long-range unit of your own. The first hit rate is increased by 100%, including ballistas, catapults and other long-range siege units.

(After the battle starts, the designation cannot be continued. The designated unit only has the first long-range strike, and the hit rate is increased.)

[Advanced Fire Magic]: Enhance the effect of fire magic by 45% and reduce the mana consumption of fire magic by 45%.

Special effect 1. Increases hero spirit by 2 points.

2. Flame extension increases the attack range of fire spells released by the hero by 25% (only effective for range spells, single spells cannot be extended).

Master tactics and advanced fire magic, in addition to their own improvements, also activate 3 additional special effects.

Needless to say, master-level tactics. When Xu Lai was taking command, the attributes of his soldiers and horses increased by 5%.

Even though 5% is not much, the accumulation is still terrifying. So far, he has accumulated 20%, which is a full fifth of his attributes.

It is equivalent to that as long as Xu Lai sits still, his subordinates can increase their strength by one-fifth out of thin air.

The new special effect of tactics is called tactical strike, which can designate your own long-range troops to increase the hit rate by 100% during the first long-range strike.

The most criticized thing about siege weapons is the problem of hit rate. This can be solved through ballistics, and tactics are sometimes very useful.

A 100% hit increase is equivalent to doubling the hit. Even the special effects of ballistics are not so exaggerated.

The only drawback is that it can only be upgraded once, and it must be before the battle begins.

It is equivalent to Xu Lai's having the advantage of attacking first if he wants to launch a battle.

Because once the enemy is dragged into combat before he has time to specify, the advantage of this tactic will be gone.

The effect of fire magic was not beyond Xu Lai's expectations.

The special effect it activates at the intermediate level is actually the same as the Wisdom spell, but it activates intelligence, while fire magic activates the spirit.

Maybe it's because wisdom magic is related to intelligence, while fire magic, earth magic, etc. are all applications of magic, so they are related to the spirit.

Xu Lai actually prefers to improve his spirit, because intelligence can only cast two more spells, but casting spells on the battlefield requires time and cooling.

Relatively speaking, Xu Lai was most fascinated by the fact that a single cast could produce more terrifying power.

These two points of spirit are equivalent to passively increasing the power of the Doomsday Judgment.

It is a pity that Xu Lai's Doomsday Judgment is cast through the Doomsday Blade, and it is already the ultimate effect, so it is not affected by the effects of advanced fire magic itself.

That is to say, the 45% power of fire spells and the 45% reduction in fire magic consumption cannot affect the Doomsday Judgment.

Unless he does not rely on the Doomsday Blade to cast the spell, he copies the spell and casts it himself.

But in that case, the most critical thing about the Doomsday Blade is that it cannot protect one's own people.

Fortunately, the special effects attached to advanced fire magic, namely flame extension, can improve the Doomsday Judgment.

Because this Doomsday Judgment was also released by Xu Lai himself and met the conditions for promotion.

With 2 points of spirit and an increase in spell casting range, if Xu Lai wants to release Doomsday Judgment again now, except for the power, the range should be roughly the same as that of Sellon.

Unfortunately, at present, there is no chance for him to verify it.

After summing up the harvest, the only thing left is to digest the harvest.

There are three harvests that Xu Lai needs to digest now. One is the heart of the castle that Su Ya, Wei Yihong and others gathered through caravans and large markets.

As expected, as Xu Lai expected, Qingfeng City's tax policy became known to more and more prairie people as soon as it was made public.

Some people are still undecided because of scruples of one kind or another.

But some people who are already poor and have nothing don't care about the orders of the nobles. The world is not as big as their own destiny.

Even if those nobles come to arrest them in the future, there is still Qingfeng City. Even if Qingfeng City does not protect them, they can at least live for a while longer.

Of course, the nobles are not willing to let their subjects lose easily. They have all run away. Where can they hire these cheap labor forces?

The nobles have a lot of land, but they don't know how to plant it themselves, so they still need people to plant it.

Therefore, on the one hand, they publicized that Xu Lai was lying, and on the other hand, they also sent people to chase and intercept him to prevent him from dying.

However, two recent events have left them unable to spare any manpower, resulting in a massive loss of people in the territory.

One is that Count Aini issued a conquest order to recruit soldiers and horses from all the nobles under his rule to conquer Jimmy Martell of the Martell Territory.

The other thing is that I heard that Rodney was killed by a horse thief. Even his head is still hanging on the gate of the horse thief's cottage, and no one has even gone to collect the body.

They didn't know it yet, but the horse thieves there had already evacuated.

All they knew was that even Count Aini's infantry commander had been killed, so Rodney's family members naturally did not dare to collect the bodies.

Even Earl Ani refused to send any more people, but was said to be busy reclaiming the Rodney family's castle and land.

Other nobles smelled it and swarmed away. In addition, there were several battles with orcs at the beginning of the year, and each family suffered heavy losses, so there was a massive shortage of manpower.

These two things are closely related to Xu Lai, but he is the one who has no idea about the situation.

Of course, Xu Lai was too lazy to care about these two things except Jimmy who needed Xu Lai to inquire about news from time to time.

Due to the influx of a large number of people, accompanied by the influx of a large number of caravans and chambers of commerce, Qingfeng City also experienced a shortage of manpower and land.

The emergence of caravans allowed Qingfeng City's goods to circulate quickly, especially the large amount of wealth handed over by Bello and the others.

The antique calligraphy and paintings, gold and silver utensils they usually hoard are not so easy to sell off.

But now, these things can be sold openly in the big market.

Most of the unnecessary rare resources that Xu Lai obtained will be sold in the big market in the future.

Many businessmen are eyeing Qingfeng City. Of course, they are eyeing Qingfeng City because they feel that Qingfeng City has huge investment potential.

Su Ya has been faithfully executing Xu Lai's orders. While constantly acquiring basic resources, she has also been building houses every day, and even built a small amount of courtyards that will only be available after upgrading the base camp.

These relatively high-end residences are naturally allocated to the management of Qingfeng City. Otherwise, everyone would be crowded into small residences and there would be no motivation to make progress.

However, many of the houses built in Qingfeng City and allocated to the first residents have been bought by businessmen, including the land.

Xu Lai pondered and said: "Ignore the completed transaction. All future house sales will only be handled through the city hall.

In addition, those residents who came to seek refuge did not even have a place to live, so they would definitely have to divide their fields and houses.

But neither the land nor the property can be given to them for free anymore. "

Now is not the time when Qingfeng City is short of people, but whether Qingfeng City is willing to take in these refugees.

According to Xu Lai's requirements, Qingfeng City still needs a large population to support it, but he does not want to be manipulated by these refugees because of this.

“Let the clerks in the city hall prepare the data and cancel the resident privileges of those who have sold their houses and land before.

If they want to buy a house or land in Qingfeng City in the future, they will be like those businessmen and must provide more than 10 times the construction resources. "

If someone is willing to buy, Qingfeng City is of course also willing to sell, and a sum of funds and taxes can be recovered by selling the house.

But Xu Lai is not just selling houses. He also hopes that in this way, he can replenish a lot of the city's construction resources.

This is just a small episode in the construction of the city. What Xu Lai really wants to do is to collect resources and build a castle.

We already have enough Hearts of the Castle, and merging them is just digging out the Hearts of the Castle and burying them again.

Now it's a little harder to dig, but don't take too long.

The most critical thing is to upgrade the base camp to a castle and expand the outer city wall.

Su Ya has already completed part of the expansion work, which is according to Xu Lai's previous plan.

Bello and the others sent a large amount of basic resources, coupled with continuous purchases from the market and Wei Yihong, as well as the development of the underground ore town.

During the recent period, Qingfeng City has been expanding every day. All the original city walls have been demolished, and it is time to start rebuilding.

As for the manpower issue, there happened to be a large number of refugees arriving, and Xu Lai didn't want to give them free land and houses, so he let them work instead of living there.

As long as they work for one or two hours a day, Qingfeng City provides them with three meals a day for free.

With an extra hour or two, you can rent them a house for free, of course in a house shared with other people.

If they still have the strength, Xu Lai can also pay them wages and let them purchase food, clothing, fields, etc. by themselves. (End of chapter)