The Invincible Overlord of Heroes

After all, Xu Lai was not willing to release them directly.

Because it was obvious that these soldiers robbed Count Aini's property.

If it were ordinary gold and silver, Xu Lai might not care much, but what if there were precious props such as treasures?

Anyway, it will take a while, but he probably won’t die.

Besides, if they couldn't tell whether life or money was more important at this point, they deserved to be burned to death inside.

However, the approaching flames were constantly threatening them.

Someone woke up, threw the gold and silver in his arms on the ground, and rushed out.

There are also people who want to take advantage of this chaos to sneak out of the city with gold and silver treasures among the crowd.

Ji Long immediately looked at Xu Lai. Xu Lai sighed and said decisively: "You can do whatever you want."

Ji Long, who was born into a noble family, was much more skilled than Xu Laike in doing this kind of thing.

With just a move of his hand, the elite knights who had just been resurrected yesterday and tonight drew their swords one after another.

They didn't care whether the people rushing over were empty-handed, armed, or something else.

They just arranged themselves in a tight formation, and the long swords in their hands continued to chop mechanically, cutting down the creatures that rushed over one after another.

Many unarmed people fell in a pool of blood in despair.

Even though Xu Lai had seen a lot of killing and blood, he felt a little unbearable when he saw this scene.

However, he could not ask Jilong to stop, because those who rushed out were all professional soldiers, and many of them still had weapons in their hands.

At this time, it is really difficult for them to distinguish who is unarmed and who is armed.

What's more, these are all people who have died once, and they all know that the angels have no quota for resurrection before tomorrow night.

Xu Lai couldn't do it for his enemies. Even if these enemies included many surrenders, he would not sacrifice half of his own people.

Elena, who was at the scene, also sighed silently and directed the priests to add spells to the knights of Geelong.

But except for a few assistants brought by Elena, the other priests were all indifferent.

Compared with Jilong and his knights, it was those who rushed out of the city who were likely to be their acquaintances and friends.

Xu Lai took a look but didn't say anything.

There are no casualties among our own soldiers, just a little more defense and attack blessing spells, Elena and a few people are enough.

This situation gradually changed until the mages arrived and a lot of rain fell.

The cold rain not only extinguished the burning flames, but also awakened the soldiers who were confused by money and killing.

Those who were not afraid of death had already fallen into a pool of blood. The remaining people all stood aside under Jilong's command.

After experiencing the fire and blood, there were not many defenders left in the city.

They want to plunder the Aini family's wealth, but it is not without cost.

Connors only has the command authority to recruit soldiers, and the ownership belongs to Count Aini, so it is impossible for the recruited soldiers to rebel.

And when these soldiers attacked the Aini family, they had already broken with the recruited soldiers and became enemies.

It is conceivable that the flames in the castle may not have been released intentionally, but may have simply triggered the corresponding magic trap.

The facts were just as Xu Lai expected. The surrendered officer quickly poured beans out of a bamboo tube and confessed everything.

Jilong picked up all these people, whether they were officers or ordinary soldiers, and searched them bit by bit.

There were nearly 2,000 light people in the blood and rain, both smelling and looking very ugly.

Xu Lai was not interested in these. Ordinary soldiers had limited vision, and most of what they found on their bodies was only gold and silver, and at most some jewelry.

There were mages at the scene, and Jilong asked those mages to help identify it on the spot.

Ji Long was not as easy to talk to as Xu Lai, especially since he had just killed hundreds of people, and without hesitation, ordered everyone to take off all their clothes in this winter.

Several mages looked at each other, and no one dared to refuse, so they all had to stay and help.

Xu Laiqi was already up, and it was impossible for him to go back to rest at this time, and he was not interested in staying to see how to take off people's clothes, so he led people into the castle.

Ji Long also wanted to bring someone up to protect him, but Xu Lai shook his head and told him to do his own thing first.

Jilong was stunned for a moment, stepped aside politely, and watched Xu Lai lead Roland and Elwe into the castle.

There may be other magic traps hidden in the castle. Roland did not dare to let Xu Lai go ahead. Instead, he found a surrendered officer to lead the way.

The battle in the castle did not end. According to the officer, it was because of their rebellion that Connors also lost the trust of the Aini family.

So Connors, and the few remaining subordinates who are still loyal to Aini, are being attacked by recruited soldiers controlled by the Aini family.

It's ridiculous to say that the only two people on the same camp are attacking each other at this moment.

But to Xu Lai, both Count Aini's recruited soldiers and Connors and his few subordinates were enemies.

The conscientious Holy Light Knights, holding their shields high, lined up on the left and right sides of Xu Lai, protecting Xu Lai tightly.

The paladin who opened the way ahead held the prayer light falling from the sky, and with the blessing of the speed force, his long sword danced faster than the sword master.

Xu Lai, who was behind, could only hear a few screams occasionally coming from the front, but none of the living people had seen them.

I don’t know if it’s luck or misfortune.

After experiencing a rebellion, the morale of the castle troops was extremely low.

Before Roland and the others could kill many of the recruited soldiers, their morale dropped to zero.

It doesn't matter if morale drops to zero.

Anyway, the morale of these people is almost zero. Let alone heroes, they don’t even have a general to lead them. Their attributes are like monsters recruiting soldiers.

The only thing that can be done now is to delay it for a while.

But that's for others, such as Jilong and the others.

If they storm the castle, they won't gain anything.

However, Xu Lai is a hero with high level of diplomacy and high reputation.

Although the defeated recruited soldiers no longer obeyed the command of the Aini family, they still belonged to Aini for a short period of time.

Aini can also recruit them back by using the encouragement ability in leadership skills or special effects such as regrouping in tactics.

Therefore, after the collapse, these recruited soldiers still had a hostile relationship with Xu Lai.

It's just that they will no longer take the initiative to attack, and even if they are chased by Xu Lai and others, they will not fight back.

But Xu Lai's diplomacy also possesses a special intimidation ability, which allows him to attract hostile targets through diplomacy.

Once these soldiers are defeated, they automatically lose the protection of the hero, escape from the hero's control, and become similar to wild monsters.

Recruiting soldiers in this state also requires intimidation.

The most important thing is that although Xu Lai only has a few hundred paladins and more than a hundred angels around him, this military strength is less than the mid-level troops equivalent to 10,000 people.

Therefore, Xu Lai's side has the absolute upper hand in terms of military strength, and the success rate of intimidation is much higher than the basic 20%.

Basically, if Xu Lai and the others encountered three waves of soldiers, one of them would be successfully intimidated, sometimes even twice in a row.

According to Xu Lai's statistics, his intimidation success rate may be as high as about 40%, which is twice the basic success rate.

Of course, it's not without cost.

Xu Lai originally planned to clear the entire castle quickly. At this time, in order not to waste these recruited soldiers, Xu Lai deliberately let them go if his threats failed.

Unfortunately, intimidation does not belong to negotiation. Xu Lai's persuasion skill in advanced diplomacy does not take effect, and he cannot intimidate twice in a row.

But as long as Xu Lai let them go and blocked the city gate, these recruited soldiers could only keep running away in the castle.

That is to say, as long as Xu Lai sweeps them over and over again, he will eventually encounter them a second or third time.

Continuous intimidation in a short period of time has no effect and will only make the hostility value higher and higher.

When it reaches full value, it will enter the state of mortal enemy. No matter whether they have morale penalty or not, they will fight Xu Lai without hesitation.

It is equivalent to reaching the status of mortal enemy, and intimidation is completely ineffective.

In addition to the mortal enemy state, Xu Lai can activate his intimidation ability again as long as both parties cool down for a period of time.

Of course, if the intimidation fails, the hatred value will be added again.

With these free soldiers recruited, Xu Lai lost interest in even the wealth in the castle for a while.

Anyway, this thing doesn't have legs, and the Aini family who originally lived in the castle were handed over to Elwe by Xu Lai.

Elvi is definitely worthy of Xu Lai's trust, so there is no such thing as lining his own pockets.

Secondly, Xu Lai doesn't need to worry about their combat effectiveness, especially with Xu Lai's own blessing, these are angels who can hold Serlon's demon army at their feet.

Xu Lai's only worry may be that Elvi's kindness will be taken advantage of by the Aini family.

By the time Xu Lai had thoroughly cleaned the castle, it was already noon the next day.

He finally made a statistics. Through the intimidation characteristic, he got a total of more than 3,000 free mid-level warriors.

The number of recruited soldiers killed was approximately 2,000, not including Connors who surrendered and the more than 1,000 men under his command.

There is no way, they have become mortal enemies, what else can we do if we don't kill them.

As for the more than 3,000 mid-level warriors, most of them are infantry and shooters, about 2,000 level 3, 4, and 5 infantry, and about 1,000 level 4 and 5 shooters.

Assuming that the average recruitment price is 500 gold, more than 3,000 recruited soldiers are also worth 1.5 million gold, which is a considerable asset.

Of course, because there are more Tier 4 soldiers, the average recruitment price should be less than 500.

However, the most critical thing is not the price, but the recruitment quota that others cannot recruit even if they have money.

Moreover, even if these soldiers are of low rank, most of them are gathered from other cities or villages.

But Conaston, like Qingfeng City, has buildings of all levels.

Even if Xu Lai can't find the Heart of the Castle for the time being, the worst case scenario is that he will drag these soldiers back to Qingfeng City to advance. At that time, the lowest level would be level 4 or level 5.

After daybreak, Xu Lai contacted the Reina Department who was resting in Martell City.

Reina said that the troops and logistics have been rested, and she can leave this afternoon if necessary.

The grassland is really too vast. As a confidant of Aini, Jimmy Martell's fiefdom is not far from Conaston.

But even so, ordinary civilians would need to walk at least three days and three nights to come from Martell City.

Lena's army is small in size, the logistics equipment is not heavy, and it is supported by logistics skills and treasures. It should not take two days to reach Conaston.

But after thinking about it, Xu Lai still rejected the proposal and asked Reina to return directly to Qingfeng City after resting.

Even if we win Conaston, which is larger in area, has more complete facilities, and has a better population and economy.

But in Xu Lai's heart, his hometown has always been Qingfeng City.

Therefore, after having the idea of ​​sending these soldiers back to upgrade, Xu Lai thought about letting Reina and the others go around in a circle and visit Conaston first.

In the end, he gave up the idea and asked Reina to go home directly. At most, she told Jimmy to come to help as soon as possible after appeasing the residents.

The last bad thing about recruiting these soldiers is that Xu Lai's own troops' morale also suffered a lot as a result.

After all, the morale of these newly joined soldiers is extremely low. Their number far exceeds that of knights and angels, and the basic average morale is too low.

Fortunately, various bonuses will not be affected by the reduction of basic morale.

Xu Lai activates an encouragement, and the morale can still be maintained above 80 points.

There is nothing you can do about basic morale, it can only be slowly restored through training, constant fighting, and constant victories.

But with the flag and leadership expertise, a minimum morale value can still be guaranteed.

With a morale of more than 60 points, Xu Lai can directly let them do many things.

For example, arrange patrolling, guarding, standing guard and other military tasks in every corner of the castle.

Currently, these 1,000 shooters have been rearranged by Xu Lai on the walls of the castle.

Some of the 2,000 infantrymen were stationed in the city guard barracks, and some were stationed near important buildings such as castles and city halls.

Under this arrangement, before dark, groups of brand new soldiers had already begun patrolling the streets in place of the city guards.

There were soldiers patrolling the streets, which quickly dispelled the uneasiness of ordinary citizens.

As for the city officials, landlords and wealthy businessmen, their hearts sank to the bottom of the valley.

Because in the blink of an eye, there were more and more soldiers on Xu Lai's side, which meant that Count Aini's hope of fighting back became increasingly slim.

If they could enter the castle, they would definitely not say that their chances were slim, but that they were completely hopeless.

Xu Lai didn't catch any of the important members of the Aini family, such as Aini's wife, Aini's lover, his son, daughter, etc.

They are not in the castle either. Otherwise, if they were controlling it, especially if Aini's heir was there, the castle would be unlikely to break into internal strife.

As early as Connors retreated to the castle, they took some of the most important assets and used the teleportation scroll to leave the city.

Even if Xu Lai knew about it, there was nothing he could do, unless he still had the forbidden magic ball in his hand, or he could attack the castle as soon as he broke through the city.

Of course, even if the forbidden demon is still there, it is actually difficult for Xu Lai to equip this thing. After all, it is a double-edged sword.

And even if he could predict it in advance and rush towards the castle, the most he could do would be to give up his property and teleport away.

The most Xu Lai can do is release a flying thaumaturgy to take the paladins into the castle.

But even if it's so fast, it still takes a while, but people only need to tear open the scroll directly in times of crisis.

Fortunately, although many people moved away, the teleportation could only teleport to a designated area, and most of the assets were still retained.

Moreover, they were in such a hurry that they didn't have time to sort it out slowly, so they took away at most what they had with them.

Those servants were originally planning to collect all the supplies in the castle and find a way to transport them out of the city according to Aini's order.

In the corner near the castle, there was also a door leading to the outside world. At that time, this door was still in the hands of Connors.

It's a pity that before the arrangement was completed, internal strife broke out, and now Xu Lai has an advantage. (End of chapter)