The Invincible Overlord of Heroes

Xu Lai has always disliked the saying that the greater the ability, the greater the responsibility.

But he had to accept that the greater the favor, the greater the pressure.

The God of War, intentionally or unintentionally, provided him with too much help, so that he had no way to refuse the extremely unreasonable request of the temple.

The temple only gave him the last six months, but asked him to stand up against the great devil Kerrigan at that time.

This land obviously has no shortage of powerful families that have enjoyed benefits for thousands of years, and there is no shortage of countless heroes who have descended, but only let Xu Lai take on this most dangerous responsibility.

But there is no way, eating someone's mouth is soft, and taking someone's hand is short.

Not only did they not punish Elena, but they also prepared a promotion ceremony for her, and even sent more powerful subordinates to her.

Even if Xu Lai could be thick-skinned, the key is that Kerrigan would not let him go at all.

So, Xu Lai had no choice at all.

The time he stayed in the temple was much longer than Xu Lai expected.

It was not until the evening that Xu Lai was able to leave, but he could not take Elena with him.

Elena's promotion ceremony has been finalized, and will be presided over by Crimson Bishop Neil himself.

She can choose the priest who will accompany her to the grassland.

In addition to priests and priests, Elena can take away anything that is not too excessive.

For example, the detailed maps collected by the temple over the years are not only the dungeons that Xu Lai is concerned about, but also the South Empire, the East Empire, the West Empire and the grassland area.

Xu Lai, who was born in the information age, has always valued these the most. He believes that information is the key factor in winning the war.

These maps are not just as simple as preventing people from getting lost.

Many of the field buildings marked on them are very useful.

Apart from other things, with Xu Lai's current level of 40, he personally commanded the extermination of mercenaries, thieves' guilds, dignitaries' guards, and city defense forces, with tens of thousands of experience far higher than professionals who recruit soldiers.

However, the experience bar has moved very little, and such battles will take at least dozens or even hundreds of times before it is possible to continue to upgrade.

What kind of concept is this? It's like he needs to kill another million people to level up.

This is not a million recruited soldiers, but a million professionals. He estimated that even if he slaughtered all the large cities in the world, he might not reach level 50.

But Xu Lai only roughly looked at a few maps in the temple, and he already had an idea of ​​upgrading in his mind.

If everything goes well, he may not only be able to upgrade to level 50, but also to level 60.

There are seven or eight ancient wisdom trees marked in detail on those large maps alone.

These ancient wisdom trees all have the ability to upgrade people. Even if you visit them all at the highest cost, it will only consume 80 units of gems at most.

Is this still a big deal for Xu Lai now?

The only troublesome thing is that these ancient wisdom trees all have owners. Even if the temple can help Xu Lai say hello in advance, they may not be willing to let him visit.

The good news is that in the current war period, it is uncertain whether these original owners are still alive. Even if they are still alive, Xu Lai is sure to visit them in the chaos.

In addition to the ancient tree of wisdom, there are many other buildings that can be upgraded, such as the Seven Dragons Temple that Xu Lai had heard of in the Northern Empire.

With the relationship with the temple, Xu Lai can be sure that he can guarantee the upgrade when he goes to this place.

So, if everything goes well, Xu Lai can at least upgrade more than ten levels. Even if everything goes wrong, upgrading to 4, 5, or 6 levels is not a problem.

It's just more troublesome. Whether it's the ancient tree of wisdom or the Seven Dragons Temple, there is only one building that can directly upgrade people in an area.

If Xu Lai wants to visit all these dozen places, he will have to run all over the empire and go to the primeval forest where the Barrier Camp is located.

It was okay before, most cities had teleportation arrays.

But after the empire fell apart, the teleportation arrays in many cities were closed. At present, only the teleportation array in the imperial capital Lionheart City has the most cities connected.

Even so, these outdoor buildings are not in the city, and it takes a lot of time to go back and forth.

Xu Lai estimated that even if he ran through these few cities supported by teleportation arrays, it would take about a week to finish.

In addition to these buildings that can be upgraded, there are also some attribute buildings that Xu Lai has not visited.

If there is enough time, Xu Lai can visit them all and try to increase his own strength.

In addition to the wild buildings, the map can also let Xu Lai understand the resource situation, terrain trends, natural checkpoints, etc. of each location.

The sincerity shown by the temple this time is really sufficient, and even various rare resources are willing to be handed over directly to Elena.

But at Xu Lai's instruction, Elena did not take these resources away, but asked Neil to issue the highest level of tokens of the temple.

Xu Lai is not short of resources now, but the temple may be quite short of them.

First, the war has continued to this day, and the temple has lost many priests, priests, and paladins.

Although the temple is bathed in the grace of God, various rituals are indispensable if you want to replenish it quickly, and the consumption of ritual spells is more exaggerated than any spell.

For example, the advanced ritual allows priests to be promoted without meeting the experience conditions.

Of course, this kind of promotion is equivalent to forcing growth. Depending on the amount of ritual resources, one can obtain some basic divine arts after the promotion.

Most high-level sacred spells can only be used through acquired learning and mastery.

For example, the resurrection ceremony, relying solely on the resurrection ability of the Crimson Bishop or Archangel, Seraph, the total number of resurrections will never be too high.

However, if a Crimson Bishop presides over a resurrection ceremony, the total number of resurrections can be increased based on rare resources such as crystals and gems.

Ritual magic is a special form of spell that only high-level wizards and priests can master.

The magic circles of wizards, the demon summoning of warlocks, and the resurrection of the dead by necromancers are all this kind of ritual magic, and they are also special spells that recruited soldiers can never master.

In short, the consumption of various rare resources in the temple is much more than Xu Lai imagined.

Even gold coins and the like are consumed in large quantities because of the continuous purchase of rare resources.

The few things left in the temple, even if they are all moved to Xu Lai, will not play a big role.

Not to mention that it will not play any role, Xu Lai is afraid that in the end he will be charged with looting the temple.

Anyway, judging from the current situation, the reserve resources there should be in excess.

Even if there is a little vacancy, he still has to continue to attack those grassland nobles and continue to plunder.

These guys have ruled the grassland for so long, no matter how extravagant they are, they must have some property.

Even if there is really nothing left, land and other things can be sold for money, and there must be merchants who want them.

Xu Lai controls the exchange. As long as there are enough gold coins, it is nothing more than a premium to buy resources, so it is not impossible to buy them.

But now that the Western Empire has been destroyed, most of the areas should be occupied by demons, not to mention the entire territory.

Moreover, more than one person has told Xu Lai that there have been few caravans coming from the west recently, but there are a lot of refugees.

This is not too good news for Xu Lai.

Fortunately, due to the recent trade with the Naga, some caravans from the Southern Empire have also found Qingfeng City after landing in the Naga territory by sea.

The grassland has too little arable area and population.

Even if Xu Lai took down all the cities, he couldn't recruit many troops in a year, and he couldn't afford it.

The temple is now willing to invest in Xu Lai, but Xu Lai doesn't need their investment anymore.

In short, if Elena wants to come back, she has to wait a few days, but when she comes back, she should give Xu Lai a surprise.

After leaving Lionheart City, Xu Lai not only opened up the transmission channel from Qingfeng City to Lionheart City, but also got 15 archangels from Lionheart City for free in the past three months.

It can't be said to be free, he didn't ask for the resources of the temple, but just asked for the quota, he used his own resources to recruit these 15 archangels.

With these 15 archangels, there will be no more ordinary little angels under Elvy's command, the lowest is 8th-level archangels, and the number has increased to 90.

After returning to Qingfeng City, Xu Lai also got good news again.

After three days of training, Elvy finally qualified two archangels for promotion again today.

However, in the dungeon, the advancement of the cavemen is also quite rapid.

The time is not as fast as everyone's calculation, but the difference is only about the same. At most, it will be delayed for one or two days, and they will definitely find Mingyue City.

In other words, they still have about 5 days, and both training and preparation are coming to an end.

Lena reported a new idea to Xu Lai, that is, not waiting for the cavemen to find them, but taking the initiative to attack when the cavemen have not yet found Mingyue City.

Lena's meaning is to set up an ambush at the forks in the road where the cavemen are searching and kill these cavemen completely.

In this way, the cavemen who cannot pass on the message will be trapped in it continuously.

The IQ of the cavemen is not high. Whether they are recruited or not, they can basically be treated as the same kind of creatures.

Doing so can, on the one hand, gain experience and train troops, especially the new recruits of the Qingfeng Corps.

On the other hand, it can also convey wrong information to the enemy, and prevent the enemy from knowing the truth of Mingyue City and obtaining more information.

Xu Lai believes that this is a good proposal, but it has certain risks.

They were not clear about the distribution of the army in the underground city. If they set up an ambush inside the fork road, they would be easily blocked in the fork road, and they would not be able to stop the people behind them from escaping.

Anyway, Xu Lai still had the reconnaissance eyes of the maze and other places. He proposed to throw the Qingfeng Corps into the main passage and train the soldiers in turns.

Lena wanted to confuse the cave people and delay more time, but Xu Lai just wanted to train the soldiers.

Moriel was like a time bomb that could explode at any time.

The temple only gave him half a year. During this half year, Xu Lai set himself the goal of occupying the entire grassland and taking time to visit those ancient trees of wisdom.

Therefore, his time was very precious, and he didn't want to be delayed by Moriel all the time.

Since Moriel, this landmine, would be stepped on sooner or later, it would be better to step on it earlier so that he could have free hands to do other things.

After all, what is coming will always come.

Xu Lai did not make detailed arrangements for the training of the soldiers, and gave it to Rena.

Reina personally led the newly joined "recruits" into the battlefield.

Their main task was to protect themselves with shields and maintain the formation.

The cavemen have almost no output ability, and with Reina's defense skills protecting them, such actions are basically safe.

All Reina needs these people to do is to cooperate with their teammates, trust their teammates, and execute orders.

The real output is all given to Giselle and the third, fourth, and even fifth batches of archers led by her.

The cavemen are low-level and naturally have low experience points, but there is also an advantage, that is, there are an extraordinary number of them.

All archers almost don't need to aim, and they don't even need magic lamps.

They only need to calculate the distance, follow the commander's orders, and keep shooting arrows near the infantry.

Then they just keep shooting, shooting, and when the two bags of arrows on their bodies are used up, they will replace the ammunition from the ammunition supply vehicle.

If they have used up their physical strength, they will directly replace the next batch of people.

The same is true for the infantry. After Reina evaluates that they can strictly execute various military orders in a real and noisy battlefield environment, they will change positions with the infantry behind them.

In this way, the training from day to night, I don't know how many cavemen died. Anyway, if the road is blocked, they will move the bodies away by themselves.

If the killing is too ruthless, there is no space for the cavemen to work, and Lena will take the initiative to retreat a little.

Once such actual combat begins, it also means that Xu Lai and his Mingyue City will be exposed soon.

Now, he really has no intention to do anything else. After handing over Qingfeng City to Su Ya again, he and Yu Lan, Dier and others took turns squatting in the monitoring room.

The black dragon's flying speed is extremely fast, and there is a bonus from Moril. If you don't pay attention at all times, it is very likely that Lena will not even have a chance to retreat.

Xu Lai cannot accept fighting in the field, because he will definitely not be an opponent, and he can't accept his general being killed outside the city.

Therefore, Xu Lai also subconsciously let them retreat continuously, both to give the cavemen more space and to let them keep moving closer to a safe place.

How could the large-scale death of cavemen in batches not arouse the commander's vigilance?

Xu Lai got what he wanted. Finally, three days later, he saw countless dragons pouring out of the maze.

Among these black dragons, there was an unusually large dragon that caught Xu Lai's attention.

This guy had longer whiskers than ordinary dragons, golden horns, black body, and claws that were obviously smeared with a strong and poisonous green.

Compared with other dragons, this dragon had a layer of skin membrane like duck claws and goose claws.

The difference was that this layer of duck feet was not on the dragon's feet, but on both sides of the dragon.

"This one should be Moril's dragon form." (End of this chapter)