The Invincible Overlord of Heroes

After discussing the business, Xu Lai asked Tahan, Avid and others to rest.

Tomorrow, the battle will continue. Xu Lai has been on the boat for most of the day. After getting off the boat, he led the troops to participate in the battle in person. Even he felt a little uncomfortable.

Xu Lai said so. There was nothing else to report. Everyone left consciously.

Only Avid remained in the big tent.

"Mr. Avid, is there anything else?"

Xu Lai was quite polite to him. Let's not talk about the ability of the people of the Valentine family to manage the territory.

At least they are very good at shipbuilding, and they are very proficient in waterway management and port construction.

The so-called courtesy to the wise and humble, if you don't respect people with ability, how can they really be willing to help you.

As for forcing them to join, one is that Xu Lai really didn't have the time to dawdle, and the other is that Avid was determined to think that Xu Lai was taking advantage of the fire.

Xu Lai did have this intention, and he couldn't even refute it, so he simply forced him to join in first and then talk about it later.

"I'm fine now, and I shouldn't have disturbed your rest.

But I feel bad if I don't say some things.

At the beginning, I had misunderstandings about you and your behavior, including the discovery of the shipyard and the dock of hell, but I didn't report it to you.

Here, I must admit my fault to you, and I want to apologize to you for my previous blindness."

Xu Lai was stunned. He didn't expect that Avid stayed to apologize to him.

Touching his head, Xu Lai smiled bitterly and said, "No need to apologize. In our place, there has always been an old saying that time will reveal a person's true character.

No matter how you thought of me at the beginning, we will have a long time to get along with each other in the future, so there is no need to rush to draw conclusions.

Maybe what you see today is not my true appearance.

I just hope that in the future, if you see my bad side, you can bravely point it out like you rejected me at the beginning, and give me a chance to correct it."

This time, Avid didn't say anything else. After staring at Xu Lai seriously for a while, he bowed deeply.

No words all night.

There are no entertainment activities in the other world at night, and singing and dancing performances are not suitable for appearing in the military camp.

What's more, Xu Lai is now accompanied by Yu Lan and Elvy.

One is soft and affectionate, the other is strong and doting, two completely different styles, Xu Lai will never explore enough in his life.

After a night's rest, Xu Lai got up early.

Although he was up early enough, the camp had already started cooking, and nearly two-thirds of the soldiers had already had breakfast.

After Xu Lai got up, Roland, the captain of the personal guard, brought him a pot of fresh mutton soup and a large bowl of snow-white steamed buns.

The secretaries that Yu Lan brought with her brought Xu Lai toiletries.

Even in the camp, Xu Lai could enjoy a beautiful morning without using his hands.

But he didn't have this habit, and didn't want to develop such a habit.

His meals were always the same as those of the soldiers, but his appetite was bigger and the ingredients were better.

Take the bowl of mutton soup for example. Most of the soup in the bowl of an ordinary soldier was soup, and a small part was meat, and the small part was mostly fat and less lean.

Xu Lai actually preferred soup, but the soup served to him was naturally more meat and less soup, and there was no trace of fat.

Xu Lai couldn't say much, because his meals were the same as those of ordinary soldiers.

Although it may not be fished out of the same pot, at least it is mutton soup with steamed buns, which does not exceed the standard.

He was drinking the mutton soup happily. After a while, Tahan, Brandi, Charles, Yin Lumi, Clint and others came to greet him one after another.

Xu Lai was helpless. He was a person who did not like socializing, but he did not want to discourage the closeness of these generals.

"Sit down, sit down, have you eaten yet?

Roland, go get another pot of soup and a basket of steamed buns, let those who haven't eaten eat here."

After giving a simple order, Xu Lai did not waste this precious morning, and ordered again:

"Wait until the soldiers are full, Brandi, you guys go first, Avid will send some guides this morning.

You follow these guides, attack the city first, and try to take down the Brilliant City in the morning.

After taking down the Brilliant City, the first thing to do is to stop the sacrifice and transformation of Hell immediately.

I have notified Bishop Dur, and he will organize a group of priests to come.

The souls sacrificed in Hell will be liberated, and the land transformed by Hell will be restored to its original state."

After drinking a large bowl of soup, Xu Lai said to Tahan and Roland:

"Tahan, don't follow The army is moving. You and Charles will each lead a team of knights.

One will go from east to west, and the other from west to east. For the time being, clear out the demons in the territory of Brilliant City.

If you encounter refugees hiding, ask them to return to their respective homes. If they are not residents near Brilliant City, let them live in Brilliant City first.

Roland, don't follow me either. Avid only had time to transport siege equipment yesterday. Today, the rest of the knights of Knight Wind will be transported here.

You are responsible for receiving them at the shore. After receiving them, you and Jian Yuan will do the same as Tahan and the others.

One will go from south to north, and the other from north to south. Plow the land for me. Don't let a demon escape. "

As soon as Xu Lai finished speaking, Roland advised: "Your Majesty, I am your guard. I want to stay."

Xu Lai waved his hand and said, "I found out yesterday that there is an abandoned farm nearby.

I took the logistics workers to clean up the farm.

After all, this is still the territory of hell. You don't have many troops. I need to coordinate in the middle and provide you with attribute bonuses. I can't go anywhere.

You are a cavalry general. Why don't you go to work and follow me?

Or do you think Elvy is not as good as you and can't protect me?"

Roland didn't even dare to look at Elvy, and whispered, "Of course I can't be the opponent of the archangel.

But when it comes to protecting people, I am confident that I can beat the archangel with the Holy Light Knights."

Elvy, who had not spoken, couldn't help but stare at Roland.

Roland was so scared that cold sweats almost came out. After being promoted to a general by the order, Elvy even killed Moriel who transformed into a dragon.

But Xu Lai knew that Roland was just worried about him, after all, he had sent out all the troops around him.

The only ones left with him, except for the civilians organized by Avid and some wizard ladies that Yu Lan found from the magic guild, were the angels.

In order to prevent Xu Lai from getting tired of the beauty and not wanting to have contact with men, Yu Lan found very beautiful ladies for Xu Lai.

However, these ladies were beautiful, but their ranks were not high.

Fortunately, they had wizard talents and their intelligence was still good.

And because of their low ranks, they were also doing the work of serving people in the magic guild, so it was just right for them to stay with Xu Lai.

"Okay, okay, leave me one hundred Holy Light Knights, and I will lead them myself. There will be no problem, right?"

Leaving one hundred Holy Light Knights, in extreme cases, can release one hundred minutes of invincibility.

In case of a real threat, one hundred minutes is enough for them to come back for rescue no matter where they are.

Thinking of this, Roland finally nodded and said, "I obey the order."

Xu Lai shook his head helplessly. He had to listen to his subordinates after giving an order.

"Okay, let's go here first, and take action immediately after eating.

If we destroy the altar one minute earlier and stop the terrain change earlier, Bishop Dur and his men will spend less time and energy when they arrive."

Xu Lai urged again.

Transforming the terrain is not a skill that ordinary people can have. At least no one in the entire empire can do it.

Let alone the Empire camp, even if you pull the strongholds, swamps, dungeons and so on together, no one has such ability.

Creating the world is a right that belongs exclusively to the gods.

Among the 9 major camps, only Hell, which has the Great Demon of the Abyss, and the World Tree, which is known as the Kingdom of God on Earth, have the ability to change the terrain.

However, the World Tree cannot move, and the scope of its terrain change can only be the land that its roots can touch.

Unlike the Hell camp, it can ignore the terrain and change any place into hell, and transform any place far away from the abyss.

The main body of the Great Demon of the Abyss cannot descend directly, but the clone with some of the power of the Abyss can barely descend.

Kerrigan himself does not have the ability to change the terrain directly, but he can descend some of the power of the Abyss through sacrifice, using the flesh and blood channel formed by sacrificing life.

Undoubtedly, when Hell changes the terrain of the Empire, it is the lives of the Empire's human beings that are used.

Speaking of which, humans are the highest-level sacrifices in various sacrificial rituals.

Even in the field altar, among the same level, sacrificing humans is the one that gains the most experience.

In order to stop the erosion of the power of the Abyss on the main material world, all the Abyss channels must be closed.

This is something Xu Lai cannot do for the time being, but to stop the changes in the surrounding terrain, just destroy the altars used by the demons for sacrifice.

This kind of altar must be set up in the place with the most humans, that is, the most prosperous city in the surrounding area.

Matthias occupied the original small earldom, which had about a dozen cities.

Among them, the most prosperous one is naturally the brilliant city, which is a castle-level city.

Brilliant City is not far from Hanjiang River. There is a ferry in Brilliant City upstream. Relying on the river transportation, Brilliant City was once the most prosperous city in this large area.

Unfortunately, after being occupied by Hell, the demons immediately closed the waterway of Brilliant City because they were afraid that the humans in the city would escape through the waterway.

Not only the waterway was closed, but also the previous ferry and aqueduct were destroyed.

Otherwise, the Coast Guard led by Avid would not need to send infantry ashore at all, and could directly send small boats along the Hanjiang River to attack Brilliant City.

Of course, the Coast Guard at this time can still provide some necessary support.

After all, the cruiser has a long range. Even if it does not go down the Hanjiang River, it can threaten the defense of Brilliant City just on the surface of the Hanjiang River.

It is precisely because the distance is not far that Matthias can gather troops to attack Xu Lai in the first place.

However, if Matthias knew it earlier, he would never leave Brilliant City.

Destroying the altar of Brilliant City will stop the changing terrain.

But just stopping it is not enough. Now, almost one-third of the land in the Earldom has been completely transformed into lava terrain.

Another one-third is in the process of transformation and has been infiltrated by the power of the abyss. Obviously, it is not easy to grow food crops.

Two-thirds of the land in the entire earldom is unusable, and the remaining one-third is rivers, cities and mountains.

This is obviously not possible.

Fortunately, although humans do not have the ability to change the terrain, they have the ability to restore the terrain.

Humans are also blessed by gods, and human faith can penetrate the main material world.

With the power of faith, the power of the god of war can expel the power of the abyss contained in the land.

However, the power of human faith, like the power of death of the undead, cannot work in a short time.

The undead can form a rotten land, a land of death, a land of bones, etc. by constantly piling up corpses.

However, this change requires a large amount of death power to accumulate continuously, and after a long period of transformation, it is a more natural way.

The same is true for humans. If you want to use the power of the god of war to restore the terrain, the more faith you have, the stronger the effect.

So how can you have more faith?

Naturally, the more people pray, the more faith you have, the more pious the people who pray are, and the more faith they provide.

Generally speaking, the higher the level of the priest, the higher the piety.

Even an ordinary priest can provide faith equivalent to dozens of believers and hundreds of pan-believers through daily prayers.

Non-believers do not provide faith, pan-believers provide weak faith, and believers provide normal faith.

Xu Lai is just a pan-believer of the God of War. Even if he has the favor of God, he does not trust the God of War from the bottom of his heart.

The new Qingfeng Corps under his command is basically composed of believers of the God of War, plus a few pan-believers of herdsmen.

Fortunately, there is only one faith in the entire empire. As long as you are an imperial citizen, whether you truly believe in the God of War or not, you are basically a pan-believer of the God of War.

From this point of view, as long as the population is large enough, it should not take too long for an earldom to recover.

The only fear is that there is not enough time. It is said that the prosperous places in the Western Empire have completely turned into lava terrain.

In addition to making the difficulty of recovery increase sharply, it also means that a large number of humans have been sacrificed in these places.

You know, the population is not so easy to recover. Even the most magical magic cannot give birth to humans.

After the order was issued, all the generals followed it, and Xu Lai also moved to a nearby farm to live.

Although there were no humans in the farm and the land could not be cultivated, there was not even a weed on the land.

You know, weeds have the strongest vitality. Now that even weeds can't survive, it is obviously impossible to grow food.

However, most of the civilians around Xu Lai have been dealing with the land all their lives.

In addition, many of them have been hungry during this period, so they can't bear to see the good land being abandoned.

Xu Lai also ignored those farmers who tried to reclaim the land.

He ordered people to light the stove in the farm, trying to use these human fireworks to call back the refugees who were hiding in some corner. (End of this chapter)