The Invincible Overlord of Heroes

Since the invasion of Hell, nothing exciting has happened in the entire Western Empire.

But recently, all the big and small rebels in the Western Empire, on both sides of the Hanjiang River and in various refugee settlements, have been discussing a good news.

The news that Xu Lai has recaptured the Brilliant Territory spread quickly along the rebels on both sides of the Hanjiang River and around the Brilliant Territory.

The Brilliant Territory is just an earldom, and its total area may be only one percent of the former Western Empire, or even less.

The reason why the news can spread so quickly is that this is the first major victory since the Western Empire and the Hell Demons fought.

Xu Lai did not count the battle reports, but the secretaries helped him summarize them.

Not counting those who died at the hands of the demons themselves, at least 100,000 demons were annihilated just to recapture the Brilliant Territory.

And these 100,000 demons are all real demons with corpses, crawling out of the gates of hell, not recruited demons recruited from buildings.

Counting the recruited demons, the number must at least double again.

Such a victory would be considered a great victory anywhere, even though none of the 100,000+ demons were of a particularly high rank.

But the farther the news spread, the more its authenticity was lost.

After layers of processing, the news had become a rumor, and it was almost impossible to believe it.

When it reached the ears of the Burning Legion's Kerrigan, it became a story that the demons were vulnerable, with millions of casualties and corpses floating everywhere.

When the rumor reached the vicinity of the imperial capital, more than a week had passed since Xu Lai took over the entire Glorious Territory.

The army of Lionheart City guarded this super city, and countless catapults threw boulders and magic ammunition more than ten kilometers away.

With city walls and ballistics, and the fact that humans have always been wealthy, the capital has not experienced war for thousands of years.

Although the soldiers guarding the city were inexperienced, it was undeniable that the equipment of Lionheart City was incredibly luxurious.

Not only had Lionheart City not experienced war for thousands of years, there were also two small cities in the city.

One was the palace of the Supreme King Aled, and the other was the Holy Angel City that had been passed down for thousands of years.

With thousands of years of reserve, the catapults and trebuchets of Lionheart City are all ordinary, and at least they are magic grade.

Compared with Lionheart City, the catapults of Hell Demons are too simple to be true.

Even though the master who led this army is the Great Demon of the Abyss, Kerrigan, who is influenced by the power of the Abyss and has no restrictions on the number of specializations.

Undoubtedly, in order to capture the city, Kerrigan deliberately upgraded his ballistics to the ultimate when he split this body.

With the same ultimate ballistics, the quality of his own catapults is far inferior to that of the opponent, and the range is naturally huge.

Not to mention, the enemy's city wall is also a top-level city wall, and there is a city platform protruding outward every 100 meters.

On each city platform, there is an elite crossbow archer team and a high-level catapult stationed.

They are professional troops that operate catapults and crossbows, and the hit rate of operating catapults is higher than that of archers, not to mention militia or low-level demons.

In addition to the city walls, many catapult positions were also built behind the city walls to suppress the charge of the demon's large army.

With the blessing of this top-level city wall, the top-level catapults on the city platform can cover a maximum range of 50 kilometers.

Of course, even for crossbow shooters, even if the top-level catapults have a sighting system, the hit rate beyond 50 kilometers is not good enough.

The most important thing is that compared with these top-level catapults, what Lionheart City really lacks is ammunition.

As the imperial capital, Lionheart City is a place where every inch of land is worth a lot of money.

There are countless nobles living here. Although there are arsenals, it is impossible for ammunition to overflow after it is filled.

Even this ammunition was filled by the congressmen after the demons launched the invasion. Before, there was only one-third of it.

Now Lionheart City is surrounded in all directions. It is unrealistic to collect ammunition from outside the city or transport it through caravans.

The only good news is that because the demons dare not get too close, there is no strategic encirclement.

The teleportation array of Lionheart City can still operate, and even teleportation spells such as the Gate of Space and Time and the Gate of Another Dimension can be used.

Because there is still enough space inside and outside Lionheart City.

The Congress and the Temple ordered the demolition of the outer houses early, and used the demolished resources to make ammunition.

However, the Congress disagreed with the purchase of ammunition through the teleportation array.

The reserves of mages and energy stones in Lionheart City are also not sufficient.

The members of Congress are all top nobles, and they are not willing to use all the energy stones for commercial teleportation. They must save them for evacuation at critical moments.

With these concerns, Lionheart City did not actually use its city defense weapons well.

At least most of the range was wasted in order to increase the hit rate and power as much as possible.

With the blessing of the city wall, even if the best range is not halved, it is still farther than the catapult of hell.

The catapult of hell, no matter how high its durability and defense are, will almost fall apart immediately if it is hit.

In the process of conquering the Western Empire, Kerrigan has lost a large number of demons.

Even though Xu Lai has angels to help resurrect, there are still casualties, not to mention demons that have no resurrection ability.

However, the Western Empire is the second-to-last country among the east, south, west and north.

The Southern Empire ranks last. However, the Southern Empire is crisscrossed by rivers and connected by lakes and seas, which is a huge test for the devil.

After taking the imperial capital, Kerrigan did not want to lose too many soldiers, so he was not in a hurry to launch a large-scale attack.

Their main army is more than ten kilometers away from Lion Heart City. Unless they use forbidden spells, their spells will not have much effect.

Kerrigan ordered the human slaves to push the catapults forward. The catapults from Lionheart City on the opposite side were bound to attack these vehicles.

It doesn't matter if you smash a catapult. Anyway, this kind of low-level catapult is very cheap to build and fast to build.

Kerrigan captured a large number of human craftsmen, and together with the craftsmen from hell, he could build thousands of vehicles in a day.

Even Kerrigan doesn't need to be really usable, as long as there are dozens or hundreds of catapults pushed out in each batch that can actually be launched.

If these catapults can really hit the walls of Lion Heart City, or hit the troops, catapults, ballistas, etc. on the walls, they will be considered lucky.

It doesn't matter if it misses, at least let those humans know that these catapults are a threat.

If the catapult is a threat, it cannot be left unattended. Naturally, it is impossible to identify it carefully if the distance is too far.

As for the human slaves pushing the catapults, at this time, neither the dignitaries of Lionheart City nor the demons of hell would care.

Kerrigan also tentatively launched a flying troop charge.

On the human side, they dispatched angels and griffon legions without hesitation.

And neither angels nor griffins care about their own life or death at all.

Kerrigan knew that this was because they could be resurrected after dying in battle, and neither the Winged Demon nor the Fire Elves could gain air superiority.

The angels occupy a favorable location and have the support of long-range shooters on the city wall. Even if they are smaller in number, they can completely dominate.

Even if they unfortunately died in battle, the bodies of the angels and griffons would still be in the Lion Heart City, so there was no need to worry about the enemy rushing over and destroying them.

After trying this once, there was almost no benefit at all except for boosting human morale, lowering one's own morale, and causing considerable losses.

Kerrigan also has a headache. For the time being, he can only choose this kind of war of attrition to continuously consume human ammunition, physical strength, and energy.

If the city defense weapons are not consumed and a large-scale charge is launched, a wave of ice crystal bombs will be dropped, which will cause tens of thousands of demon casualties.

But even if they use ammunition to deceive humans, they will only project the most common boulder ammunition, and magic ammunition such as ice crystal bombs will not be easily fired.

Or use high-level troops to rush up to the city wall in one go.

Humans now only attack enemies within ten kilometers, leaving the big demons outside. They can scale the city wall with up to two teleports.

But in that case, the Great Demon's casualties would definitely not be small.

His precious son Sellon had already destroyed an army of demons, killing thousands of big demons, hundreds of Hellboys and thousands of demons.

If there were another casualty like this, it would take at least another hundred years for Hell to take a breath.

The attack on the Emperor was not going well, and Kerrigan was already in a very bad mood. When he heard such rumors, his lungs almost exploded with anger.

Of course, it was impossible for Kerrigan to believe such rumors. Although Mathias died in the battle, there were still other high-level demons who could pass on information to him.

Not to mention, other demon lords near the Brilliant Territory will also pass detailed battle reports to him.

But if it was just a counterattack organized by the remaining forces of the Western Empire, Kerrigan wouldn't be so angry.

But when his intelligence agency told Cregan the truth through flags, armor, clothing patterns and specialized analysis of battle reports, Cregan was completely angry.

Kerrigan immediately activated his succubus hidden among humans, and the intelligence passed back once again confirmed the reliability of the news.

While he was fighting Lion Heart City, the one who attacked him from behind was Xu Lai, who had once annihilated one of his demon legions.

This Xu Lai not only killed Sellon and annihilated his entire demon army, but also erected a statue of the God of War.

If it weren't for the statue of the God of War, which allowed the God of War's divine power to penetrate into the main material world and activate the divine descending technique, the pope would have been dead long ago.

Now, this guy gave him another huge surprise.

“Send the order and ask Mendis to bring his army back for reinforcements.

Also, tell Mendis that not only can he take away his army, but all the demon lords in the rear will also obey his orders.

By the way, he also told him that if he killed Xu Lai and brought back his head, this eternal gate would be his reward.

But if he can't defeat the guy named Xu Lai, just let him go back to hell. "

Kerrigan took out a small door-like object from his space ring and handed it to his herald.

The herald took over the small Hell Gate and left respectfully.

Mendis is no ordinary person. He is the second-in-command of the Burning Legion and an abyss lord who followed His Majesty Kerrigan to climb out of the abyss of hell.

Unlike Kerrigan and Sellon, who are respectfully called the Great Lord of the Abyss and the Lord of the Abyss, they are actually devils.

The abyss lord of Mendis is his race and profession.

Kerrigan's stature is not very tall, and is basically the same size as Seraph.

However, Mendis is a huge demon with a body size of over ten meters, comparable to Behemoth on land.

Flames, giant swords, and a mountain-like body are the standard configuration of the Abyss Lord.

The status of the Abyss Lord Mendis is only lower than that of Selron, the heir of Kerrigan.

However, his actual power is far greater than that of Selron.

It is only because how many troops Selron can control depends on how much power his father Kerrigan gives him.

But the Abyss Lord Mendis can create and train more Abyss Lords himself.

Unlike ordinary demons, the Abyss Demons practice both magic and martial arts. They are both spellcasters and powerful warriors.

Although they are bulky, they have a pair of huge wings.

With the blessing of these wings, their speed is not slow.

Except that their number is a little rare and can only be trained by Mendis, even the Great Demon cannot match them.

Like the Phantom Shooter and the Paladin, the Abyss Demon is a hidden soldier of Hell and can only be trained through special means.

Unlike Rangers who can be trained from low-level shooters, Abyss Demons can only be trained through Evil Gods, so their natural base is relatively rare.

But precisely because of their rarity, Abyss Demons and Abyss Lords are both extremely powerful species.

Level 8 Abyss Lords can not only release medium and high-level fire spells such as Big Fireball, Continuous Fireball, Meteor Shower, etc.

They also inherited the unique ability of Evil Gods and can transform the corpses of low-level demons into more powerful Abyss Demons.

In addition to spells, Abyss Lords are also very good at physical combat.

The huge giant sword allows them to kill multiple enemies at once.

Finally, these Abyss Lords are also proficient in summoning spells and can release the Gate of Hell to summon low-level demons to fight.

However, the level of the Gate of Hell they release will not be too high. If you need to summon high-level demons, you need a large number of Abyss Lords to cast spells together.

The upper limit of ordinary Gate of Hell is only hellhounds, horned demons, etc.

If the spell is cast jointly, the more Abyss Lords there are, the stronger the Hell Gate will be. At its strongest, it can even summon a 7th-level Hellfire to fight.

But the Hell Gate is just a spell after all. The stronger it is, the shorter its duration will be.

In order to continuously summon high-level demons, it is necessary to borrow a physical Hell Gate.

And the Hell Gate can only be built in a city-level Hell City, which is equivalent to a castle-level city in the Empire.

Of course, the cost of the Hell Gate is also quite high, so let alone fighting in the wild, it is difficult to find a Hell Gate even in a Hell City.

However, the Lord of Hell, the Great Demon of the Abyss, Kerrigan, happens to have a movable Hell Gate in his hands.

After all, the Hell Gate is not the unique spell of the Abyss Lord.

Any caster who has the ability to cast and has learned this spell can release it. (End of this chapter)