The Invincible Overlord of Heroes

Xu Lai didn't know that Kerrigan had already sent out the second-in-command of the Burning Legion.

After he liberated the entire territory of the Brilliant Territory, he was choosing his next target.

In addition to cities such as Hantan City opposite the Hanjiang River, there are three other territories intersecting with the Brilliant Territory.

One is the Burke Territory located in the southeast of the Brilliant Territory and the upper reaches of the Hanjiang River. It was originally the territory of the Daan Burke family and was also an earldom.

But now, the Daan Burke family has long been destroyed. According to the refugees who escaped from the Burke Territory, not even a child of the entire Burke family survived.

There are two left, one in the south of the Brilliant Territory, which is a large hilly area far exceeding the normal earldom.

The demons do not occupy a high rate in this place. They only robbed the cities and mining sites, and did not kill all the civilians who hid in the mountains.

The refugees from the Brilliant Territory and several nearby territories almost all hid in this dense hilly area.

In this place, in addition to humans, there are also hill dwarves living.

Whether the demons were short of troops, or they were unwilling to provoke more enemies at this time, or it was simply because the terrain was too complicated.

In short, the demons did not care much about this area.

However, this place produced high-quality iron ore and crystal, and the hill dwarves settled here because of the output here.

At the same time, humans also needed the powerful forging skills of the hill dwarves.

The Supreme King at that time granted a special license to nationalize this territory and rent it to the dwarves.

However, after the collapse of the empire, the dwarves had not paid rent for several years.

There is a size difference between dwarves and humans, and they are not suitable for intermarriage.

Moreover, their tempers are relatively weird. Not only elves can't stand them, but humans are actually not very adaptable.

But dwarves are in the same camp of justice after all. Even if they are more cunning, humans are still kind to them.

In the past six months, it is estimated that there have been more than 100,000 humans who have fled one after another.

The last territory connected to the Glorious Territory is a marquisate, which is as large as 4 or 5 Glorious Territories.

In addition to the large area, the land quality of this marquisate is also very good. It is a vast plain connected together.

The land harvest of the part where the Brilliant Territory and the Marquisate intersect is more than 30% increased. If you go deeper, this increase will only get higher and higher.

Of course, this is before. Now, it is unknown whether these lands can still grow food.

Fortunately, Archbishop Dur has entered the Brilliant City with more than a thousand official priests.

Under the prayers and purification of the people of the Brilliant City and many priests day and night, the power of the abyss that has penetrated into the land is slowly fading.

After the power of the abyss in the land completely dissipates, the terrain that was previously changed by the abyss will also be completely restored to its original state.

Fortunately, the population of the Brilliant Territory is less than one-tenth of the previous population. Even if two-thirds of the land cannot be used, the remaining one-third is completely enough.

Xu Lai naturally does not have enough troops to provoke the three adjacent territories at the same time.

However, after Lena led the main force of the Qingfeng Legion to the Brilliant City, Xu Lai was unwilling to attack the territories one by one.

On the huge map, Xu Lai drew three circles for the three territories.

He wanted to select two of the three circles as the next stage of the target.

"Come on, tell me what you think."

Lena spoke first: "I have read the military briefing some time ago.

I can personally lead a team to capture the Burke Territory, and let Yan Feng lead people to the territory of the hill dwarves.

The hill dwarves are good at forging, but without humans, the weapons and armor they forge have no way out.

And they are not good at production, so they have always relied on the elves.

The human empire has been destroyed, and they probably haven't received supplies for a while. They can unite with them to fight against the demons in this area.

The Marquisate is mostly plains. Although one-third of it has been transformed by the abyss, it is still very conducive to cavalry combat."

"No, Your Majesty, I have fought those dwarves before.

This group of dwarves looks easy to talk to, but in fact they are very cunning and greedy.

At that time, many lords around asked for help from the hill dwarves, but they all refused.

If it was before, they might still need our help in life.

But now, they have detained more than 100,000 people there, and have no intention of returning them to us.

In my opinion, they want to take this opportunity to completely occupy our hills.

It just so happens that during this period of time, I heard that the dwarves on the other side of the barrier are not having a good time. They may attract more dwarves and even establish a dwarf kingdom. "

The speaker is Sir Eric, the newly appointed commander of the Xiandeng Battalion by Xu Lai.

This person is not one of the more than 800 people who moved out of the Brilliant City, but a rebel leader who voluntarily joined Xu Lai and vowed to avenge the devil.

This Sir Eric is also a legendary person. He was born as a mercenary and is a 7th-level mercenary king.

Originally, with his mercenary status, no matter how high his level was, he could not get the honor of Sir.

Sir, like knight, is the threshold of nobility. The difference is that to be a knight, one needs to have at least one manor, while a knight does not need that.

Therefore, some great nobles are willing to grant the title of knight to the great merchants.

Obviously, Eric is not a great businessman, and he can't afford to buy a knight.

The reason why Eric was able to obtain the title of knight is that this guy is lucky and capable. He actually subdued a black dragon and became a dragon knight.

Dragon knight has always been the highest honor of knights, but he is unwilling to be loyal to any lord, so he only got the title of knight.

The title of the Eagle Kingdom is also not actually conferred, but the corresponding salary will be given.

In view of Eric's identity as a dragon knight, and in order to commend Eric for his unconditional loyalty, Xu Lai also recognized his identity as a knight.

Although Eric did not hold any position in the Brilliant Territory, after becoming a dragon knight, ordinary lances could no longer satisfy him.

For ordinary lances, 3 or 4 meters in length is already the limit. Although the knight can carry 5 or 6 meters in length, it is not easy to use.

Riding on a dragon, a 3-4 meter long lance would be good enough to barely protect the dragon's head and face, not to mention being used for charging.

Therefore, he went to the hill dwarves and bought a 9-meter long adamantine spear enchanted with a lightweight spell.

Although the spear became a magic weapon after being enchanted, it also added adamantine, which made it sharp and strong enough.

But to be honest, the level of this spear is not high. After all, it is only a lowest-level enchantment, and the adamantine content is not high.

However, just such a spear cost Eric half of his life savings.

As a mercenary king, Eric's income is not low. He has accumulated half a lifetime of income in exchange for a spear. It is no wonder that he has no good feelings towards the hill dwarves.

After reaching a contract with the black dragon, Eric can share life with the black dragon. Although he did not inherit the black dragon's powerful defense ability, he can share the black dragon's anti-magic ability.

Therefore, Eric was promoted from the previous 7th-level mercenary king to the 8th-level dragon knight.

And his actual combat power as a dragon knight is far beyond the general 8th-level unit, at least stronger than the 8th-level black dragon.

Xu Lai also has a holy dragon that is being cultivated, and he is also a knight.

This holy dragon was raised by Xu Lai himself, so it is not difficult to sign a dragon knight contract.

It’s a pity that his holy dragon is still in the growth stage, not even a young dragon, and has no qualifications for the contract.

However, Xiaolan is not small now, so it is no problem to carry Xu Lai.

But he did not bring Xiaolan out. After all, this little guy is still in the growth stage. He occasionally comes out to fight, and more time needs to eat and sleep.

Eric joined the Eagle Kingdom unconditionally and joined the Xiandeng Camp.

Joined together with the mercenaries led by Eric before, and the civilians recruited into the resistance team later.

There are not many of them in total, plus other resistance forces willing to accept the transformation, there are more than 700 people in total.

These people and the 800-man death squad were combined to form a 1,500-man vanguard camp.

For those who were unwilling to accept the transformation, their weapons would be confiscated and they would return to civilians, and land and houses would be allocated.

Of course, although the land and housing were allocated free of charge, in order not to waste resources, they only had the right to use them temporarily.

Only after three years of planting and reaching the standard output every year, they would get the permanent lease right after the fourth year.

If they didn't want to become civilians, that would be easy. Xu Lai had transferred Hancock and asked him to form a new mercenary guild in Brilliant City.

This time, Xu Lai was going to do something big. The mercenary guild he formed this time was no longer connected to the Mercenary General Association, but belonged entirely to the Eagle Kingdom.

Hancock was the first president of the Eagle Kingdom Mercenary Guild. He was going to form more mercenary guilds not only in Brilliant City, but also in other castle-level cities in the Western Empire.

This was obviously a long-term career, and the entire grassland was incorporated into the Eagle Kingdom, and the importance of Fort Konaston also declined greatly.

Therefore, Xu Lai simply transferred Lin Qiu to serve as the deputy city lord and administrative officer of Brilliant City.

Xu Lai left the position of city lord to Avid, which was promised to him by Xu Lai.

The Coast Guard was handed over by Avid to Baron Rhine, the former commander of the Cold Pond Fleet.

After registering as a mercenary, the family information, home address and other situations of these mercenaries will all be recorded in the Mercenary Guild and supervised by the Mercenary Guild.

If they don't even want to join the Mercenary Guild, then Xu Lai has no choice but to drive them away directly, letting them go wherever they want, but don't stay in his territory.

The two advent heroes who thought they had some relationship with Xu Lai, and the leader with the most rebels who bargained with Xu Lai, were all driven away by him.

Xu Lai didn't care where they went, anyway, they couldn't stay in the territory of the Eagle Kingdom.

And as the territory of the Eagle Kingdom expands in the future, it is estimated that they will have to move constantly.

Xu Zi believed that he had done his best to this extent. Otherwise, he would have just killed these people to eliminate the trouble forever.

Back to the point, after Lena and Eric expressed their opinions, the others said they had no further ideas.

Tahan Jianyuan and the others were not familiar with the surrounding area, so they were unwilling to express their opinions easily.

Avid and Rhine agreed with Eric's opinion and ignored the hill dwarves for the time being, and dealt with the demons in Berk and Marquis first.

Finally, Emilia, the commander of the Naga and Murloc army, thought that they should go up the Hanjiang River and take down all the cities along the Hanjiang River first.

With the Coast Guard, the Naga and Murloc troops, it is indeed easy to open up the situation by relying on the Hanjiang River.

However, this opinion was rejected by Xu Lai first.

Going up the Hanjiang River, I don't know how many demon lords I will have to fight.

Anyway, with the Coast Guard, these demon lords cannot rely on the Hanjiang River to threaten Hantan City and Brilliant City.

Xu Lai only needs to advance from the land and attack the nearby territories, and he only needs to face two demon lords.

There is no way, including him, there are only two hero commanders in total.

The rest of the people, whether it is Luo Mingru or Qin Laoliu and others, they can bring their own troops to make achievements.

Xu Lai couldn't let them hand over his troops to him for the time being.

"That's it, Lena. You've worked hard. You still lead the main force of the Qingfeng Corps to capture the Burke Territory.

Fang Chao, you are still responsible for the logistics of the Qingfeng Corps.

I will take Brandi, Eric, Emilia and Knight Wind to attack the Marquis Territory.

I have a warehouse ring here, so the logistics pressure will be less.

But it is also possible to act separately, so Avid and Lin Qiu, you will be responsible for providing logistics support for my unit.

Rhine, you continue to be responsible for patrolling the Hanjiang River and training new recruits.

But there is no threat on the river now, so you should first give half of the old troops to Lord Avid.

We have to be on guard against the hill dwarves. There are more than 10,000 people guarding the city, and Bishop Dur is here. It should not be a problem to defend the Brilliant City."

Xu Lai has sent troops to the part that intersects with the Brilliant Territory. If the demons want to capture the Brilliant City, they must find a way to bypass Xu Lai's army.

This is basically impossible, so the Brilliant City will be attacked by enemies from the hills at most.

There are not many demons over there, and it is even less likely that the whole family will go out.

There are more than 10,000 veterans guarding the city, and more than 1,000 middle and senior priests. Even if they cannot win, they can still hold on until Xu Lai sends troops to help.

After Xu Lai gave the order, everyone hurriedly responded and went back to prepare.

Just as Xu Lai was arranging the combat mission, the towering Gate of Hell in the largest castle in the Paphikes Plain suddenly emitted bursts of red light.

At first, the demons guarding the Gate of Hell did not take it seriously, thinking that it was a visit from demons from other places.

Until a group of figures like a mountain walked out of the Gate of Hell.

The warlords in charge of guarding the Gate of Hell hurriedly sent people to find their masters. (End of this chapter)