The Invincible Overlord of Heroes

Barton has deployed his strongest combat force near the gate of the abyss, and he is only a little short of nailing himself there.

But even so, it still cannot stop the pace of human progress.

The gate of the abyss was destroyed, and although Briston is still in the hands of the devil, it has no value.

However, Briston is a completely transformed hell city. As long as the heart of hell is not dug out, humans cannot destroy this city.

In the inner city, there are still towering walls, dense fire demon towers, and although the morale is not high, there are a lot of demons.

Just like the capitals such as Lionheart City and Qingfeng City.

The walls of Briston's inner city are also higher, thicker, and more durable.

In addition to the higher durability of the walls, there are many catapults in the inner city that were smashed before and barely repaired in the past two days.

In addition to the catapults that were previously fixed on the wall, there are also a large number of crossbow carts that were not used in time and had no chance to be used.

The long-range advantage has returned to the hands of the devil again.

On the other hand, the human coalition army had to clear all the buildings around the inner city first, because there were many shops and narrow roads outside the inner city.

Not to mention catapults, even crossbows were not convenient to deploy.

On the two main roads that crisscrossed north and south and east and west, there was not enough space for the infantry and archers who were covering the city.

If they wanted to attack the city with all their strength, the human coalition army had to clear all the buildings around the inner city first.

No one knew how long this would take.

And the demons at this time had no intention of caring about human affairs.

Barton gave an order to release all restrictions and allow the demons hiding in the inner city to prey crazily.

The human craftsmen who had been retained for various purposes before no longer needed to stay.

After all, the Gate of the Abyss was destroyed, and Barton's only chance of survival was to defend the inner city and the heart of hell at all costs.

The Gate of the Abyss was destroyed, and since His Majesty Kerrigan was able to rebuild it before, he might not be unable to do so in the future.

Anyway, His Majesty Kerrigan gave him a mandatory order to defend Briston for at least a week.

As long as he can hold on today, and there are three or four days left, he will have completed the mission.

By then, no matter how Kerrigan punishes him, at least he can't take his life.

However, just when Barton racked his brains and tried every way to inspire the morale of the demons, the human coalition quietly retreated.

They didn't retreat too far, but just formed a formation one kilometer outside the inner city, where the crossbow carts and fire demon towers could not reach.

The humans seemed to intend to trap them to death by siege.

Indeed, the inner city of Briston, whether as a temporary palace of the Western Empire or as Kerrigan's palace.

This is a place that ordinary human soldiers and demons cannot approach.

There are not many food supplies stored in the inner city, and too many demons have poured in at once.

If these hundreds of thousands of demons eat freely, even if those low-level demons are counted, they can only last for about a week.

'But those humans will never think that this time I have been desperate, and even humans are just food for us demons. ’

Counting the human craftsmen and their families, even if it is only enough for the demons to survive for one more day, it will be enough.

Half of the one-week requirement has passed, not to mention that if the rations in the inner city are slightly controlled, it will be enough to last for ten days or half a month.

After such a long time, His Majesty Kerrigan must have rushed back.

And by then, even if His Majesty Kerrigan failed to rush back, his mission would have been over long ago.

Mendis can fly. As a fire demon, although he cannot fly, he has his own life-saving props.

This time, Xu Lai is not here to fight to the death.

Therefore, neither Xu Lai nor Reina are equipped with war shackles.

And Barton deliberately let some demons escape before, just to test the human interception methods.

If it was just the physical interception of the knights, Barton would still be very confident that he could escape.

However, the result was not ideal, because humans almost did not intercept, but let those demons leave.

It is also because of this that the huge demons in the outer city suddenly fled collectively as if they had discovered a new continent.

If Patton hadn't controlled it quickly, I'm afraid that the last 300,000 demons would not be saved.

The outer city had already been lost, and Patton had little confidence in whether he could defend the inner city and whether Kerrigan could return to help in time.

Since humans were not attacking the city at this time, it was also a good thing for Patton.

He ordered his demons to keep an eye on the trebuchets and not allow them to fire ammunition privately. He then summoned the remaining demon generals in the city to discuss matters.

The densely packed buildings in the city also served as a cover for the human troops.

In addition, the slingers who had been trained before were basically killed in the process of shooting with humans in the past few days.

Humans have the means of resurrection, but demons do not, so they can only let those demons who are good at slinging stones die.

The inner city originally had limited resources. Shooting when the hit rate was not high and the enemy's subordinates could not be seen clearly was basically a waste of ammunition.

It was also a good thing for humans that demons did not use catapults.

This is the only weapon that demons can use to attack humans. Xu Lai cannot withdraw his troops outside the city to prevent the catapults, and it would be meaningless for him to capture the city.

For Briston, Xu Lai's only obsession is the Gate of the Abyss.

After destroying the Gate of the Abyss, Briston was just an ordinary hell castle-level city.

For such a city, even if one Briston was destroyed, there would still be countless Bristons.

Therefore, he had no obsession with whether Briston existed or not, and he did not want to fight a decisive battle with the demon army now.

It can be foreseen that even if he conquered Briston after a fierce battle, the next days would not be easy.

Because he would probably face the crazy Kerrigan.

The most important thing is that in order to break through Briston as soon as possible and destroy the Gate of the Abyss, he consumed countless ammunition and smashed all the walls and arrow towers of Briston.

Let alone whether he could dig out the Heart of Hell in time, even if he could, he would not have time to convert it into a human city.

The only faster way is to choose to destroy the city directly, and then choose to lead the large army to leave, or to build another human city on the spot.

No matter which choice he makes, he has no defense and can only fight with Kerrigan.

But if he gave up the inner city, Xu Lai would have at least three or four more days to make arrangements.

For example, now he was arranging for Emilia and her Naga guards to leave.

Emilia and the Naga troops were extremely powerful and had an advantage when defending the city, but they moved slowly.

The second was the catapults outside the city. Even if these catapults were detachable, it would be difficult to pack them all and transport them back to Graycastle.

However, Graycastle had lost a lot of catapults before, and now that there was this opportunity, naturally, as many as could be transported back.

The remaining ones that could not be taken away were put back into the warehouse ring and dragged back to Qingfeng City.

In addition to the catapults, Briston's warehouse also stored a large amount of supplies.

Among these supplies, there were grains that humans had hoarded before.

Demons were not very interested in grains, and almost all demons were carnivores.

However, when supplies were scarce, demons could also eat grains. They were omnivores like humans.

When there was really nothing to eat, demons would compromise with these grains in order to survive.

Therefore, these grains are still well stored in the warehouse without any damage.

However, some of the original weapons warehouses, resource warehouses, and material warehouses have been damaged to varying degrees.

Some of the precious resources, such as mercury and sulfur, which are in great demand by demons but not in great demand by humans, have all been moved into the inner city.

On the contrary, the gems, crystals and other resources that humans need most have been moved from the inner city to the outside.

As for weapons, the most precious magic weapons are no longer visible.

However, those ordinary weapons, regardless of their level, are stored here almost intact.

Because there is a huge size gap between humans and demons, these weapons, armor and other equipment cannot be used directly.

This is why demons leave a large number of human craftsmen.

Without these human craftsmen, relying solely on the demons themselves, they may not be able to digest these equipment even if they are given another ten years.

In the rest of the warehouses, the highest-level resources such as refined gold and secret silver are naturally invisible.

But the number of gold coins in the warehouses outside the city is not small. They are all calculated by boxes. You can find dozens or hundreds of boxes in any warehouse.

Any work in the city cannot do without gold coins.

Whether it is recruiting soldiers, training soldiers, or making weapons and equipment, city defense weapons, or even the most important hatching demons, gold coins are indispensable.

It is unrealistic to store all the gold coins in the inner city.

Even Xu Lai has multiple gold coin warehouses outside the palace.

For example, the administrative building has a gold coin warehouse dedicated to taxation and salary payment.

There are also multiple gold coin warehouses in the market. If Xu Lai wants to build a bank in the future, he will also prepare more warehouses.

These materials are either looted by demons or looted by nobles before and stored here.

If Xu Lai does not take them away, they can only be left to demons, and they will become capital and ammunition against him in the future.

Therefore, Xu Lai takes away all the resources of Briston as much as possible, and never leaves a trace for the demons.

As the demon's base camp, Briston actually has resources from other demons in addition to the supplies left in the city.

Even if Xu Lai has a warehouse ring, he needs to collect all the supplies into the warehouse ring one by one.

The action of collecting is simple. The soldiers who first enter the camp arrange the boxes, and Xu Lai can easily collect them one by one.

But on the other side of Qingfeng City, people are already coming and going in the warehouse, almost one step at a time.

But even so, the speed of filling the warehouse is far slower than the speed of moving out.

Xu Lai has to accommodate the speed of Qingfeng City.

After all, no matter how slow Qingfeng City is, it is definitely faster than the soldiers carrying supplies.

After processing the supplies, after searching, the outer city also found nearly 100,000 people.

Most of these people are young and strong people who can work, craftsmen with special skills, and relatives used to control them.

After the demons were driven away, these people naturally fell into Xu Lai's hands.

Although these people can survive, they are more or less helping the demons.

Even the catapults on the inner and outer walls were repaired by them.

Their hands were indirectly stained with the blood of countless compatriots.

But no matter what, they are also laborers and skilled workers. Even the demons did not kill them, so they should not die at the hands of human compatriots.

Their sins should be repaid with their own labor, skills and blood and sweat.

So many laborers are very useful, especially when Graycastle is short of population.

It's a pity that they are very useful but move very slowly.

These people are pure farmers, without any fighting power. If they encounter fleeing demons or wild monsters in the wild, they will most likely have no way to survive.

Xu Lai's cavalry must be kept to chase the demons, and they move the fastest, so they must be left at the end.

The first landing camp is composed of independent warriors. Staying by their side will make it more convenient to do anything.

In addition, there is no senior hero in Graycastle to take charge of the overall situation, so Reina will lead the Qingfeng Legion, Phantom Shooter, Priest and these farmers to retreat in the second batch.

The retreat was also very urgent. Even after the Qingfeng Corps packed up, it was already night, and they had to travel overnight, and they were not allowed to turn on the lights.

All the torches and lights were left by Xu Lai in Briston, and they all lit up.

Eric and others were frantically looting everything in Briston. As long as there was a little space in the warehouse ring, they would immediately move a lot of resources.

Even those catapults and crossbows that were smashed but still repairable, as well as the equipment stripped from the dead demons.

All the resources that were useful, valuable, or just beneficial to the demons had to be moved away.

Under the bright lights, there were busy figures of humans everywhere.

Barton and Mendis watched on the city wall for a long time, but they didn't dare to act rashly, and they didn't even dare to send some flying soldiers to investigate.

In a battle during the day, the 3400-man angel legion killed tens of thousands of fire elves and hundreds of thousands of winged demons, and they were defeated and lost, and they couldn't raise a trace of fighting will.

There are still some Abyss Lords available under Mendis.

During the day, he was the smartest and kept all his troops with him, so the loss was not great.

The demon did not find anything unusual and did not report it to Kerrigan.

The Abyss Gate was destroyed, and unless Kerrigan asked about it, Barton would never report it to Kerrigan.

However, when the new day came, Briston, which was bustling last night, was now as quiet as a dead city.

Barton, who noticed something was wrong, quickly sent out demons to investigate, but the demon who came back to report said that there was no one in the city.

Although there was no one in the city, the supplies and the imprisoned humans were all gone.

However, Barton was not very sad when he got the news, but felt an indescribable relief. (End of this chapter)