The Invincible Overlord of Heroes

A hero is someone who can lead a whole team to become stronger, but a hero himself may not be that powerful.

A demon hero like Mondis is not bad, at most he can be considered lazy after becoming a hero.

Many natural heroes, such as the descendants of nobles and the adventers like Xu Lai, have different combat abilities.

Xu Lai may still be considered the first echelon with his powerful attributes.

But once he removed his equipment, especially a complete set of Angel Alliance suits, his combat ability at least dropped by more than half, and he instantly became a third-rate.

No matter how powerful Mondis was before, after changing to ordinary equipment and not having fought with others for many years, his level may have dropped more exaggeratedly than Xu Lai.

However, although Mondis changed his equipment, he could not be seen among a bunch of Abyss Lords.

It is relatively easy to identify from the corpse.

First of all, it is the size. Mondis must be the strongest among the Abyss Lords.

Secondly, it is the equipment. Even if it is changed to ordinary ones, he will definitely not change some jewelry and sundries.

For example, the amulet that increases life value, and the space ring that stores most of Mendis's wealth.

Unfortunately, this space ring looks good, but it is also an encrypted ring.

And things like space rings cannot be stored in other space equipment.

Therefore, in order to decrypt this ring, Xu Lai needs to take it back to Qingfeng City by himself, or find a high-level space mage nearby.

Xu Lai has planned to go back recently, but he has to wait until Tahan comes back.

By the way, if there is a chance, I also want to see the Lord of Hell.

But once he appears, it basically means the destruction of Lionheart City and Holy Angel City, and Xu Lai thinks it is better not to see him.

After killing Mendis, stripping all the equipment of the Abyss Lords and throwing them into the warehouse ring, he took the bodies of the dead angels to meet Yan Feng.

The number of angels is still too small, and the newly advanced group of little angels is only level 7. Fighting with the powerful Abyss Lord, casualties are inevitable.

Tahan was not able to catch up with these two battles, otherwise he could have brought this group of little angels back with him.

Fortunately, the casualties were not high. After all, Xu Lai could heal them, add shields, fire control magic and other spells.

In order not to expose himself, Mendis had been hiding and did not dare to show up to use spells.

However, Elvi had not participated in the battle. On the one hand, she was protecting Xu Lai, and on the other hand, she wanted to find him as a hero.

Without the blessing of heroes, the combat effectiveness of the Abyss Lords would be at least reduced by half, and killing heroes first was the best choice.

Mendis also secretly organized an elite assault on Xu Lai, but unfortunately Xu Lai was protected by the Holy Light Knights of a thousand people.

After several battles, although Xu Lai's own level was only raised by one level, the Paladins and Knights of the Guards were all advanced.

Now his Guards Knights have the lowest level of 7th-level Paladins.

Yan Feng did not chase too deeply.

After firing several rounds of ammunition reserves, it was not known whether the morale of the Abyss Lords collapsed or the demons leading the team could not bear it.

The remaining two or three thousand Abyss Lords suddenly exploded and flew away like a flock of birds.

The exploded demons flew in different directions without a clue.

Most of the people Yan Feng led were summoned knights. Even if there were some officers who could lead the team separately, it was impossible to really divide them into thousands of teams.

Dividing into several teams, chasing in different directions, and agreeing on the pursuit time limit was the limit.

What if this was a trap set by the demons? They could reunite by changing directions in the air.

However, chasing on the ground was not a smooth journey. Various ravines, wild buildings, wild monster groups, undeveloped roads, or villages and towns were all huge obstacles.

After barely chasing for more than half an hour, Yan Feng had to rush back to meet up.

The good news was that he and the archers had no casualties. Only Xu Lai lost more than ten little angels, who had been resurrected by the archangels.

Xu Lai stayed in Briston and killed nearly 10,000 abyss demons, most of whom were advanced abyss lords.

Unfortunately, Xu Lai wandered in Briston for another two days, but he didn't get any harvest.

None of the demons in Briston dared to go out of the city.

Even the walls, gates and moats that Xu Lai flattened, no one came to repair them.

These buildings are not heroic buildings. Even if there are a lot of resources, workers are needed to repair them.

Xu Lai wanted to see if there were still humans working for the demons in Briston, or if the demons would send those little demons to work.

However, after Barton learned that Xu Lai was still wandering outside the city, and even hung Mendis's head outside the city.

This guy simply defended the inner city and refused to go out.

He even opened the other three intact gates and let the demons who couldn't stay escape.

Barton used these demons as bait to see if Xu Lai was still there.

As for the open city gates, that's a joke. An entire wall of the city is gone, so it doesn't matter whether the other three gates are open or not.

Of course, all these demons were hunted down by Xu Lai without exception.

The demons that escaped were either too few in number or low-level.

They were not even as good as a mosquito leg, let alone meat.

Xu Lai estimated that as long as he did not leave, Barton would not even leave the inner city, let alone send troops out.

Anyway, it was impossible to gain anything in this place, so Xu Lai finally went back home.

On the way back, Xu Lai did not meet Kerrigan.

Briston is not far from Graycastle. If the infantry marches quickly, it only takes a little more than half a day to get there.

As for the cavalry, if they do not stop or rest on the road, they can go back and forth at least twice in half a day.

The cavalry led by Xu Lai was faster and arrived at Graycastle in just one hour.

The scars left by the previous siege of Graycastle have been repaired a lot during this period of time with Wang Chao's efforts.

After Lena returned with tens of thousands of people, Graycastle is no longer short of craftsmen for the time being.

Of course, these tens of thousands of people are not all craftsmen, more than half of them are just ordinary civilians.

But fortunately, they are basically young and strong laborers. After Reina took over the defense of Graycastle, Wang Chao led them out of the city to work.

Although the land in the Graycastle Valley is all rocky and extremely unsuitable for planting, this is a magical world.

Bury a castle heart and you can create a large farm.

Connect these farms together and they will automatically form a manor.

Unfortunately, although food can be grown in the manor, it has to bear a debuff that reduces the output by half.

At the same time, the manor needs to be connected to mountain springs for growing food and drinking water, which is very troublesome.

But fortunately, even with the debuff of halving the output, two super manors with more than a thousand people can still feed the people in this city.

However, if Xu Lai leaves a large number of garrisons here, he still needs to transport food from the rear.

Moreover, Graycastle has no teleportation array, so it is not possible to leave directly from here.

Xu Lai used the spell of the Gate of Time and Space to leave with the guards and the little angels.

Before he left, he also waited for Tahan to come back. He brought back the supply troops from major cities in the past two months, as well as more than 100 archangels who had advanced to archangels.

It turned out that during the period when Xu Lai was away, Qingfeng City held another summer auction, and many top-level soldiers were obtained at the auction.

As the Minister of Commerce, Wei Yihong personally went to Tahan and traded many small angels in the wild with Titans and other top-level soldiers that Tahan urgently needed.

It is difficult to recruit top-level soldiers regularly, but just like the Griffin Treasure House that Xu Lai had fought, if you are lucky, you can get several for free.

Especially in the current situation, the entire empire is in chaos.

Many of the resource areas that were strictly guarded by the nobles have fallen into the hands of the guilds composed of the major advent heroes.

This is particularly obvious in the south.

A large number of nobles from the Western Empire and the Northern Empire went south, coupled with the previous destruction of the dungeon and the threat of the Kerrigan Burning Legion.

Now the Southern Empire is also particularly chaotic, and the major lords are recruiting troops, causing several nobles to gradually lose their ruling power.

Although Xu Lai left, he did not take too many troops with him.

After disbanding the legion, he only took away the dozens of little angels and Roland's Guard Knights.

Tahan took over the Knight Wind Legion again after upgrading 3 levels, not counting the nearly 20-point improvement of the four attributes of the equipment.

After leaving his two main legions in Gray Castle, Xu Lai solemnly thanked Emilia.

He selected some of the more precious spoils from the demons and gave them to Emilia and the Naga Guard.

Emilia's Naga Guard did not slack off because they were just allies, but took the initiative to undertake many dangerous actions.

Although they only wanted to gain experience, Xu Lai could not swallow up all the spoils against his conscience.

The combat effectiveness of these Nagas is already very high, and what they lack is nothing more than combat experience and equipment.

After all, they, the Nagas, especially the high-level Nagas, need to be equipped with eight weapons alone.

No matter how arrogant the Naga tribe is, it can only equip a limited number of Nagas with titles such as the first warrior with a full set of high-quality weapons and equipment.

After the alliance with Xu Lai, Emilia's deep-sea tribe had a much better life, but they could still only equip the main force with one main weapon.

This time, the combat experience made up a lot, so Xu Lai simply gave them a lot of demon equipment.

The seabed is not good at equipment making, and many of the demon weapons are just right for the tall and strong Nagas.

After receiving this batch of weapons, Emilia squinted and smiled: "I don't want to go back after doing this business."

Xu Lai smiled and said: "Graycastle can't accommodate so many people, and my knights can only be stationed outside the city.

But if you are still interested, you can talk to Avid after you go back.

The task I gave him remains unchanged. While being responsible for the Brilliant Territory, he still has to fight the demons in the coastal cities.

He can only cause damage to the demons remotely now. It is still difficult to fight the demons on the shore and solve the trapped people in these coastal cities."

Emilia smiled happily and said: "This is easy to say, just leave it to us Nagas."

The Nagas followed Xu Lai, and even their own troops did not suffer any losses.

Except for the attack on Graycastle, Xu Lai was really reluctant to sacrifice too many of his own soldiers, which caused the Nagas to suffer the most casualties.

But including that time, there were less than 100 casualties in total, in exchange for a large number of useful weapons and equipment, as well as the experience of all Nagas advancing 1.5 times, which was a huge profit.

Because it was profitable every time, as long as Xu Lai called these Nagas for help, these Nagas would rather put aside the affairs of the tribe and come with a large army.

After sending the Naga troops away, Xu Lai also gave the Xiandeng Camp a short vacation of one and a half months, allowing them to go home and have a look.

The Western Empire needs to be rebuilt, and reconstruction requires a lot of resources and manpower.

Giving them half a month of time, on the one hand, allows them to go back and build people.

On the other hand, it allows them to take the large amount of rewards given by Xu Lai and invisibly promote him, Xu Lai and the Eagle Kingdom.

This 3,000-man Xiandeng Camp can be said to be the last selected elite among the people of the Western Empire.

Even if their original relatives are no longer there, now they return home in glory, and there are still people who want to live with them.

Knight Wind was stationed outside the city. Tahan, who had the knight's talent and all the air spells, could better support Graycastle by staying outside the city.

His two main forces were there. If Graycastle was lost, it would not matter whether Xu Lai was there or not.

After arranging everything, Xu Lai also recovered enough physical strength and used the time and space gate to teleport directly back to Qingfeng City.

After going out to fight for half a year, he returned with a new look.

Qingfeng City, as the capital of the country, was already very prosperous before Xu Lai left.

Now that he is back, the whole city has changed again.

Xu Lai's identity is very different now, but he is a person who does not like cumbersome etiquette, so this time he came back, he did not alarm anyone.

The time and space gate exhausted his physical strength, but fortunately he was prepared and cast spells while sitting in the carriage.

After returning, he naturally lay in the carriage.

Lifting the curtain, Xu Lai saw the towns and commercial markets outside the city.

In the city, there were carriages and transport vehicles coming and going one after another.

Although Xu Lai did not reveal his identity, Roland was well-known in Qingfeng City, at least the officers guarding the city could not fail to know him.

As the Knight Commander of the Royal Guards, no one would dare to embarrass him even if he was not given an official title.

At the same time, the appearance of Roland and his Royal Guards here basically meant that their king might also be in this team.

However, the city guards did not dare to say much, but just had people intercept the passing vendors and let the Royal Guards pass first.

In the law issued by Xu Lai, it was clearly stated that soldiers had the right of priority at any time, and no one dared to complain. (End of this chapter)