The Invincible Overlord of Heroes

From Kane's tone, Xu Lai guessed that there would be no problem with the cooperation.

However, before the cooperation, Xu Lai still needed to dig out the heart of the castle.

Otherwise, if the Northern Empire agreed, and Xu Lai could not produce the parliamentary blueprints, he would completely offend the Northern Empire.

As for those cities in the Northern Empire, they must be taken down, and it would not be a big problem to let Tahan go there.

The cavalry led by Tahan is not completely incapable of attacking the city. Even if they don't attack the city, they can be used to hold the line.

Xu Lai has already chosen the person who will really attack the city. It is not Reina who leads the Qingfeng Legion to attack everywhere, but the dragon knight Eric.

Xu Lai has already issued an order to Eric to march quickly. With Tahan having cleared all the roads, the first landing group can go to Lionheart City in one day at most.

Except for the leader Eric, the first landing group is all infantry.

With these infantry, Xu Lai can also safely recruit the soldiers of the Southern Empire.

Being able to wear magic equipment, of course, none of the Royal Archer Corps recruited soldiers.

With so many people, and many of their comrades killed by Xu Lai, it is still a bit difficult to recruit them.

The main reason is that the number of their own soldiers is too small. Even if these archers and infantry are mixed, they can't be disrupted at all.

On the contrary, although the first landing group is elite, there are only more than 5,000 people, and this is after another round of expansion, carefully selected.

These people together are still a powerful fist. Once they are dispersed, they are easy to be defeated one by one.

There is no way, Xu Lai can only give Reina an order to let her take the troops back to Lionheart City for rest.

Most of the priests of the priest group will also come with Reina and others.

A few bishops and archbishop-level priests will still stay in various cities to preside over ceremonies for believers and restore the ecology.

It's just that believers have no magic power except faith, so the speed of ecological recovery will drop significantly.

But for Dur and others, rebuilding the holy city is what they want to do most and what is most necessary at this time.

Xu Lai couldn't stop them, nor could he say that they were not doing their job properly. He even had to support them with all his strength, as he had said to Earl Kane before.

After all, Xu Lai owed the Temple a big favor, and it was not easy for him to compete with them for the Holy City.

But there was a city within the city in the capital, and Xu Lai was not very comfortable.

In addition, Qingfeng City was built by him personally, so he had a deeper relationship with it.

In the end, he decided to leave the capital to Qingfeng City and list Lionheart City as the secondary capital.

The secondary capital also meant that Lionheart City's status in the Eagle Kingdom was second only to Qingfeng City, and was one level higher than all other cities.

While waiting for the Qingfeng Legion to enter the city, Xu Lai had to organize manpower and material resources to renovate the two military camps inside and outside Lionheart City.

As the capital, Lionheart City had two large camps outside the city, one on the left and one on the right to guard it.

There were more military camps in the city, a total of three, belonging to three royal legions.

The griffins flew back to the old camp, which was managed by Ed, Silver Wing and others.

The Southern Empire Army was split into two parts, one of which was guarded by Tahan himself in the left camp.

The other part was led by Charles to another camp.

All weapons had been confiscated, and Xu Lai issued a death order that anyone who made trouble or disobeyed management would be killed without discussion.

Although these royal elites had never suffered such hardships, they did not dare to make trouble for a while.

Because not long after they were taken into the camp, they saw a group of big men who were dressed in noble clothes and were usually high and mighty, being hung on the dilapidated city wall.

Except for the Minister of Finance Tiff, who temporarily saved her life and the lives of some of her immediate family members because of the Northern Empire.

All the other nobles who participated in the assassination of Xu Lai were hung on the city wall one by one.

The reason why Xu Lai tolerated them until now was that he was afraid that he would alarm them and let them run away if he took action in advance.

Xu Lai didn't settle accounts until he had enough manpower and could control the whole city.

But even so, several masterminds escaped, such as the former Minister of Defense.

This guy abandoned his wife and children. When Roland led people to catch him, he tore off a teleportation scroll and ran away.

Xu Lai didn't know where this guy ran to. It was very likely that he went to his brother-in-law.

I just don't know if his brother-in-law will be so angry that he will kill this brother-in-law when he finds out that his own sister was also hanged by Xu Lai.

Xu Lai certainly hopes so, but he is not worried even if he doesn't die.

It just so happens that after a period of recuperation, Xu Lai will definitely find a way to annex the Southern Empire and the Eastern Empire.

At that time, Xu Lai can use the Minister of Defense's assassination attempt on him as an excuse to send troops to attack.

As for the Southern Empire, they have already sent troops to fight at their doorstep. The two sides have just fought and are already in a hostile state.

On the contrary, the Eastern Empire, strictly speaking, only lost one Yuwen Xin.

The Royal Griffin Corps was not originally affiliated with the Eastern Empire, and Xu Lai did not harm anyone in the Griffin Corps.

Whether to be in a hostile state or not is up to Yuwen Shaoguang of the Eastern Empire.

Yuwen Shaoguang did not hesitate to go to war with Xu Lai in order to capture Lionheart City.

But now, not only did he lose soldiers and generals, but he also sent a huge flying corps to the opponent.

You know, recruiting 90,000 royal griffins is not an easy task.

If you don't count the outdoor buildings, a castle can only recruit 10 per month, and only 120 per year.

Of course, the Eastern Empire must have built a large number of griffin towers.

But even so, if there is no treasure like the God-given Divine Weapon series, a city can only recruit 240 per year.

In the entire Eastern Empire, even if there are hundreds of cities with griffin castles, it takes a whole year to have so many griffins.

But griffin castles need drawings to build, and no matter how much the empire supported the Eastern Empire before, it is probably not hundreds of drawings.

Not to mention that the level of royal griffins is not high, and the lifespan is only about 30 to 40 years. The unlimited counterattack characteristics also make it easy to fall into siege.

Aside from the losses in battle, plus the harvest in the wild, at least two years of recruitment quotas for the Eastern Empire fell into Xu Lai's hands.

As one rises and the other falls, the Eastern Empire also has to fight against the cemetery undead, and as the snowball of the undead rolls bigger and bigger, the Eastern Empire is already extremely struggling to deal with the undead.

Xu Lai suspected that the old man Yuwen Shaoguang would only swallow this loss and would not dare to declare war on Xu Lai again.

There were eleven powerful families who participated in the assassination of Xu Lai. All of these eleven powerful families were confiscated and exterminated by Xu Lai.

Adult members of the clan, both men and women, were treated equally, and none of them were spared.

Xu Lai did not kill all the minors, but demoted them to serfs, branded them as slaves, and sent them to work in manors outside the city.

Originally, Xu Lai planned to abolish the slave system, but there were too many voices of opposition.

In addition, this is a supernatural world, and everyone has the opportunity to gain stronger power.

People with stronger power will inevitably pursue more rights and respect.

If there are no serfs at the bottom, then a wider range of ordinary people will become the bottom.

At that time, these ordinary people will inevitably become slaves as before.

Depriving serfs of their rights is precisely for the protection of ordinary people. Such a cannibalistic society is bound to sacrifice some people.

If sacrifices are inevitable, they can only be those Xu Lai doesn't like.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, after Xu Lai occupied a city, he would pardon all the slaves in the city and let them regain their freedom.

But after the assassination in Lionheart City, all the slaves in these eleven powerful families, including male servants, female servants, grooms and cooks, still retained their slave status.

Most ordinary slaves will still be sent to the manor outside the city for farming.

The rest of the slaves with certain skills will be sent to the market for sale.

Of course, the market in Lionheart City has not yet recovered at this time, so they are temporarily sent to the farm outside the city.

After dealing with the people, the property cannot be let go.

These wealthy families had been cleaned up several times by the demons before Xu Lai entered the city.

However, during the time when Xu Lai occupied Lionheart City, these families have also recovered a lot. At least Xu Lai has never seen them go to collect supplies.

One reason is that they have space rings to hide secret supplies, and the other reason is that these big families basically have secret rooms and dark rooms.

Demons don't understand human architecture, and hellhounds are only sensitive to the breath of living things, not dead things.

It would be different if humans came, and Xu Lai didn't have to dig deep.

The thieves and assassins found by Aiden, Zou Jie and others were eager to make meritorious contributions.

With these experts, the hidden assets of the dignitaries were basically dug out.

The masterminds who failed to escape naturally got their space rings in Xu Lai's hands, and he could find mages to slowly crack them later.

For those who escaped, there was really no way, but the fixed assets they left behind would definitely be confiscated.

In addition to these eleven dignitaries who contacted the assassins, Xu Lai also planned to clean up the rest of the dignitaries in Lionheart City.

Taking advantage of the time to dig the heart of the castle, it was just right to frame them.

These people were too unconscious, and they didn't know what they were waiting for.

Xu Lai had been in the city for so long, but no one took the initiative to join Xu Lai.

Even the chief guard who surrendered to Xu Lai was just an ordinary elite, without any title.

No matter if they were embarrassed or had a thousand-year noble heritage.

Anyway, the day after Xu Lai killed the previous wave of people, he posted a new notice.

The content of the notice was very simple, and he had posted it in many cities on the grassland.

The main purpose was to abolish all identities of the old empire, including the so-called nobles and slaves.

The notice clearly stated that except for the serfs newly engraved with the Eagle Empire logo, all other slaves were illegal and abolished.

All previous slave engravings were no longer effective, and everyone was immediately restored to freedom.

In addition to the noble titles officially conferred by the Eagle Kingdom, all nobles conferred by the Lion Dynasty were also abolished according to law.

After that, if these people show their noble identities again, they will be dealt with according to public security management methods at the least, and directly demoted to slaves at the worst.

In addition, Xu Lai's notice had one more content than the one on the grassland.

The additional content is also very simple, which is to encourage the people to report and expose the dignitaries of the old empire.

If these dignitaries have bullied men and women and ignored the law and discipline before, they will be punished for each case they expose.

Xu Lai will also reward the informant with a portion of the confiscated property.

Of course, in order to prevent deliberate retaliation, Xu Lai needs the informant to provide evidence.

If there is no evidence, the priest will need to conduct a lie identification. Once it is identified as a lie, the informant will be responsible for the false accusation.

The false accuser will bear the crime he reported, in order to prevent the waste of public power.

As soon as this announcement came out, the small and medium-sized nobles finally couldn't sit still.

These people no longer care about their own face, and tried every means to find someone to pass on a message to Xu Lai.

Not to mention, these guys are not small in power. The three newly appointed sheriffs of Xu Lai have all passed on messages for others.

It's a pity that Xu Lai was too lazy to deal with these people and handed them all over to Jilong to deal with.

Among them, only one person was received by Xu Lai in person.

It was none other than Devin McCoy, the patriarch of one of the few wizard families in the Lion Empire.

"Your Excellency means.

The teleportation array, which had made almost no progress for a whole week, was repaired in less than three hours after I sent out the document?"

Devin McCoy was not panicked at all, and calmly said to Xu Lai:

"Your Majesty, magic has always been like this.

When there is no solution, any attempt is just groping.

But once there is a solution, it will be solved in minutes.

Although we did not take any action on the teleportation array before, we have been studying solutions.

If you don't believe us, you can also consult your magic consultant."

Xu Lai does not understand magic, but he knows that if people dare to say so, they must not be afraid of his questions.

I think so too, each magician has his own different areas of expertise.

Even if these magicians sit in Lionheart City every day, they may not be able to fully understand the teleportation array of Lionheart City.

The most important thing is that there is no evidence for this kind of thing.

Even if Xu Lai finds experts in the space system, it will be easy for them to explain, after all, the McCoy family is not famous for space magic.

So Xu Lai shrugged and said:

"There is no need for that. As long as you complete what I promised you, there will be no change.

But I must tell you that this teleportation array is no longer as important to me as it was before.

So the reward given to you can only be reduced by several levels. I hope you can understand."

Devin McCoy perfunctorily dealt with Xu Lai with words that could not be verified, and Xu Lai perfunctorily dealt with it with unclear rewards.

Anyway, his army has entered the city. Although the teleportation array is still needed to transport a large number of officials, it is no longer so urgent.

Devin bowed and said: "I can understand. The only reward I ask for is your forgiveness of our McCoy family." (End of this chapter)