The Invincible Overlord of Heroes.

After discussing the important matters, Xu Lai asked Tahan, Avid and others to go and rest.

The fighting will continue tomorrow during the day. Xu Lai has been on the boat for most of the day. After getting off the boat, he led the troops to participate in the battle in person. Even he felt a little uncomfortable.

Since Xu Lai had said so, there was nothing else to report, so everyone left voluntarily.

Only Avid still stayed in the big tent.

"Mr. Arvid, anything else?"

Xu Lai was quite polite to him, not to mention how capable the Valentine family was in managing the territory.

At least they are very good at shipbuilding, and are also very proficient in waterway management, port construction and so on.

The so-called courtesy to the wise and humble, if you don't respect capable people, how can they be truly willing to help you?

As for forcing others to join, firstly, Xu Lai really didn't have the time to waste, and secondly, Avid was determined to believe that Xu Lai was taking advantage of the situation.

Xu Lai indeed had this idea, and he couldn't even refute it, so he might as well force others to join first and talk about it later.

"I'm fine now, and I shouldn't have disturbed your rest.

But there are some things I would feel bad if I didn't say them.

At first, I had misunderstandings about you and your actions, including the discovery of the hell's shipyard and hell's dock, which I never reported to you.

Here, I must admit my fault to you and apologize to you for my previous lack of insight."

Xu Lai was stunned. He didn't expect that Avid stayed just to apologize to him.

Touching his head, Xu Lai smiled bitterly and said, "There's no need to apologize. In our area, there's an old saying that goes, 'Time reveals a person's true character.'"

No matter how my husband viewed me at first, we still have a long time to spend together, so there is no need to rush to draw conclusions.

Maybe what you see today is not my true self.

I just hope that if you see my bad side in the future, you can bravely point it out to me, just like you did when you rejected me, and give me a chance to correct it.”

This time, Avid didn't say anything. He stared at Xu Lai seriously for a while, then bowed deeply.

Silent all night.

There are not many entertainment activities, singing and dancing performances, etc. in the other world at night, and it is not suitable to appear in the military camp.

What's more, Xu Lai is now accompanied by Yu Lan and Elvy.

One is soft and affectionate, the other is strong and doting. These two completely different styles will be enough for Xu Lai to explore in his lifetime.

After a night's rest, Xu Lai got up early.

Although he had arrived early enough, the food had already been cooked in the barracks, and nearly two-thirds of the soldiers had already had breakfast.

After Xu Lai got up, the captain of the guard, Roland, brought him a pot of fresh mutton soup and a large bowl of snow-white steamed buns.

The secretaries that Yu Lan brought with her brought toiletries to Xu Lai.

Even in the military camp, Xu Lai could enjoy a beautiful morning without using his hands.

It's just that he doesn't have this habit, and doesn't want to develop such a habit.

His food was always the same as that of the soldiers, but his appetite was larger and the ingredients were better.

Take the bowl of mutton soup for example. In the bowl of an ordinary soldier, most of it is soup, and a small part is meat, and that small part is mostly fat than lean.

In fact, Xu Lai would rather drink soup, but what was served to him naturally had more meat and less soup, and there was not a trace of fat.

Xu Lai couldn't say much because his food was the same as that of ordinary soldiers.

Although it may not be taken from the same pot, but at least it is mutton soup and steamed buns, which does not exceed the standard.

I was enjoying my mutton soup when soon, Tahan, Brandi, Charles, Yin Lumi, Clint and others came over to greet me.

Xu Lai was also helpless. He was a person who did not like socializing, but he did not want to hurt the closeness of these generals.

"Sit down, sit down, have you eaten yet?

Roland, go get another pot of soup and a basket of steamed buns. Let those who don’t have any to eat eat here.”

After giving a brief instruction, Xu Lai did not waste this precious morning and gave another instruction:

“Wait until the soldiers have eaten, Brandi, you guys go ahead, Avid will send some guides over this morning.

You follow these guides and attack the city first, and try to capture the Glorious City in the morning.

After taking over the Glorious City, the first thing to do is to immediately stop the sacrificial transformation of Hell.

I have informed Bishop Durr and he will organize a group of priests to come over.

Let the souls sacrificed in hell be liberated, and let the land transformed by hell be restored to its original state. "

After drinking a large bowl of soup, Xu Lai said to Tahan and Roland:

"Tahan, you don't need to follow the army. You and Charles should each lead a team of knights.

One goes from east to west, and the other goes from west to east. For the time being, clear out all the demons in the territory of Brilliant City.

If you encounter refugees hiding, ask them to return to their homes. If they are not residents near Glory City, ask them to live in Glory City first.

Roland, don't follow me. Arvid only had time to transport siege equipment yesterday. Today he will transport the rest of the knights of Knight's Wind.

You are responsible for going to the shore to receive the goods. After receiving the goods, you and Jian Yuan will do the same as Tahan and the others.

One goes from south to north, the other goes from north to south, plow the land for me, don't let a single demon escape."

As soon as Xu Lai finished speaking, Roland advised: "Your Majesty, I am your guard, I want to stay."

Xu Lai waved his hand and said, "I discovered yesterday that there is an abandoned farm nearby.

I took the logistics workers with me and tidied up this farm.

After all, this is still the territory of Hell, and you don’t have many troops. I need to coordinate from the center and provide you with attribute bonuses. I can’t go anywhere.

You are a cavalry general, why are you following me instead of going to work?

Or do you think that Elvy is not as capable as you and cannot protect me?"

Roland didn't even dare to look at Elvy, and whispered, "Of course I can't be the Archangel's opponent.

But when it comes to protecting people, I am confident that I can defeat the Archangel with the Holy Light Knights."

Elvy, who had been silent all this time, couldn't help but stare at Roland.

Roland was so frightened that he almost broke out in a cold sweat. After being promoted to a general by order, Elvy even killed Muriel who had transformed into a dragon.

But Xu Lai knew that Roland was just worried about him. After all, he had sent out all the troops around him.

The only ones who stayed with him, besides the civilians from Avid's organization and some wizard ladies that Yu Lan found from the magic guild, were the angels.

In order to prevent Xu Lai from getting aesthetically fatigued and also to avoid any contact with men, Yu Lan only found extremely beautiful young ladies for Xu Lai.

However, these young ladies, although pretty, are not of high rank.

Fortunately, he has the talent of a mage and his intelligence is still acceptable. And because of his low level, he is also doing a waiter job in the magic guild, so it is just right for him to stay here with Xu Lai.

"Alright, alright. Leave one hundred Holy Light Knights to me and I'll lead them myself. That shouldn't be a problem, right?"

Leaving behind a hundred Holy Light Knights, in extreme cases, they can release a hundred minutes of invincibility.

If they really encounter a threat, a hundred minutes is enough time for them to come back for rescue no matter where they are.

Thinking of this, Roland finally nodded and said, "Yes, sir."

Xu Lai shook his head helplessly. He had to give an order and still listen to his subordinates' opinions.

“Okay, let’s stop here first, and then we’ll get started right after we finish eating.

If we destroy the altar a minute earlier and stop the terrain from changing, Bishop Durr and his men will save a lot of time and energy when they arrive."

Xu Lai urged again.

Changing the terrain is not a skill that most people can possess. At least, no one in the entire empire can do this.

Let alone the Imperial camp, even if you include the strongholds, swamps, dungeons and so on, no one has such ability.

Creating the world is a right that belongs exclusively to gods.

Among the nine camps, only Hell, which has the great demon of the abyss, and the World Tree, known as the kingdom of God on earth, have the ability to change the terrain.

However, the World Tree cannot move, and the range of its ability to change the terrain is limited to the land that its roots can touch.

Unlike the Hell camp, it can ignore the terrain and turn any place into hell, and carry out transformation in any place far away from the abyss.

The real body of the Great Demon of the Abyss cannot descend directly, but its clone which possesses some of the power of the abyss can barely descend.

Kerrigan himself does not have the ability to directly change the terrain, but he can use sacrifice to create a channel of flesh and blood formed by the sacrifice of life to bring down some of the power of the abyss.

Undoubtedly, when Hell changes the terrain of the empire, it is naturally the lives of the people of the empire that are used.

In fact, humans are the highest-level sacrifices in various sacrificial rituals.

Even in an outdoor altar, among those of the same level, sacrificing humans will gain the most experience.

In order to stop the power of the abyss from eroding the main material world, all abyss channels must be closed.

This is something Xu Lai cannot do for the time being, but to prevent the surrounding terrain from changing, he only needs to destroy the altar where the demons use for sacrifice.

This kind of altar must be set up in the place with the largest number of humans, that is, the city that was once the most prosperous in the surrounding area.

Matthias occupied a small earldom that originally had about a dozen cities.

Among them, the most prosperous one is naturally the Brilliant City, which is a castle-level city.

Huihuang City is not far from Hanjiang River. There is a ferry crossing upstream. Relying on the river transportation, Huihuang City was once the most prosperous city in this vast area.

Unfortunately, after being occupied by Hell, the demons immediately closed the waterways of Glorious City because they were afraid that the humans in the city would escape through the waterways.

Not only was the waterway closed, but the previous ferry crossings, aqueducts, etc. were also destroyed.

Otherwise, the coastal defense force led by Avid would not need to send infantry ashore at all. They could directly send small boats along the Hanjiang River to attack the Brilliant City.

Of course, the Coast Guard can still provide some necessary support at this time.

After all, the cruiser has a long range. Even if it does not enter the Hanjiang River, it can still threaten the defense of Huihuang City just by staying on the surface of the Hanjiang River.

It was precisely because the distance was not far that Matthias was able to gather troops to attack Xu Lai in the first place.

However, if Matthias had known this earlier, he would never have left Brilliant City.

Destroy the altar in the Glorious City and the changing terrain will cease.

But just stopping it is not enough. Now, almost one-third of the land in the Earldom has been completely transformed into lava terrain.

Another one-third is in the process of change and has been infiltrated by the power of the abyss, making it obviously not suitable for growing crops.

In the entire earldom, two-thirds of the land is unusable, and the remaining one-third consists of rivers, cities and mountains.

This is obviously not possible.

Fortunately, although humans do not have the ability to change the terrain, they have the ability to restore the terrain.

Human beings are also blessed by gods, and human beliefs can penetrate the main material world.

With the help of the power of faith, the power of the God of War can expel the power of the abyss contained in the land.

However, the power of human faith, like the power of death of the undead, cannot be effective in a short period of time.

The undead can form a land of decay, a land of death, a land of bones, and so on by constantly piling up corpses.

However, this kind of change requires a large amount of death force to accumulate continuously, and it is a more natural way after a long period of transformation.

The same goes for humans. If they want to use the power of the God of War to restore the terrain, the more faith they have, the stronger the effect will be.

So how can we have more faith?

Naturally, the more people pray, the more faith there is; the more pious the people who pray are, the more faith they provide.

Generally speaking, the higher the rank of the priest, the higher his piety.

Even an ordinary pastor can provide the same amount of faith through daily prayers as dozens of believers and hundreds of pan-believers.

Non-believers provide no faith, pan-believers provide weak faith, and believers provide normal faith.

Xu Lai is just a general believer in the God of War. Even though he has the God's blessing, he doesn't trust the God of War from the bottom of his heart.

The new Qingfeng Legion under his command is basically composed of believers of the God of War and a few pastoral believers.

Fortunately, the entire empire has only one belief. As long as you are a citizen of the empire, no matter whether you truly believe in the God of War or not, you are basically a pan-believer in the God of War.

From this point of view, as long as the population is large enough, it shouldn't take too long for a earldom to recover.

What I’m afraid of is that time won’t be enough. I heard that the once prosperous places of the Western Empire have all been completely transformed into lava terrain.

In addition to making recovery more difficult, this also means that a large number of humans were sacrificed in these places.

You know, the population is not so easy to restore. Even the most magical magic cannot give birth to human beings.

After the order was issued, the generals acted accordingly, and Xu Lai also moved to a nearby farm.

Although there are no humans on the farm anymore and the land cannot be cultivated, there is not even a single weed on the land.

You know, weeds have the most tenacious vitality. Now that even weeds can't survive, it is obviously impossible to grow crops.

However, most of the laborers who followed Xu Lai had been dealing with land all their lives.

In addition, many of them had suffered from hunger during this period, so they couldn't bear to see the good land being wasted.

Xu Lai also ignored the farmers who tried to reclaim the land.

He ordered people to light the stoves in the farm, trying to use the fireworks to call back the refugees who were hiding in some unknown corner. (End of this chapter)