The Invincible Overlord of Heroes.

Patton has already deployed his strongest fighting force near the Gate of the Abyss, and all he has left is to nail himself there.

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

The Gate of the Abyss was destroyed, and although Bristone was still in the hands of the devil, it was no longer of any value.

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

In the inner city, there are still towering walls, dense fire towers, and demons whose morale is not high but whose numbers are very large.

Just like capital cities like Lionheart City and Qingfeng City.

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

In addition to the greater durability of the city walls, there are also many catapults inside the inner city that were previously smashed and barely repaired in the past two days and are usable.

In addition to the catapults that were previously stuck on the wall, there were also a large number of crossbows that had not been used in time and had no chance to be used.

The long-range advantage returned to the devil's hands.

On the other hand, the human coalition had to rely on the numerous shops and narrow roads outside the inner city.

Not to mention catapults, even crossbow carts are not convenient to discharge.

There were not enough space on the two main roads that ran from north to south and from east to west for the siege infantry and covering archers.

If the human coalition wants to attack the city with all their strength, they must first clear all the buildings around the inner city.

How long this will take, no one knows.

At this time, the devil had no intention of caring about human affairs.

Patton gave the order to lift all restrictions, allowing the demons hiding in the inner city to plunder crazily.

The human craftsmen who were previously retained for various purposes no longer need to remain.

After all, the gate to the abyss has been destroyed, and Patton's only chance of survival is to defend the inner city and the heart of hell at all costs.

The Gate of the Abyss is destroyed, and since His Majesty Kerrigan was able to rebuild it before, he may be able to do so in the future.

Anyway, the mandatory order given to him by His Majesty Kerrigan was to defend Briston for at least a week.

As long as he can get through today, and with another three or four days, he will have completed the mission.

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

However, just as Patton was racking his brains and trying every possible way to boost the morale of the demons, the human coalition forces actually retreated quietly.

They did not retreat too far, but formed a formation about one kilometer outside the inner city, where the crossbows and the Fire Demon Tower could not reach them.

It seemed that humans intended to trap them to death.

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

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

There weren't many food supplies stored in the inner city, and too many demons poured in at once.

If these hundreds of thousands of demons were to eat as much as they wanted, even including the low-level demons, they would probably only last about a week.

"But those humans would never have thought that I have already gone all out this time. Even humans are just food for us demons."

Counting the human craftsmen and their families, it would be enough to sustain the demons for just one more day.

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

So much time has passed, His Majesty Kerrigan must have returned.

By then, even if His Majesty Cregan failed to make it back, his mission would have already ended.

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 Lena were equipped with war shackles.

Barton had deliberately let some demons escape in order to test human interception methods.

If it was just a physical interception by the Knights, Patton would be very confident that he could escape.

However, the results were not ideal, because humans did little to intercept the demons and instead allowed them to leave.

For this reason, the huge number of demons in the outer city fled collectively as if they had discovered a new continent.

If Patton hadn’t been able to control the situation quickly, I’m afraid the last 30 demons wouldn’t have been saved.

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

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

He ordered his demons to keep an eye on the slingshots and not allow anyone to fire ammunition without permission. He then summoned the remaining demon generals in the city to hold a meeting.

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

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

Humans have the means to resurrect, but demons do not, so they can only let those demons who are good at throwing stones die in battle.

The resources in the inner city are limited. Shooting when the hit rate is low and the enemy's deployment cannot be seen clearly is basically a waste of ammunition.

It's a good thing for humans that demons don't 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 catapults, otherwise it will be meaningless for him to capture the city.

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

After the destruction of the Gate of the Abyss, Briston was nothing more than an ordinary Hell Castle-level city.

In a city like this, even if one Briston is destroyed, there will still be countless Bristons.

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

It is foreseeable that even if he captures Briston after a fierce battle, the days ahead will not be easy.

Because, what he has to face is likely to be the crazy Kerrigan.

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

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

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

No matter which choice he made, he had no place to defend himself and could only engage in hand-to-hand combat 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 is arranging for Emilia and her Naga Guards to leave.

Emilia and the Naga troops are extremely powerful and have an advantage when defending a city, but their movement speed is relatively slow.

The second is the catapults outside the city. Even if these catapults are detachable, it is very difficult to pack them all up and transport them back to Graycastle. However, Graycastle had lost a lot of catapults before, and now that they have this opportunity, they will naturally transport as many as they can.

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

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

Among these supplies is food that was previously stored by humans.

Demons have little interest in food, and almost all of them are carnivores.

However, when supplies are scarce, demons can also eat food. Like humans, they are omnivores.

When there is really nothing to eat, the demons will compromise with these foods in order to survive.

Therefore, these grains are still stacked intact in the warehouse and have not been damaged.

However, some of the original weapons warehouses, resource warehouses, and material warehouses suffered varying degrees of damage.

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

Instead, the gems, crystals and other resources that humans need most were moved from the inner city to the outside.

As for weapons, even the most precious magic weapons were nowhere to be seen.

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

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

This is also the reason why the demons left behind a large number of human craftsmen.

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

In the other warehouses, the highest-level resources such as refined gold and secret silver are naturally not visible.

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

Any work in the city requires the resource of gold coins.

Whether it is recruiting soldiers, training soldiers, or creating 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 specifically used for taxation and salary payments.

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 supplies were either looted by demons or looted by previous nobles and stored here.

If Xu Lai doesn't take them away, they will be left to the devil and will become capital and ammunition to fight against him in the future.

Therefore, Xu Lai took away as much of Bristol's resources as possible and never left a single one for the devil.

As the base camp of demons, Briston not only has the supplies left in the city, but also the resources contributed by other demons.

Even if Xu Lai had a warehouse ring, he would need to store so many supplies into the warehouse ring one by one.

The action of collecting is simple. The soldier who arrives at the camp first arranges the boxes in order, and Xu Lai can easily collect them one by one.

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

But even so, the speed at which the warehouse fills up is far slower than the speed at which it is moved out.

Xu Lai had to accommodate Qingfeng City's speed.

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

After dealing with the supplies, they searched the outer city and found a population of nearly 100,000.

Most of these people are young and strong who are able to work, skilled craftsmen, and relatives who are used to control them.

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

Although these people are still alive, they are more or less helping the devil.

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

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

But no matter what, they are also laborers and skilled workers. Even the demons couldn't kill them, so they shouldn't die at the hands of their fellow humans.

They should pay for their sins with their own labor, skills and blood and sweat.

Such a large number of laborers would be very useful, especially when Graycastle was short of population.

It’s a pity that although they are very useful, they move very slowly.

These people are just pure farmers and have no fighting ability at all. If they encounter fleeing demons or wild monsters in the wild, they will most likely have no chance of survival.

Xu Lai's cavalry must be left behind to hunt down the demons, and since they move the fastest, they must be the last to be left behind.

The Vanguard Battalion is composed entirely of independent fighters, and keeping them around will make it more convenient to do anything.

In addition, Graycastle does not have a high-level hero to take charge of the situation, so Reina will lead the Wind Legion, Phantom Archers, Priests and these farmers to retreat in the second batch.

The retreat was also very rushed. Even after the Qingfeng Corps had 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 were all lit up.

Eric and others are frantically plundering everything in Briston. As long as there is a little space in the warehouse ring, a lot of resources will be moved in immediately.

Even the catapults and ballistas that were destroyed but could still be repaired, as well as the equipment stripped from the dead demons.

Anything useful, valuable, or simply beneficial to the devil must be moved away.

Under the bright lights, people are busy everywhere.

Patton and Mendis watched from the city wall for a long time, but they still did not dare to act rashly, and they did not even dare to send some flying soldiers to investigate.

In a battle during the day, the angel army of 3 people killed tens of thousands of fire elves, and hundreds of thousands of winged demons were defeated and no longer had the will to fight.

There are still some Abyss Lords available under Mendis's command.

During the day, he was the most astute, and he kept all his troops close to him, so the losses were not great.

The demon didn't notice anything unusual and didn't report it to Cregan.

The Gate of the Abyss was destroyed. Unless Kerrigan asked about it, Patton 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.

Patton sensed something was wrong and immediately sent out demons to investigate. The demons came back to report that the city was empty.

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

However, Patton was not too sad when he received the news. Instead, he felt an indescribable sense of relief. (End of this chapter)