The Invincible Overlord of Heroes.

A hero is someone who can lead an entire team to become stronger together, but the hero himself may not be that powerful.

A demon hero like Mendis isn't that bad at what he does, at most he can be considered to have become lazy after becoming a hero.

Many born heroes, such as the descendants of nobility and adventers like Xu Lai, have varying degrees of combat ability.

Xu Lai might even be considered in the first tier due to his powerful attributes.

But once his equipment was removed, especially the complete Angel Alliance suit, his combat capability was at least reduced by half, and he instantly became third-rate.

No matter how powerful Mendis was before, after changing into ordinary equipment and not having fought anyone in a formal battle for many years, his level may have dropped even more dramatically than Xu Lai's.

However, although Mendis changed his equipment, he was still not noticeable among the Abyss Lords.

It is relatively easy to identify the body.

First of all, in terms of size, Mendis must be the strongest among the lords of the abyss.

The second thing is equipment. Even if he changes to ordinary ones, he will definitely not change out some jewelry and sundries.

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

It’s a pity that although this space ring looks good, it is also an encrypted ring.

Moreover, things like space rings cannot be stored in other space equipment.

Therefore, in order to decipher the ring, Xu Lai needs to bring it back to Qingfeng City himself, or find a high-level space mage nearby.

Xu Lai was planning to go back recently, but he had to wait until Tahan came back.

By the way, if I have the chance, I would also like to meet the Lord of Hell.

But once he appeared, it would basically mean the destruction of Lionheart City and Holy Angel City. Xu Lai felt it was better not to see him.

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

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

Tahan was unable to catch up with these two wars, 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 and cast spells such as protective shields and fire control magic.

In order not to expose himself, Mendis kept hiding and did not dare to show up to use magic.

However, Elvy did not participate in the battle. On the one hand, he was protecting Xu Lai, and on the other hand, he wanted to find the hero.

Without the support of heroes, the combat effectiveness of the Abyss Lords will be reduced by at least half, so killing heroes first is the best option.

Mendis also secretly organized an elite attack on Xu Lai, but unfortunately Xu Lai was protected by the Holy Light Knights, who numbered a thousand men.

After several battles, although Xu Lai's own level only increased by one level, the paladins and knights of the royal guard all advanced one after another.

Now, the lowest rank of his personal guard knights is a 7th-level paladin.

Yan Feng didn't pursue 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 simply could not take it anymore.

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

The exploding demons flew off in different directions without any clues.

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.

Divide into several teams and chase in different directions. The agreed time limit for pursuit is already the limit.

What if this is a trap set by the devil? We can meet each other by simply changing direction while we are in the air.

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

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

The good news is that neither he nor the archers suffered any casualties. Only Xu Lai's side lost more than ten little angels, who have 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 around Briston for another two days but didn't gain anything.

None of the demons in Briston dared to leave the city.

Even the city walls, gates and moats that Xu Lai had flattened were not repaired by anyone.

These buildings are not heroic buildings. Even if they have abundant resources, they still need workers to repair them.

Xu Lai originally wanted to see if there were any humans in Briston who were working for the devil, or if the devil would send those little devils, the jumping devils, out to work.

However, Patton learned that Xu Lai was still hanging outside the city, and even Mendis's head was hung outside the city.

This guy simply stayed in the inner city and refused to leave.

He even opened the other three intact city gates, allowing the demons who could not wait to escape.

Patton was using these demons as bait to see whether Xu Lai was still there.

As for the open city gates, that's a joke. An entire side of the city wall is gone. So what does it matter whether the gates on the other three sides are open or not?

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

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

Not to mention a piece of meat, it's not even as good as a mosquito leg.

Xu Lai estimated that as long as he didn't leave, Patton 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 will only take a little more than half a day to get there.

As for the cavalry, they could make at least two trips back and forth in half a day without stopping or resting on the way.

The cavalry led by Xu Lai was even faster and reached Graycastle in just one hour.

The scars left by the previous siege on Graycastle have been repaired a lot during this period thanks to Wang Chao's efforts.

After Reina returned with tens of thousands of people, Graycastle no longer had a shortage of craftsmen.

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

Fortunately, they were basically all 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.

If you bury a castle heart, you can create a large farm. If you connect these farms together, you will automatically form a manor.

It’s a pity that although crops can be grown in the manor, they have to bear a debuff that reduces the yield by half.

At the same time, the manor needs to draw 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 troops here, he will still need to transport food from the rear.

Moreover, there is no teleportation array in Graycastle, so there is no way to leave directly from here.

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

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

It turned out that during the time when Xu Lai was away, Qingfeng City held another summer auction, which brought in many top-level military units.

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

It is difficult to recruit top-level soldiers on a regular basis, but just like the Griffin Treasure House that Xu Lai had fought in, 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 advent heroes.

This is particularly evident in the south.

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

The Southern Empire is now particularly chaotic, with all the major lords recruiting soldiers and horses, causing several great 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 took away only the dozens of little angels and Roland's Knight Guards.

After upgrading his army's levels by 3 and increasing the attributes of his equipment by nearly 20 points, Tahan took over the Knight's Wind Legion again.

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

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

Emilia's Naga Guards did not slack off just because they were allies. Instead, they took the initiative to undertake many dangerous operations.

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

The individual combat effectiveness of these Nagas is already very high, 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.

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

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

The combat experience was greatly compensated this time, so Xu Lai simply gave them a lot of demon equipment.

Places like the seabed are not good at making equipment, and many of the demons' weapons are just right for the tall and strong Nagas.

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

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

But if you are still interested, you can talk to Avid when you get back.

The mission I gave him remained the same. While being responsible for the Glorious Territory, he still had to fight the demons in the coastal cities.

He can only inflict damage to the demons from a distance now. It is still difficult for him to fight the demons on the shore and deal with the trapped people in the coastal cities."

Emilia smiled happily and said, "That's easy to do. Just leave it to us Naga."

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

Except for the attack on Graycastle, Xu Lai was reluctant to sacrifice too many of his own soldiers, which resulted in the highest number of casualties among the Nagas.

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

Precisely because there is profit every time, whenever Xu Lai calls on these Nagas for help, they would rather put their tribal affairs aside and come with a large army.

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

The Western Empire needed to be rebuilt, and reconstruction required a lot of resources and manpower.

Give them half a month so that they can go back and create new people.

Secondly, it was to let them take the huge rewards given by Xu Lai and invisibly promote Xu Lai and the Eagle Kingdom.

This vanguard camp of 3000 people can be said to be the elite troops finally selected from among the people of the Western Empire.

Even though their original relatives are no longer around, now that they have returned home in glory, there are still many people who want to live with them.

Knight Wind is stationed outside the city. Tahan, who has the talent of a knight and all air spells, can provide better support to Graycastle by staying outside the city.

His two main forces are both there. If Graycastle is lost, it won't matter whether Xu Lai is there or not.

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

After being away from home for half a year, he returned with a new look.

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

Now that I'm back, the whole city has changed again.

Xu Lai’s status is very different now, but he is a person who doesn’t like complicated etiquette, so he did not alarm anyone when he came back this time.

The gate of time and space drained his strength, but fortunately he was well prepared and cast the spell while sitting in the carriage.

After coming back, he naturally lay in the carriage.

Lifting the car curtain, Xu Lai saw towns and commercial markets connected one after another outside the city.

Inside the city, there were horse-drawn carriages and transport vehicles coming and going in a hurry, 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 Roland Guards, even if he had not been given an official title or a noble title, no one would dare to make things difficult for him.

At the same time, the appearance of Roland and his Knight Guards here basically means that their king may also be in this team.

However, the city guards did not dare to say anything more. They just ordered their men to stop the passing vendors and let the Knights Guard pass first.

The laws issued by Xu Lai clearly stated that soldiers had the right of priority at all times, and no one dared to complain. (End of this chapter)