The Invincible Overlord of Heroes.

Xu Lai was basically certain that the demons in hell had not yet reached a cooperation with the undead in the cemetery.

Maybe they wanted to cooperate before, but Kerrigan didn't have the time, and he won't have the opportunity in the future.

The ghouls that appear in Lionheart City have no direct relationship with the demon heroes and do not receive any bonuses from them.

If they are wild monsters falling from the sky, then these zombies should stay in their own fixed territory and guard the treasures or treasure chests.

Therefore, there is a 99.9 percent chance that these zombies in Lionheart City are self-generated.

As the capital of the empire, Lionheart City naturally has an excellent geographical location.

Lionheart City is located in the core of the richest Middle-earth continent. Outside the city, there is extremely fertile land for 800 miles, and there is even a magical plain nearby.

In the world of magic, you don't have to worry too much about things like natural dangers.

Unless it is a natural barrier like the Pingfeng Mountains, which almost separates the two worlds, everything else can be created artificially.

Take the city wall for example. As long as you are willing to put in the effort and spend the resources, you can build a 300-meter city wall, and even have moats for minefields and lava pools.

On the contrary, the magic plains and cursed lands are the real resources of the magical world.

But it is precisely because Lionheart City has an excellent geographical location, close to the magic plain, and rich in magic power.

The sudden death of a large number of people, combined with a large amount of death aura and magic power, can easily lead to the birth of various kinds of undead.

Now there is still short time, and the first to appear are the zombies that feed on corpses.

The appearance of ghouls is usually accompanied by zombies.

The appearance of zombies is not that scary. Although these rotten undead souls are difficult to kill, their movements are too slow and they pose less threat to civilians than ghouls.

Ghouls are agile, have low health and defense, but extremely high attacks.

High-level ghouls can restore their health by eating corpses, making them extremely difficult to deal with.

However, when there are corpses, ghouls generally do not actively attack living people, but instead prioritize devouring corpses.

Unlike other undead advancements, the experience gained from killing ghouls is far less than that from eating corpses.

Therefore, the threat level of high-level ghouls is very different from that of high-level zombies.

There are two branches of zombie advancement, one is zombie, the tyrant's power system, and the other is plague zombie, the abomination kind of meat shield.

Zombies are originally level 3 units, advanced from level 2 walking corpses, so they appear longer than ghouls.

But if the zombies are allowed to develop into plague zombies, or even the level of abomination.

If you are not careful, the entire city might be destroyed by this undead.

Plague zombies have the ability to spread the plague. The plague at this time is still relatively low-level, roughly equivalent to the severe influenza in modern society.

After advancing to abomination, the plague spreads over a wider range, and more importantly, the plague effect is also stronger.

Once ordinary civilians are infected, they will surely die unless they are purified by a priest.

Civilians who died from the critical plague would turn into zombies after death unless they were blessed by holy objects.

The temple's historical records record several disasters that were caused by undead plagues.

The main factors causing the Scourge of the Undead are these abominations.

Moreover, if the situation in Lionheart City continues to drag on, more and more corpses will be exposed.

Once the aura of death combines with these corpses, the corpses of the residents of Lionheart City will immediately turn into skeletons.

As time goes on, if no one saves the souls of the dead in Lionheart City, these souls will eventually combine with magic power and form ghosts.

Ghosts are peculiar undead creatures, as they have no physical form and are relatively weak against physical troops.

A large number of people have died in Lionheart City, and if it is not dealt with in time, it will easily become a paradise for the undead.

The devil is naturally happy to see this happen, since what are born are just some ownerless undead souls anyway.

Just as Xu Lai doesn't mind having elven archers in his army, the demons in hell don't mind having some undead minions.

The man appointed as sheriff by Xu Lai was called Aiden, a relatively ordinary middle-aged man in the imperial capital, and the leader of a medium-sized mercenary group.

While defending the city, the entire mercenary group was defeated. Aiden took the remaining team members and protected his family and hid in the sewer in time.

Although Aiden left a deep impression on Xu Lai, not many people listened to him.

Excluding the dozen or so mercenaries in his group, there were only a few young and strong men hiding with them, as well as their respective families, who could obey Aiden's command.

Unfortunately, Xu Lai was unable to give him any other support, not even if he wanted to assign him a troop.

However, the task assigned to him by Xu Lai was rather exaggerated and was definitely not something that could be accomplished by just a few dozen people.

Even if Xu Lai left the right to recruit security guards to Aiden, it was clear from Aiden's identity that he would not be able to recruit too many people.

In other cities, being a security guard might be a relatively prestigious and stable job.

However, in the imperial capital, especially this ruined imperial capital, no one knows how long Xu Lai can rule.

Immediately, Xu Lai assigned two more assistants to Aiden to serve as sheriff's deputies.

One is of similar status to Aiden, and is the deputy leader of another mercenary group.

The deputy leader's mercenary group is larger than Aiden's. In addition to more than 20 warriors above level 5, it also has 2 archers, 3 crossbowmen and a mage.

Together with the young and strong men who have joined them, it is relatively easy to gather more than a hundred people from the two groups.

The other one, like Aiden and the others, had just fought with Xu Lai and the others outside the city.

It was precisely because they had fought together that Xu Lai had a more vivid impression of him.

But this one's identity is very different from Aiden and the others. He has more troops under his command, including more than 30 Crusaders and nearly 80 heavy crossbowmen.

This guy, like Xu Lai, is a hero, a descended hero.

Unlike Xu Lai, this one has lived in the imperial capital for a long time and has been active nearby, completing missions.

Although the growth is not fast, the favorability of the neighbors and the reputation of the region are relatively high.

Otherwise, he wouldn't be able to bring all of his troops into the city.

In fact, this guy named Zou Jie also had a team of elite knights and a team of archers.

It was a pity that his property was forcibly requisitioned when he was defending the city, and he was unwilling to hand over the remaining assets no matter what.

After all, the ownership still belongs to Zou Jie. The recruiters were afraid that they could not recruit those knights and archers, so they had to leave them to him.

Because of the conscription, Zou Jie was unwilling to continue to serve Lionheart City, and he found a place to hide when the battle started. Because of this, Zou Jie is considered to be the hero with relatively well-preserved strength among the heroes who descended.

There were also several descended heroes in the wave that rushed out before, but they were only followed by a limited number of guards at most.

What Xu Lai needs now is as many people as possible.

Zou Jie has soldiers under his command. Although they cannot work, they can be used to maintain order.

When there is no one available, Xu Lai will not care about other people's history. He just needs to do his job well here.

As for Zou Jie's limited manpower, he might have rejected these heroes when he first came to this world.

But at his current point, to be honest, he no longer cares about it.

The demon invasion is both a disaster and an opportunity.

The experience points Xu Lai gained from fighting in the past two years alone could not be earned by other advent heroes even if they spent their entire lives killing wild monsters.

What's more, the only way they can strengthen themselves is through tasks and wild treasure chests.

However, they need to fight for each treasure chest by themselves, and they never know whether they can open a gold-level treasure chest in their entire life.

Xu Lai sat at home doing nothing, but collected hundreds of treasure chests every month. He was even too lazy to open the silver treasure chests himself.

As his territory expands, he has treasure chests, soldiers, and various resources that other heroes can't even imagine.

As for the tasks, that’s even more of a joke. Xu Lai himself is the biggest task issuer and task reward provider.

Let’s not worry about other places for now. At least in the entire Western Empire, there are only sporadic wars with demons.

If other heroes want to achieve leapfrog growth, they can only leave the Western Empire and go to the Eastern Empire or the elves to practice with the undead in the cemetery.

If it comes to this, and Xu Lai is still afraid of the rise of the heroes, then he should just give up and hide back in the grassland as soon as possible.

After three more sheriffs were appointed, the three teams each chose a task and went to work immediately.

Yu Lan helped Xu Lai at the right time and brought up the treatment of Qingfeng City's sheriffs and security guards.

The other mercenary leaders and deputy leaders who were just proud of their status and unwilling to be invited by Aiden.

Even though they were not even given the status of team leader, they all rushed to Aiden and asked to be allowed to join the security team.

They were not attracted by the treatment of the sheriffs, but the treatment of the sheriffs reflected the treatment of the entire civil service system in the Eagle Kingdom.

The sheriff is not a high-ranking official. If he were placed in a small city, he might not even be able to step into the doorstep of a noble family.

Even if the status of the sheriff in the imperial capital was raised by several levels, it was only a slight status.

They may look down on the security guards, but this is a threshold to enter the officialdom of the Eagle Kingdom.

To be honest, not many people believed Xu Lai's self-introduction before.

Firstly, the Eagle Kingdom was established not long ago, and not many people know about it.

Secondly, most of the people here are natives of the empire. Outsiders had already left long ago using the teleportation array before Kerrigan besieged the imperial capital.

Even those princes and ministers, if they were not reluctant to leave their current positions, would have moved to the Southern Empire early like most of the nobles.

The biggest problem of the local natives is that they look down on outsiders.

They couldn't even defend their own capital, so how could they believe that anyone could wipe out the Burning Legion and kill Cregan?

But when Yu Lan lightly threw the demon armor, demon sickle and other iconic equipment left by Kerrigan on the ground, no one dared to question Xu Lai anymore.

Although this set of equipment was in tatters, the people present were too deeply impressed by it.

After collecting these iconic trophies, Yu Lan took the royal griffin, the evil angel, that Xu Lai left for her, to clean up the remaining demons in the city.

There are a lot of demons, and even after their defeat, their combat effectiveness is still high. It is definitely not something that ordinary civilians can handle.

After Yu Lan and her people left, only a group of angels were left around Xu Lai.

However, the prestige that Elvy had just established was still there. At least before Elvy left, this group of people did not dare to act presumptuously.

"Then, let me repeat myself. Is there anyone among you who can repair the teleportation array?"

Finally, after Xu Lai asked for the second time, a young man dressed as an aristocrat came out.

“Your Majesty, the King of the Eagle Kingdom, I know a little bit about teleportation arrays, so maybe I can help you take a look at them.

But I don’t know to what extent the demon has damaged the teleportation array, so I can’t guarantee that it can be repaired.

And even if it can be repaired, repairing the teleportation array is not something that can be done by one or two mages. It requires the cooperation of many mages and a lot of resources."

Hearing this, Xu Lai smiled and said, “It seems that Your Excellency does not want to join the Eagle Kingdom.

But it doesn't matter, as I said before, I am willing to give you freedom as long as you have not committed any crime."

The man saw that Xu Lai's expression did not change, and he knew that Xu Lai really needed them, so he bravely asked:

"We cannot be criminals, Your Majesty.

Each of us here comes from a noble family, and it is impossible for us to do anything that will bring shame to our family.

Including the Prime Minister you just took away, he served the empire loyally until the last moment. What crime did he commit?
Your Majesty, on what charge do you want to execute a diligent Prime Minister of the Empire without trial?"

Xu Lai still smiled and said:
"Boy, you are very brave!
I just wonder if you would still dare to say that if the person standing in front of you today was the Lord of Hell, Kerrigan."

After that, without waiting for his answer, Xu Lai continued:
"But I can still answer you that I don't know what crime your diligent Prime Minister of the Empire committed before, and I don't want to care about it for the time being.

This also applies to you. No matter whether you have committed a crime before or not, I will not care about it for the time being.

Once this city is completely settled, there will naturally be a formal judicial body to try you.

By that time, no matter how dissatisfied I am with you, I will definitely give you the opportunity to argue.

The promise I can make to you now is that from now on:
Everything you do that benefits this city and its people can offset part of your punishment.

Of course, if the verdict is not guilty, all the good things you have done can be regarded as merits and as a means of your future advancement.

Even if you do not want to become citizens of the Eagle Kingdom, I will give you a satisfactory reward before you leave based on your merits.

As for your prime minister, he used his eyes to stop capable people from coming out to repair the teleportation array in front of me.

The resources and soldiers in the rear could not come to support immediately, and the losses caused were immeasurable.

This kind of crime, in my opinion, is called treason." (End of this chapter)