The Invincible Overlord of Heroes.

Destroying a capital city would obviously result in more losses than gains.

Even the Lord of Hell was reluctant to destroy Lionheart City after conquering it.

Destroying the Heart of the Castle would not only result in the loss of a capital-level Castle Heart, but also the loss of the huge amount of resources spent on building the city.

The key point is that after the destruction, no one can take away the remaining resources, and they can only stay where they are.

However, in addition to resources, the blueprints used to build this city can basically be dropped.

If an outsider, such as Kerrigan, came to destroy it, he could directly obtain the top-level blueprints of the Hell Camp.

After a capital-level castle heart is shattered, one or two castle-level castle hearts can be obtained.

Needless to say, the value of a castle heart of this level is basically out of stock and no one is willing to sell it.

In addition, the architecture of Lionheart City is very comprehensive. Even buildings that do not appear during the upgrade process will be completed with blueprints.

In terms of value, the higher the level of the building blueprint, the higher its value will naturally be.

Secondly, the value of those hidden buildings that are not found in ordinary cities is often several levels higher.

For example, the Griffin Fortress is only available in the Eastern Empire, and lords from other places are willing to buy it at a high price.

There is also the Holy Church. The blueprints of this building are only available in the temple. They are rarely given to other lords and are never allowed to circulate.

These two hidden buildings are more valuable than the Knight Training Camp.

Not to mention, Lionheart City also has the Hall of Champions and Cloud City.

Especially the Cloud City, a top-level building that many big guys don’t have the chance to get.

Of course, none of these can compare with the Congress. Only with the architectural drawings of the Congress would it be possible to build a second capital.

What Devin McCoy wants is either Cloud City or the blueprints of Congress.

This is not just asking for too much, but taking away most of the benefits of destroying Lionheart City.

"That's impossible. Cloud City and the Parliament are Lionheart City's most precious treasures. I can't let you take them away."

Devin McCoy shrugged and said:
"It's up to you. My conditions are here. You can consider them yourself. I don't care anyway.

I am just a little worried about you. You just saw that even the Prime Minister of the Empire, the man named Xu, was killed without hesitation.

Not only are you of no help to him, but each of you has a lot of resources in your hands.

Do you want to take a gamble? He will never do anything to you.

By that time, even if you want to leave, you won’t be able to do so, and all the assets your family has accumulated over the years will fall into the hands of Mr. Xu.

Find a way to leave now. Even if you can't get much benefit from Lionheart City, at least you can keep most of your family assets."

After that, Devin McCoy was about to leave, but suddenly said:

“Oh, by the way, I don’t know to what extent the teleportation array has been damaged.

But if Mr. Xu can really provide us with all the resources we need, with the strength of the court mages, it may be possible to repair it in two or three days.

As you all know, although I am the chief mage of the court, now even the palace is gone.

Strictly speaking, I can't continue to command them, and I can't convince them if I don't give them enough benefits.

Well, ladies and gentlemen, at least you are safe now and can go home and rest.

We also have to check out the teleportation array. If we really want to destroy Lionheart Castle, we have to make sure that this teleportation array has no connection with the Castle Heart."

Devin McCoy's steps were so fast that in a short while, even his shadow could not be seen.

Following behind him were various court mages wearing uniform robes.

Obviously, at this moment, these court mages still follow the lead of Devin McCoy.

Even though Devin looks very young, he has established enough prestige in the court magician group with his own abilities and family influence.

"What should we do? Are we just going to let that guy blackmail us like this?"

After a moment of silence among the nobles, someone finally asked.

Just as the others were about to speak, the white-haired old man with the Duke's coat of arms coughed and said:

"Anyway, everyone should go home first and take inventory of the family members, servants, etc.

No matter what Mr. Xu does, we need to prepare in advance.

Everyone, go home and discuss it with your family and friends, and we will discuss it again in the evening."

As he spoke, the white-haired old man glanced to the side, and everyone looked in the direction he was looking.

Several mercenary leaders, each with a few men, entered the palace under the leadership of another deputy sheriff appointed by Xu Lai.

The first thing they did when they came in was to chase people out of the palace.

Of course Xu Lai couldn't allow these people to continue staying in the palace.

Even though Kerrigan had cleaned up the palace once, Xu Lai was still worried.

In fact, Xu Lai is now also the actual ruler of Lionheart City.

In other words, all the wealth in Lionheart City belongs to Xu Lai personally.

The young wizard was right about one thing. Xu Lai would never let go of these princes and nobles in the city.

It’s not that he looks down on these people, but the wealth they possess is completely incompatible with their current strength and status.

However, Xu Lai didn't want to act rashly because he only had so few people under his command.

These angels can be asked to kill people, but they are powerless to plunder even if they have the will.

Killing people at this time would only cause them to riot collectively, and they would either try to escape the city or incite people to rebel against Xu Lai.

If they want to escape, Xu Lai has the advantage of speed and is confident that he can kill many of those who want to escape.

But he didn't have enough leaders, and if these people fled in all directions, he would just be running around in a hurry.

He is not afraid of riots. Although he has few soldiers under his command, his fighting power is extremely terrifying and he can suppress any riot.

However, the secondary damage caused to Lionheart City, especially since he had to rescue the prisoners, would inevitably cause great chaos.

The massive economic and population losses caused by this were something Xu Lai really didn't want to see.

If possible, Xu Lai would actually rather most people remain locked up.

It’s just that the environment in the dungeon is too bad, and the cells that used to hold one person now hold at least dozens of people.

Demons don't care about the life and death of humans, but Xu Lai knows that if this continues, many people will die just from not being able to breathe fresh air.

The facts were just as Xu Lai had expected. Aiden led people to the dungeon to rescue the people, and found several corpses in every cell.

Some had already rotted and stank, and even signs of undead creatures' activities were found.

However, since the dungeon was dark and there was no professional priest in the team, it could not be confirmed for the time being.

The people pouring out of the dungeon did indeed bring great chaos to the city. Some were trying to find food, some were trying to find their relatives, some were crying loudly at their destroyed houses, and some fainted on the streets.

The security guards, who were new to the task and had no experience, were full of sympathy for these poor people.

As a result, the security guards, who were already few in number, were even less able to maintain order, and they almost messed up the distribution of supplies to the refugees.

At the critical moment, it was Zou Jie who stood up.

He had an army, but it was composed of recruited soldiers with no ability to act independently.

Therefore, the task Xu Lai assigned to him was to guard the supplies.

Xu Lai took out the rice, flour, eggs, beef, mutton and other supplies from the warehouse ring and piled them all in the empty square.

The purpose is to tell all refugees that there are plenty of resources and to reassure them.

However, he still overlooked that although the demons did not dare to let all these people starve to death, they would not do so too seriously.

Most of those who died in the dungeon died of starvation because they could not get food.

Now that these civilians have been liberated and see plenty of food in front of them, it would be strange if they didn't rush to grab the food.

The mercenaries sympathized with the civilians, and although they tried their best to maintain order, they were reluctant to use heavy-handed tactics.

Zou Jie is different. In his eyes, these refugees are just higher-level NPCs and he doesn't need to care about their feelings at all.

Killing someone might cause loss of reputation and favorability, but he was now responding to the mob attack, so it was legal killing.

Moreover, Zou Jie was not in the mood to care whether his reputation or favor would be deducted in the future.

The security guards who maintain order fail to do their job well and are often fired.

He was not only the leader on the scene, but also responsible for guarding Xu Lai's "supplies".

If he was robbed for no apparent reason, he would not be able to withstand Xu Lai's wrath.

After killing a bunch of people, and with such a huge mountain of supplies here, the restlessness among the crowd finally subsided.

There are three security officers, one is responsible for guarding the palace and the other is responsible for distributing food.

After releasing the civilians, Eden recruited a large number of refugees, moved the corpses in the city to the southwest corner of the city, and burned them in a centralized manner.

Xu Lai took Elvy with him and personally searched for the warehouse where Kerrigan was hiding in the ruins of Holy Angel City.

This place, which was once the most sacred, is now the place with the most dead souls.

I don’t know if it was intentional by the devil, but there are a large number of corpses piled up here, plus the leftover bones and flesh from the nightmare beasts.

Every step Xu Lai took could almost be described as a mountain of corpses and a sea of ​​blood.

In addition to these, the most obvious mark is the angel sculptures all over the floor.

As a former holy city, angels are the highest-level representatives of the temple, so there are a large number of angels painted and sculpted on the walls and gardens.

But Xu Lai also knew that there was a group of angels who used themselves as statues to guard this city forever.

These angels who are incarnated as statues will also become statues after their death.

It is very likely that there is such an angel among the rubble on the ground.

Xu Lai casually cast a wall of fire with his ultimate fire magic and terrifying mental power.

The wall of fire he released not only covered a wide area, but also continued to burn for a long time.

The refugees recruited by Aiden would also carry corpses in the City of Holy Angel.

But here, they only need to throw the bodies into the wall of fire, and the raging flames will devour everything.

Elvy followed Xu Lai closely, and also had to distract herself from controlling the angels under her command to search for and kill the undead inside.

Angels can also serve as captains and can also be appointed as generals by Xu Lai.

But unfortunately, even as a king, Xu Lai could not appoint the recruited angels as captains.

Therefore, although there are many angels here, they can only act under Elvy's command and have no independent combat capabilities.

Elvy had to command the angels while also paying attention to Xu Lai's safety.

The task of finding Kerrigan's treasure trove fell entirely on Xu Lai.

Fortunately, he had plenty of time, as the angels had already blocked the gates of the City of Holy Angels.

Without Xu Lai's order, only Yu Lan can bring people in. If anyone else ignores the angel's warning, they will be killed on the spot.

Moreover, the huge warehouse was not difficult to find. Since the nightmare beast had been waiting for them on the clock tower early, its lair must be nearby.

Sure enough, Xu Lai found the supplies and equipment piled up by Kerrigan in one of the few intact buildings behind the clock tower.

It was already dusk, but as soon as the door opened, the strong golden light almost blinded his eyes.

Xu had not been to Holy Angel City many times, so he didn't know where this place was.

However, all buildings in the City of San Angel have windows, and there are several windows, including warehouses.

After Xu Lai got used to the reflected golden light, what came into view was a real golden mountain.

This building was probably used by priests for prayer. Not only was it huge in size and quite tall, but most importantly, it was extremely empty.

Apart from the big door that Xu Lai opened, there were only three huge tall windows.

The golden mountain took up one third of the entire room, but its height reached almost to the top, about 20 meters high.

The room was enormous, and the half of it occupied by Jinshan was also not small.

Then according to the calculation formula of the cone, this golden mountain is about 8000 cubic meters.

The size of the gold coin is much larger than the one-yuan coin that Xu Lai had used. In terms of volume, it is about 4 or 5 times larger, or maybe even more.

The volume of a one-yuan coin is about 1 cubic centimeter. Even if the volume of a gold coin is 5 times that of a one-yuan coin, it is only 5 cubic centimeters.

One cubic meter is equivalent to one million cubic centimeters. If the space left for stacking coins is included, then more than 10 gold coins can be stacked in one cubic meter.

Although Xu Lai was just estimating, this mountain of gold should be less than 8000 cubic meters.

But if we add the rare resources next to it, which are far more precious than gold coins, the 8000 cubic meters calculated by Xu Lai is definitely less, not more.

1 cubic meter is worth 8000 gold coins, and 8000 cubic meters is 8 , which is a total of million gold coins.

Even if the estimate of 8 million gold coins is a bit exaggerated, remove half of it and add in those rare resources and high-level equipment.

The value of this warehouse is definitely over 10 billion gold coins, no less.

With so many resources, even though Xu Lai had already seen Muriel, he was still shocked this time.

But just think about the many prosperous shops, wealthy businessmen, and families that have been passed down for thousands of years in the imperial capital.

Even the entire palace might have been emptied by Kerrigan, so it's not surprising that there is so little wealth. (End of this chapter)