The Invincible Overlord of Heroes.

From Kane's tone, Xu Lai guessed that there would be no problems with the cooperation.

However, before the cooperation, Xu Lai still needs to dig out the heart of the castle first.

Otherwise, if the Northern Empire agreed and Xu Lai was unable to produce the congressional blueprints, he would completely offend the Northern Empire.

As for those cities in the Northern Empire, they must be taken, and it won't be a big problem to let Tahan make a trip there.

The cavalry led by Tahan is not completely incapable of attacking cities. Even if they are not attacking cities, they can be used to hold the line.

Xu Lai has already chosen the person to actually attack the city and capture the stronghold. It is not Lena who leads the Qingfeng Legion to attack everywhere, but the dragon knight Eric.

Xu Lai had already given Eric an order for a forced march. Now that Tahan had cleared all the roads, the vanguard group could reach Lionheart City in one day at most.

Except for the commander Eric, the entire vanguard regiment was composed of infantrymen.

With these infantrymen, Xu Lai can also safely recruit the soldiers of the Southern Empire.

Being able to wear magical equipment, the Royal Archers certainly didn't have a single recruited soldier.

With so many people, and many of Xu Lai's comrades killed, it was a bit difficult to recruit them.

The main reason is that the number of our own soldiers is too small. Even if these archers and infantry are mixed, they cannot be disrupted at all.

On the contrary, although the Vanguard Group is elite, its number is only more than 5000 people, and they were carefully selected after another round of expansion.

When these people are together, they are still a powerful fist. Once they are dispersed, they will be easily defeated one by one.

There was no other way, so Xu Lai could only give orders to Lena, asking her to take the troops back to Lionheart City for rest.

Most of the priests in the chaplaincy will also come with Reina and the others.

A small number of bishops and archbishop-level priests will still remain in various cities to preside over ceremonies for believers and restore the ecology.

However, since believers have no magical powers other than their faith, the speed of ecological recovery will be greatly reduced.

But for Dur and others, rebuilding the holy city is what they most want to do and what is most necessary to do at this time.

It was impossible for Xu Lai to stop them, nor could he accuse them of not doing their job properly. He even had to fully support them as he had said to Earl Kane before.

After all, Xu Lai owed the temple a big favor, and it would be difficult for him to compete with others for the Holy City.

But there is a city within a city in the capital, and Xu Lai feels uncomfortable about it.

In addition, Qingfeng City was built by him personally, so he has deeper feelings for it.

In the end, he decided to leave the capital to Qingfeng City and make Lionheart City the secondary capital.

Being a secondary capital meant that Lionheart City’s status in the Eagle Kingdom was second only to Qingfeng City and was one level higher than all other cities.

While waiting for the Qingfeng Legion to enter the city, Xu Lai also had to organize manpower and material resources to renovate the two military camps inside and outside Lionheart City.

Lionheart City is the capital, and there are two large camps outside the city, one on the left and one on the right, guarding it.

There are even more military camps in the city, three in total, belonging to the three royal legions.

The griffins also flew back to the old camp and were taken care of by Ed, Silver Wing and others.

The Southern Empire's army was split into two parts, one of which was guarded by Tahan himself in the left camp.

The other part, led by Charles, was stationed in another camp.

All weapons have been confiscated, and Xu Lai has issued a strict order that anyone who causes trouble or disobeys management will be killed without any discussion.

Although these royal elites had never suffered such hardship before, they did not dare to cause trouble for the time being.

Because not long after they were taken into the camp, they saw a number of big shots who were dressed elegantly and usually looked high and mighty, being hung on the dilapidated city walls.

Except for the Minister of Finance Tiff, who temporarily saved his own life and the lives of some of his immediate family members because of the Northern Empire.

All the other nobles who participated in the assassination of Xu Lai were hanged on the city wall one by one.

The reason why Xu Lai tolerated them until now was that he was afraid that if he took action prematurely, he would alarm them and let them run away.

It was not until there were enough people to control the entire city that Xu Lai settled the score.

But even so, several masterminds escaped, such as the former Secretary of Defense.

This guy abandoned his wife and children. When Roland led people to capture him, he simply tore off a teleportation scroll and ran away.

Xu Lai didn't know where this guy had run off to, and it was very likely that he had gone to live with his brother-in-law.

I just don't know if his brother-in-law would be so angry that he would kill his brother-in-law when he found out that his own sister was also hanged to death by Xu Lai.

Xu Lai certainly hoped so, but he wasn't worried even if he didn't die.

It just so happens that after recuperating for a period of time, Xu Lai will definitely find a way to annex the Southern Empire and the Eastern Empire.

At that time, Xu Lai could use the Defense Minister's attempt to assassinate him as an excuse to send troops to attack.

As for the Southern Empire, they have already sent troops to their doorstep. The two sides have just fought a battle and are already in a state of hostility.

On the contrary, the Eastern Empire, strictly speaking, only lost one Yuwen Xin.

The Royal Griffin Corps was not originally affiliated with the Eastern Empire, and Xu Lai did not harm anyone in the Griffin Corps.

Whether or not to be in a state of hostility is decided by Yuwen Shaoguang of the Eastern Empire.

In order to capture Lionheart City, Yuwen Shaoguang did not hesitate to go to war with Xu Lai.

But now, not only did they suffer heavy casualties, but they also sent a huge flying army to the opponent.

You know, recruiting 90,000 royal griffins is not an easy task.

Excluding outdoor buildings, a castle can only recruit 10 per month, or 120 per year.

Of course, a large number of griffin towers must have been built in the Eastern Empire.

But even so, if there were no treasures like the God-given Divine Weapon series, a city would only have 240 of them a year.

Even though there were griffin castles in hundreds of cities throughout the Eastern Empire, it would take a whole year to have so many griffins.

But the Griffin Castle requires blueprints to build. No matter how much the Empire supported the Eastern Empire before, it probably did not have hundreds of blueprints.

Not to mention that the Royal Griffin is not of a high rank, with a lifespan of only about 3 to 40 years, and its unlimited counterattack feature also makes it easy to fall into siege.

Excluding the battle losses and the harvest in the wild, at least two years of recruitment quota for the Eastern Empire fell into Xu Lai's hands.

As one side gains strength, the other side loses strength. The Eastern Empire also has to fight against the undead in the cemetery. And as the number of undead snowballs gets bigger and bigger, it becomes extremely difficult for the Eastern Empire to deal with them alone.

Xu Lai suspected that the old fellow Yuwen Shaoguang would just swallow this loss in silence and would not dare to declare war on Xu Lai again.

There were a total of eleven powerful and wealthy families who participated in the assassination of Xu Lai. All of these eleven powerful and wealthy families were confiscated and exterminated by Xu Lai.

All adult members of the tribe, regardless of gender, are treated equally and no one is left alive.

Xu Lai did not kill all the underage people, but demoted them to serfs, branded them as slaves, and sent them to work on estates outside the city.

Originally Xu Lai intended to abolish slavery, but there were too many voices of opposition.

Plus, this is a supernatural world, and everyone has the opportunity to gain greater powers.

Those with greater power will inevitably seek more rights and respect. If there were no serfs at the bottom, then ordinary people would become the bottom.

By then, these ordinary people will inevitably become slaves as before.

The deprivation of serfs’ rights was precisely for the purpose of protecting ordinary people; such a cannibalistic society would inevitably require the sacrifice of some people.

If sacrifices must be made, they can only be those that Xu Lai dislikes.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, after Xu Lai occupied a city, he would pardon all the slaves in the city and restore their freedom.

But after the assassination in Lionheart City, all the slaves in these eleven powerful families, including male servants, female servants, grooms, cooks and the like, still retained their slave status.

Most ordinary slaves would still be sent to estates outside the city to farm.

The rest of the slaves with certain skills were sent to the market to be sold.

Of course, the Lionheart City market had not yet recovered at this time, so all the goods were temporarily sent to the farms outside the city.

After dealing with the people, the property cannot be let go.

The demons had already cleared out these wealthy families several times before Xu Lai entered the city.

However, during the time that Xu Lai occupied Lionheart City, these families have recovered a lot. At least Xu Lai has never seen them go to collect supplies.

One reason is that they have space rings to hide secret supplies, and another reason is that these big families basically have secret rooms and dark rooms.

Demons don't understand human architecture, and hellhounds are only sensitive to the breath of living things, but have no feelings towards dead things.

It would be different if it were humans. There would be no need for Xu Lai to dig three feet into the ground.

The group of thieves and assassins who were hunted out by Aiden, Zou Jie and others were eager to redeem themselves for their crimes.

With these experts around, almost all of the hidden assets of the powerful and wealthy were dug out.

The mastermind failed to escape, and the space ring naturally fell into Xu Lai's hands. He could then ask the mages to slowly crack it.

As for those who have escaped, there is really nothing we can do, but the fixed assets they left behind will definitely be confiscated.

In addition to these eleven powerful families that contacted the assassin, Xu Lai also planned to deal with the rest of the powerful families in Lionheart City.

While they are digging out the heart of the castle, it is a good opportunity to frame them with some charges.

These people are too unconscious, they don’t know what they are waiting for.

Xu Lai has been in the city for such a long time, but no one has taken the initiative to come and join him.

Even the captain of the guards who surrendered to Xu Lai was just an ordinary elite and did not hold any title.

No matter whether they are doing it out of face or the so-called thousand-year-old aristocratic heritage.

Anyway, the day after Xu Lai killed the previous wave of people, a new notice was posted.

The content of the notice was very simple, and he had posted it in many cities on the grassland.

The main purpose is to abolish all identities in the old empire, including the so-called nobility and slaves.

The notice clearly stated that, except for the serfs newly engraved with the Eagle Empire emblem, all other slaves were illegal and would be abolished.

All previous slave marks are no longer effective, and everyone is immediately restored to freedom.

In addition to the noble titles officially conferred by the Eagle Kingdom, all noble titles conferred by the Lion Dynasty were also abolished according to law.

After that, if these people again present themselves as nobles, they would be dealt with according to public security management regulations at the very least, or directly demoted to slaves at the worst.

In addition, Xu Lai’s announcement contained one more item than the one on the grassland.

The additional content is also very simple, which is to encourage the people to report and expose the powerful people in the old empire.

If these powerful people have bullied men and women and disregarded laws and regulations in the past, expose and punish them.

Xu Lai will also reward the informant with a portion of the confiscated property as punishment.

Of course, in order to prevent deliberate retaliation, Xu Lai needs the whistleblower to provide evidence.

If there is no evidence, a pastor will be required to conduct a lie assessment. Once it is determined to be a lie, the reporter will be held responsible for false accusation.

The party making the false accusation will bear the responsibility for the crime he or she has reported, so as to prevent the waste of public power.

As soon as this announcement came out, those small and medium-sized nobles finally couldn't sit still anymore.

These people no longer cared about their own face and tried every means to find someone to deliver a message to Xu Lai.

It's no wonder that these guys are quite powerful. The three sheriffs appointed by Xu Lai have all delivered messages on behalf of others.

It’s a pity that Xu Lai was too lazy to deal with these people and left everything to Jilong.

Among them, only one person was received personally by Xu Lai.

It was none other than Devin McCoy, the patriarch of one of the few wizard families in the Lion Empire.

“Your Excellency means.

The teleportation array had barely made any progress for a whole week, but it was already repaired in less than three hours after I sent the document?"

Devin McCoy showed no sign of panic and said to Xu Lai calmly:

"Your Majesty, magic has always been like this.

When there is no solution, any attempt is just groping.

But once there is a solution, it only takes minutes to solve it.

Although we have not taken any action on the teleportation array before, we have been researching solutions.

If you don't believe us, you can consult your magic advisor."

Xu Lai didn't understand magic, but he knew that if someone dared to say so, they must not be afraid of his questions.

I think so, each magician has his own different areas of expertise.

Even if these mages were stationed in Lionheart City every day, they might not be able to fully understand the teleportation array of Lionheart City.

Most importantly, there is no evidence for this.

Even if Xu Lai found an expert in space magic, it would be easy for him to explain. After all, the McCoy family is not famous for space magic.

So Xu Lai shrugged and said:
“There’s no need for that. As long as you complete what I promised you, there will be no changes.

But I must tell you that this teleportation array is no longer as important to me as it was before.

Therefore, the rewards given to you can only be reduced by a few levels. I hope you can understand."

Devin McCoy responded with words that could not be verified, and Xu Lai responded with unclear rewards.

Anyway, his troops have entered the city. Although a teleportation array is still needed to transport a large number of officials, it is no longer so urgent.

Devin bowed and said, "I understand. The only reward I ask for is your forgiveness for our McCoy family." (End of this chapter)