The Invincible Overlord of Heroes.

Just as Xu Lai expected, there were indeed pairs of prying eyes hiding in the shadows among the trees.

But because of Xu Lai and Xu Lai's angels, these eyes could only watch silently, not daring to move at all.

Unlike most people’s impression of the undead, the more intelligent the undead are, the more cautious they are.

The land of death, the land of bones, the land of decay, there is no good land belonging to the undead.

When living in these lands, in addition to being on guard against the horrific natural environment at all times, one must also be on guard against other high-level undead.

In a land where life is almost completely uninhabitable, those high-level undead are even more terrifying.

Those high-level undead are most interested in capturing low-level undead, especially those that have just gained intelligence.

The ignorant and naive is similar to a newborn baby. It does not have the rigidity of ordinary undead, but is also unable to rebel against the control of higher-level undead.

And to gradually grow up in such an environment and become a high-level undead, I don’t know how much more cautious one needs.

Hiding in the shadows is a bird-like undead called the Raven.

Ravens are common magical pets. They have certain magical powers and are more likely to become undead after death.

The ravens hiding in the shadows are the eyes of the necromancers. Intermediate and lower-level reconnaissance techniques are not even qualified to detect them.

At this time, Xu Lai was counting the equipment on the undead hero.

It is obvious that this guy is both an undead and a wizard. Regardless of his race, faction or occupation, he has nothing to do with Xu Lai.

None of this guy's equipment can be used by Xu Lai.

However, one can still see how this undead hero fights from his equipment.

Amulet of the Dead: An intermediate treasure that increases the effect of necromancy by 5%.

Vampire Cloak: A high-level treasure that increases the effect of necromancy by 10%.

Necromancer (Elementary): 10% of enemy troops killed in battle will be transformed into friendly skeletons.

As the level of necromancy increases, Skeleton Soldiers can be upgraded to Skeleton Warriors, but the number is only 2/3 of Skeleton Soldiers.

Skeleton Breastplate: Intermediate treasure, Spirit +3, Physical Defense increased by 35, The number of Skeleton Soldiers or Skeleton Warriors summoned after each battle increases by 10%. (Only effective for Skeleton Soldiers and Skeleton Warriors)

Undead Shield*3: Magic equipment, adds a shield with 200 energy points to the Undead Fire (can resist both physical and magical attacks)

Book of Darkness: Magic equipment, one-handed secondary weapon, spirit +3, can increase the power of dark spells by 15%.

Death Speaker Staff: Magic equipment, one-handed staff, Spirit +5, increases the power of dark spells by 5%, duration by 5%, control effect by 5%, and casting range by 5%.

These are relatively typical. Other equipment can be better or worse, but most of them are life-saving or spirit-boosting equipment.

Overall, the equipment of this undead hero cannot be considered very good, but it is still quite distinctive and in line with his identity as a necromancer.

Whether it is a wizard or a mage, it is obviously impossible to compare with warriors, knights and other professions in terms of physique.

Their strength growth is extremely low, and they simply cannot afford heavy armor.

Their physical fitness and agility growth are also poor, which means their life, defense and speed are not very good.

Therefore, human mages usually take the control or output route.

Either I control the person to death, or I just kill you instantly before you get close to me, like a turret.

But this necromancer is not that extreme, but involves all aspects.

The undead have no health points, after all, they are not living beings, but they have undead fire, bone durability and other things similar to health points.

Unless otherwise specified, there is no problem in treating them as health points.

Anyway, the durability of the skeletons has been worn out. Even if they are not dead, they can't move. Without the help of the necromancer to revive them, they will basically become dry bones.

Only liches are special. They have life boxes, so even if their health points are completely gone, they are not considered dead.

The damage of the undead's dark spells is still very considerable, so it is understandable that this undead hero does not want to give up.

As a necromancer, summoning is the foundation of his life, and anything that can increase the effect of necromancy is a must, regardless of the level of the treasure.

The Undead Amulet and Vampire Cloak are not of high levels and are not difficult to find.

There are only more advanced Death Boots, which ordinary heroes can't get.

As for the final set of artifacts, the only blueprint is with Sandro, and no one can get it together.

After being combined into a divine weapon, this set of equipment can transform skeleton soldiers into corpse wizards and dark warriors.

Before that, no matter how high the level of necromancy is, one can only recruit some skeletons.

It's nothing more than upgrading from Skeleton Soldier to Skeleton Warrior, Skeleton Warrior, and at most to Skeleton Shooter.

Even the level 3 Skeleton Warriors, Skeleton Archers, Dark Ignores, and Corpse Wizards have a huge gap.

And looking at this guy's equipment, although the quality is average, but if it is equipped with the ultimate necromancy, how can the necromancy rate be around 70%.

If combined with the necromancer tower in the cemetery building, or a hero with special skills in necromancy, the necromancy rate can be easily increased to around 90%.

To take it to an extreme level, if it reaches 100%, basically every time you kill an enemy on the battlefield you will add a skeleton soldier to your side.

Advanced necromancy can also summon more powerful skeleton warriors and skeleton archers with certain long-range capabilities.

Of course, according to the information Xu Lai obtained, every time the skeleton soldiers are upgraded to a higher level, their number will be reduced by at least 10%.

Just as Xu Lai had expected, none of these equipment and treasures were usable.

Xu Lai was interested in the undead shield. Although it had 0 defense, it had both physical and magical defense, and most importantly, it could be used in combination.

It’s a pity that this thing is also a customized version for the undead. It only protects against the fire of the undead and has no effect on living beings.

The equipment is easy to deal with. We can bring it back and let the craftsmen find a way to extract the materials.

As for treasures, you can either exchange them with undead heroes or send them to places like the altar to gain some experience.

Giselle quickly cleared out the rioting undead. It was also possible that the undead belonging to that undead hero had been intercepted by other undead heroes.

Xu Lai and his team had only separated from the main force, a distance of less than ten minutes, and they would soon catch up again.

However, to Xu Lai's surprise, they did not encounter any more undead until they arrived at Shenmu Fort.

This is obviously very abnormal. The undead's outstanding feature is their large numbers. How could there not be a single one in their territory?

The only possibility is that the undead behind the scenes deliberately controlled the situation and let Xu Lai and the others go.

As for why, it is possible that he wanted to trap Xu Lai and the elves to death together.

Or maybe the main force of the undead didn't have time, and Sandro didn't want to waste his strength on humans.

In short, it is obvious that the purpose of the undead is to capture Xu Lai and the elves in one fell swoop.

But this had no effect on Xu Lai, as he had a space ring and could receive supplies from Qingfeng City at any time. Although the undead didn't need to eat, their bones would wear out when they moved around, as they didn't have muscles after all.

These things require a large amount of death power to maintain, and this place is not the death place of the undead, the land of bones.

On the contrary, this is the radiation range of the World Tree. The closer Xu Lai gets to the territory of the elves, the more he feels an indescribable sense of pleasure in his body and mind.

Thanks to the blessing of this pure life force, even the withered Green Forest did not die completely.

Those roots that are still rooted deep in the soil, those dead trees that can still provide wood spirit energy to the Phantom Shooter, all prove that they are not completely dead yet.

In a place like this with a huge amount of life energy, the consumption for the undead is also extremely huge.

Apart from anything else, at least the effect of the undead's necromancy will be suppressed a lot.

And the closer you get to the World Tree, the more you will be suppressed.

Elves who are unable to obtain supplies from a larger area may be consumed to death by the undead.

But Xu Lai can get supplies from the entire Qingfeng City, and even the entire Eagle Kingdom.

When the time comes and the fight really starts, it's hard to say who will be afraid of whom.

Of course, this might leave Xu Lai trapped in the heart of the elves for a long time, unless he was willing to leave the ring bound to his warehouse to someone else.

Shenmu City is very different from the imperial cities Xu Lai has seen. Even the elf-style Stone City is very different.

After all, Stone City was built on the basis of human fortress cities.

The Shenmu City, on the other hand, is a thoroughly elf-style place.

The elves have more than one sacred wood city, but four in total, located in the four directions of the Emerald Forest.

The reason why it is called Shenmu City is because their main structure is the root of a world tree that spreads here.

Corresponding to the Shenmu City is the World Tree located in the center and the Elf King's Court built on the World Tree.

The Royal Court is a city comparable to, or even larger than, Lionheart City.

However, the Elf King's Court is built on the World Tree, and the main roads and secondary roads are all branches of the World Tree.

Therefore, it may be far inferior to Lionheart City in terms of utilization area and utilization efficiency.

Shenmu City and the Elf King's Court are naturally incomparable. They are special cities built on the basis of the roots of the World Tree that deliberately broke through the ground to protect the World Tree.

Each of the four sacred wood cities is guarded by a great druid.

In these four cities, in addition to a large number of tree spirit elders, each of them has hundreds of ancient guardians under its command.

You know, when the elves came to reinforce Xu Lai, they only sent out an ancient guardian, which shows how much importance the elves attach to the World Tree.

The elves expressed great welcome to the arrival of human reinforcements.

Even when supplies were no longer sufficient, enough fruits, fruit wine, and fresh vegetables were still delivered to Xu Lai and the entire Qingfeng Legion.

There is no way, this is what the elves usually eat, otherwise they would not occupy such a large forest and instead would not get enough food.

It’s not that elves don’t eat meat, but they value the harmonious development of humans and nature and rarely eat meat.

Even if they eat meat occasionally, elves generally only eat enough to fill their stomachs and never kill for the purpose of making pickled meat.

The dwarves, on the other hand, always eat meat and wine.

This is also why the elves dislike dwarves, and it is also the main reason why more and more dwarf tribes are moving out of the forest.

Fortunately, although the elves do not eat meat, they like human staple foods such as rice, corn, flour, etc.

Upon learning that Xu Lai was the king, he personally led his troops to provide support.

The Elf Queen, who had been guarding the World Tree, even personally took a teleportation array to come and greet them.

The Elf Queen is an extremely beautiful lady. Even Yu Lan and Elvy are probably inferior to her in appearance.

But he is over 400 years old this year, and he has a daughter who is over 100 years old but looks like a little girl.

Besides, her husband, the prince of the elves, had just died in battle not long ago, so Xu Lai didn't dare to provoke her.

After a quick meeting with Xu Lai, the Elf Queen didn't even wait for the dinner to begin, and immediately got on the teleportation array and left in a hurry.

To show her sincerity, the queen kept her only princess to accompany her.

Unfortunately, even though she is over a hundred years old, Xu Lai has no interest in this yellow-haired girl whose hair may not even have grown yet.

But the elf princess was very interested in Xu Lai and asked him many questions during the meal.

In addition to the Elf Queen, Xu Lai also met the Elf Messenger from before in Shenmu City, who was also the Elf Mage of the Elf Royal Court.

With the introduction of the elven wizard, Xu Lai met the great druid, Yin Mu, who guarded the Shenmu City.

However, although Yin Mu is responsible for guarding Shenmu City, he is only responsible for the magic part.

The actual defense of Shenmu City is still the responsibility of the elf heroes.

Ivo, the hero in charge of Shenmu City where Xu Lai is located, is a level 30 elf general whose specialty is elf archer.

Under Ivo's command, all elf shooters will increase their offense and defense, attack, and movement speed by 10%, including Xu Lai's phantom shooter.

Of course, Xu Lai needs to transfer the control of these phantom shooters to Ivo first.

These phantom archers were all trained by Giselle using human archers, and originally had nothing to do with elves.

But the special type of soldier, the Phantom Shooter, can be trained by both human and elf shooters.

Therefore, after the training is completed, it is assumed that the archer bonus of both elves and humans is received.

Among these heroes, there was an old acquaintance of Xu Lai. When they were on the grassland, the old acquaintance took good care of Xu Lai.

It’s a pity that Ranger Kate, whose specialty is logistics and who is mainly responsible for transporting supplies between several major cities, will not stay here for long.

The chief general under Ivo is the ranger commander, Tracy.

This person hadn't seen her since they separated until Xu Lai came into the city.

Xu Lai himself was most annoyed by these red tapes, but the elves attached great importance to etiquette. Unfortunately, the current situation was really embarrassing for them.

Not long after Xu Lai and his companions entered the city, thick black smoke began to fill the previously open and bright forest.

According to Archdruid Yinmu, this is a dark sky curtain made by the undead.

Shenmu City is blessed by the World Tree, so there is no need to worry about being invaded by the dark sky.

Unfortunately, the entire Jade Forest was already pitch black, and nothing could be seen. (End of this chapter)