The Invincible Overlord of Heroes.

When the Elf Queen said the three words "High King", Xu Lai was not very excited.

After all, Xu Lai does not have a strong sense of belonging to this land.

If he was in his hometown, he might have been so excited that he couldn't breathe.

But in this world, he doesn't know many people, hasn't measured much territory, and not even many people know his name.

Everything was just the result of the times, not his own intention.

Of course, Xu Lai had nothing against becoming the Supreme King, but it just wasn't as exciting as he had imagined.

With the support of the Elf Queen and the Barrier Elders' Council, it was not difficult for Xu Lai to obtain the support he wanted.

The fortress will deploy 20 Centaur warriors and 20 Centaur archers.

In addition, the elves will provide an additional 5 ranger troops, 30 elven archers, and unicorn beasts to help Xu Lai fight.

The unicorn was not requested by Xu Lai, but was offered by the elves.

Each unicorn beast can provide a great anti-magic aura.

Coupled with the hero's resistance, even without anti-magic equipment such as the anti-magic cloak, the magic damage will be reduced countless times.

What's more, the unicorn does not need to carry the knight. When empty, the speed of a level 7 beast can be comparable to that of a level 8 warhorse, and it will not slow down the knight's speed at all.

The price Xu Lai needs to bear is that all the expenses of this army will be borne by Xu Lai, including military expenses and food supplies.

This was not too much of a burden for Xu Lai, as these troops were fighting on human territory after all.

Instead, Xu Lai needs to think carefully about what to do to provide support to the elves.

The main reason why the elves are willing to provide so many troops is because of insufficient resources.

The army is a big consumer of food. Once Xu Lai leaves, it will be difficult for the elves to support such a large army without the constant supply from the warehouse ring.

For ordinary civilians, as long as they don’t starve to death with one meal a day, they can survive this difficult period.

Even if the army doesn't need to train, one meal a day is not enough.

Although the Centaur has half the body of a horse, that is only the lower half. The upper half looks like a human. It is a true omnivore and does not like to eat grass.

If Xu Lai really couldn't accept the slow-moving troops, the elves would have wanted to send the dwarves to Xu Lai as well.

Centaurs can at least eat some grass, so even if the forest is severely polluted by the undead, there will be more than enough grass to eat.

The dwarves are a typical race that loves meat and wine. They cannot live without meat and wine.

It’s a pity that this thing moves too slowly. If he wants dwarves, Xu Lai might as well bring some tree people.

Since the elves are supporting Xu Lai with such a large army, Xu Lai must provide some extra support on top of the original support.

With this increase and decrease, the elves' pressure will be much less.

Of course, Xu Lai would not suffer any loss either. The Centaur archer was also a first-class archer, and the Centaur warrior was a natural cavalryman.

The reason why the undead army was able to advance steadily was because Xu Lai was reluctant to waste his precious knights in the endless sea of ​​skeletons.

Apart from their weak defense, the Centaur warriors are no weaker than human knights in terms of impact power.

It can even be said that human knights have to distract themselves from controlling their warhorses, as the centaurs themselves are the warhorses.

Since the elves and the barrier were so considerate of him, Xu Lai agreed. In addition to doubling the originally planned food, ammunition and other resources, he would also provide a large amount of wood, stone, iron ore and other resources.

The only resource that the barrier needs to prioritize right now is food. Without a large amount of food, the barrier simply cannot feed such a large population.

However, in addition to food, the elves have so many cities that need to be rebuilt, which also requires a large amount of wood and stone.

The undead have not been completely cleared out. If the battle continues, the consumption of weapons, shields, and ammunition will be astronomical, and a large amount of iron ore resources will also be required.

On the elves' side, even if there are enough resource producing areas, there are not enough people to collect them.

Although Xu Lai was under a lot of pressure, he already had a complete plan.

Since the elves provide such a huge number of soldiers, the pressure from the Skeleton King can basically be ignored.

Let Tahan lead the expanded knight corps, together with the support troops from the elves and Eric's vanguard.

With such a configuration, Xu Lai didn't even ask to destroy the undead troops, he just wanted to be able to hold on.

You don't have to hold on for too long, just wait until he returns with the main force.

When the elves made such a huge demand and handed him such a large army.

Xu Lai knew that continuing with the previous step-by-step stabilization policy was no longer feasible, and that he had to take a two-pronged approach.

There were wars everywhere in the entire empire, except for the Southern Empire, which was making a fortune from the war.

Especially the group of merchants in the Southern Empire, who relied on the convenience of sea transportation and gained countless profits from him.

Xu Lai has always been open to everyone and has almost never used administrative means to interfere with commercial trade.

Although this gave him enormous ability to allocate resources, it also caused him to lose incalculable resources.

Especially in recent times, we have to fight wars, provide relief to disaster victims, and help the elves.

Qingfeng City and the Eagle Kingdom are located in the grassland, which is not a grain-producing area.

Just from the cheapest food, I don’t know how much money those bastard merchants made.

Therefore, it is no wonder that the monarchs of ancient feudal dynasties never gave merchants too high a status.

This guy only cares about money and interests.

When Xu Lai first came to this world, it was already a time of war, but at that time, one gold coin could still buy a lot of food, including beef and mutton.

But now, it is a dream to buy a unit of the most common food with one gold coin, let alone beef or mutton.

Just thinking about it, Xu Lai gritted his teeth in hatred. In the richest south, one gold coin could buy thousands of units of this thing, or even more.

Therefore, Xu Lai decided to draw out 5 rangers from the elven army and have Cuisili continue to lead them.

Tracy and Giselle will bring Xu Lai's strongest long-range troops, follow Xu Lai and the naval forces, and rule all the waterways of the Southern Empire.

The Southern Empire has vast waters. Once the waterways are blocked, transportation will become extremely inconvenient and the operation of troops will also be seriously affected.

Moreover, during this period, the Southern Empire's troops were gathering in large numbers to deal with Xu Lai.

This means that once the waterway is blocked, the Southern Empire’s army will not be able to quickly return to their territory to provide support.

Therefore, Xu Lai’s plan was to have Lena go back and lead the complete Qingfeng Legion to defeat the Southern Empire head-on.

He led his army to blockade the waterways of the Southern Empire, and even relied on a large number of flying and angel troops to quickly occupy the coastal cities of the Southern Empire.

These cities are all cities with developed maritime transportation and are the most valuable cities in the entire Southern Empire.

However, taking these cities was almost not difficult at all, even easier than Xu Lai had imagined.

Because of the time constraints, Xu Lai didn't even go home. He just hurriedly visited Elena and her son, and then immediately took the teleportation array to Hantan City.

More than half a year has passed, and Hantan City has undergone tremendous changes compared to before. The city has become much larger, but most of the extra space is occupied by the port.

In the port, there are anchored a large number of warships built during this period.

Although Xu Lai had left behind a lot of archers in Hantan City, they were still far from enough.

Fortunately, Baron Rhine, who is in charge of the coastal defense force, is quite competent.

Although the fleet lacks shooters for main output, it has never slackened in the training of sailors.

Now that Xu Lai has returned with 5 rangers and several thousand phantom shooters, the entire fleet can be immediately expanded into a huge fleet of people.

These 5 are all high-level shooters. Including the sailors operating the ships, and 20 griffins, angels and other air forces, there are a total of people.

This fleet of 20 people might not be considered particularly large, especially when compared with the navy of the Southern Empire, which had well-developed shipping.

But the combat power of this 20-man fleet is not comparable to that of an ordinary naval fleet. The Qingfeng Army led by Reina headed straight for the Countess's territory.

The Countess had just assembled her army, so of course they couldn't just ignore her and had to go back to rescue her.

This most elite army was attracted by Lena, leaving Xu Lai's ground troops with almost no combat capability.

Following Xu Lai's orders, Cui Sili led a team of thousands of elite rangers to land first by small boat.

Xu Lai originally only expected them to obtain detailed strategic intelligence for him, but he did not expect that these thousands of rangers almost took down the nearby port city by themselves.

The local city defense forces have almost no combat capability.

After a wave of accurate arrows, the only recruited soldiers who could fight fell down, and the local city defense army collapsed almost instantly.

Even if there are heavily armored knights out, the ranger can rely on his agility to disappear in the streets at any time.

Finally, being forced into a corner, several port cities announced city lockdowns one after another.

However, it would be fine if they sealed it off for three or two days, but if it lasts for ten days or half a month, the merchants in the city will rebel.

Each of them has a large amount of supplies stockpiled. If the city is closed, all the business contracts they have signed will be at risk of default.

The noble lords who manage the city also own shares in the major chambers of commerce.

Therefore, under their collective pressure, the naval forces of the Southern Empire had to take the initiative to attack.

Xu Lai does possess terrifying long-range power, but he has no expertise in archery.

If the two sides shoot at each other, he won't gain much advantage.

Even if he could gain an advantage, as long as his own ships were destroyed, his troops would sink into the sea and lose their lives in vain.

Of course, when fighting at sea, Xu Lai would not fail to call upon his allies.

But even with the Naga escorting him on the seabed, he was unwilling to use this kind of attack method that would cause such great damage.

You know, except for a few types of soldiers such as Phantom Shooters and Battle Mages, the rest of the ranged troops will lose their ability to fight at a distance once they are approached.

However, Xu Lai has a strong air force.

After defeating Sandro, Xu Lai's horse did not retire, but was relegated to the second line.

Xu Lai’s mount now is the holy dragon Xiaolan that he raised himself.

With the blessing of the Dragon Queen, Xu Lai became the second dragon knight of the Eagle Empire.

Unlike Eric, Xu Lai's dragon knight is a level 10 holy dragon.

Of course, at this point, Xu Lai no longer needs to fight personally.

He only needs to fly in the sky and provide strong specialized support for his air force.

The Royal Griffins, led by the Seraphs, could easily tear apart the archers of the Southern Empire Navy fleet.

It doesn't matter if you are shot by concentrated fire occasionally, the Seraphim always have the resurrection spell ready and can be resurrected almost immediately.

Tens of thousands of griffins destroyed dozens of warships in succession, yet remained intact.

Even if there were a few who did not have time to resurrect and whose bodies fell into the sea, they would be quickly salvaged by the Nagas.

In this one-sided situation, it didn't take long for the seemingly huge Southern Empire Navy to collapse.

At this time, the Rhine Barons and the Lords of Avid in the rear led their fleets to attack.

The huge Southern Empire Navy could not last three days against Xu Lai.

Once the navy was destroyed, several port cities didn't even want to fight and simply raised the white flag in surrender.

The nobles in the city were tied up by the merchants overnight and sent to the city gate, waiting for Xu Lai's inspection.

However, Xu Lai did not let these merchants go. He killed all the nobles and merchants in these port cities on the pretext of rebelling against him.

Xu Lai and the nobles have always been at odds with each other. All the nobles on the grassland who did not submit to Xu Lai were hanged on the city wall.

Therefore, Xu Lai's action of cleaning up the nobles did not arouse the merchants' vigilance.

None of them expected that Xu Lai, who had always treated businessmen well, would turn around and put the butcher knife on their heads.

The merchants and nobles were cleared out together, and all the resources in the city naturally fell into Xu Lai's hands.

These merchants and nobles were all extremely wealthy. Xu Lai could just take out a little bit and purchase a large amount of food and supplies from the people.

Money circulated back into the market, and although prices were raised a little, life became a little better for ordinary people.

The purchased materials were then packed up and transported by Rhine himself to the nearest barrier city by sea.

The elves reaped the benefits and fought even harder for Xu Lai.

The fate of the merchants and nobles in these port cities frightened many people.

So even before the Eagle Kingdom's army arrived, it only took one flag bearer to carry the Eagle Kingdom's flag, and immediately all the merchants and nobles in the city fled or surrendered.

Those who ran slowly were afraid of becoming the victims of Xu Lai's knife.

Those who were reluctant to give up the Chamber of Commerce's assets did not dare to resist at all, for fear that Xu Lai would confiscate their property and exterminate their entire clan in the same name.

Only the nobles, knowing that they would not have a good ending if they fell into Xu Lai's hands, began to work hard to become stronger.

They hired a large number of generals and heroes to try to fight against Xu Lai.

However, Xu Lai didn't need to do anything himself, and even Gisele, Trisley and the others just needed to watch.

The guards and mercenaries hired by the merchants themselves can help Xu Lai handle everything.

Simply killing people will not completely solve the problem.

Xu Lai wanted to discipline the merchants, but even if he killed them all, another group would emerge.

Therefore, to regulate businessmen, we have to start with the system, but that is another story.

There was almost no decent resistance on the Southern Empire side, and Xu Lai easily recaptured the entire Southern Empire.

After regaining the Southern Empire, Xu Lai left Avid to handle government affairs and left Cuisli in charge of military affairs.

He continued to lead his troops northward, met up with Yan Feng, Tahan and the elven troops, destroyed the Undead Legion and advanced eastward.

The Northern Empire took a deep breath and, before the fall of the Eastern Empire, took the initiative to send a letter of surrender, expressing its willingness to worship Xu Lai as the Supreme King.

At this point, the once-powerful Lion Empire collapsed and the new Eagle Kingdom rose.

When Xu Lai succeeded to the throne of the High King and blocked the undead from entering the Cursed Land, he gained recognition from the Elf Queen and the Tower Council.

The entire world, including hell, dungeons, and the world of the dead, all the heroes who descended have lost their special abilities.

Of course, their levels and troops will still be retained, including their basic abilities such as riding skills.

However, the specialized part was directly wiped out by some kind of law power.

Only some heroes who have gained corresponding identities in this indigenous world are able to retain their abilities.

For example, Fang Chao, after being conferred the title of Viscount, still retained his expertise.

But even so, Xu Lai still has a lot to do.

For example, you need to help the tower and find a way to drive all the demons back to hell.

In addition, the system of the Eagle Empire also needed to be reformed. He gave the source of life to himself, his wives, and his beloved son.

It is foreseeable that they still have a long way to go in the future.

The wives are charming and obedient, and are willing to do anything at any time and in any posture.

Of course, a good environment is necessary to enjoy such a good day. (End of this chapter)