The Invincible Overlord of Heroes.

Xu Lai has always disliked the saying that with greater ability comes greater responsibility.

But he must accept that the greater the favor, the greater the pressure.

The God of War, intentionally or unintentionally, provided him with so much help that he simply could not refuse the extremely unreasonable request of the temple.

The temple only gave him the last half a year, but required him to stand up against the great devil Kerrigan by then.

In this land, there is obviously no shortage of powerful families that have enjoyed blessings for thousands of years, and there is also no shortage of countless heroes who have come, but Xu Lai is the only one who is allowed to take on the most dangerous task.

But there's nothing you can do about it. He's soft-spoken when he eats people, but he's short-handed when he takes advantage of others.

Not only did they not punish Elena, they also prepared a promotion ceremony for her, and even sent some more powerful subordinates to her.

Even if Xu Lai can be thick-skinned, the key is that Kerrigan will not let him go at all.

Therefore, Xu Lai had no choice at all.

The time spent in the temple was much longer than Xu Lai expected.

It was not until evening that Xu Lai was able to leave, but he could not take Elena away yet.

Elena's promotion ceremony has been finalized and will be presided over by Crimson Bishop Neil himself.

The priest who accompanied her to the grassland also allowed her to choose.

In addition to priests and priests, Elena would let her take away all the things that she liked as long as they were not too excessive.

For example, the detailed maps collected by the temple over the years include not only the underground cities that Xu Lai is concerned about, but also the Southern Empire, Eastern Empire, Western Empire, grassland areas, etc.

Xu Lai, who was born in the information age, has always valued these the most. He believes that information is the key factor in victory in war.

These maps can do more than just keep people from getting lost.

Many of the outdoor buildings marked on it have very important functions.

Not to mention anything else, with Xu Lai's current level of 40, he personally commanded the annihilation of mercenaries, thieves guilds, powerful guards, city defense troops, tens of thousands of professionals with much more experience than recruiting soldiers.

However, the experience bar moved very little, and it would take dozens or even hundreds of such battles to continue to level up.

What kind of concept is this? It's equivalent to asking him to kill another million people to level up.

This is not just a million soldiers recruited, but a million professionals. He estimates that if he slaughters all the large cities in the world, he may not even reach level 50.

But Xu Lai just looked at a few maps in the temple and already had ideas for upgrading in his mind.

If everything goes well, he may not only be able to reach level 50, but he may also be able to reach level 60.

There are seven or eight ancient trees of wisdom marked in detail on the big maps alone.

These ancient trees of wisdom all have the ability to be upgraded. Even if you visit them all once at the maximum cost, it will only consume 80 units of gems at most.

Is this still a big deal for Xu Lai now?

The only troublesome thing is that these ancient trees of wisdom all have owners. Even if the temple can say hello to Xu Lai in advance, they may not be willing to let him visit.

The good news is that during the current war, it is impossible to determine how many of these original owners are still alive. Even if they are still alive, Xu Lai is sure that he can take advantage of the chaos to visit.

In addition to the Ancient Tree of Wisdom, there are many other buildings that can be upgraded, such as the Seven Dragons Temple that Xu Lai had heard about in the Northern Empire.

With the relationship with the temple, Xu Lai can be sure that he can guarantee an upgrade if he goes to this place.

Therefore, if everything goes well, Xu Lai can at least be promoted to more than ten levels. Even if everything goes wrong, it will not be a problem to be promoted to level 4, 5, or 6.

It's just more troublesome. Whether it's the Ancient Tree of Wisdom or the Temple of the Seven Dragons, there is only one building that allows people to directly upgrade in an area.

Xu Lai wanted to visit all these dozen places. Not only would he travel across the entire empire, he would also need to go to the primeval forest where the barrier camp was located.

It was okay before, most cities had teleportation arrays.

But after the empire fell apart, the teleportation arrays in many cities were closed. Currently, only the teleportation array in the Imperial Capital Lion Heart City has the most connected cities.

Even so, these outdoor buildings are not in the city, and it takes a lot of time to get back and forth.

Xu Lai estimated that even if he traveled to several cities supported by teleportation arrays, it would take about a week to complete.

In addition to these upgradable buildings, there are also some attribute buildings that Xu Lai has never visited.

If there is enough time, Xu Lai can visit them all and try to increase his own strength.

In addition to outdoor buildings, the map also allows Xu Lai to understand the resource situation, terrain trends, natural checkpoints, etc. at each location.

The sincerity shown by the temple this time is really sufficient, and even various rare resources are willing to be handed over directly to Elena.

However, under Xu Lai's instruction, Elena did not take away these resources, but only asked Neil to produce the highest-level token of the temple.

Xu Lai is not short of resources now, but the temple may be in short supply.

First, the war has continued to this day, and many priests, priests, and paladins have been damaged in the temple.

Although the temple is bathed in divine grace, if it wants to replenish it quickly, various rituals are indispensable, and the consumption of ritual spells is more exaggerated than any spell.

For example, the advancement ceremony allows priests to be promoted if the experience conditions are not met.

Of course, this kind of promotion is equivalent to overthrowing the talent. Depending on the amount of ritual resources, some basic magic can be obtained after promotion.

Most of the high-level sacred spells can only be used through acquired learning and mastering.

Another example is the resurrection ceremony. Simply relying on the resurrection ability of the Crimson Bishop or Archangel or Seraph, the total amount of resurrection will never be too high.

But if a crimson bishop presides over a resurrection ceremony, the total amount of resurrection can be increased based on rare resources such as crystals and gems.

Ritual magic is a special form of magic that only high-level wizards and priests can master.

The magic circles of mages, the summoning of demons by warlocks, and the resurrection of the dead by necromancers are all ritual magic, and they are also special spells that the recruited soldiers can never master.

In short, the temple's consumption of various rare resources was much greater than Xu Lai imagined.

Even gold coins and the like are consumed in large quantities due to the constant purchase of rare resources.

Even if all the remaining items in the temple were moved to Xu Lai's place, they wouldn't be of much use.

Not to mention the ineffectiveness, Xu Lai was afraid that in the end he would be accused of looting the temple.

Anyway, judging from the current situation, his reserve resources should be surplus.

Even if there is a little vacancy, he still has to continue attacking those grassland nobles and plundering.

These guys have ruled the grassland for so long. No matter how squandering they are, they still have some wealth.

Even if there is really nothing left, the land can still be sold for money, and there will definitely be businessmen who want it. Xu Lai controls the exchange. As long as he has enough gold coins, he can just buy resources at a premium and not be unable to buy them.

But now that the Western Empire has been destroyed, not to mention the entire territory, most of the area should have been occupied by demons.

Moreover, more than one person told Xu Lai that there have been few caravans coming from the west recently, but there are a lot of refugees.

This is not very good news for Xu Lai.

Fortunately, due to recent transactions with Naga, some caravans from the Southern Empire also found their way to Qingfeng City after landing on Naga's territory via sea route.

In the grassland, the cultivated area and population are too small.

Even if Xu Lai captured all the cities, he wouldn't be able to recruit many troops in a year, and he couldn't afford to consume them.

The temple is now willing to fully invest in Xu Lai, but Xu Lai no longer needs their investment.

In short, Elena will have to wait a few days if she wants to come back, but when she comes back, she should give Xu Lai a surprise.

After leaving Lion Heart City, Xu Lai not only opened the transmission channel from Qingfeng City to Lion Heart City, but also obtained the 3 archangels from Lion Heart City for nothing in the past three months.

It's not in vain, he didn't ask for the resources of the temple, he just asked for the quota. He used his own resources to recruit these 15 archangels.

With the addition of these 15 archangels, there will no longer be ordinary little angels under Elvy's command. The lowest level is 8th-level archangels, and the number has also increased to 90.

After returning to Qingfeng City, Xu Lai also received good news again.

After three days of training, Elvi finally qualified two archangels for promotion today.

However, in the underground city, the cavemen's advance was also quite rapid.

The time did not reach the fastest speed that everyone estimated, but the difference was only as if it was delayed for a day or two at most, and Mingyue City would definitely be discovered.

In other words, they still have about 5 days, and both training and preparations are coming to an end.

Lei Na and Xu Lai reported a new idea, that is, not waiting for the cave people to discover them, but taking the initiative to attack Mingyue City before the cave people have discovered it.

What Rena meant was to set up ambushes at various forks in the cavemen's search and kill them completely.

In this way, cavemen who cannot deliver the news will continue to fall into it.

The IQ of cavemen is not very high. Regardless of whether they are recruited or not, they can basically be treated as the same kind of creatures.

By doing this, you can gain experience and train your troops, especially the new recruits of the Qingfeng Legion.

Secondly, it can also convey wrong information to the enemy, and prevent the enemy from knowing the reality of Mingyue City and unable to obtain more information.

Xu Lai believes that this is a good proposal, but it comes with certain risks.

They didn't know the distribution of the army in the underground city. If they set up an ambush inside the fork in the road, they would easily be blocked in the fork in the road, and they would not be able to prevent the people behind them from escaping.

Anyway, Xu Lai still had the investigative eyes of the labyrinth and other places, so he proposed to simply throw the Qingfeng Legion into the main passage and train their troops in turns.

Reina was a confused caveman who wanted to create a confusing formation to delay more time, but Xu Lai just wanted to train his troops.

Moriel is like a time bomb that could explode at any time.

However, the temple only gave him half a year. During this half year, Xu Lai set himself the goal of occupying the entire grassland and taking time to visit those ancient trees of wisdom.

Therefore, his time was very precious, and he did not want to be delayed by Moriel all the time.

Since Moriel was going to step on this landmine sooner or later, it would be better to step on it as soon as possible so that he could free up his hands to do other things.

After all, what is supposed to come will always come.

Xu Lai did not make detailed arrangements for the military training, leaving all the authority to Reina.

Reina personally led the new "recruits" into the battlefield.

Their main task is to protect themselves with shields and maintain a stable formation.

The caveman has almost no output ability, and with Rena's defensive skills, there is basically no danger in such an action.

What Reina needs these people to do is to cooperate with her teammates, trust her teammates, and execute orders.

The real output was all handed over to Giselle and the third, fourth, and even fifth batch of shooters she led.

The level of the cavemen is low, and the experience value is naturally not high, but there is also an advantage, that is, there are an unusually large number of them.

All shooters almost don't need to aim, not even magic lamps.

They only need to calculate the distance, obey the commander's command, and keep shooting arrows near the infantry.

Then he kept shooting, shooting, shooting. After shooting the two bags of arrows on his body, he replaced the ammunition from the ammunition supply truck.

If all the stamina is exhausted, just replace them with the next group of people.

The same goes for the infantry. Rena assessed that they could strictly execute various military orders in a real and noisy battlefield environment, and then changed positions with the infantry behind them.

Just like this training from day to night, I don't know how many cavemen died. Anyway, if there was a blockage, they would move the bodies away themselves.

If the killing was too harsh and there was no room for the cave people to work, Reina would take the initiative to retreat a little.

Once such actual combat begins, it also means that Xu Lai and his Mingyue City will be exposed soon.

At this time, he really had no intention of doing anything else. After handing Qingfeng City full power to Su Ya again, he, Yu Lan, Dill and others took turns squatting in the monitoring room.

The black dragon's flying speed is extremely fast, and with Moriel's bonus, if she doesn't pay attention at all times, Reina may not even have a chance to retreat.

Xu Lai couldn't accept fighting in the field, because he would definitely not be his opponent, and he couldn't accept that his general was killed outside the city.

Therefore, Xu Lai also subconsciously asked them to keep retreating, not only to give the cavemen more space, but also to keep them moving closer to a safe place.

How could the large-scale deaths of cavemen not arouse the commander's vigilance?

Xu came to seek benevolence and finally saw countless giant dragons pouring out of the maze three days later.

Among these black dragons, there was an unusually large dragon that caught Xu Lai's attention.

This guy has a longer beard than ordinary giant dragons, his horns are golden, his body is black, and his claws are green with strong poison.

Compared with other giant dragons, this giant dragon also has a membrane made of skin, like duck claws and goose claws.

The difference is that this layer of duck web-like thing is not on the dragon's feet, but on both sides of the dragon.

"This one should be Moriel's dragon form." (End of Chapter)