The Invincible Overlord of Heroes.

The cost of recruiting and upgrading soldiers will definitely be borne by Xu Lai.

However, the cost of recruiting soldiers and upgrading them was borne by other nobles personally.

But when Xu came here, he waved his hand and announced that he would directly bear the advancement costs for everyone.

After all, those who are capable of advancement, besides having excellent talents, must at least fight bravely and kill the enemies.

The more damage they cause to the black dragon, the more experience they will naturally get in the end, and they will have more opportunities to advance.

Xu Lai paid for their advancement expenses, which could be considered a reward.

However, even though he had to bear the responsibility, he didn't want to be taken advantage of.

Otherwise, if the warriors who advanced here ran away, he would suffer a great loss.

Therefore, although Xu Lai bore all the advancement costs, the service period of these conscripted soldiers must be extended.

If they refuse to sign or are unwilling to do so, then they will be responsible for their own advancement like other noble soldiers, and Xu Lai will not force them.

It is easy to form a conscripted legion, easier to use, can do more things, and has a higher combat power limit.

Moreover, if strict discipline can be maintained and rewards and punishments can be appropriate, it will be more reliable than recruiting troops.

At least when morale drops to zero, a conscripted army like this will still not retreat easily. If the treatment is good enough, it is not surprising that they will fight to the death.

The disadvantage is that the price is too expensive, but the assembly price is not expensive, and if Xu Lai is a little more ruthless, it can even be done for free.

However, the maintenance cost of a conscripted legion is too high, and its combat effectiveness is proportional to the investment. If you want its combat effectiveness to exceed that of a recruited legion, the investment may have to be more than ten times that of a recruited legion.

Accompanied by golden light, Xu Lai walked out of the city.

There were rows of dead bodies lying at the damaged gate outside the city. Xu Lai took a rough look and estimated that there were about a hundred people.

There were only their bodies on the ground, and their heads were all hanging on the city wall.

After the baptism of war, the city walls were severely damaged, the bricks were burned black by the dragon's flames, and there were huge rocks everywhere that were crushed by dragon claws.

Against this background, nearly a hundred human heads hung on it give it a sense of solemnity.

However, after killing nearly a hundred people, the morale of the troops did not decrease. Not only did it not decrease, but it actually improved slightly.

The victory speech that Xu Lai rewarded with a large sum of money restored a lot of morale, and the nearly one hundred heads successfully raised the morale of the Qingfeng Legion to over 90, making it high again.

When Reina stabbed someone, it was impossible for her not to make the crime clear.

Because these dozens of people disobeyed military orders and did not abide by military discipline, hundreds of people were killed. Even their former colleagues hated them to the core.

Beheading these people now can not only serve as a deterrent and make others warn, but also provide a way for the survivors to vent their emotions.

The morale of the troops has been restored to a high level. It is estimated that Reina only needs one or two days to adjust them, and their combat effectiveness will be greatly improved immediately.

After all, the gains from this battle were truly huge.

If we don't count the cavemen who were just there to explore the way, just counting the nearly 5000 level 8 dragons, it would be an extremely terrifying result.

There are 5000 level 8 dragons, a small half of which are wild dragons with more experience points. The experience gained from the death of each dragon can allow at least ten or more level 4 or 5 soldiers to advance.

This is not the key point. The key point is that the commander leading the team this time is of an unprecedentedly high level.

It was only after seeing the battle report that Xu Lai found out that Moril was actually a level 52 superhero.

You know, Xu Lai is only level 40 now, and he has defeated countless people in the past six months at this level, but he still doesn't know when he can be upgraded.

It is said that the total experience of each level after level 50 is not much different from the previous 40 levels, and will not be much less.

It's even more exaggerated after level 60, as each level is equivalent to the total experience of all previous levels. That is, to upgrade from level 60 to level 61, you need the total experience of levels 1-60.

When it reaches that level, it is no longer within the reach of human power. Even if Moril can transform into an immortal species like a dragon, she will probably never be able to reach this level in her lifetime.

The experience points gained from the death of a high-level hero are simply too great.

The protagonist of this war is not Xu Lai, but Reina, the legion commander.

She is the one who enjoys the most experience and can also share some of the profits from the soldiers.

As for Xu Lai, he could only enjoy the bonus brought by his own Paladin troops and the Angel troops.

However, Muriel's death was caused by Elvy, so Xu Lai gained less experience from other dragons, but he got a larger share of Muriel's experience.

As a killer, Elvy, who advanced to a general, had the highest level increase, which was increased by 3 levels from 49 to 52, and gained 3 more attributes.

These three attributes were all added by Elvy to strength, probably because the damage she had previously inflicted on Muriel was too severe.

As a general, Elvy's total experience value is much different from that of a hero.

Therefore, although Elvy improved by 3 levels, Xu Lai only improved by a little more than one and a half levels.

The previous 40% experience at level 40 has been increased to 41% at level 50, the strength attribute has increased by 1 point, and the intermediate earth element and advanced wisdom have been obtained.

Among the two specializations, Xu Lai chose advanced wisdom.

[Advanced Wisdom]: Allows the hero to directly copy and learn level 4 strategic spells, and activate the additional effect of Wisdom 2, Spirit +2.

Not only Xu Lai, but also Su Ya was promoted several levels because of this.

Su Ya’s level is relatively low, so she has improved a lot.

Lena gained the most experience, two levels more, plus more than 80% of the original experience, directly upgraded by 3 levels, reaching level 41, the same level as Xu Lai.

But Xu Lai is level 41, 55% more
Level 3 adds 3 attribute points, which are added to strength, agility and physique.

The three specializations brought by these three levels are added to archery, logistics and resistance respectively.

After the upgrade, Reina possesses ultimate archery, ultimate logistics, and master-level resistance.

Although the improved specializations are the same as Xu Lai's, this is also Xu Lai's requirement.

When the Qingfeng Legion was first established, Xu Lai hoped that the legion could go on an independent expedition, and there were not many opportunities for Xu Lai to form a legion himself.

Since he is going to go on an independent expedition, the more comprehensive the coach's expertise, the more at ease Xu Lai will be.

The increase in Reina's level also means that her defensive specialty will be more powerful. Increasing it by 3 levels will allow Reina's defense to increase the damage reduction by an additional 1.5%.

In other words, as long as there is physical damage, the soldiers led by Reina will automatically reduce the damage by 70.5%, which is a very scary number.

At this level, even if Xu Lai had artifacts such as the Angel Alliance, and both sides led exactly the same recruited soldiers, Xu Lai felt that he had little chance of winning. Of course, this was after the shielding spell. There were too many spells in this world that could determine the outcome of a war.

Upgrade what needs to be upgraded, and upgrade what needs to be upgraded.

It is not difficult to advance the recruited soldiers. Xu Lai only needs to prepare enough gold coins and rare resources. With just a thought, he can advance all the recruited soldiers.

The conscripted soldiers were a little more troublesome.

Besides, they don’t have enough time to advance now.

It is winter now, so things like dragon blood and dragon meat can be stored for a longer time.

Qingfeng City and Mingyue City don't have ice cellars yet, but Xu Lai has enough mages under his command to build an ice warehouse on the spot.

Su Ya returned to Qingfeng City first, mobilized the mages, and prepared the freezing spell.

Afterwards, the civilians in Qingfeng City were mobilized to go to Mingyue City, and they kept transporting materials from the black dragon back and forth.

The black dragons themselves are huge and there are many of them. The laborers organized by Su Ya come and go in waves.

In fact, if you use a supply truck, you only need to divide the dragon blood, dragon meat and other materials and put them into the supply truck.

But Xu Lai did not do so. Instead, he only put important materials such as dragon tendons, dragon scales and the black dragon's heart into the supply vehicle.

The rest of the dragon skin, dragon blood, dragon meat and so on were all placed on large carts.

Soldiers from the Qingfeng Corps, led by officers at all levels, escorted the transport convoy to Qingfeng City, and after crossing half of the city, delivered the goods to the warehouse.

The purpose of Xu Lai doing this, of course, is to attract attention and create topics and public opinion.

When the sun rose the next day, the merchants and caravans coming and going all saw large carts loaded with materials for the giant dragon.

A businessman with extensive social connections tried to stop one or two familiar officers and ask about the specific situation.

Xu Lai did not ask for confidentiality regarding yesterday's battle.

Apart from some military secrets that are not allowed to be disclosed, there is no need to conceal such a glorious victory, a battle that can greatly boost the morale and confidence of the people.

In fact, the Qingfeng Corps’ preparations for war some time ago had already attracted the attention of some interested parties.

When the Qingfeng Corps was stationed in Mingyue City, many people inquired about the whereabouts of the Qingfeng Corps.

The grassland has not been very stable recently. Xu Lai just fought a battle with Earl Aini. Now all major cities in the grassland are actively preparing for war and defense.

Many people believed that the disappearance of the Qingfeng Legion was due to Xu Lai, who took them to attack another city.

But many people also believe that the nobles formed an alliance to attack Qingfeng City, and Xu Lai led his troops to stop them.

In such a big city, not only the troops stationed here are gone, but the number of recruited soldiers who used to patrol here has also decreased a lot.

The guards in many places actually use mages to serve as guards. Even the city lord Su Ya is often not seen.

All this means that something big has happened in Qingfeng City recently.

Nowadays, there are many businessmen investing in Qingfeng City, and some have even bet all their fortunes on Qingfeng City.

If something unexpected happens, it would be okay to lose all your investment, but the worst thing is that you might even lose your life.

Therefore, during the week that Xu Lai was preparing for war in Mingyue City, Qingfeng City was not peaceful either.

Fortunately, the security team had a large increase in manpower, and after Xu Lai returned from Conaston Castle, he celebrated with the city.

Xu Lai also used his countless victories and miracles to build up strong confidence among his subjects, so there were no major incidents.

So, when these black dragon materials appeared, smart people had actually guessed what trouble Xu Lai was dealing with recently.

And looking at the endless stream of carriages and horses, some people have already made bold associations.

However, their wildest guess was that Muriel, the Dragon Queen, sent her men to attack Qingfeng City, but they were intercepted by Xu Lai.

Xu Lai's underground world has not been opened to the public. Even among the officials of Qingfeng City, only a few are qualified to enter, let alone businessmen.

However, the underground passage near Qingfeng City is not a secret.

No one knew where the Qingfeng Corps went, but many people saw them enter the underground passage.

However, the officers who originally thought it didn't matter, now let the familiar businessmen greet them in any way they wanted. They all turned a blind eye and stood obediently in their own queue.

However, the civilians mobilized by Su Ya, encouraged by the person in charge, discussed loudly what they saw underground along the way.

Everyone learned a few things from the mouths of these civilians.

First, Xu Lai has a huge city underground. This is not surprising. After all, his home is close to the underground passage, so he will never give up the development of the underground.

Second, the city is gradually showing traces of war, and almost no building in the city is intact.

The situation outside the city was even more exaggerated, with giant dragon corpses lying everywhere, and blood covering the entire underground world, spilling everywhere.

Third, everyone is busy cutting up the dragon's body. Because there are so many of them, they may have to make several trips.

From these casual conversations, although everyone still couldn't guess what had happened, they were certain that Xu Lai had a violent conflict with the underground city.

Not everyone knows about the dungeon, but anyone who knows about it should be able to guess how powerful the force is that can leave behind thousands of black dragon corpses.

You know, even before the imperial camp collapsed, there were only two angel legions in the entire empire.

The black dragon is an 8th-level dragon, which is completely equivalent to an archangel.

Moreover, the fact that they left behind corpses showed that these black dragons were all naturally born, equivalent to those high priests in the temple who were promoted to archangels on their own.

It is impossible for two such terrifying forces to exist in the dungeon, so the only thing we can conclude is that the one fighting Xu Lai is the Dragon Queen who rules the entire underground world.

Only with the Dragon Queen's unparalleled appeal could she recruit so many dragons.

But judging from the current situation, the Dragon Queen is still the loser.

However, the civilians did not see any other corpses in the underground world except the dragons and cavemen, and most of them had heard that Moril liked to lead the dragon army.

Therefore, although Xu Lai won the victory, some people were still worried.

You must know that the underground world has never been divided, and the Dragon Queen has been ruling the underground world because of her transformation into a dragon. The wealth she has accumulated is probably unimaginable.

Even if Xu Lai defeated the Black Dragon Legion in the Dragon Legion, the queen still had the Red Dragon Legion, the Poison Dragon Legion, the Minotaur Legion, the Manticore Legion, etc. (End of this chapter)