The Invincible Overlord of Heroes.

There was a constant stream of golden light outside, but the atmosphere inside the big tent became increasingly silent as the meal went on.

After finally biting off another piece of dragon steak, Xu Lai sighed:

"Tell the logistics staff to replace half of the dry rations with dragon steaks. One piece of this stuff can last at least a day, and it can also save a lot of space."

Reina opened her mouth and said: “Although dragon meat contains powerful energy, it can effectively improve qualifications and treat hidden diseases.

But after all, this thing is most effective the first time, and the higher the level, the worse the effect.

We ate it and didn’t feel anything at all.”

To become an officer, one must have something.

Even if we don't count heroes and generals like Wang Chao and Xiangfang, there are about 2 to 30 other officers in the big tent, but none of them can break through their qualifications.

Xu Lai smiled and said, "It doesn't matter. We don't rely on selling this little dragon meat to make money anyway. The high-level warriors we train ourselves will definitely be more useful.

Besides, you are going to fight in a dungeon, there are still many black dragons that have escaped, and you may also encounter red dragons and poisonous dragons, so don't be reluctant to give up this little dragon meat."

Anyway, it’s not her thing and it’s beneficial to her troops, so Reina has no reluctance to give it up.

But Xu Lai was so good to her that he not only gave her artifact-level equipment and treasures, but also helped her build an elf city.

It was impossible for Lena not to be moved. She felt that she should explain the pros and cons to Xu clearly, both emotionally and logically.

Xu Lai finally ended today's Black Dragon Banquet with tea instead of wine.

The remaining wounded members of the Qingfeng Corps need to be healed, and those who are qualified for advancement must sign a new agreement tomorrow to extend their military service. The Logistics Corps needs to prepare food and supplies.

Therefore, the Qingfeng Legion will have to wait until the day after tomorrow to set out at the earliest.

As for Xu Lai, he would rest in the castle tonight. He would pack up early tomorrow morning and take Jian Yuan, Elvy, Roland and others with him to the Northern Empire.

Xu Lai found the burial place of the Hand of the God of War, but unfortunately, the underground passage closest to the burial place was located in the Western Empire.

That place is now Kerrigan's territory. If Xu Lai brings too few people, there might be some accidents.

If they brought too many people and their target was too obvious, they would not be able to hide from Kerrigan's eyes and ears.

After thinking it over, Xu Lai still felt that it was not worth taking the risk to go to Kerrigan's territory, and Xu Lai also wanted to open up connections between more cities and Qingfeng City.

Therefore, the Northern Empire still needs to be traveled, and the more cities you travel to before the auction begins, the better.

The auction house has not been built yet, so the auction is still in the publicity stage.

With so many additional dragon materials this time, Xu Lai simply scheduled the auction for a month later, which is January 1th next year.

January 1st is the beginning of the new year and is also one of the most important holidays in the world. From January 1st to January 1th, theoretically, there are only two official holidays in the whole year.

Xu Lai set the date on January 1th, which could both avoid the chaos caused by wild monsters dropping from the sky at the beginning of the month and ensure that most merchants who wanted to participate would have this time.

He set a time limit for this trip, and he must return before the end of this month.

After digging out the hand of the god of war and forming the golden statue of the god of war, the existing attributes will inevitably increase greatly.

After obtaining the Queen's Scepter, Su Ya has already designated Qingfeng City. If she can obtain the bonus of the Golden Statue of the God of War before the end of the month, the basic growth rate will be even greater.

Nothing happened that night. Xu Lai, who had not had a good rest for almost two consecutive days, had a rare good sleep.

The next morning, after leaving the two space rings to Su Ya, Xu Lai took his troops and the space magician who had not yet left Qingfeng City, and returned to Conaston via the teleportation array.

Xu Lai had not been away from this city for too long. He had passed by here when he went to the imperial capital before.

However, over this week, this first city on the grassland has been reborn.

The city wall was not easy to build, but it was very quick to tear down.

The city walls of Qingfeng City have been expanded for several months, and those who have been sent out to expand the city are all recruited farmers, who will not be lazy at all.

But even so, only one side of Qingfeng City's wall met Xu Lai's standards, and the other three sides were still under construction.

Previously, the progress was delayed by the lack of materials. No matter how amazing the efficiency is, there must be enough ore to support it.

With one order from Xu Lai, most of the inventory in Miner's Town and even Qingfeng City was directly transferred to Mingyue City.

But after Conaston's transport team crossed thousands of miles of grassland and arrived in Qingfeng City with untold hardships, the material problem was solved.

Besides, Xu Lai also left Moriel's two space rings to Su Ya.

They were worried about where to move the things in the other-dimensional warehouse ring, so they simply piled the ores, wood and other things in it directly on the construction site.

The ring of the warehouse in another dimension is like Xu Lai’s space backpack to Moriel. In addition to important items, it also stores all the supplies she needs for eating, drinking, defecating and urinating.

Wood and ore are often needed, so Moriel has reserves, but the reserves are not much, probably only tens of thousands of units of each.

These tens of thousands of units of wood ore are enough for Moriel to temporarily build a small city when needed.

In the warehouse, there are even dozens of dungeon hearts.

Xu Lai couldn't use these things directly, but fortunately he remembered that the temple had helped him deal with the Heart of the Stronghold he had obtained before.

After asking Elena, I found out that there is indeed such a purification spell, but it requires a formal priest to cast it.

Formal priests can purify villages and towns, priests can purify fortresses, bishops correspond to base camps, and archbishops can purify castles.

There is no so-called main city in the empire's cities, so the highest level is only castle.

Above the castle level, there is only the imperial capital level after being promoted to the parliament, and this level cannot be reached by simply using the castle heart.

For example, in a dungeon, there will be a main city-level city and a main city-level dungeon heart, which requires the Crimson Bishop to preside over the purification ceremony.

Those dozens of dungeon hearts of various levels have all been handed over to Elena by Xu Lai.

Elena said that she would send all the priests she brought to the temple after arranging them to settle in Qingfeng, Conaston and the city of Martell which was affiliated with Xu Lai.

Logically speaking, the temple should be paid for helping with purification.

However, Xu Lai could hide it from others, but there was no need to do so from the temple. He could simply use the temple's bounty on Muriel as a reward.

The Queen of Dungeons, the Dragon Queen Muriel, is a super target ranked fourth on the Temple Bounty List, with a total value of 350 million merits.

The great lord of the abyss, the great devil Kerrigan, is only worth 600 million.

Speaking of which, once Xu Lai collects this bounty, let alone helping him purify some dungeon hearts, even if all the maps and information he had obtained before were taken into account, it might not be enough to deduct.

It can only be said that most of the information in the temple is top secret and cannot be bought with money or merit. When Xu came here, he did not notify anyone, so except for the officials and guards in charge of the teleportation array who saluted him, no one else came to greet him.

Xu Lai didn't bring many people with him. There were Elvy, more than 30 Seraphim, a dozen Holy Light Knights led by Roland, Jian Yuan and Xu Lai, a total of 50 people.

50 people, not too many, not too few, not too conspicuous, and if disguised as a caravan, it won’t attract too much attention.

The team of more than 50 people does not seem to have much cargo. If they were walking in the wild, ordinary bandits would not likely touch them.

If he is really unlucky and runs into a large group of wild monsters or is targeted by someone, Xu Lai really won't take a team of thousands of people seriously.

Xu Lai promised to give the space magician a whole black dragon skin.

You know, the black dragon skin is strong enough. It not only has high defense but can also resist many spells. It is a treasure that many mages dream of.

Even if a whole piece of black dragon skin is damaged or torn when cut, it will only cost one-third at most to make a complete set of black dragon leather armor, black dragon leather boots, black dragon leather gloves and a leather hat.

With such a huge price, it would naturally be easy for Xu Lai to ask someone to do something.

In the next month, the mage, together with his beloved disciples, will connect all the cities connected to Conaston with Qingfeng City.

Of course, Conaston is connected to many cities, but some cities have permanently closed the channels connecting to Conaston, such as the Western Empire.

Therefore, the KPI set by Xu Lai only included the number of connections, and the specific cities were left to the magician to decide on his own.

If he worked harder, he could transfer through multiple cities and even connect the cities with towers and barriers to Qingfeng City.

However, opening up teleportation arrays to each other not only requires space mages to provide space beacons for the teleportation arrays, but also involves the diplomatic level.

Just like on Earth, countries send diplomatic ambassadors to each other. If the lords of connected cities are unwilling to connect, no one can do anything.

Given Xu Lai's relationship with the imperial nobles, if he didn't show up, the probability of mutual connection would be even greater.

After briefly asking the officer guarding the teleportation array, Xu Lai had no intention of meeting Jimmy, Lin Qiu and the others.

He didn't even go to see his castle in Conaston.

After asking clearly, he found out that Jimmy was already reorganizing the troops and the new legion had been completed. They would soon set out to sweep the grassland according to Xu Lai's wishes. He then waited at the teleportation array with peace of mind.

Using the temple's channels, Xu Lai has already communicated with two cities that need transit.

However, although the owners of these two cities agreed to the teleportation, it took a long time for the teleportation request to be accepted.

A white light flashed, and Xu Lai, who had been waiting for more than an hour, finally arrived at Orlando, a large city in the Northern Empire.

Orlando is located on the edge of the Northern Empire, not far from the grassland, with only a dozen small and medium-sized cities separating them.

Because it is close to the grassland, it is relatively convenient to buy horses in Orlando.

Therefore, most of the high-ranking cavalry of the Northern Empire came from Orlando, which is also one of the most important cities in the Northern Empire.

According to the information provided by the temple, the Lord of Orlando and Aini should be in an alliance.

It was precisely because of this alliance that the lord of Orlando was able to obtain a large number of war horses at a low price and was qualified to form his own cavalry corps.

However, when the grassland needed reinforcements, this ally refused to help, citing the demon invasion as an excuse.

When Aini was attacked by Xu Lai, he did not refuse, but the fall of Conaston Castle was so fast that there was no time to ask Aini for help.

In short, because of Aini, this city does not seem friendly to Xu Lai.

Even though the temple had already smoothed over the relationship and didn't even reveal Xu Lai's identity, it still put the teleportation request from Conaston Castle on hold for more than an hour.

After coming out of the teleportation array, Xu Lai immediately found the teleportation officer and said that he wanted to go to another small town at the base level in the Northern Empire.

This is a small city, and the teleportation array is only open to a few important cities.

The teleportation array of Emerald City was destroyed in the war, and Marquis Anderson of Avic happened to be the mortal enemy of the lord of this small city.

It is understandable that this small city cannot develop because it has a bad relationship with Avik, the largest economic city in the north.

The only way for Xu Lai to reach this small town quickly is to transfer through Orlando.

In order to keep a low profile when going out, Xu Lai deliberately disguised himself, and all the knights and angels put on a thick cloak.

However, dozens of tall and strong knights, with their heights and bodies far exceeding those of ordinary people, could be seen as extraordinary Seraphim even with their wings covered. It was obvious that they were not ordinary people.

But the official in charge of the transmission said arrogantly:

"Go pay first, then line up and wait."

It's okay to pay first, but waiting in line, Xu Lai looked at the empty teleportation array and couldn't help frowning:
"Except for the mage who presides over the teleportation array, there is no one else here. How can I queue up?"

The transport officer said impatiently: "That's not something you need to worry about. Many people have already submitted their transport applications, and they will be here one after another.

Since you are just applying now, of course you will be ranked behind these applications.

I will send someone to notify you when it is your turn."

What Xu Lai cares most about on this trip is time.

The reason why he dressed so low-key was to avoid trouble and to achieve his goal quickly.

So, he suppressed his anger and said, "Hello, they are not here now after all. Can you be flexible and invite the brothers to have some tea?"

As he spoke, Xu Lai took out the purse he had prepared in advance from his space backpack.

These money bags are prepared to deal with various emergencies, such as robbery. If you are afraid of trouble, you might as well just throw a bag of money, which may be faster.

The transporter casually weighed the purse in his hand. His experience told him that this amount of money was definitely not a small sum.

But remembering the lord's instructions, he didn't dare to let him go.

After carefully putting away the money bag, the teleportation officer coughed and said, "Okay, okay, since this batch of teleporters hasn't arrived yet, you can just jump the queue.

However, the teleportation array in Orlando is a military facility. Although the temple has informed you and asked the lord to approve your use of it.

But our lord has also specifically instructed me to ask you clearly about your itinerary and purpose. If it conflicts with Orlando’s interests, I cannot let you go at will.”

Xu Lai frowned again.

"We are just transiting in Orlando. Our destination is thousands of kilometers away from Orlando. It shouldn't affect Orlando in any way."

The transport officer shrugged and said, "That can't be helped. The Lord himself said he came from Conaston. We must find out everything." (End of this chapter)