The Invincible Overlord of Heroes.

"We are from the Evernight Mercenary Group. We have accepted a mission to explore the underground and plan to try our luck in the Glimmering Canyon."

With the map in Xu Lai's hand, he was not afraid of others knowing that he was going to the dungeon.

The underground world is different from the surface. Xu Lai has explored it personally and knows how complicated the terrain is. Coupled with the dim visibility, Xu Lai not only has a map but also needs to bring a professional person with him.

Even if others wanted to follow him, as long as they went down the underground passage, there would be no way they could find him.

"What mission?"

The transporter glanced at Xu Lai and continued to ask, as if he would not give up until he got to the bottom of it.

Xu Lai handed over another purse as if nothing had happened, and whispered, "Collection mission. I don't know what's wrong with this employer. He just likes to collect some weird things.

I've been interested in items from dungeons lately, and I found information that there's an underground passage in the Glimmer Canyon that leads underground."

The transport officer weighed his purse, looked around and said:
"Okay, okay, since you guys are so sensible, when will you come back? I'll help you fill out the return application first, so you don't have to queue up next time."

Xu Lai smiled and said, "We appreciate your kindness, sir, but we really can't confirm your return date.

You should also know that this kind of exploration mission is full of uncertainties. If you are lucky, it may take a week or two, but if you are unlucky, it may take a year or two, or you may not even be able to come back."

"Haha, that's not the case. I have heard of the name of your Evernight Guild. The men you have are elite at first glance."

Having said that, for the sake of the two bags of gold coins, the teleportation officer did not make things difficult for Xu Lai. He allowed them to pay the money and teleported away with the team of more than 50 people.

"Sir, they are not mercenaries at all. Even soldiers are not so obedient to such strict discipline. Could they be mercenaries?"

As soon as Xu Lai and others left, the other officers guarding the teleportation array reported the suspicious points to the teleportation officer.

The transport officer snorted coldly and said, "Nonsense, you've seen it all, how could I not see it.

And let me tell you, none of these guys are easy to mess with.

In broad daylight, if a normal person were to use such a large cloak to cover his entire body, would he need to do so?
Look how tall their knights are. Even if you stand up straight you can't reach their horse's backs. Even our lord's warhorse can't catch up with this group of people. Do you want me to stop them?
If you really try to stop these guys, I don't believe they will poke a few holes in our bodies. They have no sense of propriety at all!"

The officer was scolded so much that he was speechless and could only apologize continuously.

However, the teleportation officer waved his hand and said, "It's useless to say this now. There are more than a hundred people here, including the teleporter.

There are too many people and too many eyes. We let such an obvious target go. When the lord finds out, we will all be in trouble.

Wait a few minutes, take a few people with you, disguise yourself and follow them.

I immediately went to report to the lord and told him that we were playing the long game to catch a big fish.

If we can get something unexpected this time, we brothers won’t have to guard the gate here anymore.”

Of course, the officer did not say a word. He immediately took a dozen people with him, took off their armor, put on only casual clothes, and asked the teleporter to send them to the same destination as Xu Lai.

After seeing the officer leading his men away, the transport officer snorted coldly and said:

"The Eternal Night Mercenary Group, huh, what a bunch of mercenaries, no matter how much money they pay, they can't even get the masters of the temple to greet them, okay?"

Xu Lai didn't know that he was being targeted, but no one bothered him in the small town he was teleported to.

In addition, the demons in the Northern Empire have basically been cleared out, so no city has been closed.

Xu Lai found a grocery store and bought a detailed local map. He also bought some clean water, fresh food, and lighting supplies, then he left the city and headed straight for the Glimmering Canyon.

The underground passage of the Glimmering Canyon has always been there, but this small city was built later.

Most of the people who come to this small city are mercenaries and expedition teams who are going to explore underground. Therefore, the city is well prepared with various supplies for underground exploration.

Because the city is not big, the owner of the city does not have enough power to occupy this underground entrance.

Mercenary guilds, adventure guilds, even underground slave guilds and black market merchants are not something a small noble can fight against.

Therefore, the underground passage of the Glimmer Canyon became one of the few public passages in the entire empire.

This undoubtedly brought a lot of trouble to Xu Lai and his team.

Their outfits were not meant to attract attention, but because they were too neat and there were too many of them, they became particularly eye-catching.

The good news is that, after all, there is a cloak to block it, so although it attracts attention, others do not know the identity and strength of this team and dare not provoke them easily.

The bad news is the same. Since they did not show their strength, many people thought they could take advantage of them and they all followed Xu Lai and his group quietly.

Roland frowned and couldn't help but said to Xu Lai: "Sir, do you want me to take people to kill them?"

As Xu Lai's bodyguard, Roland simply could not accept the sight of so many people following him.

"Calm down, Roland. You don't look like a Holy Light Knight."

Roland said helplessly: "It is precisely because I am a Holy Light Knight that I must bravely draw my sword against these villains!"

Xu Lai shrugged his shoulders and said helplessly: "Let them follow if they want to. If someone really wants to die, we will wait until we go underground."

Going underground doesn't mean that everything will be fine, but the underground does not belong to the empire's sphere of influence, and there will be fewer restrictions on heroes.

The nobles can manipulate legislation and legal situations to justify killing people.

Ordinary people don't care at all, or rather, the rules have almost no constraints on ordinary people.

Only the group of heroes is a very special existence.

On the one hand, the laws of the world favor heroes, but on the other hand, the laws of the world also impose great restrictions on heroes.

It’s not that heroes can’t kill people. Xu Lai has killed quite a few people, but he will be punished even if he kills a hero from the enemy camp.

Killing your own people, especially those in your own camp, if it is not for a proper reason such as self-defense, will at best cause you to lose the favor of your own people, and at worst, you will lose the favor of the entire empire or even the human camp.

Of course, the lower the status of the person killed, the smaller the impact.

Before in Conaston, he only locked up those who offended his hero, but he could fully afford the consequences of killing these ordinary people.

But relatively speaking, the underground is a closed environment. If Xu Lai really did something bad, the impact would be much smaller, and it would manifest itself in a smaller loss in reputation.

The impact on the surrounding area is almost zero, because there is no imperial power around, and it will not affect the relationship between Xu Lai and the residents of the small town. Besides, Xu Lai, who has been to the underground, knows very well that when he gets there, he doesn't really need to do it himself if he wants to kill someone.

The Glimmer Canyon gets its name from the many fluorescent mushrooms that glow at night.

Xu Lai was very familiar with this kind of mushroom. It was a specialty of the underground city. It grew very well in the dark, but could not withstand strong light.

The canyon environment of the Glimmer Canyon blocks the intense sunlight for these mushrooms, allowing them to survive in the canyon but preventing them from spreading out of the canyon.

The origin of these mushrooms, naturally, comes from the mercenaries, rangers, and adventurers who constantly go in and out of the dungeon.

As they kept going in and out, they would always bump into many mushrooms and bring the mushroom spores to the surface.

Over time, these mushrooms spread across the surface world.

This characteristic was soon discovered by humans, but humans did not clear out these mushrooms with strong spread abilities.

First of all, these mushrooms are afraid of sunlight and cannot survive in it.

Secondly, humans can judge the danger of the underground world connected to this underground passage based on the number of these mushrooms.

If there are many mushrooms, it means that many people have returned from underground, otherwise it would be impossible to carry the seeds to every corner under the sun.

But if you don't see any mushrooms around, especially in those dark corners, then you have to be careful unless this is an underground passage that has never been discovered.

If no mushrooms are useful at all, it usually means that all targets, including humans, who have entered, have not been able to come out alive.

This underground passage in the Glimmer Canyon no longer needs to be judged by mushrooms, after all, its reputation has already spread.

Xu Lai just took a casual look at the cave entrance, asked his assistant Jilong and a few Holy Light Knights to watch over the war horses on the spot, and then led the men into the underground passage.

With a ding sound, before Xu Lai could react, a large machete came chopping at him with great force, but was blocked in time by Roland who had been carefully guarding him.

However, Roland could block the ambushes from both sides, but he could not block the crossbows and arrows shot from a distance.

Fortunately, Xu Lai was a veteran of the battlefield, and with the few tenths of a second that Roland had bought for him, he subconsciously raised the shield in his hand as soon as the sound of breaking air was heard.

Several adventurers were reluctant to use armor-piercing arrows. Precious arrows like magic arrows naturally could not do anything to the Lion King Shield in Xu Lai's hand.

Xu Lai, who possessed the ability to see at night, was able to see clearly at a glance that the opponents were just a dozen masked strangers dressed as mercenaries.

Perhaps it was because the Seraphim following Xu Lai all looked bulging in order to cover their wings, and that was why they were targeted.

But no matter what the reason, this was the first time Xu Lai had been ambushed.

Apparently, he wasn't the only one who thought the underworld was a great place to do bad things.

Xu Lai did not use his Prophet's Sword, and even the Blade of Doom, in order to prevent these two obvious artifacts from exposing his identity.

You know, he has a lot of enemies now. If people knew that he only brought a few people with him, the ones who would attack him would not be these ordinary mercenaries.

It cannot be said that this group of mercenaries are ordinary. The mercenaries who were well prepared still burst out with fighting spirit.

The mercenaries on the left and right sides, one uses an axe and the other uses a machete.

The one with the machete, although his attack was blocked by Roland, he used his skills to rush forward, so he was so fast.

The charge skill directly hit Roland, and even the Holy Light Knight was stunned for two or three seconds, and he was unable to react in these two or three seconds.

The axe on the left was even more exaggerated. Although its movement was not as fast as the machete, it ran up quickly and started spinning without saying a word.

On Xu Lai’s left is Jian Yuan, who is responsible for exploring the way.

Jian Yuan was only level 6, and Xu Lai was worried that something might happen to him, so he raised his shield and rushed over quickly, blocking the whirlwind axe for Jian Yuan.

The sound of metal colliding was endless. The opponent who used the whirlwind axe was obviously a powerful power-type professional, and his skills also brought additional power.

But even so, Xu Lai, who was extremely powerful, still held up his shield and forced the still spinning axe out of the entrance.

The entrances and exits of underground passages are usually in open areas, and are most likely surrounded by flat land.

But if the entrance and exit are really blocked, the passage will transport subsequent people entering and exiting to the nearby open area instead of near the entrance and exit.

Xu Lai and his men were not surrounded and killed, but not many people could pass through at one time. If Xu Lai did not force them away, he didn't know where his own troops would be sent to later.

He used his brute force to suppress the axeman, and even the other mercenaries, using their skills and arrows, were unable to cause any harm to Xu Lai.

The leading mercenary knew that he had hit a wall this time, so he decisively threw a smoke bomb and immediately told his accomplices to leave.

The archers and crossbowmen in the distance escaped relatively smoothly.

The smoke bomb completely blocked the vision of Xu Lai and others. They were far away from Xu Lai and were moving very fast.

If it were only Xu Lai and others, they would have really escaped.

However, there are more than 30 Seraphim behind Xu Lai. Even if the Undead Phoenix is ​​here, it dare not compete with the Seraphim with Xu Lai's blessing in speed.

Without any need for Xu Lai to call, Elvy, who had just landed, immediately took off with her Seraphim.

"Oh my god, angel, boss!"

"Oh my god, how can there be such a place? Oh my god, everyone run for your lives!"

The mercenary boss didn't believe that there would be legendary creatures like angels in such a place. However, when he turned around, the angels had already passed through the smoke and were chasing after these people following the faint light emitted by the mushrooms.

The melee mercenaries abandoned by the mercenary boss were stabbed to death by Xu Lai and his men with a few backhand swords.

With the ultimate defense technique, even a warrior like Jian Yuan who was not wearing heavy armor would not necessarily be injured, not to mention that the others were all Holy Light Knights wearing heavy armor.

Xu Lai no longer cared who was ambushing him. Judging from the team's level, this team was quite capable, but it would be ridiculous to use them to ambush and kill him.

After dealing with all the enemies in front of him and personally lighting the torches near the cave entrance, Xu Lai asked Roland to notify Jilong and return underground with the follow-up troops.

As long as we can get underground smoothly, according to the map, we can reach the burial place of the God of War's Hand in a few days. (End of this chapter)