The Invincible Overlord of Heroes.
Chapter 574: A show of force
The underground nobles expressed their willingness to surrender, so Xu Lai's idea of becoming the underground king was half accomplished.
The other half depends on whether both parties can reach an agreement on their conditions.
After the dungeon conveyed its proposal to surrender to Xu Lai through Reina, Xu Lai stopped beside a main city that they had just arrived at.
This is the dungeon camp, the city that never sleeps, one of the twelve famous main cities, and also one of the top three economically important cities in the dungeon.
It was precisely because of Xu Lai's movement route that the underground nobles believed that this was the next target chosen by Xu Lai, so they couldn't wait to beg for mercy.
Among the twelve main cities, the ones where Queen Moril lives all year round must be the most important.
However, Darkhor had already been attacked once, and Reina's army was heading straight for Darkhor.
If the City That Never Sleeps is also ravaged by Xu Lai's Doomsday Judgment, the entire dungeon camp will be severely affected, which will be an unbearable loss for the dungeon camp.
Xu Lai stopped and told the underground nobles through Lena that he was outside the city, waiting for them to come and see him, and he would only give them 12 hours at most.
The person who came came even faster than Xu Lai expected.
There are many races in the dungeon camp. Under Moriel, there are tribal leaders and powerful nobles such as the lords of the twelve main cities.
Originally, Xu Lai wanted to ask the people in the dungeon to call all these guys over and deal with them at once.
However, the people in the dungeon were much more urgent than he had imagined.
There was no other way. Xu Lai didn't even get close to any city along the way. He just set a fire near every city he encountered.
Therefore, Xu Lai had no idea what kind of damage the two or three fires every day on average in the two weeks before and after had caused to the dungeon.
Although the underground nobles look down on low-level creatures such as cavemen, they cannot afford to withstand the deaths of tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of them every day.
In addition to the cavemen, many dignitaries and their relatives also died inexplicably in the fire.
Not to mention, Xu Lai's Doomsday Judgment brought terrible losses to the dungeon's economy and support system.
Almost as soon as Xu Lai set up the camp and sent out the Fire Elemental and Jian Yuan, Ji Long and others to patrol and guard, a high-ranking official from the underground city came to ask for a meeting.
The person who came was a representative from the nearby Never Sleep City. The city lord did not dare to come in person, so he sent out his two deputy city lords, a man with evil eyes and a harpy witch.
Of course, Xu Lai had no time to pay attention to them.
If one of them came, he would be annoyed to death if he had to receive them all.
Roland, on behalf of Xu Lai, stopped them and told them to get out.
By the way, Roland also told them that they were not qualified to meet Xu Lai based on their identities.
Even if you are their city lord, don't come unless you can make the decision.
After these words, the two deputy city lords looked particularly unhappy, especially the harpy witch.
Unlike the harpy witches in the recruited troops, in the harpy tribe, the queen and the witch are both people of extremely high status.
Especially the queen, there is only one in the entire tribe. Other harpies, even if they have reached the rank of queen, cannot continue to use this title.
The harpy witch, who is only one level lower than the queen, may not be very powerful, but as a spellcaster, she is one of the smartest people in the dungeon.
As long as these people leave the tribe, they can get a good job anywhere.
Since becoming the deputy mayor of the City That Never Sleeps, she had never been treated so harshly, not even allowed to enter the door.
But there was nothing he could do no matter how angry he was. The people in the underground city had little contact with the outside world. But at least Xu Lai had been wandering underground for two weeks.
In addition, the information about Xu Lai from the last time he came had already been clearly discovered.
Xu Lai was surrounded by top-level soldiers, either top-level knights or top-level angels. Except for the recruited fire elements, any one of them could kill the two of them on the spot.
They are arrogant, but they have the capital to be so arrogant.
Now, the top leaders of the entire underground camp have been forced to shake hands and make peace. Even after shaking hands and making peace, they are still no match for Xu Lai.
Although both of them are deputy city lords, they are not qualified to participate in major events that concern the life and death of the underground camp.
After sending the two away, the knights and angels in the camp all moved into the tents that had been set up.
Of course, the Eye of Reconnaissance and the Eye of True Vision had already been deployed near the camp.
With the addition of several waves of fire elements summoned by Xu Laiduo, the area was packed with people, so there was no need to worry about anyone sneaking in.
There are only a few days left until the end of the month, and Xu Lai wants to reach an agreement with the underground tribes as soon as possible.
But the more anxious you are, the less you can show it.
Otherwise, if others knew that Xu Lai was so anxious, they might not agree to some of his conditions.
During this period, although he locked himself in the tent, he was not having fun with Elvy, but was thinking seriously.
On the map, he needs to decide which territories to allocate to himself, and which wild buildings he needs the help of people in the dungeon to occupy and recruit for him.
Just counting the number of these field buildings and the number of people that can be recruited is not an easy task.
In addition to outdoor buildings, Xu Lai also needs to roughly estimate the output of outdoor resources.
Of course, this cannot be estimated accurately. After all, the only stable thing is minerals, while the resources carried by wild monsters are extremely unstable.
In addition, Xu Lai was very unfamiliar with the cities in the underground city. He didn't know how much the cities of different levels could produce each month, nor did he know whether there were any cities that were hiding the existence of Morrell.
Xu Lai couldn't even find anyone to refer to, because even the people in the dungeon themselves didn't know how much assets they should give to Moriel every year.
There is no way. Among the people in the dungeon, except for witches and sorcerers who can do math, the rest of the people are already outstanding if they can read.
The only valuable information that the captives could provide was that it was certain that Moril would take away most of the spoils of the major tribes.
However, the specific figures for most of the gains cannot be verified.
The only thing that can be verified is the record in the temple data, that the dungeon camp once paid 200 million gold coins, 5 units of gems + crystals and other rare resources as tribute to the empire every year.
Needless to say, this amount of money is nothing compared to what Morrell collected.
Moreover, the records clearly stated that the Supreme King of the Empire at that time imposed light taxes on the underground city in order to demonstrate his benevolence.
During that period, not only the people in the dungeon, but also the nobles and commoners of the entire empire lived a good life.
But as the empire decayed, local nobles gradually emerged and levied their own private taxes on the dungeons through the underground passages within their own territories.
This was also the important reason why Moril was able to rise in the dungeon in the future, gain the support of hundreds of people, and quickly rule the entire underground camp.
After the unification of the dungeons, they not only turned against the empire, but also continued to plunder the empire's resources, allowing the undead and demons to see the empire's weakness.
Therefore, this number is not of much reference value to Xu Lai.
Anyway, Xu Lai was not satisfied with this level of collection, at least it was not worthy of his self-proclaimed title of the underground king. After pondering for a long time in the tent, he repeatedly looked at the map of Moril's territory and memorized all the information on the surface. Xu Lai had a lot to do.
But only half a day later, a large group of dungeon dwellers from the underground city came towards Xu Lai's camp in a mighty manner.
Roland narrowed his eyes, put one hand on the hilt of the sword, and used the other hand to remove the spear stuck on the horse.
There were many people coming from the dungeon, and everyone was carrying weapons. Roland would not let these people get close to Xu Lai no matter what.
Just as Roland had gathered his guards and was about to charge these guys, Elvy stopped him and said:
“Come on, let me do it.
If you just rush over like this, the dungeon people will probably think this is a trap, and it will be difficult to negotiate with them in the future."
After saying that, Elvy flapped her wings and flew out like a cannonball.
Elvy's actions scared the people in the dungeon.
But fortunately, Elvy went there alone, and the dungeon dwellers who came there were all elites of the underground camp, so they were not afraid of a Seraph.
After landing, Elvy glanced around and frowned, "There are too many of you. Leave all the guards and weapons outside."
A tall minotaur suddenly said, "We only have so many people. Besides, we are going to your territory. What if you want to harm us?"
Elvy sneered and said to the minotaur with disdain:
"Don't use words like yours. If it's bad for you, I can kill you all by myself."
The minotaur seemed very unconvinced, but Elvy calmly took out the dragon head that could not be transformed back from her space backpack.
“You all know this head, right? She died under my sword, and she was guarded by tens of thousands of black dragons.
If you think your brain is harder than hers and those black dragons, you can come and give it a try."
Elvy had her own storage space, so spoils like Muriel's head, which she had obtained alone, naturally belonged to her own collection.
The dungeon dwellers present were basically certain that Morrell must be dead, and had been killed by Xu Lai.
However, they were unable to verify it in person, nor were they able to see Muriel's body.
But at this moment, the once high and mighty Dragon Queen is now left with only a head, which is being held in someone's hand and shown off as a trophy.
They could not have imagined that this female angel in front of them, who looked even weaker than the average Seraph, was a terrifying existence that could kill Morrell while being protected by tens of thousands of black dragons.
The minotaur who had spoken earlier swallowed his saliva and threw away the golden axe in his hand under Elvy's calm and cold gaze.
Minotaur, the Minotaur, is the only underground race that Xu Lai admires.
These guys had no idea of fear, but this minotaur was obviously rational and knew that what Elvy said was true.
If a real fight breaks out, this group of people may not be a match for Elvy alone.
This calmness and confidence are definitely not exaggerated.
Even he could charge with high morale even though he knew he would die.
But whether it is the inner heart or the outer appearance, it is absolutely impossible to be so calm.
What's more, the head that they would never dare to forget in their dreams is now exposed before them.
Since they do have the ability to kill them, what difference does it make whether they have weapons or not?
The armed representative in the team threw away his weapons first, and the others had to do the same.
Only a few sorcerers seemed reluctant to part with their staffs and said to Elvy cautiously:
"Mr. Angel, our staffs do not have the ability to kill people. Can you please let us take them in?"
Elvy's eyes focused, and she swung the sword in her hand. The sword light flashed past before everyone could react.
The sword just now was so fast and decisive that even though all the dungeon dwellers present were elites, few of them could react in time.
This was especially true for the sorcerers, whose agility was so low that they would not have had enough time to take any action even if they sensed it.
But fortunately, Elvy did not hurt them, she simply cut off their staffs.
With the power of these sorcerers, it is tiring to hold a wooden staff, and it is impossible to use magical metals such as mithril to make a staff.
The wooden staff was not durable enough to withstand Elvy's sword.
The staffs of several sorcerers who spoke had been cut off by Elvy almost in an instant.
"You can take it in now. Is there anyone else you want to take in?"
Although the staff has no physical damage ability, it can greatly increase the sorcerer's casting speed.
Some high-level staffs can also seal some spells that can be released instantly, which poses a big threat to Xu Lai.
Elvy didn't even allow them to bring swords or other weapons, so how could she allow them to bring magic wands?
Of course, doing so would not prevent them from carrying weapons unless their storage equipment was also stripped clean.
But this is not realistic unless Elvy asks people to search one by one.
But even if they searched their bodies, they might still miss them. Especially since Elvy discovered that there were heroes among the crowd who had space backpacks.
Although they look similar to the dungeon dwellers, their temperament, equipment, and clothing make them unique.
Therefore, there is no point in searching them, but if you ask them to throw away their weapons, they will have to go through the process of taking out their weapons if they want to attack.
With this abrupt process, Elvy can respond faster and understand their purpose clearly.
Otherwise, each of them has a weapon with them, and whether they are saluting or moving their bodies, the weapon may move abnormally.
Elvy couldn't tell whether this unusual movement was a normal action or the beginning of an attack.
The sorcerers are of high rank, so the staffs they hold in their hands must be good too.
Now Elvy cut off three of them at once. Although not all of them were destroyed, it would not be so easy to repair them.
The others were reluctant to part with their staffs and threw them on the ground, hoping to pick them up when they came back.
Elvy nodded and said, "Drop your weapons and guards, and then you can pass."
A sorcerer who was probably the leader, not caring about his staff, stammered:
"But they are all the chiefs and important figures of the major tribes in the underground city."
Elvy frowned and said in an unquestionable tone:
"I don't care. You can discuss it among yourselves. Anyway, the number of people entering can only be one-third of the people here at most." (End of this chapter)
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