326. Chapter 326 Laying Mines


Temple knights, of course, are paid.

Theoretically, Xu Lailai does not need to pay for them anymore.

What's more, although Xu Lai did not get all the credit for this battle, the reason why these temple knights were able to advance was because they had received their share of the credit.

It can be said that if Xu Lai did not achieve this feat, no one could say anything about him.

Just like Christian and Entan, they don’t care about anything, especially the latter, who simply acts as a decoration and does not even participate in the action plan of the Third Knights.

But Xu Lai is different from them. He is more fair. Even people like Luo Mingru and Fang Yang, as long as they have made contributions, he will not hesitate to share the results of the battle with them.

Xu Lai believed that the merits obtained by killing enemies alone were not enough to reward these knights.

Especially later, without these knights in the mine, driving them away over and over again, how could it be possible for so many monsters to fall under Xu Lai's wall of fire.

However, these meritorious deeds were all included in Xu Lai's name in the temple's merit reward list.

Today, Xu Lai's meritorious service is still more than 420,000, even after paying the upgrade fees for the trainee knights and knight retainers.

No way, in addition to killing hundreds of thousands of demons, Xu Lai's destruction of two sulfur mines was also considered to have completed the task of destroying two important facilities.

Coupled with the logistical tasks of submitting trophies, Xu Lai's meritorious service once exceeded 600,000.

After spending more than 200,000 merits, Xu Lai did not keep the 420,000 merits. Instead, he paid 400,000 merits and asked the bishop to help redeem his mortgage.

The Forbidden Magic Ball is of little use at other times, but it is extremely useful when used against Sellon.

If one day is not redeemed, Xu Lai will not have peace of mind.

Who knows if the temple will take out his forbidden magic ball for use. If it is just a simple use, then forget it. If the user is killed, his treasure will be lost.

What's more, Xu Lai has suffered two losses in these days' battles with demons, both times he was defeated by the magic attacks of demon troops.

Whether it is the charm ability of the succubus, the flame breath of the three-headed hell dog, or the spells of the hell generals guarding the sulfur mines, they are all actively released spells and will be restricted by the forbidden magic ball.

The succubus's long-range sting and passive charm, and the physical attack capabilities of the three heads of the three-headed hell dog are not affected by the forbidden magic ball.

The fire demon's flame throwing is the same as Magog. They do not cast spells, but just perform the physical action of throwing.

The fireball that caused damage was actually the flame substance generated in their bodies. The forbidden magic ball could not stop them from secreting this substance.

Just like the Forbidden Magic Ball, the Fire Elves' Fire Aegis cannot be disabled because these are their biological instincts and do not require active casting.

The bishop didn't know what Xu Lai's pledge was, but he didn't dare to neglect the pledge worth 400,000 merits.

Similarly, several crimson archbishops who were resting learned about it and did not dare to neglect it.

Normally, it was impossible for them to deal with such chores at such a late hour, but after knowing that it was the Forbidden Demon Ball and Xu Lai, they still gave them face for the first time.

Xu Lai quickly got his collateral, which was still sealed, and Xu Lai needed to break the seal himself.

Lina was also curious about Xu Lai's collateral, but she resisted asking and instead solemnly thanked Xu Lai.

Both Xu Lai immediately upgraded to Archangel and gave up all the resurrection spots to Lina.

After that, he used his own merits to help other temple knights pay for their upgrades, which won the favor of Lina and all the temple knights.

This is also one of the goals Xu Lai wants to achieve. After all, encouraged by the ultimate leadership skills and successive victories, the morale of the Temple Knights has exceeded 95 points and is about to reach full value.

But Xu Lai knew that full morale was only useful for recruiting soldiers.

For these temple knights, in order to maximize their combat effectiveness, they still need people's hearts to be available. This is an invisible morale.

Xu Lai accepted Lina’s thanks and threw a ring to her with his backhand and said:

“This is your share, it belongs to the mine guard, and the rest of the equipment I exchanged it for the bishop.

This ring is of high quality and should be of some use at this time. I’ll leave it with you.”

Xu Lai had no use for the ring, and both hands were full. Joseph and the others picked up ordinary equipment and changed it themselves, while giving the better ones to Xu Lai.

[Fire Ring]: Magic equipment, increases one's own fire spell damage by 20%, and reduces one's own fire spell damage by 20%.

This ring is actually quite powerful, especially for heroes or generals from hell.

There are almost no people in hell who can't use fire spells.

But for people like Xu Lai, this thing is only half effective, and it is the least important half.

Lina didn't refuse, Xu Lai gave it to her, and she took it.

Looking at the attributes, it was indeed better than one of my own rings, and more suitable for fighting hell, so I put it on without saying a word.

After dividing the spoils, the two sides rested separately. This supply should be the only supply in the next few days.

They can't attack the city. The nearby sulfur mines have been burned. If they want to find fighters, they will have to search deeper. By then, the way back will be blocked by other hell heroes. It's not like that. Easy to withdraw.

Xu Lai and the others have been running around for a few days, and today they can finally have a solid sleep in the city.

They slept soundly, but Yu Wanxi was so angry that his liver ached.

After finally waiting for his troops to arrive at the mine, Xu Lai and the others had already run away for an unknown amount of time, leaving him alone to absorb the poisonous gas.

The people in hell are just resistant to flames and are used to the smell of sulfur, but that doesn’t mean they are also used to the smell of burning sulfur, which is poisonous.

And compared with the poisonous gases in modern society, sulfur containing magical elements is more toxic.

Yu Wanxi only stayed for a while before feeling dizzy.

Fortunately, after coming to this world, his physique has become many times stronger than before. However, after all, he is only a mage, and his resistance to poison is much worse than that of a warrior.

This place is definitely not suitable for people during the day or tonight, and Xu Lai has already retreated. Even if he goes back now, he has completed his mission.

But Wanxi was not willing to give in. The most important thing was that he finally obtained the command of so many soldiers.

You must know that after gaining command authority, part of the experience of all enemies killed by these soldiers will be given to the commander.

Once they go back, their command rights will be confiscated, and it will be impossible to rely on these thousands of soldiers for welfare, especially those Magog, which are precious long-range units, and there are more than a thousand of them.

Yu Wanxi chased out of the lava land overnight, but he found no trace of Xu Lai nearby.

Advanced pathfinding skills told him that the footprints of Xu Lai's large army had left for several hours. If he led a group of infantry to pursue them, it would be impossible to catch up.

The pathfinding skills I learned before to conquer the tower finally have a chance to show off.

Following the footsteps, Yu Wanxi found an abandoned imperial village to set up camp.

He was quite cautious, not only arranging shifts, but also deliberately placing several hidden spell traps on the avenue.

The cavalry likes to take the road the most. It is spacious and fast, and does not require the blessing of pathfinding skills.

What Yu Wanxi arranged was his best fire spell trap, the flame mine.

Dozens of them were buried, arranged hundreds of meters away.

Just in case, he also deliberately laid mines in the town leading to where he rested, which cost him a lot of mana.

The flame mine was invisible to Xu Lai, but not to Hell's own people, so even if it was accidentally stepped on by hiding villagers or wild monsters, it would be fine. They could only blame them for their bad luck.

Not to mention, the mine Yu Wanxi planted really exploded, and several of them exploded in one blast.

Boom, boom, boom, three loud noises in a row, Yan Feng, who was responsible for exploring the road ahead, was blown away and turned upside down.

Xu Lai's troops will always arrange for people to explore the way whenever they advance.

In the past, Silver Wing led his team of elves, who could fly and run. The elves' eyesight was far superior to that of humans.

But no matter when Yan Feng was a squadron leader or a cavalry horse archer, with fast horses and Silver Wings present or not, he had always been personally responsible for the main path exploration work.

When the first explosion sounded, Yan Feng ordered the team to stop advancing, but the horse was too fast to stop for a while.

But there is good news. The main damage caused by the explosion was the war horses under their crotches. The horses of Yan Feng and two other heroes were seriously injured.

As for them, they suffered some impact injuries and fire injuries. With the sacred blood bottle and the effect of spell resistance, they were only slightly injured and the horses were not dead.

As long as they are not dead, it is not a big problem. After the paladins arrive later, a few healing spells can cure them and their mounts.

The main reason was that Yu Wanxi was the only one to deploy the mines, and he had to deploy them so far away that the mines were scattered.

If he was sure that Xu Lai would take this road, they would definitely go there and bury dozens of flame mines. Not only would Yan Feng and his vanguard be dead, at least the dozen who triggered the mines first would be killed. It is impossible for a hero to live.

The key is that it cannot even be resurrected, because it will inevitably be blown to pieces.

Now that we know there are landmines ahead, of course we cannot continue to rush forward like a fool.

However, this explosion also successfully made Xu Lai alert.

"Sorry, Your Excellency, Captain, I have been too negligent."

"It's not entirely your fault. I can't blame you for not being able to see the invisible units, but your troops are too dense. And keep walking along the road, what if there is an ambush on both sides of the road?"

Yan Feng was ashamed and wanted to be punished, but Xu Lai said:

"I have a problem too. I'm too anxious to do anything, and I can't give you enough time.

Fortunately, there were no casualties in this trap, so let's just remember it." (End of this chapter)
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