Xu Lai has always disliked the saying that with greater ability comes greater responsibility.
But he must accept that the greater the favor, the greater the pressure.
The God of War, intentionally or unintentionally, provided him with so much help that he simply could not refuse the extremely unreasonable request of the temple.
The temple only gave him the last half a year, but asked him to stand up against the big devil Kerrigan by then.
In this land, there is obviously no shortage of powerful families that have enjoyed blessings for thousands of years, and there is no shortage of countless heroes who have come, but he is the only one allowed to take on the most dangerous task.
But there's nothing you can do about it. He's soft-spoken when he eats people, but he's short-handed when he takes advantage of others.
Not only did they not punish Elena, they also prepared a promotion ceremony for her, and even sent some more powerful subordinates to her.
Even if Xu Lai can be thick-skinned, the key is that Kerrigan will not let him go at all.
So, Xu Lai had no choice at all.
The time spent in the temple was much longer than Xu Lai expected.
It was not until evening that Xu Lai was able to leave, but he could not take Elena away yet.
Elena’s promotion ceremony has been finalized and will be presided over by Crimson Bishop Neil himself.
The priest who accompanied her to the grassland also let her choose.
Except for priests and priests, anything that Elena likes, as long as it is not too excessive, will be taken away by her.
For example, the detailed maps collected by the temple over the years include not only the underground cities that Xu Lai is concerned about, but also the Southern Empire, Eastern Empire, Western Empire, grassland areas, etc.
Xu Lai, who was born in the information age, has always valued these the most. He believes that information is the key factor in victory in war.
These maps can do more than just prevent people from getting lost.
Many of the outdoor buildings marked on it have very important functions.
Not to mention anything else, with Xu Lai's current level of 40, he personally commanded and destroyed the mercenaries, thieves guild, powerful guards, city defense troops, tens of thousands of professionals with experience much higher than that of recruiting soldiers. .
However, the experience bar moves very little. It will take dozens or even hundreds of such battles to continue to level up.
What kind of concept is this? It's equivalent to asking him to kill another million people to level up.
This is not a million soldiers recruited, but a million professionals. He estimates that he has slaughtered all the large cities in the world, and he may not even reach level 50.
But Xu Lai was in the temple and just looked at a few maps roughly, and he already had ideas for upgrading in his mind.
If everything goes well, he may not only be able to reach level 50, but he may also be able to reach level 60.
On the big maps alone, there are seven or eight ancient trees of wisdom marked in detail.
These ancient trees of wisdom all have the ability to be upgraded. Even if you visit them all once at the maximum cost, it will only consume 80 units of gems at most.
Can this still be a big deal to Xu Lai now?
The only troublesome thing is that these ancient trees of wisdom all have owners. Even if the temple can say hello to Xu Lai in advance, they may not be willing to let him visit.
The good news is that during the current war, it is impossible to determine how many of these original owners are still alive. Even if there are still, Xu Lai is sure that he can take advantage of the chaos to visit.
In addition to the Ancient Tree of Wisdom, there are many other buildings that can be upgraded, such as the Seven Dragons Temple that Xu Lai had heard about in the Northern Empire.
With the relationship with the temple, Xu Lai can be sure that he can guarantee an upgrade by going to this place.
So, if everything goes well, Xu Lai can at least be promoted to more than ten levels. Even if everything goes wrong, it will not be a problem to be promoted to levels 4, 5, or 6.
It is quite troublesome. Whether it is the Ancient Tree of Wisdom or the Temple of the Seven Dragons, there is only one building that allows people to directly upgrade in an area.
Xu Lai wanted to visit all these dozen places. Not only would he travel throughout the entire empire, he would also need to go to the primeval forest where the barrier camp was located.
It was okay before, most cities had teleportation arrays.
But after the empire fell apart, the teleportation arrays in many cities were closed. Currently, only the teleportation array in the Imperial Capital Lion Heart City has the most connected cities.
Even so, these outdoor buildings are not in the city, and it takes a lot of time to go back and forth.
Xu Lai estimated that even if he traveled to these cities supported by the teleportation array, it would take about a week to complete.
In addition to these buildings that can be upgraded, there are also some attribute buildings that Xu Lai has never visited.
If there is enough time, Xu Lai can visit them all and try to increase his own strength.
In addition to outdoor buildings, the map also allows Xu Lai to understand the resource situation, terrain trends, natural checkpoints, etc. at each location.
The sincerity shown by the temple this time is really sufficient, and even various rare resources are willing to be handed over directly to Elena.
But under Xu Lai's instruction, Elena did not take away these resources, but only asked Neil to produce the highest-level token of the temple.
Xu Lai is not short of resources now, but the temple may be in short supply.
First of all, the war has continued to this day, and many priests, priests, and paladins have been damaged in the temple.
Although the temple is bathed in divine grace, if it wants to replenish it quickly, various rituals are indispensable, and the consumption of ritual spells is more exaggerated than any spell.
For example, the advancement ceremony allows priests to be promoted if the experience conditions are not met.
Of course, this kind of promotion is equivalent to overthrowing the talent. Depending on the amount of ritual resources, some basic magic can be obtained after promotion.
Most of the high-level sacred spells can only be used through acquired learning and mastering.
Another example is the resurrection ceremony. Simply relying on the resurrection ability of the Crimson Bishop or Archangel or Seraph, the total amount of resurrection will never be too high.
But if a crimson bishop presides over a resurrection ceremony, the total amount of resurrection can be increased based on rare resources such as crystals and gems.
Ritual magic is a special form of magic that only high-level wizards and priests can master.
The magic circles of mages, the summoning of demons by warlocks, and the resurrection of the dead by necromancers are all ritual magic, and they are also special spells that the recruited soldiers can never master.
In short, the temple's consumption of various rare resources is much greater than Xu Lai imagined.
Even gold coins and the like are consumed in large quantities due to the constant purchase of rare resources.
Even if all the remaining items in the temple were moved to Xu Lai's place, they wouldn't be of much use.
Not to mention that it would not have any effect, Xu Lai was afraid that in the end he would be accused of looting the temple.
Anyway, judging from the current situation, his reserve resources should be surplus.
Even if there is a little vacancy, he will continue to attack those grassland nobles, just continue to search.
These guys have ruled the grassland for so long. No matter how squandering they are, they still have some wealth.
Even if there is really nothing left, the land can still be sold for money, and there will definitely be businessmen who want it. Xu Lai controls the exchange. As long as he has enough gold coins, he can just buy resources at a premium and not be unable to buy them.
But now that the Western Empire has been destroyed, not to mention the entire territory, most of the area should have been occupied by demons.
Besides, more than one person has told Xu Lai that there have been very few caravans coming from the west recently, but there are a lot of refugees.
This is not very good news for Xu Lai.
Fortunately, due to recent transactions with Naga, some caravans from the Southern Empire also found their way to Qingfeng City after landing on Naga's territory via sea route.
In the grassland, the area that can be cultivated and the population are too small.
Even if Xu Lai captured all the cities, he would not be able to recruit many troops in a year and could not afford to consume them.
The temple is now willing to fully invest in Xu Lai, but Xu Lai no longer needs their investment.
In short, Elena will have to wait a few days if she wants to come back, but when she comes back, she should give Xu Lai a surprise.
After leaving Lion Heart City, Xu Lai not only opened the transmission channel from Qingfeng City to Lion Heart City, but also obtained the 15 archangels from Lion Heart City for nothing in the past three months.
It’s not in vain. He didn’t ask for the resources of the temple, he just asked for the quota. He used his own resources to recruit these 15 archangels.
With the addition of these 15 archangels, there will no longer be ordinary little angels under Elvy's command. The lowest level is 8th-level archangels, and the number has also increased to 90.
After returning to Qingfeng City, Xu Lai also received good news again.
After three days of training, Elvi finally qualified two archangels for promotion today.
However, in the underground city, the cavemen's advance was also quite rapid.
The time does not reach the fastest speed that everyone estimated, but the difference is only a slight difference. If it is delayed for a day or two at most, Mingyue City will definitely be discovered.
In other words, they still have about 5 days, and both training and preparations are coming to an end.
Leina and Xu Lai reported a new idea, that is, not waiting for the cave people to discover them, but taking the initiative to attack before the cave people have discovered Mingyue City.
Leina’s intention was to set up ambushes at various crossroads where the cavemen were searching and completely kill these cavemen.
In this way, cavemen who cannot deliver the news will continue to fall into it.
The IQ of cavemen is not very high. Regardless of whether they are recruited or not, they can basically be treated as the same kind of creatures.
By doing this, you can gain experience and train your troops, especially the new recruits of the Qingfeng Legion.
Secondly, it can also convey wrong information to the enemy, and prevent the enemy from knowing the true and false situation of Mingyue City and unable to obtain more information.
Xu Lai believes that this is a good proposal, but it has certain risks.
They didn't know the distribution of the army in the underground city. If they set up an ambush inside the crossroads, they would easily be blocked in the crossroads, and they would not be able to prevent the people behind them from escaping.
Anyway, Xu Lai still had an eye for investigation in the maze and other places, so he suggested simply throwing the Qingfeng Legion into the main passage and taking turns training their troops.
Leina is a confused caveman who wants to create a confusing formation to delay more time, but Xu Lai just wants to train his troops.
Moriel is like a time bomb that may explode at any time.
But the temple only gave him half a year. During this half year, Xu Lai set himself the goal of occupying the entire grassland and taking time to visit those ancient trees of wisdom.
Therefore, his time was very precious, and he did not want to be delayed by Moriel all the time.
Since Moriel is going to step on this landmine sooner or later, it is better to step on it earlier so that he can free up his hands to do other things.
After all, what is supposed to come will always come.
Xu Lai did not make detailed arrangements for the military training, leaving all the authority to Reina.
Leina personally led the new "recruits" into the battlefield.
Their main task is to protect themselves with shields and maintain a stable formation.
The caveman has almost no output ability, and with Rena's defensive skills, there is basically no danger in such an action.
What Reina needs these people to do is to cooperate with her teammates, trust her teammates, and execute orders.
The real output was all handed over to Giselle and the third, fourth, and even fifth batch of shooters she led.
The level of the cavemen is low, and the experience value is naturally not high, but there is also an advantage, that is, the number is unusually large.
All shooters almost don't need to aim, not even magic lamps.
They only need to calculate the distance, obey the commander's command, and keep shooting arrows near the infantry.
Then he kept shooting, shooting, shooting. After shooting the two bags of arrows on his body, he replaced the ammunition from the ammunition supply truck.
If even the physical strength is exhausted, just replace the next group of people.
The same goes for the infantry. Rena assessed that they could strictly execute various military orders in a real and noisy battlefield environment, and then changed positions with the infantry behind them.
Just like this training from day to night, I don't know how many cavemen died. Anyway, if there was a blockage, they would move the bodies away themselves.
If the killing was too harsh and there was no room for the cave people to work, Reina would take the initiative to retreat a little.
Once such actual combat begins, it also means that Xu Lai and his Mingyue City will be exposed soon.
At this time, he really had no intention of doing anything else. After handing Qingfeng City full power to Su Ya again, he, Yu Lan, Dill and others took turns squatting in the monitoring room.
The black dragon's flying speed is extremely fast, and with the bonus of Moriel, if you don't pay attention at all times, Rena may not even have a chance to retreat.
Xu Lai couldn't accept fighting in the field, because he would definitely not be his opponent, let alone his general being killed outside the city.
Therefore, Xu Lai also subconsciously asked them to keep retreating, not only to give the cavemen more space, but also to keep them moving closer to a safe place.
The large number of cavemen dying in large numbers could not arouse the commander's vigilance.
And Xu came to seek benevolence and was benevolent. Finally, three days later, he saw countless giant dragons pouring out of the maze.
Among these black dragons, there was an unusually large dragon, which caught Xu Lai's attention.
This guy has a longer beard than ordinary giant dragons, his horns are golden, his body is black, and his claws are green with strong poison.
Compared with other giant dragons, this giant dragon also has a membrane made of skin, like duck claws and goose claws.
The difference is that this layer of duck web-like thing is not on the dragon's feet, but on both sides of the dragon.
"This one should be Moriel's dragon form." (End of this chapter)