The advanced cost of recruiting soldiers must be borne by Xu Lai.
But the cost of recruiting soldiers to advance is borne by other nobles personally.
But when Xu came here, he waved his hand and announced that he would directly bear everyone's advancement costs.
After all, those who have the ability to advance must not only have excellent talent, but also at least fight bravely to kill the enemy.
The more damage they cause to the black dragon, the more experience they will receive in the end, and they will have more opportunities to advance.
Xu Lai bears the cost of their advancement, which can be regarded as a reward.
But he takes responsibility, but he doesn’t want to be taken advantage of.
Otherwise, if the warrior who advanced here runs away, he will suffer a big loss.
Therefore, although Xu Lai bore all the advancement costs, the service years of these conscripted soldiers must be extended.
If you are unwilling to sign, then just like other noble soldiers, you will be responsible for the advancement matters yourself, and Xu Lai will not force it.
Recruiting a legion is easy to form, easier to use, can do more things, and has a higher upper limit of combat power.
Furthermore, if discipline is strict and rewards and punishments are proportionate, the reliability will be better than recruiting an army.
At least when the morale reaches zero, such a conscripted army will still not retreat casually. Even if the treatment is good enough, it is not surprising that they will fight to the death and not retreat.
The disadvantage is that the price is too expensive, but the establishment price is not expensive. Even if Xu Lai is a little more evil, it can be done at zero cost.
However, the maintenance cost of the recruiting legion is too high, and the combat effectiveness is directly proportional to the investment. If you want the combat effectiveness to exceed the recruiting legion, the investment may be more than ten times that of the recruiting legion.
Accompanied by the golden light, Xu Lai walked outside the city.
At the broken gate outside the city, there were rows of corpses lying upside down. Xu Lai took a rough look and found that there were probably about a hundred people.
Only their bodies were on the ground, while their heads were all hanging on the city wall.
After the baptism of war, the city wall was seriously damaged, the city bricks were burned black by the dragon's flames, and there were huge rocks everywhere that were broken by the dragon's claws.
In this context, with nearly a hundred heads hanging on it, there is a sense of solemnity.
However, after killing nearly a hundred people, the morale of the troops did not decrease. Not only did it not decrease, it actually improved slightly.
Xu Lai's victory speech with a heavy gold reward restored a lot of morale, and these nearly a hundred heads successfully made the Qingfeng Legion's morale break through 90 and become high again.
When Reina stabbed someone, it was impossible not to make her guilt clear.
Because these dozens of people disobeyed military orders and did not abide by military disciplines, hundreds more people were killed in battle. Even their former colleagues hated them deeply.
Cutting these people down now will not only act as a deterrent, alert others, but also allow survivors to vent their emotions.
With the morale of the troops restored to high, it is estimated that Rena will only need another day or two to adjust, and their combat effectiveness will be greatly improved immediately.
After all, the gains from this battle are too great.
Not counting the cavemen who were trying to find the way, just the nearly 5,000 level 8 dragons, it was an extremely terrifying result.
5,000 level 8 dragons, half of which are wild dragons with richer experience. The death experience of each dragon can at least enable ten or more level 4 and 5 soldiers to advance. .
This is not the key. The key is that the commander leading the team this time is of an unprecedentedly high level.
Xu Lai only found out after seeing the battle report that Moriel was actually a level 52 superhero.
You know, Xu Lai is only at level 40 now. At the next level, he has defeated countless people in the past six months, and he still doesn’t know when he will be able to upgrade.
It is said that every level after level 50 is not much different from the total experience of the previous level 40, not much less.
It is even more exaggerated after level 60. Each level is equivalent to the sum of the experience of all previous levels. That is, to upgrade from 60 to 61, the total experience of levels 1-60 is required.
When it reaches that level, it is really no longer something that can be improved by human power. Even if Moriel can transform into an immortal species like a giant dragon, she may not be able to reach this level in her lifetime.
The experience value brought by the death of a high-level hero is really too rich.
The protagonist of this war is not Xu Lai, but Reina as the legion commander.
She is the one who enjoys the most experience and can share some of the profits from the soldiers.
As for Xu Lai, he can only enjoy the little bonus brought by his direct Paladin troops and the Angel troops.
However, Moriel's death came from Elvi, so Xu Lai gained less experience from other dragons, but Xu Lai got more of Moriel's experience.
Elwe, who was a killer and advanced to a general, had the highest level improvement. She was upgraded by 3 levels at once, from 49 to 52, and gained 3 attribute points again.
These three attributes were all added to strength by Elvi. It may be that the previous damage to Moriel was too much.
As a general, Elvi’s total experience points are very different from those of heroes.
So although Elvi has been promoted by three levels, Xu Lai has only been promoted by a little more than one and a half levels.
The previous experience of more than 40% at level 40 has been increased to 50% at level 41. The strength attribute has increased by 1 point, and at the same time, the intermediate earth element and advanced wisdom skill have been obtained.
Among the two specializations, Xu Lai chose advanced wisdom.
[Advanced Wisdom]: Allows the hero to directly copy and learn level 4 strategic spells, and activate the additional effect of Wisdom 2, Spirit +2.
Not only Xu Lai, but also Su Ya has been promoted several levels.
Su Ya's level is relatively low, and she has been improved a lot.
Leina gained the most experience, with more than two levels of experience. Adding more than 80% of the original experience, she was directly promoted to level 3, reaching level 41, which is the same level as Xu Lai.
However, Xu Lai is 55% more powerful at level 41
Level 3 adds 3 attributes, which are added to the three items of force sensitivity.
The three specializations brought by these three levels are added to archery, logistics and resistance.
After upgrading, Lena has ultimate archery, ultimate logistics and master-level resistance.
Although the upgraded specializations are the same as Xu Lai's, they are also Xu Lai's requirements.
When the Qingfeng Legion was established, what Xu Lai hoped for was that this legion could go on an independent expedition, and there were not many opportunities to form a legion with Xu Lai himself.
Since he wants to go on an independent expedition, the more comprehensive the coach's expertise is, the more assured Xu Lai will be.
The improvement of Reina's level also means that her defense skills are more powerful. Upgrading to level 3 will increase Reina's defense skills by an additional 1.5% in damage reduction.
In other words, as long as there is physical damage, the soldiers led by Reina will automatically reduce the damage by 70.5%, a very terrifying number.
At this level, even if Xu Lai has artifacts such as the Angel Alliance, both sides lead the exact same recruitment of soldiers, and Xu Lai feels that he has little chance of winning. Of course, after shielding spells, there are too many spells in this world that can determine the outcome of a war.
The upgrade that should be upgraded, the upgrade that should be upgraded.
It is not difficult to advance the recruited soldiers. Xu Lai only needs to prepare enough gold coins and rare resources, and with one thought, he can complete the advancement for all the recruited soldiers.
The soldiers recruited are a bit more troublesome.
Besides, they don’t have enough time to advance now.
It's winter now, so things like dragon blood and dragon meat can be stored for a longer time.
Qingfeng City and Mingyue City do not have ice cellars yet, but Xu Lai has enough mages under his command to make an ice-filled warehouse on site.
Su Ya returned to Qingfeng City first, mobilizing the mages to prepare the freezing technique.
After that, he mobilized the people in Qingfeng City to go to Mingyue City and kept transporting materials from the black dragon back and forth.
The black dragon itself is huge and there are many in number. The civilians organized by Su Ya come and go in waves.
In fact, if you use a supply truck, you only need to divide the dragon blood, dragon meat and other materials, and they can be put into the supply truck.
But Xu Lai did not do this. Instead, he only put important materials such as dragon tendons, dragon scales and the black dragon's heart into the supply truck.
The rest of the dragon skin, dragon blood, dragon meat, etc. are all placed on large carts.
Soldiers of the Qingfeng Legion, led by officers at all levels, escorted the transport convoy to Qingfeng City, passed through half of the city, and then sent it to the warehouse.
Xu Lai’s purpose of doing this is of course to attract attention and create topics and public opinion.
When it was daylight the next day, all the merchants and caravans coming and going saw large trucks one after another, carrying loads of dragon materials.
A well-connected businessman tried to stop one or two familiar officers to ask about the specific situation.
Xu Lai did not request confidentiality regarding yesterday’s battle.
Except for the fact that some military secrets are not allowed to be disclosed casually, there is no need to hide such a brilliant victory in a battle that can greatly enhance the morale and confidence of the people.
In fact, the Qingfeng Legion’s preparations for war some time ago have already attracted the attention of interested people.
When the Qingfeng Legion was stationed in Mingyue City, many people asked about the whereabouts of the Qingfeng Legion.
The grassland has not been very stable recently. Xu Lai just fought a battle with Count Aini, and now the major cities in the grassland are actively preparing for war and defense.
With the disappearance of the Qingfeng Legion, many people thought that Xu Lai had taken it to attack another city.
But many people believe that the nobles formed a coalition to attack Qingfeng City, and Xu Lai led his troops to stop it.
In such a large city, not only are there no troops stationed here, but there are also many fewer recruited soldiers patrolling in the past.
The guards in many places are actually served by mages. Even the city lord Su Ya is often invisible.
All this means that something big has happened in Qingfeng City recently.
Nowadays, there are many businessmen investing in Qingfeng City, and some have even pledged all their wealth to Qingfeng City.
If something unexpected happens, the investment will not be repaid, and I am afraid that my life will be involved.
Therefore, during the week when Xu Lai was preparing for war in Mingyue City, Qingfeng City was not at peace either.
Fortunately, the manpower of the security team has been greatly increased, and Xu Lai only celebrated with the city after returning from Fort Kaunaston.
Xu Lai also used his countless victories and miracles to build strong confidence in his subjects, but he did not cause too much trouble.
So, when these black dragon materials appeared, smart people had actually guessed what trouble Xu Lai was dealing with recently.
And looking at the endless stream of carriages and horses, some people have boldly imagined it.
However, their boldest guess was that Moriel, the Queen of Dragons, sent her men to attack Qingfeng City, but was intercepted by Xu Lai.
Xu Lai's underground world has not yet been opened. Even the officials of Qingfeng City, only a few people are qualified to enter, let alone businessmen.
But the underground passage near Qingfeng City is not a secret.
No one knows where the Qingfeng Legion went, but when the Qingfeng Legion entered the underground passage, many people saw it.
However, the officers, who originally thought it was indifferent, allowed the familiar businessmen to greet them. They all turned a blind eye and stood in their queues.
On the contrary, the civilians mobilized by Su Ya, with the encouragement of the person in charge, loudly discussed what they saw underground.
From the mouths of these people, everyone knows a few things.
First, Xu Lai has a huge city underground, which is not surprising. After all, his home relies on underground passages, so he will never give up on underground development.
Secondly, this city is slowly showing signs of war, and almost no building in the city is intact.
The situation outside the city was even more exaggerated. There were dragon corpses lying everywhere, and the blood covered the entire underground world, sprinkling everywhere.
Three, everyone is in full swing, dividing the dragon's body, because there are too many, so they may have to make several trips.
From these chats, although everyone still couldn't guess what happened, they were certain that Xu Lai had a violent conflict with the underground city.
Not everyone knows something about dungeons, but anyone who knows something about dungeons should be able to guess how huge the force that can leave thousands of black dragon corpses is.
You know, even before the empire camp collapsed, there were only two angel legions in the entire empire.
The black dragon is an eighth-level dragon, which is completely equivalent to an archangel.
And being able to leave corpses behind shows that these black dragons are all naturally born, equivalent to the high priests of the temple who were promoted to archangels on their own.
It is impossible for there to be two such terrifying forces in the underground city, so we can only judge that the one fighting Xu Lai is the Dragon Queen who rules the entire underground world.
It is only the Dragon Queen’s unrivaled appeal that makes it possible to recruit so many dragons.
But judging from the current situation, the Dragon Queen is still the loser.
However, the civilians did not see any other corpses besides dragons and cavemen in the underground world, and most of them had heard about it and knew that Moriel liked to lead the dragon army in action.
Therefore, although Xu Lai won, some people were still worried.
You must know that the underground world has never been divided, and the Dragon Queen has always ruled the underground world because of her transformation into a dragon. Her accumulation is so rich that it is probably unimaginable.
Even if Xu Lai defeated the Black Dragon Legion among the Dragon Legion, the queen still had the Red Dragon Legion, the Poison Dragon Legion, the Minotaur Legion, the Manticore Legion and so on. (End of this chapter)