The high priests are promoted to angels, and these high priests were all exchanged from the church before Xu Lai, and they are all recruiting units.
This also means that Xu Lai can directly send these 30 new angels back to Qingfeng City, and use the high-end Yunzhong City in Qingfeng City to directly upgrade to Archangels.
Even with the blessing of various artifacts, parliaments, and war statues in Qingfeng City, the angel output of high-end Yunzhong City has been extremely exaggerated.
However, more than 30 archangels can still be equivalent to Qingfeng City's production in 3 or 4 months.
And these more than 30 archangels are far from the limit.
This lightning storm killed a lot of demons, and there were also a lot of priests who advanced to high priesthood.
Even if the remaining high priests have not advanced, they have accumulated a lot of experience points. They may advance by killing some demons.
In terms of quantity, the 30 advanced priests were deducted, but more than 80 were added in. The number did not decrease but increased.
However, after advancing these more than 50 priests, the number of priest troops is only about 500.
Qingfeng City has accumulated some money in the past two months, but Xu Lai cannot advance to the high priest level.
The high priest prefers fighting and only knows the lowest level of auxiliary spells. In terms of treatment and auxiliary abilities, he is completely incomparable with the priest.
The 100 bishops that Xu Lai used to advance with the mountain fortress have played a great role in these days of battles.
If it weren’t for the presence of this group of bishops and priests, he and his new soldiers would come out and attack the city continuously, and there wouldn’t be many casualties till now.
The powerful auxiliary ability of the priest cannot be abandoned, and the angels with strong combat capabilities also need to form a scale.
It's just a drawing of a church. Only temples produce output, and there are only a handful of cities with churches.
This kind of church is a heroic building that must be built by heroes.
This is not the kind of church built by the temple itself for the offices of bishops in various regions and for believers to worship.
Therefore, it is really difficult to expand the scale of pastors on a large scale.
Even under the Pope's instructions, the temple has already built a new priest college in Qingfeng City to train new priests full-time.
But these priests cannot be quick graduates. Even extremely talented boys and girls need as little as three years and as long as five years or more to graduate.
Secondly, the main purpose of these priests is to spread the faith of the God of War, not to work for Xu Lai.
However, with Xu Lai's relationship with the temple, there is no problem in seconding their priest.
Only this time, he did not directly send troops to rescue Lion Heart City. Most of the senior priests in the temple already had opinions about him.
Opinions are opinions, and Xu Lai will not change his strategy because of other people's opinions.
After destroying Kasai City, Xu Lai asked people to dig out the heart of the castle, leaving Jian Yuan and Charles behind to continue searching the Pafix Plains with the cavalry.
After all, this place was once occupied by demons, and most of the terrain is still hell terrain.
The devil is at home in such a terrain.
Especially fire elves and fire trolls, units that are completely immune to fire damage.
These demons can stay in any lava pit without humans being able to detect them.
After all, even the 8th and 9th level warriors cannot hold on for long due to the lava with thousands of degrees.
But there is no food in the lava after all. Even if these demons are dormant, they cannot stay in it forever.
Therefore, until the terrain is completely restored, close patrols must still be maintained, and these demons must not be allowed to come out to harm people again.
After this difficulty, the Western Empire wants to restore its original population size. I don’t know how many years it will have to wait.
No matter how Xu Lai makes adjustments and encourages production and intermarriage, it still needs a process.
The reconstruction work of Kasai City will be handed over to Rio Canal who is coming over.
He himself took the infantry and camped in the wild to rest.
The battle does not end here. After Reina regains the Berk Territory, she will lead her army to continue heading east.
And Xu Lai also needs to lead the team to bulldoze all the obstacles to the Ashen Valley after resting.
The legions of both sides will meet in front of the Ashen Valley.
For Xu Lai, there is not much distance left, but for Reina, it may be a while.
Taking advantage of this period of time, Xu Lai rested in the army, went to camp first and continued to expand, and then led the Qingfeng Army to sweep through all the hell cities near the Ashen Valley.
The new hero Tahan took the new angels who were waiting for advancement and returned to Qingfeng City through the teleportation array of Glory City.
After arriving in Qingfeng City, Tahan still had a few things to do.
First of all, he must use the teleportation array as much as possible according to the map drawn by Xu Lai and the intelligence department, and rush to the special locations marked on the map as soon as possible.
In these places, various attributes and levels can be quickly improved.
Due to time constraints, even Xu Lai had never visited many locations and outdoor buildings on the latest map.
However, even if Xu Lai has never been to these places, he has visited buildings with the same name in other places.
In this world, the same buildings cannot be visited repeatedly, otherwise a superhero could be built just by relying on these wild buildings.
The Seven Dragons Shrine is an extremely important place that Xu Lai has never been to. He also plans to go there himself after Tahan comes back.
Secondly, Tahan also needs to gather the soldiers he has recruited in the past few months and bring them back together.
The soldiers supplied to the dungeon every month, the soldiers supplied to the stronghold every month, and the soldiers purchased from the market.
After two months of accumulation, the number of these alone has reached tens of thousands.
The real boss is actually the recruited soldiers gathered from all the occupied areas of the Eagle Kingdom.
This not only includes hundreds of towns, fortresses, base camps and castles in the Eagle Kingdom.
It also includes the entire grassland and the field barracks in most areas of the Western Empire.
Of course, the troops in so many places depended on Tahan to recruit them one by one, and he would not be able to finish them all even if he was exhausted.
The Eagle Kingdom now has its own mercenary guild, and there are also many Advent heroes registered in it.
Xu Lai issued the mission directly through the mercenary guild, entrusting these descending heroes to go to various field barracks, recruit troops, and transport them to the three designated cities.
Qingfeng City, Kaunaston Castle and Brilliant City, which is considered to be on the front line.
Although I can only be a transportation hero, there are still many people competing for such a task.
One is that Xu Lai is quite generous. As long as the soldiers are transported to the designated city within the specified time, the reward is not low.
Another reason is that although the recruited soldiers you bring do not belong to them, if they encounter battles on the road and bully wild monsters, their experience points and rewards are still considered heroes.
Of course, if you accidentally fail to defeat the enemy and cause the troops to suffer losses, the party accepting the mission must also bear the liability for compensation.
Before accepting the mission, these advent heroes must pay a sufficient deposit.
The deposit was not given to Xu Lai, but to the mercenary guild. After the mission fails, the mercenary guild will transfer the money to Xu Lai.
It's just this intermediate process. Even with the help of others, Tahan still won't be easy.
After all, no matter what, it is impossible for these mercenary heroes to transport the troops too far.
Tahan still needs to go to these three cities to pick up and drop off in person.
With tens of thousands of troops at times, if they all sit in the teleportation formation, it will cost a lot of money. Moreover, it cannot be transported in one batch, and it will take a long time.
It just so happened that Tahan became a hero and could already buy spell books and use strategic spells.
But Tahan has not learned wisdom, so he still cannot learn strategic spells above level 3.
Xu Lai gave Tahan the master-level "Gate of Time and Space" scroll he had obtained.
Xu Lai's earth magic has reached the intermediate level. He also learned the space gate spell in Emerald City.
His master-level Time and Space Gate Scroll is of course easy to use. If he has enough physical strength and takes a short rest, he can use it twice in a row in one day.
But the intermediate gate of time and space spell already allows Xu Lai to choose the city to return to.
Even after using this time and space gate, he will become weak, exhausted, and unable to take any action for 24 hours.
There are side effects, but they are not intolerable.
On the contrary, after Tahan had this scroll, he could concentrate the troops of at least two cities in one day.
Sometimes, if you run too far in the wild, you can also directly use the gate of time and space to teleport to a city with a teleportation array.
Tahan took on this important task, and it seemed easier for Xu to come here, without having to travel around all day long.
The troops rested in place for five days, and Xu Lai also took Elvi, Yu Lan, and Anna to wander around for three days.
The western continent is devastated, and to be honest, there is no beautiful scenery.
Moreover, the Pafix Plains, which used to be fertile and fertile fields and was known as the granary, now can’t even find people cultivating it, let alone fields.
Even the resources in waterwheels and windmills are no longer collected.
The fertile soil next to the waterwheel, which was the most fertile and had the most bonuses, was abandoned.
Xu Lai was heartbroken just watching each scene.
Five days are a bit too long for the Qingfeng Legion.
Although they have been fighting, they have always won battles, and their morale has never dropped.
Just give it 3 days to relax and unwind. If the time is too long, it will be easy to relax.
But just because the Qingfeng Army doesn't need it, it doesn't mean that other troops don't need it.
The fishmen and naga are not used to such a long period of confrontation and fighting.
In addition, those who go to the camp first also need to tidy up.
Eric expelled some cowardly people and added a large number of new rebels.
After Xu Lai captured the entire Pafix Plains, many of the original resistance armies immediately surrendered.
There was a Kasai city blocking them before, and Xu Lai didn't want to kill them all, so he didn't pay attention to the remaining people.
It’s just that after taking Kasai City, he can no longer tolerate other forces developing and growing in his own territory.
Although Xu Lai did not say it clearly, the fact that he once again handed over the matter of recruiting the resistance to Eric was enough to explain the problem.
This time, Eric did not disappoint Xu Lai.
The marquis who claimed to inherit the title of Marquis of Kasai not only rejected Eric again, but even asked Xu Lai to compensate for the loss of Kasai City.
The lightning storm that day was known to almost no one in the entire Paphex Plains.
Eric was so angry that he laughed. He didn’t know what the brain of this Marquis of Cassel was.
Probably the nearly thousand years of imperial rule have made their minds rigid, and they still think that as long as they have a prominent status, they can have everything for granted.
Not to mention that the empire has fallen apart, even if the empire still exists, it is impossible to go to war with another powerful kingdom for him.
What's more, Xu Lai took back the city of Kasai from the devil. Does he have anything to do with the so-called Marquis of Kasai?
So, the commander of the first camp who had been speaking good words for the resistance army cut off the head of the Marquis of Casse with a sword.
Not only him, but also his newly recruited knights, retinues, followers, servants, etc. were all chopped clean.
Eric is still very sensible. He knows that at this time, it is not appropriate to anger Xu Lai.
These guys were all blinded by the aura of the Marquis and lost their minds.
If we can't deal with it neatly this time, if Xu Lailai takes over, I'm afraid the entire resistance army will be completely purged.
Now that it was him who took action, at least others would not resent Xu Lai.
Xu Lai is still the ruler of the Eagle Kingdom after all, and these rebels are, to put it bluntly, just civilians.
If they were impulsive and did something mindless, it would not be the dozens of people in front of them who died.
After beheading the Marquis of Casse, the remaining people did not hesitate at all. They all immediately knelt down and surrendered.
Several resistance armies, except for a few stubborn ones, were basically integrated by Eric.
Originally this was something that could be done within three days, but the reason why Xu Lai gave him two more days was because Xu Lai, who was currently at the camp first, couldn't see it.
Let’s not talk about the uneven quality of equipment. Anyway, the entire First Deng camp’s equipment is taken care of by itself.
The quality of key personnel also varies. The higher-level ones include level 6 knights and level 7 mercenary kings.
There are even farmers working in the fields. In short, all those who escaped from the control of the devil have basically joined the resistance.
Now it is time to resume production in Paphex Plains, so Xu Lai gave Eric two more days to eliminate at least 70% of the products.
Those who ascend first must dare to die. Those with low levels, timidity, and poor equipment will only drag down the quality of the entire unit if they stay in the first camp.
Xu Lai's request caused the Xiandeng camp, which was originally planned to expand to 10,000 people, to shrink to 3,000 people in an instant.
However, the average level of these 3,000 people has reached level 5, and almost everyone has a magic equipment.
With this kind of combat power, coupled with the coach Eric and Xu Lai deploying some priests for support, they already have the ability to fight independently.
Five days passed in the blink of an eye. The camp had just completed its changes and still needed training.
The soldiers of the Qingfeng Legion were somewhat relaxed after being indulgent for the past few days.
So Xu Lai simply gave the order and ordered the troops to march quickly to sweep around the Ashen Valley.
If there is a problem, it will be exposed before the battle. If there is no problem, you can train the troops and seize the time to recover. (End of this chapter)