A hero is the kind of person who can lead a whole team to become stronger together, but the hero himself may not be very powerful.
A demonic hero like Mendis is not bad at all. At best, he can only be regarded as slacking off after becoming a hero.
Many natural heroes, such as those descendants of nobles and descendants like Xu Lai, have really varying abilities in combat.
Xu Lai may still be considered a first-tier player due to his powerful attributes.
But once the equipment is removed, especially a complete set of Angel Alliance suits, his combat ability is reduced by at least half, and he instantly becomes a third-rate player.
No matter how powerful Mendis was before, if he changes to ordinary equipment and has not officially fought against anyone for many years, his level may drop even more dramatically than Xu Lai's.
However, although Mendis changed his equipment, it was still hard to see it among a bunch of abyss lords.
It is relatively easy to identify among the corpses.
First of all, in terms of size, Mendis must be the strongest among the abyss lords.
The second thing is the equipment. Even if it is replaced with ordinary models, he will definitely not replace some jewelry and sundries.
For example, a talisman that increases health, or a space ring that stores most of Mendis' wealth.
Unfortunately, this space ring looks good, but it is also an encrypted ring.
And things like space rings cannot be stored in other space equipment.
So in order to decrypt this ring, Xu Lai needs to take it back to Qingfeng City himself, or find a high-level space mage nearby.
Xu Lai plans to go back recently, but he has to wait for Tahan to come back.
By the way, if I have the chance, I would also like to meet the Lord of Hell.
But once he appeared, it would basically mean the destruction of Lionheart City and Holy Angel City. Xu Lai thought it was best not to see him.
After killing Mendis, taking out all the abyss lord's equipment and throwing it into the warehouse ring, he took the corpse of the fallen angel to meet Yan Feng.
The number of angels is still too small, and the newly advanced batch of little angels are only at level 7. Fighting against the powerful abyss lord, some casualties are inevitable.
Tahan failed to catch up with these two wars, otherwise he could have brought these little angels back with him.
Fortunately, the casualties were not high. After all, Xu Lai could heal their wounds, superimpose a shield, fire control and other spells.
In order not to expose himself, Mendis has been avoiding it and did not dare to use spells.
However, Elvi has not participated in the battle. On the one hand, she is protecting Xu Lai, and on the other hand, she also wants to find him as a hero.
Without the blessing of heroes, the combat effectiveness of the abyss lords will be reduced by at least half. Killing the heroes first is the best choice.
Mendis also quietly organized an elite attack on Xu Lai. Unfortunately, Xu Lai was protected by a thousand-person Holy Light Knights.
After several battles, although Xu Lai's own level was only improved by one level, the paladins and knights of the Guards all advanced one after another.
Now, the lowest level of his bodyguard knights are all level 7 paladins.
Yan Feng did not pursue him too deeply.
After firing several rounds of ammunition reserves, I don’t know if the morale of the abyss lords collapsed, or if the demon leading the team just couldn’t stand it.
The remaining two to three thousand abyss lords suddenly flew away like a flock of exploding birds.
The exploding demons flew in different directions without thinking.
Most of the people Yan Feng leads are summoned knights. Even if there are some officers who can lead the teams separately, it is impossible to really divide them into thousands of teams.
Divide into several teams and pursue roughly in different directions. The agreed pursuit time limit is already the limit.
If this is a trap by the devil, they can meet up in the air by changing the direction at will.
But chasing on the ground is impossible. Various ravines, wild buildings, wild monster communities, unopened roads, villages and towns, etc. are all huge obstacles.
After barely pursuing them for more than half an hour, Yan Feng had to rush back to join them.
The good news is that neither he nor the archers suffered any casualties. Only Xu Lai lost more than ten little angels, and they have been resurrected by the archangels.
Xu Lai stayed in Bristone and killed nearly 10,000 abyss demons, most of whom were advanced abyss lords.
Unfortunately, Xu Lai wandered around Bridstone for another two days, but failed to gain anything.
None of the devils in Bristone dare to leave the city even half a step.
Even the city walls, city gates and moats that Xu Lai had flattened, no one came to repair them.
These buildings are not heroic buildings. Even if they have more resources, they still need workers to repair them.
Xu Lai originally wanted to see if there were still humans working for the devil in Bridgestone, or if the devil would send those little devils, the jumpers, to work.
However, after Barton learned that Xu Lai was still wandering outside the city, even Mendis's head was hanging outside the city.
This guy simply defended the inner city and refused to take a step out.
He even opened the other three intact city gates, allowing the demons who couldn't stand to escape.
Barton used these demons as bait to see if Xu Lai was still there.
As for the open city gates, just kidding, an entire wall of the entire city is no longer there, so what does it matter whether the gates on the other three sides are open or not.
Of course, these demons were all hunted down by Xu Lai without exception.
They are just escaped demons, either too few in number or low-level goods.
Let alone flesh of the mouth, it is worse than a mosquito leg.
Xu Lai estimated that as long as he didn't leave, Barton wouldn't even leave the inner city, let alone send troops out.
Anyway, it was impossible to gain anything more in this place, and Xu Lai finally returned home.
On the way back, Xu Lai did not meet Kerrigan.
Bristone is not far from Graycastle. If the infantry marches quickly, it will only take a little more than half a day to arrive.
As for the cavalry, they can make at least two round trips in half a day without stopping or resting on the way.
The cavalry led by Xu Lai were faster and arrived at Gray Castle in only one hour.
A lot of the scars left by the previous siege of Graycastle have been repaired by Wang Chao during this period.
After Rena returned with tens of thousands of people, Gray Castle has no shortage of craftsmen for the time being.
Of course, not all of these tens of thousands of people are craftsmen, more than half of them are just ordinary civilians.
But fortunately, they were basically young and strong laborers. After Reina took over the defense of Graycastle, Wang Chao led them out of the city to work.
Although the land in the Graycastle Valley is full of rocks and is extremely unsuitable for planting, this is a magical world.
Get a castle heart and bury it, and you can create a large farm. When these farms are connected together, a manor is automatically formed.
Unfortunately, although food can be grown in the manor, it has to bear a debuff that reduces the output by half.
At the same time, growing food and drinking water in the manor require access to mountain springs, which is very troublesome.
But fortunately, even with the debuff that halved the production, two super estates with more than 1,000 people can still feed the people of this city.
However, if Xu Lai keeps a larger garrison here, he will still need to transport food here from the rear.
And Graycastle does not have a teleportation array, so there is no way to leave directly from here.
Xu Lai used the spell of the Gate of Time and Space to leave with the knights and the little angels.
Before he left, Tahan was waiting for him to come back. He brought back the supply troops from major cities in the past two months, as well as more than a hundred archangels who had advanced to archangels.
It turns out that during Xu Lai's absence, Qingfeng City held another summer auction, and many top military units were sold at the auction.
As the Minister of Commerce, Wei Yihong personally went to Tahan as an envoy, and used Titan and other top soldiers that Tahan urgently needed, and traded many little angels back from the wild.
It is difficult to recruit top-level troops regularly, but just like the Griffin Treasure House that Xu Lai defeated, if you are lucky, you can get several for free.
Especially in this situation, the entire empire is in chaos.
Many of the resource areas in front of us that are strictly guarded by the major nobles have fallen into the hands of the guilds composed of the major descending heroes.
This is especially obvious in the south.
A large number of nobles from the Western Empire and the Northern Empire moved south, coupled with the destruction of the previous dungeon and the threat of the Cregan Burning Legion.
Nowadays, the Southern Empire is also in particular chaos. The major lords are recruiting troops one after another, causing several major nobles to gradually lose their dominance.
Although Xu Lai left, he did not take too many troops with him.
After disbanding the legion, all he took away were the dozens of little angels and Roland's Knight Guards.
Tahan took over the reins of the Knightly Wind Legion again after being upgraded by 3 levels and nearly 20 points in four attributes excluding equipment.
After leaving his two main legions in Graycastle, Xu Lai solemnly thanked Emilia.
He selected some of the more precious ones from the demon's trophies and gave them to Emilia and the Naga Guards.
Emilia's Naga Guards did not slack off just because they were just allies. Instead, they took the initiative to undertake many dangerous actions.
Although they just wanted to gain experience, Xu Lai could not swallow up all the loot without conscience.
The personal combat effectiveness of these Nagas is already very high. What they lack is nothing more than combat experience and equipment.
After all, their Nagas, especially the high-level Nagas, need eight weapons alone.
No matter how arrogant the Naga tribe is, it can only provide a limited number of Nagas with titles such as the number one warrior with a full set of high-quality weapons and equipment.
After the alliance with Xu Lai, the Deep Sea Tribe where Emilia belonged had a much better life, but it still could only equip its main force with one main weapon.
Combat experience made up for it a lot this time, so Xu Lai simply gave them a lot of demon equipment.
A place like the bottom of the sea is not good at making equipment, and many of the devil's weapons are suitable for the tall Naga.
After receiving this batch of weapons, Emilia squinted her eyes and smiled: "I don't want to go back because of this business."
Xu Lai said with a smile: "Graycastle can't accommodate it. With so many people, my knights can only be stationed outside the city.
But if you are still interested, you can talk to Arvid when you return.
The mission I gave him remains unchanged. While he is responsible for the Brilliant Territory, he still has to fight against the demons in the offshore city.
Now he can only cause damage to demons from a distance. He goes ashore to fight with demons. It is still difficult to deal with the trapped people in these offshore cities. "
Emilia smiled happily and said: "This matter is easy to talk about, just leave it to our Naga. "
The Nagas followed Xu Lai and did not even suffer any losses to their own troops.
Except for the attack on Gray Castle, Xu Lai was really reluctant to sacrifice too many of his own soldiers, which made Na Jia suffered the largest number of casualties.
But including that time, there were less than a hundred casualties in total. In exchange for a large number of useful weapons and equipment, as well as 1.5 experience points for all Nagas to advance, they made a lot of money.
Officially, because it is profitable every time, Xu Lai only needs to call these Nagas for help. These Nagas would rather put aside their clan affairs first and come with large troops.
After seeing off the Naga troops, Xu Lai also gave the Xiandeng camp a short holiday of one and a half months and allowed them to go home for a visit.
The Western Empire needs to be rebuilt, and rebuilding requires a lot of resources and manpower.
Give them half a month. First, let them go back and create humans.
Secondly, they were allowed to take the large rewards given by Xu Lai and invisibly promote Xu Lai and the Eagle Kingdom.
These 3,000 people who first entered the camp can be said to be the last selected elite among the people of the Western Empire.
Even if their original relatives are no longer here and now they are back home in glory, there are still many people who want to live with them.
Knight Wind is stationed outside the city. Tahan possesses the talent of knight and all the Qi spells. If he stays outside the city, he can better support Graycastle.
And his two main forces are still there. If Graycastle is also lost, then Xu Lai's presence or absence will mean little.
After arranging everything, Xu Lai recovered enough physical strength and used the gate of time and space to teleport directly back to Qingfeng City.
I went out to fight for half a year, and came back with a new look.
As the capital of the country, Qingfeng City was already very prosperous before Xu Lai left.
Now that I'm back, the whole city has changed again.
Xu Lai's status is very different now, but he is a person who doesn't like complicated etiquette, so he came back this time without alarming anyone.
The Gate of Time and Space drained his energy. Fortunately, he was prepared and cast the spell while sitting in a carriage.
After returning, he naturally lay down in the carriage.
Lifting the curtain, Xu Lai saw the towns and commercial markets connected one after another outside the city.
In the city, there are carriages and transport vehicles coming and going one after another.
Although Xu Lai did not identify himself, Roland was known to everyone in Qingfeng City. At least the officers guarding the city could not help but know him.
As the knight commander of the Roland Guards, even if he was not given an official title, absolutely no one would dare to embarrass him.
At the same time, Roland and his Knight Guards appeared here, which basically means that their king may also be in this team.
However, the city guard did not dare to say anything. He just asked people to cut off the passing vendors and let the Knights of the Guards pass first.
In the laws issued by Xu Lai, it was clearly stated that soldiers have the right of passage at any time, but no one dared to complain. (End of this chapter)