The Invincible Overlord of Heroes

Xu Lai had to settle his old debt again, 125 gold coins a day, 1250 gold coins for ten days, 12,500 gold coins for a hundred days, and 45,000 gold coins for a whole year.

This is still TMD's elementary financial management skill. After upgrading to the intermediate level, even if there are no special effects, just doubling the daily income is unbearable. After upgrading to the advanced level, it may be even more exaggerated than his miracle building.

The emergence of this specialization is really a test of human nature.

If Xu Lai had just come to this world, he would have chosen elementary financial management skills without hesitation, because with this ability, he could make a living no matter where he went.

But he is different now. He built his own village, wiped out the horse thieves who attacked him, and now he has built his town again.

A kind of thing that may not be called ambition, but at least something that is unwilling to be reconciled, has grown in his heart.

If he is allowed to live his life as haphazardly and aimlessly as before, he will agree, but his subordinates will not agree either.

Xu Lai resisted the temptation and chose the intermediate defense technique.

The 20% physical damage immunity takes the life quality of his troops to a higher level, and gives him a higher chance of saving his life.

Money and other things are very important, but with Xu Lai's current frugal life, 125 gold coins a day really can't bring much improvement.

Intermediate defense skills are important specializations that may really change the outcome of a battle.

It is worth mentioning that after the level was upgraded, Xu Laihuai panted with great enthusiasm and burst out with great motivation, and upgraded all shields and pole weapons to level 3 in one breath.

However, the experience bar fluctuated very little. When I left out of breath at night, the experience bar only increased to 1%.

This is undoubtedly the biggest blow to Xu Lai's enthusiasm.

You must know that at this time, he is only level 12. Not to mention the terrifying level of level 90 or 100, even Dill Rogers' level 36 is three times as high as him.

It was so difficult to advance to level 12. Even if Xu Lai gritted his teeth and spent 10 gold coins for an hour, it would probably take about two months to advance.

If you look at it this way, the advanced training ground is mainly for training skills. If you really want to improve your level, you have to rely on combat.

After two days, Wei Yihong still did not return, but Jian Yuan, who had been away from the town for more than four days, finally returned to the town.

[Elite Scout—Jian Yuan]: Level 5 warrior

Talent: Scout captains, managed scouts, thieves and other units have their camouflage ability increased by 25% and vision increased by 25%.

Jian Yuan brought back a part of the map in the southeast direction for Xu Lai. The reason why it was only part of the map was because there were too few reference objects in the grassland, so Jian Yuan only planned a single route.

Fortunately, even though this was just a single route, Jian Yuan tried his best to find landmarks on the grassland, including wild buildings with various functions.

These buildings will not escape. Instead, they are resource piles, treasure chests and other material resources. They may migrate due to the Monster Moon on the 1st of each month.

In the first half of the map, Xu Lai saw many buildings on it, still surrounded by wild monsters.

In addition to the wild monsters guarding the building, there are about a dozen marked wild monster spots nearby, and the total number is estimated to be 3 or 40.

In the second half of the map, although some buildings appeared, they were either ruins that had been destroyed or were guarded by soldiers.

Xu Lai knew that this place should be out of no man's land, and these buildings should all have owners.

Sure enough, Jian Yuan explained to Xu Lai: After we left the town, we went all the way to the southeast. After walking for about two days, we probably reached the edge of the grassland area.

Here we encountered a town that was owned and mixed.

So we just did some reconnaissance on the periphery, and after getting some information, we rushed back overnight.

Xu Lai came back late, Yu Lan had already helped bring hot tea, and the others had rested for a while.

However, Xu Lai still expressed his condolences and said, Thank you for your hard work. Please tell me about the situation in this town and whether there is any possibility of trade.

The map drawn by Jian Yuan has very clear monster information. If Xu Lai is determined to defeat these monsters, he will not go the wrong way with this map.

What Xu Lai was more curious about was the mixed town mentioned by Jian Yuan.

You know, going southeast from them is actually going to the southern part of the original empire.

Of course, even if Jian Yuan and the others walked for 16 hours a day and only rested for 8 hours, they were all elite scouts and were extremely fast. They could only travel 300 to 400 kilometers in 2 days at most.

After all, they couldn't run all the time, and Xu Lai had long criticized the physical strength of the scouts.

These three to four hundred kilometers cannot be a straight line distance. Jian Yuan had to stop to paint, but also took a detour to investigate the monster groups and buildings in this direction.

Xu Lai estimated that the straight-line distance they would travel would be reduced by at least half, which is more than 100 to 200 kilometers.

He still remembered that in Pingfeng Grassland, a few hundred kilometers downstream along the river, it was the territory of the fishmen.

Jian Yuan and the others went to the southeast, and the general direction was not much different from the small river.

Xu Lai was now almost a few hundred kilometers away from the original camp. If Jianyuan walked another one or two hundred kilometers, he should indeed be out of the grassland.

Sure enough, Jian Yuan then introduced: Although I didn't go deep into the town, I saw a lot of things on the periphery.

There are two main populations in this town, one is our empire people, and the other is the sea people. The largest ones are fish people and naga.

Naga? Is it the Naga from the tower camp?

Jian Yuan nodded and said: Yes, they are the Naga tribe in the tower, and the fishmen are the followers of the Naga tribe.

Xu Lai nodded to continue.

The Tower Mage himself is fragile. Although he still retains the troop tree of the Human Empire, he has moved to the highlands and snowfields, places that are not looked down upon by the Human Empire.

Therefore, the tower could not actually recruit many human soldiers in the field, and they could not use the empire camp's contractors, so they could only spend a lot of money to hire high-level thugs from the sea tribe to join their camp.

Nagas are amphibious creatures that can live in water as well as on land.

However, whether it is land or sea, Naga is one of the well-deserved overlords.

In the ocean, apart from the sea dragons, there are only legendary mermaids who are qualified to compete with Naga.

On land, the Naga Sword Master, the Eight-Armed Naga, and the Naga Queen are all famous high-level combat forces with few opponents.

Naga's weakness is similar to that of the Crusader. This amphibious thing relies on her snake tail like Medusa, so speed is a disadvantage.

What's even more frightening is that unlike humans, Naga relies on his own continuous practice to slowly become a powerful being such as a knight, a crusader, or a mage.

As a race of Naga, except for newborn cubs, almost as long as they reach adulthood, they are intermediate-level and above-intermediate warriors.

Therefore, there are many things that the noble Naga tribe cannot do, such as hunting, farming, building houses, etc.

On land, the Archmage will take care of everything for them and live in golden tents. If they are under the sea, they can only force weak races like fishmen to serve them.

Many Nagas who are used to being served have to bring the fishmen up even if they go ashore.

Creatures like fishmen are also amphibious, but their amphibiousness is somewhat tragic. They cannot be defeated on land or in the sea.

Here I have to mention another powerful characteristic of fish-men, which is that, like fish, they live in a clutch of eggs throughout their lives.

Moreover, they can give birth every year, and their breeding speed is comparable to that of cavemen in dungeons, kobolds in swamps, wolf-headed men, and big-eared monsters in strongholds.

Therefore, with their strong numerical advantage, they can usually occupy a large territory on the coast.

The Nagas you saw were male and female, and how many arms did they have? Xu Lai asked.

The Naga race is very unique. Like humans, they also have several advancement directions, but no matter which one, their combat effectiveness can be judged by the number of their arms.

The two-armed ordinary Naga is the lowest level, followed by four-armed Naga, six-armed Naga and eight-armed Naga.

Although the Eight-Armed Naga is level 7, it is mainly composed of males among the Nagas. However, the Naga race is one in which women are strong and men are weak.

Both have eight arms. The eight-armed Naga is level 7, but the Naga Sword Master is level 8. The Naga Queen is a terrifying level 9 existence. However, there is only one queen in the entire Naga clan, and she is the only one in the Naga clan. Level 9.

There are both men and women, but most of them only have two arms. Four-armed Nagas are very rare.

The two arms indicate that they are just ordinary Nagas, and the four arms are not very powerful, but when they appear in a town, they can be regarded as high-end combat power.

What about the relationship between Naga and humans?

Jian Yuan thought for a while, and then said with certainty: I have been observing for most of the day, and I haven't seen any fight between the human race and the sea race in this town.

Even the guards guarding the town are composed of humans and Nagas. If it weren't for the imperial flag hanging on the town, I would have thought this was a tower town.

Generally speaking, the relationship between humans and Nagas here is quite harmonious.

but……

But what?

“But they seem to be quite repulsive to outsiders. The three of us spent most of the day in three directions of the town and found that there were almost no caravans or merchants coming in or out of the entire town.

After passing this town and heading southeast, the smell of the sea becomes stronger and stronger. The sea should be a hundred kilometers behind this town.

Master, if you want to do business, I'm afraid you have to go north along the small town and enter the territory of the human race.

Or start from Qingfeng Town and head east directly.

Xu Lai had the map he got from Ryan. He knew that the human towns were generally in the northeast corner of him, that is, continuing in the direction of the horse thief camp.

Count Aini's castle and the two most prosperous towns in Pingfeng Grassland are both located in the northeast corner and are directly under the jurisdiction of Count Aini.

For the time being, Xu Lai doesn't want to trade directly with Count Aini, maybe because he has heard too much about it, and he doesn't have much favorable impression of the nobles in this world.