The Invincible Overlord of Heroes

Less than 20 kilometers away from the town is the orcs’ mercury refining room.

Of course, the orc troops stationed here had already run away, but Xu Lai still caught up with a team escorting Mercury.

This was the fate of being reluctant. These orcs were unwilling to leave the mercury that had been mined in the refining room to Xu Lai, but in the end they also left their lives here.

More than a hundred level 4 orc warriors responsible for the escort, more than 30 strong orc guards, and an orc priest who led the team all fell down under the impact of Xu Lai and others.

After spending most of the day in the orc town, Xu Lai thought that apart from the few wild construction sites he had seen before, there would be no additional gains. Who knew that this time he would get ten more knights?

After chasing down these orcs, he really couldn't take away much of the mercury, and most of them could only be destroyed on the spot.

After upgrading these ten knight retinues and stuffing two large boxes, or 20 units of mercury, into some of the gold coin space freed up, he ran towards the orcs' wild buildings again.

More than a hundred units of mercury containers were destroyed, and all the mercury slowly seeped from the containers.

The large tracts of wild land around here will probably not be productive in the next hundred years.

But what does it matter? Xu Lai is not planning to occupy this wild land, so he will leave it to the orcs to have a headache.

In the mercury refining room, Xu Lai once again rescued hundreds of hard workers. The scope of work here was not large and there was not enough room for too many hard workers.

But also because of the toxicity of mercury, the hard workers here often need to be replaced, and most of them are still young.

After walking around in the wild, it was already dark when we returned to the town.

There were torches left for Xu Lai in the town, and most people didn't rest until they saw Xu Lai returning, and then some people gradually started cheering.

Xu Lai actually left not long ago. It took less than three hours to complete the calculation. He only raided a mercury refining room, an orc tower that could recruit orc warriors, a wolf hut and a windmill that had no resources.

The wilderness is indeed worthy of its name, and there are far fewer buildings in the wilderness than in Pingfeng Grassland.

Even excluding the fighting time, Xu Lai was still running around for two hours.

At his speed, the circle he made in these two hours would be at least more than a hundred kilometers long, but he only found so many wild buildings, which was really miserable.

However, what he raided today was only the east side of Kuba City. Relatively speaking, the east side of Kuba City, that is, the side that continues deep into the wilderness, will be richer in resources.

As soon as Xu Lai got off his horse, Harris and others came to greet them, and almost everyone had something in their hands.

Some brought cool towels, some brought warm broth, and others came over to hold Xu Lai's horse.

Xu Lai panicked for a moment, controlled his horse, and avoided the approaching crowd.

Harris probably saw Xu Lai's embarrassment, and also shouted to stop him: Why are you squeezing? Let the hero go and rest first.

After that, he handed Xu Lai a towel, and then naturally took the horse rope from Xu Lai's hand.

Xu Lai was speechless.

The weather has not turned cold yet, and the cool towel is very comfortable to wipe on the body, but Xu Lai feels not very comfortable.

He knew what these people were thinking. They must have come to their senses and realized that this was the territory of the orcs. They had no one to rely on and could only rely on Xu Lai as their last resort.

Therefore, they tried their best to curry favor with Xu Lai. Among them, they were both grateful that Xu Lai saved them and also worried that Xu Lai would abandon them.

Xu Lai waved his hand to stop everyone's enthusiasm. He said to everyone expressionlessly:

Everyone, please go back and rest quickly. During this period of time, everyone will take good care of themselves.

The orcs will definitely not be willing to let us occupy their town. Let's work harder later. After I capture the heart of the stronghold, I will build walls and arrow towers first.

Unable to get a promise from Xu Lailai, everyone retreated sadly.

There was no expression on the faces of Harris and others. If they could be elected as representatives, of course they would not be so helpless.

Although Xu Lai told them to leave, Harris and the others still served them wholeheartedly. They had even organized manpower to dig up all the land in the central area of ​​the town and around the assembly hall.

Sure enough, Xu Lai had just finished dinner and didn't even have time to talk to Yu Lan, Elwe and the others. Wallis came over again and told Xu Lai that the heart of the stronghold had been dug out.

Xu Lai's backpack is now full of resources. At most, when he leaves, he can let the cavalry eat their dry food and then carry some valuables such as mercury.

Therefore, destroying it is completely meaningless. At most, the stronghold will lose a town, and he will not be able to take away any of the resources obtained by destroying it.

After occupying the stronghold, Xu Lai obtained a new building list.

The towns in the stronghold are very different from human towns. By default, you can build a big-eared monster camp, a wolf house, and a canteen.

Xu Lai is not interested in the orc barracks, so the big-eared monster camp and wolf hut will definitely not be built. There are them in the canteen town. If there is pressure on food, a few more can be built.

What interests him most is city defense weapons.

This town used to be a transportation hub, so it was undefended.

Now there is only one army in the whole city, which is more than enough to attack but not enough to defend.

The most important thing is that there are currently too many stones accumulated in the city, and there is also some wood, but not as much stone.

In addition, Xu Lai has a lot of gold coins now, so he doesn't care too much.

I have designed the city wall, and now I will let everyone work hard to build the city wall as soon as possible.

The city wall is useless to the orcs. Even if the orcs want to take back this city in the future, the city wall will definitely be demolished.

As for the arrow towers, because there was not much wood in the city, Xu Lai only built 12 of them behind the four city walls.

Basically, all the wood in the city was used by Xu Lai to make arrow towers, and the remaining less than a hundred units were invested in the blacksmith shop to make standard woodworking and crossbow vehicles.

Yes, after obtaining the building list, Xu Lai discovered that a blacksmith shop could be built in the orc stronghold, and the blacksmith shop in this city was not only built but also upgraded to a high-end blacksmith shop.

Of course, the blacksmith shop is still there. There is nothing valuable in it, the boxes have been moved out, and even the charcoal inside has been moved back home.

All that was left for Xu Lai here were some scattered pieces of iron iron, some mercury mines waiting to be refined, and bloodstains all over the house.

Needless to say, the original blacksmith and blacksmith's apprentice must have died.

But it doesn't matter. There are a total of 34,000 humans, elves, and werewolves here, and most of them are civilians.

Civilians have little fighting ability, but most of them have special skills.

Most of the humans here are good at raising horses and farming. They should have been plundered from the grasslands. Maybe there are victims in this war.

Both werewolves and lizardmen are good at reclamation, carpentry and even armor making.

The cavemen were good at mining and knew something about refining ore, but Xu Lai had no need for them.

Because there are not many iron ingots here, collect the scattered ones and shoot a few sets of bows and arrows at most.

If you have time, you can collect the orc weapons and rebuild them.

What pleased Xu Lai the most was that this high-end blacksmith shop actually had its own craftsmanship for making catapults and ballistae.

Xu Lai had obtained the crossbow chariot before, in the town of the Blood Man clan, but at that time Xu Lai thought it was too bulky, so he destroyed it without taking it with him.

If you make a catapult here, you will definitely not be able to take it away, but what if you use it to attack a city or defend it.

Harris, help me find a few people first and help me get this ballista out.

Compared with the cumbersome catapult, the ballistae is undoubtedly a more convenient war tool.

Among the information Xu Lai consulted, there were specializations related to ballistics, which could greatly enhance the power and hit rate of war equipment such as catapults and ballistae.

It's not like Xu Lai has never seen an ordinary ballista. Its attack power and distance are comparable to those of level 5 or 6 shooters. An ordinary ballista only requires two or three civilians to operate it.

However, ordinary ballistas are not very cost-effective for Xu Lai. What he is interested in is the Thunderbolt Ballista in this high-end blacksmith shop.

[Thunderbolt Ballista]: A mechanical unit that requires 1-3 people to operate. The attack speed is determined by the number and proficiency of the operators.

Attack: 180, Defense: 25, Durability 600

Ammo 30, standard range 350, ultimate range 700 (half arrow damage)

Basic speed: 5 (no agility bonus, enjoy hero logistics, treasure and talent bonuses)

Special effect: Thunder attack. After hitting an enemy unit or building, there is a 20% probability of summoning a thunderbolt.

Thunderbolt: Causes 250 points of fixed air magic damage, does not enjoy the archery bonus, does not enjoy the heroic spirit, treasure and specialization bonus, and is not subject to the half-arrow penalty.

Manufacturing materials: 2500 gold coins, 50 units of wood, Thunderbird heart*1.

There is a big difference between this thunderbolt ballista and ordinary ballista.

Ordinary crossbows only have an attack power of 120-150, depending on the materials and craftsmanship. Anyway, the best one has an attack power of 150.

Defense is generally only 20 points, and durability is about 500 points.

These are not included. The increased attack and durability of the Thunderbolt Ballista are not too much. Anyway, it is not as exaggerated as a level 5 shooter increasing by one level.

However, this thing has a special attack, which will cause 250 points of damage as long as it is triggered.

Coupled with Xu Lai's intermediate archery skills and treasure bonus, the Thunderbolt Ballista can cause 234 points of damage within the standard range.

Even the low-ranking nobles of the empire, that is, knights, equipped with the thickest knight plate armor, have only about 60-80 defense.

In other words, as long as the thunderbolt is triggered, a level 6 knight can be killed instantly regardless of whether it is within half-arrow range.

Of course, the equipment of seventh-level knights, paladins and heroes is mixed with mithril or fine gold, so both defense and health must be upgraded to another level.

However, it is not impossible for other level 7s with low defense and health to be killed instantly, such as the group of manticores in front of Xu Lai's house. (End of chapter)