The Invincible Overlord of Heroes

Eric's contribution is quite great. The Vanguard Group basically charges in every battle, and Eric is even more so.

The hatred between the Vanguard Group and the demons is deep. After being activated, they are extremely brave in every battle.

Among them, Eric, the dragon knight who always fights at the forefront, played a great role in encouragement.

On the other hand, as a knight officially canonized by the empire, Eric has one foot in the threshold of nobility.

And his personal reputation is unparalleled, at least in the Western Empire.

He took the initiative to join Xu Lai, which also saved Xu Lai a lot of trouble.

Most of the rebels surrendered without saying a word when they heard that even Eric followed Xu Lai.

Of course, it is not ruled out that there are a few ambitious people, but they really can't jump up.

In addition to the rebels, because of Eric's relationship, the people of the Western Empire are more likely to accept Xu Lai.

They settled directly in the Eagle Empire without any hesitation, and Eric is definitely a big factor.

Eric has made great contributions, and he was already a knight before, so it is more than enough to be conferred a baron and a viscount.

But these two titles are not enough to give him the attribute of expertise.

But if Eric is conferred as an earl, in addition to the increase in annual financial expenditure, the key lies in what other old people will think.

Regardless of Tahan, Joseph, Aaron, the Aboka brothers, Urdola, Wei Yihong and others, they are the first batch of people who followed Xu Lai.

Even if Aaron and others have less merit, Jimmy Martell has only been promoted from viscount to earl.

If Eric is promoted, these old people must give an explanation.

Xu Lai completely occupied Lionheart City, plus Tahan and Reina occupied the cities of the Western Empire during this period.

The territory of the Eagle Kingdom has almost doubled, but the population has not increased much, probably only two or three million.

Moreover, even if the entire Western Empire, including the cities of the Northern Empire, is occupied, it is estimated that the population will increase by more than one million at most.

The population of the entire Western Empire, including Long'an City, Wasteland City and other cities with relatively large populations, may only have a total population of more than 10 million.

If calculated in this way, plus the millions of people on the grassland and the two or three million people who migrated, the entire Eagle Kingdom may not exceed 20 million.

In other words, the Eagle Kingdom has a land area far exceeding that of the previous Western Empire, but the total population is less than one-fifth of the previous Western Empire.

Of course, this is not Xu Lai's fault, and it is also thanks to Xu Lai.

If he had not transferred to the Western Empire in time, it would be difficult to find a living person in the entire Western Empire.

A population of 20 million is enough for Xu Lai to continue to promote several generals, but only generals are not enough.

The gap between generals and heroes is too huge. At least two or three high-level generals are equivalent to a low-level hero.

Xu Lai's trust in the advent hero is too low. Even if he wants to promote him this time, he will not give him too much power.

After thinking about it, Xu Lai believes that he still has to select some people from the natives and his own people to use.

Since rewarding Eric would make the old man unhappy, then he should be rewarded together.

In fact, Xu Lai should have been rewarded at the founding ceremony.

But the Eagle Kingdom at that time was only the grassland. It was a large place, but there were very few people and cities.

This place, with one earl, and more than a dozen titles inherited from the empire, would be too crowded if it was divided.

Now there is a whole territory larger than the Western Empire. If it is not divided, it will easily make the subordinates alienated.

If you want to divide it, you can't be petty, and you can't do it casually.

The key is that the people Xu Lai wants to enfeoff will come.

These people stay in various cities. Let's not talk about how long it will take them to get here. The work they have on hand must be handed over.

Lena can't leave for a while anyway. There are more than 100,000 people in the barracks. Even if some officers and those with lower quality are eliminated, there are at least 100,000 people.

Even with the help of Eric and the officers of the Vanguard Corps, it would take more than three to five days to reorganize these people.

For the next period of time, Xu Lai put aside all his work, even Su Ya was forced to give up her work by Xu Lai.

Tahan and Yan Feng were ordered by Xu Lai to conquer several cities in the Northern Empire.

Hausen had already passed the news to Xu Lai that King Aled of the Northern Empire had agreed to the deal proposed by Xu Lai.

In order to show its sincerity, the Northern Empire had taken the initiative to deploy soldiers to the border of the Eastern Empire.

The Eastern Empire was in a tense situation with the Undead, and had offended Xu Lai. Xu Lai had taken away the strongest Griffin Corps, and had to worry about Xu Lai's revenge at any time.

In this situation, the Eastern Empire did not dare to confront the Northern Empire at all.

Not only did it not dare to confront, but it took the initiative to shrink its troops. Except for the important cities on the border, ordinary towns and villages were all abandoned.

The Northern Empire had also established a country, and King Aled was also a little ambitious.

What's more, the Northern Empire had at least 5 large and medium-sized castles swallowed up by Xu Lai.

At this time, the Northern Empire naturally took all these towns into its pocket without hesitation.

So far, whether the Northern Empire was willing or not, it had completely offended the Eastern Empire.

Yuwen Shaoguang was not a generous person. Xu Lai only took away the Royal Griffin Knights, which he could not control.

The Northern Empire actually annexed more than a dozen towns and dozens of villages of Yuwen Shaoguang.

Let alone whether the Eastern Empire can recover, even if they drive away the undead, they will probably attack the Northern Empire first.

Xu Lai needs to recuperate, but what needs to be recuperated is the grassland and the Western Empire that have experienced war.

Speaking of which, the Qingfeng Corps has not been established for a long time.

The wave of recruits he brought out grew up quickly and experienced many battles, but in fact they only joined the army for more than half a year.

After the teleportation array relies on the heart of the castle, only a few mages are needed to manage it, and energy stones can be used to maintain large-scale teleportation.

Xu Lai specially approved the Qingfeng Corps to take a month-long rotation vacation.

Each person has 10 days of rest time, divided into 20 rounds, and a group of people are released every day. After a month, the whole army will be assembled.

This month, Eric's new army should be reorganized, just in time for a large-scale enfeoffment ceremony to be held in a few days.

He used this month to take Su Ya, Elena, Anna and others who had not been out for a long time to visit every manor outside Lionheart City.

Roland was responsible for the guard, while Elvy and her angel army were left in Lionheart City by Xu Lai.

Also left behind were Jian Yuan, who was promoted to the Chief of Intelligence of the Eagle Kingdom, and the intelligence officers he recruited.

During the month when Xu Lai was away, government affairs were handled by Jilong, and Jian Yuan collected intelligence in secret.

The main targets were the movements in Lionheart City and the movements in the Southern Empire.

The Eagle Kingdom was established too recently, and the development of intelligence work was not smooth.

Fortunately, Xu Lai was rich and attached great importance to intelligence work. Although he spent money lavishly, the manpower might not be trustworthy, but at least it was sufficient.

Elvy stayed to guard the palace. With this group of Seraphim, no matter how others messed around, the sky would not fall.

Xu Lai himself, on the other hand, was leisurely vacationing in various manors, admiring these private mansions that once belonged to the dignitaries in the capital.

These manors may not be as large as those on the grassland, but the degree of luxury and unique style of the decoration is not comparable to those on the grassland.

Originally, Xu Lai wanted to just hang around and get through this month comfortably.

It would be best if he could wait until Elena gave birth to the child, otherwise, Xu Lai would not have the heart to do anything during this period.

Unfortunately, things did not go as he wished. For a busy man like Xu Lai, good days will never last long.

News came from Jian Yuan that the Southern Empire was about to gather troops to retaliate against Xu Lai because of the loss of 200,000 elite infantry and royal archers.

But this was not a reason for Xu Lai to end his vacation early. The Southern Empire had to gather troops, and Xu Lai also had to gather his own coastal defense force.

To deal with the Southern Empire, it was impossible without a strong enough fleet.

Coincidentally, after Xu Lai confiscated a large amount of gold coins and resources from Lionheart City, he had enough capital to produce warships at full capacity.

It was the elves' delegation that forced Xu Lai to end his vacation.

Reina personally took them to find Xu Lai. Xu Lai owed the elves a big favor, so it was difficult to refuse.

"The undead have broken through the Green Forest and are entering the Emerald Forest where the World Tree is located.

According to the original Light Union Agreement, we contacted several bishops of the temple, and they all said they were powerless.

We really have no choice but to ask you for help."

As soon as they met, the elf ranger in a green cloak knelt on one knee in front of Xu Lai.

Xu Lai has seen many elf messengers, but it was the first time that Reina personally brought him here.

Obviously, this elf messenger has a close relationship with Reina.

However, although Xu Lai has been promoted to a king now, the elves are envoys from other countries after all, and there is no reason to kneel before the king of a foreign country.

The arrogant elf kneeled down on one knee for Xu Lai, which only showed that the situation on the elf side had indeed reached a critical moment.

Xu Lai quickly helped the female ranger up and said firmly:

"Don't worry, the elves are the most important allies of mankind and the most important friends of the Eagle Kingdom.

I will do my best to help you."

Xu Lai's words made the elves present, including Reina, all breathe a sigh of relief.

Unlike all the elf messengers he had seen before, this group of elves wore close-fitting leather armor and spoke very straightforwardly, without any courtesy at all.

Xu Lai liked this method very much, so he did not deliberately try to manipulate the other party and agreed to help very straightforwardly.

The next thing to discuss was the form of help.

What Xu Lai wanted most was to continue to provide supplies as before.

But if that was the case, the elves would not have to send someone else, let alone this kind of inarticulate ranger.

If Xu Lai did not like this straightforward personality, he would never give a good face to another leader.

Moreover, this time, Reina also came along specially. In the past, she always avoided suspicion in order not to embarrass Xu Lai.

Reina knew that as long as she appeared here, she was using her influence to put pressure on Xu Lai.

If Xu Lai did not give Reina face, it would inevitably hurt the feelings of both parties, which was something that neither party wanted to see.

Since they know they still have to do this, it can only mean that the elves are really on the verge of extreme danger.

The elves rely on the World Tree to survive. The World Tree can emit huge and pure life energy, which is the key to the longevity of the elves.

As an immortal species, the elves have extremely poor reproductive ability.

It can be said that once the World Tree is lost, the elves are basically equivalent to extinction.

At the same time, because the World Tree has the purest and most terrifying life energy in this world, it is also what the undead want to obtain and destroy the most.

Most of the undead and undead wizards believe that the only thing that can help them revive and become living creatures in this world is the World Tree.

The remaining part of the undead believes that the World Tree is the origin of all life in this world.

This view is even strongly agreed by many anthropologists.

In short, these undead believe that as long as the World Tree is destroyed, all creatures in this world will be extinct.

At that time, the whole world will be lifeless and without life.

Without life, there is no death, and without life, there will naturally be no undead.

Therefore, most of the undead chose to attack the barrier, including the necromancer Sandro, who ranked second only to the Abyss Lord Kerrigan in the temple.

Sandro has two sets of combined treasures, both of which are unique artifacts.

One set is a cursed armor that can put the four curses of slowness, evil curse, weakness and disaster on the enemy at the beginning of the battle.

The other set is more perverted, which can summon the corpses of the dead into powerful undead warriors of its own side.

Ordinary undead wizards can only summon the dead into skeleton soldiers at most.

But Sandro, with the blessing of the Ghost King Cloak, can summon the dead warriors, knights and other physical professions into 5th-level dark warriors.

After the death of magicians, priests, and elven druids, they will be transformed into 5th-level corpse wizards by the Ghost King Cloak.

Don’t look at it as only 5th level, you should know that many magic professionals themselves are not 5th level.

After becoming undead, their strength not only did not shrink, but also increased by one level.

With these two sets of artifacts, the elves were able to fight the undead for so long thanks to the geographical advantage.

Of course, this is also related to the fact that the undead did not attack the elves with all their strength.

Although the undead have no feelings, their spirits still exist, and they have a very strong need for identity.

This minority of undead ambitionists tried to rule the world forever with the immortal undead body.

King Leoric, the death knight, one of the four undead kings.

And Rodhart, the death knight who could not play a combat advantage in the forest, chose to attack the human empire.

The most suitable and best person to deal with the undead is undoubtedly the priest of the human empire.

It's a pity that when the elves abided by the agreement and came thousands of miles to support, the human priests threw the original contract behind their minds.

Of course, these priests can't be blamed entirely, because the temple and the holy city were destroyed by the devil. (End of this chapter)