Chapter 51 Territory Changes

  Watching these two long-awaited heroes, Xiao Yu was extremely excited.

  "Old Sa, you've finally arrived, delighted to see you. How was the journey? Were you tired or hungry?" Xiao Yu asked, holding onto Sa Er's hand and showing concern.

  "There's also Old Wu, you're doing well too, I've really missed you, how to put it, I'm excited." Xiao Yu exchanged a few pleasantries with these two heroes, showing just how much he valued them.

  After finishing the polite conversation, Xiao Yu found that neither of them knew how to respond to him. Xiao Yu also stopped being polite and first looked at the skills they could currently learn.

  Sally can now learn skills such as:

  Lightning Arrow (up to level 3), can release a powerful lightning arrow to attack the enemy, causing massive lightning damage.

  Terra Totem (max 3 levels), summons a totem that increases the strength attribute of all Beastmen soldiers within a certain range by 20%, second level increases by 40%, and third level increases by 60%.

  Stone Skin Totem (max 3 levels), summons a totem that gives Stone Skin armor to all beastmen soldiers within its range, increasing their defense. Each level of the totem increases defense by 20%.

  Summon Earth Elemental (up to 3 levels), summon an earth elemental to fight for Sal.

  Usagi's current learnable skills are:

  Holy Light (up to level 3), can heal a wounded soldier. Each upgrade of this skill increases the healing effect by 30%.

  Strength Blessing (up to 3 levels), can add strength blessing to soldiers of a certain race, increasing their strength attribute by 20%, the second level increases by 40%, and the third level increases by 60%.

  Devotion Aura (up to 3 levels), within the area covered by the Paladin's aura, all Human soldiers receive the blessing of Holy Light, their armor is increased. For each level of the aura, armor is increased by 20%.

  Judgment (Rank 3), Paladin unleashes the power of Holy Light, dealing Holy damage to enemies. If the target is an Undead creature, damage is doubled.

  Seeing the skills of these two heroes, Xiao Yu's face immediately revealed a sly and satisfied smile.

  "It's just as I expected, from the start there are totems and blessings, which means that the overall combat effectiveness of the army is increased. This is much more useful than some individual hero skills. However, it's a bit unfortunate that Sal's totem can only amplify beastmen, while the paladin's blessing can only amplify human soldiers, they're not universal."

  Xiao Yu felt a slight sense of regret, but this was also normal. After all, the beliefs of beastmen and humans were different; if humans could borrow the power of the beastmen's totems, wouldn't that be absurd?

  Xiao Yu directly gave Saar and Uther skills, Saar's first skill was Totem of Earth Power, Uther's first skill was Blessing of Strength.

  At this stage, it is necessary to enhance overall combat effectiveness. As for the hero's own combat effectiveness, even if there are no aggressive skills, the strong Sal and Uther individual combat effectiveness will not be bad.

  Bought two heroes and upgraded the blacksmith and store of four clans, Xiao Yu's money and merit value had already been depleted. The more it went on, the more merit value and gold were needed to upgrade buildings, and it was really unbearable to consume.

  Xiao Yu originally wanted to produce all the human heavy cavalry, but he never had enough money. Moreover, the human heavy cavalry consumes a lot of gold coins when purchased, 400 gold coins each, and 500 heavy cavalry would cost 2 million gold coins. This doesn't even include the money needed to replace their equipment.

  Xiao Yu knew that when these soldiers were first summoned, their equipment was very outdated. Now that the blacksmith has been upgraded to level 2, they can buy level 2 equipment, which seems like a good thing, but it requires a lot of money. Especially the heavy cavalry's equipment, that's just a money pit.

  It's good that last time we defeated Karu's 20,000-strong army and left behind a lot of armor and weapons. We can take them to the blacksmith's shop to be melted down and reused, saving us a lot of expenses.

  After returning to the city, Xiao Yu learned from Long Hui that the situation on Karu's side was not very good at present. The 20,000 elite troops were almost completely annihilated, and their vitality was severely damaged. For the time being, there was no desire for revenge.

  Although Karu's territory is much stronger than the Lion King's, there are only 400,000 to 500,000 elite soldiers. Nearly half of the army was lost in this battle, can sending another half win?

  Karu's father wasn't a fool either. Although he severely punished Karu for his defeat, he also knew that this absolutely wasn't just Karu's problem alone. Even if it was an idiot leading 20,000 people to fight against less than 2,000 people, they would still win, but Karu lost and lost so badly, there must be some special issue.

  This at least shows that Xiao Yu's beastman troops are extremely powerful and cannot be inferred by common sense. Especially the news brought back by those soldiers, Xiao Yu actually has the ancient weapon of blade carts here, as well as a powerful trebuchet, which can suddenly shoot hundreds of stones down, he also began to take Xiao Yu seriously, it is impossible to easily send troops again.

  Xiao Yu also knew that if Kalu's father wanted to take revenge, he definitely wouldn't do it now. He would definitely rest for a while and gather more information about Xiao Yu, or maybe even plot something to win over some other people before coming together to deal with Xiao Yu.

  Although Xiao Yu had won a great victory in the siege, if he were to attack Karu's territory, it would not be feasible. His military strength was simply too weak and not suitable for large-scale siege warfare.

  However, Xiao Yu also didn't plan to let off Karl and his group so easily.

  Although they cannot send regular troops to attack, Xiao Yu can dispatch the undead army to harass them, making their people live in terror every day, unable to rest and recover.

  It's just like the tactics used in games before, where you go and slaughter villagers for a reason.

  Xiao Yu built an underground lair in the Undead Clan's territory and produced 100 ghouls, while also creating a few undead monks to harass Karu's domain.

  However, he has recently focused all his energy on robbing and making money, and is also worried about letting Xiao A take these ghouls out alone, in case something happens.

  After all, this undead army is a heaven-sent secret, and every use must be extremely cautious.

  So for the next month, Xiao Yu continued to take these soldiers out to eliminate bandits everywhere, earning money on one hand and leveling up new recruits and heroes on the other.

  With the auxiliary skills of Usell and Sar, the overall combat effectiveness of the army was greatly improved immediately, and for those who were not regular strong thieves, it could be said that they were invincible.

  Although he also encountered some tough guys, like Karus in the past, but now Xiao Yu's strength is no longer what it used to be. Even the toughest bandits can't withstand Xiao Yu's cunning and precise attacks.

  After a month of eliminating bandits everywhere, Xiao Yu's level finally reached 10th level, becoming a strong player in the second-tier standard of this world. Xian Sheng, Tailande and Dà Mó Fǎ Shī also all reached 13th level.

  Two more skill points were added, Xiao Yu taught Jian Sheng a brave leap and a dash. Both of these are not attack-type skills, but auxiliary skills that greatly enhance Jian Sheng's overall combat power.

  Tyrande's side, Shao Yu, added two more points to her strong strike halo. Anyway, it's not expected that Tyrande will go one-on-one with anyone now, and this group attack skill is the most useful. Now, Tyrande's strong strike halo has reached level 4, and the overall increase in strength of the Elf archer has almost doubled, which is the most effective.

  On the side of the great magician, Xiao Yu added a bit of Frost Nova, a bit of Blink, and a bit of Enhanced Water Element.

  Xiao Yu himself, having already obtained eight skill points, decisively upgraded Brave Leap to the maximum level, then added two points to Dash, and put the remaining three skill points entirely into Blink.

  Suddenly, Xiao Yu became incredibly awesome.

  His bravery allowed him to jump up to ten meters high in one go, what a concept, it's like Spiderman. And with teleportation, he can move directly and freely to another place, combined with Wind Step, it's absolutely coming and going like the wind, the dragon appears and disappears, he thinks he can now be an assassin.

  The brave leap excited Xiao Yu for a while. The feeling of flying, those who have never experienced it, cannot understand that passion.

  Xiao Yu finally knows the feeling of those basketball players dunking in mid-air on TV, when flying high up, the wind quickly sweeps past his ears, it makes his blood boil.

  There is always a desire in people to break free from the gravitational pull of their hearts. When this desire is fulfilled, it will be an unprecedented release of passion.

  New heroes Sal and Uther have reached level 8 through this month's battles. Sal's current skills are: Earth Totem (3rd level), Stone Skin Totem (3rd level), Earth Element (2nd level). As for Lightning Arrow, Xiao Yu hasn't had Sal learn it in a hurry, but is thinking of waiting until Lightning Chain comes out to directly learn the skill of Lightning Chain.

  Uther's current skills are: Blessing of Strength (Level 3), Devotion Aura (Level 3), Holy Light (Level 2). The initial role of the Paladin is still what Xiaoyu wants to use as a support, adding states and healing, all of which are very useful.

  Although there are healing potions, sometimes some very serious injuries may still be incurable. However, with the Paladin's Holy Light skill, as long as it is not extremely severe, they can usually be saved and then assisted by healing potions to quickly recover a soldier.

  However, the Paladin's healing is still only able to heal human units and cannot heal Orc infantry, which makes Xiao Yu a bit depressed, not knowing if Sal has any healing skills in the later stages, but it should be enough. Since there is the Dark Ranger hero, Sal should be focused on combat and won't have any healing skills.

  However, once I reach the 2nd level main base and have a soul settlement, buying a few witch doctors can solve this problem. It's just that upgrading to the 2nd level main base is too difficult, requiring much more merit points than before.

  Through this month of plunder, Xiao Yu also obtained a large amount of funds and materials, and the Lion King's territory became more prosperous than ever before. The old steward was delighted every day, and his greatest pleasure was to look at the warehouse inventory list over and over again.

  However, just as he had finished sorting out a list, he would have to revise it again because Xiao Yu had brought back another batch of things. This kept the old steward busy and delighted. Xiao Yu was afraid that Xiao Hong's age was too great and his workload was too heavy, so she called on several sisters-in-law to help manage together.

  Er Sao Xue Han was surprisingly extremely proficient in this aspect and very good at arithmetic. With her help, the old steward Xiao Hong also relaxed a lot and didn't have to sleep in the warehouse every day.

  The old steward no longer needs to wear that set of formal attire that has not been changed for over a decade and has turned white from washing. Xiao Yu directly had someone make dozens of spare sets for the old steward using the best fabrics, making him worry every day about which set of clothes to wear.

  Several sisters now each have a radiant complexion, the oppressive feeling that had troubled them for many years was swept away, and they are full of confidence in the future of the Lion King territory.

  And all the credit goes to Xiao Yu, so their attitude towards Xiao Yu has also undergone a huge change. Occasionally, when Xiao Yu teases them or sneaks another peek at them while they're bathing, they'll turn a blind eye.

  Especially the third sister Kamina, the kind of Westerner's boldness made her and Xiao Yu recently hit it off, Kamina's fiery figure often makes Xiao Yu feel overwhelmed, every time facing such a great temptation, yet can't touch, Xiao Yu feels this is simply torture.

  The old steward Xiao Hong, however, had never expressed any objection to this. In the aristocratic circle, affairs and elopement were all common occurrences that were seen as nothing out of the ordinary. The old steward was worldly-wise and saw nothing strange about it.

  Moreover, the old steward was thinking that after Xiao Yu grew up a bit more and married, the territory would be very strong by then. What's the big deal about a lord having several women?

  These several consorts are not outsiders anyway. In the past, in history, some kings inherited the throne and married the queen and concubines of the previous king, which is not a rare thing.

  So, the old steward is still quite open-minded in this regard.

  Xiao Yu didn't know about Lao Guan's thoughts, otherwise he would have taken action long ago and wouldn't be limited to just peeking and occasionally taking advantage of the situation.

  Of course, his main targets for flirting are still the first, second and third sisters-in-law. The fourth and fifth sisters-in-law are still very vigilant against him and it's hard to succeed.

  After receiving a large sum of money, Xiao Yu has also filled up all the troops in the plan. Now, the total number of troops is 1,900.

  There are 600 Beastman infantry, 500 heavy cavalry, 200 Human infantry, 300 Elf archers, 200 Dwarf riflemen and 100 Elf hunters.

  Ten Elf Blade Cars, ten Beast Tossing Machines. Unfortunately, the Undead's Meat Grinder can only be produced with a level 2 base, which is somewhat regrettable. Otherwise, Xiao Yu was really looking forward to this new combat equipment.

  Unlike catapults and scything chariots, meat grinders can be placed on the battlefield for flat pushing, belonging to offensive equipment.

  Although these troops have been produced, the second-level equipment still cannot be fully equipped because the required funds are too large.

  Xiao Yu now knows how difficult it is to support an army.

  On this day, Xiao Yu had just returned from robbing when he found that there were guests in the city. At this time, the old steward Xiao Hong, the Lion King's leading general Long Hui, and several of Xiao Yu's sisters-in-law were all in the main hall.

  Xiao Yu returned and was immediately invited to the hall for an important discussion.

  Xiao Yu furrowed her brow, unsure what important matter there was.

  When he walked into the hall, he felt a depressing atmosphere.

  At this time, in the living room, several people were sitting on the guest seats. Xiao Yu casually glanced at the family emblem on their clothes and found that it was exactly the same as the emblem of Wu Niang Xiwen's family.

  "What are you people from Wu's household doing here?" Xiao Yu pondered to herself, but instead of greeting them first, she directly swung her black cloak and walked up to the main seat, sitting down before anyone else.

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