Offalo was completely dumbfounded.

The purpose of sending Shi Zhuo was to disrupt Li Li's rhythm and boost the morale of the troops.

I didn't expect to be scared away by the four commanders who came out of the other party.

At this time, there were still hesitant rune troops, and many of them simply dropped their weapons, raised their hands and began to march towards the invincible city.

There is no way, Shi Zhuo, the leader of Shi Zhuo, knows that he is invincible and runs away.

What kind of strength do they hold on to as ordinary soldiers?

The elite troops gathered around Ofaro wanted to eradicate these defective soldiers on the spot, but they couldn't guarantee their own safety, so they had no choice but to tighten their posture.

Li Li saw that there were less than 300 troops, and he was still insisting on defending Ofaro, so he told him: "Rune City is gone, don't insist on it, if Offalo can wake up in time, stop resisting, and give you a subordinate lord to be in charge."

Ofaro's face was gloomy, and his thoughts were racing.

After considering all the possibilities, he had to admit that he had already lost this battlefield at the moment, or that it might be more appropriate to lose Jiayuan Province.

The reason for this is the proliferation of pixel pickaxes, which has changed the way of fighting.

In the past, even if the siege failed, the rear city-state could be retreated and the troops could be regrouped in the defense.

But now every soldier has a pickaxe in his hand, and the defense of the city wall is basically given for nothing.

The defender's advantage was gone, and if Offalo could not replenish his forces in time, it would be pointless to control more city-states.

"Li Li, your pride won't last long."

Offalo shouted angrily, and then issued the order to retreat.

As soon as the rune troops saw that the rune stone was gone, they were even more unscrupulous, and they simply cheered on the spot.

Li Li returned to the city and sighed helplessly when he saw the soldiers queuing up to receive gold coins.

Although the battle was won bloodlessly, more than 1,500 soldiers surrendered.

According to the promise, 3 gold coins per person, that's 4500 gold coins.

When he came to Jiayuan Province, in addition to the money he earned from selling ore picks, he also lost about 2,000 gold coins.

However, it is also very worthwhile to spend these to take the entire territory of Jiayuan Province.

After all, the production of the mine pickaxe is in his own hands, and if he collects taxes, this money should be returned to his hands soon.

The next day, the corrupt forces of the invincible city attacked with all their troops.

Taking advantage of the situation to launch an attack on Rune City, to Li Li's surprise, no one stopped him at all.

The city-states that passed through also raised their white flags one after another, and directly chose to submit.

Four days later, before arriving at Runeterra, the gates were also wide open.

Li Li suspected that there was a trap, and sent someone to investigate only to find out that as soon as Offalo returned to Rune City, he took all his family and a small number of cronies and fled to the Duchy of Ten Thousand Dragons by activating a large teleportation magic rune.

After entering the city and conducting a deeper investigation, Li Li learned.

Through years of rune trade with the Duchy of Ten Thousand Dragons, Offalo has a lot of connections there.

Of course, it is impossible to make a difference in the local area, but it is not too difficult to continue to maintain the status of a lord in exile.

After all, Ofaro himself has mastered the top rune-making techniques.

But is the other party really willing to fail like this, Li Li thinks no.

Offalo will surely seize every opportunity to take revenge on the Invincible City.

In order to prevent being tricked, Li Li decided to start with Offalo's network of connections.

The materials in Rune City have basically been destroyed, so they can only be inferred by collecting rumors.

As a result, it was easy to know the lord with the best relationship with Ofaro.

The Duchy of Wanlong, the Akajie of the Heaven-Covering City.

As soon as he heard this name, Li Li roughly guessed which race the other party belonged to.

However, in strong contrast to Akabe, although Akajie is also a half-dragon, his dragon form is not a fire dragon, but an ice dragon.

According to the available information, Akajie came to Jiayuan Province unexpectedly while training in Xueman Province.

In order to get closer to the relationship, Ofaro inlaid a set of extremely precious runes on Akaj's armor.

What's even more subtle is that this is also a set of transformable runes, even if you change into a dragon form, you can attach to the surface of the body to produce an effect.

The two have formed a deep friendship since then.

If the information is correct, the person O'Furo went to rely on is probably this one.

Even if Li Li left the Golem Core for Akabe, the psychic vision could not reach it.

Lost contact with him, unable to learn more about Akaje.

The only good news is that the large teleportation magic runes used before were extremely expensive to make.

Offalo also only got a piece for escaping in times of danger, so there was no need to be prepared for a sudden teleportation back to a surprise attack.

In this way, as long as the other party passes through Xueman Province, Li Li can withdraw and learn, which can be regarded as having a certain advantage in intelligence.

On the side of Jade City, because of the defeat of Offalo's frontline, it was no surprise that the Blue Star Players Alliance captured the city-state.

Li Li didn't continue to fight this time, and then he just harvested taxes with peace of mind, but really controlled Jiayuan Province.

Of course, this large city-state has to be taken back.

But there's no need to be in a hurry.

For any alliance is extremely solid in its initial pursuit of the common good.

But when this benefit is won, there will inevitably be disputes when distributing it.

In addition, if their own strength is insufficient, the local forces will definitely not give in easily.

Li Li chose to continue to wait and see for a while, and let them consume each other first.

Take stock through a one-day survey.

Except for the destruction of some facilities that produce top-level runes, Rune City did not suffer much damage.

Li Li didn't think that this was because Offalo was too late in time, or that he was thinking about his subjects, but that the other party firmly believed that he could still return.

"There are a total of four large city-states, except for the situation of Yubi City, the rest are managed by commanders who are willing to submit, and the economy and production are normal, but the loyalty of the local commanders is not easy to say."

Rune City Lord's Mansion, Wang Qiang said about the information he had gathered.

This is where regional domination comes in.

A behind-the-scenes model like Fuguang Province only needs to manage large city-states, and nothing else needs to be worried.

It is not possible to put it in Jiayuan Province, everything must be considered in sufficient detail.

"This is easy to do, the Lord of Ten Thousand Souls and related resources are coming, first promote the construction of soul resurrection-related facilities in the major main cities, and if anyone has misdeeds, they will be pulled into the resurrection blacklist."

After Li Li made the decision, Wang Qiang went to prepare.

Half a month has passed in the blink of an eye, and the Wanlong Principality has not moved, but the hinterland Jade City has become the battle stage of the Blue Star Alliance.

The news that comes every day is either that the Blue Star people are fighting each other or fighting with the natives.

Since the Blue Star side has been overtaken by Ofaro, the accumulation is relatively weak, and the alliance has also fallen apart due to the uneven distribution of benefits.

In the end, the Blue Star forces were cleared out by the natives of Jade City.

Li Li seized this opportunity and announced the convening of the lords' conference.

In this way, the remaining more than 100 Blue Star Lords went to Runelight City to participate in the meeting.

"There can only be one lord in Jiayuan Province, and that is me Li Li."

In the lord's hall, as soon as Li Li's words came out, the atmosphere instantly became tense.

"Don't worry, everyone, if you want to fight, you won't fight here, I'll talk about my thoughts first."

Li Li raised his voice lightly and continued: "My idea is actually very simple, the Invincible City wants to completely control Jiayuan Province, and you are all more obstructive existences, according to the concept of the strong take all, in fact, as long as it is cleared, but everyone is a Blue Star person, and at the same time you have not offended me, I have prepared a second way for you, that is, to be a material mercenary for runes." ”

In order to make runes, rune stones are only the basic materials, and various materials need to be fused.

Originally, the impact of Jia Yuan Province on areas outside the mainland was really limited, and it was generally purchased at a large cost.

So a class called Rune Material Mercenary was derived.

These professions will travel to various parts of the sub-ancient continent to hunt only a few demon beasts in order to reduce the cost of rune manufacturing.

"What are you kidding, we are all lords, why should we be a mercenary for you."

[Ghost Shadow Knife] Tian Zhuangzhuang was the first to question, and most of the other lords were also indignant.

It was easy to survive the rout of Ofaro, and I thought that I could finally start a normal lord career, but I didn't expect another Li Li to appear.

This is completely unacceptable to them.

"Don't get excited, I can't help this matter, you see when Ofalo is here, you can't beat him, Ofalo was beaten away by me, you can easily work together to capture Yubi City, but you were driven out by the natives again, to be honest, if you have a bargaining chip, I won't ask you to be mercenaries."

As soon as Li Li said this, the audience fell silent.

"Of course, although I don't want you to be lords on the surface, I didn't say that I want to forcibly destroy your lord's mansion, as long as there is no harmful behavior, you take the status of a lord and put a score in front of ordinary people, and the invincible city will not mind, in addition, I have also investigated the salary of material hunters, it is really not low, not to mention that I can also provide subway transportation across the snowman province, if you find that the local area is suitable for development when you wander around, the invincible city will also provide free lord's mansion transfer service, but the premise is that the underground line can be opened to where."

Gradually, the discussion rang out.

Why is it difficult for the Blue Star Lord of Jiayuan Province to make a difference.

The first is, of course, Ofaro's extreme repression, and the second is the territorial issue.

To the east of this place is a snowy province that is experiencing extreme cold and natural disasters.

The locals who have the [Mark of the God of Extreme Cold] can't bear it, let alone other people, and if they want to walk through, they are simply looking for death.

The west is a bloody sheath principality with an explosive force value, and once the Blue Star Lord gets involved, there is basically no return.

In this kind of area, where there is no room for maneuver, it can only be suppressed in Jiayuan Province.

Under such circumstances, Li Li said that he could send it out, which touched the hearts of all the lords.

"If you still feel that this plan is inappropriate, I promise to leave safely, but if we meet later, we will be enemies."

Li Li's tone of voice was quite relaxed, but these lords sounded like they were under pressure.

Because in the final analysis, they can only cause trouble for the invincible city at most, and they are far from being opponents.

"The registration office of the material mercenaries is here, if you have something to think about, you can come and queue up to register, and the underground railway to Dortprovince has also been connected to Rune City, and it can leave today."

Wang Qiang shouted, and the Blue Star Lords looked at each other for a moment, and then walked over quickly.

Maybe it's a reason that is closely related to his own life, and finally there is a very surprising situation.

None of the lords objected to Li Li's arrangement.

After thinking about it, Li Li thought that he couldn't say how weak the Blue Star Lords of Jiayuan Province were.

Instead, I want to make a career in Jiayuan Province, which is too restrictive.

The Blue Star Lords dispersed, followed by a meeting of the local commanders.

There are a total of 7 of these native leaders, all of whom are left behind by Offalo, and are in charge of the main city-states, as well as the entire rune industry.

There must have been someone among them who wanted to leave with Ofalo.

However, because the city-state where they were stationed was relatively far away, there was no time to teleport and escape together.

Li Li's way of dealing with it is very simple.

That is the [Subordinate Lord] contract that has an absolute restrictive effect on the indigenous lords.

What's outrageous about this thing is that Blue Star players can unbind it through the system, while the natives don't want to get rid of it at all as long as they are established.

Of course, the indigenous leaders are not stupid, they have long heard of this strange method of the Blue Star people.

Therefore, it is generally very cautious when making contracts.

However, this call is clear, if you don't attend, you will be considered an unfriendly target, and the corrupt troops will be pushed directly to the door.

In the end, one person failed to assassinate Li Li, and six people successfully established a contract.

After all this, Li Li finally made time to start studying rune stones.

According to the volume, condition, energy and other indicators, runestones are generally divided into nine grades.

Level 1 is the highest, and Level 9 is the lowest.

Needless to say, the most precious treasured rune stones have long been swept away by Ofaro.

At most, there were a few rune stones of level 4 to 6 left in the lord's mansion.

As for the market, not to mention, seventh-level rune stones can be used as heirlooms.

Therefore, the external sales, as well as the assembly of the rune troops, are generally eighth-level and ninth-level rune stones.

Li Li summoned the three craftsmen with the best existing skills, namely [Court Puncher], [Rune Appraiser], and [Rune Refiner].

After observing the process of making runes by the three of them, they directly asked the two masters, [Palace Puncher] and [Rune Appraiser], to take the money and go home.

Because of his own diamond pickaxe, as well as the operation skills, and the inspection function of the goggles, these two processes are not necessary.

Grunt! Grunt!

A puff of green smoke came out of the [Rune Refining Furnace], and then the [Rune Refiner] opened the lid of the furnace and took out a piece of [Level 4 Rune - Surging Life] embedded in the furnace.

"Lord Lord, the rune has been refined, but since I don't have the ability to identify it, I don't know the utility of this rune, but based on experience, it should be related to the increase in vitality."

The Rune Refiner placed the rune on the table and reported.

"Okay, after that, if you inlay this rune into the equipment, will it be effective?"

Li Li asked.

"Yes, but the runes for their own buffs can only have the greatest effect if they are mounted on armor and close to the body, and the offensive ones must be mounted on weapons."

The Rune Refiner reminded.

Li Li understands that there are still differences between games and reality after all.

Even if the armor can add an attack, it is a conduction effect that comes with the power increase.