owlsbooks Chapter 020 Mutant Sword Tower
Chapter 020 Mutant Sword Tower
Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.
Defense Tower Shop: A basic building in Chaos City, currently only selling blueprints for level 1 defense towers.
Item 1: Basic Arrow Tower Construction Blueprint, priced at 100 gold coins, bound after purchase, and can only be built in the current Chaos City.
Item 2: Basic turret construction blueprint, priced at 150 gold coins, bound after purchase, and can only be built in the current Chaos City.
Item 3: Basic Slowing Tower Construction Blueprint, priced at 200 gold coins, bound after purchase, and can only be built in the current Chaos City.
Note: Upgrade the Heart of Chaos to unlock more items.
Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.
"We can buy the blueprints for building defense towers now!" Li Hanqiang strolled around the defense tower shop.
With the 100 gold coins he just received, he now has over 182 gold coins. With money in his pocket, he naturally wants to buy a tower, but which one should he buy?
Basic arrow towers are pretty useless now; their only advantage is their fast attack speed, but their attack power is no longer worth mentioning.
Li Hanqiang completely ignored the arrow towers and looked at the attribute descriptions of the [Basic Cannon Tower] and [Basic Slow Tower].
[Basic Turret: High attack power but extremely slow attack speed, range 300 meters, attack power 60-80, attacks cause small-area splash damage, targets ground but not air, upgradable (requires scroll upgrade or unlocking related technology).]
[Basic Slowing Tower: Extremely low attack power but slows down a single target upon hit. Range 200 meters, attack power 20-30, effective against both air and ground targets. Upgradeable (requires reel upgrade or unlocking related technology).]
Li Hanqiang had watched Banyue Qingcheng's live stream and knew that the basic turret was powerful. Not only did it have a long range, but its splash damage was also impressive. It was just a pity that the basic turret was only effective against ground targets and not air targets, so it would be useless against flying monsters.
The basic slow tower can slow down a single target, which is very effective against special monsters such as the Old Black Pig and the Iron-skinned Pig King. Unfortunately, its attack power is too low, making it ineffective against large groups of monsters.
After much deliberation, Li Hanqiang ultimately bought a basic arrow tower construction blueprint because it was the cheapest.
Li Hanqiang looked down on basic arrow towers, but he possessed the city lord talent [Tower Transformation]. How could he waste this talent? Naturally, he should buy the cheapest defensive tower to transform it.
After purchasing the blueprints for the basic arrow tower, Li Hanqiang didn't rush to build it. Instead, he went to study the Endless Tower.
The Endless Tower is also the basic building of Chaos City. Various challenges can be started from here. However, due to the level of the Heart of Chaos, there is only one challenge option that can be started at present, which is the Gold Coin Challenge.
[Gold Coin Challenge: The Chaos City Lord spends 10 gold coins to initiate the Gold Coin Challenge. After initiating the challenge, an endless stream of gold coin monsters will spawn in the spacetime wormhole. Defeating these monsters will grant bound gold coins, and the monsters will also steal energy from the Heart of Chaos. The challenge ends when the Heart of Chaos's energy is reduced to zero. The Chaos City Lord can also choose to abandon the challenge before a certain wave. The Gold Coin Challenge can be initiated when the Heart of Chaos has more than 1 point of Chaos Energy. It can only be challenged once per day. No support from adventurer players will be available during the challenge. Friendly reminder: Please consider the defensive firepower of Chaos City before initiating this challenge.]
"This is obviously for making money, do you want to try it?" Li Hanqiang was itching to try it.
Obviously, in this gold coin challenge, the stronger the defense tower's firepower and the longer it lasts, the more gold coins it will get. However, the monsters are endless. Unless you actively terminate the challenge, no matter how many gold coins you get, the final result will be that the chaotic energy of the Heart of Chaos will be cleared.
Without chaotic energy, nothing can be done.
The Gold Coin Challenge can be attempted once a day, so who wouldn't take it?
In other words, the chaotic energy of the Heart of Chaos is cleared out once a day. How could this be allowed?
Realizing this, Li Hanqiang couldn't help but curse Banyue Qingcheng in his heart.
The city lord's talent [Energy Awakening] can accelerate the recovery speed of chaotic energy. Now it seems that this talent is really powerful. Half Moon City advised beginners not to choose this talent in her live stream. She is really misleading people.
Seeing that the chaotic energy of his Chaos Heart had recovered to 11 points, Li Hanqiang had an idea. He quickly went to the basic arrow tower and used the construction blueprint of the [Basic Defense Tower] that he had just purchased.
"Now is the time to witness a miracle! Tower, transform, tower!" With a thought, Li Hanqiang used his City Lord talent on the newly built basic defensive tower.
The 10 points of chaotic energy in the Heart of Chaos were immediately depleted, and then a system notification appeared: "Great Lord of Chaos, you have used the Tower Transformation talent on the basic defensive tower. The defensive tower will undergo mutation. The mutation is in progress..."
"Ding! The basic arrow tower has successfully mutated into a sword tower, its abilities have been enhanced. Congratulations, player!"
A rumbling sound followed the system notification, and then a vibration occurred.
Li Hanqiang saw the basic arrow tower beside him suddenly rise higher, and its top also changed. The huge crossbow cart quickly evaporated and disappeared, and a giant sword stood upright in its place. Four chains were wrapped around the hilt of the giant sword, and the other end of the chains was fixed to the four corners of the tower top. The blade of the sword gleamed coldly and looked extremely sharp.
[Sword Tower: Level 1 mutated tower, attack range 100M. Every second, it can unleash a penetrating sword aura from the blade at the top of the tower. The sword aura deals 80 points of damage to the first target hit, and the damage decreases by 10 points for each subsequent target it penetrates. It can attack a maximum of 8 targets.]
Li Hanqiang couldn't help but burst into laughter.
The arrow tower has been transformed into a sword tower, and its capabilities have increased far beyond just a little.
Li Hanqiang silently calculated that the basic arrow tower's maximum attack power was 40, and with two shots per second, the highest damage per second could reach 80 points!
Now look at this sword tower. Its sword energy penetrates and hits all eight targets, dealing up to 360 damage per second! Can the basic arrow tower compare to that? It's more than four times that!
Even if it only hits one target, it still deals 80 damage per second, which is the same as the highest damage per second of the basic arrow tower. Compared to the basic arrow tower, it only has a shorter range.
"I've hit the jackpot!" Li Hanqiang felt like he had ascended to the throne of the luckiest man. Seeing that the Heart of Chaos still had a little bit of chaotic energy, he immediately started the gold coin challenge.
At the same time, in Chaos City No. 12, Half Moon City also launched a gold coin challenge.
"The Gold Coin Challenge is one of the Chaos City Lord's main sources of gold coins. With my current defensive firepower, I should be able to earn some, and perhaps even climb the challenge leaderboard!"
Half Moon City thought to herself, as a top streamer who had participated in the mysterious closed beta of [Endless World], she was very confident in herself.
Of course, she understood that there were definitely more gaming experts outside the live streaming world, and that there must be people in those big guilds who were better at game sense, better at operations, and had a better overall perspective than her. But at this moment, she was probably at the top.
Half-Moon Beauty smiled.
Looking at her Chaos City again, there were three basic turrets standing together on the edge of the middle section of the war corridor. The "Italian cannons" on the top of the turrets were slowly and neatly adjusting their muzzles, which was quite terrifying.
There's also a basic arrow tower, standing all alone in front of these three turrets, looking like a little brother.
Suddenly, the spacetime wormhole tore open, and a large number of tiny, golden figures poured out from it.
"System notification: The Gold Coin Challenge has begun. The first wave of the challenge is currently underway, consisting of 3,000 Lv10 Gold Infantry."