nucmednet Chapter 078 Endless Dawn
Chapter 078 Endless Dawn
"Ding, the gold coin challenge failed to start. Please wait until the monster siege ends before starting the gold coin challenge again."
"Ding, system notification: During the Gold Coin Challenge phase, the city gates cannot be closed, and the Governor's talent is disabled. You can only defend the city using defensive towers."
Upon hearing the system notification, Li Hanqiang sighed. Just as he had predicted, it wasn't that easy to find a bug.
Back at the city gate, with the reserve gold coins in the Chaos Treasury about to run out, Li Hanqiang finally allowed Xiang Mang to kill monsters. The governor roared excitedly and rode the three-headed tiger of the Flame Demon directly into the war corridor, slaughtering everyone in his path.
Of course, his output relies entirely on shouting; he has no weapon in hand and kills enemies with his mount.
Silver Horn Slime and others also began to attack. Li Hanqiang controlled the defensive tower, attacking the monsters intermittently, trying to buy time for the little monk Huixin to persuade him.
A moment later, the slime disappeared from the war corridor, and Li Hanqiang heard the system notification: "Respected Lord of Chaos City, congratulations on successfully repelling the 13th wave of monster attacks. This defense lasted 2406 minutes, with 1245 attacking monsters killed and 0 Chaos Heart energy lost. This is considered a perfect defense. You have obtained two Chaos Stone Tablets and one small coin pouch..."
"System notification: Starting from wave 14, the siege monsters will no longer be of a single type, but a random mix of types, and there will definitely be flying monsters. The difficulty of the siege will be greatly increased. Players must be very careful when initiating the monster siege..."
After a series of system notifications, Li Hanqiang immediately started the gold coin challenge.
He sent the group of minor demon cultivators back to Demon Mountain, opened the city gates, and used the Small Chaos Bottle to extract only a little chaotic energy from the Heart of Chaos.
Li Hanqiang's defensive towers were not stronger than they had been four days ago, and the formation officer and slime could not participate in the defense. He figured the rewards from the gold coin challenge would be about the same as before, so he didn't care. Instead, he floated through the air and came to Chaos City Square to take stock of his gains.
With the city defense experience distributed, Li Hanqiang has reached level 21, Huixin the little monk has leveled up to level 9, and Huben, like Huixin the little monk before, has leveled up 5 times to reach level 6 and has also acquired the Administrative Code.
The young monk Huixin looked smug, as if he had reached the pinnacle of life.
He never imagined that his talent could be so great.
Xiang Mang, however, was somewhat displeased. He rode on the back of the three-headed tiger of the Flame Demon, fiddling with his own code of governance.
His administrative code differed from that of the young monk Huixin; it was a large scroll that needed to be unfolded to read, while Huixin's was merely a single scripture.
Of course, although the appearance of the administrative codes is different, the content is the same.
However, the levels of the three-headed tiger and the silver-horned slime remained unchanged.
Perhaps this is related to the fact that too few siege monsters were killed.
Li Hanqiang didn't care about that at all. He looked at the city full of slimes, there were a total of 19988 of them!
"Nearly 20,000 slimes, little monk, you're amazing!"
Li Hanqiang couldn't help but feel smug; his mind was now filled with ideas on how to do something big.
In Endless World, there are no restrictions on population such as food or grain. Slimes do not need to eat and will not consume anything if placed in Chaos City.
Having such a large army of slimes at your disposal would be a huge loss if you didn't find a way to use it.
"I need siege orders, the more the better!"
Li Hanqiang sighed. He immediately contacted Dark Night Redemption, Big Business, and others, only to learn that all the major guilds were now collecting siege orders. The drop rate of these items was already extremely low, and now they were even rarer.
However, Dark Night Redemption promised to sell the siege token to Li Hanqiang if he managed to get it.
"If we can't attack the city, being attacked is fine too. How about we stir up some trouble on the forums?"
Li Hanqiang thought that waiting around like this wasn't a solution, so after a moment's thought, he first drew the city defense reward for the 13th wave of monster siege, which turned out to be a [Bound Token].
This binding token is classified as a normal item by the system and can be bound to a defensive tower or building so that it will not be erased by the system after the city is lost.
If you fail to defend against a monster siege, the system will punish you severely. If you fail to defend against a player siege, the punishment will be even worse, and you will be returned to the initial state. This is where the [Bound Token] comes in handy.
"Good stuff!" Li Hanqiang didn't hesitate to use the [Binding Token] to bind the Demon Mountain Cave.
After that, he went to the Azure Pool to leave his character offline, while his real character logged off and went to the official forum of "Endless World".
Li Hanqiang rarely visits this forum, mainly because there are too many trivial posts and they're not very interesting.
However, there is no doubt that this forum is extremely popular.
The forum is divided into many sections, such as the gold coin exchange section, the guild management section, and the suggestion collection section. The most popular section is the "Endless Debate" section.
Li Hanqiang entered this section and immediately saw three pinned posts: [Discussion on Advanced Classes, Hidden Classes, and Legendary Classes], [Speculation on the Endless World Plot], and [Compilation of God-Level City Lord Talents].
Li Hanqiang casually browsed through the posts. The first two pinned posts were rather empty, consisting mostly of speculations about the adventurer profession. Li Hanqiang didn't pay much attention to them and quickly tossed them aside.
But the third post really caught his eye.
The poster, whose online name is "Endless Encyclopedia," listed what he considers to be god-level Chaos City Lord talents and claimed that he would continue to update them.
The only two God-level Chaos City Lord talents listed are: the first is called [War Layout], which has the function of consuming Chaos Energy to modify the War Corridor.
According to Wujin Baixiaosheng, this talent can be used to transform the War Corridor into various maze shapes such as "Z" and "U" shapes. Although the total length of the War Corridor remains unchanged, it can greatly improve the defensive capabilities of the towers.
The logic is simple: in a straight war corridor, the attacking monsters move in a straight line, and the fire range of a defensive tower is only twice its firing range. However, if the war corridor is transformed into a zigzag shape with back and forth, the fire range of the same defensive tower will be several times greater.
Moreover, the longer the war corridor, the more obvious the effect of this [war layout].
The second-ranked God-level Chaos City Lord's talent is [Tower Swap], which consumes Chaos Energy to randomly replace a defensive tower with another type of regular defensive tower of the same level.
There are many types of defensive towers in the Endless World, and even among defensive towers of the same level, there are good and bad ones. For example, basic arrow towers, basic cannon towers, and basic slow towers are all level 1 defensive towers, but their abilities are different, and the prices of their blueprints in the defensive tower shop are also different. This shows the value of the [Tower Swap] talent.
In the post, Wujin Baixiaosheng also pointed out that there are many high-quality defensive towers in the Endless World that are difficult to obtain through conventional means, but can be obtained by exchanging them using the [Tower Exchange] talent. Theoretically speaking, as long as there is enough Chaos Energy and you have a defensive tower, you can exchange it for any conventional defensive tower of the same level.
This is a god-tier talent for collecting high-quality defensive towers, but it also has limitations. The tower swapping feature can only randomly generate regular defensive towers; special defensive towers such as hidden defensive towers and mutated defensive towers cannot be swapped out.
There were many dissenting comments following the post, with many people believing that the [War Strategy] and [Tower Swap] talents were just made up by Endless Know-It-All to attract attention.
"War strategy and tower swapping—if one truly possesses these two talents, they could indeed be considered god-tier talents..."
Li Hanqiang was also skeptical, thinking to himself that this Wujin Baixiaosheng was either a braggart or a real big shot.
Since he was able to discover two god-level talents, he must have seen many other Chaos City Lord talents, must know many Chaos City Lord players, and may even have many Chaos City Lord players under his command.