Tower Defense Lord from Earth

Chapter 22 Ancient Guardian, Lingbo Weibu

Liu Huasheng looked at the donkey in front of him, feeling smug!

"Trying to trap my donkey? You've got a screw loose, haven't you? I can summon it now, hahaha!"

He patted the donkey Afu's forehead and asked, "Afu, what's going on? Where are you trapped?"

The donkey replied, "Master, Afu was following your orders and was trading with other players in their territories. He was calling out his wares when he suddenly discovered he was surrounded by logging camps and trapped inside!"

"Afu remembers there was a fire tower on that high ground, and a guy named Ma Xianlong who extorted money from me and even tried to throw excrement on me! Luckily, Master, you summoned me here, but... Afu hasn't sold a single dried rat!"

"It's alright!"

Liu Huasheng narrowed his eyes.

Ma Xianlong—he had just heard Wang Shuaibo mention this name. He figured it was the player at the 5:30 position on the map. This person was an enemy, not a friend, and he would have to deal with him sooner or later.

However, there are second-tier flame towers in his territory, and even if Tom Cruise wears bulletproof armor, he may not be able to withstand them. Liu Huasheng is not reckless and believes that dealing with Ma Xianlong cannot be rushed.

Tom Cruise continued attacking the defensive towers, and soon he destroyed all six defensive towers on the high ground. Then, a golden light flashed on his body, and he leveled up to level three, with his health increasing to 900 and his attack power increasing to 45!

"Master, your B-rank hero Tom Cruise has reached level three!" Donkey Afu announced, "Please note that hero units will not gain experience from killing units or towers two levels lower than themselves. For Tom Cruise to continue leveling up, he needs to hunt down enemies of level two or higher, or destroy towers of level two or higher!"

"You can't gain experience two levels below? There's such a rule?"

Liu Huasheng muttered to himself, then stepped forward and discovered that the row of iron barricades could be retrieved.

Iron chevaux-de-frise is an "X"-shaped tripod assembled from iron spears and iron pipes. It is welded with densely packed sharp blades and wrapped with barbed wire rings. It is two meters high, and there are five of them in total. Each one is four meters long, and when they are put together, they are 20 meters long!

This thing is more like a city wall than a city wall. In any case, Liu Huasheng felt that if this thing blocked his way, he definitely wouldn't be able to get over it.

"Haha, we found five wild iron chevaux-de-frise!"

Liu Huasheng happily stored the five iron barricades into his storage space, and then went to the rear to receive refugees, another 18!

"That's enough for today's battle. If we can stabilize the four mines, the future is bright. We must not be greedy and act rashly!"

After a moment's thought, Liu Huasheng drank a stamina potion and then built a defensive tower next to the gold mine.

"Let's see what amazing defensive towers we can build this time!"

Liu Huasheng was filled with anticipation.

Soon, as the tower-building animation ended, a large, dark green tree appeared in front of Liu Huasheng.

In the center of the tree is a human face with glowing yellow-green eyes, a nose, and a mouth, looking like an old man.

Its trunk has a pair of thick branches extending from both sides, with intertwined roots below and a hunchback-like shape at the back.

The game assistant, Afu, said, "Congratulations, Master, on building an Ancient Guardian!"

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Name: Ancient Guardian

Rank: 1

Durability: 1500

Attack: 20

Attack type: Physical

Attack range: 100 meters

Attack Speed: 0.5

Attack Effect: [Throwing Boulder], the ancient guardian throws a boulder to launch an attack.

Special Ability: [Tree Spirit Form], the Ancient Guardian pulls out tree roots and enters Tree Spirit form, gaining a slow movement speed. It can uproot and devour trees to quickly restore durability, but takes double damage in Tree Spirit form and can only attack in melee.

Amazing Ability: [Lingbo Weibu], Ancient Guardians gain the light-footed Lingbo Weibu when in Tree Spirit form, greatly increasing their movement speed and allowing for quick dodging in a small area. Physical evasion is increased by 99%, and to a certain extent, they can even run on rooftops!

Note: The tower is inscribed with excerpts from the novel "Demi-Gods and Semi-Devils" related to the Lingbo Weibu (a martial arts technique).

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"Holy crap! Lingbo Weibu? A tower has learned Lingbo Weibu! We're still missing the Six Meridian Divine Sword, bro!"

Liu Huasheng thought it was strange, and he immediately ordered the ancient guardian to perform the Lingbo Weibu (a martial arts technique).

The ancient guardian obeyed the command and slowly pulled out the tree root. Its movements were as slow as an eighty-year-old man, but once the root was pulled out, it immediately became lively and energetic, running around Liu Huasheng as fast as the wind, leaving many afterimages in its wake.

"Amazing, my tower!" Liu Huasheng gave the Ancient Guardian a thumbs up. "If only you could teach me this 'Lingbo Weibu' technique!"

The ancient guardian did not respond, but just kept circling around Liu Huasheng.

A moment later, Liu Huasheng had the ancient guardians re-establish themselves and arranged for Tom Cruise, a level three warrior, to guard the high ground as well.

He left five laborers behind to work in the mines, then drove a donkey cart with 13 laborers back to his home city, Chaos City.

That evening, Liu Huasheng built three more houses in the city square.

At this point, Liu Huasheng had a total of 84 migrant workers.

The next morning, before dawn, Liu Huasheng drove a donkey cart with 40 laborers to the engineering store.

There are large forests there, abundant timber resources, a logging camp, and, most importantly, an artillery turret.

Liu Huasheng figured that the trees on his high ground were almost all cut down, so he sent these 40 laborers to the construction shop to cut down trees.

After returning from the engineering shop, Liu Huasheng continued to move the Death Tower!

This is the fourth time it has been moved, and after the move, the Death Tower is less than a kilometer away from the three monsters at the entrance to the ruins!

In other words, those three monsters were already within the range of the Death Tower's attack.

Before the Death Tower could stabilize, Liu Huasheng immediately ordered it: "Death Tower, attack Donkey Afu!"

"What?"

Liu Huasheng's donkey, Afu, was startled.

"You have unlimited health, what are you afraid of?"

Liu Huasheng chuckled. He had already activated the [Tower Control] skill, which meant forcing the Death Tower to attack Donkey Afu.

Without tower control skills, your own defensive towers won't attack your own players.

But at this moment, after the Tower of Death stabilized, a death ray immediately shot out from it. The ray hit the donkey Afu precisely on the head. Afu tilted his head, seemingly not feeling anything.

At the same time, four small black men in suits appeared out of nowhere beneath the Tower of Death.

The four little black men carried the coffin and ran towards the entrance of the site. They seemed to be moving slowly, but they were actually moving very fast. In less than 10 seconds, they carried the coffin back, singing and dancing all the way. Then they dug the pit and buried the coffin, all in one go.

Meanwhile, the Tower of Death kept attacking Donkey Afu, while Afu just stood still and became a target.

"Master, am I just supposed to stand there and take the beating?"

Donkey Afu cast a questioning look at Liu Huasheng.

Liu Huasheng said, "You can run laps too!"

"All right!"

So Donkey Afu started running around the Tower of Death, which fired a death ray every ten seconds, each time hitting Donkey Afu precisely on the head.

The reason Liu Huasheng forced the Death Tower to attack Donkey Afu was, of course, to prevent it from attacking the monsters at the entrance to the ruins.

There are three small monsters at the entrance to the ruins, one level 3 and two level 1. The level 1 monsters die easily and are meaningless. Of course, they are only valuable if you capture them all and turn them into undead units.

The only problem is that the Death Tower is slow at capturing monsters. It will only send out the little black monsters again after the previously captured monsters have been modified.

Liu Huasheng waited for a full ten minutes before the small grave under the tower was finally opened, and a red-eyed wolfhound engulfed in black flames crawled out from it.

[Hellhound: LV1, HP 100, MP 100, Attack 10. A nimble and agile undead beast with extremely high fire resistance and combat skills. It possesses the skill "Infernal Claws," which adds 10 fire damage to its attacks, but consumes 1 MP per attack!]

"Wow, even the Hellhounds have appeared! The Tower of Death is amazing; this is practically turning trash into treasure!"

Liu Huasheng sighed.

At this moment, the four little black figures reappeared. They carried the coffin straight to the entrance of the ruins, then quickly returned. They then sang and danced, dug the pit, and buried the coffin. The whole process took a minute.

Liu Huasheng stood guard nearby, and after more than ten minutes, another hellhound crawled out from it.

Then the four little black figures reappeared, continuing to carry the coffin and run towards the entrance of the ruins.

Liu Huasheng's eyes lit up: "Huh? There are still level 1 monsters within the Death Tower's range?"