Tower Defense Lord from Earth

Chapter 57 I Want to Be the Station Master

As soon as the yellow dog Awei saw Liu Huasheng, it wagged its tail and began the system announcement: "Congratulations, Master, for upgrading Chaos City to Tier 2! Your default level has now increased to LV2, and you can now build a Tier 2 random defense tower. The construction cost is 100 stamina, 500 gold coins, and 500 wood!"

"Chaos City has expanded. The main castle now occupies 2000 square meters, its base durability has increased to 20,000, the number of fusionable defense towers has increased to eight, and the tier of the fusionable defense towers has been upgraded to Tier 2!"

"The interior space of Chaos City has expanded to a total area of ​​22000 square meters. The area of ​​the city square on the first floor has been increased to 20000 square meters, and a new Conquest Hall has been added on the second floor, with an area of ​​1000 square meters!"

"The Conquest Hall has automatically merged one Parkour Bear and two Bloodthirsty Porcupines, allowing players to recruit wild monsters and convert them into Tower Citizens. Tower Citizens can bind to defensive towers for operation. Please explore on your own for details."

"A new unlockable building, the [Resource Warehouse], has been added to Chaos City. It costs 1000 gold coins and 1000 wood to build and can be constructed within Chaos City and in certain Fusion Realms."

"Chaos City has added a new city defense technology, [City Armor LV2]. The research requirement is [City Armor LV1], which has consumed 2000 gold coins, 2000 wood, and one Chaos Stone..."

Liu Huasheng listened attentively while simultaneously opening the Chaos City information panel for comparison.

What intrigued him was the Conquest Hall feature. According to its description, once the hall appeared, players could recruit wild monsters, who would then be called Tower People!

The Tower People are a special kind of people, possessing a unique ability: to guard the defensive towers!

Each Tower Citizen can bind a defensive tower. This binding requires the Tower Lord to operate in the Conquest Hall, and the Tower Citizen who has bound a defensive tower can then sit and guard the defensive tower.

The term "sitting in the defense tower" means that you can enter and control the defense tower, but your authority is below that of the tower defense lord!

Tower Defense Lords can unbind and change their binding at any time!

In addition, the people of the tower can enjoy some privileges, such as free access to the Demon Mountain Hunting Grounds!

Liu Huasheng checked the list of Tower Citizens and found that Wang Shuaibo and Guan Zhengxing had automatically become Tower Citizens. Liu Huasheng could bind defensive towers to them in the Conquest Hall at any time.

"Sitting in the defensive tower? Automatic attacks becoming manually controlled? Isn't that technologically backward?"

Liu Huasheng shook his head. He didn't think it was a good thing for the tower dwellers to guard the defensive tower, unless there were other benefits after they were there, which would need to be verified later.

"Awei, take Yugong to Hills No. 2, No. 3, No. 4, and the northeast corner mine first, and have him bring back the Demon Sound Tower, Basic Arrow Tower, Spider Fairy Tower, and Death Tower that have been wandering around..."

Liu Huasheng gave some instructions to the yellow dog Awei. After Awei and Yu Gong Lü Xuanyue descended the high ground, Liu Huasheng happily counted the spoils Awei had collected, which included 15 small money bags, 6 experience books, and three defense rings!

The small money pouches inside could be opened to reveal a random number of gold coins. Liu Huasheng opened all 15 of them and obtained a total of 1986 gold coins!

"Is this all the loot? Give the defense rings to Bodina and the others, and the experience books will go to Wang Shuaibo and Guan Zhengxing—three each!"

Liu Huasheng muttered to himself as he opened the Chaos City information panel.

With the congratulatory gift from his "hometown", Liu Huasheng is now extremely wealthy, with 67729 gold coins and 152200 timber available.

With such immense wealth, he naturally had to spend it.

"I'm rich! I'm so rich! I don't even know how to spend it..."

Humming a little tune, Liu Huasheng quickly returned to the city defense hall, where he spent 1000 gold and 1000 wood to unlock the [City Armor LV1].

Thus, the armor of his Huaxia Dragon City was upgraded from 1 to 5. The information panel showed that it could reduce damage by an additional 23%. Combined with the natural damage reduction of buildings of 50%, the actual damage reduction of Huaxia Dragon City could reach 61.5%!

"Is this damage reduction stacked using a multiplicative calculation? Thumbs down!"

Liu Huasheng muttered to himself, then looked at the description of [City Armor LV2] again.

Although the City Defense Hall has now opened the research for [City Armor LV2], the research requires 2000 gold, 2000 wood, and one Chaos Stone.

Liu Huasheng has no shortage of gold coins and wood, but he doesn't have any Chaos Stones yet.

He noticed that Chaos Stones were needed to upgrade Chaos City to the third tier, and that Chaos Stones were also an essential offering for the Mystical Pig Farm's [Pig Sacrifice Ceremony]. He then realized that Chaos Stones were a more important resource than he had originally imagined.

The Chaos Quarry, which can produce Chaos Stones, should be even more valuable!

Next, Liu Huasheng spent another 1000 gold and 1000 wood to unlock the watchtower.

This watchtower is attached to the front of the city defense hall. It is an open-air platform, from which one can overlook the front of Chaos City and watch the battle.

In reality, the open-air appearance of the watchtower is merely a facade; an invisible wall exists in front of it, which can block external attacks and also prevent players from entering or leaving Chaos City from the watchtower.

In short, Chaos City is a closed system, and entry and exit can only be done through its entrance. It will only collapse as a whole when its durability reaches zero.

"Now that I have a watchtower, this observation post is unnecessary..."

As Liu Huasheng muttered to himself, Wang Shuaibo slowly walked into the city defense hall.

This guy was very relaxed, shaking his head and looking left and right; he was just here for a visit.

"Wolf King of Northern Liang, you've come at the right time! Here are three experience books for you!"

Upon seeing Wang Shuaibo, Liu Huasheng tossed him three experience books and said, "Come with me to the Conquest Hall, let me see what you, a Tower Citizen, are capable of!"

Wang Shuaibo's eyes lit up immediately upon seeing the experience book. He let out a loud "Thanks, boss! I'm also curious, suddenly gaining the status of a tower dweller seems to mean I can sit and guard the defensive tower..."

Soon, Liu Huasheng led Wang Shuaibo to the Conquest Hall next door.

This hall is now a 1,000-square-meter monster exhibition hall. There are no decorations inside, only three monsters: a parkour bear and two bloodthirsty porcupines.

The parkour bear stood on the left side of the hall, while two bloodthirsty porcupines stood on the right, lined up in a row, all facing the entrance to the hall.

Are these three guys having a meeting here?

Wang Shuaibo happily stepped forward to examine the three-headed monster, as if inspecting his underlings. By this time, he had already used three experience books and leveled up to LV5, and the monster had grown even larger.

Liu Huasheng arrived here, quickly brought up the list of tower residents, selected Wang Shuaibo, and then checked the defensive towers that he could bind.

"If a player binds a tower to a tower, they can enter and control the tower. So, which tower should this player bind to?"

Offensive-type attacks seem unnecessary; automatic attacks are far superior to manual control. Taunting arrow towers? Turning this guy into a verbal attacker, manually taunting him?

The Guardian seems promising. If Wang Shuaibo were to oversee "My Sword and Shield," could he possibly pilot it like a Gundam? That seems quite possible...

Ancient Guardians are pretty good too!

These two defensive towers are actually quite suitable for players to control...

After a moment's thought, Liu Huasheng beckoned Wang Shuaibo over and asked, "If I were to give you the chance to command a defensive tower, which tower would you like to command?"

"I can choose any defensive tower?" Wang Shuaibo's spirits lifted. "Then of course I want to be in charge of the broadcasting tower! I want to be the stationmaster!"

"What?" Liu Huasheng was stunned. The broadcast tower was the magic sound tower. He did not expect that Wang Shuaibo would want to bind this defense tower.

"If I were the station manager, I'd broadcast for 18 hours a day. During the day, 'White-Browed Hero' would be on for ten hours straight, so everyone could enjoy it. In the evening, I'd have a six-hour stand-up comedy show, and the last two hours would be for listening to music..."

Wang Shuaibo said excitedly, "Boss, let me, the Wolf King of Beiliang, take over the broadcasting tower! I guarantee I'll make the broadcasting station bigger and stronger, and everyone will be satisfied!"

Liu Huasheng coughed lightly and said with a serious expression, "Your internship is three days. Let's see how you perform. If you don't do well, you'll be dismissed immediately!"