Tower Defense Lord from Earth

Chapter 12 Ranking Rewards

The donkey cart was very fast; it could cover 100 meters in less than 20 seconds.

Once the donkey cart enters its firing range, the basic arrow tower will immediately launch an attack, targeting the laborers sitting at the front of the cart.

In the end, the migrant worker lost 80 health points and managed to enter the mine safely.

Once inside the mine, it was safe.

The donkey returned and quickly transported two more collectors there.

At this point, although Liu Huasheng could not be said to have occupied the gold mine, he was able to safely collect the gold coins from it.

"This arrow tower standing here is a potential hazard; it should be removed as soon as possible..."

Liu Huasheng came up with two clumsy solutions.

The first method relies on luck. Once your stamina is restored, you can build a defensive tower outside the range of the basic arrow tower. If you are lucky enough to build a powerful tower, it will be no problem to destroy the basic arrow tower.

But that will have to wait until tomorrow morning!

The second method is to use the tower-moving skill to move the second-tier basic arrow tower over and use it to destroy the first-tier arrow tower on the high ground!

However, this place is five miles away from my territory, and the farthest distance the defense tower can be moved is only 400 meters, which costs 100 yuan, and it can only be moved once a day.

Moving towers to demolish them is time-consuming, laborious, and expensive, and it also weakens the territory's defenses, so it's not a good strategy.

In addition, Liu Huasheng has actually moved a tower outside the territory!

He removed the Tower of Death from Chaos City and moved it below the high ground.

This is for capturing the Tier 1 wild monsters at the entrance to the ruins!

The monster stronghold is five miles south of Liu Huasheng's territory. Theoretically, if the Death Tower is moved four times, its extremely long range should be enough to capture the kobolds at the entrance to the ruins!

Wild monsters are also resources, and Liu Huasheng doesn't want to miss out on them!

We'll have to wait another three days to catch the wild monsters!

"Alright, let's stockpile grain, build high walls, and take it slow! Wang Shuaibo should be able to help me hold off the other players, so I'll slowly move the Death Tower. Tomorrow morning, I'll come back here to build another defensive tower. Oh, and the donkey can't rest; he needs to keep selling dried rats. I'll also run around the map and check on the other lords..."

Liu Huasheng quickly made a plan.

A moment later, Donkey Afu began its merchant journey, and Liu Huasheng also sat on the donkey cart, sightseeing along the way.

As darkness fell, Liu Huasheng returned to his territory alone, where he comfortably washed up and went to sleep.

He left the donkey behind to continue selling dried rats. Regardless of whether anyone bought them, he just needed to rush into the other side's territory and shout dozens or even hundreds of times.

According to Bai Ri's observations, among the players in Lostanp, apart from Wang Shuaibo, the others survived the third wave of the monster invasion. However, some suffered heavy losses, with only one or two defensive towers remaining after being destroyed, while others remained intact.

There are three territories that Liu Huasheng is particularly concerned about!

The first one is located at 5:30 on the strategic map. It already contains seven defensive towers, six of which are basic arrow towers, and one is a second-tier fire tower.

When Liu Huasheng arrived at the territory below, a ranking challenge was underway. The second-tier Flame Tower was very powerful and had a group attack effect, but it ultimately failed to survive the first stage of the ranking challenge.

The second player territory is at the 8:30 position. On that high ground, there are five basic arrow towers, four ice towers, and a level 3 heavy infantryman standing guard at the high ground entrance!

These two territories look quite powerful. As for the third player territory that Liu Huasheng is paying attention to, it is located at 6:30!

That territory has been ravaged, and there is only one basic arrow tower with less than one-third of its durability remaining on the high ground!

Liu Huasheng could foresee that the lord players there might not have an easy time in the future. They might be invaded, and there was a high probability that they would become the second tower defense lord to be eliminated after Wang Shuaibo.

As for the other territories, they are relatively ordinary, and the defensive towers are nothing special.

Liu Huasheng got up early the next morning and strolled around the city square for nearly two hours before it was eight o'clock in the morning.

Just as he was about to head out to build the tower, his strength was fully restored, and he was preparing to leave when Donkey Afu returned pulling a cart. He called out to Liu Huasheng, "Master, I sold five pieces of dried rats last night and earned another 100 gold coins!"

"Good job, good job, thank you for your hard work!"

Liu Huasheng rubbed the donkey's forehead, then casually took the gold coins from its cart panel, thinking to himself, "This is truly an excellent game assistant!"

Donkey Afu continued, "Master, the ranking challenge results are in! Our Chaos City, with a progress of 2% in the fourth stage, has risen to 3677th place on the Star Sea Tower Defense leaderboard. The system will issue a silver treasure chest shortly!"

"What? Only 3677? That's so low?"

Liu was greatly disappointed at the time.

"Master, considering you didn't receive any initial subsidies or powerful support, this achievement is already quite good!"

"That's right! I, your lord, should keep a calm and composed mindset..."

Liu Huasheng comforted himself, thinking that he had a magical tower defense system, and as long as he didn't give up, he would definitely rise to prominence in the future.

However, he couldn't help but ask about the quality of the silver treasure chest.

Donkey Afu said, "The Glory Chest, a ranking reward, is of the highest quality; only the top-ranked player can obtain it!"

"The Platinum Chest is of lower quality; it's only available to the top 100 players!"

"Next up are golden treasure chests, available to the top 1000 players!"

"Next up are the silver treasure chests, which are awarded to the top 10,000 players!"

"There are also bronze treasure chests, iron treasure chests, and plastic treasure chests, with quality decreasing in that order. In short, as long as you rank within the top ten million, you can get a treasure chest!"

"Understood!"

Liu Huasheng thought to himself that there are hundreds of billions of players in the Chaos Star Sea. Even if only one-tenth of them are officially recognized as Chaos Lords, that would still be tens of billions. So his ranking still has some merit.

Next, Donkey Afu began the formal system announcement: "Ding! Based on your Star Sea Tower Defense ranking, you have been awarded a Silver Treasure Chest. Keep up the good work and achieve even greater success!"

With a system notification, a treasure chest that appeared to be made of silver material materialized out of thin air in front of Liu Huasheng. Liu Huasheng opened it, and the donkey Afu continued to announce: "Ding! Congratulations on obtaining 2000 gold coins, 2000 wood, a random constitution enhancement scroll, a random fusion blueprint, and a random technology blueprint!"

"Hmm, the reward seems pretty good!"

Liu Huasheng took out three scrolls from the treasure chest. When he unrolled the first one, it immediately turned into light.

Donkey Afu immediately announced: "Ding! Random physique enhancement scroll activated!"

"Ding, congratulations, your physique has been strengthened. Your maximum stamina has increased by 10 points, and your natural stamina recovery rate has slightly increased. You can recover 110 points naturally every day."

"An extra 10 stamina points per day? That's not bad. If you save them up for 10 days, you can build one more tower than other players?"

Liu Huasheng then unrolled the second scroll.

"Ding! Successfully used the random building fusion blueprint. Congratulations on obtaining the [Earth Noodle House]. This building has been automatically fused into Chaos City and is currently located in the southeast of the city square."

"Huh? An earthen noodle shop? What's that?"

Liu Huasheng immediately looked to the southeast and indeed saw a small, domed house.

Donkey Afu said, "The Earth Noodle Shop is an unmanned noodle shop blessed by the Earth Goddess. It is designed as a welfare building and can provide up to (100 × Chaos City Rank × Chaos City Level) bowls of Earth Ramen for free every day. Its size increases as the Chaos City Rank increases."

Note: Dadi Noodle Shop is open all day. Dadi Ramen is a pollution-free and healthy food, suitable for a wide range of tastes.

"Holy crap, this is a welfare building! Free food supply, unlimited food production! So scientific, so reasonable! With this Earth Noodle House, I'll never have to worry about food again!"

Liu Huasheng was overjoyed and unrolled the third scroll.

"Ding! Congratulations to Chaos City for unlocking the [Militia Training] technology using a random technology blueprint."

A rallying bell appeared in the center of the city square. Ringing this bell could summon all the mining workers within a kilometer of Chaos City and quickly transform them into militia.

The militia state lasts for 30 minutes and can be reset infinitely by ringing a bell. In this state, gathering workers receive basic equipment, double their movement speed, and possess one-tenth of their health as attack power and an attack speed of 1.0!

"Holy crap, this technology is amazing!"

A brilliant idea flashed through Liu Huasheng's mind, and he immediately went to build houses.

He had already built three houses and trained a total of 18 laborers. Now he built three more houses and trained another 18 laborers!

"Ah Fu, go ring the bell! The chieftain must lead the militia to demolish the defensive tower next door!"