Chapter 1853 - 1852: Defending the City!

The nine Defense Towers barely sustained the onslaught, so Qin Feng began to shift his attention to other options on the sand table.

After all, Defense Towers are just auxiliary; the real resistance comes from a continuous flow of soldiers.

On the right side of the sand table, he saw a Barracks icon. Placing his hand on the icon, a prompt appeared, "Sky Termination Soldier: One soldier can be summoned every five minutes, with a speed of 65, agility of 54, strength of 39, defense of 68..."

"A single soldier’s strength is no match for a Defense Tower, but when you gather a multitude of soldiers, it’s a different story."

Qin Feng immediately spent eight million Spirit Stones to construct a Barracks, placing it on a vacant spot in the camp.

Soon enough.

The first soldier emerged from the Barracks, donned in armor with a longsword at his waist, looking imposing.

"One soldier every five minutes is too slow."

In one go, Qin Feng built five Barracks, spending a total of forty million Spirit Stones.

On average, one soldier is produced every minute.

"Right, what we need now are archers."

Qin Feng touched the Barracks on the sand table, receiving another prompt that Barracks-producible soldiers are of three types: regular soldiers, archers, and assassins.

However, for regular soldiers, additional Spirit Stones are not required; one is created every five minutes, but once a thousand are produced, the durability of the Barracks will be compromised and will need to be rebuilt with Spirit Stones, which is highly cost-effective overall.

But for creating archers and assassins, extra payment is needed.

One archer requires ten thousand Spirit Stones.

An assassin is even more expensive, requiring one million Spirit Stones.

"I don’t know what assassins are useful for right now, so I’ll start with archers."

Qin Feng directly invested ten million Spirit Stones, aiming for a thousand archers, but like soldiers, archers take five minutes to be summoned. Fortunately, Qin Feng had five Barracks, achieving an average of one per minute.

The matter of the Barracks settled like this.

Qin Feng calculated and realized that he had spent about eighty-eight million Spirit Stones so far.

"Tsk tsk, this is only the ’Level 1 Frenzy’ and it’s already cost so much, and it’s just the first wave of attack. Apparently, that Ling truly has some skills, having held out until the ’Level 5 Tide’ with not much expense."

On the city wall, Qin Feng looked at the enemy surging like a tide from afar, feeling a bit protective over the nine Defense Towers.

The power of the Defense Towers is strong, but with high usage frequency, their durability decreases rapidly.

Opening the gate to let his soldiers rush out to alleviate the Defense Towers’ use was risky; the opponent’s numbers were so great that his accumulated soldiers might be crushed.

After pondering with hand under his chin for a moment, Qin Feng’s eyes lit up, saying, "That’s it! We can construct some long-range defenses, like catapults!"

One catapult costs five million Spirit Stones.

Its attack power and range are only half of the flame tower, ice arrow tower, or Electromagnetic Thunderstorm Tower, so almost no one chooses them, but the attack range is much broader, several or even dozens of times that of a flame tower.

Qin Feng immediately built five on the city wall, spending thirty million more.

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

"Boom!"

The catapults launched into the enemy surge, but their strike range was much smaller than that of the flame towers, resulting in limited effectiveness.

"Now I finally know what the ’Kerosene Bottle’ is for."

A smile curved at Qin Feng’s lip as he took out a "Kerosene Bottle," which he had bought at a small town’s general store on Ti Yun Peak. Back then, he knew it was useful but not its exact purpose.

Now he understood.

Qin Feng dropped a bit of kerosene onto the catapult.

The stones on the catapult instantly ignited in flames.

"Boom!!"

A massive flaming stone fell from the sky, crashing into the attacking enemy wave.

Swoosh—!!

The hundred-meter area around the stone was immediately engulfed in blazing fire, burning all half-beasts, Skull Monsters, and Fierce Beasts within that radius!

"This power, this range, is way more awesome than a flame tower!"

Qin Feng’s eyes lit with excitement.

He proceeded to drip kerosene onto the other catapults.

Boom!

Boom!

Boom!

Each blazing stone ball, like meteorites descending from the sky, smashed into the enemy troops, immediately filling the battlefield with smoke, causing significant enemy casualties, and wreaking havoc on their formation.

"Very good, now the durability of the Defense Towers is preserved; next, the archers should advance."

This battle had already lasted an hour; with the five Barracks combined, an archer was summoned every minute on average, so now there were sixty archers.

The sixty archers lined up on the city wall, continuously shooting arrows downward.

Their arrows, though much less powerful, flew at an impressive speed, and there were far more of them than the Defense Towers, proving effective against enemies near the city gates.

"By the way, could those Ice Arrows be for them?"

Qin Feng remembered he bought ten thousand Ice Arrows at the general store on Ti Yun Peak.

He took some out for the archers.

Indeed!

With a "whoosh," an archer fired an arrow, which instantly transformed into a sharp Ice Arrow, hitting a half-beast. The half-beast’s defense was high and normally took three arrows to kill, but the Ice Arrow not only killed it with one shot but also froze the ten-meter radius around it, encasing anyone in that area in ice frost, breaking their defense and slowing their speed.

"Very useful!"

Qin Feng felt fortunate for having purchased ten thousand Ice Arrows from the general store, as it proved to be a wise decision now!

With just the catapults, Defense Towers, and sixty archers, they easily repelled the first wave of attack, doing so in a crushing manner, without breaking a sweat.

As time passed slowly.

After another hour, the first wave finally ceased.

Qin Feng’s side had dealt with it effortlessly.

The Heavenly Termination Domain quieted down as well, and battles at the other three gates seemed to stop, too.

With the fight over, Qin Feng planned to study the sand table more, but then Ding Lan approached, saying, "Senior Sister asked me to tell you that after the battle, head over to the Purple Crystal Stone to recover; the Purple Crystal Stone can quickly restore one’s spiritual power."

Commanding a battle for two consecutive hours is highly exhausting in terms of spiritual power.

So, after every battle, they would quickly recover at the Purple Crystal Stone area.

Qin Feng didn’t expend much spiritual power with this wave of defense; instead, he found the process quite enjoyable, like a game.

However, he held interest in the Purple Crystal Stone, so he went along with Ding Lan.

By the Purple Crystal Stone, those who guarded the other three main gates, Ling included, were already there, sitting cross-legged and resting.

When Qin Feng arrived, Ghost Lady approached with a smile, asking, "Xiao Feng, how was your first defense experience?"

"Not bad."

Qin Feng nodded in agreement.

At this point, he noticed Wan Shi, Yin Shou, Fu Mo, and Black Dragon, who guarded the North Gate, all wearing worried expressions, and asked, "What’s wrong with you all?"