Chapter 44

After the war preparation ended, the ninth wave of monsters attacking the city were Uni-horn Tigers!

Just as Li Hanqiang had predicted, the five Bright Lance Dark Arrow Towers were extremely brutal and kept killing within seconds.

The wave of monster attacks lasted for more than three and a half hours before a system announcement was finally issued. 12,600 invading monsters were killed and the Chaos’ Core had lost zero energy, determining this to be a perfect city defense.

A white light flashed from Li Hanqiang’s body as he leveled up to Level 14!

Immediately afterward, there was a system notification.

[Dear Chaotic City Lord, congratulations on passing nine waves of monster attacks. The oncoming tenth wave of monster attacks will be at the BOSS level. The BOSS attacking the city is very powerful, so please make proper defense preparations before opening the tenth wave. Note: There will be a huge reward for killing the BOSS and this BOSS level can only be opened once. After it is opened, it cannot be opened again no matter if the city defense was considered a success or not. The monster attacks will still continue on during the following waves. If the city defense fails at the BOSS level, only Chaotic Energy within the Chaos’ Core will be lost with no other system punishment.]

“BOSS level… This is a high risk for high returns kind of level so I should do well to be prepared.”

Li Hanqiang dispelled the sudden urge to continue recklessly as he turned around and walked toward the Chaos’ Core.

Failing to draw any good city defense rewards for several times in a row, Li Hanqiang was not seeking any rare items this time. He would be very satisfied with simply getting a Rapid Development Small Loot Box.

He had already accumulated two pieces of Random Defensive Tower Blueprint Fragments. If he added another one from a small loot box, he would be able to synthesize a complete blueprint.

The synthesized Defensive Tower Construction Blueprints were not limited to first-level defensive towers. This was where Li Hanqiang’s Fire Tower had come from.

It was a pity that not every wish could be granted as Li Hanqiang drew a City Defense Technology Scroll instead.

[City Defense Technology Scroll: Special item, randomly unlocks a locked City Defense Technology after opening.]

Li Hanqiang unfolded it and a system notification followed.

[Ding, congratulations to the player for successfully unlocking the Stone Slab Mobile Technology. During non-combat time, you can consume one Chaotic Energy to move a Chaotic Stone Slab with a Defensive Tower on it.]

“Moving the Chaotic Stone Slabs, this is such practical technology!”

Li Hanqiang immediately experimented with the new technology as he wanted to adjust the positions of the Defensive Tower since long ago.

The positions of the Fire Tower and the Rocket Tower did not need to be changed, while the Beast Hunter itself could not be moved. Li Hanqiang moved the Sword Tower and the five Bright Lance Dark Arrow Towers to a position just 100 meters behind the Beast Hunter. The towers were placed symmetrically on both sides of the War Corridor.

This way, the monsters trapped by the Beast Hunter can be attacked by the other five output towers behind it.

Li Hanqiang intended to move the idle Chaotic Stone Slabs in the back to be placed in a neat arrangement at the front. However, there was too little Chaotic Energy in the Chaos’ Core that he was unwilling to use it.

Li Hanqiang did not place the two Chaotic Stone Slabs he had been rewarded after the perfect city defense for the time being as he intended to keep some spares. After all, there were not many defensive towers to be built at the moment.

After adjusting the Chaotic Stone Slabs, Li Hanqiang went to the Limitless Tower and started the Gold Coin Challenge again.

With the four new Bright Lance Dark Arrow Towers, the defensive firepower of Li Hanqiang’s Chaotic City had increased by more than just a little but the Golden Cavalry kept refreshing at a rapid pace of ten per second and Li Hanqiang still failed to survive the second wave of the Gold Coin Challenge. At the end of it, he managed to successfully kill 778 Golden Cavalry and his income for that single round reached 68 gold and 90 silver!

Li Hanqiang jumped directly from tenth to third place within the Gold Coin Challenge Leaderboard!

However, the positions within the Gold Coin Challenge Leaderboard had also changed during this time. With a score of 45 gold, Chun Sanyue was now in tenth place.

The first ranked player had a terrifying single income of 165 gold and 20 silver!

The second place was also at 70 gold!

Li Hanqiang could not believe the results of first place when he saw it.

“It’s so high. Is it possible that this anonymous player has a Level 3 tower?” Li Hanqiang sighed at the cowardly first-ranked guy. If he had gotten such an outstanding achievement, his name would surely be hanging there at the highest position of the list!

In the entire ranking list, eight out of ten players were anonymous. Only Li Hanqiang and Chun Sanyue were proud enough to display theirs. One was the Lord of Chaotic City No. 68 while the other was the Lord of Chaotic City No. 69.

Li Hanqiang could not help but feel a little curious about this Chun Sanyue.

After a moment, Li Hanqiang came to the Cave Dwelling in the Gremlin’s Mountain and led the team to join in the Raid Clone.

Regardless of the bound gold coins in the Chaotic Treasury, Li Hanqiang had a total of nearly 309 gold coins with him and planned to continuously carry out ten or twenty copies of the Raid Clone.

This was not because he liked using the wheelbarrow, but because he suspected that leading the little gremlins to carry out raids was precisely what ‘arduous training’ meant. If he wanted the little gremlins to change their jobs, he would have to try more raids.

This meant five more consecutive times of entering the clones.

He encountered clones of ordinary difficulty for the first three times. Li Hanqiang did not even explore these places, directly leading the team to the exit. The fourth time they had gotten an ordinary difficult clone, Li Hanqiang managed to successfully raid the Gnome Peddler Bing Jiujiu and harvest another small wheelbarrow.

During the fifth time, he got another very simple clone but the target of the robbery was no longer Gnome Peddler Bing Jiujiu. Instead, it was a Goblin Peddler called Bing Liusan. The items they had robbed from him were no longer a wheelbarrow, but a signboard flag instead.

[Signboard Flag: Special item, erected on the ground after use. The flag is two feet high and flies automatically. The vendor can use this as a signboard to attract customers where stalls have been set up. A slogan of up to nine words can be written on the Signboard Flag. Once an advertisement slogan is written, it cannot be modified. The Signboard Flag has a durability of 100 points and can be destroyed.]