The merchant came over saying, "You earned 39,150 points this round, would you like to purchase anything?" he asked.
"Can I buy more puppets?" I asked
"You can, but you'll need to upgrade your base first, there is a limit for each base on how many puppets it can hold."
I had no choice but to upgrade the base once more and obtain ten more puppets.
With that, I had enough puppets to man the cannons around the fortress. And more to finish up the trenches.
I began by making them lay down traps, spears inside holes, and all of that. As for the moat, all I had to do was ask the merchant for a frosted crystal that I can use.
After making a tower and adjusting it so it could constantly shoot out massive pieces of ice into the moat, I had another tower constantly warming the ice, creating water that began filling up the moat rapidly.
With that done, I added another lightning tower that will be zapping the water around the moat constantly creating an electric trap that can fry any creature that tries to go through the moat.
More time went by as I was improving the quality of the weaponry. Another wave started and ended, only this one took longer than before and I lost a fully functioning puppet.
I guess it's time to increase my troops.
With one puppet down for maintenance, I repaired it and began working on a new one. I also repaired the damaged walls and towers around the gate and added even more basic turrets along the road.
But still, like I said, they all pale in comparison to Du Shen's ability, as a matter of fact, no one thought of creating a blockade in the middle path to block the waves, only Du Shen had come up with something like that, not only that, it is also a massive trap that can host and harbor a great deal of enemies then instantly launch endless death upon them. Quite frightening," the Commentator said.
"I don't like to repeat my words, but Du Shen has already proved that he is a master of strategic planning, I'm also very interested in what he is making right now, what do you think the use of the barricades along the main path, others would have made walls to funnel the creatures forward, but he made barricades on the sides of the main road," the Commentator said.
"Simple, it is to slow the beasts down, the creatures once they see a blockade in front of them, they would usually jump over it if they are agile enough like we have seen in other stages and bases, or would outright destroy them if they had the ability. But Du Shen made sure to create barricades that were open.
When beasts find that there is no need to jump over them or destroy them, and they can simply maneuver themselves around the barricades to move forward, they'll choose that option, in essence, that will make the beasts take a longer time getting to the base, and that will give Du Shen's towers and puppet ample time to take them down," Eccentric Long said.
"What about the moat? Isn't that something that is considered a blockade?" the commentator asked.
"Not really," Eccentric Long shook his head, "Most beasts would consider the moat as nothing more than a small obstacle that they can swim across to get into the middle fortress, and by going through the moat, the lightning turret will shock any and all that crosses it, further weakening them for the larger Killzone inside the fortress.
Remember, he also had several puppets manning those projectile shooting tubes, and there were even more of those on the walls of the fortress alongside more turrets that will protect the fortress itself. I doubt anything would cause him to worry for now." Eccentric Long added.
"Indeed, while most cultivators will be scraping by to use their points to upgrade their turrets, Du Shen manually upgraded them to a different function. And while they're trying to improve their main base, all Du Shen needs to do is continue upgrading everything besides the weaponry to garner more points and further improve his position, a very clever man," Xiao DU said.
"I guess so, well, hopefully all of this will be true, since the next wave, we'll have something special," the commentator said.
Looking up the screen, this time, coming out of the gate wasn't a wave of beasts, but a single man with a gigantic cleaver that he carried on his shoulder, the man's face was hidden in a mask and his body had grayish tone of skin, he was wrapped up in bandages and exuded a powerful aura as he stepped forward.
"There was a hidden condition inside this event, that randomly, on one stage, a creature will come out that has equivalent power to the total points spent in creating a base. And it seems that it showed up on the fifth wave, let's see how Du Shen will deal with this man," the commentator smirked as he widened the screen for all to see.