Tower Defense: Public Enemy

Chapter 44 The Great White Dove

"Such a challenging custom level, yet it only increases the camp's defense index by 100 points?"

Lei Chi felt that the system had underestimated the value of his calculations.

Although his custom-designed Jingyang Ridge only contains one large tiger, all wild monsters and players must pass through Jingyang Ridge to enter the camp square, just like entering a dungeon.

So, inside Jingyanggang, facing a live tiger, they would at least get scratched, or even scratched many times, be choked, or be beaten to death.

How much damage can this big tiger cause?

"The tiger's attack power is quite high, at 50 points. It's entrenched in Jingyang Ridge, dealing true area-of-effect damage; its total output will definitely be explosive!"

Lei Chi thought Jingyanggang was very powerful, worthy of being a high-level item worth more than 6000 gold coins.

You should know that if those six thousand gold coins were used to buy the blueprints for a Tier 1 Beast Tower, they could buy over six hundred blueprints. Using all six hundred blueprints would mean building over six hundred Tier 1 Beast Towers, which would be quite impressive, increasing the camp's defense index by at least six hundred.

"Jingyang Ridge is strong, but it's by no means invincible. Slimes and little skeletons can't get past it, but if someone like Wu Song comes along, the big tiger won't be able to stop it. In short, Jingyang Ridge's role is to block small monsters, but it can't stop big monsters or bosses. However, on the other hand, if I had a defensive tower stronger than the big tiger, like a Tyrannosaurus Rex or something, and replaced the big tiger, then Jingyang Ridge would be even stronger. Even Wu Song couldn't beat a Tyrannosaurus Rex!"

Lei Chi was filled with anticipation. The best thing about custom levels was that they could be reset every 24 hours, allowing for the replacement of stronger defensive towers.

He then checked the other items in the claims box.

You have obtained ten Tier 1 Beast Tower construction blueprints, which are for the following beasts: [Leopard], [Hyena], [Bear], [Elephant], [Rhinoceros], [Lion], [Crocodile], [Hippo], [Wild Horse], and [Wolf]!

"All melee units, all trash towers."

Lei Chi shook his head, too lazy to use the ten blueprints. They were just ten trash melee towers; the War Corridor wouldn't make a difference with them.

"When playing tower defense, the quality of the defensive towers is more important than the quantity. Taking the elite route is much more effective than mindlessly building small towers. If you build too many small towers, you can't upgrade them, and you might have to remove them later, which is a huge loss!"

Lei Chi muttered to himself as he took out 100 gold coins from the compensation box as compensation from the system.

As soon as the gold coins were in hand, the treasure chest vanished in a flash of light. Lei Chi looked back at the camp square, where the Slime King had been resurrected and was now walking towards the Slime Camp on his own initiative.

This Slime King was previously killed, but after being resurrected, his level increased instead of decreasing, and he has now reached LV6!

The LV6 Slime King has unlocked his first skill, "Summon Slime." Now that he's LV6, he can summon six slime minions at once, significantly increasing his overall strength.

A moment later, Lei Chi locked the Slime King back in the Slime Camp, then went to the City Defense Center and spent 20 gold coins to unlock [Claws LV1] and [Fangs LV1].

These two technologies only affect melee beast towers, increasing claw attack power and bite attack power.

For creatures like the [Big Tiger], the standard attack method is a right claw strike, which originally has an attack power of 50 points. After unlocking [Claws LV1], the attack power becomes 53 points. When it activates [Throat Lock], the target who was originally choked loses 50 health points per second. Now, under the influence of [Fangs LV1], the loss is increased to 53 health points per second.

At this point, if you spend another 100 gold coins, you can upgrade the city defense center to LV2.

Unfortunately, I don't have the money!

Even if you have the money, you might not upgrade the Thunder Pool, because there's not much need for it at the moment.

"The system compensation has been settled, and there's also the Frost Gem and Crazy Giant Rat Summoning Scroll provided by Hua Tianbao... This time we're really going to take off. After digesting everything, breaking through the tenth wave of monster invasion will be a piece of cake."

Lei Chi quickly used the [Frost Gem].

"Ding! Consuming one [Ice Gem], your Tier 1 Beast Tower [Little White Dove] has successfully upgraded to Tier 2 Beast Tower [Big White Dove]!"

At the system notification, the little white dove in front of Lei Chi flapped its wings rapidly. In the span of two breaths, its body grew to the size of a goat, plump and chubby, with pure white feathers, becoming a Q-version big fat bird.

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Tower Name: Big White Dove

Area: 2m x 2m

Type: Beast Tower

Order: Second order

Attack Power: 10+2 (Focus LV1)

Attack type: Magic

Attack range: 10 meters

Attack Speed: 0.5

Attack Effect: The giant white dove breathes cold air in a 60-degree fan-shaped area in front of it, dealing instantaneous frost magic damage to all enemy targets within the attack range and slowing them by 30% for two seconds.

Note 1: The Great White Dove has a unique attack mechanism, which will prioritize spraying cold air on areas with a higher density of enemies within its range.

Explanation 2: After activating the hidden technology [Starry Sky Bloodline], the Giant White Dove + [Ice Gem] x2 = Giant White Dove (Tier 3 Beast Tower). The Giant White Dove has stronger ice area damage capabilities and can automatically grow into a Tier 4 defense tower [White Bird] by killing enemies.

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

Lei Chi discovered that the [Big White Dove] and the [Big Rubber Duck] have the exact same attack method, but the attack power is much weaker, although it can slow down the entire group!

"It's a decent defensive tower, and it can stack slow effects with Thunder Lizard, Big Green Snake, and Big Tiger. It's a pity that there's only one Big White Dove, which is asymmetrical and doesn't look good."

Lei Chi has a slight obsession with symmetry; he feels uncomfortable if the defensive towers are asymmetrical, which is one of the reasons why he hasn't built beast towers like the [Little Bear] and [Little Elephant].

Next, Lei Chi began to consider summoning a wave of behemoths to invade.

He wasn't after any loot; he just wanted to rack up kills for his two little sea turtles, two porcupines, two little tigers, and a big green snake.

"The Little Turtle has an attack power of 2 points and an attack speed of 0.5. It can advance to a higher rank after killing 100 enemies. With the tower defense technology bonus, its attack power increases to 5 points, easily killing a Crazy Giant Rat with only 3 health points in one attack. Farming kills for the Little Tiger and Porcupine is easy. There are a total of 30,000 Crazy Giant Rats this time, enough for the Little Turtle and Little Tiger to advance. The Porcupine easily gets one kill per second; they've already accumulated a lot of kills, so they're sure to advance this time as well. As for the Big Green Snake, it automatically grows at 10,000 kills, so this wave probably won't be enough..."

After a moment's thought, Lei Chi began to use the [Beast Shift] skill to move a ranged tower to the back.

It took Lei Chi about two hours to move all the ranged defense towers to the very back of the War Corridor, placing them one next to the other.

The foremost defensive tower is the [Great Green Serpent], with a range of 30 meters. It is located at the "30-meter" mark in the [War Corridor], on the right side facing the camp!

Behind the large green snake are the little sea turtle, the little tiger, the big tiger, the porcupine, and so on.

A moment later, Lei Chi used the [Summoning Scroll of the Mad Giant Rat]. Light and mist surged in the [Time-Space Wormhole], and the Mad Giant Rat, lined up in neat rows, began to appear. Each of them was as big as an otter, with long tails, covered in scraggly brown fur, and was quite filthy, making them rather unpleasant to look at.