"The gifts of destiny had already been secretly marked with the answers..."
As Shen Fei pondered why the unattackable Heaven-Reaching Tower was suddenly spewing monsters without warning, a sentence surfaced in his mind. Involuntarily, he glanced at the Tower Master belt at his waist and the āEnlarge and Reduceā skill on his panel.
"Boss!"
"Boss!"
"Help!"
"The bossās attacks are hitting the city walls!"
Shen Fei was controlling the Lightning Chain Defense Tower to attack the dense monster tide, wondering what to do next, when his phone rang again. It was Wang Dapang! While Shen Fei was overseeing the monster extermination at the Heaven-Reaching Tower, the Neutral City battlefield 200 kilometers away, where the Defense Towers were attacking automatically, had run into trouble again.
"Damn it!"
"You take over!"
After setting the Lightning Chain Defense Tower to attack automatically, Shen Fei shouted to Sun Yu and had no choice but to head 200 kilometers away once again. He had to defend Qing City and capture the Neutral City!
ZING!
ZING!
ZING!
Arriving on the walls of the Neutral City again via the Teleportation Array, Shen Fei took control of a Poison Thorn Tower that was missing its mark. He used it to quickly eliminate a Knight boss that had drawn nearāthe others hadnāt been able to stop it, and it was now furiously stabbing the city wall with a great lance.
Although the Defense Towers could attack automatically, that was only effective in a complete steamroll. When a boss requiring constant attention appeared on the battlefield, the somewhat rigid auto-attack function was highly likely to miss the priority target. In the dozen or so seconds that Shen Fei was gone, three more bosses had been killed by the automatic attacks, but another had managed to get right up to the city wall.
"All of you, retreat!"
"Retreat to Qing City through the Teleportation Gate!"
"Go defend against the monster tide in Qing City! Just Wang Dapang and I will stay here!"
While quickly picking off the bosses, Shen Fei had the others leave first through the Teleportation Gate. Their presence here was no longer of much use in this siege defense. They would be better off returning to Qing City to help hold back the monster tide from the Heaven-Reaching Tower.
WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!
Following Shen Feiās command, everyone quickly dove into the Teleportation Gate. During this time, he had finally whittled the number of sieging bosses down to just three.
"Boss!"
"Boss!"
"Boss, we canāt hold them!"
Just as he was about to annihilate the last three bosses in one go, another message suddenly arrived from Sun Yu. The monsters from the Heaven-Reaching Tower were out of control again.
WHOOSH!
Resignedly, Shen Fei could only step into the Teleportation Gate Tower once more and return to Qing City.
ćQing Cityć
The numbers are wrong!
As he quickly slaughtered the monsters pouring out of the Heaven-Reaching Tower, a thought suddenly struck Shen Fei. The number of monsters currently pouring out was far greater than it had been in the game. Much, much greater.
Donāt tell me the monster count has also been boosted by hundreds or thousands of times? Or did the Heaven-Reaching Towerās transition to reality give it infinite monster spawns?
As he quickly cleared the furiously surging monster tide, Shen Fei started to worry.
"Boss!"
"Boss!"
"Boss! Thereās an even bigger boss!"
"Boss! Help!"
He hadnāt been at the Heaven-Reaching Tower for even half a minute when Wang Dapangās desperate, throat-tearing cries for help came again.
"Holy shit!"
He had thought the Defense Towers could automatically take care of the three remaining bosses, but when he teleported to the walls of the Neutral City, Shen Fei was suddenly stunned.
The three remaining bosses had indeed been killed by the automated Defense Towers. But then, with a SHIMMER, all of the slain bosses revived. Furthermore, as they revived, they slowly drifted together and began to merge. Soon, the twenty bosses had formed into a single man wearing a crown. He was dressed in formal attire, held a sharp sword in his left hand and a Magic Staff in his right, and had a deathly pale, vampiric face.
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(PS: Thereās no intention of nerfing the protagonist. Right now, he can freely place and move twenty Defense Towers. If he places more, he canāt move them anymore, which is why he hasnāt deployed his full strength. Although there will be an opportunity to move Defense Towers after capturing the Neutral City, the protagonist canāt place his on the Neutral Cityās land because he has his own Floating Island. Donāt worry, everyone, just keep reading. The protagonist isnāt being weakened; this is just a minor twist. There are even bigger cities to come...)