Tower Defense Lord from Earth

Chapter 55 Level 2 City, A Gift from Home

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Early Stage Tower Rankings

Posted by: King Charles

Ranked #1: [Tower of Death], Tier 1 Divine Tower, Five Stars!

Reason for inclusion: Extremely long range and powerful deterrent effect, making it the undisputed god tower at the start of the game!

Case: A shameless old man started with a Death Tower, rushed straight to the opponent's territory, built towers a kilometer away to kill enemies, and unified the newbie village in one day and one night!

Second place: [Cold Wind Tower], a second-tier divine tower, five stars!

Reason for inclusion: Single-target control, group slowing, the king of support!

Ranked third: [Death Ray Tower], a second-tier divine tower, four stars!

Reason for inclusion: Extremely fast attack speed, ignores defense, and has explosive damage output.

Ranked fourth: [Multiple Arrow Tower], a second-tier divine tower, four stars.

Reason for inclusion: A powerful tool for area-of-effect attacks!

Fifth place: [Holy Light Tower], a second-tier divine tower, four stars!

Reason for inclusion: Healer's Tower, it can heal!

Ranked sixth: [Thunder Hammer Tower], a second-tier divine tower, four stars!

Reason for inclusion: The strongest single-target control, with explosive damage.

Ranked seventh: [Meteor Tower]...

Ranked eighth: [Thunder Blade]...

Ranked ninth: [Blazing Tower]...

Ranked tenth: [Sky Strike Sword]...

Ranked eleventh: [Ice Burst Generator]...

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Ranked 20th: [Thunder Fury]...

Note: This list only includes early-game defensive towers below Tier 3. The ranking is highly subjective; please feel free to correct any inaccuracies. We are also seeking other early-game powerhouse towers, and I will update the list regularly. Stay tuned…

The discussion below this post was extremely heated, with players constantly replying.

"The Divine Tower?"

Liu Huasheng smiled to himself, thinking that if this "King Charlie" saw his own amazing defensive tower, he would probably throw this list to feed the dogs!

A moment later, Liu Huasheng clicked on a post titled "Lostamp Underground Temple".

The poster of this post, nicknamed "Big Mole," is a player who plays Wild Monster.

In the post, the giant mole claimed to have changed his class to a rare monster and then discovered a huge underground palace beneath the Lost Temple. The palace contained many ancient warehouses, but a special identity was required to open them.

Furthermore, based on the information he possessed, the giant mole deduced that the Lost Temple should originally have been the Kobold Temple.

Kobolds worship dragons, but for some unknown reason, this group of kobolds in Lostamp was abandoned by the dragons and subsequently suffered a devastating blow, with their race nearly wiped out and their civilization buried underground!

The giant mole speculated that if certain conditions were met, the kobold civilization might be able to reappear.

"An underground palace? A kobold civilization?"

Liu Huasheng couldn't help but think of Hua Xiaolan, the dog-headed man who could burrow underground and lead troops. Combining the information in the post by the giant mole, he suspected that Hua Xiaolan must have obtained an opportunity in the underground palace and was very likely to become an enemy more threatening than Sima Zhen and Ma Xianlong in the future.

"It seems we need to take over the Lost Temple as soon as possible..."

Liu Huasheng silently made a decision: to first bombard the Lost Temple with rockets, one per day, and then launch a full-scale attack once he had siege weapons, to uncover its secrets and eliminate any hidden dangers as soon as possible!

After casually browsing a few more posts, Liu Huasheng opened the trading platform panel.

The panel displays a large number of items for sale, indicating that players have already opened an auction house.

Liu Huasheng had a lot of things he didn't need, so he thought it would be good to put them up for sale on the trading house.

He first searched and found that there were dried rats for sale in the trading market. The cheapest was 2 gold coins per piece, and the most expensive was only 5 gold coins!

"If they open a trading post and sell dried rats for 20 yuan a piece, I doubt anyone will buy them..."

Liu Huasheng shook his head, but quickly put the thousand catties of dried rats he had just harvested on the trading platform.

This thousand catties is two thousand pieces. Liu Huasheng uniformly priced each piece at two gold coins, thinking of dumping them at a low price. Anyway, he still has a lot of dried rats. He wants to sell them as soon as possible, exchange them for gold coins, and upgrade Chaos City and repair the pig farm.

After listing all the dried rats for sale, Liu Huasheng studied the items in the trading house. He found that the items listed by players were varied, including fashion items, equipment, various materials, and so on, but there weren't many good items.

Among these items, the blueprints for defensive towers are extremely valuable. Liu Huasheng found 33 blueprints, 30 of which were blueprints for building first-tier defensive towers, with most of them priced at over 10,000 gold coins. There were two blueprints for second-tier towers, priced at 20,000 gold coins each, and only one blueprint for a third-tier defensive tower, priced at 50,000 gold coins!

Liu Huasheng also found some hero recruitment orders, but only D-level and C-level ones were available; there were no B-level or higher ones!

As for items like architectural blueprints and technological blueprints, they can't be found in this trading house at all!

Liu Huasheng's favorite stamina potion is not available in the trading house!

After studying them for a long time, Liu Huasheng put the blueprints he had previously collected—the blueprints for the Tier 2 [Earth Spike Tower], the Tier 2 [Wind Blade Tower], the Tier 3 [Electric Light Tower], and the Tier 3 [Meteorite Tower]—on the trading house.

He priced the blueprint for a Tier 2 defensive tower at 18888 gold coins, and the blueprint for a Tier 3 defensive tower at 48888 gold coins.

Liu Huasheng felt that the price was reasonable.

He doesn't need these construction blueprints anyway, and he's satisfied with selling them at this price; he doesn't really care whether he sold them at a loss.

Liu Huasheng also has a bottle of [Elite Bloodline Potion], an item that can only be used by players who fight wild monsters. It has been listed on the auction house for 2000 gold coins.

In addition, Liu Huasheng also purchased a D-level hero recruitment token for only 100 gold coins!

The reason for purchasing this item is that Liu Huasheng also owns a special outfit called "Pirate Captain".

This outfit can be used as a job-change item. Simply equip it on your subordinate humanoid hero to change their job to B-rank hero.

In Liu Huasheng's mind, buying a D-level hero for 100 yuan and then bestowing the [Pirate Captain] upon him would immediately grant him a B-level hero, which was a very profitable deal.

"Now we just wait for the gold coins to be credited to our account!"

With anticipation in his heart, Liu Huasheng checked his personal information panel.

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Name: Liu Huasheng (Lord of Huaxia Dragon City)

Life: 102

Physical strength: 19/110

Occupation: Tower Defense Lord

Talent: Ever-changing

Skills: [Build Tower], [Repair Tower], [Move Tower], [Control Tower], [Destroy Tower], [Summon], [Scout]

Tower Record: [Tier 1 Random Defense Tower]

Reserve Gold Coins: 5255

Timber reserves: 112200

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"It seems the two bloodthirsty porcupines sent to Hill 7 didn't survive, otherwise my health points could have increased by another 6!"

As Liu Huasheng muttered to himself, he noticed that the number of reserve gold coins had changed, increasing by 18888!

"We've sold a defense tower blueprint!"

Liu Huasheng was overjoyed. At this moment, he was too lazy to check which blueprint had been sold. He decided to upgrade Chaos City first!

Upgrading Chaos City to Tier 2 requires 10000 gold coins and 10000 wood.

With a thought, Liu Huasheng consumed these resources, and then he felt the ground shake.

The tremor lasted for about ten seconds. Just as it subsided, a strange system notification suddenly sounded in Liu Huasheng's mind: "Ding, congratulations on Chaos City advancing to Tier 2. Your distant homeland has sent you a congratulatory gift. We wish you a pleasant gaming experience."

"A congratulatory gift from my hometown?"

Liu Huasheng's mind stirred, and a golden treasure chest appeared in front of him. After opening it, an information window immediately popped up in front of him.

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Gift list:

1. Random Citizen Skin: A specially crafted skin that randomly grants a citizen the skin upon claiming it, permanently altering their appearance.

2. S-Rank Hero Recruitment Order: A special token that can be used to obtain an S-Rank hero.

3. Resource packs can yield 50,000 gold coins and 50,000 wood!

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