《My Chaotic City》


 Chapter 1： Lord of The Chaotic City

    [Honorable City Lord, please hurry in building the defensive towers. The monster army has assembled and will attack in 60 minutes¡­]


    The system''s notification rang in his ears.


    "Don''t panic, don''t panic!"


    Li Hanqiang looked at his surroundings calmly.


    As a Lord of the Chaotic City, Li Hanqiang knew that this was supposed to be his chaotic city. However, as he looked around, he wondered exactly where it was.


    There was only a floating stone ball in Li Hanqiang''s field of vision. It was gray and white in color, about one meter in diameter, and rotated slowly.


    There were neither walls nor temples around. The ground was covered with rough stone slabs, and not a single plant nor soul could be seen.


    Looking further away, there was no land, just an endless void. Stars were visible from every corner he could see that it was as if he was floating in a starry universe on a small piece of ruin.


    At the same time, a huge black vortex could be seen in the distance.


    Li Hanqiang shook his head. "Is this my chaotic city? It looks almost in ruins, and there are monsters still here to attack it!"


    It was the first day of the open beta testing for the super online game Endless World and Li Hanqiang had chosen the Lord of the Chaotic City profession.


    Judging from the official news, every lord of a chaotic city was given a chaotic city at the start of the game. These chaotic cities would be isolated in the chaotic void and face waves of monster attacks. It was the job of the Chaotic City Lord to build defense towers, release missions to defend the city, and so on. All this was to showcase their individual strength in the chaotic void as they tried to strive in the Endless World.


    To put it bluntly, the job of the Lord of the Chaotic City was to create defensive tower elements that were added on top of the traditional jobs done by the lord of the city. As such, the Lord''s primary task was to build various defensive towers that would help them resist wave after wave of monster attacks.


    It was through this that they would then be qualified to recruit armies and purchase horses in order to conquer the rest of the world.


    The player could trigger unpredictable events and rewards after successfully defending a city, and this included countless fantastical building blueprints and props that helped to ensure random trajectories of development for each Chaotic City.


    It could be said that the starting point of every chaotic city was the same but over time, they would eventually develop into other things like an eccentric fantasy city, a magical city with swords and magic, or even a sci-fi city filled with steel machinery. Nobody could predict what the final outcome would be.


    Li Hanqiang himself was an unemployed wanderer. After his parents passed away, he had inherited several properties. He lived by renting out these properties and therefore had lots of free time. Having had no other sustenance in life, he naturally became an online game enthusiast.


    Before the open beta testing of Endless World, he had tried playing several other virtual online games. The characters he had chosen to play then were usually more adventurous jobs such as warriors or mages.


    Although he had a competitive personality, it was a pity that he was not dexterous enough to keep up with the gaming skills required to play these characters. While his gaming experience over the years had given him plenty of benefits, he could only be considered a veteran when playing the job of an adventurer and would never be seen as an expert!


    This had nothing to do with the use of Krypton gold or even a damaged liver, this was a matter of his mentality!


    The best words to describe a person like Li Hanqiang was someone who had a good attitude in a good game and would not give up when experiencing a bad game.


    There were also many different types of adventurer jobs in the Endless World. However, Li Hanqiang was completely aware of his predicament and dismissed those jobs in contempt, resolving in his choice to be a Chaotic City Lord and experience the pleasure of planning and conquering the world.


    However, he did not expect that the beginnings of the Chaotic City would look like this.


    "What kind of Chaotic City Lord am I? This is just a bare general situation. At this moment, I am just a Lord of Ruins." Li Hanqiang sighed, but quickly checked his attribute information.


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    Nickname: Li Hanqiang (Recognized as the player''s real name by default. Player has one opportunity to modify nickname)


    Occupation: Lord of Chaotic City (Owns Chaotic City No. 68)


    Level: 1


    HP: 100


    Talent: To be discovered


    Skill Achieved: The Invincible Lord; Special skill, not upgradeable. The Chaotic City Lord is permanently invincible inside the Chaotic City, immune to any skills and damage. At the same time, The Chaotic City Lord cannot cause any damage to the invaders of the Chaotic City.


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    "The Invincible Lord! This is a good skill! I will not need to worry about being plotted against by others." Li Hanqiang sighed and then opened his inventory. There was only a single scroll in it, named the Basic Arrow Towers Construction Blueprint.


    [Basic Arrow Towers Construction Blueprint: Exclusive item of the Chaotic City Lord. A basic arrow tower (first level defense tower) will be quickly built on the Chaotic Stone Slab after the item is used. Attack power: 35-40. Range of attack: 200M; two piercing crossbow arrows are released per second. The basic arrow tower has a huge upgrade potential (upgrade requires upgrading scrolls or unlocking related technologies).]


    Li Hanqiang looked around while holding onto the construction blueprint.


    The Basic Arrow Tower was to be built on the Chaotic Stone Slab, but what was a Chaotic Stone Slab?


    The game had just started and everything had to be explored. Li Hanqiang immediately started to walk and look around.


    The first thing he noticed was a floating stone ball in front of him named the Chaos'' Core.


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    Chaos'' Core Level 1: The Chaotic City''s core, where you can draw energy from the chaotic void and store it.


    Current Chaotic Energy: 100/100


    Energy harvesting speed: 1 point per hour


    Description: Upgrade the Chaos'' Core to increase the storage limit of Chaotic Energy. The next upgrade requires 1000 gold coins.


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    It was obvious that the Chaos'' Core was very important.


    Li Hanqiang understood internally that there was currently no actual city. How would you defend a city from monster attacks if there was nothing? All he had at the moment was guard this Chaos'' Core.


    Apart from the Chaos'' Core, there were three other striking things that he noticed on this small ruin.


    The first one was the black vortex that was standing some distance away. The words Space-Time Wormhole were written on top of it. This was understood to be where endless monsters would enter and attack the Chaotic City.


    The second one was a stone-paved road of about two feet wide that was floating in the void. It extended from the Space-Time Wormhole all the way to the Chaos'' Core.


    This was the War Corridor.


    Li Hanqiang visually observed the War Corridor. It was about one kilometer in length.


    There were also some square platforms with a light green sheen on the edge of the War Corridor. Those were the Chaotic Stone Slabs.


    Li Hanqiang counted them, noting that there were only five Chaotic Stone Slabs distributed on one side of the War Corridor. They were all located at the midpoint of the War Corridor and were spaced only two or three meters apart that they were almost right next to one another.


    "Build a tower, build a tower!"


    Li Hanqiang took action. He selected the Chaotic Stone Slab in the middle and took out the Basic Arrow Towers Construction Blueprint, throwing it onto the stone slab. A building over ten meters high immediately appeared and completely filled up the area of the stone slab.


    The exterior of this building was similar to the ancient Chinese octagonal tower. It had three floors and was built quite high. On the top of the tower were the words ''Basic Arrow Tower'' and a huge, fully-automated crossbow vehicle. The vehicle was already equipped with arrows as long as javelins and was moving around.


    As a defensive tower, the Basic Arrow Tower did not require manual operation as it had an unlimited stock of arrows, coupled with an automated aiming and attack function.


    [Ding! Congratulations to the player for successfully building the first defense tower. Now you can publish missions to recruit adventurer players to support you in defending your city.]


    [System notification: Before each wave of monster attacks, the Chaotic City Lord is allowed to publish one city defense mission. This mission will appear in the mission panel located at the Chaos Temple for adventurer players to receive. The first mission published by the Chaotic City Lord will receive the benefit of a public announcement by the system.]


    [System notification: Your Chaotic City currently owns 4 empty Chaotic Stone Slabs, which allows for up to 4 adventurer players to receive the city defense mission.]


    [System notification: Adventurer players are required to be in possession of teleport tickets to receive the city defense mission. The price of the teleport ticket is 1 gold coin per ticket. After an adventurer player purchases a ticket, the Chaotic City Lord who issued it can receive 50 silver coins. (PS: 1 gold = 100 silver)]


    [System notification: The player is requested to write a notice for the mission...]


    Li Hanqiang touched his nose. This task of publishing city defense missions was very interesting. Every adventurer player who was interested in defending the city would have to buy a ticket!


    Was that not the equivalent of a charged mission as adventurer players were technically required to spend money to defend the city?


    The point was that for every ticket sold, the Chaotic City Lord would receive 50 silver coins. Was this a way to make money?


    "No matter what, let''s publish the mission first!"


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 Chapter 2：Monster Attack In The City

    At that moment, beyond the chaotic void, countless adventure players were being bombarded by a ton of system announcements.


    [System notification: The Lord of Chaotic City No. 17, Special Space Hero, published a city defense mission.]


    [System notification: The Lord of Chaotic City No. 33, A Spoonful of Lonely City, published a city defense mission.]


    [System notification: The Lord of Chaotic City No. 47, Cute Little Fox Demon, published a city defense mission. A cute angelic young lady with the face of an angel and the body of the devil. Great welfare to be given on the scene. First come first serve basis. Limited amount, only 4...]


    [System notification: The Lord of Chaotic City No. 68, Li Hanqiang, published a city defense mission. Invading monsters are gathering. Experience, gold coins, and equipment are all here. Say goodbye to snatching for the Boss in the outskirts and come over to level up quickly. What are you waiting for? Come and defend the city...]


    [System notification: The Lord of Chaotic City No. 192, Fat Tiger Really Doesn''t Know, published city defense mission. Girls please, only girls, pretty ones...]


    Endless World was extremely popular as countless players had already entered the game during the start of the open beta testing. Among them, many players had chosen the Lord of the Chaotic City profession. As such, there was a bombardment of system notifications that appeared as these announcements were all made at the same time. This caused large amounts of misery for the adventurer players.


    "These motherf*ckers are crazy people. What kind of Chaotic City Lords are these! The cost of teleport tickets is 1 gold coin per piece. Where do we get 1 gold coin when the game has just started?"


    "Even if we did own some gold coins, we wouldn''t spend that money just to guard a city. Do they think we are stupid?"


    "Just ignore those stupid Lords. Brothers, raise your spirits and work hard to level up!"


    "Great welfare will be given? Who are they kidding! A cute angelic young lady? I''m 80% sure that it''s just a big-sized man picking his feet. I, your dad, am clearly not going to fall for your tricks!"


    "Leveling up is more important, I don''t have time to defend whatever random city there is..."


    Countless adventurer players made complaints but there were still certain players who were attracted by the mission announcements and decided to take a look...


    As time passed, Li Hanqiang''s city was about ten minutes from the first wave of monster attacks.


    He was standing next to the Basic Arrow Tower at that moment, looking at the Space-Time Wormhole.


    At the moment, no adventurer player had appeared as support.


    Maybe he would just have to rely on the Basic Arrow Tower as his only defense for the first wave of monster attacks...


    The game had just begun so it was to be expected that the combat power of the adventurer players was still limited. According to his own experience, whether or not they were present would be irrelevant as the difficulty for the first wave of monster attacks was usually not high.


    It was still a pity that no players had come as support. This meant that he would not be able to earn any ''ticket money'' as the Chaotic City Lord.


    It was common knowledge that the Chaotic City Lord would get 50 silver coins with each ticket sold.


    ''I should practice my writing skills and write a more attractive mission notice next time.'' Li Hanqiang pondered in his head.


    Suddenly, a ray of light shone from the sky as one of the Chaotic Stone Slabs transformed into a player holding a longbow.


    The player looked very young, was short in stature, and appeared to be around 160 meters tall. He wore a novice suit as he looked around the premise. The player appeared to be an intelligent one.


    Before his appearance, Li Hanqiang also received a system notification.


    [50 silver coins received.]


    "You are the Lord of this Chaotic City? I came here after reading your advertisement. I will not let you go if I can''t level up easily!"


    The adventurer quickly determined Li Hanqiang''s position. He raised his bow and revealed his attribute information. His nickname was Dark Redemption and he was a Level 2 Dark Ranger.


    "Welcome, welcome. I give you a warm welcome." Li Hanqiang rejoiced in his heart. He had successfully gotten one player!


    "Aren''t we guarding the city? Why can''t I see your Chaotic City? Where is this place? This wouldn''t happen to be your Chaotic City, right?" Dark Redemption questioned doubtfully.


    In his thoughts, the small patch of ruins in front of him was not what he envisioned with the high-end name of "The Chaotic City".


    Li Hanqiang tried to think of an answer and felt that he had no explanation. Instead, he sighed and said, "Please help yourself around here."


    "Oh, someone''s acting proud!"


    Dark Redemption rolled his eyes but stopped asking anything as he continued to observe his surroundings.


    Li Hanqiang thought to himself that this guy was definitely not an idiot.


    Soon, another two rays of lights appeared. The two Chaotic Stone Slabs behind Dark Redemption turned into a man and a woman. The man was tall, and the woman was enchanting; they were a knight and cleric respectively. Both were at Level 2.


    Both of them had their attribute information opened. The man was Fanning Knight and the woman was First-Class Star. As soon as they appeared, they waved and greeted each other in joy.


    With this, Li Hanqiang was in a good mood as he received another gold coin. He approached both of them and said, "Welcome!"


    At that moment, a burst of thunder sounded and a ray of light appeared in the Space-Time Wormhole from a distance away. The regional announcement followed.


    [The first wave of monster attack at the Chaotic City starts!]


    [Regional announcement: The monsters attacking the city will move along the direction of the War Corridor and touch the Chaos'' Core in order to steal the Chaotic Energy. When the Chaotic Energy of the Chaos'' Core is reduced to zero, the city defense will be judged as a failure. After successfully defending the monster attacks, all the players that have defended the city will receive a huge experience boost as a reward. If the defenders fail, the rank of all players will be reduced. The Chaotic City and its Lord will receive harsher punishment.]


    [System announcement: During the period of the monster attack, apart from the Lord of the Chaotic City, no players can escape from the Chaotic Stone Slabs (This will be disabled after the monster attack ends). At the same time, the players are protected by the Chaotic Stone Slab from active monster attacks while they are attacking the city.]


    [System announcement: During the duration of the monster attack, there is a small chance that random events or special monsters will appear. There will be a large amount of invading monsters. Now, the countdown of the monster attack starts, 10, 9, 8...]


    Li Hanqiang was nervous as he felt the ground beneath his feet tremble slightly while staring ahead at the tumbling and twisting appearance of the Space-Time Wormhole.


    The three adventurer players had also focused their attention straight ahead. They had no idea that there would be punishments if they failed to defend the city.


    The countdown soon ended. Following that, a thunderous sound exploded from the sky as the ground shook violently. The Space-Time Wormhole quickly opened, much like a huge beast opening its maw and baring its fangs. From it, countless roars were heard, numbing the scalps of people who were present!


    The monsters that would be attacking the city were about to appear.


    Li Hanqiang spirits lifted as he continued to stare at the Space-Time Wormhole. A group of snorting black-skinned pigs could be seen arching from the Space-Time Wormhole.


    The black-skinned pigs were just a little bigger in size when compared to pugs. They had short limbs and were chubby. In fact, they seemed to look stupid and were even a little cute. However, there were a lot of them, stretching out like a tide of blackness as they flooded into the Corridor of War.


    [Little Black Pig: Level 1, HP: 10-30, each of them can steal 1 point of Chaotic Energy from the Chaos'' Core.]


    Dark Redemption could not help it. He pointed at the swarm of pigs and laughed out loud, "These are the f*cking monsters that will attack the city? Hahahaha! My teeth are going to drop from all this laughter. What is a Chaotic City but just a land of ruins; what are the monsters but just a flock of little black pigs!"


    Fanning Knight and First-Class Star also laughed openly as Fanning Knight said, "Funny, this is really funny. It really gave me a fright when I heard the regional announcement. I didn''t expect the monsters that would be attacking the city to be such garbage!"


    "Everybody, please don''t be careless." Li Hanqiang reminded them, "Although the level of the Little Black Pigs is low, there are a lot of them. Please don''t be dug over by their snouts."


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 Chapter 3：Players Who Defend The City

    It had to be said that the transfer speed of the Little Black Pigs was very slow. One could see that they could only move about half a meter per second. The first Little Black Pig took five minutes to enter the shooting range of the Basic Arrow Tower.


    With a swishing sound, an arrow the length of a javelin shot from the Arrow Tower. Two hundred meters away, the fastest-moving Little Black Pig screamed and was directly crucified on the ground!


    Dead in seconds!


    That was just the beginning. As more Little Black Pigs entered its shooting range, the Arrow Tower switched itself on to its full power. Swish, swish, swish¡­ Sharp arrows were shot continuously, impaling one pig per arrow without missing a shot.


    The Arrow Tower was like a machine gun as the Little Black Pigs had low HP, low protection, and moved very slowly. They quickly fell down like wheat stalks being harvested and disappeared as the game refreshed.


    "The Arrow Tower is invincible!" Li Hanqiang laughed, his arms crossed.


    Dark Redemption''s eyes went round in amazement and said, "Oh my god, this is such a powerful Arrow Tower."


    His job was a Dark Ranger and his primary weapons were a bow and arrows. However, he could only shoot at a range of about 40 to 50 meters with his best efforts. As the speed of his attacks were also super slow, there was no chance of comparison for him against the Arrow Tower.


    Li Hanqiang quickly calmed down and observed the Arrow Tower as he realized that he could directly control the Arrow Tower. Even though the Arrow Tower was currently in free attack mode, he could still choose a different target of attack at any moment or stop the Arrow Tower''s attack at any time.


    Li Hanqiang could even make the Arrow Tower attack the players!


    This all depended on his own thoughts.


    Of course, in the current situation, he had no reason to interfere with the Arrow Tower. Allowing it to attack freely would maximize its efficiency of killing the enemy.


    Despite that, there was still only one Arrow Tower and too many Little Black Pigs. The little pigs were endless and the tower was failing to hit some of them. Soon, there were a few little pigs that begun moving forward.


    Dark Redemption''s spirit was lifted as he saw a Little Black Pig enter his range of attack.


    "Kill the monsters!"


    He arched his bow and shot an arrow impatiently. An enchanted magic arrow surrounded by black mist flew out and fell on the War Corridor with a ''Ding'' sound. He had missed a shot!


    He failed on his first attempt!


    This did not discourage Dark Redemption, however. He merely laughed and attacked again. This time, the second magic arrow hit the target and caused 6 damage points.


    Soon, the third and fourth arrows followed¡­


    Dark Redemption''s attacks were very steady as each arrow caused a total of 6 damage points. His accuracy was also decent as he could hit the same Little Black Pig with every shot.


    Soon, one Little Black Pig was shot to death 30 meters away. A black light flashed from its body and a Level 1, Small Humanoid Skeleton stood up!


    The Little Skeleton trembled and was only 1.2 to 1.3 meters tall. It looked weak but it soon started to attack the Little Black Pig beside it with the bone blades in its hands, standing on the War Corridor.


    Bizarrely, the Little Black Pigs completely ignored the Little Skeleton''s actions and accepted its attacks.


    Despite that, the attack power of the Little Skeleton was terrible and could only cause about 1 damage point per attack.


    Fanning Knight and First-Class Star were growing impatient as they saw the Little Black Pigs heading towards them but were unable to attack as they could not leave their respective Chaotic Stone Slabs.


    "What is going on? I''m a warrior and I need to be able to carry out close combat. How do I attack them without leaving the Chaotic Stone Slab? Do I only wait for the Little Black Pigs to approach? Stupid f*cker!"


    "I''m a cleric, how should I fight?"


    Both of them started to complain as they looked at Dark Redemption in envy.


    Dark Redemption was in a state of euphoria as he only focused on attacking brainlessly. In just a few seconds, he shot another Little Black Pig to death which was followed by the appearance of a second Little Skeleton.


    The Little Black Pigs completely ignored the players on the Chaotic Stone Slabs as they continued moving forward. Dark Redemption immediately realized that if this was what the ''monster attacks on the city'' had meant, then this would be a good way for him to gain experience!


    After seeing that Dark Redemption had successfully killed two Little Black Pigs, Fanning Knight who was unable to attack anything began to grow angry. He pointed at Li Hanqiang and asked, "What kind of stupid setting is this that does not allow melee players to get involved? Give me an explanation!"


    "I''ll give you a hammer!" Li Hanqiang pretended to be deaf to his words as he looked at Dark Redemption, interested in his strong skills.


    First-Class Star also looked at Dark Redemption with shining eyes and suddenly shouted, "Handsome brother, how are you so powerful? What skills are you using? You can even summon small skeletons!"


    Dark Redemption laughed while shooting arrows and said, "Of course I am great! My job is a legendary profession and this skill of mine is known as the ''Dark Arrows''. Not only does it come with an increase in attack power, but it can also be used to summon small skeletons from the corpses of monsters that I have killed. Hahahaha!"


    While he spoke, a third Little Skeleton had appeared from his attack.


    "Wow, I''ve met a big shot. Let''s add each other as friends. Please carry me as your little sister!" First-Class Star said, smiling sweetly.


    "Of course, that would be great!" Dark Redemption nodded continuously.


    "What is so amazing about legendary professions? I, your brother, can get more than 6 attack points with just a normal attack!" Fanning Knight gritted his teeth in anger. At that instant, he had successfully managed to wait for a Little Black Pig that was passing by the side of the road and started attacking it like he was crazy.


    Swish swish swish! A Little Black Pig with 30 HP instantly lost all it all and died on the spot.


    Although Fanning Knight had no powerful skills and was just blindly attack, the long knife in his hand seemed to be quite powerful. The maximum damage of a single attack was around 8 attack points!


    "See? This is my attack power!" Fanning Knight flaunted at First-Class Star that was next to him.


    "How many can you manage to attack!" First Class Star rolled her eyes at Fanning Knight and as she continued to work her way closer to Dark Redemption.


    Fanning Knight choked.


    Was that not that right?


    Looking at the current situation, more than 90% of the Little Black Pigs were being felled by the Basic Arrow Tower. Dark Redemption would then pick up any little pigs that had been missed as he had a ranged job and the advantages of it. With a powerful skill like the Dark Arrows, how many fishes that escaped the net would actually pass by the side of the road for him to attack?


    Sure enough, Fanning Knight waited for two minutes before managing to hit his second Little Black Pig. By then, Dark Redemption had already formed an entire army of Little Skeletons. The row of Little Skeletons strutted around and jammed the road. Was this not blocking his road to fortune?


    Fanning Knight, failing to kill any more monsters, became increasingly unhappy and started to take it out on Li Hanqiang. He shouted, "Stop the damn Arrow Tower from attacking. Let some monsters through so that I can fight them!"


    ''Fight your watermelon!'' Li Hanqiang ignored him once again. Suddenly, a golden light flashed from Dark Redemption''s body. He had just leveled up!


    ''Oh wow, this is a very fast way to gain experience points!'' Dark Redemption was very proud of himself in secret. This was because leveling up would increase his attributes, which meant that his attack power and speed of killing would increase too.


    After a moment, there were more than a hundred Little Skeletons that Dark Redemption had created. At this point, he did not need to carry out any more attacks. As the Little Black Pigs moved forward, the Little Skeletons swarmed over and killed them with chaotic knife attacks. With this, Dark Redemption only needed to stay still and receive his experience. In a flash, he reached Level 4!


    Fanning Knight had no monsters to kill at all as the Little Black Pigs could not even reach 20 meters of where he was. First-Class Star also pretended not to recognize him as she started flirting with Dark Redemption.


    Fanning Knight felt like he had been abandoned by the world. He looked at Li Hanqiang who was silent and started to complain. "This task of city defense is really unfair to melee players. I''m really unlucky, spending money just to waste time here."


    Li Hanqiang looked at him and said, "Brother, don''t be angry. If you come again the next time, I will arrange for you to be at the Stone Slab right up the front to ensure that you can attack monsters."


    "Huh?" Fanning Knight quickly waved his hand. "If I come here again, I would be a dog!"


    Concurrently, a blast of light suddenly burst from the Space-Time Wormhole and the regional announcement sounded.


    [May the players pay attention, a special monster has appeared among the monsters who are attacking the city. The special monster has special capabilities. Hence, those who successfully kill the special monster will receive a huge reward. The special monster will also do more damage to the Chaos'' Core.]


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 Chapter 4： Successful City Defense

    After the regional announcement sounded, a huge black pig with wings immediately appeared from the Space-Time Wormhole.


    [Flying Old Black Pig: Level 6, 600 HP, able to steal 15 Chaotic Energy from the Chaos'' Core.]


    The Flying Old Black Pig was the size of a baby elephant, with a rounded balloon body and extremely fast flight speed. It quickly surpassed the Little Black Pigs beneath it and ran along the War Corridor, heading straight towards the Chaos'' Core.


    "Wow, a Boss has appeared. It has 600 HP so attack it, attack it quickly!" First-Class Star started yelling loudly.


    Li Hanqiang, Dark Redemption, and Fanning Knight immediately turned their sights toward the Flying Old Black Pig. As soon as it entered the shooting range of the Arrow Tower, Li Hanqiang took control of the Arrow Tower and started attacking it.


    The Old Black Pig that could fly was an unusual sight. It seemed to have a relatively high physical defense and each arrow from the Arrow Tower could only inflict around 10 damage points. As the monster had 600 HP, it could last at least 20 seconds under the assault of the Arrow Tower.


    Li Hanqiang observed its speed and estimated that the monster would soon escape the Arrow Tower''s attack range within those 20 seconds.


    Once it flew out of the Arrow Tower''s attack range, the Chaos'' Core would lose 15 Chaotic Energy!


    While this would not cause the city defense mission to fail, it was still far from a good thing.


    However, there was only one Arrow Tower at that moment and Li Hanqiang could hardly do anything at this point. All he could do was put his hope on Dark Redemption as he yelled at him, "Attack the Old Black Pig!"


    "That''s for sure!" Dark Redemption''s response was extremely fast as he started attacking the Flying Old Black Pig with all he had.


    The HP indicator on the head of the Flying Old Black Pig began dropping inch by inch, proving the effectiveness of Dark Redemption''s attacks. He could inflict about 5 damage points per hit on the flying pig.


    The situation was now much better than what Li Hanqiang had anticipated. The Flying Old Black Pig''s HP indication turned black just before it had left the Arrow Tower''s attack range. Soon after, its body burst open in the air like fireworks and a golden treasure chest appeared, falling directly onto the War Corridor.


    At that moment, golden light exploded from Dark Redemption''s body. He had managed to inflict the last hit before the Arrow Tower, thus gaining all the experience from the kill. This gave him another 2 levels and raised him up from Level 4 to Level 6!


    "F*ck me, Level 6! The experience from this is really high!" Dark Redemption laughed out loud, unable to contain his happiness.


    Fanning Knight at Level 2 was extremely jealous. Everybody had been at the same level in the beginning. Now, the gap between them was extremely huge. However, he soon started to stare at the ground as the treasure chest that had burst out from the Old Black Pig landed near him. The lid of the treasure chest opened automatically to reveal that it was full of gold coins.


    "Gold coins, loads of them! They look to be over tens of thousands! We are rich! We are rich! You, you, the City Lord, are we gonna have to share this equally between all of us?" Fanning Knight shouted excitedly. Gold coins were very hard to earn. One could not assume that he was rich simply because he had managed to afford to pay for the ticket to enter the Chaotic City. The money had actually been collected by a bunch of followers as he himself had less than 20 silver coins.


    Of course, he had also bought First-Class Star''s ticket to carry the newbie young girl.


    Although the treasure chest had landed on the ground, he as an adventurer player could only look at it without touching it. This was because any items dropped by the monsters that attacked the city were owned by the Chaotic City Lord.


    Li Hanqiang controlled his thoughts and the treasure chest disappeared into thin air as the gold coins entered into his pockets.


    While it looked like there were lots of gold coins in the treasure chest, in reality, there were only 100 pieces. Despite that, it was definitely not a small amount of money. These coins were bound to his account and could only be spent in his Chaotic City. Besides that, the money could also not be traded.


    "Where is the treasure chest, why is it gone? Are you who did that? Don''t be so unjust!"


    Fanning Knight yelled at Li Hanqiang. Li Hanqiang ignored him and looked at the War Corridor leisurely, occasionally taking control of the Arrow Tower to kill one or two small monsters at his own comfort.


    Some moments later, Dark Redemption had reached Level 7. His hands began to hurt from pulling his bow so he shouted at Li Hanqiang, "How many more monsters are there? I can''t do this anymore. I have finished up my Blue Potions and can no longer use the Dark Arrows!"


    In fact, his MP had already been long exhausted and he had been relying on the Blue Potions to replenish it. However, he had already finished them all at this point. While it was very enjoyable to gain lots of experience, he could do nothing about his consumption of MP.


    Li Hanqiang could not give him an answer as this was his first time experiencing monster attacks on the city, so who knew how many beasts there would be?


    After exactly five minutes, no more Little Black Pigs appeared from the Space-Time Wormhole. When the last Little Black Pig was shot by the Arrow Tower, the regional announcement sounded.


    [Congratulations to the Lord of Chaotic City No. 68 for successfully defending against the first wave of monster attacks. The current battle took 88 minutes, with 10,601 monsters killed. The Chaos''s Core did not lose any Chaotic Energy, so it is determined that this was a perfect city defense. All players that participated in the city defense will receive a reward of maximum experience. Adventurer players that have participated in defending the city will receive contribution points from Chaotic City No. 68. When these contribution points reach a certain amount, adventurer players will receive mysterious privileges.]


    After the regional announcement, rays of gold light emitted from the bodies of Li Hanqiang, Dark Redemption, Fanning Knight, and First-Class Star as they leveled up collectively.


    Among them, Dark Redemption, Fanning Knight, and First Class Star leveled up by two levels while Li Hanqiang leveled up by three!


    However, Li Hanqiang was depressed despite leveling up as his attributes had still not changed. He still only had 100 HP.


    Fortunately, a system notification sounded in Li Hanqiang''s ears.


    [Congratulations to you for successfully defending the city from the first wave of monster attacks. The job skill ''Float walking'' is now activated. A piece of Chaotic Stone Slab has been rewarded ( Communicate with the system to establish the location of placement). Extra rewards for successfully defending the city are one Chaotic Stone Slab and a small purse. You can now receive your random award for successfully defending the city through the Chaos'' Core.]


    [System notification: Congratulations on successfully defending the city from the first wave of monster attacks. You can communicate with the system to start the second wave of monster attacks at any time. However, please take note that the monsters that attack the city will get stronger and stronger. Once you fail to defend the city, both you and your Chaotic City will suffer huge losses.]


    Li Hanqiang''s spirit was raised and he immediately checked his rewards.


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    [Float Walking: Special skill. The Chaotic City Lord has the ability to walk on air. When floating, the movement speed will be slightly lower compared to normal walking on the ground. This skill can be enhanced and upgraded. The player can explore the details by themselves.]


    [System notification: You have opened your small purse and received 15 gold coins.]


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    ''Not bad, not bad, Float Walking is not limited to just the Chaotic City. Owning this skill is equivalent to owning the ability to flying and I have also been rewarded with two Chaotic Stone Slabs.'' Li Hanqiang smiled. At that moment, he headed toward the Chaos'' Core. There was another random reward to be collected.


    At the same time, a white light shone from Dark Redemption''s body as well as the others. They had already received the system notification that they could be sent away at any moment.


    "City Lord, are there any more monsters? Let''s have another wave of monster attack on the city!" Dark Redemption wished to continue.


    What was most important in the early stages of the game? It was leveling up!


    He was already at Level 9 and this pace of leveling up could not be any faster. Once he leveled up to Level 10, he would be able to learn his second job skill and unlock the free skill bar. With that, his abilities would be greatly improved.


    Li Hanqiang nodded. "I will turn it on immediately. Please wait for a few minutes."


    "Okay, I''ll come again when you publish the mission. This is a good time for me to get some Blue Potions." Dark Redemption''s face was full of joy. He now felt that those not participating in city defense missions were idiots as everyone was only thinking about leveling up but was unwilling to spend money. In their dream! Luckily, he had been smart!


    Li Hanqiang looked at Fanning Knight and asked, "Are you coming again? Your weapon is not bad and neither is your attack power. If you come again, I will arrange a better position for you."


    "Bah, I will never come to your ruins again. Like I said before, if I come here again, I would be a dog." Fanning Knight had anger written all over his face. He was at Level 4 while Dark Redemption was already at Level 9. Comparing himself to the other would result in the death of either.


    "Really? What if I refund the money you used to purchase the ticket?" Li Hanqiang asked.


    "Really?" Fanning Knight''s eyes lit up. "Then I''ll definitely come!"


    Blue Potion: Potion to replenish Magic Powers (MP) in order to carry out magical skills.

 Chapter 5： The Mysterious Shop

    Li Hanqiang laughed and told Fanning Knight, "Haha! If you are heroic enough during monster attacks, I will surely reward you with free tickets."


    "It is conditional?" Fanning Knight frowned. "Fine, I''ll think about it."


    After a short moment, Dark Redemption, Fanning Knight, and First-Class Star faded into the light and disappeared after communicating with the system, returning to their respective regional towns.


    After all, the current Chaotic City was just a small patch of ruin and could be covered with a glance. It was nothing worthy of their presence.


    With this, the Chaotic City returned to its normal peaceful state. Li Hanqiang waved his sleeves, activating the Float Walking skill as he walked towards the direction of the Chaos'' Core.


    Float Walking was an interesting skill as it made walking on emptiness feel just like walking on land. Li Hanqiang could even control his ascend or descend with his thoughts, making it similar to climbing stairs.


    With this skill, he would be able to carry out better observations on the war zone and command the defense tower more efficiently.


    After a short while, Li Hanqiang was soon near to the Chaos'' Core. A golden treasure chest was already there waiting for him.


    There was no doubt that this treasure chest was the reward for successfully defending against the first wave of monster attacks.


    There was news from the official site that stated the rewards from the system after successfully defending the city were completely randomized. There was no way to predict what the reward would be as it all came down to luck. This was also where part of the fun and excitement came from.


    To be frank, everything he did was up to luck at that moment.


    Li Hanqiang had the minimal experience when it came to the items of the game but he could not help but imagine for a short moment how happy he would be if he could get the construction blueprint for another defensive tower.


    After all, defensive towers were extremely powerful and incomparable to actual players. It did not matter if the player belonged to a hidden profession as they would all be weaklings in front of a defensive tower.


    At the same time, it was possible that he would get another Chaotic Stone Slab, gold coins, or other random items.


    Holding his expectations in his heart, Li Hanqiang opened the treasure chest and the system notification immediately sounded.


    [Congratulations! You have successfully received the guardianship reward. Your guardianship reward is the Mysterious Shop Construction Blueprint. This is a rare item and has been automatically deposited into your storage space. Congratulations to the player.]


    ''Well, I got a rare item? Does this mean that my luck isn''t that bad?''


    Li Hanqiang quickly opened his storage space and saw a golden scroll.


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    Mysterious Shop Construction Blueprint: A mysterious shop will be built on a 4M x 4M Chaotic Stone Slab after use.


    The Mysterious Shop has a projection effect. Once built, the shop''s window can be activated on any Chaotic Stone Slab in the Chaotic City. The Mysterious Shop built using the construction blueprint is considered to be a low-level Mysterious Shop. The low-level Mysterious Shop sells three items: low-level Life Potions, low-level Magic Potions, low-level Inspiration Potions, and also has unlimited storage. The selling price is 120% of the standard price. Apart from that, the shop also provides the service of equipment restoration for a fee of 150% above the standard price.


    When adventurer players spend at the secret shop, the Lord of the Chaotic City can receive 30% revenue.


    Using Magic Stones to upgrade the Mysterious Shop will unlock more goods and shop functions. The player can explore the specifics on their own.


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    ''A secret shop, nice!''


    Li Hanqiang immediately realized the value of the Mysterious Shop as an impressive tool for the Chaotic City Lord to make money.


    Although the price of items in the secret shop was higher than the market value, players would be able to purchase them directly from the Chaotic Stone Slabs. There would be players that were willing to consume from the shop due to the great convenience it brought.


    Li Hanqiang remembered Dark Redemption as he had finished his MP and Blue Potions when the monsters were attacking the city, making him unable to use his Dark Arrows. If the secret shop was available, he would be able to replenish his supplies in time. This would increase his efficiency in killing enemies and allow him to level up at a faster rate. As long as he had gold coins, he would definitely be willing to spend them.


    Even if the adventurer players could bring their own potions, equipment repairs would still surely be required as it was doubtful that they would be bringing their own spare equipment! It was understood by players that most equipment had durability settings. Killing and attacking monsters would damage the equipment, thus reducing its durability. It was inevitable that players would need to find NPCs to repair their equipment and these repairs costed money!


    As long as adventurer players became consumers in the Mysterious Shop, 30% of the gold coins would fall into his hands. This was a profitable business with zero-cost for him.


    Li Hanqiang could not help but exclaim at his good luck.


    At that moment, time was gold. He did not waste any time as he quickly started the second wave of monster attacks on the city.


    [System notification: You have successfully opened a new wave of monster attacks on the city. Starting from now, you have an hour to prepare for the war. Kindly publish the city defense mission as soon as possible to recruit adventurer players as support or build more defensive facilities. If you have completed your defense preparation, you may communicate with the system to end the preparation time in advance and immediately start the monster attack on the city.]


    Li Hanqiang immediately released the city defense mission. One hour of preparation time was ample enough. He walked, floating in the air as he placed down two pieces of Chaotic Stone Slab.


    The first Chaotic Stone Slab was placed near the Space-Time Wormhole and the second one near the Chaos'' Core.


    Naturally, Li Hanqiang built the Mysterious Shop was built on the second Chaotic Stone Slab.


    This Mysterious Shop was really mysterious. After it was built, it became a blurry shadow and morphed into a small grass hut that was covered by gray flames with the characters ''Mysterious Shop'' written on the top...


    Outside the Chaotic City itself, the gaming world was vast and boundless. There were many regional cities and inside of each of them was one or multiple Chaos Temples.


    The Chaos Temple was a key building that connected the adventurer players with the Chaotic Cities. All city defense missions that were released by Chaotic City Lords would be displayed here for adventurer players to pick up.


    At that moment, in one of the Chaos Temples, one of the players was surrounded in the middle by a large group of players, much like how the stars revolved around the moon.


    "My god, young master, you are level 9! How did you do it? I am only at level 3!"


    "My brother, you are great! Please carry me!"


    "You are leveling up at god''s speed. You must have had a special encounter..."


    Sounds of flattery could be heard everywhere.


    The player enjoying these flatteries was Dark Redemption. His face was red from blushing and he was very anxious. "Come, come, come, hand out all the gold coins. Little Liuzi, hurry up and buy medicine for me. Blue Potions, lots of them. By the way, find another spare longbow for me. The one in my hands is going to be written off."


    Everyone did not understand what was going on. Dark Redemption had no time to explain to them as he said in a hurry, "There''s no time for me to lose. Quickly, give me all the gold coins. I need to carry out the task of defending the city. If I am late, my position will be grabbed by someone else and that would be a great loss."


    One of the players said, "City defense missions? There''s no need to hurry. There are so many idiotic Chaotic City Lords that the publication of their missions have been flying around everywhere. There are so many city defense missions just waiting to be picked up by players."


    Dark Redemption said, "I need to go to the Chaotic City I was in just now. After I was done testing it out, I got 2 Contribution Points. The second wave is happening soon and I think that it will help me gain more experience. Oh right, the Chaotic City Lord was also super lucky. I helped him kill a BOSS and a treasure chest filled with gold appeared!"


    "A chest of gold? How much would that have been?"


    "What is the name of the City Lord? Which City was it?"


    Dark Redemption said, "Chaotic City No. 68. The Lord''s name is Li Hanqiang. Remember this name as we might be in touch with him frequently in the future."


    Dark Redemption was speaking when his eyes suddenly widened. A new city defense mission appeared on the mission board.


    [The Lord of Chaotic City No. 68, Li Hanqiang has issued a city defense mission. The second wave of monsters are gathering. More experience, easier ways to kill monsters. Level up even while lying down, come defend the city...]


    The original translation is [everything is based on your face] from the original term [ÐèÒª¿´Á³] in Chinese. This is a Chinese slang that means good luck comes to those who look good/ handsome/ pretty. In this context, the translator opted for luck because your appearance is based on luck too, apart from DNA.NPC - Non-player character in games.This is a Chinese idiom that means how a group of people look toward a leader for leadership. The original Chinese term being [ÖÚÐÇÅõÔÂ].

 Chapter 6：Fanning Knight, Fiery Blade Sage

    At that moment, Fanning Knight was also looking at the city defense missions in a different Chaos Temple.


    A bald player with a long blade was standing beside him. He looked tall and strong with the nickname ''Fiery Blade Sage'' stamped over his head.


    "Fanning, you are leveling so fast. You''re already at Level 4 and are one level higher than me!" Fiery Blade Sage patted Fanning Knight on the shoulder.


    "I am leveling fast? There''s an archer who is already at Level 9!" Fanning Knight said with a sad expression on his face.


    "Level 9! That''s amazing!" Fiery Blade Safe was a little surprised. "Was this achieved through the city defense mission?"


    "Isn''t that the truth? Truthfully, let me tell you what happened. I only managed to kill two monsters in the defense mission earlier. These city defense missions are not friendly to us with jobs that require close combat. However, the experience can still be gained easily as the monsters that attack the city are just pure targets that don''t resist!" Fanning Knight said.


    "Really!" The bald player glared. "Then I''ll go with you too. Let''s go together. I''ve just bought a blue grade weapon so this would provide us with a good opportunity to showcase its abilities!"


    Fanning Knight looked miserable. "We don''t have any gold coins¡­ Our group of brothers have sold their pants off and are still unable to make up the money for our tickets. These gold coins are just so hard to earn right now."


    "Hey, hey!" Fiery Blade Sage smiled mysteriously. "Fanning, actually, I have a little bit of money that I''ve kept privately. I killed a small BOSS in the wilds just now and it gave me 1 gold coin and 20 silver coins!"


    "Really!" Fanning Knight was super happy. "Hand it over!"


    "It would not be a problem for me to hand it over, but I have to make it clear. The money was earned by me and is not considered collective property. If I contribute it to you now, the guild will have to repay me double in the future," said Fiery Blade Sage.


    "Isn''t this gold coin going to be spent on you? What kind of vice president are you? So calculative," Fanning Knight said, his mouth twitching.


    "Oh, and it seems like you as the president are so upright and selfless. Who was the one that asked everybody to raise funds in order to court a girl? By the way, where is she? What was her name? Oh right, First-Class Star. Finally, there is a girl who is willing to join our guild!"


    "Don''t mention it! I''ve kicked her out of the guild. The stupid woman, she loves money and is only interested in herself. I saw through her true intentions in just one minute!" Fanning Knight said angrily.


    He regretted his actions until his intestines were all green. At first, he felt that First-Class Star was not a bad person, so he put on a bold face and bought her a teleport ticket. He must have been possessed to have wasted a gold coin on her.


    When he thought about the gold coins, Fanning Knight could not help but remember the big treasure chest that had been dropped by the Old Black Pig. The more he thought about it, the more uncomfortable he felt. One whole chest of gold coins. Why couldn''t the selfish Lord of City just not give him some?


    ''No, I have to go over and scold him. I can''t let go of this anger without scolding him...''


    In the Chaotic City, Li Hanqiang was practicing his float walking as a few rays of light suddenly fell from the sky.


    One, two, three, four, five!


    Li Hanqiang was stunned for a short moment. The city defense mission had just been sent out and all the empty spaces were already filled. The players had even been sent over immediately!


    He looked at the human figures transformed by the five rays of light. The first one was Dark Redemption. He stood far away, at the edge of the Space-Time Wormhole.


    The second one was also another acquaintance, First-Class Star.


    It seemed like she had approached someone else for help as she winked at a triangle-eyed player.


    The triangle-eyes player did not reveal his nickname but was not low-leveled either as he was already at Level 6. He held a crimson magic wand in his hand and was most likely of a spellcaster profession.


    As for the last two people, they were Fanning Knight and Fiery Blade Sage.


    As soon as Fanning Knight appeared, he smiled at Li Hanqiang and said, "I''m here. Hahahaha. Lord of the City Li Hanqiang, don''t forget your promise to me and arrange a position for me at the front."


    "Welcome!" Li Hanqiang nodded and said nothing else.


    At that moment, Fiery Blade Sage suddenly noticed First-Class Star and yelled loudly, "Ah! First-Class Star, how can you be here too?"


    Fanning Knight saw First-Class Star and was bewildered for a moment. He secretly felt in his heart that this woman was very clever as she was able to find another foolish person to buy her an entrance ticket in such a short amount of time.


    First-Class Star humphed and said, "Why pretend to be a big shot if you have no actual strength? You''re just a bunch of poor ghosts in a garbage guild. How do you still have gold coins to accept this mission? Also, Fanning Knight, didn''t you say that you would be a dog if you came here again?"


    "You¡­" Fanning Knight''s eyes widened. "Of course I have gold coins! The Chaotic City Lord has said nothing, so what are you complaining about? I can come and go as I like. Do you have control over me?"


    At that moment, the player holding the magic wand coughed and spoke in a lowered voice, "Let me introduce myself. I am the deputy president of the Emperor''s Rich Guild, Zhen Dejun!"


    "Emperor''s Rich Guild?" Fiery Blade Sage glanced at Zhen Dejun, smacking his lips as he said, "Why not call it the Young Brother Guild? Is Zhen Dejun your real name or your gaming nickname? From the looks of it, you should just be known as Zhen Dechou  as even Fanning Knight is more handsome than you!"


    "Hahaha, you are right. What is this Emperor''s Rich Guild? We have never heard anything about it, nor do we know about any Zhen Dejun," said Fanning Knight.


    Zhen Dejun''s face immediately turned dark and he sneered, "I heard that your guild is known as ''Enjoy the Bustling Scene'' and has only seven or eight members. Plus, all of you are inexperienced. We are all in the same regional city so do be careful in the future!"


    "Oh, do you want to fight with us?" Fiery Blade Sage yelled toward Fanning Knight, "President, is this Zhen Dejun threatening us?"


    "Clowns, not worth worrying about!" Fanning Knight waved his hands indifferently.


    Zhen Dejun sneered again and First-Class Star said, "Master Zhen, ignore these two poor ghosts as their IQ is obviously low! Both of them have melee professions and are here to finish the city defense mission. Master Zhen, let''s not leave any monsters for them so they can just stare when they are unable to get any experience!"


    "Sure!" Zhen Dejun nodded his head, ignoring Fanning Knight and Fiery Blade Sage. He looked at Li Hanqiang instead and said, "I heard that you have a lot of gold coins here. Would you be interested in selling some? I can buy them with cash. How does 1 gold coin for 10 yuan sound?"


    Li Hanqiang glanced at Zhen Dejun as if he were looking at an idiot, too lazy to give any response.


    Fanning Knight laughed out loudly. "One gold coin for ten yuan, hahahaha. Great guilds are so different. Zhen Dechou, with that price, I will buy all the gold coins that you have."


    Fiery Blade Sage immediately nodded and said, "Give me 20 yuan worth of gold coins!"


    "You two gangsters!" Zhen Dejun held his tongue despite his discomfort. He knew that he alone would not be able to win against those two, hence he said nothing. He looked at Li Hanqiang again. "My friend, think about it! Although the price that I am offering is not high, I am trading with you on behalf of the Emperor''s Rich Guild. This game is still in its beginning stages and there will be plenty of opportunities for us to work together in the future. You won''t lose out if you decide to build a relationship with the Emperor''s Rich Guild. If you can sell me 100 gold coins, I might even give you an invitation to join the Emperor''s Rich Guild."


    Li Hanqinag waved his hand. "Sorry but I''m not interested." He gave a glance to Zhen Dejun and turned away to face Fanning Knight instead as he said, "You will go to the Chaotic Stone Slab at the front."


    He gave it a thought. Fanning Knight''s figure flashed as he changed positions with Dark Redemption so that he was placed closer to the Space-Time Wormhole.


    This was an ability of the Chaotic City Lord, who could change the positions of the players before the monster attacks.


    Li Hanqiang carried out a few adjustments, placing Fiery Blade Sage on the Chaotic Sone Slab right before the Basic Arrow Tower, the second nearest spot to the Space-Time Wormhole. After him was Dark Redemption, First-Class Star, and then Zhen Dejun.


    After he was done with the arrangements, Li Hanqiang immediately ended the preparation time. The floor shook as the huge Space-Time Wormhole began to tear open.


    Intestines are all green due to regret is a Chinese idiom. It means to be extremely regretful of one''s previous actions.Chou is the pinyin of the word ugly in Chinese.

 Chapter 7：This Shop is The Best

    Soon after, the monsters that would be attacking the city appeared. The Little Black Pigs were still the main force of the attack but now, Big Black Pigs had also been added.


    [Big Black Pig: Level 3, HP 30-60, each can steal 1 Chaotic Energy from the Chaos'' Core.]


    The Big Black Pigs was much bigger than the Little Black Pigs. They were estimated to be about 200 jin in weight and had double the amount of HP. However, their speed was much slower than the Little Black Pigs. Oink oink oink, and they started swaggering their way down. The number of the bigger pigs was not much as their numbers compared to the Little Black Pigs was about one to ten.


    This time, Fanning Knight was happy as he was standing next to the Space-Time Wormhole with the monsters right in front of him. This meant that he could kill as many of them as he liked.


    He yelled and started to madly wave the long sword in his hand. Swish swish swish. His attack power was really high and with three attacks, he killed a Little Black Pig.


    Low-level monsters were really low-level monsters. Once they were attacked, their speed of movement would drop. Not only did they not know how to dodge, but some of them even stood still and stopped moving. Fanning Knight gave it his all, killing around 40 Little Black Pigs and 3 Big Black Pigs in less than five minutes. The monsters had not even entered the Arrow Tower''s attack range yet.


    "So satisfying! This is the right feeling!" Fanning Knight suddenly felt that this Chaotic City Lord was a good person with high credibility.


    Fiery Blade Sage raised his head and looked around. He was very envious of Fanning Knight who currently roused up by attacking the monsters.


    "Hurry up, monsters! Let me enjoy it too," Fiery Blade Sage yelled.


    Behind him, Dark Redemption was equally eager.


    However, the Little Black Pigs and Big Black Pigs still moved forward slowly. They moved so slowly as if they had no intention of actually attacking the city.


    After another minute, the flock of pigs had finally begun to enter the Arrow Tower''s attack range. The Arrow Tower also started to show its power, slaughtering the Little Black Pigs and Big Black Pigs quickly.


    It took another short moment before Dark Redemption could also start killing the enemies. Naturally, he used up his full strength and violently shot out his Dark Arrows.


    It had to be said that as a Level 9 Dark Ranger, Dark Redemption had a terrifying ability to kill monsters. Soon, he killed enough of them to create a small row of skeleton warriors, cutting off the army line completely.


    Fiery Blade Sage could only look on as he waited for the monsters to arrive, but could only watch as they died in front of him and turned into Little Skeletons.


    He had raised his sword for a long time but there was no chance for him to do anything.


    He had no choice. The Arrow Tower was so fierce, shooting out like a machine gun. One arrow from the tower killed a Little Black Pig; two arrows killed a Big Black Pig. The Level 9 Dark Redemption at the back was also just as passionate and possessed a high attack power.


    "The City Lord, where is the City Lord? I beg you, please bring me to the front too. It would be better for me to be next to Fanning Knight. I can''t fight monsters like this."


    Li Hanqiang stepped on the emptiness near him and responded, "I''m sorry. There are no other Stone Slabs positioned there at the moment."


    Fiery Blade Sage sighed. "Someone like me with such a high damage output is just being wasted like this. To be honest, my efficiency in killing enemies is definitely much higher than Fanning Knight. I have a good weapon and good skills, while he can only use normal attacks. If I am placed at the front, I''m sure that the defense would be more stable."


    Li Hanqiang glanced at the long sword in the hands of Fiery Blade Sage and said, "A blue grade weapon?"


    Fiery Blade Sage answered, "Isn''t it? It''s a long sword of good quality, with an increase of 12 attack power. I also have the skill Consecutive Cuts, so could you exchange positions between me and Fanning Knight?"


    "It won''t work this time. Let''s just wait for the next time," Li Hanqiang said.


    "That''s a pity!" Fiery Blade Sage shook his head continuously. However, when he saw First-Class Star and Zhen Dejun at the back, he rejoiced again.


    These two were the real tragic ones. While he could still encounter a few fishes that escaped the net, those two would not even be able to kill a small monster.


    Actually, it did not matter to First-Class Star if she could kill any monsters or not. As a cleric, she had almost no abilities to fight monsters and had only come here for the final experience reward.


    After the first wave of monster attacks, she jumped 2 levels in a row, which was much faster than training with a team to do so. She was very comfortable with this, intending to win just by lying down.


    Zhen Dejun was somewhat uncomfortable. He stared at Dark Redemption and felt in his heart that he was no simpleton.


    ''Summoning little skeletons after killing monsters? What kind of skill is that? Does this person have a hidden profession? His luck is so good that it is against the sky to be able to get a hidden profession at the beginning of the game. I should approach him later as it would be even better if I could get him to enter the guild¡­''


    Although Dark Redemption seemed to be killing monsters successfully and was incomparable, he had his own troubles.


    He did not have enough MP!


    The skill ''The Dark Arrows'' used very little magic power, as one bow only consumed one magic power. However, it could not bear the cost of continuously shooting arrows. As he had come in a rush, there had been not enough time for him to prepare enough Blue Potions. At the same time, the bow in his hands had not been repaired. Later, when his MP was finally depleted, his efficiency in killing the enemies would surely be greatly reduced. After all, the little skeletons summoned by the Dark Arrows were not permanent and could only exist for a certain period of time.


    At that moment, Li Hanqiang leaned over and said to Dark Redemption, "There is a supply store bound to the Stone Slab. You can buy potions and repair equipment there, so please have a look."


    Dark Redemption was stunned. A supply store bounded to the Stone Slab? He really had not paid any attention to it.


    He glanced back and saw the words ''Mysterious Shop'' floating around the corner of the Chaotic Stone Slab.


    Dark Redemption moved his thoughts and easily activated the window of the Mysterious Shop.


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    Low-level Mysterious Shop:


    Item 1: Low-level Life Potion, unit price 12 silver coins. Quick recovery of 200 HP in ten seconds.


    Item 2: Low-level Magic Potion, unit price 12 silver coins. Quick recovery of 100 MP in ten seconds.


    Item 3: Low-level Inspiration Potion, unit price 24 silver coins. Increase of basic ability by 20% in one minute, effective for players below Level 30.


    Item 4: Equipment repair (The repair cost is 150% of the price from the blacksmith shop)


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    ''This store is awesome!''


    Dark Redemption''s eyes shined. With this mysterious shop, he could replenish himself at any time and would not have any more worries.


    Although the price of goods in this Mysterious Shop was slightly higher, this was fine for him as it was the most convenient at the moment.


    Immediately, Dark Redemption bought ten bottles of low-level Magic Potions.


    There was also the low-level Inspiration Potion, which looked like another good item to buy. He had not seen this being sold outside, so it was definitely worth buying. As such, he immediately bought a bottle to test out its effects!


    Dark Redemption started purchasing from the shop.


    Li Hanqiang, who received the ''credit reminder'', was very satisfied by this. He smiled slightly and walked toward Fanning Knight while stepping on thin air.


    ''Although this guy uses normal attacks and does not consume any MP, he would still need to repair his equipment. Let me give him a reminder so he that he does not miss the Mysterious Shop.''


    With this, Li Hanqiang went around and advertised the Mysterious Shop to everyone. He said a few words to them and they all listened receptively. After that, it was followed by continuous system notifications, reminding him that gold coins had been entered into his account.


    At the same time, Li Hanqiang discovered that the one who was spending the most in the Mysterious Shop was Zhen Dejun. As he had not lost any HP or MP, he did not buy any low-level Life Potions or low-level Magic Potions. Instead, he bought twenty bottles of low-level Inspiration Potions.


    ''Is it possible that the low-level Inspiration Potions are unique to the Mysterious Shop?'' Li Hanqiang thought to himself silently. He could not wait to upgrade the Mysterious Shop as soon as possible to activate more products.


    However, Magic Stones were needed to upgrade the Mysterious Shop and he had no idea where he would be able to obtain them.


    ''Jin'' is a unit of weight and is equal to 1/2 kilograms. In this case, the Big Black Pig''s weight is 100kg.Fishes that escaped the net is a Chinese idiom and the original term in Chinese is [©ÍøÖ®Óã]. The meaning of this idiom is to prevent anyone from escaping.This term comes from the Chinese term [ÔËÆøÖ»ÅÂÊÇÄæÌìÁË] means to have extremely good luck.

 Chapter 8：A Skill Book is Obtained

    Time passed by slowly. When the second wave of monsters had already attacked the city for fifty minutes, Fiery Blade Sage just killed his first monster. It was a Little Black Pig.


    He was about to cry as it was just too difficult. He had been standing on the street until his feet were numb.


    His attack power was extremely high, a Little Black Pig was dead with just one use of Consecutive Cuts.


    After a short while, Dark Redemption also stopped. He had no more money to purchase potions, which caused his killing efficiency to plummet. Fiery Blade Sage finally got his chance and managed to kill an average of two to three small monsters per minute.


    As for First-Class Star and Zhen Dejun, they had yet to kill any monsters. This did not anger First-Class Star, nor was she in any hurry as she leisurely chit-chatted with Zhen Dejun.


    When the monster attacks entered the 65th minute, a regional announcement suddenly sounded.


    [A special event has been triggered. A Treasure Chest Monster has snuck into the monster army. The Treasure Chest Monster will not steal Chaotic Energy from the Chaos'' Core. It will not follow the direction of the Corridor of War and will carry out random actions, such as turning back halfway. Killing it will result in the appearance of at least one object. There will be a small chance where skill books or special certificates to change into hidden professions will appear. The objects that appear belong to the person who killed the monster. May all players defending the city pay attention.]


    Once the regional announcement ended, a golden flash of light appeared at the Space-Time Wormhole and a shiny treasure chest immediately broke out.


    The Treasure Chest Monster looked very strange, as it was a treasure chest with four ostrich legs.


    [The Magical Treasure Chest Monster: Special monster, Level 1, MP 100. Has immunity from magic and defensive tower attacks. Super high dodge power!]


    "The items that appear belong to the killer! Great, this treasure chest is mine!"


    Fanning Knight raised his sword and attacked. However, he was blocked off by a few Little Black Pigs and the Magical Treasure Chest Monster was extremely fast. The Treasure Chest Monster jumped and was soon out of his attack range. Fanning Knight could only watch it run away helplessly without receiving any attacks from him. He stomped his feet angrily and quickly turned around to kill the pigs.


    Dark Redemption and the others were excited. They watched as the Treasure Chest Monster approached them and waited to attack it at the first moment that they could.


    In city defense missions, it was obvious that those with a ranged profession tended to have an advantage when compared to melee professions. Although Fiery Blade Sage stood in front of Dark Redemption, he was no match for Dark Redemption''s ranged attacks.


    "With only 100 HP, this treasure chest is mine!" Dark Redemption started shooting his long arrows. Although he had no more MP, his ordinary attacks were still very powerful, and it was entirely possible for him to kill the Treasure Chest Monster that had only 100 at ten meters away.


    However, the Treasure Chest Monster was an unusual thing. Although it had low HP, it still had a super high dodge rate so all the arrows shot by Dark Redemption had simply rubbed away from its body and were ''lost''!


    "Hahahaha!" Fiery Blade Sage was overjoyed. He raised his long sword towards the Treasure Chest Monster. "Come here baby, come to daddy."


    "Ah, why were they all lost. Now this bald head is going to get it all!" Dark Redemption was unwilling to give up and pulled his bow at full speed. However, he still failed at getting even one hit in.


    Fiery Blade Sage was ready to pick up the monster. As soon as it reached him, he immediately used Consecutive Cuts.


    Clank, clank! With two clanking sounds, the damage figures appeared on the head of the Treasure Chest Monster, a ''-25'', and two ''-20'' as its HP was immediately reduced by half.


    Fiery Blade Sage raised his sword and cut it again.


    -23, lost, lost, -24, lost...


    It could be seen that the Treasure Chest Monster had only a trace of HP left. However, the Treasure Chest Monster suddenly turned around and ran away, back to where it had come from.


    "F*ck, only one last cut was left. Baby, please don''t do this, don''t go!" Fiery Blade Sage felt like he was about to vomit blood.


    Dark Redemption quickly rushed up to attack with his arrows but failed to make the Treasure Chest Monster stay.


    Near the Space-Time Wormhole, Fanning Knight was focused on killing the Little Black Pigs, taking advantage of every minute and second he had to level up.


    Li Hanqiang''s voice suddenly spoke up, "Fanning Knight, behind you. The Treasure Chest Monster is returning. Quick, give it one more attack, it only needs one more attack."


    Fanning Knight turned his head when he heard the words, and was stunned for a short while.


    "This Treasure Chest Monster really has returned!" He had no time to think about it as he took his sword and attacked.


    Lost, lost, lost, -10!


    Following a ringing sound, the Treasure Chest Monster fell to the ground, and rays of colorful light burst out.


    [System reminder: The player, Fanning Knight, has successfully killed the Magical Treasure Chest Monster and obtained a skill book. The item has been automatically stored in the Chaotic Stone Slab where the player is. Congratulations to the player.]


    [Treasure box item display: Skill Book ''Phantom Charged''.]


    [Phantom Charged: General skill for melee professions.


    Level 1 effect: Uses MP to launch a phantom charge towards the front. The charge distance is 20 meters and will cause 50% damage to all enemies along the way. There is a large chance that the skill will trigger a speed reduction effect and a small chance that it will also trigger a knock-back effect (The chances of triggering it is related to the strength value of the player. The player may explore the specifics by themselves.)


    All melee professions may learn the skill. When the skill''s proficiency is improved, the skill''s level shall improve. When the skill''s level is increased, the charge damage and distance are increased.


    PS: Players are required to exceed Level 10 and unlock the free skill bar in order to learn this skill.]


    The information of Phantom Charged was displayed publicly and directly in front of all the players present. After being stunned for a moment, Fanning Knight was ecstatic. He started laughing and had even stopped killing the Little Black Pigs.


    "I am rich, rich! I have gotten a general skill book!"


    Those behind him were obviously envious, especially Fiery Blade Sage. He almost cried and shouted at the direction of Fanning Knight, "Give me, give me, give me the skill book. Give it to me if you are my brother!"


    Dark Redemption shook his head, feeling much better with himself. After all, he was a ranged profession and could not learn the Phantom Charged skill book even if it was in his hands.


    Zhen Dejun at the back exploded. His face was dark and green, and he frowned as if he had eaten flies. How precious was such a general skill book? How much would it have cost? Why had it fallen into the hands of that trash?


    Li Hanqiang had a smile on his face and said to Fanning Knight, "How is it, my brother? You have not suffered any loss guarding this city¡­ Hey hey, don''t just stand there, now you have to work even harder to kill the monsters and rise to Level 10 in order to learn the skill."


    "Yes, that is a must. Kill monsters! Kill monsters!" Fanning Knight was in such a hyper state as if he had eaten stimulants. He now felt that Li Hanqiang was super pleasing and particularly well-mannered in his eyes.


    Just like that, after more than ten minutes, the Space-Time Wormhole closed. After all the Little Black Pigs and Big Black Pigs were killed, the regional announcement sounded.


    [Congratulations to Chaotic City No. 68 for successfully resisting the second wave of monster attack. The current battle took 92 minutes and a total of 13,001 monsters were killed. The Chaos'' Core lost zero HP and the city defense is determined to be a success. All players that participated in defending the city will receive the reward of maximum experience. All adventurer players that participated in the city defense will receive contribution points from Chaotic City No. 68. When these contribution points reach a certain amount, adventurer players will receive mysterious privileges.]


    The battle was over and everyone levelled up collectively.


    Li Hanqiang leveled up to Level 5, Fanning Knight rose to Level 8, Fiery Blade Sage to Level 6, and Dark Redemption broke through to Level 10. Even First-Class Star and Zhen Dejun, who were ''lying down'' the entire battle, had risen to Level 6 and Level 8 respectively.


    Of course, Li Hanqiang had his own additional rewards. He received another two Chaotic Stone Slabs, a small purse and a chance to ''draw''.

 Chapter 9：Offering Loans

    ''It seems like the Chaotic Stone Slab is a regular reward after successfully resisting the monster attacks on the city. If the city is perfectly defended, another piece of Chaotic Stone Slab and a small purse is rewarded.'' Li Hanqiang became aware of this fact as he silently calculated his gains.


    After opening the second wave of monster invasions, he obtained 250 pieces of silver coins from the tickets and 416 silver coins from the Mysterious Shop. Together, it made a total of 666 silver coins. What an auspicious number!


    When he opened the small purse, there were 15 gold coins.


    Although this amount was incomparable to what he had gotten during the first wave of monster attacks, it could still be considered a decent amount as it was still impossible for adventurer players to achieve this number during solo play.


    "Chaotic City Lord Li Hanqiang, open another wave. I want to upgrade to Level 10 and unlock the free skill bar!" Fanning Knight shouted at Li Hanqiang. He had benefited the most from this particular monster attack.


    Li Hanqiang smiled and asked him a rhetorical question, "Do you still have money to buy a teleport ticket?"


    "Eh, that is a problem." Fanning Knight scratched his head. "Well, didn''t you say that you could return the ticket money to me?"


    "Unfortunately, your performance has not reached the extent of me being able to refund your ticket money. Please continue with your efforts. However, I can lend you some gold coins if you wish to pawn your skill book here. If you manage to redeem the book on the same day, I will not charge you any interest. How does that sound?" Li Hanqiang asked.


    "In other words, if it is not redeemed on the same day, I will be charged with interest?" Fanning Knight shook his head again and again. He was not familiar with Li Hanqiang so he did not dare to leave the skill book here. If the book was swallowed by him, his loss would be huge.


    "Time is money, so of course interest would be charged. However, how much interest could be up for discussion. You should consider yourself if you would like to take up this loan and make a decision before you are transported away."


    Li Hanqiang finished speaking, turned away, and left.


    Those like Fanning Knight who had no gold coins to buy teleport tickets were very worried but Li Hanqiang was also worried about this as a Chaotic City Lord.


    If the players had no money to buy the entrance tickets, who would come to defend the city? Comparing the first and second waves, the monster attacks were getting stronger with each wave. Without the help of players and only relying on one defensive tower, Li Hanqiang was sure that he would not be able to stop the third wave of monsters.


    There were also other risks.


    Fanning Knight and the others wanted to continue killing monsters and leveling up and Li Hanqiang himself wanted them to continue helping him to defend the city. He had already planned to provide them with loans from the bottom of his heart as what he wanted was to make a profit and not suffer any losses.


    At the same time, First-Class Star and Zhen Dejun had already been sent away. They had run away right after getting their experience, already considering it as having gotten their ticket''s worth.


    Dark Redemption and Fiery Blade Sage were still there and chit-chatting, arguing about Fanning Knight''s good luck.


    Li Hanqiang approached both of them and told them that if they pawned their belongings here, he would lend them gold coins. The more precious the object they pawned, the more gold coins they would get.


    Dark Redemption was greatly moved by the idea. However, he was extremely poor at the moment. Apart from his higher levels, he had nothing of value on him.


    Li Hanqiang glanced at him once and understood his situation. He said, "No problem. Your attack output is not bad and I trust your character. You don''t need to pawn anything to me as I will lend you one gold coin. You can pay me back when you have a gold coin."


    Dark Redemption was overjoyed and said, "Really? Haha, brother, you are such a generous person. Rest assured, my character is guaranteed. I will return your gold coin as soon as possible. But... Can I ask you to lend me two more gold coins? I''m at Level 10 and can learn my second job skill. However, this requires more gold coins, and I would need more to activate the free skill bar."


    Li Hanqiang thought about it for a moment and said, "Sure."


    He very generously traded 3 gold coins over as he spoke.


    "Brother, you are indeed generous. I will surely be your friend." Dark Redemption was full of joy even if he understood that the gold coins would have to be returned sooner or later. He could only worry about himself if there was no one else who would lend him anything, right?


    Fiery Blade Sage was very excited when he heard that Li Hanqiang could provide gold coins as a loan. He shouted at Li Hanqiang, "How many gold coins can I get if I pawn my blue grade weapon to you?"


    After saying that, he showed the attributes of the long sword in his hand enthusiastically.


    Similar to other online games, the equipment in the Endless World was also divided according to quality. The lowest equipment quality was white grade equipment, followed by the blue grade equipment, red grade equipment, golden grade equipment...and so on.


    The higher the quality of an equipment, the stronger its attribute and the rarer it was to obtain.


    The blue grade sword of Fiery Blade Sage had good attributes and was considered to be a good quality item. Li Hanqiang thought about it and said, "I can lend you 2 gold coins."


    "Sure, lend it to me first." Fiery Blade Sage threw his long sword at Li Hanqiang. However, after he got the 2 gold coins handed over by Li Hanqiang, he frowned.


    "This is not quite right. Let me think about it. I borrowed 2 gold coins from you, where one will be used to pay for the teleport ticket back here and the other that I planned to use to buy potions and repair my equipment. There''s an 80% chance that it will be used here too. In the end, I will still have to pay back the 2 gold coins to you. This... Why doesn''t it feel right? Will I be heavily in debt?"


    Li Hanqiang smiled slightly. "You know too much. By the way, there are two additional Chaotic Stone Slabs. The next time you come, you can stand in the front and attack monsters like Fanning Knight."


    Fiery Blade Sage nodded. "Really? Then Chaotic City Lord, you should quickly open up the third wave. I will be waiting for your next mission at the Chaos Temple."


    At that moment, Fanning Knight had also made his decision and shouted it to Li Hanqiang. He decided to borrow a few gold coins as working capital but he did not borrow too much, just 2 gold coins.


    After the three of them left, Li Hanqiang checked and confirmed that he had more than 138 gold coins. This was not a small amount but it was still not enough to upgrade the Chaos'' Core.


    Li Hanqiang pondered silently. ''If Fanning Knight, Fiery Blade Sage, and Dark Redemption are all present, we might be able to take on the third wave of monster attacks on the city.''


    Through his understanding, he understood that professions that required slow development like the Lord of the Chaotic City needed to develop stability in the early stages of the game. To start the third wave of monster attacks at that moment would be too unstable and possibly cause setbacks. After all, the Chaos'' Core only had a hundred points of Chaotic Energy. Any monsters that slipped through would result in the loss of energy.


    However, risks and opportunities went hand in hand. People who did not suddenly get wealthy in the world would not be rich, and people who refused to take risks would never be productive. Therefore, Li Hanqiang did not need to be careful, he only needed to enjoy himself!


    Li Hanqiang had made his decision. ''Open! I can''t just hang around and wait for the adventurer players to level up before deciding to open the next wave, right?''


    In his mind, Fanning Knight, Fiery Blade Sage, and Dark Redemption were very good players. One of them had a hidden profession and the powerful skill ''The Dark Arrows'', while the other two had blue grade weapons and were not weak either. They were now the characters who would walk in the forefront of adventurer players and were something to now look forward to.


    ''If the city defense rewards are better, it would be easier to stabilize.'' Li Hanqiang inched closer to the Chaos'' Core and reached out to open the ''Drawing Chest''...


    666 in Chinese pronounced similarly to ''ÁïÁïÁï'' in Chinese. It has become one of the most popular network phrases in China. ''Áï'' is an oral word in Chinese said to someone who did something awesome.

 Chapter 10：Construction Blueprint of The Blue Ripple Pond

    [System remark: Congratulations, you have successfully received the guardianship reward. Your guardianship reward is the Rapid Development Small Loot Box. This is a normal item and has been automatically stored in your storage space. Congratulations to the player.]


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    Rapid Development Small Loot Box: a small package of resources specially designed for the Lord of the Chaotic City.


    Contains: 20 gold coins (Bound, cannot be traded with other players)


    Contains: Two pieces of Chaotic Stone Slabs.


    Contains: One piece of a Random Defensive Tower Blueprint Fragment (Collecting all three pieces will result in the combination of all three fragments to obtain a complete drawing.)


    Contains: Special Monster Summoning Token (Can be used during monster attacks on cities to summon a special monster. The types of special monsters summoned are random, but the level is limited to the current wave of monster attacks.)


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    Although there were many items in the small loot box, it was a pity that there was nothing that would bring him immediate results. With this, Li Hanqiang could only say that his luck was neither good nor bad. However, the Special Monster Summoning Token seemed like an object worth looking forward to.


    Events such as special monsters and random events only had a small probability of being triggered during monster attacks and they usually brought in huge benefits. For example, the Old Black Pig during the first monster attack had contributed a hundred gold coins. As for the Treasure Chest Monster in the second wave of monster attacks, although it had only given them an adventurer''s skill book, its value could still not be denied.


    Speaking of which, Li Hanqiang was a lucky person to have triggered the Flying Old Black Pig and Treasure Chest Monster one after the other. After all, the system notification had clearly indicated that these events had a small probability of occurring.


    Of course, they may have also been deliberately arranged by the system in order to enhance the gaming experience for the Chaotic City Lords.


    The Special Monster Summoning Token made Li Hanqiang look forward to the third monster attack. He was no longer hesitant as he immediately opened the third wave of monster attacks on the city and released the city defense mission.


    The mission notice was as such. [The Lord of Chaotic City No. 68, Li Hanqiang, has released the city defense task. He has just gotten a powerful general skill book. The third wave of monster attacks will be starting immediately, and there is a 100% chance that special monsters will appear. Do not hesitate, come and defend the city. In addition, he will also be purchasing items relevant to the Chaotic City Lord job, such as defensive tower construction blueprints, blueprint fragments, and special construction blueprints at a high price that will surely leave you satisfied. For details, please enter the city to consult.]


    As soon as Li Hanqiang released the notice, he received a few system notifications for gold coins that had been earned for three delivery tickets sold. Li Hanqiang deduced that these tickets had been bought by Dark Redemption, Fanning Knight, and Fiery Blade Sage.


    Of course, these three had bought their tickets fast so that they could secure their positions. They were not in a rush to go back to the city as they still had to make some preparations beforehand.


    Taking advantage of the ample preparation time himself, Li Hanqiang began to lay the Stone Slabs.


    All four new Chaotic Stone Slabs he had were placed in front of the Space-Time Tunnel, together with the first Chaotic Stone Slab. With this, there would be five players positioned near the Space-Time Wormhole.


    This was set especially by Li Hanqiang for the melee players so that the ranged players could be placed on the four scattered stone plates at the back.


    Just as he finished placing the Chaotic Stone Slabs, a ray of light suddenly came down from the sky. Li Hanqiang looked and saw that a player had appeared on the Chaotic Stone Slab in the front. It was not Dark Redemption, Fanning, or Fiery.


    This player had hidden his nickname and job information. He was only at Level 2 and had a fat belly, with a very greasy look and a semi-bald head. His mouth was curved at the corners as he smiled gently like a Maitreya Buddha.


    "You are the Lord of Chaotic City No. 68, Li Hanqiang, right? I saw the purchase information that you had posted in your city defense mission. Come, come, come, I have something good here for you. You can decide how much you are willing to pay for it." The pot-bellied player opened his storage space and a golden scroll appeared in his hand.


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    The Blue Ripple Pond Construction Blueprint: Special item, the Lord of the Chaotic City can open up space within the Chaotic City to build the Blue Ripple Pond.


    The Blue Ripple Pond is a scenic building. After construction, it gives a slight increase in the chances of special monsters appearing during the monster attacks and has another mysterious function. The initial size of Blue Ripple Pond is 20 acres and provides the [Fishing] activity. The Blue Ripple Pond can be expanded and upgraded after the hidden conditions have been fulfilled. The player should explore the details by themselves.


    PS: The activation of this item requires the consumption of 100 points of Chaotic Energy and successfully resisting against the third wave of monster attacks.


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    ''This is a good item.''


    Li Hanqiang saw the attribute information of the scroll in the hands of the pot-bellied player and was very interested. However, he did not show any response on his face.


    "How is it? It''s good then, isn''t it!" The pot-bellied player stored the golden scroll back again. "There is only one of this and it is very hard to come by. I will not sell it if the price is low!"


    "How much do you want?" Li Hanqiang asked.


    The pot-bellied player put out a finger and smiled. "10,000 gold coins!"


    "10,000 gold coins?" Li Hanqiang glared. "Have you gone crazy just thinking about gold coins?"


    The pot-bellied player was not angry and said slowly, "This is the construction blueprint of a special building. It is absolutely rare and hard to get your hands on. If you miss out on it, you may never see a second one. Is 10,000 gold coins too much? Not at all!"


    Li Hanqiang laughed angrily and said, "Brother, today is the first day the Chaotic City has been opened. You can touch your own pocket. How many gold coins do you have? There is no way that I have 10,000 gold coins and even if I did, it is impossible that I would spend all that money on such a drawing. After all, the Blue Ripple Pond can only provide one leisure activity. How many functions would it have? Your asking price is too ridiculous!"


    The pot-bellied player pouted. "With that being said, even if you have no gold coins, we can also trade in cash even though my preference is still for gold coins."


    Li Hanqiang waved his hand and said, "Okay, let''s not beat about the bush. This drawing is quite interesting, but only just a little. It is not a necessity and won''t bring in huge profits for me. You don''t need to make up a price that is as high as the sky. If it was up to me, I''d say it''s about 10 gold coins."


    "10 gold coins?" The pot-bellied player waved his hands over and over again. "Brother, please don''t make jokes. You wish to buy this blueprint with 10 gold coins? Even if players now do not have many gold coins, I have said that we can trade in cash. This game is so hot, so there must be many local tyrants. I do not think it would be that difficult to sell this drawing for 100,000 to 200,000 yuan. What do you say?"


    "Since that is the case, brother, you can go and find those local tyrants instead." Li Hanqiang shook his head. Although he had the money, he did not want to be the kind of person that had more money than sense.


    "Brother, why don''t you think about it again. How about... 8000 gold coins, or a cash transaction of 100,000 yuan?" The pot-bellied player suddenly felt bad. He came here by buying a teleport ticket worth 1 gold coin. If he failed to sell the item, would that not be a huge loss for him?


    Li Hanqiang''s eyes suddenly turned and he said with a smile on his face, "Let''s try a different trading method."


    "What kind of trading method?" The pot-bellied player saw a glimmer of hope and it was revealed in his expression.


    Li Hanqiang pointed in a direction behind the pot-bellied player. "Look at the Mysterious Shop behind you."


    The pot-bellied player turned his head and opened the window panel of the mysterious shop in a puzzled manner as he said, "Hey, there is a shop and these goods... The price is a little off. The price for a bottle of low-level potions outside is only 10 silver coins. The ones sold here cost 12 silver coins. That''s really shady!"


    He turned his head to look at Li Hanqiang. "Brother, what do you mean by this?"


    Li Hanqiang put on an enigmatic expression with his hand clasped behind his back and said, "Are you buying any potions?"


    ÃÖÀÕ·ð is known as the Maitreya Buddha and is the future Buddha in Buddhist eschatology. The image of a Maitreya Buddha is that he has a big tummy and is always smiling gently.

 Chapter 11：Metal Skinned Boar King

    "You''re talking about the ones sold in this Mysterious Shop?" The pot-bellied player shook his head. "No, I won''t. The price is too high. Only a fool would buy it!"


    "What if I gave you a subsidy. Say you buy a bottle of this low-level healing potion, I''ll chip in with 3 silver coins." The smile on Li Hanqiang''s face grew warmer.


    "A subsidy of three silver coins, that''s equal to buying a low-level healing potion for nine silver coins. That''s a good deal!" The pot-bellied player seemed confused. "However, will you actually give the subsidy? You''re no fool."


    "Heheh!" Li Hanqiang spoke manipulatively. "Let''s do a commercial analysis now if we bought every single potion in this Mysterious Shop with a subsidy of 25% on the sale price. Friend, do you see the potential? Let me do the math for you. With the subsidy, you''ll be buying the potions at 10% off. For example, if you buy a low-level potion, it''s a clean profit of 1 silver piece. With the more you buy, like 100,000 bottles, or even 1,000,000 bottles, you could make a lot of money."


    "What profit? Why would I need so many low-level healing potions for?" The pot-bellied player looked at Li Hanqiang with a blank stare.


    "To resell!"


    Li Hanqiang reminded him, "You buy the goods at 10% off, and let''s say that you sell them at 95% of retail. As long as it''s cheaper than what''s offered by the shops in the system, players will buy it. I''ll do the math for you again. If you buy 10,000 bottles of low-level healing potions and sell them at 95% of retail value, you can make a profit of 50 silver coins!"


    The pot-bellied player paused, giving the proposal some serious thought. He then replied, "It sounds like a good idea. However, the players can learn Alchemy and make a variety of potions in the future¡­"


    "That''s the future. Time is money. Why shouldn''t we take advantage of the fact that players currently cannot make their own potions at the moment and make a profit off that? Whether or not we make a large profit or not is entirely up to how you play it!" Li Hanqiang said. "As long as you give me the blueprint for Blue Ripple Pond, I''ll give you the subsidy with a limit of 1,000,000 bottles. When you complete this exploit, you can make more than 10,000 gold coins. The secret to wealth is now before you!"


    The pot-bellied player was stunned, and he massaged his head as he spoke, "Give me a minute, I need to think!"


    Li Hanqiang could tell from his behavior that the deal was nearly sealed. He praised himself for being a genius in his heart. This was how one made use of the Mysterious Shop.


    When a player spends at the Mysterious Shop, he could get 30% of the profits. Even if he gave a subsidy of 25%, he would still get a 5% profit. This was the epitome of a free lunch.


    As expected, after a moment, the pot-bellied player made a fist. "Deal! Lord Li Hanqiang, you must keep your word!"


    "Of course!" Li Hanqiang replied. "Give me the blueprint. Don''t worry, I won''t run away. Where would I go?"


    The pot-bellied player hesitated before speaking, "Give you the blueprint now¡­ That''s fine, but you''ll need to give me 5 gold coins as a deposit!"


    "That''s fine. We can call it a front payment for the subsidy." Li Hanqiang happily transferred the 5 gold coins to him.


    The pot-bellied player smiled widely as soon as he got the gold and dropped him the Blue Ripple Pond Construction Blueprint. He had no intention of holding the city, and after he added Li Hanyangas a friend, he immediately bought 50 bottles of low-level healing potions and ran off to the market.


    In that way, Li Hanyang made his first friend in the game. On his friend''s list, he saw the pot-bellied player''s nickname: Big Trader.


    Looking at the blueprint in his hand, Li Hanqiang laughed out loud.


    He did not care about fishing skills. What he cared about was the "raising the percentage of special monsters showing up during monster attacks on the city" and the "secret skill".


    It was a shame that the blueprint was of no use right now, as he would have to wait until he had fended off the third wave of monster attacks on the city.


    A moment later, a light fell on the Chaotic City. Dark Redemption, Fanning Knight, and Fiery Blade Sage had all arrived.


    Unfortunately, Li Hanqiang''s mission announcement was not as effective as he had hoped. Apart from these three, no other players had showed up.


    The main issue right now was because gold coins were hard to come by. The number of adventurer players who could gather up 1 gold piece were few indeed.


    Dark Redemption and the others were in high spirits, clamoring to get into the fight.


    Li Hanqiang walked over to Fiery Blade Sage, and took out his Complexion Longsword as he said, "Fiery Blade Sage, I''ll rent this blue grade weapon to you for ten silver coins."


    "Huh?" Fiery Blade Sage''s mouth dropped. "This was originally mine!"


    "You have yet to redeem it from me, so it''s not yours." Li Hanqiang replied. "Whether or not you want to lease it is up to you."


    "I''ll lease it!" Fiery Blade Sage waved at Li Hanqiang. "Using my equipment to make money off of me, you''re just too cold-hearted. Put the rental on my tab."


    "Okay, I''m just joking. I''m not a miserly person. Take it!" Li Hanqiang dropped the blue Complexion Longsword before he turned and spoke to the others, "Brothers! Fight hard! This wave of monsters has a 100% chance of having special monsters. If you can get a large treasure, I''ll give everyone a bonus!"


    "Are you serious?" Fanning Knight asked.


    "Of course!" Li Hanqiang had already equipped the Summon Special Monsters Order and planned to use it at the first moment to summon special monsters to have a good start.


    Of course, the positions of the three of them needed to be set. Li Hanqiang placed Fanning Knight and Fiery Blade Sage in the front lines, and let Dark Redemption form the second line.


    A moment later, the announcement went up across the city. The third wave of monsters was about to attack.


    As soon as he saw The Space-Time Wormhole open, Li Hanqiang immediately broke the Summon Special Monsters Order.


    [Ding, item used successfully. You have summoned a Level 5 ''Metal Skinned Boar King''!]


    From the Space-Time Wormhole, before the army of monsters even appeared, a massive boar roared as it charged out.


    This boar was as big as a buffalo, and even though it was only Level 5, it had 1000 HP. It had two tusks as big as an elephant''s, with blood-red eyes and massive hooves. It was wild, fierce, and looked extremely intimidating.


    Fanning Knight and Fiery Blade Sage were shocked. In all their time since joining the game, they had never seen such a fearsome beast.


    "Look at the length of those tusks, it''s more elephant than boar!"


    "If you could capture it and ride it as a mount, that would be so cool!"


    The two of them exclaimed as they could only watch, petrified in their spots.


    In a few heartbeats, this Metal Skinned Boar King was thundering towards them.


    From what they could judge, the beast could cover 100 meters in ten seconds.


    Fanning Knight and Fiery Blade Sage did nothing, and watched the beast leave.


    Li Hanqiang nearly spat blood in anger and yelled, "What are you two dummies doing? The monster is getting away!"


    "Aiyo, fight, fight!"


    Fanning Knight and Fiery Blade Sage immediately came around to their senses and hastened to get their weapons ready.


    At this moment, the horde of monsters appeared. They were all Level 3 Black Boars. Fanning Knight and Fiery Blade Sage both entered their rage mode, and their blades slashed like windmills.


    Li Hanqiang could not be bothered with them anymore and levitated towards the Metal Skinned Boar King, using the basic arrow tower to lock it in as he shouted, "Dark Redemption, quickly! Kill the Boss! If you do, I''ll give you a prize!"


    "Leave it to me!" Dark Redemption was immediately on it as he consumed a low-level Inspiration Potion.


    It would seem that the author has made a mistake here. Li Hanyang should refer to Li Hanqiang for the rest of this chapter.

 Chapter 12：Imminent Failure

    The Basic Arrow Tower began firing first. Bolt after bolt struck the back of the Metal Skinned Boar King like a sniper rifle, but they only pinged off the beast.


    -5, -6, -5, -6¡­


    A row of damage values appeared above the head of the Metal Skinned Boar King, making one''s eyes go wide. The formidable Basic Arrow Tower was only dealing five or six damage points to the Metal Skinned Boar King.


    "It''s over."


    The Basic Arrow Tower fired two bolts per second and could deal ten damage points per second. The running speed of the Metal Skinned Boar King was no more than 10 meters per second. It had been roughly 40 seconds since the beast had run into the range of the Basic Arrow Tower. The Basic Arrow Tower was only able to deal 400 points of damage in this period!


    The Metal Skinned Boar King had 1000 HP. Therefore in order to defeat it, Dark Redemption would need to deal 600 points of damage in a very short amount of time.


    Was it possible?


    Worrying, this was truly worrying!


    Li Hanqiang regretted his past actions, cursing himself for being ill-prepared. This Metal Skinned Boar King was unkillable. He had not only wasted a Summon Special Monster Order, but the Chaos'' Core was going to be diminished in power. Even if they managed to successfully defend the city, they were definitely not going to obtain any special prizes.


    If any mishaps occurred, the power of Chaos'' Core would be lost and the city defense would be a failure. If that happened, he would really need to find a corner to cry in.


    The Metal Skinned Boar King charged forward despite the bolts. Everything was going as Li Hanqiang calculated, and the beast very quickly got into the range of Dark Redemption.


    "Die to my Dark Arrows!"


    Dark Redemption was in good fighting spirits and released his bowstring. A Dark Arrow, with dark energies spiraling around it, left the bow and struck the forehead of the Metal Skinned Boar King.


    -33!


    A "critical" damage counter appeared, and Li Hanqiang''s eyes lit up.


    It was unquestionable that the Metal Skinned King Boar had a high physical defense value, and the arrow tower was unable to overcome it. However Dark Redemption''s ''The Dark Arrow'' dealt magic damage, so it was not surprising that the skill could deal damage even though the damage itself was still a little ghastly.


    "Haha, I have upgraded The Dark Arrows to Level 2 and it now deals 30 magic damage. Is that damage enough for you?" Dark Redemption hollered in joy. "I even drank a potion so I don''t believe I can''t kill it."


    "Good luck! It''s all up to you!" Li Hanqiang could relax a little and congratulated himself on recruiting a master.


    Dark Redemption''s skills were nothing to sneeze at and no arrow was missed. Furthermore, his attack speed was much better than before with the addition of the effects of the low-level Inspiration Potion. Within a short ten seconds, he had unleashed a terrifying barrage of 18 arrows and had dealt nearly 600 points of damage on the Metal Skinned Boar King.


    However, he still had not killed the Metal Skinned Boar King. After 18 arrows, the Metal Skinned Boar King left the attack range of Dark Redemption, leaving a trail of blood and fur behind it.


    "Just a little bit more!" Dark Redemption said, unsatisfied. "Quickly! Light him up with the Arrow Tower."


    Li Hanqiang was now extremely nervous as he kept his eyes locked on the Metal Skinned Boar King. The Basic Arrow Tower''s damage output was still continuing. -5, -6 points of damage kept appearing above the Metal Skinned Boar King.


    Just as it seemed like the Metal Skinned Boar King was about to get out of the Arrow Tower''s range, it let out a roar and its massive body finally collapsed to the ground.


    Li Hanqiang finally felt the burden on his heart lift and he let out a roar of jubilation in his heart.


    He estimated that in another second or two, the Metal Skinned Boar King would have escaped the Basic Arrow Tower''s attack range. Then it would all have been for naught.


    "It''s dead!" Dark Redemption sighed in relief as well.


    "Of course. Everything is under control and I had expected this a long while ago. I call this the highest level of manipulation, hahaha!"


    Li Hanqiang shamelessly ran to the spot where the Metal Skinned Boar King died. A treasure chest had appeared and when he opened it, there were two items inside. A Random Defensive Tower Blueprint Fragment and a Fireball.


    "Not bad, not bad!" Li Hanqiang first kept the Random Defensive Tower Blueprint Fragment. Including the fragment he got from the Rapid Development Small Lootbox, he only needed one more to obtain a complete Defensive Tower Construction Blueprint.


    As for Fireball, this was an upgrade gem. One could use it to strengthen a weapon and give it ten fire damage. It also applied the unstackable ''burning'' debuff on the target hit, which dealt ten points of damage per second for a duration of ten seconds.


    To Li Hanqiang, the Fireball was useless to him. However, to an adventurer player, it was a highly useful item. If he were to sell it, he could definitely get a good price for it.


    Li Hanqiang rejoiced in his heart and hummed a tune to himself as he returned.


    At this moment the "Horde of Black Boars" were already reaching the border. The two swordsmen, Fanning Knight and Fiery Blade Sage, were entirely inadequate and did not rack up many kills. It seemed like he would have to rely on the Basic Arrow Tower and Dark Redemption.


    Each Black Boar had roughly 50 to 60 HP, and the Basic Arrow Tower could kill one with two shots. That was the equivalent to killing one each second.


    Dark Redemption''s The Black Arrow had reached Level 2 and it had a formidable damage value. It was more effective than the Defensive Towers, but he also required two arrows to kill one Black Boar. However, the Black Boars that were killed by a Level 2 Black Arrow would turn into a Level 5 Skeleton Warrior.


    The Skeleton Warriors stood on the Corridor of War and did not enjoy the protection of the Chaotic Stone Slab. If they got in the way, they would suffer from the attacks of the Black Boars. However, these Level 5 Skeleton Warriors were much stronger than their Level 1 counterparts. Each of them was 1.8 meters tall and wielded a large bone scimitar. When they used it on the Black Boar, they could kill one with ten attacks.


    Dark Redemption was willing to consume his potions. Low-level Inspiration Potions and low-level Magic Potions were constantly consumed as the Dark Skeleton Arrows were relentlessly fired. In a brief moment, 40 to 50 Skeleton Warriors were spawned and it was a spectacular sight.


    In the Endless World, if a player''s level exceeded the monster by five levels, the experience gained after killing one would be halved and no experience would be gained if the level difference was more than ten.


    However, Dark Redemption paid no mind to this, consuming potions as he went and killed the Level 3 Black Boars with wild abandon.


    ''Legendary Professions are truly amazing. With Dark Redemption here, not a single Black Boar is going to get away. He''s even stronger than a Basic Arrow Tower.'' Li Hanqiang could be at ease, but was also contemplating.


    If it were not for Dark Redemption''s presence, he would definitely be defeated if he had to purely rely on the Basic Arrow Tower and the two dead weights, Fanning Knight and Fiery Blade Sage.


    Li Hanqiang did not know if there were any penalties for failing to defend the city, and if it were at all possible, he had no intention of ever finding out.


    "In the future, I cannot be flippant. When it''s time to get serious, I should be serious," he mumbled to himself.


    It was smooth sailing after that, and Li Hanqiang floated about at a leisurely pace, occasionally controlling the Basic Arrow Tower to kill a few Black Boars.


    Time slowly passed, and no other special monsters appeared, neither were they any random events. After two hours, the Space-Time Wormhole was shut. When all the Black Boars in the War Corridor were defeated, the Realm Announcer sounded out.


    [Congratulations to Chaotic City No. 68 for successfully defeating the third wave of invading monsters. Battle time 145 minutes, with 18501 monsters defeated, zero loss of energy to the Chaos'' Core, a perfect defense¡­]


    [System notification: Congratulations player for successfully defending against the third wave of invading monsters, you may now choose your passive skill as a City Lord.]


    [System notification: Construction of Defensive Tower Shop, Chaotic Treasury, and Limitless Tower unlocked. After ten hours, these three buildings will appear in your Chaotic City. During this period, you may not initiate another wave of attack¡­]


    [Skill preview: Defensive Tower Shop enables the purchase of Basic Defensive Towers, Chaotic Treasury collects 1 gold piece every hour (these gold coins are bound and unable to be traded with players), Limitless Tower enables the initiation of various challenges¡­]


    [System notification: Your Chaotic City has leveled up, please keep up the good work.]

 Chapter 13： Fire Tower

    Dark Redemption, Fanning Knight, and Fiery Blade Sage at this moment all collapsed on their Chaotic Stone Slab, exhausted!


    Of course, it was not physical, but mental exhaustion.


    The white light of leveling up emanated from their bodies. Dark Redemption leveled up to Level 15, while Fanning Knight and Fiery Blade Sage both leveled up to Level 12!


    Li Hanqiang had no idea how the experience was allocated, as he had only attained Level 8.


    However, he had no use of levels, so he was not too worried.


    "So many system notifications, I can finally obtain a passive skill!"


    Li Hanqiang was excited. He did not pay any attention to the system notifications as he stepped into the air and said, "Good work everyone! I am not a miserly City Lord, so everyone gets their one gold piece as promised. Come on, come here and get your reward."


    Nobody paid him any mind.


    On the front-most Chaotic Stone Slab, Fanning Knight said, "I don''t even want to speak, I''m so goddamn tired!"


    Fiery Blade Sage next to him was slumped on the ground and he grunted, "I don''t want to kill a single Boar again."


    He glanced at Li Hanqiang before speaking, "This dumb*ss City Lord is in the air, how are we supposed to get our gold piece?"


    Dark Redemption was in no better shape than the other two, but he instead took stock before suddenly exclaiming, "Oh sh*t, I''ve used more than 30 Blue Potions, and 15 low-level Inspiration Potions. What a loss!"


    The Blue Potions were no big deal as they were easily collected by his followers and one could not miss something that cost nothing. However, the low-level Inspiration Potions were purchased using currency from the Mysterious Shop. Those 15 bottles would cost 3 gold coins and 60 silver coins.


    A great loss!


    Right now, apart from his levels, he had nothing else.


    Apart from that, he also owed 3 gold coins to City Lord Li Hanqiang.


    "How could I let you suffer a loss!" Li Hanqiang saw that nobody moved as he leisurely made his way in front of Dark Redemption. "You were much better than those two deadweights, Fanning Knight and Fiery Blade Sage. In this defense, you contributed the most so forget about those 3 gold coins from before! Also, do you see what this is?"


    He highlighted Fireball.


    Dark Redemption was very pleasantly surprised as his gaze was immediately attracted by Fireball.


    "What a good item! That must have been dropped by the Metal Skinned Boar King. Are you planning on giving it to me?" Dark Redemption lost all sense of exhaustion and immediately perked up.


    Li Hanqiang touched his nose. "I''ll sell it to you at a low price!"


    Dark Redemption was instantly at a loss.


    Li Hanqiang continued, "To tell you the truth, that Metal Skinned Boar King was summoned by me using a special summon, and the summoning spell is not cheap. For me to just get a Fireball is actually a loss for me¡­"


    Dark Redemption cut him off with a wave of his hand. "I don''t have the money. I''m broke right now. Even with my small group of followers I would need to go hungry."


    Li Hanqiang put Fireball back and smiled as he spoke, "You''ve got a group of followers? Then we can make a deal! I''ll hold on to this Fireball, and don''t worry, it''s reserved only for you. You just need to go and collect the money for it. Based on your current level, I guess you would already be on the leaderboards and that you know your way around the game? I bet you could easily jaunt around and you''d just be picking up gold coins and equipment¡­ Or if you pick up Defensive Tower Construction Blueprints or Building Blueprints, you can come and exchange it with me."


    "Alright then." Dark Redemption nodded. Li Hanqiang was right, The Chaotic City was only a training ground. His true stage was in The Endless World. Now that he had the levels, some quests that were stuck should now be easily passed, and he could also easily upgrade his equipment.


    After a long while, Fanning Knight and Fiery Blade Sage finally got off the Chaotic Stone Slabs and ran over to Li Hanqiang to claim their bounty.


    Li Hanqiang was not miserly and he gave as promised. In any case, it was only 2 gold coins.


    He needed to secure these regular customers to ensure the success of future defenses.


    The four of them then added each other into their friend list.


    As an Adventurer, Dark Redemption and the rest could do much more. The in-game world was vast, and there were countless places to explore.


    The three of them chatted for a while more and discussed topics such as leveling up skills, exploiting instances, learning life skills, fighting in the arena, and other such topics before they each went their own way.


    Li Hanqiang however, felt bored.


    What now?


    As the Chaotic City Lord, he could not leave the Chaotic City. He would need to surpass Level 30 in order to be allowed to leave the Chaotic City.


    He did not dare to begin the fourth wave of invading monsters. Furthermore, he was barred from doing so for ten more hours.


    "Let''s just open the loot boxes then."


    Li Hanquang went to the Chaos'' Core, it was time for a reckoning.


    [System Notification: Congratulations on successfully defending the city, your prize is a Rapid Development Loot Box, the item grade is normal¡­]


    He got another loot box. Li Hanqiang opened it and the items he got were just the same as the previous one. 20 bound gold coins, two Chaotic Stone Slabs, one Random Defensive Tower Blueprint Fragment, and one Summon Special Monster Order.


    "It''s not too bad. At least I collected three blueprint fragments!"


    Collecting three blueprint fragments allowed for one complete blueprint. However, the kind of blueprint that showed up was entirely random.


    Li Hanquang knew that in the future, he would still need to get into combat. Therefore, he did not hesitate and combined the three Defensive Tower Blueprint Fragments together to create one complete blueprint.


    [System Notification: Congratulations, you have received the Fire Tower Construction Blueprint. After using it, you may place it on a Chaotic Stone Slab to build a Fire Tower (Defensive Tower Level 2)!]


    "A Level 2 tower! And it has an Area of Effect damage." Li Hanqiang was overjoyed and marveled at the Fire Tower as soon as he saw its characteristics.


    If he had possessed the Fire Tower earlier, he would not need to be afraid of the Little Black Pigs or Big Black Pigs.


    With a 50 meter radius of fire damage, he would not even fear a billion Big Black Pigs. The tower was 20 meters tall, with a crimson red flame above it. The embers rose and spread like the waves of the ocean. It seemed much more intimidating than the Basic Arrow Tower.


    "It really is a Level 2 Tower. It''s a lot better in appearance than a Level 1 Defensive Tower." Li Hanqiang could not help but take a step back, afraid that he would be burnt by the flames of the Fire Tower. However, it was a magical flame and did not harm its allies. There was no heat emanating from it despite its intimidating appearance.


    "Oh, right! There''s also the Blue Ripple Pond Construction Blueprint!" Li Hanqiang smacked his forehead. The Blue Ripple Pond was a special building. Now that he had successfully defended against the third wave of invading monsters, it could be constructed.


    The Blue Ripple Pond required 100 points of Chaotic Energy to be spent from the Chaos'' Core. Li Hanqiang did not mind since the regeneration rate of Chaotic Energy was one per hour. Furthermore, since there were no monsters attacking the city, he would just let it regenerate on its own.


    When he reached the "vacant" border behind the Chaos'' Core, Li Hanqiang did not hesitate to use the Blue Ripple Pond Construction Blueprint.


    Immediately, slates appeared before him out of nowhere, and in a few heartbeats, it had created a 100-meter long pathway. At the end of the 100-meter long pathway, a small Space-Time Wormhole slowly formed and in the blink of the eye, the three words "Blue Ripple Pond" appeared above the Space-Time Wormhole.


    [System Notification: Congratulations, you have constructed the special Blue Ripple Pond, it affects the surrounding Chaotic City. Please take a look¡­]

 Chapter 14：Idle Fishing

    "Create a slate pathway and splits Space and Time. Is this the construction method of the Chaotic City?"


    Li Hanqiang was fascinated. He hurried forward, walking through the small Space-Time Wormhole to a whole other world.


    As he surveyed his surroundings, he saw a clear pond with willow trees on the banks. There were nine pavilions of an ancient design scattered around the pond and a small rowboat was beached against the banks of the pond.


    Taking a deep breath, Li Hanqiang felt that the air was fragrant, almost sweet.


    "This is really a good place," Li Hanqiang said.


    Blue Ripple pond was not large. The surface area of the pond was just over a hectare in size, roughly two soccer fields. However, the atmosphere here was peaceful and quiet, an impossibility in this modern world.


    Li Hanqiang surveyed the area once more and discovered that the pavilions and the small rowboat were fishing spots. A fishing rod was prepared at each pot for players to do some fishing.


    The difference between the two spots was that the pavilions were static spots, and the small rowboat could be paddled to the middle of the lake to make it a mobile fishing spot with a higher chance of catching higher level fish.


    The fish that were caught could be sold at the in-game shops for currency. Unique fish had other uses.


    There was another interesting feature, and it was that fishing in the middle of the Blue Ripple Pond not only had fish but a very small chance of fishing lootboxes, equipment, and rare items.


    In conclusion, fishing was a chance-based activity.


    Li Hanqiang immediately decided to give it a try. He got on the small rowboat and paddled out into the pond before casually picking up the fishing rod.


    Since this was a simulation in a game, fishing was very easy. It did not require any input from the player. It was a different condition altogether. The moment the player began, the player''s character would automatically put a bait on the hook and begin fishing. If the player caught anything, it would automatically be kept in the Fish Basket.


    "Isn''t this specifically for players to be idle?" Li Hanqiang clapped his hands in excitement.


    In most modern online games, if the player disconnected, the character would not disappear but would just enter into an idle state.


    What was referred to as idle was as the name suggested. That was to say, there were no actions and the character would stand there dumbly. It would not attack on its own accord, or could not be mobilized to defend itself. Neither was the character invincible, so it could be defeated!


    The reason why this was the case was to prevent players from disappearing when they went offline to carry out ambushes, transfer the grudges, and other such dishonorable tactics.


    Because of this idle mechanic, there were safe havens in the game, such as inns and other such places, for players to idle in. There were some other idle spots that collected a fee to allow players to carry out forging, alchemy, and other such activities. However, the fees were very high.


    Li Hanqiang immediately understood. The pavilions and the rowboat in the Blue Ripple Pond, were they not idle fishing spots?


    "What a great find! Buying this Blue Ripple Pond for only five gold pieces, what a great deal!"


    Li Hanqiang was overjoyed, and could not help but start to think of ways to exploit this Blue Ripple Pond to his benefit.


    "It''s just about time to go offline to get a meal. I should just go idle and go online to research about the Passive Skill of a City Lord." Li Hanqiang thought. As such, he contacted the system and applied to go offline.


    [System Notification: Going offline will reduce the success rate of fishing. Are you sure you would like to disconnect?]


    "Yes!"


    Li Hanqiang took off the VR Headset and took a look at the time. It was already 3.30 in the afternoon.


    The Endless World was released at 8 in the morning today. Without him realizing it, he had already spent seven hours on the game. At this time even though his mind was active, he could not ignore his rumbling stomach.


    Pulling out his mobile phone, he quickly ordered some delivery. Within ten minutes, the delivery man was at the door.


    As he opened the door, he paused. There were quite a few delivery men at the door, in total there were five of them.


    Of course, only one of them was for him. The other four were for the other neighboring villas.


    A beautiful lady in jeans was also collecting her food.


    "Lin Banyue!" Li Hanqiang''s face lit up. "Why are you also ordering food at this time?"


    Li Hanqiang was an unemployed gamer, with nothing to his name other than a few villas that he rented out for subsistence. The beautiful woman near him was a new tenant that moved in yesterday. She was wealthy as she had paid half a year''s rental in one lump sum and rented the entire villa next door.


    The rental was a whopping 180,000 RMB.


    This was a mysterious and cold goddess. She did not lack money, and Li Hanqiang was very curious about her identity.


    "Hello Mr. Li. I''ll see you later." Lin Banyue seemed like she was not willing to oblige Li Hanqiang. She took her food and rushed back to her villa.


    At her door, she paused and looked at Li Hanqiang. "Mr. Li, are you playing Endless World as well?"


    "Of course. It''s such a hot game, how could I miss out? I''ll let you know, I''m quite the pro. Would you like to play with me? I''ll carry you."


    Lin Banyue smiled slightly and shook her head. "No thanks."


    "Really? Do you not believe my abilities?" Li Hanqiang asked.


    He could tell that there was some arrogance in Lin Banyue''s demeanor. Was she a pro at the game?


    Lin Banyue did not respond, but replied, "What profession did you pick, Mr. Li?"


    "Of course I''d pick the Lord of the Chaotic City. Just sitting at the top of the pyramid and owning a city befits my status." Li Hanqiang blustered.


    "Oh?" A hint of disappointment showed on Lin Banyue''s face. "That profession is not one that ordinary people can play well."


    "Do you think I look like an ordinary person?" Li Hanqiang asked.


    Lin Banyue assessed Li Hanqiang before she replied with a smile, "Mr. Li certainly isn''t an ordinary person. However, it''s a shame as I thought that I would recruit you into my clan. If you''ve decided to choose the profession of a Chaotic City Lord then that would be impossible."


    She paused before continuing, "If Mr. Li is interested in the profession of the Chaotic City Lord, you can watch my stream. I stream on Fly, my ID is Gorgeous Banyue."


    Gorgeous Banyue, this was a well-known handle within the Endless City community on Fly. The streamer received many messages regarding Endless World from the community. It was even said that she had taken part in the closed beta of Endless World.


    Because she had never revealed her face, one only heard about her but had never seen her. Li Hanqiang always thought that she would be a fat woman. He never thought that Gorgeous Banyue could actually be a beautiful woman, and he never expected to have met her in real life.


    There was a streamer goddess next door!


    Things just got interesting.


    Li Hanqiang was still stunned when Lin Banyue closed her door. He shook his head and quickly returned to his room.


    He quickly ate his food before quickly putting the VR Headset back on. He did not log in to Endless World but he went onto the web and quickly logged into Fly to watch Gorgeous Banyue''s stream.


    At this time, the stream had not yet started. Li Hanqiang opened the live stream replays and saw the first thumbnail of Endless World.


    "Hi everyone, Gorgeous Banyue here. Endless World has finally been released. I will choose the Lord of The Chaotic City, I hope everyone will follow me as I experience this unique Overlord profession¡­"


    "This Gorgeous Banyue also chose to be a Chaotic City Lord!" Li Hanqiang said in excitement as he continued to watch.

 Chapter 15：City Lord’s Passive Skill

    Gorgeous Banyue''s Chaotic City was No. 12 and she similarly made use of Defensive Towers as a starter. Her announcement to defend the city came very late, and when the first wave of invading monsters arrived, she had four other players in support.


    Where she differed from Li Hanqiang''s sole defense was that Gorgeous Banyue very clearly had a team. The four players who came forward to support her were all her acquaintances and were all female players. One was an Archer, a Magician, a Cleric, and a Warlock.


    All four were ranged heroes!


    In the horde of attacking monsters were the same old Black Pigs. However, they were easily dispatched by the four ranged heroes and the Arrow Towers.


    Gorgeous Banyue''s luck was good. When she drew her reward, she got the construction blueprint for a Basic Cannon Tower. When it was constructed, it allowed her to easily dispatch the next wave of invading monsters.


    Li Hanqiang saw for himself the power of the Cannon Tower. Its firepower was formidable, especially against monsters whose movement speed was slow and loved to group together, such as the Little Black Pig and the Big Black Pig. With two rounds, it could kill a group of them.


    What made Li Hanqiang envious was that Gorgeous Banyue managed to claim a Basic Cannon Tower. Under the firepower of three Defensive Towers, she held off the third wave of invading monsters with ease. She did not even require adventurer players.


    Li Hanqiang skipped the replay all the way to the end to hear Gorgeous Banyue say, "Defending the first three waves of invading monsters is just the early game for the Chaotic City Lord. The following choice of their Passive Skill is very important. I''ll run through it with everyone¡­"


    "Here''s the important bit!" Li Hanqiang had yet to choose his Passive Skill as a City Lord, and he perked up as soon as he heard that Gorgeous Banyue was about to talk about the Passive Skills.


    "Passive Skills will affect the future playstyle of the Chaotic City Lord. Similar to their active abilities, the game provides three initial Passive Skills. They are Money Maker, Stone Slab Mastery, and Awakened Ability. You may choose any one of the three."


    "The Money Maker Passive Skill will double the gold accumulation rate of the Chaotic Treasury. Don''t look down at this Passive Skill. For a beginner, one can say it is the most beneficial one. After defending against the third wave of invading monsters, the Chaotic Treasury will appear in the Chaotic City. The Chaotic Treasury accumulates one gold coin per hour, but with Money Maker, this will double to two an hour. That means that you can get 48 gold coins a day! As long as you have money to buy Defensive Towers, it makes defending the city easy. Therefore, I suggest that players who don''t think they''re particularly lucky or prefer to be idle to take up this Passive Skill."


    "As far as I know, the Chaotic Treasury can be upgraded in the future and it will increase the speed of gold accumulation, thus making the double accumulation of Money Maker even more viable."


    "The Stone Slab Mastery Passive Skill allows City Lords to use the energy stored in the Chaos'' Core to create more Stone Slabs. Choosing this Passive Skill allows for the unlocking of combining, moving, deletion, and separation of Stone Slabs to be unlocked. Players who chose the Chaotic City Lord profession all understand the importance of Stone Slabs, and the ability to combine Stone Slabs is a prerequisite to expanding The Chaotic City and building higher level Defensive Towers. City Lords who enjoy a creative playstyle can consider picking this Passive Skill."


    "The third Passive Skill, Awakened Ability, is the Passive Skill that I am intending to pick. The effects of this Passive Skill is that every level up of the Chaos'' Core increases the maximum capacity of energy it can hold by 10%. Furthermore, the Chaos'' Core Chaotic Energy regeneration rate is increased to 2 points per hour. Let me tell you, the Chaos'' Core is extremely important. Later on in the game, leveling up Special Defense Towers and the activation of Chaotic Technologies all require Chaotic Energy. Of course, in the early game, the effects of this Passive Skill are not apparent, so I don''t recommend it for novice players."


    "Furthermore, if these three Passive Skills are not to the player''s liking, the system also provides for a random Passive Skill option. For the price of only 100 gold coins, you can get a random Passive Skill which cannot be changed once you choose it. However, I would advise everyone to not pick the random Passive Skill under any circumstances. In my experience, the random Passive Skill has a 90% chance of giving you a useless Passive Skill which can never compare to the other three you can choose from, and you also have to spend 100 gold coins on it. Of course, if you''re feeling lucky, you could give it a shot."


    "Alright, this is the end of today''s livestream. Future streams are set for 8pm every night, and won''t be for too long. I''ll be sharing my thoughts and discoveries of the game with everyone. Thank you for your support¡­"


    As the playback ended, Li Hanqiang frowned. Which Passive Skill should he go for?


    This was a problem. Li Hanqiang found it hard to make a decision at the moment and chose not to ruminate on it. He decided to just browse the streaming platform.


    Endless World was trending and there were many streamers streaming gameplay of it. Of course, the quality was varied. There were big streamers, unknown streamers, as well as variety streamers, and salted fish streamers who just streamed for amusement.


    Li Hanqiang picked a random stream that was related to the Chaotic City Lord profession and discovered an amusement streamer whose in-game ID was Fat Tiger Really Doesn''t Know.


    This streamer''s luck was bad, as no players had come to support him in defending against the first wave of invading monsters.


    What was supposed to be an easy perfect defense for the first wave of monster attacks turned into a disaster as the fellow had to keep controlling the Arrow Towers and wasted many actions. In the end, he could not defeat the Flying Old Black Pig, and 15 little Black Pigs escaped. The Chaos'' Core instantly lost 30 Chaotic Energy.


    When the second wave came, a Knight player came. Fat Tiger Really Doesn''t Know kept complaining that this player did not look good and controlled the Arrow Tower to kill the player.


    He was so caught up in his amusement that the monsters eventually overwhelmed him and the Chaos'' Core was soon destroyed by the big Black Pigs.


    Having lost defense of the city, Fat Tiger Really Doesn''t Know was immediately reduced in level by one and lost all of the gold that he had. Furthermore, his only Arrow Tower was forcefully demolished. This caused him to rage, and he immediately stopped the stream.


    Li Hanqiang felt that Fat Tiger Really Doesn''t Know would be dissuaded from playing further.


    "All in all, my start in the game was not too bad. I spent a good amount of time watching streams, so I think it''s time for me to get back online. Nothing else but victory matters!" Li Hanqiang found out that it was already 6pm without him realizing it. He had a thought and immediately logged on to Endless World.


    The screen before him turned black, then came back on again as Li Hanqiang was back at Blue Ripple Pond. A large chain of system notifications popped up.


    [Welcome back to Endless World, here is your summary¡­]


    ¡ª


    Nickname: Li Hanqiang


    Profession: Lord of The Chaotic City (In possession of Chaotic City No. 68)


    Level: 8


    HP: 100


    Physical Attack: 1


    Physical Defense: 0


    Passive Skill: Pending Activation


    Skills: [The Invincible Lord], [Float Walking]


    Wealth: 175 gold, 66 silver


    Owned Defensive Towers: Basic Arrow Tower (Level 1 Tower), Fire Tower (Level 2 Tower)


    Owned Buildings: Mysterious Shop, Blue Ripple Pond


    Empty Stone Slabs: 12


    Chaos'' Core: Level 1


    Chaotic Energy: 3/100


    Currently Constructing: Chaotic Treasury, Defensive Tower Shop, Limitless Tower.


    ¡ª


    salted fish in this sense is slang for a lifeless person who doesn''t have much going on in their life.

 Chapter 16：Young Black Thorned Turtle

    [System Notification: Congratulations, you have caught a Red Carp.]


    [System Notification: Congratulations, you have caught a Green Carp.]


    [System Notification: Congratulations, you have caught a Yellow Croaker.]


    [System Notification: Congratulations, you have caught a Young Black Thorned Turtle.]


    What made Li Hanqiang glad was that other than the system notifications about his character, there were 15 regarding his fishing at the Blue Ripple Pond.


    He quickly opened his Fish Basket to check out his haul.


    This Fish Basket was no ordinary Fish Basket, it had a "Shop Template". Li Hanqiang had a thought and before his eyes appeared a ten by nine board, with a total of 90 cells.


    On this board the first 5 cells were already occupied with a picture. Respectively, there was Red Carp x1, Green Carp x9, Yellow Croaker x2, Young Yellow Croaker x1, Young Goldfish x1, and Young Black Thorned Turtle x1.


    [Red Carp: A common fish, worth 1 silver coin if sold at any store, you may choose to release this fish.]


    [Green Carp: A common fish¡­]


    Red Carp, Green Carp, Yellow Croaker, Young Yellow Croaker, and Young Goldfish were all common fish, the descriptions were all the same. When Li Hanyang saw all these low-quality fish, their value was only in being sold.


    However, the Young Black Thorned Turtle was a different story.


    [Young Black Thorned Turtle: Level 1, can be mounted, amphibious, ranged attack. As it levels up, it can grow into a Black Thorned Turtle and Giant Black Thorned Turtle. An Elite Monster template, level limit 60. Sell value at any store is 1 gold coin, you may choose to release this fish!]


    One could obtain a mount through fishing and it was already tame!


    Li Hanqiang felt like he had made a great profit. This Young Black Thorned Turtle could be sold for 1 gold coin, but only a fool would sell it. This was a tame mount, and it was also a strong Elite Monster template mount.


    In Endless World, monsters could be categorized into Common Monsters, Elite Monsters, Boss Monsters¡­


    Common Monsters were useless, and very rarely had skills. They were equivalent to a player with no equipment.


    Elite Monsters were much stronger. Not only did they have higher stats, but generally they also had special skills. They were equivalent to a player who was well equipped.


    Bosses were even more powerful, with extremely high stats and powerful skills. They were equivalent to a player with Legendary Equipment.


    A mount with an Elite Monster template was definitely a rare item, and in the context of the current game''s lifetime, it was even more valuable. It could be said to be the holy grail of all Mounted Professions.


    Mounted Professions could combine their stats with that of their mount and share their skills, and could use their mount in combat. Non-Mounted Professions could only use their mounts to travel, and could not take their mount with them into combat.


    Li Hanqiang was not of the Mounted Profession, but he did not hesitate and put the Young Black Thorned Turtle into his inventory before equipping it.


    "It seems that Heaven is watching over me, and I can leave Africa to enter Europe!"


    With an Elite Mount in his inventory, would he still be Li Hanqiang if he did not ride it around to show off?


    With a plop, the Level 1 Young Black Thorned Turtle dropped into the water beside the boat, causing a splash that created foam.


    Li Hanqiang took a look. The Young Black Thorned Turtle was slightly larger than a washbowl, and its entire body was black. It had 100 HP and two active skills, Water Spout and Black Thorn Armor.


    [Water Spout: The Young Black Thorn Turtle shoots a jet of water out of its mouth at a target 30 meters away. Water Spout can attack once and deals 50% of its physical damage to an enemy in one direction from the original target.]


    [Black Thorn Armor: Black Thorn Armor has an extremely high physical defense value and gains two points of physical defense for every level Young Black Thorn Turtle gains. Any enemies that make a melee attack on Young Black Thorned Turtle suffers 10 points of reflection damage per second.]


    The Young Black Thorned Turtle was still a baby turtle, and the sides of its shell were lumpy and malformed as it had yet to grow its spikes. However it already looked very vicious, and growing out of the corner of its mouth were fangs like that of a werewolf. Its eyes conveyed an aura of hate, and it gave anyone who looked at it the creeps.


    "My majestic mount!"


    Li Hanqiang no longer had any intention of fishing.


    Endless World''s official website had once released the stats of all adventurer professions. Within it clearly stated that Knights and other such melee Tank professions, when unaugmented by any equipment, would gain 100 HP at every level they gained. Every second level they gained would increase their physical defense by 1 point.


    Looking at Young Black Thorned Turtle''s active skills, every level it gained gave it an extra 2 points of physical defense. What was the player''s stat gains compared to that?


    Li Hanqiang stood and roared in laughter. He climbed onto the back of Young Black Thorned Turtle like a maniac. The scene looked like an adult trying to get onto a child''s tricycle. Even though it seemed awkward, the Young Black Thorned Turtle did not tip over. Under Li Hanqiang''s control, it swam around on the surface of the pond.


    The only problem was that the speed was rather terrible. The Young Black Thorned Turtle looked like it was giving its all, and yet its speed was comparable to a Little Black Pig.


    However, Li Hanqiang was extremely satisfied as he rode his Young Black Thorned Turtle slowly to the bank and back to The Chaotic City.


    The little rowboat automatically moved itself back to the bank.


    After selling the Red Carp, Green Carp, and other such useless fish in the Mysterious Shop, Li Hanqiang received 14 silver coins. He was in a good mood, and he rode around on his mount while communicating with the system to choose his City Lord Passive Skill.


    It was just as Gorgeous Banyue said, Li Hanqiang could choose between Money Maker, Stone Slab Mastery, and Awakened Ability.


    To be honest, these three Passive Skills were all good. Li Hanqiang did not wish to let even a single one go. However, he could only choose one¡­


    "Gorgeous Banyue is only a streamer, what does she know about being a Chaotic City Lord! These three Passive Skills are all common Passive Skills. I, Li Hanqiang, am the king of my own fate. Will I choose one? No!"


    Li Hanqiang currently had 175 gold coins, and he could not help but decide to go for a random Passive Skill.


    Gorgeous Banyue had already said that the random Passive Skills were mostly useless. Even if that were the case, didn''t he have a small chance to get a great Passive Skill?


    There was no such thing as playing safe!


    It was also not in Li Hanqiang''s character to do that!


    Headwinds could turn into tailwinds. If he did not try now, when would he?


    Would he dare to give it a try?


    Why not!


    Li Hanqiang made his choice and immediately heard the system notification.


    [You have spent 100 gold coins to choose a random Passive Skill. Generating the Passive Skill now¡­]


    [Ding, congratulations! You have received the Change Tower Passive Skill.]


    ¡ª


    Change Tower: Special Passive Skill, One of A Kind.


    1: Chaotic City Lord can expend a Level 10 Defensive tower to cause it to change. The change is random. The Passive Skill will assign a 50% failure chance to the change. If it fails, the Defensive Tower will be demolished.


    2: Chaotic City Lord may expend ten Chaotic Energy to combine multiple Defensive Towers to form one Tower of Change. There is a 50% chance of failure during this combination. If it fails, one random Defensive Tower will be demolished.]


    ¡ª


    "Tower Change? One of A Kind Passive Skill? What kind of Passive Skill is this!" Li Hanqiang looked at the description and was perturbed.


    One Passive Skill with two ways to use it, but with a 50% failure chance. Losing a Defensive Tower was also very troubling.


    Li Hanqiang did not know if this One of A Kind ''Change Tower'' was a super Passive Skill, but he knew for sure it was a bad one!


    If one was lucky, the change or combination would be successful. If one was unlucky, they would be losing one Defensive Tower. What a great loss!


    "Another chance-based Passive Skill!" Li Hanqiang sighed. "It looks like I can only rely on my luck to get by!"


    An author typo that refers to Li Hanqiang.The translator''s hypothesis is that the Author is making reference to the development of the human species, Homo Sapiens Sapiens, which is generally believed to have its roots in the African continent before migrating to the European continent, and then onwards to the Asian and American continents over the course of time. In this context, Li Hanqiang is hinting that he can now advance further.

 Chapter 17：Itching to Kick Him Away

    After obtaining his Passive Skill, Li Hanqiang felt excited to try it out regardless of whether it was good or not.


    However, as the Chaotic Energy in the Chaos'' Core had yet to reach five points, he was unable to use it and try his luck.


    "It seems that I can only go idle¡­" Li Hanqiang was very displeased. The Defensive Tower Shop, Chaotic Treasury, and Limitless Tower were also not yet constructed. Neither were there any monsters attacking the city. If he did not go idle, what else could he do?


    "I guess being an adventurer is more fun, you don''t ever need to go idle. Whatever, let''s just go fishing!" Li Hanqiang rode Young Black Thorned Turtle back to the Blue Ripple Pond and got on the boat, taking out his fishing rod as he began to fish.


    Blue Ripple Pond''s rules were that fishing while online had a higher success rate than fishing while idle. Li Hanqiang was incapable in other areas, but he had endurance and was patient. He was especially adept at "being a turtle". This was his special skill of ''sleeping online'' that he had trained. As long as he was not hungry, he did not need to go offline.


    Did the King of Endurance need to go offline to sleep?


    Obviously not!


    With modern technology, the VR headset was very good at monitoring the player''s vital signs. As soon as it found out the player was asleep for more than ten minutes or detected that the player was in a state of exhaustion and was in no shape to continue the game, it would automatically disconnect the player.


    However, Li Hanqiang''s ''sleeping online'' skill was cultivated from a decade of training. He could fall asleep within a minute and wake up 5 minutes later. Keeping up this pattern meant that he could continue to keep his mental energy up.


    This was not something a normal King of Endurance could do.


    Li Hanqiang was excited to see what other interesting things he could fish out and was extremely charged up. However after four continuous hours, he only caught 26 Green Carp.


    "Am I fated to end up with the Green Carp?" Li Hanqiang looked at the green diagrams in the Fish Basket''s board and felt very displeased. He could not take this kind of boring fishing anymore.


    At this moment, he received a message from a friend.


    [Big Trader: Bro, I''ve gone to your shop and bought some stock. Please remember to prepare my subsidy.]


    Big Trader was Li Hanqiang''s first in-game friend and the pot-bellied player who sold him the construction blueprint for Blue Ripple Pond.


    [Ok!] Li Hanqiang replied, then thought about it. Could an adventurer enter The Chaotic City when there were no monsters attacking?


    He did a quick search and found out that this was possible. There were also no limits on how often they could enter.


    Of course, it would require a special ticket and they would need to leave before the next wave of monster attacks. It was also impossible when the Chaotic City Lord was not online.


    Very quickly a system notification came by.


    [Player Big Trader is requesting permission to enter your Chaotic City. Do you permit this?]


    [Yes!]


    Li Hanqiang was bored of fishing Green Carp as well, and he rapidly put away the fishing rod and rode his Level 1 Young Black Thorned Turtle back to The Chaotic City.


    At that moment, the Space-Time Wormhole flashed and Big Trader stepped out of it.


    The fellow was grinning from ear to ear, seeming very pleased with himself.


    The 50 low-level Healing Potions which he bought were all sold out.


    Furthermore, selling potions in the wilderness was a very good business. Endless World was too popular and players who were grinding to level up were as numerous as grass. There were many players who were too lazy to return to the city to buy potions, so he just made a few announcements in the wilderness. In a dozen or so minutes, 50 bottles of low-level Healing Potions were sold out. He even sold it at 11 silver coins per bottle, which was 1 silver coin higher than what was sold in the in-game store.


    This convinced him of the viability of the business.


    In the future, Big Trader was not going to grind for levels. He would just return to the city to stock up and go out to the wilderness to sell his wares. He would be a potion trader.


    In the beginning, he had made a killing.


    However very quickly, he had competition. Everybody returned to the city to buy potions and sell them at 11 silver coins in the training areas of the wilderness.


    Furthermore, the number of players who were too lazy to return to the city to buy potions started to dislike these potion merchants and began to boycott them, creating a downturn in demand.


    In that way, the price of low-level potions began to deflate. For example, a low-level Healing Potion''s original price was 11 silver coins a bottle. It was now 21 silver coins for two, and then 31 silver coins for three¡­


    Big Trader''s business started to become less profitable, and at this time, this kind of potion trading was no longer profitable.


    Truthfully, he had been thinking of coming to Li Hanqiang to get some stock. However to get in, he would need a special ticket.


    One ticket cost 1 gold coin!


    How many potions would he need to sell to recoup his cost?


    Big Trader thought about it for a long while and felt that he had to get at least 200 bottles of low-level potions to turn a profit. Therefore he had endured until now, collecting 35 gold coins before he returned to buy some more stock.


    To be honest, the game had only gone live not too long ago, and a player who was able to make 35 gold coins was considered gifted. Big Trader was already no ordinary person.


    He did not think of himself as an outsider as he walked to a Chaotic Stone Slab on his own and began to buy his potions.


    Low-level Health Potions, 100 bottles purchased!


    Low-level Magic Potions, 100 bottles purchased!


    In a minute''s time, Big Trader had spent 24 gold coins. He was left with less than 11 gold coins. He hesitated for a moment, before buying another 40 low-level Inspiration Potions.


    "These potions should net me a profit of at least 3 gold coins!" Big Trader thought to himself. He waited a while and then saw Li Hanqiang leisurely riding a little turtle towards him.


    Big Trader''s eyes immediately went wide!


    "He has a mount! This dumbass City Lord actually has a mount."


    As Li Hanqiang got closer, Big Trader''s jaw dropped.


    "And it''s an Elite Mount! What kind of joke is this!"


    Seeing Li Hanqiang''s arrogant demeanor on Young Black Thorned Turtle''s back, Big Trader could not help but want to kick him away. You are willing to ride a baby, are you still human?


    "Welcome, welcome! I have always kept my word. Come come, let me see how much you have bought, and I will give you your subsidy." Li Hanqiang enjoyed looking at Big Trader''s expression and smiled. He did some calculations before saying, "Looks like you''ve spent a total of 33 gold and 60 silver. With a 25% subsidy, here you go, take your 8 gold and 40 silver!"


    "Brother!" Big Trader did not seem to hear what Li Hanqiang said. He was smiling widely. "Where did you find this mount? Are you selling it?"


    "Oh, you mean this little turtle?" Li Hanqiang craved this kind of envious attention, and he felt happy. He spoke casually, "It''s just an Elite Mount with a level cap of 60, it was tamed by yours truly. Why, are you interested in buying it? Sure, but the price cannot be low. I''ll let it go for 10,000 gold, haha!"


    Big Trader''s face blackened for a moment before he smiled again. "Brother, don''t joke around¡­ However, this mount of yours is really strong and can fetch a good price. I certainly can''t afford it. If you''re willing though, I could find you a buyer."


    "Oh?" Li Hanqiang felt some excitement. "Go ahead then. However, I''m not keen on selling it now. Let me ride him around for a couple of days."


    "No no no, after a few days, it won''t be as valuable as it is now." Big Trader rolled his eyes. "If you believe me, I''ll help to organize an auction for you and you can make a killing! How does that sound?"


    Li Hanqiang was intrigued and considered it for two seconds, "Are you serious?"


    "Of course I am!" Big Trader replied as he slapped his chest.


    "If that''s the case¡­" Li Hanqiang smiled. "Then go ahead with the auction. The venue will be here. Go and advertise it then, and those who are willing to buy it can come here."


    After he finished, Li Hanqiang opened his friends'' list and copied Young Black Thorned Turtle''s stats, sending it to Dark Redemption, Fanning Knight, and Fiery Blade Sage.

 Chapter 18： Tianhe Emperor

    Big Trader''s obese figure was deceiving as he moved fast. He had received 10 gold coins from Li Hanqiang and proceeded to buy 40 low-level Inspiration Potions.


    "It will only take me 20 minutes to sell the potions, and I can contact a rich guy in the meantime. Give or take an hour, and I will be able to find you a buyer. After that, if you make a profit, don''t forget to give me a commission."


    "I will, now go on and don''t worry about it," Li Hanqiang said


    "Let''s go!" A bright flash emanated from Big Trader''s body as he proceeded to turn and leave.


    At this moment, the chat group Li Hanqiang began to liven up.


    Who would not want the Elite Template Mount?


    The trio, Dark Redemption, Fanning Knight, and Fiery Blade Sage were relentlessly questioning Li Hanqiang about where exactly had he obtained the Young Black Thorned Turtle.


    That Fanning Knight was the most agitated of the three and he spammed Li Hanqiang''s with messages.


    He was a Knight and there was nothing he wanted more than a mount


    [A rider without a mount would be a useless one, come on City Lord. You are my real-life brother. Could you just give me that Young Black Thorned Turtle!] Fanning Knight sent him another message.


    [No!] Li Hanqiang was not known to be a good person who could be taken advantage of. He presumed that Fanning Knight was currently cursing at him right now. How could he just give away Young Black Thorned Turtle to him?


    He proceeded to reply explicitly. [It will be placed on auction right now. Maybe you can come and bid for it! That reminds me, are you planning to auction off your Dark Shadow Charge? If you are, I can get it done for you for a pretty good price?]


    [Don''t!] Fanning Knight was completely terrified at this point. He was now bitterly watching the auction as a spectator while he lamented in his heart. He was hoping to re-buy the Dark Shadow Charge skill book as soon as possible. If Li Hanqiang sold it off, he would suffer a much bigger loss.


    "Sigh, I shouldn''t have pawned that book to him. That stupid City Lord might be unreliable," Fanning Knight lamented as he could only send Li Hanqiang a text through the group chat. [My dear brother, if you had actually auctioned it off, I will stop at nothing to hunt you down.]


    [Haha, the City Lord is invincible. I fear nothing!] In all honesty, Li Hanqiang was only pulling his leg and would never commit such morally reprehensible acts. However, he was still capable of ignoring Dark Redemption and the others by making them buy a ticket.


    He had created a group chat and brought Dark Redemption, Fanning Knight, and Fiery Blade Sage into it. He then sent a text. [The three of you should buy yourselves a ticket and come support me. I will have a surprise for all of you. I will always share the good stuff with you guys.]


    [Fiery Blade Sage: Easy for you to say, the tickets would cost us gold.]


    [Fanning Knight: I''ll go!]


    [Dark Redemption: I don''t think I''ll be going since I''ve been online ever since the game went live. It''s been 14 to 15 hours now. I don''t think I can keep myself up so it''s time for me to log off now.]


    [Li Hanqiang: Then you''d be missing out on a really good opportunity. You''ll regret missing out in future, you know.]


    [Dark Redemption: We''ll talk about it in the future then. I''ll see you guys soon, bye now.]


    Dark Redemption then immediately logged off.


    Li Hanqiang proceeded to shake his head repeatedly then sent another text. [Fanning Knight and Fiery Blade Sage, aren''t you guys close with that Emperor''s Rich Guild? Help me advertise, alright? We''ll see if any of them are interested in buying the Young Black Thorned Turtle and bring in a few more wealthy people.]


    [Fiery Blade Sage: We aren''t on good terms with them.]


    [Fanning Knight: Don''t talk about it. It''s all that woman''s fault.]


    As Li Hanqiang was casually texting away, Big Trader was as busy as a bee...


    The city he was in was called Linghai City. The instant he returned, he proceeded to rush out of the city and arrived at a valley after 15 minutes of traveling.


    This valley was a training area and there was a miniature copy of the Hunter''s Camp there. The copy was maintained by an extremely powerful guild. The guild''s name was known as Tianhe, and they were ranked in the top ten guilds of the entire country. This guild had far exceeded the insignificant reputation of the Emperor''s Rich Guild.


    Big Trader''s target was the Tianhe Guild. As far as he knew, the leader of the Tianhe Guild was a Knight named [Tianhe Emperor]. Big Trader had met him once at the entrance to the Hunter''s Camp.


    The instant he arrived at the entrance of the Hunter''s Camp, Big Trader did not say anything and proceeded to instantly place the poster announcing the auction of the Young Black Thorned Turtle.


    This resulted in gaining the immediate attention of countless gamers.


    "Young Black Thorned Turtle, an Elite Monster Template Mount!"


    "Is this real?"


    "Hey, fatty. What''s the meaning of this?"


    "Where did you get this information?"


    "Such an awesome mount¡­"


    A buzz of discussion immediately began.


    However, Big Trader was unperturbed. He casually said, "My friends, I am responsible for boycotting the dishonest merchants. In order for everyone to have an effective method to level up and save time from traveling back into the city, I have brought with me some low-level Health Potions, Magic Potions, and Inspiration Potions. The price will be the same as the merchants in the city. Stock is limited, so chances are also limited. Hence, I will be selling on a first come first served basis."


    "What, the same price as a normal city merchant? This fatty doesn''t profit?"


    "Could there possibly be someone so dense?''


    Under a shroud of skeptical questioning and only three minutes, Big Trader had sold out everything he had brought along with him. He had made 43 gold coins.


    There were plenty of players from the Saintly Hall Guild and Tianhe Guild that were attracted to this spot. Big Trader was waiting just for them. Hence, he started posting the news about the Young Black Thorned Turtle again.


    He believed that [Tianhe Emperor] would be interested in knowing about the Young Black Thorned Turtle.


    Li Hanqiang had spent his time in The Chaotic City by riding the Young Black Thorned Turtle around out of boredom. Using his silver tongue, he had successfully convinced both Fanning Knight and Fiery Blade Sage to come over.


    Both of them were slightly depressed since they had to spend all of their hard-earned gold in buying an entry ticket.


    However, they dared not to be absent today. Especially Fanning Knight, since his [Dark Shadow Charge Skill Book] was still in the hands of Li Hanqiang as he was afraid of anything awful that might happen to his book.


    Suddenly, The Space-Time Wormhole opened and Big Trader was chuckling merrily. He had brought along 12 people with him.


    Upon seeing that, Li Hanqiang was extremely ecstatic since he had easily made 21 entry tickets worth of money. This was worth 10 gold and 50 silver. Attending this auction was no easy feat.


    "Welcome! Welcome!" Li Hanqiang greeted them while riding on the back of his mount. He noticed the person standing right in front of him was looking at him intently. He looked extremely handsome and elegant. That man was wearing a suit of silver armor which was extremely eye-catching.


    "Hmm? You are¡­" Li Hanqiang somehow felt that the man looked familiar to him as if he had seen him before. He violently slapped against his head as he suddenly recalled!


    He was the leader of the Tianhe Guild, right? He could be considered a public figure since he had made himself well-known on the internet.


    "This Big Trader is really capable, he has even attracted a famous person! However, it seems they are all from the same group. Is there no competition?" Li Hanqiang contemplated for a moment.


    Tianhe Emperor and several other people were all focused on Li Hanqiang. All of them had a peculiar expression on their faces and it was just like when Big Trader had first seen the Young Black Thorned Turtle. They were all tempted to kick Li Hanqiang off its back.


    "It really is a Young Black Thorned Turtle!" Tianhe Emperor said with a huge smile while nodding his head in pleasure. After taking a quick glance at Li Hanqiang, he said, "A 100 gold coins, or 30,000 in cash. Take your pick."


    "Truly a firm and direct offer!" Li Hanqiang secretly commented that the Guild Leader was where he was for a reason. He could make big moves that others could not. However, the price he offered was not exactly satisfying to him.


    Li Hanqiang proceeded to take a glance at Fanning Knight, giving him a hint.


    Getting the hint, Fanning Knight approached them and said while chuckling out loud, "Hahahaha, you think a 100 gold coins could so easily buy you such a good mount. It''s not possible. I shall offer 120 gold coins!"

 Chapter 19：Huntsman’s Trap

    The instant Fanning Knight spoke up and faced the judgmental, unkind expressions of the public, he was shamelessly calm.


    "If I may ask, who exactly might you be¡­" Tianhe Emperor asked while extending a hand to Fanning Knight.


    "I am the guild master of the Emperor''s Rich Guild, Zhen Deqiang!" Fanning Knight spoke confidently through his lies while pointing at Fiery Blade Sage and said, "He is the assistant guild master, Zhen Dejun!"


    "Emperor''s Rich Guild?"


    "What kind of low tier guild is this? Never heard of it."


    "Sounds like a second-rate guild to me."


    "A second-rate low tier guild who dares challenge our guild master for the Young Black Thorned Turtle? How arrogantly boastful!"


    "From how I see it, this man seemed like a nobody. He is trying to inflate the price, probably¡­"


    The Tianhe Guild members were having a wild discussion. However, the guild master simply waved his hand around to stop the commotion. He had a gentle and warm smile on his face, and simply took a quick glance at Fanning Knight before shifting his gaze to Li Hanqiang and said, "50,000 in cash. An immediate transfer can be done. What do you think?"


    Fanning Knight frantically interjected and said, "Cash, 80,000!"


    Tianhe Emperor replied in a cold tone, "100,000 in cash"


    Fanning Knight did not seem to slow down and simply replied with a smile, "Hahah, 200,000 in cash!"


    "It seems our friend here desperately wants this seat." Tianhe Emperor had a soft chuckle then said, "If that''s the case, we''ll let our friend have it then!"


    Fanning Knight was stunned and simply said, "Huh? Let me have it? Aren''t you going to think it over?"


    Fiery Balde Sage who was standing next to him chortled. However, he held his laughter back. He simply said to Tianhe Emperor, "You both really know your stuff! Competing with our Rich Emperor''s Guild will never end well. You guys are alright, come by Tianfeng City for a visit someday soon!"


    Li Hanqiang was tempted to kick these two so hard that they would start flying. He wanted them to inflate the price. However, who knew these two were horrible actors and it seemed their facade had been seen through with a simple glance.


    This auction would be wasted.


    Li Hanqiang was quick thinking and simply said, "I have to be honest with you, I am not short on funds and have no intentions in receiving cash. I''ve put this Young Black Thorned Turtle up for auction to gather funds for some items. So I am terribly sorry, the price that you both had offered earlier is null."


    "Oh, you don''t accept cash, then you shouldn''t have this auction since the gold coins I have on me are very limited. I only have 100 gold coins with me!" Fanning Knight proceeded to reply.


    Tianhe Emperor smiled while shaking his head. He said, "Alright, let''s not waste any more time. 100 gold coins with some items."


    While he spoke, he took out a blueprint.


    This blueprint was taken from the copy of Hunter''s Camp. It was found from a chest and was an item used by the Chaotic City Lord. It seemed Tianhe Emperor was a little puzzled by how exactly he should take care of this item, however it now seemed he was given the best chance to do so.


    Li Hanqiang took a swift glance at it¡­


    [Huntsman''s Trap Blueprint: A unique item, only usable by the Chaotic City Lord. Upon using said item, the user would be able to attach a Defensive Tower in the Corridor of War with a permanent Huntsman. (Special Level 1 Defense Tower). The Huntsman has a fixed chance to capture a beast type monster and deal continuous damage to it. Please investigate the model further.]


    "It''s actually a specialist item for the Chaotic City Lord!" Li Hanqiang was ecstatic and judging from the item''s description text, this Huntsman was not any fancy high tier item but was still an interesting item nonetheless. It was surprisingly considered a Level 1 Defensive Tower. If he was given the blueprint and 100 gold, Li Hanqiang would be more than willing to exchange those items for the Young Black Thorned Turtle since he had fished for it through idle fishing.


    It seemed Fanning Knight had learned his lesson and was not speaking out of turn.


    After that, Li Hanqiang had a successful trade with Tianhe Emperor and both parties seemed to be satisfied.


    After the trade, Tianhe Emperor had left with his members. After that, Big Trader approached Li Hanqiang to ask for his commission.


    After some thought, Li Hanqiang felt Big Trader was quite witty and he was feeling quite generous, so he gave him 5 gold coins.


    Big Trader seemed satisfied, and he rushed to the Chaotic Stone Slab to continue his potion trading.


    Both Fanning Knight and Fiery Blade Sage wanted to get something from Li Hanqiang since they were owed a favor. Although it was done horribly and they had almost ruined it, both of them were still shameless and so they asked shamelessly.


    It was only natural for Li Hanqiang to not give them gold coins. He cracked a smile and questioned them suddenly, "Are you both interested in knowing where exactly did I get this Young Black Thorned Turtle?"


    "Where?"


    "Hmm? From the way you''re saying this, it sounds like you can do it again?"


    "Hahah!" Li Hanqiang replied with a huge thumbs up. He added, "Don''t you dare call me disloyal in any way. Come now. I shall bring you guys over to witness the Blue Ripple Pond. This is a pilgrimage site for idling. I''ve fished the Young Black Thorned Turtle from it. As long as you guys are lucky, you guys could also fish one out yourselves¡­"


    Li Hanqiang had made an effort to showcase the Blue Ripple Pond to them and at the same time, get them hooked on his next scheme. Upon witnessing their surprised look, Li Hanqiang said, "Idling? A single try costs 1 gold coin and there is no time limit to it. Try your luck to fish for the Young Black Thorned Turtle, or perhaps something better! Even if you are unable to fish for it, the other trash you might pull is not bad as well. I will never allow any regular people to fish here, you know."


    Since both of them were quite naive, they were instantly tricked as they were also in a desperate situation. Hence without hesitation, they began fishing. After a brief moment, both of them had logged off and had left their profiles fishing in the pond.


    With this, Li Hanqiang was quite satisfied with the outcome and proceeded to the Corridor of War to attach the Huntsman''s Trap to the Fire Tower.


    The trap was as huge as a table and its bite was tight. It looked terrifying.


    Hence, Li Hanqiang thought about the scene where this beast was being clawed and grappled by the trap. It made him excited.


    After a brief moment, close to one in the morning, a sound echoed in Li Hanqiang''s ear. It was a notification from the system.


    [Congratulations, the Defensive Tower Shop, Chaotic Treasury, and Limitless Tower have appeared in your Chaotic City!]


    In that instant, the ground of the entire city began shaking briefly. On both sides of the Chaotic Heart, slate pathways appeared. They expanded outward by fifty meters, then two buildings manifested out of nowhere on both sides.


    The building on the left resembled a Greek temple. It was surrounded by stone columns. That was the Defensive Tower Shop.


    The building on the right looked odd. From the looks of it, it resembled a huge treasure chest. It was without question, the Chaotic Treasury.


    In addition to that, at the back of the Chaos'' Core, the ground had grown fifty meters wider. A tower resembling a hand with seven jewels was erected. That was the Limitless Tower.


    [System notification: You can now initiate another wave of monster attacks.]


    [Systems notification: From this moment, you will be faced with countless more challenges and the monster attacks will increase in numbers. The monsters on the fourth wave will be Level 10. In the future, every wave of monster attacks will be increased by two levels and their numbers will be increased. Please plan ahead and make the most desirable choices, or else if you ever rashly attempt these waves¡­]


    Li Hanqiang grew ecstatic upon staring at the now upgraded Chaotic City.


    Back then, it was in such a sad and pitiful state. After walking through the Corridor of War would be the Chaos'' Core itself, and just by a couple more steps, he would reach the end of it. However, upon looking at its current state, the Chaos'' Core looked like the very center of the entire complex. There were people dancing in front of the newly opened shops, instantly lighting up the mood.


    "Not bad, not bad at all!" Li Hanqiang nodded as he focused on the Defensive Tower Shop. After doing so, he rushed toward it just for a look.

 Chapter 20：Changed Sword Tower

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    Defensive Tower Shop: Basic Chaotic City Building, currently only sells the construction blueprints for Level 1 Defensive Towers.


    Item 1: Construction blueprint for the Basic Arrow Tower. Unit price 100 gold coins, bound after purchase to be constructed in The Chaotic City it is purchased in.


    Item 2: Construction blueprint for the Basic Cannon Tower. Unit price 150 gold coins, bound after purchase to be constructed in The Chaotic City it is purchased in.


    Item 3: Construction blueprint for the Basic Slowing Tower. Unit price 200 gold coins, bound after purchase to be constructed in The Chaotic City it is purchased in.


    Description: Raising the level of Chaos'' Core unlocks more items.


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    "I can directly buy Defensive Tower construction blueprints!" Li Hanqiang began to zoom around the Defensive Tower Shop.


    Including the 100 gold coins he just received, he now had over 182 gold coins. He had money in his purse and naturally would like to buy towers, but which one?


    Basic Arrow Towers were not that useful anymore. They had a high attack speed but their damage was negligible.


    Li Hanqiang paid the Arrow Tower no mind. Instead, he focused on the stats of Basic Cannon Tower and Basic Slowing Tower


    [Basic Cannon Tower: High attack but with slow attack speed. Range of 300 meters, 60-90 damage. Attacks deal damage in a small area. Ground attacks only. Can be upgraded. (Requires an upgrade scroll or unlocking the requisite technology.)]


    [Basic Slowing Tower: Low attack but reduces the target''s movement speed. Range of 200 meters, 20-30 damage. Can attack ground and air targets. Can be upgraded. (Requires an upgrade scroll or unlocking the requisite technology.)]


    Li Hanqiang had watched Gorgeous Banyue''s livestream and had witnessed the power of the Basic Cannon Tower. Not only did it have a long range, but its area of effect damage was even more impressive. The only downside was that it could not attack air targets. It would be useless when meeting flying monsters.


    The Basic Slowing Tower could slow down a target''s movement speed. When faced with the Old Black Pig, the Metal Skinned Boar King, or other such special monsters, it would definitely be effective. It was only a shame that its attack value was too low and would be ineffective against large groups of monsters.


    After thinking about it for a while, Li Hanqiang decided to go with the construction blueprint for the Basic Arrow Tower as it was the cheapest one.


    Li Hanqiang had no respect for the Basic Arrow Tower. However, he had the City Lord Passive Skill Tower Change, so how could he not utilize it? He should buy a cheap tower and try to change it.


    After buying the Basic Arrow Tower Construction Blueprint, Li Hanqiang was in no hurry to construct it and instead went to check out the Limitless Tower.


    The Limitless Tower was a basic building in The Chaotic City that allowed players to initiate various challenges. Based on the Chaos'' Core'' current level, there was only one challenge available, and that was the Gold Coin Challenge.


    [Gold Coin Challenge: The Chaotic City Lord can spend ten gold coins to initiate this challenge. After the challenge is initiated, the Space-Time Wormhole will spawn endless waves of Gold Coin Monsters. Killing these monsters will grant bounded gold. The Gold Coin Monsters can also drain the energy from the Chaos'' Core. When the Chaos'' Core has lost all of its Chaotic Energy to the Gold Coin Monsters, the challenge ends. The Chaotic City Lord can also choose to end the challenge before the next wave of monsters spawns. The challenge may be initiated if the Chaos'' Core has more than one Chaotic Energy stored within it. The challenge can be attempted once a day and during the challenge, adventurer players are unable to offer support. Friendly Reminder: Please consider the firepower of Defensive Towers before attempting this challenge.]


    "This is clearly a method to gain gold, should I give it a go?" Li Hanqiang felt the itch to give it a go.


    Obviously, in this Gold Coin Challenge, the more firepower the Defensive Towers had, the longer they would last and the more gold they would gain. However, the monsters were endless and unless one opted to abandon the challenge, the natural outcome of this challenge was that the Chaos'' Core'' Chaotic Energy reserve would be depleted, despite how much gold could be collected.


    Without Chaotic Energy, nothing could be done.


    The Gold Soin Challenge could be attempted once a day, so who would not give it a go?


    To put it another way, the Chaotic Energy reserves in the Chaos'' Core would be depleted once a day. Was this worth it?


    When he thought about this, Li Hanqiang could not help but curse Gorgeous Banyue.


    The City Lord Passive Skill Awakened Ability could increase the regeneration speed of Chaotic Energy. Now it seemed that this Passive Skill was extremely useful. During her livestream, Gorgeous Banyue had suggested that new players not pick this Passive Skill. She had misled her audience.


    Seeing that the Chaos'' Core'' reserve of Chaotic Energy had reached 11 points, Li Hanqiang made up his mind. He quickly ran over to the Basic Arrow Tower and used the Basic Arrow Tower Construction Blueprint he just purchased.


    "Now is the time to see a miracle happen. Change Tower, change!" Li Hanqiang said as he activated his City Lord Passive Skill on the newly constructed Basic Defensive Tower.


    The ten points of Chaotic Energy in the Chaos'' Core immediately hit zero. Following that, a system notification appeared.


    [Great Chaotic City Lord, you have activated the Tower Change Passive Skill on a Basic Defensive Tower. The Basic Defensive Tower will now undergo changes. Changing¡­]


    [Ding, Basic Arrow Tower has successfully changed into a Sword Tower, its abilities have been increased. Congratulations!]


    After the system notification, there was a rumbling noise.


    Li Hanqiang could see that the Basic Arrow Tower next to him began to grow taller and the top of the tower also began to change. The massive crossbow began to disappear and was replaced with a massive sword. This massive sword was bound at the hilt by four chain locks. The other end of the chains were tied to the four corners of the tower. The edge of the sword glimmered, showing off its sharpness.


    [Sword Tower: Level 1 Changed Tower, attack range of 100 meters. A piercing Sword Qi is released from the tower every second. The Sword Qi will attack the first target for 80 points of damage, and every target behind it takes 10 reduced damage for a maximum of eight targets.]


    Li Hanqiang could not help but laugh.


    An Arrow Tower changed into a Sword Tower, and its abilities increased by one and a half stars.


    Li Hanqiang quietly did some calculations. The Basic Arrow Tower''s maximum damage output was 40, so with two attacks per second, its damage per second was 80 points!


    Looking at the Sword Tower with its piercing Sword Qi, it dealt damage to eight targets and its maximum damage per second was up to 360! What was the Basic Arrow Tower compared to that? It was more than four times the difference!


    Even if it could only attack a single target, that was still a damage of 80 per second compared to the Basic Arrow Tower''s highest average damage per second. The only downside was its short range.


    "This is great!" Li Hanqiang felt as though he had reached the peak. He saw that there was one point of Chaotic Energy in the Chaos'' Core and chose to immediately begin the Gold Coin Challenge.


    At the same time, over at the Chaotic City No. 12, Gorgeous Banyue had also begun the Gold Coin Challenge.


    "The Gold Coin Challenge is a City Lord''s main stream of income for gold coins. With the firepower I currently have, I should be able to make a profit and may even be able to climb up the Challenge Leaderboard!"


    Gorgeous Banyue thought to herself, as a member of the private beta of Endless World and a major streamer, that she had a lot of confidence in herself.


    Of course, she was aware that there were definitely more good players outside of the streaming world. In those large guilds, there were definitely players who had more game knowledge, better luck, and more popularity than her. However, at this moment, she was probably still at the top.


    Gorgeous Banyue smiled.


    Looking at her Chaotic City, the Battle Corridor had three whole Basic Cannon Towers built next to each other. The ''Italian Cannons'' on top of these towers with their orderly muzzles looked intimidating.


    There was also a Basic Arrow Tower standing alone in front of the three Cannon Towers, looking like their little brother.


    Suddenly, the Space-Time Wormhole opened and a large wave of tiny golden men poured out of it.


    [System Notification: The Gold Coin Challenge has been initiated. First wave of the challenge, 3000 Level 10 Golden Infantry.]

 Chapter 21：Gold Coin Challenge Leaderboard

    [Golden Infantry: Special monster, Level 10, 2000 MP. After being killed, a silver coin is dropped and bound to the player''s account.]


    The Gold Coin Challenge had begun!


    Li Hanqiang stepped up into the air and watched as the Golden Infantry emerged from the Space-Time Wormhole, assembled in a neat square. They were queued in rows of ten, each holding a golden spear and wearing golden armor. They looked quite impressive, just like a gold-plated Terracotta Army.


    ''These monsters are only at Level 10 but have up to 2000 Hit Points. They''re pretty strong,'' Li Hanqiang thought to himself. However, that did not matter to him as he realized that the Golden Infantry could only move slowly in a line and advanced forward at around one meter per second.


    The Fire Tower immediately started to show its power. As soon as the Golden Infantry came out of the Space-Time Wormhole, flames burst from their body and a ''-30'' appeared neatly over their heads!


    The Golden Infantry itself did not seem to notice, their formation undisturbed.


    Li Hanqiang could not help but show a smug smile.


    The Fire Tower could deal 30 points of fire damage per second to all targets within a 50-meter range and favored slow moving units. Even if the Gold Infantry had up to 2000 HP, their movement speed was slow and would not be able to withstand 67 seconds of the Fire Tower''s burn!


    Only 67 seconds. At their movement speed, it would be impossible for them to get out of the Fire Tower''s attack range!


    Sure enough when the first row of the Golden Infantry walked out, their HP bars were emptied after moving less than 70 meters away from the Space-Time Wormhole. They fell to the ground simultaneously and disappeared into the fading light, leaving behind 10 silver coins.


    Almost all the Golden Infantry that followed behind died in the same position.


    Li Hanqiang laughed aloud. A Fire Tower was more like a God Tower under these circumstances.


    Cling cling, clang clang. Cling cling, clang clang... The city was filled with the sounds of silver coins falling.


    3000 Golden Infantry were refreshed in 300 seconds but had only managed to persist for less than 400 seconds as they fell under the Fire Tower.


    Li Hanqiang happily went down to pick up the silver coins. Around two minutes later, a system notification rang.


    [The second wave of the current challenge is 3,000 Gold Infantry, Level 15. You can choose to give up the challenge voluntarily now.]


    ''Give up the challenge? Impossible! Come again! Come again!''


    After Li Hanqiang responded to the system, he saw a group of gleaming cavalry immediately exit the Space-Time Wormhole. Just like the Golden Infantry, they were also assembled in a square matrix of ten in a row. The first row of infantry appeared in a second, each holding a gold knife as their golden armor gleamed.


    [Golden Cavalry: Special monster, Level 15, 3000 MP, it will drop 5 silver coins after killing it.]


    Li Hanqiang felt that something was not right.


    Although the Golden Cavalry was only five levels higher than the Golden Infantry, they rode golden horses and their marching speed was significantly faster. Even though they were not in an assault posture and the golden horses under them trotted at a normal pace, they were still advancing at a speed of two meters per second.


    This meant that they would only need 50 seconds to get out of the Fire Tower''s area of attack.


    The Fire Tower could only burn about 1500 damage in 50 seconds, which was just half of the Golden Cavalry''s HP.


    ''I''m going to fail!'' Li Hanqiang shook his head, not caring anymore as he had already earned the death of 3000 Golden Infantry.


    Everything was playing out similarly as to what Li Hanqiang had expected. However, the Huntsman''s Trap that was inactive during the Golden Infantry stage suddenly came into the limelight, catching a Golden Cavalry as soon as it came up like a giant steel mouth biting at its prey.


    The Golden Cavalry were trapped where they stood, the damage figures of ''-30'' and ''-15'' appearing on their heads one after another.


    The ''-30'' damage was caused by the Fire Tower, while the ''-15'' was damage done by the Huntsman''s Trap.


    As a result, the first row of Golden Cavalry became the first victims of this attack wave.


    AS they disappeared into the fading light, the Huntsman''s Trap opened automatically and caught another golden cavalry in just two seconds'' time.


    At that moment, the rest of the Golden Cavalry in the front had entered the attack range of the Basic Arrow Tower. As crossbow bolts began to fly, they each dealt a full 40 points of damage.


    ''This Golden Cavalry looks great, but is it possible that they have no physical defense? Despite that, even receiving full damage from the Basic Arrow Tower will not work as it can only reach a maximum of 80 damage points per second. With its full power, it will only be able to kill one Golden Cavalry in 20 seconds.''


    Li Hanqiang calculated silently. The Space-Time Wormhole refreshed 10 Golden Cavalry in one second, so a total refresh time of 300 seconds would be required for 3000 of them. Their movement speed was two meters per second and the Basic Arrow Tower had an attack range of 200 meters.


    In other words, the Basic Arrow Tower could attack for a maximum time of 500 seconds and during this period, it would only be able to kill 25 Golden Cavalries with half of their HP.


    Li Hanqiang began looking forward to how the Sword Tower would perform.


    Not long after, a bright white Sword Qi flashed from above the Sword Tower, traveling along a hundred meters in a flash. Clang, clang, clang, clang... It penetrated through eight of the Golden Cavalry successively, producing a row of damage figures.


    -80, -70, -60...


    It had directly dealt a total of up to 360 damage points. Unfortunately, the Sword Tower''s attack range was only about 100 meters. Despite the fact that its output was more stable and efficient than the Basic Arrow Tower, it still had difficulties in blocking out the Golden Cavalry.


    Soon, the defense line collapsed and the Golden Cavalry drove straight in. In a heartbeat, the Chaotic Energy in the Chaos'' Core was completely robbed.


    [System Notification: Chaotic Energy in the Chaos'' Core is zero. The current challenge has failed.]


    [Challenge Statistics: The current challenge took 13 minutes and 5 seconds, with 3000 Golden Infantry and 122 Golden Cavalry killed. Your accumulated profit from the challenge is 36 gold and 10 silver. Your Gold Coin Challenge has been stopped at the second wave.]


    [System Notification: You are now at the top of the Gold Coin Challenge Leaderboard, you can choose to display with your real nickname or remain anonymous...]


    ''There''s even a challenge ranking list? And I am on the top!'' Li Hanqiang gave it some thought. ''I, Li Hanqiang, am a humble person, but I can''t just hide my talents. Whatever, let''s just choose to display my real nickname on the leaderboard. Hahahaha.''


    Li Hanqiang happily retreated and collected his gold coins.


    At that moment, in Chaotic City No. 12, Gorgeous Banyue was looking at the Gold Coin Challenge Leaderboard.


    Those that could be on the leaderboard at that time were either super experts or super lucky people. Gorgeous Banyue thought of those people as competitors.


    There were only ten rankings on the list, and Gorgeous Banyue was in tenth place. The profit she had earned from the challenge was 25 gold.


    The thing that made her depressed was the fact that all nine people in front of her had chosen to be kept anonymous.


    ''Isn''t there anyone who will display their Chaotic City number and real nickname? They really just don''t have any courage.''


    Gorgeous Banyue shook her head and was about to close the leaderboard when a system notification came.


    [System Notification: You have fallen out of the Gold Coin Challenge Leaderboard, please continue to make persistent efforts.]


    ''Hmm? Squeezed down?'' Gorgeous Banyue frowned and took a look at the ranking list again. As it turned out, her name was no longer there.


    At the top of the list, there was a row of different words.


    [Ranked first: Chaotic City No. 68, City Lord, Li Hanqiang. Single challenge profit, 36 gold and 10 silver.]


    ''Li Hanqiang?'' Gorgeous Banyue was stunned for a moment. Which character was this? Why did this name feel a bit familiar?


    Suddenly, she remembered the landlord next door.


    Isn''t that guy''s name Li Hanqiang?


    ''Who uses their real name as a nickname?'' Gorgeous Banyue shook her head. She felt like she was thinking too much. That guy was just a loser and she felt like he was not someone with a high IQ. How could someone like him be the Chaotic City Lord on the top of the list?


    ''I''ll need to call Little Yi and the gang, as well as recruit a group of adventurer masters from the live broadcast to start more monster attacks.'' Gorgeous Banyue planned silently. ''The Chaotic City Lord lacks achievements when they are still below Level 30. I will have to upgrade as soon as possible as it is only after Level 30 that the skill will truly be reflected. Gold Coin Challenge Leaderboard, I will come back to you sooner or later.''


    The Terracotta Army is a collection of terracotta sculptures depicting the armies of Qin Shi Huang, the first Emperor of China. It is a form of funerary art buried with the emperor in 210-209 BC with the purpose of protecting the emperor in his afterlife. The figures include warriors, chariots, and horses.

 Chapter 22：The Tian Ji Bun Shop

    In the early morning as the sky was starting to brighten up, Li Hanqiang had left the house to run and buy breakfast.


    Guaranteed to eat his breakfast every morning, this was probably the only good habit that Li Hanqiang had.


    In fact, this good habit was greatly connected to the ''Tian Ji Bun Shop''.


    This bun shop had been open for many years that no one knew for exactly how many.


    Li Hanqiang had loved eating the buns from this shop ever since he was young. Before their death, his father and mother had also visited it every morning.


    With the development of science and technology, the ''Tian Ji Bun Shop'' was unique in its insistence of being purely ''manually operated''. It had never used automatic machinery and was not equipped with any service robots. The bun shop was not even hooked up to the internet and did not provide takeaway.


    Some could say that this bun shop was incompatible with the era that it was in. While the exterior of the shop was not grand, the business was still prosperous and there were many regular customers.


    The owner, Old Mr. Tian, was now already in his 70s. He still looked young for his age and was nimble with his hands and feet. He oversaw the bun shop and occasionally made the buns himself. People who were unfamiliar with him would probably think he was just 40 years old just by watching the way he moved around.


    His son and daughter-in-law were both in their fifties and were now fully responsible for the operation of the bun shop.


    As soon as she saw Li Hanqiang running over, Aunt Tian started waving from a distance and shouted, "Little Qiang, Little Qiang, come here! Aunty wants to tell you something."


    "What''s the matter, Aunt Tian?" Li Hanqiang ran to the enthusiastic aunt. He had eaten the buns here ever since he was young and was very familiar with his Aunt Tian.


    Aunt Tian opened her mouth to enumerated Li Hanqiang''s shortcomings."Look at you, your hair is so messy. Have you washed your face? You''re still wearing slippers and baggy pants. It''s not that aunty wants to make comments but with your image, it will be difficult for you to find a wife." She then continued with, "Little Qiang, I have a distant niece that has just turned 22 this year. She came to Li City for work awhile ago and has an impeccable face and figure. Aunty will contact her for you so you both can meet. What do you think?"


    ''What? A blind date again!'' Li Hanqiang felt that Aunt Tian was always introducing partners to him every now and then despite the fact that this was an uncommon practice in this day and age.


    "Refusing yet again?" Aunt Tian''s had a resentful expression on her face towards Li Hanqiang for failing her expectations. "I have to say this to you, Little Qiang. Aunty''s advice is that you shouldn''t always stay at home and play games. Go out and walk around or however else will you find a wife? My distant niece... "


    Uncle Tian who was at the side shook his head bitterly, waving his hand as he said, "Okay, okay, let''s allow the young people to decide their own fate. Little Qiang is right. After all, what kind of era is this? No one sees cars without wheels anymore. The sky is full of flying machines and you can meet face-to-face on the Internet at any time. Do they still need blind dates in real life that are arranged by an outdated aunty like you?"


    Between the conversation, he handed Li Hanqiang a greaseproof paper bag. "The buns are ready for you, your favorite food. Eat them while they''re hot and ignore your Aunt Tian."


    "Okay!" Li Hanqiang smiled and took the oily paper bag. He paid the bill at lightning speed before turning and running away.


    Aunt Tian looked at Li Hanqiang running away and sighed. "What a good boy. I''ve watched him grow up since he was young. If it weren''t for the car accident that happened last year, Mr. Li and Professor Yang would still be alive and he wouldn''t be like this right now."


    "Ah, don''t mention it. It''s all about shuttle buses that can fly nowadays, so there are no more car accidents." Uncle Tian comforted his companion. "Isn''t he a good child by today''s standards, especially since he doesn''t have to worry about food and clothing."


    "I think that child is extraordinary," The young-looking Old Mr. Tian suddenly chimed in. "He has the same demeanor as me when I was young. The next time I go up to the mountains, I''ll ask my master to do a fortune-telling for him. If we are fated, I will take him on as my apprentice."


    "Old man, please don''t join the party," Uncle Tian sighed helplessly. "Your methods are considered superstitious these days..."


    Li Hanqiang hugged the oily paper bag as he started to nibble the bun halfway.


    He was saving time as time was money and he could not wait to go online and continue to work hard.


    Whoosh...


    A hydrogen-powered shuttle car passed by overhead and stopped in front of Villa 23.


    The owner of Villa 23 was Li Hanqiang, but he was now renting it to Lin Banyue while he lived in Villa 24.


    Li Hanqiang was a little curious and decided to glance over. He saw the car door open and a beautiful girl stepped out. It looked as if she had jumped out of some two-dimensional space, resembling a rainbow with her colorful short skirt and a vest. She even had a wig and rabbit ears on her head.


    As times were advancing, this kind of costume was actually considered to be the ordinary now. However, as someone who was accustomed to staying at home, Li Hanqiang''s eyes still brightened.


    "Who is this little sister? Is she here to see Lin Banyue?"


    As Li Hanqiang thought about it, the beautiful girl suddenly turned her head and smiled at him, beckoning him to come closer. "Uncle, could you help me to carry my luggage?"


    "Sure!"


    Li Hanqiang secretly thought this girl was really sweet. He immediately put his buns aside and stepped forward to help. Suddenly, he realized something wrong, and hurriedly said, "Little sister, don''t just yell random things. Brother is only 25 years old this year.''


    The beautiful girl scratched her rabbit ears and said sweetly, "Sorry uncle, if you hadn''t mentioned it, I would have thought you were already 35."


    Fine, now that you know I am 25 years old, will you let go of the uncle title? Is it so hard to let go of addressing me as an uncle? Is it so hard to call me brother instead?


    Li Hanqiang decided not to bicker with her about it. Picking up a suitcase from the trunk of the shuttle, he asked, "Where should I move this suitcase to?"


    "Just here! Just here!"


    She pointed at the door of Villa 23. At that moment, it opened and Lin Banyue appeared with a smile. "Le Xiaoyi, you''ve arrived pretty early."


    "Big sister has summoned me, so how could I not come as soon as possible?" The beautiful girl said to Li Hanqiang, "Uncle, just leave it at the front of the door."


    "Oh?" Li Hanqiang instantly understood. It turned out that the beautiful girl in front of him was going to become another one of his tenants. Was she going to be living and playing games together with Lin Banyue?


    Li Hanqiang took a closer look at the attractive girl in front of him. It seemed that she was one of the female players who had appeared in Lin Banyue''s live video to help her defend against the first wave of monster attacks on the city.


    "It turns out that it is!" Li Hanqiang realized and mused to himself, "It seems like Lin Banyue is going to build a studio in my villa, so there must be other girls coming."


    Li Hanqiang easily got the suitcase to where it needed to be and the beautiful girl thanked him sweetly.


    Li Hanqiang waved his hand. "You''re welcome, you''re welcome! Are you also playing the Endless World? Do you need me to help carry you?"


    Without waiting for her answer, Lin Banyue replied, "That won''t be needed!"


    Her tone was exactly the same as yesterday, coupled with a professional smile on her face.


    Li Hanqiang felt unhappy. "You still don''t believe in my strength." He looked at Lin Banyue and said, "Did you see the Gold Coin Challenge Leaderboard? Do you know who is on the top?"


    Lin Banyue smiled softly and said with a know-it-all expression, "I know. The one on the top is Li Hanqiang, but that is definitely not you!"


    "Why can''t it be me?" Li Hanqiang was stunned. "I am who I am. I''m Li Hanqiang, the owner of Chaotic City No. 68."


    Lin Banyue continued smiling as she said nothing. After a few seconds, she responded: "Mr. Li, let''s talk again when we have the time. The two of us are going to go online now."


    "Oh, so you''re looking down at me this much?" Li Hanqiang felt even more upset but he still smiled while glancing at the beautiful girl, Le Xiaoyi. He fished through his trouser pocket and found a crumpled business card. "Little sister, let me introduce myself. My name is Li Hanqiang. This is my business card and I am the landlord of this villa. If you have any questions about the house, feel free to contact me and we will do whatever we can to help. Even though I am not good at changing faucets or unclogging the water pipe, I can still call the hotline repair number."


    "Oh." Le Xiaoyi took the business card. She looked down at it and smiled.


    The business card read:


    Name: Li Hanqiang


    Race: Human


    Occupation: Landlord


    Telephone rental...


    There was also a picture behind the business card. In the picture, Li Hanqiang was clad in bright golden armor and posed in a battle stance as he held a two-meter long machete on top of an ice-winged Pegasus.


    Le Xiaoyi could not help but smile. "Isn''t this the poster for the Endless World? He even photoshopped his face onto it. This uncle is really interesting."


    The term is [ºÞÌú²»³É¸Ö] in Chinese and the direct translation is to hate iron for not becoming steel. It actually means that someone feels resentful towards the other person for failing to meet expectations and impatient to see improvement.The term is[Ðв»¸ÄÃû×ø²»¸üÐÕ]. The direct translation means I won''t change my name when I walk and my surname when I sit. The meaning is someone is proud of their name and stand by their actions. In this context, the translator uses the term I am who I am to represent the term.

 Chapter 23：The Bright Green Turtle Shell

    After he returned to his old den, Li Hanqiang immediately went online.


    His character was still fishing at the Blue Ripple Pond.


    When he looked at his Fish Basket, there was only a pile of useless fish. Among them, a majority of them were Green Crap.


    ''What does this mean? Is there an event going on with Green Carp right now? Why is the system trying to betray me?!"


    Li Hanqiang ended his fishing and moved the small rowboat towards the shore.


    The two idiots, Fanning Knight and Fiery Blade Sage had been idling there the entire night as neither of them were online yet.


    Li Hanqiang looked at the Stats Panel. The Chaotic Energy in the Chaos'' Core had only recovered by 5 points.


    "I can only blame myself for being too diligent, what should I do now?"


    Having relied on his five-minute distributed sleep method, Li Hanqiang was now full of energy and eager to demonstrate his abilities. Unfortunately, there was still too little Chaotic Energy that could be used to change the tower and the Gold Coin Challenge was still on cooldown. It would be far too risky for him to start the fourth wave of monster attacks at the moment.


    After thinking about it, it seemed like he had nothing else to do except fishing.


    [Ding, you have received a system email. Are you prepared to look at it now?]


    A system notification suddenly rang out.


    "System Mail?" Li Hanqiang was slightly curious and immediately opened it.


    ¡ª


    Dear players:


    Endless World has opened its public beta globally at 8:00 am on the 1st of August, 2069, and has achieved a miracle in just a single day. The number of registered players has exceeded 2.6 billion, with the highest number of online players at one time exceeding 750 million... We have achieved a glorious victory.


    In order to thank the vast amount of players for their support, the operation team has decided to launch a large-scale event for the entire server. We have submitted a proposal plan to the Game Creator Endless and he has decided to pass this request. The brief introduction of the event is as follows:


    1: Level-up Challenge. All players above level 20 will receive a reward of 100 bound gold coins and all players above level 30 will receive a reward of 1,000 bound gold coins by 0:00 midnight on the 1st of September. The first 10,000 players that have reached the top of the level leaderboard in the entire server will receive a large number of bound gold coins and a random professional equipment reward. The tenth-ranked player will get an additional Level 30 professional armor while the first-ranked player will get an extra mysterious gift.


    2: Lord of the Chaotic City Challenge. Until 0:00 midnight on the 1st of September, all players who have chosen the Lord of the Chaotic City job can sign up for a damage test. After completing the test, they will receive a treasure chest reward. The higher the damage test results, the more reward chests a player will receive.


    3: The Chaotic Tournament is happening. Please pay attention to the following system announcements for details. The rewards for this will be set by Endless, the Game Creator...


    ¡ª


    ''Huh? There''s an actual official competition.'' Li Hanqiang''s thoughts were suddenly jolted alive.


    At that moment, a ''Wolf Howl'' sounded out of nowhere, giving Li Hanqiang a fright. He turned around to see Fiery Blade Sage jumping up from the pavilion.


    "I caught a treasure, I caught a treasure!" He shouted, with an expression as if he had won a lottery jackpot.


    "This guy is finally online." Li Hanqiang quickly asked him, "What treasure?"


    Fiery Blade Sage sent a direct message to Li Hanqiang.


    ¡ª


    Bright Green Turtle Shell: Heavy armor, special equipment. Green quality, bright green suit. Can be equipped if player exceeds Level 5.


    Hit Points: +500


    Physical Defense: +30


    Magic resistance: +30


    Armor ability: While stagnant, HP is increased by 1000, with 100 magic and physical resistance. When in a leaning-down state, an additional 2000 HP is added.


    Description: This equipment is a separate suit and cannot be worn together with other equipment, including weapons.


    ¡ª


    "I''ve caught a suit. Look at its attributes, hahahaha! I have the destiny of the emperor!" Fiery Blade Sage shouted as he directly equipped the Bright Green Turtle Shell.


    Li Hanqiang was stunned as he looked on. The equipment really was a green turtle shell. Combined with Fiery Blade Sage''s own baldness, it seemed to match him perfectly.


    "Hahahahaha!"


    Fanning knight was also online. When he saw how the ignition swordsman looked, he could not help but laugh out loud. "It''s such a peculiar device. This must have been specially made by the system for you, Master Roshi!"


    Fiery Blade Master was still ecstatic. "You mortals, don''t just look at the appearance, you need to look at its attributes. This is heavy armor. Do you know what heavy armor is? It''s high-end armor that can add up to 3500 HP and has added defensive abilities. If I just lean down and remain still, who would be able to kill me!" As soon as he finished talking, he laid down on the ground, appearing like a turtle with a human head.


    Li Hanqiang was speechless. "You guys should look and see if you have caught any other valuable things yet."


    Fiery Blade Sage shook his head and said, "No, the rest of it is all just useless fish, but I can still sell them for some silver coins."


    Fanning Knight looked at his Fish Basket and quickly took out a glass bottle that was shaped like a test tube with a strange look on his face. "I caught 20 useless fish and...this."


    He posted up the attributes of the glass bottle for them. Li Hanqiang''s eyes lit up as he saw it.


    [Small Chaotic Bottle: You can extract Chaotic Energy from the Chaos'' Core and store it. You can also add Chaotic Energy into the Chaos'' Core. The current capacity of Chaotic Energy stored is 100/100.]


    "This is an exclusive item meant for the Chaotic City Lord. You have earned a good one, Fanning Knight. Give me this Chaotic Bottle and the gold coins you owe me will be waived!" Li Hanqiang rubbed his hands. He had just been worrying earlier today about not having any Chaotic Energy.


    Fanning Knight however, puffed out his chest and said: "Hand me the Phantom Charged Skill Book first!"


    Li Hanqiang simply slapped the Phantom Charged Skill Book at his face. "Would I, as the City Lord, dare to take advantage of you?"


    Fiery Blade Sage laughed and said: "City Lord, please check how much money I can pawn my turtle shell for. I would like to borrow some more!"


    "Sorry, you can just wear that turtle shell. I will not accept it!"


    Li Hanqiang held onto the Small Chaotic Bottle as his mind was filled with thoughts of changing his towers now. How could he pay any attention right now to the two idiots in front of him?


    "Let''s go!"


    He activated his Float Walking and left the Blue Ripple Pond.


    With the rewards he obtained from the Gold Coin Challenge together with the sales of unwanted fish, Li Hanqiang''s assets now exceeded 104 gold coins. This meant it was now possible for him to buy another basic Defensive Tower.


    "I want to change two towers in a row. Come on, please change into two Sword Towers for me!"


    It only took five minutes for him to fill the Chaos'' Core using the Small Chaotic Bottle, buy the drawings from the Defensive Tower Shop, and build the Basic Arrow Tower on the Chaotic Stone Slab...


    He then stood next to the two Basic Arrow Towers and put on the most handsome pose he could think of as he used his passive skill, Change Tower.


    [System notification: Dear Chaotic City Lord, you have used the passive skill, Change Tower, on the Basic Arrow Tower. The Defensive Tower will now mutate. The mutation is in progress¡­]


    "Ding, the Defensive Tower mutation failed. The current Defensive Tower will be destroyed!"


    A loud bang sounded.


    Li Hanqiang was stunned as the Basic Arrow Tower next to him suddenly collapsed and turned into a huge ray of light. After a few blinks, it completely disappeared.


    "F*ck your uncle, is it because I don''t look handsome today!" Li Hanqiang felt his loss as he vomited blood. Making up his mind, he used his Change Tower skill on the other Basic Arrow Tower.


    "I don''t believe that with my face, I will fail twice in a row!" Li Hanqiang looked at the other Basic Arrow Tower with anticipation.


    However...


    "Ding, the Defensive Tower''s mutation failed, the current Defensive Tower will be destroyed!"


    Boom, the Basic Arrow Tower disappeared in an instant.


    "F*ck me, F*ck me, F*ck, F*ck, F*ck me!" Li Hanqiang started to jump up and down. This was really a great loss. Two Basic Arrow Towers and 20 Chaotic Energy were used up for nothing.


    "Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing!" Li Hanqiang felt like he was in pain until his eyes chanced upon the Sword Tower uncontrollably.


    ''Should I try again? It''s impossible that I would fail three times in a row, right?'' He said silently, unable to control his manic heart.


    ''The mutated Arrow Tower can be changed again, but that is a Sword Tower. A Sword Tower is much more powerful than a Basic Arrow Tower. If the mutation fails... No, I must hold back, hold back from using this rubbish passive skill!" Li Hanqiang was very distraught internally that when he glanced around again, he noticed the Huntsman''s Trap.


    The Huntsman''s Trap was also a Level 1 Defensive Tower, according to the system''s identification.


    Li Hanqiang struggled fiercely in his heart."Let''s change it again?"


    The Chinese term is±»ÂÌÁË. Its direct translation is someone betrayed by lovers or friends. In this context, it means that the main character felt betrayed by the game because of the situation he is in.The original term is [°ôé³] and the direct translation is a wooden club. In Chinese, when someone is described as a wooden club, it means that they are idiots or that their way of settling the problem is not good enough.Master Roshi, also known as Kame Sennin, is a fictional character from the Dragon Ball series created by Akira Toriyama. This character has a bald head and carries a turtle shell on his back. In this context, the author is trying to give us a better image of how Fiery Blade Sage looks like by using Master Roshi as an example.

 Chapter 24：The Mutation of The Huntsman’s Trap

    The Huntsman''s Trap was also a Level 1 defensive tower that could still be mutated by the ''Change Tower'' skill.


    Li Hanqiang did not dare to risk the Sword Tower or even the Fire Tower. After giving it some thought, he was still unwilling to destroy the two Basic Arrow Towers so he made up his mind and decided to change the Huntsman''s Trap.


    "Come on, let''s erupt!" Li Han yelled loudly, giving it his all.


    [System Notification: Dear Chaotic City Lord, you have used ''Change Tower'' on the Huntsman''s Trap, the Defensive Tower will now be mutated, the mutation is currently in progress...]


    [Ding, the mutation is successful, the Huntsman''s Trap has mutated to a Beast Hunter and its abilities have been improved. Congratulations to the player!]


    ''What? Beast Hunter?'' Li Hanqiang was extremely happy. He saw the steel-toothed trap beside him start to twist and turn, quickly transforming. In the blink of an eye, it dissipated, only leaving behind a red pattern the size and shape of a square table. The character ''hero'' was written in the pattern and the whole thing looked like an abstract smiley face.


    [Beast Hunter Level 1: Special Defensive Tower, Level 1 mutation tower, current experience 0/100. The Beast Hunter can capture monster units that walk over it. The success rate of each catch is dependent on the level of the Beast Hunter and its target. Monsters captured by the Beast Hunter will lose all ability to move and continue to lose HP until they die (Elite and BOSS level monsters can break free). Each time a target is successfully killed, the Beast Hunter will gain experience. When it has gained sufficient experience, the Beast Hunter will upgrade and become more powerful. When the Beast Hunter level goes beyond Level 10, it will evolve into a Level 2 mutation tower.]


    "This is...a defensive tower that can be upgraded!" Li Hanqiang''s depression was suddenly swept away. It was so amazing, as the Huntsman''s Trap had transformed into a Beast Hunter.


    "200 gold coins and 30 points of Chaotic Energy used in exchange for such a Beast Hunter, this is definitely not a loss. I am Li Hanqiang, who relies on my face for food. My reputation is anything far from false!" Li Hanqiang laughed as he started to think about starting the fourth wave of monster attacks on the city to test the Beast Hunter''s power.


    However, to guarantee his chances of success, he decided to wait for Dark Redemption to come back online before starting the attack. If a player with a legendary profession came to defend the city, it would be much safer.


    With nothing else, Li Hanqiang returned to the Blue Ripple Pond and went idle to fish.


    After a while, Big Trader came to purchase some items. He was still stuck at Level 2 as it seemed that he was determined to be a businessman.


    Li Hanqiang cashed him his subsidy, making sure that not a penny was lost. Every time Big Trader came, he also provided him with 50 silver coins to compensate for the ticket money charged.


    It took more than an hour for the Dark Redemption to come online. Li Hanqiang sent him a message immediately and pulled him over to defend the city.


    "Okay, official activities are out. I need to level up quickly!" Dark Redemption immediately agreed.


    Li Hanqiang no longer hesitated and opened the fourth wave of monster attacks. Fanning Knight and Fiery Blade Sage were still fishing at the Blue Ripple Pond when they were kicked out. The new wave of monster attacks had started and they would need to buy another teleport ticket to come in again.


    [Mission Announcement: The owner of the Chaotic City No. 68, Li Hanqiang, has issued a city defense mission. The Youth Black Thorned Turtle Level 1, has been tamed and can be ridden. Amphibious, able to grow into a Black Thorned Turtle and Giant Black Thorned Turtle. Elite monster mount...]


    In the mission notification, Li Hanqiang posted the attribute information of the Youth Black Thorned Turtle. It was certainly an eye-catching advertisement.


    In less than five minutes, Dark Redemption was the first to reach the scene. The two idiots, Fanning and Fiery, soon followed after him. What made Li Hanqiang happy was that rays of light shone from the sky one after the other. After ten minutes, all the Chaotic Stone Slabs were occupied.


    "Dude, where is the Youth Black Thorned Turtle?"


    "I came to see the Youth Black Thorned Turtle, the mount for sale..."


    The players were now shouting at him. There were 12 players on the 12 Chaotic Stone Slabs. Apart from Dark Redemption and the two idiots, Fanning and Fiery, seven of them were knights, so the rest of them must have been attracted to the attribute information of the Youth Black Thorned Turtle.


    The remaining two were actually First-Class Star and Zhen Dejun.


    "Welcome to Chaotic City No. 68, I am the Lord of the city, Li Hanqiang. The fourth wave of monster attack is about to start so please get ready everyone." Li Hanqiang stood in the air as he shouted with enthusiasm.


    "Well, I am here to see the Youth Black Thorned Turtle, not to guard the city!" A knight player shouted back at him. This caused the other players to react similarly.


    Li Hanqiang touched his nose and said, "I''m sorry everyone. The Youth Black Thorned Turtle has been bought by the President of the Tianhe Guild."


    "What? It has already been sold. Then why did you post the attribute information of the Youth Black Thorned Turtle in the city defense mission notification? Are you trying to fool us?"


    "That''s right! I spent a gold coin. If there is no Youth Black Thorned Turtle, you have to give us a refund."


    "Refund, refund!"


    "We will rebel if you do not refund!"


    "Yes, we won''t fight the monsters and let you fail in defending the city if you don''t refund us the money..."


    "Come on? I am the invincible Chaotic City Lord, who is out there for me to be afraid of?" Li Hanqiang paid no heed to the shouting players. He quickly adjusted everyone''s positions for the city defense, with the melee players placed in the front, Dark Redemption in the middle, and the rest of the ranged players were remotely placed to the back. Quietly, he ended the rest of the preparation time for the attack, and the wormhole immediately began to rip open from a distance.


    As soon as the regional announcement was made, the fourth wave of monster attacks began, where a large group of mountain wolves appeared.


    [Mountain Wolf, Level 10, HP 900-1100. Marching speed of three meters per second. Each monster can steal 1 Chaotic Energy.]


    Finally, they were no longer pigs!


    Li Hanqiang glanced at the calf-sized mountain wolves, his heart as steady as the Mountain Tai. The Mountain Wolves could only travel at three meters per second. The Fire Tower would be his father and only the Mountain Wolves with the highest HP would be able to rush out of the Fire Tower''s range. However, this meant that those who escaped would be left with the barest amount of HP, almost paper-thin, to be harvested afterward by the Sword Towers. It would be a perfect defense of the city.


    "Let''s kill the monsters to get experience!" Li Hanqiang shouted, "Those who do not participate in the fight are a fool!"


    When the city defenders saw the Mountain Wolves appear, they forgo their argument with Li Hanqiang as they took out their weapons one after the other.


    The two idiots, Fanning and Fiery, were at the front and made the best example of themselves. They waved the swords in their hands like a windmill as they shouted...


    Li Hanqiang''s attention was on the Beast Hunter as soon as he saw the first Mountain Wolf being captured.


    The Mountain Wolves stepped on the pattern of the Beast Hunter and four small traps sprang up from the ground as they bit down on the four legs of the Mountain Wolf just like a crocodile''s mouth. A giant net appeared out of thin air, which was followed a gurgling laugh as it covered the Mountain Wolf.


    ''-30'', ''-15''...


    The damage figures accumulated and the Mountain Wolf soon disappeared. Following that, the Beast Hunter gained one point of experience.


    "One Mountain Wolf is one point of experience. Does that mean that after killing a hundred Mountain Wolves, the Beast Hunter will rise to Level 2?" Li Hanqiang was full of expectations but just continued to walk leisurely toward the Blue Ripple Pond.


    The front line was as steady as Mountain Tai and there was no need for him, as the Chaotic City Lord, to stay here. Hence, he decided to go fishing in the Blue Ripple Pond.


    As a Chaotic City Lord, he should be making plans from afar and deciding victory from a thousand miles away. With this, Li Hanqiang felt that he needed to be able to sit firmly on the fishing boat.


    He still had a Special Monster Summoning Token but had learned his lesson and was in no hurry. He planned to use it at the end of the battle.


    "Hi!"


    A sweet voice suddenly sounded. Li Hanqiang looked down to see that First-Class Star was waving at him.


    This is a Chinese proverb that originates from the Han Dynasty. The original term in Chinese is[ÎÈÈç̩ɽ] and the direct translation means that it is steady as the Mountain Tai. It also describes a person that still has a calm attitude under emergency circumstances.The original term is [Ò»¸ùÁÒÑæËþ¾ÍÊÇ°Ö°Ö]. It means that one Fire Tower would be enough to handle all the problems like a father.The original term is [ÎÈ×øµöÓą̃]. This is a Chinese idiom that means, when we face waves and wind (difficulties in life), we are still sitting firmly on the boat (confident).

 Chapter 25：The Qiankun League

    First-Class Star and Zhen Dejun were placed on the Chaotic Stone Slabs at the back by Li Hanqiang. It was obvious this time that it would be very hard for them to kill any monsters.


    Li Hanqiang had not arranged it as such deliberately. The formations of platoons were usually as such.


    "Is there anything I can help you with?" Li Hanqiang asked.


    "I heard that you provide gold coins loans here. Could you lend some to me, your little sister?" First-Class Star smiled sweetly as she twisted her body at the same time to flaunt her figure.


    Li Hanqiang frowned. How did she know about this?


    He also quickly realized that this must have been revealed by Fanning and Fiery.


    The two men were real idiots and could not hide anything within their hearts. They might have also exposed the Blue Ripple Pond to them.


    Li Hanqiang did not mind, bowing his head as he said, "Sure, you''ll need to pawn something."


    First-Class Star said, "Can I as your little sister, pawn herself here? Good brother, you would be doing me a great favor. I only need 100 gold coins to unlock my next skills. I will work hard and repay this debt in the future by reviving your HP.


    "Revive your own uncle''s HP!" Li Hanqiang''s expression changed. "You are trying to catch the white wolf empty-handed without looking at it. If you don''t have any items to pawn, don''t say anything!"


    He did not have a very good impression of First-Class Star.


    "You..." First-Class Star stomped her feet and bit her lip. "You are such a vulgar person, do you not know how to be polite or respect people?"


    "Revive your own uncle''s HP! You are still trying to catch the white wolf empty-handed without looking at it. If you really have nothing to pawn then don''t ask!" Li Hanqiang repeated his previous words with a defiant expression as if daring her to try and react.


    "Hmph!" Zhen Dejun snorted coldly. He had been looking at the Sword Tower that was not far away. At that moment, he raised his head and looked at Li Hanqiang. "If you take out 100 gold coins, you will be considered a friend of the Emperor''s Rich Guild. If you do not know how to appreciate favors..."


    First-Class Star at his side started to shout, "Everyone, stop killing the monsters. Li Hanqiang is not a good person. He lied to us to make us come here. He even took advantage of me. Everyone, stop killing the monsters. Let him fail in defending the city!"


    Li Hanqiang was amused and said, "You people have lost your mind. If we fail to defend the city, then all the players defending the city will have their levels reduced!"


    First-Class Star ignored him as she continued to shout and even squeezed out a few tears. She was indeed a first-class star with her great acting skills.


    Zhen Dejun said again, "Don''t think that just because you are a Chaotic City Lord that I have no ways to deal with you. What''s wrong with cooperating with our Emperor''s Rich Guild that you would oppose us like this? You will surely regret it."


    Li Hanqiang laughed and said, "I think you should change your name to Zhen Dechun."


    "Everyone, stop killing the monsters. This Chaotic City Lord really isn''t a good person. Let''s just let him fail in defending the city." First-Class Star continued to incite the players. She began to cry just like raindrops fell on the flowers, attracting the attention of quite a few players. Dark Redemption also looked over, engrossed in her actions.


    Li Hanqiang sighed in helplessness as he stretched out his right hand and put up three fingers, saying coldly, "I''ll kill those who mess with my army! Do you people think that I am a good-tempered person? Come, Sword Tower, get ready. Warning for incoming Sword Qi in three, two, one!"


    As soon as the countdown, Li Hanqiang changed his thoughts. With a clanging sound, the mutant tower ignited its Sword Qi and fell directly over First-Class Star. Bright red numbers of hurt immediately appeared.


    "Ah, he attacked me! He attacked me! I came to defend the city but was attacked. Does this Chaotic City Lord have any moral quality?" First-Class Star panicked, but the Sword Qi was unforgiving. Over and over, they hit her until she became a white light.


    Next to her, Zhen Dejun''s complexion turned into an iron green as he became the second target of the mutated Sword Tower. There was only a limited amount of space on the Chaotic Stone Slab for him to escape. After a few sword hits, Zhen Dejun also fell to the ground.


    Li Hanqiang smiled and continued to walk towards the Blue Ripple Pond while humming a song as if nothing had happened.


    Actually, he felt a tiny bit of pride in his heart. Look at me, aren''t I great and impressive?


    Dare to challenge the authority of the Chaotic City Lord and you will leave your life here.


    He felt a lot of stares boring holes into his back and absolutely enjoyed it. Previously, when he played adventurer jobs, he had never been so well-regarded.


    "I really have chosen the correct job!"


    Li Hanqiang walked in big steps and left. Soon, he had propped up his fishing rod as he sat firmly in the fishing boat, watching the Blue Ripple Clear Pond while he pondered the meaning of life.


    After catching three Green Carps, a message for the entire server suddenly rang.


    [Messaging Props for the Entire Server: I am Zhen Deqiang, the President of the Emperor''s Rich Guild. Li Hanqiang, the Lord of the Chaotic City No. 68, you listen to me! Although you are far away, you bullied my followers so I will definitely kill you! Don''t think that I have no way of attacking you just because you are hiding in the Chaotic City. I will destroy your Chaotic City and make you unable to continue playing this game. In addition to that, the Emperor''s Rich Guild is also recruiting experts from all over the place. If you have real abilities, you will be given high wages and benefits. For those who are interested, come to the central square of Tianfeng City.]


    Li Hanqiang could not respond in time.


    This Zhen Deqiang was really powerful to use a Messaging Props for the Entire Server to intimidate him.


    However, whether he was Zhen Dejun or Zhen Deqiang, Li Hanqiang was not afraid.


    They were only adventurer players, so what could they do to him? Could they attack his Chaotic City?


    "If he is strong, let him be strong, the breeze blows on the hills. Don''t panic and sit firmly on the fishing boat!" Li Hanqiang treated it as if he had heard a joke. His heart was not in a panic. He wanted to laugh instead.


    He was not well-known, so how well-regarded would it be?


    Due to this system announcement, Li Hanqiang''s name was indeed well-known for a short moment.


    The Messaging Props for the Entire Server was not available to everyone. They were rare and hard to come by. This first full server message was aimed at Li Hanqiang, so many players were naturally talking about it.


    "Li Hanqiang, who is this person?"


    "Lord of the Chaotic City No. 68, did he do something bad?"


    "He doesn''t seem to be a good person just by listening to his name."


    "Need to beg for the details of what he did!"


    "Be careful, you don''t want to have anything to do with this person..."


    Many discussions around Li Hanqiang were spreading around the Endless World. In Li Hanqiang''s Chaotic City, Dark Redemption, Fanning Knight, and the other players defending the city were also discussing it¡­


    At that moment, in a different Chaotic City, a tall player with straight eyebrows sighed.


    This person''s nickname was ''Chun Sanyue'' and he was the league master of the Qiankun League.


    The Qiankun League was not an online game guild but the private club of Qiankun Technology Company. Its members were all employees of the Qiankun Technology Company.


    The fixed assets of Qiankun Technology Company was 1,000,000,000 yuan. Although the name of the company was huge, it was not considered big in size or famous. Chun Sanyue was known as the ''Prince'' of the company and held the position of general manager within its headquarters. However, he never asked about the company''s management and had instead started this club. By using company funds and job convenience, he had managed to attract more than 300 followers. They studied virtual online games all day long and even had a little fame in the online gaming industry.


    Unknown to outsiders, the Qiankun League has settled into the Endless World at this time, specializing in the job of Chaotic City Lord. He, Chun Sanyue, was seen as their leader.


    Apart from that, Chun Sanyue was also best friends with Zhen Deqiang in the real world and the Qiankun League had a close relationship with the Emperor''s Rich Guild.


    ''Zhen Deqiang has actually wasted such a full server messaging prop. That was really stupid. However, this Li Hanqiang...''


    Chun Sanyue stared at the Gold Coin Challenge Leaderboard. Wasn''t the person on the top Li Hanqiang from Chaotic City No. 68?


    ''Where does this Li Hanqiang come from?''


    Although Chun Sanyue had many followers and cooperated with the Emperor''s Rich Guild, he still failed to put his name on the leaderboard in the Gold Coin Challenge and could not help but wonder what defensive compound had Li Hanqiang used in his own Chaotic City.


    The original term is [¿ÕÊÖÌ×°×ÀÇ] in Chinese. It represents the way fraudsters who don''t make any investment try to cheat others. The white wolves in the term represent a rare wolf, rare and precious. It also indicates that the ''harvest'' of the scam is great.This is because the word ''chun'' is the pinyin of the word ''stupid'' in Chinese.The original term is[Æ˽Ö]. It means that characters in games die and fall to the ground.This is a poem where the first two sentences originated from the novel ''The Heaven Sword and Dragon Saber'' by Jin Yong. The last two sentences were made up by the author to suit this context. The poem in Chinese is [ËûÇ¿ÈÎËûÇ¿,Çá·ç·÷ɽ¸Ú,²»»Å²»»Å,ÎÈ×øµöÓã´¬]. The meaning of this poem is basically to just ignore the strong person and do whatever you want.

 Chapter 26： The Strongest Monolithic Control Tower

    Li Hanqiang idled in the Blue Ripple Pond for two hours before returning to the front line.


    At that time, the Mountain Wolves were no longer appearing from the Space-Time Wormhole, though there were still dozens of them on the War Corridor. It looked like this wave of monster attacks was about to end.


    "I have been waiting for this moment!" Li Hanqiang stepped up into the air and took out the Special Monster Summoning Token to use it. He then shouted loudly, "Brothers, please take note that the BOSS is coming. Whoever manages to kill it will earn a lot."


    As soon as he finished, a giant object came out from the Space-Time Wormhole.


    [Evil Wolf with Bull Horns (BOSS), Level 10, 5000 HP, travels 5 meters per second. Able to steal 20 Chaotic Energy from the Chaos'' Core.]


    The Evil Wolf with Bull Horns sprayed white fumes from its nostrils, standing at four meters high with all four of its hooves on the ground. It had red eyes and was covered in black fur. Its claws looked like the inverted buckets of an excavator, with two long black horns on top of its wolf head. These longhorns resembled those of bulls. They were extremely sharp and nearly two meters long.


    As soon as it appeared, it made a thunderous mooing sound.


    Everyone drew in a breath.


    The BOSS really had appeared! Moreover, this Evil Wolf with Bull Horns was different from the Old Black Pig and the Steel-skinned Boar King as it was recognized as a BOSS by the system. Its attribute information clearly showed that it had 5000 HP even at Level 10.


    Fanning Fiery looked up and was speechless. They would not be able to hit the waist of the Evil Wolf with Bull Horns even if they jumped. What could they do against such a monster?


    Li Hanqiang quickly shouted. "Don''t just stand there, fight!"


    "We are unable to hit it!"


    Both Fanning and Fiery waved their hands over and over again. The Evil Wolf with Bull Horns stood in the middle of the War Corridor, never moving where they were so they could not reach it at all.


    The Evil Wolf with Bull Horns was really rude. It completely ignored the 30 points of damage per second from the Fire Tower and strode forward. It was just like a heavy tank and Li Hanqiang could almost feel the ground shaking.


    "It''s over now. Am I considered lucky or not? Why did I use the summoning token!"


    Li Hanqiang''s heart was in a passive state of panic as he predicted the outcome. Even with Dark Redemption and the others, as well as a single mutated Sword Tower, what could they do against the Evil Wolf with Bull Horns with its 5000 HP?


    Just as Li Hanqiang was feeling desperate, the Evil Wolf with Bull Horns stepped on the Beast Hunter. He saw the biting clip of a crocodile''s mouth pop out from the ground as it latched onto the first front paw of the Evil Wolf with Bull Horns, which was soon followed by giggling laughter. A large net appeared out of thin air and covered the Evil Wolf with Bull Horns. A humanoid phantom appeared to be riding on the neck of the Evil Wolf with Bull Horns, punching and kicking around on the wolf head.


    ''-30'', ''-30''...


    The damage figures immediately appeared over the Evil Wolf with Bull Horns.


    ''Ding, the Level 2 Beast Hunter has successfully captured an Evil Wolf with Bull Horns. This monster is a Level 10 BOSS and will break free from the Beast Hunter in a moment!"


    "Beast Hunter!" Li Hanqiang only felt a pleasant surprise. He looked over and saw that the Beast Hunter had already risen to Level 2 and its experience was 20/200. The information in the attribute information indicated that the injury per second had increased to 30 points!


    Under the current situation, the Beast Hunter and Fire Tower could hurt the Evil Wolf with Bull Horns together for about 60 points of damage per second.


    "One of a kind Beast Hunter, come on!" Li Hanqiang shouted, wishing that he had moved the mutant Sword Tower to the side.


    60 points of damage per second was actually quite impressive and the HP bar on the head of the Evil Wolf with Bull Horns soon dropped bit by bit. However, the BOSS took only 20 seconds to break free from the restraints of the Beast Hunter. It fiercely kicked the crocodile clip away and shattered the large net on its back as it overturned the figure sitting on its head. With a loud moo, it continued on with great strides.


    However, these 20 seconds were already enough to cause a total amount of 1200 points of damage to the Evil Wolf with Bull Horns. When the Evil Wolf with Bull Horns walked out of the Fire Tower''s attack range, it was left with only 3200 Hit Points.


    "There is a way, there is a way! The Beast Hunter is the strongest monolithic control tower out there. An Evil Wolf with Bull Horns with 3200 health points can be killed in just 40 seconds by the mutant Sword Tower, so it''ll all be alright!" Li Hanqiang felt his heartbeat stabilize and he laughed out loud, shouting from the top of his voice, "Everything is under control because of me, the Chaotic City Lord. Brothers, raise your spirit and kill this Evil Wolf with Bull Horns!"


    "Who is your brother?"


    "Don''t worm your way into being friends with us!"


    "Even if we want to hit it, we can''t reach it!"


    "Two batches..."


    The group of melee knights yelled and scolded him in their hearts as they could only stare at the Evil Wolf with Bull Horns walking in the middle of the corridor.


    Soon, the Evil Wolf with Bull Horns entered the mutated Sword Tower''s range and streaks of Sword Qi began to directly hack at it. Clang clang, clang clang! The damage numbers kept appearing on the Evil Wolf with Bull Horns''s head, all of them dealing ''-80'' per hit!


    Li Hanqiang liked this kind of defensive tower as it dealt true damage with no fluctuation, meaning it was stable and reliable. The tower also completely ignored all physical and magic resistance. If this had been a Basic Arrow Tower, it would have only done an estimate of ten damage points to the Evil Wolf with Bull Horns.


    The Evil Wolf with Bull Horns''s HP quickly fell. In that short amount of time, Dark Redemption also began to attack. His Dark Arrows were quite powerful and could deal around 15 points of damage to the Evil Wolf with Bull Horns.


    At last, the Evil Wolf with Bull Horns fell to the ground having only walked around twenty meters away from the mutated Sword Tower''s attack range.


    A treasure chest fell next to the Evil Wolf with Bull Horns, and Li Hanqiang ran over to open it with a smile. However, there was only one item inside.


    [Lucky Stone: Special item, bound. After use, it can greatly increase the chance of rare items spawning during defense reward after successfully defending Chaotic City No. 68 (this is a limited one-time effect). The item will disappear after use.]


    ''Such a powerful BOSS and it only gives me such a gem.'' Li Hanqiang was slightly dissatisfied but in retrospect, should have been content as he was lucky to be able to kill the Evil Wolf with Bull Horns.


    At that moment, the regional announcement also sounded to announce the end of the fourth wave of monster attacks. Li Hanqiang was once again evaluated to be a perfect city defender and received four Chaotic Stone Slabs and a small wallet.


    The experience gained for defending the city was also distributed as a white light shined, leveling up everyone it appeared on. Dark Redemption went up to Level 18, while Li Hanqiang also upgraded to Level 10.


    However, as soon as the city defense was over, everyone apart from Dark Redemption, Fanning Knight, and Fiery Blade Sage ran away at the first moment they could.


    "Why do you need to run?" Li Hanqiang was a little unhappy with this. He was trying to develop these players into becoming medicine dealers like Big Trader. Who would have thought that he would not have been given the chance to speak?


    Dark Redemption came over then and said, "I am withdrawing and am not accepting any city defense tasks for the time being. I have to start doing a few small events and carry out my tasks. My equipment right now is too garbage and can''t keep up. See you later!"


    "Then I''ll see you later. I shall still keep the Fireball for you. Don''t forget to bring me any exclusive Chaotic City Lord props to be exchanged for it!"


    Li Hanqiang secretly sighed. He realized in his heart that with the current level Dark Redemption was at, he would only get small amounts of experience when killing monsters attacking the city that were more than five levels below him. It was not worthwhile for him to participate in city defense tasks.


    If he was Dark Redemption, he would not continue city defense tasks. He would start venturing around, which would allow him to level up at a faster speed than the city defense tasks would.


    As Dark Redemption left, both Fanning and Fiery ran over to ask him for dividends.


    "I''m telling you, other Chaotic City Lord have issued gold coins after successfully defending the city. Compared to them, you are a bit too stingy." Fanning Knight continued, "At least give each of us one piece of gold coin to buy potions and repair our equipment."


    Fiery Blade Sage said, "If you are our brother, you will give us some gold coins."


    "If we are brothers, don''t mention gold coins." Li Hanqiang lacked enough gold coins at the moment. How would he be willing to give any to those two idiots?


    With the money-wasting passive skill, Change Tower, his gold coins were never going to be enough.


    Li Hanqiang used the same method that he had used to dupe Big Trader. Fanning Knight and Fiery Blade Sage became very much convinced after they heard the idea, thus turning around and becoming potions dealers.

 Chapter 27：The Cave Dwelling in Gremlin’s Mountain

    Li Hanqiang came near to the Chaos'' Core with the Lucky Stone in his hands.


    It was time to see how his luck was.


    He had no idea what ''keeping the good ones at the bottom of the box'' meant. If he had a good thing, he was just going to use it. He believed that with the help of the Lucky Stone this time around, the Emperor of Europe would definitely regain the throne.


    "Come on, let''s erupt!"


    Li Hanqian roared loudly while using the Lucky Stone. He then opened the treasure chest to receive his prize.


    [System notification: You have used the Lucky Stone. The chances of getting rare items the next time you receive a city defense reward will be greatly improved.]


    [System notification: Congratulations, you have successfully received the city defense reward. Your city defense reward is...the ''Cave Dwelling in Gremlin''s Mountain Construction Blueprints''. This has been evaluated as a rare item and has been automatically stored in your storage space. Congratulations to the player.]


    ''Rare items, I really am the Emperor!''


    Li Hanqiang rejoiced in his heart as he immediately opened the storage space to check.


    ¡ª


    Cave Dwelling in Gremlin''s Mountain Construction Blueprints: Special item, bound to Li Hanqiang, the Chaotic City Lord.


    Consumes 100 points of Chaotic Energy and can open up a space in the Chaotic City for the special building, the Cave Dwelling in Gremlin''s Mountain, to be built.


    ''Cave Dwelling in Gremlin''s Mountain'' has an initial size of ten miles and is considered a type of cave heaven. You can upgrade ''Cave Dwelling in Gremlin''s Mountain'' if you meet the hidden conditions.


    The player can explore the specifics on their own.


    ¡ª


    ''A Cave Dwelling in Gremlin''s Mountain with a ten-mile radius? What kind of building is this? It also requires Chaotic Energy to be built!''


    Li Hanqiang patted his head. He really wanted to travel back in time at that moment and knock down his past self with a brick for deciding to choose a random Chaotic City Lord passive skill. How much better would it have been for him if he had chosen the Awakened Ability passive skill instead.


    Of course, if Awakened Ability had been selected, there would be no more Change Tower and it was possible that he would not be able to keep it up until now, which would have been even sadder.


    Looking at the Chaotic Energy in the Small Chaotic Bottle, Li Hanqiang had only 78 Chaotic Energy left inside. Under normal circumstances, if he wished to build the Cave Dwelling in Gremlin''s Mountain, it would take a total time of 22 hours.


    Li Hanqiang felt tormented by this as his head was filled with thoughts of the Cave Dwelling in Gremlin''s Mountain.


    Although there was a development team for Endless World, they were only responsible for providing gaming ideas and transmitting documents. All elements within the game were built by the Game Creator Endless, and all subsequent game operations were also independently controlled by them. Even if the development team wanted to carry out any gaming activities, they would first need to submit a proposal plan to the Game Creator Endless and could only be carried out after an agreement had been given.


    The Game Creator Endless did not think in the same way as normal human beings. Who knew what kind of building the Cave Dwelling in Gremlin''s Mountain that was created by them would be like? The sentence that asked players to explore it themselves created an insatiable appetite within Li Hanqiang''s appetite, who was itching to know the results.


    ''22 hours! How can I endure this?''


    Li Hanqiang sighed and laid out the two new Chaotic Stone Slabs. He then went to the Blue Ripple Pond and remained idle to fish.


    Soon, two hours passed, where Li Hanqiang went offline several times and gave some attention to Gorgeous Banyue''s livestream. Feeling unbearably lonely, he decided to plan for the fifth wave of monster attacks.


    He first sent a message to Fanning Knight. [City defense, city defense. Prepare to receive the mission at the Chaos Temple!]


    It took Fanning Knight some time before he replied. [I am not free now, I am fighting against the Emperor''s Rich! Grandmother f*ckers, this group of people have eaten explosives and are killing my brothers everywhere!]


    [Well... I''ll wait for a while before opening it then. Just give me a message after your battle.]


    Li Hanqiang shook his head even though he felt that the Defensive Towers in his Chaotic City were more than enough to fight against the fifth wave of monster attacks without relying on the support of other adventurer players. As after all, the system notifications had stated that the fifth wave of monsters would only be at Level 12.


    However, he was afraid of the appearance of random monsters or events. While it initially seemed like a good idea, it still brought on risks. If another Evil Wolf with Bull Horns appeared, there was a possibility that he would not get a perfect defense of the city.


    Li Hanqiang suppressed his impulsiveness and decided to wait a while.


    At that moment, in the field practice area of Tianfeng City, one of the cities of Endless World, Zhen Dejun held a magic wand and was blasting small fireballs at Fiery Blade Sage, who laid on the ground.


    Everyone could see Fiery Blade Sage was wearing the Bright Green Turtle Shell, surrounded by dozens of people. However, he shouted with pride, "Come on, kill me. Kill me if you dare, hahaha!"


    His attributes were on public display. He was at Level 15 and his HP was ridiculously high at 4700 points, while his physical defense was up to 135 and his magic resistance was also 130!


    It was to be noted that even those with a level 15 Tank profession could only reach up to 1500 HP without any equipment. With the right equipment, a tank was considered good if its HP could reach 2500. Fiery Blade Sage was only a swordsman and had taken up a half Tank profession. This only increased his HP by 80 points with every level up, so it was sick that he actually had 4700 HP.


    Moreover, with such high physical defense and magic resistance, he had the attribute data of a BOSS!


    Zhen Dejun''s small fireball landed on Fiery Blade Sage and could only cause a pitiful amount of 3 points of damage.


    "Is it possible that this guy is wearing Legendary Equipment!"


    "I think that even if the turtle shell he is wearing was not a Legendary Equipment, it would at least be at the level of a Super Equipment!"


    "He really is a blood cow! However, it seems like he can''t move. Is that the limitation of the equipment..."


    Various voices chattered in discussion around him.


    "Pooh, those who don''t move are turtles!" Zhen Dejun''s expression was hard to look at as he shouted, "He''s really hard with the turtle shell! Everybody, let''s go together to kill this grandson and stay at his resurrection point. We will attack him until he returns to Level 0!"


    The players around him immediately responded and started to attack Fiery Blade Sage. A large number of single-digit damage figures quickly emerged from the top of Fiery Blade Sage''s head. Some had even dealt a single point of damage on Fiery Blade Sage.


    Fiery Blade Sage did not dare to move at all. He was also depressed as he had just become a potions dealer and was unable to sell any of the potion bottles that were on him. This was because he had suddenly been ambushed and could not run away. Luckily, the Bright Green Turtle Shell was very powerful and the 4700 HP was enough for this group of players from the Emperor''s Rich Guild to attack for some time.


    "Ah!"


    Suddenly a loud cry rang out. It seemed like Fanning Knight had jumped out from behind a big stone. He was holding a large sword and his body suddenly turned blurry. It was then that a ''shadow avatar'' suddenly rushed out from him and knocked Zhen Dejun until he flew out.


    "-10"


    The damage figure appeared from Zhen Dejun''s head!


    The four or five players next to Zhen Dejun were caught off guard and were also affected by the ''shadow avatar''. Staggering, they all fell back and lost 10 HP.


    "Surprise attack!"


    "What skill was that!"


    "How dare you show yourself, let''s hit this one without a turtle shell first..."


    The players of the Emperor''s Guild reacted as dozens of people rushed forward to attack Fanning Knight.


    The fan knight braved the attack for five seconds before he died.


    On the other side, Fiery Blade Sage tried to use the opportunity to escape. However, just as he moved two steps, Zhen Dejun''s small fireballs hit again, forcing him to lie still on the ground again.


    Not far away, a player on horseback was looking at the scene with a grin. His appearance was similar to Zhen Dejun but he was taller. This was the president of the Emperor''s Rich Guild, Zhen Deqiang.


    There was also a robber player next to Zhen Deqiang. This person had a pair of triangular eyes, a short bow hanging from his waist, and a dog helmet on his head. He chuckled and said, "Hmph, this Enjoy the Bustling Scene Guild is a garbage group!"


    Zhen Deqiang had the looks of a gangster. He shook his head and said, "I really don''t know where their courage came from. How dare they provoke me! Me, Zhen Deqiang, who has such a worthy reputation? Get them first and then get that Li Hanqiang!"


    He glanced at the triangle-eyed players around him and said, "Deity Robber, I''ll hand this problem for you to handle. If you want money, I''ll provide you money; if you want people, I''ll provide you people! When it comes to playing games, I just want to dominate. I just want someone to be upset. If others are upset, I will be happy!"


    The triangle-eyed player agreed. "President, rest assured! The Enjoy the Bustling Scene Guild is not worth any attention. As for how to handle the Chaotic City Lord? I have three ideas!"


    The direct translation is [everything is based on your face] from the original term [¿´Á³] in Chinese. This is a Chinese slang that means good luck comes to those who look good/ handsome/ pretty. In this context, the translator opts for luck because your appearance is based on luck too, apart from DNA.The original term in Chinese is[ѹÏäµ×]. It means to keep the good stuff at the bottom of the box and use it only when required.Chinese internet slang. Originated from internet games and meant that the kings of Europe all have fair skin and extremely good luck.The original term in Chinese is [Ѫţ]. This is a term to describe those that sell their blood in order to get money for food or emergencies. In this context, it is used to describe Fiery Blade Sage as a person that has lots of blood/ HP.

 Chapter 28：The Deity Robber

    Deity Robber had just joined the Emperor''s Rich Guild.


    He was not a high-end player and at the moment was only at level 3. The reason why he could join the Emperor''s Rich Guild and was even appointed an important position by Zhen Deqiang was because he was one of the players, like Gorgeous Banyue, who had participated in the mysterious test of the Endless World.


    This mysterious test had only appeared during the closed beta of Endless World and had a 2,000 test quota. Test players all around the world were randomly selected by Endless and issued an invitation letter. Players that were able to participate in the test were considered lucky, like striking a jackpot lottery.


    Deity Robber was a player that participated in the mysterious closed beta. Compared to other ordinary players, he naturally knew more about the game.


    Zhen Deqiang glanced at the confident Deity Robber. Immediately interested, he asked, "What are these three ideas?"


    Deity Robber said at a slow and steady pace, "The job of the Chaotic City Lord is actually quite boring. It costs gold coins to buy defensive towers and Chaotic Energy is required to obtain Stone Slabs. If there is no strong team to help defend the city or generate gold coins, he will be unable to hold up against the many waves of monster attacks on the city and will have to be idle most of the time. Li Hanqiang is now hiding in the Chaotic City and there is no way to get him at the moment. However, we can still do things to draw disgust toward him, which will make sure he is unable to continue development and leave him isolated and helpless. As for the first idea..."


    He smiled soberly and continued, "The first idea is to get a water army group to corrupt Li Hanqiang''s reputation. Wreak havoc on the Internet and make posts on various post bars and forums. In addition, we should also post small advertisements, holding up signs as we shout slogans at the entrance of the Chaos Temple. Let''s start at Tianfeng City. After some time, Li Hanqiang will be just like a mouse crossing the street as not only will no one help him to defend the city, but he will also be attacked and condemned by the masses!"


    "Such dirty tricks!" Zhen Deqiang spitted. "But I do like them. Haha, you may continue on."


    "Second idea!" The Deity Robber narrowed his eyes, "Break down Li Hanqiang''s helpers. It seems that the Enjoy the Bustling Scene Guild have been obeying him and are his helpers. I have been making inquiries around the entire server and there is also another individual called Dark Redemption, who is from a legendary profession. We have to find a way to deal with him. If we can''t do it the hard way, we will use another way. We can do things like kidnapping, playing tricks, or even threatening them. In short, we cannot allow them to help Li Hanqiang defend the city. "


    "This goes without saying that Zhen Dejun will be in-charge of that." Zhen Deqiang pointed to Zhen Dejun who was still slamming small fireballs at Fiery Blade Sage. "What is the third idea?"


    "This third idea is counterespionage!" Deity Robber was like a dog-headed military adviser. "President, please give me 30 people. I don''t need those who have high levels or good technology. In fact, I only need those that are the most garbage. The worse they are, the better..."


    "Counterespionage?" Zhen Deqiang frowned. "Why does that sound so unreliable? All this is so complicated! Fine, fine, fine, I will find these people for you and give you 100 gold coins to fund this. You can make the decisions yourself as I only need to see the results. "


    "President, be rest assured. I will definitely execute this properly."


    Deity Robber immediately started to take action.


    Just a short moment later, a large number of players were holding signs in front of the Chaos Temple in Tianfeng City, shouting the slogan ''Build a Moral Wall Together and Resist Li Hanqiang''. They made up lots of bad rumors of Li Hanqiang to make him look as terrible as they possibly could.


    First-Class Star was captain of this small team.


    The Deity Robber also got his own group of followers, a total of 30 people, which was just the right amount. They turned out to be aunties in their fifties who were newbies in the game. Whenever they were together, they only wanted to chit-chat.


    "Zhen Deqiang really is Zhen Deqiang. How did he manage to get this group of aunties for me!" Deity Robber sighed. The combat power of these aunts was absolutely disastrous. If they said that they belonged to the Emperor''s Rich Guild, would it not have looked disgraceful?


    With the group of aunties, Deity Robber did not bother training to level up as they waited at the Chaos Temple.


    At that moment, Li Hanqiang finally could not stand the loneliness.


    He once again sent a message to the Fanning Knight. [How is it? Has the battle finished yet?]


    [Don''t even mention it, I''m still stuck at the resurrection point and can''t get out. I''m even down to level 6 now... Anyway, I can''t talk anymore as Fiery Blade Sage has been caught again. That loser only knows how to lie on the ground and act like a turtle now. While my Phantom Charged can still be used to attack people, he can''t even fight back at all.]


    Fanning Knight finally stopped answering the chat.


    Li Hanqiang touched his nose, knowing that he could not count on those two idiots, Fanning and Fiery. After giving it some thought, he finally decided to start the fifth wave of monster attacks.


    This time, he made it clear in the mission notice that he did not want any melee players so there would not be another bunch of knights just standing around and doing nothing.


    As soon as the city defense mission was released, a record was sent to the mission panel in the Chaos Temples around the Endless World and was quickly discovered by Deity Robber.


    "The number of people that can be received is 14, the current number of people that have been received is 0. Great, great, great!" The Deity Robber smashed his fist. "Finally, we have successfully managed to wait for you. Come, come, come, aunties. All of you, come over here. Here is the task for you, you, and you..."


    He ordered 13 people in succession and gave each of them a gold coin. "All of you, go accept the task of defending Chaotic City No. 68. Buy your tickets and teleport over there!"


    One of the aunties was puzzled and said, "Boy, I know we got told to deal with Chaotic City No. 68 but why do we still need to accept the city defense task!"


    "You don''t need to understand, just obey my orders. Aunties who did not receive any tasks shall stand by in the Chaos Temple." After Deity Robber finished, he was the first one to purchase a teleport ticket to Chaotic City No. 68, his figure disappearing immediately.


    The other 13 aunts obeyed and immediately followed after him.


    Li Hanqiang was a little excited. It was less than five minutes since the mission had been issued and 14 rays of light fell from the sky, occupying all free Chaotic Stone Slabs.


    ''Haha, it seems that Zhen Deqiang and Chun Sanyue were stupid in thinking that no one would come to defend the city when they sent me a full server message. Look at my popularity, I already have 7 gold coins in my hands..."


    His facial expression suddenly stiffened when he looked at the players on the Chaotic Stone Slabs. Why did they all appear to be Level 1 aunties?


    He looked at all their nicknames: ''Sister Pomegranate'', ''Red Wine Rose'', ''Fragrant Grass in the Horizon'', ''Beautiful Flower Shining on the Person'', ''A Night to Remember''...


    They were all from the knight profession!


    ''A group of knights aunties, what a strange thing is this!'' Li Hanqiang felt goosebumps appear all over his entire body.


    The only player who was not an aunt was also only just at Level 3.


    ''Unless this is an abnormality, there must be something wrong! Who is trying to f*ck with me?'' Li Hanqiang immediately understood something was wrong and his facial expression hardened.


    At the moment, Deity Robber was secretly pleased as he glanced at Li Hanqiang and silently said, "Hey, hey, let us fill up all your Chaotic Stone Slabs so that other adventurer players will not have an opportunity to accept the city defense mission. We''ll make you a target of disgust right from the start and get something big from you in the future!"


    During this time, Li Hanqiang walked in front of Deity Robber and asked while frowning, "Brother, are all of you here to defend the city?"


    "Of course!" Deity Robber said, feeling the depression in Li Hanqiang''s heart. ''Is it because Dark Redemption was not able to come over? Is there a big shadow in your heart? Look at this lineup, will you be able to survive this wave of monster attacks?''


    Water army comes from the Chinese term[Ë®¾ü]. It is a group of internet ghostwriters paid to post online comments with particular content.Mice that crosses the street comes from the Chinese term [ÀÏÊó¹ý½Ö], it means things or people that harm others.The term originates from the Chinese term [¹·Í·¾üʦ], it means people that like to provide ideas but the ideas were not brilliant.

 Chapter 29：A Group of Aunties

    With a dark face, Li Hanqiang bit on the back of his gums and continued to question Deity Robber, "What is your occupation? Are you ranged or melee? What skills do you have?"


    The Deity Robber patted his chest. "I am a thief so I have only latent skills and am a melee player! Why?"


    "Why? Please why your uncle. My mission notice clearly stated that I only wanted ranged players!" Li Hanqiang shouted. At that moment, he wanted nothing more than to take control of the defensive towers to send the small thief and the group of aunties in front of him back to where they came from in seconds.


    "I didn''t see the notice information clearly." Deity Robber was calm and composed. What could you, Li Hanqiang, the invincible Chaotic City Lord actually do? Kill me in an instant with your defensive towers? Even if you killed me this instant, the system settings were already settled and would not allow other players to come and support you!


    "That''s fine!" Li Hanqiang sighed as he walked through the air until he was at the center. He glanced at the aunties and shouted, "Everyone, please pay attention, I am now ending the preparation time for the battle and the monsters that are going to attack the city will immediately appear after that. Fight as many as you can. Apart from that, this is a reminder for all of you that there is a Mysterious Shop on one of the Chaotic Stone Slabs. You can purchase potions there and even repair your equipment, so please spend the money if you need to!"


    "Mysterious Shop? What is that?" The Deity Robber frowned. He had not heard of this kind of building during the closed beta. He turned his head and saw the characters ''Mysterious Shop'' floating around the corner of the Chaotic Stone Slab behind him. Focusing a bit of his attention, the product window popped up.


    ''This must be a rare building.'' The Deity Robber could not help but study it.


    At that second, the monsters that would be attacking the city also appeared from the Space-Time Wormhole. They were a group of Level 12 Mountain Ridge Wolves with 1000 to 1400 HP and could travel at a speed of 3 meters per second.


    Li Hanqiang silently calculated his odds and felt that there would not be much strain on the defensive side. However, he was still looking forward to upgrading the Beast Hunter.


    It would only get 1 experience point per monster killed and was currently at Level 2. Its experience bar was now 20/200 and could probably rise another one to two levels in this wave of monster attacks. This depended on its success rate in capturing the Mountain Ridge Wolves.


    However, the group of aunties themselves were hard to look at. This made Li Hanqiang feel awkward, quelling him of the desire to sit firmly in his fishing boat.


    Deity Robber had secretly given instructions to the group of aunties that no one was allowed to attack. He saw the Fire Tower and was suddenly enlightened.


    ''That''s a second level Fire Tower, no wonder Li Hanqiang has been smoothly managing himself. He managed to get the Deity Tower in the Preliminary Stage!'' As he nodded secretly to himself, his eyes glanced around again and frowned as he saw the distant Sword Tower.


    He did not recognize it, but its extraordinary shape told him that it was no ordinary defensive tower.


    He looked at the Beast Hunter again, and his brain was filled with questions.


    ''What is this? What did Li Hanqiang do? Not only does he have a second level tower, but there are so many other strange things in the Chaotic City. Has he been cheating?" Deity Robber could not seem to comprehend this.


    Li Hanqiang clearly saw Deity Robber''s expression as he stood in mid-air and said in secret, ''This cowardly person has no interest in fighting the monsters. They''ve just recruited a bunch of aunties to agitate me! They have so much f*cking money to burn!''


    Snorting, he stepped over, above the heads of the aunties, and shouted, "Aunties, why don''t you fight monsters? You can get more experience by fighting the monster and use it to level up."


    "Boy!"


    The aunt with the nickname Sister Pomegranate waved her hand at Li Hanqiang, "We don''t need you to tell us this. When I started playing online games, you hadn''t even been born yet. However, we are all old now so we just don''t have that kind of spirit to play anymore. We play online games to just admire the scenery, chat about things, and make some extra money along the way."


    "Isn''t that true? Years ago, we used to have a lot of fun in online games!" The aunt Red Wine Rose began to reminisce. "But at that time, technology was not as advanced and online games were not made as well as they are now."


    "It''s boring to just stand here like this. Sisters, let''s carry out some activities to move our bodies. Let''s dance the public square dance or something." Fragrant Grass in the Horizon shouted at Li Hanqiang, "Boy, can you play some music in your Chaotic City? Play the song ''The Hottest Ethnic Trend''! There is no music to be heard. Without any music, what kind of power do you actually have as a Chaotic City Lord!"


    Hearing her words, Li Hanqiang had almost planted them while in mid-air. He had been playing virtual online games for more than ten years and this was the first time he had ever encountered such a thing.


    Seeing that the group of aunties actually start dancing the public square dance, Li Hanqiang could not help but roar out, "Aunties, why don''t you just go offline to dance and chat? There are monsters attacking my city. If you are not here to defend the city, then please don''t come here."


    "Young man!" The group of aunties looked at Li Hanqiang as Sister Pomegranate spoke, "Doing that is different. This gives us 80 yuan a day. It''s not easy to get by so we are here to earn a little money to support our family."


    When he heard this, Li Hanqiang understood that the group of aunties were hired and being paid 80 yuan a day!


    ''Who is so f*cking strong? I would understand if you had hired a master to kill me, but instead, they hired a group of aunties to piss me off!" Li Hanqiang first thought of the Emperor''s Rich Guild at that moment. After all, the only feuds he had since entering the game were with First Class Star and Zhen Dejun.


    ''This cowardly person wearing the dog helmet is probably leading this group of aunties." Li Hanqiang endured the idea of killing Deity Robber with the ''tower kill'' as he stepped into mid-air again and shouted, "Everybody, please listen well. It is said that we meet because we are fated to. In order to increase the enthusiasm of everyone defending the city, I as Chaotic City Lord have decided to provide everyone with an extra benefit. As long as someone buys potions from the Mysterious Shop, the city owner will subsidize their gold coins. No matter how much you buy, I will guarantee you a 10% discount compared to the original system pricing. When you buy the potion, you can cash it out on the spot. I will not go back on my own words so everyone, please kill the monsters."


    All the aunties heard his words and immediately started whispering.


    Deity Robber smirked and thought in his heart, even if you, Li Hanqiang, start to issue potions, these aunties will not start killing the monsters. With only a 10% discount on potion prices, who would actually care?


    However, the aunties were more flexible than Deity Robber thought they would be. Sister Pomegranate directly yelled out, "10% off the set system pricing! Is this real or fake? If I change my hands to buy them, I can still make money!"


    Li Hanqiang nodded, "This is the benefit that I am giving out to everyone. I will be personally compensating for it so that everyone can earn some money. Please just help me to defend the city."


    "You aren''t lying?" Deity Robber looked up and asked, as if he had woken up from a dream.


    "If I lie, I am a dog!" Li Hanqiang said decisively, "The words that I have said are like spilled water and will never be recovered!"


    "Then come over!" Deity Robber waved to Li Hanqiang. "Let''s try trading."


    "Of course I will!" Li Hanqiang laughed and walked in front of Deity Robber.


    The Deity Robber was also very smart. He first bought a bottle of low-level Life Potion and Li Hanqiang directly subsidized him 3 silver coins.


    He then bought ten bottles. Li Hanqiang gave him 30 silver coins without hesitation.


    He bought another 100 bottles and Li Hanqiang directly traded him 3 gold coins without blinking.


    The Deity Robber had taken 100 gold coins from Zhen Deqiang and bought 15 tickets for all the aunties. He still has 85 gold coins left in his hands!


    Little by little, he used the 85 gold coins on the low-level potions and Li Hanqiang actually cashed in the subsidy. After calculating, a subsidy of more than 21 gold coins was made!


    ''Is this Li Hanqiang a fool?'' The Deity Robber felt that he had found a way to make money. If he resold the batch of medicines in his storage space, he would be able to earn another 10 gold coins!


    As for reselling, it would be easy as there were still 30 free aunties!


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 Chapter 30： Earn Some Extra Income Conveniently

    Deity Robber began to ponder secretly.


    In Endless World, gold coins were easy to earn. There were many small daily tasks in big regional cities. Players did not need to be very capable as they just needed to spend some time running around to earn an easy one or two gold coins. However, the game was at the beginning stages of its open beta, meaning that gold coins were still a scarce resource. If one took a walk around the big regional city, they would just be surrounded by players that were going around to collect gold coins.


    However, there were not many people who actually sold gold coins.


    Looking at the current market price, it would not be an exaggeration to say a single gold coin would be worth two or three hundred yuan.


    Of course, this sort of pricing would be fruitless in the future.


    ''From this stupid Chaotic City Lord, I can earn two or three thousand net in just a moment!''


    Deity Robber was wavered by this idea. It was for the sake of money that he had joined the Emperor''s Rich Guild in the first place. He worked for Zhen Deqiang because Zhen Deqiang was paying him a salary.


    And now, it seemed like there was a way for him to earn some extra money. Wouldn''t he look like an idiot if he did not take it?


    Hey, hey, hey...''


    Deity Robber could not stop his happiness from showing.


    Li Hanqiang left with a dark expression on his face. He stood midway in the air and looked around. The monster attack continued as the Mountain Ridge Wolves advanced dauntlessly in waves. The mutated Sword Tower released its Sword Qi with a clanging sound.


    However, the aunties were all very calm as they danced the public square dance in front of the pack of wolves. Some of them were singing to ''Times are Progressing'' while the others hummed ''It''s So High''...


    "What the hell is this?" Li Hanqiang shouted at the auntie nicknamed ''Sister Pomegranate''. "I really can''t figure this out. In real life, dancing the public square dance can help you to exercise your body but what use would it be for you to dance it here?"


    "You don''t understand, young man!" Sister Pomegranate glanced at Li Hanqiang. "We are not just dancing, we are dancing to the atmosphere."


    "Atmosphere? This is a really special atmosphere then!" Li Hanqiang felt in his heart that the atmosphere of the city defense was really unique.


    He sighed helplessly. While he could ''tower kill'' the group of aunties, he was still unable to do it. After all, they all still had very nice attitudes, so he could only fantasize and pretend to himself that this was a group of beautiful girls having a live karaoke session.


    In this ''happy'' atmosphere brought on by the group of aunties, the fifth wave of monster attacks gradually came to an end.


    It lasted two and a half hours, with Li Hanqiang having to rely on the Fire Tower, the Beast Hunter, and the mutated Sword Tower to reach a perfect city defense without any other dangers faced. He also managed to go up to Level 12.


    Although the aunties had not done anything, they still managed to get a lot of experience and everyone actually jumped up by 4 levels. Even Deity Robber had gotten another 3 levels.


    The Beast Hunter successfully rose to Level 3, with its experience bar at 20/300 as its rate of injury per second increased to 45.


    "Oh!" Sister Pomegranate began to sigh again. "If I had to comment, the current online game is good but far too simple. When we were young, it was so hard to upgrade."


    "I know right!" Red Wine Rose looked and beckoned at Li Hanqiang. "Young boy, let me tell you. Back in our times, whenever there was a more popular online game and the server had just opened, we would have to fight for even one small monster. We could see people carrying out PK all around that even when we were fighting a wild BOSS, we were afraid of being secretly attacked. It was very difficult to level up. Nowadays, we just need to dance and chat for the whole day without fighting and we can still get 3 levels!"


    When Li Hanqiang heard this, he called out in his heart for someone to hear him and thought, auntie, oh auntie, do you not have any idea how you actually leveled up?


    He sighed and said, "Dear aunties, the monster attack is over now so you should also exit. You should go offline and get some good rest."


    Sister Pomegranate, Red Wine Rose, and the other aunties looked at Deity Robber. He did not bother to hide as he waved his arms, smiling as he shouted, "Retreat team, retreat. Let''s all teleport back to the Chaos Temple as there is now a new mission!"


    Li Hanqiang bit the back of his teeth and internally felt that this cowardly person was really brazen to admit his identity out in the open.


    Deity Robber gave Li Hanqiang a wave and said, "We will meet later!"


    After he spoke, he was transported back. All the aunties also exited as they waved farewell to Li Hanqiang.


    When Deity Robber returned to the Chaos Temple, he immediately laughed out loudly. He then re-convened the group of aunties and said, "There is a new task for all of you. Come, come and take these potions from me. Your task is to go to the training zone in the city outskirts and sell these potions. Just follow the pricing of the system store and come back to me when you have successfully sold them all and hand me all the gold coins. Don''t think about keeping the money to yourself and remember that you are all being paid salaries. Don''t try to earn a little just to lose a lot. If you sell the potions quickly, I will pay all of you an extra salary!"


    After he finished his lecture and distributed the potions, the aunties went on their way.


    Soon, the aunties filled the leveling zones of Tianfeng City as they began to promote their various potions for sale.


    "Young man, come here, come here. Let me show you something good. Here are some potions to be used for healing."


    "Young girl, your HP seems to be running low. Come over and buy some potions."


    "You won''t lose anything by buying this potion as its price is the same as the system store and will save you the time needed to run back and buy them in the main city. Would you like to buy ten bottles?"


    These aunties have no intention of leveling up. They had entered the game for two reasons: leisure purposes and for money. If they were asked to kill monsters or carry out missions, it would definitely not work. However, they managed to successfully complete the job of selling potions.


    After half an hour, all the aunties had completed the task and Deity Robber was stunned to receive the gold coins after they had returned.


    ''You guys have sold out so quickly?''


    He did a rough calculation and noticed that he had made a net income of around two or three thousand yuan in just half an hour. After giving it some thought, he realized the reason for it.


    There were many players who were training to level up at that moment, so there was a large demand for potions. As they delivered the potions directly to them at the exact same price in the system store, only a fool would actually return to the city to buy potions.


    ''Haha, at this rate, I will be rich very soon!''


    Deity Robber was very happy but then immediately frowned.


    Adventurer players could learn Alchemy, Metallurgy, Foraging and other skills after reaching Level 20. By then, they would be able to make their own potions and it was inevitable that a group of full-time life players specializing in producing and selling potions would form. With that, the price of the low-level potions would drop substantially and selling potions this way would become unviable.


    In addition, Deity Robber did not know the actual functions of the Mysterious Shop. He deduced from his own understanding that Li Hanqiang was using gold coins to gain popularity. If he sold potions from Li Hanqiang''s Chaotic City, it was like killing two birds with one stone for him. He could squeeze out Li Hanqiang''s gold coins while earning some extra cash.


    But when Li Hanqiang had no more gold coins, he would not be able to make any more extra cash.


    ''Time is money and I don''t have that many days to continue making money like this. I can''t make that much off it too. I have to hurry up.''


    Deity Robber thought about it and quickly ordered the group of aunties to be on standby. He then immediately purchased and activated a teleport ticket to Chaotic City No. 68.


    [Ding, the Lord of the Chaotic City No.68, Li Hanqiang, has allowed your teleportation request!]


    After the system notification, Deity Robber went to Li Hanqiang''s Chaotic City and immediately saw a fat man crouching on a Chaotic Stone Slab not far away from him.


    That fat man was no other than Big Trader.


    Big Trader had waited for a long time to replenish his stock. The moment Li Hanqiang finished defending the city, he had teleport himself over.


    Li Hanqiang was standing next to Big Trader at that moment, giving him his ''subsidy'' with a smile.


    ''What is this situation? Are there other competitors?'' Deity Robber was a little anxious and quickly shouted to Li Hanqiang, "Brother Qiang, I''m here again. Brother Qiang, will I get any subsidy for purchasing potions?"


    "It''s you? You didn''t bring any of the aunties this time?" Li Hanqiang glanced at Deity Robber. "Go to the side if you wish to purchase potions and I will calculate the subsidy for you later. Don''t buy too much as I don''t have a lot of gold coins with me right now."


    "Brother Qiang is righteous, Brother Qiang is powerful! Don''t worry, I won''t buy much!" Deity Robber smiled and thought in his heart, if I do not buy you out until you reach bankruptcy today, I am a fool!


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 Chapter 31：You Have Fallen Out of The Leaderboard

    Li Hanqiang went near Deity Robber after sending Big Trader away, playing around with him with a relaxed face.


    Deity Robber was very careful. He only bought a dozen potion bottles each time and asked Li Hanqiang for his subsidy. After receiving the subsidy, he continued to make his purchases.


    He was afraid that Li Hanqiang was waiting to con him.


    However, Li Hanqiang looked relaxed and readily paid the subsidy with an enthusiastic attitude each and every time.


    "This guy must have a team and has bought a lot of gold coins." Deity Robber secretly speculated as he bought more than 90 gold coins worth of potions. Li Hanqiang had subsidized him more than 22 gold coins and with the look on his face, there seemed to be a lot more on him.


    "Brother Qiang, you are really righteous. I will follow you after this and will definitely fight against the monsters in the next city defense mission. I am going to sell the medicine first so I''ll see you later!" Deity Robber patted at his chest and was teleported away the blink of an eye.


    Li Hanqiang rolled his eyelids as he turned walked towards the Chaos'' Core.


    He received his city defense reward and another [Rapid Development Small Loot Box].


    ''Why doesn''t a big loot box arrive?''


    Li Hanqiang shook his head. He did not dare to start the sixth wave of monster attacks at that moment and went to go fishing at the Blue Ripple Pond.


    "Let''s get another Small Chaotic Bottle! I would like to build the Cave Dwelling in Goblin''s Mountain!"


    Li Hanqiang could not help but continue thinking about the Cave Dwelling in Goblin''s Mountain in his heart. It was a special building with a ten-mile radius in size. It seemed absolutely extraordinary, so what attributes would it possess?


    He did not expect Deity Robber to teleport over again just as he had caught two Green Carps.


    "Brother Qiang, Brother Qian, I am here to buy medicine again!"


    There were thirty aunties under him so Deity Robber sold through the potions much faster than Big Trader.


    "Buy, buy, you can buy whatever you want!" Li Hanqiang put on a heroic face. Every time Deity Robber came over, he had to pay him 50 silver coins.


    Following that, Deity Robber would come in thirty minutes intervals and this lasted at least ten times. Apart from that, Big Trader also came over another three times himself, causing Li Hanqiang to be unable to focus on fishing and only catching useless fish...


    "Brother Qiang, Brother Qiang!"


    Once again, Deity Robber teleported over with a smile on his face.


    Li Hanqiang felt helpless and said, "Brother, you have such good stamina. Are you now a professional potions dealer? You are coming a little too diligently."


    "I want to buy another round again! Another!" Deity Robber smiled with him. He was now energetic. By reselling the potions, he had doubled his capital and made an equivalent of two or three thousand yuan!


    For the first time in his life, he felt that it was easy to make money. Why would he let this chance given by the gods to go to waste?


    He was now ambitious and wanted to occupy the entire potion market of Tianfeng City.


    Li Hanqiang understood Deity Robber''s thoughts with one glance. He knew that he made a lot of money and he could not help but be a bit jealous. He said, "I can''t take it anymore if you continue to buy like this. I have to reduce the subsidy."


    Deity Robber quickly said, "Please don''t!"


    However, Deity Robber smiled in his heart. Could he not bear it anymore? Did he not have any more gold coins? This was the result that he needed.


    Li Hanqiang shook his head. "It must still be discounted. How about this, from now on, I will only give you a 22% subsidy. If you spend 100 gold coins, I will give you 22 back as a subsidy. You can choose whether to buy more or not."


    Deity Robber immediately made the mental calculations. The price of the potions in the Mysterious Shop was 120% the price of the potions in the system store. Even if Li Hanqiang only gave him a 22% subsidy, he would still be able to make a profit, just at slightly less.


    "Sure, Brother Qiang. Let''s continue ..."


    With that, Deity Robber happily continued running back and forth until the thirty aunties could not stand it anymore and chose to go offline. It was then that he finally ended his journey for the day.


    He had not gone offline for more than ten hours in a row but Deity Robber did not feel even the slightest bit of hunger and fatigue at all. He counted the gold coins in his storage space. There were 260 pieces!


    ''I''ve made a big profit!''


    Deity Robber was full of excitement as he shrank his head and left the Chaos Temple. Walking around the city, he finally caught a player who was buying gold coins and sold him 160 pieces of them.


    The player who collected the gold coins was a local tyrant. He went offline and transferred a total of 40,000 yuan to Deity Robber''s bank card!


    40,000 yuan! Deity Robber''s mind felt hazy at that moment. He had earned 40,000 yuan in ten hours or more. The business was booming.


    He was a wild player who was not a professional, his skills were just average that no guild or club would be willing to have him. In the past, he could only mingle in places like the goldsmith studio, so there was no guarantee of income. He considered it lucky if he could get around four to five thousand yuan a month.


    The time [Endless World] had opened, he was considered lucky to have followed Zhen Deqiang.


    At that moment, 40,000 yuan was just in his hands and it felt just like a dream.


    When he remembered the sadness of his past, Deity Robber could not help but cry out.


    ''When I eat instant noodles tonight, I''ll add two ham sausages! Bah, bah, bah, what noodles should I eat? I am going to have hamburgers and fried chicken tonight!'' As Deity Robber thought about this, he suddenly felt unbearably hungry and went offline.


    Li Hanqiang''s place was finally quiet.


    The potion sales by Deity Robber and Big Trader had also brought him nearly 200 gold coins in income.


    In addition to the 15 gold coins from the small purse and selling all his unneeded fishes, another 20 bound gold coins were provided by the Rapid Development Small Loot Box. There were also the bound gold coins produced by the Chaotic Treasury and so on, which meant that Li Hanqiang had a total of 262 gold coins and 45 silver coins.


    He was a little confused about what to do then. Should he save up to 1000 gold coins to upgrade the Chaos'' Core or buy another defensive tower to enhance his defensive strength?


    After the trouble caused by Deity Robber, together with the thoughts of Fanning Knight being held down by the Emperor''s Rich Guild. Li Hanqiang strongly felt that it would be unreliable for him to rely on the adventurer players to defend the city as they were far too passive.


    It was because he owned the Fire Tower, the Beast Hunter, and the Mutated Sword Tower that he had managed himself just fine during the last wave. If he only put his expectations on ordinary people when the group of knight aunties had occupied the Chaotic Stone Slabs, he would have definitely suffered a big loss.


    Li Hanqiang did not want to rely too much on the adventurer players to defend the city as he now had the idea that strong Defensive Towers were truly the strong ones within this game. As a Chaotic City Lord, you have to build Defensive Towers. Those who rely on adventurer players to defend the city were considered second-rate Chaotic City Lords.


    There were many benefits to upgrading the Chaos'' Core but 1000 gold coins were not a small amount. Li Hanqiang felt that at this stage, all resources should be used in the construction of defensive towers. He needed to aim for waves of higher leveled monsters attacks on the city and get the city defense rewards as soon as possible.


    After giving it some thought, Li Hanqiang felt enlightened. Even if he did actually have 1000 gold coins with him now, he would definitely not be using them to upgrade the Chaos'' Core, preferring to buy another ten Basic Arrow Towers to play with.


    Of course, Li Hanqiang both loved and hated his passive skill, Change Tower. It was far too luck-based and not at all stable. One unlucky attempt and he would lose all his money.


    [Ding, you can now open a new wave for the Gold Coin Challenge!]


    The system notification rang and Li Hanqiang laughed. He thought in his heart that finally, it was time for him to perform again.


    He kept his fishing rod and looked at the Fish Basket. It was still filled with useless fishes.


    ''Why should I still be fishing. I should just open the Gold Coin Challenge. The Beast Hunter has been upgraded and I can definitely set a new record.''


    Li Hanqiang left the Blue Ripple Pond with anticipation but before he could reach the Limitless Tower, he received several system notifications in succession.


    [Your ranking on the Gold Coin Challenge Leaderboard has dropped by one and you are now ranked in second place.]


    [System Notification: Your ranking on the Gold Coin Challenge Leaderboard has dropped by one and you are currently ranked at third!]


    [System Notification: Your ranking on the Gold Coin Challenge Leaderboard has dropped by one...]


    [System Notification: You have fallen out of the Gold Coin Challenge Leaderboard, please continue to make unremitting efforts!]


    ''What''s happening?'' Li Hanqiang was stunned. He stood thinking at the same spot for a few minutes before he patted his head and said, ''Someone has been carrying out online transactions!''

 Chapter 32： The Gremlin People of The Lord of The City

    How could Li Hanqiang not have figured it out?


    The construction blueprints in the Defensive Tower Shop were directly bound to the player after purchase and could not be traded, but the same did not apply to gold coins.


    There must be a local Chaotic City Lord tyrant who was collecting gold coins from the adventurer players to buy and build lots of defensive towers. Only then would it be possible for them to surpass him on the Gold Coin Leaderboard.


    If rich men like Emperor Tianhe were Chaotic City Lords, they would definitely be buying lots of gold coins. This was not only to upgrade Defensive Towers but could also be used to upgrade the Chaos'' Core.


    At the same time, there would also be a large number of men to help in defending the city.


    Li Hanqiang reached the Limitless Tower and took a look at the Gold Coin Leaderboard. Nine of them were anonymous, and the only one who revealed their name was in third place.


    [Lord of Chaotic City No. 69, Chaotic City Lord Chun Sanyue, a single income of 45 gold!]


    ''Chaotic City No. 69? He was one number after mine so why should he grab the limelight?'' Li Hanqiang felt particularly uncomfortable and secretly wondered why Chun Sanyue had decided not to be anonymous.


    Despite his discomfort, Li Hanqiang still started the Gold Coin Challenge.


    While he wanted to buy two more Basic Arrow Towers to enhance his defensive firepower before starting, he felt in the moment that he was not in a rush to do so.


    Before starting the Gold Coin Challenge, Li Hanqiang used the Small Chaotic Bottle to extract Chaotic Energy from the Chaos'' Core, leaving just a little left.


    The Small Chaotic Bottle was definitely a very useful prop.


    It did not take long for the Gold Coin Challenge to end. Compared to the first Gold Coin Challenge, he now had a Level 3 Beast Hunter and managed to kill six more Gold Cavalry, which increased his income by 30 silver coins. However, it was obvious that he would not end up in the leaderboard with these results.


    Li Hanqiang had also managed to confirm another thing. The Beast Hunter could only catch beasts and did not have any effect on the Golden Infantry. The only reason it could capture the Golden Cavalry was because they rode Golden Horses.


    ''Fortunately, there are still the restrictions of having to build on Chaotic Stone Slabs. They can''t build towers indefinitely even if they have huge amounts of gold coins. Besides that, the first-level Defensive Towers have limited power and are not exactly stronger than high-level adventurer players. Hence, those who build first-level defensive towers are newbies and won''t be well-off in the long run... I will kill my way to be back to this Gold Coin Challenge Leaderboard sooner or later!''


    Li Hanqiang said this with fervent ferociousness and went idle again.


    He was also slightly curious about the current situation of the two idiots, Fanning and Fiery. He glanced at his friend''s list and saw that they were both offline. He concluded that they must have been crushed by the Emperor''s Rich Guild or those two idiots would have definitely come over to fish in idle mode.


    Li Hanqiang wanted to help them. After all, they all shared a common enemy at the moment. However, while he had the intention, he did not currently have the means to do so.


    He set up his pole and fished...


    The night was quiet and Li Hanqiang''s luck seemed to have recovered. After half an hour, a system notification came.


    [Congratulations to the player, you have caught a Small Chaotic Bottle x1]


    ''Small Chaotic Bottle! It has finally appeared!''


    Li Hanqiang threw the fishing rod aside, taking out the Small Chaotic Bottle as he ran out of the Blue Ripple Pond.


    After filling the Chaos'' Core full of Chaotic Energy, he impatiently ran behind the Chaotic City and opened the Cave Dwelling in Gremlin''s Mountain Construction Blueprint. Just like the construction of the Blue Ripple Pond, a slate road was quickly paved and stretched out for 100 meters in length. There was a small Space-Time Wormhole at the end, bearing the characters of ''Cave Dwelling in Gremlin''s Mountain''.


    With infinite curiosity, Li Hanqiang stepped into the ''Cave Dwelling in Gremlin''s Mountain''. He first saw a verdant green mountain. The mountain itself was not steep, and the forest around it was dense, making for a picturesque sight.


    Looking around, there was a stone tablet beside him with the words ''Cave Dwelling in Gremlin''s Mountain'' written on it. There was also a winding path in front of him leading directly to the top of the mountain.


    At that moment, the detailed attribute information of the Cave Dwelling in Gremlin''s Mountain also appeared.


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    Cave Dwelling in Gremlin''s Mountain Level 1: Special building belonging to Chaotic City No. 68.


    Size: ten-mile perimeter


    Category: Paradise, citizens'' accommodation


    Function: Consumes one Chaotic Energy to recruit a little Gremlin


    Types of little Gremlin: Will randomly recruit Red Gremlins and Green Gremlins


    Features of little Gremlins: The little gremlins are versatile and have many life skills. They are especially good at housekeeping and warding. However, the little gremlins are secretly very mischievous so their work efficiency is completely unpredictable.


    Little gremlin level: 1


    Current population of little gremlins: 0/100


    Ore reserves: 0


    Timber reserves: 0


    Herbal reserves: 0


    Technology unlocked: None


    Equipment: Gremlin Mountain Mine x1, Gremlin Mountain Workshop x1, Gremlin Mountain Lumber Yard x1, Gremlin Mountain Medicine Garden x1, Gremlin Mountain Farm x1, Raid Passage x1


    Description: You can upgrade the Cave Dwelling in Gremlin''s Mountain. Players can explore the specific upgrade conditions that are needed.


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    Although Li Hanqiang could not fully comprehend the attribute information of the Cave Dwelling in Gremlin''s Mountain at that moment, it seemed to be very strong.


    He floated up and walked toward the top of the mountain. He soon found a stone cave with a stone gate in front of it. There was a stone tablet in front of it with the words ''Mountain Top Cave Dwelling''.


    [System notification: This is the turf of the little gremlins. Try to recruit a little gremlin, it will serve you loyally.]


    Li Hanqiang immediately understood what to do after hearing the system notification. He slapped his thigh and said to himself ''Isn''t this just like raising an army? Can I as the Chaotic City Lord finally recruit soldiers and buy horses?''


    Without hesitation, he spent one point of Chaotic Energy and heard the system notification.


    [Congratulations on your successful recruitment of a Green Gremlin]


    Immediately after that, the stone gate of the stone cave opened, and out came a little gremlin with green hair on its head. The little gremlin was only 1.2 to 1.3 meters tall, with ears like a leopard and a dog-like nose. It had a full head of green hair and wore a close-fitting upper garment  and shorts. Its feet were bare and its arms were visible. It definitely had the appearance of a gremlin. The gremlin did a somersault as it came in front of Li Hanqiang, bowing as it shouted, "All hail the King!"


    Li Hanqiang was stunned for a moment and his heart was full of admiration for the Game Creator, Endless. He was a Chaotic City Lord and after he had come to this gremlin cave, he had finally became a ''King''!


    He decided to take a look at the attributes of the Green Gremlin.


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    Name: Green Gremlin


    Occupation: Citizen


    Level: 1


    Hit Points: 30


    Skills: None


    Attack Distance: Melee


    Physical Attack Power: less than 1


    Description: The Green Gremlin is the most common little gremlin and can engage in various production activities. It has a malleable personality. After arduous training, it can be transformed into a Little Drill Gremlin. Upgrade the Cave Dwelling in Gremlin''s Mountain or develop the Gremlin Mountain Technology to upgrade the level of the Green Gremlin.


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    When he heard the name ''gremlin'', Li Hanqiang thought that they were refined beasts. Their levels should have been higher than that of a beast, but apparently Endless had set the gremlins to be just like any other race of elves and gnomes. They were considered their own race!


    As he looked at the attributes of the Green Gremlin, he saw that it only had 30HP, and what did it mean by a less than 1 physical attack power? This was worse than Little Black Pigs but Li Hanqiang was still excited. The little gremlin had a profession and it was written clearly. It was a citizen!


    What were citizens for? To create the foundation of construction and development!


    How could Li Hanqiang not be excited?


    After it paid respect to the ''King'', the Green Gremlin started to do somersaults at the side, playing by himself. It really did seem very mischievous.


    Li Hanqiang found this very interesting. He beckoned the Green Gremlin to come to him and asked, "What can you do?"


    "Your Majesty!" The Green Gremlin arched and said, "I can do anything, guard the house, collect ore, clear the wild area for cultivation, plant herbs, break into and raid a house¡­ I am good at everything!"


    "What a f*cking boast!" Li Hanqiang pouted, feeling like it was still very unreliable. He asked the Green Gremlin, "Do you know how to fish?"


    Chinese idiom[ÕбøÂòÂí], means to raise an army.Chinese style upper garment. [С¹Ó] in Chinese.

 Chapter 33：The Small Gremlin Knows How to Fish

    Li Hanqiang had just asked the question casually, not expecting the Green Gremlin to nod and arch his hand: "Yes, just give me a fishing rod!"


    "Huh?" Li Hanqiang was stunned. Could this really work?


    An idea suddenly came to his mind and he quickly led the Green Gremlin out of the Dwelling Cave in Gremlin''s Mountain and to the Blue Ripple Pond. He pointed to a pavilion and said to it, "Go, go fish!"


    The Green Gremlin somersaulted forward. When it reached the pavilion, it swung the fishing rod around and really started to fish.


    Li Hanqiang stared in amazement. After some time, the Green Gremlin kept the fishing rod. It had actually caught a Green Carp!


    "F*cking awesome, he has actually succeeded!"


    Li Hanqiang could not help but shout out. He felt as if he had discovered a new land. The little gremlin could fish, so would that not help him to ''fly''?


    After instructing the Green Gremlin in front of him to continue fishing where he stood, Li Hanqiang used the Small Chaotic Bottle to inject Chaotic Energy into the Chaos'' Core. He then quickly ran back to the Dwelling Cave in Gremlin''s Mountain and used 50 Chaotic Energy to recruit another 50 little gremlins. Among them, there were 25 Green Gremlins and 25 Red Gremlins.


    The Red Gremlins and Green Gremlins were ordinary little gremlins that could be randomly recruited. They looked very similar, with their only difference being that Green Gremlins had a full head of green hair while Red Gremlins had red hair. Besides that, the Green Gremlins could be transformed into ''Little Drill Gremlins'' after they underwent ''arduous training'' while the Red Gremlins would be transformed into ''Little Thunder Gremlins''!


    After the little gremlins were recruited, Li Hanqiang did not care about anything else. He immediately took the nine little gremlins to the Blue Ripple Pond so that they could start fishing. He then returned to the Dwelling Cave in Gremlin''s Mountain and led the remaining 41 little gremlins to continue exploring.


    Although the Dwelling Cave in Gremlin''s Mountain occupied a ten-mile perimeter of land, most of that land was filled with forests and mountains. There was much to be explored. Under the guidance of the system, Li Hanqiang easily found six small Space-Time Wormholes at the back of the mountain. They were the entrances to the Gremlin Mountain Mine, Gremlin Mountain Workshop, Gremlin Mountain Lumber Yard, Gremlin Mountain Herbs Garden, Gremlin Mountain Farm, and the Robbery Passage.


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    Gremlin Mountain Mine: Send the little gremlins to the mines to mine ore. Currently 0/5 have been dispatched.


    Description: Ore is a very important resource.


    Gremlin Mountain Herbs Garden: Send the little gremlins to Gremlin Mountain Medicine Farm to plant herbs. Currently 0/5 have been dispatched.


    Description: Herbal medicine is also a very important resource.


    Gremlin Mountain Farm: Send the little gremlins to the farm to reclaim wasteland. Currently 0/5 have been dispatched.


    Description: Reclamation of wasteland can help to increase the maximum number of little gremlins.


    Gremlin Mountain Lumberyard: Send the little gremlins to the lumberyard for logging. Currently 0/5 have been dispatched.


    Description: Wood is also a very important resource and is inseparable from various constructions.


    Gremlin Mountain Workshop: Send the little gremlins to the workshop to develop technology.


    Description: The Gremlin Mountain Technology is of paramount importance so one must expand the scientific research team as much as possible.


    Robbery channel: Lead the little gremlins to rob a random clone. There are the options of making a ten gremlin team, a hundred gremlin team, a thousand gremlin team, etc. (The Chaotic City Lord can personally lead the team).


    Description: There is a risk of robbery, so please be cautious when opening it. Robbery is a life-or-death activity. You need to consume 10 gold coins each time you open it. If the robbery fails, the consequences will be unbearable. Lead more little gremlins or increase the level of the little gremlins to improve the success rate of the robbery. The player can explore the specifics by themselves.


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    Li Hanqiang sighed to himself. Game Creator Endless did not think like a normal human. He thought of the Gremlin Mountain Mine and Herbs Garden as a real mine and herbs garden, not that they would come in the form of ''clones''. He just needed to send the little gremlins into the Clone, which was an easy job to do.


    Of course, apart from the ''Raid Passage'', the other ''clones'' were exclusive to the little gremlins and Li Hanqiang himself could not get in.


    ''It seems like ore, wood, and herbs are the three major resources of the Cave Dwelling in Gremlin''s Mountain, which means they are extremely important. The Gremlin Mountain Workshop is also a research center. I wonder if it has Defensive Tower technology as well...''


    Li Hanqiang pondered at this for a bit before sending the full amount of little gremlins to the Gremlin Mountain Mine, Gremlin Mountain Herbs Garden, Gremlin Mountain Farm, and the Gremlin Mountain Lumberyard. There was no limit to the number of little gremlins that could be sent to the Gremlin Mountain Workshop so Li Hanqiang just sent 10 of them.


    As for the clone robbery, Li Hanqiang was actually most curious about this because he could actually participate in the event. He was to be their commander and lead the little gremlins in carrying out the robberies.


    This was interesting!


    Li Hanqiang could only fish, build towers, and defend the city in the Chaotic City. He had been very bored, so it was not a bad thing to experience what this robbery would entail.


    "Robbery, robbery, I want to go and rob someone!" He shouted with his hands on his hips. The little gremlins behind him immediately jumped up and cheered together.


    Li Hanqiang looked back and his face stiffened again.


    ''I can only lead the little gremlin to commit robberies but what can a Level 1 little gremlin rob? They wouldn''t be able to even rob Little Black Pigs!'' Li Hanqiang doubted the little gremlin''s Raid ability. He did not want to fail in the robbery and be beaten instead.


    After giving it some consideration, Li Hanqiang could not stop his curiosity and decided to carry out the robbery.


    There were currently 11 little gremlins that were free. Li Hanqiang picked one of the Green Gremlin to send to the Gremlin Mountain Workshop. The remaining five Red Gremlins and five Green Gremlins made up a ten gremlin team.


    "You guys, follow me. We shall go and carry out a raid!"


    Li Hanqiang shouted at them as he brought the ten gremlin team towards the [Raid Clone].


    [System notification: Dear Chaotic City Lord, you have not yet reached Level 30 and your HP is only 100. You will have no self-preservation ability if you leave the Chaotic City. Are you sure you want to leave the Chaotic City?]


    ''Entering a Clone is even considered to be leaving the Chaotic City¡­''


    Li Hanqiang was a little unhappy about this but chose to continue.


    In the next second, the sight in front of him changed as he came to face a small patch of ruins.


    [Ding, 10 gold coins consumed. You and the ten gremlin team you are leading are now in the [Raid Clone]. The current clone has been randomly constructed and the current difficulty is set at very simple. We wish you a happy raid.]


    Li Hanqiang looked up, observing this small patch of ruin that looked similar to the original Chaotic City. Behind him and the ten gremlin team was the Space-Time Wormhole. It was now the exit out of the clone.


    There was also a War Corridor in front and Chaotic Stone Slabs on both sides of it. However, there were no defensive towers on any of the Chaotic Stone Slabs.


    At that moment, the group of little gremlins had already started to rush forward along the War Corridor. Li Hanqiang also began to use float walking.


    Soon, they were at the end of the War Corridor. Instead of a Chaos'' Core, there was a Gnome Stall in its place.


    A Gnome Peddler with sharp ears, a sharp nose and green skin appeared from the stall. It was extremely ugly-looking and was about 1 meter in height, making it half a head shorter than the little gremlin with the words ''Gnome Peddler Bing Jiujiu'' on its head. It was only at Level 3, had 300 HP, and was undoubtedly a target of the raid.


    The Gnome Bing Jiujiu yelled in surprise when it saw Li Hanqiang and the group of little gremlins. It quickly closed the booth, looking as if it wanted to run away.


    Li Hanqiang smiled, pointing to the Gnome Bing Jiujiu and said, "You guys, time to start work!"


    The group of little gremlins immediately rushed up, surrounding peddler Bing Jiujiu as they began to punch and kick him. Those that could not hit him started to pile up and perform somersault at the side as they cheered.


    However, the attack power of these little gremlins was really terrible. They could not even get 1 point of damage even with two or three attacks. Despite this fierce operation, the gnome Bing Jiujiu had not lost 50 HP even after a long time.


    However, the gnome Bing Jiujiu was a coward and he did not fight back. He only cared about packing his goods in a bag and running away.


    The ten little gremlins were not able to stop peddler Bing Jiujiu from escaping. They chased him as far as they could, but he still managed to run into a Space-Time Wormhole in the rear and disappear.


    Despite that, the gnome peddler Bing Jiujiu had left a wheelbarrow behind that was now being surrounded by the group of little gremlins.


    In this case, having read the raw multiple times, the Translator thinks the author refers to an ''instance'' in a game sense. It is unclear why the author uses the term ''clone'' or ''copy'' instead. For the sake of faithfulness to the author''s work in the raw, the Translator has decided to stick to ''Clone''.

 Chapter 34：Wheelbarrow

    [Ding, congratulations on your successful raid. You have successfully gotten a wheelbarrow!]


    The scene in front of them changed in a short moment as Li Hanqiang and the ten little gremlins were transferred back to the Cave Dwelling in Gremlin''s Mountain.


    "Long live the King, long live the King!"


    The group of little gremlins chanted. One of the Green Gremlin pushed the wheelbarrow around while three others were following behind it while performing somersaults.


    ''The raid was successful? This is just far too simple!'' Internally, Li Hanqiang was proud of himself. This was known as success in a single move.


    He called out to the little gremlin running around with the wheelbarrow, being pleasantly surprised when he looked at its stats.


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    Wheelbarrow: Special prop, single person equipment, chariot.


    Durability: 300


    Physical Defense: 10


    Magic Resistance: 10


    Chariot characteristics: It can increase movement speed by 1 meter per second after equipped. When the player that has equipped this is attacked, the wheelbarrow will be the first to bear the damage. When the durability of the wheelbarrow reaches 0, it will be completely damaged.


    Characteristics: The wheelbarrow can be used to carry items and has a high chance of transformation.


    Restriction: The height of the player equipping this is limited to 1.4 meters or less.


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    "This thing is actually a chariot!" Li Hanqiang could not help but admire the settings made by the Game Creator Endless. This was really an attempt to show off.


    He imagined the little gremlins going to war as they pushed the small cart onto the battlefield. It did not matter that it looked funny, so long as it was practical.


    ''Not bad, not bad!'' Li Hanqiang nodded, his confidence boosted. After a short moment, he brought the ten gremlin team with him to continue raiding.


    [Ding, 10 gold coins consumed. You and the ten gremlin team you are leading are in the [Raid Clone]. The current Clone has been randomly constructed and its difficulty level is set at difficult. We wish you a happy raid.]


    ''It has become a difficult Clone!'' Li Hanqiang looked around, discovering that he was yet again in a Chaotic City. However, this Chaotic City was obviously much more advanced. The War Corridor was particularly spacious and there were city walls at a distance. A tall castle stood behind the wall, with two mechanical airships floating right above it!


    The gremlins, regardless of consequences, immediately charged along the War Corridor as if they were attacking the city. Among them, the Green Gremlin who was pushing the wheelbarrow ran the fastest. However, they ended up running back without actually going far, constantly yelling.


    The city gate could be seen some distance away opened as a lot of sheep-headed monsters in black robes surged out.


    These sheep-headed monsters floated just like ghosts. Their feet did not touch the ground and their black robes had black mist coming out of them. They were three meters tall and had long scythes in their hands. Their eyes were blood red and their movement speed was extremely fast.


    [Void Demon: Level 60, 12000 HP!!]


    Li Hanqiang was taken aback and quickly shouted, "You guys! Let''s withdraw quickly! We won''t be able to carry out this raid..."


    Before he could finish speaking, a Void Demon threw its scythe at him, killing him in an instant.


    [Ding, you have been killed and your level has dropped to Level 6. You have failed the current raid!"


    After the system notification sounded, Li Hanqiang found himself returned to the entrance of the Raid Clone. He really had gone down to Level 6.


    In the blink of an eye, a Green Gremlin ran out of the entrance of the clone with the small wheelbarrow. Behind it, there were only four other gremlins that followed.


    [Ding, five of your little gremlins have died.]


    ''Your f*cking uncle, I have been demoted by six levels!''


    It took Li Hanqiang a long time before he could react. He stomped his feet around, depressed at what had happened. He had failed the raid by being caught off-guard and four of his gremlins had died just like that. Even he had not expected that he would be killed in a flash!


    ''It''s a trap! The difficulty level of the Raid Clone was too difficult and the robbery ended before it had even begun. However, if this robbery had been successful, the harvest would have been too good to even imagine.''


    Li Hanqiang sighed. It was not easy for him to level up. In just an instant, his levels had dropped by half. This was quite a big setback for him.


    The five little gremlins who kept their lives were heartless. After they ran out of the clone, they quickly acted as if nothing had happened, pushing the wheelbarrow around as they made somersaults and stacked themselves on top of each other next to Li Hanqiang. They seemed to be having a good time.


    Li Hanqiang suddenly felt exhausted. It was a life-threatening risk to bring the little gremlins to the raid.


    He had no intention of continuing raid at the moment and walked a few circles in front of the entrance of the Gremlin Mountain Mine, Herbs Garden, Lumberyard, Farm, and Workshop. When he saw that there was no system notification had appeared, he remembered the attribute information from the Cave Dwelling in Gremlin''s Mountain that made it clear that the efficiency of the little gremlins was completely unpredictable. With this, he could no longer wait around stupidly.


    Li Hanqiang waved his arms, gathering five little gremlins as he said, "You guys, follow me and patrol the mountain!"


    "Yes, King!"


    The five little gremlins followed behind Li Hanqiang happily. The Green Gremlin who had originally been pushing the wheelbarrow was still keeping at it and not letting go.


    Although the area of the Cave Dwelling in Gremlin''s Mountain was large, there were no wild monsters as Li Hanqiang continued to lead the five little gremlins around the mountain. He was expecting to find something good, but there was nothing in the end. He would just have to treat this as though he had gone on a scenic tour.


    ''The Game Creator Endless really doesn''t think like a human. Everything has to be explored on our own. I will definitely have to try the Raid Clone again later, but what tasks should I arrange for these five little gremlins?"


    Li Hanqiang thought for a moment and suddenly had an idea. He led the five little gremlins away from the Cave Dwelling in Gremlin''s Mountain.


    After the fifth wave of monsters attacks on the city, the four Chaotic Stone Slabs obtained by Li Hanqiang had not yet been placed. At that moment, he thought about it and placed one Chaotic Stone Slab each at the left and right side of the Cave Dwelling in Gremlin''s Mountain''s entrance.


    After picking both a Green Gremlin and a Red Gremlin, he said, "You two. Go over there and stand guard!"


    "Yes, King!"


    The two little gremlins were extremely intelligent and immediately listened to their orders. They somersaulted towards the two Chaotic Stone Slabs, standing tall as they become guards, their heads raised.


    Except, there was nothing prestigious about them at their 1.2 meters in height, with their funky hair color and 30 HP.


    ''It''s better to have any guard instead of none!'' Li Hanqiang nodded with satisfaction. In fact, he did not really want any guards, he just wanted to see if the little demons could be placed on the Chaotic Stone Slabs.


    Since he had now found out that the little gremlins could stand on the Chaotic Stone Slabs, Li Hanqiang had an idea.


    Next, he placed two Chaotic Stone Slabs to the left and right of the Blue Ripple Pond''s entrance and arranged for another two little gremlins to be on guard.


    These little gremlins were only at level 1 but could be still be transformed into ''Little Drill Gremlin'' and ''Little Thunder Gremlin''. Li Hanqiang wondered allowing them to participate in the city defense would be considered "arduous training".


    There were too many things that the players needed to explore on their own in the Endless World. The Cave Dwelling in Gremlin''s Mountain was interesting and worth vigorously developing in the future. Li Hanqiang felt that he needed to let go and try it more.


    Ding, ding, ding, ding... A sudden sound rang in Li Hanqiang''s mind.


    This was the alarm clock that he had set in his gaming helmet. When the alarm rang, it meant that it was six o''clock in the morning and it was time to buy breakfast.


    ''Fine, time to go offline to fill up my stomach. I''ll fight again after I''ve filled my stomach...''


    After he brushed his teeth and washed his face, Li Hanqiang stepped out with his flip-flops, wearing a pair of baggy pants and a small vest. He opened the door while humming a tune, ready to go to the Tian Ji Bun Shop to buy breakfast.


    Pushing the door open, he had not thought that he would be greeted with such a sight.

 Chapter 35：The Early Bird Gets The Worm

    It was Lin Banyue, dressed in sportswear. Her long hair was tied into a ponytail and she had on a pair of small white shoes. She was just passing by his door and it looked like she was just about to go for her morning exercise.


    Next to her, Le Xiaoyi was clad in a short sports skirt and a pink-colored half-sleeved sports shirt. She also wore sports headphones and a silk scarf around her neck and was currently moving her arms.


    Apart from these two, there were three other young beauties in sportswear who were following behind them. They were chattering amongst themselves, encased by the aura of youth, with no flaws in their appearance or body shape.


    In this era, there were only a handful of young people who could get up early, let alone those who could carry out morning exercises. A group of beauties like these who could actually carry out these morning exercises was absolutely rare. This was akin to beautiful scenery and could definitely not be compared to the aunties who had taken over the screen by dancing to the public square dance.


    ''As what the ancient ones have said, the early bird catches the worms. They were not lying.'' Li Hanqiang felt the injuries he had received yesterday being treated rapidly.


    "Hello, going for morning exercise?" He took the initiative to greet them.


    "Hello uncle, you are up early too?" Le Xiaoyi had a lively personality and waved at Li Hanqiang.


    Lin Banyue glanced at Li Hanqiang and nodded slightly. While she showed him a professional smile, the indifference in her eyes was obvious.


    As for the three beautiful women in the back, they looked at Li Hanqiang for a few moments and giggled.


    Li Hanqiang was quite thick-skinned and did not care about the way he was dressed. He stepped up quickly and said to Le Xiaoyi, "Of course! Actually, I always get up early every morning to carry out my daily routine. I understand that you guys are not that familiar with what is around here at the moment. Come, come, come. I will show you the way. The road at the front can directly reach Li City Park and the trail along the Lishui River is the best for running in the morning..."


    "No, we don''t need to know that." Lin Banyue gave him a standard reply.


    Li Hanqiang was unmoved as he went closer to Lin Banyue and said, "I am following your live broadcast room. I also gave all my Bird''s Eggs to you..."


    ''Bird''s Eggs'' were a type of small free gift on the live broadcast platform. They could be used to increase the popularity of the broadcaster by a small amount.


    Lin Banyue put some distance between her and Li Hanqiang and said politely, "Thank you."


    Li Hanqiang took another few steps towards her. "Is it true that you participated in the mysterious closed beta of Endless World? Could I ask you a few questions?"


    "Mr. Li, we signed a confidentiality agreement when we participated in the mysterious closed beta." Lin Banyue smiled. It was apparent that she did not want to communicate with Li Hanqiang more than necessary.


    Li Hanqiang pretended not to notice as he continued, "What confidentiality agreement? The public beta has already been carried out, so shouldn''t the agreement be lifted already?"


    Lin Banyue frowned slightly and said, "May I know what questions you actually have for me, Mr. Li?"


    "I shall carry on with them then!" Feeling refreshed, Li Hanqiang asked, "What new system function can be opened after upgrading the Chaos'' Core with 1000 gold coins?"


    Lin Banyue nodded and said, "You can get a Chief Officer."


    "What kind of officer is the Chief Officer? What can he do?" Li Hanqiang asked.


    "The Chief Officer is the Chief Officer. It can help the Chaotic City Lord to manage the Chaotic City. You should explore the details yourself, it is hard to explain," Lin Banyue said.


    "Oh!" Li Hanqiang nodded. "I still have one question. Do you know where I can obtain a Magic Stone?"


    Magic Stones were the props needed to upgrade the Mysterious Shop. To him, the Mysterious Shop was the key to making a fortune so Li Hanqiang was naturally very concerned about it.


    "Magic Stones?" Lin Banyue frowned. "I don''t know, I haven''t heard of it. Does Mr. Li have any other questions?"


    "You have never heard about it?" Li Hanqiang rubbed his eyebrows and said: "Then, do you know how to upgrade scenic buildings?"


    The Blue Ripple Pond was categorized as a scenic building that could be upgraded. However, the upgrade conditions were unknown and the players needed to find out more about it themselves. Li Hanqiang had hoped to get some useful information out of Lin Banyue.


    Lin Banyue shook her head, a trace of displeasure appearing on her face as she said, "I don''t know."


    "What about Paradise? How do you upgrade Paradise?" Li Hanqiang asked again.


    The displeasure on Lin Banyue''s face was very obvious this time. "I don''t know. Can you please stop disturbing our morning exercises!"


    Li Hanqiang smiled, without a hint of annoyance was on his face and said, "Well, we will see each other later then. By the way, I will give all my Bird''s Eggs to you in the future ..."


    After he finished, he turned and ran to Tian Ji Bun Shop.


    Le Xiaoyi looked at Li Hanqiang''s back, giggling as she said: "That uncle is so impervious to the situation but I can''t blame him. After all, our Sister Banyue has such a charming face?"


    Another beautiful woman said, "That person is shameless. What do Bird''s Eggs mean? He dares to even mention free gifts. Is he trying to agitate us on purpose?"


    "Listen to the questions he asked too. Magic Stones, Scenic Buildings, and Paradise. I bet that he just made them up by himself to deliberately make it difficult for Sister Banyue to answer," another beauty said.


    "That man is just a loser with low IQ. Let''s pay him no heed." Lin Banyue waved her hand and gave Li Hanqiang another tag.


    Li Hanqiang ran all the way to the Tian Ji Bun Shop. His mind was filled with thoughts of the Chief Officer. Lin Banyue was unclear with the details but he was still greatly interested in it.


    ''Someone should already have a Chief Office by now and all I have are gremlin people. I should hurry online and continue to develop the Cave Dwelling in Gremlin''s Mountain."


    Li Hanqiang was feeling eager. This eagerness was not because of his competitiveness, but because he felt that the job of Chaotic City Lord was very interesting. Once he had gotten the hang of it, he fell in love with the idea of building Defensive Towers, and the development and exploration needed.


    The unconstrained setting style of Game Creator Endless merely fueled Li Hanqiang''s appetite.


    While he was unable to get more information from Lin Banyue, Li Hanqiang felt that this was actually a good thing instead. The more unknown strategies there was, the more he needed to explore the game on his own, which made him like it even more. He always felt that strategies destroyed the game, as all the fun was in self-exploration.


    He bought his breakfast in a hurry and had already finished it halfway going back home. After reaching, he immediately went online.


    ''The little gremlins have been fishing in the Blue Ripple Pond for a long time. I should go over now to see the results of their labor.'' Li Hanqiang rubbed his hands and walked toward the entrance of the Blue Ripple Pond.


    He was full of expectations. The ten little gremlins have been fishing this entire time. Even with the worst-case scenario, they should have still been able to catch a few good things. Even if it were useless fish, they could still be sold for lots of money.


    At that moment however, Li Hanqiang was at the brink of explosion.


    In the Blue Ripple Pond, the little gremlins that were supposed to be fishing had dozed off or were carrying out somersaults. Only a few were seriously fishing. It would not have mattered if they were only lazy, but the most annoying thing was that they had actually freed all the fishes they caught.


    [System Notification: From the Fish Basket in Fishing Pavilion No. 1, the Green Gremlin released Green Carp ¡Á10, Red Carp ¡Á2, Young Herring ¡Á3...]


    [System Notification: From the Fish Basket in Fishing Pavilion No.2, the Red Gremlin released the Big Herring ¡Á1, Young Goldfish ¡Á3, Big Goldfish ¡Á1...]


    [System Notification: From the Fish Basket in Fishing Pavilion No. 3, the Green Gremlin released the Youth Black Thorned Turtle ¡Á1...]


    A list of system notifications came and Li Hanqiang wanted to vomit blood. It was fine if only useless fishes had been released, but they had also let go of a Youth Black Thorned Turtle.


    He immediately grabbed the Green Gremlin dozing in the Fishing Pavilion No. 3 and shouted, "Don''t fish anymore. Come over here and hit him!"


    The Green Gremlin immediately woke up and was so scared as he fell directly to the ground. He kowtowed to Li Hanqiang continuously as if he was pounding garlic and shouted over and over again, "King, forgive me. King, forgive me!"

 Chapter 36： Gremlin’s Mountain Technology: Nest Shelter

    A little gremlin was very mischievous by nature, and their description clearly stated "work efficiency is unreliable." However, Li Hanqiang never expected them to act on their own initiative!


    Releasing a Young Black Thorned Turtle made Li Hanqiang feel like he had made a tremendous loss.


    The mob of little gremlins were very obedient, and without question they ran forwards to beat up the Green Gremlin who was on his knees begging for forgiveness. Even though they did less than one damage, the Green Gremlin was still very quickly beaten bloody.


    "That''s enough, stop!" Li Hanqiang immediately shouted and helped the bloodied Green Gremlin up before he spoke with a dark face, "In the future, remember not to release any fish you catch!"


    He pointed at them, continuing, "All of you will do well to remember!"


    "Yes, Your Majesty!"


    The gremlins all replied and in the blink of an eye, they began to somersault and make gremlin pyramids. Even the beaten up Green Gremlin was their friend again, frolicking around.


    Li Hanqiang could not help but sigh. He estimated that him giving his order would have the same effect as not giving one. The little gremlins were too mischievous by the design of the system and this was probably unchangeable.


    It was a relief that even though the little gremlins knew how to release fish, they still kept items that they fished out. Li Hanqiang emptied out the fish baskets. He received another Small Chaotic Bottle, as well as a piece of blue grade equipment named [Lobster Head Helmet], which boosted one''s physical and magical defense characteristics by 15 points.


    This ''Shrimp Head Helmet'' was also not a bad piece of equipment, however, its appearance was rather strange. It was a lobster''s head that was nearly half a meter high and the feelers of the lobster reached upwards. If one were to equip it, they could probably pass as a lobster soldier. Non-pragmatic players or trolls probably would not equip it.


    After putting the Lobster Head Helmet away, Li Hanqiang wanted to go check out the Cave Dwelling in Gremlin''s Mountain. However he suddenly saw a Green Carp swim past him in the water, its tail creating a splash.


    Li Hanqiang suddenly felt curious.


    The water of Blue Ripple Pond was clear but was so deep that one could not make out the bottom. Even though it was possible to fish here, Li Hanqiang had never seen a fish swim past him. How was it that he could now see this Green Carp?


    "Could it be¡­"


    Li Hanqiang had a sudden epiphany. Could releasing the fish have anything to do with the appearance of a Green Carp in the Blue Ripple Pond?


    The mob of little gremlins had released all the fish, and naturally they were all released into the Blue Ripple Pond. Could it be that these released fish would not be deleted by the system, but continue to live in the Blue Ripple Pond?


    If that were the case, could it be that releasing was actually closer to rearing?


    Li Hanqiang''s mind ran wild and countless thoughts ran through his brain. This was not an impossibility.


    "I will need to experiment to find out, but the Blue Ripple Pond has hidden conditions that need to be met before it can be leveled up. It might be that releasing fish is one of those hidden conditions." Li Hanqiang murmured to himself. "If releasing fish means that I get to rear them, then that''s really good. If I release a Young Black Thorned Turtle today, will I have two tomorrow?"


    The more Li Hanqiang thought about it, the more he felt the possibilities were endless. He no longer worried about the little gremlins releasing fish.


    He hummed a tune to himself as he left the Blue Ripple Pond, and merrily made his way to the Cave Dwelling in Gremlin''s Mountain.


    The moment he entered, system notifications began to appear.


    [Ding, the little gremlins have cultivated an acre of farmland, maximum little gremlin population in Cave Dwelling in Gremlin''s Mountain +5]


    [Ding, the little gremlins have researched a new low-level technology: Nest Shelter!]


    "Finally, a technology has been researched!"


    Li Hanqiang felt curious, and he immediately pulled out the stats and description for the Nest Shelter.


    ¡ª


    Cave Dwelling in Gremlin''s Mountain Level 1: Special building belonging to Chaotic City No. 68.


    Size: Ten-mile perimeter


    Category: Paradise, citizens'' accommodations.


    Little gremlin level: 1


    Current population of little gremlins: 46/105


    Ore reserves: 3


    Timber reserves: 3


    Herbal reserves: 2


    Technology unlocked: Nest shelter


    Description: Cave Dwelling in Gremlin''s Mountain can be upgraded. Please read about the conditions for upgrading.


    ¡ª


    Li Hanqiang was immediately drawn by the [Nest Shelter] technology, and when he checked it out-


    [Nest Shelter: Gremlin''s Mountain technology, low-level technology. Permits the construction of Nest Shelters at Gremlin''s Mountain by little gremlins after it is unlocked. Construction cost is five timber and required five little gremlins to work for 1-10 hours. The nest is a housing building, bound to one player. It permits the player to gain 1 point of experience per second within the Nest without any enemies around. Note: Their Chaotic City Contribution must be that of Citizen to obtain a Nest.]


    "Isn''t this idling?" Li Hanqiang clasped his hands. He did not care about it being bound to players or Chaotic City Contribution, he just wanted to build a nest to give it a try.


    In any case the current Timber reserves in the Cave Dwelling in Gremlin''s Mountain were insufficient, and he had no little gremlins near him. Li Hanqiang could only float away to the peak of the mountain.


    In front of the stone door on the Mountain Top Cave Dwelling, Li Hanqiang saw the Green Gremlin which had a wheelbarrow. He was still pushing the wheelbarrow around.


    At the strategic location of the Cave Dwelling, Li Hanqiang stopped to think.


    He had obtained another Small Chaotic Bottle and he did not lack for Chaotic Energy at the moment. He recruited 59 little gremlins and gathered another ten gremlin team.


    Committing robberies were a given, as it was the actual function of the little gremlins. Even though it was impossible to avoid making sacrifices, there was always a day that he might make it back. One could not get rich without hardships.


    Li Hanqiang decided he may as well throw caution to the wind. He was only at Level 6, what loss was for him if he was reduced to Level 0?


    He picked 5 gremlins and sent them to the foot of the mountain. As soon as the Timber reserves were sufficient, the first Nest Shelter could be built.


    There were still 49 little gremlins and Li Hanqiang assigned all of them to the Gremlin''s Mountain Workshop.


    Technology was strength and Li Hanqiang valued the technologies of Gremlin''s Mountain.


    "Ok, let''s continue to make clones and commit robberies!"


    Li Hanqiang roused his spirits and brought a ten gremlin team with him to commit three robberies in a row. He failed once and succeeded twice.


    With the first two successes, what came out were "Extremely Basic" clones and the stall of a Gnome Peddler appeared. The store owner was still that Gnome Bing Jiujiu, and when they successfully robbed him, he got two small merchant''s wheelbarrows.


    On the third attempt, what came out was a "Basic" clone and he was met with a Dogman caravan!


    One caravan with six large treasure chests was extremely tempting. Even though it was only a Basic clone, the caravan had over 20 Level 10 Dogmen protecting it. Li Hanqiang simply did not dare to attempt it and he gave up the moment he saw it, ordering his group of gremlins to leave.


    Three robbery attempts cost him 30 gold pieces and he only got two wheelbarrows. Li Hanqiang felt like it was a loss.


    "A ten gremlin team can''t even handle a basic clone, so what''s the point of robbing Gnome Peddlers? It seems I have to raise the robbing ability of the little gremlins, or else these robberies are just a loss-making business." Li Hanqiang thought to himself and made a note to form a hundred gremlin team.


    A hundred gremlin team would definitely have stronger offensive power than a ten gremlin team and might just be enough to take on a basic clone.


    In any case the current maximum population that could be sustained by the Cave Dwelling in Gremlin''s Mountain was only 105 little gremlins. If he wanted to form a hundred gremlin team, he would need to abandon fishing, land cultivation, farming, lumbering, and other such activities, which was not worth it.

 Chapter 37：I Will Never Make A Loss

    In Li Hanqiang''s mind, fishing at Blue Ripple Pond could not stop. Ten little gremlins would need to be there. Gremlin''s Mountain Farm, Gremlin''s Mountain Herbs Garden, Gremlin''s Mountain Mine, and Gremlin''s Mountain Lumberyard would all require their own workforce. Another ten little gremlins would also need to be left at Gremlin''s Mountain Workshop.


    In order to form a hundred gremlin team based on those numbers, the population cap of Cave Dwelling in Gremlin''s Mountain would need to be at least 140. This would require the Gremlin''s Mountain Farm to be expanded across seven acres of land.


    However as the system has introduced them, the work efficiency of the little gremlins was completely flippant and unpredictable. It was unclear how long the cultivation of seven acres of land would take.


    At that moment, the Nest Shelter at the foot of the mountain was beginning construction.


    The five little gremlins Li Hanqiang assigned to the job were working at full speed, comically pulling out wooden rods to construct the basic frame of the Nest Shelter.


    Li Hanqiang observed for a moment, commenting to himself that it really did look like a nest. From an eye''s glance, it looked at most to be two meters tall and If it could cover a three-meter square area, then it was already quite impressive. It looked no different from a phone booth.


    "This thing looks a bit like an upright coffin. It also looks pretty bad. It seems that there wouldn''t be room enough to lie down in. Was this built to the physical stature of a little gremlin?


    While Li Hanqiang was grumbling to himself, there was a notification from the system.


    [Anonymous Player wishes to enter your Chaotic City. Would you like to permit this?]


    [No!]


    Li Hanqiang could roughly figure out it was the Bandit in The Dog Head Hat wanting to come in, especially since he was the only one who would keep his name anonymous.


    Even though the Bandit in The Dog Head Hat made Li Hanqiang earnings every time he came here to buy potions, Li Hanqiang was still a person who needed his branding. When it was time to put on airs, he should do so. Furthermore, that Bandit in The Dog Head Hat did not have good intentions, so Li Hanqiang should let him stew for a bit.


    Li Hanqiang''s rejection was making Deity Robber anxious.


    How could he not be? The exchange rate of gold coins was dropping constantly. When he checked the market rate this morning, the exchange rate of the in-game gold coins right now with real-life currency was already down to 1 to 150.


    Late profits were the same as making a loss and Deity Robber''s heart felt like it was being shredded by a razor blade.


    He had actually logged on first thing in the morning. The 30 aunties were already online, and Deity Robber had made them run around to do daily errands, taking the unbound gold coins they made and then helping them sell them.


    The aunties made nearly 200 RMB each and were unable to conceal their joy, constantly praising Deity Robber.


    However Deity Robber viewed this as mere peanuts. He brought these housewives to the Chaos Temple to continue their business of being potion peddlers.


    However, Li Hanqiang was not allowing him to enter the Chaotic City!


    ''This stupid City Lord is going back on his word? Or is he out of gold and can''t pay the subsidy?" Deity Robber began to pace on the spot, privately regretting his actions yesterday. Why could he not just have played along?


    He continuously activated the travel ticket.


    Li Hanqiang, on the other hand, continuously refused the barrage of requests that were naturally coming his way. It was not until just over half an hour later when the Nest Shelter had been constructed and Li Hanqiang had crawled inside to give it a try, did he come out to the War Corridor and approve the travel request.


    "Do not be shameless just because you''re invincible. You''ve got a thicker face than me and are not as good as me despite being invincible." Li Hanqiang rolled his eyes in response before replying, "Are you from the Emperor''s Rich Guild?"


    Deity Robber nodded his head at first, before hurriedly shaking it, "No, no, definitely not! Bro, you have to believe me!"


    "Why should I?" Li Hanqiang said nonchalantly. "Time is valuable. Stop waffling. You know where to buy the potions. I''ll still give you a subsidy, at the same rate as yesterday."


    "Hm?" Deity Robber was starting to feel like he could not understand Li Hanqiang. His heart was telling him that this fellow was really daft. He could tell that he was from the Emperor''s Rich Guild, but was still letting him make money?


    Could it be that he had a plan?


    "Buy without worry. I have the gold. You can even buy 100,000,000 bottles!" Li Hanqiang sounded like a wealthy man. "Hurry along and make your purchase! When you''re done buying, start selling. Time is money, you can never stop hustling!"


    "This¡­" Deity Robber hesitated once more as he said, "Bro, if I really am from the Emperor''s Rich Guild, wouldn''t you be making a loss?"


    "Only someone like you would think of making me suffer a loss!" Li Hanqiang smiled. "You can make a killing, and I would still not be making a loss!"


    He could not help but brag. "The Emperor''s Rich Guild is nothing more than an irrelevant, small guild to yours truly. Look at that Zhen Dejun, truly a simpleton with the mindset of a grade-schooler. He dares to challenge me and immediately gets squished by me without even a smidge of resistance! As for that Zhen Deqiang, he publishes a public notice to show off so he must definitely be a showoff. A small guild like the Emperor''s Rich Guild, I could destroy a dozen such guilds with the turn of my hand! What kind of person am I that the Guild Leader of the Tianhe Guild would need to bring a mob of underlings whenever he meets me.


    Deity Robber was shocked to hear this and wondered to himself if Li Hanqiang was some kind of public figure?


    He was rather taken aback by Li Hanqiang. Looking at this Chaotic City, it was really early into the game and there was already a Fire Tower, a Mysterious Shop, strange patterns on the War Corridor, and those strange towers that could release Sword Qi. Were these things something a normal Chaotic City would have?


    Deity Robber would have been alright if he did not mull over it. The more he thought about it, the more he felt that Li Hanqiang was not what he seemed to be.


    "This Li Hanqiang could be a person with money and influence that normal people cannot afford to offend." Deity Robber thought to himself and felt a great pressure on himself.


    Of course, only a fool would give up a chance to make money. Deity Robber continued with his business of being a potion peddler and very rapidly brought potions with him back to the Chaos Temple to be distributed amongst the group of aunties.


    In their eyes, this young man was very capable. Bringing them gallivanting around in the morning and allowing them to make close to 200 RMB per person. That was higher than two days worth of wages for them, it was truly marvelous.


    Therefore when it came to the jobs assigned to them by Deity Robber, they were naturally enthusiastic and immediately set off on their respective roads as soon as they took their potions.


    Deity Robber knelt in the middle of Chaos Temple while waiting for them to return. He returned to his thoughts about Li Hanqiang''s status. A moment later, a sound entered his ear, "Deity Robber, how goes your infiltration?"


    The owner of this voice was Zhen Deqiang, with Zhen Dejun standing right behind him.


    Deity Robber rushed to his feet and smiled, putting on the manners of a loyal servant. "Be at ease, Guild Leader. I have already begun to gain Li Hanqiang''s trust and am currently chipping away at his gold reserves¡­ However, Guild Leader, this Li Hanqiang is not what he appears to be. He has a lot of gold coins and underlings. He may be a very ruthless person!"


    "Why does it matter if he''s a ruthless person, is there anyone I fear in this game? You better do your job and take care of him. Don''t let him develop his Chaotic City!" Zhen Deqiang glared at Deity Robber before glancing around and asked, "Where are the underlings I gave you?"


    Aunty in this context can refer to middle-aged women completely unrelated to you.

 Chapter 38：A Trio of Fools

    Zhen Deqiang''s question instantly made Deity Robber feel guilty. However, he kept a straight face and replied, "The aunties are currently out selling potions."


    This matter could not be hidden anymore. The reality was that the potion-selling aunties were already making a name for themselves. Players who ran out of potions at the training grounds in the outskirts would go about looking for these aunties. It would be no surprise if Zhen Deqiang knew one or two of them.


    "Selling potions?" Zhen Deqiang frowned. "What scheme is this?"


    Zhen Dejun stepped forwards from behind Zhen Deqiang and looked at Deity Robber with an unpleasant gaze as he spoke coldly, "This isn''t how you should be utilizing the people we give you. Get them back here right now. What exactly are you up to?"


    Deity Robber''s heart dropped for a moment and wondered to himself if Zhen Deqiang and Zhen Dejun were here to call him out?


    He replied hastily, "Guild Leader, Deputy Guild Leader, please calm down and listen to my explanation. That Li Hanqiang has a Mysterious Shop in his Chaotic City that sells low-level potions. However, the pricing is higher than in the normal shops¡­"


    "I know this. I even bought an Inspiration Potion from that mysterious shop before. However, what does this have to do with you ordering the aunties to go around reselling potions?" Zhen Dejun asked in return.


    Deity Robber lamented to himself that good days never last and he replied, "As far as I know, that Li Hanqiang has collected a large number of gold coins. Any player that helps him defend the city will get a subsidy if they buy potions from that mysterious shop. Because I have already gotten his trust, I have asked him for the privilege of a permanent subsidy to help him win over hearts and minds. Basically, I can get a 6.4% discount off of potions and get the aunties to sell them in order to deplete his gold reserves."


    "What?" Zhen Deqiang paused and used his fingers to do the math before saying, "He''s no fool, would he really keep giving you this subsidy? Isn''t this just giving away money?"


    Deity Robber smiled. "Rich but dumb. That sums up Li Hanqiang."


    Zhen Deqiang glanced at Zhen Dejun before asking, "Is this true? Is Li Hanqiang truly that foolish?"


    Zhen Dejun thought about it before nodding and spoke from his experience. "That Li Hanqiang is a bit of a dumb*ss."


    Zhen Deqiang huffed coldly before he kicked Zhen Dejun for ten points of damage and said, "I''m thinking that the two of you are the fools. There must be something behind it!"


    Deity Robber replied, "Guild Leader, what do we care if there''s something behind it? Is it not enough that we can make some money? It wouldn''t do to get the aunties to kill monsters and they''re good at selling potions. We can get the potions in with a 6.7% discount and when we resell them, we can make 6 gold and 40 silver for every 1000 bottles sold."


    Zhen Deqiang did the math again with his fingers and after a long while, he finally nodded. "It seems to make sense. Hahahaha, is this not the road to riches? Deity Robber, how much have you made?"


    Deity Robber immediately replied, "Guild Leader, I''ve just started out. I haven''t made a lot."


    Zhen Dejun replied, "If that is really the case, then the more capital we have, the more we make!"


    His eyes lit up and he turned to Zhen Deqiang. "Brother, why don''t I stay here and monitor Deity Robber to see if he''s speaking the truth."


    "We shall do it together!" Zhen Deqiang was excited as well.


    After a while, the aunties returned and Deity Robber collected the gold. After checking the numbers, he declared, "We made a profit!"


    Zhen Deqiang said, "Quickly go and restock."


    Deity Robber nodded, bought a travel ticket, and disappeared. A few minutes later, he was back, distributing potions and sending the aunties on their way.


    This time it was Zhen Deqiang, Zhen Dejun, and Deity Robber waiting at the Chaos Temple.


    Tianfeng City was one of the major cities in the region and there were countless players around. There was an exceedingly large demand for low-level potions and within half an hour, the group of aunties were done with the task and brought the gold back to the Chaos Temple.


    Zhen Deqiang verified the profits and laughed, saying, "There really are some dumb people out in the world!"


    Truthfully, he had amassed a large amount of gold coins and had on him more than 300 coins. If he were to use it to peddle potions, he would make a large profit!


    "Deity Robber, you''ve done well! Hahahaha, keep up the good work!"


    Zhen Deqiang patted Deity Robber on the shoulder. He decided for now that he was not going to be leveling up and would just stay in the Chaos Temple to make gold.


    Zhen Dejun had the same idea.


    Therefore, Zhen Deqiang, Zhen Dejun, and Deity Robber became the Trio of Fools in Tianfeng City''s Chaos Temple. They sat together, welcoming the aunties, chuckling dumbly, sending the aunties away, laughing dumbly. This drew the attention of many players who were passing by, causing them to be ridiculed.


    This current period could be said to be the best time to be selling potions. In a while longer, the value of gold would go down, or players would be able to brew their own potions. By then, it would no longer be possible to carry out this scheme. Li Hanqiang was well aware of that and therefore spent his time nearby the Space-Time Wormhole.


    He even made contact with Dark Redemption, Fanning Knight, and Fiery Blade Sage.


    Dark Redemption had also been recruited into the potion selling ring. However, he was currently fighting a Level 20 Clone and could not split his attention. He sent a Cleric named Little Liuzi to get some stock.


    As for Fanning Knight and Fiery Blade Sage, they were in dire straits. They had been spawn camped by people from the Emperor''s Rich Guild until they were now only at Level 1 and their underlings had all ran away. Both of them no longer dared to stay in Tianfeng City and were now wandering the outskirts. They were not able to find a Chaos Temple in short notice. Even though they had the intention to be potion peddlers, their capabilities were limited.


    In this way, Li Hanqiang spent a very boring day. It was well into the afternoon when Sister Pomengranate and the other aunties could no longer take it as they clamored to be allowed to stop work, signaling the end of the day for Zhen Deqiang and the others.


    At 8pm, Li Hanqiang visited the livestream platform and collected his free "Bird''s Eggs" to give to Lin Banyue.


    Perhaps out of fear of leaking the inbox of her Chaotic City, Lin Banyue was now a completely chatting livestreamer. Her livestream background was a still of the Space-Time Wormhole and she spoke about her experiences and insights into the game. It was neither boring nor entertaining.


    However, she paid special attention to the [Chaotic City Lord Challenge] and [Chaotic Dominance] mentioned in the system''s message. She gave a lot of hypotheses but Li Hanqiang did not feel any shred of interest. He stayed on her stream for ten more minutes before leaving, logging back into Endless World.


    Looking at his inventory space, Li Hanqiang felt surprised. He currently had 931 gold coins!


    "This is true power. It is so lonely to be invincible!" Li Hanqiang said to himself in self-aggrandizement.


    Following that, he immediately spent 900 gold coins to buy nine Basic Arrow Tower Construction Blueprints.


    Using gold coins to upgrade the Chaos'' Core? No way. Towers were king.


    He had made the decision to pull an all-nighter tonight. He did not hope to make it to the leaderboards of the Gold Coin Challenge. However, he did hope to survive a few more waves of monsters attacking the city.


    Very quickly, Li Hanqiang had placed down nine Basic Arrow Towers on the Chaotic Stone Slabs. He even pulled a ten gremlin team from the Cave Dwelling in Gremlin''s Mountain to let them see something miraculous.


    Of the ten gremlin team, three of them were Green Gremlins pushing wheelbarrows around and the other seven were doing somersaults, horsing around like acrobats.


    Li Hanquang had his back towards them and felt full of confidence. He yelled out, "Get some!" and immediately began to change the towers.

 Chapter 39

    [Ding: Upon a failed mutation toward a tower, that tower would be completely demolished.]


    [Ding: Upon a failed mutation¡­]


    [Ding: Upon a failed mutation¡­]


    Li Hanqiang built his Basic Arrow Towers quickly but demolished them even faster through the constant use of the Tower Change Passive Skill. Out of nine Arrow Towers, seven were demolished. Only two had successfully mutated. One had mutated into a Rocket Tower and another had mutated into a Bright Lance Dark Arrow Tower.


    "I actually had a success rate of fifty percent¡­ My luck cannot be that bad. It has to be that group of little gremlins!" Li Hanqiang glared toward the group of little gremlins by his side as he thought they really were just a bunch of clowns, and being next to them made him one too.


    "The next time I change a tower, I will need to release the koi fish in the Blue Ripple Pond!"


    Li Hanqiang thought to himself that even though only two Basic Arrow Towers out of nine had successfully mutated, he did not feel troubled because the two towers that had mutated were no ordinary towers. ;


    Based on their appearances, the Rocket Tower was an actual rocket launchpad. That tower was a launchpad that was capable of launching a satellite to space. However, it was slightly smaller. The main body of that tower was divided into two parts. The first was the actual launchpad and the support pylons. It was made from steel and the entire height of that structure was about 15 meters tall.


    The second part was the actual rocket. It was about ten meters tall, equipped with four launchers, and ''From Chaotic City No. 68'' was painted on its surface.


    The Bright Lance Dark Arrow tower was also unique. The entire height of the tower was about 15 meters tall. The top half of the tower was no different from any regular archer tower. However, the bottom half was like a small temple and there were doors to it.


    He observed their stats.


    [Rocket Tower: Mutated tower, unique, ultra-rare tower. A ten-second countdown will commence before every launch. Rockets are extremely lethal weapons of mass destruction and used to target a large area. Deals Area of Effect damage. The range of the rockets is unlimited. Upon every launch, the Defensive Tower would be decommissioned. This means this single Defensive Tower is to be used as a strategic Defensive Tower. This weapon is capable of launching beyond the Chaotic City. It is effective against buildings and Defensive Towers. If an attack beyond The Chaotic City is decided, the Chaotic City Lord must set the target point.]


    [Bright Lance Dark Arrow Tower: Mutated tower, Level 1 Defensive Tower. Range of 100 meters. Unleashes Bright Lance and Dark Arrow attacks at a single target. Bright Lance has an 80% chance of hitting and can be blocked or evaded. Deals 100 points of damage. Dark Arrow is a guaranteed hit and deals 50 points of damage. If the target is simultaneously hit by Bright Lance and Dark Arrow''s attacks, it dies instantly! (Elite Monsters immediately take 2000 points of damage and Boss Monsters immediately take 1000 points of damage)] ;


    Li Hanqiang read the descriptions for Rocket Tower and Bright Lance Dark Arrow Tower repeatedly and was ecstatic with joy. ;


    These mutated towers were godlike!


    One was capable of sending attacks beyond the Chaotic City and the other one was capable of a one-hit kill. If these were not god-tier towers, then what would they be?


    "I, Li Hanqiang, will never lose!"


    He began cackling like a madman and was tempted to initiate a new wave of monsters.


    However at this moment, the sound of ringing could be heard. Someone was apparently calling his cell phone.


    Li Hanqiang was slightly agitated and he checked on it through his VR helmet only to find an unknown caller. Feeling slightly reluctant, he picked up that call then began saying, "No rooms are left, every single property has been rented out. Come back to me in two months."


    Under any normal circumstances, those who came searching for him were people who were looking for places to rent. Li Hanqiang did not own many properties and they were all left to him by his parents. Those properties were all located in Li City Garden. There were a total of five estates and every single one had been rented out.


    He had advertised these properties back then and had given out plenty of business cards, therefore plenty of strangers had his number.


    After several seconds, a hesitant but clear voice could be heard from the other end of his cell phone. It said, "Little Qiang¡­"


    Li Hanqiang was stunned. This man''s voice sounded familiar to him. He was certain he had heard it from somewhere.


    He thought about it before he suddenly remembered who that person was. He instantly sat up straight from his seat and replied, "Uncle Zhou?"


    "That''s me." After a brief moment of silence, he continued, "I believe we have not met for about six to seven years now? How are you doing?"


    Li Hanqiang sighed in response then said, "Six years! I''m doing fine at the moment. I''ve been happier every day. What about you Uncle Zhou? I''d assume you''re doing not bad yourself?"


    "I''m the same as usual¡­" Another wave of silence proceeded through the phone. It lasted for half a minute before he said, "I hope there isn''t much trouble for you lately, you''re still living in Li City Garden, right?"


    "Yeah, I am now a realtor. Simply relying on the properties mom and dad had left me." There was an obvious smile on Li Hanqiang''s face.


    The caller had once been his father''s assistant and driver. His name was Zhou Zhengzhong. He was a calm and kind person. When his parents were still alive, he would often drop by his house to visit. He was close to him.


    However, after that accident all those years ago which had happened quite suddenly, both of Li Hanqiang''s parents were killed. Uncle Zhou was the driver and he had also lost a leg but he was fortunate enough to be alive. However, it was told that he had gone overseas and Li Hanqiang was certainly not expecting a call from him.


    In all honesty, Li Hanqiang had once hated Uncle Zhou because he assumed it was his fault that resulted in his parent''s death. However, due to the passing of time and his own maturation, he soon understood that everything was an accident and his parents'' death had very little to do with Uncle Zhou.


    However, there was still some distance between both of them.


    "Little Qiang, what happened back then¡­"


    "That happened in the past, Uncle Zhou. There is no need to bring it up now!" Li Hanqiang interjected Zhou Zhengzheng''s statement with a smile.


    Zhou Zhengzhong proceeded to remain silent for a good long while, then suddenly said, "Little Qiang, I''ll leave you with a number. If you find anything suspicious going on in your life, call that number immediately. That person is my friend, he will help you."


    "What does that mean?" Li Hanqiang was shocked.


    Uncle Zhou never explained anything and had instead sent him that number, proceeding to hastily hang up.


    After the call ended, Li Hanqiang was stunned for a good moment. However, he had decided to leave things be. After saving the number that Zhou Zhengzhong had sent earlier, he proceeded to ignore it.


    "Stop thinking about it, alright? Focus on the monsters!"


    He proceeded to log into the game again. His spirits were high as he prepared for battle.


    However, before he began the attack, Li Hanqiang headed toward the Cave Dwelling of Gremlin''s Mountain. Two more acres of farmland had been cultivated, and the population cap of little gremlins was now up to 115 from 105.


    Without hesitation, Li Hanqiang proceeded to expend ten Chaotic Energy to summon ten little minions. Eight of them were assigned to the Gremlin''s Mountain Workshop, the other two followed him out of the Cave Dwelling of Gremlin''s Mountain. ;


    Li Hanqiang''s Chaotic City contained a total of 21 Chaotic Stone Slabs, the Mysterious Shop, the Fire Tower, Sword Tower, Rocket Tower, and Bright Lance Dark Arrow Tower, which each took up one slab. The Cave Dwelling of Gremlin''s Mountain and Blue Ripple Pond took four slabs in total. Four little gremlins occupied a slab each. Currently he had twelve empty spaces left.


    With this, Li Hanqiang ordered twelve little gremlins to occupy the twelve remaining spaces.


    Dark Redemption was unable to come, and Fanning Knight and Fiery Blade Sage were wandering around. Li Hanqiang did not intend to rely on adventurers to defend his city this time. Instead, he would rely on his little gremlins. ;

 Chapter 40

    Although Li Hanqiang had not planned to invite any other players to defend his city, he was still required to send out a notice for the mission.


    Rapidly, a mission notice was posted in the Chaos Temple of every major city in every region.


    ¡°Chaotic City No. 68¡¯s City Lord Li Hanqiang has announced a city defense mission. A lonely man¡¯s life is like the depths of winter. A single man holding the city does so to wine and song. This is what it¡¯s like to be invincible and there is nothing you can do about it. Come at me then, come and raid my city if you dare! @Emperor¡¯s Rich Guild!¡±


    After the mission notification had been sent out, a system¡¯s notification chimed in, ¡°Current mission joiners, 0/0¡±


    0/0 meant there were no empty slots available, indirectly forbidding any gamers from even taking part in this mission!


    After the mission notification had been sent and in order to gain more notoriety, Li Hanqiang proceeded to delay for a little longer before ending his prep time.


    This current wave monsters were all Level 14 Mountain Wolves. The total health of each of these creatures was between 1200 to 1600 Hit Points.


    The Rocket Tower was merely for show at the moment. All the melee little gremlins who did not have any Battle Carts were gathered at the final line in the rear and they were all screaming, ¡°All hail the King!¡± Not a single one of them dared to advance while the three Green Gremlins were making doughnuts with their Battle Carts on their Chaotic Stone Slabs.


    However with the Bright Lance Dark Arrow Tower in play, it appeared extremely intimidating.


    Bright Lance Dark Arrow Tower was erected next to the Sword Tower. It could fire at a rate of once every three seconds. Bright Lance and Dark Arrow would fire at the same time. Bright Lance would come out of the tiny temple door while the Dark Arrows would fire from the top of the tower, like the flash of a shadow.


    These simultaneous attacks could only be directed at a single target. Bright Lance had a chance of missing. However, the Dark Arrow could never be missed.


    Mountain Wolves were normal monsters and these creatures never knew how to dodge or block attacks. If they were lucky, they would be able to dodge the open attacks once or twice. However, it would be extremely rare for them to dodge the attack more than twice.


    Li Hanqiang was focused on the dual attacks of Bright Lance Dark Arrow Tower. He was able to see a series of frequent numbers in chains of three.


    -50, -100 then the health bar immediately dropped to zero.


    This was no different from a one-hit knockout. The effect of the attacks on a single target was basically explosive.


    The Beast Hunter was a formidable and powerful opponent and his experience points were gradually increasing.


    In this manner, the wave had lasted for three hours and it ended with Li Hanqiang¡¯s perfect and successful defense of his city. He was awarded two Chaotic Stone Slab and a Small Money Pouch.


    ¡°All hail the King!¡±


    ¡°Our King is invincible!¡±


    ¡°Only an insignificant monster, nothing to fear!¡±


    ¡°Charge! Attack!¡±


    The group of little gremlins were extremely excited at this moment and their spirits and morale were high. They were turning somersaults while the Green Gremlins made doughnuts with even more gusto.


    ¡°These were nothing more than a bunch of bootlickers!¡± Li Hanqiang had only used these gremlins as cheerleaders and although the gremlins were completely useless, they were at least stronger than a group of aunties doing line dancing.


    After a perfect defense, Li Hanqiang had once again gone up to Level 8. The mob of little green gremlins were unable to level up, they were just there as a placeholder.


    The Beast Hunter had also reached Level 4. His damage per second had increased to 60 and his experience card displayed 36/500!


    However, the rewards from this wave were trash. Li Hanqiang had only managed to receive a single Random Defensive Tower Blueprint Fragment.


    After placing the two new Chaotic Stone Slabs next to the mutated towers, Li Hanqiang proceeded to summon two more little gremlins to stand on top of that position as he immediately began another wave of battle.


    [The 68th guild master of Hundun City had started a city defense mission, the seventh wave continues! Aren¡¯t you coming to leech experience? @Zhen Deqiang, @Zhen Dejun, A-list celebrities!]


    Li Hanqiang chuckled as he sent out that mission¡¯s notification, then proceeded to immediately end his pre-battle prep. After that, the monsters appeared out of the Space-Time Wormhole. This time, it was not a wolf, it was a tiger instead!


    It was a Level 16 Feral Eyed Tiger!


    It roared while charging forward!


    Upon seeing that, all of the little gremlins were trembling in fear. Even the Green Gremlins were trembling in their boots. Li Hanqiang felt that if they were not limited to the Chaotic Stone Slab, they would have long fled the battle.


    The Feral Eyed Tiger only had 200 Hit Points more than the Mountain Wolves. However, it had a greater movement speed. It was capable of advancing six to seven meters every second.


    Even though that was the case, in three hours¡¯ time, Li Hanqiang had once again defended his city perfectly and had advanced to Level 10. The Beast Hunter was now at Level 5, its damage per second had been increased to 75 and was now slightly better than a Basic Arrow Tower.


    The reward this time was a single War Corridor Alteration Scroll.


    [War Corridor Alteration Scroll (A1): Unique item, used only by the Chaotic City Lord. Upon usage, the War Corridor will be increased by a hundred meters and it adds another Chaotic Stone Slab.]


    ¡°There¡¯s a number to these modification items, what if there are a series of items out there. However, it seems the effects of item number one are very limited. This reward is awful. Has the Emperor of Europe[1] abdicated?¡± Li Hanqiang lamented in silence. All he wanted right now was the Rapid Development Small Loot Box.


    Li Hanqiang had never used the War Corridor Alteration Scroll. When he looked at the time, he noticed it was already three in the morning. However, he was wide awake at this moment since during the monster raids, he had slept in weird patterns, which gave him enough rest.


    ¡°I can initiate another Gold Coin Challenge!¡±


    Hence without hesitation, Li Hanqiang had made his way toward the Limitless Tower and immediately started the Gold Coin Challenge.


    Almost instantly, an army of Golden Infantry appeared in neat formations. They were quick to appear and they were also quick to die, leaving behind a huge pile of silver coins on the ground.


    However, the second wave was the powerful Golden Cavalry and as usual, Li Hanqiang was still unable to stand up against it.


    The Golden Infantry and the Golden Cavalry were known as Elite Monsters. Their HP were twenty times the normal amount, hence Bright Lance Dark Arrow Tower would not be able to trigger an instant kill. According to actual analysis, the combo would yield a total damage of 2,150 points. This should have been enough to instantly kill the golden foot soldiers, but it would be unable to kill the Golden Cavalry in a single combo. However, since the Golden Cavalry had taken some damage from the Fire Tower, which shaved off half of their total hit points, the Bright Lance Dark Arrow Tower was still able to kill them with a single attack.


    However, they were just too numerous.


    Therefore, Li Hanqiang¡¯s current Gold Coin Challenge had killed a total of 248 Golden Cavalry which had yielded 40 gold coins and 40 silver coins.


    Based on this result alone, he was still unable to exceed the single yield of Chun Sanyue ever since he had received 45 gold coins in a single challenge. Despite that, he had once again made it onto the leaderboard. He was ranked in the tenth spot.


    ¡°Hahaha! I, Li Hanqiang have returned!¡± Li Hanqiang proceeded to cackle out loud as he chose to display his nickname publicly. His name was displayed onto the leaderboard.


    The little gremlins proceeded to once again praise him. They cheered, ¡°All hail the great King, our King is invincible. Our King is spectacular and majestic and our great King has returned!¡±


    Upon hearing the endless cheers, Li Hanqiang¡¯s ego was inflated at that moment. He felt the need to brag and show off his results. Hence, he proceeded to begin the eighth wave battle and once again announced his mission.


    Thus, it was almost instantly that the notification for that mission was sent. ¡°Lord of the Chaotic City No. 68 has initiated another city defense mission. He has returned to the Gold Coin Challenge Leaderboard. Hahaha, I, Li Hanqiang have returned!¡±


    The instant that message was sent, he slightly regretted his decision.


    ¡°An announcement like this is very tacky. It would only show how petty I am and would affect my majestic image. A powerful man should remain aloof and distant. I should reflect on my mistakes and be more humble and low profile. I will never be drawn to the usage of false titles,¡± Li Hanqiang reflected in silence.


    [1] Chinese internet slang that originated from gaming. It refers to the notion that European monarchs were extremely good looking and had good fortune. This in context would mean that Li Hanqiang is lamenting his lack of luck.

 Chapter 41

    The defense mission announcement by the Chaotic City Lord would appear immediately on the Mission Panel at the Chaos Temple and was no longer displayed when preparations were ended. It was in the dead of the night at three o¡¯clock when Li Hanqiang had decided to end his preparations. He thought to himself that there were probably not many who would have seen it.


    However, the three squatting King of Endurance had chanced upon it at the Chaos Temple in Tianfeng City.


    These three Kings of Endurance were Zhen Deqiang, Zhen Dejun, and Deity Robber.


    In fact, they had noticed the first mission announcement that was issued by Li Hanqiang and it was that particular mission notice that had kept them up until the announcement of the second one. In particular, they were waiting for the mission information from Chaotic City No. 68.


    In Zhen Dejun¡¯s view, Li Hanqiang was provoking him. He did not have any more Messaging Props for the Entire Server left or he would have sent something back as soon as he could.


    ¡°This Li Hanqiang is really trying to jump the leaderboard. Let me count¡­¡± Zhen Deqiang counted with his fingers. ¡°He has just opened three waves of monster attacks in a row, how can he handle them on his own?¡±


    Zhen Dejun said, ¡°I just want to know what the 0/0 at the end of the mission announcement actually means? Deity Robber, you should explain it to us.¡±


    Deity Robber was full of complaints in his heart as he had also been working part-time today. He glanced at Zhen Deqiang and thought in his heart that he was an extraordinary president to always be extremely free. He left the big guild without any monitoring, not bothering to tell them to train to level up or kill monsters. Instead, he followed him to squat at the Chaos Temple. He was also calculative with his money, calculating every penny with his own fingers to make sure he was accurate by even a single silver coin. Deity Robber had been trying to earn gold coins for the whole day, but could not even earn a single dime.


    Even after the aunties went offline, he still made himself continue until he damaged his liver, squatting stupidly at the Chaos Temple.


    Unfortunately, he was the boss of them all and Deity Robber could only yield.


    Deity Robber thought for a moment before saying, ¡°There is only one explanation for this. It probably means that there are no idle Chaotic Stone Slabs at Li Hanqiang¡¯s Chaotic City. I think he has filled all of them with defensive towers. He has a standalone city defense and does not want the support of any adventurer players.¡±


    ¡°How many defensive towers would he have needed to build then?¡± Zhen Deqiang counted with his fingers again but could not seem to figure it out so he only said, ¡°It seems that this guy must have a lot of gold coins. How much did he collect?¡±


    ¡°Brother, what should I do? I yelled out about it so loudly previously. Isn¡¯t what Li Hanqiang is doing right now just like a slap to our faces[1]?¡± Zhen Dejun said.


    Zhen Deqiang pointed at Deity Robber. ¡°You! Come up with some other ideas!¡±


    ¡®I will say fart¡­¡¯ Deity Robber cursed silently in his heart. Li Hanqiang was not short on money if he could defend the city alone. What could be done about this?


    After holding back for a while, Deity Robber could only say, ¡°I will not level up in the future and just wait for his city defense mission. As long as players are allowed to receive it, I will bring the aunties over with me. As long as he fails at least once to defend the city, the development of his city will fall behind. He cannot keep relying on the Defensive Towers all the time. He will still need to rely on other players in the end.¡±


    ¡°Stupid!¡± Zhen Deqiang stared at Deity Robber. ¡°What if Li Hanqiang releases his city defense task in the middle of the night? There is no way the aunties will be able to go online on time! Are there no other methods that involve a bit of violence? Can we not just directly attack his Chaotic City!¡±


    Deity Robber shook his head. ¡°Don¡¯t even think about that at this stage. It might be possible when we get our hands on void airships after the release of Empire Camps in the future. However¡­ I have also heard that there is a kind of prop known as ¡®Siege Order¡¯ during the closed beta test. This prop is dedicated to the Chaotic City Lord and can be used to start a siege on a designated Chaotic City. However this prop can only be dropped after the death of a Level 20 BOSS or higher and the probability of it dropping is extremely low. If you can get one, maybe it can be used to attack Li Hanqiang¡¯s city.¡±


    ¡°A Level 20 BOSS?¡± Zhen Deqiang thought about this for a while before saying, ¡°I will send someone to refresh for the BOSS at dawn. If it¡¯s just a Siege Order, can¡¯t I just buy it off someone even if I can¡¯t fight for it? Even then, we will still need a Chaotic City Lord if we want to attack his city, right?¡±


    ¡°Elder brother, why don¡¯t you contact Chun Sanyue of the Qiankun League!¡± Zhen Dejun said. ¡°He is a Chaotic City Lord!¡±


    Zhen Deqiang nodded and said, ¡°I have grown up together with that useless Chun Sanyue. While he isn¡¯t a brave person, he can sure do surreptitious things!¡±


    He looked at Deity Robber and said, ¡°You will still have to continue with your espionage. It¡¯s better to find out what is going on over at Li Hanqiang¡¯s place and get more information on the types and numbers of defensive towers that he has. Knowing the enemy and yourself will ensure you are unscathed even through a hundred battles[2]. Since Li Hanqiang seems to have a limited IQ range, this task should be very simple!¡±


    ¡°Sure!¡± Deity Robber nodded¡­


    Back at Li Hanqiang¡¯s place, the monster attacks had already begun and he was having his regrets over it.


    To give himself a short moment of enjoyment, he had opened up the eighth wave of monster attacks just to send out that particular mission notification. However, this wave of monster attacks was not as easy to defend against!


    The monsters attacking the city were Level 18 Saber-Toothed Tigers with 1,600 to 2,000 HP. Including the Beast Hunter, Li Hanqiang only had four Defensive Towers that could fight and its damage output could not keep up.


    The team of little gremlins were useless and Li Hanqiang could only glare at them anxiously. When the Elite Monster, the Level 18 Iron Claw Saber-Toothed Tiger, appeared from the Space-Time Wormhole, it made things turn from bad to worse[3] as the monsters were finally able to cross the defense line.


    The missing Saber-Toothed Tigers pounced towards the Chaos¡¯ Core and disappeared as if jumping directly into a black hole. Following that, the Chaotic Energy within the Chaos¡¯ Core decreased accordingly.


    Fortunately, Li Hanqiang still had the Small Chaotic Bottles with him and not many of the Saber-Toothed Tigers had leaked through his defensive lines. As soon as he saw any escaping Saber-Toothed Tigers beyond the Defensive Towers¡¯ attack range, he infused more Chaotic Energy into the Chaos¡¯ Core. Eventually, all the Chaotic Energy in the Small Chaotic Bottles were fully exhausted. At the end of the battle, he had managed to preserve three points of Chaotic Energy in the Chaos¡¯ Core.


    The monster attacks ended and Li Hanqiang received a shameful evaluation of city defense. Because of this, he did not receive any perfect city defense rewards.


    ¡°Extreme joy turns into sorrow[4]. Those who play too much shall die!¡±


    Li Hanqiang sighed and was almost terrified by his own devilish impulses. He saw in detail what had happened to Fat Tiger Really Doesn¡¯t Know after he had failed to defend the city. If he himself had failed his own city defense this time, it would be as good as failing on a good chess game[5]. That would have really made him weep inconsolably.


    As if in response to Li Hanqiang¡¯s shameful city defense, all the rewards given to him for defending the city were extremely useless. Li Hanqiang only got a single Chaotic Stone Slab, causing him to rage and almost knock his head against the wall.


    At that moment, the sky was already bright. Li Hanqiang sighed and went offline in shame. However, at the headquarters of Qiankun Technology Company, Chun Sanyue has just signed in online.


    Chun Sanyue felt particularly refreshed that day. Last night, he bought himself a batch of gold coins and together with the reserves in his own Chaotic Treasury, he finally managed to upgrade his Chaos¡¯ Core.


    ¡°It is said that when the Chaos¡¯ Core reaches Level 2, I can get a Chief Officer. Today, I shall take a look at what is so mysterious about this political officer.¡±


    Chun Sanyue stood in front of the Chaos¡¯ Core. With a single thought in his mind, together with the consumption of 1,000 gold coins, the Chaos¡¯ Core quickly expanded to double its original size. A light shined from above and it was now upgraded to Level 2.


    Following that, system notifications began to sound.


    [Ding, the Chaos¡¯ Core has upgraded to Level 2. The limit of Chaotic Energy has been increased to 1,000. A consumption of 5,000 gold coins can be used to upgrade the Chaos¡¯ Core to Level 3.]


    [Ding, respectable Chaos City Lord, the Chief Officer is being created for you. The Chief Officer has a random talent ability that can help you manage the Chaotic City more efficiently. As the level of the Chief Officer increases, many functional buildings will be unlocked. May the players explore the details by themselves.]


    [Ding, respectful Chaotic City Lord, please pay attention and protect the Chief Officer. The Chief Officer has its own personality setting and cannot be resurrected once dead.]


    [Ding, respectful Chaotic City Lord, your Chief Officer has been created and is coming!]


    [Ding, respectful Chaotic City Lord, you can now choose to join one of the Empire Camps. After successfully joining, you will get an Empire Ranking and a void airship. The currently available Empire Camps are: Red Dragon Empire Camp, Magic Dragon Empire Camp, and Star Dragon Empire camp.]


    [1] The original term in Chinese is [´òÁ³] and means to slap one¡¯s mouth or their words are inconsistent. In this context, it means that Zhen Dejun is worried that his words are inconsistent with his current actions.


    [2] This is a Chinese idiom from Sunzi¡¯s ¡®The Art of War¡¯. ¡®The Art of War¡¯ is an ancient Chinese military treatise dating from the Late Spring and Autumn Period (roughly 5th century BC). It contains 13 chapters and each one is devoted to an aspect of warfare and how it applies to military strategy and tactics. The idiom used in the context by the author is [Öª¼ºÖª±Ë,°ÙÕ½²»´ù] and the meaning is when you understand your enemies, you would be able to win a hundred battles.


    [3] This is a Chinese idiom [Ñ©ÉϼÓ˪] and the direct translation means to add hail to snow. The author used this to show that one disaster is happening on top of another.


    [4] This is a Chinese idiom [ÀÖ¼«Éú±¯] and the direct translation means to not celebrate too soon as things could still go wrong.


    [5] This is a Chinese saying, it means to have a bad outcome for a good situation. The original term in Chinese is [ÏÂÀÃÁËÒ»Å̺ÃÆå].

 Chapter 42

    ¡°Choose camps? Three empires, three camps¡­¡±


    After thinking about it for a short while, Chun Sanyue responded to the system and chose to join the Red Dragon Empire.


    [Ding, congratulations to the player for successfully joining the Red Dragon Empire Camp.]


    [Ding, you have obtained the Empire Ranking in the Red Dragon Empire Camp. You are currently a soldier. You can improve your ranking by completing empire missions and gaining military achievement. The player can explore the specific details by themselves.]


    [Ding, the Red Dragon Empire is delivering a void airship to your Chaotic City and it is expected to arrive at 0:00 on the 1st of September, 2069.]


    As soon as the three system notifications were over, a glorious ray of light flashed in front of Chun Sanyue. A young monk who looked as if he had been carved out of jade[1] appeared from thin air.


    The young monk had red dots on his eyebrows, his hands folded together as he wore a golden kasaya[2]. There was also a glowing Buddha ring behind his head. Although he looked like he was only four to five years old, he had an aloof personality.


    There was no doubt that this was his Chief Officer.


    Chun Sanyue quickly checked the attribute information of his Chief Officer.


    ¡ª


    Name: Huixin


    Level: 1


    Occupation: Chief Officer


    Camp: Red Dragon Empire


    Loyalty: 50


    Character: Timid


    Hit Points: 100


    Talent Ability: Persuasion, Chief Officer Huixin oversees the Chaotic City and has a very small chance to directly instigate the monsters attacking the city to join the Chaotic City instead.


    ¡ª


    ¡°A young monk? And his character is actually timid!¡± Chun Sanyue frowned slightly, not very satisfied by this.


    It was said that the image of the Chief Officer was randomly created by the system. Random images of fantasy, magic, and science fiction were all possible and he himself would have liked a model of beauty, fairies, female secretaries, or so on. How did he end up getting a young monk?


    But the young monk had a very good talent.


    The young monk Huixin politely nodded to Chun Sanyue and said, ¡°Honorable City Lord, little monk Huixin is here to report and willingly serve you.¡±


    ¡°OK!¡± Chun Sanyue nodded, looking just like a leader as he said, ¡°Tell me, what can you do?¡±


    ¡°I am a Chief Officer so naturally, I have all the functions of a Chief Officer. The Chaotic City has just been built and there are a thousand things that must be done. I will facilitate the construction of the ¡®City Defense Center¡¯ as many tasks can be refreshed in the City Defense Center. After the completion of the tasks, lots of rewards can be gained, such as unlock the Stone Slab technology, obtaining migrants, constructing walls, opening up territories, and so on. The City Lord can hand over the tasks of city defense and internal affairs to me.¡± The young monk Huixin spoke in the voice of a four or five-year-old child but had the serious expression of a young adult on his face.


    Chun Sanyue nodded and said, ¡°Then you should go to work quickly. Don¡¯t think you can be lazy just because you are a child. I will fire you if you cannot perform!¡±


    The face of the young monk Huixin quickly turned pale. ¡°City Lord, please feel reassured as I will go to work now.¡±


    He glanced around and said, ¡°Oh, City Lord, there is no workforce right now. If it¡¯s just me alone, it will take three days to build the City Defense Center!¡±


    ¡°Three days? Don¡¯t be a slacker. I, the City Lord, will only give you two days. The City Defense Center must be built in two days and there will be no room for discussion, or else¡­¡± Chu Sanyue[3] was used to being a bully and was about to say things like I will deduct your salary and so on. However, he suddenly remembered that the young monk in front of him was not his own staff, so he waved his hand and said, ¡°If you can¡¯t build it in two days, I will throw you to the monsters attacking the city and let them kill you!¡±


    Huixin was frightened by this as tears started to flow. He quickly said, ¡°I will work hard, I will work hard!¡±


    After saying that, he immediately ran towards the back of the Chaos¡¯ Core and pouted on his little ass while drawing patterns on the ground with his fingers.


    [Ding, the Chaos City Building, ¡®City Defense Center¡¯ has been unlocked.]


    [Ding, your Chief Officer is drawing the ¡®City Defense Center Summoning Circle¡¯. The estimated time of completion is 48 hours.]


    Chun Sanyue laughed proudly as he heard the system notifications.


    All Chief Officers had their own personalities. To put it bluntly, they were the equivalent of virtual humans and would all have their own slippery human habits. With that in mind, some management methods were required. As he observed, casually frightening the young monk had actually improved his work efficiency?


    Chun Sanyue secretly felt he was wise as he stood next to the young monk Huixin just to scared him around with his harsh tone without doing anything else.


    With young monk Huixin¡¯s timid personality, his work efficiency really had improved despite the tears in his eyes. The completion time for the City Defense Center Summoning Circle was rapidly shortened¡­


    After filling his stomach, Li Hanqiang disbanded the group of gremlins beside the War Corridor as soon as he went online.


    These little gremlins had not left the Chaotic Stone Slabs while he was offline, playing on the Stone Slabs by pushing around the wheelbarrow and doing somersaults. Li Hanqiang sent them all back to the Cave Dwelling in Gremlin¡¯s Mountain.


    The fact was that he was actually a little disappointed. The little gremlins failed to change jobs even after three waves of monster attacks! He was originally looking forward to a few of the little gremlins changing into either Little Drill Gremlins or Little Thunder Gremlins.


    When he reached the Blue Ripple Pond, he saw five of the ten little gremlins dozing, two of them doing somersaults while another one was practicing his handstand. The remaining two were simply releasing all the small fishes they had caught.


    ¡°No way, no way. I have to observe these little gremlins while they are fishing or their efficiency will be too low!¡± Li Hanqiang sighed.


    Players could fish idly but the little gremlins could not fish when they were dozing off. With their mischievous personalities, if nobody paid attention, half of the time they spent would be wasted on invalid fishing.


    Li Hanqiang could not help but lecture the ten fishing gremlins. Later when he checked the system records, he saw that the little gremlins had actually released all the fishes caught. One of them was a Tyrant King Crab, an elite mount.


    Whether releasing the fishes was equivalent to breeding them in the pond still needed to be verified. Now that he had missed an elite mount, Li Hanqiang felt like his heart was being stabbed by a knife. He could not help but single out and hit the little gremlin who had released the Tyrant King Crab.


    He looked into the Fish Basket again, managing to get a blue grade River Clam Shell. This was actually a one-handed shield that could add 20 points of physical defense and magic resistance each. These attributes were considered as good as they could be.


    There was also a Ceramic Jar, and its attribute information stated that it was a cultural relic. It had no actual usage but could be sold for 10 gold coins.


    After Li Hanqiang threw the Ceramic Jar into the Mysterious Shop, the potion dealers finally arrived. The first one was Big Trader, followed by Little Liuzi.


    The Deity Robber was the third person to teleport over to Li Hanqiang¡¯s. He was looking around at his surroundings with his triangular eyes as he yawned.


    Something was not quite right. Why were there so many free Chaotic Stone Slabs and only four Defensive Towers!


    Had he not filled the Chaotic Stone Slabs by building Defensive Towers on them? How did that work?


    The Deity Robber quickly discovered the Rocket Tower and Bright Lance Dark Arrow Tower. The two defensive towers had strange shapes, which made him very curious.


    He did not recognize what kind of defensive towers they were and he could not see their attribute information. According to the information circulated during the closed beta testing, the level of defensive towers were related to their height. The height of first-level defensive towers was between 10 to 20 meters and the height of second-level defensive towers was between 20 to 30 meters.


    According to that statement, these two new defensive towers were only first-level defensive towers.


    ¡°With the addition of another two first-level Defensive Towers, Li Hanqiang was able to defend against three waves of monster attacks?¡±


    Deity Robber felt that this was a little unfathomable.


    He absentmindedly purchased a large number of potions and received his subsidies from Li Hanqiang. However, he was not in a rush to leave, and instead he smiled while inching closer to Li Hanqiang and pointed at the Bright Lance Dark Arrow Tower. ¡°Brother Qiang, what Defensive Tower is this? It looks very powerful.¡±


    ¡°This is an amazing tower!¡± Li Hanqiang waved. ¡°You can come with me. I want to do an experiment!¡±


    He took Deity Robber to the side of the Bright Lance Dark Arrow Tower and said, ¡°Stand still and don¡¯t move!¡±


    Deity Robber did not know what was about to happen but he did as he was instructed. He kept looking at the Rocket Tower and the Bright Lance Dark Arrow Tower while making his own random guesses.


    Li Hanqiang smiled as he pointed at the Bright Lance Dark Arrow Tower and said, ¡°This Defensive Tower is known as the ¡®Free Trip Back to the City Tower¡¯!¡±


    [1] The term is [·ÛµñÓñ×Á]in Chinese, it means a person has fair skin. Just like how people put white and fine powder on their face, also like a smooth jade that was polished. It is normally used to describe people that are radiant and bright.


    [2] Kasaya is a patchwork outer vestment worn by a Buddhist monk.


    [3] The author made a mistake, he meant to say Chun Sanyue but made a typo.

 Chapter 43

    Li Hanqiang moved his thoughts after finishing his sentence and the Bright Lance Dark Arrow Tower attacked Deity Robber.


    Both the Bright Lance and Dark Arrows struck him!


    -50, -100, -1000!


    The three damage figures appeared one after another from Deity Robber¡¯s head. He was only a Level 5 robber with 250 HP and was instantly killed on the spot.


    ¡°Are players defaulted by the system as being a BOSS?¡± Li Hanqiang was a little disappointed as he wanted to experiment with the damage effect of the Bright Lance Dark Arrow Tower on players.


    Judging from the results, the players were actually treated like BOSS-level monsters. When the guns and arrows both attacked together, only 1,000 points of damage could be triggered.


    Of course, the injury itself was already considered ridiculous.


    After returning Deity Robber to the city for free, Li Hanqiang went to the Blue Ripple Pond. He did not want to miss any more elite mounts so he would need to observe the group of little gremlins himself.


    Half an hour later, Deity Robber came by again. After being returned by Li Hanqiang to the city in mere seconds, he was not annoyed at all. In fact, after buying his potions, he tried to get closer to Li Hanqiang again.


    ¡°Brother Qiang, is this defensive tower really known as the ¡®Free Trip Back to the City Tower¡¯? It could actually take me down in seconds!¡± Deity Robber did not care about his levels at all. He paced leisurely around the War Corridor at that moment, his hands behind his back with an inquisitive look. Suddenly pointing at the Rocket Tower, he asked again, ¡°What is the name of this defensive tower? Can you show me its attribute information?¡±


    ¡°This is an even more powerful defensive tower that is known as the ¡®Kill You Three Thousand Tower¡¯!¡±


    After Li Hanqiang finished his sentence, the swords rose in a flash, accompanied by the Bright Lance and Dark Arrows as Deity Robber was attacked by the Sword Tower and Bright Lance Dark Arrow Tower at the same time. Once again, he was killed in a matter of seconds.


    ¡°This is my place, so what is that little kid doing around here?¡±


    Li Hanqiang snorted. He did not intend to let Deity Robber wander around his Chaotic City and decided that he would send him back free of charge to the city every time he visited in the future.


    Just like that, the Deity Robber was ¡®returned to the city free of charge¡¯ three times in a row and was reduced to Level 1. He became sincere after he understood Li Hanqiang¡¯s thoughts and without a word, he teleported back directly after buying the potions.


    Time flew by fast and by the time evening had come, Deity Robber was unable to move anymore and stopped coming over to sell more potions.


    It was up until ten o¡¯clock in the evening when Little Liuzi could also not bear it anymore.


    Big Trader insisted on being up until twelve o¡¯clock at night, before finally going offline due to his deep exhaustion.


    When the night was finally quiet, Li Hanqiang was still energetic as he glanced at his income. He had reached a total of 1,230 gold coins and the Chaos¡¯ Core could finally be upgraded.


    In addition, the little gremlins fishing at the Blue Ripple Pond managed to harvest a Small Chaotic Bottle and a Bright Green Turtle Shell.


    ¡°It¡¯s time to Change Tower again!¡±


    Since he had just returned to the Gold Coin Challenge Leaderboard, Li Hanqiang did not want this to be a one-time thing. He felt that he needed to get a few more mutant towers in order to stabilize his ranking and planned to wait for the tenth wave of monster attacks before upgrading his Chaos¡¯ Core.


    In his mind, it would be a huge loss for him if he did not use the Change Tower Passive Skill to change his towers during the early stages of the game. Besides that, why did he need to be in a rush to upgrade the Chaos¡¯ Core when he was still able to create enough impact against several waves of monster attacks on the city by himself?


    Li Hanqiang spent 1,000 gold coins to buy ten Basic Arrow Tower Construction Blueprints. One Small Chaotic Bottle had 100 Chaotic Energy, which was just enough to change ten towers.


    He did not recruit the Little Gremlin¡¯s Acrobatic Troupe to help this time and instead, ran to the Blue Ripple Pond to release a large number of small fishes first by himself. He then paid his respects to his surroundings before beginning his tower changes.


    The results he got showed him that his luck had not increased by much. Only four out of the ten Basic Arrow Towers successfully mutated, regardless of the 50% probability rate set by the system. Fortunately, all the mutated towers were very powerful as they had turned into Bright Lance Dark Arrow Towers.


    ¡°No losses!¡±


    Li Hanqiang laughed. His current Defensive Tower configuration was Fire Tower ¡Á1, Beast Hunter ¡Á1, Sword Tower ¡Á1, Bright Lance Dark Arrow Tower ¡Á5, and Rocket Tower ¡Á1.


    With his experience from the previous waves, the ninth wave of monsters attacking the city would be at Level 20 with around 1800 to 2200 HP. Their numbers should not exceed 20,000, which meant that the time frame for battle would last at least three hours.


    By his calculations, the Bright Lance Dark Arrow Tower carried out one attack every three seconds. If he was lucky, this meant he would be able to kill five monsters in three seconds. That would be 100 monsters in one minute and 6,000 in just an hour!


    Li Hanqiang felt that with his current defensive firepower would be more than enough to challenge the ninth wave of monster attacks.


    ¡°Yesterday, I ended up with a shameful city defense. It will not happen again this time!¡± Li Hanqiang was so determined that he opened the ninth wave without hesitation. This time, he did not recruit the gremlins to occupy the Stone Slabs again as they had no attack power and could not change jobs. Instead, It was better for them to carry out research and develop technologies.


    As for the city defense mission announcement, Li Hanqiang did nothing naughty this time and sent out an announcement with no additional content.


    In contrast to Li Hanqiang¡¯s own expectations, 15 rays of light suddenly appeared and came down from the sky, filling all the Chaotic Stone Slabs before he had the time to end his war preparations.


    On the Chaotic Stone Slab at the front, Deity Robber smiled and waved at Li Hanqiang. ¡°Brother, are you defending the city again? Let me help you this time. I will fight the monsters with all my might!¡±


    Li Hanqiang almost fell over head first from the sky. This f*cking Deity Robber had teleported over with the group of aunties again.


    The aunties were not asleep in the middle of the night and had actually squatted around waiting for his city defense task!


    What kind of operation was this!


    At that moment, Deity Robber secretly pondered on Zhen Deqiang¡¯s magical calculations as this had all been arranged by him. He made the group of aunties work the night shift and paid them each a subsidy of 100 yuan. It was unbelievable that they had managed to get Li Hanqiang¡¯s city defense mission.


    Li Hanqiang¡¯s face turned dark as he said, ¡°I cannot figure this out just how much hatred there is for me. Is it appropriate to torment a group of aunties just to squat around to wait for my city defense mission?¡±


    The group of aunties were actually quite resentful at this. It was fine for them to sell potions during the day now they had to work the night shift too. It was not easy for them to even earn a small amount of money.


    Sister Pomegranate waved at Li Hanqiang and said, ¡°Young man, we meet again. As you can see, my level has not moved at all from that day up until now.¡±


    Red Wine Rose sighed. ¡°Apart from selling potions, that has been all that we have done for the past two days. I can¡¯t stand it anymore so it is not a bad idea to come here in the middle of the night to level up!¡±


    ¡°Yes, coming here to level up is easier than selling potions,¡± chimed Fragrant Grass in the Horizon.


    Li Hanqiang was speechless. This group of aunties were treating his place as a leveling field.


    Deity Robber shouted again, ¡°Brother Qiang, Brother Qiang, don¡¯t think too much. My body is there but my heart belongs here[1]. I am definitely going to fight the monsters with all my might today. Let¡¯s end the war preparations as I am already scratching my hands in excitement.¡±


    ¡°You are just at Level 1! Do I really look like I need your attack power?¡±


    The more Li Hanqiang looked at Deity Robber, the angrier he grew. Without saying anything else, he silently took control of the Fire Tower and Deity Robber burst into flames for no reason. In two seconds, he was teleported ¡®back to the city for free¡¯ again.


    ¡°Oh no, the captain has died!¡±


    ¡°Young man, why did you kill our captain? He was such a wonderful person and led us in carrying out our daily tasks!¡±


    ¡°Yeah, don¡¯t kill him in the future as he is a good man¡­¡±


    After the aunties found out that Deity Robber had been killed and sent back, they immediately started chattering amongst themselves.


    Li Hanqiang stood in the air and sighed. ¡°A great man has to be ruthless! Aunties, you guys are really strong. Please return some experience to me so that all of you can rest early.¡±


    After saying that, Li Hanqiang took control of the tower and sent the aunties ¡®back to the city for free¡¯.


    [1] ] This term is [ÉíÔÚ²ÜÓªÐÄÔÚºº] and comes from a story in China which writes about the three kingdom dynasty. In the novel, The Tales of Three Kingdoms, one of the general, Guan Yu, was so loyal to his King, Liu Bei, that when he was lost and welcomed into the other party¡¯s camp, Cao Cao¡¯s camp, he did not waver under the temptation of treasures and majestic feasts. Even though his body was in the Cao Camp, his heart was in the Han Camp. In modern days, this idiom is used to describe when someone longs for something else or another job even though he has one at the moment. Due to his loyalty, Guan Yu was worshipped by the Chinese police and businessmen even to this day.

 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.]

 Chapter 45

    Li Hanqiang held the ¡®Signboard Flag¡¯ that looked like a folding umbrella and sighed. ¡°This is a toy and is not even as useful as the wheelbarrow. At least the wheelbarrow is a chariot. This prop is useless and this raid has been a failure!¡±


    He put away the Signboard Flag and was about to continue leading the team to carry another raid when a Green Gremlin, the first one to own a wheelbarrow, suddenly began to emit a shining white light from his body. He threw the wheelbarrow aside, which he had never let go of, and suddenly spurt up in height.


    [Ding, your Green Gremlin has gone through arduous training and has successfully upgraded into a Little Drill Gremlin. Its level has increased by ten and its abilities have been greatly improved!]


    The Green Gremlin changed in the blink of an eye, its height reaching 1.5 to 1.6 meters. Although it was still wearing a close-fitting upper garment and shorts, there was a ¡®Little Drill Gremlin Token¡¯ around its waist and the green hair on its head was denser and greener. He looked just like a Green Gremlin PLUS.


    ¡ª


    Name: Little Drill Gremlin (Green Gremlin)


    Occupation: Militia


    Level: 11


    HP: 1100


    Physical Attack Power: 11


    Skills: Little Drill Gremlin Ring of Light, passive skill. Increases the little gremlin¡¯s movement speed by 1 point per second


    Attack Distance: Melee


    Description: Little Drill Gremlin is the advanced job of the Green Gremlin. It has a common monster template and can command a ten gremlin team. It is good at patrolling the mountains and can be upgraded to a Big Drill Gremlin after arduous training. Upgrade the Cave Dwelling of Gremlin¡¯s Mountain or develop the Gremlin Mountain¡¯s Technology to upgrade the level of the Green Gremlin.


    ¡ª


    Li Hanqiang¡¯s eyes lit up.


    Just a glance at the attribute data of the Little Drill Gremlin made it seem useless. It was a standard, ordinary monster template. However, compared to the Green Gremlins, this was a big leap forward and just one of them could replace a group of little gremlins.


    At the same time, the Little Drill Gremlin existed as a ¡®captain¡¯ as it could command a ten gremlin team and also owned the ¡®Little Drill Gremlin Ring of Light¡¯!


    This was great!


    The running speed of the little gremlins was observed to be about five meters per second. It could be increased to six meters per second when following a Little Drill Gremlin. Together with the wheelbarrow, it could reach 7 meters per second, which was even faster than Li Hanqiang¡¯s Float Walking.


    Li Hanqiang quickly thought, ¡®Could this Little Drill Gremlin lead the ten gremlin teams to enter the Raid Clone?¡¯


    If it could, it would be better at leading the team as compared to him. After all, he had nothing, with no attack power and slow walking speed.


    ¡°Little Drill Gremlin!¡± Li Hanqiang shouted.


    The Little Drill Gremlin was much smarter than the Green Gremlins and quickly bowed to Li Hanqian, ¡°What does my King wish for!¡±


    Li Hanqiang pointed to the Raid Clone. ¡°Can you lead the team to carry out raids?¡±


    Little Drill Gremlin nodded continuously. ¡°As a gremlin, raiding is compulsory homework. Although I am better at carrying out mountain patrol, my ability to carry out raids is not that bad. However, it is necessary to pay for raids. My King, you must first pay 10 gold coins to raid or you will not be allowed entry!¡±


    ¡°Oh, it actually knows that the raids require money!¡± Li Hanqiang was happy. The 10 gold coins consumed to open a Raid Clone could now be kept by the Little Drill Gremlin instead.


    However, Li Hanqiang still did not dare to fully trust the Little Drill Gremlin as it was still a little gremlin and absolutely naughty to the core.


    Moreover, even if it could lead the raid, did it know how to lead the team to retreat? What would it do if they encountered a clone of ordinary difficulty or above?


    After thinking about it for a while, Li Hanqiang decided to test out the raiding ability of the Little Drill Gremlin first and said, ¡°Let¡¯s go. Follow me and carry out a raid!¡±


    ¡°Yes, my King!¡± The Little Drill Gremlin respectfully received the order. It turned around and shouted with his hands at his waist, ¡°You guys, drive the chariot and follow us!¡±


    After the command was made, the group of little gremlins immediately gathered.


    The height of the Little Drill Gremlin was 1.5 to 1.6 meters and so he could no longer push the wheelbarrow. His chariot was now inherited by another Green Gremlin.


    Including the wheelbarrow that was robbed earlier, Li Hanqiang¡¯s ten gremlin team now had a total of four wheelbarrows.


    The four little gremlins that owned the wheelbarrows were the most energetic. They pushed the wheelbarrows with their heads raised and their chests held high like they were leader generals.


    They entered the Raid Clone quickly. Li Hanqiang¡¯s luck was good as they encountered a very simple clone.


    He did not need to give any orders this time as the Little Drill Gremlin glanced forward and immediately shouted, ¡°You guys, there are goblin peddlers at the front. Drive your chariot and rush forward following me!¡±


    The group of little gremlins immediately responded and rushed forward with the Little Drill Gremlin.


    Li Hanqiang followed behind them. The speed of the gremlins had obviously increased and they were now much faster than him as he walked in the air.


    The goblin peddler was still Bingjiu. As usual, he immediately packed up his store and tried to escape as soon as he saw the little gremlin who were coming to rob him. However, the results were now different from the previous time. The Little Drill Gremlin moved forward with somersaults and its speed was extremely fast. When it reached Bing Jiujiu, it hit him with its fists.


    The attack power of the Little Drill Gremlin was not the same as the little gremlins anymore, with an increase of up to 11 points. Bing Jiujiu was only a Level 3 goblin peddler and was soon beaten up until he had the tiniest trace of HP left as he lied still on the ground.


    The group of little gremlins also rushed forward at that time and smashed Bing Jiujiu¡¯s stall into a mess in an instant. After that, almost all of the little gremlins began to pick up items. This included teapots, iron bowls, wooden barrels, bottles, cans, and so on.


    The Little Drill Gremlin was quite prestigious and shouted loudly at that moment, ¡°We have finished working!¡±


    The group of little gremlins cheered as their surroundings quickly changed the next second. Li Hanqiang and the group of little gremlins were returned to the front of the raid entrance.


    [Ding, congratulations on your successful raid, you have obtained 1 wheelbarrow, 5 bound gold coins, and a few random grocery items.]


    Li Hanqiang felt satisfied after he heard the system notification and immediately stepped forward to check the items robbed by the little gremlins. He found out that the random grocery items did not have any attributes, similar to Red and Green Carps. They could be sold in any store at a low price, fetching a total of less than 3 gold coins.


    The group of little gremlins took these groceries as loot and shouted their desire to deposit them in the Strategic Location.


    Li Hanqiang did not collect the odd grocery items from them as he was already very satisfied. He opened another Raid Clone but now encountered a clone of ordinary difficulty. The robbery target was an Orc Business Group with hundreds of Level 30 Bear-head Guards.


    ¡°This clone cannot be raided¡­¡±


    Li Hanqiang had just said a few words before turning his head to see that the Little Drill Gremlin had already run away with the little gremlins.


    ¡°Run quickly, the guards of this business group have a higher level than us! Carrying out this raid means death! There are more raids to be carried out if we keep our lives. Our lives come first and raids come second. All of you, quickly run with me¡­¡±


    After saying this, the Little Drill Gremlin generated wind at the bottom of its feet, being the first one to run out of the Raid Clone. It was estimated to be running at 100 meters in 10 seconds.


    ¡°Run, run¡­¡±


    ¡°Run quickly!¡±


    ¡°Follow big brother Little Drill Gremlin¡­¡±


    The speed of the group of little gremlins also soared to its fastest, acting extremely cowardly.


    Li Hanqiang was surprisingly happy.


    He was not afraid that the Little Drill Gremlin had escaped as he had been more concerned that it would bring the little gremlins in to make robberies without giving it any thoughts. That would have been a problem as if the raids failed, they would have been beaten and if the little gremlins themselves died, it would have been a miserable loss.


    Before returning to the raid entrance, Li Hanqiang summoned the Little Drill Gremlin to his front and said, ¡°Not bad, not bad. You are doing very well. I am ordering you to lead the team to carry out raids in the future! Remember, only carry out simple raids. If you enter Raid Clones that have a difficulty level above simple, don¡¯t think about it and just run away.¡±


    He did not know if the Little Drill Gremlin could understand it, but the Little Drill Gremlin patted his chest with a look as if he had and said, ¡°My King, please be rest assured that I am a professional when it comes to raids. Lives are first and raids come second. I would not rob anyone with a higher level than me.¡±


    Li Hanqiang believed that at this point as it could be seen from the Little Drill Gremlin¡¯s performance that it was afraid of losing its own life. While it was not easy to see yet if it were a professional in raids, it was definitely an absolute professional at running.

 Chapter 46

    Li Hanqiang made a decision in his heart as he waved his hand and generously handed over 100 gold coins to the Little Drill Gremlin. After that, he transferred ten little gremlins from the Gremlin Mountain Workshop to form a ten gremlin team for it to lead.


    ¡°Carry out the raids well. I am optimistic about you!¡± Li Hanqiang said, enthusiastic.


    The Little Drill Gremlin tucked 100 gold coins into his trouser belt one by one. It took about five to six minutes of doing so before patting its chest and saying, ¡°My King, you can rest assured!¡±


    Soon, he took the ten gremlin team with him to begin carrying out raids.


    Li Hanqiang was still a little uneasy and decided to wait at the raid entrance.


    Less than a minute later, he saw the Little Drill Gremlin taking the lead as they ran out of the raid entrance. A system notification then sounded.


    [Ding, your raiding little gremlins entered a simple clone. The raid failed, loss: none.]


    ¡°They just fled back without getting any of the gremlins killed. That¡¯s not a bad thing!¡± Li Hanqiang nodded.


    The Little Drill Gremlin had a furtive look on his face and seemed to be looking forward to resting. However, as soon as he saw Li Hanqiang, he immediately became energized. He gave him a greeting before bringing the ten gremlin team to carry out another raid again.


    The results from entering another simple level clone made them return in less than a minute, directly fleeing back without much thought.


    Li Hanqiang was reserved during both encounters that the gremlin team had met with clones of ordinary difficulty. Despite that, the Little Drill Gremlin proved that he could lead the team in escaping safely on both accounts.


    ¡°Not bad, not bad!¡± Li Hanqiang was finally relieved but his face turned dark.


    This was because his luck was bad as he had just spent 40 gold coins two times in a row to get nothing from the raids. Was this not a deficit way of conducting business?


    However, that was just his luck. What could anyone else do about it to help?


    Li Hanqiang only wished that the little gremlins themselves would not have such bad luck. He thought about it as spending these gold coins would still be considered ¡®arduous training¡¯.


    The next day soon arrived as Li Hanqiang went offline for a while and got breakfast on his way back.


    He found out that Lin Banyue¡¯s morning exercises were merely carried out on a whim as now, he had caught no sight of them that morning.


    When he went online again, Li Hanqiang did not have time to check the raid results of the Little Drill Gremlin. A teleport request had been sent by Big Trader, followed by Little Liuzi.


    Gold coins were now depreciating at every moment. Li Hanqiang did not care about that but professional merchants like Big Trader were very concerned. From that morning, the purchase price of gold coins had fallen below 120 yuan, making them all very anxious.


    The profit from selling potions was actually very little. If gold coins continued to depreciate, there would be really far too little profit. If a single gold coin went down to 50 yuan, it would not be cost-efficient to sell potions this way anymore, not worth the labor needed.


    More and more money-making studios were now stationed within Endless World, speeding up the depreciation of gold coins. It was estimated that within five to six days, the selling price of gold coins would fall to below 50 yuan.


    In addition to that, Level 20 players were already appearing. Lots of guilds and money-making studios had begun training life players who specialized in potion-making and forging. Low-level potions below the system store¡¯s pricing were expected to appear within one or two days.


    This also meant that the days of making money by selling potions were almost over. Naturally, Big Trader and the others had to seize whatever time they had left.


    Once Big Trader and Little Liuzi left after getting their items, Deity Robber who wore a Dog Head Hat came again.


    ¡°Good morning, Qiang Brother! The defensive towers here are really strong. You could successfully defend the city even when all the aunties were idle. I admire you! Are you still going to continue now? Don¡¯t you want to go offline and rest?¡±


    There was no anxiety on Deity Robber¡¯s face, a happy and giggly expression resting upon it as if he had forgotten all the ¡®free returns to the city¡¯ yesterday. He looked at the Defensive Towers at a distance as if he was looking at the scenery.


    ¡°There have been changes made in Li Hanqiang¡¯s place again. The Defensive Towers have been moved and it seems that he has unlocked the Stone Slab Technology¡­¡±


    Deity Robber was not in a hurry to sell potions as Zhen Deqiang was waiting for him at the Chaos Temple.


    With the weird president constantly calculating with his fingers, Deity Robber could not get even a single dime. Where would his enthusiasm come from being a mere worker?


    Li Hanqiang looked up and down at Deity Robber before he said, ¡°Dog Head Hat, can your Emperor¡¯s Rich Guild not torment those aunties and actually do something useful instead. Why don¡¯t you guys organize thousands or ten thousands of people to buy tickets and come over to fight?


    Deity Robber smiled and said, ¡°How could there be so much money out there to buy that many tickets? Brother Qiang, allow me to tell you the truth. I am actually just a wage earner as life is not easy for me. I am just trying to earn a living under Zhen Deqiang¡¯s hands. I have nothing against you, but I am unfortunately in this situation and cannot help it.¡±


    ¡°You can¡¯t help it? Fine, the aunties need to spend gold coins when they are sent over here anyway. You can just continue to do so since I won¡¯t lose anything. People can have money but be stupid. This is just what I can say about you guys!¡±


    After he finished speaking, Li Hanqiang simply sent Deity Robber back to the city for free without even allowing him to buy any low-level potions.


    He quickly went to the Cave Dwelling in Gremlin¡¯s Mountain after that and the first thing he did was pop up the attribute panel of Cave Dwelling in Gremlin¡¯s Mountain.


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    Cave Dwelling in Gremlin¡¯s Mountain Level 1: Special building belonging to Chaotic City No. 68.


    Size: Ten-mile perimeter


    Category: Paradise, citizens¡¯ accommodations


    Little gremlin level: 1


    Current population of gremlins: 115/125


    Ore reserves: 13


    Timber reserves: 10


    Herbal reserves: 11


    Technology unlocked: Nest Shelter


    Gremlin¡¯s Mountain Architecture: Nest Shelter ¡Á1


    Description: Cave Dwelling in Gnome¡¯s Mountain can be upgraded. Please read about the conditions for upgrading.


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    The maximum number of little gremlins had been raised to 125, a natural result from reclaiming lands into plantation fields. The three resources, which were ore, herbs, and wood, were not growing fast enough. Fortunately, there were no other areas that required the consumption of these resources except for the Nest Shelter.


    ¡°Why have no other Gremlin¡¯s Mountain technologies been researched? I have sent so many little gremlins!¡±


    Li Hanqiang felt a little disappointed. Almost as if Game Creator Endless had felt his grievances as he thought about what to do, two system notifications suddenly sounded.


    [Ding: The little gremlins dug an acre of good land at the Gremlin¡¯s Mountain and the maximum number of gremlins has increased by +5.]


    [Ding: The little gremlins developed a mid-level technology called Broken Void in the Gremlin¡¯s Mountain Workshop!]


    ¡°A mid-level technology called the Broken Void!¡±


    Li Hanqiang felt that he had heard it wrongly. Listening to the name ¡®Broken Void¡¯ already made it sound like a powerful technology.


    He quickly opened the list of Gremlin¡¯s Mountain Technology to view it.


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    Broken Void: Mid-level technology, currently unlocked. The little gremlins of the Gremlin¡¯s Mountain master the Void Station construction technology.


    Construction cost of void platform: 10 ore, 10 wood


    Building demands: Little gremlins x100


    Construction time: 1 hour


    Function description: Consumes 100 points of Chaotic Energy to break the void through the Void Platform, allowing the Chaotic City Lord and the little gremlin team to raid across different Chaotic Cities. The Chaotic City Lord can specify the Chaotic City that they wish to rob and the duration for each broken void is 60 minutes.


    Description: The Void Station is a one-time building and will be written off after the Broken Void is opened.


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    ¡°Oh my god, I have finally succeeded and can soar in the sky. I can now raid across Chaotic Cities and not just Clones. This will now be a real raid! Since this is only considered a mid-level technology, I can only imagine how powerful any high or advanced-level technology would be!¡±


    After reading the description of the Broken Void technology, Li Hanqiang could not help but fantasize about bringing the little gremlins as he raided around. His heart became heated as he imagined himself already owning the world.


    However, after giving it a bit more thought, Li Hanqiang felt that this mid-level technology was actually a bit useless.


    With the current attack power of the little gremlins, they could only bully goblin peddlers. If they went to other Chaotic Cities to rob them, wouldn¡¯t that just be asking for death?

 Chapter 47

    The Red Gremlins and Green Gremlins only had 30 HP, which meant they were on the same level as the Little Black Pigs. As long as the other party had a Basic Arrow Tower, bringing them out to carry out an attack on the city would be a waste even with a thousand gremlin team. It would be even worse if they had a Fire Tower as this meant that no matter how many he sent over, all of them would die.


    Even if the Little Drill Gremlin was sent, it would all be in vain. How many attacks could 1100 HP block? At that point, it was just an ordinary Level 11 monster that could run fast.


    Furthermore, even if he could carry out a raid, what would he be able to get?


    The City Lord was invincible. The gold coins in the Chaotic Treasury were all bound to the player. Would he need to raid the Defensive Tower Shop and the Limitless Tower? Would he be able to get back his money¡¯s worth?


    He would need to first consider the costs of conducting a Chaotic City raid, which would require consuming a Void Station and 100 points of Chaotic Energy. Establishing a Void Station required using Gremlin¡¯s Mountain resources and there was also the additional little gremlin¡¯s labor that was required. With all of this, how would he be able to carry out raids that were worth it?


    After thinking about it, Li Hanqiang sighed. He no longer felt excited as when he first heard the words ¡®Broken Void¡¯ and felt that crossing to other Chaotic Cities for a raid was more inefficient than carrying out a Raid Clone. After all, opening a Raid Clone only cost 10 gold coins. Even if the little gremlins were powerful in the future, didn¡¯t the Raid Clone still have a normal and a difficult level?


    However, the ¡®Broken Void¡¯ is a mid-level technology so Li Hanqiang decided to consider it more after building a Void Platform in the future.


    Although the resources consumed by building a Void Station were not much, it still required 100 little gremlins and Li Hanqiang did not have many free gremlins at that moment.


    A moment later, Li Hanqiang went to the Strategic Location in Cave Dwelling. He did not have much Chaotic Energy and was unwilling to recruit more little gremlins. However, when he arrived, he saw the Little Drill Gremlin and his team of gremlins dozing off.


    After reviewing his system notification during the time he had been offline, the Little Drill Gremlin had only led the team to carry out one more unsuccessful raid before stopping.


    ¡°Is this group of frightened gremlins being lazy? I knew they weren¡¯t reliable with their unpredictable work efficiency. The way they are now definitely fits the bill as they obviously cannot reach any expectations, whether high or low.¡±


    Li Hanqiang kicked the little gremlins one by one to wake them. The Little Drill Gremlin was quick to wake and stood up in a hurry. Without a word, he immediately ran to the raid entrance while ushering the group of little gremlins along.


    Li Hanqiang activated his Float Walking, deciding to pay some attention to the little gremlins¡¯ raids. With the Little Drill Gremlin, he was actually looking forward to raiding for some good items from the goblin dwellers. Based on how Game Creator Endless thought, it was certainly a possibility.


    Three hours later, Li Hanqiang was full of groceries in front of him. Without paying attention, all the gold coins on him had been ¡®robbed¡¯ and he had ended up with a large pile of groceries.


    In addition, they had also managed to get five wheelbarrows and three Signboard Flags. Now, everyone in the ten gremlin team had their own chariot.


    The Little Drill Gremlin and the group of little gremlins were crowding in a group by the side, acting as if they had won a battle. Naturally, they continued to do somersaults while stacking onto each other in a pile and pushing the wheelbarrows around.


    However, the pile of groceries in front of him were just like the Red Carps and Green Carps as they had no practical value at all, all useless items that should be thrown into the store in exchange for gold coins. Despite that, their selling price was still much higher than Red Carps and Green Carps.


    Li Hanqiang squatted on the ground as he calculated for a while. With the Little Drill Gremlin leading the team on raids, they could rob groceries and bound gold coins from very simple clones. This meant that entering Raid Clones were no longer as money-wasting as before.


    However, luck was also the key as he would still lose money if they encountered clones with a difficulty of simple or above.


    Judging from today¡¯s gains, raids were still a money-losing business.


    Although the Little Drill Gremlin was at Level 11, the frightened gremlin would even escape Raid Clones of simple difficulty. He theorized that it would not be able to fight against simple difficulty clones without a hundred gremlin team.


    Li Hanqiang sighed silently and thought to himself, ¡®If you are a week person, you might even lose money in raids.¡¯


    Now that there were no more gold coins in hand, Li Hanqiang sighed and dispatched the Little Drill Gremlin and the group of gremlins to the Gremlin Mountain Workshop.


    If the pile of groceries in front of him were all resold to the Mysterious Shop, he would be able to get more than 20 gold coins. However, Li Hanqiang did not give a damn about the pile of useless items in front of him. He simply ignored the idea of packing them up as he float walked to the Blue Ripple Pond.


    The days were boring again. While idle fishing at the Blue Ripple Pond, Li Hanqiang also calculated subsidies for Big Trader and the others. Deity Robber also sent him another teleport request. Li Hanqiang did not refuse him this time, so Deity Robber returned to the potion dealer¡¯s industry. Of course, every time after he bought the potions, he was ¡®returned to the city for free¡¯.


    Li Hanqiang actually considered himself to be in a good situation.


    The reason why not many players had chosen the job of Chaotic City Lord was because it was far too boring in the early stages of the game. Too much time was spent being idle and the gameplay would only develop to be better in the later stages.


    After all, Li Hanqiang still had the Blue Ripple Pond and the Cave Dwelling in Gremlin¡¯s Mountain, which could be used for fishing and raiding. The general Chaotic City Lord could only wait idly to gain gold coins for tower purchases or find a good adventurer player and latch on to them if they could not continue to defend against the monster attacks on the city. They would need to ask adventurer players to defend the city and did not have the same kinds of freedom as them. The adventurer players could explore around, enter clones, kill a BOSS, and other things.


    Therefore, the Chaotic City Lord was a lonely profession, as the best men in the world were usually lonely.


    Time passed slowly. Around 12 o¡¯clock midnight, Li Hanqiang was busy clearing the day¡¯s harvest from the Blue Ripple Pond. He now had 1.350 gold coins and manage to catch another Small Chaotic Bottle.


    Suddenly, a system notification sounded for an anonymous player request to teleport into the city.


    Returning to the War Corridor, he saw that the person was Deity Robber. Li Hanqiang could not help but wonder why he was here and asked, ¡°Dog Head Hat, what are you doing here again!¡±


    The Deity Robber smiled and said, ¡°Brother Qiang, I am here to give you an ultimatum!¡±


    ¡°What ultimatum? Is the Emperor¡¯s Rich Guild coming to attack my city?¡± Li Hanqiang felt a little puzzled.


    The Deity Robber sighed and said, ¡°I am only responsible for bringing the words to you. Zhen Deqiang has said that he will be happy if you are upset. He wants to make you absolutely miserable unless you promise to be his obedient follower, or he will break your city and kill you.¡±


    ¡°Zhen Dechun really said that? Is he out of his mind?¡± Li Hanqiang asked.


    Deity Robber shook his head. ¡°He really said that.¡±


    ¡°Haha, when was I, Li Hanqiang, ever afraid?¡± Li Hanqiang said with an indifferent expression, ¡°Go back and tell him that if he has any tricks to just show them. I will accept them!¡±


    ¡°Fine.¡±


    Deity Robber left immediately, leaving Li Hanqiang only slightly perplexed. In the blink of an eye, he forgot the words of Deity Robber and began to wonder if he should upgrade the Chaos¡¯ Core first? Or would it be better to change a few more towers to complete the BOSS level tenth wave?


    At that moment, from Chaos City No. 69, a bright light flashed from the Space-Time Wormhole as Zhen Deqiang slowly came out while riding a big horse.


    He held a dark gold token in his hand. It was a Siege Order.


    ¡°I can get anything I want.¡± Zhen Deqiang smiled. He did not expect to get a Siege Order so quickly.

 Chapter 48

    The Siege Order was a system prop divided into nine stages. Zhen Deqiang had the lowest level, first stage Siege Order but felt that it was enough.


    ¡°When the city siege mission starts, I will see what Li Hanqiang can do.¡± Zhen Deqiang was full of fantasies. The straight brow player standing in front of him in the air was Chun Sanyue.


    Chun Sanyue had a callous look on his face as he yelled, ¡°Zhen Deqiang, you are a stupid f*cker with nothing better to do. Why do you want to carry out a city siege?¡±


    Zhen Deqiang looked down at Chun Sanyue with a defiant look and said, ¡°You are a gutless person. I as your brother have gifted you with a siege mission. Are you too afraid to accept it?¡±


    Without waiting for Chun Sanyue¡¯s reply, Zhen Deqiang said, ¡°You have been a cowardly person since childhood and still are even after growing up. It¡¯s fine if you are only a coward in reality, but you are a coward even when playing a game! Look at me. I am a person who can separate gratitude and revenge, galloping around in this wide world in pursuit of my own happiness. This is what a real man is.¡±


    ¡°Bah, you are just an idiot. You only know how to make enemies without using your brain. You lack any intelligence!¡± Chun Sanyue yelled.


    Zhen Deqiang was not annoyed. He shook his head and said, ¡°It seems like you do not understand me. I can add, subtract, multiply, and divide numbers of up to four digits in seconds with my ten fingers. Am I an unintelligent person? How can I not commit any wrongdoings when I am a person of this world. How can I just play games that are peaceful and stable! This Endless World is a confrontation game, where people are either your friends or an opponent. The ones that start first are stronger than the latecomers who suffer. I am happy if others are upset!¡±


    ¡°Such fallacious reasons and logic!¡± Chun Sanyue obviously disagreed.


    Zhen Deqiang glared and said, ¡°You can just give me a quick decision of whether you will help me to carry out an attack on the city. If you don¡¯t say yes, I will go offline now and go over to your place to beat you.¡±


    ¡°You cowardly person! You haven¡¯t even made any inquiries first about Li Hanqiang¡¯s identity. His name is hanging at the top of the Gold Coin Challenge Leaderboard. What if he is the president of a big guild? Aren¡¯t you just causing problems for yourself?¡± Chun Sanyue said.


    ¡°You are really cowardly to always be afraid of this and that. You¡¯re so restrained when you play games. Even if you can¡¯t accept it, you should just do it. Isn¡¯t it tiring to always think about it so much?¡± Zhen Deqiang despised Chun Sanyue. ¡°If you win the siege, you will also receive a system reward. Isn¡¯t that a good thing for you.¡±


    ¡°There are system rewards?¡± Chun Sanyue raised his eyebrows and approached Zhen Deqiang as he reached his hands out for the Siege Order.


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    Siege Order (first stage): special prop, specifically for the Chaotic City Lord. One-time prop.


    Designate a Chaotic City and open a one-way through the Space-Time Wormhole to start an attack on the city.


    Description 1: The first stage Siege Order automatically summons 10,000 siege troops from the Level 10 Empire Camp.


    Description 2: It is not allowed to launch attacks against the Chaotic City of the same camp.


    Description 3: The party carrying out the attack can send Chaotic City soldiers, guards and war machinery to fight.


    Description 4: The Chaotic City Lords both attacking and defending can freely form a siege army and a defense army. However, the first stage Siege Order limits the number of siege players to no more than 1,000. The limited number of defenders cannot exceed the total number of idle Chaotic Stone Slabs.


    Description 5: The protective effect of the Chaotic Stone Slabs on defenders is considered invalid and the War Corridor restrictions are lifted.


    Description 6: The preparation time is 12 hours. After the siege on the city starts, the players on both sides will have temporarily bound resurrection points at their respective Chaos¡¯ Cores. When the level of the defensive players drops to Level 1, they will be forced to leave.


    Description 7: When the defender¡¯s army power reaches zero, the city defense will be considered a failure. The siege party will receive tons of system rewards while the defender¡¯s Chaotic City will return to its initial state (the Chaotic City Lord can retain their passive skills, defensive towers, and other buildings that can be protected by using certain props).


    Description 8: If the defender can continue defending the city against the siege for 48 hours or the attacker gives up, the defender will receive lots of system rewards while the attacking party will be punished by the system.


    Description 9: The defender cannot be attacked again within 10 days.


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    ¡°This Siege Order¡­¡± Chen Sanyue frowned. He immediately anticipated that siege wars would happen frequently in the future as this was a game to be played between Chaotic City Lords. It would become a daily confrontation between different camps.


    In addition, while the attribute information of the Siege Order was not clearly stated, a player first needed to join a camp in order to use a Siege Order.


    Chun Sanyue thought about it and could not help but be wavered by his own thoughts¡­


    Li Hanqiang was still hesitant on whether he wanted to upgrade the Chaos¡¯ Core when a system notification suddenly sounded.


    [Ding. Dear Chaotic City Lord, Lord of Chaotic City No. 69 had used the Siege Order. An attack will be launched on your Chaotic City after 12 hours. You are now in preparation time. Kindly prepare your defenses. After the preparation time is over, the entrance for the Blue Ripple Pond and the Cave Dwelling in Gremlin¡¯s Mountain will be temporarily closed. The specific attack and defense methods are as follows¡­]


    ¡ª


    Li Hanqiang was stunned.


    A siege battle!


    Chaotic City No. 69 was going to attack his city?


    Didn¡¯t 12 hours later mean that it would start at 12 noon tomorrow?


    Li Hanqiang suddenly remembered his conversation with Deity Robber and now understood everything. He frowned as he said, ¡°The Emperor¡¯s Rich Guild has actually collaborated with Chaotic City No. 69! And now, they are looking to attack my Chaotic City¡­¡±


    He quickly and carefully checked the details of the attack and defense parties.


    After more than half an hour, Li Hanqiang stood up with a shady expression on his face and said, ¡°If that is the case, don¡¯t blame me, Li Hanqiang, for being cruel!¡±


    His normally loose attitude suddenly disappeared as he strode toward the Cave Dwelling in Gremlin¡¯s Mountain.


    After a moment, apart from leaving five little gremlins behind in the Gremlin Mountain Farm and another 10 little gremlins in the Gremlin Mountain Workshop, Li Hanqiang gathered the rest of them up, including Little Drill Gremlin together. Counting them up, there was just the right amount, 100 of them in total.


    ¡®We can¡¯t help it by being in this wide world[1]!¡¯ Li Hanqiang sigh before he issued out an order, ¡°You guys, build a Void Station at the back of the mountain for me!¡±


    ¡°Yes, my King!¡±


    ¡°The King is mighty!¡±


    ¡°Long live the King¡­¡±


    The Little Drill Gremlin, together with the group of little gremlins continued to flatter Li Hanqiang before going straight to the back of the mountain.


    The first large-scale project of Cave Dwelling in Gremlin¡¯s Mountain had finally begun.


    Li Hanqiang was looking on from the side. An hour later, the Void Station was fully built.


    It was a small building shaped similarly to the Mayan Pyramid. There were steps below and a platform on top. When Li Hanqiang approached it, the operation window was triggered.


    He understood in his heart that he only needed to consume 100 points of Chaotic Energy and the Void Platform would create its own Space-Time Wormhole.


    Li Hanqiang¡¯s goal was Chaotic City No. 69. Since Chun Sanyue had used the Siege Order, did he really have any reason to be polite?


    ¡°The preparation time for the attack is 12 hours so before you attack my city, please accept my robbery attempt!¡±


    Li Hanqiang smiled slightly. He was not in any hurry at that moment as it was still not the best time to initiate his retaliation.


    The best time would be when Chun Sanyue went to bed.


    Li Hanqiang was very patient. He decided to wait until 4:30 a.m. before taking action!


    While waiting, Li Hanqiang did not do much, simply making sure that the Little Drill Gremlin practiced with the little gremlins first. It did not matter if the little gremlins did somersaults or stacked on top of one another. He treated them as a mobilization unit before war and did not care if what they did was useful or not.


    Li Hanqiang chose and led only nine little gremlins to the Blue Ripple Pond as he calmly began to fish.


    Li Hanqiang sought to follow his destiny at the moment, so he was fine with catching anything.


    That night, the Emperor¡¯s Rich Guild and the Qiankun League were very lively. From top to bottom, they had all been conveyed the message, ¡°Everyone must be rejuvenated today and participate in the siege battle at 12 o¡¯clock tomorrow.¡±


    Zhen Deqiang had already gone offline and went to sleep. On the eve of the war, he must be rejuvenated and he was waiting to show his might for tomorrow.


    At the same time, Chun Sanyue happily went offline after finishing his Gold Coin Challenge. During that time, he felt he was already very diligent for working until that hour.


    [Ding, ding, ding¡­]


    The alarm clock set in his game helmet sounded and Li Hanqiang quickly stood up within the fishing boat.


    ¡°It¡¯s time for the bandits to appear!¡±


    He laughed, float walking to leave.


    [1] The original term of this term in Chinese is [½­ºþ]. This term is used by the people who trained in martial art to describe the world they are in. There is no suitable term in English hence we used the term wide world instead.

 Chapter 49

    In the Cave Dwelling in Gremlin¡¯s Mountain, hundreds of gremlins gathered.


    The Little Drill Gremlin stood in front, with ten little gremlins behind him pushing around the wheelbarrows.


    Following further behind them were the ordinary Green Gremlins and Red Gremlins.


    It was a rare sight to see the little gremlins not be mischievous as they stood in a fairly neat team.


    Li Hanqiang was already standing on the Void Platform at that moment as he briefly glanced at his attribute information.


    Previously, he had caught another Small Chaotic Bottle from the Blue Ripple Pond. Now, Li Hanqiang had six Small Chaotic Bottles. Four of them were empty, one was at half, and another still completely full.


    The Chaotic Energy in the Chaos¡¯ Core was filled up by Li Hanqiang. He gave it a thought as the light above the Void Platform immediately began to twist and turn. It was similar to a vortex and after some time, a dark channel appeared.


    [Ding, consumed 100 points of Chaotic Energy, the current Void Station has broken and turned into a void. The Void Channel connects to Chaotic City No. 69. The current channel can only hold for 60 minutes and will collapse afterward.]


    Li Hanqiang¡¯s eyes were cold as he commanded the little gremlins to stay behind him for the moment as he strode into the Void Channel at first by himself.


    After a few steps, Li Hanqiang¡¯s gaze lit up. He was now standing in the Space-Time Wormhole. His next step would lead him onto the War Corridor in front of him that belonged to Chaotic City No. 69.


    Currently, Li Hanqiang felt as if he were robbing a clone.


    He looked from a distance and could not help but secretly grit his teeth.


    A large patch of defensive towers could be seen some distance away. There were all Basic Cannon Towers and Basic Arrow Towers. They stood next to each other, densely packed in three rows along each side of the War Corridor.


    There were also two Basic Slowing Towers which looked like ice pillars. They were at least ten meters high and place side by side in the front.


    In addition, there were also a large number of idle Chaotic Stone Slabs that lay towards the back of the Space-Time Wormhole.


    ¡°No wonder Chun Sanyue could place the Gold Coin Challenge Leaderboard. He is playing like a local tyrant!¡±


    Li Hanqiang sighed silently. He was now outside the Basic Cannon Towers¡¯ attack range. He took two steps forward and began float walking in the air, counting as he walked for more than 20 meters. Chun Sanyue had placed 36 Basic Cannon Towers, 24 Basic Arrow Towers, and 2 Basic Slowing Towers together!


    Even his idle Stone Slabs exceeded 30 pieces!


    Li Hanqiang knew immediately that Chun Sanyue had selected the Stone Slab Mastery Passive Skill, in which players could create Chaotic Stone Slabs using Chaotic Energy!


    A local tyrant with the Stone Slab Mastery Passive Skill who relied on Defensive Towers numbers to win. He seemed almost invincible when you thought about it.


    However, this type of playing style was still limited by a lack of Chaotic Energy. This local tyrant would require props like Small Chaotic Bottles to continuously replenish his Chaotic Energy if he wanted to go far.


    Li Hanqiang quickly laughed out loud.


    This was good. The more Defensive Tower there were, the better!


    Were defensive towers invincible?


    Of course not. Monsters attacking the city could not attack defensive towers. In fact, defensive towers were just buildings and their durability was hidden. After attacks on the towers reached a certain value, they could be destroyed.


    At the same time, something special would be needed to deal with the Defensive Towers. Li Hanqiang had one, and it was the Rocket Tower.


    The Rocket Tower was an extremely rare mutated tower. Its attribute information clearly stated that it could cause huge amounts of damage to Defensive Towers. However, the Rocket Tower would also be destroyed once it was launched, making it a one-time Defensive Tower. Li Hanqiang intended to use it here.


    ¡°Don¡¯t blame me for being cruel, people in this wide world all act involuntarily. Everyone is forced to do something, maybe this Rocket Tower is just prepared for you.¡±


    Li Hanqiang was a person who lived in the moment. Maybe it was a waste to use a Rocket Tower at the moment and there would be a more suitable time for it in the future. However, who had asked Chun Sanyue to decide to carry out a siege on him?


    He needed to give Chun Sanyue an initial show of his strength. Since you wanted to attack my Chaotic City, I¡¯ll give you a rocket to try my strength first.


    Li Hanqiang decided to carry out the raid this time as it was not about making a profit and it did not matter if he suffered a loss. The raid needed to be carried out, and the rocket had to be fired.


    Immediately, as Li Hanqiang¡¯s intentions festered inside him, his Rocket Tower started to ignite. Flames and heat waves emitted from all directions underneath the tower.


    Li Hanqiang immediately received a system notification.


    [The rocket launcher is igniting, locking onto Chaotic City No. 69. Countdown to ignition, 10, 9, 8¡­]


    [Ding, the Rocket Tower was successfully ignited. The rocket has lifted into the sky and is shuttling through the void. It is expected to reach Chaotic City No. 69 in one minute. The Chaotic City Lord may now guide its bombing area!]


    According to the system notifications, Li Hanqiang could choose to bomb a 100-meter diameter area of choice. He did not hesitate to select an area that covered the tower array arranged by Chun Sanyue.


    Chaotic City No. 69 was now extremely quiet. No one knew if Chun Sanyue¡¯s character was idle as Li Hanqiang stepped into mid-air without any obstructions.


    After a minute, a jet of flame pierced through the void. It looked just like a long flaming tail as fell straight down.


    With a large bang.


    The rocket fell directly in the middle of the tower array arranged by Chun Sanyue. Two Cannon Towers first collapsed before it was followed by a loud blasting sound¡­and a chain explosion began. The flames swept through to one side and the red hot rocket fragments flew around like grenades¡­


    Defensive Towers began to fall one after the other as even the Basis Arrow Towers ignited into flames. The scene before him was no different to buildings being bombed by grenades in reality.


    When everything returned to peace, the originally magnificent tower array that had been laid out was reduced to ruins. Everything had been destroyed and slowly dissipated after turning into rays of white light.


    ¡°This power has actually bombed everything into nothing. It really is a strategic weapon! Haha, how can you continue playing now without any defensive towers!¡±


    Li Hanqiang did not expect the Rocket Tower to be so powerful and was surprisingly happy. At that moment, he laughed, turning back to return to the Void Channel to rush back with his hundred gremlin team.


    ¡°You guys, fight whatever you can, no matter what it is. Break everything and destroy as much as you can with all your might!¡±


    Li Hanqiang shouted his commands and the group of little gremlins immediately charged in. Among them, the Little Drill Gremlin ran the fastest, followed by the ten little gremlins who were pushing the wheelbarrows. They were the only ones who were assisted by the Little Drill Gremlin¡¯s aura, making them far faster than the others.


    No matter what their fighting power was, the little gremlins now had great momentum.


    Li Hanqiang also moved forward while continuing to walk in the air.


    Chun Sanyue had already gone offline to sleep, his own character thrown idly into the Limitless Tower. Chaotic City No. 69 was basically an empty city as the little gremlins smashed things around without restraint.


    However, the place was extremely clean. There was nothing to smash at all. Although Chun Sanyue was idle, he was also protected by the City Lord¡¯s invincibility skill so the little gremlins were helpless.


    Li Hanqiang had long expected that buildings such as the Chaotic Treasury, Defensive Tower Shop, and Limitless Tower would be indestructible, meaning that there was not much to raid.


    However, the Chaos¡¯ Core could be raided.


    Li Hanqiang opened his storage space and held a Small Chaotic Bottle with a smile on his face. He wanted to try and see if he could extract Chaotic Energy from Chun Sanyue¡¯s Chaos¡¯ Core.


    Obviously, the Chaos¡¯ Core at Chun Sanyue¡¯s place was a circle much larger than his own. Li Hanqiang could tell from a distance that it was a Level 2 Chaos¡¯ Core and its Chaotic Energy read 520/1000.


    ¡°I will just raid his Chaotic Energy and at least earn some payback!¡±


    Li Hanqiang held the Small Chaotic Bottle and tried to test the thoughts in his heart when suddenly, he saw the Little Drill Gremlin chasing and kicking a young monk.


    Taking a closer look, he realized it was actually a Chief Officer. It had been beaten up, left with a small amount of HP as he veered on the edge of death!


    ¡°Hahaha, this is not bad, not bad at all. If we kill this Chief Officer, Chun Sanyue will lose so much!¡± Li Hanqiang laughed out loud until he suddenly had a bright idea and shouted, ¡°Stop, stop, don¡¯t fight. Bring him to me and take him back to the Gremlin¡¯s Mountain!¡±

 Chapter 50

    It was fortunate that Li Hanqiang had shouted just in time for the Little Drill Gremlin to stop himself, otherwise, the young monk would not have survived for another five seconds.


    He was lying on the ground at that moment, his face pale from being frightened.


    With Li Hanqiang¡¯s order, the Little Drill Gremlin and the group of little gremlins naturally obeyed. They swarmed around and lifted up the young monk.


    ¡°Spare my life, spare me¡­¡±


    Chief Officer Huixin was so scared that he peed and pooped himself.


    The Chief Officer was not a normal monster or NPC. He was endowed with a personality by the Game Creator Endless and could feel many emotions such as happiness, anger, sadness, and joy.


    Young monk Huixin has been given the character settings of a timid personality. The City Defense Center Summoning Circle had not been completed before the rocket had suddenly attacked the city. After that, the little gremlins rushed toward him and began to hit him. Now, he was being seized by them and felt that it was natural for him to be terrified.


    The little gremlins allowed for no explanation no matter how much he begged for mercy as they picked him up and ran toward the Void Channel.


    Not only could the little gremlins rob for money during the raids, but they could also rob people too!


    Li Hanqiang¡¯s eyes went bright as if he had developed a new skill for the little gremlins, suddenly opening the door to a world filled with possibilities.


    ¡°Catch this young monk back for breakfast!¡± Li Hanqiang shouted again. The little gremlins carried the young monk even more cheerfully as he was considered a big booty for them.


    Hui Xin¡¯s eyes turned as he heard this and immediately fainted due to fright.


    After a moment, Li Hanqiang filled all his Small Chaotic Bottles with Chaotic Energy and even ran home to fill his own Chaos¡¯ Core with the energy he had gotten.


    Poor Chun Sanyue¡¯s Chaos¡¯ Core that originally had 520 points of Chaotic Energy had been robbed by Li Hanqiang until there was nothing left.


    Li Hanqiang was very happy and secretly felt that Chun Sanyue deserved it.


    He wandered around Chun Sanyue¡¯s Chaotic City a few times. When he saw that there were no more places to raid, Li Hanqiang shouted loudly, ¡°You guys, let¡¯s go home!¡±


    ¡°Yes, King!¡±


    ¡°Let¡¯s go home!¡±


    The group of little gremlins happily embarked on their way home.


    Li Hanqiang looked at Chun Sanyue¡¯s Chaotic City that was stripped bare as he raised his hand and took out an item. It was the Signboard Flag he had robbed from the Raid Clone.


    ¡°It is rare to carry out these kinds of raids so let¡¯s leave a memento!¡±


    He moved his thoughts and erected the flag in front of the Chaos¡¯ Core.


    The flag unfolded and waved in the wind like a banner. It had colorful stripes and there were big characters on the flag that stated, ¡®The ferocious bandit, Li Hanqiang, was here for a tour.¡¯


    This raid across Chaotic Cities finally ended. Satisfied, Li Hanqiang returned to his Chaotic City and the Void Station soon collapsed, closing behind him.


    Young monk Huixin was escorted to the Mountain Top Cave Dwelling by the group of little gremlins. However, Li Hanqiang still had no time to study the Chief Officer as he began participating non-stop in the Gold Coin Challenge. He did not go offline and instead used all the gold coins he earned to buy Basic Arrow Tower Construction Blueprints and now had a total of 14 pieces.


    Although the raid was over, there was still an attack on the city tomorrow. How could Li Hanqiang save up money to upgrade his Chaos¡¯ Core at a time like this?


    14 Basic Arrow Tower Construction Blueprints coupled with the Chaotic Energy he had robbed was now more than enough for him, as he could not wait to get started on changing the towers.


    This time, Li Hanqiang did not ponder on any random metaphysics as he started changing the towers. Luckily, his luck was actually good this time around. After attempting to mutate 14 Basic Arrow Towers, he managed to get four Sword Towers and four Bright Lance Dark Arrow Towers.


    There should have been many variations of the Basic Arrow Tower, but from Li Hanqiang¡¯s experience, changing them to either the Sword Tower or the Bright Lance Dark Arrow Tower seemed to be the easiest. There were also other extremely rare towers such as the Rocket Towers and these could only be changed according to luck.


    Li Hanqiang was extremely satisfied. He moved his free Chaotic Stone Slabs from the back to the front, just like Chun Sanyue, and built his Defensive Towers in three rows on each side of the War Corridor.


    After adjusting the positions of the Defensive Towers, Li Hanqiang thought about the second method involving his Tower Change, which could synthesize towers.


    However after giving it some thought, he did not dare to rashly attempt it. This was like doing easy acrobatic moves. It would naturally be a good thing if the synthesis succeeded but if it failed, it would cause people to cry. Hence, it would be better to slowly study it when he had better conditions.


    In order to prepare for the siege mission, Li Hanqiang decided to not go offline and went fishing instead.


    He also stared at his friends¡¯ list. The conditions for the attack and defense parties created by both Chaotic City Lords allowed them to freely form their siege and defense armies. The victory of the defending party depended on whether there were any remaining defensive troops left after 48 hours.


    Although Li Hanqiang felt his Defensive Tower configuration was not bad, the Defensive Towers were not considered to be enough force to defend the city. Therefore, he had to get as many players as he could. In fact, he did not have many friends. There were only four of them, which were Dark Redemption, Fanning Knight, Fiery Blade Sage, and Big Trader.


    Time quickly flew¡­


    Chun Sanyue woke up, not being able to sleep well the previous night. He kept dreaming about winning sieges and obtaining countless system rewards as they dropped from the sky. How could he sleep in such an excited state?


    He got up and was not in a hurry to eat breakfast as he put on his VR helmet and went online to have a look. He estimated that the young monk Chief Officer would have already finished drawing the City Defense Center Summoning Circle.


    ¡°I am going to build a City Defense Center right away. I don¡¯t even know what functions the building has!¡± Chun Sanyue was full of expectations and now¡­he was stunned.


    What happened?


    Where did his defensive towers go?


    Why were they all gone?!


    What about his Chief Officer? Where was the young monk Chief Officer? Where did he go? How was he missing!


    The City Defense Center Summoning Circle was gone!


    Chun Sanyue felt that he had logged into the wrong account.


    ¡°Were there hackers? Did they hack my account?¡±


    Chun Sanyue wanted to call the police!


    Just at that moment, he noticed a flag waving in the wind in front of his Chaos¡¯ Core.


    Chun Sanyue slowly read out the large characters written on the flag with trembling lips, ¡°The ferocious bandit, Li Hanqiang, was here for a tour¡­ The ferocious bandit¡­ Li Hanqiang¡­¡±


    Chun Sanyue¡¯s eyes went dark, feeling like he wanted to vomit blood.


    [Ding, ding, ding, ding, ding¡­]


    Warning ringing sounds came from the VR helmet of the game. The system detected that Chun Sanyue¡¯s current state was not suitable for the game and immediately kicked him offline.


    ¡°Ah!¡±


    A roar came from Chun Sanyue¡¯s room as a VR helmet flew out of the window.


    His beautiful dream had not come true. The reality was actually a nightmare!


    Chun Sanyue was so angry and anxious. He could not figure out what had gone on that night. In the end, he unwillingly to call a phone and directly yelled, ¡°Hey, Endless World customer service, I want to make a report on a thief named Li Hanqiang who stole my account¡­ ¡±


    Unconsciously, the time was now nine in the morning as Li Hanqiang still remained fishing. At that moment, he saw Big Trader¡¯s name light up in his friends¡¯ list and he immediately sent a message over.


    [Brother, come and help me defend the city. Someone will attack my city at 12 noon!]


    Li Hanqiang also sent the details of the siege and defense gameplay over to him.


    After a while, Big Trader sent a message containing one simple word.


    [OK!]


    Li Hanqiang was moved by this and felt that Big Trader was someone with a sense of justice.


    Moments later, Fanning Knight and Fiery Blade Sage also came online and Li Hanqiang immediately sent them both a message.


    The two of them asked many questions and when they heard that it was the Emperor¡¯s Rich Guild who were causing a hindrance, they immediately declared their stand and assured Li Hanqiang that they would arrive before 12 o¡¯clock.


    Dark Redemption also came online and naturally, Li Hanqiang sent out an invitation to him as well. Night Redemption gave it some thought for a while before finally promising that he would come over to help defend the city.


    Dark Redemption was regarded as an important player to Li Hanqiang. He was a legendary profession with a combat power that was more reliable than the two idiots, Fanning and Fiery.

 Chapter 51

    Time slowly passed by.


    Big Trader and Little Liuzi regularly came over to restock. After two or three trips, Li Hanqiang slowly accumulated 50 or so gold coins again.


    It was approaching 11am when Li Hanqiang left the Blue Ripple Pond and headed to the Cave Dwelling in Gremlin¡¯s Mountain to gather some little gremlins that he stationed at the War Corridor.


    There was not much time left and his friends had yet to arrive. Li Hanqiang could not help but feel somewhat anxious. He ran through his friends¡¯ list and contacted Fanning Knight and Fiery Blade Sage.


    Fanning Knight replied. [We¡¯ll be there soon, we¡¯ll be there soon. We have been wandering for quite a few days and have finally found a city. Don¡¯t worry, we¡¯ll be at the Chaos Temple soon.]


    Fiery Blade Sage replied as well. [The enemy will reach the battlefield in 30 minutes. Allies only require five minutes!]


    To himself, Li Hanqiang thought that even though both of them were dimwits, they were fairly loyal friends and he was happy to have them.


    As promised, within five minutes, both of them had bought their tickets and traveled over. They were in high spirits despite their lower level of Level 10.


    Li Hanqiang did not speak and instead gave them both 10 gold coins each. After that, he took out the Bright Green Turtle Shell and gave it to Fanning Knight. ¡°Buy more potion and use this turtle shell first. When the attack begins, there will be no Chaotic Stone Slab to protect you. Use this turtle shell to protect yourself a little.¡±


    Fanning Knight rushed over excitedly as he said, ¡°In the past, I looked down on this equipment. It was only later that I knew this was a good item. This is great, I have a turtle shell too!¡±


    Fiery Blade Sage spoke out from one side, ¡°I knew since long ago that the Bright Green Turtle Shell was a good piece of equipment. You would not know until you¡¯ve taken a beating. It¡¯s priceless and cannot be sold!¡±


    He had experienced a revelation regarding the strength of this turtle shell.


    A moment later, Dark Redemption arrived. He wore a blue cloak and leather armor. There was a short dagger strapped to his hip and in his hand was a longbow which emitted a faint blue glow. His entire equipment set was blue grade.


    Fanning Knight and Fiery Blade Sage assessed Dark Redemption closely and could not help but feel envious. To be able to collect such an equipment set meant that this Dark Redemption was no ordinary person.


    Li Hanqiang pulled out Fireball and handed it over to Dark Redemption. ¡°Nothing needs to be said, I¡¯ll give this to you!¡±


    Dark Redemption smiled and accepted the gift.


    A few minutes later, the time of the attack was imminent but Big Trader had not yet arrived. Li Hanqiang sent him a message to follow up, however Big Trader immediately went offline.


    ¡°Whether or not someone¡¯s dependable can be found out in a moment.¡±


    Li Hanqiang immediately knew Big Trader¡¯s intentions and he sighed to himself.


    Truthfully, he never really thought Big Trader was of much help. In any case he was a merchant and his attack power was very weak. It was just that a player could be seen as a type of military might and it was just safer to have another person.


    As for Big Trader¡¯s ¡°sudden escape¡±, Li Hanqiang could actually understand. If they failed to defend a city, their levels would be wiped. The risks were immense and he and Big Trader were not that close to each other, so why would Big Trader take on such a risk?


    However, Li Hanqiang also had an epiphany as well. He thought to himself that if he had successfully defended the city this time, he would need to be careful in the future when interacting with Big Trader.


    What was out of Li Hanqiang¡¯s expectations was that even though Big Trader did not come, Little Liuzi did.


    Little Liuzi was Dark Redemption¡¯s follower and had been ordered over by Dark Redemption. He had a very low level and low-grade equipment. Really, he was just a placeholder.


    Dark Redemption spoke at this moment. ¡°I really didn¡¯t expect that there would be an attack at this time. Li Hanqiang, I¡¯m not sure if your Defensive Towers can hold the line. It¡¯s a pity that my friends are all busy on a quest, if not I¡¯d have called them over to defend the city.¡±


    Li Hanqiang waved his hand. ¡°It¡¯s already good enough that you¡¯re here. Whether or not we can hold the line¡­ Who knows what will happen? If we have heart and the dream is alive, it will be no big deal to try again.¡±


    He had just spoken when Li Hanqiang received a system notification.


    [Ding, the attack on the city is about to begin. All non-military buildings are sealed. The entrance to the Blue Ripple Pond and the Cave Dwelling in Gremlin¡¯s Mountain are also sealed. All troops have been moved to the front lines.]


    Li Hanqiang and his comrades lifted their heads to see a massive board had appeared in the sky.


    ¡ª


    Defenders (Chaotic City No.68) Statistics


    Number of Defensive Towers: 16


    Chaotic City Troops: 130


    Player Numbers: 4/4


    Defense Time: 0/48


    ¡ª


    Li Hanqiang glanced over the board and immediately understood. What was referred to as military might was based on the headcount. He had managed to get Fanning Knight, Fiery Blade Sage, and Dark Redemption. Along with Little Liuzi, the military might of Players was 4.


    As for the military might of the Chaotic City displayed as 130, those were naturally the number of little gremlins from Gremlin¡¯s Mountain.


    The little gremlins¡¯ profession was ¡®citizen¡¯ and the profession of the Little Drill Gremlin was ¡®militia¡¯. They were part of the Chaotic City and would die if the city were overrun, so naturally, they would join in the defense!


    These little gremlins were all transferred to the side of the Chaos¡¯ Core as the Little Drill Gremlin¡¯s green head looked around.


    Li Hanqiang looked once more at the mechanics of a city attack. The success of a defense rested entirely on the military strength of the defenders. If that were the case, then Dark Redemption and the others, as well as the little green gremlins, were the most important in this battle. The defense would be a success as long as they could survive for 48 hours without dying.


    ¡°If we were to maintain our lives and power¡­¡±


    Li Hanqiang knew the little gremlins were all cowards. When the battle began, they would definitely hide wherever they could and would not go out to the front line on their own. However, if circumstances required it, Li Hanqiang could send them out as cannon fodder.


    As for Dark Redemption and the others, they did not need to stand on the Chaotic Stone Slabs. During a defense battle, they could stand on the War Corridor.


    During this time, the three of them had already made some preparations. They stood roughly 200 meters away from the Space-Time Wormhole. Fanning Knight and Fiery Blade Sage were bedecked in their Bright Green Turtle Shells as they lay down on the ground.


    The two of them were glowing green, and Fanning Knight had 4500 HP. He spoke to Dark Redemption, ¡°The both of us will hold the front as you attack from the rear. Don¡¯t worry, we can take it!¡±


    Fiery Blade Sage had 3300 HP and said, ¡°Too bad there¡¯s no healer! If there were a healer to heal us, we could hold up longer! City Lord, you must control the Defensive Towers and prioritize the ones who attack me. Don¡¯t bother about Fanning Knight as he has higher HP than me.¡±


    Li Hanqiang nodded and thought to himself that the two of them were purely here to take damage. They even lay down on their bellies, which was a smart move.


    Dark Redemption had a strange look on his face, however when he looked at Fanning Knight and Fiery Blade Sage, his eyes slowly began to light up.


    ¡°What high HP. What high physical and magical defense. If we were to use these bodies to block a boss¡­¡±


    While he thought about it, Dark Redemption could not help but laugh before yelling, ¡°Alright! Let¡¯s work together!¡±


    At this moment, an announcement rang out. There was one last minute before the attack and the Space-Time Wormhole slowly began to expand.


    Above it, a board appeared.


    ¡ª


    Attackers (Chaotic City No. 69) Numbers


    Attackers Troops: 10000/10000


    Chaotic City Troops: 0


    Player Numbers: 625/625


    ¡ª


    Li Hanqiang took a look. There were no Chaotic City troops and that was to be expected. He was unsure of what was going on at Chun Sanyue¡¯s home.


    However, there were over 625 players!


    625 was not a massive number but it was nothing to sneeze at either. Li Hanqiang estimated that the Emperor¡¯s Rich Guild and Chun Sanyue had done their utmost.

 Chapter 52

    The countdown ended very quickly.


    At that moment, the Space-Time Wormhole suddenly expanded by more than two times. It looked like the great maw of a beast. A path quickly opened and following that, a horn sounded. Four soldiers in armor lined up in a row marched forwards.


    [Infantry: Level 10. Lowest level soldier of the Red Dragon Empire. Physical Melee Troop, 1000 HP, 12 Attack, 6 Physical Defense, 10 Magic Defense, no skills.]


    Two of the four infantrymen brandished large swords while the other two bore banners. There was the symbol of a golden dragon on the banner, which was the war banner of the Red Dragon Empire.


    ¡°The Red Dragon Empire is undefeated in battle!¡±


    ¡°Attack the city! Take their lands! Defeat them! Annihilate them!¡±


    The soldiers yelled with their intimidating appearances.


    [Area Announcement: Attack on the City is beginning. The Attacking Forces have 48 hours!]


    Li Hanqiang breathed a sigh of relief when he heard the announcement.


    The Attacking Forces were numbered at 10,000, He originally thought that they would all spawn in one go, as this was usually the case when the monsters attacked the Chaotic City. However, they were now going to be spawned after 48 hours. That would be a lot less stressful as if there were just four enemies in a team, that would have meant that they would spawn at one team per minute.


    ¡°These infantrymen raise their banners and shout slogans. It looks like the Players are the true core of the Attacking Forces. With just 625 Players, I think I can hold them off!¡± Li Hanqiang thought to himself.


    At this moment, the Fire Tower began to attack. The four infantrymen in armor kept shouting their war cries as they slowly advanced in step, falling before they even leave the Fire Tower¡¯s attack range.


    The War Corridor turned quiet and it took a dozen seconds or so before the Players began to appear.


    Li Hanqiang floated in midair as he surveyed the scene. His eyes could not help but widen, the first wave of players were part of the group of aunties who worked with Sister Pomegranate.


    ¡°Sending the aunties in the lead, how impressive! Are the Rich Emperor¡¯s Guild a guild of aunties?¡± Li Hanqiang thought that this was great. Previously, the group of aunties had gotten some experience here and now it was time for them to give it back.


    Sister Pomegranate and her company were not panicking as they strolled forwards, chatting and laughing with joy on their faces.


    They were being given a small bonus for taking part in the City Attack, so they were naturally happy.


    However, their joy turned into panic when their bodies began to burn.


    ¡°Aiyo, young man. We¡¯re all friends, so don¡¯t fire!¡± Sister Pomegranate yelled in panic as she saw Li Hanqiang.


    ¡°Don¡¯t kill us, we¡¯re just here to scout ahead!¡± Red Wine Rose yelled as well.


    ¡°Give us a chance, we¡¯re all good guys!¡± The other aunties began to join in.


    ¡°I¡¯m sorry! I¡¯m a good guy too!¡± Li Hanqiang could not afford to be merciful. This was an attack on the city!


    Furthermore, this group of aunties were clearly selling out their own. They were all pretending to be clueless, but Li Hanqiang had no doubts that they clearly knew what they were getting involved in.


    Rapidly, this group of incompetent aunties all retreated and did not even reach the position of the Beast Hunter.


    Following behind the aunties, the actual force of Players began to show up. It was a large initial wave, with tanks in the front, followed by swordsmen, assassins, archers, clerics, magicians, and others behind them.


    These Players were mostly Level 18 and above, but there were not many above Level 20. Those with 2,000 HP or higher were even rarer.


    There were many adventurer professions in Endless World and each profession had different pros and cons. On HP gain alone, tanks such as Shield Warriors or Knights gained roughly 100 HP per level up. Swordsmen, berserkers, and other such half tanks gained 60-80 HP. Robbers and other similar professions were even lower, gaining only 50 HP per level.


    Archers, magicians, clerics, warlocks, and other such ranged professions had the lowest growth rate of HP. Every level up would gain them less than 50 HP.


    It went without saying that the Players attacking the city were on a whole different level. Regardless of movement speed or spawn rate, the Players were much faster than the wild monsters. A large group of them rushed out of the Space-Time Wormhole and like the rising tide, they had covered 30 to 40 meters.


    They were all screaming as they advanced.


    ¡°Brothers with me! Charge!¡±


    ¡°Boss Chun Sanyue has said that if we succeed, there¡¯s a 200 RMB reward!¡±


    ¡°Charge!¡±


    ¡°Kill all of the defending Players and we¡¯ll win!¡±


    ¡°Charge¡­¡±


    Li Hanqiang¡¯s face turned cold. He estimated that there were more than a hundred people coming out of the Space-Time Wormhole. He looked at them coldly before yelling, ¡°Charging the towers now, I wish you all a fun game!¡±


    In the blink of an eye, the Sword Qi on both sides of the War Corridor began their crossfire. There was the sound of clashing metal as translucent beams penetrated. A large number of damage numbers immediately began to appear over the heads of the attacking players and they began to cry out.


    Given the tightly packed ranks of the Players, the Sword Qi easily penetrated up to eight targets. Therefore, a single beam of Sword Qi could deal eight damage values per second. This meant five beams of Sword Qi could deal 40 damage values


    Surveying the scene, Li Hanqiang regretted not building more Basic Cannon Towers. The Basic Cannon Towers had a small damaging area of effect on attack. It would be extremely satisfying to bombard with these towers.


    However, the attack speed of the Basic Cannon Towers were extremely slow and their basic attack power was extremely weak and would be unable to compare to the Sword Towers.


    At this moment, the nine Bright Lance Dark Arrow Towers were even more intimidating. Their attacks fell like rain. The only thing that could be seen was the composite damage, with instant kills occurring constantly.


    It went without saying that the Defensive Towers, when placed together, created an extremely formidable hail of fire. The large stacks of damage values made one¡¯s heart pound as they saw it. The mob of Players struggled to reach Fanning Knight and Fiery Blade Sage. They could barely get two hits in before being killed by the Defensive Towers and Dark Redemption at the rear.


    ¡°City Lord, leave the heavily wounded ones to me! I¡¯ll use them to summon Skeleton Warriors!¡± Dark Redemption bellowed, drawing his longbow with astounding speed. The Dark Arrows killed the players, managing to summon Skeleton Warriors.


    Li Hanqiang naturally knew to comply and controlled the Defensive Towers so that they intentionally avoided targeting the heavily wounded Players.


    Compared to the previous attacks where Li Hanqiang did not need to operate anything by letting the Defensive Towers attack automatically, he now had to display his abilities.


    Li Hanqiang stepped up into the air and channeled all his abilities. In one moment, he was controlling five Sword Towers to fire at the clumped groups, and at the next moment, he was controlling the Bright Lance Dark Arrow Towers to take care of a few straggling Players with higher HP.


    Controlling towers was no easy feat. Li Hanqiang had just started and he was slightly flustered. He immediately realized that controlling towers was a skill within itself.


    Who said that the Chaotic City Lord did not need to operate anything. Controlling towers was also a form of operation and it was one that required high mechanical skill as well. It was a high difficulty skill!


    It was fortunate that Li Hanqiang¡¯s Defensive Towers were sufficiently powerful. It did not matter even if he did not operate them well as there was no pressure.


    There was nothing to be said about Dark Redemption¡¯s skills. The Skeleton Warriors kept increasing in number and slowly formed ranks to block the middle of the War Corridor.


    At this moment, the attacking Players sent forward an even stronger wave. A large player with a round shield appeared from the Space-Time Wormhole and shouted, ¡°Brothers! Shields up! With me!¡±


    Li Hanqiang had noticed this player from the first moment. He had already reached Level 24 and his equipment was not bad. He had 3000 HP and he did not charge in a beeline. Instead, he zig-zagged his way forward, his feet nimble.


    Looking at this, Li Hanqiang felt angry.


    It seemed like an expert did not take the usual routes. It was not good enough to just charge in a straight line, he had to zig-zag and also do the serpentine, shadow stepping, and making use of blind spots and other such methods. Especially when taking on PvP[1] Challenges, experts put a premium on positioning, kiting, and avoiding damage.


    Li Hanqiang understood the basics of pathing and positioning. However, he had never mastered it. In the past when he played as an adventurer, melee characters stood facing forward while ranged characters stood still. Occasionally, he would practice positioning. However, not only was he unable to exploit it, he was always unable to execute it perfectly which led to him just getting a headache as his opponent easily exploited his bad positioning.


    Positioning was a skill and if an expert could use it with other such skills like blocking, evasion, blinking, and acrobatics, they would be extremely difficult to lock down.


    However, Li Hanqiang was levitating in midair and had a bird¡¯s eye view. Furthermore, he was also controlling the Defensive Towers which had locked-on targeting, so what the use of positioning? He was better off making a beeline forwards, as at least then he would be able to make it further.


    ¡°Keep that up!¡± Li Hanqiang said and with a thought, five Sword Towers simultaneously released their Sword Qi at the shielded Player.


    No matter how good the positioning of the Player was, he would not be able to avoid a locked-on attack and was instantly struck by the five beams of Sword Qi for 400 points of damage.


    He could not help but take two steps back due to that. The five beams of Sword Qi passed through him to the players behind him, causing them to cry out in panic.


    ¡°This isn¡¯t good, this Sword Qi has no way to be defended. Have the healers come forward to heal me¡­¡±


    Before he could finish, a volley of Bright Lances and Dark Arrows came flying over. The Player with the round shield was considerably good as he rolled on the ground and brought up his shield. This allowed him to avoid being struck by seven Bright Lances. However, he was struck by two of the Bright Lances. His HP was immediately drained and he died on the spot.


    The moment the Player with the round shield died, discipline broke and there was an outcry of shock. The Players behind him were in an obvious panic and their advance faltered. Li Hanqiang took advantage of that to release a murderous volley of fire from the Defensive Towers.


    Li Hanqiang was unaware that the Player with the round shield was an expert recruited by Zhen Deqiang and he was recognized by the others as an expert as well. For him to be so easily killed instantly affected morale.


    Players would lose Levels when they died. Gaining levels was not easy, but losing them was all too easy right now. Their lives were basically cheaper than those of the monsters.


    Those Players who were attacking the city were doing so for the first time. They originally thought that this would be an easy victory, but they did not expect the scene before them.


    This kind of attack, charging against Defensive Towers, was no less than suicidal.


    ¡°Oh no, Roudan has died. Everybody, be careful! The Defensive Towers are too strong. Healers, do your best! Don¡¯t worry if you¡¯re an assassin and just charge forward as fast as you can to kill those players defending the city!¡±


    Another Player stood forward, brandishing a large sword as he shouted to rally the troops.


    Li Hanqiang noticed he had no shield, so he controlled three Bright Lance Dark Arrow Towers to concentrate fire on him. This Player¡¯s skills were not too bad either as he managed to block one Bright Lance with his sword. However, there were still two more simultaneous attacks!


    -50, -100, -1000, -50, -100, -1000, -50!


    Seven damage values appeared above his head and this Player immediately turned into a flash of white light.


    ¡°The Defensive Towers are my skill!¡±


    Li Hanqiang felt rather proud of himself and looked for his next target. Whichever was trying to stand out or attempting to carry out positioning would be his next target.


    [1] An acronym for Player vs Player.

 Chapter 53

    At that moment, Zhen Deqiang was standing at the rear, his face full of rage.


    This strategy of charging into the towers was causing horrendous casualties.


    Furthermore, the moment they died, they would lose a lot of levels and their stats would suffer. Even an expert would turn into a weakling once they died a few times.


    ¡°Guild Leader! I need to leave, I can¡¯t afford to die anymore. If I die once more, I¡¯ll turn into rubbish!¡±


    The Player with the round shield who was previously positioning himself with such speed and grace stood before Zhen Deqiang. He had a bitter look on his face. In a short amount of time, he had dropped to Level 10. His original equipment could no longer be equipped due to level restrictions and his HP was now down to 1,250.


    ¡°What are you afraid of!¡± Zhen Deqiang glared at him as he roared. ¡°Go! Keep moving forward! Don¡¯t be afraid! That¡¯s right, take down the towers. The moment we take them down everything becomes easier!¡±


    Zhe Deqiang shouted, and under his orders, even more Players appeared from the Space-Time Wormhole.


    Furthermore, a large amount of Players began targeting the Defensive Towers, casting fireballs and throwing shurikens at them.


    Li Hanqiang felt excitement and guilt at the same time. The attacking Players were nothing but weaklings in the face of the Defensive Towers. Regardless of if they were experts or not, all died before them. However, the attacking Players were numerous and they resurrected after dying to return to the battlefield in an endless wave. More importantly, they were fast as they pushed through to the bottom of the Defensive Towers.


    Fortunately, Fanning Knight and Fiery Blade Sage were in secure positions and even managed to pull off a miracle by lying down.


    ¡°Come on, kill me! I only have 4500 HP and 135 Defense!¡± Fanning Knight bellowed.


    ¡°Yeah, kill him! He¡¯s just lying there for you to attack him. If you can¡¯t kill him, this attack will fail.¡± Fiery Blade Sage joined in.


    The Players of Emperor¡¯s Rich Guild could no longer take it. There was no point in just soaking up the firepower of the Defensive Towers. The focus should be on defeating the defending Players.


    However, Fanning Knight and Fiery Blade Sage were like rocks in a cesspit, odious and hard. They just lay there and let their enemies attack them without any avail.


    They were also drinking potions and this infuriated their opponents.


    Furthermore, there was also a large formation of Skeleton Warriors who had already succeeded in building a wall and blocked off the entire War Corridor.


    These Skeleton Warriors were only Level 5 and would not be able to withstand the attacks of Players. Under normal circumstances, with magicians and archers attacking at range and with various area of effect spells, they would be easily defeated. However, under the protection of Li Hanqiang¡¯s Defensive Towers, these weak Skeleton Warriors had become impossible to kill.


    What was even more infuriating was that behind the Skeleton Warriors was Dark Redemption, who was firing arrows at a steady pace. He had a high attack and constantly summoned new Skeleton Warriors. He was basically a necromancer.


    The morale of the attacking Players steadily declined. The moment they died, they all began to hesitate and were no longer willing to press the attack.


    Gradually in that manner, Li Hanqiang realized that he had stabilized the battle lines.


    ¡°It seems that Fanning Knight, Fiery Blade Sage, and Dark Redemption have truly been of great help!¡± Li Hanqiang exclaimed. He realized that while the firepower of the Defensive Towers were important in holding off the attack, he also could not lack defending Players who were competent.


    If Fanning Knight, Fiery Blade Sage, and the others were not here, while he may not fail in holding the city, the little gremlins would suffer heavy losses.


    At that moment, a small fireball zipped past Li Hanqiang¡¯s ear.


    Li Hanqiang narrowed his eyes and realized that the fireball came from Zhen Dejun.


    ¡°Everybody, charge! Charge, charge! Robbers, go into stealth. Clerics, cast buffs. Archers, don¡¯t idle! Anybody who can hit the defending Players, do so! If you cannot, target the Defensive Towers!¡±


    Zhen Dejun yelled while a circle of clerics healed him. That First-Class Star was among them.


    As he screamed, Zhen Dejun casted another fireball at Li Hanqiang¡¯s direction.


    ¡°Dumb*ss, don¡¯t you know that the City Lord is Invincible? I¡¯ll send you home!¡± Li Hanqiang levitated once more, and with a thought, five beams of Sword Qi stabbed toward Zhen Dejun again and again, turning the area into a wasteland.


    Zhen Deqiang could no longer bear it and he took to the field himself. He rode a large horse, its stats publicly displayed. He brandished a large sword as he charged forward, drawing everyone¡¯s attention.


    ¡°Follow me! I¡¯ll take the point and the rest of you follow on behind. I don¡¯t believe I can¡¯t cut down that measly force of defenders!


    Zhen Deqiang yelled and led a force of followers forwards.


    It went without saying that Zhen Deqiang was competent. He rode his mount in a serpentine pattern and was even able to block Bright Lances with his sword. Li Hanqiang treated him like a boss and responded in the strongest way possible: concentrated fire from all Defensive Towers!


    Five Sword Towers and nine Bright Lance Dark Arrow Towers. This meant that there were five beams of Sword Qi and nine groups of Bright Lances and Dark Arrows trained at him.


    Zhen Deqiang was but a knight and even with his horse, he was no god. The damage counters on his head were like a red cloud and he did not even have the chance to consume a potion before he was gone with a white light.


    ¡°Who else!¡±


    Li Hanqiang was in the zone and he bellowed. With a large gesture, he threw down two ¡®Folding Umbrellas¡¯ into the ground. The Folding Umbrellas turned into banners that stood on either side of the War Corridor, their banners unfurling.


    The banner on the left read, ¡°Little Rich Emperor¡¯s are a joke.¡±


    The banner on the right read, ¡°Beware of Bright Lance Dark Arrow.¡±


    The players from the Rich Emperor¡¯s Guild began to cause an uproar as they read the banners and among them, a dozen or so of them rushed forward to the banners, attacking it while they cursed.


    The banners had limited durability and they were about to be destroyed. However, the group of Players were completely annihilated by the Sword Qi.


    At the very end of the Space-Time Wormhole, the unibrowed Chun Sanyue glared viciously at Li Hanqiang.


    He recognized those banners as there was one once set up in front of his Chaos¡¯ Core. He had just destroyed it less than half an hour ago.


    ¡°Li Hanqiang!¡± Chun Sanyue strained his vocal chords to shout, ¡°You shameless trash! You break into my home, I¡¯ll make you pay for it!¡±


    Li Hanqiang cupped his ears but it was too noisy and he could not make out what Chun Sanyue had said. He also did not recognize him. At a glance, he guessed he was an insignificant character and paid him no mind.


    He continued to control the towers and kill enemies, but this time it was in a supportive role.


    Dark Redemption was safely in the rear, while Fanning Knight and Fiery Balde Sage were secure as old turtles in their shells.


    There were now more than 100 Skeleton Warriors that they were like a small army.


    Li Hanqiang cooperated with Dark Redemption and constantly left the wounded Players for Dark Redemption in order to spawn one Skeleton Warrior per arrow.


    In the blink of an eye, there were even more Skeleton Warriors. They stepped over Fanning Knight and Fiery Blade Sage and held their position slightly forward of them, A moment later, both of them were no longer lying down. They had moved forward and formed ranks with the Skeleton Warriors to face off with the attacking Players.


    Zhen Deqiang had led the assault a few times but it was entirely pointless. He could not resist it and was killed the moment he showed himself, almost like cannon fodder.


    Finally, the sounds of the attacking Players began to die down and another ten minutes later, there were no more attacking Players who dared to come out of the Space-Time Wormhole. Furthermore, on the attacker¡¯s board, the number of attacking Players kept decreasing. This showed that there were Players who were beginning to abandon the attack.


    What came next was only the armored infantrymen and the defense of the city became very boring.


    Li Hanqiang sighed in relief. The Rich Emperor¡¯s Guild must have been stupid to think that his Chaotic City would be so easily attacked? They had paid for that mistake.


    ¡°Giving up already? Aren¡¯t you going to attack the City?¡±


    ¡°This was an easy victory!¡±


    ¡°How were we spawn camped by such a weak Guild in the past? That¡¯s so embarrassing!¡±


    ¡°I didn¡¯t even need to do anything. All I needed to do was lie down and the defense was successful, hahaha!¡±


    ¡°The Rich Emperor¡¯s Guild is really a low-tier guild, Zhen Deqiang is really not strong[1]¡­¡±


    Fanning Knight and Fiery Blade Sage were chatting away happily, bantering and shooting the wind. They were both in high spirits.


    At the same time, in Chun Sanyue¡¯s Chaotic City, it was deadly quiet.


    Nobody spoke and there was a heavy atmosphere.


    Before them, the Space-Time Wormhole was still opening a channel to attack the City but nobody walked into it.


    Chun Sanyue rubbed his chest and he finally could not hold it in anymore as he roared, ¡°Attack, attack. Whose idea was this? They sent everyone to their deaths!¡±


    Zhen Deqiang rubbed his nose. He too was very displeased.


    Looking at Chun Sanyue who was in a fit of rage, he did not wish to speak. Therefore, he changed the topic, ¡°Who would have thought that Li Hanqiang¡¯s Defensive Towers would be so strong. What kind of towers are those? I don¡¯t know where he got them. This is really losing Jingzhou[2] by accident.¡±


    Zhen Deqiang narrowed his eyes when he saw Deity Robber. His face darkened and he yelled, ¡°You¡¯re an excellent armchair general but when the rubber hits the road, you fail miserably. Deity Robber, I told you to find out Li Hanqiang¡¯s defensive capabilities, but you found out nothing!¡±


    Deity Robber was already trembling and he cried out, ¡°Guild leader, don¡¯t be mad. Losses and victories are part of a military campaign!¡±


    ¡°Me beating you up is also part of a military campaign! Beat him up, it was this fellow¡¯s dumb idea!¡± Zhen Deqiang bellowed as he punched Deity Robber with all the anger in his heart.


    [1] This is a play on his name. ¡®Qiang¡¯ in Zhen Deqiang¡¯s name means strong.


    [2] A reference to the Three Kingdoms, when the province of Jingzhou was lost due to carelessness.

 Chapter 54

    In the blink of an eye, Deity Robber was beaten up to the point that he disappeared in the flash of light. He immediately abandoned the attack.


    Truthfully, Deity Robber was not worried about dying because he had already been cut down to Level 1 and had nothing left to lose, not even experience.


    However, Zhen Deqiang¡¯s last words to him were that his pay was getting cut by half.


    This was too much for Deity Robber to bear. He had just joined the Rich Emperor¡¯s Guild and had yet to receive his wages, only for them to now be cut in half.


    Who could he complain to?


    Deity Robber silently made a decision. In the future, he would do more and talk less. What use was there in being a strategist when it was just digging a hole for himself.


    Zhen Deqiang and Chun Sanyue were both unhappy and began to blame each other.


    ¡°The game just released and you haven¡¯t even joined a military camp. What good is attacking a city? I¡¯ve already said this a long time ago and now look at what you¡¯ve done. You¡¯ve even dragged me with you into this mess. Zhen Deqiang, you have to compensate me. My Defensive Towers are all gone and my Chief Officer is dead, I¡¯m no different from a new player now.¡± Chun Sanyue lamented, his ire rising as he thought about it.


    Zhen Deqiang¡¯s face was equally sour as he replied, ¡°You dare to blame me? Look at my brothers. Apart from that dog, who was subpar? Elite tanks, elite clerics, elite magicians. You¡¯re rubbish when you don¡¯t even have a single soldier and dare to ask me to compensate you. What does the state of your home have to do with me and my money?¡±


    ¡°This is too much!¡± Chun Sanyue¡¯s face turned red. ¡°How long has the game been released? Which Chaotic City has troops? I would say it¡¯s you who are trash. Look at how well the opposing side did! Look at that archer, who can summon Skeleton Warriors. Which one of your followers can compare to that? Furthermore, since we¡¯re attacking a city, why didn¡¯t you prepare some siege engines such as onagers and cannons?¡±


    Chun Sanyue looked around him before he yelled, ¡°Trash equipment, trash levels, even trashier professions. If there were a Dragon Knight among you riding a dragon, this attack would have been successful!¡±


    ¡°F*ck off with your Dragon Knight! And your onager! Just complain that your Chaotic City is developed like trash. That Li Hanqiang¡¯s Chaotic City even had 130 soldiers¡­¡±


    Zhen Deqiang and Chun Sanyue bickered endlessly while the players by their side continued to decrease.


    Zhen Dejun did not dare to interfere. He took a large group of followers and abandoned the City defense mission, leaving.


    They had dropped levels for nothing and there was no point in standing around. They may as well have gone and train levels while they idled in order to regain their losses.


    Meanwhile, Li Hanqiang¡¯s side was naturally in high spirits. They only lamented that they could not go through the Space-Time Wormhole to counterattack.


    ¡°Let¡¯s just wait and collect the rewards for a successful defense.¡± Li Hanqiang turned to Dark Redemption and the others as he spoke. ¡°It¡¯s really thanks to all of you. Good job!¡±


    ¡°It¡¯s no big deal at all!¡± Fiery Blade Sage said with a laugh. ¡°How could it be troublesome to take on those Rich Emperor¡¯s!¡±


    Fanning Knight spoke, ¡°I wonder what the reward will be. There must be a lot of experience.¡±


    Dark Redemption came up to Li Hanqiang and pointed at Fanning Knight and Fiery Blade Sage as he said, ¡°Where did they get those turtle shells on their back?¡±


    ¡°Would you like one!¡± Li Hanqiang asked.


    ¡°Of course, it would be indispensable in taking on a boss. If you can stack four or five of them and just use them to block a boss, that would be amazing!¡± Dark Redemption said enthusiastically. His group was currently attacking a world clone called Burning Wastes and they had failed multiple times due to a lack of tanks.


    Li Hanqiang replied, ¡°In order to get this turtle shell, it¡¯s based on luck. You can consider it a specialty product of mine. I currently don¡¯t have any.¡±


    ¡°You don¡¯t have any, that¡¯s a shame!¡± Dark Redemption then rushed over to Fanning Knight and Fiery Blade Sage and said, ¡°You two, would you be interested in a raid¡­¡±


    Fanning Knight and Fiery Blade Sage were immediately excited as they began to chat enthusiastically with Dark Redemption. They began to blow up their aptitude in raiding, as well as their experiences using the Bright Green Turtle Shell.


    Li Hanqiang stayed to one side and listened in, treating as if he understood the adventurer players.


    The map of Endless World was extremely large to the point that it was nearly endless as its name suggested.


    Speaking of regional cities alone, there was an unknown number of them.


    Each city was not the same, with different climates, geography, and cultures. Some of them were centers of commerce, while others were important military centers¡­


    To an adventurer, which city they were born in made little to no difference as they could develop themselves well.


    The area surrounding these regional cities naturally had an abundance of training areas. Generally, there were also events going on. However, they were mostly small events of various kinds, such as mines, Beast Lairs, Hunter¡¯s Camp, and so on. Naturally, every regional city had different events in their surrounding areas.


    Apart from these events near the cities, there were also global events. They were much more impressive and were basically large-scale events aimed at all adventurer Players. The event could be initiated at all regional cities and even allowed the crossing of Chaotic City groupings.


    Global events were extremely difficult and the equipment they dropped were of a very high level. There was also a chance to get on the leaderboards, as well as first clear and first boss kill rewards, among other things, which were the must-haves of large guilds.


    Dark Redemption, Fanning Knight, and Fiery Blade Sage were talking about the Global Event 001 named Burning Wastes. This was a Level 20 global event that was extremely difficult and at the moment, no group had successfully cleared it yet.


    Li Hanquang listened in for a long while before he suddenly felt disinterested. With a shake of his head, he turned to inspect his Defensive Towers.


    Even though his Defensive Towers were still standing, they were sporting various signs of damage. This was especially so for the Fire Tower. What was originally a black square tower with flames emitting from its shiny, reflective surface was now extremely damaged.


    ¡°Players¡¯ attacks can actually damage Defensive Towers. It¡¯s a good thing the attacks of these Players were not strong enough. If they had really destroyed a Defensive Tower, things could have gotten bad!¡± Li Hanqiang thought.


    He did some research and found out that the Defensive Towers had no way of repairing themselves. Perhaps he needed a special artisan or to unlock a specific technology?


    As he thought about it, he paced. The Space-Time Wormhole before him began to shrink as the numbers on the attacker¡¯s board began to drop until it finally reached zero.


    [Area Announcement: Attacking forces have all abandoned the quest. The attack on Chaotic City No. 68 has failed. All attacking Players will lose experience. Defense of Chaotic City No. 68 has succeeded and all defending Players will obtain a large amount of experience as well as Chaotic City Contributions!]


    After this Area Announcement, Li Hanqiang suddenly glowed white and he had risen to Level 15. This was immediately followed by a system notification.


    [Ding, congratulations on your successful defense of Chaotic City No. 68. You will receive a number of vagabonds, gold, and a certificate of valor.


    [Ding, congratulations, you have received x0 vagabonds and 125 bound gold pieces.]


    ¡°Vagabond?¡± Li Hanquang felt a little disappointed. Chun Sanyue¡¯s home was pristine so what vagabonds were there? Furthermore, the rewards were not great as he only got 125 gold pieces.


    With such rewards for a successful city defense, how could Li Hanqiang be satisfied?


    As for the Military Merit Certificate, Li Hanqiang took it out to take a look.


    [Military Merit Certificate: Can be used to gain 20 points of merit at the Military Camp. Military merit can be used to raise military rank. Military rank can be used to gain multiple benefits at Empire Military Camps. Players can check it out by themselves.]

 Chapter 55

    Li Hanqiang had yet to join a military camp, so this Military Merit Certificate was useless and he had to hold on to it for a while.


    In that way, other than the experience he gained, Li Hanqiang¡¯s rewards for defending the city was only 125 gold coins.


    ¡°This reward is too little.¡± Li Hanqiang lamented Chun Sanyue¡¯s slow development as he did not have any vagabonds and very few coins in his treasury. This directly affected Li Hanqiang¡¯s own earnings.


    On the other hand, Fanning Knight and Fiery Blade Sage were very satisfied. Their levels had doubled and they were now sitting at Level 20.


    Dark Redemption was even more impressive. He was already Level 27 at this moment and spoke in delight, ¡°Hey, my Chaotic City Contribution is already at a 100. I¡¯ve unlocked normal citizen rights. In the future when I buy travel tickets to Chaotic City No. 68, I can get them at 20% off.¡±


    The one who listens thinks and Li Hanqiang immediately had a thought that he should obtain more players of normal citizen status in order to gain use of the Nest Shelter.


    ¡°Chaotic City Contributions¡­ I¡¯ve never looked into it. I guess it¡¯s a very important feature.¡± Li Hanqiang thought to himself before walking toward Fanning Knight and Fiery Blade Sage to ask about their Chaotic City Contributions.


    The two of them did not have as high of a Chaotic City Contribution as Dark Redemption. Fanning Knight had 51 points, while Fiery Blade Sage had even less at 37 points!


    ¡°You can get a discount for buying a travel ticket. That is pretty good. It seems that we also need to boost our Chaotic City Contributions and I guess there are even better benefits when we reach a higher status than normal citizens!¡± Fanning Knight said.


    ¡°Do we raise our contribution score by participating in city defenses?¡± Fiery Blade Sage said. ¡°That sounds simple enough.¡±


    Dark Redemption spoke as well, ¡°Okay, now that the city defense was successful, I should take my leave.¡±


    He waved at Li Hanqiang and said, ¡°I have to go. To tell you the truth, I was previously trying to clear Burning Wastes and when I had to leave, they had no way of doing it themselves. Bye!¡±


    With that, he immediately left.


    Li Hanqiang had said nothing the entire time, and at that moment, he had sent him away just like that.


    Fanning Knight and Fiery Blade Sage waved at Li Hanqiang as they said, ¡°We¡¯re off as well. We¡¯re going to help Dark Redemption with a Clone. Without us to block monsters, how are they going to clear Burning Wastes?¡±


    The both of them left.


    Li Hanqiang originally intended to get them to fight a boss but they evidently had no more time.


    At this moment, the Blue Ripple Pond and the Cave Dwelling in Gremlin¡¯s Mountain were reopened. The mob of little gremlins who were all hiding reappeared and joyously began to resume their antics of turning somersaults, forming gremlin pyramids, and praising their King.


    Suddenly, a system notification appeared.


    [Ding, honored Chaotic City Lord, you have attacked Chaotic City No. 69 which is under the protection of the Red Dragon Empire. You have developed negative relations with the Red Dragon Empire. Current Enmity Score is 30 and you will be unable to join the Red Dragon Empire Camp for a month.¡±


    [Ding, please take note that when your Enmity Score with the Red Dragon Empire reaches 100, you will enter the Red Dragon Empire¡¯s wanted list. When your Enmity Score reaches 1000, the Red Dragon Empire will immediately deploy troops to attack you. The higher the Enmity Score, the stronger the troops.]


    [Ding, Enmity Scores naturally lower by 1 every day and can also be reduced faster through other methods¡­]


    Li Hanqiang realized that these notifications had to do with last night¡¯s robbery.


    Robberies brought risk and this was one of them.


    After some thought, Li Hanqiang realized that Chun Sanyue had joined the Red Dragon Empire Camp.


    Li Hanqiang had not yet joined any camp and he theorized that his Chaos Core needed to be Level 2 in order to join a camp.


    There were many benefits to joining a camp and they certainly unlocked many different playstyles for Chaotic City Lords. However, there were also very clear limitations. One probably could not attack cities that were under the same camp.


    However, since he still could not join a camp, Li Hanqiang did not think too much of it. He reassigned jobs to the little gremlins then went to the Strategic Point in the Cave Dwelling. The Chief Officer Young Monk Huixin was still locked up there.


    A few little gremlins were standing next to Li Hanqiang. They made themselves look like all-conquering heroes, laughing as they stood before the young monk Huixin. A moment ago they were joking around with young monk Huixin, laughing and chatting. Suddenly they changed their demeanor and began to hit him before they returned to their antics of forming gremlin pyramids and turning somersaults.


    It was fortunate that the little gremlins had an attack damage of less than one or the Chief Officer Huixin may have been beaten to death.


    The moment Li Hanqiang appeared, Chief Officer Huixin put on a brave face and put his hands together before saying, ¡°I am a registered Chief Officer of the Red Dragon Empire. You are nothing but a nameless bandit. Release me now, or else¡­¡±


    Before he could finish, a mob of little gremlins immediately rushed forward and began to grab him by his arms and legs. They formed a gremlin pyramid on top of the young monk, about five or six layers high.


    ¡°Hey, you dare to be disrespectful to the Great King. You¡¯re asking for a beating!¡±


    ¡°Give it to him!¡±


    ¡°If we don¡¯t beat him then this isn¡¯t the Cave Dwelling in Gremlin¡¯s Mountain!¡±


    The mob of little gremlins kept shouting. The poor Chief Officer¡¯s HP points could never exceed this number and he had completely turned into the plaything of the little gremlins. He was beaten up to the point of tears.


    Li Hanqiang thought to himself that a Chief Officer designed by Game Creator Endless was just not the same. It was too realistic.


    He moved forward a few steps and sent away the mob of little gremlins before speaking to young monk Huixin, ¡°Young monk, I¡¯ll give you a chance. Defect to me and be my Chief Officer, or else you¡¯ll be sleeping with the fishes!¡±


    Li Hanqiang was simply acting on a whim. Under normal circumstances, a Chief Officer required a Level 2 Chaos¡¯ Core in order to be recruited. However, he had captured one so it was not impossible that he could demand his surrender.


    Young monk Huixin shook his head determinedly and spoke through his tears, ¡°I am a registered Chief Officer of the Red Dragon Empire and I belong to Chaotic City No. 69¡­¡±


    ¡°Boys!¡± Li Hanqiang immediately cut off the young monk Huixin and pointed at him while saying, ¡°He¡¯s of no use to me. Beat him to death!¡±


    ¡°Yes, your Majesty!¡±


    ¡°Kill him!¡±


    A mob of little gremlins began to rub their fists and step forward. Young monk Huixin did not even say a second word as he immediately turned to Li Hanqiang and bowed his head in homage. ¡°Your Majesty, spare me! I surrender!¡±


    Finally!


    Li Hanqiang immediately pulled back the little gremlins. In his mind, a system notification pinged.


    [Ding, you have recruited a Chief Officer!]


    Following that, Li Hanqiang could see the Young Monk Huixin¡¯s stats.


    ¡ª


    Name: Huixin


    Level: 1


    Profession: Chief Officer


    Camp: None


    Loyalty: 1


    Personality: TImid


    HP: 6/100


    Passive Skill: Convert. While in the Chaotic City, Chief Officer Huixin has a small chance to immediately counter monsters attacking the city and cause them to join the Chaotic City.


    ¡ª


    ¡°Hahahaha!¡±


    Li Hanqiang could not help but laugh. To think that he could obtain a Chief Officer just like that. He had done so through banditry, a most unconventional method. However, the system accepted it. Even though the young monk¡¯s loyalty was only at one point, which should be the lowest loyalty level, what mattered was that he was in Li Hanqiang¡¯s grasp.


    With this defection, young monk Huixin¡¯s position immediately changed. The mob of little gremlins were smiling and calling him ¡°Sir¡± as they attempted to kiss up to him.


    Li Hanqiang said, ¡°Chief Officer Huixin, what are you capable of?¡±


    The Young Monk Huixin got up from the ground and held his hands together. He sighed before speaking, ¡°My Lord, if you have yet to own a City Defense Center, I can oversee the construction for you!¡±


    ¡°What are you waiting for!¡± Li Hanqiang was overjoyed. ¡°Get on with it then! Do you need help? I¡¯ll give you 100 little gremlins. Would that be enough?¡±

 Chapter 56

    The young monk Huixin thought he misheard.


    100 little gremlins!


    Was he that generous?


    He could not help but really think about it.


    Young monk Huixin was a Chief Officer created by the Game Creator Endless. To his knowledge, the players were all just starting off and the Chaotic Cities¡¯ development would be in their very early phases. Even if they managed to draw in vagabonds, there should not be so many.


    So what was it about this ¡®Great King¡¯ that was different?


    He had easily breached into others¡¯ Chaotic City and even had that many little gremlins on hand.


    ¡°If I could really be given 100 little gremlins¡­¡±


    Young monk Huixin suddenly felt that it was not all bad. It was clear that the development rate of the previous Chaotic City was extremely slow and the City Lord was cutthroat by nature. Perhaps with this City Lord, the future would be better.


    At least this City Lord was very generous.


    ¡°Are 100 little gremlins not enough?¡± Li Hanqiang could not possibly fathom the thought process of the Chief Officer. He was anticipating the construction of the City Defense Center and spoke to young monk Huixin apologetically, ¡°That¡¯s all I can pull out for now. Little Monk, right now there is much to do in the Chaotic City and development cannot be delayed. Go on and get to work.¡±


    Li Hanqiang spoke to the mob of little gremlins around him, ¡°Boys, make way!¡±


    ¡°Yes, your Majesty!¡±


    The mob of little gremlins immediately began to move and even the Little Drill Gremlin appeared. They formed up in front of Li Hanqiang and young monk Huixin as they led them down Gremlin¡¯s Mountain.


    It was only now that young monk Huixin began to assess his surroundings. After doing so, he immediately exclaimed, ¡°This place is truly a paradise!¡±


    Li Hanqiang grew curious upon hearing this and asked hurriedly, ¡°Little Monk, what do you know about paradise?¡±


    Young monk Huixin shook his head and said, ¡°I only know that it is very difficult to obtain it. Only the luckiest can obtain a piece of land like this. If it is well managed, the potential of the Chaotic City will be limitless!¡±


    His heart was on fire. The Chaotic City he belonged to had a piece of paradise. It seemed that his defection was truly a wise choice. He decided that as a Chief Officer, he would have to properly develop this piece of Paradise and accomplish great things.


    Li Hanqiang felt slightly disappointed. It seemed that even if he had a Chief Officer, he would still have to find out some things for himself.


    Not long after, Li Hanqiang and company arrived at the city square of the Chaotic City.


    Young monk Huixin then realized that his Chaotic City even had a Blue Ripple Pond and he could not help but exclaim once more, ¡°Famous Landmark! There is even a Famous Landmark!¡±


    Li Hanqiang glanced at him and asked, ¡°You also know about Famous Landmarks! Say something useful!¡±


    Huixin replied, ¡°Famous Landmarks are not as rare as paradise, but they are also useful. If managed well, they can bring great rewards!¡±


    ¡°What else?¡± Li Hanqiang asked.


    Huixin¡¯s eyes flashed as he spoke, ¡°Everything requires you to find out for yourself. Being your Chief Officer, I will do my best to develop the Blue Ripple Pond and Cave Dwelling in Gremlin¡¯s Mountain.¡±


    Li Hanqiang nodded then checked young monk Huixin¡¯s stats. This made him pause.


    Young monk Huixin¡¯s loyalty score had reached 50!


    Just by walking from the Cave Dwelling in Gremlin¡¯s Mountain to this point with nothing actually being done, the loyalty score had grown by this much.


    ¡°Could it be due to my good looks?¡± Li Hanqiang allowed himself to be narcissistic for a moment. Of course, he was aware that there was no correlation with his looks. It must have been due to the Cave Dwelling in Gremlin¡¯s Mountain and the Blue Ripple Pond which made the young monk¡¯s loyalty score grow that fast.


    The City Defense Center needed to be built behind the Chaos¡¯ Core and in front of the Limitless Tower. Young monk Huixin began to draw up summoning runes with eagerness. The mob of little gremlins surprisingly also began to do the same.


    Li Hanquang received a system notification that informed him the summoning of the City Defense Center would require three hours.


    Taking advantage of this free time, Li Hanqiang casually logged off to rest a bit before logging back on to start another Gold Coin Challenge.


    During this Gold Coin Challenge, Li Hanqiang did not rely on the automatic attacks of the Defensive Towers as before. Instead, he tried to control the Defensive Towers manually to try and use their firepower to a greater effect.


    When there were many Defensive Towers, it was not easy to control them. If one wanted to raise their kill efficiency, not only did they need to master the battlefield¡¯s pattern correctly, they also needed to be able to multitask and make snap decisions.


    Eyes to view all six paths, with a mind with many uses and fast reflexes!


    Controlling towers was by no means an easy feat and one would be better off letting the Defensive Towers do their own thing if they were inept at controlling these towers. Wild controlling would definitely not raise their kill efficiency and instead do just the opposite.


    Li Hanquang was still trying and learning as he placed his main focus on his five Sword Towers. He learnt how to control the Sword Qi to descend on the right targets to ensure that they would penetrate through and strike even more targets.


    After a hectic round of controlling, the challenge finally ended. Li Hanqiang did not know if his intervention raised the kill efficiency of the Defensive Towers. At the end of the challenge, he had killed 1,558 Golden Cavalry and received 107 gold and 90 silver. Li Hanqiang¡¯s ranking in the Gold Coin Challenge rose to second place.


    At that moment, a system notification chimed.


    [System Notification: Honoured Chaotic City Lord, you now have a Chief Officer. A Chief Officer has professional functions and can directly waive the daily Gold Coin Challenge while still awarding the highest recorded gold coin reward. The Chief Officer will store the awarded gold coins in the Chaotic Treasury. Please check out the details yourself.]


    ¡°Hm? It seems that according to this System Notification, I can waive the challenge with a Chief Officer and immediately gain the gold? This is very convenient. However¡­¡±


    Li Hanqiang would not waive the Gold Coin Challenge because initiating the Gold Coin Challenge allowed his Beast Hunter to gain experience.


    His Beast Hunter was now at Level 8 and its experience was 215/800. It had a damage per second of up to 120 and according to past experiences, it just needed to defeat another 2,485 monsters to be raised from a Level 1 Tower to a Level 2 Tower. This would naturally increase its abilities.


    The Golden Cavalry could give the Beast Hunter experience and Li Hanqiang was not about to waste the opportunity.


    Li Hanqiang summoned a few little gremlins and ordered them to repair the Defensive Towers. Unfortunately, they did not know how to do so.


    This confirmed to Li Hanqiang that repairs on Defensive Towers required a special repair tool, a specialist worker, or perhaps the unlocking of a technology.


    A little while later, young monk Huixin reported that he had finished his task. Following a bright flash of light, a large palace began to slowly appear from the summoning circle. This was the City Defense Center.


    [Ding, congratulations on building the Chaotic City Building, City Defense Center. You have unlocked the Demolish Defensive Tower and Repair Defensive Tower technologies..]


    [Ding, by spending gold coins, the Chaotic City Lord and the Chief Officer may order the citizens of the Chaotic City to carry out demolition or repair works on the Defensive Towers. The amount of gold coins that need to be spent and the time taken to carry out the task depend on the level of the Defensive Tower and its damage meter.]


    [System Notification: Initiating City Defense Technology Quest Line¡­]


    [System Notification: At the moment, the City Defense Center is unable to be activated. The quest is unable to be obtained. Please upgrade the Chaos¡¯ Core to Level 2¡­]

 Chapter 57

    Li Hanqiang was overjoyed when he read the chain of system notifications.


    He began to gather his thoughts.


    The City Defense Center had just been constructed and it had awarded two City Defense Technologies for free, which were Demolish Defensive Tower and Repair Defensive Tower.


    Li Hanqiang checked the descriptions of both of these technologies and realized that both the Chaotic City Lord and the Chief Officer could oversee the demolition and repair of Defensive Towers while it was the citizens who carried out the work. Regardless of demolition or repair, both required the spending of gold coins.


    Furthermore, the expenditure of gold coins would come directly from the Chaotic Treasury. The gold coins on the Chaotic City Lord¡¯s body would not be relevant. If the Chaos¡¯ Core was not Level 2, it could not be used. Li Hanqiang had no way to check out the characteristics of the City Defense Center, nor could he receive any quests for City Defense Technologies or Stone Slab Technologies.


    Young monk Huixin had finished his work and came over to Li Hanqiang, his hands held together as he said, ¡°I have summoned the City Defense Center. My Lord, this City Defense Center is a critical building in the Chaotic City. In the future, I will be stationed there. As the Chaos¡¯ Core has yet to be upgraded, a lot of its functions have yet to be unlocked. My Lord, please consider upgrading the Chaos¡¯ Core at the first opportunity.¡±


    ¡°Upgrading the Chaos¡¯ Core¡­¡± Li Hanqiang rubbed his jaw. Suddenly, a doubt crossed his mind.


    This young monk Huixin was a Chief Officer he had snatched. According to the normal development plan, if he were to upgrade the Chaos¡¯ Core, only then would he gain a Chief Officer. Could a Chaotic City allow for two Chief Officers to exist at the same time?


    Li Hanqiang asked, ¡°Little Monk, I need to ask. How many Chief Officers can there be in a Chaotic City?¡±


    ¡°How many?¡± Huixin replied, ¡°Of course there can only be one! Chief Officers are sent by an Empire and considered registered members of said Empires. A Chaotic City may only have one Chief Officer.¡±


    Li Hanqiang frowned. If he could only have one Chief Officer then what would happen after he upgraded the Chaos¡¯ Core? Would he just not receive a Chief Officer? Then what use was there in stealing a Chief Officer?


    ¡°I don¡¯t think it will be that way.¡± Li Hanqiang shook his head. ¡°I managed to steal away a Chief Officer through my own ability. Why would they replace him with another one?¡±


    He thought about what young monk Huixin said and asked him, ¡°Hang on, you said that Chief Officers are assigned by an Empire?¡±


    Huixin nodded. ¡°Of course. Us Chief Officers are the bridge that links the Chaotic City with the Empire Camps. Chaotic City Lords can receive quests issued by the Empire such as Gold Reward Quests, Bounty Quests, Investigation Quests, and more through us. We are the registered members of the Empire!¡±


    ¡°What if I don¡¯t join an Empire Camp!¡± Li Hanqiang asked. He had a sudden, daring thought.


    ¡°Don¡¯t join an Empire Camp?¡± Huixin paused. ¡°How can this be? Not joining an Empire Camp means that our Chaotic City¡­ To put it nicely, we¡¯ll be independent. However, to be candid, we¡¯ll just be pirates without a camp!¡±


    ¡°Independent? Campless pirates? What¡¯s the downside of that?¡± Li Hanqiang asked.


    Huixin sighed and spoke, ¡°My Lord, not joining an Empire Camp means you cannot gain military rank, and so you cannot gain the support of the Empire Void Airships. You also cannot gain the use of Empire Camp services and I also cannot initiate any Bounty or Reward Quests. How are we to develop in the future?¡±


    ¡°What?¡± Li Hanqiang knelt next to Young Monk Huixim, ¡°Come, come, tell me. How many Camps are there?¡±


    Huixin replied, ¡°The Endless World has three Empires and therefore, three Empire Camps. They are respectively the Red Dragon Empire, the Magic Dragon Empire, and the Star Dragon Empire. Because My Lord has raided Chaotic City No. 69, we currently have negative relations with the Red Dragon Empire and are unable to join them for 30 days. However, we can still join the Magic Dragon Empire or the Star Dragon Empire. Once we join, you will not only be able to gain the support of the Void Airships sent over by the Empire, but you may also gain military rank.¡±


    ¡°What¡¯s military rank? What use is it?¡± Li Hanqiang asked.


    ¡°Military rank¡­ In the beginning, you will start off with the rank of a normal soldier. When you start to complete more and more Empire quests from me, you will gain military merit. With military merit, you can raise your military rank. There are many benefits to a high military rank, such as discounts on Empire purchases. Most importantly, with a high military rank, the Defensive Tower Shop in the Chaotic City can sell High-Level Defensive Towers!


    ¡°Normal soldier, that¡¯s the lowest rank possible, isn¡¯t it! I, a great City Lord, will only be the lowliest grunt when joining an Empire. Then won¡¯t you, a Chief Officer, be of even lower rank? Is that fitting?¡± Li Hanqiang thought about it seriously before continuing, ¡°Tell me about the High-Level Defensive Towers that can be unlocked by the Defensive Tower Shop.¡±


    Huixin said, ¡°As far as I know, if you join the Red Dragon Empire, the Defensive Tower Shop will unlock various Arrow Tower type Defensive Towers such as the Heavy Arrow Tower, the Rapid Fire Arrow Tower, the Long Range Arrow Tower, and more. Joining the Magic Dragon Empire will unlock the elemental series of Defensive Towers, such as the Ice Tower, Fire Tower, and Lightning Tower. Joining the Star Dragon Empire will unlock Cannon Tower type Defensive Towers, such as the Grenade Launcher Tower, Heavy Cannon Tower, and more. The higher the military rank, the higher the level of Defensive Tower you can buy.¡±


    ¡°Then what are void airships?¡± Li Hanqiang continued to ask.


    ¡°Void airships are war engines that are able to travel through the Chaotic Void. With Chaotic Airships, we can bring our troops to explore the Chaotic Void and complete various quests such as Gold Rewards and Bounty Quests, as well as scavenge for resources.¡± Huixin said. ¡°When we join a Camp, the Empire will send us a void airship.¡±


    ¡°Is that so¡­¡± Li Hanqiang began to think again. After a long while, he spoke, ¡°Back to the original question. If I do not join any Camp, would I be able to gain two or more Chief Officers?¡±


    Huixin frowned and thought for a moment before replying, ¡°Theoretically, maybe, perhaps yes! However, what¡¯s the use of multiple Chief Officers? Am I not enough? Furthermore, if you do not join a Camp, the Chief Officer cannot initiate Camp quests and what would be the point then!¡±


    ¡°You Chief Officers have your passive skills!¡± Li Hanqiang rubbed the bald head of the young monk Huixin.


    Whether or not he joined an Empire Camp was a question that would require careful thought from Li Hanqiang.


    There were many benefits from joining a Camp, but many limitations as well.


    He could only have one Chief Officer. Was that not a limitation?


    Perhaps in the future, there were other officers and they would also definitely be limited to one.


    Furthermore, between Chaotic Cities of the same camp, he worried that they would not be able to attack each other. Even worse, they would not be able to rob each other.


    Li Hanqiang had the Cave Dwelling in Gremlin¡¯s Mountain that could rob other Chaotic Cities and even kidnap people. He had already opened the door to a whole new world and had no intention of closing it.


    However, if he did not join a Camp and just stayed where he was robbing whoever he liked, the Defensive Tower Shop would not be able to sell the new High-Level Defensive Towers and he would not be able to receive the airship from the camp. That too, was a loss.


    How would he choose?

 Chapter 58

    ¡°A small wheelbarrow can be stolen, Chief Officers can be stolen, therefore a void airship can also surely be stolen!¡±


    Li Hanqiang thought to himself.


    He was not a professional player and did not sign up as a member of any Gaming Team. He did not have any ambitions that he intended to achieve through Endless World, and neither did he intend to make big money through Endless World to achieve the philosophies of self-actualization and attain the highest peak of human existence.


    He did not lack money and lived a comfortable and leisurely life. He was purely a gamer, playing games only out of interest.


    Therefore, Li Hanqiang was always very casual regardless of the game. At times, it was inevitable that he would make a few unwise decisions such as not paying any attention to the game¡¯s strategy or putting points into useless skills. He would also, at times, pull shenanigans like using a magician in melee or a robber in open combat. It was just a game. As long as he was happy, there was no need to be too set in one¡¯s ways. One just needed to play as they felt like it.


    That was his mindset now. He even dared to leave it to luck when he chose a Passive Skill for the Chaotic City Lord. He dared to launch the rocket at Chun Sanyue¡¯s city and when his city was under attack, he was prepared to start from scratch. Why would he worry about which camp to join now?


    ¡°I¡¯ve decided!¡± Li Hanqiang clapped his hands. ¡°I will become a Chaotic City Lord without a camp! No, I want to be a free and independent campless pirate. This is the only way as this is who Li Hanqiang is! How boring would it be to mingle in a camp with so many other players!¡±


    Having made the decision, Li Hanqiang suddenly felt that his horizons had broadened and the door to a whole new world would no longer be closed.


    He stood and waved his hand while yelling, ¡°Boys, go and repair the towers!¡±


    The little gremlins who were helping young monk Huixin draw the summoning circle immediately responded. They ran to the Defensive Towers and comically began to pull out various tools. Sledgehammers, hammers, planks, stone slabs¡­ The little gremlins began to climb up and down, hammering away at the Fire Towers, Sword Towers, and Bright Lance Dark Arrow Towers.


    This was the power of the Defensive Tower Repair technology.


    The Defensive Towers were visibly and rapidly being restored to brand new.


    Similarly, the gold coins in the Chaotic Treasury began to slowly diminish.


    Li Hanqiang figured that the Chaotic Treasury was also a very important building. Therefore, he withdrew ten gold coins for himself and turned to Chief Officer Huixin. ¡°Little Monk, in the future, you will be in charge of the gold coins!¡±


    Young monk Huixin nodded. ¡°That is one of the responsibilities of my position. You may rest easy, My Lord.¡±


    Li Hanqiang continued, ¡°What else are you able to do?¡±


    Huixin nodded and said, ¡°When I have attained Level 5, I can gain a special tool called Administration Code. With this book, I can manage the Chaotic City better, such as controlling the coming and goings of adventurers by creating a blacklist that automatically denies travel requests. I can also manage military might, issue quests to adventurers, and more. If My Lord is not in the city, I can still manage the Chaotic City well. Furthermore, when I reach Level 10, I can oversee the building and repair of military camps!¡±


    ¡°Very good, very good. It looks like I¡¯ll need to make sure you level up.¡± Li Hanqiang thought to himself that these Chief Officers¡¯ levels were basically even more important than his as a Chaotic City Lord. There was even a unique tool with significant powers.


    ¡°This is good as well. With a Chief Officer, I can take it easy as a City Lord.¡±


    Li Hanqiang thought to himself.


    A moment later, the mob of little gremlins had finished their job and the Defensive Towers all looked as good as new.


    Li Hanqiang noticed that the Chaotic Treasury had only lost less than 5 gold coins and could not help but celebrate the fact that repairing towers was cheap.


    ¡°Chun Sanyue launched an attack on the city and could only do that much loss to me.¡± Li Hanqiang smirked and with a thought, he initiated the tenth wave of monster attacks.


    This wave was a BOSS stage. In order to prevent others from interfering again, Li Hanqiang stationed a mob of little gremlins to occupy the Stone Slabs.


    For the sake of safety, he even spent 200 gold coins to buy a Basic Slowing Tower Construction Blueprint. Through this, Li Hanqiang was destitute again.


    The Basic Slowing Tower when constructed was ten meters tall and looked like an icicle. It had very low attack damage but could slow a single target by 25%. It was very important when defending against a BOSS.


    Chief Officer Huixin was also assigned to a Chaotic Stone Slab by Li Hanqiang. The young monk had a very timid personality and even though he clearly knew that he was extremely safe on the Chaotic Stone Slab, he still shrank away to the very back of the slab. Just like a little gremlin, he spoke to Li Hanqiang with a very pained face, ¡°I think I can still gain experience without being on the Stone Slab.¡±


    ¡°You think it¡¯s useless but I don¡¯t think it is. Prepare to face the monsters!¡±


    Li Hanqiang immediately ended the preparation phase and the Space-Time Wormhole began to rapidly expand¡­


    At the same time, Dark Redemption, Fanning Knight, and Fiery Blade Sage had already formed a party and entered the Burning Wastes global event.


    This Burning Event was the first Global Event and allowed for up to 20 adventurer players to form a party as it was extremely difficult.


    Dark Redemption had previously led a party to attempt it and the team was already considered fairly well-equipped. However, they could not even defeat the first boss.


    This time, Fanning Knight and Fiery Blade Sage had swapped out with the group¡¯s original tanks. The both of them were currently lying on the ground, hiding behind their Bright Green Turtle Shells as they blocked a gap in the terrain, allowing a black monster the size of a rhinoceros to attack them.


    The monster had three heads and three tails while spitting sparks out of its mouth. It constantly hissed like a tiger. This was the first boss of the Burning Wastes, Infernal Three-Headed Tiger. It was at Level 20 with 10,000 HP.


    ¡°This boss is really strong. How can normal people fight against it! It¡¯s a good thing I have a lot of HP and know how to play the game. Healers, quickly heal me!¡± Fanning Knight yelled, refusing to move no matter how the BOSS attacked.


    Fiery Blade Sage similarly did not budge and said, ¡°With my god-tier plays, this boss will fall no matter how strong he is!¡±


    Dark Redemption led the rest of the players to the rear in a desperate, all-out assault.


    The other players were all in silent awe of Dark Redemption. Where did he find these two gods? They were just two stooges who lay on the ground with their Bright Green Turtle Shells on their backs. They did not move and continuously spoke nonsense.


    They were not yet Level 20 but their HP was really high and they had a very high defense. Who would dare to believe that they could hold off the Infernal Three-Headed Tiger¡¯s attacks? Right now, they were blocking a gap in the terrain and the Infernal Three-Headed Tiger could not pass by them. Their ability to keep it at bay was truly very comforting.


    ¡°Focus on attacking. Right now, all the big guilds are fighting for the honor of being the first to kill the boss. With these two human turtles helping us, we have a chance. Take hold of it¡­¡± Dark Redemption yelled.


    At this time, a universal notification suddenly sounded.


    [The Tianhe Guild has become the first to kill the first Boss of Burning Wastes, Infernal Three-Headed Tiger. Congratulations to players Tianhe Emperor, Tianhe Bird Tamer¡­]


    A chain of adventurer player nicknames came out on the notification and this dealt a serious blow to Dark Redemption and the others.


    ¡°The Tianhe Guild has appeared on the announcement!¡±


    ¡°This global event is still the territory of the big guilds!¡±


    ¡°Yeah, those big guilds definitely have it easier. It¡¯s now a question of who clears it first!¡±


    ¡°If these two human turtles came earlier then it would be great. It¡¯s too bad we missed the chance to be on the universal notification¡­¡±


    All of them continued to lament and Dark Redemption did feel like it was a shame but he replied, ¡°Don¡¯t be discouraged. There are more Bosses to come and we still have the chance to get onto the universal notification¡­¡±


    At this time, Li Hanqiang was floating in the air as he too heard the universal notification. He frowned and spoke softly, ¡°Burning Wastes? Infernal Three-Headed Tiger?¡±


    He had some doubts in his mind because he had just initiated a Boss stage. It also had something to do with the Burning Wastes and the Infernal Three-Headed Tiger.


    [System Notification: BOSS stage has begun. The Burning Wastes Boss, Infernal Three-Headed TIger, has been chosen as the monster attacking the city. The first stage BOSS is the Infernal Three-Headed Tiger and will enter the battlefield in five minutes. Current attacking monster will be 1,000 Level 20 Infernal Three-Headed Tigers. Within them will be ten elite level Infernal Tigers!]

 Chapter 59

    ¡°The attacking Boss is the one from the global event! This is interesting!¡±


    Li Hanqiang looked at the Space-Time Wormhole. At that moment, an Infernal Tiger had come charging out.


    This Infernal Tiger looked like a Saber-Toothed Tiger but was even more mystical. It was covered in black fur and the tip of its tail and its claws emitted sparks. It left behind burning tracks as it ran.


    Their running speed was extremely fast so it was a good thing that the spawn rate of the Space-Time Wormhole was not too great. Only three to four of them appeared per second. The full 1,000 of them would appear in roughly five minutes.


    Li Hanqiang warily watched this wave of Infernal Tigers and assessed that the difficulty would be much greater than the ninth wave of Uni-horn Tigers. It was a good thing that his Defensive Towers were much stronger than previously. There were four more Sword Towers, four more Bright Lance Dark Arrow Towers, and a Basic Slowing Tower.


    Soon, the Sword Qi cut through the air while the Bright Lances and Dark Arrows fell like rain. The Infernal Tigers quickly fell.


    The Beast Hunter also began to get to work. The Beast Hunter¡¯s damage per second was up to 120, its kill efficiency rose greatly.


    Rapidly, the first Elite-tier Infernal Tiger appeared.


    These Elite-tier Infernal Tigers were even more mystical than the normal Infernal Tigers. They were much larger, about the size of a water buffalo, and their speed was much greater as well. While they were still nominally Level 20, their HP value was up to 5,000.


    Li Hanqiang could be considered to have figured out a few basic rules. A normal monster¡¯s HP was naturally 100 times that of its level. As for the Elite-tier monsters, their HP was at least 200 times more and Bosses were even stronger at 500 times or more.


    The Elite-tier Infernal Tiger¡¯s HP was 5,000 points, 250 times that of its levels. That meant that it was a decent Elite-tier monster.


    Li Hanqiang had from the first moment, locked onto the Elite-tier Infernal Tiger. He controlled two Bright Lance Dark Arrow Towers to concentrate their fire and easily killed the beast, even gaining a Small Money Pouch in return.


    ¡°A monster is a monster. It doesn¡¯t know how to block or evade and is basically a target. The Bright Lance Dark Arrow Tower¡¯s attack damage can be greatly increased,¡± Li Hanqiang said to himself before he turned to look at young monk Huixin.


    Young monk Huixin had his eyes screwed shut and it seemed like he was mourning for the Elite-tier Infernal Tiger. He was sitting cross-legged, his hands clasped together as he chanted.


    ¡°Chanting?¡± Li Hanqiang thought, remembering that the young monk had the passive skill to convert monsters attacking the city. Could it possibly be put to use at this time?


    ¡°If he can convert an Elite-tier Infernal Tiger, would that not be a great gain for me?¡± Li Hanqiang¡¯s heart was filled with anticipation as he silently cheered on young monk Huixin.


    It was a shame that young monk Huixin could not manage it. Despite chanting for a significant time, he had not managed to convert a single Infernal Tiger. On the other hand, Li Hanqiang had dispatched ten Elite-tier Infernal Tigers and gained ten Small Money Pouches.


    At this time, a deafening roar could be heard from the Space-Time Wormhole. The first stage BOSS, the Infernal Three-Headed Tiger, had finally appeared.


    Li Hanqiang looked over and could not help but be awed, mumbling to himself that a Boss was truly a Boss. The Infernal Three-Headed Tiger had 10,000 HP, looking regal and dangerous. Its eyes looked like it intended to conquer the world and were full of ferocity and coldness.


    Roar, roar, roar¡­


    It roared multiple times as a show of might before it began to charge towards the War Corridor.


    ¡°What a Boss!¡±


    Li Hanqiang yelled. His heart was not dismayed and was instead filled with anticipation.


    Previously when the adventurer player attacked the city, their HP was too low and he slaughtered them like helpless chicks while controlling the towers. When it came to the Elite-tier Infernal Tigers, their HP was only 5000. While it was still a joy to kill them, there was no sense of accomplishment. Now what appeared before him was a very tough BOSS, and he thought to himself that controlling the Towers would make for a very enjoyable experience.


    Of course, with the scene before him, the smaller Infernal Tigers were few in number and there was only one Infernal Three-Headed Tiger attacking. This meant that there was no difference whether he was controlling the towers or not.


    Even though the Fire Tower was a Level 2 Defensive Tower, given the current circumstances, it was no different from a Basic Arrow Tower. A damage value of ¡°-30¡± appeared above the Infernal Three-Headed Tiger, not even changing its HP Bar.


    This Boss charged forward coldly. However, a trap like that of an alligator¡¯s mouth suddenly appeared and clamped onto the Boss¡¯ front paw. Following that, a large web descended from the sky and the Beast Hunter¡¯s silhouette appeared. The silhouette jumped onto the neck of the Infernal Three-Headed Tiger as it began to beat at it with its fists and kick at it with its legs.


    [Ding, your Beast Hunter has successfully captured the Infernal Three-Headed Tiger and is dealing 120 points of damage to it per second. As the monster is a BOSS, it will escape the Beast Hunter in 10 seconds.]


    Li Hanqiang roared in laughter. The Beast Hunter was a Trap Defensive Tower and was best suited to deal with single beast type Monsters.


    ¡°Dumb Boss, die!¡±


    Following Li Hanqiang¡¯s shout, the Basic Slowing Tower, five Sword Towers, and nine Bright Lance Dark Shadow Towers instantly concentrated their firepower.


    -80, -50, -100, -1000¡­


    A large chain of damage values appeared above the Infernal Three-Headed Tiger. This formidable Boss let out a howl as its HP bar was drained and it collapsed to the ground.


    Instant kill!


    Li Hanqiang was slightly disappointed.


    He checked the damage record. Nine Bright Lance Dark Arrow Towers was nine groups of Bright Lances and Dark Arrows. All of them had hit and in a single attack cycle, it had dealt 10,350 points of damage. This was an explosive amount of damage that far exceeded the maximum HP of the Infernal Three-Headed Tiger. It was equivalent to the concentrated firepower of 258 Basic Arrow Towers. If one were to take into consideration the physical defense of the Infernal Three-Headed Tiger, 300 or 400 Basic Arrow Towers would not be able to deal that much damage.


    A global event Boss was so easily dispatched and that was truly embarrassing.


    ¡°The damage is too great!¡±


    Li Hanqiang sighed. He wanted to see what the Infernal Three-Headed Tiger would drop but realized that the Infernal Three-Headed Tiger¡¯s body did not spawn any new drops and was now in an invincible state. A timer also appeared above its body, starting from ¡°30¡± and constantly decreasing¡­


    ¡°What¡¯s going on?¡± Li Hanqiang was confused.


    Young Monk Huixin was on the Chaotic Stone Slab next to the Infernal Three-Headed Tiger. He was only concerned with chanting and it was unclear if he was using his Passive Skill Convert or was so terrified that he could not open his eyes.


    When the timer above the Infernal Three-Headed Tiger ended, a black light began to appear around its body. It suddenly stood up and its HP was at exactly 5000.


    ¡°Half health resurrection!¡±


    Li Hanqiang immediately understood. The Infernal Three-Headed Tiger had the ability to resurrect itself!


    Furthermore, when it just resurrected itself, it was in an invincible state and the Defensive Towers could not attack it.


    It was a shame that the Infernal Three-Headed Tiger was too cocky. After resurrection, all three heads began to roar toward the heavens, as though announcing its return. Therefore, before it finished roaring, it had already lost its invincibility and with clack, the alligator-like beast trap on the ground had clamped onto its rear leg, the Beast Hunter appearing once more.


    Li Hanqiang rushed to stop all the Defensive Towers from attacking and shouted at young monk Huixin, ¡°I¡¯m controlling the towers for ten seconds. Young monk, come one and make a miracle!¡±


    Young monk Huixin trembled when he heard that. He opened his eyes and looked at the Infernal Three-Headed Tiger, only to be so terrified before screwing his eyes shut again as he began to chant scriptures that Li Hanqiang did not understand even louder.


    Ten seconds passed by very quickly. The Infernal Three-Headed Tiger escaped from the Beast Hunter¡¯s trap and roared as it continued its attack. Li Hanqiang sighed to himself and was about to unleash the Defensive Towers once more to finish the job. Suddenly, a golden flash came from the Infernal Three-Headed Tiger and it stopped in its tracks.


    [Ding, your Chief Officer has activated his Passive Skill and has successfully converted a monster attacking your city. The Infernal Three-Headed Tiger has joined your Chaotic City. Congratulations!]

 Chapter 60 - Infernal Three-Headed Tiger

    ¡°What!¡± Li Hanqiang¡¯s eyes widened and he immediately felt as though he had received some great windfall from heaven. Young monk Huixin had actually converted a BOSS.


    ¡°The Chief Officer is truly amazing!¡± Li Hanqiang exclaimed. He looked at the Infernal Three-Headed Tiger and immediately checked out its stats.


    ¡ª


    Infernal Three-Headed Tiger: Boss


    Level: 20


    Level Cap: 60


    HP: 10000 (Gains 500 for every level it gains)


    MP: 5000 (Gains 250 for every level it gains)


    Physical Attack: 200 (Gains 10 for every level it gains)


    Physical Defense: 100 (Gains 5 every level it gains)


    Magic Defense: 100 (Gains 5 every level it gains)


    Has the skill Resurrect: After being killed, it will revive on the same spot. After resurrecting, it will regain half its HP and 0.5 seconds of invincibility. Cooldown: 3 hours.


    Has the skill Infernal Breath: Infernal Three-Headed Tiger can breathe out magic fire, dealing magic damage every second to a targeted area.


    Has the skill Bloodthirsty Attack: Infernal Three-Headed Tiger can enter a bloodthirsty state when its HP is below 30%, greatly increasing its attack damage, attack speed, and movement speed.


    Has the skill Coup de Grace: Infernal Three-Headed Tiger has a high chance of dealing critical damage, for up to ten times damage.


    Has the skill Savage Bite: Infernal Three-Headed Tiger bites a target for ten seconds and during this time, deals continuous damage to the target. It also regains a small amount of health to itself.


    Description: The Infernal Three-Headed Tiger is a terrifying monster. It is an expert in melee combat with an extremely high chance of dealing critical damage. Currently belongs to Chaotic City No. 68 (locked, cannot be transferred). It can be ridden by the Chaotic City Lord or the Chief Officer.


    ¡ª


    ¡°It can be ridden!¡± Li Hanqiang began to laugh hysterically. This was a Boss mount!


    Furthermore, it had a Level cap of 60 which meant that it had a lot of room to grow.


    Even though converting this Boss meant that he could get items, Li Hanqiang still felt this was a clear profit.


    ¡°If I had this Infernal Three-Headed Tiger when Chun Sanyue and his gang attacked the city, would I not have been undefeatable?¡±


    Li Hanqiang looked at young monk Huixin and it was as though he had seen a mountain of gold. This Chief Officer¡¯s Passive Skill was extremely strong. He was really smart to have stolen him.


    At this time, an area announcement sounded again.


    [Congratulations on successfully defending against the first stage BOSS. You have gained 30 minutes of battle preparation time. After 30 minutes, the second stage will begin. The attacking monster selected is a global event Boss. The second stage BOSS is the Chief Fire Drake. It will enter the battlefield after ten minutes. This stage of attacking monsters will be 2,000 Level 21 Fire Drakes. Among them will be ten Elite-tier Fire Drakes. Please prepare your defenses¡­]


    He had 30 minutes to prepare. Naturally, Li Hanqiang was in no rush. He had just obtained a Boss level mount and wanted to check it out.


    A mob of little gremlins were cheering. It was once again their time to brown-nose.


    Li Hanqiang paid the little gremlins no mind. He got onto the back of the Infernal Three-Headed Tiger. It was very well behaved and carried Li Hanqiang on its back, running around the Chaotic City Square as it showed off its strength. Its speed was even faster than Li Hanqiang¡¯s levitation.


    A moment later, Li Hanqiang suddenly thought that it was a shame that he had such a powerful mount but was just a City Lord. How cool would it be if he had the skills of a Knight.


    He stopped in front of young monk Huixin and said, ¡°Young monk, you¡¯re not bad. Stick with me and we¡¯ll have a bright future. Keep up the good work and convert a few more monsters!¡±


    Young monk Huixin smiled modestly and said, ¡°I was lucky, just lucky. I put myself in My Lord¡¯s hands to develop me.¡±


    Li Hanqiang was very happy with young monk Huixin¡¯s humble demeanor. If it were the Little Drill Gremlin or the others who had made some contribution, they would have blown themselves up to the point that they might just float off into space.


    This Chief Officer was of some use, he did not praise himself, and was discrete in his flattery. He was truly of high class.


    ¡°I¡¯m going to begin the second stage. Keep it up!¡± Li Hanqiang said.


    Huixin nodded. ¡°I will do my best.¡±


    He looked at the Infernal Three-Headed Tiger and said, ¡°My Lord, while this Infernal Three-Headed Tiger can be a mount, it is by nature a guardian of the Chaotic City. It¡¯s not like normal mounts as it can defend the city. You may put it on the Chaotic Stone Slab. Why don¡¯t you put it on the Slab I am on and I can move to the rear.¡±


    ¡°Oh, the Infernal Three-Headed Tiger can be placed on a Stone Slab. That¡¯s great!¡± Li Hanqiang pointed at the Little Drill Gremlin on a Chaotic Stone Slab. ¡°You, get off. Go to Gremlin¡¯s Mountain and do some technology research.¡±


    The Little Drill Gremlin grinned and flipped himself over, prostrating himself before Li Hanqiang before saying, ¡°Yes, my King!¡±


    With that, he turned and ran, leaving behind a cloud of dust.


    The Infernal Three-Headed Tiger took the Little Drill Gremlin¡¯s place on the Stone Slab next to young monk Huixin.


    With the strength of a Boss, it was definitely better than a tower.


    Young monk Huixin grimaced and could only shrink away to a corner of the Chaotic Stone Slab.


    ¡°Little Monk, experience is very important. I think you will gain more experience on the Stone Slab. I know it¡¯s painful!¡± Li Hanqiang said. To this day, he did not know how the system gave out experience for a successful city defense. Perhaps it gave him a direct level up as a City Lord, but for others, maybe being on a Stone Slab would give them more experience.


    Li Hanqiang remembered what young monk Huixin said. When he reached Level 5, he would gain the special tool Administration Code and when he was Level 10, he would be able to oversee the construction of the military camp. Naturally, this meant that he would want young monk Huixin to quickly level up.


    A moment later, the second wave of monsters attacking the city arrived: Level 21 Fire Drakes.


    These Fire Drakes had 2,100 HP and were slightly stronger than the Infernal Tigers. To the Bright Lance Dark Arrow Towers, it made no difference.


    Furthermore, he had the Infernal Three-Headed Tiger. Li Hanqiang¡¯s defense was all the more stronger with it. The Infernal Three-Headed Tiger not only had its teeth and claws, but its three tails could also be used as whips. Furthermore, all three of its heads could breathe fire and burn everything within a five-meter radius of the target.


    When the Level 21 Fire Drakes approached it, they would be immolated in mere seconds.


    Li Hanqiang purposefully left an Elite Fire Drake for the Infernal Three-Headed Tiger. The Infernal Three-Headed Tiger gave it a few slashes with its paw but when it noticed that it was about to leave its attack range, it immediately used Savage Bite. Three large maws immediately bit onto the neck and front leg of the Elite Fire Drake. The Elite Fire Drake immediately could no longer move and its HP was rapidly draining by 200 per second. Meanwhile, the Infernal Three-Headed Tiger¡¯s HP slowly began to rise.


    The result was that at the end of Savage Bite, the Elite Fire Drake had dropped from 5,250 HP to just a sliver of health and was easily dispatched by the Infernal Three-Headed Tiger¡¯s paw.


    Li Hanqiang was very pleased. In his eyes, the Infernal Three-Headed Tiger was even stronger than a Sword Tower or a Bright Lance Dark Arrow Tower. He could not help but feel for the adventurer players who had to encounter it in the event. A normal adventure player party would have had to put in a lot of work to defeat this Boss.


    A moment later, the second stage Boss, Chief Fire Drake, appeared. This Boss was as large as the small wheelbarrow, at Level 21 with 10,500 HP. Even though it did not look too different from a normal Fire Drake, its body was wreathed in flame. All of its scales were like glowing steel. As it walked, it left behind fiery tracks.


    Furthermore, when it was attacked, a cloak of flame came out of its body like a magical shield to absorb damage.


    It did not move quickly and it was naturally caught by the Beast Hunter.


    Li Hanqiang paused the attacks of the Bright Lance Dark Arrow Towers and ordered young monk Huixin to give it his all in converting it. The Infernal Three-Headed Tiger was a melee attacker and could not attack the Chief Fire Drake. It opened its three mouths and began to spit fire at it.


    The Chief Fire Drake¡¯s magical shield quickly faded, but it was a shame that young monk Huixin¡¯s Passive Skill was unable to be activated and before his eyes, the Chief Fire Drake escaped the Beast Hunter. Li Hanqiang could only control the towers to concentrate fire on it.


    It was at this time that another universal notification sounded.