I build a shelter in the eternal night.

Chapter 25 "Arrow Tower Upgraded to Level 3"

Upgrading a level 2 arrow tower to a level 3 arrow tower requires 50 Mystic Stones.

He still has 120 Mysterious Stones.

They didn't linger for long.

He took out five level 2 strange stones, all green in color, from his pocket. Then, the strange stones shattered and turned into a wisp of eerie green liquid that floated in the air and flew toward the nearest level 2 arrow tower.

A panel quickly popped up in front of me.
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"Arrow tower upgraded to level 3."

Please select an upgrade direction.

"1: Crossbow bolts will be imbued with fire element, increasing their power."

"2: The active skill 'Arrow Rain Storm' can be used. After activation, the crossbow on the top of the tower will fire at high speed, unleashing a dense rain of arrows that lasts for several seconds on a designated area. It consumes 1 Mystic Stone."

"3: Crossbow bolts will be imbued with lightning element, effectively paralyzing enemies and causing chain damage to up to three creatures near the hit target."
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"Active skills".

Chen Fan narrowed his eyes slightly as he looked at the upgrade path in front of him. This was the first time he had encountered an active skill in the upgrade path, and it looked quite effective.

If you encounter those strange creatures that rush into the camp in groups.

One skill can solve it.

Moreover, it consumes very little, requiring only 1 Mystic Stone.

After the arrow tower was upgraded to level 3, it began to slowly change. First, the original wood and stone mixed frame structure was transformed into a pure stone structure, which blended into the city wall without any disharmony.

It has become more robust.

The crossbow bolts with the active skill "Arrow Rain Storm" are equivalent to those of a level 2 arrow tower. The power is not significantly increased, but it is extremely effective against a large number of weak but powerful hordes of monsters.

Although it really appealed to him.

However, he ultimately chose the first upgrade option, further enhancing the single-target damage capability of the arrow tower.

The two minor leaders of the monsters outside the camp, as well as the female monster of unknown strength on the sedan chair, were still watching him intently. What he needed to improve most right now was the ability to threaten these three.

The instant he made his choice.

The arrow tower has changed again.

The crossbow at the top slowly changed from its original black to dark red, and a thick flame ignited at the front of the crossbow, swaying wildly in the rain. The entire crossbow became more intimidating and awe-inspiring.

For now.

It seems that for each building that is upgraded, three upgrade options will pop up for you to choose from.

Moreover, these three upgrade paths seem to be fixed.

At least his two arrow towers were upgraded in the same direction.

at this time--

Suddenly, a lame monkey's urgent voice rang in their ears: "Young Master, a surging tide of monsters is rushing towards us!"

Chen Fan looked in the direction of the lame monkey and saw that dozens of meters away from the camp, a large number of strange creatures rushed straight towards the camp from the north, without any intention of avoiding it.

He frowned slightly.

These strange creatures were not subordinates of the three leaders, but a group of strange creatures traveling in the eternal night. They were small in size, about the size of a human cub, without limbs, and their bodies were all chubby fleshy balls, with human faces about the size of a palm covering their surface.

Extremely strange.

The method of travel is rolling.

There were quite a few of them, nearly a hundred at a glance, and more fleshy spheres kept appearing in the gray mist behind them, with no end in sight.

However, their speed was not fast; they moved slowly, as if strolling through a shopping mall. The emotions on the several faces on the surface of the fleshy ball were even discernible. Originally, their faces were all filled with cheerful smiles, but as they approached the camp, each face on the fleshy ball became extremely ugly, revealing a rather painful expression.

"Stationmaster, this is the 'Flesh Worm Ghost'."

Standing on the city wall with a large sword in hand, Zhou Mo said urgently, "I know that this kind of monster only appears during the rainy season. It will never appear during the ordinary eternal night. It has no means of attack. Its only means of attack is self-destruction."

"It will spontaneously explode upon contact with any relatively hard object, turning into a viscous green liquid that is highly corrosive. If a human comes into contact with this liquid, they will be melted away in an extremely painful manner."

"It will cause considerable damage to the city walls."

"The culprit behind the destruction of many cities during the rainy season is this flesh-worm monster. This monster is a gregarious creature that swarms in like a tide. Once it appears in swarms, it often means that the city walls have been breached!"

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Chen Fan did not reply. Time was of the essence. Even if the group of flesh-eating monsters was not fast, they were already only a dozen meters away from the camp. Many of the flesh-eating monsters were even briefly blown into the air by the strong wind before falling back to the ground and continuing to roll forward.

He turned his head to look at the sedan chair in the gray fog to the west of the camp.

The instant these flesh-worm-like monsters appeared, the sedan chair, along with the surrounding monsters, had already disappeared from the gray mist and vanished into the eternal night.

“Exquisite!”

He couldn't help but take a deep breath, and pulled out five more green-tinged strange stones from his pocket, smashing them into the level 2 arrow tower next to him. At the same time, he chose the "Arrow Rain Storm" active skill upgrade path!

The camp is now at a critical juncture, facing a life-or-death situation.

If these two groups of monsters were to attack the camp together, it would be extremely troublesome. Fortunately, the female monster led her subordinate monsters back to Eternal Night, so he naturally did not think that the other party was really unwilling to bully the weak with numbers.

Clearly, the other party also feared the treacherous flesh-eating creature and did not want to be caught in the crossfire.

"ah!!!"

An extremely piercing scream echoed throughout the camp. The first flesh-worm had broken through the gray mist and rushed into the camp. Several human faces on the flesh ball, upon sensing the presence of the ghost fire, uncontrollably emitted extremely miserable screams, and their expressions were extremely painful.

They were clearly extremely reluctant to get close to the ghost fire.

But its body still obediently rolled straight toward the camp.

As more and more flesh-eating monsters rushed into the camp, a cacophony of piercing screams filled the camp.

next moment--

The runes on the crossbow at the top of a level 3 arrow tower on the city wall suddenly lit up, and dozens of mysterious and complex runes, emitting white light, floated up from the crossbow and hovered around the arrow tower.

Followed by.

"Click."

A barely perceptible mechanical sound was heard.

Countless light arrows shot out from the crossbows at extremely high speeds, rushing into the sky like a waterfall flowing backwards, forming a cloud of light arrows tens of meters in the air, before falling like divine retribution, intertwining with the torrential rain and covering an area north of the city wall.

"Sizzle"

Dozens of flesh-eating worms that were rolling on the ground were almost completely wiped out. A series of sizzling sounds, like red-hot iron rods being pierced into butter, rang out. The light arrow slowly dissipated, leaving only the flesh-eating worms on the ground that continued to turn into patches of green liquid, corroding the wasteland.

One by one, strange stones fell out of the body and lay quietly in the middle of the liquid, looking extremely tempting.

The first wave of the flesh worm's attack was almost completely wiped out.

The area covered by the arrow rain wasn't that large, and some arrows slipped through the net.

A few who managed to slip through the net did not head towards the city wall, but instead scurried across the camp along the edge of the wall and continued rolling into the eternal night, without looking back or lingering.

(End of this chapter)