My Chaotic City

Chapter 054 Victory in Defending the City

In the blink of an eye, the master thief was defeated and vanished in a flash, abandoning his mission to siege the city.

In fact, the master thief had no fear of death, because he had already been reduced to level 1, and his level could no longer be reduced, so he couldn't even lose experience points.

However, Zhen Deqiang added a final sentence to him: "Deduct half a month's salary."

These words really upset the master thief. He had just joined the Emperor Guild and hadn't even received his salary yet, but it had already been halved.

Who can I complain to?

The master thief silently made a decision: from now on, he would do more and talk less. What was the point of being a cunning strategist? It would only be asking for trouble.

Zhen Deqiang and Chun Sanyue were both extremely unwilling, and began to blame each other.

"The game has just started, and you haven't even joined a faction yet. What are you attacking cities for? I told you so! Now look what's happened, I'm dragged down with you. Zhen Deqiang, you have to compensate me. All my defensive towers are gone, and the governor was killed. I'm practically a new account now," Chun Sanyue complained, getting angrier the more she thought about it.

Zhen Deqiang, his face dark, said, "You're blaming me? Look at my brothers, apart from that dog-head hat, what's lacking? Top-tier shield, top-tier priest, top-tier mage. You're just too trashy, not even a single soldier. You still have the nerve to ask me to compensate you? What does your family's current state have to do with me?"

"I'm so angry!" Chun Sanyue's face flushed red. "How long has the game been open? Which Chaos City has any troops? If you ask me, you guys are trash. Look how resilient the opposing players are! And those archers, they swarmed a bunch of skeletons. Which of your players can compare? Also, since this is a siege, why didn't you prepare some siege equipment? A few catapults, cannons, or something?"

Spring March swept his gaze around and shouted, "Garbage equipment, garbage levels, and even more garbage classes! If any of you had a dragon knight riding a dragon, this city wouldn't be able to be taken!"

"Damn dragon riders! Damn catapults! It's all because your Chaos City is such a terrible place to develop. Li Hanqiang's Chaos Capital City has 130 soldiers..."

Zhen Deqiang and Chun Sanyue were locked in a war of words, and the number of players around them was dwindling.

Zhen Dejun dared not utter a sound. He secretly led a large group of people to abandon the city defense mission and teleport away.

There's no point in standing here doing nothing and losing levels. You might as well log off and level up to catch up.

The atmosphere was quite different on Li Hanqiang's side; they wished they could fight their way back through the spacetime wormhole.

"Just wait to collect your city defense rewards." Li Hanqiang turned to the four members of Dark Night Redemption and said, "This time, we really owe you all a lot. Thank you for your hard work!"

"Not hard at all, not hard at all!" Ignition Sword Saint laughed heartily. "How can beating Emperor be hard?"

The Fan Knight asked, "What are the rewards for defending the city? There should be a lot of experience points, right?"

Dark Night Redemption then leaned closer to Li Hanqiang, pointed at the Fan Knight and the Ignition Sword Saint, and asked, "Where can we get those turtle shells they're wearing?"

"You want it!" Li Hanqiang asked.

"I want one! This is absolutely amazing for tanking bosses. If we could get four or five of these, we could block the boss in the dungeon and be incredibly powerful!" Dark Night Redemption said seriously. His team was currently trying to conquer the world dungeon [Burning Ruins], and they had failed many times. What they lacked was a tanky character.

Li Hanqiang said, "Getting this tortoise shell depends on luck. It's a local specialty, but it's no longer available."

"That's a shame!" Dark Night Redemption quickly moved closer to Fan Knight and Ignition Sword Saint, saying, "You two, how about we run a dungeon together...?"

Fan Knight and Ignite Sword Saint were immediately intrigued and started chatting enthusiastically with Dark Night Redemption, boasting about how strong their dungeon skills were and their experience using the Turtle Shell.

Li Hanqiang listened from the side, taking it as just gathering information about the adventurer players.

The map of 【Endless World】 is extremely large, just like its name suggests, it is practically infinitely large.

There are countless large cities in the region alone.

Moreover, the major cities in different regions are different, with different geographical and cultural environments; some are trade centers, while others are military fortresses...

No, for adventurer players, it doesn't make much difference which major city they are born in; they can develop well in either area.

Naturally, there are plenty of leveling areas around major cities in a region, and there are usually dungeons as well. However, these dungeons are all small dungeons, and there are all kinds of them, such as mines, monster lairs, hunter camps, and so on. Naturally, the dungeons around each major city in a region are different.

In addition to these major city dungeons, there are also world dungeons, which are quite impressive. These are large-scale dungeons designed for all adventurer players and can be accessed in all major cities in all regions, allowing cross-chaos city team-ups.

World dungeons are extremely difficult, yield higher-level items, and feature speedrun leaderboards, first-clear rewards, first-kill rewards for bosses, and other highly coveted prizes for large guilds.

Dark Night Redemption and Fanfeng and Ignite were talking about the world dungeon numbered 001, called [Burning Ruins]. It is a level 20 dungeon with a high difficulty level, and no team has yet achieved a first clear.

Li Hanqiang listened for a while, then suddenly felt bored, shook his head, and turned to check his own defensive tower.

Although their defensive towers are still standing intact, they have many signs of attack, especially the Flame Tower, which was originally a black obelisk with flames and a smooth, mirror-like surface, but now it looks dilapidated.

"Players' attacks do indeed damage defenses. Fortunately, the attacking players' attack power wasn't enough. If the defensive towers had been destroyed, that would have been terrible!" Li Hanqiang pondered.

After studying it for a while, he discovered that the defensive towers could not repair themselves, so he guessed that there must be a way to repair the defensive towers, perhaps requiring special craftsmen or unlocking certain technologies.

Just as I was pondering this, suddenly, the spacetime wormhole in front of me shrank instantly, and the attacking force data above it showed that the attacking force had become zero.

"Regional Announcement: The attacking side has abandoned its siege mission. The siege of Chaos City #69 has failed, and all attacking players have lost experience. The defense of Chaos City #68 has been successful, and all defending players have received a large amount of experience and Chaos City contribution points!"

After the announcement, Li Hanqiang was enveloped in white light and actually leveled up to level 15. Immediately afterwards, a system notification came: "Ding, congratulations on successfully repelling the attack of Chaos City No. 69. You will receive some of the refugees from Chaos City No. 69, reserve gold coins, and a military merit certificate."

"Ding! Congratulations! You have obtained 0 Refugees and 125 Bound Gold Coins."

"Refugees?" Li Hanqiang was very disappointed. His house was completely bare in the third month of spring; there were no refugees there at all. And his gold coin reserves were also meager, only 125 coins.

How could Li Hanqiang be satisfied with such a reward for defending the city?

As for the military merit certificate, Li Hanqiang took it out to examine it.

[Military Merit Certificate: When used, it can be exchanged for 20 faction military merit points. Military merit points can be used to upgrade military rank. Upgrading military rank will bring many benefits within the Empire faction. Players are encouraged to explore these benefits on their own.]