Chapter 1031 - 574: Ultimate Tower Defense Lord

If these [Elemental Arrow Towers] are like bolt-action rifles in Earth’s warfare,

then [Giant Crossbow Towers] are sniper rifles.

[Tower of Thunder] is like a shotgun, [Moon Blade Tower] is a mortar, [Holy Light Tower] is a medic, and [Necromancer Tower] is a battlefield support that can summon cannon fodder.

Meanwhile, [Tower of Chaos] is like an RPG rocket launcher against heavily armored units, [Magic Energy Arrow Tower] is a light machine gun suppressing enemy assaults, and [Giant Cannon Tower] is battlefield support cannon fodder.

When partnered with "Armored Griffin Bomber" and magic energy war vehicle, the territory truly becomes a formidable offense-defense integrated state.

Every type of defense arrow tower has different characteristics, and accordingly, must be responsible for different tasks, arranged most appropriately.

After exchanging for this wave of high-tier defense arrow towers, it cost another 112,000 points.

"Spending points really flows like water!"

Zong Shen couldn’t help but sigh in his heart.

However, after exchanging for these high-tier defense towers, the defensive capability of Zong Shen’s territory will rise another notch, giving him a full sense of security.

Recently, many new buildings have been constructed within the territory, and the defensive matrix in several directions has been adjusted.

Including the [Thunder Domain Miracle (Incomplete)] and the [Red Gold Barrier Pillar (Golden)], which have been placed in the most suitable positions.

Speaking of which, the [Thunder Domain Miracle] is truly a great defensive weapon.

Unfortunately, its consumption is also very high and is not easily utilized.

And the [Red Gold Barrier Pillar] acts as a large-scale defensive building of the territory.

Over this period, it has been fully charged by those twelve Thunder Mage Apprentices.

One must admit hiring these "power banks" has some utility.

After exchanging for all the defense arrow towers,

Zong Shen reluctantly closed the [Defense Blueprint] exchange option.

The reluctance was because he spent a lot of points in it.

The reluctance also indicates that Zong Shen still wanted to exchange for more defense arrow towers.

Besides defense towers, [Defense Blueprint] also offers pre-made city walls and common defense buildings such as Tier Five cheval de frise, road barriers, and caltrop frames.

However, there are no special defense buildings like [Fortresses] and [Combat Sentry Towers].

For Zong Shen, aside from defense towers, things like cheval de frise and road barriers are just rubbish, and it would be more practical to dig some trenches instead.

Moreover, he already has the blueprints for low-tier cheval de frise.

Even the city wall blueprint has accumulated to Tier Five, though he has yet to choose to construct it.

The city’s scale and development theme have already been set.

Zong Shen plans to, in due time, construct a circular city wall within a three-kilometer radius centered around the Lord’s Fortress for the inner circle and military circle.

However, this is not a small project either.

Based on the circumference formula of a circle, this city wall’s total length can reach nearly nineteen kilometers!

Even if constructed, it would not be without a massive consumption of resources.

The Central District and Military Zone are two determined core areas within the territory.

So it is entirely possible to first establish city walls and construct the Inner City District.

As for the city walls on the territory’s periphery, Zong Shen doesn’t dare think about it now, as the required resources would be astronomical.

Sometimes, he even wondered how much manpower and material resources were needed to establish such grand city walls in massive cities like Azshara of the past!

Even with the help of mages and warriors performing miracles, this is still a colossal project.

It would require at least hundreds of years of construction time.

In fact, this is indeed true for the Indigenous People.

The current fort-like giant cities and Bang Cities with complete city walls are all ancient cities with thousands of years of heritage and history.

And those open-type cities are mostly new cities emerging over the past millennium.

Their implied meanings are self-evident.

Compared to the Indigenous People, the effort Lording requires to build city walls is actually much smaller.

But it still demands quite an effort and painstaking work.

Even the affluent Zong Shen feels his scalp tingle when he considers whether to build city walls.

According to his previous plan, the territory outskirts would continue to develop open-type territories.

Only in the core area of the periphery would a defensive matrix be arranged.

To primarily establish defense for places like workshops, blacksmith shops, and tailor shops.

However, this approach would significantly reduce the overall defense strength of the territory.

The ideal plan is to encompass the entire territory with city walls.

Garrison and defense equipment can be stationed on the city walls.

Construct [Battle Fortresses] and [Combat Towers] inside and outside the territory.

And complement with epic-level defense buildings like the [Red Gold Barrier Pillar] that protect large-scale areas and defensive matrices at various nodes inside the territory to form a comprehensive fortress city.

He intends to make his territory as impregnable as an iron barrel!

Never let the scene of Hellfire invasion he witnessed before happen!

Of course, this is just Zong Shen’s ideal plan for territory defense construction.

Implementing this plan would require an unknown amount of effort.

Therefore, he must work hard to acquire as many resources as possible.

After deciding on the [Defense Blueprint] exchange,

Zong Shen opened the last category in the [Building Blueprint].

[Special Blueprint]

He hoped something surprising might be found in this category.

Upon opening the category list, Zong Shen was momentarily stunned.

The "special" in this option refers to buildings that require a unique blueprint for each.

For instance, [Market] is a typical special building.

Looking around, it wasn’t as surprising as he imagined.

But Zong Shen found that there were workshops and factories, as well as some support-type buildings like springs and totems!