Chapter 495 - 193: Insta-killing a Medium-sized City, Rewards Go Off the Charts

"Holy hell!" Shen Fei roared inwardly as he instantly summoned a Teleportation Gate Tower to make a quick escape from the special, snow-covered environment.

Initially, he hadn’t expected to receive a series of rewards for bombarding the Neutral City. But as they came in, what he expected even less was for the text on his personal panel to refresh and suddenly slap him with a mandatory quest. It was a quest with a countdown timer, and the penalty for failure was instant obliteration!

Shen Fei had wanted to eavesdrop and find out what the NPCs who had just lost their "hometown" would be talking about, but this forced him to quickly open a Teleportation Gate and leave instead. He headed toward another Neutral City in this special region, one he had previously located.

He only had one hour to complete his mandatory quest, and the situation didn’t allow for a moment’s delay. He had to destroy at least fifty Neutral Cities in one hour. Therefore, to leave some buffer time, he had to destroy at least one Neutral City per minute. Time was extremely tight!

The one Shen Fei had just destroyed was only the weakest kind: a small-sized Neutral City. But in this special region, there were over fifty Neutral Cities in total. Among them, more than half were the much stronger large- and medium-sized cities. With only one hour, Shen Fei was very worried he couldn’t pull it off...

Who would have thought that just by destroying a single Neutral City in this special region, he would receive such a life-threatening quest? From the quest description, it seemed Shen Fei’s act of destroying a Neutral City was a first on all of Blue Star, whether in the regions inhabited by human players or in these special regions where Intelligent NPCs and Super Bosses lived. It was the first and only time it had ever happened.

WHOOSH!

I’m always the first one to do something, the one and only, Shen Fei grumbled to himself. His vision blurred for a moment, and he appeared before another Neutral City.

The bad news was that the mandatory quest required him to destroy 50 Neutral Cities—including large and medium ones—within one hour. The good news, however, was that he had already used his Detection Towers to find and mark the locations of all the Neutral Cities in this special region on his minimap. So at least he didn’t have to waste time on reconnaissance.

"Let’s go!"

Time was short, so Shen Fei didn’t have a moment to think. After detecting that this new Neutral City before him was just like the last one—most of its NPCs had left for a Secret Realm, with only a few personnel remaining behind—he waved his hand and directly summoned 200 Defense Towers without a second thought. Then, he unleashed a Cluster Attack.

Time was of the essence. He no longer had time to enter the city gates and attack the Heart of the City from within. To destroy 50 Neutral Cities in one hour, he had to be fast enough! Under these circumstances, he could only use brute force, without wasting a single moment.

BOOM!

At Shen Fei’s command, a silent attack slammed fiercely into the special, small city before him—a city still covered in thick snow, its lower half buried underground.

SWOOSH!

Silently, a massive crater, three kilometers in radius and hundreds of meters deep, appeared where the city had been...

Originally, Shen Fei had planned to use the Cluster Attack from 200 Defense Towers to first break the city’s Shield, then launch a second wave to destroy its Heart of the City. He never expected that this one attack would completely wipe out everything in the city, including the Shield and the Heart of the City... This was something Shen Fei hadn’t anticipated at all.

Thank goodness it was only a Cluster Attack from 200 Defense Towers! Shen Fei thought to himself as he stared at the unexpectedly massive crater. If I’d used 500, it might have affected Blue Star itself...

To complete the mandatory quest as quickly as possible, it was obvious that the stronger the attack he unleashed, the faster he could destroy the cities. However, he was also worried that his Defense Tower attack would be too powerful and threaten the safety of Blue Star. In the end, he had settled on a final number of 200 Defense Towers for his attack. He was glad he had played it safe. An attack from 200 Defense Towers had caused this much damage, and that was without activating his Bonds skills or Gemstone effects, only his Equipment Effects. If he hadn’t held back just now, he might have actually caused other problems.

For the next small city, I’ll try a Cluster Attack with 150 Defense Towers!

The Neutral City before him had been completely annihilated, along with its City Shield and everything else within it. Having obtained this data, Shen Fei made a decision.

[Ding!]

[You have obtained Heart of the City x1]

[You have obtained City Energy x100]

[You have obtained Energy Crystal x3]

[You have obtained 100,000,000 EXP x7]

[You have obtained 123 EXP]

[You have obtained 53 EXP]

[You have obtained 90 EXP]

.

As a massive amount of text detailing his loot scrolled across his automatically opened personal panel, Shen Fei—WHOOSH!—once again summoned a Teleportation Gate Tower and appeared before a third Neutral City...

The second Neutral City had been blown apart from the outside in with a single move. Moreover, the rewards for destroying it hadn’t decreased. Without a second thought, Shen Fei began his next assault...

BOOM!

He arrived before a new Neutral City.