Chapter 348 - 165: Heaven-Shaking Change in the Endless Sea, Strange Harvest from the Monster Nest
A little over ten minutes later, before Shen Fei returned after dispatching the remaining bosses, the creatures on the distant water wall had yet to make a move.
SWOOSH!
The Teleportation Array lit up.
Shen Fei appeared on Songhai’s city walls once again.
The sight of Shen Fei’s return caused the tense, alert defenders to let out a collective sigh of relief, as if they had found their pillar of support. The tension that had gripped them moments before immediately eased.
I’d like to see! Just what kind of creatures are you?!
Having cleaned up the stragglers from the monster wave and effortlessly annihilated the remaining bosses, Shen Fei had returned. With no lingering threats behind him, he could finally focus his full attention on confronting this group of creatures on the water wall, who were clearly a third party.
Most importantly, during the recent cleanup, he had retrieved the Defense Towers he had previously placed in various gathering spots. At this moment, the number of Defense Towers he could freely place had returned to 100.
In a previous test, the power of 30 Defense Towers under his current skill buffs was equivalent to a 100-tower Cluster Attack from a week ago. Shen Fei was eager to see what a 100-tower Cluster Attack, combined with his current enhancement skills and the [Ten Thousand Linked Bonds] skill—which grew stronger with more towers—could achieve.
Just how high will my damage go? Forty-nine Defense Towers dealt 10 billion damage. Now, with 100 Defense Towers, not only has the number more than doubled, but I’ve also hit the 100-tower threshold that enhances the Cluster Attack. Add in Ten Thousand Linked Bonds and Skill Cloning... The base damage from 100 Defense Towers could probably reach 300 billion. That shouldn’t be an exaggeration.
His gaze sharp and piercing, Shen Fei scanned the Aquatic Race creatures on the distant water wall. In his mind, he was calculating what level of total damage his Defense Towers could now achieve after his third inheritance of game abilities.
"Brother Fei!"
While the monster wave was still being whittled down, Shen Fei stuck to his strategy of not acting unless the enemy did. It was then that he heard Sun Yu’s hushed report in his ear.
"I heard someone say that... that one, yeah, the third from the left! It looks like an NPC from some niche game!"
NPC? A thought flashed through Shen Fei’s mind.
"Yeah, probably!" Sun Yu reported quickly. "But the game is really old and niche. Only one person recognized it, and even he didn’t choose to inherit abilities from that game..."
The Aquatic Race creatures in front remained motionless, as if standing guard, while the monster wave led by golden-glowing bosses was still being slaughtered. Just as Shen Fei was mulling over Sun Yu’s report, one of Zhao Li’s girlfriends rushed over.
"Brother Fei!!" she yelled. "News!! Breaking news!!"
Seeing the panicked look on the woman’s face, as well as the shocked expression of the Songhai Tourism Management Office’s director in the distance, Shen Fei couldn’t help but ask, "What news? What’s wrong?"
He even saw Ma Bangde, the director of the Hang City Tourism Management Office, standing beside the director from Songhai with his face covered in blood and grime.
"Brother Fei!!" the girlfriend rattled on breathlessly. "Something happened in Hang City! The Neutral City there... it was taken down by the monster wave and the bosses, right? The boss led the monster wave and charged directly into the Neutral City! Then, before Ma Bangde retreated, he had someone place a camera inside! He saw through the camera that after the boss completely occupied the Neutral City, it actually mutated... It’s like... it’s like it suddenly gained sentience! And it looks like it’s going to occupy the Neutral City for good! And another thing! After the boss took over the Neutral City, the Monster Nest it spawned from somehow moved and is now inside the city..."
Because Shen Fei hadn’t intervened to save it, the Neutral City of Hang City had been overrun by the boss and its monster wave, forcing Ma Bangde and the others to flee to Songhai. What Shen Fei hadn’t expected was that the matter wasn’t over. Ma Bangde had shrewdly placed a camera in the Neutral City. His original plan was to use it to see if the monster wave would eventually retreat, allowing him to return. But he never imagined that the footage would show the boss gaining sentience after conquering the city. Moreover, it looked as if it were setting up a permanent camp.
He had never heard of, seen, or even imagined this. A boss attacking a Neutral City, after successfully conquering and occupying it, could go from being a mindless beast to a sentient being... And on top of that, it would set up camp and occupy the Neutral City!
This new information made Shen Fei’s heart skip a beat.
"Brother Fei!!"
"They’re here!!!"
"The boss is here!!"
While Shen Fei was still processing the surprising intel from Hang City, Sun Yu’s shout of alarm pulled his attention back to the battlefield.
Shen Fei saw the three monster waves in the wide river not far away suddenly rise up from the water. Like they were forming a human ladder, countless monsters called "Naga Slaves" writhed and squirmed, forming three towering columns that broke the surface. Then, three figures shimmering with golden light appeared atop the columns. Their bodies and appearance were the same as the Naga Slaves, but their demeanor and the Auras surrounding them were completely different, making them instantly recognizable as three Naga Slave bosses.
WHOOSH! WHOOSH! WHOOSH!
What surprised Shen Fei and the others most wasn’t that the bosses of the three aquatic monster waves had finally appeared. It was that, with their appearance, the hundred-meter-tall "wall" of waves, which had been stationary at the distant river mouth, slowly began to move.
The seawater churned.