Book 5: Chapter 67: The Warden’s Defense

Book 5: Chapter 67: The Warden’s Defense

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Almost immediately upon his tower appearing, I find myself rather shocked. Because Leonidas actually did almost the exact same thing with his tower as Belle did with hers.

Except that his tower is even better suited for this sort of strategy than hers was.

Belle ended up being placed at about seventh overall, but that was largely because of her little obsession. Since I know shes very obsessed with only defending a certain way. Kind of like how Aria defended, actually. With a large focus on sending the void creatures or whatever shes defending against in a tower defense game flying. Winning via pushing them around into traps and the like, or off of environmental hazards.The original appearance of this chapter can be found at Ñøv€lß1n.

But her setup, which was fully focused on that, wasnt very good for her tower, which didnt have that many environmental hazards to begin with. Which Im sure she was rather upset by.

Leonidass does. And Im honestly shocked that he would go with a strategy like this.

I was kinda expecting a brute force method. Not a slow but sure method like this one.

Leonidass tower honestly seems to have been made strictly for this strategy, actually. So maybe thats why he went with it. Its almost like the tower was shouting at him to go about it this way.

Its completely filled with hazards like lava, poison pools, and places to drop void creatures from.

In fact, Im a little jealous of it.

That said, regardless of his good strategy and tower, he still doesnt manage to beat out Arias time. Although he almost beats Purples time. And he does beat his wifes time.

Which ends up leaving the top three at Aria placing first, Purple placing second, and Leonidas in third.

So far so good.

Then trouble comes in the form of dozens of breeders entering my tower at the same time, creating an army of spawn from them. And its not just breeders either, but also a bunch of flying void creatures alongside them.

I grimace at the sight of the spawn just rushing the defenses on the first floor and wasting them when they wouldve been far better used against the breeders. But I dont let it get to me, because it takes too long for them to pass through, giving the defenses time to reset for those that are meant to push them into the lava. And once they do reset, at least a third of the breeders are sent into the molten depths of the lava.

The rest make it to the second floor while the spawn distract my monsters though.

But they also get pushed back down on the second floor, making me let out a breath of relief.

Unfortunately for me, the competitors dont give in that easily and begin sending more void creatures at me. Proving that theyre rather set on knocking me out of the running in this competition.

Which is rather rude, but Id probably do the same in their shoes.

That said, its also giving me quite the number of points racked up. Points that I then spend on upgrading the second floor defenses again before moving on and upgrading some of the top floor traps.

I also realize that upgrading the towers now isnt a great idea, with the exception of a few towers. Because their upgrades dont help much at all. Just deal a little bit more damage.

But the main issue here is that most of the towers are already killing in a single blow, with the competitors all focusing on rushing the towers instead of using powerful void creatures to attack.

The set of void creatures available to send is just built for a rush strategy after all.

I grit my teeth slightly as I focus all I have into managing my defenses.