Douluo: What the hell is the academic master development system?

Chapter 885 Tower Defense War (6K)

The surging beast tide had reached within three kilometers of Shrek City in a short period of time. The closer they got, the more terrifying the number of soul beasts became.

Those charging at the forefront were mostly spirit beasts with cultivation levels of about ten to a hundred years, and their strength was not great. They were cannon fodder among the spirit beasts.

Of course, even these cannon fodder are far more powerful than ordinary people. Those who aren't Soul Masters are simply no match for them in a one-on-one situation.

"Ground traps are being activated in batches; slowing, mayfly, spike traps, and laser traps are being prepared!"

Looking at the ever-approaching beast tide, Shi Xing's gaze remained cold, but he did not give the order to fire the cannons early on.

What a joke! If we wanted to fight, we would have opened fire from 15 kilometers away. The range of the soul-guided howitzer, made of thousand-refined metal, is enough to kill a large number of soul beasts without them even knowing why!
Two kilometers!
one kilometer!

At this moment, a large number of mid-to-high-level soul beasts have begun to develop their soul skills. If they get any closer, their attacks will be able to reach the soul masters on the city wall!
A distance of one kilometer is still too far for most soul beasts, especially the cannon fodder soul beasts at the front, so they need to get closer.

700 meters!
Scattered ranged attacks from the beast horde began to fly out and hurtle towards the city walls, but Shi Xing remained unmoved.

Five hundred meters!
More and more soul beasts began to gather their soul skills, preparing to storm the city walls and taste the fresh blood of humans. Just then, Shi Xing waved his hand slightly.

"put!"

Shi Xing's command seemed to activate a switch, and on the rumbling earth shaken by the beast tide, various soul-guided ground traps that had long been grinding their teeth and sucking blood were quickly activated.

"Om————"

As a series of low humming sounds rang out, whirlwinds quickly formed from within the beast tide.

These whirlwinds don't have strong pulling force, but they are densely packed and pose no threat to those behemoths that weigh tons.

However, it is remarkably effective against small to medium-sized soul beasts like the Wind Baboon and the Bloodthirsty Hyena, which are known for their agility and whose weight usually does not exceed fifty kilograms.

The instant those hundreds of eye-of-the-storm appeared, thousands of small-sized soul beasts were thrown into the air.

The medium to large-sized soul beasts also slowed down their progress when faced with these hundreds of chaotically distributed hurricanes.

Most medium-sized soul beasts could only try to avoid the hurricane and move forward through the gaps in it. Only the ton-sized behemoths, which were not fast to begin with, were able to move forward rapidly without being affected at all.

However, at the very moment the beast tide slowed down, various ground traps designed to target the beast tide began to take effect.

"Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!"

A series of metallic explosions rang out as meter-long steel spikes burst from the ground, propelled by the activation of the soul-guided mechanism, and hurtled towards the sky.

Many of the soul beasts whose speed was slowed down by the hurricane had no time to dodge and were pierced through by the earth spike trap that burst out of the ground.

Those heavy soul beasts, some weighing several tons, had their feet pierced and their internal organs pierced instantly by the steel spikes that burst from the ground!
In an instant, thick plumes of blood mist rose up in front of the entire south city wall! The next moment, crimson soul-guided laser traps also unleashed their power among the ground spike traps.

Crimson laser beams burst forth from the earth, piercing the sky and launching a deadly attack on the soul beasts that were already extremely large but were still ungulates, having narrowly escaped the spike traps due to their slender limbs.

For spirit beasts, no matter how powerful they are, their soft bellies are their fatal weakness.

At this moment, the ground traps that Shrek activated were all aimed at their weakest points of defense!

In an instant, thousands of white, yellow, and even a few purple soul rings rose up, creating a spectacular sight.

And this is just the beginning. Shrek Academy has prepared Soul Guide Floating Lightning Gift Packs for those soul beasts that are seriously injured but have not yet died due to their strong vitality!

"Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzz————"

A chilling electromagnetic activation sound rang out, and beside countless soul beasts, countless fist-sized floating mines sprang up from the ground under the influence of electromagnetic force.

These floating mines were launched at a relatively low height, generally only about 1.5 meters, but this height was carefully designed by Chen Ping.

"Bang bang bang bang bang——"

Before these soul beasts could react, a series of explosions rang out, and these cheap floating mines, each worth only one or two gold soul coins and filled with shrapnel and steel balls, exploded!

Countless metal fragments scattered in all directions under the force of the explosion, sweeping wildly towards the surrounding soul beasts. In just a moment, the number of soul rings rising from below the position increased by one or two thousand!
In just a few breaths, the number of casualties among the soul beasts had approached 10,000, and the number of wounded soul beasts was probably as high as 50,000. What an incredible result this was!
At this moment, Shi Xing was stunned, standing on the city wall.

Although he already knew what was laid beneath Shrek City, Shi Xing's eyes still widened in disbelief when he actually saw these soul tools unleash their power.

He was shocked not only by the power of these soul tools, but also by the cheapness of these ground traps.

Slowing traps, spike traps, laser traps, and floating mine traps are all level 2 traps. They are very cheap to make, costing a dozen or so gold soul coins at the more expensive ones, and just a few gold soul coins at the cheaper ones!
For example, the most valuable part of a spike trap is the labor cost of making the core magic array. How much can a spike trap made entirely of fine steel be worth?

But these low-level soul tools, which might only cost a few hundred thousand gold soul coins to make and could be used once without any pain, created such enormous damage at the very beginning of the beast tide. How could this not leave Shi Xing somewhat bewildered?
Fortunately, Shi Xing was well-trained. Despite his shock, he issued orders without any delay.

The level 2 soul tools, which typically cost only a dozen or so gold soul coins, have been exhausted. Now it's time to switch to level 3 ground soul tools, which typically cost dozens of gold soul coins!

"Poison, Electromagnetic, Frost, and Fire Trap, activate!"

As the command was issued, the next moment, dense nerve gas seeped out from beneath the beast horde.

The design of this poison trap was quite sophisticated. The poison gas was a mixture of various gases heavier than air, which could only be used to crawl a few meters close to the ground. Moreover, the gas evaporated very quickly and had no effect on the Shrek City Guards who were stationed on the fifty-meter-high city wall!
The moment the deceleration traps stopped working, these poison traps began to unleash their power, and the dense poison gas almost instantly enveloped the beast horde below!

(End of this chapter)