Why is my territory in a 2D anime art style?

Chapter 113 The Ice Mist Tide Under the Blood Moon

"roar!"

Deep within the thick fog that Sui An had just cleared, faint, stern, and violent sounds could be heard drifting from afar.

Sui An immediately abandoned his daytime nonchalance and fully activated the Thousand Wind Barrier. Wang Hu put down his long sword, and Fang Si climbed over from behind the house.

"Quick, go get your materials!"

Sui An shouted to Fang Si, "With the blood moon descending, the ice demons that roam further out of their territory will begin their active hunting mode. The materials that are left alone in the small barrier will no longer be useful, and may even be accidentally broken through and destroyed."

"Okay!" Fang Si jumped over the wall and rushed out.

"Tiger, go collect the source stones, be quick!" Sui An called to Wang Hu, and they began to collect the source stones from the ice demons they had killed that afternoon. No one knew how long the fight would last tonight, so the more source stones they had, the better.

Wang Hu dropped his broadsword and jumped over the wall. The ice demons that Sui An lured over were basically killed at fixed locations, and the source stones were scattered together.

Soon, the two returned carrying the source stones and materials wrapped in their clothes. Sui An immediately chose to shrink the barrier and fix it within the area of ​​the wall.

The elemental statues around them immediately roared, and the ice demons that had been lurking three hundred meters away rushed over, their sharp claws cutting into the walls and barriers, producing a torturous, ear-piercing sound.

Countless ice demons crossed the bombardment range of the six elemental statues and clung to the barrier. Their ferocious forms, illuminated by the blood moon, no longer resembled anything of this world.

Sui An manipulated the witch's illusion and began to clean up the area around his territory. In just one round, he gathered a team of fifty, a harvest that delighted Sui An.

Fang Si, Wang Hu, and Fang Nian were already each guarding a [Shattered Gold Cannon]. Compared to the crossbow bolts from the [Crossbow Watchtower], the area-of-effect attack of the cannon was obviously better.

However, due to the dense fog, the turrets could not be aimed accurately, and they could only use the Shattering Gold Cannon to attack the scattered ice demons when they attacked the barrier.

As for whether the shells will damage the wall, the [Shattered Gold Cannon] and the wall are from the same source building, so the damage caused by the shells to the wall will be minimized.

Fang Si felt relieved when she saw that Sui An could handle all of this by himself.

To be honest, in his opinion, Sui An's territory structure was very unstable because the main firepower of the territory was concentrated on Sui An alone. Once he had a problem, the territory would collapse instantly.

On the contrary, a territory like He Chong's is the normal structure.

These turret-type weapons, which do not require professional control, can be operated by hiring a large number of non-professionals.

As for the professionals in the territory, the territory's weapons are enhanced with the additional source energy that professionals need, making them more powerful and better able to utilize the strength of each individual.

The lord only needs to sit in the center and adjust the formation strategy as appropriate.

This is the kind of qualified lord Fang Si sees, not someone like Sui An who relies entirely on his own control.

Of course, this requires having relatively abundant resources at home, being able to choose the blueprints you want, and creating a very reasonable combination.

Sui An may not have the resources; he can't buy all the blueprints he wants just by spending money.

But this guy's blueprints are clearly of much higher quality!

Sui An never expected that someone in his territory was so cunning, with their mind full of all sorts of ulterior motives.

But who can understand his current joy? Allocating firepower, controlling illusions, searching for targets, defending the base—isn't this just a standard immersive tower defense game?

"Bombard the area about fifteen meters directly in front of the territory with artillery fire!" Sui An shouted to the three people behind him after pulling the illusion to the designated location.

The illusion alone summoned seventy or eighty ice demons, many of which were level three. Relying solely on the four elemental statues summoned to eliminate them was too slow.

The power of the Gold Shattering Cannon isn't too bad, about the same as a level 2 Elemental Statue Splitter, but the gold shattering effect seems pretty good right now, making it easy to pierce the exposed ice core.

The three level 2 green gold-shattering cannons and four level 3 blue elemental statues made the clearing speed much faster. With seventy or eighty ice demons gathered together, they were almost completely cleared in four rounds.

"stop!"

Sui An no longer cared about the remaining scattered ones. He controlled the illusion to circle around the territory, luring the newly arrived ice demons to the designated location before opening fire again.

"Again!"

The illusion lasted for five minutes, and after about three rounds of this process, it dissipated. Sui An did not rush to summon a second illusion, but chose to wait a minute or two before starting again.

This one or two minutes will only increase the number of Ice Demons near your territory, but by staggering the three illusions by one or two minutes, you can avoid the 5-minute cooldown cycle and basically use them throughout the entire game.

The three rounds passed quietly, but the number of ice demons that surged into the territory within three hundred meters did not decrease. No one knew how many ice demons originally roamed the wilderness.

However, within a ten-kilometer radius of Sui An, only the territories of the He and Song families remained to compete with him, and there was also a level-one territory a bit away, but it wouldn't have a significant impact.

The light spots on the detection platform showed that the largest number of light spots were coming from the southwest side.

After Zhao Yuan's territory was destroyed, a gap of about 20 to 30 kilometers appeared on the southwest side of Sui An. More than half of the ice demons that should have been borne by Zhao Yuan's territory today were guided to Sui An by the Blood Moon.

"If He Chong's territory were gone, I'd be thrilled today, he could feed me all of it."

Sui An thought greedily, "How wonderful it would be to get revenge for myself while I'm at it."

Sui An's current cycle is very stable, so stable that even Fang Nian and Wang Hu behind him feel that the ice fog tide disaster is nothing special.

Only Fang Si frowned, a hint of worry in his heart.

Sui An achieved good results, but the enemies he encountered in his territory were all low-level ice demons, which was not consistent with the situation around Sui An's territory.

"Beep~ Beep~ Beep~ Beep~"

Sure enough, Fang Si's worries were instantly confirmed. Just over twenty minutes after the blood moon descended, an orange dot of light entered their field of vision at the edge of the territory.

It was fast and had a clear goal. Even with the dense ice fog, something seemed to guide it, leading it straight to its territory.

"Is this an effect of the blood moon?"

Sui An realized that he had always thought that the existence of the territory was because the source beasts could see it with their naked eyes, but now it seemed that this idea was completely wrong.

In such dense fog, a person can only see one or two meters at most, let alone distances beyond 300 meters.

"It's the Blood Moon that causes professionals or territories to emit some kind of signal, which can be detected by source beasts several kilometers away, allowing them to track them down."

Only this reason could explain why the ice demon rushed over so quickly.

Fang Si looked down at the projection of the detection platform. When the orange dot of light approached the illusion where many ice demons had gathered, it paused for a few moments before rushing back towards the territory.

"boom!"

A giant claw the size of a human head slammed into the Thousand Winds Barrier, creating ripples.

Standing close to the barrier, you can see that hideous triangular head, which sends chills down your spine.

"As expected, the hallucinogenic effect of this illusion is too weak for fourth-tier characters."

Sui An frowned, glancing hesitantly at the Sword Star Totem beside him, but Fang Si jumped down and came to stand in front of him.

Sui An stared blankly at Fang Si in front of him for a moment: "What are you going to do?"

"If you use elemental statues to attack this ice demon, it will be difficult to kill it before it revives. I'll kill it; you can't spread your firepower across it."

Fang Si pointed to the fiery red, crystalline greatsword beside Sui An: "Try not to use this either."

Sui An glanced at the projection on the detection platform and the constant rumbling of the Thousand Winds Barrier, and made a decisive decision.

"Okay, I'll give you a buff, go again!"

The dark yellow banner in the courtyard lit up. This was the first time Fang Si had seen the banner in action. He knew it was a special building, but he didn't know its specific effects.

[Defend the City: Your banners have entered Defend the City mode: Your initial blessing effect duration is extended to 10 minutes, but the final cooldown time is also doubled; this blessing effect requires selection before activating the banners, and can only be applied to the same target once during activation, and the energy consumption is doubled.]

Sui An designated one of the banners, selected the city defense mode, and directed the light towards Fang Si. To be honest, he hadn't tried the level 3 banner effect again.

However, as a level 3 blue building, its effect at this moment will definitely not be as insignificant as that of a level 1 building. Even level 4 professionals should be able to gain a noticeable improvement.

"The blessing I'm giving you will last for 10 minutes. Your speed will be increased, and your weapon attacks will have a shock effect. Make good use of it."

Fang Si felt the power enter her body and subconsciously swung the straight sword in her hand, finding that the sword speed was significantly faster.

"The speed you're referring to, is it the full speed?"

Sui An nodded: "Probably, I haven't tried it myself much."

Fang Si took a few steps forward, then looked at the ice demon attacking the barrier with a look of surprise on his face. His body was filled with surging source energy, and his leather armor was shining with a platinum-gold light.

"Okay, remember to bring me back later!"

"Just knock!"

Fang Si leaped up, the white-gold blade of his longsword surging with a brilliant light under the crimson light, and crashed fiercely into the huge figure.

The enormous ice demon, which was taller than the wall, was actually knocked back into the icy mist by this attack, and the surrounding mist quickly rippled and concealed it again.

Without the slightest hesitation, Fang Si stomped heavily on the wall and rushed straight into the icy mist.

A piercing roar quickly echoed from the icy mist, mixed with Fang Si's soft shout, before abruptly ceasing.

"Thump~ thump~ thump~"

Sui An stared blankly at Fang Si, who was tapping on the barrier, his face full of surprise.

"No, bro, were you even gone for ten seconds?"

"Did you go out to sea while playing the erhu?!"

Fang Si didn't come in immediately. He stood on the wall, his left hand surging with energy, enveloping a piece of ice-blue core, and suddenly threw it at the golden cannonball that was fired from the side.

The massive ice core was engulfed by the impact of the cannonball and shattered completely in the mist.

After confirming that the ice core had shattered, he walked through the gap in the barrier.

"A very strong buff. With this effect, I might be able to put up a fight against a regular level 5 professional!"

"Is it you who's too strong, or is it my flag that's stronger?"

While controlling the illusion to run in circles, Sui An asked curiously.

Fang Si sheathed his straight sword, jumped back onto the cannon platform, and said in a somewhat arrogant voice from above, "The flag is very effective, and so am I!"

Fang Nian looked at her older brother with starry eyes, while Wang Hu was incredibly envious.

Fang Si waved his hand: "It can increase my speed by about 30%, and the shock effect can also increase my damage by about 20%."

"That's definitely still possible. I haven't used this flag in a long time, I almost forgot about it. This effect should also trigger the shock effect on the turret you're operating."

Having received confirmation from this level four expert, Sui An nodded in satisfaction and added a few more details.

Fang Si's eyes lit up, and he quickly tried to operate the Shattered Gold Cannon, but the ice fog was too thick, and he couldn't observe the direct effect at all.

However, he could feel this energy spreading from his body to the cannon barrel.

"Then why not add it to everyone now?"

"This thing has too long a cooldown. In normal mode, it lasts for five minutes and then has a one-hour cooldown. For each additional person you bless, the cooldown increases by half an hour. The mode I just gave you has a two-hour cooldown, so it can only be used as a burst damage method."

Sui An shook his head with some regret: "If I had known you were this good at fighting, I would have given you a normal mode. It's such a waste."

"Beep~ Beep~ Beep~ Beep"

Before Sui An could finish speaking, the detection station's voice rang out again: "Alright, this time it won't be a waste."

Fang Si glanced at the location of the new orange light spot, waited for about ten seconds, and then rushed out instantly.

Sure enough, just as his blade was about to touch the barrier, a figure suddenly crashed into it. This time it wasn't a claw attack, but a spherical body stuck to the barrier.

Fang Si's blade pierced the spherical object and plunged directly into the thick fog. A dozen seconds later, he returned to the top of the wall, this time without knocking.

Instead, he quietly stood guard on the outside. About a minute later, the detection station sounded again. Fang Si checked the direction through the barrier and then rushed into the ice mist once more.

When Fang Si stood on the wall for the third time, the flag on his body had quietly disappeared. He knocked on the barrier and returned to the courtyard.

"I've used up too much energy; I need to recover!"

After killing four level-four ice demons in succession, Fang Si's face was already a little pale. Don't be fooled by his fast killing speed; he was giving it his all with each one.

When fighting against a source beast of the same level, there is little room for probing; every move must be a killing blow, with each strike aimed at eliminating the opponent. This is the true quality of a combat professional.

Sui An nodded and pointed to one of the stages that was lit up.

Given Fang Si's energy expenditure, recovery in normal mode is slow, and it would be difficult to fully recover in less than one or two hours.

Therefore, Sui An chose to start the "resident singer" mode.

[Resident Singer: When activating the stage, selecting Resident Singer mode will no longer summon Starlight Water. Instead, it will significantly increase the recovery speed of Energy and Stamina. The duration and cooldown time remain unchanged.]

This mode's recovery ability allows Fang Si to fully recover his source energy and physical strength in less than half an hour.