"Dingbei City has been successfully built. A large number of monsters will attack for 24 hours. City Lord, please be prepared. If the defense fails, Dingbei City will be destroyed."
The battle to defend the city has finally arrived.
Jiang Hao recalled the arrangements made by the city lord of Jinling City: "During the defense of the city, even if you have the strength, you must not kill monsters too quickly."
The rate at which monsters spawn is dynamically adjusted based on the rate at which they are killed. Each time a monster is killed, a new monster will appear.
Another point to note is that newly appearing monsters are always stronger than the monsters that have been killed.
In other words, the difficulty of defending a city increases over time. However, the rate of increase is something the city lord can adjust himself.
We absolutely cannot go too fast, otherwise the last few hours will be difficult.
However, the speed cannot be too slow either.
After successfully defending the city, every monster killed will be placed by Lingxu in the northern ice plains as a target for players to level up and fight monsters.
Only when there are enough monsters and their strength is high enough can players have enough experience.
And only as their city lord can they reap the greatest rewards in the end.
Jiang Hao, who was initially quite relaxed, suddenly became conflicted after recalling the words of the city lord of Jinling City.
Going too fast could easily lead to a failed defense, and if that fails, 50 million gold coins would be wasted. More importantly, even if he goes to the Black Dragon Palace to farm more gold coins, he might not be able to get back in time to rebuild the city.
If it's too slow, the entire northern ice sheet will have far fewer resources.
That's right, Jiang Hao regarded every monster he killed while defending the city as a resource for making a fortune in the future.
After agonizing over this for a while, Jiang Hao still couldn't come up with a good solution that satisfied both sides. Just as the monster in the distance was about to approach, Jiang Hao remembered that the messenger and tens of thousands of sows were still in the same spot.
If we don't move them here, they'll probably be killed by the monster in no time.
Jiang Hao then moved his body a few times and brought the messenger and tens of thousands of sows over.
The two of them had completely transformed into round, chubby snowmen, and their original appearances were no longer recognizable.
I wonder if they froze to death? Jiang Hao simply put them down on the south side of Dingbei City, against a pile of thatched grass more than a meter high, to help them withstand the wind and snow.
Jiang Hao then drew his staff and swung it at the monsters in the distance.
The level 21 gnoll monster instantly appeared under Jiang Hao's staff, its 3780 HP bar was emptied, and then it disappeared with a flash of white light.
All attributes of the Immortal Heart are increased by 1.
At the same time, Jiang Hao noticed that a number 1 had appeared out of nowhere in the lower left corner of his field of vision. Jiang Hao turned his head, but the number remained fixed in that spot as if it were permanently in his line of sight.
This should be a notification of the number of monsters killed, right?
Jiang Hao was too lazy to investigate further. He waved his staff again, and another level 21 gnoll monster appeared from a distance under Jiang Hao's staff.
This gnoll's attributes were exactly the same as the previous one. Jiang Hao looked up and around. In the vast white snowstorm, gnolls were closing in on him; they were clearly all from the same group of monsters. The newly born monsters were probably following behind these gnolls, but Jiang Hao couldn't see them because of the snowstorm.
These level 21 gnolls are monsters that bridge the gap in monster levels and strength in the starting village, meant for ordinary players to hone their skills. With Jiang Hao's current strength, he doesn't even consider them worth a second glance.
So the staff was waved repeatedly, and in less than a second, the monsters were cleared out, leaving only a vast expanse of white ice and snow as far as the eye could see.
The monsters indeed moved much faster. Just a few seconds later, another large group of level 22 ghouls surrounded Jiang Hao. Their target was always Jiang Hao.
Jiang Hao then waved his staff again, clearing away all the ghouls he saw. In an instant, all the surrounding monsters transformed into level 23 Iron-Eating Beasts.
However, with Jiang Hao's attack power boost of over 5 million and his terrifying attack speed of over 1600 attacks per second, these monsters could not escape the fate of being instantly killed as soon as they appeared.
Then came the level 24 Bloodthirsty Beast, the level 25 Golem Stone Golem, the level 26 Minotaur, the level 27 Werewolf, the level 28 Orc...
Waves of monsters appeared, and wave after wave of monsters were wiped out. The entire northern ice plain was silent, with only the swirling snow bearing witness to the unequal slaughter that existed here.
"Tsk tsk tsk, aren't you afraid that if you defend the city like this, monsters will fill the entire northern ice plain after the defense is over?"
Tens of thousands of sows had woken up at some point, leaning against the pile of straw behind them, and said with a pout.
Most of the ice and snow on his body had melted, leaving only chunks of ice clinging to him. He didn't seem to care at all, and instead pulled out a blade of grass, putting it in his mouth, making him look even more nonchalant.
Meanwhile, the messenger stood ramrod straight, the ice on his body already knocked off, staring wide-eyed as he watched Jiang Hao fight the monster.
Jiang Hao laughed and said, "What's there to be afraid of? The more monsters, the better!"
Tens of thousands of sows nodded, then pulled out a large bundle of straw from the haystack and placed it behind their heads, which were already lying flat. Their eyes were fixed on the swirling snow, and they seemed lost in thought.
Jiang Hao ignored him. He waved his staff repeatedly, instantly killing all the hundreds of level 60 zombies that had approached.
"Congratulations, City Lord, on successfully defending your Level 1 main city. Your main city has been upgraded to Level 2. Please prepare for defense."
A system notification sounded in Jiang Hao's ears. Then, Jiang Hao saw that the haystack behind him instantly transformed into a thatched hut. The tens of thousands of sows seemed to have been prepared, as they stood up and unceremoniously pushed open the door, brought out a reclining chair, and lay down again.
He showed absolutely no intention of offering to help!
Jiang Hao ignored him. Turning his head to look around, he saw a large number of level 21 gnolls running rapidly towards him through the snowstorm in the distance, except that they had all become black iron-grade.
Even a monster of the Black Iron level, which has about five times the health of a normal monster of the same level, could not escape being instantly killed by Jiang Hao.
As Jiang Hao leisurely waved his staff, he asked, "Are there still levels for main cities? What level is Jinling City now?"
The grandeur and magnificence of Nanjing were already deeply imprinted in Jiang Hao's mind, making him unable to resist making a comparison.
"What's so great about that dilapidated city of Jinling? It's only level three. With your abilities, if you don't upgrade Dingbei City to level four, you might as well go back and commit suicide!"
His ability to roast people was getting better and better, but Jiang Hao didn't care. Instead, he was excited.
"You mean, if I can hold off this wave, Dingbei City can become like Jinling City?"
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