Book 5: Chapter 63: Offense


    <strong>Scarlet</strong>


    <strong>But none of you need to worry about that for now, as the Voided Overlord wont be able to break into the universe for another several years at the least, </strong>King Oberon deres, breaking the tension that had filled the stadium a little bit. <strong>And our resident Warden will be taking care of it when it does arrive, wont she?</strong>


    I cant help but feel quite a few gazes focused on me at that offhanded statement. Not to mention a slightly vindictive look on the Fae Kings face.


    Rude.


    Not my fault thesepetitions werent designed with the Red gue in mind.


    Well, putting that aside for now, I feel I should hopefully be able to reach the cap of ss V within the next several years.


    Probably.


    Depends on if I win thispetition and get the ability to teleport across the universe.


    Anyways, I turn my attention back to the tower down below as I see otherpetitors finally sending void creature at the tower. And its at that point that I realize that we were given a hundred more points to spend on this.


    Unlike with the defense setup phase though, this time it specifically mentions that all points that arent spent will be removed after each tower defense.


    So we dont get to just horde points from not attacking towers.


    I focus on the tower itself. Instead of my tower, this one is a lot narrower with arge portion going outside of the tower and climbing up the sides of it. Meanwhile the interior parts of the tower dont actuallyst for very long before going outside.


    The towers on the other hand dont look anywhere near as well set up as the ones I ced in my own tower. Probably because the demons have never yed video games before. So they dont know as much on how to best ce towers and the like.


    Although Im sure the Demon Lords and other smarter demons would do rather well despite that.


    Also, it looks like the flying demons are limited to only flying through certain portions of the map with little invisible barriers blocking certain areas. So they can skip some traps and portions through flying, but they cant just fly around the entire tower to make it to the top and break the core.


    Stolen novel; please report.


    The void creatures at this point are still within the tower. But to my surprise, the moment I try to focus on those void creatures, I somehow be able to see <em>through </em>the tower at the creatures inside.


    Interesting.


    The void creatures are on the second floor of the tower right now, with about one more floor above them until the tower reaches the outside portions.


    Considering that the floors of the tower are a lot narrower than my own though, this wont likely take very long for the void creatures to break past the towers defenses and enter the exterior parts. Especially considering that the otherpetitors are finally starting to send void creatures of their own at the tower.


    At least, judging by the muchrger number of void creatures beginning their climb up the tower. Some of which are ss II.


    Also, I cant help but admire those towers and the defenders. Because theyre doing quite well when taking into consideration the fact that theyre attacking ss I and ss II equivalent void creatures.


    From what I can tell, the defenses that cost a half a point are ss 0 equivalent, the ones that cost two points are ss I, and the ones that cost five points are ss II equivalent. With the ones costing ten points as being ss III equivalent in power.


    All a decent chunk expensive than the void creatures were sending at the tower, but at the same time, the defenses are mostly permanent. With the exception of the monsters.


    They will be reused on every creature that passes by.


    Oh, and the makeshift walls too. There were some of those offered along with the traps, but I didnt really use them much.


    Not very many good spots to ce them in my tower unlike this one.


    I watch for a few more seconds before going ahead and spending my points on several ss 0 void creatures, a few ss I void creatures, two ss II void creatures, and a ss III void creature all in a single batch. Then I simply sit by and watch them all move forwards with intrigue.


    The best way from what Ive seen to beat a defense in a tower defense game is for clumped together monsters, or void creatures in this case, with a mixture of strong and weak ones. Generally to have the weak ones take the hits and attention away from the strong ones as they all pass by the stronger towers. Then the strong ones will be set to move on through the tower after having passed by the difficult parts.


    Assuming they dont have their defenses spread out, of course. But this tower has most of its defenses on the interior floors, with only some traps and a singleyer of defense at the end of the towers exterior area.


    And it helps in this case that the ss III broodmothers give birth to a bunch of weaker void creatures to buff up that little wall around them.


    Although I cant help but notice that the babies are far weaker than the purchased ss 0 void creatures. Which proves that they are, in fact, babies.


    Not a hard thing to figure out if you try.


    That babies would be weaker than adults.


    After my little force gets taken down along the way, I go ahead and send another, slightly altered force of void creatures now that Ive gotten a bit more of an understanding of the monsters themselves. And slowly but surely, along with the assistance of all the otherpetitors, the void creatures make it through the tower all the way to the core before shattering it.


    Then arge number shes above the tower stating that a little less than four minutes had gone by before they lost, following which another tower appears with a different surroundings.


    And the process starts all over again.


    This is fun.