Tower Defense Lord from Earth

Chapter 1 Earth Player Liu Huasheng

"The stars have revived, chaos has restarted, a new era has begun! Welcome to the tower defense world, Earth player Liu Huasheng! I am your game assistant, the alpaca 008 with unlimited health!"

An alpaca appeared in front of Liu Huasheng and spoke in human language.

Liu Huasheng, wearing a black short-sleeved shirt with the words "Newbie" printed on it and a plastic hammer shaped like Thor's hammer hanging from his waist, stood blankly on the stone ground.

The alpaca remained expressionless and continued, "The current game version is called [Starry Sea]. It welcomes all men and women under the age of 26 in the tower defense world, and new players exploring new planets. The game is loading..."

"Loading complete. Current time is 7:45 AM on January 1st, Star Sea Year 1. Liu Huasheng, you are the only player on Earth, currently a trainee tower defense lord. Hundreds of billions of players have now arrived. The game has officially begun!"

"Tower Defense Lord? This is a tower defense game?" Liu Huasheng raised an eyebrow. "Wait a minute, hundreds of billions of players! Am I the only one on Earth? Does that mean all the other players are aliens? Do they speak Chinese too?"

The alpaca didn't answer. He squinted at him and continued in a lecturing tone, "You have no family resources to support you, no elders to help you. You are isolated, destitute, and can only rely on yourself. From this moment on, abandon all preconceived notions, break free from the shackles of common sense, wholeheartedly embrace this new world, and fight for survival!"

"You mean alien players get family subsidies? They get support from their elders? That's not fair!"

"Liu Huasheng, complaining is useless. Please adjust your attitude and check your personal information panel now!"

Accompanied by the sound of alpacas, a semi-transparent information window that only Liu Huasheng could see suddenly popped up in front of him.

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Name: Liu Huasheng

Life: 100

Stamina: 100

Occupation: Tower Defense Lord (Apprentice)

Talent: (Unlocked after becoming a full-fledged employee)

Skill: [Tower Construction]

Tower Record: [Basic Arrow Tower]

Resources: 300 Gold Coins, 300 Wood

Note 1: [Build Tower] is the initial skill for all tower defense lords. When the ability is activated, select a location, swing the building hammer, select a defensive tower from the tower list, and start building by consuming stamina and resources.

Note 2: The Tower Record is the Tower Lord's private defensive tower catalog, which displays all the defensive towers that the Tower Lord can build (initially only the basic arrow tower is available). You can expand it using defensive tower blueprints. Please explore on your own for details.

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After checking his own information, Liu Huasheng made a few more operations on the Tower Records page and saw the description information of the [Basic Arrow Tower].

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Name: Basic Arrow Tower

Rank: 1

Construction Stamina: 100

Construction time: 100s

Construction Resources: 100 Gold Coins, 100 Wood

Floor area: 4m*4m

Durability: 1000

Attack: 10

Attack range: 50 meters

Attack speed: 0.5 (0.5 attacks per second on average)

Attack type: Physical

Attack effects: None

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"It took all my strength to build even this basic arrow tower..."

Liu Huasheng rubbed his chin and then took the light, short-handled hammer from his waist.

This hammer is a construction hammer, and it has attribute information.

[Construction Hammer: Standard model, waist accessory, exclusive item for Tower Defense Lords, plastic texture, never wears out, automatically binds, cannot be dropped, can be used to construct or repair buildings.]

Liu Huasheng swung the construction hammer twice, then threw it far away.

The hammer flew six or seven meters, landed on the ground, and then quickly flew back. With a snap, it seemed to automatically attach itself to Liu Huasheng's waist, as if it were glued together.

"A waist accessory? That makes perfect sense!"

Liu Huasheng sighed, finally accepting the fact that he had been transported to the game world, but he couldn't help but reminisce about the past.

He was an orphan who grew up in a welfare home. He was optimistic and cheerful from a young age, and was also a top student who loved learning. He was admitted to the National Defense University and went directly to the Chinese Academy of Sciences after graduation.

Almost everyone who knows Liu Huasheng believes that he will definitely become a pillar of the country in the future.

But last year, Liu Huasheng suddenly seemed to be possessed by an internet addict, quitting his job at lightning speed, staying at home and playing games like crazy.

A month ago, he went completely mad, selling his house, donating money, and taking out online loans for charity, turning himself into a pauper.

No one understood why he did it.

Only Liu Huasheng himself knew that he had actually received a warm system notification last year, informing him that he would travel to the Chaotic Star Sea to play games on his twenty-fifth birthday!

Since he was destined to travel through time, Liu Huasheng naturally let himself go.

Since he didn't know what kind of game world he would be transported to, Liu Huasheng spent a year cramming on game knowledge. He played a lot of games, including tower defense games. The scene of the defense towers being built and exploding with firepower, blasting the monsters into dust, was still very exciting!

The process of collecting resources and building advanced defensive towers is also quite interesting.

As he was recalling, a strange voice suddenly rang in Liu Huasheng's mind again.

"Ding! The Earthling transmigration rule of always granting a cheat code has been triggered. You are now equipped with the [Amazing Defense Tower System]. The original game system has been drastically modified. Once your defense tower is completed, you will definitely gain a magical ability randomly generated based on Earth's culture. Please explore for yourself!"

"What? Every Earthling who transmigrates gets a cheat code? That's amazing! Just how amazing is this magical defense tower?"

Liu Huasheng was greatly encouraged!

There's more to this surprise?

With cheats in the game, even aliens aren't a problem!

Liu was confident back then.

The alpaca glanced sideways at Liu Huasheng and shouted, "Newbie, listen up! During your apprentice lord period, there will be one wave of monster invasions every day. After you withstand three waves, you'll be promoted to a full-fledged lord and unlock your talents!"

"After becoming a formal lord, monster invasions will occur weekly. Additionally, a ranking challenge unlocks every three waves, a boss battle begins every five waves, and a special challenge unlocks every ten waves!"

"Defending against monster invasions rewards you with strategic advantages. Defeating invading monsters gives you a chance to obtain treasure chests, which can randomly contain resources, skill books, defense tower blueprints, and more!"

"Okay, I've got it!"

"Also, for every regular monster you miss, your maximum health will permanently decrease by 0.01 points, decreasing until it reaches 100. For every elite monster you miss, your maximum health will permanently decrease by 1 point. For every boss you miss, your maximum health will permanently decrease by 1 points! If your maximum health reaches zero, you will be forced to become a monster!"

"Can it really be reclassified as a monster?" Liu Huasheng frowned, muttering, "The death penalty is a bit too severe; we absolutely can't let the boss slip through!"

Alpaca008 continued, "The monster invasion begins precisely at eight o'clock in the morning. The first wave is coming soon, and at that time, the merciless monsters will appear due south..."

"Also, please note that there is a small gold mine behind you. Before you officially become the Tower Defense Lord, that gold mine will be your temporary base. Monsters will enter it to steal gold coins. If all the gold coins inside are stolen or the gold mine is destroyed, you will not be able to become the official lord."

"Still have to guard the mine?"

Liu Huasheng raised an eyebrow and then carefully looked around. He found that the ground where he was was paved with stone slabs, and it was quite spacious, about the size of five or six football fields. The cardinal directions were marked on the stone slabs.

To the north are high mountains and steep cliffs, to the east and west are precipices, and to the south is a main road that descends the slope and connects to the vast land below.

As for the gold mine the alpaca mentioned, it's located beneath the cliffs of the northern mountains, in a small mound about the size of a yurt, looking rather malnourished.

"With natural defenses on three sides, defense should be easy..."

Liu Huasheng muttered to himself, but picked up the construction hammer and headed south.

Soon, Liu Huasheng arrived at the intersection of the high ground. Looking down from there, he could see grass and trees through the thin fog, and in the distance, there seemed to be some ruin-like buildings.

"I wonder what a monster invasion will look like. Let's build defensive towers at this high ground crossroads..."

Liu Huasheng arrived at the center of the intersection. With just a thought, the construction hammer automatically appeared in his hand. Then, as if his body had been taken over, he swung it at the air.

One, two, three...

Liu Huasheng swung his hammer blankly, like a demon, while scaffolding and tents appeared in front of him, as if a real construction project was rapidly unfolding.

This is a construction animation!

When the 100th strike was completed, Liu Huasheng felt a sense of exhaustion and sat down on the ground. The scaffolding in front of him disappeared, the curtain was immediately lifted, and a ten-meter-high tower with a brick and stone structure, resembling a large chimney, and a small pointed house on top made a dazzling appearance!

This tower was, of course, a basic first-tier arrow tower, but inscribed on its body was a passage that read: "In 341 BC, Sun Bin reduced the number of cooking fires to lure the enemy, setting up an ambush at Maling, where ten thousand crossbowmen were hidden along the road. Pang Juan pursued them to a tree, where he saw the six characters 'Pang Juan will die under this tree.' He lit a fire to illuminate the way, luring the crossbowmen to attack. Ten thousand arrows were unleashed, throwing the Wei army into chaos. Pang Juan then committed suicide!"

Liu Huasheng quickly checked the information of the defensive tower and found that the tower indeed had a magical ability.

[Miraculous Ability: Barrage of Arrows. In non-combat state, one arrow is stored per second, up to a maximum of ten thousand. Upon entering combat, the player can manually control the ability to clear all stored arrows with a single thought. The arrows will automatically target enemies, but each monster can only withstand one arrow.]