"The big one is here..."
Chen Fan, lying at the mouth of the cave, cautiously averted his gaze from the giant octopus. He suspected it could sense being watched, given all those eyes...
With each swing of its tentacle.
The assaulting Eerie Tide grew a little fiercer.
It seemed to be directing the Eerie Tide's movements through its tentacles.
With the arrival of these reinforcements and the octopus.
The city wall was being torn down at an increasing rate.
Boom!
As the eyes on one tentacle all opened, gloomy blue energy churned beneath its pale, translucent skin, then flowed to these eyes on that tentacle, from which dozens of narrow, dusky blue beams of light slammed into the city wall.
Immediately, basketball-sized craters appeared on the city wall.
Devastating power.
The creature itself seemed quite pleased with this attack.
Its eight tentacles waved excitedly in the air. As blue energy circulated within its body, the eyes on another tentacle snapped open once more!
...
"It's about time."
Chen Fan gazed down from the rim of the cave and did some calculating. It seemed everyone was here. The leader had joined the battle.
The next moment—
An ethereal silhouette of a city wall, composed of white lines, abruptly came into being where the canyon joined the abyss pit.
Seeing this, these Eerie Creatures froze in place.
Simultaneously.
Three thousand Eerie Stones in the warehouse shattered into dust, transforming into milky-white liquid that traveled all the way out of the cave and shot straight toward the city wall silhouette.
The city wall solidified at once
By the time the Eerie Creatures reacted.
A 50-meter-long, 7-meter-high Level-2 city wall stood like an insurmountable chasm, blocking the junction between the canyon and the abyss pit.
It had turned the abyss pit, which had previously had an opening, into a "death trap."
The octopus, witnessing this firsthand, clearly grew panicked. Perhaps sensing impending danger, it no longer held back. The eyes on its remaining six tentacles all popped wide at once. Hundreds of somber blue beams, like a swarm of fireflies, rained down on the city wall.
It aimed to shatter the wall with a single strike and to conquer this camp that had unsettled it.
However.
At the moment, the Altar had already been reconnected to the city wall, quickly repairing the craters from before. Not only that, but before the last of the onslaught arrived, the craters from the initial impacts had already been smoothed out.
The ten destroyed Cannon Towers had also been rapidly mended and re-entered the battle.
"Heh..."
Chen Fan, taking in what was going on down there, showed a wide grin from ear to ear.
Trying to run?
Come to his territory and think about running?
The expanded camp range didn't just mean more space, but also meant that, as far as the eye could see, he could construct buildings anywhere within its boundaries.
The abyss pit had now become a death trap.
But he had to admit.
That octopus was indeed intelligent. Seeing that breaching the Level-3 city wall in front was now impossible, blue energy rushed beneath its pale, translucent skin, before the eyes on its tentacles opened again, this time targeting the Level-2 city wall plugging the canyon.
It no longer had any intentions of conquering this camp; all it wanted to do was retreat.
After unleashing it multiple times, this ability had noticeably waned in intensity.
But the power was still considerable.
The newly constructed Level-2 city wall, under this assault, had already had a great pit smashed into it, spraying rubble into the air.
This wall was built impromptu.
It wasn't yet connected to the Altar via copper pipes. Given a little more time, the enemy could blast through it and escape.
But unfortunately...
Chen Fan smiled at the sight of the sort of chaotic Eerie Tide. Clearly, the octopus was somewhat distracted from commanding. He whispered.
"Meat Grinder, Phase One, activate!"
On the cliffs surrounding the abyss pit, the city walls at the remaining 17 caves suddenly sank, revealing pitch-black openings. One by one, Level-5 Cannon Towers were activated via the copper pipes.
Blue patterns spread from their cores to grace the exteriors of these Cannon Towers.
The abyss pit seemed a giant stone coffin, and the eighteen dark openings high on the surrounding cliffs resembled honeycomb pores.
As Countless Eerie Creatures squirmed down there, low growls echoed and overlapped within the cliffs, mingling with the sound of rain and wind, creating a hair-raising backdrop of noise.
Without any warning.
Huum—!
All eighteen Cannon Towers came to life simultaneously!
The next moment!
Eighteen destructive beams of light, from different heights and angles, formed a crossfire that tore through the rainy night and poured into the abyss pit, engulfing the Eerie Tide down there.
It was a waterfall of death.
If any Eerie Creature had cared to look up, they would have witnessed an arresting sight, as if the thunder god's divine punishment descended from black clouds. The light was so intense that each Eerie Creature's twisted face was brightened as if in broad daylight.
Simultaneously!
The ten Level-5 Cannon Towers on the battlement also joined the battle.
A total of twenty-eight beams of light fired continuously, slaughtering the Eerie Creatures from multiple angles.
The air-tight abyss pit had now become a slaughterhouse, as arcs of lightning danced wildly all over the place.
...
"Brilliant, truly brilliant."
From the mouth of the cave over forty meters above the ground, Chen Fan watched the scene below, lost in enjoyment and intoxication, his face creased in a broad grin. It looked like a movie blockbuster, a 3D immersive experience.
A sense of satisfaction arose in him.
This was the camp he had built bit by bit over these days!
This was his meticulously prepared, resource-intensive "Meat Grinder"!
Once activated.
It would harvest, from multiple angles, all Eerie Creatures daring to intrude upon his territory.
And this was only the first phase of it.
His Meat Grinder was merely in its infancy, not yet full-fledged.
After about a pot of tea's time(15 minutes).
The light abruptly went off.
The Cannon Towers gradually stopped operating. The whole world seemed to have fallen into brief deafness, with only the pitter-patter of rain echoing as ever.
Countless twisted limbs and chunks of corpses floated in the abyss pit like scraps of lumber. A strong stench rose, mingled with the smell of rain-damp earth.
It was over.
That giant octopus lay in pieces among the shattered corpses.
The night grew quiet. No more Eerie Creatures came.