novelraw Chapter 55 – Flame Arrow Tower Trial
Chapter 55 – Flame Arrow Tower Trial
Su Nian could feel that he could freely control the Flame Arrow Tower and designate a direction for its attack.
It was like playing a game, pointing and shooting wherever he wanted.
However, it had to be within range.
In a way, it felt like a tower defense game, except the wild monsters had turned into players.
Perhaps this was the cycle of fortune.
With this thought, Su Nian moved the target to a nearby rock wall and issued an attack command.
"Whoosh—"
In Su Nian's astonished gaze, a flame arrow as thick as a baby's arm shot out, striking the rock wall with a loud "boom."
After the dust settled, the attacked rock wall was charred black, and its once smooth surface was now pitted and uneven, with stone fragments scattered everywhere.
"What the heck? Is this a flame arrow? Are you sure it's not a simplified version of an express delivery missile?"
The power of the flame arrow left Su Nian dumbfounded.
No wonder the attack speed was so slow; the critical hit was high!
"Polikri!"
A loud Dragon Roar echoed above the Dragon Nest, and the kobold chieftain Polikri hurriedly put down his wife, pulled up his pants, and scrambled towards the direction of the roar.
Soon, Polikri was panting and kowtowing at Su Nian's feet.
"Great master, you called for me?"
Su Nian nodded his dragon head and instructed:
"Go, gather twenty of each of those magical beasts. I want to conduct an experiment."
Polikri dared not delay upon hearing this and jumped off the rock wall to inform the leaders of the magical beasts to gather their troops.
Although he didn't know what the master intended, every action of the master was undoubtedly great.
Moments later.
A group of magical beasts stood proudly below the rock wall, neatly lined up, awaiting the Black Dragon leader's command.
"Bugs Bunny, take your Blazing Rabbits and go in for a test."
Su Nian controlled the Flame Arrow Tower to open the wooden door. As the Blazing Rabbits entered, a new system prompt appeared in Su Nian's mind.
[Ding! The Flame Arrow Tower has loaded 20 soldiers, but since these soldiers are unconventional, the Flame Arrow Tower will undergo some mutations. Continue?]
"Continue."
Su Nian's dragon face remained calm, unafraid of failure, knowing he could build four more and continue experimenting.
The Flame Arrow Tower loaded with Blazing Rabbits showed no change in appearance.
But when Su Nian issued an attack command, he discovered that the flame arrows shot from the tower had transformed into an enhanced version of the Fireball Spell, still in the shape of a carrot.
"I see, it changes according to the abilities of the followers?"
Su Nian scratched his dragon chin, making a "crunching" sound.
He then tested the Gnolls, Kobolds, Blackwater Pythons, and Cockatrices by loading them into the tower one by one.
The Gnolls showed no significant change when loaded into the Flame Arrow Tower.
The Kobolds, however, were impressive, as the tower began alternating between various types of flame arrows.
There were poison-tipped arrows, dung-laden projectiles, and even poison sprays, though there were also regular arrows and normal flame arrows.
Overall, it was unstable but extremely disgusting.
The tower loaded with Blackwater Pythons was also quite perverse, consuming a lot of Blackwater Pythons, launching one with each attack for precise strikes.
As the magical beasts carried a few Blackwater Pythons away for rescue, Su Nian finally completed his tests.
Aside from the mentioned magical beasts, loading others into the tower yielded no reaction.
Not even a single arrow was shot, indicating that these beasts couldn't operate the tower.
It made sense; how could low-ground creatures like Rock-Helmed Crocodiles operate a tower? It was absurd.
Finally, Su Nian tested the charged skill, Flame Arrow Rain.
It didn't have the missile-launching feel he imagined; it was more like a fire rain spell.
Its single-target damage couldn't compare to a flame arrow, but it had a larger area of effect.
As for upgrading the Flame Arrow Tower, it required ten Tier 3 fire-type magical beast mana cores.
Such a quantity was hard to find in the Silvermoon Forest, only possibly in the deeper Silvermoon Mountains.
For now, the Level 1 Flame Arrow Tower sufficed, living up to its purple blueprint specifications.
So, there was no need to venture into the dangerous Silvermoon Mountains for now.
When human players came to attack his Dragon Nest in the future, they'd learn what a spicy barbecue really was.
Su Nian grinned wickedly, coiled atop the Flame Arrow Tower, his pale golden dragon eyes gazing towards Sakura No.1 Starter Village, as if envisioning the scene.
"Great master, something terrible has happened, our eggs are gone!"
Just as Su Nian was envisioning the future, Rektun, with two tearful mother crocodiles, "panting" crawled in front of Su Nian.
"What eggs are gone?"
Su Nian glanced at Rektun's body, but due to Rektun's low stature, he saw nothing.
Sensing the Black Dragon's gaze, Rektun pulled in his thick hind legs, looking embarrassed and anxious, and said:
"Master, it's the crocodile eggs, not my eggs."
"Your eggs are crocodile eggs, aren't they?"
Rektun was stunned, his brain freezing for a moment before finally understanding Su Nian's meaning, stammering as he explained:
"Uh... Master, I mean, the mother crocodile's eggs, not my eggs. We just left for a moment, and when we returned, they were gone."
"Mother crocodiles have eggs?"
Polikri looked curiously at the mother crocodiles he and Big Grey Wolf had previously tormented, showing a bit of eagerness.
"Um... Brother, Anna thinks the big crocodile means the baby crocodiles were stolen."
Perched on Su Nian's back, Anna witnessed everything that had just happened.
She tilted her little head, biting her white finger, frowning in thought for a moment, and interpreted the magical beasts' words from an elf's perspective.
Seeing the two mother crocodiles crying together, combined with Anna's hint, Su Nian, whose mind was still immersed in a bright future, finally reacted and let out an angry roar:
"What?! Someone dared to steal my eggs!"
Polikri: "(⊙o⊙)!!"
Rektun: "(°ー°〃)??"
Absurd, stealing from a dragon's head, did they think they weren't dying fast enough?
These magical creatures were all his private property.
That included the Rock-Helmed Crocodile eggs, which, once hatched and grown, could serve as mounts.
But anger solved nothing.
Su Nian instantly calmed down, his sharp dragon claws leaving deep gouges in the rock wall.
"Take me to the crime scene. I want to see who has the guts to steal from a dragon."