A God-tier Counter-damage Priest, I am the Master!

113: Let’s begin!The golden system announcement echoed three times throughout the Great Xia Region server, shocking all online players.

”Holy crap! Is Brilliant about to soar to the heavens? Building a city? While we’re still struggling to make ends meet, he’s about to become a City Lord!”

”A City-building trial! If we defeat Brilliant, we can take his place? Doesn’t that mean we also have a chance to become a City Lord?”

”Bro, you thinking what I’m thinking?”

”Duh! A player who doesn’t want to be a City Lord isn’t a good player.”

”...”

Once this announcement came out, the entire Great Xia Region was completely stirred up, and all online players were drawn in.

As for Bai Tian himself, his face was currently covered in dark lines.

This was the first time he felt so resistant to appearing in a system announcement.

He even had a few choice words he wanted to say to the system.

He had wanted to keep a low profile and make a fortune quietly, but now, with the system’s announcement, the entire Great Xia Region knew he was building a city.

And fine, if the damn system wants to make an announcement, let it!

But it just had to add that during the City-building trial, whoever defeats him can take his place.

Isn’t this just inciting others to come after him?

”Brother, now that this announcement is out, why do I have a bad feeling about this?” Liao Fan said worriedly.

Frost Like Snow also stomped her feet in anger: ”Pah! What a garbage system. This is clearly a setup against my idol!”

Flowers in Full Bloom was relatively calm, saying indifferently, ”It doesn’t matter.”

”At this stage, there are no more than 2,000 players in the entire Great Xia Region who have reached the Second Transfer or above.”

”And the permanent player population here in Border Wild City is only around thirty to forty thousand.”

”Even if someone wants to target this place, they won’t be able to form a powerful team and get here in time.”

A glint flashed in Bai Tian’s eyes, and he nodded in agreement. ”Right! Only players who have reached the Second Transfer can use the teleportation arrays.”

Hearing Flowers in Full Bloom’s analysis, Liao Fan’s and Frost Like Snow’s expressions relaxed slightly.

Flowers in Full Bloom raised her elegant eyebrows. ”But we can’t be careless.”

She looked at Bai Tian. ”We do have an enemy, and they don’t need a teleportation array to find us.”

”Blood Moon!” Bai Tian blurted out.

Previously, because of Vantis, the three of them had forced the Blood Moon guild to evacuate from Border Wild City collectively, creating a deep-seated grudge.

Now that such a good opportunity had arisen, it was highly likely that the Blood Moon guild would come to seize this city.

Bai Tian suddenly laughed heroically and said, ”If the three of us could force Blood Moon to give up Border Wild City before, we have even less reason to fear them now.”

”If Blood Moon dares to come, we’ll just wipe them out along with the monster wave.”

Flowers in Full Bloom also nodded with a confident smile.

Next, Bai Tian quickly made arrangements: ”Once the monster wave starts, I’ll guard the East Gate alone. Brocade, you take a priest and guard the South Gate.”

”Snow, you and Muddy Wine guard the West Gate. I’ll leave the North Gate to Yan Mulan and the five of you.”

Flowers in Full Bloom shook her head. ”I don’t need a priest. I have high Life-steal and Critical Hit talents; I’m enough to guard the South Gate alone.”

Bai Tian had full confidence in Brocade’s strength, so he nodded in agreement and took out six precious mount treasure boxes, trading them to Yan Mulan and the others in advance.

Mounts weren’t just for show; they also increased combat power.

Yan Mulan and the others were so surprised their jaws dropped when they saw the mount treasure boxes.

But they didn’t accept them immediately, instead saying awkwardly, ”Brilliant, we haven’t done anything yet, and you’re giving us such valuable items. We feel unworthy of this.”

Anyone else would probably have accepted the mount treasure boxes with a grin from ear to ear.

But Yan Mulan hesitated, which was enough to show that these six had good character.

Seeing this, Flowers in Full Bloom and Frost Like Snow advised, ”Take them! With mounts, your combat power will increase, and you can better help defend the city.”

Bai Tian also smiled to show his trust. ”Exactly! I’m counting on all of you for the West Gate.”

Under the persuasion of the three, Yan Mulan and the others excitedly accepted the mount treasure boxes and made a solemn promise: ”Thank you! We guarantee that as long as the six of us don’t fall, we will not leave our posts at the West Gate by even half a step.”

After the assignments were finished, Bai Tian was still a bit uneasy.

After all, he had invested a massive amount of capital and energy into building this city; he absolutely could not afford any mistakes.

Bai Tian opened the City Secret Shop; currently, this shop could only be used by Bai Tian and was open only to him.

Inside the shop, one could purchase equipment to help defend the city, and even Battle Puppets.

However, the prices of those Battle Puppets were truly staggering.

A normal Second Transfer rank cost 5,000 gold coins each, Elite was 10,000, Master was 20,000, and the demon rank was as high as 40,000 gold coins.

As for Battle Puppets above the Third Transfer, the prices were even more prohibitive; a normal Third Transfer Battle Puppet’s starting price was 50,000 gold coins.

Bai Tian currently only had 130,000 gold coins on hand, which was clearly far from enough.

Fortunately, the prices of the city defense equipment were relatively affordable.

He purchased 20 normal ballista towers without hesitation. Each cost only 2,000 gold coins, with an attack power of 1,000, 100,000 health points, and a 50% attack speed.

Bai Tian placed 15 at the West Gate and 5 at the North Gate.

Next, he spent 25,000 gold coins to buy five Eyes of Truth, placing them above the four gates and at the city building crystal.

The primary role of these Eyes of Truth was to guard against stealthy assassins, ensuring that no assassin could sneak in and backdoor the base.

Despite the tight gold supply, Bai Tian decided to invest another 40,000 gold coins to purchase 20 elite-rank ballista towers.

These ballista towers had an attack power of 2,000, 200,000 health points, and an 80% attack speed.

Bai Tian distributed them with 10 at the West Gate, 6 at the North Gate, and 2 each at the East and South Gates.

After these operations, Bai Tian had 25,000 gold coins left and decided to keep them for now in case of emergencies.

After all, how much gold would be needed to develop the city after its successful construction was still an unknown.

With everything ready, Bai Tian waited quietly for the arrival of the monster wave trial.

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Meanwhile, in a century-old manor covering hundreds of acres in the Great Xia Holy Capital, a young and heroic-looking man was swimming in a pool.

At this moment, a man looking like a butler with sharp eyes and wearing a black Zhongshan suit walked over quickly and reported to him, ”Young Master Tian, Brilliant is about to build a city in ’Nine Heavens’.”

Hearing this, the young man in the pool poked his head out of the water, an evil smile appearing on his face. ”Trying to complete city construction before me? That won’t do. Go and have Moon Without Trace take action.”

The butler-like man nodded in agreement and then withdrew.

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In the game.

Outside the East Gate, Bai Tian sat on the back of the Ancestral Return Strange Horse, with the Little Dragon Zombie circling above his head.

As the trial’s countdown gradually reached zero, the sky suddenly grew dark, and a fierce wind began to howl.

Immediately after, a dense, black wave of monsters emerged, like a swarm of prehistoric beasts, rapidly closing in on the location.

The monster city siege has officially begun!