Tower Defense: Public Enemy

Unbeknownst to outsiders, the crystal spaceship that arrived at the Mechanical Temple actually came from the Technological Temple!

Inside, there are reinforcements from the Temple of Technology.

It was precisely because of their support that the Mechanical Temple was able to launch this invasion.

At this moment, behind the Temple of Mechanics, in a spacious open space resembling a plaza, the chief god of mechanics, Nordwa, and 19 high-ranking mechanical pioneers were already waiting.

The Nord was dressed in a black robe and held a metal scepter. He was thirty feet tall and had a trident-shaped metal horn on his head that emitted golden light. Behind him floated a metal magic ring, in which black and white energy swirled and occasionally converged into the shape of a tai chi symbol.

Its level is currently public and has reached level 926.

The nineteen mechanical pioneers in front of the Mechanical God varied in size, some humanoid and some alien. They were all peak-level high gods, with a level of 900.

In the previous era, there were 20 high gods in the Mechanical Temple. They had different professions and races. Some were alien mechanics, some were divine mages, some were mechanical engineers, and so on.

But now, their professions are all mechanical pioneers, and they are all mechanical life forms unique to the Mechanical Temple.

Powell, who was carrying the God-Slaying Cannon, was among them; he stood directly in front of the mechanical god Nordwa.

Of the 20 mechanical pioneers, the only one absent was Están.

She has vanished without a trace; the Mechanical Temple has completely lost her signal, and even the Mechanical God Nordwa cannot locate her.

Some mechanical pioneers even suspected that she had been sabotaged.

However, the mechanical god didn't care about this at all; instead, he was hoping that Estanbe would be killed.

Because of her seniority—she was a player who entered the Mechanical Temple earlier than me—although she failed to become the main god through the Mechanical Temple, she still held a certain amount of real power within it. For example, she possessed the key to the Mechanical Temple's storage hall, could access the Mechanical Temple's information panel, and could issue temple missions.

In fact, part of the Mechanical Temple belongs to Aistan. If she were to perish, the Mechanical God Nordhua would be able to truly take control of the entire Mechanical Temple, thus further increasing his power.

Buzzing...

Under the gaze of the Mechanical God and a group of Mechanical Pioneers, the crystal spaceship slowly landed, and then the hatch opened, from which two figures, one tall and one short, stepped out.

The two figures looked remarkably like human women. The taller one had short black hair and seemed to have a strong preference for black. She wore black-rimmed glasses, a black leather trench coat, black leather gloves, and black high-heeled shoes, and was holding a black rose.

With a confident smile on his face, he strode confidently toward the mechanical temple.

The shorter one had round, mushroom-shaped ears, golden hair, and bright, lively eyes. She looked like a fifteen or sixteen-year-old girl. She carried a golden box on her back and curiously looked around.

"Welcome, friends of the Temple of Technology!"

The voice of the mechanical god Nordwa rang out, his eyes shining with a bright golden light as he clearly sized up the two newcomers.

The newcomer, dressed in black, was quite polite, immediately kneeling and bowing to Mechanical Nordhua, saying, "Quantum Vanguard, Zhuoli and Xinuo, greet the great Mechanical God!"

The short girl was startled and quickly knelt down on one knee.

"No need for formalities, please rise!" The Mechanical God Nordwa paused, then continued, "How is the teacher?"

Zhuo Li, dressed in all black, said, "Thank you for your concern, Master. My teacher is doing well, and we are here to assist you on your orders."

The short Xinuo chimed in, "Yes, yes, the teacher had me bring the most advanced quantum shuttle. With this shuttle's help, I guarantee you'll succeed!"

"Senior, hahaha, that's such a nostalgic way to address someone!"

Nordow burst out laughing.

Few in the Temple of Mechanics know that before he became the Chief God of Mechanics, he was a quantum pioneer in the Temple of Technology.

Quantum Pioneers is also a profession, exclusive to the Temple of Technology.

Unlike other forces, the Temple of Technology was like a giant school, divided into various departments and faculties. At that time, Nordhua was a prominent figure in the Temple of Machinery, and could be considered a leader of the Quantum Vanguard faction.

The "teacher" it refers to is the chief god of the Temple of Technology.

This "teacher" concealed his real name and called himself "Infinite." He was ancient and mysterious, and his strength was unfathomable.

Nordwa's ability to become the Mechanical God was actually arranged by this "teacher," but outsiders were unaware of this.

The 19 mechanical pioneers were mostly confused after listening to the conversation between Nordwar and the two supporters of the Temple of Technology. They only knew that their own Temple of Machinery and the Temple of Technology had a friendly relationship, but they had no idea that there were many hidden secrets.

"A quantum shuttle?"

Nordow seemed intrigued and asked, "Is this something the teacher just came up with? What is its purpose?"

Xinuo stood up as if volunteering, saying, "This thing has a huge use; it's a true divine artifact!"

Zhuo Li tugged at the back of his collar and said, "Let me speak. You all need to get to the battlefield with the help of the quantum shuttle, so please listen carefully."

Her gaze swept over the nineteen mechanical pioneers before she slowly said, "Senior, are you aware that our teacher was one of the powerful figures who participated in the architecture of the Twelfth Era's main world, and that the main world's tower defense rules were also voted on and approved by our teacher?"

"Of course I know!" Nordwa nodded. "Our teacher's power is something we can only look up to."

"Hmm!" Zhuo Li continued, "After deciding to implement the tower defense rules in the twelfth era, our teacher has been researching how to deal with these rules. He spent ten thousand years creating the quantum shuttle. This quantum shuttle is specifically designed to counter the tower defense rules. Simply put, the quantum shuttle allows you to teleport a certain distance and interferes with the tower's aggro mechanism, making you immune to tower attacks for a period of time after teleportation. In addition, the quantum shuttle can also capture some system information to create a teleportation map."

"Wow, such a treasure exists!"

"Is this thing really that powerful?"

"If that's the case, wouldn't this quantum shuttle be able to disable the defensive towers?"

"I've heard that there are powerful beast towers in Bliss City. Haha, if we had this quantum shuttle, wouldn't all those beast towers be rendered useless?"

"Holy territory without defensive towers, isn't that just easy territory to plunder?"

"I wonder how this shuttle works, and whether it has any drawbacks..."

Zhuoli and Xinuo let the 19 mechanical pioneers discuss the matter. Once they quieted down, Zhuoli continued, "The quantum shuttle will be operated by Xinuo and me. You'll experience its effects for yourselves later. Senior Nordow..."

She looked at the mechanical god Nordhua and asked, "When shall we begin?"

Nordhua said, "Then let's not delay. All the high-level combat forces of my Mechanical Temple are here, at your disposal. After we break through this Bliss City, I will properly entertain my two junior sisters!"

"good!"

Xinuo nodded, then put down the golden box on his back. After a little fiddling, a light screen appeared.

Various symbols rapidly flashed across the light screen. After about three minutes, the flashing symbols disappeared, and a map slowly appeared.

It was a dynamic map, with text constantly appearing within it, making it increasingly detailed.

About five minutes later, the light screen finally stopped changing, and what was displayed on it was the map of Elysium.

Xinuo clapped his hands with a beaming smile, exclaiming, "It's done! It's done! The quantum shuttle has captured the attributes of Elysium City and generated a map!"

Li Luo glanced at the map on the light screen, nodded, and said, "There shouldn't be any problems..."

The mechanical pioneers of the Mechanical Temple had gathered around. They looked at the light screen in front of them and saw that it was indeed a map of the archipelago, with many places marked with text, and it was extremely detailed.

For example, the southernmost island is marked as "Jingyanggang" and comes with the following text description: "First outer island, beast checkpoint, island lord: Blissful Mecha Grandmaster Bai Yuqing, resident Five Tiger Generals, total number of beast towers: 3245!"

The second island is marked "Hulao Pass," with the accompanying text: "Second outer island, a fortress of ferocious beasts, ruled by the Great Celestial Venerable Bai Yuqing of the Blissful Seal, garrisoned by the Five Tiger Generals, with a total of 466 beast towers, and a black coffin buried underground!"

The group looked at each of the outer islands in turn, and found annotations for "Tiger Mountain", "Heavenly King Hall", "Arhat Hall", "Poison Dragon Pool", "Demon Realm", "Reincarnation Hall", "Azure Flame Hall", "Qilin Cliff", and "Jade Palace".

Moreover, even buildings or facilities such as "Fighting Tiger King", "Mushroom Castle", and "Pacific Ark" are marked on the map.

In addition, there are 23 bright dots on this map, which are marked as "shuttle points"!

"Is this the map of Elysium?"

"Cracked system data? As expected of a technological marvel, this is truly cutting-edge technology!"

"Look at this last beast challenge! There are so many ferocious beasts in it!"

"The defenses of this Paradise City are truly excessive; under tower defense rules, breaking through them is extremely difficult!"

"So what exactly is the purpose of this map...?"

The group of mechanical pioneers began a heated discussion.

Zhuo Li waited a while before smilingly explaining to the group of mechanical pioneers: "Look, everyone, these bright dots on the map are called shuttle points, which are the destinations calculated by the quantum shuttle. There are 23 shuttle points in total, meaning that the quantum shuttle can only transport 23 targets at a time, and each shuttle point can only transport one target. Therefore, with the help of the quantum shuttle, we can ignore the tower defense rules and directly teleport 23 experts into Bliss City. These 23 experts are the key to breaking the city. If we can occupy Bliss City for a period of time, then you will not need to continue building the alchemical city wall. The system will automatically determine that Bliss City has been breached and then remove the divine power barrier."

"So that's how it is!"

"Only 23 people?"

Are the shuttle points fixed?

"That's quite interesting. I'll volunteer to go!"

"There are 23 checkpoints, but we only have 19 people. Do we need to find four more skilled people?"

"I'll choose this teleportation point. Teleport me there..."

The group of mechanical pioneers started discussing it again.

A moment later, with the participation of the mechanical god Nordhua, the 19 mechanical pioneers undoubtedly became the first batch of shuttles, and four more powerful high-level gods were also brought in.

Nordhua examined the map and said, "In that case, our Mechanical Temple has deployed all its elite forces. Junior Sister Zhuoli, let them travel through."

"Alright!" Zhuo Li nodded and said, "I would like to remind everyone that the interference effect of quantum shuttle on the Beast Tower is time-limited, which is about half an hour. So be careful if you shuttle into the Beast Tower level and act quickly. Once the effect of quantum interference wears off, the Beast Tower in Bliss City will attack mercilessly."

Xinuo said, "The quantum shuttle's computing power is still a bit weak. For such a vast territory, it only calculated 23 shuttle points! Also, a reminder: the quantum shuttle can only initiate one group shuttle per day. After that, you'll have to wait 24 hours. So, if you can't take Elysium City within a day, try to safely stall until the next day and wait for reinforcements!"

"Okay, I understand!"

"Without further ado, let's activate the shuttle and catch Elysium off guard!"

"If we all mobilize, how will Bliss City possibly stop us?"

"We need to capture that Lord of Bliss City alive..."

Amid the anticipation of these mechanical pioneers, Xinuo activated the quantum shuttle's teleportation capabilities. Swiftly, 23 high-level combatants from the Mechanical Temple transformed into specks of light and flew into the light screen map.

This means we have entered the City of Bliss.

On the square of Bliss City, the divine beasts Zhaojian and Duowen suddenly roared. The two divine beasts flew into the sky and used their abilities to quickly display twenty-three images in the sky.

These twenty-three images depict the advanced combat forces of the Mechanical Temple who entered Elysium City using the quantum shuttle.

The next moment, three level 800 battle-type guardian beasts immediately went to intercept them.

These three battle-type guardian beasts are the elephant beast [Mighty], the pig beast [Great Courage], and the tiger beast [War King].

As a guardian beast, it will sense the presence of enemies entering its territory immediately.

Meanwhile, Mushroom Castle quickly entered battle mode.

"Although we don't know what happened, there has been an enemy attack. Everyone, move out quickly and capture the intruders!"

"Who sneaked in?"

"Find them and kill them..."

Countless cries resounded throughout Elysium.

Meanwhile, in the Holy Palace, Lei Chi, who had just created the Boundless World within his body, also received a divine message from Deedlit.

"Hmm, they actually managed to infiltrate; that's quite interesting!"

After thinking it over, he realized that now that he had opened up new possibilities within his body and the [Universal Unification Divine Art] had undergone a qualitative change, he might as well go back to the city and try out the techniques!