Realized Game: I Hoarded 10 Billion Defense Towers

Chapter 139: Chapter 102: The Second Phase Begins! A Fire in the Backyard

"Eighteen?" Shen Fei was stunned as he stared at the screen of Wang Dapang’s phone.

Wang Dapang’s phone was displaying a forum post titled: "Neutral City Siege Leaderboard." Currently, there were 18 names left on the board. Behind each name were the siege progress and the type of their target city. freewebnøvel.coɱ

Frowning, Shen Fei read through the information in the post. He saw that an hour ago, of the more than six hundred siege teams from Xia Country, 300 had been repelled during the very first counterattacking wave from the defending NPCs. The defenses of ninety-nine percent of the large and medium-sized cities had shattered the invading teams with a single wave the moment they stepped into siege range. If most of the teams hadn’t been so quick-witted and promptly retreated out of siege range, they likely would have been completely wiped out by now.

Even so, that initial counterattack had brought catastrophic disaster to the besiegers who had underestimated the defensive forces. Many teams suffered heavy casualties. They were no longer livestreaming the siege. Instead, they had retreated dozens of miles and were now streaming themselves treating the wounded.

Three hundred teams were repelled in the first wave. After the second, another four hundred teams had withdrawn from the siege. These four hundred teams had lost their qualification to continue the siege right from the start, without even touching the Neutral City’s Shield. They returned with as much disappointment as they had left with excitement! No one had expected this situation.

Now, after nearly an hour of fighting, only 18 siege teams remained in all of Xia Country. Of those, three had already destroyed the Heart of the City, achieving victory in the first stage. The remaining 15 were still fighting through the first stage.

There was no time limit for the siege of a Neutral City. As long as a team completed the second stage—the city defense—within three days, they could occupy it. Therefore, as long as a team didn’t retreat, there was no need to rush during the first stage.

WHOOSH.

Just as Shen Fei was watching, the leaderboard suddenly flashed.

POP. POP.

Two more siege teams had failed. In an instant, only 16 hopeful teams remained in all of Xia Country.

Frowning, Shen Fei looked at the top three on the leaderboard:

[NO. 1, Target: Large Neutral City [Ye City], Leader: Immortal Emperor; Current Progress: Awaiting the start of the second defensive wave]

[NO. 2, Target: Medium Neutral City [Lan Ling], Leader: Taiyi Zhenren; Current Progress: Awaiting the start of the second defensive wave]

[NO. 3, Target: Small Neutral City [Peter’s Castle], Leader: Cyan God; Current Progress: Awaiting the start of the second defensive wave]

Shen Fei recognized all three of the top teams.

The first was Immortal Emperor. Shen Fei had already confirmed he was still alive. He had inherited abilities from the Cultivation Game, joined the Tourism Management Office to investigate Shen Fei, and even tried to buy the eye of the super Gluttonous Snake from him through the Office’s channels.

The second was also someone he was very familiar with: Huang Yi, the inheritor of abilities from the game *Tower Defense of Ten Thousand Realms*.

As for the third, there was no need to even mention it...

This is all wrong! Shen Fei muttered to himself with a frown as he looked at the top three on the siege leaderboard. This never happened in my past life! In my past life, after the Divine Capital’s Tourism Management Office obtained the large city gifted by the Divine Artifact, they didn’t attack any other cities. Besides, the Immortal Emperor didn’t even exist back then; he hadn’t inherited any combat abilities at all...

The Divine Capital Tourism Management Office has some real experts working for them! It wasn’t just the rankings—which hadn’t existed in his past life—that made Shen Fei frown in surprise. More importantly, he was looking at the moves made by the Divine Capital’s Tourism Management Office headquarters.

He discovered that the Divine Capital’s Tourism Management Office had just publicly released the basic Attributes of Fanghu Cave Heaven. Although they had only released a few lines of the most basic stats, having fundamental information like the large city’s protection health and wall health as a reference would undoubtedly make the siege battles for all other factions countless times easier. Things would be very different with a goal and a point of reference.

Classy. Shen Fei could only mutter that the Tourism Management Office headquarters’ move was a high-level play.

WHOOSH.

As Shen Fei was looking at the leaderboard, another of the 16 names vanished. Clearly, another siege team had failed.

"Boss! Should I...?" Wang Dapang suddenly spoke up. He noticed Shen Fei had finished with the leaderboard and started scrolling through the replies on the post.

"No," Shen Fei said, shaking his head and refusing Wang Dapang’s unspoken offer.

He knew Wang Dapang wanted to post the detailed specifics of their attack on the City Shield. Right now, in the replies, most people were flaming Cyan God, saying the name was undeserved.

This was because the livestream from Qing City’s siege team had only shown Shen Fei controlling the World-Ending Light Column to rapidly bombard the enemy’s City Shield. Then, a Magic Light Column had suddenly appeared and instantly killed the person running the livestream, causing the Qing City stream to go down.

By the time Li Yunlong arranged for someone to get the Qing City livestream back up, everyone was shocked to see that Qing City had already cleared the first stage of the siege.

A lot of people weren’t buying it! "You’re still holding back?" "You have some super item you don’t want anyone to know about?" "This is despicable!"

"I think Qing City’s siege team should be ranked No. 1! Their countdown for the second stage started the fastest!" someone from Qing City would occasionally argue in the post, trying to defend their team.

But they would quickly be drowned out by a flood of vitriol.

"Bullshit Cyan God siege team! Look at their target! It’s the weakest type—a small city!"

"A small city’s defenses are less than a tenth of a large one’s. So what if they’re fast?! We’re talking about overall strength here!"