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Chapter 15 Digging Trees

Zhou Nan quickly ran to the three brave village guards who were logging, and looked down at the ground.

Because the large tree had been cut down, the ground had changed and become flat, with no tree stumps or anything like that left behind.

Once trees are cut down, they won't respawn!

"Let me think... With this big tree felled and the ground cleared out, wouldn't it be perfect for building the Hero's Watchtower?"

An idea popped into Zhou Nan's head. He quickly ran back to the town hall, found the NPC Krul, activated the logging quest, and received a logging axe.

Meanwhile, the defensive battle in front of the town hall was fierce. Murloc cannons roared, and small murlocs fell from the sky like dumplings. [Thor Possessed] was carrying bricks, [I'm Not a Hero] was crushing small murlocs in the town square, and [Watch My Thunder Strike] was killing enemies outside the town walls. None of these three were slacking off.

Zhou Nan didn't get involved in the defensive battle. He picked up his lumberjack axe and quickly ran back to the forest in the wilderness, all the way to the vicinity of the granite golem's spawn point.

Looking at the nine-meter-tall, dark brown granite golem with 120,000 life points, Zhou Nan steadied himself and quickly walked around the woods, carefully examining the surrounding trees.

The trees are dense, and although there are gaps between them, players cannot enter, as if there were invisible walls.

In fact, each tree is a cube model, some large and some small, serving as a kind of ground decoration. The trees in this strange forest are similar to poplar trees, mostly five or six meters tall.

After a while, Zhou Nan stopped in front of a tree as thick as an adult's thigh and said, "You're the one!"

After saying that, he picked up his woodcutter's axe and began chopping wood.

A large tree can be felled with just a hundred chops. The logging axe has a fixed chopping speed, about one chop every three seconds. So, five minutes later, with a loud crash, the large tree was felled.

"Ding! You have obtained 50 wood from chopping down one tree!"

Zhou Nan was overjoyed. The fallen tree in front of him turned into light and disappeared. The surrounding trees were dense, forming a notch in the ground.

He went into the hollow and continued cutting down the trees inside.

Zhou Nan did this not to do logging, but to cut down a road.

With each axe stroke, he worked as if he were digging up a tree, and he actually managed to carve out a path.

The path isn't narrow for players; it has an invisible wall feature, so two or three people can walk side by side without any problem. However, a granite golem that's nine meters tall and as tall as a building definitely can't get in.

As a wild monster, the granite golem should theoretically be unable to destroy the terrain, so Zhou Nan wanted to try to exploit the terrain to defeat it.

This requires him to dig up trees, dig to a suitable location, then have the Heroic Bear come over to build the Heroic Bear Watchtower, and then attack the Granite Golem through the trees.

The Bear Watchtower is six meters tall with a range of 50 meters, while the granite golem is nine meters tall. If positioned correctly, trees will not be an obstacle to the Bear Watchtower's attack.

The granite golem is a melee unit. Although it has ranged skills, it is separated by the trees and can't attack the Heroic Bear Watchtower. Wouldn't it just be a target?

Zhou Nan thought about it more and more and felt that his method was feasible, so he dug up the trees even more diligently.

Before he knew it, he had been digging for an hour.

The instance was not yet over. Zhou Nan ran out from the path he had dug and observed the area. When he felt it was about time, he went to collect the loot from the spawn points of the [Mutant Murloc] and [Swamp Slime]. Then he sent the hero Solo to the end of the forest path he had dug.

At the end of the path, Zhou Nan had dug out a clearing, large enough to build a Hero's Watchtower.

It's worth mentioning that the hero Solo had been farming [Mutant Murlocs] and [Swamp Slimes], and had gotten quite a lot of loot. Zhou Nan counted them: 46 Murloc Left-Handed Knives, 2 Murloc Right-Handed Knives, 25 [Sludge Blocks], 1 [Rotten Sludge Block], and 1 [Swamp Slime Card] that is bound upon pickup.

The putrid sludge was actually a rare material.

While waiting for the hero Solo to build the hero's watchtower, Zhou Nan checked the attribute information of the [Mud Slime Card].

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

Card Name: Swamp Slime Elizabeth (Bound)

Card color: white

Card Star Rating: One Star

Equipment Level: None

Mana cost: 10

Description 1: Summon [Mud Slime Elizabeth] to fight for you. Elizabeth has 600 HP, 10 Attack Power, 10-meter Attack Range, 0.5 Attack Speed, 10 HP Regeneration per second, and 1 Magic Resistance. Her role is a tank.

Explanation 2: Enhancement Recipe: 1-star Swamp Slime + 50 [Sludge Blocks] = 2-star Swamp Slime.

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"600 HP? You dare call yourself a tank?"

Zhou Nan shook his head. The card-type Swamp Slime was inferior to the Wild Swamp Slime by one Slow skill, but all other attributes were the same. Apart from the 10 HP regeneration per second, it was useless.

Fortunately, this card comes with an enhancement recipe, and the enhancement materials are simple and easy to find, so Zhou Nan kept it for the time being.

Before long, the Heroic Bear Solo's watchtower stood in the woods. After Zhou Nan gave it the order to attack the granite golem, he quickly ran away.

The Granite Golem has the skill [Stun Throw], which involves throwing stones at both air and ground targets. The throwing range is fifty meters, and it only targets living units with flesh and blood, stunning them and dealing over three thousand points of damage. The cooldown is extremely short.

Hero Solo climbed the Heroic Watchtower, essentially becoming the structure itself. The watchtower, with its 2500 durability points, would take the damage. The Granite Golem wouldn't throw stun stones at Solo. Zhou Nan was afraid that this big guy would take his anger out on him, so he decided to just watch from a distance.

The nine-meter-tall granite golem was struck on the head by the hero Solo's axe, and the damage number "-22" appeared above its head!

It has 6 points of armor, which reduces damage taken by 26.5%.

Enraged, the "King of Wild Monsters" roared as it spotted the Bear Watchtower and tried to attack it. However, its limited intelligence caused it to wander around the forest, unable to reach the Bear Watchtower and constantly being attacked, leaving it only able to roar in vain.

Zhou Nan chuckled as he saw this.

"Tactics accomplished, let's take off!"

He could almost see the massive granite golem fall, scattering its spoils across the ground.

However, upon closer inspection of the damage numbers above the granite golem's head, Zhou Nan couldn't help but sigh.

One axe blow deals 22 damage, and two blows per second result in a damage per second of 44. The Granite Golem has a whopping 12 health points. To kill it, wouldn't the Heroic Watchtower have to keep attacking for over 45 minutes?

"This hidden mode seems to have been open for a long time. I wonder how much longer it will last. Maybe we won't have enough time to kill this granite golem. But it doesn't matter, now that we know how, we'll have plenty of opportunities to farm it later!"

Zhou Nan was thrilled, but unfortunately, only ten minutes later, an announcement came from the area: "After resisting the attack of the Murloc artillery for 120 minutes, the town fortress has been successfully defended and the dungeon is cleared."

"Ding! Congratulations on clearing the [Guardian of Casanall Hidden Mode: City Fortress]!"

"Ding! All rewards for completing the level have been automatically sent to your secret camp."

"Ding, the current instance is locked. Please exit the game within three minutes..."