The sky had not yet dawned when Zhou Yan felt the defense towers of his territory erupt with roaring sounds. He quickly went out to see that monsters were already attacking from three directions.
"It's only five in the morning."
Looking at the time, Zhou Yan estimated that monsters might not give them much rest time in the future.
"Lord!"
Others also woke up quickly and rushed to Zhou Yan.
"According to yesterday's arrangement, go outside the walls to defend against monsters."
Zhou Yan commanded.
"Yes!"
A group of people rushed towards the walls, preparing to resist the monsters.
"Lord, I'll go then." Zhen Mi and Sun Shangxiang each said goodbye to Zhou Yan and headed towards the walls on the left and right sides.
The monsters had just begun their attack, and with so many powerful defense towers, there was no need to rush.
Yan Chixia looked at Zhou Yan and asked, "Um, is there anything I can do?"
"Go with them to the wall and see the situation first."
Zhou Yan arranged for Yan Chixia to follow a soldier to the front wall to defend. It would be good for him to familiarize himself with the monsters.
"Zhou Yan, what's going on?"
Nie Xiaoqian was also awakened by the noise. Even ghosts need rest, so seeing the commotion in the entire territory, she was very confused.
"It's monsters attacking the territory. Today is the tenth day, and this kind of battle will continue for twenty more days..."
Zhou Yan explained.
Nie Xiaoqian nodded as if she understood but not really. She didn't quite grasp it yet and needed to experience more.
"Then I'll go help too, but the sky is about to brighten. I'm afraid I can't appear for too long."
Nie Xiaoqian looked at the sky. In just over an hour, the sun would appear. As a ghost, she couldn't act during the day.
When Zhou Yan heard this, he chuckled and said, "You are no longer an ordinary ghost. You don't need to worry about not being able to appear during the day."
"Really? That would be great."
Nie Xiaoqian's face lit up. If she could appear during the day, she would no longer fear the sunlight.
"Since you're awake, let's go to the [Mysterious Shop] first."
He was very confident in his territory. The level of each defense tower was above level twenty, and the current monsters were no match for the towers' attacks.
Even if some monsters broke through the towers' encirclement, with the [White Robed Ghost General], he had nothing to worry about.
He took Nie Xiaoqian to the [Mysterious Shop]. Although it wasn't time to refresh items, he could use the active refresh ability. Anyway, the countdown wouldn't be reset.
Five items appeared on the counter. This time, they were five pieces of armor, all of them silver-grade equipment. Yes, it was a full set of equipment.
Although a belt was missing, the five pieces of equipment could still trigger set effects.
"Refreshing a full set of silver equipment is not bad."
The price of these pieces of equipment ranged from ten thousand Spirit Coins to twenty thousand Spirit Coins. Their attributes were much stronger than what he was currently wearing, and the key was the additional set bonus.
He picked up one piece of equipment and checked its attributes.
[Equipment: Bright Silver Armor]
[Quality: Silver]
[Durability: 50/50]
[Attribute 1: Defense +15, Constitution +5]
[Attribute 2: Part of the Bright Silver Set. Each additional set piece worn increases Defense by +1 and All Attributes by +1.]
[Equipment Requirement: Level 10]
[Description: Bright Silver Armor, bright and handsome.]
[Price: 20,000 Spirit Coins]
This set of Bright Silver armor significantly boosted defense, and with the additional set effect, he bought the entire set. With five pieces of equipment, his defense and all attributes increased by an additional 5 points.
He took out the Bright Silver set. Just looking at the appearance of the equipment made it look incredibly dashing.
He immediately fell in love with it.
After putting it on, he turned to Nie Xiaoqian and asked, "Xiaoqian, what do you think of me in this set of equipment?"
Nie Xiaoqian's eyes glazed over, and her ghost heart pounded.
She blurted out, "So handsome."
He loved hearing the truth the most.
"Let's go see what the monsters outside are like."
Wearing the brand-new Bright Silver armor set, he walked towards the wall at the main entrance.
Although Nie Xiaoqian had seen Zhou Yan explain how powerful these defense towers were before, it was only when she truly saw the attacks from these towers annihilate the monsters outside the walls that she understood how formidable they were.
"Such powerful defense towers! With these towers, these monsters can't break through at all," Nie Xiaoqian was very shocked.
"It's still early. The monsters behind should get more numerous."
He checked all three walls. Just as he predicted, the current monsters couldn't break through the coverage of these defense towers and were all eliminated outside.
Today's monsters were all monkey-like creatures, quite similar to Sun Wukong's monkey descendants.
Liu Yue, seeing the monsters begin their attack, had already gathered a group of maids to prepare breakfast.
After breakfast, the monsters behind grew more numerous.
As the sky brightened, Nie Xiaoqian saw the sunlight shine on her without any adverse reaction. She was very happy; she could finally appear during the day.
Around noon, some monsters finally broke through the defense towers' coverage and reached the walls.
Yan Chixia, along with the soldiers, quickly killed these monsters.
Around one o'clock, thousands of elite monsters and two leader-level monsters appeared.
"Those monsters look quite powerful."
Nie Xiaoqian said, looking at the monsters in the distance.
"It's still uncertain how many will break through the defense towers," Zhou Yan replied.
After these monsters appeared, there were indeed fewer monsters following. They began to attack the territory fiercely.
The defense towers launched an attack. What was a level 9 elite monster? A large number fell.
Coupled with the Ice Tower being level thirty, unless these monsters broke through the defense towers' coverage during their interval, they couldn't survive.
After several rounds of attacks, a few elites broke through, but the two leader-level monsters were very unlucky. They were directly struck down by the defense towers' attacks, dying in a most frustrating manner.
By 1:30 PM, all monsters were eliminated.
[Newcomer Trial Day Ten Battle Ends!]
[Settling Rewards!]
[Eliminated: 95,687 Black Monkeys, 1,111 Level 9 Elite · Twin-tailed Monkeys, 2 Level 9 Leaders · Silver Monkeys.]
[Battle Rating: SSS]
[Rewards: Base Reward: 100,000 Soul Coins, 100,000 Spirit Coins, Silver Armor Forging Blueprint. Additional Evaluation Reward: 200,000 Soul Coins, 200,000 Spirit Coins, Building [B·Stone Wall].]
The monsters each day were stronger than the previous day, and the rewards were the same.
The appearance of the Stone Wall was unexpected.
The Stone Wall would surely be stronger than the outer wall. He immediately began building the [Stone Wall].
(Author: According to the request of the lovely readers, the newcomer trial will be concluded sooner. From now on, unless there are new buildings, I will not write too much about buildings, because many of you have accused me of padding the word count. Let me tell you, I was padding it, but because of you, I've decided not to anymore.)