My Chaotic City

Chapter 021 Gold Coin Challenge Ranking

[Golden Infantry: Special monster, level 10, 2000 HP, drops one bound silver coin upon defeat.]

The gold coin challenge has begun!

Li Hanqiang stood in mid-air, watching the golden infantry, arranged in neat square formations, emerge from the spacetime wormhole. They were ten men in a row, holding golden spears and wearing golden armor, looking as majestic as gilded terracotta warriors.

"Only level 10 but with a whopping 2000 HP, this monster is pretty strong." Li Hanqiang muttered to himself, not really caring, because he noticed that the golden infantry were marching in formation at a slow pace, only about one meter per second.

The Flame Tower immediately unleashed its power; as soon as the golden infantrymen stepped out of the space-time wormhole, flames erupted from their bodies, and a neat array of "-30" appeared above their heads!

The golden infantrymen seemed oblivious, their formation remaining perfectly intact.

Li Hanqiang couldn't help but reveal a smug smile.

The Flame Tower can deal 30 fire damage per second to all targets within a 50-meter radius. It is most effective against slow-moving units. Don't be fooled by the Golden Infantry's high health of 2000 points; their slow movement speed makes them vulnerable to the Flame Tower's 67-second burn!

In 67 seconds, at their current speed, they simply cannot escape the range of the Flame Tower's influence!

Sure enough, when the first row of golden infantrymen had walked less than seventy meters out of the space-time wormhole, their health bars were already empty. They then collapsed to the ground, turned into light and disappeared, dropping ten silver coins with a clatter.

The golden infantrymen who followed came up and died in almost the same spot.

Li Hanqiang laughed heartily, saying that a Flame Tower was practically a divine tower in the current situation.

Clink, clink... It was the sound of silver coins falling.

Three thousand golden infantrymen spawned in 300 seconds, but they only lasted for less than 400 seconds before falling to the Flame Tower.

Li Hanqiang happily went to collect silver coins, but less than two minutes later, a system notification sounded: "Currently facing the second wave of challenges, with 3,000 Lv15 Golden Cavalry. You may choose to voluntarily give up the challenge now."

"Give up? Impossible! Let's try again!"

After Li Hanqiang responded to the system, he immediately saw a group of golden cavalry emerge from the spacetime wormhole. Like the golden infantry, they were also arranged in a square formation, ten in a row, appearing in a row every second, holding golden swords and wearing gleaming golden armor.

[Golden Cavalry: Special monster, level 15, 3000 HP, drops 5 bound silver coins upon defeat.]

Li Hanqiang had a bad feeling.

Although these golden cavalrymen are only five levels higher than the golden infantrymen, riding golden horses, their marching speed is significantly faster. Even when they are not in a charging stance and their golden horses are just walking normally, they can still advance two meters per second.

This means that they only need 50 seconds to escape the Flame Tower's influence range.

In 50 seconds, the Flame Tower can only deal 1500 damage, which is only enough to whittle down half of the Golden Knight's health.

"We're doomed!" Li Hanqiang shook his head, no longer caring. After all, killing three thousand gold infantrymen was already a gain.

Everything went pretty much as Li Hanqiang had predicted. The animal trap, which had been useless during the Gold Infantry stage, suddenly became popular this time, trapping a Gold Cavalryman right away, just like a giant steel maw suddenly emerging from the ground to bite its prey.

The golden cavalryman froze in place, with damage numbers "-30" and "-15" appearing above his head.

"-30" represents the damage dealt by the Flame Tower, while "-15" represents the damage dealt by the Bear Trap.

As a result, this golden cavalryman became the first to fall in this wave of challenges.

After it vanished in a flash of light, the animal trap opened automatically and caught another golden cavalryman in less than two seconds.

At this moment, the gold cavalry at the forefront had entered the range of the basic arrow tower, and the crossbow bolts flew out, dealing the full 40 points of damage.

"This golden cavalry looks formidable, but could it have zero physical defense? Even if the basic arrow towers deal full damage with every arrow, it won't matter. The highest damage per second is only 80. Even if we exhaust it, it will only take 20 seconds to kill one golden cavalry."

Li Hanqiang calculated that the spacetime wormhole refreshes 10 Golden Knights per second, and it would take 300 seconds to refresh 3000 of them. Their forward speed is 2 meters per second, and the basic arrow tower range is 200 meters.

In other words, the basic arrow tower has a maximum attack time of 500 seconds, during which it can kill at most 25 half-health gold knights.

Li Hanqiang began to look forward to Jianta's performance.

Before long, a bright white sword aura flashed from the sword tower. The sword aura covered a hundred meters in an instant, clanging and clanging... It pierced through eight golden cavalrymen in succession, dealing a row of damage numbers.

-80, -70, -60...

It deals a full 360 points of damage, but unfortunately the sword tower's attack range is only 100 meters. Although its output is more stable and efficient than the basic arrow tower, it is still difficult to stop the army of golden knights.

Soon, the defenses collapsed completely, and the Golden Knight charged in, stealing all the energy from the Heart of Chaos in an instant. The system notification then sounded: "The Heart of Chaos has zero chaotic energy. The current challenge has failed."

"Challenge Statistics: The current challenge has lasted 13 minutes and 5 seconds, with 3000 Gold Infantry killed and 122 Gold Cavalry killed. The total reward is 36 gold and 10 silver. Your gold coin challenge has ended in the second wave."

"System notification: You are currently ranked first on the Gold Coin Challenge leaderboard. You can choose to display your information using your real nickname or anonymously..."

"There's a challenge leaderboard? I'm number one!" Li Hanqiang thought for a moment, "I, Li Hanqiang, am a low-key person, but my talent can't be hidden. Oh well, I'll just use my real nickname to be on the leaderboard, hahahaha."

Li Hanqiang happily left to collect gold coins.

At this very moment, in Chaos City No. 12, Half-Moon City is checking the Gold Coin Challenge Leaderboard.

Those who can climb the rankings at this time are either super masters or incredibly lucky. Half Moon Beauty considers these people as her competitors.

There are only ten rankings on this leaderboard, and Half Moon Allure is ranked tenth, with a challenge reward of 25 gold.

To her dismay, all nine people ahead of her in the queue chose to remain anonymous.

"Not a single one displayed the Chaos City's code and real nickname? That's incredibly spineless."

Half Moon City shook her head, just about to close the leaderboard, when a system notification suddenly came: "You have fallen out of the Gold Coin Challenge Leaderboard, please keep trying."

"Hmm? I've been pushed down?" Half Moon Beauty frowned, and when she looked at the leaderboard again, sure enough, her name was no longer on it.

However, at the top of the list, there was an extra line of text: "Ranked first, Chaos City No. 68, City Lord Li Hanqiang, single challenge reward 36 gold and 10 silver."

"Li Hanqiang?" Banyue Qingcheng was stunned. Who was this person? Why did the name seem familiar?

Suddenly, she remembered her landlord next door.

Isn't that guy's name Li Hanqiang?

"Would anyone use their real name as a nickname?" Half Moon City shook her head. She felt she was overthinking it. That guy was definitely a nobody, probably not very smart. How could he possibly be the Chaos City Lord at the top of the list?

"I need to call Xiaoyi and the others over, and recruit a group of expert adventurers from the live stream to launch more monster sieges." Half Moon City silently planned, "The Chaos City Lord is useless before level 30, I must level up as soon as possible. Level 30 is when the real skills will be shown. I will come back to this gold coin challenge leaderboard sooner or later."