170: Mighty King Kong Ant

After the BOSS died, a blueprint dropped on the spot.

【Bronze Ballista Design】

Li Feng picked it up and saw that it was a large crossbow that could be equipped with up to ten bolts and fired all at once.

It was a siege weapon, each shot capable of piercing metal and splitting stone.

Currently, Li Feng only had melee Troops, lacking such long-range attack methods.

He learned the Ballista Design.

【Bronze Ballista: Bronze Block * 50, Beast Tendon * 10】

Bronze Blocks need to be refined from Copper Blocks and Tin Blocks.

Beast Tendons, Li Feng had also obtained one when he killed a Weasel before; these require killing wild beasts to acquire.

Neither was difficult; they just needed a little preparation to obtain.

Li Feng first picked up the detector; the gold mine was directly beneath this tomb.

“Dig!” With a command, dozens of Gran, armed with Bronze Shovels, began working rapidly.

The efficiency of Bronze Shovels was far greater than Stone Shovels, and with dozens of people working together.

In just a short ten minutes, a huge deep pit appeared before Li Feng.

With a “ding,” a complexly colored ore came into view.

It was an ore with yellow, black, and even some red hues.

Raw gold ore is not gold from the start; it requires various chemical reactions for refinement.

Without some knowledge, even if gold ore was right in front of them, it would be ignored as waste rock.

Fortunately, Li Feng had a furnace; he only needed to put the raw ore into it, and gold would naturally be produced.

Otherwise, just thinking about the complex refining process of gold gave Li Feng a headache.

Li Feng took out the furnace and ordered a Beedrill to put a head-sized piece of gold ore, mined by the Gran, into it.

After the loading bar finished, Li Feng obtained 13 gold coins.

“Directly getting gold coins, that’s not bad,” Li Feng nodded.

Leaving the Gran to mine here, Li Feng led a portion of the Beedrill away.

He also took 10 Gran with him.

Although the gold mine was important, copper and tin mines also needed people to dig them.

Not far from the tin mine, a copper mine was also discovered, which was convenient.

As for the transportation work, it was naturally handed over to the Beedrill, which had greater speed and strength.

After arranging everything, Li Feng returned to his territory with 2000 gold coins.

“Hercules Vajra Ant, I also awakened them in the Awakening Land dungeon, and this is my first time summoning them.”

Li Feng looked at the ant nest, which looked like it was cast from gold, and put 2000 gold coins into it.

Soon, a golden ant, standing upright, walked out from the nest, reaching ten meters tall.

This size was already comparable to a seventh-tier giant Troops.

Immediately after, the void twisted, and nine more Hercules Vajra Ants appeared.

【Hercules Vajra Ant】

Race: Insectoid

Tier: Seventh-tier Troops

Level: 1

Health: 120,000

Attack: 12,000

Defense: 6,000

Skills: Hercules Vajra Punch: The Hercules Vajra Ant punches with all its might, repelling enemies and causing massive damage.

Immense Strength: The Hercules Vajra Ant's attack power doubles, lasting 30 seconds.

Indestructible Vajra: The Hercules Vajra Ant's defense endurance is ten times that of ordinary creatures... The Hercules Vajra Ant can be said to stand at the pinnacle of seventh-tier Troops.

Its strength was enough to contend with ordinary eighth-tier Troops.

Especially the Indestructible Vajra skill, which maximized the Hercules Vajra Ant's survival ability.

As is well known, defense is not eternally fixed.

As damage is continuously taken, defense will constantly decrease.

And the Indestructible Vajra skill made the Hercules Vajra Ant even more resilient.

Assuming it originally took 10,000 damage to reduce defense by one point.

With the Indestructible Vajra skill, it would now take 100,000 damage to reduce defense by one point.

Li Feng was very satisfied with his second primary Troops.

Beedrill was the lower limit among the first primary Troops.

While the Hercules Vajra Ant was the upper limit among the second primary Troops.

“I probably won’t get anything better today, so I’ll sell them,” Li Feng thought to himself, looking at the Hercules Vajra Ants in front of him.

Thinking of this, he took the ten Hercules Vajra Ants to the Bearded Merchant.

The transaction was completed under the merchant’s astonished gaze.

“Now I have 20,000 gold coins; I can summon more Hercules Vajra Ants, that’s great.”

Li Feng threw all the gold coins into the altar at once, summoned ten times, and obtained a total of one hundred Hercules Vajra Ants.

Immediately after, he found the Bearded Merchant again and bought one hundred Gran in one go.

The gold mine was continuously producing gold coins for Li Feng, and he now had over a hundred gold coins in hand.

“Each of you, lead a Hercules Vajra Ant, go hunt wild beasts, don’t rush back until the moon comes out, understood?” Li Feng commanded, looking at the Gran in front of him.

“Understood,” all the Gran said in unison.

They held great reverence for Li Feng, their new master.

They simply couldn’t imagine how one person could command so many behemoths; it was terrifying!

Hercules Vajra Ants were very similar to Buzzwole, both being bipedal insectoid Troops, and their tentacles had evolved into human hands.

Each of them carried a Gran in one hand and advanced in the direction Li Feng had first explored.

When night fell, all one hundred Hercules Vajra Ants returned.

Also returning were the Gran who were surveying and mining, and the Beedrill protecting them.

The Hercules Vajra Ants brought back a large number of wild beast carcasses, which Li Feng decomposed into mountains of meat.

These were already enough for his food consumption.

What was obtained from decomposition also included items such as scales, beast bones, beast hides, beast tendons, beast blood, and snake gallbladders.

Scales and beast bones could be used to make weapons.

Scales and beast hides could be used to make armor.

Beast tendons could be used to make bowstrings and elastic bands.

Beast blood and snake gallbladders were auxiliary materials for refining potions, which Li Feng temporarily had no use for.

Of course, both could also be cooked into dishes, or even eaten raw.

After a simple dinner, Li Feng went to the top floor of the fortress and built four Bronze Ballistas in one go.

After all this was done, it was just a matter of silently waiting for the end of the novice protection period and the so-called monsters.

“What kind of monsters will it be? Will it be Goblins, like in the novice assessment?” Li Feng stroked his chin, full of anticipation.

In contrast to his relaxed demeanor, Akayera and the other two were currently nervously preparing their defenses.

They were not looking forward to the end of the novice protection period at all, nor did they wish to see any monsters.

“I’ve already prepared so many traps, the first day should be fine, right? I just don’t know how the others are preparing; maybe they’ll be eliminated on the first day.”

This was the shared thought in the hearts of Akayera and the other two...