These rules felt so familiar. Luo Jun remembered playing a similar game before.
Seeing that the countdown below had just over four minutes left, he had no mind to dwell on such miscellaneous thoughts.
As the rules appeared, the room expanded considerably. Teleportation Gates and Goddess Statues appeared at each of the four corners, and a transparent control panel appeared in front of each Goddess Statue. It was probably for building Guardian Mechanisms.
The expanded room was roughly fifty meters square, with a diagonal of more than seventy meters. That was the shortest distance the monsters had to travel to reach the Goddess Statue. Stopping them from such a close range would not be easy...
The only means of attack were Guardian Mechanisms, and building them required Vital Energy. In other words, the key to clearing the challenge was the players' Vital Energy reserves? This seemed like a challenge suited for multiple people. More people naturally meant more Vital Energy. Going alone was somewhat strenuous.
As he thought, Luo Jun walked up to the Goddess Statue. It stood over three meters tall, dignified in bearing and beautiful in appearance, but it was made of ordinary marble. Forget monsters—even a couple of laborers swinging hammers could smash it to pieces in minutes.
He could not let the monsters touch the statue. Not even one!
Opening the control panel, he found that it offered three types of Guardian Mechanisms: Flame Turrets, Entangling Turrets, and Storm Turrets.
The Flame Turret fired a powerful Explosive Bullet every three seconds. The Explosive Bullets had a range of fifteen meters and served as the primary means of attack. Building one consumed Five Breaths Vital Energy.
The Entangling Turret grew tough vines around itself, binding monsters within five meters and injecting them with paralytic venom to slow