The night grew quiet, but the rain had not stopped.
The City Wall slowly disengaged its "fully enclosed turtle-shell defense" mode, leaving a gap between its top and the Mountain once more. Chen Fan emerged from the passage, stood atop the City Wall, and surveyed the scenes outside.
He built another Wind Tower and placed it on the Cave floor behind the City Wall.
This was a special Defensive Structure.
He had obtained its blueprint from Weiwei Cave. Unlike ordinary Defensive Structures, building this one alone required 500 Eerie Stones and any one of several materials, including a Windshield Bead or a Wind-Calming Pearl.
An Arrow Tower, for example, only required materials besides Eerie Stones for upgrades after reaching level 5.
Fortunately.
He happened to have a Windshield Bead, one of the essential materials for building a Wind Tower. The Funeral Wraith Chief had left it to him.
Chen Fan looked at the Wind Tower behind him. Nearly ten meters tall, it almost touched the Cave ceiling. It was quite a lofty structure.
It was not a stout fortress.
Instead, it resembled a slender, elegant jet-black stone tower standing inside the Cave, or a thin sword about to leave its sheath.
It looked somewhat like a Watchtower, but was clearly much more refined.
Its body stood perfectly straight.
Countless silver runes, spiraling and streamlined, were inlaid across its surface. These runes were not static; they constantly flowed at a slow pace, as though an invisible wind were blowing over them without end.
And atop the tower stood a... Copper Eagle.
He did not know how to describe the Copper Eagle perched there. Its gaze simply struck him as sharp and imposing. Countless honeycomb-like holes covered the surfaces of its smooth, outstretched wings, and a white Windshield Bead tinged with green