Poison God's Heritage

With another base upgrade, the facilities inside them also got upgraded, yielding more ore and Saint Qi crystals.

But what I needed were the puppets.

I split myself using the Golden Scripture and began creating more miniguns. I needed to have at least three miniguns done and ready before the next wave started, and it took me six hours to make the last one.

I called the corpse back and split the four enhanced puppets. Leaving one of them in each of the four areas where the gate will probably spawn.

While the corpse had withdrawn to the main base to act as the last bastion.

If I had built all of this at the start around the base I would have been far more secure, but there was no time for regret.

My clones began working and creating bullets and pieces to create the miniguns which after long arduous hours, I placed right in the middle of every one of the four paths.

A dangerous location that could be threatened at any point in time, but at the same time, a position that's fully capable of attacking and defending the main base.

I didn't bother with the main portal path, since it had a shit ton of landmines and cannons aimed to protect it, the worry was for the other three areas which are relatively far weaker.

"Your time is up, get ready," said the Cryptic Sun.

And just as I expected, three more portals appeared and beasts began emerging out.

A pack of wolves shot forward from every portal. The first gate was easily capable of eliminating them due to the barrier and the kill zone which didn't let a single wolf out.

But for the other three, the wolves were unhindered in running forward.

The turrets began shooting lightning bolts and infernal blasts, a far more advanced explosive yield than basic turrets, killing the wolves in droves. Thankfully the points I used in upgrading those turrets were worth it as they held them off nicely.

A couple of wolves did manage to survive the onslaught, but thanks to having at least an upgraded puppet in each direction standing there, they made quick work of the wolves.

But the wave didn't end there, as a type of flying harpies began emerging.

The turrets tried their best to take them down, but the prep time and speed of this bird-like creature were too fast for the turrets to react, failing to hit most of these bird creatures was not unexpected. However, thanks to the turret in the middle, and the already prepared puppets manning them, lead rained down from above like hail.

Breaking the half-birds and shooting explosive rounds through them, far faster than they could even react to.

The half-birds fell down from the sky littering it with blood and burnt viscera.

All around the area, it seemed that this hastily made defense was all I needed to hold two of these waves.

But I wasn't about to be conceited. I was already making constant and consecutive requests out of the Merchant. Having him place walls and recreate the same kill zone in the first gate all over the other gates. Further limiting the range and tightening the exit point of the beasts in every gate.

He seemed annoyed at how fast I was giving him orders, but as long as he was fast enough to apply my requests, I wasn't going to bother with his grimaces.

Soon enough, a loud roar echoed from one of the gates. It was the same rhino-like creature that threatened the integrity of my Killzone, thankfully, it only emerged from one of the gates.

"Kill it!" I gave the corpse the order and it sprinted forward toward the rhino, making quick work out of it. As the corpse was far stronger and agile enough to kill the rhino and go back to the main base.

More and more random beasts emerged but with enough firepower, I managed to hold on.

Barely any creature made it out of the new Killzones and everyone that did died to the miniguns.

And soon, the Merchant announced the end of the seventh round.

"The next round will start in 72 hours," the merchant said.

"Wait, 72 hours?" I asked.

"Yes, take your time you'll need it," he added.

That was a dead giveaway that the next wave will not be easy.

Looking at the state of my base. And what I need to do, I began preparing. Three days, that's more than enough for me to adjust and improve, I could easily build three more fortresses in that time the only issue is the lack of manpower to manage the fortresses.

So I first began by building another fortress with the help of my clones.

Due to having one already made, it was rather easy to rebuild something similar so it took me less time to build another. Making the base materials to build it was also easier, the steel beams, the cement and all that comes in hand to build the said fortress was all accessible and easy to obtain from the merchant.

Two days, it only took me that much time to finish up the rest of the fortresses. Including the formations, the moats, and the turrets on top of them.

I also used my clones to upgrade more puppets with a total of twelve fully upgraded puppets. I placed three in each of the directions in front of the gates to slow down the incoming waves.

All that was left was making more explosives to plant underneath the ground and paths leading to the main base and I was done before the third day was over.

Looking at the overall structure, four fortresses protecting a base, with fully loaded and ready cannons and turrets all aiming at the gates.

There was however some distance in the diagonal between all the fortresses which though I didn't really think that the wave would come from, I still planted some explosives just in case.

The merchant soon came over and told me that the wave will be starting, so I flew up and began watching the entirety of the field from bird view.

The gates spiraled and opened up, and the eight-wave started.