Build Sequence Is Key

Building

Soon Jason no longer had to do any attacking the spitters were arriving one at a time, but at a rate of about one every five seconds or so. By the time the tower was completed with the voice announcement Jason had more than twenty spitters following him around.

He didn't know how much attack power the tower would have. All he could do was hope that it would be enough.

In the end it took four shots from the tower to kill one spitter. He thought that was rather low considering. But again he just thanked his lucky stars.

The tower could shoot two arrows at a time and had a cool down of only one second. So it took about ten minutes, but all the spitters were spitted.

'Ha, I make jokes!'

Jason was half dead from all the spit he thought it was okay to make jokes. He was allowed! Once the they were all dead he went around to all the dead and collected their drops.

The healing potions be downed on the spot. There were enough of those to get him back to full health and then some. A few swords and armor. He quickly doned the breastplate, greaves, vambraces, and a helmet. A sword and belt went on next. The rest he collected in a pile by the town hall.

Gold, gold, gold! There was enough for another tower, but he held off. He wanted to train a peon or two.

He still had a few minutes on the town hall though so he looked up from his screens to see that now the spitters were coming in two at a time. However since he was standing at the base of the tower they targeted it first.

'Dang, the escalation here is intense. Pretty soon one tower is not going to cut it.'

Taking a deep breath he ran to the other side of the tower and took the spitter aggro. Having done that it should be three hits for the tower to kill one.

'Shit, even with a sword and me hacking, it still takes the tower four hits to kill a spitter. My attack power is still shit.'

Paying attention now to the numbers popped above the head of the spitter he was working on he saw that his attack was only 3 now. The tower was doing between 11 and 13 damage per hit.

'Something has got to change!'

As soon as the town hall was done Jason our two peons in cue.

'Damn, I should have started on another tower. Next time!'

The peons were only 200 gold. Their training cost was an order of magnitude less than the building costs.

'That actually makes more sense.'

But then when he went to build a tower he couldn't.

'What? Oh right, the peons build them!'

Directing a peon to build another tower Jason had a lot of questions for Captain about how he had been able to build without a peon initially.

'Oh, well. Can't go back now.'

The when the other peon came out he directed it to gather and store all the loot. Now he could just access the town hall's inventory management tab to see what he could use.

He put another peon in the training queue and it popped out in thirty seconds.

'Nice.'

This one he had move over to a likely spot and had wait. He was still acting as a tank for the towers and had to at least pretend to fight in order to keep aggro. Downing potions every few seconds was the only thing keeping him alive.

As soon as he had the next 6k in gold he had the loitering peon start building the third tower.

Training two more peons, when they came up he put them on looting. It wasn't the same thing as mining or wood gathering. But it was more lucrative in a lot of ways.

A system voiced message alerted him that his peons were being attacked. Spit covered them. Fortunately he could use the potions on them. But doing so depleted his stock completely.

'There has to be a better way to do this."

Jason said to himself as he continued to calculate and use potions only at the most opportune time in order not to waste them. The peons didn't have many hit points. A potion could heal them all the way and more unless they were really low on health to begin with. Thankfully he was a past master at timing cool downs and spell casting so it wasn't a problem to keep them alive.

It just meant that he couldn't do anything else.

And that was when the second tower came on line. And he could back off from the front line. Now his peons were acting as tanks. Collecting aggro they prevented the spitters from reducing the tower's health bar.

The free peon went to looting. The next thing Jason was going to do was build a barracks. He had to get some real ranks involved in this fight. There were going to be more than spitters soon.

A blue light lit up the corner of his display at that point. Splitting his concentration he checked out the dot. It was a message. A message from a player he had never met before, Julia. And this Julia wanted to talk.