LGHTNOVELBOOK Chapter 7: The Location of CL_Ellise
Liliana agreed. After all, she wanted to get a bundle of troops like Caleb. Still, she had to bet a lot.
The mystery chest in the treasure cave offered random rewards, which could sometimes be resources, armies, or fragments.
But at least Liliana knew the location of the high-level treasure caves. She also didn't mind handing over the scout's exploration to Caleb.
Caleb opened the map, pressing one of the high-level treasure caves in the south. The coordinates of the treasure cave's location were displayed.
[Game Map]
[High-Level Treasure Cave]
[Coordinates:]
[X: 485,254,20] [Y: 298,540,369]
After finding the coordinates of the high-level treasure cave, Liliana ordered her scout to go explore the place. Now, it was Liliana's turn to hand over the results of her scout's exploration.
The woman sent the exploration results using the send document feature on the friend chat page. She had exported the exploration map and sent it to Caleb. Caleb got it quickly.
[DING! You got the exploration map file]
[Sender: Liliana_P]
[Open file?]
Caleb opened the exploration file, and sure enough, the area unreachable by the Vision Fog talent had been explored successfully by Liliana's scouts. Still, the exploration was messy and random.
To be sure, he could see that there were two new town halls found south of Liliana's town hall. According to Liliana's explanation, the two town halls belonged to players called Jack_Hunter and CL_Ellise.
'I was finally able to find your whereabouts, CL_Ellise,' Caleb explained.
From the map, Liliana pointed at the blue dot indicating the location of CL_Ellise. The woman had already sent her scouts to explore the place. Yet, something was odd to her.
"But I don't know what he's doing," Liliana explained.
"What do you mean?" Caleb asked.
"The place is so well-guarded. The palisade wall is being used even though all the players know it's useless," Liliana replied.
"His focus is shifted to mining, like gold and stone. He doesn't have much population in his town hall," said Liliana.
"Is that how great players strategize?" Liliana asked Caleb.
'No, it's not. It's the best way to die ridiculously,' Caleb replied.
Even though he was CL_Ellise, Caleb tried to keep his identity well. There were quite a few players he had defeated in tournaments, enough grudges directed at him.
This made Caleb cautious by not using the name CL_Ellise. Still, he didn't expect someone to use the name for themselves.
The name might be the same as CL_Ellise, but the skills and abilities would probably be much different than usual.
Although he heard the description from Liliana, Caleb didn't want to believe it right away. He needed to send his scouts there to find out the defenses of TH _Apo_King's palisade wall.
The scout, still exploring the fog in the east, was again ordered by Caleb to go south of Liliana's TH. The scout changed direction and headed towards the location.
Liliana also explained the situation at Jack_Hunter's town hall. According to her observations, Jack_Hunter was a player model farmer, Liliana and Jack often communicated as the two were friends.
Caleb didn't worry too much about that player. The aim was to defeat CL_Ellise so the mysterious player would not reap the benefits of using his username.
Also to eliminate the resentment in Caleb's heart. No one should bear that username other than him because CL_Ellise will forever be Caleb.
"I opened the diplomacy menu. There was something different about the number of players listed on the menu," Liliana replied.
The woman couldn't be sure who had died, as she didn't really remember the players' names. However, what was certain was that the number of players had decreased from 10 to 9.
"You don't need to find out about dead players. That is the risk of players in this game. If they want to survive, they should at least be careful in their actions," Caleb replied, wanting to get rid of the woman's thoughts about the death of the BitchGetAway player.
"Still, this is something new to me. Before, I played this game and never felt anxious for the safety of my life. But things are different now. Every night, I am always haunted by my fears," explained Liliana.
Caleb explained that the average player was still at TH level 1, and maybe some had moved on to TH 2. That was enough to say that Liliana's life was safe, at least for now.
"The best option is to advance to TH Level 2 immediately after all the technology has been researched. That way, you can build an Infantry Camp and create a Militia," Caleb said.
"Militia, huh? But they're not strong enough against a Heavy Scout like you."
"Am I going to invade you?" asked Caleb sternly.
Liliana paused, then responded by shaking her head. Whether Caleb would attack her or not was only decided by the man himself. None of the players could guess the other player's way of thinking.
"Then you don't have to worry."
"Thank you for calming me down, Caleb," Liliana added.
'He seems like a good person. If I keep supporting him, maybe I can save my life,' Liliana added.
[DING! Construction is complete]
[Building:]
[4 Houses Level 1]
[Wood: 762] [-200]
[Food: 687] [-100]
[Gold: 910]
[Stone: 200] [-100]
[Villager: 25/55] [+20 Capacity]
A total of 6 houses were producing population for the town hall. Caleb will get 6 villagers within two hours; six were ready to be employed in selected places.
An hour passed, a resource production notification appeared before Caleb, increasing the amount of resources the Town Hall had.
[Wood +80]
[Food +119]
[Gold +85]
[Update Resources Info]
[Wood: 842] [+80]
[Food: 806] [+119]
[Gold: 995] [+85]
[Stone: 200]
The total was almost 1000, it seemed that today, three resources would reach 1000 —wood, food, and gold.
Liliana said goodbye. She said she couldn't stay too long; she had to watch the town hall. Caleb nodded.
"If other players attack you, I'll come to your aid," Caleb explained.
"Thanks for trusting me, Caleb."
'No. I did it to earn your trust. That way, you'll be useful in increasing my resources,' Caleb said.
The woman said goodbye and walked away with a wave. Caleb cleared his throat, he continued to pay attention to his town hall, especially the process of building the Infantry Camp and the population production.
An hour went by, another panel popped up explaining that Caleb had gotten an increase of +6 new villagers. They were gathered outside the Town Hall waiting to be hired —idle.
[Villagers have been created]
[Number of Villagers: 6]
[Population: 33/55][+6]
'Stone resources are still low. Should I start mining stone?' Caleb asked, looking at the six new villagers who were still idle.
In the end, Caleb ordered five people to go to the stone mine area. However, the five were tasked with building the stone mine before mining.
[Construction begins]
[Building: Stone Camp]
[Building Type: Economic Building]
[Cost: 50 wood || 25 food]
[Construction duration: ]
[00:00:59:59]
They started to build a stone mine located close to the mine area. It was to speed up their production after an hour.
Even so, the five workers in the stone mine could only produce a maximum of 50 stones every hour. When Caleb pressed the gold mine icon, it appeared that no technology was being researched.
'There is one basic technology being researched in the stone mine. After the construction, I will start researching the technology immediately,' Caleb said.
He pressed the other building icons, starting from the Lumber, Mill, and Town Hall itself. Two technologies were available for research, one in Lumber and one in the town hall.
The technology in Lumber was called Double Axe, while the technology in Town Hall was Eye Vision.
The benefit of Double Axe was to increase worker production by +7/hour, and the benefit of Eye Vision was to increase the attack range of the town hall from 7m to 10m.
Eye Vision will help with defense. Arrows as a defense mechanism will be released and able to reach 10m from the Town Hall, especially when enemies attack the town.
[Technology Research]
[Technology Type: Economy]
[Building: Lumber]
[Technology Name: Double Axe]
[Cost: 150 wood || 100 food]
[Increase worker food production by +7/hour]
[Research Time:]
[00:04:59:59]
Without thinking, Caleb researched the Double Axe technology, costing 150 wood and 100 food. The research duration was 5 hours; at least the Infantry Camp would be completed before the Lumber technology research was finished.
Caleb also studied Eye Vision technology, which is useful for the Town Hall defense mechanism, even though the costs were high.
[Technology Research]
[Technology Type: Defense]
[Building: Town Hall]
[Technology Name: Eye Vision]
[Cost: 200 wood || 150 food || 150 gold]
[Increases attack range to 10m]
[Research Time:]
[00:05:59:59]
The research progress panel appeared on Caleb's dashboard in the form of a blue progress bar. Caleb was relieved that his kingdom power would increase if two technologies were successfully researched.
From the game map, Caleb saw that his scout had arrived at the location of _Apo_King's Town Hall.
There, what Liliana said was true, CL_Ellise was using the palisade wall complicatedly as if he was blocking the automatic attack system of any attacking enemy units.
"Clever, CL_Ellise. You built the palisade wall to protect your city and keep enemy units busy."
"For beginners, they might not be familiar with the drag and order feature. They will release their army units to attack automatically," Caleb explained.
"The palisade wall is among the buildings that will be attacked since it's part of the enemy building."
Caleb laughed, finding a gap in the town hall. But he didn't want to be rash. The location of the _Apo_King's Town Hall was quite far from RustyAxe's location. It wasn't easy to mobilize there, and it would take time.
Not only that, he also had a possible threat from player Great_Dao in the West. That was because Caleb thought Great_Dao was more experienced than CL_Ellise.
"Maybe I can use that woman to trap him?" asked Caleb, thinking of an idea.
Liliana, Caleb's female friend, had courageously come to RustyAxe's town hall by simply taking cover behind her scout.
If Liliana could do that, there was a chance that player CL_Ellise could be persuaded to leave his town hall.
"I'll try to talk to Liliana."