Chapter 718 (1/2)

Translator: Nyoi-Bo Studio  Editor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

To be honest, the new Rye Fortress that Sui Xiong renovated was not very beautiful, at least not from the outside.

Originally, the two towering inner and outer walls were indeed magnificent. However, with a roof of the same color over them, the walls suddenly lost their grandiosity. From afar, it was like a huge black cylinder coming out of the ground. Fortunately, its top shrunk smoothly and became smaller. All the way at the top, there was a spire. If only the roof could be a little rounder and slightly bigger…

This design was Sui Xiong’s original intention, but after he had come up with it, he felt that something was not right. No matter how he looked at it, he could not find the problem. But in his heart, the feeling that something was not right was getting stronger and stronger. Finally, he simply made a miniature model that was palm-sized, and then, he understood what went wrong.

Oh god! What a dome! Within the so-called “folk culture,” this was simply called “A Stick to the Sky!”

As an art student, Sui Xiong lacked a lot of knowledge that ordinary college students should have. But he also had a lot of knowledge that generally, universities in this world would never teach. For example, he knew that many cultural forms in the world still existed in relatively primitive areas. In these areas, there was still the worship of sex. And things like the Twin Milk Mountain and Heavenly Stick, which by the standards of the developed world would be regarded as inharmonious and unhealthy, were objects of worship.

Sui Xiong did not discriminate against such a culture. But he certainly did not want to practice it personally.

The thought of how the future generations might compare him with Steele because of this “One Stick to the Sky Fortress” gave him a toothache.

Although he did not have any teeth to start with.

He had no teeth, yet he still had a toothache. This went to show how serious the problem was. So Sui Xiong’s final choice in making the overall look of the fortress like a spike pointing to the sky was actually his last resort.

Such a shape was in fact, not considered mighty and domineering. So he had to put in more effort into the interior design.

Therefore, Sui Xiong got to work.

First, he planned to design the inside of the fortress into a maze with nine curves and eighteen rings. Unless it was someone with the right to use this secret passage, if not it would take a long time to pass through this fortress, even with a map in hand.

This was naturally an extremely effective means, but there was still work required to be done to prevent anyone from smashing through the door.

When playing board games in his own world, Sui Xiong had once encountered a kind of player known as the “Door Smashing” group. Whenever they encountered mazes or puzzles in the midst of missions, they would never do what they were asked to do honestly. They would tend to resolve the issues by using simple and crude means.

For example, someone had devised a mission as such: a village chief felt uneasy about the mass multiplication of goblins in a nearby cave. He wished to recruit a group of warriors to annihilate them. As a reward, he would give away a few of his treasured magic scrolls to the heroes who could annihilate the goblin tribe.

According to how normal people like Sui Xiong would think, of course, everyone would put together their equipment and pack their supplies, then head to the cave to fight and eliminate the goblins. Then they would return to claim their rewards. But the Door Smashing group would not do so. When Sui Xiong participated in this game, he had seen with his own eyes how a few players from the Door Smashing group blocked the entrance of the cave with several large rocks and then through the cracks found within the stones, they filled the inside of the cave with smoke. Then following the movement of smoke within the cave, they located and blocked the various vents of the cave.

They had brought enough rocks over to block all the exits of that cave, then they went to work on other things. About a month later, they returned to the cave. They unblocked the entrance of the cave and saw dead bodies of goblins strewn all over the ground.

These hapless magic beasts died of thirst. Though they could rely on killing each other, then feeding on each other’s flesh to get food, they were still stuck in a situation where they had food but no water. Under such a circumstance, they would, in fact, die much faster than not eating and drinking at all…

So the mission was accomplished. Other than using up some physical strength and time, there was nothing else that the Door Smashing group had consumed. They got their reward easily.

At that time, Sui Xiong was dumbfounded. Thereafter, he had picked up quite a handful of tricks from this Door Smashing group.