Originally, Su You had ten portions of roasted berries when she returned, but one was stolen, and she later gave away seven more, leaving her with just two portions.
Those last two portions were just finished a moment ago.
To make sure she didn’t starve, Su You hurried over to the berry bushes before nightfall, quickly gathering a batch of red berries with her stone knife before rushing back.
The full stack of branches and nearly a full stack of leaves she had were all picked up along the way during her afternoon activities.
All this miscellaneous stuff filled up all ten slots in Su You’s backpack, leaving not a bit of space.
With the countdown timer, Su You could tell it was about 6:30 in the evening. She made it back just in time to see the sunset flowers bloom after picking the berries.
While admiring the beauty of the sunset flowers, Su You began preparing the things she’d need for tomorrow.
Thanks to the mysterious creature, she now had all the stones she needed. Su You planned to go hunt fire demons tomorrow and collect firestones.
Since she’d be fighting fire demons tomorrow, she naturally had to prepare everything she’d need.
There was still some time before dark, and lighting a campfire just to cook food would be a waste of materials, so Su You decided to postpone cooking for now.
First, she crafted all her loose stones into stone blocks.
Even though she couldn’t combine the extra stone for now, Su You still kept it safe.
Given her limited resources, Su You planned to use the most troublesome, but also the most material-efficient and forgiving method to kill the fire demons tomorrow.
What’s the biggest difference between the Lord role and other roles?
It’s that this character can build structures!
Other roles can also build, but only basic things like campfires, workbenches, and so on…
On the Sunset Continent, only Builders can construct all sorts of buildings, provided they have enough materials and meet the requirements.
But the “Builder” role has a very obvious drawback: it has no attributes, can’t level up, can’t learn combat skills, and can’t equip advanced combat gear…
Anything related to combat has nothing to do with this role.
That’s why Su You needed to use special methods to kill stone monsters. The character’s traits are what they are—the Lord role is naturally weak in combat, so facing enemies head-on isn’t a wise choice.
But lacking combat stats doesn’t mean she can’t fight—because she can build structures.
“Building”—that’s the Lord’s exclusive trait. As long as you remember this, many problems become much easier to solve.
Su You skillfully browsed through her character’s exclusive building menu, and in just a few minutes, she found what she needed.
[Basic Arrow Tower] (Cost: Wood*10, Rope*2)
Type: Offensive Structure
Durability: 3/3
Stats: Attack Speed (1), Base Attack (5), Attack Range (10)
Description: The arrow tower needs arrows to attack. The better the arrows, the higher the attack power.
[Wooden Fence/Fence Gate] (Cost: Wood*1)
Type: Defensive Structure
Durability: 20/20
Stats: Defense (10), Resistance (1%)
Description: A wooden fence with limited defense. Before its durability reaches zero, it can effectively block enemy movement. Basic wooden fences have a 1% chance to resist attacks (without consuming durability).
With these two items, Su You’s plan for tomorrow was clear—
Use wooden fences to block the fire demons, then use the basic arrow towers to attack them. In essence, it’s not much different from a tower defense game.
As long as Su You could ensure she had enough fences, she could kill fire demons without taking any damage… She wasn’t joking when she said she could wipe out the fire demon nest.
According to her plan, she’d need two arrow towers and at least five fences (four wooden fences and one fence gate).
Five fences could only block a limited area, but thanks to the terrain, as long as Su You could find a densely wooded spot, five fences would be more than enough.
In theory, if the terrain was good enough, she’d only need three fences (two wooden fences and one gate); the extra two were just for safety.
So, the materials needed for these buildings were: Wood*25, Rope*4.
She had exactly four ropes, and she could gather more wood tomorrow, so there was no problem.
As for the arrows needed for the towers, Su You had enough materials to craft them.
[Stone Arrow]
Type: Weapon
Quality: Common
Stats: Attack (10), Armor Penetration (5%)
Description: Can be used as ammunition for bows or arrow towers. Has a 5% chance to ignore defense (ignores 50% of defense for boss-level enemies) and deal damage. Has a 20% chance to break when used.
Recipe 1: Branch*3, Stone Shard*1 (makes 3 stone arrows)
Recipe 2: Wood*2, Stone Block*1 (makes 10–12 stone arrows)
Normally, people would choose Recipe 2 to make stone arrows, for obvious reasons—the numbers speak for themselves.
It’s worth noting that arrows are “recyclable” items. Each arrow has a 20% chance to break when used. Broken arrows can be recovered, but not reused—they can only be used as “fuel” or await “repair.”
But since repairing stone arrows isn’t worth the cost, nobody bothers. Only higher-quality arrows made from better materials are worth repairing.
Because arrows can be recycled, in theory, if you’re lucky enough, a single arrow could be used indefinitely.
A basic arrow tower has a base attack of 5, and stone arrows have an attack of 10, so a basic arrow tower loaded with stone arrows can deal 15 damage to unarmored enemies.
As for the fire demons’ stats—if they haven’t changed, Su You remembered they had HP (50), Defense (5), and Attack (10).
Ignoring resistance (complete defense, dealing no damage or just 1 damage) and armor penetration (ignoring defense, dealing full damage), it would take five arrows to kill a fire demon…
After calculating her resources and the required materials, Su You began crafting stone arrows.
[Use Wood*4, Stone Block*2 to craft 20–24 stone arrows?]
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[Use Branch*3, Stone Shard*1 to craft 3 stone arrows?]
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Although Recipe 1 for stone arrows isn’t very efficient, Su You decided to use the stone shard to make arrows anyway—whether to save backpack space or to increase her margin for error.”
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