Athena in Tower Defense Game! [LitRPG]

0036 – City-Destroyer Galore

The female mercenary was a bit tipsy at this point, her face flushed with a hint of alcohol. She cast a dissatisfied sidelong glance at the two, impatience evident in her eyes, nearly overflowing.

If it were someone else, she wouldn't bother, but it had to be the captain's request.

"Ask away."

002 immediately called out excitedly, "Ha!"

"The inside of the city looks like daytime, but why is it night outside the city walls?"

The mercenary rolled her eyes imperceptibly, feeling somewhat disdainful, thinking these people from the third world lacked knowledge.

Athena nodded silently in her heart, thinking, "Good question!"

"What daytime and nighttime? Day is day, darkness is darkness. I don't understand why you like to call it that way."

"If the darkness can't invade, then what else can it look like here if not daytime?"

From her expression, she really thought it was a matter of course. But the four present felt quite stirred.

Darkness attacks the day? Thinking of the writhing and seemingly living darkness, Athena began to understand to a certain extent.

She looked outside, it was 1 a.m., yet the city looked like daytime. Last time she came, it was clearly daytime outside the city, but this time it was dark. Did it mean the territory of darkness was expanding?

No, if that were the case, why would there be daytime and nighttime in the players' spawn areas?

Clearly, Athena wasn't the only one thinking about this question.

"Shouldn't daytime and nighttime be alternating? That's how it is in our third world!" 001 couldn't hold back from speaking.

"That's why I dislike people from your third world, so troublesome."

"We're in a war zone, isn't it normal to have such situations? When the outcome is determined, only one side will remain visible."

"Although we're in a war zone, the city area is protected by daylight and won't be invaded by darkness."

As she spoke, she couldn't help but feel emotional.

"I wonder when we can be transferred to a white area? If not, the borderlands will do!"

"The captain comes from the white area, where there aren't so many monsters. I really admire the captain's voluntary transfer here."

Athena understood. The daytime and nighttime in this world were different from theirs; they were alive.

They divided the world into two main plates, one side always in darkness and the other always in daylight.

And between these two main plates, there were other smaller ones, with the central one called the war zone, where players stayed, and there was a rotation between darkness and daylight.

Sun City was also in this zone, but because of the protection of daylight, the city still looked like daytime.

The area at the border of the war zone was called the borderlands.

Humans lived in daylight, while all sorts of monsters lived in darkness, representing daylight and darkness respectively in battles.

001 was speechless from the shock of the new worldview, while 002, like nothing had happened, continued to ask eagerly.

"Do you know about Galore?" He looked expectantly at the female mercenary and Athena. The mercenary's eyebrows shot up fiercely, her previously limp body instantly sitting up straight.

Athena also reacted quickly. The female mercenary almost roared, "How do you know about Galore?"

The two looked at each other, but neither said a word. The mercenary guessed it might be related to the tasks issued by their third world because players couldn't directly tell them about their own tasks.

Athena and her companions clearly didn't know about this, choosing to hide it subconsciously.

"Damn it! What did you see outside?" The female mercenary was now halfway sober, almost pleadingly asking.

"Outside, it's just darkness. Is that strange? Didn't you say this is a war zone, so it's normal?"

"But even in the city area protected by daylight, there should be a fifty-meter perimeter, it shouldn't be all black outside..." The female mercenary was beginning to panic.

"Didn't you see it?" 002 was shocked by her statement.

"Galore's uniqueness lies in its ability to merge with darkness. We... we can't see it!"

Athena lifted the mercenary up. What else was there to guess? There should have been a fifty-meter extension of the white perimeter outside the city walls, but now there was only darkness, undoubtedly related to Galore.

Galore didn't come, it was always there.

Galore was made visible by the system...

To witness its disappearance, if they couldn't see the entire process, it wouldn't be considered witnessing.

What was the system doing all this for?

After the female mercenary somewhat recovered, she staggered towards where the commander was stationed, completely devoid of her usual arrogance and the calmness she showed when facing the battle snowstorm beasts.

As she ran, she shouted, "Galore is here!"

When she said this, the soldiers who had intended to rest all rushed out.

Not one of them thought it was a joke; they all grabbed their weapons and headed towards the city walls at the fastest speed possible!

The soldiers guarding the city tower also began to panic. When the commander heard the name Galore, his pupils contracted. He looked outside, but everything seemed normal to him. There was a fifty-meter white area outside the city wall, with darkness beyond.

But he absolutely believed in his soldiers. He ruthlessly took out one of the few Sun Scrolls left by the king, and as he tore it open, a dazzling light burst forth, as if an invisible giant hand was pushing daylight towards the darkness.

Thirty meters, forty meters...

Was the darkness retreating?

No, it was Galore retreating.

When Athena saw the darkness recede to fifty meters away, that familiar heartbeat started again.

"Thump."

"Thump."

Like thunderous explosions, each louder than the last.

In the pitch-black sky, a white, enormous rift suddenly tore open, revealing an eye inside.

It wasn't a rift, but an eye!

The eyeball slowly rotated and finally looked down at the people below.

Under the gaze of this warm body, the surroundings began to feel cold. The eyeball spun around, then split open in the middle, dividing into two and moving to each side of the eye.

What was originally just one eye gradually split until the sky, as far as the eye could see, was filled with countless eyes.

They didn't blink, just stared at the people below.

Galore was supposed to be formless, without eyes. Athena and her companions could see it with the help of the system, but the commander and the soldiers couldn't even detect it.

It gave itself eyes to let people see it. The attack of the Sun Scroll just now did cause it some damage; now it was angry, and it was showing off.

Since a while ago, Athena had been receiving system prompts.

The people nearby weren't in any better condition; they were all in a state of fear.