The Sect Leader System-Chapter 232: Why So Defensive?

The Lightning qi ran up one strip, through the tube, and back down the other strip, creating a circuit. The Lightning running through the metal created a magnetic field which created a force that pushed the projectile. More qi meant a faster and, thus, more powerful attack.

When Benton tested it, there was a loud crack of lightning, followed by a boom as the projectile broke the speed of sound. All in all, the display was pretty darn impressive. If a spy were watching, that spy might reasonably believe that Benton expected his railgun to be able to hurt a Nascent Soul cultivator.

The spy would, of course, be wrong, but he couldn’t be blamed for believing Benton’s deliberate campaign of false information.

With the decoy main weapon figured out, Benton finished up the two turrets and installed them on the top of their respective towers. By the time he was done, it was mid-morning, and he was fairly satisfied with his progress. The wall would be ready for installation the next day, giving him well over twenty hours to complete his construction of a trap and the actual main weapon.

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Honestly, the railgun was the best attack that Benton could come up with on his own. If he was very fortunate, a Nascent Soul who was caught off guard might be hit once by a projectile, but it definitely wouldn’t cause enough damage to kill one of them. Which wasn’t nearly good enough. Benton needed something that was guaranteed to kill one.

Luckily, he was a cheating cheater who cheats. He purchased a template for a very powerful variable qi element beam that the System assured him would blow through a Nascent Soul like a BB through a paper target.

The problem was the eye-watering cost. The two schematics, one for a trap and one for the weapon, cost a combined two hundred fifty Shop Points. He only had three hundred sixty total, and the sole reason the number he had was that high was because he behaved like a miser, buying only what was absolutely necessary.

Needs must, though. The formation was crucial for defending his sect members, and they were more important than an infinite number of Shop Points. Grimacing while he did it, he pulled the trigger on the purchase, bringing him down to one hundred ten points.

As he had expected, the Primary Array Weapon was quite complex and required a lot of qi, over five million per shot. That meant a single shot required a minimum of five hundred greater spirit coins, which took him around two and a half hours’ worth of work to create. Again, that was for a single shot. One.

He prayed to the heavens that he never missed because that enormous expenditure for nothing would probably make him cry.

Luckily, he’d been prepared to deliver that much qi or even more, and he’d left a spot near the top of the tower to install the formation. Unlike the very visible and inviting target that was the turret, the PAW was hidden, the area where it was installed looking exactly like the stones that surrounded it in every way because it was actually underneath several of the stones.

Of course, the concealment had to be ejected out of the way simultaneously with the activation of the PAW, meaning the weapon would become a target after the first time it was fired. And it wasn’t mobile, either. The PAW on each tower was aimed to hit one place, a point near where the hidden trap was to hold the target stationary.

For his plan to work, the Nascent Soul would have to be forced in the vicinity of the trap, fall victim to it, and the PAWs be triggered in the very brief moment of time before the cultivator broke out of the hold.

Benton had confidence that he could handle a single Nascent Soul cultivator in a one-on-one fight. A scenario involving multiple enemies in that realm grew trickier. He figured, though, that he’d be able to manage all the necessary conditions to set up the PAW to kill at least one of them.

The first part would be the most difficult—getting one of the enemy cultivators to the spot where the trap would activate. Either trickery or force would be required. After that step, the rest should be easy. He could remotely trigger the trap, which would be connected to the PAWs so that the activation of both was simultaneous.

Basically, slam the Nascent Soul with an attack to force them to the correct location and activate a remote device that triggered both the trap and both PAWs simultaneously. A big beam that essentially ignored aura would lance out and disintegrate most of the target’s body.

Perfect.

If Benton was absent from the sect, however, and one of the sect members was forced to use the towers for defense against a Nascent Soul… Well, there was some chance they could manage that first critical step. A tiny, miniscule, almost infinitesimal chance, but a chance. And that was better than nothing.

Inscribing the PAWs and the trap took the rest of the day and into the night, but once finished, he was left with only one task—installing and concealing the power sources. Wanting to start with as many spirit coins as possible, he used his Time Manipulation for several hours, creating a lot more of them.

When done, he tunneled underneath the towers using his excavation technique, installed the source, surrounded it with concealment arrays to hide the massive amount of buried qi, and filled the tunnels back up with dirt. No one but him would be able to replenish the source when it ran out, but that was okay. The extra security made the inconvenience worth it.

Finally, the towers were complete, making him feel a lot better about the defense of his sect. By that time, the wall pieces were ready, so he began the long process of digging footings, installing the prebuilt sections, and connecting them together.

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His superhuman strength, speed, and endurance combined with techniques that would have been the equivalent of magic on Earth allowed him to enclose the entire five acres of the sect in under a day. Even with that major accomplishment done, he didn’t let up. He had no way of knowing if an attack was imminent, so he would not let himself rest until the sect’s Grand Defensive Formation was complete as well.

Unlike the construction of the wall, the GDF was not simple. First, there were nearly two thousand linear feet of surface that had to be covered, and unlike with the one he did for the village, he was not inscribing a simple array to keep out one type of threat. No, the GDF was a complex interwoven set of formations that was both more versatile and more powerful than the one he’d used for the beast tide.

By the time he’d finished, a whopping ten days had passed, but with the combination of the two towers and the GDF, he felt he actually had a chance of defending his sect from an attack by multiple Nascent Soul enemies.

He hoped, anyway.