Chapter 18 - Pylon Upgrade
Totaling the points showed that from this wave alone I earned 642 points. That was more than the total amount of points I had earned in the tutorial so far. It effectively doubled the amount of points I earned and all it took was an hour of fighting.
The whole group made an astounding amount, over 10,000 combined. The distribution wasn't as even and spread out as it usually was during a wave and I made more than double the amount than some people. The people who hid behind the wall and only participated with a few javelin throws only earned the points for the wave completion and a portion of one or two monsters depending on how many they hit.
It bothered me a little that I fought on the front lines at the risk of injury while they did practically nothing and walked away with 260 points while I got just over double that. It was good for the group that they got points but I felt like they weren't earned. I wasn't going to say anything about it though, but I still thought it.
With the fifty-fifty split that was agreed upon, we had over 5,000 points to figure out what to do with. The first order of business was to build guard towers at the three other gates and that took 3,000 points right there and a few minutes later three new guard towers popped into existence. Now we had to decide on what to use the rest of them on.
"We should have people buy a skill with the extra." Someone said before that was quickly shot down. One or two people getting a skill wasn't going to be very useful during the waves.
"We should double up on the guard towers so we can fit more people up there." That was a decent idea but there was some uncertainty behind it.
We didn't know how much the wall upgrade would cost and how long it would take to save up for it, also, we didn't know if upgrading the wall would make it wider and have a place to stand on making the guard towers obsolete.
"We should save them and see what the pylon upgrade unlocks." That was the idea I got behind. One, it forced the issue of upgrading the pylon, and two, it saved some points for anything good that was unlocked.
With the momentum of the conversation going that way anyway, I tried to force the issue.
"We should upgrade the pylon now. We are all already prepared for a wave, and the defenses didn't even get scratched. It won't take us long to clear the bodies and retrieve the arrows and javelins. If we do it today we will still have two days of rest before the next one." I said.