All-out Tower Defense: My Card-Drawing Talent is a Bit Strange

Of course, because of this mechanism, there is no need to worry about monsters attacking your own tentacle monsters and causing damage to them.

The two little guys don't even need to specifically kill these monsters. They can just hinder their progress as they did before, giving the defense towers time to kill them. The job is very easy.

Looking out into the void beyond the sky island, the scene from before was repeated once again. The blue gate slowly condensed, and the war corridor made of mud slowly emerged from the void, connecting the gate to Yang Fei's sky island. It was a complete replica of the previous scene, and even the connection point with the sky island was exactly the same.

"Please adjust the position of the War Slab and place the defensive towers you wish to use. Please note: If a defensive tower placed on a War Slab is destroyed by monsters, it will need to be rebuilt after the monsters have finished attacking, at a cost of a small amount of currency. Towers in other locations cannot be rebuilt."

"Please also note: During the monster siege, the building and tile movement functions in the core thatched hut will be temporarily disabled, and the defensive towers on both sides of the War Corridor will be prohibited from being moved. The movement and reconstruction functions will be restarted after the siege ends."

With the same reminder as before, Yang Fei did not hesitate and placed the two white arrow towers back in their original positions, while his own gray arrow tower was placed between the white arrow towers and the sky island.

Then, Yang Fei ordered the two tentacle jellyfish to move to a position 20 meters away from the blue gate, and told them to only block the ordinary slimes and not to worry about anything else. Without wasting any more time, they immediately confirmed that they would engage in battle.

The countdown on the blue door instantly reached zero, and the door slowly opened. One by one, slimes exactly the same as before slowly jumped out. Seeing the efficiency of the blue door's monster spawning, Yang Fei breathed a sigh of relief. Fortunately, it was exactly as he had observed, otherwise all his arrangements would have been in vain.

As for the priority of the two white arrow towers, Yang Fei set the priority to attack the elite quality slimes that might appear first, then the slimes near the sky island, then other types of slimes, and finally the ordinary slimes.

The purpose of doing this is to avoid placing important threats in the rear, leaving redundancy so that it is convenient to adjust tactics in time and make corresponding ground-attack strategies. Yang Fei would rather go through a little trouble to ensure a perfect clear, after all, this is the obsession of a tower defense master.

With everything prepared, Yang Fei slowly pulled the ballista in front of him using the power wheel. After pulling it to its limit, he skillfully loaded the bolts, aimed at the war corridor, and was ready to take action at any time to supplement the firepower of the two arrow towers.

Yang Fei is not one to be overly concerned with gains and losses, especially in this situation. He should use his energy when necessary and not try to achieve the so-called "extreme clear" just to save energy. This is not a game, and if something goes wrong, the consequences could be severe.

However, things were destined not to go as Yang Fei wished. Why? Because those two tentacle monsters were just too powerful. Although each of the two tentacle monsters only carried two "weapons," they couldn't handle just as many hands as they had.

Moreover, according to Yang Fei's orders, they did not need to fight the slime head-on. They only needed to swat the slime away when it jumped up. The slime usually did not fight back, but just charged forward with its head down.

This meant that the two tentacle jellyfish could knock it away with their tentacles even without weapons. Later on, for convenience, the two tentacle jellyfish even discarded their weapons and fought with all their might using their tentacles.

"Holy crap, is this the legendary unorthodox way to clear the level?" Yang Fei couldn't help but recall a poisonous strategy he had once seen on the dark web when he saw the two tentacle monsters "dominating the battlefield" in front of him.

In the early stages, recruit as many ordinary citizens as possible from the recruitment huts, without paying much attention to their favorability. In peacetime, have them work in various resource buildings, and in wartime, send them to the war corridor as "laborers" to be sent away.

Those with good attributes and decent skills can be kept, while those who are mediocre are given away – that's the "evil path" strategy. Okay, that's a euphemism; it's really just about "farming" people, the real kind of farming.

Since the physical qualities of ordinary citizens and lords are similar, they have little combat power and can be killed by any slightly stronger wild beast. Compared to regular troops recruited from troop nests, they are too weak and their growth potential is not necessarily high. They also have a higher probability of becoming troublemakers, so it is understandable to eliminate them.

Moreover, the most important point is that they are cheap and easy to use! Although the civilians are weak, the monsters in the early stages are too reckless and only think about rushing to the base. Therefore, compared to soldiers who can kill monsters but cannot be recruited in a short time, the "slowing down" effect of the civilians is still very useful at this time. After all, the main force in the tower defense world is still the defensive towers, so isn't it normal for some people with no combat power to die?

So why is it called a poison strategy? It's simple: if you let someone who shouldn't be doing this do it, it will lower the lord's prestige, the trust of his subordinates, and the loyalty of his subjects.

For example, imagine you're a security guard, but your boss asks you to clean the company premises in addition to your regular duties. Would you do it? If you don't, you're not a company employee; if you do, you'll be very angry. So what should you do?

It's very simple, just quit. This company boss is clearly not a good person. Working for him won't lead to anything good. He'll just make you a miserable wage earner, and you'll probably never get the promises he makes.

That's the point. This is a real world. Even though soldiers and subjects seem to have been "created" out of thin air, they have their own thoughts and ideas.

This is something that cannot be changed, which is a major reason why those lords always think about immigrating from Azure Star instead of recruiting a large number of subjects. Compared to dogs whose loyalty can be seen, some people trapped by life may be more obedient.

The lord has absolute jurisdiction over his sky island. He can decide who lives there and whoever he wants. The sky island's spacious living environment and abundant cultivation resources are extremely tempting for the people of Azure Star, who are already under immense pressure to live there.

They may not be obedient to their lord in their hearts, but they have no other choice but to obey orders if they want to live here.

The recruited subjects were somewhat different. Although they had their own ideas, they were helpless, had no family, and had no worries. Some of them were even petty thieves.

Discontent with a lord is directly quantifiable, and sometimes it can even lead to riots for their own benefit, even though they know they will disappear with the lord if he dies.

But as mentioned earlier, they only have this one floating island as their only living environment. They have no Azure Star as a safety net, and no family to keep them in check. Sometimes, they really do threaten the lord in order to have a better life.