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

If this big shot directly buys hundreds or thousands of rank-up spirits, then my non-rank-up martial artist's sudden purchase of so many might attract the attention of my suppliers, which would be quite troublesome.

It wasn't that he was afraid, but rather that he felt it was better not to trouble Sister Xu. Her most important task right now was to advance to the Qi Refining stage and become a true cultivator, and he couldn't afford to cause her any trouble.

"My esteemed lord, I have a request, would you have time to hear it? I assure you this request will not affect your interests." Seeing that this big shot was about to kick her out, Xiao Yu's big eyes blinked a few times, as if she had thought of something, and she spoke softly and timidly.

"Oh? What request?" Yang Fei noticed that Xiao Yu still seemed reluctant to leave after he finished his business, and he couldn't help but feel a little curious about the mechanism by which this slave trader came here. As for her request, he figured he might as well listen to it.

"Well, Lord, I wonder if you received any special rewards from the beginner wave?" Xiao Yu breathed a slight sigh of relief when she saw that Yang Fei didn't seem impatient at all, but instead looked at her with some curiosity. As long as her actions, which were somewhat contrary to the principles of summoning merchants, hadn't displeased this big shot, that was fine.

"Special rewards for the beginner wave?" Yang Fei was stunned when he heard Xiao Yu's question. What were special rewards for the beginner wave? He didn't know. Even if he did, he was only on the third wave of the beginner challenge and hadn't seen any special rewards before.

"So, the special reward you get when you perfectly clear all the basic difficulties of the beginner wave?" Xiao Yu asked, seeing Yang Fei's puzzled expression. This was common knowledge, wasn't it? As a descendant of a super big shot, surely he knew this?

"What?" Yang Fei was stunned when he heard Xiao Yu's slightly puzzled question. A basic reward for perfectly completing all the basic difficulties of the beginner wave? He had never heard of this before, and it wasn't recorded in Tower Defense World either.

After thinking for a moment, Yang Fei suddenly understood. The tower defense world had only been on Azure Star for eight years, and all the summaries about this world were still in the exploration stage. Among them, the defense battle, as the core, had been studied the most deeply, but to achieve a perfect victory, all buildings (including the city walls) had to be undamaged, the core buildings had to be unattacked, and the enemy had to not land on the sky island.

Some people might be able to achieve a perfect clear in one or two waves, or even three or four waves, but it would be quite difficult for a beginner to achieve a perfect clear in all ten waves, especially on the first try, without any external help, and with each person's wave being slightly different, so even the slightest mistake in defense is unacceptable.

Although many predecessors have entered this world from Azure Star over the years, and a lot of experience has been summarized in the book "Tower Defense World", some inherent uncertainties still affect the difficulty of perfectly clearing all waves.

Even if the monster siege is exactly the same, the differences in the lord's operation of the defensive towers, as well as the differences in the attributes and skills of his soldiers, are always uncertain variables. It is difficult to replicate the perfect walkthrough guide of the predecessors, let alone all ten waves of monster sieges for beginners, totaling forty basic difficulty monster sieges.

Seeing Yang Fei's expression shift from confusion to relief, Xiao Yu couldn't guess what this big shot was thinking. Could it be that he really didn't know about this? Impossible, right? To command such respect from the Supreme Will, someone even an empire's king couldn't afford to offend, how could he not know such things?

Could it be that the super-powerful figure wanted to give this person a more realistic experience, so they didn't tell him? Or perhaps they simply didn't care about understanding the rules of this world, since they had already spent so many gold coins, far surpassing the average lord, so it's understandable that they didn't care about these rules.

Wouldn't that mean my request would fall through? It might even cause him trouble by bringing up something he disdains, leading to his disappointment and the loss of many more opportunities. And if it displeases him, it's not impossible that he might even kill me.

Several unrealistic ideas flashed through Xiaoyu's mind. In an instant, she felt that she might have missed a tremendous opportunity, and even saw several ways to die.

Fortunately, Yang Fei, who was still pondering, didn't see the rapidly changing expression on Xiao Yu's face, otherwise he might have really wanted to laugh, and even laughed out loud.

"Perfectly passing all the basic difficulty levels of the beginner assessment will earn you a special reward, which is quite interesting. But I haven't passed all the basic difficulty levels of the beginner assessment yet." Yang Fei felt somewhat relieved after figuring out why Tower Defense World didn't record this rule. He then told Xiao Yu about his current progress.

He originally wanted to say that he had only been here for less than three days and had only reached the third wave of the newbie event, but considering that his Sky Island was already at the gray level and he had built so many walls and defensive towers, he might have surpassed many lords, so he only gave a general overview.

"Huh? You haven't passed the beginner's test yet?" Hearing Yang Fei's explanation, Xiao Yu was stunned. Then she looked at the city walls surrounding this area and roughly counted at least six, exceeding the initial number of city walls. Adding to this the defensive towers she had seen through the gaps in the city walls earlier, Xiao Yu couldn't help but exclaim, "You call that failing the beginner's test?"

"You failed the newbie assessment, so why are you building city walls? You failed the newbie assessment, yet you have so much money to buy slaves? You failed the newbie assessment, so why are you building so many defensive towers? Do you think you're going to face a siege by tens of thousands of monsters?"

Thinking of this, Xiao Yu didn't want to continue thinking about it. It was simple: she had started thinking about this big shot with the mindset of a normal lord. He had a background and money, so maybe he really could do it.

"In that case, I might as well offer some common-sense tips. Even if this big shot doesn't care, it's still a way to show my goodwill!" Xiao Yu, who was shocked by the big shot's nonchalant attitude, quickly came up with a new way to befriend him.

"My lord, here are the rules in this tower defense world: you will receive a special reward for perfectly completing all the basic difficulty levels of the beginner waves; you can unlock three hidden challenges by completing all the extreme modes of the beginner waves; and you can unlock one endless mode in advance by perfectly completing all three hidden challenges."

"The basic reward for perfectly completing all the basic difficulties of the beginner wave is a blue gift pack, which usually contains a cultivation technique that can be practiced during the Qi Refining stage."