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

"My two subordinates are soldiers, and defending the city is their original job. Moreover, their loyalty is already at rock bottom and cannot be increased any further. In other words, I can disregard loyalty and try that unorthodox approach."

Yang Fei saw two tentacle jellyfish standing side by side in the five-meter-wide war corridor, constantly waving their tentacles to swat away the jumping slimes. His eyes grew brighter and brighter. It seemed that this idea was quite feasible!

"Unfortunately, you can only recruit one for free each day. Magic cores are a rare resource, and they only drop from ferocious beasts and monsters of ferocious beast level or higher. The first ten waves of newbies are all beast level monsters, so you can only get some basic rewards from the daily rewards and can't expand your army quickly."

After pondering this, Yang Fei sighed. However, this discovery was also good news. With this unorthodox gameplay, he might be able to try the doubled extreme mode. At that time, he would not only be able to get extra basic rewards, but the rewards for daily challenges would also increase.

The difficulty and types of monsters in the daily challenge are affected by the highest wave count you have cleared so far. There are four basic difficulties and four different doubled extreme modes. The daily challenge will spawn the same monsters as the last wave you cleared. And you can only do it once a day.

It's worth noting that if you've already completed the Double Limit Mode in the previous wave, it will affect your subsequent daily challenges, giving you more resources. When calculating daily rewards, the number of times you've completed the Double Limit Mode in the previous wave and the number of waves you're currently in will be taken into account.

For example: If you cleared the second wave on normal difficulty today, and did not select the doubled extreme mode of the first wave, then the reward will be the base reward of the second wave on normal difficulty. If you cleared the first wave on 1x and 2x extreme modes, then the reward will be increased by 10% on the basis of the second wave on normal difficulty.

The daily challenge rewards have been increased by 5% for each time a Double Limit Mode is cleared, increasing the reward for clearing the latest basic mode by 5%. However, regardless of the type of Double Limit Mode, the reward is calculated based on the number of times a Double Limit Mode has been cleared.

This is clearly not commensurate with the difficulty of clearing the level, but the number of attempts can be accumulated. For a beginner, ten waves would be forty double attempts. If all challenges are completed, the daily challenge reward will become twice the normal amount. More importantly, this number of attempts can be counted up to the official lord level, at which point the daily challenge reward will be terrifying, not to mention this double bonus.

The only downside is that, regardless of the monsters that appear in the daily challenges, they will only drop resources, such as food, wood, stone, and the four basic currencies. The monsters themselves will not drop any materials.

There are no special treasures like cards, blueprints, skill books, or any other drops, and there are no basic rewards for clearing normal waves, which is a slight drawback. However, the lords don't really care about these minor losses.

In their view, the daily challenge rewards are just for filling up the warehouse with resources. They use these rewards to get by. The most important thing is basic resources. Don't think about other things. That's unrealistic. If you're going to give up, you should have the attitude of giving up.

"Ding~, Respected Apprentice Lord, you have performed bravely in protecting the Sky Island and defending against the Slime Clan's attack. The Slime Clan has developed a slight animosity towards you, triggering a special event—The Gaze of the Slime King. The next 18 ordinary slimes will be upgraded to elite quality."

When the number of remaining monsters displayed on the blue gate was 18, the familiar Heavenly Path AI sounded again. Yang Fei's eyes, which were originally observing the battlefield, instantly sharpened, and he looked directly at the blue gate not far away.

A green slime the size of a washbasin slowly jumped out. It was still a corrosive slime, and its attributes had not improved. It was within the expected range, and Yang Fei breathed a sigh of relief. This was the best possible outcome.

Such randomness is actually acceptable, since elite slimes drop significantly better items, and they're still within the range of a single arrow tower's attack. Yang Fei would love for more of these guys. As long as the three arrow towers can kill them in the War Corridor without obstruction, that's fine.

It seems that what the Heavenly Path AI said about adjusting the monster strength and randomness to change the boss's success rate might be relying on surprise. If you clear the level normally, as long as you have a reasonable combination, there might still be a chance to survive.

After the Corrupted Slimes appeared, the two white arrow towers focused their firepower on the 18 Corrupted Slimes, putting more pressure on the two Tentacle Jellyfish on the front lines.

Some slimes had already slipped past the two little guys. Yang Fei adjusted the angle of his crossbow, and when the slime was only thirty meters away from him, he pulled the trigger of the ballista, hitting the slime right in the center and killing it instantly. Yang Fei felt a wisp of true energy enter his body on its own, temporarily stored up to be refined. This was what was called experience.

In this world, lords, soldiers, subjects, and even all cultivators, including the natives, can gain this so-called experience by killing. However, this experience is not directly absorbed; it needs to be refined using cultivation methods to be transformed into one's own experience.

Upgrading in this world is quite troublesome, and cultivators must use methods to refine these kill experiences in a timely manner, otherwise they will gradually dissipate and return to the outside world. To put it bluntly, this method is similar to Yang Fei's method of refining experience by eating spiritual rice to replenish his internal energy, except that this method is more efficient in gaining experience.

After killing a regular slime, Yang Fei skillfully pulled back the crossbow, cocked it again, aimed at the next regular slime, pulled the trigger, and killed it once more, gaining a bit more true energy within his body.

This process repeated itself until Yang Fei was about to aim at the fifth slime when it was instantly killed by a white arrow tower. Yang Fei successfully and perfectly completed the defense.

Seeing this, Yang Fei smiled. He didn't feel any resentment about having his kill stolen. Anyway, he couldn't refine too much true energy, so it wouldn't make any difference. The most important thing was to successfully defend.

"Congratulations, Trainee Lord Yang Fei-1! You have successfully completed the first wave of the Novice Trial on Normal difficulty. You may start the next difficulty level monster siege at any time."

"Congratulations, Trainee Lord Yang Fei-1! You have successfully completed the first wave of the Novice Trial on Normal difficulty and obtained the basic building cards - City Wall and City Gate. They have been sent to your system space. Please place them in time."

"Please note that the interdimensional gate is about to close and the War Corridor is about to disappear. Please retrieve the defensive towers on both sides of the War Corridor in time. Countdown: 5 minutes."

The familiar three-step notification sounded. Yang Fei first ordered the two tentacle jellyfish to take the weapons they had discarded and return to the Sky Island. He then climbed down the ladder from the gray defense tower and returned to the Sky Island.