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

Chapter 128 Alternative Plan

If you are caught in a dilemma, you must ask the lord for his opinion instead of acting on your own feelings. Even if the lord trusts you with the task, you still need to do things that are in the lord's best interest.

After finishing his meal, Yang Fei let Mona take his place and then leaned against the wall of the arrow tower, feeling exhausted, and fell asleep. When he woke up again, he was greeted with a notification that the Sky Island had been successfully defended.

"Congratulations, Trainee Lord Yang Fei-1! You have perfectly cleared the third wave of the Novice Trial, Double Extreme Mode (2x Extreme) Monster Siege. You can start the 5x Extreme Mode Monster Siege at any time, or you can directly choose the fourth wave of the Easy Mode Monster Siege."

"Note: After selecting the fourth wave of easy difficulty monster siege, you will never be able to challenge the remaining double-limit mode in this wave again. The number of times you play the double-limit mode directly affects your subsequent daily rewards, so please choose carefully."

"Congratulations, Trainee Lord Yang Fei-1! You have perfectly cleared the third wave of the Novice Trial, 2x Extreme Monster Siege, and obtained one Spirit Field Construction Blueprint (Gray Rare), which has been sent to your system space — countdown five minutes."

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After putting away the blueprints, Yang Fei told everyone to rest, especially Lola, who had participated in almost all the normal battles. Despite her cheerful personality, she was exhausted and sat down next to Yang Fei, pulling him into her arms before falling into a deep sleep.

Sephira didn't care. She was a ferocious beast, which meant she was a martial artist. Plus, she had multiple tentacles that could rotate themselves, so she could barely withstand it. She quietly curled up into a ball to absorb the experience within her body in order to readjust to the monster cultivation system of this world.

Mona was doing alright overall since she had taken over her job, but she also leaned against Yang Fei's other side, together with her sister, once again enveloping Yang Fei in their huge arms.

Yang Fei didn't say anything, but let the two succubus girls embrace him and silently tally up the spoils. First was the treasure chests. Seeing the number, Yang Fei couldn't help but sigh. No wonder it was a monster siege of 360,000. The treasure chest monster king directly sent a team of 20 white, 100 gray, and 300 resurrected gray treasure chest monsters to join the fun.

Moreover, this time the Mimic King had clearly learned a thing or two. He attacked all the Mimics almost at once, instead of attacking them one by one as before. But unfortunately, his two succubus sisters were able to easily knock these Mimics into a "non-linear" movement state.

Under Mona's command, the arrow towers could even use volley fire to supplement Lola's insufficient firepower. With one volley, the mimics moved precisely to the arrow towers' intended attack position, and then nothing happened; this was another easy and uneventful victory.

However, this also served as a reminder to Yang Fei that with a sufficient number of mimics, it would be troublesome for Mona and her companion to withstand a single mass charge. Yang Fei could not place all his hopes on Mona's command.

Through these ten-plus hours of defense, Yang Fei realized that even a demon's body, strong as it is, needs rest. They cannot stay on the front lines forever, much less maintain high-intensity combat. It's best to have a backup plan. Yang Fei actually had a vague idea for this plan: to use exploding monsters like Ice Slimes again to move the defensive towers away from the area affected by the exploding monsters.

When the mimics attack, cease fire across the entire front and let all monsters attack together. At that time, as long as Mona and Lola are capable of fighting, they only need to kill the exploding monsters near the mimic horde. This way, the problem of the mimics attacking in groups can be solved with the fewest number of attacks.

The exploding ice slime can even affect other slimes, so these mimics are no exception. However, this presents a problem: there's no guarantee that every wave will have such exploding monsters.

It's fine if it's just a slime wave, but what if the next big wave changes the type of siege monsters? What should we do then? So this backup plan is just a contingency plan and can only be implemented depending on the situation in the next wave. For now, Yang Fei can only have Mona and Lola take turns guarding the area.

Fortunately, these days treasure chest monsters only appear at the very last moment of a monster siege. As long as the two of them get some rest before then, they should be able to handle a group attack from the treasure chest monsters. Yang Fei's backup plan is only for special circumstances, so there's no need to implement it now.

Regarding the drops from the monsters defending the city, Yang Fei obtained a total of: "160 Gray Ice Arrow Tower Cards, 219 Arrow Tower Cards, 2321 Gray Crystals, 97991 Bio Rubbers, 5201 Silver Coins, and 213111 Copper Coins."

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The advantage of having a large number of monsters is that you also get a lot of rewards. This wave alone yielded 5,000 silver coins, which is more than some trainee lords get in all waves during their entire lord assessment period.

Yang Fei was actually quite content. After all, the total number of silver coins, copper coins, and slimes combined in this wave was only around 70,000. Yang Fei was lucky enough to have such a low probability event, which was much better than that low probability event of 0.99%. He seemed to have only gotten it once out of all the small gift packs he opened.

After the entire army rested for half an hour, Yang Fei had everyone return to their positions and immediately started today's daily challenge. There wasn't much to arrange for this, since there was a guaranteed minimum of 10,000 experience points. Yang Fei's strategy for this defensive wave was for everyone to go up to the defensive tower and gain experience!

Rest time is always short. Yang Fei hadn't even circulated his True Qi Technique for a few cycles before the defense tower's recovery time was up. Looking at the time, it was already close to 10:30 PM. Without thinking, Yang Fei immediately started today's daily challenge.

"Understood, Trainee Lord Yang Fei1, your daily challenge will begin in ten minutes. The current progress is that you have completed the third wave of the Novice Trial on extreme difficulty. The siege monster is a slime. You have completed 10 times in the doubled extreme mode. After completing the daily challenge, you can get a 50% bonus to the final reward. The challenge will begin in ten minutes. Please be careful to defend."

"Please note that this daily challenge is a result of the third wave of extreme difficulty monster siege. The monster type is slime, level - Beast 0, and the number of monsters is -10000, which has reached the daily challenge monster limit. The attributes are one-tenth of the normal wave."

"Please adjust the position of the War Slab — the move and rebuild functions will be restarted after the siege ends."

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Note: Regardless of the monster that appears in the daily challenge, please pay attention to the challenge time.

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Seeing that the number of siege monsters was still only in the tens of thousands, Yang Fei breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that the daily challenge did indeed have a similar guaranteed minimum mechanism, so this wave would be much easier.

"Congratulations, Trainee Lord Yang Fei-1! You have perfectly cleared the daily challenge. The basic reward is the third wave of the beginner assessment on extreme difficulty. The rewards you have obtained are: 54 catties of True Qi Rice, 540 catties of White Rice, 540 Copper Coins, 540 True Qi Rice Seeds, 54 Gray Crystals, and 54 Gray Magic Cores."

"It has been detected that you have completed the Double Limit Mode 10 times. The base reward has now been increased by 50%. Your final reward is: 81 catties of True Qi Rice, 810 catties of White Rice, 810 Copper Coins, 810 True Qi Rice Seeds, 81 Gray Crystals, and 81 Gray Magic Cores."

"Please note that the interdimensional gate is about to close and the War Corridor is about to disappear. The next refresh time will be tomorrow morning."

Please retrieve the defensive towers on both sides of the War Corridor in time. Countdown: 5 minutes.

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After easily completing the daily challenge, Yang Fei told everyone to return to the sky island to rest. He then told everyone that the five-times challenge would start promptly at 5:00 AM the next day. After that, Yang Fei took the two succubus girls and Sephira to the Abyss Shop in the central area.

This wave of daily challenge treasure chest monsters was no less numerous than the last wave, and their attack method was indeed the same as Yang Fei had predicted—attacking all at once. However, under the dual command of Mona and Lola, the arrow towers easily dealt with these guys.

Yang Fei couldn't understand it. The attack strength of this wave of monsters was obviously not good. Even if the two succubus girls needed to be distracted to deal with the exploding monsters, their total number was not enough to cover the treasure chest monsters. Was the treasure chest monster king stupid?

With 20 white treasure chests, 60 gray treasure chests, and 200 revived gray treasure chests, its abilities are completely superior to those of the insignificant slime horde; it's ridiculously powerful.

If the slime horde had 200,000 members, the attack intensity would be about right. But the slime horde only had 10,000 members, which was completely ineffective in providing cover. On the contrary, because the horde was easily suppressed by the turrets near the blue gate, these mimics were easy targets for the entire war corridor. Yang Fei really didn't understand what the mimic king was doing.

Previously, Yang Fei could use the "pig-raising" tactic to think about the Treasure Chest King's ideas, but now he was a little confused. Was it because of this idea that he started to disregard everything and desperately send resources to himself, feeding himself into a "fat pig" to be slaughtered in advance, or was he wrong about the so-called pig-slaughtering scam strategy from the beginning?

Does this mean the "pig butchering scam" doesn't exist? And even the Mimic King doesn't exist, since the "Mummy Challenge" event I triggered later was initiated by the Mimic clan, not the Mimic King!

Don't these mimics have a king? No higher-ups to command them? Are they being targeted because of some kind of racial mark, or something that would provoke an attack from their entire race if they were marked with it?

If you can't figure it out, then don't think about it! Yang Fei should finish today's task first! Because there are enough monsters, Sephira has reached the maximum limit for collecting souls in all four waves today. Sephira has also absorbed enough experience and souls, so all 200 souls were collected by Sephira and put into the Abyss Shop, which Yang Fei can use at will.

Yang Fei hadn't expected this. He originally thought he could only get 160 souls today, but Sephira's kill count in each wave far exceeded his expectations. For her, who could store up to 50 souls in one wave, the 40 souls she had planned for as a salary game seemed insignificant.

Now, each wave of Sephira can draw at least 400 soul experience points. In the 2x extreme mode, her direct kill count has already exceeded 1,000. However, since she can only help the lord store 50 souls, she is a little embarrassed, which is quite cute.

Previously, Sephira said that a piece of average quality iron ingot was priced at one common beast soul plus 30 copper coins in the Abyss Shop, but now all the souls Sephira has collected are elite beast souls.

One elite beast soul is roughly equivalent to 10 ordinary beast souls, so the amount of iron ingots that can be exchanged this time is much more than expected.

Yang Fei wasn't stingy either. He cleared out all 200 elite beast souls he had accumulated that day, and then paid 60,000 copper coins as a base fee to exchange for 2,000 iron ingots.

After obtaining the iron ingots, Yang Fei took out the three types of resource cards he had accumulated. After thinking for a moment, Yang Fei did not use them all, but instead used 10 small wood resource cards and 10 small stone resource cards first.

In addition to today's settlements from various logging camps and quarries, as well as the Lost Jungle settlement, Yang Fei's current situation regarding the three basic materials is as follows: 1770 wood, 1340 stone, 200 iron ore, 2000 iron ingots, and 130 gray wood.

With these basic materials, Yang Fei felt more confident. He immediately set his sights on the four logging camps and four quarries, as these two types of buildings needed to be upgraded, so upgrading them now would not be a loss.

Furthermore, the next level of your core cabin requires one auxiliary building to be upgraded to level 5 and two resource-type auxiliary buildings to be upgraded to level 3, so upgrading these two is the optimal choice.

In fact, Yang Fei had another option, which was the well on the sky island. The well on the sky island was currently a level 4 well, which could only provide water for the production and daily life of 500 people. It was actually not enough. If he hadn't restricted the living conditions of the refugees from Qianwu Star, he would have been unable to hold on.

Unfortunately, upgrading a level 5 well requires 10 units of gray-quality stone. After Yang Fei opened 10 small stone resource cards without getting any, he was somewhat discouraged.

Although you can also get medium-sized stone resource cards, these cards only increase the total amount of resources, not the proportion of high-quality materials that can be delivered. The probability of delivering gray stone remains at 0.99%, which is somewhat ridiculous.

Currently, the refugees on Qianwu Star can still obtain some water from their planet at night. Their own wells are only enough to feed their Abyss subordinates and the three hundred-odd elves, which is still manageable for now. They can decide what to do when their luck turns and they find gray-quality stone.

However, this period cannot last too long. He already has two blueprints for building spirit fields, and the elves have submitted to him. He only needs to wait until they become familiar with life on the sky island, settle those elves who are temporarily unable to work, and allow them to recuperate before Yang Fei can begin building the spirit fields. At that time, even if these spirit fields no longer need spirit stones to provide spiritual energy, they will still require water for irrigation, in addition to the newly submitted thousand-strong refugee group. The wells that can supply water for the production and daily life of 500 people are already somewhat strained, let alone the spirit fields to be built.