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

Chapter 132 Unboxing

Since the goal is to achieve a perfect clear and try out the hidden levels, you have to put in more effort than others.

Therefore, it is necessary to spend some money on each round. Otherwise, after seven trials on Azure Star, the trainee lords would have accumulated hundreds of billions, yet no one has discovered the secret of the novice trials. Doesn't that prove everything?

Difficulty is one thing, but having the resources to put in the effort and try is another. The local lords in the tower defense world have launched countless trials, and there must have been people who tried various strategies to pass the levels and then summarized their experiences.

Since I lack these experiences, but obtained the final result through the merchant, the simplest and most effective way to achieve this final result is to increase the Sky Island's combat power, especially by continuing to extend the War Corridor, giving more defensive towers ample room to deal damage. This approach is definitely one way to go.

Therefore, expanding the number of defensive towers is currently the best solution to these two problems. This applies to dealing with a group attack from treasure chest monsters, and it also applies to achieving a perfect clear. So there's nothing to hesitate about.

My shop is currently only level 5, and I haven't unlocked the purchase permission for the War Corridor yet. Right now, I can only obtain the War Corridor through chests, and the length of the War Corridor's future expansion will directly determine how many defensive towers I can expand.

The current artillery positions, with 200 direct-fire guns, are not yet fully occupied. According to Yang Fei's estimate, the current artillery positions could be expanded by another 100 direct-fire gun turrets.

However, these newly expanded horizontal firing turrets will probably have to be placed far away from the war corridor. Although they can attack automatically, it is best not to have too many obstructions to the line of sight if you want to continue training your artillery. Moreover, only a portion of the attack range of these horizontal firing turrets can cover the war corridor.

Yang Fei therefore did not fill all these positions. Now that he thinks about it, if he does not activate enough War Corridor extension cards, he will have to make the spacing between these horizontal firing turrets more compact and make use of these positions.

After thinking it over, Yang Fei quickly made a plan. He took a deep breath and brought over all the white and gray boxes. After letting the two succubi rest, he opened the boxes one by one.

The 340 white boxes didn't yield any particularly surprising items for Yang Fei, but they did contain quite a few good things, including: 340 gold coins, 10 white common hill expansion stones, 15 white common pond expansion stones, 13 white common woodland expansion stones, 1 white rare sky island core stone, 20 common sky island core stones, and 2 white common tier expansion stones.

Then there are the resource items that weren't dropped in the previous white treasure chests, including: 20 small white city wall construction card packs, 8 medium white city wall construction card packs, 1 large white city wall construction card pack, 10 small white basic resource packs, and 2 medium white basic resource packs.

Of course, there were also some things that Yang Fei had never seen before, such as two white-quality orchard (Qi-enriched yellow peach) construction cards, two white-quality woodland (birch forest) construction cards, and one white rare-quality woodland (spirit locust) construction card.

After using these cards, they should be similar to the Golden Orchard card we got before, both of which will transform certain areas of the Sky Island into corresponding resource areas.

Unfortunately, the same problem persists: Yang Fei's Sky Island is still only of gray quality. To sustain these white resource-type creatures, he needs to continue upgrading it.

All of these are directly related to the development of Sky Island, but Yang Fei didn't pay attention to them for the time being. He focused on his target, which was the defensive items: 15 white attack-boosting stone tablets, 20 white energy-charging stone tablets, 80 white non-attribute war stone tablets, 80 white arrow tower cards, 18 white ice arrow tower cards, and 20 white ordinary war corridor extension cards.

"War Slab [Attack Bonus] (White Quality): An attack-type war slab, one of the many types of war slabs. It has the ability to increase the attack power of defensive towers. Gray and white quality defensive towers above it will receive an additional 10% attack power bonus."

Note that this stone slab is currently of white common quality and can only provide an attack power bonus to gray and white quality defensive towers. Green quality defensive towers will only receive half of the bonus effect, while blue and higher quality defensive towers will have no effect.

Additionally, this war slab is a superior replacement for the basic white, attribute-free slab, possessing all the functions of a basic white quality war slab. Its defensive towers can be rebuilt at a low cost after being destroyed.

"War Corridor Extension Card (White): After use, the War Corridor can be extended by 100 meters. During the extension, the direction cannot be changed. After connecting with the Sky Island's own War Corridor, it can become part of the Sky Island's War Corridor and will be upgraded as the Sky Island is upgraded."

Note: This extension card can only extend the War Corridor of Sky Islands of white grade or lower, and has no effect on Sky Islands of green grade or higher.

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The attack-enhancing stone slabs and white-quality War Corridor extension cards have been quite helpful to me so far, especially these 20 War Corridor extension cards, each of which can extend my War Corridor by 100 meters, which is extremely important.

Without a second thought, Yang Fei used all twenty War Corridor Extension Cards to extend the length of the central area of ​​the War Corridor, increasing the bombardment zone from 310 meters to 2310 meters.

After the extension, the two black muddy buffer zones that were originally interspersed within it became insufficient, making it impossible to keep the edge of the sky island parallel to this bombardment area. Therefore, Yang Fei had to take out the two black muddy cards he had accumulated earlier and continue to adjust the direction of this war corridor, keeping its distance from the sky island within the range of 50 to 100 meters as much as possible.

In this way, Yang Fei's war corridor reached a 2400-meter-long ordinary gravel path, plus a 60-meter-long black mud swamp. This length already exceeded that of many of the official lords on Azure Star that Yang Fei had previously learned about.

If Yang Fei hadn't been rich and confident enough to fill both sides of this war corridor with defensive towers, this length really wouldn't have been necessary, because in some situations it would be easy for the beginning and end to be unable to support each other.

Therefore, very few lords would deliberately prolong these things, but Yang Fei has no other choice but to resort to this rather extreme method.

Yang Fei then used all available defensive items, adding 5 white attack-boosting stone slabs to the Sky Island, bringing the total to 20.

One white charged stone slab, 80 white non-attribute war stone slabs, 80 white arrow towers, and 18 white ice arrow towers.

After this expansion, Yang Fei's Sky Island's defensive strength has increased significantly. If it were before, Yang Fei would definitely be excited, but with the threat of Mimics rushing to his base, Yang Fei felt that this enhancement was still somewhat insignificant and that it needed to be even stronger to be safe.

After using all the defensive items from the 340 treasure chests, Yang Fei ignored the other items. Core stones, expansion stones, and leveling stones were completely useless, and among the various gift packs, only the city wall construction pack was usable.

However, there's no need to build so many city walls right now. We can learn about them later. As for those orchards and woodlands, Yang Fei's Sky Island doesn't meet the quality standards. Even if we could build them, the production efficiency wouldn't be up to par. So we can keep them and learn about them later when we have more time.

The most important thing right now is to strengthen the defense of the Sky Island, not to work on things that can be added at any time. Expanding the Sky Island and accumulating resources can be done slowly, there's no rush. Continuing to open chests is the key at this stage.

As for the 1360 gray treasure chests, they were mostly items that Yang Fei possessed. First, there were 220 gray-quality War Corridor Extension Cards related to defense, 10 Black Swamp Construction Cards, and 270 gray Arrow Tower Construction Cards.

Secondly, there are various gift packs, including a small gift pack of 320 city wall construction cards, a medium gift pack of 30 city wall construction cards, a large gift pack of 1 city wall construction card, a small gift pack of 300 basic materials, a medium gift pack of 28 basic materials, and a large gift pack of 1 basic material.

Then there are various stones, including 30 gray-quality Sky Island Core Stones, 30 gray-quality Pond Expansion Stones, and 30...

One gray-quality hilly expansion stone, 20 gray-quality basin expansion stones, 10 gray-quality sinkhole expansion stones, 6 gray-quality karst cave expansion stones, and 4 gray-quality underground river expansion stones.

Finally, there were various miscellaneous items, including 30 small packs of True Qi Rice Seeds, 3 medium packs of True Qi Rice Seeds, 10 gray ordinary quality house construction blueprints, and 7 gray ordinary quality spirit field construction blueprints.

This time, we have obtained several blueprints for both residential buildings and spirit fields, which is quite a fruitful harvest. Yesterday at noon, using the ordinary residential building blueprints, we completed the construction with the efforts of 10 inferior demons. The result was basically the same as building a residential building directly using the rare blueprints.

After all, it was built by the Heavenly Dao AI controlling the bodies of the lesser demons, so there were no defective products. It's just a pity that the lesser demons didn't learn how to build houses like this. It seems that the probability of such a low-probability event happening to them is really small.

Now that he has 10 more blueprints like these, Yang Fei doesn't plan to keep them. However, it's too late today, so he can wait until tomorrow. After all, his requirements for housing aren't that high.

As for the spirit field construction blueprints, that's even more troublesome. The two blueprints that Yang Fei obtained after clearing the level were basic rewards and were of rare quality. His own sky island had also met the requirements, so he could build them without any cost.

However, blueprints of ordinary quality require materials, and I don't have enough spirit stones or magic cores, so I can only keep these blueprints as a collectible.

However, to Yang Fei's surprise, he actually released True Qi Rice Seed Gift Packs this time. The small True Qi Rice Seed Gift Pack contains 100 True Qi Rice Seeds, and the medium True Qi Rice Seed Gift Pack contains 500.

This time I obtained nearly 4500 True Qi Rice Seeds, surpassing the amount I accumulated through daily challenges before. It seems that building a Spirit Field is indeed on the agenda.

After putting away the blueprints, seed packs, various gift packs, and stones, Yang Fei had only the following left: 220 gray-quality War Corridor Extension Cards and 10 Black Swamp Construction Cards.

After checking the specific situation of his Sky Island, Yang Fei finally used 50 War Corridor Extension Cards to continue to expand the length of the artillery bombardment area, and 4 Black Swamp Construction Cards to help this area maintain its distance from the Sky Island.

This brought the total length of his Sky Island War Corridor to 3000 meters, including 2900 meters of gravel road and 100 meters of black mud. This was already a major hurdle. It wasn't that Yang Fei didn't want to extend the length further, but rather that this length was becoming too cumbersome to command through shouting or similar methods, so he had no choice but to give up.

This is what Yang Fei thought of after using up those White War Corridor extension cards. He can no longer communicate remotely with his subjects through consciousness or similar means, not even with those like the Tentacle Tower and Storm Tower that recognize him as their master, as the two are not quite the same.

Although the Tentacle Towers and Storm Towers have life and intelligence, they are still classified as defensive towers, that is, buildings. Other creatures belong to the category of citizens. As the lord, Yang Fei must be able to directly control the defensive towers. This is a fundamental principle that cannot be changed. However, the relationship between citizens and lord is more complicated.

It's not that Yang Fei can't directly command these people, but such communication would lead to big problems. Unlike the simple-minded guy in the defense tower, the people are complex beings with all sorts of "novel" ideas.

Therefore, under normal circumstances, lords only have the ability to monitor their subjects, while the subjects do not have the authority to communicate directly with the lord through consciousness, nor do they have the ability to communicate with each other through consciousness.

In other words, Yang Fei can only issue orders to all his subjects through his lord authority, but subjects who are far apart cannot communicate with each other or convey information to Yang Fei. This situation may improve somewhat after entering the Qi Refining stage and gaining the ability to transmit sound, but there is still a distance limitation. Only the lord authority can ignore the limitations of distance and space, allowing Yang Fei to issue orders at any time.

However, the battle line has already taken shape, and Yang Fei can only command some senior personnel, unable to take care of all personnel in the overall situation. Therefore, the 3000-meter war corridor is the limit that Yang Fei can control at present.

After dealing with all the openable treasure chests, Yang Fei checked the time and it was already 8:30 PM. The energy of all the defense towers was almost full, so there wasn't enough time to continue building defenses. He could only add a few defense towers roughly for now, and then face today's daily challenge before continuing.

First, Yang Fei directly purchased 1000 horizontal firing turrets, expanding his turret group to 1200 turrets, spending 660 gold coins. Then, he spent 2816 silver coins to expand his arrow turret group to 302 turrets.

Don't ask why it's not a whole number; it's because the energy recovery time for the defense towers has run out. Yang Fei only had time to place this many defense towers. The turrets were fine; he just had to arrange them neatly in the expanded artillery positions.

However, the arrow towers were more troublesome because Yang Fei planned to place the newly built arrow towers along the edge of the sky island so that they could guard the area around the sky island in non-combat situations, which took more time.