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

Chapter 133 Tower Defense Master

Moreover, Yang Fei discovered a problem: having more arrow towers on the stone slabs wasn't always a good thing.

At the start of the defense, adjusting the positions of the pre-arranged war slabs according to the situation of the attacking monsters was already troublesome enough.

It takes time to position the arrow towers on these stone slabs, and this time is rather short. With so many defensive towers, it's impossible to arrange their positions before the countdown ends.

Of course, that's not the most troublesome part. The most troublesome part is having to recall all the defensive towers every time I finish defending. Returning the arrow towers to their original positions is even more complicated. I didn't realize this problem when there were only a dozen or so defensive towers, but now I have to consider it.

During the novice assessment period, the ten-minute countdown remains unchanged, whether in the preparation phase or the post-assessment phase. Only when you become a formal lord will the preparation time be extended. Therefore, the expansion of defensive towers must take this into account.

With the defensive towers in place, Yang Fei roughly calculated that a total of 336 towers were needed. However, he currently only had 187 War Stones, so he spent another 1639 silver coins to acquire the remaining 149.

After arranging all the war slabs in advance, Yang Fei immediately started today's daily challenge. He wanted to take this opportunity to see if he had the ability to set up all the current defensive towers, whether he had the ability to recall all the defensive towers, and to see where his ability was at its limit. He would then adjust accordingly as needed.

"Apprentice Lord Yang Fei-1, your daily challenge will begin in ten minutes. The current progress is as follows: the third wave of the Novice Trial has been completed in 5x Extreme Mode. The siege monster is a slime. You have completed 11 times in Double Extreme Mode. After completing the daily challenge, you can get a 55% 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 1 beast, level 0, and there are 10000 monsters, which has reached the daily challenge monster limit. Their attributes are one-tenth of the normal wave."

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

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

Since Yang Fei wasn't playing this time, the two succubus girls could lead the defense. He needed to focus entirely on moving the defensive towers. By the time he finished, the slimes would probably be coming out soon, and it would be a bit troublesome for him to run to the defensive towers then.

This is also a problem that we have to consider. If I want to participate in the defense of the city, then I probably won't be able to participate in the killing of the first batch of monsters. I'm a little unwilling, but there's no better way right now.

To solve this problem, I will need to recruit some professional tower defense specialists to help me with various city defense tasks. Currently, only the succubus sisters and Sephira are capable of this task on the entire Sky Island, but they both have more important jobs and cannot help me for the time being. Therefore, only Yang Fei, as the lord, can personally complete these tasks.

Yang Fei had always wanted to become a professional tower defense engineer, which was to help the lord complete this task. With a large number of defensive towers, more tower defense engineers were needed to arrange them in the right positions within a specified time.

During the war, these tower defense commanders could also serve as commanders to participate in the defense of the city. After the defense was completed, they were required to help the lord put away the defensive towers. The work was quite heavy, but their status was quite high, since their authority came directly from the lord.

On Azure Star, a tower defense master who excels at setting up defenses is highly respected, their status even comparable to that of some minor lords. Correspondingly, their wages are extremely high. Even a low-level tower defense master who only helps the lord set up defensive towers and doesn't participate in city defense earns a salary that most lords cannot afford.

Yang Fei's confidence in hiring tower defense masters was largely based on his wealth. He also had a large number of gray arrow tower and ice arrow tower cards, which were hard currency that allowed trainee lords to enter the Sky Island. Tower defense masters who wanted to compete for their descendants or even for themselves would definitely love these things. If that wasn't possible, he would simply use sheer numbers to build up his collection!

However, what puzzled Yang Fei was that a large portion of the refugees from Qianwu Star were students. They were students from modern society, and they should have been exposed to tower defense games and the like to some extent, and should have some talent.

Yang Fei questioned Company Commander Sun and Qian Duoduo, who had searched for a long time and indeed selected quite a few people. However, after Yang Fei checked them with his lord-level authority, it turned out that none of them were qualified for the job.

This puzzled Yang Fei. He didn't need high-level tower defense masters who could help him defend the city; he just wanted some low-level tower defense masters who could help him place defensive towers. Yet, there wasn't a single one among all these students. This job shouldn't be difficult; they had experience with tower defense games before. Why didn't they meet the requirements?

Does this thing require training? Yang Fei has never taken any similar courses, yet the system directly identified him as a tower defense engineer. Are there any other requirements?

Fortunately, with all the war slabs arranged in advance and the monsters' attack methods not fundamentally changed, Yang Fei didn't have too much time to place the existing defensive towers. Ten minutes was more than enough time, and with his abilities, he should be able to add some more defensive towers.

However, this is just the beginning. Yang Fei still needs to determine the time for retrieving the defense towers. If he cannot retrieve all the defense towers to their original positions, he will have to just pile them up wherever he finds them. After the monster siege ends, he will need to spend time adjusting them, which is quite troublesome. Yang Fei does not want to waste this time.

Of course, Yang Fei didn't participate this time because he had some things to do. He was busy checking the chests before, and he didn't have time to check his loot from the 5x Extreme Mode or his daily card draws!

After briefly observing the battlefield situation and finding that everyone was defending easily under the leadership of the two succubus girls, Yang Fei finally breathed a sigh of relief. A wave of enhancements had greatly increased the defensive power of his Sky Island, making it relatively easy to defend against these 10,000 trash monsters.

The key is to see how the treasure chest monsters perform when they arrive. Yang Fei made Sephira the main attacker in the early stages for two reasons: first, to allow Sephira to collect enough souls to supply the Abyss Shop; and second, to save the two succubus girls' stamina so that they can focus on dealing with the treasure chest monsters later.

As a result, the early defense phase is quite tedious, so Yang Fei needs to take advantage of this time to finish today's work as much as possible, starting with today's daily card draw.

Yang Fei woke up to face a monster siege in five times the normal difficulty mode, which meant his Lord talent hadn't been activated yet. Luckily, Yang Fei remembered it, otherwise he might have missed it today.

Well Construction Blueprint (Initial): Basic building for Sky Island. It costs 10 units of stone, 5 units of wood, and 1 unit of iron ingot. It requires two workers to spend 12 hours on Sky Island to build an initial well. This blueprint can only be used ten times. After it is used up, the blueprint will disappear.

Yang Fei's eyes widened when he saw the item given by the daily card draw. It was actually the blueprint for building a well. You should know that this kind of basic building can only be unlocked by obtaining the corresponding basic reward after completing a specific wave, and you will not have the right to drop or purchase it.

Under normal circumstances, it's almost impossible to obtain basic buildings in advance. But to my surprise, the Lord's Talent, which I had almost forgotten about, could bypass this restriction and directly help me obtain them ahead of time. This was quite a pleasant surprise.

Water resources are currently the most urgently needed resource. Building spirit fields, recruiting more subjects, cultivating the wasteland of the sky island, and planting ordinary crops all require water resources. Previously, he wasted a lot of development time in order to upgrade the only well on the sky island to level 5.

Even now, his water resources are still somewhat strained. If it weren't for the fact that the refugees on Qianwu Star could obtain water from their home planet and he didn't have to allocate water to them, he would have to consider continuing to upgrade his Sky Island to improve the level of his wells and support more and more people joining his Sky Island. He never expected that this card draw would solve such a big problem for him.

One well blueprint can build 10 wells, which will last a long time. I can also start planting spirit fields and ordinary crops according to plan. There is no need to consider various gains and losses with the previous mindset. I can implement all kinds of plans and go all out.

Yang Fei summoned 20 lesser demons and provided them with 100 units of stone, 50 units of wood, and 10 units of iron ingots to begin constructing the ten wells. The lesser demons quickly got to work, and barring any unforeseen circumstances, the wells would be completed by tomorrow morning.

After acquiring the well, Yang Fei took out the toilet building card he had obtained earlier and built the toilet near "Elf Hills". These elf girls are not only the main force for him to defend the Sky Island, but also an important force for developing the Spirit Field. He cannot treat them unfairly.

All of them can use the ballistae of the arrow tower, and their accuracy is in no way inferior to Yang Fei's. Yang Fei plans to train them to be squad leaders like Yuichi, so as to reduce the pressure on himself and the succubus sisters. Therefore, they will be the main force of the Sky Island Guardians in the future.

Developing the Spirit Fields requires farmers at the Martial Realm level, and they are the only farmers at the Martial Realm level on the entire Sky Island. They are also skilled at planting, so there is no one more suitable than them to become permanent farmers of the Spirit Fields.

Alas, there are still too few talented people on our own floating island, especially high-ranking commanders.

In fact, the succubus sisters are capable of these roles, but their primary task is to deal with mimics, so Yang Fei is still the only commander of the entire Sky Island. He was fine before, but now he is finding it difficult to keep up.

Thinking of this, Yang Fei suddenly remembered that he seemed to have two more leader recruitment cards. He hadn't used them before because water and food resources were somewhat insufficient. Now that his water resources were about to explode and he had enough white rice, could he use these two recruitment cards?

If they could recruit another character like the succubus sisters, many problems would be solved! However, doing so would create a dilemma for Yang Fei.

The succubus sisters are very strong, in every respect. Even now, with just two of them attacking at once, my Qi Sensing Realm martial artist body is already struggling to keep up. If three or four of them were to attack at once, I'm afraid I would really be finished!

To defend himself more easily, he had to start recruiting. But if he recruited succubus servants similar to the succubus sisters, he would definitely suffer a heavy blow. Development and health were now on opposite ends of the scale, prompting Yang Fei to make a constant choice.

Yang Fei was really torn and couldn't make a decision. Although the development of the Sky Island was more important than anything else, what was the purpose of cultivating immortality? It was for longevity, for freedom from illness and disaster, and for living happily. Sacrificing his body for the development of the Sky Island would definitely affect his future cultivation journey. He felt like he was stuck on two fronts.

If you can't figure it out, then don't think about it. Yang Fei isn't a person who dwells on things; he's a rather realistic one. Since he can still hold his own as a commander, there's no need to think about these issues. It's more appropriate to look at the drop rate at five times the maximum.

Because the quantity was too large, Yang Fei repeatedly returned all the items to the system space. After comprehensive statistics, he obtained a total of: "300 gray ice arrow tower cards, 299 arrow tower cards, 5211 gray crystals, 202120 bio rubbers, 7654 silver coins, and 617333 copper coins."

Yang Fei used 301 energy crystals in this round, so the 5211 gray crystals in this round need to be reduced by 301 to get 4910 gray crystals. This stuff has a wide range of uses, especially after learning about the cost of Lost Jungle and the toilet, Yang Fei can never have too many.

After spending more than half an hour, Yang Fei finally finished all the tasks he hadn't completed that day. After having the Lesser Demon move the various supplies he had organized to their respective locations, Yang Fei finally had time to check the battlefield situation. Next, he would see how his tower-bursting tactic would be effective against the collective attack of the treasure chest monsters.

However, the mimics seemed to be giving Yang Fei no face. This time, the number of mimics attacking the city was pitifully small, with only 10 white mimics, 20 gray mimics, and 40 revived mimics, which was nothing compared to the previous three thousand level mimics.

Three hundred arrow towers fired in a single volley and found the treasure chest monsters. Several of them even died on the spot under such dense attacks. The turret group didn't even have to be deployed before the attack ended, and the defensive capabilities of the floating island were not tested at all.

Yang Fei could only sigh. It seemed that the daily challenge with its combat power cap was no longer suitable for testing the current combat power of his Sky Island, as his Sky Island's defensive capabilities had already exceeded that limit.