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

Chapter 134 Port and Spirit Field

"Congratulations, Trainee Lord Yang Fei1! 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 11 times. The existing base reward will be increased by 55%. You will eventually receive: 83.7 catties of True Qi Rice, 837 catties of White Rice, 837 Copper Coins, 837 True Qi Rice Seeds, 84 Gray Crystals, and 84 Gray Magic Cores."

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"Please note — five minutes remaining in the countdown."

After finishing the daily challenge, Yang Fei had someone start cooking. Since there was no meat left, they couldn't have lean meat porridge, so this time they could only eat white rice. Fortunately, they added a small amount of True Qi Rice and some pickled vegetables that Yang Fei had bought from the Heavenly Dao Store, which made for a decent meal.

This time, Yang Fei and his Abyss Citizens, along with the Qianwu Star Citizens who participated in the battle or worked in the logging camps and quarries, plus all the elves, were on one level; those who joined his Sky Island, including the Qianwu Star Citizens who did not participate in the battle or work, and the zombie attraction team, were on another level. Their food no longer contained True Qi Rice, but still contained some pickled vegetables, which was acceptable.

As for the refugees who did not join their group and did not have any jobs, they could only obtain their food from half of the rewards and basic rewards received by their compatriots. What they ate and how well they ate depended entirely on how hard their compatriots worked.

However, thanks to Yang Fei's increased strength on Sky Island, the zombie attraction team's hard work, and the refugee support provided by Yang Fei, they had no problem getting enough to eat.

After a hearty meal, Yang Fei instructed Sephira to exchange all the souls he had collected that day for energy tablets so he could use them the next day. Then, he took the two succubus girls into his cabin and went to sleep early.

Time flew by and it was already 3 a.m. on May 5th. Yang Fei barely managed to break free from the embrace of the two succubus girls, yawned, and walked out of the cabin alone to begin preparing for the upcoming siege by millions of monsters.

在深渊商店中，一块白色品质充能石板需要5个精英野兽灵魂和5枚银币，昨天塞菲拉用100精英野兽灵魂和100+20枚银币（100枚银币是原价，20则是商店不是白色品级额外付出的银币）兑换了20块白色充能石板。

In this way, Yang Fei has 41 white-quality charging stone tablets and 4 green-quality charging war stone tablets, for a total of 45 slots in Infinite Firepower mode.

Yang Fei, the succubus sisters, Sephira, and the Li Han duo already occupy five spots. Yang Fei plans to leave the remaining 40 spots to the elves, thus providing him with the basic conditions to face the upcoming battle against the million-monster siege.

Because there are two days of great battles ahead, the elves need to send at least eighty people so that they can be rotated at any time. To maintain high performance, it would be best to add another forty people, forming three or even four shifts.

The same applies to the two succubus girls. They can't participate in the battle at full strength. They need to rest before the mimics arrive, so it's best if the elves can send more people.

As long as you don't encounter something as unreasonable as a mimicry, the elf's abilities should be sufficient to deal with monsters like the Ice Slime, which have no special abilities other than self-destruction.

Yang Fei got up early today for this very purpose: to go to the Elf Hills to check out some elves that could participate in the battle and to make arrangements for today's tasks in advance.

First, he summoned his subordinates. Two new tentacle jellyfish were summoned by Yang Fei. Then, Yang Fei took out the two citizen recruitment cards he had accumulated and used them directly on the citizen recruitment hut.

After last night's fierce battle, Yang Fei had come to terms with it. Adding a few more succubus girls wouldn't make a difference; he simply couldn't hold out much longer. He had passed out after only half an hour of fighting, so he didn't care if he could summon succubus sisters again.

Since things are already like this, it's better to select a new succubus to increase the Sky Island's defenses. Once I become the Great Lord, I can gather better cultivation resources to strengthen myself and improve my strength.

Previously, Yang Fei had always wanted to work hard to become stronger and improve himself through arduous training. Now, however, he had come to terms with it. He was a lord, not a warrior who could casually go to the battlefield to kill enemies!

A lord should have the mindset of becoming stronger. Using their authority as a lord to have their subjects help them collect resources and then gradually become stronger is also a method.

However, the more you expect something, the less likely you are to get it. This time, Yang Fei only summoned 78 Abyssal Lesser Demons and 22 Abyssal Burrowing Beasts, without the succubus girl he had hoped for. This left Yang Fei speechless. "I've risked hundreds of millions of lives to make this decision, and this is the result?"

However, Yang Fei didn't complain too much. As long as the recruits were still the Abyss creatures who were loyal to him, that was fine. These guys, because they belonged to the dark side of the world of order, not only knew a lot and could do all kinds of basic work, but also had a certain growth potential. It would be a good thing to train them as his direct troops in the future.

Yang Fei selected 50 ambitious Abyssal Imps to join the battle, and assigned various new tasks to the remaining 28 Abyssal Imps.

There are currently 20 lesser demons building wells. In the future, these construction teams will also continue to build houses and other structures. The number of lesser demons monitoring the refugee area of ​​Qianwu Star and the Elf Hills region is still somewhat tight. These 28 abyssal lesser demons are just the right amount to fill these gaps in their work.

After dealing with the newly arrived Abyss Citizens who had joined the Sky Island, Yang Fei headed towards the Elven Hills while starting his daily card draw. Just like yesterday, this draw gave Yang Fei a surprise: a construction blueprint he had never seen before. The blueprint was for a port (initial): a basic building blueprint for the Sky Island. After use, it costs 500 units of wood, 100 units of stone, 100 units of iron ingots, and 100 units of gray energy crystals to build a miniature port on the edge of the Sky Island that can accommodate void ships.

Additional requirements: It takes 1 Martial Arts Realm construction foreman and 10 ordinary construction workers three days to build the port. The port can only accommodate one micro void ship and can be properly maintained for external damage.

Port (Upgradeable): Costing 1000 units of wood, 200 units of stone, 200 units of iron ingots, and 200 units of gray crystals, this port can be upgraded to level 2. This will increase the construction capacity of port auxiliary buildings, but the auxiliary buildings are limited by their own level and have an upper limit.

Port (Expandable): After upgrading the port to level 2, the Sky Island building slot will unlock the Void Ship Dock construction function. It costs 500 units of wood, 100 units of stone, 100 units of iron ingots, and 100 units of gray energy crystals to build one dock with the appropriate number of workers and time. Each dock has similar functions to the port itself, allowing Void Ships to be docked and maintained.

When the number of docks reaches 5, the port will be upgraded from a micro port to a small port, at which point the port can dock one small void ship or two micro void ships, and the docks will also unlock the corresponding upgrade functions.

Note 1: This blueprint is a basic building blueprint exclusive to Skyblock Defense World. It can only be used in Skyblock Defense World, and because it is below the gray grade, it can only be used once.

Note 2: The grade, form, and quality of the port's auxiliary buildings are all affected by the port itself and cannot exceed the grade, form, and quality of the port itself; at the same time, this port is also an auxiliary building of the Sky Island and is affected by the Sky Island's grade and quality, and cannot exceed the Sky Island's grade and quality.

Yang Fei had no idea about the well blueprints before, but he really hadn't expected the port construction blueprints. The well construction blueprints could be obtained after the novice assessment, and these blueprints were only available after becoming a formal lord. He never thought he would get them so easily; it was a bit unrealistic.

However, since they've already acquired it, there's no reason not to. They have no shortage of materials and construction workers, but what exactly is a construction foreman at the Martial Artist level? They don't know if the elves have any, and they certainly don't have any among their Abyss subordinates.

Furthermore, the three-day construction time is a bit too exaggerated. His Sky Island is developing too fast right now. If he can't start construction before the million-level monster siege begins, Yang Fei is really worried about the fourth and fifth waves of monster sieges.

You might accidentally get a building card, which would be quite awkward.

Therefore, Yang Fei must not disappoint himself when he goes to the Elf Hills. He needs at least 80 elves who can participate in the battle, 20 martial arts realm elf farmers who can work in the spirit fields, and 1 martial arts realm elf construction foreman to facilitate Yang Fei's various work plans.

Along the way, Yang Fei took out the two rare-quality spirit field construction blueprints again. These two blueprints did not require construction resources or time, nor did they require the input of spirit stones to maintain their internal spiritual energy. Therefore, Yang Fei planned to build them first. There was no time to wait for the various wells to be completed. He had to prepare all the work in advance.

"Spirit Field (Gray Miniature): This building is a basic building of the Sky Island, covering an area of ​​100 square meters. It can be used to grow spiritual plants and herbs needed by martial artists, as well as grain crops such as True Qi Rice. Each Spirit Field can grow 1,000 grain crops, 100 herbaceous spiritual herbs, and only 10 perennial shrubs or spiritual trees.

It contains spiritual energy that ordinary people cannot withstand. Only farmers at the martial arts realm can cultivate spiritual plants on it. Once the sky island reaches gray quality, it does not need to be maintained with additional spirit stones. Otherwise, a colorless sky island would need to consume one spirit stone per day to maintain its internal spiritual energy. Currently, the sky island is gray quality and does not require the consumption of spirit stones.

Spirit Field (Upgradeable): 100 Spirit Stones, 100 Gray Energy Crystals, and 100 Gray Magic Cores can be used to upgrade the Spirit Field to level 2. A level 2 Spirit Field will have a slight increase in spiritual energy, which will accelerate plant growth by 1%.

Spirit Field (Expandable): Requires a plot of land of 1,000 square meters, a Spirit Planter at the Martial Realm, 100 Spirit Stones, 100 Gray Energy Crystals, and 100 Gray Magic Cores. It can expand a Gray Spirit Field from a small size to a small Gray Spirit Field of 1,000 square meters.

Note: This spirit field is an auxiliary building of the Sky Island and is subject to the Sky Island's level and quality; it cannot exceed the Sky Island's level and quality.

After building a spirit field near the Elf Hills, Yang Fei finally saw its specific attributes. He had only seen a rough overview using the blueprints before, and he hadn't expected it to be so troublesome.

"1000 plants of True Qi Rice and other grain crops can be planted in one plot? That's more than I expected. I only have 7375 seeds right now, so it seems like building 8 Spirit Fields will be enough. That means I only need 8 Elf Farmers, not 20."

Yang Fei mentally estimated that he would use the same blueprint eight times, building eight structures near the Elf Hills.

These eight spiritual fields look similar to ordinary open fields, except that they are surrounded by wooden fences, and a hazy mist obscures the view, making them appear somewhat unreal from a distance.

Moreover, what surprised Yang Fei the most was that these eight identical spiritual fields were not connected like city walls, and the surrounding fences were not joined together. They were separate entities, with no intention of interfering with each other.

It's likely due to the upgradeable and scalable properties that are at play; combining them together might lead to all sorts of strange problems if resources are insufficient to fully upgrade or expand them.

For example, inconsistent crop growth between adjacent spiritual fields leads to different water and sunlight requirements. Also, if one spiritual field expands, it might encroach on the area of ​​nearby fields. Therefore, the system uses a one-size-fits-all approach to prevent these problems when constructing these spiritual fields.

Unbeknownst to him, Yang Fei had already arrived at the foot of the Elf Hills. An elf who was glaring at a nearby lesser demon saw Yang Fei arrive and hurriedly abandoned her "opponent," coming to Yang Fei's side and bowing deeply to him in an almost kneeling posture.

"Honorable Master, Norahil greets you~" A soft female voice rang out. Yang Fei looked at the elf in front of him and realized that she should be one of the four second-tier elves. Before, she and Veranel were both listless, but now she looked much more energetic.

"Yes, go wake Vera Nair. I need you to work for me." Yang Fei didn't say much, nor did he have time to say more. He simply spoke to the elf in a detached tone.

"Yes, sir!" Upon hearing Yang Fei's command, Norahil's hopeful expression instantly turned into excitement. This was the best news these elves had heard since arriving in this strange world. They knew very well that as long as they could work for this great lord, their race would have hope for revival and even revenge.

After bidding farewell to Yang Fei, Norahil quickly retreated into the elven hills behind him and soon disappeared into the sparse forest. Yang Fei could see clearly that the elf was practically leaping through the trees as he moved forward.