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

Yang Fei and Li Han were positioned behind the front line, and the two gray arrow towers they were in had the same purpose: to keep an eye on the elven front while Sephira rested.

Although Yang Fei had repeatedly instructed them to prioritize killing the most threatening Ice Slime, these elves were, after all, on the battlefield for the first time. Yang Fei had only heard that their archery skills were superb, but had never actually seen them, so he had to be cautious.

Then, near the long artillery line, was a huge cluster of white arrow towers, personally commanded by two succubus girls. This time, they didn't need to kill any slimes; they only needed to deal with the final treasure chest monster. In their spare time, they could also help Yang Fei relieve some of the command pressure.

This task seemed easy, but Yang Fei knew that it was also the most difficult part of the entire defensive battle. The reason Yang Fei entrusted it to them was not only because he trusted them, but also because he could only entrust it to them.

Alas! There are still too few ways to deal with those mimics on the sky island. Yang Fei can only resort to this method, which is also the only effective one. Apart from this, Yang Fei really has no other choice.

Then there are the artillery positions located on the floating island. Their tasks are easier than before, but they need to make more precise judgments and produce more efficient output in an instant.

Because the battlefield was already quite large, Yang Fei couldn't guarantee that they would receive orders in a timely manner. Therefore, Qian Duo and others were needed to make timely judgments on when to provide firepower for the battlefield, when to cover friendly units to switch personnel, and to make reasonable firepower allocations when the treasure chest monster appeared, so as to quickly deplete the treasure chest monster's health.

Finally, there are the slowing towers and flamethrower towers led by Yue Lingling and Youyi. They are no longer of much use in this level of battle, but Yang Fei does not want them to go to waste. When the battlefield pressure is relatively relaxed, it is acceptable to release some ordinary slimes for them to kill.

As for the Lesser Demons and Tentacle Jellyfish, they were all placed on the arrow towers this time. These were his own direct troops, and Yang Fei couldn't treat them unfairly. Giving them a chance to gain experience without lifting a finger was also a small selfish act of his.

After preparing everything, Yang Fei started today's daily challenge. He wouldn't have a chance to start it for the next two days, as he didn't have any other way to obtain the gray magic cores, true qi rice, and true qi rice seeds that were the rewards, so he still had to start it.

Secondly, it's about testing your current lineup to see if the monsters are as strong as you imagine. If they aren't as strong as you think, and even thirty people can't suppress the monster-killing speed, then you can adjust in time and not be completely out of options.

As it turns out, elves truly live up to their name; their archery skills are as formidable as depicted in most fantasy works. Even when wielding enormous ballistae, they still demonstrate the prowess befitting elven archers.

They kept Yang Fei's priority kill order in mind and, relying on the chain reaction caused by the self-destruction of the Ice Slime, they suppressed all the slimes near the blue door with just one tower.

Under Yang Fei's careful observation, they really only needed one person to block the blue gate and farm monsters. This monster-farming efficiency was even more exaggerated than that of the succubus sisters and Sephira. They were indeed more professional archers, and there was almost no aiming process when using bows and arrows.

They simply acted on impulse, and then the nocking and drawing of the bow began almost simultaneously. After shooting, there was no need to observe the result; hitting the target was inevitable. Each of them was quite confident in this. The whole set of movements was smooth and flawless.

In terms of shooting efficiency, taking the white arrow tower with free fire enabled as an example, if the efficiency of the white arrow tower firing continuously with sufficient energy is set to 1, Yang Fei's shooting efficiency is approximately 0.3. That is, while maintaining accuracy, it takes three shots from the white arrow tower for Yang Fei to control the gray arrow tower to fire once.

The shooting efficiency of the succubus sisters and Sephira is infinitely close to or even exceeds 1, that is, between 0.9 and 1.1. If they use their full strength, they can surpass the limit of the arrow tower's automatic shooting.

This is something that humans could never do. After becoming an advanced martial artist, Yang Fei might be able to do it with the help of various improvements in his physical attributes, but the succubus sisters were able to do it without any enhancement from their cultivation level. Yang Fei could only sigh and say that the physical attributes of demons are indeed far superior to those of humans.

These elves' shooting efficiency can be consistently above 1.1, and in some cases even reach around 1.5. Although most of them have the advantage of cultivation level, Yang Fei has observed that elves without cultivation level can also maintain the same shooting efficiency as their predecessors. However, after a period of time, they will appear tired, which may be because their physical fitness cannot keep up and they cannot maintain it for a long time.

This is rather absurd. There's an absolute power gap between mortals and martial artists, a gap that's difficult to bridge on one's own. Yet these elves, whose physical abilities are similar to humans, can barely make up for this gap in shooting, even if only for a few minutes—that's still an incredibly impressive burst of power.

"Their magical world seems quite magical as well. Even though the cultivation system of this world is completely unfamiliar to them, there may be some similarities between the two."

"Objectively speaking, both the flow of magic and the flow of true qi belong to the flow of energy. Magic and true qi can be inferred from this to be just different manifestations of energy. Martial artists gather and conceal qi, absorbing and utilizing it, while magicians are close to nature, drawing upon the magic in the environment for their own use..."

Watching the elves taking turns testing their archery skills, Yang Fei pondered to himself. Knowing that these elven archers were not just for show, he finally felt relieved. He was confident that he could handle the monster siege of millions of slimes.

Moreover, this was much better than expected. If Yang Fei hadn't specifically instructed that some slimes must be left for Sephira to rack up kills, Yang Fei doubted that these elf girls could have completely suppressed this wave of slime siege near the Blue Gate, not giving them a single chance to step onto the War Corridor.

"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 11 times. The base reward has now been increased by 55%. Your final reward is: 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."

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

Having easily completed today's daily challenge and gained a considerable understanding of the elves' abilities, Yang Fei instructed everyone to return to the city walls to rest and prepare for the upcoming battle.

In addition to the usual supplies, Yang Fei also obtained 20 white boxes, 60 gray boxes, and 60 revival chests from this round of daily challenges. There was still no phenomenon of thousands of mimics attacking, just slightly better than yesterday's daily challenge, so he couldn't test his preparations for mimics.

After confirming the abilities of those spirits, Yang Fei made a further assessment of these mimics. Their non-linear movement was indeed not teleportation in the traditional sense; it involved a more complex domain. In fact, only the succubus sisters could deal with them on the entire Sky Island, and he really couldn't think of a better way.

At least for now, I'm completely helpless. Maybe when that slave trader comes next time, I can ask her to find out what the principle behind these things moving is and what countermeasures I can take. I really have no idea what to do.

The predecessors of Azure Star did not record these things in Tower Defense World, and the succubus sisters could not explain these guys in any meaningful way. They only said that they could see the movement of those treasure chest monsters.

No matter how Yang Fei looked, he couldn't see anything. He had really tried his best, and now he could only rely on the succubus sisters. Perhaps it was a talent, just like the elf girl's superb archery skills.

If all else fails, I still have the Tentacle Tower and the Storm Tower. Even if that ability is incredibly powerful, it's still just a beast-level ability. High-level attacks can ignore this limitation and directly annihilate its intelligence. If you don't want to reason with me, then I don't need to reason with you either.

After completing today's daily challenge, the entire Sky Island gradually fell silent. Everyone knew that an epic battle was about to begin, so everyone was nervously preparing themselves to meet the upcoming battle in their best form.

Sephira led all the tentacle jellyfish from one end of the city wall to the other, checking everyone's mental state. This was Yang Fei's order. The tentacle jellyfish hadn't really been on the ground battlefield in the last few waves, staying inside the defensive towers to gain experience. Yang Fei couldn't let them just freeload like that. As his direct subordinates, they should be able to do the work of supervising the battle.

Lola then made all the lesser demons line up and stood menacingly on the city wall, shouting at them. Yang Fei listened for a moment, his intention being to make these undisciplined guys take things seriously.

Even if it's just to gain experience, one must live up to the lord's expectations and become a Martial Realm Demon as soon as possible, so as not to be outdone by those slaves. Yang Fei can only say that this is indeed a Demon with a very strict class division.

Those inferior demons who had been working diligently clearly did not exhibit the problems Lola mentioned, but under the suppression of Lola's mid-level demon aura, they stood straighter than the hastily assembled artillery units of Qianwu Star. Faced with Lola's foul language, they didn't dare utter a single fart, showing extreme cowardice.

The situation was even simpler for the refugees on Qianwu Star. Everyone, including Sun Xiaoyu and others who hadn't yet joined Yang Fei's Sky Island, was helping the ragtag artillery unit with too much money to adjust their mood. The rank of the troops and the division of the three shifts were also being carried out simultaneously. It can only be said that they were indeed trained as regular troops, and their ability to handle multiple tasks at the same time was truly remarkable.

As for the elves, it was simpler, because Yang Fei had already divided them into three shifts, and with their unwavering loyalty and belief in the revival of their race, they were the calmest.

Under Veranel's orders, the second and third elf teams even began to rest and actively adjust their time zones. If they couldn't sleep, they would study the "True Qi Manual" that Yang Fei had given them to better understand the cultivation system of this world. Everyone had no objections and faithfully carried out Yang Fei's arrangements, which made Yang Fei quite relieved.

Since that's the case, Yang Fei naturally couldn't sit idle. First, he built a new spirit field, and today's daily challenge yielded some more True Qi Rice Seeds.

The previous eight spirit fields were no longer sufficient, so Yang Fei had to build another one and send an elf back to report that another martial arts realm farmer from the Elf Hills should come to work in the new spirit field.

Then, I used up some of the cards and blueprints I had saved up. It wouldn't be very effective to use these things once the battle started, because there would be two days of continuous battles, and I had many plans to make. I also needed to do a lot of things on Sky Island that would normally be a waste of time.

Instead of developing the Sky Island these past two days, Yang Fei felt somewhat dissatisfied. While the Sky Island could withstand attacks from monsters with a million-level defense, its development didn't progress much despite the increased defensive capabilities. His goal was comprehensive development, not just focusing on improving combat power.

First are various city wall building gift packs. Yang Fei has a total of: "320 small gift packs of gray city wall building cards, 30 medium gift packs of gray city wall building cards, and 1 large gift pack of gray city wall building cards."

As for those white-quality city wall building packages, Yang Fei will not consider them for the time being. His Sky Island is only gray-quality, and he has not passed the novice assessment, so building high-level city walls is of little use.

Yang Fei planned to use these low-quality gift packs first, so that he wouldn't accumulate too many items and forget to use them in the end.

"Wall Construction Card Gift Pack (Gray): A medium-sized wall construction card gift pack containing 30 items, with a 99% chance of containing a colorless quality wall construction card."

There is a 0.99% chance of obtaining 10 gray-quality wall upgrade cards, which can directly upgrade colorless walls to gray quality; there is a 0.01% chance of obtaining 1 gray rare-quality wall construction blueprint (which can be used to directly construct a gray-quality wall by spending the corresponding materials, without requiring builders, but has a limited number of uses).

"Wall Construction Card Gift Pack (Gray): A large wall construction card gift pack containing 300 items, with a 99% chance of obtaining a colorless quality wall construction card."

There is a 0.99% chance of obtaining 100 gray-quality wall upgrade cards, which can directly upgrade colorless walls to gray quality; there is a 0.01% chance of obtaining 1 gray rare-quality wall construction blueprint (which can directly construct gray-quality walls without materials or builders, but has a limited number of uses).