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

Chapter 138 A Million-Strong Siege!

I spent another 4000 copper coins, 4000 wood, 2000 stone, and 400 iron ingots to upgrade all four level four lumber camps to level five. All the lumber camps have now reached the level cap of the Sky Island and can no longer be upgraded.

"Lumber Mill (Gray Level 5): A basic resource building. If destroyed, it can be rebuilt using all the output of the current level for 3 days, but the upgrade process needs to be restarted. It can produce 100 units of common wood and 10 units of gray quality wood per day."

Ten citizens are required to work, each working 8 hours a day, and each citizen must be paid at least one copper coin per week. Increasing the salary will further increase the citizens' favor and loyalty.

Lumber Mill (Upgradeable): Upgrade the Lumber Mill to level 6 by spending 2000 copper coins, 2000 wood, 500 stone, 100 iron ingots, and 100 units of gray quality wood. This increases daily wood production to 200 units and gray wood production to 20 units, and provides an additional 10 jobs.

Note that this is a basic building, currently of gray quality, and has reached the highest level. Upgrading the core building level will further increase the level cap. Upon reaching the corresponding level, the quality will also improve, allowing it to produce higher quality wood.

Yang Fei then used the same method, spending 6000 copper coins, 3000 wood, 6000 stone, and 600 iron ingots to upgrade the four level-three quarries to the current highest level. Due to some water-related issues, I will only introduce the highest level quarry here, and skip the level-four quarries.

"Quarry (Gray Level 5): A basic resource building. It can be rebuilt after being destroyed by spending 3 days' worth of the current level's output, but you need to start upgrading it again. It can produce 100 units of common stone and 10 units of gray quality stone per day."

Ten citizens are needed to join the workforce — to increase loyalty.

Quarry (Upgradeable): Upgrade the quarry to level 6 by spending 2000 copper coins, 500 wood, 2000 stone, 100 iron ingots, and 100 units of gray quality wood and stone. This increases daily stone production to 200 units and gray stone production to 20 units, and provides an additional 10 jobs.

Note that this building is a foundation building—it will eventually produce higher quality stone.

After upgrading the lumberyard and quarry, Yang Fei wanted to upgrade some other facilities, but when he saw that his iron ingot reserves had increased from more than two thousand to more than four hundred, he had to stop.

This stuff is practically essential currency for me right now, so using it so casually on something unimportant seems a bit inappropriate. If I suddenly need it later, I'll have to use up precious exchange opportunities from the Abyss Shop. It's a waste to use those opportunities, which could be for special products, on such basic materials.

After the upgrade, the logging camp and quarry underwent significant changes as expected. First, their area increased from about 20 square meters to over 200 square meters, a considerable size increase.

Secondly, the logging axes and mining picks that were originally located on its walls have disappeared. Correspondingly, gray-quality logging axes and mining picks have appeared on the interior walls.

Although these items don't have any attributes, they are still considered quality equipment. And as with any equipment, they are usually not cheap, so it makes sense that they were originally stored outside the walls and are now stored internally.

Finally, there's the appearance. It's changed from a standalone log cabin to a grand log cabin resembling a tavern lobby. Citizens can enter from the outside, put on their equipment, and then go into the logging and quarrying areas. They can also return to these two types of lobbies at any time.

The hall now offers a variety of spaces for communication and relaxation, transforming it into a true workshop rather than just a simple check-in point, which has enriched the lives of the workers.

To save on their own demon workers, the workers for these logging and quarrying sites will be provided by Qianwu Star. The criteria for selecting loggers and quarry workers are much simpler than those for construction workers. Even some students can be hired as long as they have strength.

After completing all the preparations for the development, it was already 4:30 a.m. on May 5th. All of Yang Fei's subordinates had already finished breakfast and made their final preparations. Without further hesitation, Yang Fei left Qian Duo and Sephira with enough energy crystals as a precaution, and then directly launched the 10x extreme siege.

"Understood, Trainee Lord Yang Fei-1, your Novice Trial Third Wave Doubled Extreme Mode (10x Extreme) Monster Siege will begin in ten minutes. Monster type: Slime, Monster level: Beast, 0, Monster quantity: 1266666."

"Please note that you have now activated the third wave of the Novice Trial in the doubled extreme mode (10x extreme) monster siege. The four basic stats of the monsters have increased by 2 times. Please adjust your tactics accordingly."

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

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The total number of monsters, 1.2 million, was within Yang Fei's expectations, so everything proceeded as usual, and everyone was in their positions. All the rehearsals, adjustments, recruitment, and preparations had been made for this one wave!

From the lord's perspective, Yang Fei moved all the defensive towers one by one to the war slabs he had prepared beforehand. Then, all the demons and elves participating in the battle stepped onto the war corridor and headed to their respective defensive towers.

For those citizens whose defensive towers were far from the sky island, Yang Fei instructed them to stay inside the towers first, so that he could move the towers directly to them when he moved them.

The nearest guards can run there themselves, or Yang Fei can move them there. There are no specific requirements, as long as they can participate in the battle and guard the sky island. Yang Fei is very lenient in this matter.

Many lords dislike moving defensive towers with people, feeling it's disrespectful. But Yang Fei doesn't care. It's not like he's carrying the tower himself. Moving an empty tower or moving one with people makes no difference to Yang Fei, who has a god-like perspective.

With the Slime King's gaze and the Slime King's theft triggered in succession, the tug-of-war of the million-level monster siege officially began. Taking advantage of the fact that the elf girls suppressed all the slimes near the blue gate, Yang Fei hurriedly ran up his defensive tower.

The idea of ​​a lord running into a defensive tower alone after the battle begins is somewhat abstract, but Yang Fei had no choice. All lords do this unless he moves himself there as well. However, Yang Fei still needs to set up defensive towers, so in his view, there is no difference between moving there last and running there last.

Anyway, Yang Fei also needed to check in the war corridor whether his firepower configuration from a god's-eye view met his expectations, so running there had some advantages.

Drawing the bow, nocking the arrow, aiming, firing—the familiar feeling washed over him, and without realizing it, Yang Fei once again entered that state of enlightenment. Not far from him, Lola took over command of the battlefield, ensuring that external distractions could no longer affect Yang Fei.