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

Finally, here are the loot drops from this wave of monsters, including: "597 Gray Ice Arrow Tower Cards, 1021 Gray Arrow Tower Cards, 12006 Gray Crystals, 366532 Bio-rubbers, 20651 Silver Coins, and 786312 Copper Coins."

Overall, the harvest was decent, but for some reason, the mimics didn't come in large numbers as Yang Fei had predicted. In the end, Yang Fei only obtained: "120 white treasure chests, 300 gray treasure chests, 30 revived white treasure chests, and 120 revived gray treasure chests".

Aside from the newly introduced white resurrected monster, there weren't any extra surprises this time. The total number of treasure chest monsters was less than 600, which was much less oppressive than the previous army of three thousand. So much so that the succubus sisters complained to themselves that they hadn't gained enough experience. Next time, they didn't want to just be commanders; they wanted to fight alongside the enemy.

Yang Fei was also quite helpless about this. He had made so many preparations, and this was the result? He did see the swarm attack of the treasure chest monsters, but under his current firepower, they could only become cannon fodder. The number of monsters that spawned was completely random, or rather, it depended on the whims of Heaven. He really couldn't control it.

After dealing with the loot from this drop, Yang Fei finally turned his attention to the other items. First, there were the blueprints. Yang Fei still had: 1 piece of gray rare spirit field construction paper (not yet used), 1 gray rare spirit field blueprint that had been used 9 times, and 1 gray rare quality house construction blueprint.

The rare spirit field blueprints hadn't been used before because Yang Fei's Sky Island had no water, no seeds, and no martial arts realm farmers—essentially nothing. Yang Fei had been keeping them, but now they were taking up space, so he decided to use them directly.

As for the rare-quality house construction blueprints, Yang Fei didn't plan to keep them. The 100 houses that he had previously had 95 lesser demons and 5 humans build were now completed, and the entire Sky Island already had 120 wooden houses, so he didn't need any more.

After placing all the spirit fields near the Elf Hills, Yang Fei directly spent 1000 units of wood, 100 units of stone, and 10 gray energy crystals to build these ten new houses.

In this way, Yang Fei's entire Sky Island now has 20 spirit fields and 130 wooden houses, which can support several hundred people. This scale is among the best on the entire Azure Star. Others may need several years to achieve this, but Yang Fei only needs a few days to cross this threshold.

Yang Fei was speechless. He really hadn't expected to develop so quickly, but the other side just kept giving him resources. This development was the result of his restraint. You know, there were still a lot of blueprints in his storage boxes! If he used them all, he wouldn't have enough men.

A qualified sky island needs to develop healthily and be self-sufficient. If the land on your sky island has not yet been planted with food or various functional buildings have been built, then rapid expansion is not necessarily a good thing.

Yang Fei took out the white gift pack given to him after clearing the first three waves of the game and opened it. Inside were four items, most of which were fixed, including Yang Fei's: the complete "True Qi Technique", a gray-quality Sky Island Core Stone, a medium-sized True Qi Rice Seed Gift Pack, and a gold coin.

Of these, only the medium-sized True Qi Rice Seed Pack is somewhat useful to me. Opening it adds 500 True Qi Rice Seeds to my Sky Island, which is enough for a decent daily reward. The rest are really not very useful.

Gold coins and core stones may be treasures to other lords, but they are meaningless to me. As for the complete "True Qi Manual", thanks to the selflessness of the predecessors of Azure Star, all Azure Star people started by learning this book.

There's a joke on Azure Star: a person might not be good at math, but he can definitely recite the entire "True Qi Manual." Yang Fei is no exception. Ever since his parents returned from the Tower Defense world, this cultivation manual has become the "textbook" he can recite the best.

Aside from these less valuable items, Yang Fei turned his attention to the last two green gift packs. Although they weren't as valuable as the gold gift packs, they were still ranking rewards, and Yang Fei had high hopes for them.

Rubbing his hands together, Yang Fei opened the two gift packs one by one. Needless to say, there were two Broken Wild Empire Coins as the basic reward. Yang Fei obtained a total of 16 items this time, among which four familiar Citizen Recruitment Cards appeared. Yang Fei didn't know what to say.

This thing used to be good, but it's become a bit lacking for Yang Fei, who has a large and powerful family. However, it's of green quality, so perhaps upgrading his troop nests to green will allow it to reach its full potential. Using it now would be a bit of a waste.

It's important to know that the recruitment cost for troops in a troop nest increases as the nest is upgraded. The higher the nest level, the higher the quality of the recruited troops. This cost is equivalent to up to fifty recruitments from a green-quality nest.

I used this thing before out of necessity, because I had no one else available. Now that I have enough people, I naturally want to accumulate these high-quality items.

Then there are four green, common-quality Sky Island Core Stones, one Sky Island River Expansion Stone, and one Mountain Expansion Stone. These are items I have plenty of, but the quantity of this quality is not very high, so they've filled my treasure trove.

Then there are 4 blueprints: 2 green-quality mill blueprints and 2 green-quality bakery blueprints. Since my Sky Island is still gray-quality, it cannot meet the requirements for building these two types of buildings, so they are not very useful.

Finally, there are two functional building cards: a green-quality church building card and a green-quality prison building card. I can use these two buildings, but they're not really useful to me for the time being!

"You want me to build a church when I'm leading a bunch of demons? Who would be worshipped there?" Although Yang Fei didn't like having a church with its own faith, he would absolutely not allow heretical beliefs to appear on his Sky Island.

He would rather his sky island be inhabited by atheists or even materialists than allow any other "gods" to appear, regardless of whether they exist or not, they cannot appear on Yang Fei's sky island.

As for prisons, that's even more absurd. The demons under his command are the concrete manifestation of the dark side of the world of order. Nothing understands crime better than them. Building this thing would be most useful for managing refugees from Qianwu Star and the Fallen Tree Elves. However, since all the systems are still on paper and the way of governance has not been established, it would be somewhat inappropriate to build prisons directly.

These are all the items in these two gift packs. Yang Fei had been hoping to get a green-quality defense tower and some transportation that could quickly travel between different parts of the Sky Island, but there was still no news. Yang Fei could only continue to "sigh in vain" while guarding the huge number of core stones.

Because he was preparing for the fourth wave of monster attacks, Yang Fei was wary of the abnormal behavior of the treasure chest monsters and planned to open some treasure chests to strengthen his sky island defenses.

Every wave brings progress, every wave brings improvement—this is Yang Fei's guiding principle in guarding the Sky Island. He has always done it this way, and now that the Mimic is behaving abnormally, he must do it even more.

Yang Fei currently has 150 white boxes and 380 gray boxes. Since he doesn't know if the fourth wave of monsters will be slimes or not, he doesn't plan to open too many. He only has 30 white boxes and 80 gray boxes. With the firepower of his Sky Island, he should be able to hold off any unexpected situations.

The 30 white chests yielded 10 usable items, including 4 white war slabs, 4 white arrow tower building cards, and 2 white ice arrow tower building cards. Yang Fei used them directly, which increased the Sky Island's combat power.

As for the other items, most of them were materials that were not needed for the time being, such as city wall construction card packs, core stones, expansion stones, etc. They were all things that had appeared before, and there was nothing new. Yang Fei could only use them as an accumulation for his treasure trove.

The gray treasure chest yielded the same: 21 gray arrow tower cards, 12 basic material packs of various sizes, 22 city wall construction packs of various sizes, 5 core stones and expansion stones, 10 house construction blueprints, 3 spirit field construction blueprints, and 7 small true qi rice seed packs.

Only the True Qi Rice Seed Pack and the House Building Blueprints are usable here. Yang Fei will store the rest. According to the previous routine, he could have used the Basic Material Pack and the City Wall Building Pack, but he doesn't need them much now, so he can only give up on them.

After spending another 10,000 units of wood, 1000 units of stone, and 100 gray energy crystals, Yang Fei will have the 95 inferior demons and 5 humans rest and then start building again after the next wave of monster siege begins in the afternoon.

Yang Fei genuinely hoped they could learn this method of building wooden houses so that he would no longer be constrained by blueprints. Otherwise, given the current rate of expansion, he might face a shortage of blueprints before he could obtain them again.

This time, Yang Fei did not build these houses in the core area, but near the refugee area of ​​Qianwu Star. These houses were given by Yang Fei to those who joined him and whose loyalty to him increased temporarily.

For the first three years, Yang Fei will allow them to live there for free. After three years, if their loyalty level cannot reach the worship level of 80, they will need to pay a living fee. If they find a job on the Sky Island, this fee will be waived.

If you make a significant contribution to the Sky Island, you can be exempted from all rent. For example, if a construction worker learns how to build houses, he can be exempted from all future rent.

However, this reward mechanism cannot benefit future generations. Other reward mechanisms can be tested on his own sky island to see if they work, but Yang Fei has never allowed this one to exist from the very beginning.

This is a world of cultivation, where cultivators have the greatest advantage of long lifespans. This leads to a question: how many descendants can a cultivator have? Yang Fei, a mortal with a lifespan of only a hundred years, might allow his descendants to benefit one generation, that is, their direct offspring. But for cultivators, Yang Fei would never allow such a situation to extend to future generations.

Once this condition is relaxed, the cultivator will go crazy and exploit his own resources, which may even lead to various unstable factors. Therefore, the only option is to cut him off completely. This is his own floating island. The residents on it may not make contributions, but they must not cause trouble for him. If they do, it will directly bring disaster to their entire family!

After finishing his harvest, Yang Fei headed towards his cabin. He needed to get some rest. He had been busy dealing with the siege of millions of monsters these past few days and hadn't had a proper rest. In addition, with all the preparations he was making for the development of Sky Island, Yang Fei was no longer the same as before, both physically and mentally.

Before leaving, Yang Fei didn't forget to activate his Fallen Heavens talent and open the portal to Qianwu Star. Yang Fei hoped that the zombie attraction team could bring him some surprises, such as the much-needed means of transportation. This was something he really needed, more important than the copper coins and flax dropped by killing zombies.

Yang Fei plans to clear the fourth wave of various difficulties today, depending on the situation. If it still starts at 10,000, then he can clear the hard difficulty today and take his time afterwards.

If the number of siege monsters is less than 10,000, Yang Fei only plans to clear the Extreme difficulty and does not intend to continue challenging the Double Extreme mode. Both he and his subordinates of various races need a good rest. Clearing the level also requires a balance of work and rest, and everyone should not be exhausted.

After nearly half an hour of brisk walking, Yang Fei finally returned to his cabin. Lying on his bed, Yang Fei's need for transportation was once again on the agenda. It would take an hour to travel from the edge of the sky island to its center and back, which was truly a major obstacle to his development.

Actually, there are alternatives. Yang Fei had an idea when he moved the defensive tower with people before. Perhaps he could send people into a house and then move the house with his lord privileges to achieve a quick trip. However, the process was not very comfortable.

First of all, the movement speed is a big problem. Yang Fei moves the building from the perspective of a lord. He is not inside the building, so he cannot judge what speed is appropriate, nor can he understand the feelings of the people inside the building in time. If the movement is too fast, it is a question whether the people inside can withstand it. Therefore, he has not started this plan.

Moving the defense towers like that was unavoidable. Our war corridor was too long, and the distance from the sky island to the defense towers wasn't a straight line. Running there in ten minutes was unrealistic, so this was the only solution we could adopt.

In addition, the defensive towers themselves have a certain degree of physical and magical resistance, and the people inside are protected to a certain extent before the defensive towers' health is depleted. That's why they can play like this. With this invisible protection, everyone, including Yang Fei, can withstand the speed even if they are fast.

You might then ask, why don't we move the turrets normally?

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What follows are some things I've been wanting to say lately. Those who are already reading the main text can leave now; these aren't part of the main text and won't affect your reading experience.

Recently, for some reason, the data has increased slightly, which I didn't expect. It seems a bit undeserving of my position.

I didn't expect many people to read my book, and the readership figures shouldn't be great, but I'm overwhelmed by everyone's support.

Let me briefly explain. I'm a corporate slave, and my purpose in writing novels is twofold: first, I enjoy it and want to write what I want to write; second, it's for self-discipline. I don't really want to go out with people every time I get off work. I'm a bit slow, and I feel like I'd be at a disadvantage. So, updating 4,000 words every day after get off work has become a way to restrain myself.

The idea is good, but it's difficult to put into practice. Writing 4,000 words a day is still quite difficult for me. As for inspiration alone, I don't know what to do with someone who is almost 30. Sitting in a boring and repetitive job every day, how many new ideas can you expect me to have? So sometimes I can only frantically pile up settings and frantically use data to fill space. It's not that I don't want to write new things, but that my ideas are really limited.

Here's a joke: I saw a lot of AI-generated online novels before, so I tried it out myself. I found that it was better than what I wrote. Apart from some abstract plots and stories, the sentences were generally fluent, the inspiration was flowing, and most importantly, there weren't many typos.

Sigh! I was really discouraged back then. Writing novels was my only hobby, but I never expected that my hobby of so many years would be nothing in the face of technology. I simply gave up the idea of ​​continuing to write with AI because I was afraid of being discouraged by it every day, haha, so I could only continue to write by hand.

In short, I don't want to make excuses for the poor writing, because my abilities are indeed limited in many aspects! I'm glad you pointed out some mistakes, and I will correct them when I have time. But I'm speechless when you judge my writing as normal online novels. As a working stiff, all I can say is "thank you"—you're right.