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

It's very simple. The capacity is too small. A single defensive tower can only fit a maximum of four people at most. Yang Fei's current defensive force, even excluding the nearby artillery battalion, consists of hundreds of demons and elves. Moving these people would take a lot of time, so it's really not worth it.

Moreover, moving around on a defensive tower always gave Yang Fei a strange feeling. As mentioned before, Yang Fei didn't have much vanity and didn't care much about the dignity of a lord, but as a lord, he also needed to set an example in his actions and behavior. Defensive towers are for killing enemies, so it was somewhat inappropriate for him to use them for movement.

Those who understand will naturally understand Yang Fei's predicament, but those who don't will think that Yang Fei, as the lord, is neglecting his duties and using the defensive towers meant for guarding the base for travel, which is a real waste! Or they might think that the defensive towers on Yang Fei's sky island are only used to transport people, which would be awkward.

After dozing off for a short while, Yang Fei was about to drift off to sleep when he was embraced by two succubi. He was then fed lunch mouth-to-mouth, followed by another fierce battle, and finally, Yang Fei drifted off to sleep after a long absence.

At 3 PM on May 6th, Year 8 of the Tower Defense Era, 30 days before the global college entrance examination on June 6th, Yang Fei appeared precisely on the city wall of the Sky Island. After collecting all the supplies gathered by the zombie attraction team, he led everyone who had rested to start a new wave of monster attacks on time.

"Apprentice Lord Yang Fei-1, your newbie trial, wave 4, easy difficulty monster siege, will begin in ten minutes. Monster type: Sprite/Slime, Monster level: Beast level 0/1, Monster quantity: 1006/5555."

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

Yang Fei was somewhat surprised by the types and number of monsters listed on the blue door. This time, new monsters had actually appeared instead of just slimes? Yang Fei had thought that the Slime King would keep attacking him because of its consistent ability to trigger events every wave. He hadn't expected other types of monsters to attack. Had they called in reinforcements?

"Slime: Beast Level 1, HP 160, Attack 4, Defense None, a magical life form from another dimension, with no special abilities. Although it is an extremely fragile monster, you may still be unable to defeat it with your physical skills."

The level 1 beast slime only had its health doubled, which was within Yang Fei's expectations. According to the records in "Tower Defense World": "When a normal monster levels up, one of its four attributes—health, attack, defense, and magic resistance—will double; when an elite monster levels up, all four attributes will double."

The appearance of the level 1 slime did not cause a fundamental change in quality, meaning that it had seriously deviated from the randomness of a normal lord and could not affect this underlying principle. This reassured Yang Fei, as everything was still within expectations.

The level 1 beast slimes didn't change their appearance at all, so Yang Fei quickly shifted his gaze away from them and looked at the newly appeared monsters, which were what Yang Fei was most concerned about.

The main body of this monster is somewhat similar to a wooden dragonfly, except that it is slightly larger, about the size of two fists. Its two pairs of wings emit a faint glow, and when it moves, it leaves a shallow trail in the sky above the War Corridor. It is actually a flying monster.

"Dragonfly Sprite: Beast Level 0, HP 30, Attack 2, Defense 0, Magic Resistance 10. A wood-type life form from a magical world, capable of low-altitude flight. Although it is an extremely fragile monster, you still cannot defeat it with your physical skills."

"This dragonfly sprite belongs to the large group of magical sprites and has a wood-transformation skill. It can force a physical attack aimed at it to be blocked once with its wood-transformed body. After resisting, it cannot move for a short time, and if it is attacked again, the damage it receives will be doubled."

Looking at the description of the sprite, Yang Fei was speechless. This was different from the sprite he understood. In the first three waves of the game "Tower Defense World", sprites, slimes and sludge usually appear.

Even if these three waves don't appear, subsequent waves will, though their levels and attributes might be slightly higher. Overall, everyone will encounter one or even two of them.

These three types of monsters are the most beginner-friendly. Although they are not the simplest monster sieges, they are still the ones with a fixed strategy for clearing various monster sieges.

The slime siege he encountered was clearly abnormal. When Yang Fei first saw the word "sprite" on the blue door, he thought it was compensation for him, but it turned out to be something else entirely!

This little sprite called Dragonfly Sprite is clearly different from the elemental sprites similar to those in World of Warcraft that Yang Fei knows. Those elemental sprites are a weaker version of the World of Warcraft sprites, and they don't have the concept of self-destruction and mana consumption. So overall, they are flying units with fast movement speed, but their health is pitifully low, making them a bit weak overall.

The dragonfly sprite that Yang Fei encountered was clearly abnormal. Although it still had the attributes of flying units and low health, it also had a wood-transforming skill that could negate one physical attack, which was quite overpowered.

Please, this is only the fourth wave of the newbie assessment, and you've already introduced a monster that's immune to death once? Is that really appropriate? I can tolerate the treasure chest monsters, since they fall into the category of special monsters, but these things are part of the normal monster siege! It's a monster siege that we have to endure, with a constant stream of monsters and their numbers always increasing!

The main force of the horizontal-firing turrets was essentially rendered useless, and the arrow turrets required two attacks. Only the ice arrow turrets fared better, benefiting from multiple hits. A direct hit dealt fifty points of damage, enough to inflict the wood effect, followed by thirty seconds of continuous damage, which was sufficient to kill these sprites.

"I currently have 27 white ice arrow towers, plus a large number of arrow towers and an elven army that can attack infinitely. I should be able to withstand four waves on the basic difficulty, but things will be more troublesome in the future. I can also expand my ice arrow tower group appropriately."

Although Yang Fei has lost the white ice arrow tower construction card, he still has a large number of gray ice arrow tower cards. He can build them and let the elves control them without any problem. Moreover, slimes are still appearing in this wave, and two slime events are still being triggered, so he can continue to obtain white ice arrow tower cards. He doesn't need to worry too much.

However, the appearance of this enhanced version of the sprite monster still made Yang Fei wary, and made the somewhat complacent Yang Fei calm down again. Even if he was strong now, he was just a player behind the scenes of this game. He had to remember this. Now was not the time to be arrogant. He would talk about other things when he had the right to talk to the person behind the scenes.

This defense was the elves' home turf. Veranel's Elf Combat Team 1 suppressed all the elves and slimes near the blue door. They didn't have much affection for those elves, and instead, when killing the Ice Slime, they would prioritize killing these little things with their remaining firepower, as if they had a grudge against them.

Yang Fei was initially puzzled as to why the elves harbored such resentment towards these little elves, even though they were both children of the forest. Later, Yang Fei realized that the distribution of survival resources must be led by one person or one race, and there must be a unified voice. It cannot be decided by everyone discussing it; it must be monopolized!

The same goes for elves and fairies. Both are children of nature and have a say in the selection of forest or wood resources. However, they are both selfish and always want to have this say. Therefore, when the two meet, they basically don't exchange pleasantries.

As the final volley of arrows landed in the right spot under Lola's control, the last treasure chest monster gradually became visible. With no more mischievous creatures appearing, Yang Fei finally breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed that his defense would be more secure from now on.

"Congratulations, Trainee Lord Yang Fei-1! You have perfectly cleared the fourth wave of the Novice Trial on Easy difficulty. You can start the next difficulty level monster siege at any time."

"Congratulations, Trainee Lord Yang Fei-1! You have successfully completed the fourth wave of the Novice Trial on Easy difficulty and have obtained one Basic Building Card - Iron Mine. It has been sent to your system space. Please place it in time."

"Please note that the interdimensional gate is about to close and the War Corridor is about to disappear. Please retrieve the defensive towers on both sides of the War Corridor in time. Countdown: 5 minutes."

The total number of sprites and slimes, six thousand in total, might be a minor problem for an ordinary lord, but for Yang Fei's current Sky Island combat power, it's not even a warm-up. If Yang Fei hadn't controlled the firepower of the sprite troops and prioritized letting Sephira consume all the souls, this wave might not have even taken half an hour.

Taking out the iron mine construction card, Yang Fei built this valuable iron mine next to the lumberyard and quarry. From then on, Yang Fei's sky island finally had a stable source of iron ore, and the profession called iron miner was added.

Iron Mine (Initial): A basic resource building that can be rebuilt at a cost after being destroyed, but requires starting the upgrade process all over again. It can produce ten units of basic iron ore per day and requires one resident to work there. The resident works for 8 hours a day and must be paid at least one copper coin per week. Increasing the salary will further increase the resident's favor and loyalty.

Iron Mine (Upgradeable): It costs 100 copper coins, 100 iron ore, 50 wood, and 50 stone to upgrade the iron mine to level 2, increasing daily output to 20 units and providing an additional job.

Note that this is a basic building and currently has no color quality. However, its upgrade limit can be increased as the core building is upgraded. Once the corresponding level is reached, its quality can be improved, and it can randomly produce higher quality iron ore.

Iron mines, quarries, and logging camps share similar upgrade materials, but their appearances are vastly different. The latter two consist of wooden houses with hidden interiors, which doesn't seem to fit the function of such buildings. Iron mines, however, are different.

Its overall shape resembles a rocky outcrop, covering an area of ​​nearly 100 square meters. In the middle, there is a double door leading to a deep downward passage. Although the final door is still the blue door of the secret realm, the overall design is very similar to the setting of a mine.

"Iron Mine (Gray Level 5): A basic resource building. It can be rebuilt after being destroyed by spending 3 days' output of the current level, but the upgrade will need to be restarted. It can produce 100 units of ordinary iron ore and 10 units of gray quality iron ore 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.

Iron Mine (Upgradeable): Upgrade the iron mine to level 6 by spending 2000 copper coins, 2000 iron ore, 200 iron ingots, 1000 wood, 1000 stone, and 100 units of gray quality iron ore. This increases the daily iron ore production to 200 units and the gray iron ore 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 iron ore.

After spending 1800 copper coins, 1800 iron ore, 850 stone, 850 wood, and 100 iron ingots, Yang Fei upgraded the iron mine to level five, thus balancing the levels of the three basic resource buildings.

Having dealt with the basic rewards, Yang Fei turned his attention to the other rewards. First, there were the treasure chests. This time, there weren't many treasure chest monsters. Yang Fei obtained a total of 20 white treasure chests, 60 gray treasure chests, 30 white revival treasure chests, and 100 gray revival treasure chests. In terms of total amount, it was less than the previous batch, but it was still a pretty good harvest.

As for the drop rewards, Yang Fei obtained a total of: "12 Gray Ice Arrow Tower Cards, 22 Gray Arrow Tower Cards, 126 Gray Crystals, 1632 Bio Rubbers, 136 Units of Wood, 121 White Rice Seeds, 11 Silver Coins, and 9312 Copper Coins".

The drop rate of slimes goes without saying, since both slime events were triggered and nearly 6000 slimes were obtained, so the drop rate is quite good. As for the sprites, since no special events were triggered, only the normal version was available.

So there are only the three most basic drops: wood, rice seeds, and copper coins. This is not much different from the Pokémon that Yang Fei knows, except that this Pokémon is stronger and its mechanics are more outrageous, so the drop rate is also higher. The total amount of wood, rice seeds, and copper coins is already more than half, which is much better than the normal one-quarter drop rate of Pokémon.

After putting away the items one by one, Yang Fei only had white rice seeds left in his hand. These were just ordinary white rice, not the kind of rice with true energy, so there was no need to plant them in the spirit field.

Yang Fei's plan was to cultivate the wasteland on the sky islands, with most ordinary citizens responsible for growing these crops, and he would only need to collect 20% to 30% of their harvest as land rent.

In this way, I won't have to help the residents of the Sky Island buy food all the time, and I won't have to worry about how to distribute it. Let them manage their own harvest, and I won't have to worry about it.

Secondly, Yang Fei must completely separate cultivation resources from food. Cultivation resources must be firmly in his own hands as the lord, while food only needs to be registered under his name and its movement controlled by him. The rest can be left to his subordinates to worry about.