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

Chapter 145 Plan

Although Yang Fei could handle it, he still needed to observe the number of monsters in the next wave before making a decision. He couldn't blindly improve himself for some vague and uncertain things, which could lead to failure in the most important test.

Secondly, Yang Fei knew which defense towers would be unlocked in the next upgrade of the defense tower shop. This was already written in "Tower Defense World". He was well aware that even if he upgraded the Sky Island to level 8, which is the peak state of the gray quality Sky Island, the defensive items that appeared would hardly be able to help him.

Therefore, although this plan is the simplest and most effective, it is only a last resort and should be taken as a way to break even.

Secondly, it's about expanding the number of other defensive towers, such as Ice Arrow Towers, Flamethrower Towers, and Slow Towers. I hadn't paid much attention to these three types of towers before, and I hadn't even bought the gray quality versions of Flamethrower Towers and Slow Towers. Now that I think about it, that was wrong.

Now that we have a way to obtain charging slabs, we might as well try to expand the number of these types of defensive towers. The defense of Sky Island is never a matter of a single defensive tower, but the result of multiple defensive towers working together.

A normal Sky Island development should include all types of defensive towers, with some towers standing out. Previously, Yang Fei was always thinking about how to defend more easily at this stage, without considering the possibility of combined monster groups attacking.

Sometimes, I even have to rely on the self-destructing monsters in the monster horde. This is a one-sided view. Now that I have money and manpower, I can buy enough defensive towers. Perhaps I can make these preparations in advance.

However, this plan is still limited by some conditions. The most important one is the premise of "having people". How many people do you have enough to operate the defense tower, or to put it more bluntly, how many people are worth your effort and wasting monster experience to train?

Take the refugees from Qianwu Star as an example. The total number of refugees was 6,000, but now there are 2,000 people in their own territory. Of these 2,000 people, only about one in ten, less than 200, know a basic skill. Most of the rest just use the turrets to gain experience and don't take the use of the turrets seriously.

Qian Duoduo would hold tutoring classes in his spare time to teach these people how to use this kind of flat-fire cannon, but only about a hundred people could truly "master" these things. This was not a matter of comprehension, but a matter of attitude.

To put it simply, out of these two thousand people, only a hundred were studying seriously; the rest had one or more attitude problems. Before the disaster, most of them were just ordinary people.

They have become accustomed to ordinary lives, their edges have long been worn down by life, they have become aware of all kinds of injustices and discrimination in society, and they have long lost the youthful spirit that could ignite their passion.

"Slacking off and taking it easy are the only ways to succeed; those who take things seriously are the most ridiculous." These ideas are deeply ingrained and difficult to change. The simplest way to cultivate immortality is to work hard and try it seriously.

The most important concept in cultivating immortality is to be down-to-earth. It's possible to cultivate immortality with a confidante, but for most people, the reality is solitary and arduous cultivation. Don't always fantasize about some powerful being imparting teachings or having some kind of cheat code or golden finger. If you could succeed with these things, then these kinds of stories wouldn't be so popular.

From the seemingly trivial matter of learning how to use a turret, Yang Fei could tell that the vast majority of people here were not worth training. It wasn't that they couldn't succeed, but from a lord's perspective, you have to have a mindset that prioritizes self-interest. These people might be able to work for you, but ultimately they couldn't create greater value.

In fact, it's not just these refugee issues; the people on their own home planet might also have this problem, but the proportion is much smaller. Those who have failed the lord assessment, or even those who never had the chance to be assessed in the first place, are surprisingly insightful.

They have experienced failure and helplessness, and know that such opportunities are hard to come by. Therefore, their attitude towards such things is completely different from that of ordinary people. Yang Fei will first consider such people when recruiting territory management personnel in the future. For no other reason than that they are really good at giving full play to their initiative.

As for those elves, they could be trained properly. Actually, when they first arrived, Yang Fei planned to give up, but he didn't expect that these guys would suddenly choose to join him and become loyal to him. As a result, Yang Fei's attitude towards them changed.

The desire for revenge is one of the most terrifying sources of motivation in the world. In addition, the elves are very serious when using the defensive towers, which greatly reduces the pressure on the succubus sisters. Yang Fei naturally saw this. If the arrow towers can hit, then the other defensive towers are probably no problem either. They may be the best executors of this plan.

However, he is short of both his own Pokémon and Power Plates, and will have to wait for the next merchant to come and purchase another batch before he can build all kinds of defensive towers. This plan will take some time.

By then, even with a variety of defensive towers, it might still be unable to deal with those strange mimics. However, when facing various enhanced monsters, or even when exploding monsters don't appear, it will have more options and will no longer need the succubus sisters to contribute extra, allowing them to focus on dealing with the mimics.

Thirdly, the Abyss Shop offers the best solution based on the monster's condition. Whether it's a treasure chest monster or various enhancement monsters, addressing the root cause is always more reliable than blindly using potions.

However, the more complex the function of the defensive tower, the higher its value. For example, the Power Slab already costs 5 Elite Beast Souls and 5 Silver Coins. It is conceivable that the price of a defensive tower that can deal with Mimics would be quite outrageous.

Lying in Mona's arms, Yang Fei, who had been thinking rapidly, slowly came to his senses. Half an hour of rest had passed again. Yang Fei woke up everyone, climbed his defensive tower again, and started the monster siege!

"Apprentice Lord Yang Fei-1, your newbie trial's fourth wave of difficult monster siege will begin in ten minutes. Monster type: Sprite/Slime, Monster level: Beast level 0/1, Monster quantity: 5692/26999."

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

This wave already numbered over 30,000, and it took Yang Fei nearly an hour to complete the defense. As the number of monsters decreased, the monster spawning efficiency also dropped slightly.

However, this time there were no more unexpected events, no new monsters appeared, no new events were triggered by the slime race, and the attack of the mimic remained unchanged. This relieved Yang Fei, as it was good that he could pass the level smoothly.

The basic reward for this wave was a house building blueprint. Without hesitation, Yang Fei spent 1000 units of wood, 100 units of stone, and 10 gray energy crystals to build these ten wooden houses near the core area once again.

In this way, Yang Fei's sky island already has 140 finished wooden houses, and another 100 are under construction, totaling 240 houses, which can accommodate about 240 families. Among the lords of Azure Star, this scale is already considered that of a "large landowner"!

As for the treasure chests, there were still only about three hundred this time, including: 50 white treasure chests, 100 gray treasure chests, 60 white resurrected treasure chests, and 140 gray resurrected treasure chests. Even without defensive towers that could break through the way these guys moved, the two succubi, with the help of the arrow towers, still easily slaughtered these treasure chest monsters.

This gave Yang Fei the illusion that perhaps he didn't need to add more defensive towers to deal with these monsters, and that the two succubi could handle everything on their own, or that he should summon more succubi to help him solve everything.

Shaking his head, Yang Fei dismissed those two dangerous thoughts. At this stage, he needed more ways to deal with these mimics, rather than relying on guesswork or sheer numbers for defense. Such a simplistic approach was too risky, and he shouldn't underestimate those monsters; they were truly dangerous!

The drop rate is still not high, especially for elite monsters. This wave saw more than 8,000 Frenzy Slimes, taking up more spots that should belong to elite monsters, resulting in a low drop rate for some special items.

In the end, Yang Fei only obtained: "41 Gray Ice Arrow Tower Cards, 70 Gray Arrow Tower Cards, 502 Gray Crystals, 8021 Bio Rubbers, 526 Units of Wood, 621 White Rice Seeds, 30 Silver Coins, and 30614 Copper Coins".

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In terms of the total number of monsters, the drops of wood, seeds, and other items from sprites have increased to some extent, while the drops of more common items such as tower cards, silver coins, and copper coins are only at the level of four times the easy difficulty.

Normally, the drop rate should be around five times, but it seems that the berserk slime has affected my gains.

Yang Fei had actually suspected that these enhanced slimes only occupied the slots for ordinary slimes and could not affect the slots for elite slimes.

After all, the enhanced version of the berserk slime is still a type of ordinary slime. If it were to occupy space, it should replace the ordinary slime and not affect the elite slime. But it seems that's not the case now.

These berserk slimes do indeed take up the number of elite slimes, at least in terms of drop rate and the number of elite monsters appearing.

The total number of elite slimes in this wave is indeed less than five times the total number of elite slimes on easy difficulty, and only slightly more than three times. On the contrary, the number of berserk slimes has reached eight thousand, accounting for one-third of the total number of slimes, while the proportion on normal difficulty is one-twenty-fourth. This increase in numbers is clearly abnormal.

Of course, the increase in the number of these berserk slimes is not entirely without its benefits. Once a normal slime reaches level 1, its health points will be 160, while an arrow tower's attack will only deal 100 damage, making it impossible to achieve the same instant kill effect as before.

These berserk slimes are generally new monsters that appeared in the fourth wave; they are only level 0 beasts with 60 health.

Even though the target is fast, it's not a problem for a skilled archer like Yang Fei. Its killing efficiency is much higher than that of a regular slime. Therefore, Yang Fei's defensive pressure this time is actually easier than the previous time.

Looking at the Sky Island he hadn't improved much in the last wave, Yang Fei felt it was time to open the chests again. He could make do with the easy to hard mode, but he couldn't make do with the hard to extreme mode. He had to give the extreme difficulty enough respect.

Yang Fei has a total of 240 white boxes and 560 gray boxes. This time, Yang Fei plans to open 20 white boxes and 60 gray boxes. He doesn't ask for too much; as long as he can get a white arrow tower card, that will be enough.

This time, Yang Fei called Mona over. He had always been considerate of the succubus sisters' rest, so he opened the boxes himself, resulting in the items he got being either unusable or useless.

Yang Fei hadn't received all the basic rewards when he opened the previous two leaderboard gift packs, while Mona had gotten all the rewards when she opened the gold gift pack with a guaranteed minimum of 0%. This made Yang Fei wonder if his luck was far inferior to that of the succubus sisters.

Stop and think carefully about the rewards from opening each treasure chest. It seems that the rewards from the treasure chests opened by the succubus sisters are indeed better than mine. At least they are more practical than what I got today, where I opened hundreds of treasure chests but ended up with very few usable items.

Under Yang Fei's watchful eye, Mona ordered the lesser demons to neatly stack all the treasure chests to be opened on the city wall. After the lesser demons left, she boldly took off her somewhat tattered secretary outfit in front of Yang Fei, put on her old narrow-cloth dress, and started playing hopscotch on the treasure chests.

Watching the two planets rise and fall, seemingly about to break free of their restraints, Yang Fei was speechless. The void outside had darkened again, meaning it was nighttime once more. This succubus girl was about to get excited again.

Previously, Yang Fei was busy dealing with the siege of millions of monsters, and due to time constraints, his battles with the two succubi were only brief. Sometimes, when Yang Fei was too tired, he would just do a quick stunt and then pretend to faint. Now, he probably can't avoid it anymore.

After taking off the somewhat cumbersome secretary outfit and changing into the more convenient succubus dress, Yang Fei could clearly see that every inch of Mona's skin was gradually turning pink, and the fatigue on her face was gradually replaced by excitement. This was not only the case for Mona; Lola in the distance was the same. She changed out of the same secretary outfit that Yang Fei had prepared and put on her succubus outfit.

Yang Fei took a deep breath, knowing that he was likely to suffer a heavy blow tonight, but there was nothing he could do but leave it all to him tonight. Now he had to shift his attention to the upcoming extreme difficulty siege.

There were no surprises in the 60 gray treasure chests this time; they contained items that Yang Fei had already owned. However, the quality of items that Yang Fei could use directly was significantly higher, and even rarer blueprints for houses and spirit fields appeared in quite a few, making it a considerable harvest.