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

Yang Fei stared blankly at the system panel, recalling the sounds he had just heard, especially the words "internal test," which were particularly jarring, causing him to frown slightly.

I don't know why I entered the tower defense world ahead of time and became the so-called beta test lord. This is something I've never heard of before. Even during the first assessment, all everyone heard was, "Congratulations, you have been selected as the trainee assessment lord of Azure Star."

It's written in the general textbook of "Tower Defense World". Every student knows it now and must know it, because it represents the official start of the fate-determining test. Everyone must face ten waves of monster attacks from newbies within a month. I've never heard of the word "closed beta".

Moreover, Yang Fei was very worried about why this thing would choose him, and whether this closed beta test would be like a game, where even if he completed it, his data would be wiped.

"The closed beta means that we will be making some random changes to the strength of the monsters in the first ten waves of beginners, and randomly adding treasure chest monsters and various mechanic monsters, in order to increase the probability of the Azure Star Lord passing the year-end test."

"As for you, you are the first beta tester we selected on Azure Star." To Yang Fei's surprise, the voice answered his question.

"We will select similar players for subsequent assessments. Your existence is justified and will not affect the balance. As compensation for our impertinence in selecting you, your year-end assessment will arrive at the same time as that of a normal lord, and will not come early. Moreover, you can return to the real world at any time now."

"Open beta? The big test won't come early? Great, that means I have 36 more days to develop than others. The resources rewarded by the daily challenges alone are a bit outrageous."

Yang Fei thought for a moment and couldn't help but get excited. Who cares? Even the mysterious voice that those seniors called the Heavenly Dao AI had spoken, so it should be fine. Daily rewards, just thinking about it makes me excited. That's so many resources!

According to the general guidebook for Tower Defense World, after completing the first wave of easy difficulty for beginners, you can unlock the daily challenges. You can then easily obtain some basic resources by playing a few rounds.

For example, white rice and Qi rice are among the few sources of food for Sky Island in the absence of farmers and spirit fields. The 36 days of this closed beta test alone will allow him to accumulate some.

It's important to know that the normal internship assessment only lasts thirty days. During these thirty days, you have to pass ten waves of beginners. Each of these ten waves has four basic difficulty levels that you must pass, which are progressively more difficult. In addition, there are four extreme modes to choose from, making it extremely challenging.

Each time you clear a level, the daily challenge rewards increase. In fact, some people with less positive views are aiming for these 30 days of daily rewards. Even if they can only clear the first wave of easy difficulty, they can still start receiving the daily minimum reward and enjoy it for an extra 36 days. How can they not be excited?

"Randomly changing the strength of the first ten waves of monsters for beginners? Adding treasure chest monsters? This is a bit troublesome. This is clearly aimed at some beginner guides. Some people on Azure Star are probably going to lose their jobs." Yang Fei gritted his teeth, seeing the malice in those words.

"Sigh, well, now that randomness has been added, I can't show the strategy to others anymore. It seems this path is blocked from now on." Yang Fei sighed. He never thought he was special enough to clear the first ten waves of the beginner course and become a formal lord.

So initially, he shared the same idea as most people: to live off the daily welfare. He hoped that when he turned thirty, he would accumulate enough wealth and then try his luck to see if he could rise above others. At the very least, he could work for official lords as a tower defense engineer, setting up defensive towers for them.

He's a master of tower defense games. Although the tower defense world is a real world, he believes he can become a master in that world if the lord has that need. As for why he doesn't develop his own skills, it's mainly because he's not very confident in his management abilities.

Becoming a lord is not just about being good at playing defensive towers; it's more about managing your territory, recruiting your people and troops, developing development plans, and even planning ahead for the annual year-end exams.

He admitted he didn't have the ability, which is also one of the reasons why there are so few lords on Azure Star.

Tower defense world is difficult, but managing a territory is even more complicated. The recruited citizens are different from the immigrants from Azure Star who came here. They have a clear favorability mechanism and are capable of betrayal, unlike other Azure Star immigrants whose ability to stay in this new world depends entirely on the lord's word.

These recruited citizens are very troublesome to manage. Why do some lords prefer to spend more resources to hire immigrants from their home planet rather than recruit citizens from the sky islands? It's simple: those people are all troublemakers.

Now that randomness has appeared, it has directly cut off Yang Fei's path to becoming a tower defense master. Although he can adapt to the situation, that would require the lord to grant him higher authority, and obtaining that authority is not as simple as being a hired hand.

"Sigh, forget it. I'll just stick to being a lord. Come on, activate the talent draw." No matter what, now that I've come this far, and I have 36 more days than others, I might as well give it my all.

"Drawing in progress, drawing complete. Congratulations on obtaining the Grade D talent - Daily Card Draw." The voice rang out immediately upon Yang Fei's command, which was also a required part of the textbook.

Trainee lords should not rush to start monster sieges or claim the so-called newbie gift pack, because these two things are the most important for laying the foundation for becoming a lord.

And the extraction of talents exclusive to lords is of paramount importance!

If you can draw some pack-opening talents, the items in the newbie gift pack may change, which is extremely important for trainee lords who are entering the tower defense world for the first time and cannot import items from reality.

"Grade D? Not bad."

Everyone's talents are different, but they are determined from the beginning. Even if you fail the first test, the same applies to the second and third tests; there is no option to re-select your talents.

According to the published teaching materials, talents can be roughly divided into four types, without any distinction of high or low status. Grade A talents are those related to offense and combat, leaning towards combat, which is awesome! Therefore, some people jokingly call them "hyperthyroidism-type talents".

Class B is the counterpart to Class A, advocating defense and garrisoning.

Although this talent sounds a bit underhanded, it's currently very popular because this is a world primarily focused on tower defense, and these kinds of talents can generally boost defensive towers and the like.

This is extremely advantageous for lords who do not yet have strong bodies, so some people jokingly call this type of talent "baby-type talent".