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

Perhaps this is the punishment for the premature appearance of super-powerful elites like the Ice Slime. You dare to condescend to torment a newbie like me? Well then, prepare to be punished with level 0 beast attributes. Otherwise, Yang Fei really can't think of how a normal lord could clear the game.

Thanks to the succubus's unexpected killing method, Yang Fei's defense of the base was much easier than expected. After replenishing the energy of the two white arrow towers once more, the remaining slimes on the field were quickly killed.

"Congratulations, Trainee Lord Yang Fei-1! You have perfectly cleared the first wave of the Novice Trial on extreme difficulty. Next, you can choose to activate the double extreme mode to try a more challenging tower defense, or directly start the second wave of the Novice Trial on easy difficulty."

"Please note that the Double Extreme Mode is an extra wave of challenge. After clearing each of the four basic difficulties in a major wave, four Double Extreme Modes will be unlocked. Each one has special rewards, and clearing each Double Extreme Mode will affect all subsequent daily rewards."

"Please note that after completing any of the four double-strike extreme modes, you can still choose to start the next wave. Conversely, if you start the next wave of monster siege, you will never be able to select the remaining double-strike extreme modes from the previous wave."

"If the next wave of monster sieges is initiated directly, the previous wave's doubled extreme mode will be permanently lost. Each wave's four doubled extreme modes are only available for that wave's challenge, and each mode can only be challenged once."

"Congratulations, Trainee Lord Yang Fei-1! You have successfully completed the first wave of the Newbie Trial's Extreme Difficulty Monster Siege and obtained the Basic Building Card - Quarry. It has been sent to your system space. Please place it in time."

"Congratulations, Trainee Lord Yang Fei-1! You have perfectly cleared the first wave of monster sieges in the Novice Trial, which has four difficulty levels. You have obtained basic privileges—the Heavenly Path Shop. Through the system panel, you can buy or sell items at any time."

"At the same time, like other basic functions, the Heavenly Path Shop will gradually unlock new items as your core building level increases. Also, if you sell an item that is not available in the Heavenly Path Shop, your Heavenly Path Shop will unlock the right to sell that item. Please check regularly."

"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."

A series of prompts and rewards sounded as the last slime fell. Yang Fei, without taking a break, hurriedly led everyone back to the Sky Island, put all the defense towers back in place, and used the one-click collection function to store the dropped items into the system space.

At a glance, the three items in his backpack had increased significantly: 150 copper coins had increased to 420, the remaining 6 gray crystals had increased to 12, and the 66 pieces of bio-rubber had increased to 280.

Since there were quite a few elite-quality slimes, the harvest was decent, especially the basic drops of copper coins and bio-rubber, which yielded a considerable amount. There were even six extremely rare gray crystals, which somewhat made up for the losses during the defense.

In addition, this haul also included two different types of gray cards. One was a normal gray-quality arrow tower, which should be the first major drop after killing so many slimes. The other was a gray-quality ice arrow tower, which should be the guaranteed reward dropped on the first kill of an ice slime.

Yang Fei took out two arrow tower cards and, without hesitation, built two gray arrow towers.

Ice Arrow Tower (Gray): 5000 HP, 50m range, 50 attack points. Due to its low quality, it cannot replenish energy from the environment and requires gray or white energy crystals to fill. It can store 50 frozen arrows.

Each freezing arrow can freeze an enemy for thirty seconds and deal one-tenth of the attack power as damage per second. It requires manual operation after placement.

There's not much to say about the ordinary arrow towers. Yang Fei turned his attention to the ice arrow tower. The main structure of the ice arrow tower is the same as that of the ordinary gray arrow tower, except that its appearance has changed from a dilapidated bluish-gray to a somewhat faded white tower body. At the same time, the top of the tower has changed from a simple tower with open sides to a sealed tower with better heat insulation.

Yang Fei circled the Ice Arrow Tower, checked its attributes, and nodded. 50 attack power, dealing one-tenth of the damage per second for 30 seconds, that's 150 damage.

Even disregarding the 150 damage, the 30-second freeze effect alone is a particularly powerful one among monsters with almost no freeze resistance in the early game. Keep in mind this is a tower defense world; being frozen for 30 seconds is enough for the towers to deal damage.

However, this ice arrow tower can only store 50 energy points, which means that one gray crystal can only launch fifty attacks. Using it now is actually a bit of a waste, since the monsters' health is not yet beyond the tower's one-shot limit, so there's no need to use such a powerful weapon.

After inspecting the two newly built defensive towers, Yang Fei checked the two white arrow towers again. Because they had replenished their energy twice along the way, each of the two white arrow towers still had about half of their energy remaining. Roughly estimated, the two white arrow towers had killed a little over five hundred slimes in total, and were still the main force this time.

Unfortunately, although the succubus girl's move killed all the Ice Slimes, its self-destruct range was still somewhat small for the entire War Corridor. Each time, very few slimes were affected within the self-destruct range. Although it had an effect, it wasn't as exaggerated as expected.

Looking at the succubus girl's gray arrow tower with 40 energy points remaining, and then at his own arrow tower with 33 energy points remaining, Yang Fei fell into deep thought. The succubus girl had 40 energy points remaining because she only fired 60 arrows, and he had 33 energy points remaining because he only fired 30 arrows.

These two may seem similar, but they represent completely different things. The succubus can fire 60 arrows because she needs to find a specific target, then nock and aim, which is why she only fired 60 arrows. All 30 Ice Slimes perished at her hands.

The remaining 30 arrows all targeted acid slimes, and none of them resulted in a kill. After firing these 60 arrows, the ordinary slimes in the War Corridor were no longer worth her energy to kill, and the remaining elite slimes could be handed over to the white arrow tower that had been replenished with energy.

Yang Fei fired 30 arrows because that was all he fired from beginning to end. Although all of them were effective kills, he managed to steal a few kills from the monsters after the succubus stopped attacking, which was a bit embarrassing to admit.

Seeing that the succubus girl had put her handcuffs back on and was sitting quietly to the side absorbing true energy, Yang Fei felt a little reluctant. After all, she had made a great contribution this time and deserved some reward. But games are games, and rewards shouldn't be taken for granted. He might as well just go for it.