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

As for Grade C talents, they tend to be logistics-oriented. Some can increase the resource output within their territory, while others can make those unruly people more obedient and increase stability. Some can even increase their own strength by eating, breathing, or sleeping.

This talent already has some clear differences in its upper and lower limits, but overall it still needs time to develop. However, in a word, it leans towards "survival," so lords with these talents generally tend to develop in a sneaky and underhanded manner.

Moreover, these talents offer virtually no boost to combat power in the early stages, making it extremely easy to fail. Therefore, the best outcome for those possessing these talents is to become someone else's subordinate or find an alliance to rely on, where they can rise to prominence once they become powerful.

Therefore, this talent can also be jokingly called the "survival talent"! However, lords with these talents never say that; they always say that they have the "logistics talent" or the "farming talent".

As for the Grade D talent, it refers to the talent that Yang Fei possesses. It is one of the four types of talents with a huge difference between its upper and lower limits. A good talent might make someone a big shot from birth, while a bad talent would make someone worse than a pig or a dog.

So, how do we distinguish between good and bad? Let's take the main character as an example. Daily card draws are a good talent, since you can draw a card every day. The card might contain defensive towers, special buildings, or even high-level units.

However, it's also possible to draw out an enemy! That's right, this is the D-level talent. Its special feature is its uncertainty; you don't know what it will do.

As far as Yang Fei knew, some Tier D talents even required a price to activate, such as sacrifice, so these talents were jokingly called "exclusive to lucky players." Why? Because the difference between heaven and hell is you!

"Daily card draws seem to require a bit of luck." Yang Fei opened his talent list and examined it carefully. To be honest, his favorite talent was still the B-rank. It had a certain combat power in the early game, and he could also hide behind the defensive tower to deal damage. Wasn't that great?

"Daily card draw, Tier D talent, no cost, can be activated once a day, refreshed at 0:00 on Azure Star time, can be drawn from any item in the myriad worlds, which may be a super defense tower that can wipe out a wave of monsters in one hit, or it may be a monster that you cannot defend against at this stage."

Evaluation: It's all down to luck, life or death is irrelevant—it's all about luck! This is a talent that no one has ever obtained since the beginning of the tower defense world. In addition, you have obtained the qualification for the closed beta of the tower defense world, which is a special consideration. So most likely, you won't be taken away in one go. After all, one-time fun can't compare to long-term fun, right?

Currently, there is one guaranteed chance to get a golden positive item, and one chance to draw today.

Looking at the description, Yang Fei's lips twitched. It all depends on luck, and life and death are not a concern. Doesn't that mean that even if you develop well, if you are clumsy and draw a big one, you will be sent back to Azure Star?

"I know there's a huge gap between the upper and lower limits of a Tier D talent, but they don't have to treat me like this. And what's with that description later on? Are they trying to take me down in one fell swoop and make me look bad?"

Thinking back to when Tower Defense World A1 suddenly announced it would increase randomness, was it really just to improve the chances of passing the year-end exam? Yang Fei no longer felt any excitement about being selected as a beta tester; instead, he felt a strong sense of malice.

"Using it guarantees an opportunity." Shaking his head, Yang Fei suppressed the irritation in his heart. This Heavenly Dao AI can read one's thoughts, so it's best not to think recklessly.

If cultivation of immortality exists in this world, then luck is something that the Heavenly Dao can definitely influence. If he were to be targeted, that would be even worse. Yang Fei himself might not care, but he still has his family. This thing is so intelligent, it's hard to guarantee that it won't resort to underhanded tricks.

"Draw successful! Congratulations on winning the grand prize, the growth-type defense tower - Tentacle Tower."

A card radiating golden light appeared in Yang Fei's hand, but Yang Fei was somewhat speechless.

Logically speaking, gold-quality items are already legendary on Azure Star, and their appearance would truly trigger a world war. However, looking at the card in his hand, Yang Fei couldn't feel excited at all.

"Tentacle Tower (Gold): It can deal damage to mid-level monsters and cause fatal damage to low-level monsters and monsters of lower quality. However, given the current Sky Island level, the energy contained in the environment is insufficient to sustain itself. The energy absorbed by this defensive tower can only be used to attack once a day."

The next attack requires 24 hours to replenish power, which can be stored. It can also be replenished using at least silver-quality energy crystals or low-grade magic stones to replenish the energy consumed in one hundred attacks. There is no storage limit.

"Tentacle Tower (Growth Potential): A growth talent with huge potential. For every thousand enemies killed, an additional tentacle can grow. The number of tentacles is equal to the tower's attack frequency. Currently, there are ten tentacles."

Consuming one hundred tentacles will accumulate one percent of growth. Once it reaches one hundred percent, you can attempt a quality breakthrough. Note that this action has a chance of failure. If you fail, you will not get your original growth points back, but will be directly reduced to your original initial state and you will have to start over.

Furthermore, the higher the quality of the defensive tower, the lower the breakthrough probability. Returning to the initial state only restores it to its original quality, which is its original card form. Kill count, tentacle count, and growth rate will all be recalculated; it will not revert to its breakthrough quality.

"Damn, if we ignore the absolute crushing power it has over lower-level demonic beasts, this growth talent is completely unworthy of its gold quality. And judging from the description, I can be certain that this defensive tower only has the most basic stats of a gold-quality defensive tower."

Based on the publicly disclosed rarity of the items, they are roughly divided into gray, white, green, blue, purple, silver, gold, orange, red, and black, from low to high.

Items of similar quality often have similar numerical values, and in some cases, there is no situation where a higher-quality item completely outclasses a lower-quality item.

It is difficult to determine the specific criteria for differentiation. However, the strength of an item is generally judged by its life level, law level, and additional attribute modifiers.

For example, gray and white defensive towers can only harm normal wild animals. They are completely ineffective against higher-level ferocious beasts, even though these defensive towers look identical.

However, the more advanced white defensive towers have an attribute that allows them to absorb energy and attack automatically. This means that white defensive towers can generally absorb the energy from the surrounding environment on their own, while gray towers need to be filled with energy crystals, spirit stones, and other universal currencies to replenish their energy.

Once you reach the green defense tower, besides being able to damage higher-level ferocious beasts, its numerical attributes, quantified by the Heavenly Dao AI, are similar to those of the white defense tower. However, against lower-level beasts or mortals, it's like a nuclear weapon, utterly and unreasonably crushing them.