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

However, there's no one else around now, so we can only hope that this guy is a little smarter. After all, a brainless thing like a flamethrower really only needs a little brainpower!

The countdown ended smoothly, and as the first ordinary slime hopped out, Yang Fei immediately heard a voice that was extremely familiar to him, a voice that had accompanied Yang Fei in almost every wave of defense.

"Ding~, Respected Apprentice Lord, your valiant actions in defending the Sky Island against the Slime Clan's attack have caused the Slime Clan to develop a slight animosity towards you, triggering a special event—The Gaze of the Slime King!"

"The next 200 normal slimes will be replaced with elite-quality corrosive slimes, 200 normal slimes will be replaced with elite-quality acid slimes, and 80 normal slimes will be replaced with elite-quality blasting slimes. Good luck!"

Yang Fei quickly calculated that there were a total of 480 elites. After the first line of defense killed 80 Ice Slimes, they could probably do some extra work, such as dealing with elite slimes with HP between 60 and 100. Those slimes were still within the one-hit range, which could relieve some pressure on the rear line of defense.

For example, the extremely threatening Acid Slime only has 70 HP, and even after a 1.2x buff, it only has 84 HP. It can be easily killed in the first half of the battle, which may reduce the threat to the ground troops behind it.

Yang Fei observed the succubus girl who was wreaking havoc for a while. After confirming that she was handling the situation with ease, he was about to remind her to kill the acid slime when the pressure wasn't too great when the familiar voice rang out again.

"Ding~, Respected Apprentice Lord, your bravery in defending the Sky Island against the Slime Clan's attack has increased the Slime Clan's animosity towards you to a minor level, triggering a special event: The Slime King's Theft!"

"The next 50 common slimes will be replaced with elite-quality bronze slimes, and 10 common slimes will be replaced with elite-quality silver slimes. They will be stealing your territory's wealth, so please protect your assets!"

"The Slime King's Theft? What is this?" Yang Fei hurriedly looked towards the blue door and saw that there were two new descriptions of slimes on the blue door.

Copper Coin Slime: Level 0, Elite Unit, HP 12 (enhanced), Attack 0, Defense 0, Speed ​​three times that of a normal slime, an anomaly among slimes, possessing slight intelligence, knows how to dodge, and loves copper coins.

Upon entering the core building, you will directly steal 10 copper coins from the lord, regardless of where these copper coins are. Unless you don't have any, killing the lord will always drop one copper coin, with a very small chance of dropping one silver coin. Other slime materials will not drop.

Silver Coin Slime: Level 0, Elite Unit, a variant of the Copper Coin Slime, HP 22 (enhanced), Attack 0, Defense 0, Speed ​​three times that of a normal slime, an anomaly among slimes, possessing slight intelligence, able to dodge, and fond of silver coins.

Upon entering the core building, you will directly steal 5 silver coins from the lord, regardless of where these silver coins are located. Unless you don't have enough, you can also steal copper coins. Defeating the lord will always drop 5 copper coins, with a small chance of dropping one silver coin. Other slime materials will not drop.

Looking at the descriptions of the two types of slimes, and then at the two brand-new slimes that had rolled out of the blue door, I couldn't help but feel speechless. Was this some kind of spying by the King of Slimes?

Yang Fei admitted that he was really flustered when he saw the name. He thought it was some kind of special money-stealing monster, but he didn't expect that the two of you had such weak attributes. Even after being strengthened by the extreme mode, you are still very weak for the current Sky Island defense.

The two creatures, one entirely yellowish-brown and the other silver-white, were both about the size of a billiard ball and rolled forward at a speed far exceeding that of a normal slime's bouncing. If they had appeared in the previous wave, Yang Fei might have had to adjust his strategy and have the automatically attacking white arrow towers specifically target them.

But that won't work now. The fire turrets deal 60 points of area-of-effect damage, which they can't dodge. The triple speed attack seems fast at first glance, but there are too few of them, which means that their spawn rate can't keep up. As long as Yang Fei adjusts the fire turrets' attack frequency appropriately, these little things are just free money.

After observing the spawn rate of the copper coin slime and silver coin slime in front of the blue door, Yang Fei finally confirmed this. Whether the slime king hiding behind the scenes was hostile to his superiors or simply not very bright, he had actually allowed these two types of slimes to appear in this way at this time.

The key to stealing money is surprise. How can you achieve surprise? Yang Fei believes there are two main points. First, you must disguise yourself well, that is, become invisible so that others cannot discover you. This is the essence of being a thief. Even if you are not invisible, at least you should look exactly the same as other slimes and blend in with the crowd. Only in this way can you have a chance to successfully steal money.

The second point is to blindly increase stats. If you can't fake it, then just be simple and brutal: increase health, defense, and speed. Yang Fei speculates that the Slime King takes the latter approach, after all, it has a triple speed boost!

Unfortunately, the numbers are still too low, or perhaps these monsters are too low-level to withstand such exaggerated effects, making it a bit difficult for them to appear in the first wave.

These two monsters only have three times the speed, no defense, and greatly reduced health. They're clearly aiming for a gamble. It seems the Slime King wants to cut off its own development and kill Yang Fei in one fell swoop.

Unfortunately, while the idea was good, it was a coincidence that Yang Fei had finally acquired the area-of-effect defensive tower he had been longing for. What good is speed if it's fast? The slime's base speed means that even at three times the normal speed, it's not actually that fast!

The area-of-effect damage of the flamethrower is enough to kill these fast gold monsters! Yang Fei slightly adjusted the flamethrower strategy without interfering too much. In any case, this tower must be at full power.

Yang Fei only gave the succubus girl orders not to deal with the two newly appeared slimes. She was just to kill some acid slimes while she was killing the ice slimes, and leave the rest to the others.

Even though the two types of money-stealing slimes are faster than the attack frequency of the flamethrower tower, Yang Fei has set the priority of the white arrow tower that attacks automatically. Now, these two types of money-stealing monsters are like low-cost gold monsters delivered to his door, and he absolutely cannot let them go.

"This thing is an elite monster, and it doesn't have a superior-subordinate relationship with other elite slimes, which is why its spawn rate is suppressed. If it encounters a slime with leadership abilities in the future, like that Slime King, then these guys might really cause a major problem!"