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

Just as the entire Sky Island fell completely silent, and Yang Fei was focused on the three mimics at the entrance, the succubus shot an arrow into the deserted War Corridor, hitting a mimicry chest that had suddenly appeared.

Yang Fei was stunned. He watched as the succubus girl drew her bow again. The arrow left the bowstring and reached its target. Just then, a mimic suddenly appeared in the center and hit the target again. Yang Fei was completely dumbfounded.

He wasn't frightened by the succubus's astonishing precognitive abilities. Rather, he saw that when the succubus shot, the treasure chest at the blue door was clearly still there, but when the arrow hit, the corresponding treasure chest at the blue door disappeared. Yang Fei was certain that at the moment the crossbow bolt hit, there were two identical treasure chests at that instant.

To put it simply, imagine a mimic appearing in two different places simultaneously within the same time and space. Is this non-linear movement? Crossing events and spaces, appearing two, or even more, versions of itself in the same time and space? That's too far-fetched!

"Is this still a beast-level monster?" Yang Fei was speechless. How was he supposed to fight this thing? It was clearly not something a lord could handle at this stage. What Yang Fei thought was non-linear movement was actually more like irregular teleportation.

Those irregular flashes actually follow some patterns, allowing you to figure out how to kill them. Even if you're unlucky, as long as you have enough arrow towers, you can still get a kill by chance. Ultimately, Yang Fei's understanding of non-linear movement can still be considered a type of motion, but can the effect this thing is exhibiting really be considered movement?

Before Yang Fei could finish thinking, the succubus girl had already fired her third arrow, hitting the last treasure chest that had just appeared. All three treasure chest monsters were hit and became injured. The succubus girl calmly manipulated the arrow tower to keep shooting at the three treasure chests that had not moved again.

"Hmm? Is there a limit to these guys' non-linear movement? Once hit, they can't move anymore, or is there a cooldown period where they need to accumulate some time before they can move again?" Seeing the white treasure chest monster easily shot down by the succubus girl, Yang Fei breathed a sigh of relief but then fell into deep thought again.

"It should be the former, right? If it requires accumulating energy before it can move again, then even without predicting where they'll appear next, if it moves without leaving the turret's attack range, isn't that just suicide?"

"Or perhaps... these guys are actually walking normally, but the process has been deleted, and they need to be hit to make the process visible? This might also explain why there are two entities in the same space-time, because they can't see this process, and the limitations of our observation methods cause our vision to be distorted."

It's like a silver coin that's tossed up and then lands back in your hand. The process of it leaving your hand is deleted, but the cause and effect between your hand and the coin remains the same. The process of tossing and catching occurs simultaneously, which causes this momentary error.

Startled by his own unrealistic idea, Yang Fei shook his head and smiled helplessly. If this conjecture was true, then the succubus girl was truly terrifying. If she wanted to hit those treasure chests, she could at least observe the process.

If killing a large number of slimes using the chain reaction of exploding ice slimes is something that a mortal could do with training, can he still be considered a mortal when he observes this movement that is beyond comprehension?

"Speaking of which, the people and troops I'm summoning all come from the Abyss. I always thought it was because I drew the Golden Tentacle Tower that brought the abyss's aura. After all, the golden quality corresponds to Core Formation cultivators, which is a life level that I can't understand at all. Even if I do nothing, I can't be sure what kind of effect it has on me."

"Also, in the game of angels, I transformed into a male succubus. Even though I am still myself after leaving the secret realm, at certain times, especially when facing Mona, I always think about suppressing her. According to my personality, I shouldn't do that."

Yang Fei looked at his hands, his eyes filled with complex emotions. He was certain that he was not possessed or affected by anything else, but he felt that he was no longer the person he used to be.

"Whenever I encounter Mona, the thought of suppression and conquest becomes my only option. It's not that there aren't other better ways, but it's the only way for me. All other considerations seem meaningless; only that one choice remains." Yang Fei clenched his hands, taking one, two, three deep breaths…

"Congratulations, Trainee Lord Yang Fei-1! You have perfectly cleared the first wave of the Novice Trial, Five-times Extreme Mode Monster Siege. You can start the Ten-times Extreme Mode Monster Siege at any time, or you can directly choose the second wave of Easy Mode Monster Siege."

"Please note that after selecting the second wave, you will never be able to challenge the remaining doubled limit mode of the first wave again."

"Congratulations, Trainee Lord Yang Fei-1! You have perfectly cleared the first wave of the Novice Trial, the Five-times Extreme Monster Siege, and obtained the basic building card - City Tower and City Wall, which has been sent to your system space... Countdown five minutes."

The familiar voice brought Yang Fei back to his senses. He climbed down from the ice arrow tower where he was, expressionless, and led everyone away from the war corridor, just like before.

City Tower (Initial): 5 meters high, 10 meters long, 2 meters wide, made entirely of Soul-Eating Boulder that can absorb all kinds of stone, toughness: 1000, physical resistance: 10, magic resistance: 0.

Note: City gate auxiliary buildings need to be built on top of the city gate. They can appropriately block the flight path of aerial monsters. City towers are a special category of city walls. The upgrade materials are exactly the same, but building a new city tower requires a corresponding new city gate, and the core building must reach the corresponding level. Currently, you can only have one. After upgrading to white quality, you can increase to two.

Meanwhile, the quality of the city tower will also upgrade along with the core buildings; currently, it can only withstand attacks from wild beasts and ferocious monsters.

Seeing that a temporary shelter had been erected above his previously empty city gate, Yang Fei nodded. With the addition of two extra sections of city wall, Yang Fei felt even more secure.

Then, Yang Fei looked at his system space: 3+5 silver coins, 17-3+21 gray crystals, 288+565 pieces of bio-rubber, 2321 copper coins, 3 gray arrow tower cards, 2 gray treasure chests, and 1 white treasure chest.

The numbers in front represent what Yang Fei's system space originally possessed, while the numbers behind represent the gains from this defense. As for the gray crystals -3, it's because only the succubus girl consumed 3 crystals in this war. Compared to Yang Fei's expected results, this gain can be described as a great success.

After instructing everyone, especially the succubus girl, to focus on their training, Yang Fei returned to the thatched hut alone. He then took out 800 pieces of bio-rubber and 3 gray arrow tower cards, storing them in the wooden box.