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

Moreover, I have some money now, and in the early stages, I must learn to snowball my wealth. Although I can also accumulate some gold coins first and try to summon slave traders to buy high-quality slaves.

However, the negative effects of the merchant are too uncertain, and the introduction didn't specify a lower limit. Besides, I don't lack manpower right now, so I can hold off for now. Since the slave trader's situation is uncertain, and I have so much money, of course I should convert it into combat power.

Moreover, after increasing combat power, you can also try to upgrade the core building. The level of the first three waves of monsters will not change, and upgrading the core building will only attract more monsters, which is a good opportunity to farm monsters.

Actually, Yang Fei was planning to upgrade the core buildings first, and then buy some of the newly unlocked defensive towers from the Heavenly Dao Shop. But Yang Fei was really scared. Today's daily challenge was fine; he could easily pass it with his current combat power.

Upgradeable core buildings will trigger a massive monster siege, and it's questionable whether our forces can even withstand it. If slimes still spawn, then there's nothing to say, but what if they don't?

It's important to know that monster sieges triggered by upgrading core buildings are a special type of monster siege, unaffected by the current wave. This means that the same type of monsters as the current wave may not appear. If some particularly troublesome monsters do come, it's not certain that we can hold out.

Therefore, you must first enhance your combat power before considering upgrading the Sky Island. According to Tower Defense World, if you want to pass the first upgrade challenge, it is best to have 20 arrow towers, which is more stable.

Now that random factors have appeared, this range should increase further. Therefore, Yang Fei needs at least 20 defense towers to ensure a stable level completion. This number is not small. Excluding the tentacle towers and gray defense towers, he also needs to purchase 11 defense towers.

Even if you use all the cheaper white arrow towers to make up the numbers, that's still 121 silver coins. 121 silver coins is only a little over one gold coin, and I currently have 6 gold coins, but for the sake of the future, I can't really buy all the arrow towers.

The next level of the Heavenly Path Shop will unlock the horizontal firing turret. No lord can refuse that thing. It's powerful (high attack power), strong (area-of-effect attack), and has a long range (longer range than the flamethrower turret).

Moreover, the horizontal-firing turret not only has a longer range than the flamethrower turret, but more importantly, it also has a longer range than the arrow turret. So even without the War Stone, it can be placed on the sky island to fire and still provide defense.

Aside from the minor flaw of not being able to see clearly in close combat, it is an absolute mainstay of defense, usable until one becomes a full-fledged lord, and Yang Fei values ​​it highly. Arrow towers are ultimately not the main force for defending against monster sieges.

Its purpose is to be placed on the edge of the sky island to defend against wild monsters coming from the void. They will only become powerful after they become official lords. In fact, its current function is not as good as area-of-effect attack towers such as flamethrower towers and flat-shot cannon towers.

Especially now that the number of monsters increases in Extreme Mode, the 100 energy cap of the Arrow Tower greatly limits its effectiveness. Sometimes it can only be used to deal with high-threat units such as Ice Blast and Mimics. Its main force still needs to rely on area-of-effect attacks.

The succubus girl's exaggerated chain reaction effect caused by the exploding ice slime was also due to area-of-effect damage. Just because she used the arrow tower to attack doesn't mean all the credit goes to the arrow tower. The succubus girl was the one who caused the damage, not the arrow tower.

"If the first three waves are all slimes as they are now, then even with the highest HP, the Corrupted Slime will only have 160 HP at the 10x limit. I can definitely upgrade the Sky Island and buy the direct-fire turrets before that, so I can keep it to three turrets. That means 60+60+60 damage is enough to take down the Corrupted Slime."

"The slow tower that I had placed my hopes on also turned out to be rather laughable after the appearance of the black swamp. Its performance was rather lackluster, so it's best to buy a fire tower and 10 arrow towers now." While everyone was resting, Yang Fei, lying in the succubus girl's arms, was also thinking about how to match the next defensive towers.

Buying arrow towers isn't very effective for defense right now, but they'll be useful eventually; they're an investment in the future. My sky island has an extra 500-meter range, so buying a few more is acceptable. As for flamethrower towers and tactical turrets, their ranges complement each other, so they can also be useful. That's all.

After some thought, Yang Fei finally made up his mind. He opened the Heavenly Dao Shop and spent one gold coin to buy a white-quality fire tower. After getting 45 silver coins back, he added another 65 silver coins and bought 10 white arrow towers at once to ensure victory in the upcoming upgrade battle.

Although Yang Fei was reluctant to spend 165 silver coins at once, he was not a stingy person. Besides, this was a choice he had carefully considered, and even if these things were obsolete in the future, he couldn't blame anyone else.

Yang Fei refused to believe it. He now had a full 20 white-quality defensive towers, 3 gray-quality arrow towers, 1 gray-quality ice arrow tower, and 1 tentacle tower on his sky island. If he couldn't pass the upgrade challenge with this level of strength, then the players in the official server would suffer.

After building all 11 defensive towers, Yang Fei felt a surge of pride. Once everyone had rested enough, he immediately started the daily challenge. The monster attributes of one-tenth of the monsters didn't require much thought. He prioritized attacking the Ice Slime with the two arrow towers, and used the fire tower to burn monsters when there were many.

"Apprentice Lord Yang Fei-1, your daily challenge will begin in ten minutes. Check your current progress. You have completed the second wave of the Novice Trial on extreme difficulty. The siege monster is a slime. The maximum number of times you can double your attempts is 4. The final drop will be increased by 20% on top of the base reward for completing the second wave of extreme difficulty. The challenge will begin in ten minutes. Please be prepared to defend."

"Please note that this wave of monsters is attacking the city. The monster type is slime, level - beast level 0, number of monsters - 2222, and the attributes are one-tenth of the normal wave."

"Please adjust the position of the War Slab... The movement and reconstruction functions will be restarted after the siege ends."

"Note: Regardless of the monsters that appear in the daily challenge, only resources will drop, such as food, wood, stone, and the four basic currencies. Monsters' own drops will not be dropped, and there are no basic rewards."

"Note: Daily challenges are closely related to resource acquisition and are affected by the current wave and difficulty of monsters. They can only be started once a day. Please pay attention to the challenge time."

Seeing the total number of monsters on the blue door, Yang Fei smiled. If it were before, he would probably be a little nervous, but now, one-tenth of the monsters' attributes are not enough for him, who has been greatly enhanced.

With five tentacle jellyfish by his side, Yang Fei stepped into the War Corridor, waiting for the lone slime to arrive.