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

The succubus girl has a white arrow tower all to herself, so she can relax a bit this time. She doesn't need to attack; she can just steadily gain experience. If a treasure chest appears, then she'll need to put in her best effort.

Yuichi and the two lesser demons went to their usual spot, their happy old home. The lesser demons, who were previously part of the ground forces, didn't need to work hard this time. Yang Fei selected 13 of them who had trained diligently, giving each of them a white arrow tower so they could steadily gain experience.

As for the last two white arrow towers, they were left to three human subjects. These three are skilled at operating the gray arrow towers as additional damage dealers in the future. The lesser demons are too bad at archery, so the arrow towers can be set to auto-aim.

However, Yang Fei did not authorize their arrow towers to automatically aim. He required them to hunt on their own, absorbing experience while honing their accuracy.

Although Yang Fei also wanted to improve the accuracy of the demons, his most important goal was to defend the city. If everyone focused on improving their accuracy, who would defend the city? He couldn't put the cart before the horse. He could only let everyone take the opportunity to improve their proficiency in using ballistae while ensuring they could clear the level.

"Dear Lord, due to your excellent defense against several waves of monster attacks, 10 mimics floating in the void have set their sights on your sky island... You have triggered a special event - the blinking treasure chest. In your current wave, 10 non-linear moving mimics will appear, each carrying a different type of treasure chest."

"The mimic will arrive at your sky island... If you don't kill it, it will steal the items and disappear from your sky island."

Yang Fei, who was experiencing the thrill of smashing a slime with a single punch, was awakened by a familiar notification. There, standing by the blue door, were 10 mimics—1 white and 9 gray—standing there, somewhat speechless.

What treasure do I possess that has caused these mimics to mobilize so much, even targeting me with daily challenges that lower my stats? Could it be because I recently expanded my defenses with several new towers?

So far, we've killed a total of 6 white mimics, and it seems we've only gotten War Tablets and white defense towers from them. The gray mimics have also only gotten War Corridor and gray arrow towers. Do you guys really only steal defense tower-related buildings?

The idea flashed through Yang Fei's mind. He then looked at the 15 white defensive towers in the War Corridor, then at the 5 white arrow towers on the edge of the Sky Island that were firing at the War Corridor, and then at the treasure chests that were increasing in number again. He was actually starting to accept this uncertain idea.

"A mimic that steals defensive towers and defense-related items?" Yang Fei easily killed a slime that came forward, then looked at the mimic that had been injured by the succubus girl. He checked its attributes and found that it hadn't been weakened. So the question is, does this wave of mimics follow the daily drop principle?

If we follow this, we'll lose big this time. Not to mention the treasure chests, no matter how many of you there are, it won't affect the final daily reward. The daily challenge reward increases with the number of waves and is fixed. You're no different from these slimes. On the contrary, because of your super strong attributes, Yang Fei has to invest too much, which is not worth it at all.

If you don't follow the rules, then there's a lot more room for manipulation. The difficulty of the daily challenge is what it is; if you can be killed, then appearing in the daily challenge is actually very unwise.

In the daily challenge, the other siege monsters only have one-tenth of their normal attributes, so Yang Fei can easily deal with these monsters and then have plenty of time to deal with you.

During normal waves of siege monsters, in order to ensure the safety of the Sky Island, we are forced to let you non-attacking treasure chest monsters steal a little bit at a time. But in this weakened wave, aren't you just coming to deliver resources?

What's the point? Yang Fei didn't believe that these treasure chest monsters that steal things were brainless. Although they were still considered beasts, treasure chest monsters were special and different from those brainless monsters like slimes that looked like beasts.

The treasure chest monster should possess basic intelligence, similar to Yang Fei's tentacle monsters.

"Does the rule matter? Or am I wrong, and you guys really have no brains at all, just eyeing one or more items on my Sky Island? Is it worth risking your lives like this?" Yang Fei looked at the mimics that had been injured and revealed by the succubus girls one after another, and a hint of amusement appeared in his eyes.

"Whatever your purpose is, now that you're here, you're not leaving, especially the white treasure mimic. I really like your guaranteed reward! One gold coin is enough for me to do a lot of things."

After Yang Fei saw that all the mimics had been injured, he lost interest in investigating their purpose for coming here. The arrow towers had already eliminated all the elite-quality slimes, leaving only ordinary slimes on the battlefield.

Now is the perfect time to reap experience points, so how could he stop? Yang Fei threw himself into the battle again, engaging in close-quarters combat with the slime.

"Congratulations, Trainee Lord Yang Fei-1! You have perfectly cleared the Daily Challenge. The basic reward settlement wave is - Newbie Assessment Wave 2 Extreme Difficulty Clearance. The rewards obtained are: 36 catties of True Qi Rice, 360 catties of White Rice, 360 Copper Coins, 360 True Qi Rice Seeds, 36 Gray Crystals, and 36 Gray Magic Cores."

"It has been detected that you have completed the Doubled Limit Mode four times. The existing base reward will be increased by 20% to the total amount. You will finally receive: 43.2 catties of True Qi Rice, 432 catties of White Rice, 432 Copper Coins, 432 True Qi Rice Seeds, 43 Gray Crystals, and 43 Gray Magic Cores."

"Please note that the dimensional gate is about to close and the War Corridor is about to disappear. The next refresh time is tomorrow morning. Please retrieve the defensive towers on both sides of the War Corridor in time. Countdown: 5 minutes."

Looking at his daily rewards, Yang Fei found it somewhat amusing. Aside from rare resources like True Qi Rice, Crystals, Magic Cores, and Seeds, the copper coins and white rice were practically worthless!

Moreover, after the final 120% bonus, the total number of crystals and magic cores was clearly 0.2 more than I should have gotten! You can't just give up on them because there aren't any smaller units available!

The only good thing is that the Mimics, which weren't counted in the total number of monsters, weren't affected by the daily challenge drop rules at all, dropping 1 white Mimic and 9 gray Mimics.

In this way, even if all the treasure chests contained junk, the guaranteed reward of one gold coin made Yang Fei recover a significant portion of his previous investment.

After completing his daily tasks, Yang Fei decided not to continue the challenge. Everyone had been busy all day, so they went home, some to cultivate, some to rest, and some to recharge for the challenge tomorrow.

After returning to the core thatched hut with the succubus girl, Yang Fei took the opportunity to go back to Azure Star first. After confirming that his family was asleep, Yang Fei took a few deep breaths, knowing that he couldn't escape it after all, so he returned to the Sky Island.