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

As for the stats of the lord units, they should be quite exaggerated. At the uncivilized level of beasts, they possess a certain level of intelligence and some ability to protect themselves. After all, monsters at this level follow the most primal biological instinct—survival of the fittest! You may have intelligence but not strength, and no one will listen to you.

As for the King unit, that's even more outrageous. Rather than a King, according to research, it's more like a spiritual totem, at least in the beast category, such as the special event that was just triggered—the Slime King's Gaze.

According to records, when these special king units appear, they usually command the overall situation at the blue gate and will not participate in the attack. When attacked, they will actively defend or even run away.

Compared to ordinary siege monsters, they are more like behind-the-scenes planners, rarely participating directly in the attack. As for their specific values, since there are no eyewitness reports of ferocious beast-level kings, we cannot give a specific answer for the time being.

However, judging from the level of beasts alone, they should be very strong. Some kinds of kings are so powerful that even white defensive towers cannot damage them. This has already touched on the level of suppression. No one can say for sure, and Yang Fei is not very clear either.

Although the appearance of the elite slime startled Yang Fei, its low stats were within his tolerance limit. It just required Yang Fei to take better care of it, which was still acceptable.

After more than ten minutes, and after the last ordinary quality slime was instantly killed by an arrow tower, Yang Fei finally heard the prompt from the Heavenly Dao AI.

"Congratulations, Trainee Lord Yang Fei-1! You have successfully completed the first wave of the Beginner Trial on Easy difficulty, unlocking the daily challenge. You can now start the Monster Siege on Normal difficulty at any time."

"Please note that the daily challenge is closely related to resource acquisition and is affected by the current wave and difficulty of monsters. It can only be started once a day. Please pay attention to the challenge time."

"Congratulations, Trainee Lord Yang Fei-1! You have successfully completed the first wave of the Novice Trial on Easy difficulty and obtained a basic building card - a random type of troop nest. It has been sent to your system space. Please place it in time."

"Please note that the interdimensional gate is about to close and the War Corridor is about to disappear. Please retrieve the defensive towers on both sides of the War Corridor in time. Countdown: five minutes." A series of prompts brought the somewhat tired Yang Fei back to his senses.

He hurriedly communicated with the core thatched hut and used the lord's exclusive ability to collect the loot dropped in the War Corridor into his system warehouse. At a glance, he obtained a total of 10 copper coins and 8 pieces of bio rubber.

In addition, there is a gray card, a gray, thumb-sized crystal, and the basic building card from the level rewards, which fills all ten slots in the system warehouse.

Copper coins and bio-rubber are drops from regular slimes, while cards and crystals are drops from three elite slimes. The drop rates are actually decent, and it seems that the higher the quality of the monster, the higher the drop rate.

Returning to the Sky Island, Yang Fei communicated with the core thatched hut and used the Lord's other exclusive ability—Movement—to return the two defensive towers on the War Corridor to his own Sky Island. After confirming that no items were lost, Yang Fei finally breathed a sigh of relief.

The game designers somehow designed this game so that when a monster siege is initiated, it forces players to enter a top-down view to place defensive towers, but after that, it doesn't automatically return to a top-down view to reclaim the towers, and instead gives players a timeout period for them to disappear.

If the War Corridor is extended in the future, and the lord goes to the front lines, wouldn't the defensive towers and spoils disappear into the void outside the sky island along with the lord if they weren't retrieved in time? That doesn't seem very reasonable.

After thinking about it, Yang Fei felt relieved. Perhaps it was for some kind of fun, seeing the lords rush back to the sky island to clean up after successfully defending against the monster siege, without even having time to get excited.

Or... Looking at his already full system slots, Yang Fei fell into deep thought. The system slots and stacking capacity are closely related to the Sky Island level. So, in order to collect loot, is this something the person behind the game wants to see everyone upgrade their Sky Island?

If there are many different types of items dropped, then this hypothesis might actually hold true. Although you can simply pile the items onto the sky island after returning and then collect them with one click, the countdown timer and the limited grid space make it hard not to make that connection.

Shaking his head, Yang Fei temporarily discarded these thoughts. He was too weak right now to think about so much. It was more important to look at the spoils first. He had gained a lot this time, such as the gray card and gray crystal in his hand.

Arrow Tower (Gray): 10000 HP, 50-meter range, 100 attack points. Due to its low quality, it cannot replenish energy from the environment and requires gray or white energy crystals to fill. It can store 100 arrows and requires manual operation after placement.

Energy Crystal (Gray): The basic unit of energy, which can also be used as a currency to trade with merchants. It can replenish the energy of defensive towers or special buildings. For example, it can replenish 100 energy points to a gray or white arrow tower at once.

"Damn. These are good stuff." Looking at the detailed descriptions of the two items in his hand, Yang Fei immediately became excited. Perhaps he could use these two items to try to clear the first wave of monster siege on normal difficulty today. Would the daily rewards increase after that?

Yang Fei checked the time on the system panel: 8:40 PM. Both white defensive towers were killed with a single arrow, and the kill count of 51 slimes was split evenly between the two towers. It wouldn't be long before the kill count was full again.

With the addition of the gray arrow tower, whose attributes are exactly the same as the white arrow tower, and the gray crystal used to replenish energy when in danger, the slime siege on normal difficulty should be no problem.

As before, the monster attributes haven't increased across the four basic difficulty levels; the main difference is the number of monsters. With three fully equipped arrow towers, a troop nest built, and the two free troop types available, it might actually be worth a try.

As Yang Fei sat down to rest, he began to think. If he wanted to make full use of the advantage of these 36 days, then the daily challenge must be the monster siege that started last each day, and the waves of monster sieges should be started as early as possible before that.

Only in this way can resource accumulation be maximized. This is why those lords who have already succeeded want to restart. Perhaps they had too smooth sailing in the early stages and did not accumulate enough resources to achieve their ideal of perfection.

Many lords feel that their inability to defeat monster sieges is not due to their own weakness, but rather because they were too reckless in the past and failed to plan their resources properly, resulting in a current deficit.

Because there are three chances to start over, dying once doesn't matter much. In addition, they can inherit talents and their own cultivation. Many, even all, lords would like to start over, but they are reluctant to give up everything they have on the Sky Island.