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

Looking at the slightly hot core stone in his hand, Yang Fei's lips twitched. Good heavens, it expands the radius of the sky island by 50,000 meters, and it also comes with various terrains and plants and animals. Even those veteran lords probably haven't seen this thing before!

Although it's a good thing, my main priority right now is tower defense, and one wave after another. If I use this thing, the journey from here to the edge of the sky island, which is 50,000 meters, is really too far.

It should be noted that the distance from the core of the Sky Island to its edge is now two thousand meters, and it will take Yang Fei quite a while to walk there. Moreover, after upgrading the Sky Island's quality to gray, the recovery speed of the white defense towers has also increased.

If Yang Fei's legs were fast enough, he could still make it back to bed to rest for a while after each wave. But after expanding another 50,000 meters, it would be impossible to make it back to rest, and even whether he could make it back once a day would be a big problem.

Moreover, expanding such a large area now might not be a good thing. As mentioned before, the reason we dare to use gray core stones to expand the area now is because during the novice assessment period, the Sky Island will not encounter random monster sieges or void monster harassment.

But once I finish my assessment and expand these areas, I'll need enough defensive towers to protect the sky island!

Moreover, the larger the area, the more defense towers are needed. A radius of 50,000 meters, or 50 kilometers, is quite large. Even if it is only deployed on the edge of the sky island, the number of defense towers required will be enough to cause a lot of trouble.

At the current rate of tower growth, a slight expansion is perfectly acceptable. However, once this green-quality core stone is used, there definitely won't be enough towers to protect the area after the novice assessment is completed.

Moreover, this thing randomly spawns terrain. If it creates a blind spot, and Void monsters take the opportunity to invade and ambush your people, wouldn't you be vulnerable to a base raid? It's not worth the risk!

"Is this the green quality gift pack? The items are indeed good, but apart from the War Stone, the rest are not very useful for the time being!" Yang Fei put the core stone into an empty white treasure chest and muttered to himself.

However, Yang Fei had already anticipated this, so there was nothing to say. Besides, this was all free. Just because he couldn't use it now didn't mean he wouldn't be able to in the future. These treasures would only become useful once his Sky Island developed.

Finally, Yang Fei looked at the 11 coins that had brought him incredible luck with the basic reward and guaranteed minimum reward.

Yang Fei first put away the 10 gold coins he was familiar with, then tremblingly took the green coin from the succubus girl's hand. After checking its description, just as Yang Fei had thought, this thing was the basic currency reward of this gift pack.

"Shattered Wild Empire Coin: An official currency issued by the Shattered Wild Empire, the overlord of this region. Due to its strength, it is recognized by the Tower Defense world and has universal circulation rights in the Tower Defense world. It can be exchanged with the currencies of other factions and can also be directly exchanged for 100 gold coins."

"Note: You currently lack a Hegemon-level Merchant, so you cannot use it for the time being. The Heavenly Path Shop has also not yet unlocked this item, so you cannot exchange it for a specific amount of gold coins. You need to encounter a Hegemon-level Merchant and trade with them using this Hegemon Coin to unlock its usage and exchange methods in the Heavenly Path Shop."

"One hundred gold coins! Holy crap, I'm rich!" Compared to the other vague and elusive items, the basic rewards from various treasure chests never disappointed Yang Fei. Moreover, these items could directly boost Yang Fei's current combat power. Yang Fei even felt that these items were far better than those rewards that he couldn't use right now.

The restriction of being a hegemon-level merchant is almost non-existent for me, because all merchants are at least affiliated village-level forces of nearby hegemon-level forces, so they are naturally considered merchants of hegemon-level forces as well.

Simply trading with them will unlock how to use this thing. What's more, I also have the slave trader summoning token, which can also unlock how to use this currency by summoning slave traders to trade.

As for that so-called Shattered Wild Empire, Yang Fei had never heard of it. He guessed it was probably the indigenous empire of this region, or the dominant power in the vicinity.

Their strength is recognized by the Heavenly Dao. Yang Fei doesn't know exactly what constitutes "strong" strength, but he estimates that they are not people he can afford to offend. Even if he doesn't have a merchant summoning token, he can keep an eye on the wandering merchants from this faction in the future and unlock ways to use the Shattered Wild Empire Coins.

The lords of Azure Star have been in this world for less than eight years. For a world that is almost infinite and shrouded in the void, eight years is far too short to fully understand the specifics of this world.

Moreover, the lords of Azure Star are often favored by the heavens, and they are mostly born in some uninhabited areas, far away from the major local powers.

Even if a lord interacted with those indigenous forces, they were usually village-level forces far from human habitation, without even a single cultivator. Only some wandering merchants from town-level forces could barely be considered Qi Refining cultivators.

They usually only have the simplest exchanges with these lords, because even blue-grade items are quite rare among the lords. Most of them are just white or even gray items, which they don't care about at all. Most of the exchanges are just out of curiosity, and they just casually open up some trade.

This can be considered a form of protection from Heaven for the lords. After all, Heaven went to great lengths to summon the lords to this world because it wanted to see them have their fun. What kind of fun would it be if they were directly crushed by the local forces? Providing such basic protection is necessary.

Perhaps it even harbors the desire to see these lords clash with local forces in the future, so how could it allow these lords to be killed so easily? Isn't it also a kind of fun to "invest" in so-called "chosen ones" and watch them climb up from the bottom and then be absorbed by oneself?

After opening the Sky Island Upgrade Challenge gift pack, Yang Fei took out the gift pack reward for the first kill of the boss monster. This time, instead of letting the succubus girl open it, he imitated her by blowing a kiss and then opened the gift pack directly.

However, unlike the succubus girl's suggestive gestures, Yang Fei's flying kiss was directed at the succubus girl. This could be seen as a retaliation for the succubus girl's constant provocations, and also as a kind of tacit bet. They made the same gestures and opened the same gift packs to see whose items were better, and who would be on top next time, even though Yang Fei was always on top.

The gift pack flashed, and in addition to the guaranteed Wilderness Empire Coin and 10 Gold Coins, three other items appeared in Yang Fei's hand: two identical green-quality charging stone tablets, two green-quality leader recruitment cards, and two green-quality small stones.