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

With ample firepower this time, there's no need for ground blocking positions. Everyone can climb the arrow towers and share some experience, so Yang Fei naturally wants to seize this opportunity.

"Ding~, Your Excellency Apprentice Lord... The Gaze of the Slime King."

"The next 654 regular slimes will be replaced with elite-quality corrosive slimes; 436 regular slimes will be replaced with elite-quality acid slimes; and 589 regular slimes will be replaced with elite-quality blasting slimes. Good luck!"

"Ding~ Respected Apprentice Lord... The Slime King's Theft!"

"The next 309 common slimes will be replaced with elite-quality bronze slimes, and 179 common slimes will be replaced with elite-quality silver slimes. They will be stealing your territory's wealth, so please protect your assets!"

As the familiar events were triggered, the familiar elite slimes reappeared on Yang Fei's Sky Island. It seems that these two events have become fixed trigger options. Otherwise, after the last wave of lord sieges, the Slime King should have adjusted its monster strategy, at least the probability of the appearance of the Ice Slime would have been adjusted. But now it seems that the proportion of Ice Slimes has indeed decreased, but the current number is not unacceptable.

Under Yang Fei's command, the group of horizontal-firing turrets carrying 10 inferior demons began to roar in batches. With flashes of light from the ten cannons appearing one after another, the silence of the sky island was broken by a series of loud cannon shots.

Yang Fei, who was already a martial artist, could barely see the trajectory of the cannonball. After a flash of light from the muzzle, a beam of black light shot out directly from the muzzle, forming a strange straight line, and landed directly in the pre-set area of ​​the war corridor.

Then, the black beam of light struck the War Corridor, creating a standard circular cloud of dust. All slimes in that area with less than 50 HP either disappeared or left behind their dropped materials.

"The cannonball is a bit different from what I expected. Instead of exploding upon landing, it simply creates a damage area, without any explosion or impact, and directly damages all the slimes within that area."

"Although the final effect is the same, it lacks the explosive impact of the landing point, and there's not even a sound at the landing point. It just doesn't feel as powerful!"

While manipulating the ice arrow tower to fire at will, Yang Fei observed the effect of the horizontal cannon. Although the expected goal was achieved, just as Yang Fei said, it was not as imposing as expected when the actual battle started!

In some respects, especially when fighting intelligent species, momentum is actually very important. Wide-range bombardment is not only about killing the enemy, but also about inflicting a psychological blow on them.

Even if you don't inflict damage, you should instill fear in the enemy through sheer force of will, achieving the effect of subduing the enemy without fighting. This is the true meaning of large-scale bombardment, but direct-fire artillery clearly does not have this effect.

However, to be fair, Yang Fei's war corridor has been upgraded from a dirt path to a gravel path as Yang Fei's Sky Island has been upgraded. It is at most a gray-grade path. If a large-scale bombing of a white-grade level were to occur, the road surface might not be able to withstand it.

Therefore, it is understandable that this is the manifestation of the effect. However, will it really cause damage if your own turret bombards your own war corridor? Yang Fei had not really considered this question.

According to the experience passed down from his predecessors, Yang Fei knew that Sky Island had a friendly fire mechanism, which meant that area-of-effect weapons such as turrets and flamethrowers could damage friendly units. However, Yang Fei was not sure whether his own defensive towers could damage his own buildings.

After all, who would bother attacking their own buildings with defensive towers for fun? As for the War Corridor, which is classified as a defensive building, it couldn't be tested either, since arrow towers and flamethrower towers, in principle, cannot damage dirt and gravel paths.

However, the direct-fire cannons produce a kind of effect that seems to only have the final damage effect, without any specific visual or explosive effects, which makes it impossible for most people to conduct actual tests.

However, while attacking defensive buildings doesn't show any concrete effect, attacking your own people definitely causes them to lose health. This is an experience that our predecessors learned with the blood of their people. I don't know what their purpose was, whether it was intentional or unintentional.

Yang Fei would naturally not try it out of curiosity. Whether it was attacking his own buildings or his own men, Yang Fei couldn't bring himself to do it; at least, he couldn't bring himself to do it.

According to the data in "Tower Defense World," enemies can destroy the War Corridor and even the Sky Island itself. However, neither the War Corridor nor the Sky Island itself has specific numerical values; they can only be roughly assessed based on their grade, which is quite troublesome.

A high-ranking attack will definitely destroy the War Corridor and the Sky Island, and then we'll have to spend materials to repair them, which is very troublesome.

Therefore, Yang Fei did not plan to do any challenges beyond his level. Otherwise, if he accidentally failed, damage to the core buildings would be a minor issue, but the materials needed to repair the Sky Island and War Corridor would be quite troublesome.

"Your Excellency, due to your outstanding defense against several waves of monster attacks, three mimics floating in the void have set their sights on your sky island..." With the "Shining Treasure Chest" event triggered, Yang Fei's defense has come to an end.

"Congratulations, Trainee Lord Yang Fei-1! You have perfectly cleared the second wave of the Novice Trial, 1x Extreme Mode Monster Siege. You can start the 2x Extreme Mode Monster Siege at any time, or you can directly choose the third wave, Easy Mode Monster Siege. Note that after selecting the second wave, you will never be able to challenge the remaining doubled Extreme Mode of the first wave again."

"Congratulations, Trainee Lord Yang Fei-1, you have perfectly cleared the second wave of the Novice Trial, the 1x Extreme Monster Siege. You have received the basic reward—the War Corridor will be extended by 10 meters... Countdown five minutes." As the final notification fell, Yang Fei and everyone else returned to the sky island with considerable ease.

"This time I got 21 silver coins, 2496 copper coins, 2321 pieces of bio-rubber, 40 gray crystals, 1 gray ice arrow tower building card, 2 gray arrow tower cards, 1 white treasure chest, and 2 gray treasure chests. It can't compare to the previous upgrade challenge, but it's much better than the first wave of extreme mode."

Yang Fei didn't have high expectations for these random drops, as long as they kept increasing in quality. He was doing the upgrade challenge in advance precisely for this reason; it would be troublesome if the rewards didn't improve much after the upgrade challenge.

Use what you need directly, and keep what you don't need for now. As for the three treasure chests, Yang Fei doesn't plan to open them for the time being, so he'll leave them in the system space for now. Yang Fei currently has 100 system slots with a stacking capacity of 2000, which is enough to handle these rewards.