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

As two cannon shots fired from the artillery position, their energy blasts exploded on the war corridor in an instant, signifying the official start of the battle. Yang Fei, atop his ice arrow tower, watched as the two succubi unleashed their full firepower, coordinating with the cannons and arrow towers that attacked in waves, almost completely suppressing all the slimes at the blue gate.

Yang Shaofei was somewhat helpless. "At least let me get a kill!"

"My lord, your excellent defense against several waves of monster attacks has attracted the attention of 15 mimics roaming the void. They believe your successful defense is due to the presence of a special treasure, and they will descend from the void to steal it. Please be on guard!"

"Ding~, Your Excellency, you have triggered a special event - the twinkling treasure chest. In your current wave, 15 non-linear moving mimics will appear, each carrying a different type of treasure chest."

"That mimic... it will disappear from your sky island after stealing the items." As the battle gradually came to an end, the familiar mimics also appeared. Yang Fei looked near the blue door and saw that the 5 white and 10 gray treasure chests had appeared near the blue door.

"Damn, 5 jewel chests and 10 gray chests! I didn't even get this much in the upgrade challenge! I'm going to be rich!" Yang Fei didn't expect the number of 15 chests. He thought that these kinds of treasure chest monsters were usually the kind with 1 white and 2 gray chests or 1 white and 5 gray chests.

Special waves, such as upgrade challenges and daily challenges, may be different. Normal waves should be the two types mentioned above, but I didn't expect this wave to give out 15 treasure chests, and the key is that there are 5 white ones. That guarantees at least 5 gold coins!

Although he already had higher-level Shattered Wild Empire Coins, this was money, how could he possibly have too much? Yang Fei couldn't wait to get more so he could harvest these treasure chest monsters and quickly accumulate gold coins.

"Ding~, Your Excellency, due to triggering the special event - The Shining Treasure Chest, you have killed too many Mimic monsters. The Mimic monster clan now considers you someone they must challenge. In every wave of monster sieges to come, you will face sneak attacks from Mimic monsters."

"Ding~, Your Excellency Yang Fei-1, you have been deemed a must-challenge by the Mimics, triggering a special event—The Mimic's Challenge."

"Next, 20 gray resurrected mimics will appear on your sky island. They have everything a normal mimic has, but if you open these chests, there is a 50% chance of encountering a mimic resurrected."

"The resurrected mimics will be immune to all damage for 3 seconds. During this time, they will randomly steal an item from your sky island and then disappear into the void. Please be careful to identify them."

Yang Fei was a little stunned when he saw the new prompt. He was originally happy to see that the so-called treasure chest monster was someone he had to challenge and that the treasure chest monster would come to kill him in every wave. But he didn't expect that he would trigger an extra new challenge.

"A 50% chance of revival, three seconds of immunity to all damage—isn't that just resurrection plus invincibility? Using such underhanded tactics to steal my stuff, how dare you! And you have the audacity to say it's someone you absolutely must challenge—is there such a challenge?"

Having thought it through, Yang Fei uncharacteristically swore. "If you can't beat them, you resort to cheating. The thought process of these treasure chest monsters is truly incomprehensible. If your high-level monsters can't appear on the current Sky Island, then just don't come and deliver them. What kind of challenge is it to cheat?"

For Yang Fei now, the most important thing is to accumulate resources. As long as the treasure chest monsters don't come to deliver them, Yang Fei's strength expansion will be limited and won't grow too fast. But for some reason, they keep coming to deliver them every wave, and so easily at that.

When they realized the problem, they didn't know how to stop the damage in time. Instead, they made things worse and even came up with such a disgusting mechanism. This made Yang Fei so angry that he wanted to grind his teeth. It wasn't just a simple question of whether he could win or not. It was a problem that there was a treasure that he couldn't open.

The fatty meat you're about to eat smells delicious, but you know that half of it, or rather every single piece, has a chance of being poisonous. Isn't that just making it impossible to eat? It's a complete waste of your time.

"Fortunately, the treasure chests from normal events shouldn't have this problem; it's only these 20 gray treasure chests that have it. Otherwise, you really would have succeeded. 20 gray treasure chests? I don't care!"

Yang Fei read the event notification from the Heavenly Dao AI again and breathed a sigh of relief. As long as the white treasure chest was fine, that was good. As for the 20 gray treasure chests, he could just save them up for now and play with them slowly once he got the blue arrow tower. So what if high-level suppression was invincible!

Judging from the hints, as long as these cheating gray treasure chests are not opened, they will not revive. If that's the case, then you can just leave them aside. Yang Fei is quite easygoing about this kind of thing. After all, he doesn't have much else right now, but his Sky Island is quite large. If he leaves it aside, you can't escape.

As expected, with the two succubus girls displaying their prowess, Yang Fei easily cleared this wave of monster siege, killing all 30,000 slimes and 35 mimics in the War Corridor.

"Congratulations, Trainee Lord Yang Fei-1! You have perfectly cleared the second wave of the Novice Trial, Extreme Mode (5x Extreme) Monster Siege. You can activate the 10x Extreme Mode Monster Siege at any time."

"You can also directly choose the third wave of easy difficulty monster siege. Note that after choosing the third wave of easy difficulty monster siege, you will never be able to challenge the remaining double-limit mode of this wave again."

"Congratulations, Trainee Lord Yang Fei-1! You have perfectly cleared the second wave of the Novice Trial, 5x Extreme Monster Siege, and obtained the Basic Building Card - Lumber Mill, which has been sent to your system space... Countdown: 5 minutes."

After constructing the new reward's basic resource building card—the Lumber Mill—Yang Fei looked at the spoils of this city defense: "5 normal white treasure chests, 10 normal gray treasure chests, and 20 gray revival treasure chests. These are the rewards from the Mimic."

"96 silver coins, 102 gray crystals, 23492 copper coins, 9664 pieces of bio-rubber, 33 gray ice arrow tower cards, and 54 gray arrow tower cards." These are the rewards for the slime siege. Overall, they are not bad, especially the silver coins and crystals. The increase in these two rewards is definitely a good thing.

After putting away all the items, Yang Fei sat cross-legged. The treasure chests he had accumulated before, plus the treasure chests he obtained from this defense, totaled 8 white and 16 gray, plus 20 revival gray.

Yang Fei had the 20 gray-quality revival treasure chests carried directly to the planned planting area on the right side of the sky island, along with the other opened gray treasure chests. Yang Fei wasn't interested in touching them for the time being; he just needed to send a lesser demon to guard them to prevent them from being used as storage chests.

After dealing with these items that were not needed for the time being, Yang Fei's thoughts returned to the normal treasure chests with 8 white and 16 gray items. He had originally planned to wait until the 10x extreme mode ended before opening these treasure chests, but unexpected changes occurred during this wave of monster sieges, and Yang Fei had to strengthen the Sky Island's defenses once again.

Yang Fei dislikes change, especially changes that concern the future. He wishes every step would go according to his plan, as only in this way could he steadily achieve the success he envisioned.

But plans never keep up with changes, and this time, something like a trap chest appeared, which was something he hadn't expected. And as long as it's something he didn't expect, something that wasn't in his plan, then Yang Fei had to consider rethinking the whole thing.

Even if this is not actually a bad thing, or even a good thing, Yang Fei still has to consider the various harms that this change will cause to his subsequent defense.

Moreover, as emphasized more than once before, as a lord, one must have a sense of crisis, and this sense of crisis is reflected in all aspects. If the enemy attacking the Sky Island undergoes changes in species, abilities, events, or even just the simplest numerical changes, one's own side must be strengthened in order to cope with the crisis that may arise at any time.

Thinking of this, Yang Fei no longer hesitated. He called the two succubus girls to his side and asked them to open the 24 treasure chests. The two succubus girls obediently took half of each chest. Then, under Yang Fei's gaze, they took off their high heels, stepped onto the treasure chests, and started playing hopscotch.

Yang Fei was speechless. He thought that opening treasure chests with his feet was Mona's personal hobby, but he didn't expect that these two succubus girls liked to do it. Moreover, according to Yang Fei's observation, the two of them had the same rhythm when hopscotch, which was obviously taught by the same teacher.

Just as Yang Fei was pondering what kind of person the teacher who taught these two succubus girls hopscotch was, his eyes were gradually drawn to the light from the opening treasure chests. When he came back to his senses, he saw that the two succubus girls had already opened all the treasure chests. Yang Fei quickly stepped forward and began to examine the items in each treasure chest.

The treasure chests, with 8 white and 16 gray, guarantee a minimum reward of 8 gold coins and 16 silver coins. Adding the storage function of these chests themselves, this is already a huge profit. Yang Fei was even prepared that all the white treasure chests combined wouldn't yield a single white arrow tower or white stone tablet, but things don't always go as planned.

First, almost all of the 16 gray treasure chests contained relatively valuable items: 2 Black Swamp Construction Cards, 2 Sky Island Core Stones, 3 War Corridor Extension Cards, 3 Wall Construction Card Packs, 3 Basic Material Packs, and 3 gray Arrow Tower Construction Cards (just to make up the numbers).

This was something Yang Fei hadn't expected, especially since he got two Black Swamp Construction Cards and two Sky Island Core Stones. Yang Fei had previously thought these items were extremely rare and that you needed a lot of luck to find them, but he didn't expect to get two of each this time. This was truly an incredible stroke of luck.

Among these, the most important to him is the Black Mud Swamp building card. Yang Fei's War Corridor, including the previous Black Mud Swamp, is now 220 meters long. One turn is no longer enough to make up for the insufficient range of the arrow towers. These two cards really solved a big problem for Yang Fei.

Without hesitation, Yang Fei took out a card and changed his Sky Island War Corridor from an inverted U-shape to an inverted N-shape. Then he used three War Corridor Extension Cards to change the length of his War Corridor in each direction to 40 (basic) + 10 (black swamp) + 100 (basic) + 10 (black swamp) + 100 (basic).

This arrangement allows us to save a Black Mud Swamp for emergencies, while also maximizing defensive effectiveness. As long as the arrow towers are distributed on both sides of the middle section, they can still cover most of the war corridor.

As for full coverage, that's out of the question for now, unless we can change the direction of all the war corridors and turn them into a spiral shape. Otherwise, we'll just have to wait for the tower upgrade workshop to come out and increase the range of the arrow towers before we can think of a solution.

As for the two gray-quality Sky Island Core Stones, Yang Fei could only put them away like the Black Mud Swamp Stone he had saved. There was nothing he could do; his current Sky Island area was sufficient, and there was no need to continue upgrading.

The three wall construction card gift packs still didn't bring any surprises; they only yielded the most basic nine wall blocks, extending my wall by another 90 meters. If this continues, it's not impossible to build a wall surrounding the Sky Island without using core stones.

As for the three basic material gift packs, their function is similar to the city wall construction card gift pack, but they gave Yang Fei hope of obtaining iron ore ahead of time.

"Basic Material Gift Pack (Gray): A small material gift pack. Opening it will give you three random gray quality material cards, including gray quality wood resource card, gray quality stone resource card, and gray quality iron ore card."

"After opening any resource card, there is a 99% chance of obtaining 100 ordinary resources, a 0.99% chance of obtaining 10 gray-quality resources, and a 0.01% chance of obtaining 1 white-quality resource."

Having learned from the experience of the city wall construction gift pack, Yang Fei didn't believe in the 0.99% and 0.01% percentages at all. He only hoped to get more iron ore resource cards so that he could start accumulating iron ore now and start making iron ingots as soon as he built his smelter, saving him the extra time of waiting for iron ore to be produced.

After opening the three basic material gift packs, Yang Fei obtained four gray-quality wood resource cards, three gray-quality stone resource cards, and two iron ore resource cards. Yang Fei was somewhat speechless. Wood was the last thing he needed right now, and he even had a stable gray-quality wood-producing dungeon. Did he really need these odds and ends?

"Timber/Stone/Iron Ore Resource Card (Small Gray): Upon opening, there is a 0.01% chance of obtaining 1 white-quality resource." The specific descriptions of the three resource cards were consistent with the gift pack's description. Yang Fei put away the timber resource card and opened the stone and iron ore resource cards one by one.

As expected, Yang Fei obtained a total of 300 units of ordinary stone and 200 units of ordinary iron ore. It was indeed the same kind of thing as the city wall construction gift pack. Yang Fei really didn't know what to say.

If all else fails, let's skip the probability description and just say there's a small chance of getting a gray-quality item and a very small chance of getting a white-quality item. That way, the description is more appealing.