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

After being pleasantly surprised by the gray treasure chest, Yang Fei looked at the eight white treasure chests. Unexpectedly, this time the white treasure chests were not disappointing as before, but instead contained quite a few good items.

It includes one white-quality core stone, three white arrow tower cards, three white ice arrow tower cards, and a white war stone to make up the difference. These items, especially the white core stone, are much better than the previous ones.

"Sky Island Core Stone (White Common): A special product after a sky island has completely fallen. It can only be dropped by destroying the sky island core or the world core. It is a core item for expanding sky islands. After use, it can extend the radius of the sky island by 5,000 meters."

Note: This core stone is of white quality and can only be used on sky islands of white quality or lower. Green quality sky islands will only expand by fifty meters after use, while blue quality and higher sky islands will be useless.

This is something between gray-quality core stones and green-quality core stones. However, my two green-quality core stones belong to the rare green category and are special items obtained from the Heavenly Dao reward chest. They can randomly evolve terrain and flora and fauna, while these two are only of ordinary level and can only play a basic expansion role.

However, even so, directly expanding the radius of the sky island by 5 kilometers is still quite exaggerated. It's a pity that I still can't use it now. Even if I were to use it, I would first use the two gray-quality core stones. As for this white-quality one, I'll deal with it when I upgrade to a white-quality sky island core.

As for the other items obtained from the white treasure chest, Yang Fei used them without hesitation, adding a white stone slab, three white arrow towers, and three white ice arrow towers, which slightly improved the defensive strength of the Sky Island.

"The items I got from this unboxing are pretty good~" Summarizing his haul, Yang Fei wasn't excited, but rather a little puzzled. Why was that? Even if he was incredibly lucky this time, he shouldn't have gotten so many good things.

Not only did it drop two extremely rare Black Swamp cards, but it also dropped Core Stones for Rapid Sky Island Expansion, and they were even a combination of two gray and one white. It even dropped six White Defense Towers, which were rare before. These are all items that are beneficial to the development of Sky Island.

Everything went so smoothly, as if someone was urging me to develop, urging me to upgrade my sky island, and then sending me all the resources needed to upgrade it, whispering in my ear, "Do you want to continue to increase production? Then upgrade! Then hurry up and keep challenging yourself!"

Yang Fei looked at his sky island, then at the six defense towers he had just built, and then at the core stone with an abnormally high probability of appearing. A faint smile gradually appeared on his lips. He thought of a possibility, a possibility similar to the somewhat erratic thinking of that slime king.

These mimics are likely sent by the Mimic King to "deliver resources" to him. Yes, deliver resources. It's an extremely disgusting tactic, but also the simplest one.

Humans are complex beings, possessing an absurdly complex range of emotions. They can be kind, hypocritical, evil, or even turn to the light. No one remains constant; rather, this complexity and diversity is what makes human emotions what they should be.

The most important of these is desire, or more specifically, the desire driven by self-interest—the most primal and insurmountable instinct. Other emotions may be hidden or disguised, but once this desire driven by self-interest begins, it is impossible to stop.

These mimics are indeed here to deliver resources. They need to get themselves hooked on the constant harvesting so that they can rapidly expand their sky islands and upgrade them to white or even green quality in order to obtain more resources.

The rapid expansion of the Sky Island resulted in a mismatch between its size and its actual strength. Consequently, the population, which required extensive training to grow in power, could not expand rapidly, ground forces were insufficient, and the fixed defensive towers could not provide timely support.

When the time is right, seize the opportunity, gather a large force, and launch a massive attack. If all the powerful monsters appear on this floating island together and sink it, Yang Fei will truly experience the despair of falling from heaven to hell.

Moreover, the leader of this group of mimics is very shrewd. He seems to have given me a lot of good things, but they are all flashy and impractical. Not to mention the core stone, if I use it, it will play right into their hands.

There's no need to worry about this during the beginner assessment period, but once the assessment is over, the mechanism of randomly spawning monsters on the edge of the sky island will appear. If the sky island is too large and its defenses can't keep up, then they can take this opportunity to invade at will and steal all your treasures.

If those mimics can steal defensive towers, or even buildings, plants and animals, and some processed products, they can not only recoup all their investment, but might even make a small profit.

"Raising pigs, then slaughtering them?" Yang Fei chuckled, not daring to compliment the wisdom of these monster leaders. Perhaps it was the nature of wild beasts that limited their divergent thinking, causing them to only consider single-threaded problems and no longer taking into account the other troubles arising from this single problem.

This can be seen from the Ice Arrow Tower construction cards given. It seems that only single-target control cards with higher value are given, while relatively low-value area-of-effect damage cards are not given to facilitate large-scale attacks later. In fact, this approach is very short-sighted and lacks contingency plans for the ever-changing battlefield.

To give a simple example, the core factor in achieving all the above conditions is to allow Yang Fei to "continuously expand and rapidly enlarge the sky island, leaving its defensive forces insufficient." These are the most important basic conditions.

The simplest solution is for Yang Fei to simply ignore it! You did make the plan, but Yang Fei is the one who ultimately executes it, which is also the opportunity for Yang Fei to turn the tables.

In any case, upgrading the sky island to the next grade is beyond Yang Fei's capabilities and is not currently in his plans. Moreover, when using core stones to expand the sky island's area, Yang Fei will naturally consider the future defense of the sky island. One of the most important sentences recorded in "Tower Defense World" is that "any form of expansion is predicated on the expansion of one's own strength."

Although Yang Fei still doesn't want to manage Sky Island, his decisions are gradually shifting towards the island's future development. To put it simply: "Even if you're unwilling to try, you can't stop the trend of the times. If you don't want to be driven out by the trend, you naturally have to find a way to go with it."

This is a set of rules for dealing with things. Even if it conflicts with Yang Fei's work philosophy, even if Yang Fei dislikes it, he will be swept up by it and have no choice but to move forward with the tide of the times.

In Yang Fei's view, as long as there is a fundamental principle, he can try to actively adapt to this trend. So what is the fundamental principle in this tower defense world where immortality can be cultivated? Yang Fei believes there are two.

First, since this is a world of cultivation, power must come from within. As long as you are strong enough, no one can do anything to you. Second, since this is a tower defense world, having powerful defensive towers is another option.

Therefore, whether the treasure chest monster king exists or not, and whether Yang Fei's imagined pig-butchering scam is real or not, is actually not important. The most crucial thing is that Yang Fei has remained clear-headed from beginning to end, never becoming arrogant, and even if he does become arrogant, it has to be commensurate with his own strength growth, and is based on whether the sky island has powerful defensive towers.

Moreover, Yang Fei did not believe that he lacked a strong ground force. Putting aside the two succubus girls, the tentacle jellyfish alone had enough potential to become powerful enough to sweep aside some of the indigenous races in Western fantasy worlds.

After all, demons are the quintessential villains in any world, and correspondingly, their strength is naturally considerable. Similarly, the demons summoned in a tower defense world will undoubtedly possess impressive attributes and growth potential.

Even if all else fails, Yang Fei still has that slave trader summoning token. He has been accumulating wealth so that he can make the most of that token at the most opportune time and recruit powerful enough subordinates.

The most important source of funds for recruiting powerful subordinates is actually those treasure chests, especially white treasure chests. The reward of one gold coin guaranteed in each treasure chest may not seem like much to the treasure chest monsters, but for Yang Fei, that is the most important reward.

The treasure chest monster might think it would care about the random reward, but in reality, what Yang Fei cared about was the gold coin. Each gold coin could potentially add one or more martial arts-level combatants to Yang Fei's sky island, or even just buy several white defense towers with area-of-effect attacks from the shop.

An increase in either of these two things would be something the treasure chest monsters would be happy to see, which is why Yang Fei said that these guys are single-minded, can only think about simple problems, and cannot understand the series of consequences that this might bring.

After dealing with the accumulated normal treasure chests, Yang Fei checked the time. It was already 2:50 PM. All the defensive towers were fully charged, and the next wave of monster attacks could begin.

Barring any unforeseen circumstances, this wave should be finished around 5 PM. At that time, I can then activate the third wave of several basic modes to further increase today's daily rewards.

At the same time, he could also return to Azure Star once to inquire about the underground markets in the surrounding cities from his good brother. He could collect various production tools and means of transportation on Qianwu Star, but there was not much he could do about basic living supplies. Therefore, he had to find a way to solve the supply problem of living supplies here.

Secondly, Yang Fei must start accumulating enough living supplies. This is to prepare for the month when the novice assessment officially begins. At that time, he will not be able to return to Azure Star as easily as he can now, and Yang Fei will have to stay there for a month.

Purchasing various daily necessities on the Sky Island is quite a waste of money. If Yang Fei doesn't want to lose money on the Heavenly Path Shop, he needs to raise as many supplies as possible for himself and his people.

Yang Fei awakened the two succubus girls and summoned all combat personnel, including 50 inferior demons, 7 tentacle jellyfish, 14 human leaders, and two succubus servants. He had mobilized almost everyone he could to prepare for the final wave of the second major wave.

Logically, this wave should be relatively easy for Yang Fei's current Sky Island, but Yang Fei absolutely does not want to fail in dealing with the monster siege because he holds back any strength. Therefore, he will still go all out and take it seriously this time.

Even if it's really easy, everyone should try to gain experience as much as possible and not slack off in any way. This is Yang Fei's principle, and it's also a way for Yang Fei to keep himself from developing an inflated ego in the future. Every wave of monsters attacking the city must be taken seriously.

"Initiate the monster siege!" After all personnel were assembled, Yang Fei immediately initiated this wave of monster siege.

"Understood, Trainee Lord Yang Fei-1, your Novice Trial Second Wave Doubled Extreme Mode (10x Extreme) Monster Siege will begin in ten minutes. Monster type: Slime, Monster level: Beast Level 0, Monster quantity: 65431."

"Please note that you have now activated the first wave of the Novice Trial in the Doubled Extreme Mode (10x Extreme) Monster Siege. The three basic stats of the monsters have increased by 2 times. Please adjust your tactics accordingly."

"Please adjust the position of the War Slab... The movement and reconstruction functions will be restarted after the siege ends."

As the familiar sound rang out, the monster siege began. Ordinary slimes hopped and skipped out of the blue doors and slowly moved forward along the newly renovated inverted N-shaped war corridor.

With the roar of cannons, as the black beam cannonballs landed, a large number of slimes were already severely injured. Two cannonballs crippled these slimes, whose attributes had been doubled. With another round of two cannonballs, these enhanced ordinary slimes disappeared from the war corridor, leaving behind only a copper coin and a piece of bio-rubber.

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

"The next 10004 normal slimes will be replaced with elite-quality corrosive slimes, 7567 normal slimes will be replaced with elite-quality acid slimes, and 7669 normal slimes will be replaced with elite-quality blasting slimes. Good luck!"

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

"The next 9999 common slimes will be replaced with elite-quality bronze slimes, and 5213 common slimes will be replaced with elite-quality silver slimes. They will be stealing your territory's wealth, so please protect your assets!"

The familiar notification sounded, and Yang Fei only glanced at the blue door to see if there were enough Ice Slimes before ignoring everything else. He manipulated the infinitely energetic gray ice arrow tower to fire wildly, killing as many slimes as possible to accumulate true energy within his body.

However, his main purpose was not to advance as soon as possible, but for the upcoming night. He just wanted to be presentable. He couldn't handle one succubus girl, let alone two now.

The problems I left for myself before, I still haven't figured out a solution for, so I can only keep pushing them to myself later. The only thing I can do now is to accumulate strength so that I can fight for longer!