Under Chen Qianlin’s personal guidance, Xie Mingzhe made a unified adjustment to the attributes of his card set.
First is the most important agility attribute. The final result of the adjustment is that Lü Meng and Sun Ce had a full 100 agility, Zhou Yu and Lu Xun followed closely behind, and Xiao Qiao, Sun Shangxiang, and Da Qiao all ended up between 75 and 80 agility, for convenient skill linkage. After that is balancing the attributes of each card. The newly made Sun Shangxiang stacked base attack and critical hit rate to the maximum. Xiao Qiao and Da Qiao’s skills are also dependent on base attack and critical hit rate, so these two are also stacked high.
It was already late at night by the time all the adjustments were finished. Xie Mingzhe was too excited to sleep, and wanted to go to the arena to experience real combat. As a result, Chen Qianlin very calmly said “The Phoenix Star arena ranking competition closes every night at midnight, and opens back up at eight am. You had better sleep first.”
Xie Mingzhe took a look at the time, and sure enough, it was one am. It was no good to keep bothering his master, so he said, “Master has worked hard, you should also sleep soon, good night!” The current star navigation map showed that the Phoenix Star was indeed closed. Unable to go over, Xie Mingzhe had no choice but to take off his helmet to go offline, wash up, and go to the second floor to sleep.
Chen Xiao was smoking on the balcony. When he saw Xie Mingzhe coming up, he put out the cigarette and asked with concern, “Have you finished the card group?”
Xie Mingzhe excitedly said, “I’ve already finished a seven card arena group, Master guided me to adjust the data!” As he spoke, he turned on his tablet and brought out the seven cards in his display cabinet for Chen Xiao to see. “Look Brother Chen, how is this card group?”
Chen Xiao carefully looked at the skills of the seven cards, and praised, “Very good!” It has both attack and defense, and the skills also join together well. It’s very good for the low level arena, as long as you’re familiar with the timing of releasing skills, it’s enough to go straight to Star Card Expert.”
“Brother Chen, how is your card group coming along?” Xie Mingzhe took back his tablet and asked curiously.
“I’m not in a hurry to make it,” Chen Xiao said with a smile. “I only recently terminated the contract, if I suddenly put out a large number of cards within two or three days, it’ll be very hard to explain clearly afterwards. I’ll wait until this month has passed, and my elder brother has moved back to live with us, then start to make cards again. If that Shao person gets suspicious, I’ll just say I made the cards under my brother’s guidance.”
“That’s true, if you act with a bit of care you won’t attract trouble.” You have to protect your own heart, not to mention that Shao person isn’t any kind of good thing. It’s more reasonable for Chen Xiao to start making cards again next month. Xie Mingzhe said, “Then what do you plan to do next?”
“I’ll help Chi Qing develop Nirvana Guild first. At the moment we’re already a level three guild, I want to reach full level as soon as possible. You go challenge the rankings at ease and leave these things to me.”
“Alright. If you want my help, call me at any time.”
“Oh, right, have you still been painting those three member benefit cards these days?”
“I’ve been making new cards for the arena all day, I didn’t take care of it.” Xie Mingzhe scratched his head and, somewhat distressed, said, “Our guild’s development speed is so fast, we’ll have thousands of members in the future, the cards I’ve drawn won’t be enough, will they?”
“That’s easy, if you trust me, you can give me the right to duplicate the three benefit cards Sun Ce, Zhou Yu, and Huang Gai, and I’ll make copies. Otherwise, there will be too many members later on, you won’t be able to draw them all yourself,” Chen Xiao proposed. “Reproduction rights only allow me to duplicate these cards, not modify them. You still own the card copyright.”
“No problem!” Xie Mingzhe naturally trusted Chen Xiao. Like this, he can save time to go challenge the arena, and need not spend several hours each day duplicating Sun Ce, Zhou Yu, and Huang Gai.
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Chen Xiao also smiled and said, “I guess you must have gotten up early to challenge the arena, is it especially exciting to make a card group?”
Xie Mingzhe said candidly, “Of course, I haven’t yet gone to the arena. Last night I dreamed I went and had a ten game winning streak!”
Chen Xiao said, “Don’t even mention a ten game winning streak, with this card group it’s not hard to win 50 consecutive matches.”
Xie Mingzhe listened and was even more excited. He couldn’t wait to put on his helmet and enter the game.
By 7:10, the two men finished washing up and went to the dining room. Chen Xiao got the bread and milk Chi Qing had prepared earlier from the fridge in passing and chatted with Xie Mingzhe while eating breakfast.
Chen Xiao said, “Do you know the rules of the arena?”
Xie Mingzhe replied, “I only know the promotion rules, I haven’t had time to check the others yet. I’ll go check them in a bit.”
Chen Xiao said, “It’s actually very simple, I’ll tell you directly. The first through third ranked Star Card Apprentices, Trainee Star Card Masters, and Intern Star Card Masters are usually low level. They’re easy to beat if you have a good set of cards. The competition mode adopted is an open card mode.”
Xie Mingzhe asked curiously, “Open card mode? Does that mean the entire set of cards is revealed publicly from the beginning?”
Chen Xiao nodded. “Right. At the opening of the game, both sides will first reveal their seven cards and the seven cards will be used directly. Both sides’ cards will have a 7v7 showdown, and no cards can be substituted.”
Xie Mingzhe thought to himself, the lower ranks use this “open card mode,” clearly the game officials thought about the lower ranking players. The number of full level cards in their hands isn’t high. Let them adjust the lineup and they also might not have many cards to exchange. It’s better to take these seven cards and immediately be clear about the competition, which is simple and crude.
Chen Xiao then said, “Starting from the fourth Star Card Expert rank, the competition lineup will become the more interesting hidden card mode. In this mode, at the start of the event from within the cards revealed simultaneously on each side, five cards will be open and two cards will be hidden. You can’t see the hidden cards, and in addition the hidden cards can be replaced. Both sides have a 30 second period to purposefully adjust their lineup. In the high end professional league and all the trophy competitions, hidden card mode is always used, and the mind games between players are also a big thing to consider.”
Xie Mingzhe nodded in understanding.
In the hidden card mode, you can adjust the two hidden cards. Once the competitor’s card pool is deep enough, they can adjust the lineup in a targeted manner. For example, if you run into earth type player God Zheng Feng on the field, and see his 200,000 HP elephant in the open cards, then you can switch Cao Chong into your own hidden cards to take the field, specifically to control the elephant. In the same manner, if God Zheng Feng is worried his elephant will be targeted, he can conceal the elephant unseen in his hidden cards and make things difficult for the opponent. After all, should he send out Cao Chong or not? If the opposite side doesn’t have an elephant, wouldn’t it just be a waste of a card slot?
Hidden card mode isn’t just important for the card group, but also for mind games, analytical reasoning, and lineup. The focused replacement of two cards is a test of the competitors ability to grasp various patterns in the arena, and you certainly can’t use the same old brain dead lineup.
Xie Mingzhe currently only has the Eastern Wu Arson Group lineup. If he goes to challenge hidden card mode and runs into those Great Gods of the league, he can only be rubbed into the ground.
But it doesn’t matter, at the moment he is still a novice barely starting to challenge the arena. He can slowly accumulate experience, and he can also make more cards. The next season is still half a year away, enough for him to enrich his deck.
Chen Xiao also said, “Don’t be anxious, these seven cards are already enough for open card mode. First get to know the skill release of these seven cards, take it easy.”
Xie Mingzhe nodded. “En, I’ll go take a look at actual combat in a while.”
After the two ate breakfast, they went to the copyright center on Water Star, and Xie Mingzhe gave reproduction rights for the three guild benefit cards Sun Ce, Zhou Yu, and Huang Gai to Chen Xiao. After completing the formalities, he returned to his private space. At last, right at 8 o’clock, Xie Mingzhe directly transferred from the star map to Phoenix Star.
— Welcome to Phoenix Star!
In the middle of Phoenix Star is an exceedingly large plaza, surrounded by buildings of many different styles. On a grand building on the north side, “Star Card Ranking Competition” is written on an eye-catching sign, on the east is “Star Card League Professional Tournament Audience Entrance”; on the west is “National Star Card Grandmaster Invitational Tournament Entrance”; and on the south is “Guild Grand Championship Entrance”. In addition there are many more large buildings which don’t have names, but ought to be set aside for all kinds of sponsored tournaments, each skyscraper corresponding to a different field of competition.
Xie Mingzhe has a “Star Card Ranking Competition Admission Ticket” in his hand. This admission ticket is good for six months. Within the next six months, he can go to challenge the rankings in the Star Card Ranking Competition building with this admission ticket provided by the system.
Xie Mingzhe arrived at the ranking competition hall full of excitement.
Although it is only eight in the morning, the hall is already packed with people.
He had just entered the hall when he heard a system beep at the side of his ear. “Dear Uncle Chubby, we welcome you into the Phoenix Star Ranking Hall, your current rank is 【First Rank ᐧ Star Card Apprentice Level One】, please wait a moment while we match you with an opponent according to your battle record…”
After only 3 seconds, a notice popped up in front of his eyes. “We have found you an opponent, enter the arena immediately?”
The matching speed really can be described as “lightning”. It is clear that the number of players playing the rankings is large, and the number of rookies just entering the arena like Xie Mingzhe is countless.
Xie Mingzhe clicked “enter” with his finger.
— Welcome to the ranking arena, player information loaded successfully.
— Randomly selected map is: Fountain Plaza
— Please set up the battle card group in the deck panel, countdown 10, 9, 8…
Seven blank spaces popped up in front of him, into which he could place his own cards. Xie Mingzhe quickly placed his seven Wu State cards into the spaces and pressed “confirm”.
— Five fire system cards detected in your deck, arena set formation requirements met. Please select a 【Fire Star’s Protection】attribute set bonus from the following options: HP, attack strength, defensive strength, critical hit damage, healing efficacy, or control time”
The deck bonus effect will be automatically enabled in the arena. Since Xie Mingzhe wanted to beat the enemy in a single wave, he naturally selected the “critical hit damage” deck property. In his card group, Lu Xun’s fire attack and Sun Shangxiang’s reaping attack both need critical hits.
— About to reveal both card groups. After 20 seconds the game will officially begin, please prepare.
After this message, both sides’ card groups appeared in the middle of the screen.
On the top row are Xie Mingzhe’s seven cards, and on the bottom row are the opponent’s seven cards.
Xie Mingzhe’s card group really seems to warm the heart and delight the eye, four handsome young men and three beautiful women, they can really rely on face value to seckill the opponent.
The opponent’s ID is Bonehead Bear, and their card group is somewhat indescribable. Xie Mingzhe saw their card group was very chaotic, with one animal, one plant, two monster cards, and three ghost cards.
The 20 second countdown is set aside for the player to observe and analyze the card group the opponent is using. Xie Mingzhe hurried to observe the skills of the other person’s seven cards. The opponent set up an earth deck; the five ghost and monster earth cards made up the main output, the wood system plant card was a group healer, and the water system animal card was a situational support.
This player should be a fan of Ghost Prison Club’s God Gui Sirui. The painting style of the ghost cards was a little bit thrilling. Xie Mingzhe ignored the odd feeling of “seeing all kinds of ghosts” in the game, and simply pressed the “ready” button at the end of the countdown.
Bonehead Bear was startled by Uncle Chubby’s neat and tidy seven character cards, and didn’t have time to look at the skills, only looking at the face value of Sun Ce, Zhou Yu, Da Qiao, and Xiao Qiao.
As a result, he hadn’t even finished looking at everyone’s faces, and the game officially began!
Face con? In the arena, hahahahaha. Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🤣❤️🔥🔥🔥
Wow, these cards even have the stun/distraction skills 🤣 well tbh I would also be very distracted if the cards have high face values.
Thanks for the chapter~~~
I´d do the same too. I absolutely love hot characters