The Card Master Genius Chapter 4

Charlie Xie, who had never played a holographic game before, was shocked by the scene in front of him as soon as he entered the game.

The vast starry sky, the brilliant Milky Way, while sailing on the spacecraft, you can also see the meteor shower passing by the window. Countless meteors dragging silver-white light trails dot the sky, just like gorgeous fireworks set off in the sky of the universe.

Charlie Xie excitedly leaned against the window to look at the scenery, feeling like "Grandma Liu visiting the Grand View Garden" - a country bumpkin opening the door to a new world.

After a period of voyage through the starry sky, I finally heard a "ding" sound in my ear, and the crisp system voice sounded again: "Welcome to Gemini. Your assigned residence here is: Gemini G District-7498 Apartment. Please enter your personal space."

His feet finally touched the ground. Charlie Xie took a deep breath to steady his racing heartbeat, and turned his head to look at the so-called "personal space".

The layout of three bedrooms and one living room is just like a living room in the real world. There are sofas, coffee tables and a huge LCD TV in the living room. This TV is probably a world channel. There are a lot of text messages constantly flashing on it, which makes Charlie Xie dizzy.

After leaving the living room, Charlie Xie followed the arrow under his feet to the bedroom, and the system voice sounded again: "When you are tired in the game world, you can go back to the bedroom to rest. Of course, the decoration style and furniture of the bedroom can be changed, and you can also invite friends to visit."

This game also incorporates the gameplay of "home". Every player can get his or her own "apartment" in the game, which can be decorated and designed according to personal preferences, making it a virtual social space.

Charlie Xie nodded in his heart, came out of the bedroom, and followed the instructions to the study.

Three walls in the study are lined with display cabinets. The light blue glossy metal display cabinets are divided into neat rows of small grids. Each grid is a 20x20cm square. This design should be similar to the backpack in the online game. The cards and materials obtained in the game can be placed in the display cabinet.

In the middle of the study was a silver-white metal table. As Charlie Xie approached, the system voice prompted: "This is the [Card Operation Table]. All card production, decomposition, upgrades, and evolutions are carried out here. Please read the card operation instructions in detail."

New gamers must read the instructions carefully. This is the experience Charlie Xie has summed up after playing so many games in the past.

With a swipe of the finger, an animated version of the detailed explanation appeared in front of me.

Star Card Storm, of course, takes cards as the core of the game.

If you want to improve the ability of a card, you must first upgrade it and then evolve it.

The initial cards are all level 1, one-star green cards. At level 20, they can evolve into two-star blue cards, at level 30 they can evolve into three-star purple cards, at level 40 they can evolve into four-star orange cards, at level 50 they can evolve into five-star silver cards, at level 60 they can evolve into six-star gold cards, and at the highest level, at 70, they can evolve into seven-star powerful black cards.

Each time a card is upgraded, its skills will be increased by a percentage. Each time it evolves, its basic attributes will be doubled. However, the prerequisite for evolution is that the card must be upgraded to the corresponding level and then devour three cards of the same star level, or devour 100 high-star fragments.

For example, if a "six-star card" wants to evolve into a "seven-star card", it must first upgrade the card to "level 70" for evolution, and then swallow three "six-star cards" or eat 100 "seven-star fragments". This way it can evolve into a seven-star card with doubled strength.

Upgrading is easy to understand, it is to gain experience to increase the level. Charlie Xie understands card evolution as the "level breakthrough" in online games. Each evolution consumes a lot of resources, but the high-star cards obtained in the end will also reward players with doubled strength.

In the later stages of the game, whether in dungeons or arenas, full-level seven-star cards will definitely dominate. However, since the training cost of a level 70 seven-star card is extremely high, it requires a lot of experience and materials, so how players train the cards is also a science.

Charlie Xie roughly understood the rules of the game.

After reading the novice tips, the system voice sounded in my ears: "Now that you understand the rules of card upgrades and evolutions, let's get into actual combat! There are countless wonderful illusions in the Star Card World. Challenging the illusions can gain rich experience and material rewards. There are some alien creatures in the illusions. Use the cards given to you to defeat them!"

A "ding dong" reminder sound rang in my ears---obtained the cards [Ice Snake] x1, [Thunderbird] x1.

The grid on the left side of the display case lit up, and two green cards appeared inside. The first-level, one-star green card was the original card in the game.

Charlie Xie picked up the card and looked at it.

Ice Snake (Water)

Card level: Level 1

Evolution Star Rating:★

Available times: 11

Basic attributes: Health 100, Defense 100, Attack 20, Agility 10, Critical Hit Rate 1%,

Additional Skills: Freeze (freezes the designated target for 2 seconds and causes 20% water damage to the target)

Thunderbird (Gold)

Card level: Level 1

Evolution Star Rating:★

Available times: 11

Basic attributes: Health 100, Defense 50, Attack 100, Agility 30, Critical Hit Rate 5%,

Additional Skill: Lightning Link (circles in the air, causing 80% lightning splash damage to all targets within the range)

A control card and a group attack card.

The official gives two cards to novices, which should be enough to cope with the copies in the novice stage.

Charlie Xie took two cards and entered the first copy, and the scene in front of him changed.

This is an empty square with a stone pillar in the middle. As soon as Charlie Xie entered the scene, he heard a woman's eerie voice: "Hehe, is there fresh food delivered to your door again?"

Charlie Xie looked up and saw a creature with the upper body of a beauty and the lower body of a snake twisting and turning beside a stone pillar. There were several small snakes following her. These were obviously the bosses and monsters that needed to be defeated in the dungeon.

System voice: "Please pay attention to your own mental power points. Your current character level is level 1, with a total of 10 mental power points. Summoning a one-star card requires 5 mental power points, and mental power will automatically recover every second."

It was not difficult for Charlie Xie to understand it after playing the game - mental power, just like the blue bar in online games, was consumed to summon cards. This was obviously to limit the number of summoned cards, otherwise the game would be in chaos if the player summoned hundreds of cards in a row.

10 points of mental power, one card consumes 5 points, and a Max Tangimum of two cards can be summoned. The official only gave him two cards, no more, no less.

Charlie Xie summoned the ice snake and thunderbird together.

The ice snake is a pure white snake about one meter long, with its body wrapped in ice and snow, emitting a hint of coldness, and it looks cute crawling on the ground. The thunderbird is not so good, it looks like a black crow, and it is electrified - it is really a hairy and shattering bird.

The Ice Snake's skill "Single Freeze" can freeze a designated target, and Charlie Xie tried to use it to freeze the big snake monster. The Thunderbird's skill "Lightning Link" is a range attack, and Charlie Xie tried it out, and it really caused damage to the big snake monster and the surrounding small snakes.

He was a science student in his previous life and was sensitive to data. He specially observed the damage value - the group attack damage caused by Thunderbird is about 80 points. Judging from the card value, its basic attack power is 100 points, and the skill description is 80% damage, which just fits the 100x80% algorithm.

In other words, the final damage caused by a card depends on its basic attack power and skill coefficient bonus.

With Charlie Xie's many years of gaming experience, he quickly determined that this card's data was average and it was not worth wasting resources to raise it to seven stars. No wonder, the cards given to the novice period would definitely not be top-quality cards. In the later stages, there might be good cards with skill coefficients increased by 200%, 300% and higher basic attacks.

Good cards must be collected slowly, but Charlie Xie is not in a hurry and will first familiarize himself with the rules of the game.

The simple novice dungeon was not difficult for Charlie Xie. He calculated the data while completing the dungeon and soon cleared all the monsters and reduced the giant snake monster's health to 1%.

At this moment, the giant snake demon suddenly exploded, killing the ice snake and thunderbird instantly.

---Congratulations on clearing the fantasy realm!

---The levels of Ice Snake and Thunderbird are upgraded to Level 3, with additional rewards of Green Star Stone x10 and Green Repair Stone x2.

Just as Charlie Xie was wondering, the considerate system began to explain: "[Star Stones] contain a lot of experience. You can feed Star Stones to your favorite cards to upgrade them. [Repair Stones] can repair cards. Each card in the Star Card World has a limited number of uses. When a Star Card dies, the number of uses will decrease. When it drops to 0, the card is damaged and must be repaired with a repair stone of the same level."

"Your ice snake and thunderbird are damaged. Use the repair stone to repair them!"

No wonder the snake monster explodes and kills two cards in the end, just to let players learn the repair function of cards.

Charlie Xie repaired the two cards and followed the system prompts to continue going to the dungeon to gain experience.

***

Outside the door, as Brother Chen walked out, a tall girl said to him, "Brother Chen, we got a big order."

Brother Chen's eyes lit up: "What order?"

The girl said: "Someone posted a bounty task in the trading house. It required a total of 100 seven-star wood attribute fragments. The reward was 20,000 gold coins. It had to be completed within three days. I snatched it."

There was a burst of cheers from all around: "Ah Chloe Chi is awesome!" "One hundred fragments, we'll have a lot to do!"

Brother Chen simply waved his hand and said, "Everyone, get ready and go to Jupiter to collect materials."

The girl reminded him, "The entry standard for the Jupiter dungeon is a five-person team. The four of us can't get in, so we have to find another one."

Brother Chen thought about the new person he had just hired today, so he walked back to the next room and said to Charlie Xie, "Xiao Xie, the studio is short of staff. Are you familiar with the game? Come and play a dungeon with us."

Charlie Xie, who had found a place to put his talents to use, immediately ran over actively, greeted several "colleagues" with a smile, and sat next to them.

Everyone was playing the game, so they didn't pay any attention to him greeting them - they were wearing helmets and didn't see him at all.

Brother Chen commanded: "Jupiter, gather at the entrance of the Misty Forest dungeon."

Charlie Xie shamelessly asked: "Brother Chen, where is the Misty Forest?"

Brother Chen patiently replied: "There is a room in my apartment with a large world map. You can just click on any place you want to go and you will be teleported."

Charlie Xie had just been following the system prompts to refresh the dungeon, and when he walked to the study, he had not yet completed the task. He put down the task at hand and went to the next door to take a look. As expected, he found that there was a world map in the last room of the three-bedroom and one-living room room - a vast map of the universe and stars, and each twinkling little star was labeled with text.

Is the galaxy map in front of me the Star Card World? This is too spectacular...

Charlie Xie was stunned for two seconds, and soon found the "Jupiter" that Brother Chen mentioned among the densely packed stars.

In the game, there are planets in the solar system, such as Venus, Jupiter, Mercury, Saturn, and Mars, but the Earth is nowhere to be seen. Charlie Xie carefully discovered that there are also water and gold attribute symbols on the cards. Are these Jupiter and Mars also related to the card attributes?

Charlie Xie was confused and teleported to Jupiter. He found the entrance to the "Misty Forest" dungeon and was invited to join the team by Brother Chen. As soon as Charlie Xie entered the team, he heard a cold female voice: "Are you new here? Tell me what cards you have so that I can assign tasks for the dungeon later."

Charlie Xie summoned two cards: "I only have Ice Snake and Thunderbird."

The girl looked at the cute little white snake crawling under his feet and the electric-feathered bird flying around above his head, and almost couldn't breathe: "You brought this level 1 card to play the seven-star dungeon? Are you sure?"

The man wearing glasses next to him tried to hold back his laughter and said, "Your Thunderbird's attack power is only 100 points, and the boss of the seven-star dungeon has a health of 1 million."

A flock of crows flew overhead...

Charlie Xie in the game had an innocent expression: Didn’t you ask me to come?

The culprit, Brother Chen, touched his nose awkwardly: "Forgot, forgot, he is a novice, playing this game for the first day."

The air suddenly became quiet...

After five seconds of silence, Brother Chen rubbed his temples with a headache and said, "Forget it, Xiao Xie, just join in the fun!"

Charlie Xie rubbed his hands excitedly and quickly sat up straight like a good student who was listening attentively: "Okay, Brother Chen, I will just join in the fun and definitely not cause any trouble for you guys!"