A magic merchant infiltrating Fairy Tail

"Use [Fire Wall] and [Ice Shield]!"

Being able to defend before others attack, without taking up cards in your hand, is the biggest advantage of 'magic cards' over 'basic cards'!

With Kana playing her last two cards, the discard phase finally arrived, triggering the locked skill [Drunkard]. She discarded 0 cards, ending the first round. All 6 cards in her hand were used up without any waste!

Chapter 298 My Turn, Activate Skill!

Upon seeing the skill, Kana immediately recognized her character's strengths: in a card game, the skill [Card Master], which allows for card swapping and is both offensive and defensive, undoubtedly has an excellent balancing effect, making it a perfect skill for prolonged battles and coordinated team fights.

With the help of [Card Master], she can minimize the losses caused by [Drunkard] during the discard phase.

The only problem is that it cannot defend in real time outside of its turn, but it also has the skill [Sobering Up], which allows it to draw cards as compensation after being injured, and the monster summoned by [Monster Summon] can block damage.

Although the latter consumes more mana, it has the ability of [Card Master] to exchange cards, which greatly increases the probability of getting [Recovery].

In the first round, Kana did not summon any monsters because she wanted to use [Sober Up] to accumulate more cards in her hand. However, the damage blocked by the monsters could not trigger [Sober Up].

For the [Card Master] skill, the more cards you swap, the greater the probability of drawing good cards. However, if the cards you draw are not ideal, you may lose all your progress during the discard phase.

In fact, Kana was also gambling, betting on getting good cards. In this game, this was unavoidable, and she was taking advantage of the early stage while she still had some resources; otherwise, it would be much harder to pull off this move in the mid-game.

If Kira knew what Cana was thinking, he would understand that she had fallen into a "playing it safe" mentality.

Lucy's turn begins; she draws two cards.

Magic cards [Roar of the Fire Dragon], [Spell Trap], [Equipment Change]; Equipment cards [Armor of the Flame Emperor]; Basic cards [Attack], [Attack].

[Roar of the Fire Dragon (2): Deals 1 point of fire damage, and the target gains "Burning *1"]

PS: Burning: When a character uses a card from their hand, they take 1 point of fire damage. If triggered, the character's points are reduced by 1.

[Spell Trap (1): Determine at the start of your turn. If it is not a 'Spell Card', skip your play phase.]

PS: Judgment: The top card of the display stack will be used to determine the effect.

[Clothing Change (1): Wear a piece of equipment]

[Emperor's Armor: Reduces fire damage taken by 1]

"This card... is alright, but it consumes a lot of mana!"

The game has just begun, so there's not much analysis needed yet. Lucy first equips the [Emperor's Armor], then launches an attack on Kira: "Attack!"

Kira lost health again, leaving him with 5 health points.

Due to the rules, Lucy can only use [Attack] once per turn, so she has to attack in another way. She uses [Spell Trap] on Kira, reducing her magic power to 3.

The round is over.

"It's over? So fast?" Kira was quite surprised. "Why don't you try summoning a Celestial?"

Lucy gave an awkward smile: "It's not the right time yet!"

Clearly, she couldn't afford the Protoss's resources!

Kira sighed, "I told you to train more and increase your magic power, but you wouldn't listen! Now look what's happened, you have to worry about magic power even in the game, how pathetic!"

Hearing this, Lucy was both embarrassed and annoyed: "Shut up! It's your turn!"

Kira's turn begins, and logically [Spell Trap] should be checked first, but Kira directly plays an item card: "Moon Drop!"

[Moon Drop: A one-time use item that negates any magic spell]

PS: Single-use items: Items that are discarded after use and cannot be placed in the "Item Inventory".

Having resolved the [Spell Trap] problem, Kira draws a card and enters his turn.

"I'm about to unleash my skill attack! From now on, call me 'The Genius of Mischief'!!"

Kira chuckled, drew three cards from the deck, bringing his hand to eight. After a moment's thought, he gave one of the three [Prank] cards to Cana and two to Lucy.

This means that in the next round, Cana can only draw 1 card, which is undoubtedly a double blow for her who has no cards in hand; while Lucy, who already has 2 [Pranks] in her hand, has to discard 1 more card.

The challenger is in a difficult situation!

Kira currently holds five cards: the magic cards [Venom Attack] and [Magic Pocket Watch], the equipment card [Thunder Spear], and the basic cards [Defense] and [Recovery].

[Venom Attack (1): Target gains "Poisoned *1"]

PS: Poisoning: At the start of the turn, lose the corresponding amount of damage; -1 upon triggering.

[Magic Pocket Watch (1): Draw 2 cards]

[Thunder Spear: Normal attacks inflict lightning damage]

"Sorry, Lucy!" Kira used [Venom Attack] on Lucy with ill intent, and Lucy was immediately poisoned.

Looking at the faintly swollen green number "1" on the character card, Lucy felt a surge of frustration.

"Equip the Thunder Spear and use the Magic Pocket Watch!"

Kira drew two more cards from the deck: [Attack] and [Diamond Armor].

[Diamond Armor: Damage taken -1]

Equip it now!

Looking at his cards, Kira felt an indescribable joy: "Attack Lucy!"

"Why me again?"

"Who told you to be so easy to bully? Cana's skill allows her to draw cards, I'm not stupid enough to deal with her first." Kira stared at the three cards in Lucy's hand and said, "Besides, between the two of you, your skills are definitely the harder to deal with, so I'll take you out first!"

Lucy has no [Defense], so she can only use [Useless Seduction] to reveal an [Attack] card. It's not a magic card, so it doesn't grant immunity to damage.

Seeing this, Kira remarked, "This 'seduction technique' is really useless!"

"hateful!"

Lucy cursed inwardly. Although she was unwilling, she still obediently reduced her health by one point, leaving her with 3 points.

Seeing this, Kira nodded in satisfaction: "Alright, my turn is over!"

The first round has ended, and the three players' stats are as follows:

[Kana:]

Life: 4/4

Mana: 4/4

Hand: 0, [Prank] * 1

Equipment: Torch

Areas: Fire Wall, Ice Shield

Lucy:

Life: 4/4

Mana: 3/4

Hand: 3, [Attack] [Roar of the Fire Dragon] [Costume Change], [Prank] *2

Equipment: [Emperor Yan's Armor]

Area: Poisoned *1

Kira:

Life: 5/8

Mana: 6/8

Hand: 2 cards, [Defense] [Recovery]

Equipment: [Thunder Spear][Diamond Armor]

At the start of the second round, affected by [Prank], Kana can only draw 1 card and gets a [Restore], but this card is useless to her at this time.

Kana made a decisive move: "Activate [Monster Summoning]!"

Monster cards only have health and skills, not magic.

After consuming 3 mana to activate her skill, Cana drew a monster card [Carnivorous Plant] from the monster deck. She placed it next to her character card, and Lucy finally saw the card's effect.

[Carnivorous Plant (2): Target a character. In the next turn, for each card that character plays, discard one card.]

"Wow, this skill is amazing!" Lucy exclaimed again after seeing it. "It's almost equivalent to reducing the power of the play phase by half."

Admittedly, discarding cards is a very frustrating thing for a card game whose core gameplay revolves around playing cards, but...

'Kira's having the [Item Merchant] skill has backfired!'

Both Cana and Lucy realized this, but there was nothing they could do; they could only hope that the card would be of some use.

"Restore!" Unable to save any cards in her hand, Kana could only use the cards on herself to restore some of her mana.

Lucy's turn begins.

Since the judgment card has no source of damage, the [Useless Seduction] cannot be activated. Lucy is affected by poison, losing one point of health first, then draws two cards, gaining [Recovery] and one item card [Mana Potion].

[Mana Potion: Restores 1 point of mana, and restores another 1 point of mana in the next turn]

"Lucky!"

For her, the best cards are those that can replenish her magic power.

Looking at her character card with 2 health points and the 2 [Pranks] cards occupying her hand limit, she knew that, like Kana, she wouldn't be able to keep any cards in her hand this turn.

We must use all our cards!

Lucy shouted, "Use [Magic Potion]! Use [Restore]!"

Magic and life each increased by one, reaching 4 and 3 respectively, and then...

"Activate skill, Celestial Summon!!!"

Chapter 299 Lucy's Choice