[Playing cards in this world is similar to advanced mathematics. The awesome ones are really awesome, and the unsuccessful ones are really unsuccessful. If you encounter someone else's unique system, you will definitely be beaten to a pulp. Moreover, playing cards is not the only thing in this world. There are also a lot of exploring ruins and traveling. If you don't have a gold card, you still have to spend your own mana to project your followers in reality.]

Fang Qingyun covered his face. He already knew what he had to do: "Does this mean that I have to practice magic as well?"

The Destiny Grimoire denied his statement:

[Not really. If you can ensure that every card is a gold card... you don't need to learn magic. But in this world where everyone practices magic, you will seem a bit out of place if you don't have magic... But if you have enough money, you can buy a card box. With a card box, you don't need to learn magic. Anyway, the only use of magic is to use cards in reality, which is no different from the effect of gold cards.]

"What is a cassette? Why have I never heard of it?" Fang Qingyun was a little confused.

[You can think of it as the Duel Disk in Yu-Gi-Oh, except that every rich person carries one with them. It is a belt-shaped disk that can hold thirty cards. When you need a card, you just take that card.]

"...Then why don't I make one myself? It's just a container anyway." Fang Qingyun's frugal nature couldn't be restrained. He had no source of income now, so he didn't have the confidence to spend money.

[That thing cannot be made by yourself. It is not just a container. It also has a set of mana crystals installed on the outside. When the person who owns the card box uses the cards in reality, he can use the set of mana crystals to pay the required mana.]

"So it's just an external device?" Fang Qingyun understood. People with magic power are like chargers, but what should people without magic power do if they want to charge? They can just bring a power bank with them. The card box plays the role of a power bank.

[Correct answer, so even if you buy the lowest level one, you have to buy one, at least you can pretend that the gold card has no consumption]

"That does make sense." Fang Qingyun touched his chin. He was now a man with a hidden treasure. Once the secret of the gold card's free summoning was exposed, the assassin who came to kidnap him today would probably break his door. "If the gold card is exposed, this matter will not be so simple. I still have to hide it well. Although pretending to be a pig to hide myself is old-fashioned, it works."

[Besides, people buy expensive ones with four or five crystals in the card set. You can buy one with one crystal. Anyway, you don’t need crystals and mana to summon minions.]

Fang Qingyun felt that what the Destiny Codex said was very correct, but unfortunately he suddenly realized a new problem: "If I use magic...if there is no gold for the magic, will I be unable to use it?"

【really】

The Fate Codex did not deny Fang Qingyun's statement. After all, casting spells through cards instead of summoning followers was easier than forcibly using magic, but it was actually a difficult project. Moreover, Fang Qingyun did not need to cast spells in that way...

If someone casts a spell and throws a fireball, Fang Qingyun opens a portal and fires two large-caliber shells from hell, isn't it the same? Anyway, the hell cannon is also an energy body, isn't this much better than learning spells?

For example, if others use spells to summon a blizzard, and cold and sharp ice cones fall from the sky to pierce the enemy, Fang Qingyun can just call for reinforcements, pull two planes over from the Hell Portal, and launch a wave of ground-strafing support. Wouldn't the scorching rain of bullets and exploding bombs be more deadly than a death storm?

"...what you said does make sense...but I feel I still have to learn it." Fang Qingyun touched his chin. One more skill always means one more way to go. What if he might need it someday?

[Don’t worry now, go buy a card box first, then you can go out shopping with your girlfriends]

The Magic Book of Fate obviously misunderstood Fang Qingyun's meaning, and Fang Qingyun had no intention of explaining. He was now trapped in a strange circle. He always felt that telling the truth would make him feel guilty. He simply didn't explain it. Anyway, if he explained it, the Magic Book of Fate would also incorporate his own logic.

From a God's perspective, Fang Qingyun's current behavior is a classic act of hypocrisy. He says that he is the head of the family, but in fact he is secretly happy about having a harem. As for the specific situation, the Book of Destiny is too lazy to care.

It's useless to say it. There are always people who talk sweetly, but something goes wrong at the critical moment. Fang Qingyun has seen too many of them. Therefore, he firmly believes that it's useless to say it. It depends on what is done in the end.

"...Then what we need to do now is very clear..." Fang Qingyun touched his chin and summed up what he needed to do.

[First, you have to buy a card box. You need to find someone who is familiar with this area, such as that vampire senior? Maybe you can have a try with her and see how strong her deck is...]

"Also... the plan I put on hold has to be started, and I have to find some free time to train in gun handling and fighting skills." Fang Qingyun has made preparations. He will continue to struggle to the best of his ability. His fighting power depends entirely on recklessness. If he didn't have the Hell Lava Armor, he would have been beaten into a sieve long ago. He really should practice hard.

【what's the plan? 】

Fang Qingyun licked his lips, not knowing how to describe it: "It's the ten-story-high hell machine. Viola originally wanted to repair it, but I stopped her and dismantled the remaining part to make parts. Now it seems... it's a good idea to dismantle it. We have to quickly get the artillery unit out so that we can have fire support when the time comes."

[What caliber? ]

"Let's just make do with the 105 for now... the other tech trees haven't been researched out yet anyway, so let's use the old 105mm howitzers from World War II to make the frame of the Hell Cannon, and then we can modify it and be done with it." Fang Qingyun thought very carefully. If he rashly proposed a new caliber, Viola might have to stay up all night to solve the problem.

So... I seem to be a freeloader...

Chapter 123: There should be less cheating in multiplayer games. Is that ok with you?

[…Haven’t you always been like this? ]

The Grimoire of Fate pointed out this fact. It floated into the air and used itself as a weapon in a playful manner, swinging it in a circle and hitting Fang Qingyun on the head. However, it was obvious that it was holding back, and it only appeared to be using all its strength.

[You don’t know how to design weapons, and you need the support of your subordinates to fight. You seem to be in charge of everything, but in fact, Viola can easily sideline you if she wants...]

"I just trust her..." Fang Qingyun avoided the topic of saying he was useless, and forced himself to flatter himself, changing the topic to his ability to control subordinates: "Okay, don't talk about it, um... Let's go find Catherine first, right? Do you have a location for Catherine?"

Fang Qingyun sat up from the bed and put on his shoes. The afternoon was just the right time to deal with this matter. If he bought the card box earlier, he could go shopping with his people. Maybe Antina would like the magic atmosphere outside? Maybe Antina would be happy to become a mage? Then could Antina summon followers? Maybe Antina could play for him in the future?

That's too outrageous...will they use nesting dolls together?

[I am not a GPS, how can I locate myself? You can find it yourself]

The Grimoire of Fate turned over in the air, closed its pages with a click, and landed next to Fang Qingyun's pillow.

Then Fang Qingyun, who had just gotten energized, simply lay down beside it. His behavior, like a college student who wakes up early and finds that he has no class in the first period, lies down to catch up on his sleep, left the Book of Fate speechless.

[Weren't you full of energy just now? Why aren't you going now? ]

"I'll go later." Fang Qingyun made excuses for his social phobia, especially when he asked someone he didn't know to do something for the first time, he would always feel embarrassed first: "I'll go to Viola to exercise later. The main thing is that the body is the capital of the revolution. It's better to go later for things like the card box."

[…It’s up to you, but what if I tell you that Katerin is already outside your door? ]

"How is that possible?" Fang Qingyun jumped up. The tone of the Book of Destiny just now was a bit teasing, which made him unable to figure out whether the Book of Destiny was joking or serious.

He walked to the door to open it, and ran into Katerin who was about to knock on the door but hadn't done it yet. It seemed that Katerin had been hesitating here for a long time and had done a lot of psychological preparation. As a result, she was finally ready to knock on the door, but the door opened, and her knuckles almost hit someone else when she knocked on the door. She was like a female hooligan weighing the weight of her chest muscles. This behavior made her cover her face.

Just looking at this situation made Fang Qingyun feel embarrassed. The smile could be transferred, but the pain and embarrassment could be replicated. Fang Qingyun hurried to rescue Catherine. If he didn't, he felt that he could not expect Catherine to make any serious reaction during this period of time.

"So, senior sister, why did you come to see me at noon?" Fang Qingyun began to avoid the fact that Catherine almost hit his pectoral muscles and cleverly changed the subject.

It was at this time that he began to notice Catherine's appearance. This name, which sounded like a Russian name in her previous life, gave Catherine a Nordic face, not feminine, but with a unique aesthetic style.

Like a mixed race of Maozi and Huaguo, with long wavy blond hair, fair skin but not as pale as a vampire, elegant manners but still embarrassed by small things, and even more strange is...

Although she is a senior, she is a head shorter than Fang Qingyun, who is 1.8 meters tall... I guess she is only about 1.5 meters tall.

This is 1.25 Pandora's height. Although it still looks a bit short to Fang Qingyun, it makes him, who is used to looking directly into the eyes of others, have to lower his head to speak, which is quite impolite. But if he looks straight at the other person, he will have to bend down...

That feels more like coaxing a child, which is even more impolite.

This kind of behavior towards a lady is more than just rude. If Katerin had a little temper, Fang Qingyun would lose the little connection he had established with her with great difficulty. They are not familiar with each other yet, so he cannot make such tasteless jokes between friends.

Katerin seemed to remember something. She knocked her fist on her palm and made a gesture of sudden enlightenment. Through this exaggerated behavior, she tried to cover up her previous embarrassment: "It's like this. I looked at my deck yesterday and I'm still missing two minion cards. I want to come over to see if you have the ones I need."

Isn't this business? Give me a discount when the time comes. I'm helping you. Isn't it reasonable for you to take me to the store? Anyway, I pay for it.

I just hope that as a noble, she won't be as greedy as other nobles. Not only does she want to take things for free but she also doesn't help. Then Fang Qingyun's actions will be in vain.

But Catherine should not be such a person. Fang Qingyun has a certain degree of confidence in her own vision. If she were a traditional aristocrat, she would not feel embarrassed by such a small matter as knocking on the door. What's more, Fang Qingyun's status is strictly speaking lower than hers. She doesn't need to cover her face. She only needs to vent her anger on Fang Qingyun to get over the difficulty of being rude.

To put it bluntly, the other party Qingyun was pointing fingers at him crazily, pushing the responsibility onto him, and then swaggering in, arrogantly demanding that Fang Qingyun offer his own deck, as if he would be killed if he was slow to do so.

Yes, this is what Fang Qingyun believes to be a traditional aristocrat.

Fang Qingyun raised his eyebrows, led Katelin in, and then closed the door. He walked in and said, "Speaking of reason, Senior Sister, what kind of follower card do you need? What is your positioning of that card?"

Katerina seemed surprised, and that expression appeared on her face without any disguise, as if she saw a three-year-old child doing one plus one. The expression was so blatant that Fang Qingyun felt offended.

Realizing her impoliteness, Katerin apologized: "I'm sorry, I thought you were similar to those people. At this time, you were still simply comparing the deck costs and the attributes of the minions. I didn't expect that you had already started to cooperate?"

Fang Qingyun understood what she meant. Just like what Fang Qingyun had seen in his previous life, elementary school students who didn't know how to play Yu-Gi-Oh would also buy fake cards from roadside stalls, but the way they played was to see who had higher attack power on their cards, or who had more stars. To Catherine, there was not much difference between these younger students and the elementary school students in Fang Qingyun's eyes.

This might be the reason why Catherine came to watch the match between Fang Qingyun and Meyer. After all, they are only freshmen. Those who don’t understand the rules are still comparing the attributes of minions across costs, while those who know a little more have started calculating the cost-effectiveness of minions. In such a competition for young children, a genius like Meyer unexpectedly appeared.

That's right, this was Katerin's initial evaluation of Meyer, because Meyer actually had tactics and coordination, although it was just a simple slap in the face, but for a sophomore or junior, it was already amazing, this was an incredible improvement, although Meyer's tactics were all based on the guidance of his father, this tactic did not require any changes.

Anyway, just attack the hero with all your might, which is commonly known as slapping the face. If there is a taunting minion blocking it, use your own minion to replace it. If you can't replace it, use spells. This set of skills can be called Cheng Yaojin's three-pronged strategy. No matter how he learned it, in the freshman game or even the sophomore game, this set has a considerable winning rate.

In street fights, the cuckold punch can sometimes play a special role, which is why Katerin was more optimistic about Mayer at the beginning.

But later Meyer proved himself to be a hopeless case, not only breaking the rules but also cheating, both of which were serious faults.

Normally, there is no treasure in this kind of five-cost duel. Therefore, in pursuit of fairness, people with treasure will unload their treasures to show that this is a fair duel and to demonstrate their "noble demeanor."

If a great nobleman, when fighting with a commoner or a minor noble who has no treasure, does not tell the referee at the beginning to remove his treasure, even if he does not need it, he will be ridiculed by others. Even if you are the king's son, such behavior will bring shame to the family.

This is similar to the existence of unspoken rules. The nobles all spontaneously support this rule. Although the underlying meaning of unloading their treasures may not be the pursuit of fairness, but rather includes discrimination and ridicule against those without treasures, this rule does maintain fairness on campus to a certain extent.

Meyer is a typical example of a man who is neither a responsible nor a loyal person. At the beginning, he did not explicitly say that he would take his treasure with him, leaving him in an ambiguous state. Everyone thought he was a man of high moral character. Even when he was angry or provoked, he maintained his bearing as a nobleman.

As a result, this despicable man, seeing that he could gain an advantage by using the treasure, betrayed his integrity without hesitation and started using the treasure instead.

The key point is that he did not report before the start. Logically speaking, even if he carried the treasure, he could not use it. But the teacher just acquiesced?

More importantly, you cheated and still lost?

The nature of this incident is equivalent to the Korean opponent in a large-scale official Asian competition, who said it was a fair game while inserting a USB drive into the computer to cheat, and after being caught, he said that he did not use it, and in the end he still could not beat others even with the cheat.

...This is really a fair game. But also, the brain is not fully developed and the cerebellum is not developed at all, so it wouldn't be fair unless there was some cheating.

Now all the nobles can no longer be tough towards the commoners. The so-called aristocratic demeanor and all the elegance that they could talk about before no longer exist. No matter what they say or how they hypnotize themselves, the commoners in the same school can choke back all their words with just one sentence: "But Meyer cheated."

The key point is that Meyer's father is a nobleman of considerable status, and the other nobles are not willing to cut him off because of such things. So what can they do?

From this perspective, the nobles really had no particularly good way to deal with it. Although they all wanted to beat Meyer to pieces and find two people to break his legs, unfortunately, they simply couldn't do it.

Chapter 124: I am different from those who flatter me. I am the real thing!

Because of this incident, Catherine's attitude towards Mayer was completely different. He was not only unsportsmanlike but also broke the rules. He had never played before and it was an open tournament. If it were a princess or prince with a hot temper, he would probably pull out a gun on the spot. The incident of the previous emperor being cheated of his daughter's dowry was still fresh in her memory. From that time on, all royal figures would be executed first for cheating.

Maybe he would stand up on the spot, take out a law book he carried with him, read out the legal clauses, take the gun from the guard, and kill the referee elf with the first shot. Is that right? Guilty!

Second, shoot the person who instigated cheating. In this case, it should be the teacher named Schmeisser who was present at the time. Instigating cheating, right? Guilty!

Third, shoot the cheater. In other words, if the princess and the prince were there at the time... Meyer would be dead now and might even be infamous.

Others couldn't do anything because of their status, but Katerina couldn't do anything either? She was the daughter of a duke, and to put it bluntly, she was not much different from a princess or a prince. In the so-called aristocratic circle, if she coughed, the whole circle would tremble. As soon as she looked down on Meyer, the whole aristocratic circle unilaterally lowered an iron curtain against Meyer.

The most traditional cold violence is the habit of the nobility. Only when Meyer truly defeats Fang Qingyun without any tricks, will the whole circle think that he has washed away his shame and accept him.

As for Catherine's current judgment... it's difficult, because although Fang Qingyun's actions seem to be random fighting, he is actually countering the opponent's moves. He is really trying to find a chance to win instead of struggling in vain.

His thinking was also extremely clear. He did not panic like ordinary people when they were crippled and thus threw all the minions up. He did not confidently believe that Meyer had no means of killing him. Instead, he chose the safest way, assuming the worst case scenario and proceeding step by step. Even if it was Katerin who went up herself, in that situation with Fang Qingyun's deck of cards, she could not do better.

Moreover, Fang Qingyun's judgment of the situation was also very accurate. In that situation, there were actually two ways to deal with it. One was to choose to exchange injuries with the opponent, fight for a way out in the fight, and strive to kill the opponent as soon as possible. The other was to choose a survival strategy like Fang Qingyun, and waste the opponent's hand resources by restoring health points.

After all, there are only ten cards for five mana, and if you use them all up, you can just pass it by in vain. Meyer, who carries almost all spells, obviously does not have the ability to fight continuously. Spells are one-time, and as long as the minions survive on the field, they can continue to attack. Even if Meyer did not choose to surrender in the end, he would be powerless against Fang Qingyun's deck with most of his minions.

Meyer's deck consists of just three tricks. It's OK to bully newbies in a five-cost game, but it's useless in a high-level game unless you're new to it, because the number of cards drawn can't keep up. It's not impossible to rely entirely on spells, but Meyer's ability obviously can't control the deck.

The five-mana round is for novices, and the ten-mana round is for the overall view to be tested. Guys like Meyer who only know how to slap people in the face will become human sandbags when the ten-mana round comes, and they can be beaten by anyone at will.

What can a stubborn person who doesn't know how to adapt to circumstances achieve? It all depends on luck. If you're unlucky, you can't win. If you're lucky, no one can stop you.

Fang Qingyun has obviously gotten out of that state. He doesn't use whatever he has and let each card play its own role. Instead, he starts to think about coordination. An expert can tell whether something is possible with just one move. Fang Qingyun doesn't ask what card he wants, but what positioning card it has. This shows his level.

It looks like it will be hard for Meyer to clear his name...but what does that have to do with me?

"I need a minion card that clears the field." Katerin decided to test Fang Qingyun. She deliberately used conventional terms without explaining them.

Fang Qingyun's eyebrows jumped. Clear the field? To clear the field, it has to be the Undead... It seems that this one is OK?

He searched in his bag, took out the card that killed him once, and displayed it on the table:

That card was the fire monster from back then. Fang Qingyun lost his first blood in his hands. He still remembers the feeling of being burned to death by flames.

"Here, Undead, with attributes of 5-4-4, and a battle cry effect that causes 3 damage to all other minions on the field. Not only does its own attributes not look bad, but it can also clear a large area of ​​the field. It's truly unique." Fang Qingyun was very confident. The effect of this card was extremely strong. The attributes of this world were similar to those in the ancient times of Hearthstone. The effect of this card alone was simply overwhelming.

Take the Hearthstone card from the previous life as an example, the mage’s exclusive minion is Arcane Tyrannosaurus. Exclusive minions are inherently more cost-effective than ordinary general neutral minions.

Arcane Rex is 6-3-3, has a higher cost than Flame Monster, but a smaller stat than Flame Monster, and its Battlecry effect is that if an elemental minion was played in the previous round, it will deal 3 damage to all other minions.

To put it bluntly, if the effect of the elemental card played in the previous round is not met, this thing is a pure blank board. Unlike the fire monster, it does not need to meet any conditions and can go directly into the field to deal high damage to clear the field. The high damage of 3 to the entire field is extremely painful, at least it can be used to make up for a large range of damage.

"..." Katerin's expression was a little stiff. This card was indeed very strong. Even in Katerin's own collection, there were not many cards that were as strong as this one. But the embarrassing thing was that this card did not meet her requirements. The damage was indeed very high, but...

"What's wrong?" Fang Qingyun looked at Katerin with a little disappointment and a little confused. Isn't this just understanding the situation, and still a follower? More importantly, it's still an undead who can cooperate with vampires. What's there to hesitate about?

"...Actually," Katerin said, "I want a taunt. It would be nice if this card could add a taunt."

Fang Qingyun almost fainted from this condition. Taunt? Adding this card's cost directly becomes 6. Do you believe it? The more affixes a minion card has, the more percentages it needs to have in the subsequent affixes. Taunt is supposed to only count as an affix with one attribute. If it is added, it will be doubled. The cost will not become 5.5, but directly become 6, which is equivalent to accounting for two points of attributes, becoming a 6-4-4 taunt. It is really a big loss.

因为有些词缀相加不是1+1=2,而是1+1>2。

Someone said, isn't it because of rounding? Then can't I just pick an affix with a little more attribute and add it?

That's too good to be true. If you add one more, it will become 7-4-4. The proportion of suffixes will increase exponentially later on. This is not due to rounding, but exponential growth.

This means that if Fang Qingyun wants to make a second-stage Kikuchiyo himself... the cost of the combined effect and four affixes will probably be 15. In other words, if no means of skipping the cost are added, according to the current standards, in a 10-mana game without reducing the cost, the second-stage Kikuchiyo is a card that cannot be played.

The effect of Kikuchiyo in the second stage is powerful enough to destroy all enemies, plus the four not-low-level affixes... 15 mana is really understandable.

"Then you are just dreaming." Fang Qingyun ruthlessly refuted Katelin's idea, and did not hold back just because she was good-looking: "If you add a sarcasm, it won't have such a good effect."

Fang Qingyun rummaged through the package and found the Heavy Gunner card. "5-4-5 taunt, the battle cry deals three damage to a target, and has a certain ability to clear the board. The advantage is that it can be used as a taunt to resist attacks from minions, and the three damage caused by the battle cry can kill a low-health hero. Unfortunately, the board clearing function is far inferior to the previous one."

"...Let's go with the one just now." Katerin hesitated for a moment: "I want to clear the field, if there is no taunt, forget it."

"Why are you so entangled in taunting?" Fang Qingyun was a little confused: "Logically speaking, as a vampire, you should have a lot of blood-sucking spells. If you lose blood, you can just heal it back. What are you afraid of?"

"...It's just a psychological shadow." Katerin hesitated for a moment. "Suppose you have a total of four cards in your hand, including your minion, and it's the tenth turn. There's a five-cost bloodsucking spell card in your hand that can deal 6 damage. Your hero has only 3 health left. The opponent has seven monsters on the field, all with less than 3 health. The opponent casts a 10-damage direct damage spell in the next turn. Can you keep yourself alive?"

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