A Renowned Guessing Card Master

The principal's expression changed as he checked the dungeon's status. "Damn it, one hundred and twenty people. This isn't a dungeon unique to our area—it's a dungeon shared by four regions!"

"Dungeons like this have an extremely high mortality rate! Killing people from other regions earns rewards, and quite substantial ones at that! That means there's no way to properly clear it together. Everyone has to watch out for knives coming from other places." The Vice Principal's expression turned grave as well. "Four regions—which are the other three?"

"We can't track them yet. This type of dungeon has only a twenty-six percent success rate for third-tier clears, and the average survival rate after each clear is less than twelve percent!" The principal glared furiously at the Vice Principal. "Don't you have any judgment of your own? Why did you let him go in? Bai doesn't know any better, but don't you either?!"

"It was his own choice," the Vice Principal said solemnly. "Osiris told me that if his son chose to press forward without hesitation, I was not to stop him. This was his trial."

"You..." The principal had no idea what to say about that madman Osiris. "He even told me to leave Caroso barely alive!"

He stared fixedly at the monitoring equipment before him and muttered, "I hope those kids make it back alive."

The black-robed man had heavy dark circles beneath his eyes and looked somewhat like an addict.

Caroso's thoughts raced.

First, there were countless followers in this laboratory—people like the one before him.

Then, the proper way to clear this should be to first see what happened if he followed him...

[Boss Caro, play Guessing Cards with him!]

[Yeah, guess cards right away!]

[Just tell him: Let's play Guessing Cards.]

Caroso: ???

Though puzzled, Caroso did as instructed. "Let's play Guessing Cards."

"Oh, I'm a renowned Guessing Card Master."

Something that left Caroso utterly bewildered happened. The black-robed man suddenly smiled, folded his arms across his chest, and looked at Caroso with complete confidence. "If I win, you have to give me one of your rare cards!"

This change left Caroso unsure of how to react. It was completely beyond his understanding!

[Guessing Cards Game]

[Take out three cards and have the other party guess the Star Level of each card. Whoever guesses the most correctly wins.]

Those words flashed before Caroso's eyes.

"Fine."

Before Caroso could even take out his cards, the comments surged again.

[You can really play it?]

[Holy shit, was the real world this melodramatic too?]

[Anyone who's seen the story knows it's not melodramatic. This is the Card God's Absolute Domain. Ordinary and elite dungeon monsters below the fourth tier will have their thinking affected.]

[Use Zero-Star cards. Monsters below the fourth tier can't guess Zero-Star cards.]

[You'll be invincible.]

[Yeah, it's a bug. When we first played, there weren't any Zero-Star cards. The designers didn't fix the bug after they appeared either. The officials even claimed the game was perfectly reasonable—blue and white monsters below the fourth tier lack sufficient magic power, so their cognition is insufficient. Hahahahaha.]

At that moment, a transparent barrier enveloped the two of them. Six faint golden rectangular lights appeared in the air, three before each of them, seemingly meant for placing face-down cards.

Hearing the netizens' advice, Caroso directly took out three Zero-Star cards and placed them on top.

Just then, two people passed by the doorway. One of them was a classmate who had entered to clear the dungeon with him.

Seeing Caroso facing that person as though they were in a duel, he looked astonished.

Caroso had gotten into a conflict with a monster the moment he arrived?

Heh, as expected of a barbarian from Azure Wolf Province. Let's see how you die!

It'd be best if I didn't have to make a move.

Caroso ignored the classmate and looked at the person before him.

The black-robed man placed three cards down with a grave expression. "Let's begin."

"Your first card is three-star," Caroso said.

The black-robed man grinned. "Wrong. Your first card is three-star!"

"Wrong," Caroso said. "Your second card is three-star!"

In the end, after the first round, Caroso failed to guess any correctly due to bad luck, and the two sides tied.

In the second round, Caroso guessed that all three were two-star cards and got one right.

"What an absolutely splendid match," the black-robed man said. "This rare card is yours, my friend."

As he spoke, he took out a card and handed it to Caroso.

Caroso accepted the card and took a look.

[Name: Evil Spirit Summon]

[Category: Spell]

[Star Level: 3]

[Grade: Blue Rare]

[Class Restriction: None]

[Description: Summons the undead who were killed in the laboratory. After the passage of countless years, they have become evil spirits and exist in every corner of this laboratory.]

[Note: This card can only be used in this space.]

He'd inexplicably gained a three-star card?

In reality, adding cards required readjusting one's deck.

But in a dungeon, once you obtained a card, you obtained it. You could use it directly, ignoring the usual card limit.

Therefore, some dungeon raiders searched for cards in dungeons to meet their combat needs.

At the very least, they could learn more about the dungeon's background.

After handing the card to Caroso, the black-robed man seemed somewhat lost. He did not know whether he should leave or stay.

[Boss Caro, if you want to follow him now, wake him up and have him lead you away. If you don't want to follow him, just ignore him.]

[Right. In our world, tapping him wakes him up. If you don't, he stays like this. Only purple monsters below the fourth tier aren't affected.]

[Remember, you can't play Guessing Cards more than three times. Three times is the limit for a single dungeon. How to make proper use of those three games is the key to clearing dungeons.]

[Yeah. When we clear dungeons, it's like skipping three areas, saving stamina and cards three times over. We usually use it in the hardest places.]

[Not recommended against purple monsters. If we get it wrong against a purple monster, we can fight again. If you get it wrong, you have to hand over at least a blue card. That card will completely belong to the other party, which is basically the same as disappearing.]

[If you clear this in the future, you must skip the first one. Skipping the first lets you choose your own route instead of obediently following him. Avoiding the first time you follow him reveals a hidden route.]

[Following him is definitely the hardest route. Usually only experts show off their skills by playing it that way.]

"I understand," Caroso said. "If you'd told me before I entered, I could have told Nimel in advance."

[Guessing Cards only works on humanoids capable of normal thought.]

[Uh, mainly because I wasn't sure whether it would work in reality either!]

Caroso understood. Indeed, if he encountered a dungeon full of monsters, then all he could rely on was pure combat power.

"But what if Guessing Cards doesn't work?" Caroso asked doubtfully.

[At worst, you fight.]

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