As an Otaku, I Could Only Make Anime Cards

Natsuhi, Shanghai City, Happy Home.

Lu Su opened his eyes in confusion. The television in the room was broadcasting the news.

"Master Card Master Yama Bai Yueming arrived in Shanghai City today. We welcome Master Bai Yueming's visit and guidance."

"It is reported that Master Bai Yueming is the foremost authority on the Underworld System."

"This visit to Shanghai City is intended to guard against an outbreak in the sea-bound secret realm, Demon's Nest."

"Furthermore, this Demon's Nest outbreak is suspected to be the work of the Spirit Summoning Society."

"Citizens are requested to report suspicious individuals promptly."

The voice from the television stabbed at Lu Su's nerves.

Great waves of memories flooded into his mind.

"Did I transmigrate?" Lu Su muttered.

Before transmigrating, Lu Su had been an exploited otaku illustrator. AI-generated art had devastated his work, leaving him unemployed for half a year. One night, he drank too much while drowning his sorrows and choked to death on his own vomit.

"What an embarrassing way to die. Fuck! I didn't delete the study materials on my computer!" Thinking of the unspeakable files on his computer, Lu Su's face went pale.

After placing his hopes on his friends being alert enough, Lu Su began sorting through the information in his mind.

According to his memories, this place was also called Blue Star, but the planet possessed a peculiar profession known as Card Masters.

At first, history had been largely the same as the Blue Star Lu Su remembered.

But everything changed when Wu Sangui let the barbarians through the pass.

Rifts and secret realms appeared all over the world, and countless monsters poured out from within them.

Lu Sheng, the muscular soldier guarding the pass for the Great Ming, unfortunately fell into one of those rifts.

To everyone's astonishment, this musclebound man slaughtered the secret realm demons with his bare hands and obtained Blue Star's first card.

From that point onward, the Great Ming reversed its situation against the barbarian tribes, and its national reign had now continued for more than six hundred years.

Once the Great Ming had stabilized, it discovered that an unnamed neighboring kingdom had long since been destroyed. A great fox-shaped demon had descended directly upon that small nation's homeland, turning it into the present-day Demon Country.

However, the Great Ming royal family was now little more than a mascot. The Cabinet was the one truly controlling the Empire.

Scratching his head, Lu Su complained, "Is your Great Ming even legitimate?"

According to his memories, clashes between humanity and the secret realm demon factions had grown increasingly intense in recent years. In some places, large numbers of human troops and Demon Army forces even stood locked in confrontation.

To replenish the military's manpower, the Great Ming Card Master Association organized aptitude tests for second-year high school students every year, selecting promising students for specialized training.

The original owner had also been preparing to make his first card when he suddenly died from overwork after staying up too long studying.

Thinking of this, Lu Su could not help feeling invigorated. It seemed he had gotten the script for a Mythology-type Card Master.

Full of confidence, Lu Su flipped through the Revised World Mythology Encyclopedia, Version 4.8, spread out before him. His mood gradually sank to rock bottom.

".I don't seem to know much about mythology."

Only then did Lu Su remember that he was not especially familiar with mythology, much less capable of rattling off mythological figures like those senior transmigrators.

He did know a little about those famous gods, but his current rank was nowhere near enough to support making them.

His plan to make Mythology-type cards went bankrupt, and Lu Su casually picked up another book lying on the desk, Red Hair Teaches You to Write Stories.

Suddenly, his gaze sharpened. He slowly read the words on the page: ".As long as the logic is self-consistent and the setting is reasonable, it may be possible to create a card?"

Seeing this, Lu Su fell into thought. "Do the anime I watched before transmigrating count?"

As an otaku illustrator, he was naturally familiar with all sorts of anime series.

Setting aside those thoughts, Lu Su continued reading the card-making materials before him.

"Spiritual Power, materials, story settings, and card art—none can be missing?"

Of those, Spiritual Power was the least of Lu Su's concerns. Perhaps because of his transmigration, his Spiritual Power had already reached Black Iron Grade.

Still, it seemed the profession of Card Master had rather high requirements.

Yet this world could not do without Card Masters, so naturally, they had become people above others.

Shaking his head, Lu Su tossed aside the thoughts in his heart.

He continued organizing the memories within him.

".Online loans?"

The original owner had been an orphan. His parents, ordinary people, had died during an invasion by secret realm demons, leaving him with only this old house and barely enough money to support him through high school.

If he wanted to become a Card Master, that money would naturally be far from enough.

Thus, the original owner had naturally set his sights on online loans.

As he wished, he borrowed one hundred thousand in startup capital. However, the condition was that if he failed to repay it within a month, the lending group would seize the house he currently lived in.

Lu Su could not help getting a headache.

According to the memories, if he successfully became a Card Master, Shanghai City No. 1 High School alone would offer a scholarship as high as 150,000.

Not only would that be enough to repay the online loan, it would barely be enough to finish university as well.

But if he failed—

Lu Su would probably end up sleeping on the streets and living off the northwest wind.

With a sigh, making cards had become an urgent matter.

Lu Su turned on the battered old computer and began browsing the trading website under the Card Master Association.

The trading website displayed purchasable materials according to the account's rank.

As an ordinary person, Lu Su could only purchase Black Iron Grade materials.

Biological Materials: Rookie Pirate (White), Elite Samurai (Blue), Man-faced Snake (Green), Corpse Dog (Green), Hanged Ghost (Blue), Avenger (Green)

Item Materials: Katana (Green), Bright Light Armor (Blue), Ring-pommel Saber (Green), Sportswear (White)

Looking at the materials listed on the website, Lu Su unconsciously tapped his fingers.

He pondered what character card he could make right now.

Suddenly, his eyes lit up. He added Elite Samurai (Blue), Avenger (Green), Katana (Green), and a blank card to the shopping cart.

The four items totaled more than ninety thousand. Lu Su gritted his teeth and paid.

Success or failure depended on this one move.

After paying, Lu Su felt a wave of emptiness. He silently sat in his chair and rested for a while.

About half an hour later, a knocking sound came from the window.

"Knock, knock, knock."

A plump, snow-white chicken was preening its feathers outside the window.

The most eye-catching thing was, of course, the little bag slung across its body.

From the original owner's memories, Lu Su found the plump chicken's origin.

A Black Iron Grade white biological card: Goo Goo Chicken.

It was generally used for civilian logistics transport within cities.

Lu Su opened the window and took the envelope that the Goo Goo Chicken pulled from its bag with its beak.

The Goo Goo Chicken pecked a button on the bag, and a woman's voice came from within. "Please confirm receipt of the delivered items."

Lu Su opened the envelope. Inside were the three materials, Elite Samurai (Blue), Avenger (Green), and Katana (Green), along with a blank card.

"That's right, these are the ones." Lu Su nodded to the Goo Goo Chicken and tried to reach out to pet it.

The Goo Goo Chicken cautiously hopped a step backward and pecked another button.

"Please do not touch staff during working hours."

The next moment, it flapped its wings and flew away.

Seeing the wondrous Goo Goo Chicken, Lu Su could not help feeling a little yearning for the profession of Card Master.

Before this, he had only glimpsed things through the original owner's memories, as though looking at flowers through fog.

Only now had he witnessed a little of the wonder of Card Masters.

"Then it's time to make my first card."