Original Card Formula, Spirit Summoning Card Creation!

DS-R1's square head immediately ramped up its processing power—

It began simulating survival decisions for the dungeon:

→Quantifying the enemy ghosts' combat strength and danger levels...

→Coordinating our card resources and the advantages of the terrain...

→Searching the local knowledge base. Based on strategy guides for the Myriad Ghosts Night Parade Dungeon shared by previous survivors, there were no special requirements for clearing the dungeon at the bare minimum...

Deep thought complete. Returning simulation results:

→Energy detection revealed three "Aberrant Level" enemies and three "Fierce Ghost Level" enemies, along with one "beginner Card Master" on our side and one highly spiritual ordinary human;

Two Normal Grade white cards, one Excellent Grade green card, and several materials related to high-risk gods were in our possession.

→After comprehensive comparisons and calculations, the survival rate for a direct frontal confrontation was less than one in a thousand. A frontal confrontation was therefore not recommended;

→Holding the sanctuary, seeking assistance, and waiting for a turning point was the optimal survival strategy. The survival rate under this strategy reached a "whopping" 0.4%.

→While holding the sanctuary, it was recommended to use the Electronic Pulse skill for area damage, or attempt to trigger a chaotic internal mutation among the ghost horde with Electromagnetic Waves.

→The currently available card materials would not significantly improve the survival rate. It was recommended that our side attempt an Unknown Card Combination.

→This situation fell under Article 4.2 of the "Universal Card Combination Safety Management Measures." It constituted a serious threat to the Card Master's life and met the conditions for emergency avoidance;

An Unknown Card Combination using high-risk materials could be attempted without filing a report or obtaining authorization.

→Warning! An Unknown Card Combination involving godly materials carried enormous risks!

To improve the team's overall survival rate, it was recommended that your highly spiritual ordinary human companion conduct the attempt. If he suffered backlash from the card spirit, it would not significantly reduce the team's overall combat strength.

However, the act of "sacrifice" could potentially cause humanitarian disputes within the team. Please consider carefully.

→The following are analyses of the weaknesses and attack strategies of several specific ghosts:...(No further elaboration)

Lin Chen understood it too. As long as they survived the Myriad Ghosts Night Parade event, they would most likely have cleared the dungeon at the bare minimum.

DS-R1's advice was that they could only turtle up! Going head-on meant throwing their lives away!

But what kind of hell-difficulty dungeon was this? Even after choosing to turtle up, the survival rate was still a "whopping" 0.4%!

In this situation, they truly had no choice but to take a gamble and attempt an Unknown Card Combination.

DS-R1's extremely practical recommendation was for Lin Chen to make the attempt. It was treating him as expendable material.

Unexpectedly, Lin Chen had actually been classified as a highly spiritual human. It seemed transmigration had granted him some bonuses after all.

Zhong Yueming fell into conflicted thought. Although Lin Chen's spirituality was extremely high and he was born to be a Card Master;

Lin Chen did not even know any established card formulas yet. Having him attempt an Unknown Card Combination with high-risk materials was tantamount to sending him to his death.

Zhong Yueming had gone through several dungeons and knew that the more critical the moment, the more decisively one had to act to survive. If he kept hesitating, they would be defeated!

But he bore the responsibility of an official Card Master from the Security Bureau, and by nature he was a lawful and good person. He still could not bring himself to deliberately arrange for an innocent teammate to die.

In this sufficiently desperate world, that tiny scrap of conscience was the reason Zhong Yueming had not yet gone mad.

So he spoke first: "Let's hold out for a while and see how it goes. As for the card combination, unless we're driven to the brink, we shouldn't try it yet. But..."

Zhong Yueming could not bring himself to say the second half. But what if they were driven to the brink?

Zhong Yueming wrestled with himself for a long time and decided that he should make the attempt himself.

One reason was his conscience. Another was that although he was not a professional Card Master, he was a Card Master all the same. He understood card combinations better than Lin Chen, a complete novice, so at the very least, the odds of success would be higher.

"But if we reach the brink, I can give it a try." Lin Chen spoke first.

"Huh?"

Zhong Yueming wore an expression that said he had struggled for ages, only for Lin Chen to steal the chance to play the hero.

"But you have to answer my earlier question first!"

Lin Chen continued asking, "Which Benevolent Gods does this world have? Did they all perish, or did they never appear in the first place? This question is very important!"

Zhong Yueming said, "As far as we know, there are only a handful of Benevolent Gods—the God of Light and the Half-Moon God. Ever since the global Anomalous Invasion a hundred years ago, history before that has been severed! I truly don't know whether any other gods existed!"

Although there was still no conclusive answer, Lin Chen felt it was very likely that this world's mythology had suffered a break in continuity, leaving the surviving masses ignorant of the ancient gods.

As for why not even books recording mythology had survived, this was hardly the time to investigate it in detail, not with them in such desperate straits.

Lin Chen made up his mind. He would derive a card formula himself, summon a god, and survive through card creation!

A thunderous boom came from the outer wall of the City God Temple. At the same time, the walls began seeping foul-smelling green water.

"Warning! The Ghost Yaksa has begun attacking the sanctuary walls!"

"Warning! The Drowned Ghost has begun staining the sanctuary walls!"

"Warning! The Falling Ghost has begun slicing apart the sanctuary walls!"

"Warning! Warning!..."

DS-R1 began issuing warnings frantically. Zhong Yueming immediately gave an order: "Release Electronic Pulse. Raise the intensity to 80% and hit as many enemies as possible!"

The silver-white machine leaped into the air and precisely located the Ghost Yaksa and Drowned Ghost attacking the walls. The Electromagnetic Resonator activated, blue-violet arcs enveloping the ghost horde and producing several thousand volts of electricity.

The Ghost Yaksa's body instantly hunched and stiffened. The bloated pustules on the Drowned Ghost burst open, flames igniting over its body before being doused again. The Falling Ghost was likewise covered in electric arcs and had clearly been injured!

"It works!" Zhong Yueming clenched his fist and cheered.

He even entertained a trace of wishful thinking. "Maybe, relying on this sanctuary, we really won't have to risk combining cards!"

But in the next second, a ghost eye suddenly opened on the section of the City God Temple wall that had just been attacked.

Zhong Yueming remembered clearly that this eye was exactly the same as the eyeball in the Eyeless Ghost's porcelain bowl!

At the same time, an obscure, forbidden chant of scripture rang out from beyond the walls.

Ghost eyes opening on the wall, ghost scripture being chanted beyond it!

The author has brought the Eyeless Ghost along to ask for votes and follows!

This is extremely important to the book's future exposure and traffic!

Chapter 4: Original Card Formula, Spirit Summoning Card Creation!

Ghost eyes opening on the wall!

Ghost scripture being chanted beyond it!

The appearance of ghost eyes on the City God Temple walls showed that the sanctuary was being invaded!

That Eyeless Ghost actually possessed the ability to implant eyeballs!

He had thought the Eyeless Ghost was only "Aberrant Level," possessing nothing more than a physical mutation. He had not expected it to possess the bizarre ability to pollute physical entities. It was unquestionably "Fierce Ghost Level" now!

And that bizarre, halting chant of scripture had to be coming from the Skeleton Monk, scrambling the mind and distorting the sense of hearing.

Zhong Yueming's Sanity Value had already begun dropping. His thoughts grew sluggish, as though all kinds of deranged ideas had been stuffed into his mind, preventing him from focusing on what he needed to do next.

"Damn... What... was I... doing?"

"Detected that the Card Master is suffering a sanity attack. Converting Electronic Pulse frequency and releasing it at the Card Master to clear negative mental interference."

DS-R1 reacted autonomously at high speed. It turned toward Zhong Yueming and fired a barrage of pulses, using the magnetic field it generated to free him from his idiotic state.

"I'm saved! Thank goodness I had already installed the Emergency Response Module in DS-R1."

Zhong Yueming was shaken with lingering fear, but at the same time he felt the pressure mount. The ghost horde's siege was not so easy to deal with.

During the period he had been controlled by the ghost scripture, more and more eyes had opened on the City God Temple walls. The walls began turning gray and decayed, and even started sprouting great patches of livor mortis.

The Blood-Red Wedding Sedan Ghost had not even attacked from afar yet, and Zhong Yueming was already barely holding on.

The three ghosts paralyzed by the Electronic Pulse also began recovering their mobility.

The Ghost Yaksa began hammering away again, every punch carrying tremendous force and a howling gale.

The sanctuary was about to be breached!

A hundred ghosts surrounded the city! They had reached the brink!

"Brother Zhong!"

Lin Chen's voice came from behind. Zhong Yueming turned to look.

"It's time. Quickly, give me all the card materials!"

Zhong Yueming hesitated for an instant, but still decisively flung the cards and materials to Lin Chen.

Lin Chen answered him with a resolute look. "Buy me some time. I'm starting!"

Zhong Yueming was deeply moved as well. "Lin Chen, although we met by chance, we can still be considered comrades-in-arms. Whatever the result, I'll do everything I can to hold this wall!"

Zhong Yueming drove DS-R1 to fire another Electronic Pulse...

Lin Chen looked at the materials in his hands and began thinking.

Speaking of summoning gods, Lin Chen knew far too many gods. But he had to carefully consider what type of god to summon and which god to call.

It had to be suitable for resolving their current predicament and align with the symbolism of the materials at hand.

A hundred ghosts were surrounding the city. They could win simply by defending their home and turtling up.

To defend their home, the most suitable choice was a powerful Guardian Card—one that could hold the pass alone against ten thousand enemies!

Among the white cards Zhong Yueming had thrown to Lin Chen, there happened to be a spare Guardian Card as well.

This was Lin Chen's first time holding a card-made object from this world, and he could not help taking a close look.

The card depicted a tall human guardian wearing a helmet and holding a halberd. The border was metallic gray-white, while the back was engraved with several incredibly high-tech spiritual-energy patterns.

Based on the combination of the guardian and City God-related elements, the god Lin Chen would summon gradually became clear—

The Door God!

The Door God's divine authority was to guard homes and drive away evil. He could be called the god of guardianship. There was no god more suited to their current predicament than the Door God.

But the difficult points Lin Chen had to consider were:

1. Did the Door God exist in this world?