Ming Shuiyun had been living very comfortably these past few days.
Every day after class, she went with her girlfriends to the Peerless Kill Research Association to work on designing battle cards.
Following Qin Leyin's guidance, she proposed the three basic cards—"Kill," "Dodge," and "Peach"—as well as various strategy and trick cards. She had even personally designed Emperor Gaozu's two abilities: "Dawn: During your card-use phase, you may give any number of cards from your hand to other characters. Then, the second time you play a card from your hand during this phase, you recover 1 HP," and "King's Aura: Lord Skill. Other Radiance-aligned National Scholars may use or play 'Kill' in your place when you need them to." As a result, she received unanimous praise from everyone.
Following the mature ideas Ming Shuiyun had put forward, the association had produced quite a few National Scholar cards over the past few days. They could even manage an ordinary five-player game. As soon as the game was released, it became popular throughout the association. Battle reports of them playing "Peerless Kill" had even appeared on the Imperial Academy's bulletin board, drawing crowds of onlookers.
The entire academy was eagerly awaiting the official release of "Peerless Kill," so the association naturally had even more motivation. Almost every day, they released over a dozen National Scholar cards, then scrapped most of them, leaving only a few to be added to the trial version. Their combat strength was evaluated through actual matches.
Most of the ordinary members who had lent money to Ming Shuiyun did not actually participate in designing the National Scholar cards—they wanted to, but the cards they designed were far too destructive to the game's balance and had no competitive value at all. So they were basically in charge of testing.