Incredibly Familiar Small and Grand Monthly Cards

After the prompt, Tylen immediately held his breath.

"My cheat is... a paid monthly card?!"

As Tylen stood there in a daze, the scene before him rapidly changed.

Looking at the familiar UI layout, along with its prices and contents,

an absurd yet ecstatic feeling shot straight to his head, making him blurt out an internet meme from his previous life:

"Holy shit! Genshin!"

This feeling was too damn familiar! Wasn't this the mobile game interface he had played with his professor's son in his previous life?!

He quickly took a deep breath and forced himself to calm down, his gaze sweeping across the detailed interface like lightning.

First was the Small Monthly Card:

Price: 30 Purple Gold Coins.

Benefits: Receive 300 Knowledge Crystals immediately upon purchase. Log in daily to claim 90 Knowledge Crystals.

Description: 160 Knowledge Crystals can be used for one draw from the [Ancient Gacha Pool]. A guaranteed reward comes every 90 draws, and the pool rotates once a month.

Current featured item: [Passive Talent: Slacker Saint Body]

"90 per day means one draw every two days..." Tylen calculated inwardly.

Then his gaze moved downward and settled on the contents of the Grand Monthly Card.

Grand Monthly Card. Price: 68 Purple Gold Coins.

The moment he saw it, his breathing became rapid, and his heart pounded violently as though it were about to burst through his chest.

[Wizard Apprentice's Grand Monthly Card, Reward Preview]:

Lv. 1:

Apprentice's Experience Book x4 (Each contains 500 universal experience points and can be infused directly)

Wizard Experience Book x1 (Each contains 1,000 universal experience points and can be infused directly)

Primary Alchemy Material Selection Pack x5 (Contains 60 basic materials; choose one)

Lv. 2:

Meditation Essential Oil x5 + Meditation Essence x5 (Can speed up meditation)

Lv. 3:

Magic Artifact Shard x100 + Magic Artifact Fragment x20 (Used to strengthen magic artifacts)

Primary Alchemy Material Selection Pack x5

Lv. 4:

Apprentice's Experience Book x4

Wizard Experience Book x1

Lv. 5:

Concentrated Soul Fragment x2 (Each can restore 6 points of Mental Power without side effects)

Blank Experience Book x5 (100 experience points each; increases skill proficiency)

The levels then continued all the way up to the familiar level cap of fifty.

The Grand Monthly Card rewards were familiar, even the reward format for every level was identical. They had simply all been replaced with resources Wizards needed.

"What incredible stuff! Every last bit of it is hard currency!"

Tylen's fingers trembled slightly in the air.

As a bottom-tier apprentice, he knew all too well how valuable these things were.

In this world, Wizards did not become stronger through sudden enlightenment. They were force-fed resources and experience until they grew stronger!

A qualified Wizard had to construct an immense system of knowledge.

They needed to master at least two of the four great foundations: alchemy, Meditation Art, Runecraft, and Ritualism.

Only with those as a foundation could a Wizard analyze and control a "Spell Model."

A Spell Model was the key to a Wizard's advancement, the key that pried open the rules of the world.

The Spirit Summoning Control Method Tylen was currently cultivating was the signature Spell Model among the two major Spell Models of his mentor, Markley Kane.

After cultivating it to completion, one could summon more than a hundred wraiths to fight at once.

Combined with other skills such as Spirit Realm Armor Art and Icy Touch of the Dead, it could create an army of wraiths in an instant.

As long as an apprentice completely mastered one Spell Model, they could advance to become an Official Wizard.

Once an Official Wizard completely controlled two Spell Models, they could advance to Grand Wizard.

But having the key alone was not enough.

If Spell Models were keys, then skills were blades formed from the embodiment of rules.

Spell Models themselves often did not possess direct destructive power.

They needed to be filled with vast amounts of Mana and developed through skills before they could unleash world-destroying might.

To put it simply, a Spell Model was an inner cultivation method, while skills were the moves.

All of this, whether understanding Spell Models or honing skills, required enormous amounts of time for practice and astronomical quantities of resources.

And what did bottom-tier apprentices like Tylen lack the most?

Resources!

Without resources, there were no opportunities to practice;

without practice, there was no proficiency;

without proficiency, one would remain worthless forever.

It was a vicious cycle.

But now, this Grand Monthly Card perfectly shattered that vicious cycle!

The experience books at level one would allow him to skip tedious deduction and analysis, directly increasing his control over Spell Models.

The Meditation Essential Oil at level two would speed up the growth of his Mental Power.

The Magic Artifact Essence at level three would ensure that he never lacked strengthening materials when enhancing magic artifacts.

The soul fragments and Skill Experience at level five could restore Mental Power and increase the experience of magical skills!

"98 Purple Gold Coins..."

Tylen glanced at the total price.

The 30-Purple-Gold-Coin Small Monthly Card plus the 68-Purple-Gold-Coin Grand Monthly Card came to 98 Purple Gold Coins in total.

It did not seem expensive, but Tylen himself only possessed 20 Purple Gold Coins.

That was barely enough to cover two days of meals.

"But it's worth it! So damn worth it!"

Without the slightest hesitation, Tylen willed it and directly tapped [Purchase All].

[Ding! Recharge successful!]

[Soul Wizard's Grand Monthly Card activated successfully!]

He had no money himself, but he was currently holding 623 Purple Gold Coins in corpse-collection funds from above.

The corpse-collection funds were audited once a week. As long as the money spent matched the corpses he brought back, those above would not interfere too much.

There were still three days until the next inspection.

As long as he had these resources, he could easily make up this shortfall within three days!

Strangely, he had not taken out his money pouch, nor had there been any physical transaction.

Yet he could feel several banknotes and coins disappearing from the pouch at his waist.

This system could actually deduct payment remotely!

But Tylen did not care about such worldly possessions at all right now.

With a crisp notification sound, the interface before him underwent a dramatic transformation.

The previously illusory reward icons instantly became solid, radiating an enticing glow. At the same time, a booming sound rang out in his mind, and an entirely new scene appeared.

It was an endless, profound void.

At the very center of the void floated an incomparably massive tree that radiated silvery-white light.

At that moment, a golden button appeared in the middle of its trunk:

[Click to claim daily Knowledge Crystals]

And in the upper-right corner, his total Knowledge Crystals had directly settled at 1,070.

Daily 90 + 300 bonus + 680 directly unlocked by the Grand Monthly Card.

"160 per draw. I have 1,070 now, enough for six draws..." Tylen suppressed the urge to start pulling immediately.

He quickly shifted his gaze back to the Grand Monthly Card interface.

The Grand Monthly Card had fifty levels, and each level required 1,000 experience points.

The weekly experience cap was 15,000 points.

To level up, he had to diligently grind missions like he had gone to work in his previous life.

A familiar mission list appeared at the bottom of the interface:

[Daily Missions (Five fixed missions each day)]:

Consume 6 points of Mental Power — Reward: 300 experience

Complete one meditation session — Reward: 300 experience

Complete 2 magic practice sessions — Reward: 300 experience

Collect 3 corpses — Reward: 300 experience

Perform one Spell Model deduction — Reward: 300 experience

(Daily total: 1,500 experience)

[Weekly Missions (Eight fixed missions refreshed every week)]:

Defeat 10 magical beasts — Reward: 500 experience

Consume a total of 40 points of Mental Power — Reward: 700 experience

Stitch together 10 dismembered corpses — Reward: 500 experience

Perform ten soul summons — Reward: 400 experience

Collect a total of 15 corpses — Reward: 700 experience

Make 10 portions of magical cuisine — Reward: 400 experience

Complete three duels — Reward: 1,500 experience

Complete 10 alchemy experiments — Reward: 500 experience

(Weekly mission total: 5,200 experience)

There was also a [Limited-Time Emergency Mission] section, which was currently empty.

Tylen's mind raced.

"There are some differences in the numerical details, but the gap is not large."

"1,500 per day means 10,500 in seven days. Add the 5,200 from weekly missions, and that makes 15,700 points." "That exceeds the weekly cap of 15,000, but it means I have some room for error."

"As long as I grind for four full weeks, I can reach level fifty and claim every reward!"