Card Star-Up Advancement

Purple! It was actually a purple epic card!

Tang Yueyue was delighted and carefully examined the card.

[Charmander]

[Category: Summoning Card]

[Quality: One-Star Purple Card]

[Attribute: Fire]

[Racial Trait: Blaze]

[(Note: Lizards can evolve into dragons too!)]

So powerful!

"Charmander? Boss, is this a dragon-type card?"

After reading it, Tang Yueyue was extremely surprised. After all, many card users were quite sensitive to the word "dragon."

Dragons were sacred creatures of legend!

Of course, this referred to pure-blooded dragons, not all sorts of miscellaneous drakes.

As long as they were pure-blooded dragons, their bloodlines had reached the legendary tier. Once they reached adulthood, they could become among the world's most powerful creatures.

There were even rumors that mythical dragons existed on the legendary Dragon Island, though no one knew whether that was true.

However, there was no doubt that pure-blooded dragons possessed terrifying combat power.

As for the drake lineage, although the dragon blood in their bodies was not pure, their combat strength was still outstanding.

Tang Yueyue did not think the [Charmander] in her hand was a pure-blooded dragon, but even if it was a drake, that was still a wonderful surprise.

"It isn't." Gu Xin shook his head.

"Strictly speaking, [Charmander] is a reptilian magical creature."

"Ah, what a pity."

Tang Yueyue was rather disappointed. For students their age, even possessing a drake card would have been something worth celebrating and showing off.

"However, if you encounter some special opportunity in the future, or..."

Gu Xin looked at the [Charmander] in Tang Yueyue's hand. In truth, he had always had an idea.

Under normal circumstances, cards could not undergo star-up advancement. While stronger materials could be used to strengthen and upgrade them—

—the risk of destroying the card was simply too high. The failure rate for normal card crafting was already high, but raising a card's star rating and advancing it was far more difficult than ordinary card crafting!

The failure rate exceeded ninety-five percent.

Besides using higher-tier materials to upgrade magical cards, certain special opportunities could also give cards a chance to undergo star-up advancement.

For example, Xia Donghai, one of the Four Pillars of the Great Xia Empire, was a card master. His most legendary encounter had happened in exactly this way and was widely known.

His original two-star green summoning card, [Green Clock], could initially only unleash mental energy attacks and serve as a frontline unit.

But after entering a desert secret realm, he encountered an ascension opportunity within it. When his [Green Clock] covered his retreat, it forcibly absorbed a massive amount of ascension power without bursting apart.

Afterward, [Green Clock] ascended and evolved into the four-star gold [Sun Clock] in a single leap!

A four-star golden legendary card!

Its sunfire, capable of burning mountains and boiling seas, made Xia Donghai invincible in battle. After later advancing to a fifth-rank card master, he became one of the Great Xia Empire's Four Pillars in a single stroke.

It could be said that this opportunity had changed Xia Donghai's life trajectory. Otherwise, even if he truly had talent, he could never have reached his current achievements.

But the evolution of magical cards had always been exceedingly difficult, throughout history.

Yet Gu Xin had an idea.

Permanently raising the star rating and advancing a summoning card is indeed harder than ascending to heaven. But what if I could create a special card that temporarily evolves a summon?

Gu Xin pondered. It was an excellent direction.

For example, in Digimon Tamers, which he had watched in his previous life, Tamers used card slashes. They used evolution cards to make their Digimon evolve, super-evolve, and even undergo ultimate evolution.

However, no card maker had proposed such a theory so far. Perhaps it was because of ingrained thinking, or perhaps someone had considered it but had no idea how to make such a card.

After all, temporarily raising a card's star rating and advancing it was truly an astonishing concept.

"Boss, or what?"

Tang Yueyue looked at Gu Xin curiously.

"Nothing. Miss Tang, are you satisfied with this card?"

Gu Xin shook his head. He would talk about it after he actually created evolution component cards.

Evolution component cards, fusion ascension cards, ritual offerings, and so on—Gu Xin, who came from Blue Star, did not lack imagination.

"I'm satisfied. As expected of you, Boss."

Although it was only a one-star summoning card, it was purple and epic. That made all the difference.

Besides, her [Charmander] was obviously stronger than Yin Xue's [Squirtle].

One was a blue card, the other a purple card. Were they even comparable?

Heh heh heh.

Tang Yueyue's pretty face bloomed into a smile. Who knew what happy thought had crossed her mind.

Toyokawa Shoko walked over with water and set two cups of tea in front of Tang Yueyue and Yin Xue, while Gu Xin received cola.

After nodding politely to the two guests, Shoko stepped back behind Gu Xin, her posture elegant and natural.

"Alright then, [Charmander] is 1.5 million. Miss Tang, you already paid a 200,000 deposit, so you only need to pay another 1.3 million now."

Gu Xin said with a smile.

"There are also two portions of the materials you provided that haven't been used up. Miss Tang can take them back later."

Gu Xin was an honest man and had no intention of keeping Tang Yueyue's remaining materials for himself.

"Then I'll give those materials to you, Boss. They weren't worth much anyway, and I'll have to trouble you plenty in the future."

Though Tang Yueyue was carefree by nature, she knew how to conduct herself.

"Alright, then thank you, Miss Tang." Gu Xin did not refuse. The Tang Family's eldest daughter was wealthy and unconcerned about such a small amount of materials.

"Card."

Tang Yueyue took a bank card from her handbag.

"Shoko."

Toyokawa Shoko came over holding the card reader, wearing a polite smile.

"Boss, you're really keeping a beauty hidden away here. Where did you lure such a gorgeous girl like little Shoko into working for you?"

As Shoko processed the payment, Tang Yueyue teased Gu Xin.

She had visited the shop that morning, and being rather outgoing, she had briefly chatted with Toyokawa Shoko then.

"Shoko is my distant cousin. Something happened to her family, so she's staying with me for the time being."

Gu Xin's expression did not change in the slightest. The lie came out effortlessly.

Toyokawa Shoko blinked, but still did not laugh out loud.

"So you're distant relatives. No wonder—you two both look so good. But Shoko, how do you take care of that blue hair? It's way too pretty."

Yin Xue asked Toyokawa Shoko curiously, clearly envious.

"Um, I was born with it. Maybe use more conditioner when you wash your hair?"

Toyokawa Shoko thought for a moment before answering.

"All done, Miss Tang."

"Thanksies~ Oh right, Boss, do you have any powerful Spell Cards here? Something with an effect similar to [Change of Heart]."

Tang Yueyue flashed a broad, sunny smile.

She had obtained a new powerful summoning card, but she was not satisfied. She wanted more.

After getting [Change of Heart], she had had an absolute blast at school! But it still was not enough!

Gu Xin was rather speechless.

No, why was this just like Yin Xue back then? Why were they both so fixated on [Change of Heart]? Could NTR really be addictive?

"Yes, sis, yes. This card isn't any worse than [Change of Heart]."

Gu Xin took out a Spell Card.

"[Trap Hole]? What a weird name."