730: A Small Loss, a Great Victory! (Two-in-One, Please Vote)

A few days later.

Inside the Card Maker Association headquarters' special-grade medical ward.

Six massive medical pods powered by card sets were operating.

Inside the pods lay six pale, bloodless people in silence—men and women alike, with two of them even being children under fifteen.

"Fortunately, Lord Tang, your Willpower blocked more than 99.9% of the curse's power at the critical moment. Only a tiny amount of the curse affected the six of them.

"However, their Spiritual Power and Vitality are both far too weak. Given their current condition, this is already the best outcome among terrible possibilities.

"But with the card technology currently available in our Nebula System, it is almost impossible to completely eliminate the harmful effects on them.

"Their frail bodies and minds cannot even endure somewhat more intensive medical treatment.

"Treating them would be equivalent to killing them.

"So for now, we can only maintain the lives of all six at the cost of enormous resource consumption."

Lanya, the chief steward personally in charge of their treatment, explained this to Tang Jian beside her.

Tang Jian nodded slightly.

He understood what she meant.

His eldest aunt Tang Hongju and the others simply had Vitality that was too low.

Although they had received his care in recent years, and their lives had improved significantly, they had also settled in a major city like Yujing, where Spiritual Medium energy was abundant. Their Vitality had generally risen slowly to around 10 points.

But it was still far too low.

It was like when Tang Yueyue had injured her leg in the past—only certain specific cards of purple 3-star quality or above could treat it.

Tang Hongju and the others were now suffering from curses. Limited by their fragile Vitality, ordinary medical cards could not cure them.

"Chief Steward Lanya,