Big Shot | I Want to Buy the Copyright to the Wu Song Card

Nie Yuandao said coldly, "Some newcomers are too eager for quick success. To achieve results, they directly imitate or even copy the decks of other top players, too lazy to use their own brains and come up with ideas. Tang Muzhou proposed the concept of 'Instant-Death Judgment' only to change the League's current state. Competitions have become more and more boring these past few years. The League also needs fresh blood with talent."

Shan Lan said, "That's why, at last season's convention, most veteran players stood with Tang God. Those who opposed him were newcomers who had risen in the past two years and had no distinctive style of their own. They're afraid that once instant-death cards appear, they won't know how to respond if their trump card gets instantly killed. For professional players to win a match, a deck is only the foundation. What matters more are reaction speed and adaptability. With Master's awareness, naturally he isn't afraid of instant-death cards."

Nie Yuandao nodded. "Mm. I'm more interested in this card's creator."

Illusory Moon: "..."

Who am I? Where am I? What should I say?

The two top players discussed things as though no one else existed. Illusory Moon could not get a word in and felt like an enormous third wheel.

Fortunately, the considerate Shan Lan noticed him and smilingly steered the conversation back. "President, Master and I have also been studying Instant-Death Judgment cards recently. If this Fat Uncle can create an Instant-Death Judgment card, his mental strength definitely isn't inferior to ours."

The database had extremely strict requirements for skill designs involving instant death. You could not simply create a fish and have it eat Tang Muzhou's tree. Instant-kill skills had to be related to the card itself and make logical sense. This "Wu Song Fights the Tiger" card was designed very cleverly. A strong man punched a tiger in the head. In theory, if the man was strong enough to smash the tiger's brains apart, it was possible for the tiger to die on the spot.

Shan Lan greatly admired the card's skill design and looked at Nie Yuandao. "Master, should we try to recruit this person?"

Nie Yuandao rose directly from the sofa, turned to pick up his helmet, and said calmly, "The creator of this card is undoubtedly a rare talent. Find this Fat Uncle as soon as possible. I want to meet him."

Seeing Nie Yuandao turn and head toward the club's game hall, Shan Lan immediately followed. "Master, I'm coming too."

Illusory Moon followed the two top players with a headache. "We're looking for Fat Uncle right now. We'll definitely find him as soon as possible!"

***

Xie Mingzhe, who was studying cards in the game, had no idea that the Wu Song Card and Daiyu Card he had casually created—along with the tiger-type and flower-type Instant-Death Judgments, whose skills were far too bizarre—had happened to alarm Boss-level figures in the Star Card League: Nie Yuandao and Tang Muzhou.

The two top players had even personally come into the game to look for him!

Big Shot | I Want to Buy the Copyright to the Wu Song Card

After Xie Mingzhe returned to his personal space, he focused on studying the two Seven-Star Cards Chen had given him.

What puzzled him was that the patterns on the backs of the two Seven-Star Cards were extremely ornate, yet the fronts had no embellishments at all. The Storm Goddess depicted only a goddess, and the Ice Goddess likewise had only a figure, without scenery such as temples or churches.

No scenery? The moment Xie Mingzhe noticed this, he froze—had he been heading in the wrong direction from the start?

Senior Brother Qi had once said that the higher a card maker's mental strength, the more detailed and precise the cards they could create, and the stronger they would be. Clearly, this "precision" referred to the precision of the card's main subject. For example, on a character card, the character's clothing, appearance, and even individual strands of hair had to be rendered in detail, so the summoned illusion would be more realistic—not by giving the character a pile of flashy but impractical backgrounds!

Once Xie Mingzhe understood this, he felt as though a blockage in his mind had suddenly cleared.

He hurried to the study, picked up the Nebula Paper, closed his eyes, and connected his mental strength to Star Card World.

As he focused and carefully sketched the image in his mind, a slender beauty in ancient dress gradually appeared on the Nebula Paper—there were no green trees, rivers, or lawns, only Lin Daiyu herself.

Xie Mingzhe took a deep breath and stopped imagining.

Since the original creator possessed the card copyright, he could naturally modify his own card.

After the modification, Lin Daiyu's stats had clearly improved—her attack and defense had not changed much, but her original Agility of 1 had become Agility 15. In the skill description, "10% chance to trigger Instant Death against flower-type cards" had become "30% chance to trigger Instant Death against flower-type cards."

It seemed his line of thinking was correct.

Xie Mingzhe immediately remade a Wu Song Card, drawing the muscular Wu Song in greater detail. He also recolored his clothes and made his facial features more defined. The completed card's stats likewise improved, and its chance of triggering Instant Death against tiger-type cards rose to 30%.

As Xie Mingzhe pondered this, a voice sounded beside his ear. "You have new mail. Please check it."

This voice had sounded several times since he entered his personal space. Xie Mingzhe had assumed they were official advertising emails and ignored them for the time being. Now that it kept repeating, interrupting his thoughts, he irritably walked to the living room, intending to delete all the unread messages at once.

However, when he opened the mailbox icon on the display screen, he saw a long list of player emails.

Shuangshuang: "Hello, Fat Uncle. I'm from the Judgment Guild. Our guild is very interested in the Wu Song Card you made and would like to purchase a large quantity from you. Please reply when you see this email."

Shuangshuang: "Fat Uncle, are you there? Please reply when you see this email!"

Shuangshuang: "Uncle, Fat Uncle! Please, just reply to me. We've been waiting for your response!"

More than a dozen consecutive emails in the mailbox had all been sent by the ID Shuangshuang. Xie Mingzhe quickly remembered that she was the girl who had spent 140 gold coins to buy the Wu Song Card in the Black Market. She said the Judgment Guild wanted to purchase a large quantity? Had a big deal come knocking?

Xie Mingzhe's eyes lit up, and he immediately replied, "I'm sorry, I only just saw your emails. Your guild wants to purchase Wu Song Cards, right? I just improved this card, and its stats are better than before. As for the price, if you want a large quantity, I can offer a discount for orders of ten or more."

Shuangshuang was so excited to finally receive a reply that she nearly cried. She immediately contacted Setting Sun. "Vice President, Fat Uncle finally replied to me!"