A Big Shot | I Want to Buy the Rights 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 card 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, and the League needs fresh blood with talent."

Shan Lan said, "That's why, at last season's convention, most veteran players stood with Tang God. The opposition came from newcomers who had risen over the past two years and had no distinctive style of their own. They're afraid that once Instant-Death Cards appear, if their trump card gets instantly killed, they won't know how to respond. For professional players to win matches, a card deck is only the foundation. More important 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 the creator of this card."

Illusory Moon: "..."

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

The two top players began discussing things as though no one else was around. Illusory Moon could not get a word in and felt like an enormous light bulb.

Fortunately, the considerate Lan God noticed him and smiled as he steered the topic back. "President, Master and I have also been researching Instant-Death Judgment cards recently. If this Fat Uncle can make a card with an Instant-Death Judgment, his mental strength definitely isn't inferior to ours."

The database had extremely high requirements for the skill design of Instant-Death-Type Cards. He could not just make a random 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" had been designed very cleverly. A strong, muscular man punched a tiger in the head. In theory, if the man was strong enough to smash the tiger's brains apart, it was entirely possible for it to die on the spot.

Shan Lan greatly appreciated this card's skill design. Looking at Nie Yuandao, he said, "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 definitely 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 him. "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, Daiyu Card, tiger-type Instant-Death Judgment, and flower-type Instant-Death Judgment cards he had casually made had, because of their bizarre skills, happened to alarm two boss-level figures of the Star Card League—Nie Yuandao and Tang Muzhou.

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

A Big Shot | I Want to Buy the Rights to the Wu Song Card

After returning to his personal space, Xie Mingzhe 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 their fronts had no embellishments at all. The Storm Goddess showed only a goddess, while the Ice Goddess likewise contained only the figure herself, without scenic decorations such as temples or churches.

No scenery? Xie Mingzhe froze the moment he noticed this—had he been heading in the wrong direction from the very beginning?

Senior Brother Qi had once said that the higher a card maker's mental strength, the more concrete and detailed the cards they made, and the stronger they would be. This "detail" clearly referred to the level of detail in the card's main subject. For example, on a character card, the character's clothes, appearance, and even individual strands of hair had to be crafted carefully, so that the summoned illusion would be more lifelike—not by giving the character a pile of flashy but useless backgrounds!

Once he understood this, Xie Mingzhe felt utterly enlightened.

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

As he concentrated and carefully painted the image in his mind, a slender ancient-dressed beauty gradually appeared on the Nebula Paper—no green trees, rivers, or grasslands, only Lin Daiyu herself.

Xie Mingzhe took a deep breath and stopped imagining.

Since the original creator held the card's 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 of triggering Instant Death against flower-type cards" had become "30% chance of triggering Instant Death against flower-type cards."

It seemed his line of thinking had been correct.

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

Just as Xie Mingzhe was pondering this, he heard a voice 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 it was official advertising mail and had ignored it for the time being. Now that it kept repeating, the interruption irritated him, so he walked to the living room, intending to simply delete all the unread mail.

However, when he opened the mail icon on the LCD 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 number of them from you. Please reply when you see this email."

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

Shuangshuang: "Uncle, Fat Uncle! Please, just reply with one sentence! 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 at 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. He immediately replied, "Sorry, I only just saw the emails. Your guild wants to purchase Wu Song Cards, correct? I've 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 ten cards or more."

Shuangshuang nearly cried with excitement when she finally received a reply. She immediately contacted Setting Sun. "Vice President, Fat Uncle finally replied to me!"