Free Web NovelChapter 47: Chapter 22 Preliminaries_2
Here, the social welfare is excellent, and the cost of living is low.
But that is based on certain conditions.
The condition for enjoying such benefits is having a proper job.
If he were to resign, his future rent and other expenses would increase by dozens or even hundreds of times.
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Two days later, Ree Shil arrived at the Association Headquarters on time.
After signing in, he received his number card.
The Association has prepared a circular racecourse for the preliminaries.
The large screen hanging on the top is used for live broadcasts of the matches. However, it is currently only used for showing promotional short films.
The venue is now divided into many small pieces for several simultaneous matches.
"There are fewer people than I imagined."
Ree Shil looked around, and there were hardly any people in the audience.
Those who were there had numbers on their chests, just like him.
"After all, this is just the preliminaries, Master."
Slame came to cheer him on specifically.
"Look at the big screen, that’s the prize for this championship."
At this time, it showed Ree Shil to look up.
In the promotional short film, several strange and bizarre figures flashed by.
The surrounding scenes quickly retreated, and they crossed over mountains and rivers.
Finally, they stood on a mountain cliff.
Beneath the cliff, the night was just beginning to light up.
The lens then dived down, showing the overview of the Small Town.
The Chinese ancient-style architecture, bustling streets, and people laughing and talking.
The next moment, a sudden gust of demon wind arose.
The ghostly figures had unknowingly stood on the tile roofs.
They looked down on the people below.
The common people were terrified.
At this time, several figures rushed out of the crowd and fought the guys on the roofs.
"Is this the world of the designated key instance for the prize?"
Ree Shil became interested.
Just by watching this short film, he could feel that the world was so vast, and there must be good cards in the card pool.
"Yes, I don’t know what technology the Association used, but they managed to extract the scenes from the instance for promotional films."
"It looks like the theme is the threat of demons to the safety of the people."
Slame sighed.
"The reward is only for the champion, so I’ll have to strive for it."
Demon cards, also known as monster cards, often have good qualities.
Ree Shil knew that there were several S-class demon cards, which were very famous.
After waiting for a while, the competition officially began.
He hadn’t had his turn yet, so he stayed with Slame in the audience waiting.
The preliminaries had a total of 6 rounds, divided into 2+1, 3+1, and 4+1, changing the mode every 2 rounds.
The opponents were randomly selected, and finally, the top 100 would advance to the finals.
Now, the collective round 1 was happening.
He roughly assessed the overall proficiency of the venue.
As the players in the preliminary were all Level 1 to Level 5, the strength of their card decks was very low.
So far, he hadn’t seen a single C-class card, and even D-class cards weren’t many.
Looking at their card skills, he could only say that it was a mess.
About two hours later, Ree Shil’s number card vibrated, and it was his turn to play.
"I’ll be right back."
He scanned the area, found the corresponding card table, and left the audience seats.
Fifteen minutes later, he returned to his seat with a frustrated face.
"Master is mighty! A winning start!"
Slame cheered for him.
"It’s okay, it was just like that." freeweɓnovel.cøm
The reason for his frustration was not that he had encountered a strong opponent.
On the contrary, the opponent just now was extremely weak.
But each round, they hesitated and were painfully slow in their actions.
In his view, the game should have been settled in just a few rounds, but it took about ten minutes.
Such an advancement did not bring any sense of achievement.
After the first round was over, there was nothing more for today, so Ree Shil left the Association and went home.
The situation was the same for the second day, the third day, and the fourth day.
In total, there were 2 rounds of 2+1 and 2 rounds of 3+1, but Ree Shil’s king card was never revealed as he easily defeated his opponents.
It was not until the fifth day of the preliminaries that the number of competitors was finally reduced to 400 after the first four elimination rounds.
Meanwhile, the competition turned to a 4+1 game.
Today, two rounds would produce the final list.
Ree Shil’s fifth-round opponent was a blonde girl with blue eyes and a pair of small white-feathered wings.
She was standing across from him at the blue light card table.
Angel Tribe, if seen on Blue Star, people would think that a divine deity has descended.
But here, to Ree Shil, the other party was just a person with wings.
On the other hand, the blonde girl looked at Ree Shil with cautious eyes.
Having the performance of not revealing his king card in the first four rounds and casually using D-class cards in the beginning, he had attracted the attention of some people, including her.
"This round’s opponent is not simple. I can’t hide my strength any longer."
"I must go all out."
Seeing the calm expression of her opponent, she thought to herself quietly.
In fact, Ree Shil’s thoughts were pretty much the same.
Looking down on an opponent at the card table is a big taboo, and at this moment, he was seriously planning his game, even though he didn’t actually have many cards in hand.
When it got to the 4+1 mode, the game had a lot more variables.
First of all, there were two king card slots.
[Set card][Set card].
[Set card][Set card].
[King card][King card].
One had to choose between the two king card slots to place the king card.
50% chance; whichever side found the king card first would have an advantage.
Aside from that, there was an essential mechanism.
That was, in reality, the true steps of the Cube Card game were divided into 5 phases.
[Replacement] - [Reveal Card] - [Settlement] - [Action] - [Settlement].
Based on what they had before, an additional [Replacement] phase was added.
[Replacement], as the name suggests,
was to place substitute cards for their main cards.
Each card slot had three substitute spots, meaning that a card slot could have four variations.
However, the scores of the three substitute cards could only be equal to or less than the main card.
And card substitutions could only be made during the [Replacement] phase and in a set card state.
Once a card was revealed, it could not be replaced.
And when the replacement was completed, the score limit could not be exceeded.
Before, he didn’t have many cards in hand, so there wasn’t much capital to replace cards.
Now it was different; he had nine cards in hand, so he could do some manipulation.
Both sides took some time to arrange their card decks.
Buzz!
As the two of them pressed the confirm button, the game officially began.
The replacement phase of the first round was meaningless, so both sides defaulted to the unveiling phase.
In this round, both sides needed to reveal two first row cards.
At this moment, Ree Shil had his hands behind his back, still looking like he had the upper hand.
Even without confidence, he had to act as if he was confident - that was his card table philosophy.
If he showed weakness, it would mean he lost the momentum.
If he lost the momentum, even if he won, it wouldn’t be satisfying enough. frёewebηovel.cѳm
"Please."
He even took the initiative to make a gesture inviting the other side to reveal a card.
"..."
Obviously, the blonde girl was affected by this momentum.
She glanced at Ree Shil and then looked at her own first card.
Then she carefully revealed one card.
[Hahaha!]
A projection of a masked man leaped out of the card.
Its body, including its head, was a mask.
On the mask, there was a native graffiti-style face pattern, and the limbs protruding from the mask had bronze-colored skin, holding a crude long spear.
[Masked Hunter]
Chasing the Wind, 35 Points, D
Attack 35, 130/130, 0/3
[Hunting Physique - Passive]: When the Masked Hunter is revealed with an animal card, health value +30.
"A D level card, not bad."
Ree Shil raised his eyebrows.
With high attack power and extra health points, it was quite a meaty card with good DPS.
Afterwards, the blonde girl revealed her second first-row card.
[Hiss hiss hiss...]
A python with skin patterns like woven vines emerged from the card.
On the thick vines, there were rows of sharp spikes.
"Another D level card."
Ree Shil remained calm and simply nodded.
[Vine Snake]
Determination, 25 points, D
Attack 25, 100/100, 0/3
[Vine Armor Shelter - 2 Point Energy]: Vine Snake takes [Defense], dealing 10 points of damage to the target attacking it.
This card was also a hedgehog card, a bit of a small high-quality one.
But at this level, he could accept it.
Consecutive finger flicks.
Ding! Ding!
Two first row cards were instantly revealed.
This move made the blonde girl feel like it was a bit cool.
Especially those slender fingers, which were very eye-catching.
[Woof woof woof!]
[Awoooo!]
Ree Shil revealed his Zombie Beast combination.
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