Free Web NovelChapter 79: Chapter 38: Two Popular Contestants
After brief contact, Show Director deemed Coach Shil to be slightly outrageous.
For a moment, she didn’t even know how to respond to him.
But the subsequent two card games made her reconsider him.
Although it wasn’t as definite and accurate as the predictions in the first game, it was pretty close.
If you predict one game correctly, it can be chalked up to luck. However, two or three correct games in a row significantly reduce the odds of it being all fluke.
After the end of ads and shows, the last game of the morning finally started.
The players had already arrived at the card table.
Black Smoke, advocated as the favorite for the championship since the preliminaries.
In the Instance Game, he managed to advance to the next round by finishing ninth.
His opponent was a mammoth of a Stone Golem species, appearing simple and honest.
Both of them swiftly laid out their cards, apparently they had assembled their decks beforehand.
The Replacement Phase of the first round passed uneventfully, and then came the Reveal Phase.
Seemingly wanting to take the first move, the stone man unveiled his first two cards.
[Howl~~~!!!]
A Big Wolf with mixed fur, howled at the sky.
[Roar!!!]
The other card was a burly... Brown Bear.
Frankly speaking, these were just two ordinary beasts.
Moreover, when the two cards were flipped, they were easily judged by their luster to be mere E-Class Cards.
The details of the cards were immediately captured by cameras and projected onto the big screen above the venue, confirming that these two were indeed skill-less whiteboard E-Class cards.
The crucial point was their points; they were both only worth 20 points.
As for Black Smoke, he revealed a pair of somewhat related cards.
[Huff huff huff!]
One was a Pigman with a Hammer, the other was a Pigman with a Wooden Knife.
Pigman, a relatively low-rank, pig-like humanoid species.
They are not very intelligent and exceedingly filthy.
But they have one advantage, rapid reproduction.
Ree Shil recollected that any instance with Pigmen will surely have an abundance of Pigmen. Similarly, after coming out, pulling plenty of Pigman cards is also a good possibility.
At this time, he saw the sheen of these two cards and already knew what they were.
C-Rank Cards.
However, before the director could cut to their card face, the audience observed another change in the card table through the lens there.
[Huff huff huff!]
Astonishingly, the card at the left column of the second line under Black Smoke automatically flipped revealing itself.
Another Pigman appeared with a wooden bow.
"Master, it’s an automatic reveal card! Boom, boom, boom!"
Slame immediately exclaimed in surprise.
This wasn’t Card Club’s simulated card table, it was his first time watching an automatic reveal card at such close quarters.
An automatic reveal card, that is, will automatically reveal when certain conditions are met.
However, as a balancing measure, this kind of card often carries punishment or what’s known as a cost.
That is, it misses one reveal opportunity in the next round.
But you must know that, on the card table, especially in the 4+1 games with fewer cards, each card carries a hefty weight.
Revealing a card before the other person is tantamount to seizing an opportunity first.
So even if you cannot reveal a card in the next round, the majority of people are willing to bear the cost of missing a turn just to reveal a card first.
At this moment, the director finally cut the camera to the card face of these three cards, instantly causing the audience to gasp in surprise.
"Pigman Three Brothers, there is such a card!"
"When any two brothers are revealed on the field, the third brother also reveals himself!"
"This is a lock-in style automatic reveal card!"
"This level of C-Rank Card, it ended up in the Nova Championships."
The key was that the three cards of Black Smoke were not just simple lock-in automatic reveals cards.
They were C-Rank Cards, having a second skill.
This skill all induced the same effect.
That was when the Pigman Three Brothers attacked the same target at the same time, they each would get 5 points of healing. fɾeewebnoveℓ.co๓
Don’t underestimate these 5 healing points, the most important fact is that it can be trigged endlessly, and it consumes nothing.
The Big Brother was of 40 points, Second and Third brothers were of 30 points. Their combined attack power was a hundred points.
That meant that if without any defense, a regular card would be instantly killed at full blood by them.
However, the Stone Golem on the other side of Black Smoke seemed a bit dumbfounded under such circumstances. Instead of choosing to defend, it opted for a head-on collision.
As a consequence, he ruined the life value of 40 points of one of the Pigmen, while his own Big Wolf was killed in a flash.
"Coach Shil, how about this round?"
"It should be a complete domination by Black Smoke, right?"
After the end of the first round, Show Director routinely asked Ree Shil about the game.
When she asked that, she was a bit emotional.
Cause, in the previous games, she also tried predicting the outcome secretly on her own, but she was at most to make sensible predictions. Compared to Ree Shil’s incisive predictions, there was still a clear gap.
As a Card Club owner, it was not much of a shame to fall behind her coach.
Nevertheless, feeling inferior to a young coach who had just become a card player not so long ago did make her feel upset.
"This round, it’s hard to say."
To her surprise, Ree Shil contrary to her expectations.
"Master, why would you think so?"
Slame on the side was unable to comprehend.
It’s not that it distrusted its master, but any viewer of this match would surely think that Black Smoke had control.
