Free Web NovelChapter 920: Chapter 326 A level Breaking Balance Sword A level A-40
The reward for entering the top 4 was 2 A-tier cards.
For experienced card players with a lot of experience and accumulation, this might not mean much.
Moreover, when those veteran players get A-grade material cards, there may be a 95% chance they will fail or unable to create the desired card.
But for Ree Shil, who had just become a card player for less than a year and possessed Absolute Card Sense, the cards were incredibly valuable.
He had already been to the Card Repository multiple times and was quite familiar with the process.
He already had an answer for the material cards he needed to choose this time.
Fortunately, the cards he had his eye on were not chosen by the other top 16 contestants.
"I choose these two. Thank you."
Walking directly to the cabinet, he took two cards.
"Alright, please wait a moment."
The staff took the cards, and after a bit of operation, the anti-theft measures on the cards were removed and they were given to Ree Shil.
Without any delay, he returned to his dormitory with the cards.
After taking a break, he took out the first card.
The projection displayed a yellow charm.
On it, a large number of complex and symmetrical rune patterns are drawn with blue light liquid, which appeared like blood.
At the center of the charm, there was a hastily written "coffin" character.
The charm as a whole gave a sense of heaviness and age.
Having it in his hand, Ree Shil felt a heaviness in his heart as well.
"This must be a good card, no doubt. Even the projection’s appearance alone is enough to have a slight impact on people."
Coffin Seal Charm: Usage unknown
When acquiring material cards, the four words they feared the most were ’usage unknown.’
Perhaps only Ree Shil was not afraid of that anymore.
Even he himself had very few cards in his hand that could be fused with this material card.
If you wanted to talk about compatibility, there was only one card.
Balance-Breaking Sword + Coffin Seal Charm = Balance-Breaking Sword
"Since it’s a card specifically designed to counter Balanced Cards, then it should be specialized all the way."
"Even if the opponent only has one Balanced Card, the Balance-Breaking Sword can break through, and establish an advantage for the card deck."
"So, the last entry must also be a specialization route."
With a card in each hand, Ree Shil clapped them together.
Hum!
Light erupted between his palms, and the card was formed.
In the new projection, faint blue runes surfaced on the surface of the sword, almost identical to what he had seen on the material card earlier.
It was also symmetrical, with dragons and phoenixes dancing in the air.
The only difference was that the "coffin" character was gone.
Balance-Breaking Sword
Breaking Force, 30 points, A
Attack 30, 100/100, 0/3
Balance-Breaking Spirit Body - Passive: When the Balance-Breaking Sword is attacked by a Balanced Card, damage is reduced by 10.
Balance-Breaking Attack - Passive: The Balance-Breaking Sword deals True Damage to Balanced Cards.
Balance Sealing Technique - Passive: When the Balance-Breaking Sword uses a skill on a Balanced Card, it forces it to be covered and locked.
Balance-Breaking Sword - 3 Energy Points: The Balance-Breaking Sword inflicts 30 points of damage with sword energy to the target, and for each Balanced Card revealed on the field, an additional 5 points of damage is added.
"With this, the card has become much stronger." freewebnøvel.com
Looking at the new card face, Ree Shil felt incredibly satisfied.
Before, he had two points of dissatisfaction with the Balance-Breaking Sword.
First, the True Damage effect wasn’t significant when facing cards with no damage reduction.
In simpler terms, it didn’t have any effect.
Because the opponent would still use Defense, and True Damage could only ignore the damage reduction effects but not Defense itself.
This meant that although it was called Balance-Breaking, it couldn’t actually break anything.
So, this card had damage reduction against Balanced Cards, but it didn’t have a special counterattack against them.
Opponents’ cards wouldn’t all be Balanced Cards, so when the Balance-Breaking Sword became the outer card, that measly 10-point damage reduction against Balanced Cards wouldn’t provide it with much survivability.
The second point was that its active skills were weak. fɾēewebnσveℓ.com
The 3 points of energy warming up seemed a bit too lengthy, sometimes causing an awkward situation.
Placing the Balance-Breaking Sword in the last row and revealing it, it might not have many Balanced Cards left on the field by the time it finished warming up, and the damage boost it provided wouldn’t be very high.
Placing the Balance-Breaking Sword in the second row and revealing it, it might become an outer card before it even finished warming up.
In this situation, continuing to attack or use skills posed a high risk of being focused and taken out by the opponent’s cards.
Moreover, it fired "sword energy," which was classified as "damage" rather than "attack."
This meant that after using its skill, it would be 0/3 instead of 1/3.
This process would need to be repeated, and a full damage cycle would require 4 rounds.
How many sets of 4 rounds could be had in a 9+1 game?
But now, the situation was completely different.
The current "covered card" effect was equivalent to hard crowd control.
Moreover, it was unparalleled hard crowd control, because most card effects would not work when a card was covered – this included both Defense and Attack actions.
Even Stillness wouldn’t be accepted.
Because Stillness would be interrupted midway through.
Furthermore, Lock made it so the opponent could not replace the card during its second cover state by using a substitute card.
And Lock was also a negative effect, falling under T1 priority.
What did that mean?
It meant that as long as the Balance-Breaking Sword forced a card to be covered in T1, even if that target successfully counterbalanced the Balance-Breaking Sword or another negative attack in T1, during this round’s T1 and T3 stages, it was still akin to a covered card target.
