Free Web NovelChapter 95: Chapter 45: Champion Reward
[Giant Zombie Beast]
Determination, 60 Points, C
Attack 60, 400/400, 0/4
[Huge Size - Passive]: The Giant Zombie Beast occupies one row and three card positions, Health Points+100
[Muscle Armor - Passive]: When the Giant Zombie Beast [Defends], Damage-10
"Wha...what?!"
The face of Black Smoke darkened, though it was already black.
He had never imagined that the King Card of the other party would have an even more exaggerated Health Points than him.
points?!
He quickly ran the numbers in his head.
It would take 7 rounds for him to kill his opponent, whereas his opponent only needed 5!
No contest!
Damn it! Why?!
"This can’t be!"
The veteran general finally cried out words that have been predicted.
(I was just one step away from getting that Instance Crystal...)
The beautiful smoke face with a slight smile passed in his mind.
And like smoke, it disappeared.
"I...surrender!"
At last, the deep blue eyes filled with sorrow.
He hit the surrender button.
Click.
After a brief silence, the entire venue was in an uproar.
"It’s over?!"
"It’s so sudden!"
"He’s right to surrender, I’ve figured it out, if the other party doesn’t blunder, his winning probability is 0%."
"But...he just revealed a B-Rank King Card!"
"Indeed, the rank of a card sometimes means nothing."
"But Ree Shil is really powerful. After all, the other party is a highly-ranked player."
"Yeah, even without a Scene Card, he could still win."
"Stop arguing, let’s just cheer."
"666666!"xN
[Wow! I can’t believe I actually guessed correctly!]
[The champion of the Nova Championships has been born!]
[I declare—it’s Player Ree Shil!]
In the commentator’s room, Rose Cooper cheered excitedly.
[...]
Henry Thompson, the curator, was completely disheartened.
This card game’s turnaround was arcane.
He couldn’t have imagined that Ree Shil came up with such a strategy to put pressure on a high-score, high-health King Card, and the other party actually has cards to support this strategy!
At this point, he saw the staff in the commentator’s room, they seemed to be whispering to each other and pointing at him.
Vague words such as "blessing" and "jinxing" could be heard.
This made Henry Thompson very aggrieved, but there was nothing he could do but smile awkwardly and pretend he didn’t hear it.
As the 100-fold projection disappeared from the stage, the card game officially ended.
"You have my respect. It was an exciting game."
Ree Shil nodded towards the other party, then turned to leave.
"Eh?! Weren’t you going to tell me where I went wrong?!"
Black Smoke was taken aback and hurriedly asked.
"That’s a paid service."
Without looking back, Ree Shil waved his hand.
He knew from the start, that the depth of the opponent’s card deck was much better than his own.
Don’t just look at how he played 1B+3C+1D+2E in the end. The opponent played 1B+2C+2D+2E.
In reality, the C-Rank [Brother Grieving Beast] opponents’ played was completely useless and it was just like an E-Rank card.
Moreover, the opponent played a complete set of cards and unveiled two Scene Cards.
The difference in the strength and depth of both sides’ card decks was really significant.
But having known early about the gap in the "hardware" on both sides, Ree Shil had to figure out how to use his limited cards to stage a comeback.
Ultimately, the only answer he got was the [Giant Zombie Beast].
This C-rank card, which was supposed to be a cheap first-row card, unearthed a new purpose for him.
That is, to take advantage on card positions and health points over his opponent.
To be more specific, when using the [Giant Zombie Beast] as a King Card, he can gain two advantages.
The first one is card slot advantage.
For the usual 6+1 card rounds, the available card slots are 7.
And the characteristics of the [Giant Zombie Beast] being a King Card, makes his card deck to reach the full grid of 9 slots.
In a way, it is as if he is playing with 9 cards against the opponent’s 7 cards.
The second one is health points advantage.
When the [Giant Zombie Beast] is put in a regular position, 200 health occupies 3 card slots, which is 100 health less than the regular 3 cards’ 300 health.
But if placed in the King Card slot, this disadvantage will change into an advantage, becoming a beefy creature with 400 health.
Without considering healing, it equals to him having a total of 1000 health points going against the opponent’s 800 health points.
These two points were his key ideas to make up for the deck gap with Black Smoke.
Plus, with his acting skills – oops, I mean, card skills, he caught a wave of flaws. freewebnσvel.cøm
With these conditions in place, he barely and fought tooth and nail to secure victory.
Then, after the host’s transposition, the Nova Championships came to its final event – the award ceremony.
As the champion of this competition, Ree Shil naturally received cheers and applause when he once again stepped on stage.
However, he was most interested in the reward for the champion.
An accumulated prize of 15,000 Cube Coins, a dungeon key, an E-Class Experience Elixir, and the choice to pick one piece of C-Class Materials from the association warehouse.
Receiving the prize money, Ree Shil’s assets reached 18,000 Cube Coins.
He was thinking that at the right opportunity, he could drop by the Material Store and take a look at those B-Rank Materials.
The Experience Elixir, a potion that could increase experience points.
Although its price is not high, it is in high demand and often out of stock.
The Association Headquarters managed to get their hands on two bottles for the first and second place winners, through their channels.
