Act XXXIX. Swarming

On the first day of the Burning Moon (April), the Warren Potion Store had not yet opened, but there were already a large number of customers gathered at the door.

These guests range from ordinary workers who take time out of their busy schedules to make a detour, to aristocrats who have nothing to do and enjoy life, to ladies in long dresses and fan-wielding fans, to mischievous children who have not yet entered school.

They come from all corners of Priest and come together for the same goal.

That's buying the latest batch of Coke.

The Daily Priest's publicity worked well in the city, and for three days in a row, various forms of coverage made the news of Coke's new card a household name, and while some people scoffed at it, most were willing to join in the fun.

"What's the use of these cards?"

A teenager asked, his father was a businessman, he liked to collect all kinds of cups, he had no worries about food and clothing, and the trendy drink of Coke captured his heart, and after hearing that Crescent Coke was going to launch the cards of the archmages, he came with curiosity, but he didn't expect to have such a long queue.

"I don't know, but I heard that someone came over in the early hours of this morning, worried that the Coke would be sold out."

A woman next to him said, and at the same time couldn't help but glance at the young man, thinking that this young man looked just right for his appetite.

"According to the information released in the newspaper, this kind of card has various legendary mages on it, and after collecting them, they can be exchanged for mysterious cards, and ordinary people may not be able to see it, hey, as a collector, I know that this kind of thing will inevitably become a high-value collectible, just like those antiques and famous paintings."

A pot-bellied man lifted his glasses and said coldly, causing the woman and the boy to look at him.

"Collectibles, it's impossible, after all, they're just cards, what kind of collectible value can they have?"

While they were arguing, the door of the store was opened, and Warren walked out with two clerks, and he smiled at the vast number of customers who were waiting for him, and then spoke.

"Everyone, I can understand your feelings, but in order to ensure that everyone can enjoy Coke, the policy of our store is that each person can buy a maximum of three bottles of Coke and similar drinks, please understand."

Warren had enough goods this time, but for the sake of better publicity, and for the sake of the hunger marketing plan that Reiner had mentioned earlier, Warren made such a limitation.

The crowd didn't protest, in fact, many people didn't know much about the cards, they just followed the trend.

The line moved slowly, and the people at the front of the line quickly bought Cokes and exchanged them for three cards through the labels.

Moriah is one of them, and since he was introduced to Coke, he has been in love with this exciting new drink, drinking at least three bottles a day, and he is also very fond of the new Crescent Coke, and arguably the most avid fan.

When he saw the cards in the newspaper about these cards that appeared with Coke, he was so excited that he went to the Warren Pharmacy in the early hours of this morning to wait, but he didn't expect that someone had already arrived first.

Of course, as one of the first to arrive, Moriah got his wish to buy three bottles of Coke, and he impatiently tore open the labels to reveal the hidden number, and then took the three black bags containing the cards from the clerk who was in charge of handing out the cards.

He opened it immediately without thinking about it, and luckily the three cards were not repeated.

Moria gently stroked the three cards in his hand, the hard pieces of paper used for these cards have the texture of an ancient book, and the back is a magic circle for counterfeiting, Moriah can't magic, but he saw that there was a mage apprentice infused with some magic power, and the magic circle appeared in mid-air and spun, although it was a simple magic to verify the signature, it still made Moriah feel envious.

Flipping the card over, Moriah examines the contents of the card he was given.

A man stands on a cliff, looking into the distance, surrounded by four animals: brown bears, eagles, bobcats, and dragon eagles, and the name of the mage is written in gilded letters below the card: Vandal. Oman, Lord of Nature.

"Vandal. Aman became famous in the year 353 of the Cangyue calendar, he is a master of the system of change, able to incarnate into four beasts, at the same time, he is also a pioneer in the study of bloodlines, throughout his life, he has been committed to the perfect fusion of the bloodline of magical creatures into the body of the mage, and his inheritance was later carried forward by the bloodline mages, becoming the source of the beast mage. ”

Underneath this text, which describes the life of the Venerable, there is also a line of small yellow letters.

"Only when you become a beast can you appreciate the wisdom of man—Vandal. Oman".

In addition, in the upper right corner of the card, there is also a flower character 23 serial number, obviously, this is the twenty-third card.

Moria looked at the mage on the card again, this way of depicting a figure that he had never seen before, although obviously exaggerated and omitted, but it showed the characteristics of the mage, which was impressive.

He doesn't know the real Van Dahl in history. Whether Oman is like this, but Moriah believes that if he has the opportunity to see the portrait of the other party, he must recognize it by the impression of this card.

"It's a work of art."

Moria exclaimed, hurriedly looking at the other two cards.

An old man in a gray robe is painted on a card, he holds a pure white staff in his hand, the top of the staff, is a brilliant crystal, the old man is on the top of the tower, seems to be pondering something, around him, countless rays of light converge, turning into a seven-colored rainbow.

This is Lincoln. Woolthop, the Light Chaser, even Moriah, who could not do magic, knew that the mage was the first to discover that sunlight was actually made up of a mixture of colors, and with the help of special instruments, it was possible to divide it into seven colors, which were the colors of the rainbow.

And the introduction also said that Lincoln. Woolthop was a master illusionist, and seventy-two of the most commonly used illusion spells were named after him.

The other card is a handsome young man, dressed in a loose robe, sitting at a desk and writing, and beside him, countless triangles, circles, and rectangles are intertwined, and formulas loom in the background.

This mage Moria didn't know, but through the introduction of the text, he knew that it was Thales. Anakshi, a mage active 1,800 years ago, first discovered that on a flat surface, the sum of the squares of the two right-angled sides of a right triangle is equal to the square of the hypotenuse, a conclusion that came to be known as Anakshi's theorem, which became one of the first mathematical theorems to be proposed in the history of magic.

His name is also quite loud: the arbiter of theorems.

Just when Moria was intoxicated by the stories of these mages and felt an inexplicable excitement, a girl next to him suddenly screamed.

"Ah, this card is shining!"

Moria followed the sound and saw that although the card in the girl's hand was also a mage, the whole card was shining and looked more advanced.

"Oh, look at this lucky lady."

Seeing this, Warren said with a smile on his face.

"She's got a rare foil."