Chapter 106 Outside the Plan

Carl rubbed his somewhat sore head, opened his eyes, and if he was not careful, his mental strength would be overconsumed, and the sequelae would be a headache. Pen % fun % Pavilion www.biquge.info

Looking up, the fat merchant and the black-haired girl were not there, and I glanced at the time, five forty.

I guess I went to a restaurant to eat.

Karl moved his stiff body and got up to leave.

Go up the stairs and see Alexia leaning against the wall at the top of the stairs.

"This time I'm waiting for you. Alexia's voice was a little excited.

The first few times Alexia went to look for Carl, he was waited for by Kalka, and this time it was finally reversed.

Carl's "good afternoon" was blocked back.

"Don't you think it's more noticeable to stand here?" said Karl helplessly.

In fact, many passers-by have already looked at the two of them in surprise.

"Does it matter?" Alexia raised an eyebrow.

"No, it doesn't matter. Carl hurriedly reassured her.

"I thought you'd just fill your stomach with peach steamed buns. Carl said as he walked, "I saw you bought a lot of it yesterday." ”

"Ate them all. ”

"!!!" Karl looked at the girl beside him with shocked eyes.

That's a normal adult's daily amount of peach steamed buns - please don't focus on peach steamed buns.

"What do you mean by that? Alexia frowned.

"No, nothing, I just remembered a quote I saw while reading a novel. Karl said vaguely.

Walking to the door of the restaurant, Carl couldn't help but turn his head and ask, "Have you really eaten dinner?"

Even if there is a saying that the so-called sweets are packed in another stomach, the essence of peach steamed bread is not sweets, but staple food!

――Please don't focus on peach buns.

"If you repeat this question, I'll cut you, absolutely. Alexia glared at Karl hard.

Karl hastened to put an end to the topic.

For dinner, Carl asked for a macaroni, and Alexia asked for a lighter dish.

"That's right. Karl said to Alexia, "I may have to stay in Tahamat for a few days, will you go first or wait for me?"

"What's the matter?" Alexia stopped her chopsticks, "Temporary change of plans, it's not like you." ”

"I'm going to buy a property in Tahamat. Karl said as he chewed on the macaroni, "I just remembered that I forgot to put it in the planner, I'll give you a new one tomorrow." ”

"It's a 'trifle'. Alexia looked at Carl speechlessly, "Try to be as fast as you can, the mission has a limited amount of time." ”

"No problem. ”

In fact, this matter was reminded by Patchouli, according to Kirito's feedback a few days ago, the Temple of Dusk is a behemoth with influence all over the empire, so it is useless to just investigate in the Holy Heavenly City.

In other words, it is useless at all, because the Holy Heavenly City is the capital of the Empire, and several legendary mages and Sanctuary warriors are stationed all year round, and even His Majesty the Pope is in the imperial capital, and the Temple of Dusk has no power in the Holy Heavenly City.

Kirito needs to go to all parts of the empire to investigate deeply, and since Karl has arrived in the Chaos Domain first, he will buy a property here as a stronghold, and leave two summoned soldiers here.

Carl returned to the first floor after finishing his meal, and when he returned, Xana and Brent had already returned.

The fat merchant had a bitter face and a dejected expression. The black-haired girl sat motionless like a delicate doll, and if she hadn't seen her walk in, I'd have wondered if it was a humanoid ornament.

"Good evening, Mr. Brent, good evening, Xana. Carl took the initiative to say hello.

"Oh, oh, good evening, Carl-san. Brent waved his fat hand.

"Good evening. Xana replied with three words.

Her voice is very similar to Alexia, it sounds good, and she is about the same height, except that Alexia is not as cold as her.

Karl seems to have forgotten one thing - in fact, Alexia is also very cold to strangers.

"The journey is boring, let's play cards. Brent looked at Carl with hopeful eyes.

"Oh, what cards, can you tell me the rules?" Carl was just full and didn't want to start learning right away, ready to take a break.

"Gwente, a one-man deck of at least 24 cards, then draw ten cards, play out in three rounds, and settle the results separately in each round, and win two out of three rounds. Brent explained.

There are two main types of cards, creature cards and weather cards.

There is a combat power display in the upper left corner of each creature card, and a small number of special effects, and there is an icon in the middle of the left, sword, bow, and siege, which represent the three attack modes of melee, ranged, and siege, each of which occupies a horizontal row. At the end of a small game, all the attack damage values are added up, and the bigger team wins.

There are four types of weather cards, including Frost Seal Melee, Fog Seal Ranged, Rain Seal Siege, and Sunny Lift All Weather.

The seal is applied to both partners at the same time, and the sealed unit has only one attack damage.

The rules are as simple as they get.

"But I don't have a deck. Karl spread his hands.

"There are two groups here, you choose one group, and we will play. Brent pulled out two stacks of cards and placed them on the coffee table.

Carl picked it up, compared it roughly, almost, and took a random group.

In the first game, Carl used most of his hand in the first round and lost in the second and third rounds.

Karl realized: "Is the essence of this game a reasonable distribution of combat power?"

"Yes!" affirmed Brent.

In the second game, Carl took control of the battle power in the first round, but was deceived by Brent with a spy card (adding a creature card to the opposite field and drawing an extra card himself), resulting in the defeat of the last two rounds.

"......," Karl pondered for a moment.

"Do you want to continue?" said Brent, looking a little triumphant.

"Go ahead. Carl smiled.

This game is really simple, and the winning and losing hands are nothing more than combat power, or rather, card differences.

In the third game, Carl released water in the first round, Brent used a spy card, Carl made up a biological card, and won by a very narrow margin, and in the second round, Carl used a spy card, which was blocked by a stand-in, and the hole cards were all out, and Brent sealed it with a weather card, but the last card in Carl's hand was clear, and Carl won 2-0.

"No, I'm obviously more advantageous. Brent wondered.

"Because I used a low-combat card in the first round. Karl spread his hands, "This game is still too lucky, in the end my combat power settlement is higher than yours, but I am lucky." ”

"Luck is part of strength. Brent agreed.

Karl smiled, although it was luck, but he also calculated all the conditions to the extreme, he can win if he can, so he can't win, and the other cards will also lose.

He's just looking for possibilities in the impossible.

"Are you still coming?" asked Brent.

"Nope. Karl shook his hand.

After resting for the rest of the day, Carl was going to spend the few hours of the evening reading a book, and by the way, he would rearrange the schedule.

Practice and reading are Carl's daily chores, and if he doesn't have enough time, Carl will still prioritize reading.

The fat merchant went to find Xana again, and the black-haired girl also became a little interested after watching the card duel between the two, but after playing three games, she also stopped.

Xana uses the same deck that Carl used before.

The Fat Merchant loses two wins one, and it seems that there is no difference in the strength of the two decks.

......

It took Carl more than four hours to finish a not-so-thick information book, close the book and notebook, and put it away.

Looking around, the black-haired girl leaned on the arm of the chair with her eyes closed, her black coat covering her body, making a slight snoring sound, as if she was asleep, but the fat merchant was not sleeping, and was counting the sheep in boredom.

Karl closed his eyes again and sank into the Void Shards.

............

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When Carl opened his eyes the next day, Xana was gone, and the fat merchant fell asleep on the chair opposite, his fat body taking up an entire sofa by himself.

Carl yawned, went to the bathroom to wash up, and then went to the dining room for breakfast.

Mental training is more likely to make Carl feel tired than normal spell practice, but the improvement is also more obvious.

When he returned, he found that Xana was still there, but the fat merchant had woken up.

"What is Mr. Brent's business?" asked Carl casually.

"I'm a gem merchant, and the dwarves are good miners, and they often dig up good rough gemstones. Brent said.

"What are the types of gemstones?" Karl asked curiously.

"There are two big categories, one is natural gemstones and the other is magic gemstones. "Common natural gemstones include emeralds, rubies, sapphires, etc., and more advanced ones include diamonds, opals, and amber." ”

"Is there anything special about that magic gem?"

"In fact, the most common magic gems are magic crystals and moon stones, which are relatively rare, such as fire pattern agate that can increase the power of fire-based spells and reduce consumption, and water-based dark blue stones. ”

"Where did these magic gems come from?"

Brent spread his hands: "It is generally associated with the vicinity of magic minerals, and some can only be produced in special scenes, I am mainly engaged in the business of natural gemstones, so I don't know much." In fact, precious natural gemstones are no less valuable than magic gemstones, and Tahamat has a major auction every quarter, which starts almost a week later, and there should be a lot of treasures there, but the competition is also fierce. ”

Carl wrote down this information, Pache had mentioned the matter of gems to him before, and he wanted to analyze the principle of elemental summoning spells, but he had been very busy when he was at the academy, and this matter was not very urgent, so he kept delaying it.

"Miss Shana seems to have been absent today. Carl asked, "Do you see her?"

"I guess I went to the deck, it's cold in there. Brent gestured to the hatch at the end of the hallway.

After Carl heard about it, he had no interest in going to the deck, and the last time he stayed on the deck because he had to get close to the highly active wind element.

It's not that he's afraid of the cold, and mages with high elemental affinities won't be uncomfortable with a slight elemental imbalance.

I just don't think it makes sense.

Consciousness dives into the Void Fragments.

"Pache Li. Karl greeted the magician.

"What's the matter?" asked Patchouli, looking up.

If it's okay, Carl will directly find an open space for spell practice or mental power training.

Carl moved a stool and sat down, "What kind of gem do you need?"

"Any gem is fine, if it weren't for the imperfection of my material refining, you wouldn't actually need to buy it. Patchouli sighed.

"Wouldn't it be boring if you could refine anything? Karl said, "Is it better to have a natural gem or a magic gem?"

"It's better to get me some natural, magic gems contain energy in themselves, but they will interfere with me. Patchouli grabbed her nightcap, "Bring me two sets of corundum first." ”

"Corundum?"

"It's rubies and sapphires. "Don't you know?"

"I don't read much......"

"Nothing else, right?" said Pache as if she remembered something, "by the way, this thing has been cracked for a long time, and I have forgotten to give it to you." ”

As he spoke, he threw Carl a ring.

"Something. Karl reached out and took it.

It was a silver vampire's spatial ring, and Carl couldn't crack it at the time, so he put Pache here.

Of course, if you let the current Carl break it, although it still can't be broken by force, it is still very easy to find the formation of the spiritual imprint and then destroy it.

Opening the ring, in addition to a few thousand gold coins and some materials, there was also a set of black robes, the kind that was complete from head to toe.

"This is ......," Karl said, taking his robe out.

"Auston's robes, the robes of the Dark Magister, and they are a fine piece. Patchouli said, "In addition to deepening the mana pool, increasing the power of dark magic and reducing consumption, it also has a high magic resistance enchantment, and the attached magic guide also has many functions, such as the gray gem on the left hand of this pair of gloves stores up to six rings of group stealth, the right hand is the six-ring dark pole wall, and the shoulder guard stores the four-ring dark nova and five-ring chaos technique, and it is triggered, and it automatically takes effect when attacked, which can push the attacker away and chaos." There's a lot more to it than that. ”

Carl held the dark magister robe, excited for a while, and then said dejectedly, "I can't use it." ”

Magic equipment generally has a lower limit of use, even if Carl wears this body, it is useless, those stored magic ring techniques are even higher than he has mastered, and he can't do it instantaneously, and it is even a question whether he can use it.

And the same is true for those passive effects, Carl's mental power is not strong enough to integrate it into his own circulation system, and at most the magic resistance effect can exert some effect.

And only a little.

Moreover, Karl is a full-line magician, and this kind of single-line robe is actually not suitable for him.

"You can take it and sell it. Pache hugged the book, "I've finished dissecting this magician's robe, and as long as the materials are enough, I can completely make a new one." ”

"How else can this kind of thing be sold...... "I'll try it at the auction in Tahamat." ”

"You can also make your own gear when you have time. Patchouli said, "This kind of constant magic magic magic can actually be made as long as you have a certain level of attainment in magic creation and formation learning, and if you want to keep some one-ring spells, such as candlelight or something, you can still do it." ”

"Do you want to make it for a light bulb?" Karl complained.

His mana pool is now close to 300, and the candlelight spell consumption is only 5 points, which lasts for more than an hour, and there is no need to make a magic guide at all.

Moreover, there is an upper limit to the energy level of the magic guide and enchanted equipment that a person is equipped with, which is related to the strength of mental power, but generally speaking, it will not exceed one-third of the mage's mana pool.

For example, if Carl has equipment with a constant large fireball, after bringing four, he will not be able to bring any magic equipment, including those with only passive effects.

...... In fact, the Five Fireball God Cult is also quite emotional.