1 Chapter 1
Ling Xiao held her breath, and a drop of sweat slid down her forehead, falling on her chin.
At the moment, she didn't bother to wipe her sweat at all, and all her attention was on her right hand. There was a long, thin, tubular transparent pen containing half a pale silver liquid that shimmered with a tiny light.
The nib is an inverted triangle, sharp as a razor blade, with a thin empty tube in the center, and as she moves the nib, a pale silver liquid continues to flow, leaving a thicker curve on the carrier.
This curve is combined with the first drop point to form a closed shape.
All the pale silver lines lit up at the moment of closing the pen, and the entire carrier was shrouded in a hazy thin golden light, and after a few seconds, the light dissipated, and the cards lay silently on the table.
The uneven surface of the carrier became a smooth plane, and the back of the card was changed from a black-brown to gray-white color.
It worked!
Ling Xiao held the guide pen, stood up excitedly, and brought down the chair where he was sitting.
Continuing for five hours of intense concentration exhausted her mental strength, there was a tingling pain in her brain, and at the moment of relaxation, exhaustion hit overwhelmingly, Ling Xiao shook her body, held the corner of the table, and stabilized her body.
She pulled out a primary recovery agent from her bag, took a few deep breaths, calmed her agitated mood, and pushed the needle steadily into the vein.
After a few minutes, the restorative took effect, and the sore-softened body gradually regained its strength, and even the stinging pain in the head began to weaken.
Ling Xiao picked up the chair and looked at the freshly baked cards over and over again.
This was the first card she'd ever made since she came to Kalan.
It's not always true that it's a card.
It doesn't come with any special effects.
And Ling Xiao is not the aboriginal of Kalanxing.
Her hometown comes from a distant Earth.
A month ago, Ling Xiao, who was working at home, suffered an earthquake, and before he could escape from the house, he was hit on the head by a falling ceiling, and when he opened his eyes, he came to the unfamiliar Kalanxing.
It's a magical world, where technology is advanced and cards are thriving.
Six hundred years ago, a large number of transcendent creatures suddenly appeared on the planet of Kalan, and they possessed a myriad of strange special abilities, although powerful weapons could cause damage to transcendent creatures, but ordinary people could not possess them.
The speed of destruction is far less than the speed of reproduction and diffusion, when the number of transcendent creatures reached its peak, a woman named "Goya" claimed to have been inspired by God, using the skin of transcendent creatures as a carrier, and using the blood of transcendent creatures as kamo, making the first card, and successfully summoning virtual transcendent creatures, completely opening the card battle trend of the card blue planet.
In the following six hundred years, Kalan Planet has become more and more in-depth in the research of cards, and has derived four categories: soul cards, hero cards, weapon cards, and witch cards, and card entertainment, commerce, education, guilds and other related industries have also become more and more mature.
The original owner was a freshman in the Orton Capital School, with B-level spiritual power, studying at the Card Master Academy.
Because of her poor family, she didn't dare to do practical work, except for the class time basically soaked in the library, hoping to lay a solid theoretical foundation, improve the success rate of card making, and reduce material loss.
But the more books she read, the more afraid she was of failure and didn't dare to do it.
At the end of the first year, the college issued an ultimatum:
If she fails to hand in a card that can be used as a real object after the start of her second year, she will be expelled from the Card Master Academy.
The original owner cannot be expelled.
The Ling family is a knight family, and his father's strength is low, and he can only earn a living by being a guard for the baron.
The original owner is well-behaved and sensible, often bringing food to his father, and was accidentally favored by the baron, if it weren't for the detection of B-level spiritual power, there is hope of becoming a card master, she is not in school but in the baron's house.
In order to free her from the clutches of the devil and have another life, her parents sold the valuable belongings in the family, but they still couldn't make up the expensive tuition fees of the Card Master College.
In the end, they had to borrow 300,000 cards from the baron.
If the original owner is unable to graduate, he must marry the baron.
As for the baron, he himself was even older than Ling Xiao's father.
Becoming a card master is the only way out for the original owner.
When strong expectations fail to turn into motivation, they can turn into desperate pressures.
In addition, the card production failed many times, exhausted all the materials at hand, and under the collapse, the original owner chose to commit suicide.
After that, Ling Xiao from another world was resurrected.
She was an orphan.
Her parents died in a car accident when she was six years old, and Ling Xiao was raised by her grandmother, who came from the art troupe, fell in love with painting and calligraphy, and later became a freelance artist. I finally had my own house, and after a few days of enjoyment, I died.
To say that there is no pain and frustration is false.
But she has suffered setbacks since she was a child, and she is more resilient and open-minded than her peers.
What if you lose everything? At least she's alive.
After regaining his strength, Ling Xiao used his identity as a student at Orton Capital School to borrow 200,000 student loans from the bank.
Don't look at 200,000 yuan, it's enough for a year's tuition or material fees.
Ling Xiao didn't plan to borrow money to pay for tuition.
If you can't make a modern card, you will be dissuaded even if you pay the tuition.
She took out a loan to buy materials.
To train a real card master, it also takes at least 3 million.
Among them, the tuition fee accounts for 1 million.
The card master who can be trained for only 2 million material costs must be the lowest card master.
It's not for nothing that card makers are called humanoid shredders.
The higher the grade, the more expensive the wasted material.
Although Ling Xiao inherited the memory of the original owner and had a lot of card-related knowledge at once, he needed to feel the feeling of this thing.
She can't use other people's experience.
200,000 calories were exchanged for a steady stream of materials, soaked in the ashram for more than twelve hours a day, and when I ran out of mental energy, I took an injection, read a book to recover my strength, and then put into practice.
After scrapping more than sixty materials, Ling Xiao finally made the cards in his hand.
For a novice rookie who has never touched a card before, such a scrap rate is already terrifyingly low.
Most apprentices have to go through a period of training before they can scrap hundreds of materials and craft embodied cards that don't have any special abilities.
It is precisely because of this that the original owner, who has failed more than 30 times, will commit suicide in despair.
The road ahead is long, and she doesn't see the end in sight.
In general, a high success rate means high mental power.
But B-level spiritual power is really not very high for card masters.
Ling Xiao can only be attributed to twenty years of painting experience.
Concentrated restorative is expensive, thousands of calories each, but the effect is also amazing.
In less than half an hour, Ling Xiao threw himself into the world of cards again.
Another hour passed, and the new card was similarly shrouded in a hazy golden glow.
She succeeded again!
It seems that the first card was not an accident.
Ling Xiao urged the remaining spiritual power to introduce two cards along his arm, and the lines gradually lit up, and the cards in his hand disappeared, replaced by two silver daggers.
It feels real to the touch and has a hard texture, no different from a real dagger.
Ling Xiao rubbed the blade with a smile on his face.
Finally, I don't have to worry about being fired.
But......
It's time for her to start worrying about tuition.
Ling Xiao opened his brain and glanced at the balance, not long ago, there was a string of zero accounts, and at this moment, there were less than 30,000 card coins left.
earns 200,000 yuan a month, even if Ling Xiao in his previous life was a well-known senior painter, he can't do it without a big order, let alone in this life.
She was only a sixteen-year-old apprentice.
Ling Xiao used his mental power to manipulate the dagger to float in the air, hovering for a while, colliding together for a while, and thinking about how to make money with a heavy heart.
Work? No, it's too late, it's only a few thousand a month.
Card issuance? She will only use the most basic embodied cards, not even the weapon martial arts card, and she will sell it for a thousand card coins if she breaks the sky, and then deduct the cost of buying the carrier, which will be a profit of one or two hundred.
If she makes it from morning to night, eleven or twelve sheets a day, she can earn sixty or seventy thousand yuan a month.
Although it is far less than 200,000, I finally have a clue.
Ling Xiao was anxious to make money, so he forgot that for the vast majority of card master apprentices, how many cards can be made in a day does not mean how many cards are made.
The profit depends on the success rate of card production.
Ling Xiao glanced at the time on the wall.
I spent more than 8 hours in the ashram today.
There are a complete set of basic card ink, primary guide pens and solutions and tools for concocting carriers in the quiet room, and if you spend money to buy them, it will cost tens of thousands of cards, but for card master students, they have 6 hours of free time every day.
After 6 hours, 100 cards per hour will be charged.
More than eight hours is 300 carats.
Ling Xiao twitched the corners of his mouth.
Money is really a number symbol for card masters.
Many ordinary people earn more than 100 cards a day, and she spent 300 at once.
And that's not even counting the primary restorer just now.
Ling Xiao didn't dare to count any further, hurriedly packed up the things on the table, put the things back on the shelf, put them back on the shelves, take them away, and quickly left the quiet room.
Half an hour later, she was standing where she usually bought materials.
"Boss Yan, do you accept weapon cards?" Ling Xiao leaned on the counter, holding two gray-white cards in his hand, tapping his lips again and again.
Weapon cards are not weapon cards.
The former is still an ordinary weapon, but the latter has extraordinary abilities.
After a while, there was the sound of eager footsteps from upstairs, and a round fat head poked out of the utility room, "What? It's Xiao Ling, you wait for me for a few minutes, and I'll sort out the goods that just arrived. ”
Ling Xiao leisurely looked at the shop, fifty or sixty square meters of square space, each wall was placed with a large category of tools and materials, horizontal and vertical, uneven height of the multi-treasure grid scattered on the wall, exuding a strange smell of supernatural creatures and man-made products mixed together.
The entire ceiling trembled slightly under Boss Yan's running, and as soon as he reached the first floor, he took out a handkerchief from his pocket, wiped the beads of sweat rolling down his head, and opened an instrument placed on the side of the counter.
The virtual image suddenly appeared in the open space in front of Ling Xiao.
This is Kalan's "TV", which has long been free from the limitations of the screen, and can be projected anywhere anytime, anywhere, the same as the imaging technology of the brain.
"What did you just say? I'm sorry Xiao Ling, today is the duel between the 'undead' and the 'Kasura', I've been waiting for it for several days, and my brain is a little messed up when I'm excited. Ahem, you wait for me a little longer. "Boss Yan wiped the sweat with his left hand, operated the brain with his right hand, and after a while, a pleasant electronic female voice came-
"The bet is successful, and the 'undead' is 10,000 cards."
"Boss Yan, what are you?" Ling Xiao was a little stunned.
It was the first time she had seen Boss Yan become like this.
Boss Yan smiled, "At a glance, you know that you don't usually pay attention to the live broadcast of the arena." 'Undead' and 'Kasura' are both popular players in the past two months, and their fighting styles are very different. As he spoke, he sighed.
"Actually, I don't like 'the undead' very much, but I really hate 'Kasura'. He takes pleasure in destroying other people's cards, and has destroyed more than 30 cards since he appeared in the arena. You know, for Cassiu, how important cards are. Losing cards, some Kaxiu will even collapse. He did it on purpose! ”
Boss Yan nervously rubbed his stubby fingers, "I hope the 'Immortal' can teach 'Kasura' a good lesson." Losing money is a small matter, and if the 'Kasura' battle wins, you will be rewarded with 1 million card coins. It's a national live broadcast again, which is simply encouraging others to maliciously destroy cards. ”
The arena is the world of the card masters, and the original owner, as the apprentice of the card master, does not pay attention at all.
Ling Xiao was busy practicing card making again, and he didn't know about it.
She became interested, moved a stool and sat next to Boss Yan.
"What are you going to buy today?"
"I sell cards, how much does this cost?"
Boss Yan took the card and touched it, and knew that it was a carrier made of iron horn rhino skin, and there was nothing special about the card ink, and it was the cheapest and most common dagger, and the whole card was very ordinary.
"A thousand."
That's the lowest price for a embodied card.
The one-horned rhinoceros skin alone costs 800 calories, and the cost is close to 900 if you count other losses.
Even if Ling Xiao used the tools in the school's quiet room, it was only two hundred dollars.
She lay on the counter a little sluggishly, and asked weakly, "Then what card will be a little more expensive?" ”
Ling Xiao looks two points similar to Boss Yan's youngest daughter, plus his personality is very likable, his patience with Ling Xiao is much better than that of other guests, and after thinking for a while, he said patiently: "A certain type of attribute is far superior to similar cards." ”