Chapter 18: Puppy, Dodge

Translator: EndlessFantasy Translation Editor: EndlessFantasy Translation

Zhou Nan seriously suspected that the Cave King had the ‘card making’ skill.

Card making was the same as card strengthening and card synthesis. They were all universal skills. Similar skills like card disintegration and card reforging were also available.

However, to obtain these skills, it would depend on luck. Every time a player reached level 10, they would be given a chance to draw a skill. At that time, the system would randomly give them three skills. They could be job skills, universal skills, or special skills, the player could only choose one of the three skills that were given.

If one was lucky and obtained the card making skill, they could accumulate skill points to activate it.

In Zhou Nan’s impression, card making was definitely a god-tier skill.

Unfortunately, the chance of this skill appearing was very low, and only very few players had it.

A moment later, Zhou Nan left the trading hall with 20 Little Murloc cards. He went to the warehouse and stored all the materials that he did not need in his storage bag.

The storage bag of a player only had 100 storage slots. Each card needed to occupy one slot, and even gold coins needed to occupy one slot. If the bag was full and he encountered a large number of treasures that could not fit in, he would be depressed.

However, Zhou Nan did not store the materials that were dropped by the Black Goat in the storage. These items include Black Goat’s horn, Black Goat’s hair, and other materials.

He planned to bring these materials to the Protect Casanar dungeon. He could exchange these materials with an NPC for the little awakening potion. With 36 materials, he could exchange them for 36 bottles of potions. Each bottle could recover 20 mana points, and 36 bottles could recover 720 mana points. This was enough for Zhou Nan to use the Little Murloc card 72 times, and for the Cannon Follower to fire 72 times.

Zhou Nan was not in a hurry to continue clearing the dungeon. He came to the mission hall and stood in front of the level 2 experience chest.

“After leveling up to level 2, I still have 32 experience points left. I still need 168 experience points to level up to level up again. The level 2 experience chest will randomly give me 100 to 200 experience points. It might allow me to level up…”

Every time a player levelled up, their state would return to full capacity. Currently, Zhou Nan’s mana was at full capacity. He wondered it would be a waste if he had levelled up without spending all of his mana beforehand.

One had to know that players’ hp and mana did not recover very quickly naturally. Before level 10, they would only recover 1 point per minute.

“Let’s appraise the white cards I bought before!”

Zhou Nan quickly made his decision. He took out the 11 unappraised white cards and appraised them with great anticipation.

[Ding! Congratulations! You have obtained a 1-star white card, ‘Long-tongued Frog, Quacking’!’

[Ding! Congratulations! You have obtained a 1-star white card, ‘Stupid Goose, Gaga’!]

[Ding! Congratulations! You have obtained a 1-star white card, ‘Little Murloc, Fisher’!]

[Ding! Congratulations on obtaining a 1-star white card ‘Shar Pei Dog, Dao Ge Tu’!]

[Ding! Congratulations on obtaining a 1-star white card, ‘Myopic Rabbit, Dai Dai’!]

[Ding! Congratulations on obtaining a 1-star white card, ‘Little Snail, Gou Gou’!]

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After appraising the eleven white cards, Zhou Nan’s face was filled with dejection.

As expected, the unappraised white cards that were put up for sale were all trash. His eleven white cards were all 1-star summoning cards. Among the summoned beasts, the one with the strongest combat strength was probably the Shar Pei Dog!

The only useful one was the Little Murloc card. It could only be used as a cannonball. The market price was 19.8 gold.

This was f*cking ridiculous!

He spent 1,100 gold coins, and it was almost as good as nothing. He might as well buy some practical cards directly.

Zhou Nan learned his lesson once again. However… he would play again next time.

“A man must have dreams…” Zhou Nan shook his head and sighed. After appraising 11 white cards, he had used up 110 mana points. He still had 90 mana points left.

Next, he had to clear the dungeon. Using the Panda card and the two Heroic Bear cards required 40 mana points, so Zhou Nan had to reserve 40 mana points. He still had 50 mana points to play with.

He randomly picked two out of the 1-star white cards and tried card synthesis.

[Ding, 20 mana points are required for this card synthesis…]

[Ding, due to the influence of the Black Card Synthesis talent, this card synthesis has created its own secret recipe. The 1-star white card Stupid Goose, Gaga and the 1-star white card Long Tongue Frog, Quacking will definitely synthesize into a mutated black card. Calculating…]

[Ding, congratulations on synthesizing the 1-star black card, ‘Stupid Frog, Quack’!’

“This synthesis pattern is becoming more and more obvious!”

Zhou Nan quickly checked the attributes of Stupid Frog, Quack and realized that it was still a trash card. Stupid Frog might not be stronger than the Long Tongue Frog or Stupid Goose.

Zhou Nan tried card synthesis again. This time, Little Snail, Gou Gou and Myopic Rabbit, Dai Dai had synthesized to form ‘Little Rabbit, Gou Dai’, and the attributes of that Little Rabbit, Gou Dai were even more extensive.

“Is it really a phrase formed by names? There is a certain connection between the attributes of the black card and the cards used in the synthesis. It seems to have a greater connection with the name of the black card, and the randomness is very strong…”

Zhou Nan had an epiphany. He only had 50 mana points now. He stopped synthesizing black cards and went to open the level 2 experience chest.

[Ding! You have opened the experience chest. Obtained 181 experience points!]

[Ding! You have levelled up to level 3. Obtained one skill point. Maximum hp increased to 300. Maximum mana increased to 300…]

A golden light flashed across Zhou Nan’s body. He could not help but smile smugly. “I’ve really levelled up. I’m at full condition. Awesome! Then I’ll play card synthesis for a while longer!”

With 300 additional mana points, Zhou Nan continued to play with the cards.

This time, he tried to use two cards of the same type. He tried to combine the two Little Murloc cards, and the result was a ‘Little Human card’.

After using the Little Human card, he could summon a ‘little human’. From the description, this ‘little man’ actually meant a child. It had terrible attributes, and it was actually an assassin!

“God damn little assassin…”

Zhou Nan continued to combine. In the end, he used up all eleven 1-star white cards. He even used one of his Little Murloc card. He used a total of twelve 1-star white cards to synthesize six 1-star black cards.

During this process, Zhou Nan summarized the rules of Black Card Synthesis.

The black cards he synthesized had two words for the prefix and suffix names. He randomly picked words from the names of the synthesized cards.

A 1-star black card could only be synthesized into another 1-star black card.

Thinking back to the Panda card synthesis, Zhou Nan suspected that the number of stars of the synthesized black card was the average number of stars of the synthesized cards.

In addition, the synthesized black card might not necessarily be better than the cards used for synthesis. The Little Rabbit card and the Little Human card had already proved this point. The random elements in this were difficult to grasp.

He thought for a moment and then decided to synthesize the black cards that he had. He first combined six black cards in two, which produced three black cards. He then selected two of the three black cards to synthesize, and then combined the remaining one with the synthesized black card, finally, he synthesized a one-star black card ‘Puppy, Dodge’.

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[Card name: Puppy, Dodge]

[Card color: Black]

[Card star: 1-star]

[Equipment level: None]

[Mana cost: 10]

[Description 1: Summons Puppy, Dodge to fight for you. Dodge has 500 hp, has a sensitive sense of smell, is good at hunting for treasures in the wild (you can use treasure maps and other items). Increases the drop rate of wild monsters’ loot by 5%. It is a companion pet.]

[Description 2: Woof woof woof. Awooo. Woof woof woof…]

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