The Era of Gods

Even without Creation Energy, it’s not a problem the abundance of Cards allows for a targeted selection of appropriate enhancements.

With a light touch of the finger, the roulette began to spin, slowly at first, then quickly, reaching an extreme speed before slowing down again and soon stopping on an Orange Card.

Lin Xiao pondered for a moment, chose to confirm, and did not opt for a

re-draw.

Excluding the singular Ancient Card, the Orange Legendary Card sits between the lowest Epic and the Golden Mythical Cards in quality a decent middle-level Card.

Considering that the majority were Purple Cards with only five or six Golden Mythical Quality Cards, the odds of re-drawing a Gold Card were not high; it was more likely to draw another Purple Card.

Of course, the main reason Lin Xiao kept the Orange Card was that it was a Soldier Card, with five hundred Level 4 Human Crossbowmen, each equipped with a standard Single-shot Crossbow, Leather Armour, and a Short Sword.

In a battle mode, the most important Cards are definitely the Soldier Cards, which are then complemented with other Cards.

These can include combinations with other Soldier Cards, or better Weapon

Cards for arming, and so on.

Also, considering it was a direct battle, the card pool contained only Cards related to combat, with no useless resource Cards.

After all, these Cards were to be used exclusively for this exchange match and would be retracted after the battle concluded.

Having secured the Crossbowmen Card, it took up twenty points of the card pool. A normal participant could at most draw five Five Star Cards, and even the Higher Education Alliance could only draw six.

Generally speaking, higher-level Cards are naturally more powerful, but sometimes it depends on suitability, so one should not blindly draw higher quality Cards.

Lin Xiao originally planned to draw a high-quality Soldier Card, then draw a large number of lower-level Cards to complement it, and after drawing all the Cards, use the Magic Cube to disassemble or fuse a few powerful Cards to form the battle deck depending on the situation.

Now that the first draw was a Soldier Card, there was no need to draw any more Five Star Cards.

Next, he followed his original plan to draw four Four Star Cards, eight Three Star Cards, along with the initial Five Star Card, consuming a total of one hundred card points, leaving fifty points. He then chose ten Two Star Cards using thirty points, and twenty One Star Cards at one point each, using up all one hundred and fifty points.

The five levels of Cards added up to a total of forty-three, with a motley quality -over half were common, with a few Rare, Uncommon, and Epic qualities, and aside from that first card, there were no more of Legendary Quality, but there was one of Mythical Quality, albeit a Two Star Card.

A stack of Cards in hand fanned out, displaying a variety of colors. All things considered, the luck was mediocre, neither bad nor good. Without cheats or additional advantages, it would be difficult to make it to the end, probably not even making the top fifty.

After selecting his Cards, there was still some time to freely combine them. He glanced left at Lin Xu, who was frowning at the dozen or so Cards of various colors in his hand, clearly having chosen only Three Star Cards and above, none below.

It seemed his luck was not bad, considering he had a Golden Mythical Quality Card. By his choices, at least one would be a Three Star Mythical Card, which should not be too shabby.

Then looking to his right at Shen Yuexin, he instinctively tilted his head back and was blinded by several flashes of orange and gold, plus a dazzling crystal light.

“Goodness, could this be the legendary Europe Emperor?”

Shen Yuexin seemed to sense his movement and glanced at him with big eyes, flipping through the Cards in her hand like she was holding a winning hand of cards, a smug look of triumph on her face.

Lin Xiao looked around to see no one was paying attention, then closed his eyes and took a deep breath in her direction.

Her pretty face suddenly turned red, and she said with a coquettish tone she wasn’t aware of herself,

“What are you doing?”

“Nothing much, just soaking up some of your Europe Emperor luck.

“Hmph, rascal.”

She pinched her dainty fists and gestured, and Lin Xiao gently touched her fist with his own:

“Go for it, little aunt!”

After speaking, he turned his head back and no longer looked at a somewhat confused Shen Yuexin.

Holding back a chuckle, he then got his spirits up and spread out the Cards to start considering how to integrate the forty-three Cards in his hands.

Due to the rules of the competition, all forty-three Cards were battle-related, including various Soldier Cards, Summoning Cards, Weapon Cards, skill scrolls, Talent Cards, Specialization Cards, and so on.

Battles generally revolved around Soldier Cards, which summoned fully formed regiments of troops.

Summoning Cards typically summoned powerful creatures in small numbers, such as a war bear, a giant eagle, a Dragon, and so forth -of course, no Five Star Card could summon a behemoth like a Dragon.

Weapon Cards provide a varying number of powerful weapons depending on the level and quality of the card, which can replace the standard weapons that come with the Soldier Cards.

Skills, talents, and specialties go without saying, directly loaded onto the soldiers or summoned creatures, freely creating unique military units.

It’s worth mentioning that, due to the special nature of the rules, if a Profession Card is loaded onto a soldier, there’s no need to start training from the First Level; instead, you automatically receive a Professional Level equal to that of the soldier’s level. For example, Lin Xiao’s Level 4 Crossbowmen, when loaded with the crossbowman profession, would directly obtain Level 4 Professional Level.

Besides that, all participants can also enter the battlefield, but they can’t engage directly in combat nor be attacked. They function more like a background commander of their own troops and can cast spells if they possess skill scrolls.

In fact, one could reference a classic game called Heroes of Might and Magic 111 that Lin Xiao played before crossing over, but without the hero attributes and talents that benefit their subordinates.

Lin Xiao placed the four Soldier Cards to one side, the six Summoning Cards to another, eleven Weapon Cards to another side, and the eleven skill or magic scroll cards to yet another side. There were no Profession Cards; the rest were various Talent Specialty cards and some other assorted cards.

Firstly, there were four Soldier Cards. Aside from the Crossbowmen, there’s also a three-star blank slate Light Infantry Card that can summon one hundred Level 3 Human Light Infantry equipped with Single-hand Longswords, Oak Round Shields, and Studded Leather Armor.

One three-star rare quality Elite Assassination Card that can summon a small squad of twenty Jackal Man Assassins capable of invisibility, also at Level 3- And one two-star blank slate quality Goblin Squad, with three hundred members but only at the First Level, purely Cannon Fodder.

The six Summoning Cards consist of summoning a Double-headed Ferocious Alligator, which is at the Fifth Level limit, just one step away from the Transcendent Level.

Four Large Water Elementals this is one card summoning four, with the Card at Level 4 Rare Quality, and the Water Elements at Level 4- Combined, they still don’t compare to the Double-headed Ferocious Alligator.

Two Large Fire Elementals this card can only summon two, also at Level 4, but the card quality is evidently not as good as the previous card that summons Water Elementals.

Then there are four one and two-star quality Summoning Cards, the creatures summoned are quite ordinary, and not very useful.

Apart from these, weapon and equipment cards include things like Swords, Bows, Armor, etc.; the quality is certainly better than the standard equipment carried by the Soldier Cards.

The remaining Talent Specialty Skill cards have generally low levels and mediocre quality, but after all, they are skills that, if used well, can greatly enhance the strength of one’s subordinates.

The only Golden Mythical Quality two-star card is a Ring of Spells Level 2 Summoning Monster (Strengthened). Normally, this spell can summon a certain number of Level 2 monsters, but this enhanced version can summon a group of Level 2 monsters. Crucially, this is a Magic Item that can be used repeatedly.

After taking stock of the cards in hand, the next step is to figure out how to use the Creation Rubik’s Cube to decompose and strengthen them.

As previously mentioned, although it is now required to consciously train one’s willpower, this does not conflict with cheating. The Creation Rubik’s Cube is his Golden Finger to rise up—how could he not use it? He wasn’t foolish enough to restrict himself.

First, he collected all the useless cards and decomposed them into Creation Energy in the Magic Cube, as nutrients to strengthen other cards when needed. While Creation Energy can’t turn decay into magic like Creative Power, simple strengthening is still no problem.

Then-

After some thought, Lin Xiao also decomposed that Water Elemental’s Summoning Card and the Double-headed Ferocious Alligator card into Creation Energy for later use.

Then he took out the Fire Elemental Summoning Card, decomposed it in the Creation Rubik’s Cube, merged the two Large Fire Elementals it was supposed to summon, then fused all the previously decomposed cards’ Creative Power into this card to begin its strengthening.

His plan was simple; merely strengthening other types of Soldier Cards would not bring about a qualitative change, but summoning a Transcendent Level Super Large Fire Elemental with these Summoning Cards would be different. Normally, only cards of Five Star Mythical Quality and above have the chance to summon Transcendent Level creatures. Given the randomness, the number is definitely not high. A Transcendent Level Super Large Fire Elemental on the battlefield would certainly stand out from the crowd, exceptional and unrivaled.

The result was as he expected. Using over a dozen miscellaneous cards as nutrients and decomposing all Summoning Cards to nourish this Fire Elemental Summoning Card, the merged new card was indeed a Five Star, Golden Mythical Quality Summoning Card that could summon a Transcendent Level Super Large Fire Elemental.

Lin Xiao immediately included this card in his combat deck.

Next, he took out the three-star blank slate card that could summon one hundred Light Infantrymen, plus a two-star rare quality Armor Card containing one hundred and fifty sets of Armor, and another two-star Weapon Card containing two hundred low-quality steel material Single-hand Swords. Merging these three cards resulted in one three-star rare quality Soldier Card. It was still one hundred Human Infantrymen, but after being equipped with the weapons and thick Armor, they became one hundred Heavy Infantrymen, perfect for forming the front-line defense for five hundred crossbowmen. Unfortunately, there were no Shield Weapon Cards, so they were still equipped with Oak Round Shields.

This card, along with the Five Star Legendary Quality Crossbowmen and the Super Large Fire Elemental Summoning Card, formed his three initial cards for the deck.

This wave of strength was very impressive, and he estimated that it would be no problem advancing to the top hundred.

Given the current number of people, it was estimated that it would take five victories to enter the top hundred. During this time, he would receive at least five to fifteen cards from defeated opponents, hoping for some good items to combine with the remaining cards.

With the deck set, Lin Xiao selected “ready” on the interface screen in front of him to start the match..