Chapter 7 – The Mysterious Card’s Strange Transformation

Card Creator creates cards, while at the same time also hold the post of card maintenance. Common card is less likely to be taken to be repaired, because repairing a card is very likely to reduce the card’s performance, and the price is also very high. Nevertheless, If it is a rare and precious card, one that is very likely will not have a market price <priceless and was not easily sold>, want to buy yet unable to. If damaged, can only be taken to be repaired.

Chen Mu’s Perception is very low, that year the honourable Card Creator did not instruct him in how to train perception ability. Although a special teaching material has been related to him, and Chen Mu has begun to train according to the prescribed order, however, until now yield minimal result. Thinking about it, Chen Mu also felt at ease, the market will only circulate staple and popular goods of dependable quality. Concerning the thing the Card Creator has to say, exclusive method to promote and enhance perception is a core secret, in today’s highly competitive society, who would be so selfless to make it public?

There are a lot of methods to enhance perception, the one fairly famous is also not few. TianYou Federation’s Five Great Prosperous Regions, each of those Prosperous Region has their own Card Master’s School.

As a matter of fact, in these Five Great Prosperous Region, the Card Creator and Card Refiner are really not separate, often in a school exist Card Creators and Card Refiners. FanASi Region’s KuJi Temple uses the heart as the medium, using self-torture <Training/Cultivation> to temper the heart, thus achieving the goal of enhancing the perception.

Five Great Prosperous Regions, have 5 famous educational institution: BeiLian (North Link) Region’s 《北连区》 Desert Battalion, ShangGan Region’s 《上甘区》 DaShu (Distinguished Scroll) Mansion 《达书府》, ZuoHe (Grand East/Eastern Hertz) Region’s 《左赫区》 Star Courtyard, FanASi’s 《梵阿思》KuJi Temple, and TianDongLi (Winter Sky Lining) Region’s 《天冬里区》 ShuangYueHanZhou (Frost Moon Cold Island) 《霜月寒洲》.

TianYou Federation altogether has 5 Prosperous Regions and 22 General Districts. Chen Mu is in DongShang Citadel, a city inside the DongXing subdivision of Ju’s General District. Between the 22 general district, one can change residence at will. But if one wants to settle down in one of the 5 Great Prosperous Region, it is not that easy. One needs to have a certain level of professional skills. The requirement asked by the 5 Great Prosperous Regions is much more compared to the General District, so much that ordinary people can only dream of settling down in the 5 Great Prosperous Regions.

These do not include the short-term residing for visiting tourist.

DongWei Institute’s position in the nationwide Learning Institute Ranking, do not know where it falls, but in the local area, its reputation is quite significant. It is a pity that Chen Mu doesn’t have the chance to enter study in this school. He trained using a superficial method, and his ‘innate talent’ is also limited, thus, although he has practiced for 2 years, but his advancement is also small.

Chen Mu is not discouraged, only he persistently practiced every day. His practice method requires ordinary or common item as a medium, can be everyday item. Chen Mu used the item he’s most familiar with, the one-star energy card he made himself. The energy card that he used for practicing his perception nowadays shows a remarkable change, it has become more detailed, more glittering and translucent. The card seemingly has a kind of mysterious link with him, but he couldn’t clearly explain anything about the link.

Thanks to his untiring great effort over a long time, his perception, although still very low, but enough to grudgingly make one-star and two-star magic card.

The structure of a one-star magic card has been committed all over in his memory,  for a long time he has already known everything about it in his mind. He is ready for his first attempt in making one-star magic card.

Shoot! This brush stroke is out of alignment! The first card is worthless.

The 2nd card also failed.

The 3rd card failed!

……

Chen Mu’s forehead began to sweat a little, he finally realized the difference between making a magic card and one-star energy card.

From the material, a piece of card, mainly consists of two parts: the card base and the card ink. The card base acts as the medium for the card ink, and the ink is used to draw the outline of the construct lines. The ink’s composition is very complex, how to prepare the card ink, and its basic content, is something every card creator needs to learn.

Making a magic card is not simply just picking up a pen and sketch the outline, rather it needs the maker to use perception to control, making the card ink to bond well with the card base. Thus, it increases the difficulty of making a magic card.

Chen Mu now felt the difficulty, his perception originally is low, just exactly enough to manufacture one-star and two-star magic cards, nothing more. This multiple attempt at creating magic card in a row has made his consciousness extremely tired.

It feels comparable to making a pile of 20 one-star energy card!

Unconsciously, Chen Mu leant on the table and slept, this time, he was so worn out he slept very deeply.

The outside sky is full of stars. The weather gradually gets colder, the stars and constellations across the sky makes people feel even colder. The stars emit cold rays of lights, shining in through the open window, illuminating Chen Mu, lying on the top of the table, sleeping.

The mysterious card lies quietly in the corner of the table, bathed with specks of starlight.

In the room it is extremely tranquil on the surface, only Chen Mu’s faint breathing can be heard.

Suddenly, those spiderweb-like thin crisscrossed silver lines began to shine, and the black card becomes more profound and pure.

Gradually, some of the silver lines began to grow dim, so much so that the light is almost impossible to perceive, and the spiderweb-like silver structure began to change.

A lot of the location where the silver lines crosses each other seems to not have been influenced, on the contrary, it became a bit brighter.

The changes continue for 10 minutes.

An earthshaking change has occurred on the card’s surface. On the black surface of the card, those complex silver lines have faded away, only countless bright silver spots remained, just like the stars across the night sky.

Chen Mu woke up 5 hours later, he was awakened by the chill pouring in from the window. Rubbing his drowsy eyes, shaking his head, a bit dazed, Chen Mu forced himself to stand up, trying to drive away the strong drowsiness.

Inhaling deeply, the chill air quickly woke Chen Mu up. Sweeping across the table top from the corner of his eyes, his body suddenly became stiff, like he suddenly become a clay sculpture, standing very still.

No less than 5 minutes has passed before he recovered. Immediately after, he pinched his arm, although he rarely dreams, but this should be a dream, he thought. However, the pain in his arm told him that the scene in front of him is not a dream.

That mysterious card has changed beyond recognition, on the black card surface the silver lines has vanished without exception, only various sizes of chaotically placed silver dots remained. If, say, before he can tell that this card is a high-ranked card, currently he simply cannot judge what rank is this card at all.

The card’s change exceeded Chen Mu’s recognition, he dumbfoundedly stared at the card on his palm.