Folk Card Maker: Starting from Painted Skin

Lanruo City.

Crystal Lido Residential Area.

A continuous drizzle fell. A rat, as large as a cat, crawled out of the sewer, bit into a piece of maggot-infested pork, and then suddenly disappeared.

“Tap, tap, tap…”

A man wearing a raincoat and rain boots rushed into the rain.

“Monster!”

The man suddenly drew a card, quickly chanted a name, and a headless soldier wearing armor slashed at a phantom.

“Quick, notify Old Zheng, traffic control! Everyone stay at home! The Lanruo City branch of the Card Maker Association, summon card makers and head to Joy Lake!”

A paper bird flapped its wings and flew away.

…

“The classic card simulation battle game, Legend of Spirit Cards, new season is coming! Only 1688, pre-order to take it home!”

“Diamond card maker Bird Thief has been in seclusion in the basement for two years, carrying the golden quality card, Underworld Witch, officially returns!”

Originally, he was just a fledgling game designer, who was making his new game: a horror game with Chinese folklore and the mythical creatures of the Classic of Mountains and Seas as its theme.

As a result, after nine consecutive months of working 007, he finally died suddenly as expected.

However, after all, he was a game designer, and he was extremely accepting of transmigration.

Moreover, when he thought that he would no longer have to work overtime and be oppressed by the company, he was instantly relieved.

“I have to quickly familiarize myself with what kind of world this is.”

“Is there any extraordinary power? Is the background Eastern fantasy or Japanese fantasy? Is it an infinite flow or a fourth natural disaster…”

“Um, and do I have a system? Or a panel, or deep blue stat points?”

Zhang Jingtian tried all the settings he was familiar with, but there was no response, and he gradually understood his situation from the various news on TV.

This world is called Earth Star, and it has experienced a historical fault.

There are very few records of the history before the fault, but it looks almost the same as Earth.

What made the two worlds different was an accident.

A world called the Scourge Legion tore open a rift that ordinary people could not feel and invaded this world.

Since then, all kinds of unimaginable and even indescribable demons and ghosts have descended on Earth Star and began to frantically slaughter humans.

Even countless countries have disappeared since then, such as the entire Oceania, which has become a land of ten thousand demons.

Until a man named Zulong was born in Long Country, he had a natural divine eye and could see the rift torn open by the Scourge Legion, a place called [Secret Realm].

He took the initiative to go deep into it, not only survived, but also obtained a card with extraordinary power.

The era of card makers began from then on, and the battle between humans and the Scourge Legion has continued to this day.

However, the two sides are now at a stage of equal strength.

The only remaining eight countries, Long Country, Ugly Country, Sakura, Kimchi, Sand Country, Tianzhu, Rome and Maya, have all started national card maker training programs.

In July of each year, Long Country will conduct a talent test called the college entrance examination for high school seniors who have passed the proficiency test, and select a group of talented students to send to the card maker academies in their respective regions.

It is now December, and there are still half a year before the college entrance examination.

And Zhang Jingtian is a high school senior.

However, he is just a trailing student in the ordinary class. Half of their class has passed the proficiency test and become a reserve card maker, and has the qualifications to participate in the college entrance examination.

The proficiency test is very simple. You just need to take your successfully made first card to the Card Maker Association in the city, pass the review, and finally participate in a written test that anyone who is not mentally retarded can pass to become a reserve card maker.

However, how to make the first card is the fork in the road of ordinary people's destiny.

Card makers have national resources and bear the fate of saving mankind. They are currently the top profession.

The real dragons.

However, making a card is not a simple matter.

The most basic thing is that you need to have mental power to draw on a blank card.

Moreover, the drawing cannot be interrupted during the process, otherwise it will be a waste of effort.

Zhang Jingtian's original body's current mental power is also the most common bronze level for high school students, which is also the lowest level.

The quality of cards he can draw is white, green and blue.

To make a card, in addition to mental power and blank cards, you also need a special card drawing pen, a special pigment rune stone that only exists in the secret realm, card making materials, determine the card's real name, add a story, draw the card face and other complex processes, and pass the recognition of certain rules before it can be summoned and fought.

It can be said that this has considerable requirements for a person's talent, resources, logical thinking, storytelling ability and painting skills.

So if you want to become a superior person, you also need to cross a single-log bridge with thousands of troops and horses.

Even many reserve card makers cannot pass the college entrance examination and become real card makers.

Once you become a card maker, you will have no worries about food and clothing for the rest of your life.

“Since I have transmigrated, of course I want to be a superior person!”

After a little thought, Zhang Jingtian knew that mental power could be exercised, and materials could be bought directly. Only building a story was the most difficult, and it was also the key to determining the quality of a card.

This is difficult for other people in this world, but it is not a problem for Zhang Jingtian.

Because he has the memories of his previous life, especially folklore legends and the Classic of Mountains and Seas. As the background of his game, he can be said to know them like the back of his hand!

He believes that these things that disappeared due to the historical fault will definitely be recognized by the rules!

There are even mythological figures in the Classic of Mountains and Seas, and he also remembers some myths and legends, which can help him draw extremely powerful cards!

Even those geniuses who have been cultivated through various secrets, their carefully constructed worldviews and stories are definitely not as powerful as the gods and ghosts in the legends that have been tested for thousands of years in his mind!

The card makers in this world do not have Zhang Jingtian's memory. In order to pursue this kind of card in ancient legends, they can only go to the secret realm alone to find the traces of the past.

However, Zhang Jingtian learned that currently only Long Country has not found any traces of past legends in the secret realm.

This is also why Long Country's card makers have been somewhat powerless in the international events of the World Championships and the joint attack on the secret realm in recent years.

This is Zhang Jingtian's opportunity and responsibility.