In the messy and dilapidated alley, the rain just fell and left small puddles on the ground. A lame black cat cautiously came out of the garbage dump. Just after licking the water twice, it seemed to feel something, its hair exploded, and it slid back into the garbage dump with a whoosh.

Not long after, a flurry of footsteps broke the silence of the alley.

A pair of feet mercilessly crushed the small puddles on the ground, but lost their way in the alley.

"Where is the person! How come he disappeared again!"

"Damn it! He ran away again!"

"Go find him quickly, and make sure to catch him!"

As the footsteps gradually faded away, the alley returned to silence again.

There was a sudden slight movement from the wall above the garbage dump, and then a black figure glided across the ground. He

had short silver hair, bronze skin, a tall stature, and smooth muscle lines on his arms, making him look like a cheetah ready to pounce.

He wore a mask on his face, revealing only a pair of eyes. His pupils were dark, but faintly revealed a hint of gem-like green.

He took out a red crystal the size of a knuckle, which was why he was being pursued so relentlessly.

This thing is called blood crystal, and it is one of the materials used to forge cards. The darker the color, the higher the purity. Like this crystal, it is so red that it is about to bleed, and the purity must be frighteningly high.

With this, better cards should be able to be made.

Xiao Qiong was very satisfied, and took out the communicator from his pocket, ready to call the card maker he had made an appointment with before.

Who knew that as soon as he opened the communicator, he saw 99+ missed calls.

Xiao Qiong was wondering when another call came in. The caller was his teacher, Wright.

He pressed the answer button, and Wright's roar came through the communicator: "Xiao Qiong! Where are you now! The card drawing day is almost over, why haven't you come yet!"

Xiao Qiong suddenly realized: "Oh, I forgot."

Wright: "......!"

You can even forget this! Why didn't you forget to eat! !

At Mosca College, the principal Cosmo Buckle personally presided over this year's card drawing day.

In the continent of Saint-Rovis, people who can use cards to fight are called card masters. There are two types of cards that card masters can control: ordinary cards, which are made by card makers, and God cards.

When card masters become adults, they have to go to the God Card Pool to draw the only God Card in their lives. This card will determine the direction of their future practice.

The God Card Pool is only open one day a year, and this day is called the Card Draw Day.

Therefore, for every card master, the Card Draw Day is extremely sacred and important.

Principal Baker glanced at the excited and nervous card players in the audience with a nostalgic look, as if he had returned to the day when he drew the card...

Suddenly, his gaze froze: "No, why does it seem like someone is missing?"

The assistant principal at the side was extremely worried, and walked forward and whispered: "Principal, a student named Xiao Qiong has not come yet, but Teacher Wright is already urging him..."

Principal Baker was stunned: "Not here? Doesn't he know that today is the day to draw the card?"

If he missed today and the God's Card Pool was closed, he would never have the chance to draw the God's Card again!

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Xiao Qiong tapped his toes lightly, using the big tree beside the road as a springboard. He was light and flexible, and had great explosive power. After a few jumps, he arrived at the school gate, leaving only the swaying big tree.

Wright was so anxious at the school gate that he almost got angry. When he saw him coming, he wanted to drag him to the God Card Pool. Who knew that when he got close to him, he suddenly sniffed: "What's the smell on you?"

Xiao Qiong smelled himself and it was indeed a bit strange. It should be because he had just entered the garbage-filled alley to avoid those people.

But if Wright knew that he forgot the card drawing day because of a blood crystal, he would probably be furious.

For the sake of the teacher's physical and mental health, Xiao Qiong could only tell a white lie: "I just took a shortcut and accidentally hit a garbage dump."

Wright: "!!!"

He looked at Xiao Qiong's nonchalant look and almost couldn't help cursing. He took a deep breath many times before he could hold back.

Other card masters would at least clean themselves up on the card drawing day, not to mention bathing and burning incense. How could there be such a troublesome thing as Xiao Qiong! ! The troublesome

thing Xiao Qiong said: "Teacher, if we don't hurry up, the card drawing day will end soon."

Wright: "!"

He didn't care too much, took out a bottle of perfume from his pocket, sprayed it all over Xiao Qiong, and made sure there was no strange smell before leading him to run all the way to the God's Card Pool.

Xiao Qiong was sneezed all the way because of the smoke, but fortunately he hurried and finally caught up.

He saw a white altar from a distance. The altar was shrouded in mist, and only the statue of the god in the middle could be vaguely seen. He was holding an open book, and the pages of the book turned into exquisite cards, forming a vortex, floating around him.

This is the God's Card Pool.

In fact, the location of the God's Card Pool is not in the Saint Roberts continent. The so-called God's Card Pool here is only a projection of the real God's Card Pool.

Under the command of Principal Baker, the card masters read the contract oath piously and fluently facing the statue. When the contract is successful, a card will fly out of the card vortex and enter the hands of its contractor.

Cards have no entity, and will exist in the spirit of the card master in the form of phantoms, waiting for the card master to summon them, and then the cards will reveal their true form.

The cards in the God's Card Pool are divided into N, R, SR, SSR and the most precious and rare UR cards. However, in all these years, no academy has ever drawn a UR card, so the highest level is assumed to be SSR.

When Xiao Qiong arrived, the card masters in front of him had already drawn.

The card masters who drew SR and SSR cards were excited, while the card masters who drew N and R cards sighed.

But the moment they saw Xiao Qiong coming, the chattering sounds at the scene suddenly quieted down, and everyone looked at him.

When Xiao Qiong first entered school, he defeated a senior card master who possessed the God Card. Since then, he became famous and was called the strongest card master in Mosca Academy.

But Xiao Qiong usually kept to himself and had a very ordinary relationship with his classmates.

Most people just glanced at him and then looked away.

Therefore, a few gazes in the crowd seemed to be particularly noticeable.

Xiao Qiong looked over and happened to meet the other party's shock and hatred that had not yet been retracted.

It seemed that he was very surprised why Xiao Qiong appeared here.

The other party did not expect Xiao Qiong to be so sharp. He lowered his head in panic and did not dare to look him in the eye.

Xiao Qiong raised his eyebrows, but did not take the other party to heart. He walked calmly towards Principal Baker.

Principal Baker looked at him with mixed feelings.

He still had a deep impression of Xiao Qiong. After all, such a powerful card master, according to past experience, is almost a guaranteed SSR!

Mosca Academy has had bad luck in recent years. Every year on the card drawing day, it ranks last among the four major academies. Principal Baker was eager to make up for the past shame this year. Who knew that he almost missed the card drawing day when he thought he had a stable happiness.

Seeing that the card drawing day was about to end, he didn't care about the reprimand and hurriedly urged Xiao Qiong to draw the card.

Xiao Qiong didn't comment.

He walked up to the altar lazily and even looked up at the phantom of the god.

Principal Baker, who was watching all this, covered his chest and almost fainted.

Fortunately, Xiao Qiong didn't go too far. He quickly retracted his gaze and recited the oath of the contract according to the procedure.

Baker clenched his fists, not caring to blame him for his perfunctory reading of the oath of the contract, and stared at the card vortex.

The card form only exists in the spirit of the card master, so if you want to know the card level, unless the card master takes the initiative to tell you, the only chance to reveal it is during the card drawing ceremony.

The others present were as concerned as Principal Baker, and they didn't know what kind of card a strong man like Xiao Qiong would draw.

However, they waited for a long time, and there was no movement in the card vortex.

The originally quiet scene began to whisper again.

"Is the God Card Pool closed?"

"He must be disloyal and has angered the gods, so this is his punishment!"

"A card master without God Cards is useless, isn't he?"

Regretful, sarcastic, schadenfreude...all kinds of voices reached Xiao Qiong's ears.

Principal Baker couldn't help showing his disappointment.

Only Wright looked at Xiao Qiong worriedly, but saw that this annoying guy didn't care at all, and put his hands in his pockets and was about to leave.

Teacher Wright's fist hardened again.

At this moment, a golden light suddenly appeared in the card vortex, and then a card flew straight towards Xiao Qiong.

Xiao Qiong seemed to have realized something, turned around and grabbed the card.

Just when his hand touched the card, the card suddenly emitted a dazzling light, and then turned into a figure.

In this short period of time, it was enough for everyone present to see the level on the card clearly.

Several heavy gasps came from the crowd.

"That, that is——!"

Gu Xingmian traveled through time.

When he opened his eyes and found that he was neither in the hospital nor at home, but in a strange space, he had already realized it.

As a heavy online novel lover, he is familiar with all kinds of routines.

Traveling through time is nothing more than becoming the male protagonist, the villain, and cannon fodder. I heard that it is popular to wear cute pets recently, so... it is not impossible.

However, just when he was confidently preparing to start his journey of traveling through time, he suddenly realized that something was wrong.

It seems that he is not wearing a living thing, but a! Card!

He rolled his eyes with difficulty. The card in front of him was a white tiger with wings and fangs, which looked very fierce. On the left was a sharp blood-red sword, which looked very majestic. On the right was a small pink rabbit. Although it looked cute, it looked like it was electrified and it looked difficult to mess with!

Gu Xingmian, an ordinary human, was sandwiched between them and suddenly looked weak, pitiful and helpless.

He shut himself up.

What kind of nightmare-like crossing is this!

Gou coin crossing master!

At least give me a golden finger!!!

Gu Xingmian rolled his eyes with difficulty, cursing the crossing master in his heart, and sighing, wondering which unlucky person would draw his useless card.

Suddenly, a golden light enveloped him.

Before he could react, he was sucked into a vortex.

When Gu Xingmian opened his eyes again, the scene around him had changed.

The long-lost warm sunlight shone on him.

He staggered a few steps, and then crashed into a hard embrace.