In the past, a card maker from a card maker family would have 20 to 30 apprentices. In order to win the favor of their teacher, these apprentices would hide everything. Being indifferent was still okay, but the most terrible thing was that they would secretly plot.

The relationship between Fang Xihua and Bowman was very rare, and that was because Bowman and Fang Xihua had no competitive relationship.

But recently, the relationship between the card maker apprentices seemed to have eased a lot.

For example, Fang Xihua encountered trouble when cleaning the star-chasing knife and the light-transmitting mirror. These two are tools for making star patterns, and they need to be cleaned every once in a while, otherwise it will affect the efficiency of star pattern engraving, and ultimately affect the effect of auxiliary cards.

But cleaning is very complicated, and Fang Xihua has to spend a lot of effort every time.

At this moment, he heard a cold female voice saying, "Don't wash it so hard. Mix the crushed gold powder with the juice of the euphorbia, and it will be easier to wash off."

Fang Xihua was startled. He looked up and found that the person who came was Tao Ying, who entered Rong Haiqing's school on the same day as him.

Fang Xihua tried it and found that it really worked.

Although the two entered on the same day, Fang Xihua was dull and Tao Ying was cold and self-centered, so their relationship was not very good. Fang Xihua did not expect Tao Ying to suddenly speak out and instruct him. This was completely unlike her usual behavior.

And what made her change so much, could it be...

Tao Ying left after she finished speaking.

Fang Xihua hesitated for a moment, but still chased after him: "Do you know... 9.9?"

The code word 9.9 has been popular in the forum recently, because the mysterious host later sold two more star patterns, and the price was also 9.9. Everyone tacitly used 9.9 to replace these star patterns. If you have never been to the card maker forum and have not bought 9.9 star patterns, it is impossible to understand what he is saying.

As expected, Tao Ying frowned: "What are you talking about?"

She paused: "I'm telling you, it's because you taught me the technique of star pattern carving a few days ago. I'm just doing you a favor. Don't think too much."

Fang Xihua then remembered that Rong Haiqing was in a particularly good mood last week and finally taught them a new star pattern, which is the fireball star pattern, one of the basic auxiliary cards.

If it were before, Fang Xihua would definitely be grateful to him, but after having learned a series of advanced star patterns such as fire and water dragon, he no longer thinks highly of a simple star pattern like fireball.

The star pattern of fireball is much more complicated than the treatment card, but it is far inferior to the fire and fire card.

He also found that the star patterns of Fireball and Flame were somewhat similar, so Fang Xihua, who had already learned the star pattern of Flame, quickly mastered Fireball.

During lunch, he found Tao Ying practicing the star pattern of Fireball in a corner. He could tell at a glance that there was something wrong with the star pattern she had been practicing. This star pattern was a bit similar to one of the Flame. Fang Xihua had spent a lot of time practicing this before. Although it was difficult to draw, there was always some problem with the brushstrokes. Later, he saw a big guy on the forum posting the key points of the star pattern of Flame, one of which was this.

So, he couldn't help but tell Tao Ying about this key point.

Fang Xihua didn't take it seriously and forgot about it after he said it.

Now that Tao Ying mentioned it, he remembered it.

He thought that Tao Ying was also a member of the forum, so he suddenly helped him. He didn't expect that it was his own good deeds that brought him good results.

He subconsciously opened the card maker forum. At this time, it was no longer deserted and lifeless as in the early years. Everyone was actively discussing and exchanging ideas, and the whole forum was full of vitality.

The same thing happened to the card makers.

Recently, a kind of super low-priced auxiliary card has been circulating among the grassroots card makers. At first, many people didn't believe it until they used it. It's really good.

I don't know where it came from. These auxiliary cards are made behind the backs of the card maker families. Once they are known by them, these auxiliary cards will disappear and then return to the expensive auxiliary cards before.

Therefore, although no one specifically instructed them, these card masters kept their mouths shut and covered up the secret.

At the edge of the defense line, some evil spirits would occasionally hurt people.

The military district was short of manpower and could not take care of everything, so they could only rely on the local guards. However, most of the guards in such places were only R-card or N-card card masters. The attack power of the God Card was not strong enough, and the income of the guards could not support them to buy expensive auxiliary cards with strong attack power. Even if they bought basic auxiliary cards, they had to use them sparingly.

Even if they wanted to protect the residents, they were powerless.

Therefore, if the situation is not serious, everyone here can only blame themselves. If the situation is serious, they will report it to the military district.

But during this period of time, this situation has also changed.

In a village on the border, they have been harassed by evil spirits for many years. The village chief reports to the guards above every year, but the guards have come several times and have not solved the problem. The guards reported to the military district, but compared with other places, they did not cause particularly serious consequences, so they have not been ranked.

The villagers can only comfort themselves, at least their lives are not in danger, just some impact on their lives.

But just yesterday, the village chief told them that the guards would come to help them solve this evil spirit.

Over the years, the villagers' initial expectations have slowly turned into despair and numbness.

"Will it be the same as before? They just come for a formality, fool around and leave."

"Every time they come, we treat them with good wine and food, but it's useless. We might as well feed them to pigs!"

"Don't say that. I heard from the village chief that they are very confident. Maybe they can really get rid of the evil spirit this time?" "

Oh, who knows? They said the same thing last time."

This time, the guard team came with a total of four people. When the village chief saw that only a few people came, his expectant smile faded.

He still remembered that the guard team came with a total of ten people last time, but they couldn't do anything about the evil spirit. This time, only four people came. It can't be like what the villagers said, just perfunctory.

Although he felt bad, he still warmly invited them to have dinner first.

But the guards waved their hands and said, "No need, village chief, we will go and get rid of the evil spirit first. You just need to prepare a celebratory drink for us!"

Before the village chief could persuade them again, they had already played their own God Cards and walked towards the place where the evil spirit appeared.

The village chief was stunned.

Over the years, he had dealt with many members of the guard team, especially the leader. He had the impression that this person was particularly slick and afraid of death. In previous years, he would avoid such things whenever possible. When had he ever been so proactive?

He looked at the backs of these people and vaguely felt that their spirits had changed a lot.

Perhaps, this time, they could really succeed.

Several members of the guard team walked towards the place where the evil spirit appeared. One of them was a newcomer and couldn't help but said, "Why do I feel that the villagers don't welcome us?"

The three old team members looked at each other and smiled bitterly: "We haven't solved the evil spirit for many times. Instead, we have eaten and drunk so many things for free. If I were a villager, I guess I wouldn't be welcomed."

The newcomer worried, "Then can we solve the evil spirit this time?"

The leading team member was confident: "Don't worry, this time we will definitely make the villagers look at us with new eyes!"

He said, and squeezed the auxiliary card in his palm hard.

Not long after, they met the evil spirit.

The evil spirits have different appearances, but they all hate humans without exception, are cruel and bloodthirsty, and they also have their own skills. The higher the level of the evil spirit, the stronger the skills will be.

The skill of the evil spirit in front of him is fire. As long as his sparks touch a person, he will instantly burn the person into a skeleton.

But he is afraid of water. In the previous few times, the team members relied on the small water flow technique and the God Card that can use water droplets to attack to repel him, but they could not catch him.

However, this time is different.

When the team members surrounded him and his body turned red impatiently and was about to spit fire, the leading team member took out the water dragon technique auxiliary card in his palm. With his mental control, the auxiliary card turned into a dragon made of water in an instant.

The water dragon chanted loudly and rushed towards the evil spirit. When the two came into contact, a "sizzling" sound and the evil spirit screamed.

The team member tried hard to control the water dragon with mental power and entangled the evil spirit tightly.

The evil spirit struggled frantically, sparks splashed on the water dragon, and suddenly a wave of water mist spread out.

The water dragon's body slowly shrank, and its control over the evil spirit became weaker and weaker.

Just when the evil spirit thought he could escape, another team member actually took out a similar auxiliary card, and in an instant, another water dragon entangled him.

Evil spirit: "!!!"

If the evil spirit could speak, he would probably scold them for not following martial ethics.

But the fact is that after the four people used two water dragon auxiliary cards to tie him up in turn, the evil spirit finally turned into a wisp of green smoke unwillingly, and then a bright red blood crystal fell down. The

four guards breathed a sigh of relief.

"Hahahaha! So cool!"

"We actually killed the evil spirit! I can't believe it!"

"This is the first time I feel that killing evil spirits is such a simple thing!"

The leading team member walked over and picked up the blood crystal: "The quality of this blood crystal is good. We can add some money and buy new auxiliary cards! Aqiu, haven't you always wanted a Fire Mage auxiliary card?"

"And me! I want a Thorny Vine auxiliary card!!"

"We have them all! Anyway, these auxiliary cards are not expensive. Let's work hard and kill more evil spirits. Maybe we can buy all those auxiliary cards!"

"Fuck! I've started dreaming!"

Everyone took the blood crystals and walked towards the village laughing.

The village chief and others were waiting anxiously. They had heard the evil spirit's screams in the village before, and when they ran over, they found that a wave of water mist was spreading out. This was a scene that had not appeared when the guards came before.

They didn't know whether it was good or bad.

While everyone was waiting anxiously, four figures walked out of the water mist.

The leading team member said cheerfully: "Village chief father, you failed to fulfill your mission. The evil spirit has been killed by us!"

He said, raising the blood crystal in his hand.

The villagers stared at the blood crystal in his hand in a daze. The evil spirit that had troubled the village for many years was actually killed. They were even a little unable to react for a while.

The village chief was a little slow before he burst into tears: "Good, good, great! Get ready for the celebration banquet!"

The villagers cheered and gathered around a few people to go to the village.

But a few team members only drank the celebratory wine brought by the village chief: "Okay, don't worry, we still have to go to other villages to kill evil spirits!" After

they finished speaking, they waved to the village chief and turned away.

The mist slowly dissipated, the sun fell, and they seemed to be walking towards the sun.

The village chief looked at their backs, and the wrinkles on his face stretched out: It really changed.

In every corner of the Saint Robert continent, many things are changing unconsciously, and all of this started with that one-dollar fire magic star pattern.

Gu Xingmian didn't even know how big of an impact he had made. He was training like a dead dog every day and had no time to pay attention to this matter.

When Deritis's course was over, everyone felt like they had shed a layer of skin, and at this time, the time for the four-school league was getting closer.

The school did not arrange any more high-intensity courses. For the remaining courses, either seniors who had participated in the four-school league would come back to share their experience with them, or data analysis of the other three colleges.

Gu Xingmian and Xiao Qiong finally didn't have to climb over the wall in the middle of the night to find Grove.

At this time, in Grove's room, he proudly took out a supplementary card and handed it to Xiao Qiong.

Xiao Qiong turned to the back of the auxiliary card and found the logo of the steel rope he used most often, but there was an electric beam ring logo next to it, and the front looked different from what he used before.

He raised his eyebrows: "Is this the card you said you can get in two weeks?"

Grove glared at him: "I am not like some people who deliberately forget. I have been adjusting it to make the most suitable auxiliary card for you."

"This is not an ordinary auxiliary card." Grove emphasized, "This is an auxiliary card made by combining steel rope and electric beam ring!"

Xiao Qiong and Gu Xingmian were both stunned.

Gu Xingmian now knows that auxiliary cards are made based on existing star patterns. Even so, there are still many card makers who can't make it. Grove can actually combine two kinds of star patterns on one auxiliary card? !

The shocked looks of the two gave Grove a great sense of accomplishment. He pretended to be relaxed and said, "This is nothing."

He talked about his idea non-stop: "Didn't I try to improve the star pattern before? I found the structure of the star pattern very interesting. Guess what is the most stable structure among all the star patterns?"

Xiao Qiong and Gu Xingmian shook their heads.

Grove: "It's the dream card!"

He drew a triangle on the table with his finger: "This is the star pattern of the dream card. Because it is simple, it cannot be adjusted. Similarly, there is the star pattern of the treatment card..."

Gu Xingmian suddenly flashed something in his mind, but he didn't catch it.

Grove continued, "Offensive auxiliary cards are much more complicated, but there are also many areas that can be adjusted and improved. However, I had too few star patterns before, so my research was limited..."

Grove has been experimenting for years, but there are not many successful samples. For example, the Steel Rope, which was originally a useless auxiliary card, became the most signature weapon in Xiao Qiong's hands. It was not only because Xiao Qiong was very strong, but also included Grove's research results.

However, if there was no Gu Xingmian, Grove's results might have stopped there.

But Gu Xingmian provided him with so many star patterns, which instantly expanded the scope of Grove's research many times. Many things that were previously vague and unclear became clear the moment he saw the corresponding star patterns.

In addition, there is the Card Maker Forum, which is now very lively.

Grove took out his communicator, pointed at the forum interface and said to them, "I never dared to imagine such a scene before."

According to him, at his original research speed, it would be impossible to make this auxiliary card so quickly, but recently someone uploaded a card maker's handwriting on the forum. Some of the contents were very profound, while others were very fanciful.

However, these contents made Grove feel like he had found a treasure, especially those fanciful contents, which coincided with the direction of his research.

So he changed the communication number and contacted the other party. Although the other party was just an apprentice, many of their ideas also inspired Grove.

It was also because of this that he was able to make this auxiliary card in advance.

After listening to his description, Xiao Qiong also became very curious about this auxiliary card.

They came to the room for testing skills together. In the middle of the room was a dummy for testing attack values. This was also bought by Grove at a high price in order to test new cards.

Xiao Qiong closed his eyes first and used his mental power to feel the auxiliary card.

Grove had tried this method before, and finally made a card, but it was extremely awkward to control it with mental power, and he had no choice but to give up.

However, this time the feeling was completely different.

Xiao Qiong felt that the transmission of mental power was extremely smooth, which made his heart itch.

He opened his eyes, and the auxiliary card between his fingers instantly turned into a thin steel rope. But if you look closely, the rope flashed blue electric current from time to time, like a poisonous snake with a tongue, and instantly entangled the dummy.

The circle that was entangled suddenly became charred, and the attack power value rose wildly, which was dozens of times the original.

Xiao Qiong's eyes lit up.

Although the previous steel rope was fast and sharp, it was too hard. It was far inferior to the current one, which was soft and flexible, and could carry more attack techniques, not to mention that it had added so many attacks.

He tried a few more times. With the performance of the new card, although his expression did not change much, the excitement in his eyes was increasing.

Only when the dummy was already in tatters did he reluctantly turn the wire rope back into an auxiliary card and put it away lovingly.

Grove operated on the dummy, and the marks on it disappeared instantly, and it spit out a test form.

After reading it, Grove nodded with satisfaction.

This is almost the same as he imagined, but there are still some improvements.

Thinking of this, he became energetic again. He was about to open his mouth to chase them away, but when he saw Gu Xingmian next to him, he changed his words and said, "If you have something to do, just do it first, don't worry about me."

The two: "..."

It would be better if you could control your crazy look that wanted to chase us away when you said this.

The two of them didn't stay to disturb Grove, and said goodbye so neatly.

Grove sent them to the door, watched them walk down the stairs with a smile on his face, then quickly closed the door and ran towards his card-making room.

The two people outside the door: "..."

But Xiao Qiong had long been accustomed to Grove's character. When there were only star patterns in his mind, even if a god stood in front of him, he probably wouldn't pay any attention.

The two of them slowly walked from his house to the academy.

Gu Xingmian said with emotion: "Fortunately, Grove researched it in advance and caught up with this four-school league."

Xiao Qiong couldn't let go of the new auxiliary card. He responded to the words, but in his heart he couldn't wait to get to the four-school league so that he could try out the power of the new auxiliary card.

Gu Xingmian looked at him and suddenly remembered something. He wanted to go to Denim City.

Xiao Qiong asked in confusion, "Did you buy anything?"

Gu Xingmian: "Hey, it's Eric's birthday. Harman told me that I want to buy him a birthday present."

It was thanks to Eric that he was able to get through the days of lack of auxiliary cards. It was reasonable for Gu Xingmian to thank him, not to mention that it was his birthday, so he had to choose carefully.

Gu Xingmian thought for a while and asked Xiao Qiong, "Do you know what Eric likes?"

Xiao Qiong was silent for a moment and shook his head.

"Aren't you often together? Didn't Eric say that?" Gu Xingmian asked curiously.

Xiao Qiong hesitated and said, "If I must say something, it might be his hammer."

Gu Xingmian: "..."

He didn't think it was because Xiao Qiong didn't care about Eric. Although Xiao Qiong looked cold on the outside, he actually had his own unique consideration in his heart.

He thought about it carefully. In his impression, Eric was always cheerful and carefree, as if he was involved in everything and knew all the gossip first, but if you really want to say what he likes and cares about, it's a blank.

Gu Xingmian hesitated.

The two of them went around Denim City, but they didn't find any suitable gifts. Instead, it was time to go back to the academy.

On the way back, Gu Xingmian suddenly had an idea: "Doesn't Eric like lively parties? How about we all throw him a lively birthday party?"

Xiao Qiong nodded: "It's feasible!"

So the two of them started to make arrangements without Eric's knowledge.

Gu Xingmian also found Teacher Wright, who readily agreed to cooperate and gave them a day off on that day.

Gu Xingmian deliberately provoked everyone to discuss going to Denim City to take a bath together that day.

Sure enough, as soon as Eric heard about the excitement, he hurried over: "Taking a bath? I want to go too!"

Gu Xingmian sighed in his heart, Eric was so easy to catch, it was not difficult at all.

So, on that day, everyone pretended that nothing had happened and went to the bathhouse that they had booked last time.

Along the way, Eric kept chattering non-stop.

In order not to arouse his suspicion, everyone started chatting as well. Someone suddenly mentioned the broadcast of the Four Schools League.

"The Four Schools League is broadcasted all over the mainland! I'm excited just thinking about it! I haven't even been on TV yet!"

"My mom still doesn't believe I can participate in the Four Schools League. Humph! When I appear on TV, she'll be scared to death!"

"Hahahaha, my parents are the same. They say how can such a weakling like me participate in the Four Schools League? I'm going to impress them then!"

"Hehe, I've already told all my relatives about it. When the time comes, they'll all be squatting in front of the TV to watch and admire my heroic performance!" "Bah

, what heroic performance do you have! Don't fall down at the beginning and become the laughing stock of the family..."

Everyone chased and made a scene, attracting passers-by to look over.

Gu Xingmian couldn't help but sigh, it's great to be young.

But at this moment, he realized something, as if he didn't hear Eric's voice.

He turned around, but found that Eric, who was always noisy, was unexpectedly silent.

Gu Xingmian fell back a few steps and walked to Eric's side: "Eric, what's wrong with you?"

"Ah?" Eric raised his head and said nonchalantly, "I'm fine!"

After he finished speaking, he chased after other classmates and played around as usual.

Only Gu Xingmian frowned a little worriedly, a little worried about the birthday surprise that was about to be prepared for him.