Chapter 94 Merge with me!
The entry extraction is complete, and the rare entry is obtained: [Broken], and the common entry is: [Spliced]
oh?
Yu Cang touched his chin.
This [Splicing]... looks like it has great potential.
Yu Cang immediately took this entry and tried combining it with other entries, but the success rate was not very high, and several experiments failed as expected.
Yu Cang didn't care and started extracting entries on a box of building blocks on the side. This time, the countdown was also one hour.
At this time, the door of the laboratory was pushed open and Gu Jieshuang walked in.
She has been very busy recently.
In the morning, he had to help Yu Cang look after the store, in the afternoon he had to lead the combat club in daily training, and in the evening he had to come to the laboratory to be a guinea pig.
She couldn't even sleep peacefully. In order to improve her ability to repay the debt, she almost replaced sleep with meditation. Although this was feasible for a soul card master who was only level four, it would make her mentally ill.
Every moment is clearly arranged.
Although she was exhausted, she had no choice. She couldn't give up any of the three tasks during the day. Watching the store was to pay off debts, training was her duty, and being the guinea pig in the evening...
She didn't want to see Yu Cang and Lin Yunqing staying alone together all day!
How can I not come!
However, although she had tried very hard in the past few days to gain the upper hand over Lin Yunqing, no matter how much advantage she thought she had gained, Lin Yunqing always looked nonchalant.
This made her feel very powerless, like punching cotton.
"Boss, I'm here." Gu Jieshuang found Yu Cang first, "By the way, Boss, did you... duel with Nong Weiran today?"
"Yeah, yes." Yu Cang stood up and stretched, "I just found out that you two are roommates."
"As expected of the boss, I heard from them that Xiaoran stayed in the dormitory all day today, and looked like her self-confidence was badly hit." Gu Jieshuang covered her mouth and chuckled.
"That's not my fault. She was the one who wanted to challenge me." Yu Cang shrugged, then asked curiously, "By Li Shuang, what's Nong Weiran's strength... in your battle club?"
Soon, he will be preparing for the Combat Club's entrance exam, so it would be good to get some information in advance.
Although Nong Weiran is only a sophomore now, he can still see the true level of the junior combat club to a certain extent from a glimpse of the situation.
"Xiao Ran...she's not actually from our Battle Club."
"Ah? With this kind of strength, it's impossible to join the combat club?" Yu Cang was stunned.
Although Nong Weiran did not defeat herself, there is no doubt that she is very strong.
Whether it is the card group configuration, combat strategy or skills, they are all very good.
And if he remembered correctly, Nong Weiran should have ranked very high in the ancient capital college entrance examination... It should be more than enough for him to join the Combat Club.
"Boss, you misunderstood. Xiao Ran didn't fail to join the club because of his lack of strength." Gu Jieshuang waved her hand and explained, "In fact, most members of the Sophomore Combat Club can't beat Xiao Ran."
"Why is that?"
"Xiao Ran didn't join because she felt that a Soul Card Master shouldn't be someone who fights in an arena for people to watch. After all, as you know, Boss, if you join the Battle Club, you'll have to compete in tournaments all over the place for the school, and Xiao Ran doesn't like that."
"I see." Yu Cang nodded.
"But I don't think it's a big deal." Gu Jieshuang smiled. "Boss, you want to know how strong the Junior Fighting Club is, right? I'll tell you directly!"
Yu Cang chuckled: "That would be best."
Gu Jieshuang thought for a moment and said, "As far as I know... there are only eight people in the junior combat club right now, but they are all very strong. Currently, only two seniors are still at level four, and the others are already level five.
"The two who are still at level four are Senior Lan Jun, who uses the 'Night Walk in the Garden' deck, and Senior Xing Su, who uses the 'Dead Lich' deck. Boss, if you want to join the company, you'd better hurry up."
"Is that so?" Yu Cang fell into thought.
In order to successfully join the club, he must challenge three members of the combat club in a row and maintain a perfect record. This means that even if he challenges them now, he will have to face a level five soul card master.
There is also a rule that the three challenges to join the club cannot be too far apart and must be completed within a week. This means that he cannot squeeze those two weak targets now and then slowly break through to level five.
This matter cannot be delayed too long, because there is a deadline for the entrance examination, which is probably around mid-November. After this deadline, the Battle Club will have to start honing the card decks and cooperation for the National College League and will no longer accept personnel changes.
Even if you are really strong, it won’t work.
After silently calculating his current meditation efficiency, Yu Cang made up his mind.
Once the major armament overhaul is complete, we’ll get this done!
With my meditation efficiency, there should be no problem!
"I understand. Thank you, Jie Shuang."
"You're welcome, boss." Gu Jieshuang chuckled, but then hesitated for a moment before saying, "Boss, the first of next month is the Fire Festival. Do you want to go out and play with me?"
Yu Cang looked at Gu Jieshuang, his eyes moving slightly.
The Fire-Lighting Festival is an important festival in the Yan Kingdom of this world.
This day was a thousand years ago when Emperor Chang'an found the Flame Emperor Xuanniao and was promoted to a mythical figure.
At that time, the previous mythical soul card master Sheng Di died, and the mythical soul card "Four Seas Dragon Ruins" she held was lost. The wild beasts outside the borders of Yan Kingdom took the opportunity to rush into the country and wreak havoc. However, there was no second mythical soul card master born at this time. For a while, the world was in chaos.
At this time, Di Chang'an stood up. He was only an eighth-level guardian of the country at that time, but he could not bear to see the lives of the people suffer, so he spent a lot of time traveling all over the land of Yan State, going deep into countless dangerous places, and finally found all six mythical soul cards lost in history.
The Yanhuang Xuanniao totem is the last and oldest myth he found.
After gathering them all, he held the Flame Emperor Black Bird in his hand, and his understanding of all the myths in history allowed him to directly reach the ninth level. Then he used the power of the six myths to drive away all the wild beasts, which led to the current Yan Kingdom.
This is the origin of the Fire-Lighting Festival, which has a status no less than that of the National Day in previous generations.
Looking at Gu Jieshuang's hopeful eyes, Yu Cang sighed in his heart and said, "Jieshuang, I have something to do at that time, you should find someone else."
That day, he had to prepare for a major military overhaul and really didn't have time.
Gu Jieshuang's eyes dimmed a little: "Oh, well... If the boss doesn't come, I'll just go home."
Yu Cang continued, "By the way, Li Shuang, we are very good friends, right?"
"Yeah...yes..."
"Nong Weiran misunderstood us today. She thought we were a couple." Yu Cang smiled, "You should go back and explain it properly, so that your roommates won't continue to misunderstand."
"I..." Gu Jieshuang lowered her head and bit her lip.
He knew what Yu Cang meant.
Taking a deep breath, she suddenly looked up and said, "Boss, if in the future, we go to the True Dragon's Death Place together...will our relationship be further developed?"
Yu Cang's expression slightly changed, but then his brows furrowed tightly. "Don't joke around. This is a serious matter. It's not something worth joining in the fun just by saying a few words."
Gu Jieshuang opened her mouth and wanted to say something, but Yu Cang had already waved his hand and went to another room.
Looking at Yu Cang's hurriedly leaving, Gu Jieshuang stood there for a long time, and suddenly smiled.
It’s different now…
Although the boss was still rejecting him, he didn't answer his question directly. Instead, he was in a hurry... Was he avoiding something?
In other words, deep down, the boss is also looking forward to having someone stand by his side, to take risks with him, and to advance and retreat together. He just doesn't want to drag others into danger... right?
That's good.
Gu Jieshuang's eyes became a little firmer, and he turned around and walked towards the test site on the side.
…
After returning to the inner room, Yu Cang leaned on the edge of the table and rubbed his brows.
In his opinion, Gu Jieshuang's words just now were probably just a momentary impulse caused by her emotions.
I have only known her for half a year, so what is there for her to do this for?
"Forget it...it seems the materials I need have arrived. Let's see what good stuff there is."
Yu Cang walked to the materials room, where the materials related to time and growth that he had just applied for a few days ago were placed.
In addition to the various conventional materials, there are also rows of resonance stones and some related soul cards, which are all given to him for reference.
Yu Cang flipped through it and found a few soul cards that caught his eye.
For example, this one:
Soul Card Name: Super Speed Growth
Category: Spell Card
Quality: Rare
Attribute: Wood
ability:
[Growth]: After activation, select a summoned beast and make it enter a state of super-speed growth. The more soul energy the soul card master invests when activating this soul card, the more significant the growth effect will be.
It seems that this card can be used to make one's young dragon grow up quickly?
However, without dragon scales, even if a young true dragon grows to adulthood, its combat power will not be overwhelmingly strong. It can only be said that its actual combat effectiveness remains to be seen.
Yu Cang was a little curious, so he opened his personal terminal to check. It seemed that this card of super-speed growth was created by a soul card master decades ago.
He wanted to build a deck of cards related to growth. In his conception, each summoned beast in this deck has the forms of childhood, youth, adulthood, old age and even more, and each form has different abilities.
But in the end, it seemed that this idea was too fancy and did not work well in actual combat. While the combat effectiveness was not strong, the soul energy consumption remained high, so he quickly gave up.
After playing with them for a while, Yu Cang took the soul cards with him and put the materials aside.
I have been busy with too many things recently, and they all take up a lot of time, so I have to wait until later to get these materials.
So this is the trouble of having too many projects.
At this moment, a line of words flashed across the entry recorder:
The entry extraction is complete, and rare entry is obtained: [Assembly], common entry: [Toy]
Um?
Yu Cang raised his brows.
What is the difference between [Splicing] and [Assembly]? One is rare and the other is just ordinary.
Thinking of this, he took out a blank soul card, thought for a moment, and implanted a [Machine].
It worked.
This operation of implanting a certain quality entry into the corresponding blank soul card can generally be successful.
Soul Card Name: Blank Gear
Category: Summon Card
Quality: Ordinary
Attribute: Gold
Race: Mechanical
ability:
[Spare Parts]: Specifies an ability of a common card. This ability becomes invalid after the blank gear leaves the field.
This effect is quite practical...but it only works on ordinary cards, so it's useless to him.
"Upgrade him." Yu Cang's eyes scanned the entry library.
Suddenly, he saw an entry and couldn't take his eyes off it.
Entry [humanoid]!
"Wait, is this okay..."
Yu Cang blinked, selected this entry, and then, for some unknown reason, selected the next entry, "Beautiful Appearance."
He took a look and found that the success rate was not low, at 82%.
Nothing much to say, just implant it directly.
Sure enough, it succeeded.
Soul Card Name: Gear Robot
Category: Summon Card
Quality: Rare
Attribute: Gold
Race: Mechanical
ability:
[Rare Spare Parts]: Specifies an ability of a rare card. This ability becomes invalid after the Gear Robot leaves the field.
[Simulate and Invade]: Select a humanoid summoned beast of rare quality or lower. Upon contact with it, it is treated as having the same attributes and abilities. If the summoned beast is not owned by you, its attributes are reduced to zero and its abilities are disabled. This ability can only be selected for one summoned beast at a time.
"This is a bit strong." Yu Cang raised his eyebrows.
No matter what its panel looks like, as long as it has these two effects, this soul card is already super awesome!
And, the most important thing is.
Looking at the picture of this soul card, he blinked.
From the appearance, this robot is neutral. Its torso and joints are embedded with a series of tightly meshed gears, which are embedded in the body and connect the internal structure.
Putting aside the gears, the body lines of the gear robot are incredibly perfect, with smooth and unobtrusive muscle texture hidden under the smooth silver metal skin. Every detail looks like the work of the top sculptor who has carefully polished it for a long time.
Its head is an oval, smooth metal ball without any details. It looks like a human's oval face, and its proportions are also perfect.
This... I feel so astringent for no apparent reason!
Yu Cang coughed lightly and summoned it out with a flick of his hand.
The gear robot was even more shocking when it stood in front of him. Yu Cang could intuitively observe every detail of its body, and even if he enlarged it and examined it carefully, he could not find any flaws.
"It's so beautiful..." Yu Cang touched the large gear on its chest and said with a click of his tongue, "Try to move it."
The gear robot moved in response, maneuvering nimbly in the narrow space, but Yu Cang's expression suddenly changed.
"Stop!" he said quickly.
The gear robot immediately came to a standstill. This process was extremely short, as if it had instantly transformed from extreme movement to extreme stillness. It even maintained the motion of running forward.
But Yu Cang's brows furrowed slightly.
Just now, the moment the gear robot started moving... his soul energy suddenly decreased by a large amount, and as its movements continued to get faster, his soul energy was still being consumed.
But after stopping, the consumption disappeared.
"What's going on..." Yu Cang tried to make the gear robot move again. Sure enough, as soon as it moved, it would generate a lot of consumption.
This is not right.
Normally, summoned beasts only consume soul energy when they are summoned. As long as the summoning is successful, no matter what ability is activated, no consumption is required.
Except for some special abilities.
But this gear robot... let alone its ability to operate, even normal activities would consume its soul energy!
"Is this just an exception or..."
After waiting for the cooldown of the entry implantation to be over, Yu Cang took out another blank soul card and tried to implant it using [Machinery] + [Skeleton]. This time, he failed several times, but fortunately, the cooldown of ordinary entries was only ten minutes, so it didn't take long before he succeeded.
Soul Card Name: Skeleton Mechanical Dog
Category: Summon Card
Quality: Ordinary
Attribute: Gold
Race: Mechanical
ability:
[Identification and Sharing]: Ignores optical and thermal invisibility, and can share vision with the operator.
"This..." Yu Cang hissed.
How could an ordinary card have such powerful abilities?
Don’t underestimate this ability, but if it is placed in an exploration team, it will definitely be something that everyone will fight for!
Remember, this is just an ordinary card!
What did common cards look like before this? A good example is Yingcao Archer.
The panel is average and has almost no capabilities.
but……
Glancing at the gear robot that was still running next to him, Yu Cang waved his hand and summoned the skeleton mechanical dog.
This is a small mechanical dog, its entire body made of a matte metal mechanical skeleton. If it were in the dark, it would be very inconspicuous.
Yu Cang tried to manipulate it, and extra soul energy consumption occurred immediately.
"Is it true..." Yu Cang fell into thought.
He seemed to have found the reason why no one in this world was researching mechanical soul cards.
The soul card of the mechanical race only consumes a part of the soul energy when summoned. Every activity after that actually requires the consumption of additional soul energy!
As a result, the deck disadvantage of this race is too great.
However, there are advantages. When he was operating it, he found that the mental pressure brought to him by the mechanical summoned beast was very low. The mental pressure of the rare quality gear robot was not even as high as that of some ordinary summoned beasts. The pressure of the skeleton mechanical dog was almost imperceptible, only a little bit.
Moreover, judging from these two soul cards alone, the effects of the mechanical family are really strong... although these effects also require additional soul energy consumption.
Lower mental stress, higher soul energy consumption, and stronger abilities, these are probably the characteristics of mechanical summoned beasts.
Perhaps this is why he has never seen a mechanical deck.
Too much soul energy is consumed, and the little mental stress it reduces is nothing compared to such a huge side effect.
Yu Cang, a fourth-level Soul Card Master, only managed to support the gear robot for seven or eight seconds before his entire tube of Soul Energy was completely depleted. Since there were no potions in this world that could quickly replenish Soul Energy, naturally, few people would use them.
"...Now that the cause has been found, the next step will be easy." Yu Cang fell into thought.
It's nothing more than an energy issue.
As long as this problem is solved, the advantages of the mechanical family will be infinitely magnified.
Such low mental pressure means that the number of mechanical tribes that can be summoned at the same time will be terrifying!
"Let's put the energy issue aside for now and figure out the relevant terms first... How can we fully utilize the Mechanoids' numerical advantage?"
Yu Cang's eyes fell on [assembly] and [splicing] in the entry library.
Of course it’s a combination!
Roll up your sleeves.
Get to work!
He first coated the two soul cards with developing potion, and after completely learning the soul card patterns and ensuring that they could be copied, he opened the entry library.
Implant the Skeleton Mechanical Dog with: [Splicing]!
The success rate was 32%, but Yu Cang had to try more than ten times before he succeeded in implanting the device.
After a quick look, the other attributes remained unchanged, except for one new ability:
[Accessible Value-Added Protocol]: This can be used as a plug-in or inserted into other mechanical families. When used as a plug-in, the user gains: Slightly increased movement speed.
So...
Yu Cang searched the skeleton mechanical dog's body and finally found a rectangular interface on its back.
This is what splicing means.
Yu Cang nodded, put the skeleton mechanical dog aside, and then drew a new one.
Implant [Assembly]!
[Assemble] is a rare item, and the success rate is not low, so after a few attempts, this Skeleton Mechanic Dog became a rare one:
[External Chimeric Component]: Can be combined with a Mechanical Summoned Beast that also possesses an External Chimeric Component. This combination grants the main unit the abilities of that summoned beast. If desired, a Soul Card Master can be selected as the target for the combination.
Got it!
Yu Cang smiled.
With this in mind, he followed the same method and also created a gear robot with value-added protocols and interlocking components.
Then, he summoned both of them at the same time and asked them to try various things, but the results were somewhat unsatisfactory.
The Skeleton Dog was inserted into the Gear Robot as a plug-in very smoothly, which greatly increased its movement speed, but the opposite... could not be done.
After initiating the value-added agreement, the gear robot went through a series of mechanical changes and engagements, and finally turned into a gigantic USB flash drive as thick as Yu Cang's arm. This size... the Skeleton Mechanical Dog couldn't bear it.
It's just a cultivator and doesn't have the conditions.
The activation of the chimeric component is similar. Due to the size difference between the two, the main body of the combination can only be a gear machine robot.
After the assembly was completed, the skeleton dog turned into an exoskeleton similar to a backpack. Ribs embraced the chest of the gear robot from behind, and the mechanical support structure was connected to its bald head, and the area where the eyes should be deformed into a pair of goggles with a rather high-tech feel.
It's pretty cool, but it only provides the ability [Identify and Share], which requires soul energy to activate.
Apart from this, the gear robot's panel attributes have not improved at all, and its movement speed has even slowed down due to the weight.
Yu Cang guessed that there should be an epic entry that would allow them to combine not only their abilities into one, but also allow the panel values to accumulate!
However, that is something to consider later.
Now.
Yu Cang looked at the tactical breastplate and goggles with shining eyes.
"Quick, merge with me!"
Thanks to Flying Poisonous Mushroom for the reward!
(End of this chapter)
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