After that, every day was packed with activities.
After getting up early, Xie Mingzhe and Chen Xiao would set aside an hour to study the ideas for making new cards. When they got inspiration, they would write it down in their optical computers and make it when the ideas were mature. The rest of the time, the four of them would get together for team training.
Yu Ke was still being abused in turns, but like an indestructible cockroach, he became more and more energetic the more he was abused. He was very smart, and after being instructed by Chen Qianlin several times, he tried to use the "Painted Skin" card to copy key skills and gradually figured out some tricks.
He understood Chen's offensive rhythm, and his winning rate against Chen Xiao increased to 30%; but because Xie Mingzhe always randomly picked cards from various clubs, Yu Ke had no idea what cards he would bring to the next game, so his winning rate against Azhe was still around 20%. However, he was getting more and more successful against Qin Xuan, after all, Qin Xuan was better at defense. After Yu Ke understood his routine, it became easier to break his defense, and his winning rate against Qin Xuan increased to 60%.
Compared to the initial abuse, Xiao Ke's progress is very obvious. It seems that the coach's strategy is effective.
Everyone is looking forward to the upcoming foreign training matches.
In the blink of an eye, it was July. The students had their summer vacation and the streets of the imperial capital became noticeably bustling. But for the four players of Nirvana, they had no vacation. July was the beginning of their nightmare training routine!
That night, Xie Mingzhe, Chen Xiao, Qin Xuan and Yu Ke received a message at the same time from Chen Qianlin - you are invited to join the [Alliance Training Camp] chat group.
The four of them were delighted and immediately agreed to join.
This group has five group managers, who are the five senior contestants Chen, Nie, Zheng, Su and Ling.
In addition, many familiar names were seen, such as Pei Jingshan and Ye Zhu from the Dark Night City, Tang Muzhou, Xu Changfeng, Zhen Man and Shen An from Fenghua, the brothers and sisters from Liushuang City, Gui Sirui and Liu Jingxu from Ghost Hell... Bai Xu from the Starry Sky also mixed in.
Everyone was too embarrassed to speak, so Chen Qianlin, as the founder of the group, first read out a few group rules.
1. The competition will start at 8:00 pm every night. The room number and password will be announced in the group. The champion of the individual competition will be the champion, and others will line up to challenge;
2. After the championship challenge is over, everyone can freely chat privately with the players they want to compete with in the group, and create a private arena to compete. The person being chatted with privately cannot refuse. If you refuse without reason, you can complain to the group manager. Once you are warned, twice you will be kicked out of the group.
3. This group is for training matches only. Please do not chat or gossip in the group.
This opening statement startled everyone, and many newcomers were wondering: Is this the style of Lin Shen's painting? It feels more serious than Ni Shen's!
Immediately afterwards, Chen Qianlin sent out a schedule of the champions for the next week:
Monday's champion: Nie Yuandao;
Tuesday's champion: Ling Jingtang;
Wednesday's champion: Su Yang;
Thursday's champion: Zheng Feng;
Friday’s champion: Tang Muzhou.
Xie Mingzhe felt complicated when he saw this. His senior brother went from being abused in the past to being the one to abuse others now. This can be considered as a peasant slave rising up and singing his song!
Lao Zheng popped up and said, "Because the main challenge is only open for 2 hours every day, it is impossible for everyone to go up and challenge. Everyone will sign up voluntarily first, and then we will draw lots, and those who are drawn will go up on stage."
There are quite a lot of people in this group. If everyone were to compete with the masters, there would not be enough time.
Those who don't win the lottery can only wait until the next time, but they can go to the spectator seats to watch the game. You don't have to play in person to learn something. Sometimes you can see more clearly and gain something from watching from a god's perspective.
Challenge Nie Shen, a rare opportunity!
Many people signed up actively, and Xie Mingzhe was no exception, and he was the first one drawn.
Xie Mingzhe, who was the first to appear, was under great pressure. He took out the wood character cards of Cao Pi and Cao Zhi to challenge Nie Shen, hoping to use the wood character cards to assist in controlling the situation and slow down the pace...
As a result, his Guo Jia couldn't even use his deathrattle skill and was killed instantly by Nie Yuandao. Nie Shen was indeed a veteran player who had played for eleven seasons. He instantly seized the key card and tore through his defense, causing Xie Mingzhe to lose very easily.
Xie Mingzhe walked down from the stage and summarized seriously, realizing that he still had some gap compared to the players at the top of the pyramid.
The second person to challenge Nie Yuandao was the young boy Bai Xu, but he lost miserably. He didn't even last half a minute before the whole team was wiped out...
Nie Yuandao defeated more than a dozen people in succession, and the ring challenge ended on time at ten o'clock.
Xie Mingzhe was sitting in the audience watching the game, and it was very exciting. When he first played in the Masters Invitational, he met rookies who had never played in the professional league. Later, when he played in the preliminary round of the professional league individual competition, he was too lucky and never met a great player.
Strictly speaking, today was his first time to officially compete against a senior great like Nie Yuandao - the veteran was indeed powerful, with rich experience in major competitions and keen insight into the field. Even if he was completely targeted and fell into a disadvantage in the early stages, he could quickly turn the situation around.
After watching so many scenes of Nie Shen torturing people, Xie Mingzhe really learned a lot.
The three words "Tang Muzhou" in the champion's arrangement list also gave him plenty of motivation - his senior brother was abused in this way in the past, and now he can abuse others and successfully counterattack from the bottom to the top, so he cannot be worse than his senior brother.
Xie Mingzhe studied very hard. After the competition, he wanted to chat with Nie Shen privately, asking if they could have another one-on-one match. It should be in line with the rules, right? As a result, he was thinking about the wording, and before he could send the message, he received a private message first.
Ye Zhu: "I want to challenge you in a one-on-one duel!"
Bai Xu: "Can we play a game in private?"
Pei Jingshan: "Are you interested in playing a round? The arena is ready and waiting for you."
Shanlan: "Have you made any new cards recently? Bring them out and compete with me. [Smile]"
Xie Mingzhe: “…………”
Wait, why are you all coming to me? I'm not the dungeon boss!
And what did Shan Lan mean by that last sentence? How did he know that I had made a new card?
Xie Mingzhe replied in confusion: "New brand? What new brand?"
Shan Lan said, "Don't pretend. I've been keeping an eye on your card production these days. The number of cards produced for the Yueban logo has suddenly increased by 16. In the past, the number of cards produced for this logo increased by 500 each time. It's obvious that the Nirvana Guild is copying member welfare cards. This time, there are only 16 more cards, which is definitely not a copy of the old cards. I guess you made a new batch of cards, right?"
Xie Mingzhe: “…”
16 cards, which happened to be the joker cards he made for Xiao Ke a few days ago.
I didn't expect Shanlan to have been paying attention to his card production volume. It seems that he cares about him very much!
Ye Zhu has been staring at his shop because Ye Zhu is his number one anti-fan. Why is Shan Lan staring at him?
Xie Mingzhe joked, "Lanlan, why do you care about me so much?"
Shan Lan sent a smiling expression and said, "It's right to care about potential opponents. You've made so many new cards, you can't hide them all, don't you plan to try them out in actual combat?"
Xie Mingzhe said nonsense in a serious tone: "In fact, there are many useless cards in the 16 cards. Only four or five of them can be used. They are jokers made for Xiao Ke. He will use them soon."
Xiao Ke took out the new card during the training match, which was also Chen Qianlin's idea.
After all, Yu Ke is not calm and mature enough, and his playing style is too monotonous. No matter how hard he practices, the possibility of him winning the first, second or third place in the individual competition with so many masters is extremely low. Since he is not going for the trophy, there is no need to hide some cards suitable for individual competitions. It is better to take them out and practice them as soon as possible, which will be beneficial to future team battles.
Chen Qianlin picked out a few cards, three output cards, Gongsun Jiuniang, Qiao Sheng, and Liancheng, as well as two Yan ace cards, Emperor Song and King Wuguan, with group attack skills. His main purpose was to practice and master the release angles, distances, timing, and other techniques of various output skills.
That night, Yu Ke received an invitation from Gui Sirui.
Gui Sirui's reason was: "We are all playing jokers, let's try it out."
Although it was a private arena, several members of Guiyu were watching. Yu Ke did not get nervous and ran over to be abused openly - of course he could not beat Gui Sirui, but the new cards he took out caught Guiyu's attention.
Old Zheng said thoughtfully: "Gongsun Jiuniang, Qiao Sheng, and Liancheng are well designed. The other two cards, Emperor Song and King Wuguan, are more common ranged group attack skills, and don't have many highlights."
Gui Sirui asked in confusion, "The names of these two XX Kings are very similar. Did he run out of words to name them? Or has he made too many cards and has run out of inspiration?"
Zheng Feng shook his head: "I don't think it's that simple."
The next night, when Xiao Ke was chosen to challenge the champion, he also took out this new set of cards.
As a result, the entire alliance knew that Xie Mingzhe had made a new card, and it was an output joker card made for Xiao Ke.
Everyone's point of view is consistent with Zheng Feng's - the designs of Gongsun Jiuniang, Qiao Sheng and Liancheng are very innovative, but the other two XX Kings have the highest attack and their skills are common group attack output, so the design ideas are not very special.
Since the linkage skills can only be triggered when all the linkage cards are on the field, the linkage skills of these two Yan Wang cards cannot be seen. At that time, no one thought that Xie Mingzhe did not write the names of the cards so similarly because he was at a loss for words, but he exaggeratedly made a full ten Yan Wang cards!
Ten XX Kings!
In future competitions, I’ll be dizzy just looking at the names, okay?
Yu Ke said excitedly: "They are not very afraid of this batch of new ghost cards, that's because I haven't taken out the most powerful ones yet. When the Five Ghost Emperors, the Ten Kings of Hell, the Painted Skin Ghost, and the King of Fengdu all appear, I guess even their eyeballs will fall out!"
Xie Mingzhe said with a smile: "During the past two days of training matches, I have been challenged by many people in private messages. The hatred value is firmly in the first place. We should be more low-key. Those weird jokers should wait until the team competition starts, and then give everyone a surprise."
Being asked to chat privately every day, Xie Mingzhe said: I am very busy. If you want to bully me, please line up and bully me one by one!
Being so popular in the training group is also a good thing for Xie Mingzhe. After the challenge session every night, more and more people line up to challenge him, as if he has become the second champion.
This actually made it easier for him to fully understand the tactics and decks of the league's top players.
We can also find ways to make more targeted cards.
As he was abused, he came up with new ideas for making cards.
There are so many character cards made for Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Journey to the West and Dream of the Red Chamber, it’s time to pick up some for Water Margin!
The author has something to say:
The transition is over, and the card making continues. This time, Azhe will make a card for himself.
Water Margin cannot have so many 108 heroes, pick out the key characters and make a few fun ones~~