The black market is located in a small alley behind the commercial street, which is an underground city. Unlike the prosperity of the commercial street, the light here is dim, and various materials are piled together in a mess, just like the "night market selling goods on the ground" in the Earth era.
Of course, you have to be patient when shopping in the black market. Fortunately, Senior Brother Qi is familiar with the place and soon brought the two of them to a large stall. The stall owner is a fat middle-aged man who greeted them warmly, "What are you looking for?"
"Do you have nebula paper?" Senior Brother Qi asked straightforwardly.
The boss narrowed his eyes and smiled: "Yes, yes, I have all kinds of grades here." Then he took out five stacks of white paper in succession. From left to right, they were grade 1-5 nebula paper. The higher the grade, the better the gloss.
"Will high-quality paper make high-quality cards?" Xie Mingzhe asked.
"No, the original cards made by players are all one-star and one-level, but the data of cards made from high-grade paper will be relatively better, but the key still depends on the talent of the card maker. A card maker with outstanding talent can make good cards with low-grade paper. If the mental strength is average, the cards made from high-grade paper will also be garbage." Senior Brother Qi said, "If you are just trying it out, I suggest you buy first-grade paper. High-grade paper is very expensive."
"Then I'll buy a few of the cheapest ones and give it a try." Xie Mingzhe turned around and looked at the boss, "How much is the first-grade nebula paper?"
"10 gold coins each."
“Can it be cheaper?”
“This is the lowest price!”
"Can you give me ten for 70 gold? I'm a newbie and don't have much money."
Bargaining is Xie Mingzhe's forte, and Senior Brother Qi also said that you can bargain in the black market, so it would be a waste not to bargain.
Hearing that he had cut the price to 70% off, the boss looked a little strange: "No matter how poor a newbie is, he can't be without even 100 gold coins, right?"
Xie Mingzhe said seriously: "I just used my money to buy cards. I only have 70 gold coins left in my pocket. Can you give me ten?"
The boss was helpless: "Okay, okay, I'll give it to you."
Xie Mingzhe smiled and said, "Thank you, boss!"
Senior Brother Qi was a little speechless - this guy is really good at budgeting, it seems he will have to bring this bargaining expert with him when he goes to the black market in the future.
After buying the next level of paper, Senior Brother Qi took the two of them to the card booth to pick and choose, and bought three suitable battle cards, all of which were three-star evolution cards.
[Firefly] Skill [Firefly]: Illuminates the surrounding area within a 10-meter radius for 5 minutes.
[Black Crow] Skill [Air Raid]: Causes 100% lightning damage to all enemy targets within a range of 10 meters.
[Water Elf] Skill [Slow]: All enemy targets within a range of 10 meters are slowed down for 3 seconds.
The firefly card was only 150 gold coins, and the other two battle cards were 200 gold coins. Compared with the cards sold at the auction house, they were really cheap. Senior Brother Qi gave the firefly card to Sisi, kept the water elf card, and gave the black crow card to Xie Mingzhe.
Xie Mingzhe was a little confused: "These two battle cards also have group attack and group control skills, why are they sold so cheaply?"
Senior Brother Qi said: "The skill range is too small and the coefficient is also very low. The range of a good group attack card is more than 20 meters."
"Can't the range be upgraded when the card is upgraded?"
"It only increases by 1 meter at level 10, and by 7 meters at level 70 at most. Tang Muzhou's Tuberose Card is so expensive because the range of its two group control skills is both 30 meters - 30 meters is the official maximum range of group skills."
"So that's how it is." Xie Mingzhe nodded in understanding. He found that Senior Brother Qi was like a "gaming encyclopedia" who knew everything. It was a wise choice to join this couple's team in the first place. He learned a lot from Senior Brother Qi along the way.
Senior Brother Qi brought the two of them to the "Dark Cave" at the southernmost end of the Egret Star to swipe monsters. It was pitch black here and nothing could be seen. The effect of the holographic game was too realistic. Sisi was terribly afraid of the dark, but she remained calm on the surface and quickly summoned the firefly card. Only then did a faint light appear within 10 meters around her.
As soon as the light came on, the three of them heard a series of sharp and piercing screams. Sisi was so scared that she immediately hid back. Senior Brother Qi stretched out his hand to protect her and said, "You go to the corner and turn off the game sound effects. Just be responsible for the lighting. Uncle Fatty and I will fight alone."
Sisi nodded, quickly retreated to the corner and turned on the firefly card to serve as a street lamp.
Senior Brother Qi turned around and looked at Xie Mingzhe: "This dark cave is a good place to spawn monsters. The monsters will automatically gather around when they see the light. The monsters have high attack power but very weak defense. Let's gather a group of them and attack them directly."
Xie Mingzhe nodded and said that it was good to follow an old hand who knew the most efficient places to spawn monsters.
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An hour later, everyone's character level reached level 15, and all the materials for card evolution were collected.
Senior Brother Qi said, "I'm going to have dinner, and then we can upgrade together after dinner."
Sisi said, "My mom is also urging me to eat, so I'll log off first." She opened the space portal, walked to the door and turned back to ask, "By the way, Uncle Fatty, are you coming over tonight? If you come, we can continue to level up together and reach level 35 tonight!"
Xie Mingzhe nodded: "Yes."
The girl was happy: "Uncle Fat, see you tonight!"
Xie Mingzhe waved goodbye to the two people: "Goodbye."
After the two left, Xie Mingzhe returned to his personal space, took out the paper he had just bought from the black market, and tried to make his own cards.
Place the Nebula Paper on the card operation table, and the system prompts: "Do you want to make a card?"
Xie Mingzhe chose yes.
System: "Please concentrate your mental power and transfer the card images from the spiritual world into the nebula paper..."
Xie Mingzhe began to imagine - he magically discovered that after his mental power was connected to the nebula paper, whatever he thought of in his mind would appear on the paper.
He just subconsciously thought of the scene of drinking with his roommates on Earth before his rebirth. Because the picture in his mind was rather messy, the picture presented on the nebula paper was also messy, with only the shape of a beer bottle being particularly clear.
Xie Mingzhe was stunned for a moment and immediately stopped imagining.
System: "Card production failed, Nebula paper has been shattered, do you want to start over?"
Xie Mingzhe chose no.
It was a waste of a piece of nebula paper. He had to calm down and think carefully. He couldn't just try it rashly.
Only then did he realize that making cards was actually very difficult.
The human brain has extremely rich imagination, and it is difficult to concentrate on just one thing. Even if you concentrate on thinking only about the character you want to draw when painting, there will always be external factors that will interfere with you, especially when you encounter a bottleneck somewhere, your thinking will completely go astray and your mind will be in chaos.
In Star Card Storm, the cards you create cannot have messy images.
Thinking of the cluster of white tuberose at the auction, Xie Mingzhe suddenly admired the man named Tang Muzhou.
That God Tang was able to create such a lifelike flower card like the "Tuber-Blooming Jasmine" and such an intricate plant card like the "Millennial Divine Tree" - a gigantic tree that blocks out the sun and sky. Every branch and leaf had to be drawn with mental power, and there couldn't be the slightest mistake. His mental power must be over 300, right?
I feel a bit tired even with my 300 mental power to make cards...
Xie Mingzhe took a deep breath and tried his best to concentrate on thinking about the type of card he wanted to make.
Plants, with a master like Tang Muzhou, there shouldn't be much room for them to play with. Animals, this world already has various pet cards such as nine-tailed foxes and long-eared rabbits. Pet designers have made a lot of pet cards based on their rich imagination. When he was looking up information in the hospital, he also found various lifelike Persian cats, teddy dogs, giant pandas, etc. Lions and tigers are probably out of fashion, and he can't think of new ones.
figure……
Oh, right, the characters! Senior Brother Qi said that the review criteria for character cards is to look at the facial features, and the official requirement is that they cannot be imported from the real world. So what if we draw a character in a comic style? Wouldn’t that make it unique?
The drawing skills were not learned in vain; it was not difficult for him to draw comic-style characters.
Xie Mingzhe found an idea and clenched his fists excitedly.
What kind of character should I draw?
A fragment suddenly flashed through his mind.
The slender woman sat by the river, sprinkling flower petals into the water, coughing softly, her face covered with tear marks.
——Daiyu buried flowers.
This was the night before his rebirth. When he went out, he saw a young literary man in the dormitory re-watching the 1987 version of Dream of the Red Chamber. At that time, he joked, "Seeing Lin Daiyu crying so sadly, how do you feel? Do you have the urge to cry?" The roommate laughed and scolded, "Get lost! My girlfriend sent it to me so that I could re-watch the classic." Xie Mingzhe glanced at the computer screen and sighed, "This version of Lin Daiyu is still the most elegant."
The scene was so beautifully captured that it was deeply engraved in Xie Mingzhe's mind. Especially the tearful and pitiful look of Lin Daiyu was so heartbreaking that even a homeboy like Xie Mingzhe felt a little distressed when he saw her crying.
So I just kept it in my mind.
Very clear.
Xie Mingzhe's eyes lit up - what if this scene was made into a card? I wonder if there is a card of Daiyu burying flowers in the Star Card World?
Thinking of this, Xie Mingzhe immediately activated the card making system.
He placed the nebula paper on the operating table, closed his eyes, and carefully depicted the scene in his mind...
Green trees, flowers, a beautiful woman sitting by the pool, and tears all over her face.
The more you think about it, the clearer it becomes. The more you think about it, the more specific it becomes. And the more complete it becomes.
After he concentrated his mind and completely painted this picture in his mind, he heard a system prompt: "Congratulations, the card is complete. Please put the card in the card slot in the upper left corner to connect to the Star Card Database to review your card."
Xie Mingzhe immediately put the card in as instructed.
——Making the cards is the first step, and whether they can pass the review is the key.
Maybe there are too many cards in the database, so this review took a long time.
Five minutes...
Ten minutes...
Xie Mingzhe thought the system had crashed. He was about to restart his helmet when a voice suddenly rang in his ear: "The card has passed the review. You can print your unique LOGO on the card as proof of copyright."
Passed! Xie Mingzhe was so excited that he decided to use the word "Zhe" as the logo, which was placed on the lower right corner of the back of the card. This was learned from Tang Muzhou, whose word "Tang" looked very stylish and cool.
However, as soon as I entered the word "哲", the system prompted: "The LOGO is duplicated and has been used by someone else. Please modify it."
Xie Mingzhe was helpless. It seemed that the word "zhe" had too many duplicate names. The game had been in public beta for ten years, so all the logos must have been registered by others. Since he couldn't pretend to be cool, he might as well use the ID in the game. In order to avoid the word "fat" being repeated, Xie Mingzhe simply entered "yueban", and this time he finally passed.
On the back of the approved card, the originally pure white nebula paper gradually took on a soft green luster.
Green cards are the lowest level one-star cards in the game. All cards created by players are one-star cards. Anyway, cards can be upgraded and upgraded. As long as the attributes are good, making a one-star card is the lowest cost. You can slowly raise Daiyu to seven stars in the future.
Xie Mingzhe rubbed his hands, picked up the card on the console and looked at it carefully.
He drew Lin Daiyu in a comic style. As an artist who is obsessed with colors, his Lin Daiyu's appearance is impeccable - a beautiful woman in ancient costume with unique temperament and pitiful appearance, standing by the river and throwing flower petals into the water. The composition of the whole scene is also very good, depicting the artistic conception of Daiyu burying flowers to 90%.
Xie Mingzhe looked at the attributes of the card again.
Lin Daiyu (Wood)
Card Level: Level 1
Evolution Star Level:★
Available times: 1/1 times
Basic Attributes: HP 100, Attack 0, Defense 15, Agility 1, Critical Hit Rate 0%
Additional Skill: Daiyu Buries Flowers (Causes severe damage to flower cards, 10% chance of triggering instant death effect)
Xie Mingzhe was confused.
What kind of skill is this? It deals heavy damage to flower cards?
Daiyu buries flowers, so you can only attack the opponent's flower card? If the opponent doesn't have a flower card, isn't it useless?
The defense power is 15. I remember that Tang Muzhou’s full-level Tuberose card seems to have a defense power of 50,000.
Well, the gap is too big.
The little ice snake given to me by the system has a defense of 50 before it is upgraded. Isn't Daiyu's defense of 15 as fragile as a piece of paper, breaking at the touch? Poor Lin Daiyu, even as a card, she is still so weak...
Xie Mingzhe started to have a headache.
The data of this card is really not good enough. It seems that I am destined not to become rich overnight.
I wonder if anyone would want this card if I sell it on the black market?
The author has something to say: The cheat code I gave to Xiaoshou is to make a character card, which is written in the article introduction:)
Lin Daiyu is a wood card, and in the later stages there will be many water, fire, earth, and gold character cards.