Xie Mingzhe was amazed by Tang Muzhou's popularity. As soon as he appeared, the whole venue was in an uproar. Many students stood up from their seats and shouted. Some girls' screams were obviously broken due to excessive excitement...
This man's face was indeed 360 degrees perfect without any blind spots. Even Xie Mingzhe had to admit that Tang Muzhou was the most handsome man he had ever seen since his rebirth.
Under his long eyebrows, he has a pair of dark and deep eyes. His high nose bridge makes his facial features look more sculpted and tough. His slightly raised thin lips reveal the sexiness of an adult man. The combination of these features is really charming. Not to mention that girls can't resist him, even boys think that Xie Mingzhe is too handsome.
He could have made a living with his looks, but he chose to rely on his physical strength. His brilliant record of 50 consecutive wins in the fifth season's individual competitions that swept the league has not been broken to this day. No wonder he can attract so many fans.
Amid the crazy screams and shouts all around him, Tang Muzhou strode from the guest passage to the center of the big stage.
The spotlight shone on him, making him look even taller in his tuxedo. This outfit was as formal as if he was attending an awards ceremony, but on him, he looked chic and calm.
The host was obviously also his little fan, her voice trembling with excitement: "Welcome Senior Muzhou to take time out of your busy schedule to participate in tonight's freshman exchange competition finals! Senior, do you have anything to say to everyone?"
Tang Muzhou took the microphone and smiled: "Today is not only the finals of the freshman competition, but also the tenth anniversary of the establishment of the Star Card Association. I am very happy to return to my alma mater to participate in this grand event. I sincerely wish that the Star Card Association will become stronger and stronger. I also hope that more junior students will join the Star Card Professional League and realize your dreams on the professional stage!"
The man's deep and magnetic voice echoed through the microphone in the venue. Although he only said polite official words, because his voice was pleasant enough and he was very popular, no matter what he said, his fans applauded crazily.
Tang Muzhou knew when to stop and didn't say too much nonsense. He politely handed the microphone back to the host.
The host girl took a deep breath to keep her heartbeat steady, and continued, "Thank you for your blessing, senior! I also want to tell you a good news. In order to celebrate the tenth anniversary of the Star Card Association, senior brought you some small gifts - a full hundred precious plant cards that have been upgraded to full stars!"
As soon as the words fell, there was warm cheers from the audience.
Verbal blessings are just official language, giving gifts is the most practical thing.
A full-star precious plant card can be sold for hundreds of thousands of gold coins at an auction, which is equivalent to tens of thousands of crystal coins in real currency. Tang Muzhou is also rich enough to directly give away 100 fully enhanced cards.
The host said: "Next, we will conduct the first round of lottery and draw 50 lucky audience members..."
The lottery was held according to seats on the big screen, and the atmosphere was extremely heated.
The first 50 lucky spectators were quickly selected, and the students who won the prizes were extremely excited. Tang Muzhou was invited to sit in the guest seats, and tonight's finals finally officially began.
The final four contestants are Yu Ke from the School of Law, Zhao Han from the School of Physics, Lin Xiaorui from the School of Literature, and Zhu Jianing from the School of Economics.
The first match of the semi-finals was between Yu Ke and Lin Xiaorui, and the players’ promotional videos were shown on the big screen.
Lin Xiaorui is a very capable girl and the only female player among the top four. She is good at animal decks.
She wore a simple white dress today and her hair was neatly tied into a ponytail at the back of her head. As soon as she came on stage, the screams of her family and friends almost blew the roof off. In comparison, there were very few people supporting Yu Ke. Obviously, the number of players who liked joker cards could not be compared with the number of people who liked animal cards.
The big screen showed some highlights of players' advancement. Yu Ke's joker looked too scary, and some people around him started to talk: "This guy actually used a joker deck?"
"For a deck as unpopular as Joker to make it to the semifinals, it seems this junior is quite capable!"
"Lin Xiaorui has won all the battles so far. Yu Ke is definitely no match for her."
"I heard that Xiao Rui is one of the managers of the Arbitration Guild. She is very capable. Yu Ke should have no chance."
"I also think Yu Ke will lose."
Xie Mingzhe had expected that Yu Ke was not favored. He opened the school Star Card Association's forum and found that in the top voting post "Who is the Champion", the support rate of other candidates was around 30%, but Yu Ke's support rate was less than 10%.
Obviously, except for Yu Ke's classmates who voted for him, Yu Ke's popularity is really bad. The top four players, Lin Xiaorui is a beast card, Zhao Han is a water card, and Zhu Jianing is a wood plant card. These three have a lot of supporters, but Yu Ke's joker card is too unpopular, and very few classmates support him to win the championship.
But Xie Mingzhe believes that Yu Ke tonight will definitely be the strongest dark horse that will impress everyone.
After the promotional video was over, the host said loudly: "Now, please welcome the top four contestants, Yu Ke and Lin Xiaorui!"
The two walked to the center of the big stage and shook hands in a friendly manner.
Lin Xiaorui is over 1.75 meters tall, a typical tall and thin girl. She is wearing 5cm high heels today, and she has a strong aura when standing on the stage. Yu Ke is only 1.67 meters tall, and he is much shorter than her.
I can tell at first glance that he doesn't look like a champion...
The students in the audience were talking about the situation, and they all thought that Lin Xiaorui would completely defeat Yu Ke.
But from the big screen, Yu Ke's expression did not seem nervous at all, but rather full of confidence.
After the two contestants sat down, the host announced the start of the competition.
The semi-finals will be played in a best-of-five format, with blind cards. Each player will have the opportunity to choose their own game map, which is similar to the rules of professional leagues. The two players will draw lots, and the one who draws the blue side will have priority to choose the map.
In the first game, Yu Ke drew the blue side and the map he chose was "Ghost Castle".
This map has dim lighting and a gloomy atmosphere, which is very suitable for stealth attacks and assassinations. But Lin Xiaorui is not afraid at all. She has played Star Card Games for several years and has played thousands of games in the Arena. She is already familiar with various game maps. Ghost Castle is not too difficult except for the gloomy environment. Her beast cards are also very flexible. It is not so easy for Yu Ke to assassinate her cards.
The game starts and both sides show their decks.
The five visible cards of Yu Ke are the bride in red, the female ghost in white, the headless doll, the hanged ghost and the corpse-eating ghost. There are also two hidden cards that have not been revealed.
Xie Mingzhe couldn't help but praise when he saw this: "Xiao Ke is very patient. In the first round, all five of his open cards were old cards. It seems that he doesn't want to rush to use the cards I made for him."
Chen Xiao said: "The hidden card he brought might be the Black and White Impermanence. This move will definitely make the opponent let down their guard."
The recordings of the semi-final matches of the top four players have all been posted on the Star Card Association's forum. The other three players will definitely study Yu Ke's previous recordings to choose cards accordingly. Yu Ke put the joker cards he had used before among the open cards, so his opponents naturally thought that he would play according to the previous routines and thus let down their guard.
However, little did he know that the real trump card was hidden among Yu Ke's hidden cards.
That was a joker card that no one had ever seen before, and it was tailor-made for him by Xie Mingzhe himself!
Lin Xiaorui's deck is composed of very common animal cards in the game, including a tiger, a lion, and a white wolf with extremely strong close-range attack power, a unicorn with high defense range and taunt, and a red fox with single-body confusion and control - these five cards are visible cards, and the other two are hidden cards that no one can see.
When the countdown reached 10 seconds, Lin Xiaorui replaced a hidden card, but Yu Ke did not.
Xie Mingzhe guessed, "Lin Xiaorui may have changed to Zhong Kui, and Xiao Ke didn't change his card. Is he going to use the Ghoul to block the attack?"
Chen Xiao nodded: "It's possible. Xiao Ke is so smart, he must have thought of the possibility that the other party brought Zhong Kui."
In the semi-finals, Yu Ke's most impressive card was the Ghoul. This late-game ghost card is summoned when there are more than four death cards on the field. It can quickly devour the souls of the dead, doubling the attack power and quickly clearing the field.
Today, he deliberately put the Ghoul among the open cards, which would give the opponent the illusion that "his strongest card is the Ghoul".
Then, the Black and White Impermanence hidden in the hidden cards can give the opponent a fatal blow when necessary.
Unexpectedly, Xiao Ke was quite clever. In the first round, he used a sleight of hand to mislead his opponent.
The more Xie Mingzhe thought about it, the more excited he became, staring at the big screen intently.
At the beginning of the game, the dark ghost castle made the atmosphere of the entire stadium become gloomy and terrifying, and the background music was creepy. The live broadcast on the holographic screen was a god's perspective, so everyone could clearly see Yu Ke and Lin Xiaorui quickly summoned three cards at the beginning of the game.
Yu Ke summoned a red and white female ghost and a headless doll, while Lin Xiaorui summoned a wolf, a tiger, and a lion.
The two sides tested each other's positions for a few seconds, and then attacked almost at the same time -
Yu Ke's red and white female ghost was dispatched instantly, with countless hairs sweeping over densely, and Lin Xiaorui's beast group of lions, wolves, and tigers also pounced on them fiercely!
The two sides fought against each other, and all six cards were depleted. At this moment, Lin Xiaorui suddenly summoned an Ice Crystal Phoenix - the Ice Crystal Phoenix she had hidden in her dark deck, which had a ranged collective freeze. Its skill Ice and Snow froze all three of Yu Ke's cards in place.
3 seconds of group freezing was enough for her to do many things. Sure enough, Yu Ke's red-dressed female ghost and white-haired bride were all killed. Only the headless doll relied on its flexible displacement to quickly evacuate the battlefield.
In a blink of an eye, Yu Ke lost two jokers and the situation became 5v7, which was very unfavorable for Yu Ke!
The audience members, including Xilin Xiaorui's relatives and friends, cheered, thinking that the young boy was doomed.
The host also said: "Two cards died at the beginning, Yu Ke is in a very difficult situation!"
The next moment, Yu Ke summoned the Ghoul. This card would devour the corpses on the field after it appeared. At this time, two cards were already dead on the field. The Ghoul's basic attack power was doubled. The huge Ghoul rushed directly towards Lin Xiaorui's group of beasts. The tiger, lion and white wolf were bitten by him and all bled to death!
Seeing that these cards were almost dead, Lin Xiaorui decisively summoned the second hidden card - Zhong Kui!
It was indeed Zhong Kui. His “ghost catching” skill directly caught the ghoul into his pocket.
The female host couldn't help but say, "Yu Ke lost another card. It's 4v7. This game should be over..."
The male host said, "Xiao Rui's hidden card selection was very good. A group freeze of the Ice Crystal Phoenix quickly interrupted Yu Ke's rhythm, causing Yu Ke's ghost cards to be controlled and two of them to be killed instantly. Zhong Kui's hidden card was obviously aimed at his corpse-eating ghost. Yu Ke's cards have lost three cards, but Xiao Rui's cards are also at low health. It depends on whether Yu Ke has other powerful cards to save the situation."
Seeing this, Chen Qianlin said calmly: "Xiao Ke has definitely won this game."
Xie Mingzhe also smiled: "Well, Lin Xiaorui has already played all her cards, and she is sure that there are no healing cards in her deck. Xiao Ke destroyed all three of her cards in the early stage, and the hidden cards she brought must be the Black and White Impermanence, and he will be able to harvest them soon."
As the two were talking, Yu Ke summoned another card, the Hanged Ghost.
This card is a very powerful single attack card. Because it is a ghost that died by hanging, it holds a rope in its hand. Its means of attack is to strangle the enemy's neck from a long distance. It is a rare long-range single attacker among ghost cards.
To the audience's surprise, after the Hanged Ghost came on the scene, he did not rush to kill the already bloody beast group. Instead, he swung the rope from a long distance to hit the Ice Crystal Phoenix flying in the sky, beating the Ice Phoenix into a bloody skin in one breath!
Ice Phoenix is a range-controlled card with an extremely fast flying speed, but its weakness is also very prominent: its defense is too low.
Seeing that Ice Wind was about to be killed instantly, Lin Xiaorui quickly summoned the One-Horned Black Rhino, using a range taunt to force it to absorb a wave of damage, and let the Red Fox forcibly control the Hanged Ghost. The Beast Group went out to kill this card as well!
The situation became increasingly unfavorable for Yu Ke. At this time, Yu Ke lost four cards in a row, leaving only a headless doll on the field.
What is his hidden card? Is it powerful enough to turn the tide? 2v7 is impossible to win!
Many spectators wanted to celebrate Lin Xiaorui's victory in advance.
However, at this moment, two very strange jokers suddenly appeared on the field.
One of the ghosts was seen wearing a pure white robe, with a face as pale as if covered with flour, smiling happily, with a long tongue sticking out of his mouth, and a tall hat on his head with the words "First sight brings wealth" written on it. His name was: Bai Wuchang.
The other one is the opposite of Bai Wuchang. He is dressed in a black robe and has an extremely serious and stern expression. He also wears a tall hat on his head with the four big characters "Peace in the World" written on it. The name of the card is: Hei Wuchang.
The audience was all confused. What on earth were these two things, one black and one white?
Lin Xiaorui was also stunned for a moment, but she was an expert who had seen the world after all. She realized that this was Yu Ke's hidden card, and immediately used the Red Fox's confusing skill to forcibly control Black Impermanence, hoping to use this little time to quickly kill Black Impermanence.
However, just after Hei Wuchang was beaten to a pulp by his opponent, Bai Wuchang suddenly stuck out his tongue and used his first skill with a smile - wait, I still have 5 seconds to save him!
All damage was delayed for 5 seconds, and Lin Xiaorui's plan to kill Wuchang instantly failed.
Following closely, Hei Wuchang immediately activated his first skill “Peace in the World”, strengthening his basic attack and attack speed within 30 seconds, and used his second skill “Wuchang’s Soul” to teleport behind the Ice Crystal Phoenix, killing it in one move!
The Black and White Impermanence each have an additional yin and yang mark on their bodies.
Then, Hei Wuchang landed and attacked from behind the most fragile Zhong Kui, taking him away with one clean move! Then he killed the White Wolf in one combo, the Tiger in one combo, and the Lion in one combo with three combos!
Hei Wuchang, who has killed five cards in a row, has five negative marks on his body. Moreover, he also has a 30-second normal attack bonus from his first skill and a critical damage bonus caused by combos.
At this time, the Black Impermanence, with one claw, caused tens of thousands of damages, which was simply shocking!
Lin Xiaorui was completely confused. She didn't even see what the other person was doing. Suddenly, five of her cards died?
The audience all looked bewildered, and the host just stared at them, not knowing how to explain it.
After the Yin-Yang Marks were stacked to five layers, Yu Ke calmly activated the Black and White Impermanence's linkage - the Yin-Yang Soul Catcher!
Explode the mark and clear the field.
Lin Xiaorui's team was wiped out and the game ended.
Audience: “…”
host:"………………"
Except for Xie Mingzhe, Chen Xiao and Chen Qianlin who had already expected the result, the rest of the audience were all shocked!
In a 3v7 situation, you can instantly clear the board and kill 7 cards of the opponent? Is this scientific?
Tang Muzhou, who was watching the game in the guest seats, was also in a mixed mood. He noticed the specialness of this joker card the moment Bai Wuchang appeared. If he remembered correctly, there was no Bai Wuchang card in Gui Sirui's joker card pool. After Hei Wuchang appeared, he was even more certain that these two jokers were definitely not made in Gui Sirui's style.
That long skill description looks so familiar no matter how I read it.
What is the world at peace, fortune at first sight, death taking, Yin and Yang soul-snatching messenger...
He couldn't help but think of the skill naming methods such as Peach Garden Oath and The Battle of Red Cliff.
Could these two joker cards also be the masterpiece of my junior brother?
Tang Muzhou touched his chin, squinted his eyes, and looked at the big screen with interest - he hadn't seen such an interesting game for a long time, and he decided to pay close attention to this classmate named "Yu Ke".