Seeing that the old druid who had once taught her was interested in this thing, Joanna placed two Spirit Cards from her deck on the table and summoned the spirits from them.

They were two wildebeests that exuded a sacred aura, with a spiral horn on their foreheads, looking vaguely like unicorns.

Joanna equipped one of the wildebeest spirits with a multi-attack card, which enabled it to successfully defeat its opponent and gain its energy, evolving into a form that was pure white and closer to a real unicorn.

This strange "game" was something Rayleigh had never seen before, but he inexplicably developed a liking for the rules of the game.

"The strong devour the weak, the fittest survive, natural selection prevails."

Rayleigh said this as he looked at the wildebeest spirit becoming stronger.

At the same time, this sentence is also the principle that the Son of Winter has always followed.

Joanna frowned slightly, but still retorted:

“This Wildebeest Spirit won because I used an equipment card on it, not because it is inherently strong.

What I am showing you now is just the most basic gameplay. If you want to play this game well, you need to match various equipment cards, and even use weak spirit cards to assist the ace cards in battle!"

What I mean is that you should not relate everything to the Creed of the Son of Winter.

With his gray eyebrows slightly curved, Rayleigh did not yell at Joanna like his radical colleagues, but pointed at the spirit card on the table and asked: "Would you like to play a game with me? Compared to a simple explanation, I feel that actually playing a game can help me understand the gameplay faster.

Come to think of it, you seem to have some misunderstandings about me. I believe that wisdom and tools are also part of strength. I even went to Carl to make prosthetic limbs that druids can use. "

Although Joanna had no idea why Rayleigh suddenly became interested in this card game, she still took out another pack of cards from the drawer and handed it to the old druid opposite.

These decks of cards of hers are actually the spare decks replaced by her cousin Kasha.

Compared to Joanna, who was busy with government affairs all day, Kasha, as the security captain of the city hall, had plenty of time to learn about and play with Spirit Cards, so he inevitably became addicted to them.

If he hadn't been on duty at the City Hall, he might have been like those adventurers, running into the wilderness of the adventure zone to hunt powerful monsters and extract their materials to condense a powerful spirit.

Soon, after introducing more rules of Spirit Cards to Rayleigh, the old and the young started their first game.

This game lasted a very short time, and Joanna defeated Rayleigh with good operations.

In the second game, Rayleigh had almost figured out the rules, so he began to learn from Joanna to accumulate spirits. Unfortunately, Joanna eventually evolved the wildebeest spirit into a real unicorn.

With one charge, those ordinary spirits were quickly killed or wounded.

At the beginning of the third game, the two were caught in a stalemate. Rayleigh continued to reduce the number of Joanna's spirits on the field, and his own spirit was also severely damaged.

The two were thinking about the next strategy for the game when they suddenly heard hurried footsteps outside.

Joanna, who was still a child, subconsciously wanted to cover up the fact that she was slacking off, but Reilly, an adult, was addicted to playing cards and stopped Joanna from ruining the game.

Just then, Joanna's office door was opened from the outside.

Viscount Lando, dressed in a gorgeous robe and exuding the aura of a fighting cock, rushed in from outside. The guard who had just guided Rayleigh to the office was still trying to drag him out.

Shaking his sleeves, Lando pushed the guard away, walked into the office, and closed the door.

Although he did want to humiliate Joanna, he felt that the struggle between nobles should not be seen by the peasants, otherwise it would be disgraceful.

He was about to teach Joanna a lesson, but just as Lando was about to continue, Rayleigh, who had just been concentrating on studying the card game, suddenly raised his head.

His originally gentle face now had some of the wildness unique to the Son of Winter. It was obviously the same face, but at this moment, Rayleigh looked more in line with the outside world's evaluation of the Son of Winter Druid.

Lando's heart skipped a beat, and his legs seemed to have lost the ability to support his body, and he almost fell down.

At this moment, Rayleigh reminded him of the feeling he had felt from a captain of the palace guards when he met Queen Aundair once.

He was considered to be eloquent, but now it seemed as if an invisible force was strangling his throat. His mouth was open, but he could not say anything.

Finally, Joanna couldn't stand it any longer and stepped forward to ask, "Viscount Lando, what are you doing here?"

With this question, Lando felt as if he had just woken up from a sleep paralysis nightmare.

He swallowed dryly and said in a hoarse voice, "I hope you can dispatch some adventurers to escort me and other noble children back to Khorvaire. Almost all of those guys ran out to hunt monsters. There are not enough people in Storm Bay."

Hearing the other party's request, Joanna subconsciously glanced at Rayleigh.

In terms of purpose, the two of them are actually in the same group.

After thinking quickly for a moment, Joanna sighed and said, "I'm sorry, I can't do this. The most I can do is to inform the adventurers not to go to certain areas, or issue corresponding tasks, but I can't directly order them to accept your employment."

After a pause, she continued, "In fact, you can hire the Guardian Dragonmark Family and the Storm Dragonmark Family to take you back. I remember that someone from their family seems to be going back recently. You can spend less money to achieve the same goal, but they probably won't go with you after you arrive in Sharn."

Lando opened his mouth and wanted to struggle, but the aura emanating from Rayleigh made him feel quite uneasy, and in the end he could only walk away.

After dealing with this trouble, Joanna turned around and prepared to continue the card game, but she heard Rayleigh say, "You cheated, didn't you?"

Upon hearing this, Joanna's body stiffened and she subconsciously glanced to the side.

"No, no!"

Strictly speaking, she did not cheat, she just gave a weaker deck to Rayleigh to use.

"Hahahaha, the spirits in my deck are weaker than the spirits in your deck both in terms of initial strength and after evolution. Hmm, this game is really interesting. Where can I buy this?"

After laughing a few times, Rayleigh did not bother about the obstacles that Joanna, the little girl, had set for him. Instead, he stood up and asked her about the sales point of the Spirit Card.

"They sell it at the Afterlife Bar in the underground city..."

Before Joanna could finish her words, Rayleigh turned into white mist and flew away from the window.

But soon, the white mist floated back to the window.

"Remember to restrain those adventurers and tell them not to hunt the beasts in one place. Although we, the Children of Winter, believe in the survival of the fittest, that is only our understanding of the laws of nature. Maintaining the balance of the natural ecology is still our responsibility, and we have never forgotten that we are still druids!"

After saying that, the white mist quickly left and disappeared in the distance.

(End of this chapter)