"Hello everyone, welcome to watch today's Spirit Card Battle. I am the host - Lu~Dick!"

In the dim bedroom, a child of seven or eight years old was lying on the bed, his eyes fixed on the phantom device in front of him.

In the illusion, accompanied by a burst of powerful music, a man dressed like a bar DJ appeared above the clubhouse in Storm Bay, holding a microphone and riding a mechanical war beast.

The child in the bedroom opened his eyes wide with excitement, propped up his upper body on the mattress with his hands, and subconsciously kicked the mattress with his legs, trying to get closer to the phantom device.

Just then, there was a knock on the door.

"Good boy, it's time to go to bed now!"

"Okay mom, I got it!"

Realizing that he had turned up the volume too loud and attracted his mother, the child rolled off the bed and turned the volume of the Illusion device down to the lowest level.

After doing all this, he took out a card box from the cabinet next to him.

As he watched the silent phantom, the boy pulled out a spirit card from the card box, muttering to himself his own tactics and rehearsing them in comparison with the battle scene in the illusion.

This scene is not an isolated case. If we expand our vision to the entire Khorvaire, similar things actually happen in many families.

As Carl was promoted to level 20 and began to study the psychic hacker's profession of machinist, the Dragonmark Family began to value this partner and intentionally helped promote Carl's many inventions.

Among them, the Spirit Card, as an entertainment game, has gained a large number of fans in one go because of its interesting gameplay and suitable for all ages.

The popularity and economic benefits brought by Spirit Cards began to rise sharply. In order to standardize the competition, after discussion, the Magic Council took the lead in forming the Spirit Card Competition Committee, and based on the proposal of the inventor Carl, special competition venues were set up in various regions.

The qualification for the second Spirit King Tournament will not be issued directly. Players need to travel among the many countries in Khorvaire, defeat the challenge in each country's capital, and collect eight victory badges before they can go to Storm Bay to participate in the final tournament.

This is a plan that Carl developed based on the Pokémon competition process. When it was first proposed, some countries expressed opposition. However, after its implementation, the leaders of various countries found that this competition process brought a lot of traffic and consumption to the local area, and the tax reports were quite impressive.

The Spirit King Competition is scheduled to be held every two years. In three months, the opening ceremony of the second Spirit King Competition will be held.

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Carl's demiplane, the top of the spaceship.

Looking at the sea of ​​clouds ahead, Lisanna stretched her waist and let out a comfortable hum from her nose.

After stretching, she pressed the Walkman on her waist, and a burst of passionate music started playing.

"Huh~, I'll be fighting those guys soon. I wonder if they've improved! Humph! I've gained an epic level of power-up. No one can defeat me again! No one! "

With the exciting background music playing, Lisanna felt as if the depression she felt after losing the championship two years ago had eased a lot.

But just as she was about to turn up the volume, an apple suddenly flew towards her.

However, Lisanna is still a level 10 ranger after all, how could she not be able to dodge such a hidden weapon? "Hey!"

With a slight sigh, she did a somersault and caught the apple in her mouth.

At this time, the figure who threw the apple spoke: "Why are you climbing up here to blow the cold wind so early in the morning?"

The person who came was Carl. He looked not much different from when he killed the Mind Flayer two years ago, but the golden lines on his body had faded a lot.

Seeing Carl, Lisanna touched her hair embarrassedly: "Oh, I'm so excited about fighting against those strong opponents again that I can't sleep!"

Hearing this, Carl looked at his half-sister with some dissatisfaction: "Are you really planning to participate in this year's Spirit King Competition? The inventor's sister is participating in the competition. Even if you really win first place, I'm afraid some people will think that I cheated."

As if she had not expected this possibility, the expression on Lisanna's face froze for a moment.

Holding her chubby little face with her fingers, she nodded seriously and said "trouble" to herself.

But soon, a gleam of light appeared in her eyes.

"Brother~"

Lisanna took two steps at a time and came to Carl's side in a few strides, pulling his sleeve and acting coquettishly.

Carl skillfully pressed Lisanna's head with his other hand and said mercilessly, "I can't help you silence the gossips. And to be honest, judging from your recent games, I think it's hard for you to beat that guy Thum. Tsk, his hairstyle and name mean that he's good at playing cards."

Carl first poured a bucket of cold water on his sister, then he thought of the elf card player and muttered something in a low voice.

But Lisanna still insisted: "No! No! Don't you have that remote-controlled robot doll? When the time comes, we can change our appearances and participate in the competition. You stay in the friends and family seat, and I will definitely not be exposed!"

Whenever there is something urgent that needs to be solved, Lisanna's mind works faster.

If this matter was her own, her brain would be even faster than Nia's.

"If you say so, then let's try it later. But Master was recently invited to visit the old site of Sayre to check out the situation there, so I probably need to prepare another one..."

Before he could finish his words, several more figures appeared here.

"Karl! We're going to compete too!"

The people who came were Mitris and others. As Spirit Card enthusiasts, they also wanted to participate in the competition.

But when they found Carl before, Carl's answer was quite perfunctory, and he was even prepared to send them back to the main plane to compete on his own.

As contestants of the first Spirit King Tournament, Mithras, Elise and even Ashe are all very well-known among Spirit card players. Those audiences who only judge by appearance obviously prefer players with good looks and card skills, so their identities were also exposed as the audience dug deeper.

As Carl's subordinates, they naturally have to face similar situations as Lisanna.

No one wants to be accused of having worked hard to achieve victory through backdoor or behind-the-scenes manipulation, so after everyone’s questioning yielded no results, they temporarily stopped.

Unexpectedly, they had an unexpected gain this morning.

(End of this chapter)