Mysterious Sea
Since she can use the mysterious cards with defensive capabilities, she must also be able to use the attack cards.
Ning Xi desperately needs the ability to protect herself.
If the Mingxin Academy in the Vast Ocean Starfield cannot find such a card, then what about "Wanxiang," which possesses the entire Federation's database?
"All Things" fell silent.
Ning Xi wasn't in a hurry. She leaned against the railing made of special alloy, gazing at the virtual starry sea. Upon closer inspection, she realized that the ethereal and dazzling light wasn't a nebula at all, but rather patterns and arrays of symbols.
"Ning Xi, I've found some cards that meet the requirements."
"Wanxiang" sent her a list of dozens of cards that might meet her requirements.
【Xiaoying War Spear】, an A-grade card, a collectible of high-level families.
【Wings of Growth】, a CA-level card series, a research project of the Church of Life.
...
Ning Xi's forehead twitched as she looked at them: "Do I have a chance to get my hands on these cards?"
"There's a very high chance we won't get it," "Wanxiang" said frankly. "But if we consider availability, then there are no cards that meet the requirements."
"Never mind, it was my oversight." Ning Xi tapped her head, then suddenly remembered something. "Could you help me check a diagram... maybe it's not a diagram?"
"Let me take a look."
Ning Xi showed the pattern transformed from the mysterious card to "Wanxiang," who studied it for a while and said, "No relevant pattern was found in the database."
"However, I think we can look at it from a different perspective. Perhaps it's not a graph, but a kind of code. If we can obtain more samples, perhaps we can decipher it."
Ning Xi pondered, "Perhaps it really is possible."
The Mysterious Card is currently the only card she can obtain that adapts to her mental power. Studying its secrets naturally becomes paramount. With the help of Murong Xixiu (primarily providing ample security), she has used the blocks from the Mysterious Card to construct arrays several times, obtaining dozens of different corresponding structures. After handing this information over to Wanxiang, He quickly provided a report.
“Through cryptography, these structures can be translated into the following information…”
The translation yields another set of card structures, totaling seven, with the rest being combinations of these seven structures formed in different ways. But that's not all; what materials to use to replicate these structures and create effective cards is another question.
At first, Ning Xi thought it was a cryptographic problem and tried to decipher more from the repetitive structures. But she later changed her mind: the answer was hidden in the surface of the riddle.
The material sequence of the mystery cards refers to the materials corresponding to these structures.
After reaching this point, all that remained was repeated trial and error. Leveraging her understanding of card materials science, Ning Xi experimented with several possible combinations and finally created these seven cards.
Like the mysterious cards, they can also accept Ning Xi's mental energy, but they cannot play any role in it.
When Ning Xi infused her mental energy into the cards, they projected new information.
The answer lies in the realm of "Darkness."
This is a domain that cannot be found on the StarNet. However, generally speaking, domains with a unique name are at least C-level.
Ning Xi tried to ask Wan Xiang for information about the "Dark Sky", but he told her that he did not have that authority.
"How can I increase my privileges?"
“I can grant you this access, but there are conditions,” Wanxiang told her. “The essence of the Wanxiang system is a database of card-related information. As long as you keep creating new cards and collecting information related to them, your access level with me will increase. Once it reaches a certain level, I can help you apply for a confidentiality qualification.”
However, she is still far from meeting the confidentiality requirements in terms of her current access level.
The clues to deciphering the mysterious card have once again gone cold.
Fortunately, in the process of creating these cards, Ning Xi gained a deeper understanding of the "Sturdy Card Pattern" within the mysterious cards. She plans to take this opportunity to first publish a paper, and then consider how to utilize this card pattern.
It was already a holiday.
Ning Xi naturally stayed at the academy, but she didn't expect that Zhang Min, Yu Xiangyin, and Naliren wouldn't go home. Only Wang Rengui wanted to go back to show her parents her academic achievements.
The group ate together at school and sometimes trained together.
After Nariren resolved her inner conflict, her strength gradually returned. She even received invitations from other teams, but she declined them all.
“This is the team I chose, and I won’t leave on my own,” Nariren said.
Yu Xiangyin's strength has also increased; his progress is not outstanding, but it has remained very stable.
Through taking on a large number of orders, Ning Xi not only saved up a lot of money, but also solidified her ability to produce C-grade cards.
During this period, Zhang Min rarely spent time with them, but instead studied and worked under Professor Zou Yuan. She hoped to be admitted to his graduate program. Mingxin College had ample funding, so the graduate students received good benefits, which attracted many people from poor families who had dreams of scientific research.
As the holiday was drawing to a close, Zhang Min mysteriously and excitedly told Ning Xi that she had a mysterious weapon that might come in handy in the planetary competition.
And so, the day of the Planet Challenge arrived.
...
The sea, the boundless sea.
The azure waves surged, shimmering like they were sprinkled with gold dust under the sunlight. A strong wind blew, billowing the sails as they sailed into the depths of the sea.
This is the venue for the Planetary Competition, a C-level area called the [Mysterious Sea].
This is a somewhat special area, whose main output is not fighting against aliens, but fishing, and then sending the caught fish to a place in the area called "Ocean Fisheries Company".
This field has been around for many years and has basically stabilized. Every year, the official Sanxing Sanxing organization will organize people to fish. This year, it was even used as a competition venue.
It has to be said that this news came as a huge surprise to all the contestants.
They painstakingly honed their combat skills, only to find out the competition was fishing?
Ning Xi wasn't too surprised.
She had already guessed that this competition would definitely have some tricks up its sleeve, requiring the card makers to be quick-witted and create some new cards.
"It's just making fishing cards, that's not difficult."
There was a dedicated card-making room on the sailboat; the conditions weren't great, but it was functional.
Before this, Zhang Min and Wang Rengui had taken turns fishing for half a day using the fishing rods provided by the organizers, and had made some success.
The fish and exotic beasts in these areas possess energy fields, but these are incomplete, and their attributes are vague. Therefore, they are not very useful as card-making materials and can only be used as E-grade materials with difficulty.
Ning Xi quickly created a [Fishing Card].
It doesn't have any special properties, but it can attract schools of fish.
Wang Rengui took the card. He hadn't caught anything for an hour and was eager to show off his skills. He activated the [Fishing Card], gripped the fishing rod, and soon there was a bite.
"They've taken the bait!"
His face lit up with joy, and he put his strength into his grip, but his hand trembled, and he threw the fish and the rod into the sea.
Nariren, who was on high alert, conjured a steel fork and plunged it into the sea, ending the fish's life.
Be careful.
Wang Rengui lowered her head in shame.
By this time, Zhang Min's bucket was already full of fish. With a gloating smile, she took the fish from Wang Rengui: "These fish aren't that big, how could I let you get rid of them—wait a minute."
She pondered carefully the feelings this fish evoked in her.
"This fish is not right."
"Its level has increased, and it seems to have some kind of attribute. You guys keep fishing for it, I'm going to the card maker."
The newly acquired fish has not only reached the upper-level E rank, but its attributes are also more clearly defined, making it more like a card-making material.
Zhang Min told Ning Xi her guess: "I guess the organizers' intention is less to have us make fishing cards and more to have us use cards to fish."
"Using cards to fish?"
"Do you think it's possible to catch a certain type of fish based on the type of card you use?"
The two made a bunch of cards and then handed over the fishing task to Wang Rengui and Naliren.
These fish-shaped materials are highly malleable and can be mixed with mental energy and card ink base liquid to create different types of card ink, producing cards of vastly different types. Among the pile of E-grade cards they created were weapon cards, item cards, skill cards, and so on, each with a different main attribute.
After throwing them into the sea, they indeed attracted a lot of fish. Nariren immediately wove a fire net and scooped up all the fish. The two card makers inspected them one by one.
"really."
Fish caught with weapon cards are long and sharp, and quite hard; fish caught with recovery item cards look plump and delicious; fish caught with element cards have different colors on their scales, and some elemental crystals have condensed on them.
Ning Xi looked up at her companions and said, "The logic of this competition is to use the fish you catch to make cards, and then use the cards to continue fishing. This cycle continues until the card maker or card master reaches their limit."
"You guys keep fishing, we'll go make the cards."
【how so? 】
Like other matches, this match was monitored and broadcast live by the organizers, and naturally, there were also live comments.
Is this still our Royal Card League? Hasn't this become a competition that completely tests card makers?
[No way. If the card master can't defeat the fish they've caught, then even the strongest card maker is useless.]
[But some strong teams bring card creators who are just average, right? Isn't this tournament format unfair to them?]
That's not necessarily true. After all, the competition doesn't prohibit fighters from battling each other, does it?
"We need a card maker, someone with some skill, not this useless guy."
The scarred, bearded man made his judgment. He glared at the trembling card maker in the corner of the sailboat and uttered a vicious sentence.
"Look for nearby ships, especially those from Mingxin Academy. Their academic card makers are useful in this situation."
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