Card Maker – A profession that uses magic rune pens as tools and original cards as materials to create cards for combat, defense, healing, and even selling cards.
The biggest advantage of cards is that once created, they can be stored and used when necessary, and the user is not required to be the creator.
This is precisely why people are so eager to become card makers. These are essential items for home, travel, and even robbery! Compared to them, energy weapons and mechs, which are restricted everywhere, are utterly pathetic!
However, the demanding requirements of the profession also made the cards rare and coveted items circulating among the upper class.
To become a card maker, one must first have a mental strength of at least A grade, and that mental strength must be sufficiently gentle.
The Federation classifies mental strength and physical constitution from the lowest level F, up to E, D, C, B, A, S, SS, and the highest level SSS.
Grade A is the dividing line between strong and weak, and also the starting point for card makers.
Generally speaking, a person's mental strength and physical constitution develop in tandem. However, once mental strength reaches level A, attribute awakening occurs, granting the person mental attributes such as blocking, concealment, detection, or water, fire, and wind, giving them an advantage over ordinary people in a certain aspect.
There are only a few exceptions. Although they awaken their attributes when they reach Rank A, their mental attributes are mild enough that they have little impact on card creation.
These people then meet the requirements to become card makers.
But such people are quite rare.
It has been estimated that if all of humanity were divided into groups, 1,000 groups would be able to reach level A, but only one person would actually possess the qualifications of a card maker.
Judging from this ratio, you can imagine how precious the card maker is.
Some might ask, isn't mental power attributeless before A-rank? Please refer to the historical pioneers who attempted to create cards with less than A-rank power and suffered brain death. Creating even basic cards requires A-rank mental power!
Lian Han is one of those with the talent of a card maker, and he was fortunate enough to be bound to the card system, possessing a complete card maker legacy...
At this moment, Lian Han stared intently at the original card on the table, holding a magic pen in one hand, carefully drawing patterns to prevent mistakes that could lead to failure.
In his spiritual sea of consciousness, Old Man Xing watched the process, and his expression finally became serious. This girl was simply a born card maker—even after seeing her so many times, he still couldn't help but sigh.
Aside from the explicitly defined card maker ranks, even among card makers of the same rank, there are differences in skill level, depending on the degree of control over mental energy.
To give an example, with equal mental strength, using the same thoughts to control the same commands, the other person can easily lift the cup, while you can crush it. This is a matter of the degree of control over mental strength.
Moreover, this is something that is innate and cannot be improved later, at least not at the Federation's current level.
Therefore, the Card Making Guild divides the degree of control that mental power users have over their mental power into ten levels, from 1% to 100%. Only those who reach 40%, or level four or above, will be valued by the guild and treated as key personnel for training.
However, even a self-taught card maker like Han was unaware of these things, and naturally had never tested them. But Old Man Xing guessed that her level of control was at least 80%.
This talent, if it were in a noble family, would definitely be nurtured with the utmost care! It's a pity that Lian Han is just a commoner, but fortunately she is a commoner, only needing to worry about making a living and pursuing her studies.
“It’s done.” Lian Han put down his pen and picked up the card that had turned ice blue.
[System, measurement.]
This is another benefit of the system: determining card levels allows Lian Han to create cards without having to go to a dedicated studio; he can do so even in his bedroom.
[Card Evaluation: Basic Elemental Card]
Attribute: Ice
Effect: Freeze
Energy state: stable
Durability: 23]
The basic element card represents the card's level and type; ice is the card's attribute; the effect is the energy form after using the card, i.e., freezing the object; stable energy indicates that the card was successfully made, is not easy to explode, and can be stored for a long time; and the final durability represents the number of times the card can be used, 23 means it can be used 23 times, after which it will be directly destroyed.
She is now proficient in drawing element-type cards.
[Not bad, not bad, this quality is quite good. But Xiaohan, weren't you going to study that intermediate book?]
The initial joy that had just risen in Lian Han's heart vanished instantly. [I'll just practice some more! Calm down.]
[Yeah? ]
Lian Han: ...The old man is still so annoying. She wasn't worried about her grades at all! Absolutely not!
What an eccentric child. Old Xing thought to himself.
...
As it turned out, Lian Han's worries were unnecessary. The day after the unified exam results were released, she received an acceptance letter from the capital city. It was the school she had been longing for.
Although the girl didn't show her joy too obviously, you could tell from the fact that Xingye's meals were much better that day that she was in a good mood.
"Going to the capital so early?" Old Xing asked, looking at the starship ticket the girl had booked. "It's only July, and university starts in September!"
[Let's go check out the capital city first. I'm alone anyway, and who knows, I might settle down there someday?]
"She makes it sound so real, I almost believed her," someone thought to themselves. Given Lian Han's usual shrewdness, if she really thought that way, she would have already put the house up for sale online, right? A two-story house, even in the suburbs, wouldn't be cheap with these safety measures alone.
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