Elemental Card King.

Chapter 188 The Preliminaries Arrive, The Group of Death

"Look, everyone!"

"New combat equipment."

In the Martial Arts Hall, in side hall number three.

Xiao Ling seemed to have acquired a new toy, holding the pocket watch-shaped drive mechanism in her hands and cheering excitedly as she shared it with her friends.

The Water Snake Woman and the Golden Tiger Woman applauded appropriately.

After carefully taking over, the bear woman looked tense, as if she was afraid of breaking it.

The wolf girl opened her mouth slightly, her face full of curiosity as she gently touched the toy with her right index finger.

The slow-witted Forest Deer Girl looked around and then obediently clapped her hands.

Three days have passed since Su Chen mastered the new D-level drive weapon 'Xuanlingzhe'. After successfully pushing the compatibility to over 100%, he handed the drive unit over to Xiaoling and let her figure it out and try it out.

Unsurprisingly, under the special spiritual attribute, the little spirit, which already possesses a significant increase in spirituality, can steadily maintain a compatibility value of over 99.9% after wearing the Xuanling Armor.

“It looks good, doesn’t it?”

Xiao Ling stood with her hands on her hips, looking smug.

Currently, among the training tasks that Su Chen has arranged for the little guy is to make good use of another secret method, 'Five Elements Evolution', so that its elemental sisters can cooperate more and more tacitly.

I have to say that
Currently, the elemental materials obtained from the decomposition of the colorless divine card are directly fed to 'Five Elements Evolution'. With the continuous breakthrough, the clone's duration has been extended to 3 minutes and 20 seconds.

This also includes monthly contributions from the relief foundation.

是 的
After a brief suspension and subsequent resumption, Su Chen, having won the national championship, undoubtedly raised his personal quota to 2500 points.

After communicating with Aunt Jing, he continued to use it.

As for the space-related materials obtained from dismantling four-star beast spirit cards and exchanging them, they have generally been enhanced for the new space skills 'Dimensional Prison' and 'Space Blade'.

The former refers to a silver warrior with the strength of a five-star purple warrior, whose control can last up to 1 second.

The latter's spatial blade burst forth for 1.5 seconds, and the incredibly sharp cutting waves extended further outward.

The last third of the spiritual materials were partly allocated to 'Golden Source Absorption' to enhance its spiritual growth, and partly fed into the new spiritual skills 'Damage Transfer' and 'Effect Exchange'.

of course.

It would be confusing to exchange a large number of material cards from the Foundation, so Su Chen exchanged a large amount of magical metal resources that had been rising in price recently, and fed them all to the Radiant Gold Spirit Envoy.

Under the devouring effect of 'Golden Source Absorption', the offensive and defensive attributes of the metal form, metal manipulation power, and spirituality that benefit all forms are permanently amplified.

"Jinrang Lingji, who is known as the strongest defensive tank, is probably ridiculously strong." This was Su Chen's conclusion.

If it weren't for the fact that devouring and transformation takes time and has a certain marginal effect, this infinitely growing skill would be practically invincible.

the end of April.

On this day, Su Chen finally bestowed the Dark Demon Seed in his hand upon the Night Spirit Envoy.

The three special effects of the Dark attribute have also been unlocked.

First, apply attack and defense attenuation upon hit.

Second, DoT damage.

Third, the theft of vitality.

As a result, following the 'Dancing Demoness' with its intertwined wind and thunder, another pair of unique light and dark dual-attribute forms, 'Ghostly Enchantress', also received an epic upgrade.

At the end of this month, two major events came from the outside world.

To distinguish itself from the newly established expeditionary force, the original plane exploration legion, now renamed the 'Divine Court Expeditionary Force,' launched attacks on multiple fronts across the outer realms, successfully capturing over 50 demonic beings and taking 16 more captives.

Unfortunately, the large-scale magical devices involved were destroyed beforehand.

Fortunately, one of their prisoners was a ritual master responsible for inscribing the formations.

This was given extensive coverage by official broadcasts and media, seemingly to dispel the panic and gloom in the public's heart.

Regardless of whether it's even possible, the promise of 'reverse engineering technology' has already been made.

However, those who are interested know that even humans cannot fully understand the scientific principles behind the space city floating above the bald head.

On the last day of April, a devastating blow was indeed delivered to humanity.

Cities in several superpowers, including Xuanhuang Kingdom, Shenying Kingdom, Lindong Kingdom, and Guanghui Kingdom, were subjected to unimaginable terror and intimidation. More than thirty cities of all sizes across the country were forced to shut down their power at the same time.

The power outage was very brief, and in large cities only some small districts were affected.

I do not seek to kill.

We do not seek meaningless terrorist attacks.

This unidentified display of fireworks has been interpreted by some as a prank orchestrated by an anti-alliance organization.

Some people say it was done by foreigners.

of course.

Some media outlets even interpreted it as a small punishment by the demonic race, indicating that they were lurking nearby.

Those who firmly believe in this are even going so far as to exonerate the demon race online, chanting slogans like "Reject war, universal harmony."

And that very night.

A chilling piece of news has emerged: according to the imaginative interpretation of an ancient mythologist, more than thirty cities from west to east can be outlined as a very abstract ancient linear script.

It means 'watching you'!
No sleep tonight.

According to the initial investigation report released by the New Alliance, the power outage interference was indeed caused by an unidentified magical device originating from the Demon race.

None of the city's creators were arrested. These unsuspecting human compatriots were simply completing a mission; all they knew was to press the flashlight-shaped magic button inside a package.

"what does it mean?"

On the first day of May, in the Wu King's residence, Cao, the replicant who got up early in the morning, was full of complaints after finishing browsing the news on his phone.

"Damn it, is this dog demon trying to scare us?"

According to experts, the Demon Race's weak countermeasure seems to be trying to illustrate two points.

First, the alliance's territory was infiltrated by them several years ago, and there are still lurking figures somewhere.

They are ordinary people, perhaps deliverymen or ride-hailing drivers.

Second, don't you humans like reverse engineering? We're sending you these easily destroyed little magical toys to scare you, as if we're indirectly proving that our technology is a cut above yours.

Furthermore, if the mythologists' speculation is true, then the demons must have a deep understanding of human civilization.

"Asshole!"

Cao Zheng grew increasingly angry as he looked at it and began to grumble.

Qi Hanhai, standing to the side, didn't pay attention to the other person immediately, but instead silently pushed his own luggage.

Today is their departure day, arriving in the 'Land of Water', Florence, to prepare for their first round of the qualifying tournament.

"Hey, don't you guys care about the world situation at all?"

Cao Zheng watched as the group focused solely on unpacking their luggage, and finding no common ground to discuss, he grew rather sullen. "Do you know about the Lagrange point star ring? Humanity hasn't fully grasped the scientific principles behind its construction; it's purely a product of precision engineering."

"in addition."

"Do you know why civilian robots haven't been allowed to operate in recent years? It's because we humans know how to use some technologies, but not why. There's also a theory that when humans easily conquered the mechanical dimension of 'Jizhu', it was because a mechanical crisis broke out there."

"Therefore, after realizing the terror of artificial intelligence, it was forbidden to fully promote it to the general public."

Cao Zheng, seemingly enjoying himself immensely, chattered on and on like a chatterbox.

"You should pack your bags."

Tang Nianwei finally couldn't take it anymore and rolled her eyes: "What the demons do is none of our business. The most important task now is the upcoming competition, you know? Do you want to be eliminated in the first round of the qualifiers?"

In this regard.

Amidst the laughter of some teachers, Cao Zheng, who was completely ignored, ran off to his room like a dejected rooster.

five minutes later.

A group of people began to arrive one after another at the stone tablet and statue of King Wu's residence.

Vice President Yao Yi himself also accompanied them on the trip.

He seemed to have overheard some rumors circulating within the team, and looked at Cao Zheng, who had been looking worried, with a hint of a smile.

Yao Yi said, "The league situation is indeed not our concern. Our priority right now is to get out of the group of death in the first round of the team competition."

Before they even arrived in the Land of Water, the results of the group draw had already been announced.

Unfortunately, Pei Xingwei earned the nickname "jinx".

They were placed in a group of death in the first round.

"54 countries participated in the preliminary rounds on the Pangu Continent, and only one-third of the teams were able to enter the second stage of the preliminary rounds to continue the selection process with the winners from the other two continents."

The first round of rules divided the 54 countries into 9 groups of 6 countries each.

Each group plays a single round-robin tournament, meaning each country's team plays one match against each of the other five teams.

"Same as always, 3 points for a win, 1 point for a draw, and 0 points for a loss."

"The scary thing is that only the top two teams in each group can advance to the next round."

"And we were indeed drawn into the same group as Florence. Theoretically, with the advantage of being the host country, their number of wins would be enormous, and they would have a high probability of advancing."

"Then next, we will have to compete with four other strong countries."

The Pangu Continent is undoubtedly a monster's lair.

Based on historical performance, the other four national teams in the same group have all won the team championship in world competitions, boasting a very glorious and illustrious history.

of course.

Some achievements are undoubtedly too far in the past to be authoritative or convincing. The most important indicator is undoubtedly the overall strength over the past decade, which serves as the best horizontal reference.

Yao Yi said, "In the past ten years, our Xuanhuang Kingdom has not won a championship in the team competition. The only individual championship was won by Jiang Ran herself."

Jiang Ran's reputation is undoubtedly highly praised among the younger generation in the country.

Born into a military family, she possesses the second-ranked talent on the talent list: 'Disorderly Fission'.

With endorsements from high-ranking military officials, the reason is simple: 'One man's firepower is equivalent to that of an entire division.'

Cao Zheng clicked his tongue: "So, you mean even she can't carry her incompetent teammates to victory?"

Yao Yi stroked his goatee and nodded with a smile, saying, "We were indeed the runners-up in the team competition back then."

"I'm afraid history will repeat itself." Pei Xingwei glanced at Su Chen and sighed inexplicably.

They had previously conducted some targeted team cooperation exercises in aquatic environments, but to be honest, they were not very successful, and the order of their moves was somewhat disordered.

For example, when attacking the same target, if many people attack together, the firepower is completely excessive, and the damage is completely wasted and unnecessary.

But this is precisely the downside of the "cleaver team".

There are too many output cores.

This reminded Pei Xingwei of the group of elemental sisters derived from the five elements of the Demon Spirit Puppet. Although these elemental clones' attacks were chaotic, with the assistance of the five elements' bond effect, they could form a continuous and mutually reinforcing effect.

But they didn't.

It would be great if we had dedicated assistance.

When Pei Xingwei inquired privately, he learned that Xuanhuang Kingdom did not have any outstanding support players on its national competition roster that year. Players who were ranked too low were forcibly promoted and were simply not capable of participating in such high-intensity team battles.

Nowadays, they can't ask their team members to change their playstyle or force them to use support cards with poor synergy.

As for Gao Jun, the Judge who can ban other people's cards, he can only be used by the team as a half-support player to make a move in the second wave.

"Please, stop talking so much." Tang Nianwei was also getting fed up with Pei Xingwei. His jinx had already come true before, and if it happened again, they would be eliminated in the first round of the qualifiers.

"If you ask me, we should keep criticizing this damn competition system. Why should we play with a bunch of people from the Pangu Continent? Those powerful nations from other dimensions are enjoying a very comfortable matchmaking system."

Cao Zheng, the copyist, then steered the conversation toward the competition format.

"Everyone be quiet."

At this moment, Lin, the deputy leader of the Card Advanced Education Group, stood up and spoke.

Judging from his appearance alone, this middle-aged man with deep nasolabial folds looks very serious and old-fashioned.

After a month of contact.

Everyone realized that Vice President Yao Yi appeared peaceful and friendly, while this second-in-command of the guidance team was undoubtedly very strict, and many members of the team inevitably received some advice from him.

"Looking at our overall performance over the past decade, we have won two runner-up titles in the team competition, one third place, one fourth place, and two quarterfinals. In terms of the overall weight of the team competition alone, we can be ranked among the top five in the entire league."

"This year, we have already invested a huge amount of resources compared to the previous six years, and this amount is expected to be even more in the future. Therefore, we must aim for the top two in the team competition this year. Similarly, Su Chen, you must strive for the championship in the individual competition!"

"Does everyone understand?"

The voice just fell.

Some people looked at each other, and finally nodded in response after some hesitation.

In a sense, this demand does put upward pressure on the government.

"understand!"

The group responded in response.

Cao Zheng cursed inwardly, thinking, "They really are a perfect match, one playing the bad cop and the other the good cop."

If he remembers correctly, Xuanhuang Kingdom was eliminated in the third round of the qualifiers last year.

In the past decade, there seems to be one instance where a team was surprisingly eliminated in the first round.

Furthermore, one point that has been overlooked is that this year's team wasn't just boosted by Xuanhuang Kingdom; it can be said that all other countries have provided exceptional treatment to this team.

At last.

Hey!
Why should Su Chen be expected to compete for first place in the world championship, while the rest of them are only aiming for the top two in the team competition? Doesn't this wording seem to be looking down on them?

(End of this chapter)