Card Making: My Card Game Starts with the White Dragon

Zhou Hao felt a little embarrassed and quickly cried out in his mind to be gentler.

"As expected of the premature baby in the original work, he doesn't even know how to control his power very well."

While Zhou Hao was pondering this, the young lady who had previously greeted him had finished making a phone call with a livid expression.

In the end, she still let [Gourd Boy] lie down in the [Card Potential Testing Chamber].

At this moment, Zhou Hao had become the focus of attention, and everyone kept glancing at the overhead screen in Zhou Hao's direction.

Ma Ling'er finally couldn't hold back any longer and stepped forward to ask, "Is this a new card you made?"

Zhou Hao nodded: "I haven't been doing this for long, so I'm not very familiar with it yet."

Ma Ling'er asked in great surprise, "Making cards continuously? Aren't you afraid of exhausting your mental energy?"

Zhou Hao was a little confused. What the heck? It's even getting limp?

Seeing that Zhou Hao seemed genuinely unaware, Ma Ling'er asked:

"When you created this card, were you attacked by the phantoms of the material cards?"

Zhou Hao was startled.

The miracle doctor, he's never told anyone about this.

Seeing that Zhou Hao didn't speak, Ma Ling'er knew she had guessed correctly.

"If a card maker creates cards continuously in a short period of time, his mental strength will decrease."

"During card creation, the mental space becomes insufficiently solid, making it unable to suppress the extraordinary substances within the material cards."

She then added, "In the card-making process, this manifests as the phantom of the material cards attacking you in your mental space."

Only then did Zhou Hao understand the cause and effect of being attacked by the phantom material card when he was making the [Gourd Brothers].

Zhou Hao was silent for a moment before asking, "So, I might be killed by those material card phantoms?"

Ma Ling'er shook her head; she was now completely certain that this was a commoner card maker with absolutely no knowledge of card making.

"No, those material phantoms will at most damage your mental space and reduce your total mental power, which means your card maker level will regress."

A strange thought suddenly popped into Zhou Hao's head: "Why does this feel so much like the equipment enhancement system in a certain game that starts with the character '地'?"

But in any case, Ma Ling'er has solved a problem that has puzzled Zhou Hao for a long time.

"Thank you for your explanation. I won't charge you for this match."

Ma Ling'er waved her hands repeatedly: "No need, the price has been agreed upon, the deal is done. But I'd like to test my skills with this newly made card of yours."

Zhou Hao recalled the huge heavy sword that Ma Ling'er had been leaning on earlier and realized that it must be Mulan's weapon.

"It looks like it's a card that mainly uses physical attacks. I'll just have to test the strength of [Gourd Brothers]."

With that in mind, Zhou Hao readily agreed.

At this moment, the surrounding discussion gradually grew louder.

"Is there something wrong with that card that smashed the floor?"

"Yeah, it's been fifteen minutes already, and they still haven't detected anything. Could there be something wrong with the card?"

"If there's a problem, there should be a red light or alarm. What's going on if there's been no movement after we went in?"

Zhou Hao also felt that it was indeed taking a long time; Ma Ling'er's cards had only taken a little over a minute to finish earlier.

However, after [Gourd Boy] entered, he saw the [Card Potential Testing Chamber] whirring and running, but no test report could be found.

"Could it be some unparalleled genius who just blows the machine up?"

The moment the voice was uttered, it was met with a barrage of ridicule.

"That scared me to death! How talented must someone be? Hahahaha!"

"Dude, you're really good at humor. This is funnier than stand-up comedy, hahaha."

After the laughter subsided, someone explained:

"Brother, we're not laughing at you, it's just that your statement is so amateurish."

These "card potential testing chambers" were once able to test even the main battle cards of banned card makers.

Otherwise, why do you think Tencent could get government permission to promote its technology nationwide?

The student who had previously been hailed as a genius was ridiculed and fell silent.

The surrounding chatter grew louder, and words like cheating, evil magic, and secret arts appeared more and more frequently.

The noise subsided a bit after staff asked them to be quiet.

Zhou Hao was still pondering the issue of mental fatigue that Ma Ling'er had just mentioned.

He knew perfectly well that the Calabash Brothers were genuine Summoning Cards.

Therefore, he is not worried that he will be blocked by reasons such as cheating or evil magic.

His biggest worry right now is how much money he'll have to pay in compensation.

Zhou Hao just checked and found that the gymnasium floor is made of Golden Ironwood from Iron Bone Peak in the [Ailao Mountain] secret realm.

This type of wood is impervious to water and fire, extremely hard, and possesses a certain degree of toughness, capable of withstanding attacks from [Leader-level] (purple) demonic beasts.

Even some [Overlord-level] (orange) monsters that are not known for their physical attacks may not be able to destroy it in a short time.

Because it is difficult to collect, it can be called the gold of wood. With such a big damage, it will probably cost 200,000 yuan to compensate.

Zhou Hao silently calculated the compensation, his heart breaking:

"Yesterday, the dorm computer cost 20,000 yuan to repair, and Jin Tiemu cost 200,000 yuan. If we have to pay for this [Card Potential Testing Pod] as well..."

Zhou Hao dared not think about it anymore; he felt that his life was bleak.

He summoned twice, and each time he got a lot of gold coins, more each time than the last. This time he couldn't even afford to lose any more.

This isn't "Gourd Brothers in Armor," this is clearly "Gourd Brothers in Penniless Form"!! We'll give you a complete refund!!

However, just as Zhou Hao was worried that he was about to go bankrupt, the green light that indicated the test was complete finally lit up.

Zhou Hao breathed a sigh of relief, but strangely, the green light came on, but the hatch did not open.

But at that moment, no one paid attention to such details; almost everyone's eyes were fixed on the large screen on the roof.

"This [Gourd Brother] is pretty strong. His [Strength], [Health], and [Agility] are all A+, but it's a pity that his [Spirit] is only C-. Otherwise, I feel that Zhou Hao would definitely be this year's Rookie of the Year."

"Wait, what's wrong with the [Defense] section? Is the screen broken over there? Why is it overflowing?"

"Holy crap, it's still growing? The [Defense] bar is practically overflowing the edge of the screen!!"

Zhou Hao watched helplessly as the data in one corner of the five-dimensional graph remained unstable.

It kept going up and down, making the screen flicker.

"Hold on!! Test chamber!!"

Zhou Hao clenched his fists tightly, his eyes fixed on the flickering screen.

The defense section of the five-dimensional graph finally reached the edge of the screen.

The corner of that graphic seemed to be trying very hard to break out of the screen, but it was firmly contained within the frame.

The screen flickered more and more violently, and even began to show radio wave stripes.

Everyone in the venue fell silent. Ma Ling'er stared blankly at the increasingly blurry screen, her mouth agape, wide enough to fit an egg.

"Bang!!"

"Beep—beep—beep!!"

With a loud bang, the smoke detectors on the top of the stadium went off incessantly, and the red lights flashed wildly.

The hatch of the [Card Potential Testing Chamber] shot straight up to the roof and then crashed back down onto the stadium with a loud bang.

The entire [Card Potential Testing Chamber] disintegrated, and thick smoke enveloped the scene.

Zhou Hao looked at the [Gourd Boy] slowly emerging from the smoke and smiled with relief.

At this point, Boss Zhou's anxiety finally subsided.

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