Card Making: My Card Game Starts with the White Dragon

Just as she was about to make her move, she suddenly heard a familiar voice coming from within the fire ships:

"Stop fighting, I surrender!"

The audience erupted in uproar, and Guo Chen, sitting in the specially invited audience seats, turned green with anger.

Ma Huateng didn't show any emotion about his daughter's failure; on the contrary, he looked all smiles.

Liu Adou's instructor, Hong Wenge, blushed like a boiled shrimp, and stood up angrily:

"Liu Adou, you've got guts, kid!!"

Others were also discussing it:

"What? You're surrendering when you have the upper hand? Is Brother Dou really that carefree?"

"Could it be that Brother Dou's mental energy has been exhausted? He can't sustain it anymore?"

"That's impossible. It hasn't been that long. There's no way he could have exhausted his mental energy by now, right?"

"Brother Dou is rigging the match. A thorough investigation of Brother Dou's phone will definitely reveal large sums of money transferred."

"So, in the end, the talented player still lost to the pay-to-win player?"

"I'd heard about Bean Bro from Class 3 setting up a stall, but I didn't expect it to be like this..."

"It's over, the loser's bracket is about to face its strictest father yet."

But in any case, the match was over, and the referee's voice rang out:

"Ma Ling'er wins!!"

As the victor, Ma Ling'er was practically grinding her teeth to powder.

Ma Ling'er is indeed a businesswoman, but first and foremost, she is a card maker, a rather arrogant and talented card maker.

For her, such a victory was even more humiliating than a defeat.

But the match was over, and Ma Ling'er had no choice but to leave the [Holographic Battlefield].

As Zhou Hao watched Liu Adou being thoroughly berated by "Brother Hong Wen" from the audience, his respect for this opponent increased significantly.

"【Zhuge Kongming】plus 【Soul Imprint】makes this card's intelligence a bit too overpowered, especially after being replaced, it even has the ability to fight across ranks."

Is this a skill or trait? Or a talent? Did Liu Adou really surrender because he was giving up?

Or was the burden of this state simply too heavy for him to bear, so that he could only sustain it for such a short time?

Based on Liu Adou's behavior when she sat next to him last time, Zhou Hao silently deduced the information about this method and how to deal with it.

There was no way around it; as someone who had thoroughly read Romance of the Three Kingdoms, he knew all too well just how powerful Zhuge Liang was in the Three Kingdoms period.

The spinning straw figure clearly has elements of the "borrowing arrows with straw boats" story, but in real history, Zhuge Liang did not do this.

In other words, the Zhuge Liang depicted on Liu Adou's cards is based on the novel "Romance of the Three Kingdoms," and belongs to the version that is not a deity but close to one.

In addition, there is the [Divine Power: Scattering Beans to Create Soldiers], which Zhou Hao cannot afford to ignore.

On the other side, Xiao Huohuo in the audience of Class Two still had that icy, sour face, and it was unclear what he was thinking.

Silver Wolf, however, in the specially invited audience seats, actually put away his game console and stared intently at Zhou Hao, looking quite interested.

This left Zhou Hao somewhat bewildered. Ma Ling'er and Liu Adou had just finished their fight, so why was she staring at him, a mere spectator, instead of watching them?

But Silver Wolf's attention didn't last long, and he soon went back to playing the game.

The following battles were all between weaklings, and Zhou Hao lost interest in watching them, so he left the venue.

……

The next day, the weather was fine and sunny, with not a cloud in the sky.

Because the draws for the winners' bracket and the losers' bracket were separate, Zhou Hao's queue was shorter today, and this time Zhou Hao was not drawn in advance.

"Next up, Zhou Hao!!"

When everyone saw that it was finally Zhou Hao's turn to draw lots, they all prayed that they wouldn't be the ones to be drawn.

There's no way around it; judging from Ma Ling'er and Liu Adou's performance in yesterday's battle, the combat power of T0-level freshmen is overwhelmingly superior to that of ordinary freshmen.

Even the T1-level freshmen who possess the [Legion Card] are far from being their match.

Most students, when faced with Zhou Hao, the top-ranked freshman in the T0 class, would tacitly surrender and prepare directly for the loser's bracket.

Zhou Hao was also helpless. It seemed that unless he drew someone like Xiao Huohuo or Ma Ling'er, he would really have a hard time having a chance to show his skills.

He was reaching into the cardboard box when he suddenly felt a piece of paper fly straight into his hand.

"What's going on? Is this some kind of shady deal?"

Zhou Hao was puzzled when, out of the corner of his eye, he spotted the silver-haired, ponytail-wearing girl who had sat next to Ma Huateng in the VIP section yesterday standing not far away.

A clear, unfamiliar female voice rang in Zhou Hao's mind: "If you don't want a boring match, take out the note and take a look."

Zhou Hao looked at the girl with some skepticism, then took out the note.

The next second, the host shouted exaggeratedly:

"Fifth group! Zhou Hao, Xiao Huohuo!!"

Zhou Hao looked at the silver-haired girl with a ponytail in disbelief, but she winked at him playfully.

"My name is Silver Wolf, you're welcome."

……

"Cheating? Is nobody doing anything about it?"

Zhou Hao didn't believe that the other important figures hadn't noticed, but perhaps they all wanted to see the clash between the top two freshmen? So they just let Silver Wolf run wild?

"That's fine, it suits my needs just fine. But what exactly is this silver wolf's ability?"

"It seems to be telekinesis, but if you can see the contents of the folded note through the cardboard box, it's definitely not just telekinesis."

"Fortune telling? No, that's not right. Her tone is more like she told me to draw Xiao Huohuo, rather than that she predicted I would draw that."

"What could it be?"

Zhou Hao considered many possibilities, but he could never be certain.

While Zhou Hao was pondering the Silver Wolf's skills, the match had already begun.

The first group is a clash between two T1-level freshmen, Zhang Yaoyang and Dugu Baisui.

These two are among the top in the T1 level, and their matches are always very exciting; they're practically old rivals.

During the knockout stage, Dugu Baisui was knocked into the loser's bracket by Zhang Yaoyang. Although he underestimated his opponent, he was indeed lacking in strength.

Although the process was somewhat tortuous, Dugu Baisui was still sent to the loser's bracket.

The second group was a competition between Xu Miaomiao and a rare student from Class 3 who didn't give up.

Xu Miaomiao also advanced to the intermediate card maker level and made a Legion card, but she didn't make a Field card.

The final result was that Xu Miaomiao, who made rapid progress, won the match, and the students from Class 3 went directly to meet Liu Adou in the loser's bracket.

The third group is Ma Ling'er, who is very hot-tempered, spinning a top. The top is none other than Zhao Lei, who is thick-skinned and tough.

So, one got his kicks, and the other got his pleasure.

The fourth group also included familiar faces. Although her old classmate Liu Ruyan had fought her way through the knockout stage, she struggled to keep up in the ranking matches and was thus relegated to the loser's bracket.

But none of this could arouse Zhou Hao's interest; the gap between them and Zhou Hao was too great.

Just when Zhou Hao was getting sleepy, he finally encountered an opponent who wouldn't surrender:

"Next up, please welcome the fifth group of contestants, Zhou Hao and Xiao Huohuo!!"

With the host's shout, the highly anticipated battle finally began.

……