In another world, Lu Mingfei is learning card making.

After the math tutoring class at noon, Lu Mingfei did not go back to his room to sleep with Rong En. Instead, he sat on the sofa, thinking about what had happened that morning.

If it's just simple Arabic numerals, it can only mean that someone in the House of Nobles is a time traveler—or it's even possible that it's not that he himself is a time traveler, but that someone in his noble family is a time traveler.

This has been documented in novels before. The current trend in the Earth's novel market is to depict a love triangle between a group of women and a man, or a strange, extraordinary person from the streets with unique skills. To avoid suspicion, these novels are often set in an alternate world.

Whether it's a chaotic battlefield or a bizarre tale of ordinary people, the transmigrators who are the main characters will not be stingy with a small Arabic numeral.

However, if we consider this in conjunction with the "devil" on Earth who uncovered his secrets...

"So, is it the devil's tentacles reaching this way, or perhaps...?"

"Did the 'time travelers' here choose to succumb to the devil?"

"No matter what, St. Marian isn't exactly safe for me right now—I can't afford to take my time thinking about deck building anymore; I need to create new cards immediately to improve my defenses!"

Lu Mingfei confirmed the matter almost instantly and then sent messages to Jessica and Johnny.

This is also the convenience of the branch card; it's almost like having a portable phone—you know, landlines are still the mainstream on Earth, and even mobile phones are rare in his small coastal town.

But in this other world, a single card can replace a bulky cell phone, allowing you to send texts and videos!

Otherwise, Lu Mingfei wouldn't have referred to the other world as an "optimized version of Earth" when he first arrived.

If Earth had such convenient communication methods... Lu Mingfei simply couldn't imagine it.

The message sent to Jessica received a reply quickly—she first expressed her incomprehension of Lu Mingfei's urgency, because in the fourth week, the teacher would lead the first card crafting in the Magic Theory course, which would only take about a week. Was it necessary to craft cards at this time?

Even if she didn't understand, she was willing to let Lu Mingfei borrow her workbench, resource library, and the few blank magic cards she kept.

The meeting was scheduled for after class in the afternoon, giving Lu Mingfei some free time to think about how to combine materials and refine the magic card array.

Lu Mingfei didn't waste any time; he immediately took out paper and pen and began sketching.

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"Okay, here you go—this is my resource library." Jessica pulled open the cabinet on the side of the workbench, revealing a variety of odds and ends separated by vertical partitions.

Fragments of armor, a small sword hilt, a wooden carving of a girl, a piece of gravel...

—Yes, that's right, so-called 'materials' are this kind of thing that can almost be called 'garbage'.

Because what is needed to create a magic card is a 'concept', the materials themselves do not actually provide any material basis for the magic spirit.

Otherwise, the magic card system wouldn't be able to replace the well-established mage system.

The mage has already pushed the limits in terms of cost.

A mage consumes the same amount of food as an ordinary person, yet possesses dozens of times the productivity of an ordinary person. If the cost of crafting a magic card is actually higher than that of training a mage, then it is not qualified to replace mages as the current mainstream system.

With just a magic card and a stick, you can create a magic sprite that is no different from a low-level mage, and even more obedient and doesn't need to be fed. This is the real reason why magic cards have become mainstream.

Although magical spirits cannot perform research work, even if they can only exert the abilities of normal mages, it is already a huge leap in social productivity.

However, Lu Mingfei didn't think that much at the moment. He simply took out a blank magic card from his collection and a piece of wood and a small pile of animal bones, feathers and other materials stripped from wild animals from his material library.

Yes, what Lu Mingfei is going to refine is a Druid Magic Spirit.

Druid magic originates from the power of nature and animals, their fangs and claws, the sun and the moon, or fire and storms. Neither the sun and moon nor fire and storms are things Lu Mingfei can currently access—but he can still touch the fangs and claws of animals.

Lu Mingfei flicked his finger, drawing a neat circle on the magic card. Two intersecting lines, one horizontal and one vertical, divided the circle into four almost identical parts—

For Druids, there is a balance in nature—the four elements that make up the world (air, earth, fire, and water) must be kept in balance. If the power of one element is greater than the others, the structure of the world will be destroyed and degenerate into the corresponding elemental plane, thus disintegrating.

While drawing a magic array symbolizing Qi in the upper left fan-shaped area, Lu Mingfei was also letting his ideas wander.

He still wanted to figure out what the garbled ability of that bloodline template really represented—after all, it was something he had extorted from the devil, and even incurred the devil's hostility for it. If he didn't figure it out, wouldn't that hostility have been for nothing?

And since it's an ability within the bloodline template...

"There must be some clues in that blood—we still need to refine another one with blood."

Lu Mingfei finished by drawing a symbolic earth element magic circle in the lower right corner, then took a deep breath and channeled his magic power into the blank magic card he had just drawn. The four rune magic circles representing earth, water, air, and fire lit up, awaiting Lu Mingfei's next move.

The fish bones were placed in the water, the eagle feathers in the wind, and the wooden stick in the soil. Lu Mingfei lit a fire on the spot, burned it to ashes, and then placed it in the fire position.

Runes flickered, magic converged, and the materials from all four directions shattered almost simultaneously—falling into the transmutation circle that lit up beneath the elemental runes.

Lu Mingfei narrowed his eyes slightly, his magic swirling in his hand, trying to capture as much magic as possible—this time there was no external magic array to help him push the magic into the transmutation array, so how much magic he could obtain from the materials depended entirely on himself.

Fortunately, after a week of training on Earth, Lu Mingfei's control abilities are no longer comparable to when he first mastered the technique.

He succeeded in preventing any leakage of magic without any extra help!

The webpage flickers, and new card descriptions gradually appear:

[Magical Spirit: Elder Druid]

[Type: Humanoid/Spellcaster/Spell Unit]

[Quality: Excellent (Blue)]

[Level: LV5]

【characteristic:

Proficient Wilderness Form: This unit's Wilderness Transformation is treated as an instant rather than a spell, although the transformation process still takes time.

Advanced Wilderness Transformation: This unit can transform into a wilder form with spell-like abilities, retaining its spellcasting capabilities while transforming.

Starlight: This unit has a permanent "Starlight - Dragon" buff.

[PS: The Druids of the Moon Society are fierce guardians of the wilderness. They gather under the full moon to share intelligence and exchange warnings. Then they often roam the wilderness for weeks at a time with another humanoid creature. —《The Crossover Player's Handbook, Druids, Moon Society Edition》]