Who said this card is outrageous?

“I’ll ask around for you.” Yu Renjia didn’t make the decision for Zhang Che, “but I can’t guarantee whether he’ll be willing to sell.”

"Okay, thank you!" Lin Xiaoyi's eyes lit up and she nodded repeatedly.

Shao Minglei patted Yu Renjia on the shoulder, his tone a few degrees more serious than usual: "Be careful, don't be reckless. If things go wrong, run. You can buy more cards, but you only have one life."

"Understood, Brother Lei."

Lu Yuanhang, the boy in the baseball cap, was the last to arrive. He casually punched him, saying, "Old Yu, don't forget me when you become rich and powerful."

But the worry in his eyes was impossible to hide.

Yu Renjia saw this and felt a warmth in his heart, but he didn't say anything. He just nodded and said, "Don't worry."

Soon, only Yu Renjia and Tide Sea Spirit remained in the same spot.

The city guards acted faster than expected, and a four-man squad arrived shortly afterward.

The leader was a middle-aged military officer in his forties, with a square face, thick eyebrows, and big eyes. He walked with a brisk pace and looked like a seasoned veteran who had been through many battles.

He was followed by Zhu Yingqi and two other equally elite soldiers.

"You are Yu Renjia?" The middle-aged officer walked up to Yu Renjia, his gaze sweeping over him before landing on the Tidal Sea Spirit who was squatting on the ground playing with a trident.

"Yes." Yu Renjia stood up straight.

"I am Zhao Tieshan, the captain of the Third Battalion of the City Guard." The middle-aged officer gave a brief self-introduction, then squatted down and carefully examined the Tide Spirit.

He stared at the little blue murloc for a while and realized that this murloc was indeed very different from ordinary blue card summons.

However, now is not the time to dwell on such trivial matters. Zhao Tieshan stood up and put on a relatively amiable expression.

“Student, the murloc calamity is of great importance. The current clues are not enough to confirm it. We need your cards to gather more information.” His tone was polite, but his attitude was very clear, leaving no room for negotiation.

Yu Renjia quickly nodded: "I understand."

At this moment, another man in the group, who looked somewhat scholarly, spoke up: "I heard that you, a merman, have already gained some influence among those mermen?"

The man pushed up his glasses and looked at Tidal Sea Spirit.

“Yes, Fitz did say that.”

The man then smiled and said, "If we can make good use of this advantage and help it expand its influence as much as possible, there might be unexpected benefits."

Upon hearing this, Zhao Tieshan pondered for a moment and nodded slightly: "If it really is a murloc calamity, the internal structure of the murloc army will be extremely complex."

An inside man in a high enough position can do a lot of things.

Moreover, this was originally a casual move; it would be best if it worked, but it wouldn't matter if it failed.

After all, it's just a card that can be summoned again.

The city guards started discussing amongst themselves, while Yu Renjia listened from the side, completely bewildered and unable to understand what they were talking about.

Judging from the situation, these people seem to take that "fishman calamity" very seriously.

However, as the name suggests, Yu Renjia probably had some guesses in his mind.

Zhu Yingqi noticed his expression and came over to comfort him in a low voice: "This matter is of great importance, and I cannot reveal the specifics to you for the time being. For now, you and this fishman just need to follow orders, and you will definitely be treated well later."

Yu Renjia was silent for a moment, then nodded.

Since that was the case, Yu Renjia had nothing more to say. He then gave Tide Spirit another task, which the latter was somewhat reluctant to complete.

Unable to disobey its master's orders, it dawdled for a while, but finally shouldered the trident and walked towards the merman camp, looking rather aggrieved from behind.

Zhao Tieshan stood still, his gaze following the figure of the Tidal Spirit until it was completely out of sight. He looked at Yu Renjia, then at Zhu Yingqi, seemingly deep in thought.

"How much does this card cost?" he asked.

“It’s very low,” Yu Renjia answered truthfully. “Much lower than a regular second-tier blue card. I have no problem maintaining it right now.”

Zhao Tieshan nodded, but his expression did not relax.

"Yingqi, give him a hand," Zhao Tieshan decided.

Zhu Yingqi nodded, walked to Yu Renjia's side, and placed her hands on his shoulders.

"Don't move, relax."

Before Yu Renjia could react, a gentle spiritual energy surged into his body from his shoulder. Like a warm river, it slowly flowed into his spiritual sea, intertwining with his own spiritual energy, becoming inseparable.

“This is my professional skill – Support Link,” Zhu Yingqi explained. “It allows me to share my life force and mental energy with you.”

After some introduction, Yu Renjia learned that Zhu Yingqi was a third-tier legion commander. Although she was a warrior, she had some support abilities, so her mental strength was not bad.

It certainly can't compare to magic-based classes of the same tier, but for a student who has only recently entered the second tier, it's practically a super-luxury power bank.

"Thank you, Commander Zhu," Yu Renjia said sincerely.

"No need to thank me, it's all for completing the mission." Zhu Yingqi withdrew her hand. "And remember not to stray too far from me."

Yu Renjia sat cross-legged on the ground, closed his eyes, and focused his attention on the spiritual connection with the Tidal Sea Spirit.

Through the link, he could sense that the Tidal Spirit was moving rapidly and was approaching the edge of the merman camp.

Everything went smoothly; all they had to do now was wait patiently.

Chapter 32 [Agumon], how come it's this fire-breathing lizard?

In the card-making workshop, Zhang Che looked at the dozen or so neatly arranged green cards on the table, and he was in a wonderful mood.

There are both first-order and second-order items, and not a single useless one.

Although they are all just green cards, for someone who has just advanced to the third level of mental power and has not yet had time to fully adapt, this success rate is already quite good.

It can only be said that the founder of the sect was indeed very thoughtful. After such a long period of card-making practice, Zhang Che could clearly feel that his surging spiritual power was gradually stabilizing and was no longer as unstable as when he first woke up.

While it still can't reach the level of precision required for crafting blue cards, the stable output when crafting green cards is no longer a problem.

The success of obtaining more than a dozen green cards gave Zhang Che considerable confidence. He checked the time and found that it was still early, and he felt that he still had mental energy to spare, so he did not intend to stop just like that.

So he decided to try making a Tier 3 green card.

Earlier that afternoon, he had called Wang Guofu and asked him to send over some of the necessary Tier 3 materials.

The cost of these materials was significantly higher, but Zhang Che had money in hand and didn't care about this small investment.

Of course, considering the cost of card production and the mental energy required, he did not plan to make summoning cards right away, but instead prepared to test the waters with two skill cards first.

Zhang Che opened the card-making manual left by his master and found his target among the public version cards: [Tracking Mark], a level 3 green skill card.

The effect is simple: by marking a designated target, the user can know the location of the target at any time, within a range of five kilometers from the user.

The card itself doesn't deal much damage, but it's very useful, which fits the style of public version cards.

Zhang Che laid out the materials on the card-making table, took a deep breath, and began making the card blanks.

The patterns on a third-tier card embryo are much more complex than those on a second-tier one, and the requirements for mental control are also much higher.

Each time he put pen to paper, he could clearly feel the occasional subtle fluctuations in his mental energy as it flowed across the card blank, indicating that his mental energy was still not stable enough.

This caused the patterns on the first card blank to deviate when it was only half-finished, rendering the entire card blank unusable on the spot.

However, Zhang Che was not discouraged. He quickly cleaned up the waste on the table and started again.

After nearly two hours, the tracking marker was finally completed!

With his successful experience, Zhang Che became even more confident. He opened the formulas that Su Wanqing had sent him and picked out one of the only two Tier 3 green cards.

【Sharp Stone Thrust】, Earth-type skill card.

The effect is to suddenly thrust a huge stone spike out of the ground at a designated location, dealing a fatal blow to the enemy.

Its power is quite good, even comparable to some ordinary blue cards.

However, since this card was given to Zhang Che for free, its drawbacks are also obvious: the casting location cannot be changed after it is designated, and the attack has a certain delay. If the enemy reacts quickly enough, they can dodge it in time.

This is a typical useless card. It's powerful enough, but what's the point if it can't hit anyone?

But for Zhang Che, whether it was a chicken rib or not was not important; what mattered was its characteristics.

The reason he chose this card was actually because he had a little ulterior motive—given his current level of skill, he couldn't even make a blue card, so even if he had fusion ability, he could forget about making a purple card.

According to his previous deduction, in order for a card like [Tidal Sea Spirit] to reach its full potential, it must have a complete skill set.

Especially the ultimate move!

Previously, with the help of the Six-Tails' power, he successfully used the Frost Arrow, and its power was significantly enhanced.

This gave Zhang Che an idea: Since we can't create a fully-formed [Tidal Sea Spirit] with a powerful ultimate move right now, could we create a separate ultimate move for it?

[Tidal Spirit]'s ultimate skill "Giant Shark Assault" first marks and slows the target, then summons a giant shark to rush out from underground at the target location, knocking up enemies within range and dealing massive damage.

The effect is somewhat similar to [Spiked Stone Thrust], while [Tracking Mark] corresponds to the ultimate skill's lock-on mechanism.

If we could find another shark-type summoning card as a medium to fuse these three cards together, we might be able to create a corresponding "ultimate move" skill card.

The idea is good, but there's a big problem with its implementation.

Even among green-quality summoning cards, there are rarely any useless ones. It probably won't be easy for Zhang Che to get the recipe.

This matter can most likely only be resolved through Su Wanqing's connections.

……

Since they were both skill cards, Zhang Che didn't consume too much mental energy after making these two cards, and there was still quite a bit left over.

He didn't want to stop just like that.

Replenishing mental energy after it has been completely depleted helps to increase one's potential, as clearly stated in Master's notes.

Although the improvement each time was small, Zhang Che would definitely not let go of any opportunity to enhance his strength.

Then let's merge them!

First, there's the card prepared for Fu Xing.

The combination of [Salamander] and [Flame Bullet] was the fusion material that had been decided long ago. As for the remaining fusion materials, Zhang Che scanned the cards on the table and looked at them one by one.

【Lightning Strike】, a lightning-type skill card, deals high damage and inflicts paralysis. If it could be fused with 【Fire Lizard】 to create a summon with both lightning and fire attributes, fulfilling all of Fu Xing's requirements at once, that guy would be overjoyed.

Based on the previous fusion results, Zhang Che immediately pictured Rotom from Pokémon and decisively abandoned this option.

continue!

He searched for a long time and finally focused on the cards [Sharp Teeth] and [Unwavering Will].