My Card Beast Taming Game

The note read: "I'm Wang Xinyao. I'm so sorry, I really just wanted to get to know you. Please don't be mad at me, okay? Give me a chance, I'll treat you to dinner, okay?"

It also features many teary-eyed soybean-like expressions.

Zhou Chen frowned deeply, instinctively wanting to refuse, but after thinking it over, he accepted the friend request and checked the photoshopped face on Moments.

He directly labeled it as troublesome and quickly replied:

"I can forgive you, but you have to agree to one condition."

What are the conditions?

"Please restore it."

"...I don't understand, sorry, I'm a bit slow~"

"What I mean is, you need to recover and then perform that line from earlier today, 'This person is very aloof~' again."

"..."

The other end hasn't replied.

Zhou Chen was delighted; he had almost forgotten about it, but he deliberately brought it out again to make it stand out.

After that kind of confrontation, they probably won't bother you again.

He continued organizing his various chat groups and friends, and by the time he was almost done, he had arrived at the club.

Zhou Chen looked at the "troublesome" message that hadn't been replied to yet before locking the screen, and chuckled. Sure enough, he had to fight back like Sister Lu.

Meanwhile, Wang Xinyao was so angry that she smashed the toys in the room, yelling, "You bastard! You bastard!"

She just gave up and didn't want to apologize anymore. As for her third uncle... well, he should apologize then!

Never mind! Let's get started!

Then she remembered what Wang Zhiyuan had said about being a member. This person was actually a member?

As Wang Zhiyuan's niece, she knew the size of the Five Kingdoms better than Zhou Chen's homeroom teacher. Even a branch in Fengcheng was far larger than other card player clubs.

What is his family background?

Chapter 56: The Fierce Second Round

The second round of the Yuzhong Cup Bronze Division.

It has now been almost a week since it started.

After all, in the Bronze Division alone, there are more than two thousand participants in each city, and only eight venues. Even if all the matches are played for twelve hours a day, it would still take nearly four days.

Moreover, the Silver and Bronze divisions are held in the same location.

Fortunately, the number of novice card players was relatively small, less than a quarter of the total number in the bronze region, and the competition time was relatively lenient, ending in just three days.

In what seemed like a short week, the atmosphere at Xiangyun Arena was exceptionally lively every day, with the number of spectators steadily increasing.

Zhou Chen underestimated the influence of the Yuzhong Cup in the central region of Yuzhou.

Because its bronze-level competition alone encompassed 16,000 teenagers from eight major cities, its final results could significantly influence admissions to some card-playing academies.

The top 64 students who meet the age requirements can be admitted without examination. Some colleges have even lower requirements.

However, this is an unspoken rule that cannot be openly discussed.

Each card master academy does not want to be strongly tied to a competition jointly organized by a card mall, even if the competition is endorsed by a local association.

Zhou Chen's sources of information are currently very limited; it can be said that there are too many things in this world that he does not know and has no way of knowing.

He could only obtain information that was half true and half false through external social networks and the internet.

Knowledge is extremely expensive in any world.

For several days.

Zhou Chen maintained a routine of relaxing and conserving his energy in the morning, practicing physical skills and card-related exercises at the club in the afternoon, and running dungeons in the evening.

His habitual lifestyle raised his mental level to Lv.15.

There's still no soreness or tightness between my eyebrows, which means the requirement for focusing my mind and cultivating energy is Lv.20.

You can be promoted to the junior level in a month at most.

To be honest, it was faster than Zhou Chen had expected, considering he had only been a card master for a little over a month.

According to his knowledge, the fastest publicly known promotion record in the world is three months, achieved by the fourteenth emperor of the Tulip Dynasty on the Western Continent. If the emperor were still alive, he would be nearly two hundred years old.

Auspicious Cloud Arena.

"congratulations."

"You've really shown your prowess today, Xiaodong!"

Shi Xiaodong finished another match, and Zhou Chen and Gao Liang congratulated him in unison.

He replied cheerfully, "I was lucky. The opponent wasn't very strong, and they didn't have any spirit cards that could counter me. I won by sheer luck."

While there are no elemental weaknesses between spirit cards, there are indeed compatibility weaknesses.

For example, if a ranged flying spirit card encounters a melee tank spirit card, the latter basically has no chance of winning and can only wait to be kited to death...

Such cases are too numerous to mention.

Zhou Chen's White Ape currently lacks reliable ranged attack methods, but fortunately it is fast and jumps high. As long as it doesn't encounter particularly cunning spirit cards, qualifying should be relatively easy.

Soon it was Zhou Chen's turn to compete.

Gao Liang and Shi Xiaodong cheered him on before his departure.

"Take down the opponent in five minutes!"

"Stay calm and don't panic, we'll definitely win!"

"Ah."

Zhou Chen felt a warmth in her heart.

As expected, he preferred normal interpersonal interactions, and the world of card masters was not entirely composed of people like Shen Yan, Wang Xinyao, and Lu Lang.

In the contestants' preparation room, when the staff came to inform him, Zhou Chen saw his opponent—

A young man with a rather mature appearance, sporting a short beard but still displaying the naiveté of a college student, immediately came over to greet him after making eye contact.

"Go easy on me, buddy."

"Each each other."

Zhou Chen retaliated.

A moment later, the two entered the arena and, at the referee's signal, summoned their spirit cards.

As the white ape entered, he and the young man looked at a white weasel summoned by the youth, which was located dozens of meters away.

Its size is similar to that of a Border Collie, and the fur from its head to its back is about a finger thick, light blue, like an ice line.

"Frostback Weasel, huh?"

Zhou Chen quickly identified the name of the card creature.

【Frostspine Weasel】, a bronze-tier spirit card with ice attribute, is fast and agile, and excels at sneak attacks and biting.

The active skill is [Ice Claw Combo], which can cause frostbite and reduce the opponent's mobility.

The passive skill is [Frosty Fleece], which increases speed in sub-zero environments, becoming faster the colder it gets.

Overall, it's a fairly standard spirit card, though it looks quite nice and makes you want to touch it.

Zhou Chen did not make any rash moves, but instead guided the white ape to slowly step forward with its sword drawn.

Whether the opponent was overconfident or nervous, they immediately sent Frostridge Weasel to sprint at full speed at the start.

"squeak!"

The mustelid, about the size of a Border Collie, charged forward at an incredible speed, closing the distance between them in just a few breaths.

The young man had only run a few steps when he looked at them from a distance, seemingly unconcerned about the obstructed view causing the spirit card to slip out of his control.

Zhou Chen thought for a moment and decided not to reveal the White Ape's Wind and Thunder Escape technique.

While that would allow you to win the game as quickly as possible, using it in the second round of the city qualifiers would be somewhat counterproductive.

He decided to launch a probing attack first to deceive his opponent and look for an opportunity to launch a surprise attack.

Zhou Chen controlled the white ape to raise its sword against the Frostspine Weasel that was charging towards him.

bass!

The blades gleamed, awaiting the opponent's move.

Unexpectedly, the nearby Frostback Weasel suddenly accelerated a second time, its slender body skimming along the ground. Its small, pure white body moved so fast that only the ice line on its back could be seen.

"squeak!"

The Frostback Weasel lunged sideways, its four claws flashing out, the sharp fingertips coated with a thin layer of ice, aiming straight for the White Ape's calf tendon.

If this is caught red-handed, the latter's ability to act will be reduced by half!

Zhou Chen was well aware of this, so the trajectory of his longsword suddenly changed, just in time to block its low-level attack.

when!

A crisp, clear sound of impact.

The icicles struck the blade of the Wind and Thunder Blade, and the cold air spread instantly, but failed to freeze it.

"Such a quick reaction."

The young man was slightly taken aback, but the Frostspine Weasel he was controlling did not stop moving. With a flick of its long tail, it used the recoil to retreat, then nimbly circled to the other side and swung its claws again. Four ice streaks tore through the air, this time attacking the White Ape King's other thigh.

"twitter!"

With a hiss, the White Ape King flicked his wrist, and his longsword spun in an arc of light, blocking the attack once again.

Ding ding ding ding—

The ice claws struck the electric blade repeatedly, producing a series of crisp metallic clangs, yet the frostbite's chill didn't even touch the white ape's fur.

Both card players moved around continuously, trying to see their opponent's movements while ensuring their own accuracy. Their busyness was no less than that of two card creatures in a fierce battle.

clap clap-

The audience erupted in applause; many viewers hadn't expected to see this match in the second round of the city qualifiers.

However, as he failed to mount an effective attack, the young man's expression became visibly impatient.

This is reflected in the Frostback Weasel, which clearly attacks more and more frantically, its white figure flashing left and right like a bouncing ball of fur, but it never manages to hit even once.

Until the White Ape suddenly drew his sword to block, and exerted a little force with both arms.

The ice claws were blocked again, causing the Frostback Weasel to lift off the ground. The young man then used the momentum to flip the Weasel over, adjusting its center of gravity so that it landed behind the White Ape.

"grumble!"

Frostback Weasel's claws gathered frost as it viciously slashed at the back of White Ape's head.

Chapter 57: Mei Xian, an Old Friend (Please continue reading!!!)

This time it should be a win, right?

The young man was full of anticipation, but what awaited him was the white ape turning around with lightning speed and raising its sword to meet him.

"Clang!"

The ice claw was parried by a single strike, and the immense force caused the Frostspine Weasel to lose its balance once more.

Zhou Chen's eyes brightened slightly, and it was in this brief moment that he saw the light!

The white ape lowered its center of gravity to stabilize its body, and its aura suddenly solidified—

Power rises from the ground, [Gathering strength for a powerful strike]!

hum!

The Wind and Thunder Blade trembled slightly, and a powerful force gathered at the tip of the blade. With a flash of light, it suddenly slashed upwards at an angle!

The young man had no time to react. He only saw a flash of silvery-white light before his eyes, and the White Ape King had already lowered his sword, which was completely disproportionate to his size.