books44 Chapter 7 The So-Called Elves
Chapter 7 The So-Called Elves
"This should work... right?"
Xing Ya looked at the deck she had prepared, but felt a little uncertain.
After repeated comparisons and careful consideration, she put together a passable deck using the cards she had.
Why use interrogative sentences?
"I've never made my own cards before, hehe."
She scratched her head sheepishly, trying to get away with it by acting cute. "So, can we go to the human world now? I feel incredibly strong!"
[The deck is too weak; please keep working on it, host.]
"Well!"
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"Hey kid, get up!"
In his hazy state, Xing Liang seemed to hear some sound. So he turned over and went back to sleep.
He was alone in the room; he must have been too tired yesterday and was hallucinating.
"Tsk, how did this guy even win..."
This time he was certain: there were other people in the room!
He immediately rolled to the other side of the sound and sat up, grabbing the Duel Disk and putting it on his left hand.
Based on what he learned yesterday, card masters (duelists) have a very high status in this world and have the right to initiate duels at any time. No matter what the other party wants to do, even if they want to kill him, if he can't win the duel, then there's no point in talking about anything else.
He shook his head vigorously to clear his mind, and then he saw a girl?
Xing Liang almost lost his mind.
She had waist-length white hair, a black and white gothic-style short dress, snow-white stockings, and a height of about 1.4 meters.
These days are getting more and more like a trial.
How many years would one be sentenced to for pedophilia in this world?
No! He slapped himself. "Tell me your purpose." He stared into her purple-gold eyes, wary of her next move.
There was a strange person in the room. Something just didn't feel right. The other person must have some ulterior motive for approaching me.
"Me?" She pointed to herself. "Didn't you bring me here? Shouldn't I be the one asking you what your purpose is?"
Oops, your comment is making me nervous. I feel like the police are about to break down the door any second now.
Seeing Xing Liang's expression of having just eaten something, she suddenly realized and picked up a card from the table. "It's me, Chaos Dragon - Chaos Ruler. This is my human form."
Sure enough, the card art that was originally the Chaos Dragon was now completely blank, as if the spirits inside had left.
“Your look…” “My friend told me humans like this kind of thing.” “Your friend is definitely a pervert.”
Then, there was a moment of silence, the air thick with awkwardness. After digging out a three-bedroom apartment with his foot, Xing Liang tentatively spoke up: "Um, Miss Demon Dragon... could you please explain why you're here, or rather, why you're the only one here?"
She sat gracefully in the chair, her left hand resting on her delicate chin, her right hand toying with the card in her hand, and she parted her red lips slightly: "Because you passed the trial, although I am very unhappy, it is that person's will, and I will still follow you. As for why it is only me..." She picked up another card on the table.
【Fearful Peptide Mad Dragon - Lianglong】
"This is my problem, kid. Where is the spirit that resonates with you? Why hasn't it appeared?"
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"System, I'm so hungry." Xing Ya hadn't eaten anything since arriving in this world almost a day ago, only drinking a couple of sips of water from the pond she had just been by.
System, I'm hungry, I need food!
【…】
"Isn't there a system shop or something?" [Not yet available] "Is there anything to eat around here? We can't exactly grill a dinosaur, can we?" She looked down at the little horned dinosaur she was holding in her arms. The little horned dinosaur was looking at her with wide eyes, tilting its head and making a questioning "Chirp?"
The little guy was found hanging on the body of a bloodthirsty dinosaur, swinging around everywhere. Seeing its pitiful appearance with its limbs limp and weak, she felt sorry for it and took it down.
Hmm, Longlong is so cute, how can you eat Longlong!
[You can look for wild fruits and vegetables] "I can't find them... and even if I did, I wouldn't recognize them..." She hugged the baby horned dragon and squatted down, drawing circles on the ground. "I'm just a useless little brat who can't do anything..."
【…】
【well】
Xing Ya felt a shadow suddenly appear in front of her. When she looked up, she saw a magnificent "mountain peak".
It's huge, even bigger than the Therizinosaurus.
"Don't move around here, I'll go find you some food." "Okay."
She stared blankly as the other person walked away to find food.
【The Fearful Dragon - The Queen of the Nail-like Dragons】
"Um, sister, you are..." "System, temporarily taking on the form of the Queen." "Oh."
Xing Ya felt like a silly little girl who only knew how to eat, nibbling on the wild fruit the system had found for her, and stealing a glance at the system sitting opposite her.
It still feels so big.
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People in this world go to the church for an awakening ceremony at the age of twelve. Not everyone can successfully resonate, and even if someone does, they will not become a Magic Card Master.
However, every card master will inevitably succeed in resonating with at least one spirit.
Based on the spirits that successfully resonate, people are divided into twelve ranks. For example, spirits with one star, rank one, or LINK-1 belong to the first rank and will receive the protection of the first rank authority.
The human realm doesn't know which twelve spirits represent the twelve ranks; they can only name them based on the blessings they receive. For example, the first rank is [Life], which can promote the evolution of spirits, and so on. If one hasn't become a Magic Card Master, this blessing can also be used to increase crop yields and accelerate ripening, etc.
Xing Liang didn't want to reveal his identity as a non-native of this world. As he racked his brains for an excuse while facing the Chaos Dragon's amused gaze, a hand reached out from behind the Chaos Dragon.
Noticing the change in Xing Liang's eyes, before she could turn around, his hand grabbed her slender neck.
"'Declaration', [Chaos Dragon - Chaos Ruler]."
To her disbelief, she was forcibly pulled back into the card in her hand, and no matter how much she struggled, she could not break free from that force.
[Psycho-Powered Defender]
The owner of that hand placed the Chaos Dragon card back on the table, turned around, and stood quietly in front of Xing Liang, as if nothing had just happened.
The moment Xing Liang saw him, he understood that although he had not performed the awakening ceremony, he had still successfully resonated with an elf.
An elf whom I had never seen before coming to this world, yet who felt strangely familiar.
It belongs to the fourth rank and is named [Guardian].
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After Xing Ya pleaded and begged, the system agreed to maintain its queenly image until the next morning, and she then took a nap with her head on the system's lap.
Hehehe, the system sister smells so good and is so soft~
"Due to the host's low level of spiritual power, this form cannot be maintained for an extended period of time. The maximum duration is 12 hours, and each cooldown period is 3 days."
Hmm, let's do our best for the system sister's lap pillow!
But now…
Xing Ya changed her position, resting her face up on the system's lap, and discovered that she could only see half of the sky.
How did it grow to be so big?
"What's wrong? Host."
The system sensed that Xing Ya seemed confused about something, so it lowered its head and asked.
Then, he pressed it against her face.
"Heaven…"
"?"
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Xing Liang tried to communicate with the Defender, but after some gesturing, he discovered that the Defender could only speak when activating an effect to "declare." He then took out paper and pen to have the Defender write, but embarrassingly discovered that they couldn't communicate. While the Defender could understand human speech, he couldn't write, producing only Elvish characters. Therefore, Xing Liang had to temporarily abandon the idea of obtaining information from the Defender.
Through body language, Xing Liang learned that the defender's "declaration" would only last about a minute, but five minutes passed and the Chaos Dragon still showed no sign of appearing, seemingly sulking.
"Never mind." He had originally wanted to ask who "that person" was, but it seemed like that was out of the question. After tidying up and putting away his card deck, he prepared to proceed with his original plan to visit the church.
After being politely escorted out of the hotel by everyone, feeling quite embarrassed, Xing Liang regretted wearing the Duel Disk. Although he could tell from Dantas that the duelists—no, the card masters—of this world were of high status, he hadn't expected them to be this high.
Like other leaders who went to the countryside for inspections, he was constantly greeted by people along the way, and he could only respond with a smile, feeling that his face had become stiff from smiling.
While not as bustling as the streets of Earth, the streets here are still quite prosperous. Various shops line the streets, and small groups of pedestrians stroll about, dressed much like people on Earth. Perhaps due to its location near the desert, most of the vehicles are jeeps, which kick up clouds of dust as they speed by.
If he hadn't already seen six card shops, he would really doubt whether he was still on Earth.
Calling it a card shop isn't entirely accurate, as it includes shops that only sell blank cards or also buy back cards. There are two shops that sell cards, one that only sells them and the other that also buys them.
He entered the shop that bought and sold cards, and considering that powerful cards might be too expensive for the shop to afford, he pulled out a card from his album that was of little use to his existing deck.
The Sword of Obsession
This is a card I bought when I was building a crazy deck. It can prevent me from running out of cards to draw because I'm filling my graveyard with cards.
Because I didn't know the market price, I did some token haggling with the shop owner and ended up paying a favor. I also made an agreement with him that I would let him know if I received any powerful cards in the future.
Although he didn't have much hope, he still wanted to see if he could buy a card that could be mixed with dinosaur peptides. He went to two stores that sold cards, but they didn't even have many cards that could be used by the dinosaur race, let alone cards that could be mixed with dinosaur peptides.
Fortunately, he still had a few trap cards that he could use. After paying the money with a heavy heart, he secretly sighed, no wonder card masters are so respected. Ordinary people really can't become one without money.
Although he was delayed on the way, he still arrived at his destination—the church—before noon.
Under the blazing sun, the bas-relief of the winged dragon on the church wall appears lifelike.