Anime card making

The weather in early June was already a bit hot.

At this time, the residents of Beidu in the north of the Ming Dynasty also put on light short-sleeved clothes.

"You still look so grand."

At Beidu Central Railway Station, a bald middle-aged man was covering the sun with his hands and sighed.

Behind him were five young people with different expressions.

"We're back again." Liu Yu, with his slicked back hair, held You Mengnan's hand and murmured to himself, "I will definitely win this year."

Last year, he followed his sophomore seniors to Beidu to participate in the national competition.

But it's a pity that last year's NTU was also a weak team, and both the individual and team teams were wiped out.

"Let's go to the place of stay first."

Chai Hao called out his bun and greeted the five Russells.

Accompanied by strange singing, the van drove all the way to a towering hotel.

It is rare to see a hotel with the height of Ming Dynasty. After all, because of the existence of secret monsters, no one knows whether one day the building will be a cosplay of the Twin Towers.

Therefore, the general building limit is only more than ten floors. Buildings of this height are either built by official departments or by high-level card makers.

Liu Yu was naturally not surprised because he had been here once. When he saw the four Russells looking up at the hotel in front of them, he couldn't help but explain: "This hotel was funded by the imperial court and the association. Every time it is time for the national competition, there will be a special hotel." Use it as a place for students to stay.”

"Normally, it would be open to ordinary people for use."

When Russell heard this, he understood. No wonder the aura nearby made him feel a little strange. He couldn't detect the level of card makers in some houses at all.

From this point of view, the Beidu imperial court should have gathered the students together for the convenience of management and protection.

After all, basically all the geniuses of the Ming Dynasty were gathered in Beidu City, and the loss of any one of them would cause the official heartache.

During the conversation, Chai Hao had already taken the materials to the front desk to complete the check-in formalities.

"Let's go, it's still the same place on the 18th floor."

Coming to the elevator, Chai Hao distributed the room cards in his hands to the five Russells.

"We at NTU have been placed on the 18th floor these years. The one on the same floor last year was Jinghua, and it should be the same this year."

Liu Yu whispered from the side.

"Ding dong."

With a crisp beep, the elevator door opened.

What caught Russell's eyes was a luxurious corridor covered with dark red plush carpet.

"Hey, Lao Chai, here we come."

After getting out of the elevator, people from Nanda ran into a group of people.

"Jinghua's."

Without Liu Yu's reminder, Russell naturally knew the identities of these people.

"Old Fang, long time no see."

Chai Hao politely held the hand of a middle-aged man among the visitors.

Lao Fang had a smile on his face, but his eyes turned to Russell who was following Chai Hao: "Is this your new treasure from Nanda this year?"

"I also watched the competition a few days ago, and the young man can indeed do it."

Russell laughed a few times in agreement but did not answer.

Several students behind Lao Fang looked at Russell with careful eyes.

However, there was no provocation or slap in the face until I left.

It seems reasonable to think that with the strength Russell has shown during these days, any school that values ​​national competitions will definitely mark him as a key target.

In addition to ordinary spectators, after all, there is no such hero as ordinary spectators in national competitions.

"Jinghua has never been weak. Last year, it achieved third place in the team competition, and one student also reached the top eight in the individual competition."

After Jinghua's people left, Chai Hao suddenly spoke.

“Hopefully we can surpass them this year.”

The five Russells nodded silently when they heard this. They had come, and no one was willing to just run with them in the end. Everyone wanted to rush forward in the end.

Seeing that the atmosphere was a bit heavy, Chai Hao couldn't help but want to tell Russell that it didn't matter even if he lost, he would still have a chance next year, but in the end he held it back.

Because this is the last year for the four Liu Yus, if they don’t produce results, next year’s national competition will have nothing to do with them.

Saying these words at this time will only dampen students' enthusiasm.

He believed Russell was not the kind of fragile student who needed his comfort.

It's a pity that Chai Hao didn't know that Russell had already touched the threshold of gold level, and there was not much time left before the breakthrough.

And when Russell reaches the gold level, it will naturally be impossible to participate in next year's national competition. According to Jiang Wang, there is a high probability that he will be transferred to a small and medium-sized city in advance for training.

After placing their luggage, everyone from Nanda set off to the battle site to familiarize themselves with it in advance.

We saw a lot of strange vehicles along the way, including dogs, horses, motorcycles and birds.

This also shows that the number of card makers in Beidu far exceeds that of the two cities where he lived before.

But when the noise gradually faded from his ears, a circular building covering an extremely large area appeared in Russell's eyes.

"So big?!"

Russell was a little surprised. He didn't expect that the battle field of the national competition would be so large. Even if it was said that it was for gold-level or even emerald-level card makers to battle, he would believe it.

The other people in the van were also shocked by what they saw.

Except for Chai Hao, he has led several battle clubs as a veteran. This is not his first time in Beidu, so he will naturally become numb after seeing it too much.

However, when Russell entered the venue, he also understood why the battlefield was so large.

Because there is more than one battle stage inside.

Since there are so many participants in the national competition, it is naturally impossible to compete one by one.

In order to improve efficiency, it is natural to conduct many games at the same time.

When there are fewer subsequent teams, these small venues will be consolidated into one large venue, and then the national competition will truly begin.

At this time, there were many people scattered in the venue.

Russell immediately spotted the most eye-catching female card maker among them.

Because she was sitting on the shoulders of a giant muscular man.

Liu Yu followed Russell's gaze, shook his head and said, "He's from Beijing University."

"She participated in the national competition last year, but her strength is at the bottom of the Beijing University Battle Club, and that muscular man"

Russell nodded when he heard this: "I know."

Liu Yu was startled. He did not expect that Russell would actually interact with students from Beijing University.

It's just that what Russell is thinking about right now is the female card maker that Xiao Yifei mentioned when chatting with him when he first came to this world, and he didn't expect to meet her here.

"It's such a mess in your circle."

Russell sighed inwardly.

But thinking about how he often engages in Pokémon battles, Russell felt relieved: "People of the same mind, respect and understand!"

However, as a Pokémon trainer, Russell used a giant rock snake, and the female card maker used a spiny shell.

Speaking of the Big Rock Snake being four times weak to water, Russell's should be considered the Big Steel Snake, even though the Big Steel Snake is also twice as weak to water.

Thinking of this, he couldn't help but sympathize with the opponent's card.

"Okay, that's it for the venue. Now when I go back, I will tell you about a few schools that need more attention in this national competition."

Chai Hao's voice pulled Russell out of his random thoughts.

The group returned to the hotel in silence.

In Chai Hao's room, he solemnly took out five tablets from his storage card and handed them to the five people.

"The information is all inside, take a good look."

Seeing several people starting to look through the information, Chai Hao's explanation voice also sounded at the right time.

"Due to the nature of the national competition system, the strength of major universities will fluctuate greatly every year, so you still need to make your own judgment on the spot."

Since you need to choose a position for practical training in your junior year, the main members of the battle clubs in major universities are only sophomores at most.

This also means that basically all members of the fighting club iterate very quickly.

It is possible that all the champion members from the previous year have gone to training this year, and a group of new players have been replaced, resulting in the defending champion not even making it to the quarterfinals.

Let your mother go, will I be able to reach the top eight or sixteen? !

There are also schools that were originally at the bottom and suddenly skyrocketed because they recruited a few monsters.

Therefore, the national competition is very uncertain every year.

This also resulted in very high ratings for the national competition.

After all, the audience likes dark horses, and no one wants to watch those schools fighting back and forth all the time.

Coupled with the endless creativity of card makers, all kinds of weird cards will appear. They may not be very powerful, but they are definitely viable.

"Also, the team competition is held before the individual competition, so..."

As he spoke, he looked at Russell.

Russell also understood what Chai Hao meant. Because of the sequence, some card makers may choose to hide their cards in the team competition so that they can be used in the individual competition.

He silently nodded towards Chai Hao, indicating that he understood what the other person meant.

However, Chai Hao's face darkened and he didn't know what he thought of.

After regaining his composure, Chai Hao combed the few hairs on his head and continued.

"The first is Jinghua who lives on the same floor as us."

"They were third last year, and they should be working hard to try again this year. However, because the main members are already juniors, all the contestants this year are new players."

"The specific information is in the materials, you can take a look."

"I personally think they may not have much hope this year."

Russell looked through the information in his hand carefully and felt that Chai Hao was right, because the cards exposed by Jinghua Battle Club were relatively average and had no highlights.

Bull-headed, horse-faced, general with mixed numbers.

Not to mention Russell, even Liu Yu and the others probably couldn't beat him.

“Then there’s last year’s champion and this year’s defending champion, Minke University.”

“They had two key members last year who were freshmen, and those two will definitely continue to compete this year.”

"To be honest, it's not easy to handle. Even if we have Russell, we may not be able to defeat the opponent."

Russell found the information about the two people mentioned by Chai Hao.

Yue Chuan, male, the cards are basically the strange beasts in "The Classic of Mountains and Seas" plus some of his own redesigns. This is the strength he showed last year.

Wu Shilan, female, Chai Hao secretly verified that the card should be derived from the epic "Edda", which is one of the more familiar Nordic myths.

Looking at the two heroic figures in the information, Russell sighed: "They are indeed geniuses from MingTech University, with such a solid knowledge base."

You must know that normal card makers have no way to understand the specific mythological systems outside the Ming Dynasty.

"World Mythology Illustrated Revised Edition 4.8" only records some relatively famous foreign gods, such as the Twelve Olympus Gods and the Nine Pillars.

More detailed ones such as "Homer's Epic" and "Edda" must not have originally existed.

After all, in the current world situation, although Ming Dynasty has some exchanges with other remaining countries, it actually has little relationship with the people at the bottom.

The series of technological products Russell sees now are also technologies obtained by Ming Dynasty from the secret realm and have nothing to do with other countries.

After all, there are secret realms that can produce materials like [Universal Prosthetics]. It wouldn’t be surprising if there would be a Cybertron or even Russell in the Cybertron Secret Realm one day.

Rather, if there is such a secret realm, Russell's various armors and robot cards can also be made from it.

"Well, Jilin University also needs to pay attention to it." Having said this, Chai Hao looked at Russell, "There is an acquaintance of yours in Jilin University this year."

Russell was stunned when he heard this, and for a moment he didn't expect anyone in Ji Da to interact with him.

Chai Hao didn't show off: "Hu Lai, do you still have an impression?"

"After the unified examination of Jiang Province, he was accepted as a disciple by Master Fang and was taken to Jida."

Only then did Russell think of the young man whose martial arts dream was shattered by three punches from Luffy during the Jiang Province Unified Examination.

"Master Fang's fighting style is very similar to Hu Lai's, so although I didn't get any useful information about Hu Lai, I'm afraid it will be very difficult."

[God of Fighting] Fang Wenlong, as you can tell from his name, is an evil card maker who likes to fight in person.

No, no one now dares to say in front of Fang Wenlong that physical combat is evil.

After all, he knocked down the entire north with his own hands.

Now Hu Lai may have made rapid progress and achieved a qualitative change under Fang Wenlong's guidance.

"What is this? A physical battle against a three-solaran man with a skeleton?"

Thinking of the scenes that might appear on the battlefield, Russell was already a little nervous.

In fact, Russell is not weak in close combat. His body is both strengthened by the vampire blood and arrogance given by the great ninja, and his actual combat experience can be replaced by arrogance.

It's just because the cards are so powerful that there is basically no chance for him to take action.

Of course, if someone thinks Russell is a weak card maker, then his terrifying body will also give them a big surprise.

"Others, such as Beijing University, Xiamen University, and Zhejiang University, should not be underestimated."

"However, our strength does not mean that we have no chance this year. I hope everyone will work together to achieve a good ranking."

Chai Hao concluded after explaining for a long time.

His personal expectation for this year's team competition is that reaching the semi-finals will be considered a success. After all, if Russell does not break through to the gold level, next year will only be more promising.

In the individual competition, he actually thinks that Russell has a chance to compete for the championship, provided that no strange epiphany player appears.

Players have this kind of epiphany every year. It was obvious that the year before they were ordinary freshmen, but this year they suddenly had an epiphany and excelled in card making.

Russell is also this kind of person in a way. After all, the original owner really didn't show much talent before his senior year in high school.

It's not like he is extremely talented in copying and making cards.

"Okay, you go back and rest first. Don't forget there is an opening ceremony tomorrow."

Seeing all five students return to their rooms, Chai Hao sighed silently: "I hope we can get a good result this year."