Master of Trading Star Card Game

Chapter 9 - The First Original Card (Part 2)

The human brain could have fertile imagination, so it was difficult for one to concentrate on one thing. Even if he concentrated on painting only the character he wanted, there were always external factors that would interfere with him, especially when he hit a bottleneck, because under this condition, his thoughts would wander off the point, and he would feel confused.

In Star Card Storm, the image on a card couldn't be in a mess.

Thinking of the cluster of white Tuberose at the auction, Xie Mingzhe suddenly admired Tang Muzhou to some extent.

Legend Tang was truly an awesome player – he created such a vivid flower card as [Tuberose], and incomparably complex plant card as [Thousand-year-old God Tree] – a huge tree covering the sky. Tang Muzhou must use his Inner Spirit to draw every branch and leaf without making any mistakes. His Inner Spirit must exceed 300.

Xie Mingzhe felt it a little hard even though his Inner Spirit was 300 high...

Xie Mingzhe took a deep breath and tried to concentrate on thinking about the type of card he wanted to make.

Tang Muzhou excelled at creating plant cards, so there was hardly any room for him to make new plant cards. As for animals, there had been pet cards such as [Nine-tailed Fox] and [Long-eared Rabbit] in this game. Card designers with active imagination made a lot of pet cards. When he searched for information in the hospital, he found various realistic Persian cats, Teddy dogs, giant pandas, etc. Lions, tigers, and other animal cards were just too corny, and he had no idea for new ones.

Character...

Yes, characters! Senior brother Qi said that the approval standard for character cards was the character's facial features. The official standard stated that players couldn't take examples from people in the real world to draw the character's facial features. What if he drew comic-style characters? Wasn't that unique?

He didn't learn painting in vain – he could draw comic-style characters easily.

Xie Mingzhe clenched his fist excitedly for finding a way.

What character should he draw?

A scene suddenly came to his mind.

A slim girl sat by the river, strewing petals over the ground. She gave a little cough, her face bathed in tears.

——Daiyu burying the flowers¹.

The night before his rebirth, when he went out, one of his roommates, who was arty, was watching the 1987 version of the Dream of the Red Chamber in the dormitory. At the time, Xie Mingzhe joked, "Seeing Cousin Lin crying bitterly, how do you feel? Do you want to cry too?"

The roommate laughed a little and replied, "Get out! My girlfriend sent the video and asked me to go over the classic."

Xie Mingzhe glanced at the computer screen and sighed, "Lin Daiyu in this version got real class."

The scene was so beautiful that it was imprinted on his mind. It made one's heart ache to see such a delicate and touching girl with tears filled in her eyes. Even an otaku like Xie Mingzhe would feel worried when seeing her crying.

So the scene stuck in his mind.

So clearly.

Xie Mingzhe's eyes lit up – what if he turned this scene into a card? He didn't know if there was such a card in the world of Star Card.
Thinking of this, Xie Mingzhe immediately started the card-making system.

He put one Nebula paper on the Card Console, closed his eyes and carefully depicted the picture in his mind...

Green trees, flowers, a beauty standing by trees, buried petals, and tears on her face.