Master of Trading Star Card Game

Chapter 10 - A Strange Original Card (Part 1)

Xie Mingzhe reckoned that the Additional Skill of the [Lin Daiyu], as its name suggested, to trigger off instant death of flower cards, was automatically created by the system in accordance with his imagination as he was thinking of the story of Daiyu burying the flowers while picturing the [Lin Daiyu] that was designed to overcome most flower cards. Unfortunately, its Defense was low and the chance of using its skill was only 10%. In other words, its data was terrible.

What should he do with this card? To sell it for several gold coins? He was too badly off. Thinking of it, Xie Mingzhe concentrated attentively on producing the [Lin Daiyu] cards again.

He had the right to produce the cards as he had its copyright, while others were prohibited from doing the same thing.

Xie Mingzhe had used up the Nebula paper to make 9 [Lin Daiyu] cards.

The reason why he had made 9 same cards was that he hadn't made any cards before. He wanted to learn the techniques and gain more experience of creating cards. He had noticed that the more he focused on the cards, the clearer the picture and the better the data would be. For instance, the last [Lin Daiyu] card he made had different data from the first card. Although its Defense was 16, it was indeed improved.

Xie Mingzhe collected the 9 [Lin Daiyu] cards and took them to the black market with optimism.

After arriving at the black market, Xie Mingzhe walked around it first, because he knew he would be cheated easily as a newbie if he didn't know the market clearly in the game. Studying the market first was the habit he developed through years of playing online games. The black market was a suitable place to do market research as it had all kinds of cards.

After investigating, he had a basic understanding of the market.

The original one-star cards that had good data and powerful skills would be sold at auction or leveled up to seven stars and then sold at a high price. In the black market, the one-star cards with the ordinary data were sold for 50 gold coins (it was equivalent to 5 RMB in the real world), the cards with terrible data but a beautiful surface were sold for 20 to 30 gold coins and other cards having bad data and ugly surface were sold for less than 10 gold coins.

A lot of upgrading materials were needed for a one-star card to be leveled up to a seven-star card, so the one-star cards were cheap in general, especially those having terrible data were sold at a very low price. Players bought those one-star cards in the black market mainly because they were originally created. Such a card was valueless and players dealt in it as a collection.

Having known the price, Xie Mingzhe walked to a large stall, whose signboard read 'Purchasing original cards'. He asked politely, "Hello, I have some original cards. Do you want them?"

The stall owner took his card and looked at it, "The image on the card is pretty good, but the data is too low."

Xie Mingzhe had already prepared himself for being laughed at. He smiled and said, "I'm just an inexperienced beginner. The data is indeed terrible. How much can I sell it at?"

The stall owner rubbed his chin, poring over the card. He felt that this card was somewhat strange.

The image on the card was quite beautiful – a delicate and touching girl whose face was bathed in tears, as well as realistic petals and trees as auxiliary decorations – it was just like a painting. He had never seen such a pretty card. But the terrible data was no match for the beautiful image. That's weird.

The stall owner asked confusedly, "Are you the maker of this card? Are there any more?"

Xie Mingzhe took out the remaining eight, "That's all. Do you want to buy them?"