Chapter 27 Come Back Next Year
"puff……"
When Secretary He heard this, he couldn't hold it in any longer.
Coach Shi is well-known for his sharp tongue among students. No student who has ever sat at his poker table has not been taught a lesson.
"Director Xiu, you guys are a bit too arrogant..."
On the other hand, Director Wang's face did not look very good.
You have to know that people who run card parlors pay great attention to word of mouth. One of the things they hate to hear the most is, of course, that they don't teach well.
"It was a misunderstanding. He didn't know that he was your student."
Director Xiu spread his hands and smiled.
"Hmph... Then I'd like to see if he has the strength to match his tone."
Director Wang returned his gaze to the card table.
At this moment, Shi Li was indeed suffering from an occupational disease.
Even though he likes to slack off and skip work just to get paid for nothing, when it comes to teaching at the poker table, he is still very serious and responsible.
If his students played cards like this, they would have been punished by being made to play cards upside down.
"I don't know how to play cards?"
Xiao Hou on the opposite side was not angry at all. Instead, he seemed a little dumbfounded by the question.
The pride that he had previously felt was completely gone in an instant.
You should know that he has been a student in the card club for 5 years and almost 6 years.
Who do students fear the most? Of course, it’s their teachers.
And the guy in front of him looked only two or three years older than him.
But both the posture and the tone reminded him of his strict teacher.
"Come back next year."
Shi Li suddenly remembered that this was a competition and the opponents were not his students, so he simply did not explain much.
He simply flicked his finger at one of his first-row cards.
bite!
The card is turned over, face up.
【Brother! 】
I saw a tall, muscular man jumping out of the card.
He was naked, and there was a patch of light acting as a mosaic in the indescribable parts.
"This, this card!!"
When Xiao Hou took a closer look, he was stunned.
【Brother’s funeral】
Balanced, 35 points, C
Attack 35, 100/100
[Eat Meat - Passive]: The Brotherly Beast attacks humanoid cards with an additional 10 damage
[Muscle Flash - 0 Energy]: Brotherly Beast can select a target in this round and make it [Blind] for 1 round
(【Blindness】: Unable to select a target this round)
Failure to select a target is equivalent to being unable to [attack] or release skills, healing effects, etc.
Even though it can only be released once in a whole game, it is enough for the current game.
[Crazy Apprentice] is the main attack with a super strong burst in 1 round. It costs 100 points but ends up being directly [Blind]. What's the point of that?
This is also the reason why Shi Li questioned the other party's ability to play cards.
This set of [Old Master] + [Crazy Apprentice] combination cards is considered to be a very good burst type among D~C level cards.
But when it came into the hands of the guy opposite, it was used so crudely and full of flaws.
It would be too risky to put them on the first line and uncover them at the same time.
“…”
At this time, Xiao Hou's face looked quite ugly.
Before, I said I wanted to win beautifully, but now it has become that I want to be won beautifully by others.
But how could he have thought that in this kind of rookie tournament, his first-round opponent would be able to pull out a control card in the first round?
If you are more cautious, you can first judge the opponent's situation and then play these two cards!
If I have to blame someone, I can only blame myself for being too eager to show off.
"Xiao He, you recruited a good guy while I was away."
In the audience, Director Xiu was in great joy.
It is not possible to judge the employee's card skills and the quality of his deck based on just one or two cards.
But just for helping me to slap the face of the card hall next door at this moment, it deserves praise.
"I'm sorry, Wang Defa ."
"The strongest student in your card room this year is gone."
"It's only the first round and I'm about to be sent home by our coach Shi."
"If I had known he was one of yours, I should have asked him to show mercy."
"In order to avoid losing too badly and hurting the relationship between the two card halls."
She patted Director Wang on the shoulder and repeated his words almost verbatim.
As bright and annoying as Director Wang's smile was just now, her smile now is just as bright and annoying.
“Hehehe…”
Director Wang smiled stiffly, thinking that this was just hurtful feelings.
Seeing Xiao Hou surrender, the blue light barrier was removed.
His mood was extremely bad.
They actually lost to the card show hall which was at the bottom of the industry in this city!
"Director Xiu, I won't stay with you any longer today."
He stood up and said before leaving, "I hope I can meet someone from your card room again during the city competition selection."
After saying this, Director Wang suddenly felt much more comfortable and led the team away leisurely.
City Tournament is a large-scale tournament where players from different cities compete.
Among them, card hall players are an important part of the participating population.
However, the players sent by the show card hall have not achieved any results for many years.
There are no results, that's just a nice way of saying it.
The truth is, the players they recommend can't even compete for city representatives.
Compared with the city competition held every three years, the annual Rising Star Comprehensive Competition in this city is really nothing.
So Director Wang's words immediately made Director Xiu's face look ugly again.
"How about...I'll do it this year."
She gritted her teeth as she watched the other person's departing back.
"That won't do, Director."
Secretary He quickly stopped him.
The unspoken rule of the industry is that senior executives such as museum directors will not participate in city competitions.
After all, this is a thankless task. If the results are not ideal, the reputation of the card hall will definitely plummet.
What's more, he knew very well that with the director's level, it would be extremely difficult to get a good result even if he did it himself.
"Director, do you want me to call Coach Shi up?"
At this time he saw Shi Li was about to walk away.
"No hurry, let's talk about it after the game is over."
Director Xiu waved his hand.
"Then I'll go register first. If you want to watch the dungeon tomorrow, you have to get holographic glasses."
Secretary He greeted them and walked towards the staff at the other end.
After the morning game, Shi Li’s opponent in the afternoon was also a LV4 player who came from the preliminaries.
He easily passed the level just by relying on the strength of his deck.
After two rounds of elimination, only 100 players remained.
The next day, the dungeon competition officially began.
Today, 100 contestants were arranged in a large conference room.
"Master, what type of competition instance do you think this will be?"
Slime and Shi Li sat next to each other.
Its performance made Shi Li feel gratified. It performed well in the first two rounds and defeated its opponents quite easily.
Based on his judgment of the general level of the players after watching the entire game yesterday, if Slime can pass the dungeon competition, then entering the top 16 should not be a problem.
With better luck, we might even make it to the top 8.
"You'll know it later."
Faced with its question, Shi Li spread his hands.
Copy competition is actually a common form of competition.
The copies used for the competition have been specially modified by the association.
As for what technology or principles were used, he had no idea and was not very interested.
All I know is that generally speaking, there are several common modes in the association's competition copies.
For example, mission competition, strongest competition, speed competition, survival challenge and so on.
Of course, the contents of the copies will not be identical.
After all the contestants were in their positions, the head of the association appeared.
The person in charge was a middle-aged woman who wore glasses and looked a little stern.
"Congratulations to the 100 contestants here for successfully advancing to the dungeon competition."
Following her signal, the staff began distributing props.
Soon, the strange discs were distributed to all the contestants.
The silver disc was slightly larger than Shi Li's palm, and had evenly distributed fine holes on the edge.
"Master, this is amazing. This is the first time I have seen a key in person. But how do I use it?"
The Slime stretched out its jelly tentacle and placed it on top of its head.
“You may need to swallow it.”
Shi Li teases it.
Plop.
As a result, I immediately saw the Slime sucking the disc into its jelly body.
"Uh, I forgot you're a slime."
He didn't know whether to laugh or cry.
"What you have in your hands now is the key to this dungeon competition."
At this time, the person in charge cleared his throat.
"Let me briefly introduce the dungeon mode you will be playing this time."
"It's a superpower + mission competition."
As soon as these words were spoken, they immediately aroused discussion among the contestants.
"Wow, it's actually a super power competition, that's awesome!"
“It makes me look forward to it.”
"But aren't superpowers usually tied to the strongest competition? It's rare to see them tied to a mission competition."
These are slightly known.
"Master, what is a super power competition?"
There are also some players who are unaware of this, such as Slime.
"Superpower competition, that is..."
Shi Li told the information he knew.
Superpower competition refers to giving players special superpowers in the copy.
The contestants then compete using this superpower.
To put it simply, it is similar to an equipment card.
But the difference is that the superpower card is not your own, but a copy given to you.
Moreover, superpowers are often much more complicated than simple equipment cards.
"The duration of this instance is 3 days."
"When the time is up, the top 32 players will advance to the next round."
"For specific details and rules, please enter the dungeon and check for yourself."
For the sake of fairness and confidentiality of the competition, even the person in charge does not know the specific content of the copy.
Under her organization, 100 contestants formed teams.
Under normal circumstances, it is impossible for the system to search for the corresponding copy for a team of 100 people.
At this time, the role of the copy key is reflected.
[Are you sure you want to use up one copy opportunity? ]
Click Confirm immediately.
However, at this time, an unexpected situation occurred.
[Insufficient team times, copy generation failed]
A new line of information popped up in front of my eyes.
Someone immediately informed the person in charge of this situation.
Then, after questioning by the person in charge, it was discovered that there was a careless person among the 100 contestants.
This guy forgot that his copy time would not refresh for another 3 hours, so no one could enter the copy.
After finding out the whole story, the person in charge glanced at the other party.
"Congratulations to the 99 players here for successfully advancing to the dungeon competition."
She rewrote her opening remarks.
The careless ghost was kicked out of the team in disgrace. Everyone clicked on the panel again, and this time it went smoothly.
[Team structure detected]
[Duplicate key detected]
[Team and key matched successfully]
[The copy is opening...]
Strings of information appeared before everyone's eyes.
After about 10 seconds, the only copy option popped up.
[Instance Name: Ancient Palace Prison]
[Number of players in the dungeon: 99]
[Applicable level: LV1~10]
【Time ratio: 1:1】
[Follower card: 0, Equipment card: 1]
"prison?"
Shi Li raised his eyebrows slightly.
"Master, we have to take care of each other after entering the dungeon, bobobobo~"
Slime's voice sounded beside him.
"no problem."
Shi Li made a reassuring gesture to it, and his body began to gradually fade away.
After 3 seconds, the vision went dark and then bright.
"Detention area?"
He found himself in the pure white space of the copy.
"Strange, isn't this the place that will appear after the copy is over?"
While he was confused, he saw a card appear out of thin air and float towards him.
One [? ] turned into 50.
Not only the detention area, but even the card drawing session was released ahead of time.
[Please select 1 card as the super power of this copy]
[After everyone has selected their superpowers]
[99 players will get serial numbers and enter the dungeon]
An emotionless voice sounded from the detention area.
"I understand. Pick the superpowers first and then enter the base."
He suddenly realized.
"Speaking of these cards... can I preview them?"
Looking at these 50 [? ], one can’t help but be tempted.
He did it as he thought, and placed his hand on one of the cards.
The surface of the card gradually blurred, and after a few seconds, the details that were originally invisible were revealed.
"If I can preview it , then I can choose any superpower I want."
"Sorry, I guess I'll have to keep you waiting for a while."
The preview information appeared, making the corners of his mouth rise.
So let’s take a closer look at the previewed card projection.
What appears in the projection is a little white man, who is specifically used to present a superpower demonstration animation.
In front of the stickman, there is a target.
call out!
It just waved its hand and shot out a beam of light.
The beam hit the target and bounced off, but the target was not damaged at all.
Next, the target changed from one to two.
And one target is in front of the villain, and the other target is diagonally behind it.
call out!
Another beam of light was shot out, also causing refraction.
But this time the refraction hit the second target.
Boom!
An explosion enveloped the target.
After the smoke cleared, the target that was bombed was missing one-third of its area.
[Refractive Wave Beam]: It can emit an energy beam, which has explosive properties after being refracted once.
"An offensive superpower?"
"Does that mean there might be a fight after we go in?"
He guessed.
However, it is hard to say whether it is a competition with other players or with enemies in the dungeon. You have to go in and see for yourself.
"Although this superpower can easily achieve unexpected results, it is probably difficult to master in a short period of time."
He took his hand back and gave up this option.
The reason superpowers are more complex than equipment cards in this type of dungeon is that they both have side effects.
This side effect may be a cost that needs to be consumed, a condition for activation, or a weakness of the effect itself.
The cost of [Refractive Wave Beam] is obvious, that is, it will only be lethal after one refraction.
"Don't worry, finish looking at all 50 super powers first."
“There’s always the right one.”
Muttering to himself, Shi Li reached for the second [? ] card.
