Chapter 112: Rance's Steady Style

d her life of poverty and wandering. She even enjoys a leisurely life in the royal city of Ekreth every day with a generous pension.This morning, while Lance and Talia were having breakfast together,...Chapter 113: Lanchi's Steady Style

When Lance stepped through the massive portal into nothingness, as he always did, he once again found himself enveloped in an endless darkness. {Write here I want readers to remember our domain name}

I can't see anything, not even my own heartbeat. It's a familiar feeling.

But when it shines again, it won't be the academy anymore.

Gradually, a faint glimmer of light, like the first blush of dawn seen by a sailor lost in the night, entered Lancy's gaze.

As a silvery light appeared, a series of words came rushing in like meteors streaking across the sky.

Welcome to the registration and card-making test site, a simulated shadow world created by artificial intelligence.

The exam is currently in the preparation phase, and the official test will begin after the preparation time ends.

The preparation time remaining is 29 minutes and 50 seconds.

Before the exam begins and during the exam, you can pay and purchase any materials you need at any time. After purchasing, the materials will be delivered to your current AI-generated world within 5 minutes.

The purple rare and above materials you purchased can only be used for crafting exam cards, and cannot be taken outside the Artificial Shadow World examination venue. Unused materials will be recovered by the association and 80% of the cost will be refunded to the examinee.

If you successfully make magic cards out of materials in the exam, material costs will be refunded as prizes according to the following proportions: White Common 10%, Blue Rare 20%, Purple Rare 30%, Pink Divine 40%, Orange Epic 50%.

The finished magic cards and their patents belong to the examinee. The South Continent Card Master Association only owns the display rights.

Candidates must create magic cards of at least three ranks. If the rank of the card is higher than three, there will be a slight increase in points. If the rank of the created card is lower than that of the candidate, there will be a slight deduction in points.

After leaving the artificial intelligence world exam site, the system will automatically settle and register the candidate's test scores and evaluation results.

【……】

The above information can be browsed and referred to at any time during the exam.

Have you finished reading and agreed to enter the exam environment

Continue/Exit

Lance quickly browsed through it.

He, being familiar with the law, knew that every regulation had its underlying considerations.

For example, returning only 80% of the price for remaining materials is not entirely about the association being greedy, but rather to prevent some overly affluent examinees from buying large quantities of scarce materials right before the exam without any consideration, leading to other examinees who need them being unable to purchase them normally.

Materials are not allowed to be taken out of the exam room. This is also to prevent cheating by colluding and purchasing high-grade materials to inflate prices.

As for the scoring system for high-level cards, I think it's quite fair. If a fourth or fifth-tier card maker participates in the registration exam and only creates a third-tier card, they will be deducted points. However, if they create a fourth or fifth-tier card, they will receive additional points.

For candidates like Ranch who participate at the third tier, they can only get a third-tier card and there are no additional points added or deducted.

As Ranchi's fingertips brushed against "Continue," ripples spread across the silvery light curtain, expanding rapidly before his eyes until it vanished.

All around lit up quickly, Lance found himself standing in a standard-issue card-making workshop.

And the "Candidate Operation Panel" in front of you now has many new functions, such as "Select Scene" and "Purchase Materials".

During the preparation time, candidates cannot start making cards, they can only conduct corresponding preparatory work.

Then Lance calmly began to select a scene.

Optional environments range from indoors to outdoors, encompassing a variety of styles. It almost covers every map that has ever been recorded in the artificial world.

Quickly, Lance chose a spacious room that resembled a principal's office.

Only here is he the most at ease and the most efficient.

After that, Lance began selecting materials.

On the browsing panel, you can see all the inventory and its details of the current Etheria Card Maker Association branch.

Some essential materials are already included in the exam registration fee. The association will provide five sets of basic magic card production materials, which will be delivered to each candidate's personal shadow world at the start of the official exam.

These basic materials represent five opportunities and cannot be purchased additionally.

Other materials can be purchased freely according to the student's card-making needs.

Lanche adjusted the material categorization to "Seal", "Spirit", "Light", and "Heal", browsing through the inventory and descriptions.

Sealing Ring: Blue Rare Prop; for light sealing magic or creature type magic; 12.

Mystic Jewel: A common white item; can be used as a conduit for sealing power; 1.

Holy Seal: A purple rare item; produced by the Church, it bears a seal with divine art and can suppress evil creatures; 65.

Holy Water: A purple rare item; a consumable with extremely strong healing effects, can also be used as a projectile against undead, or as an ingredient in crafting; 20.

Cure Flower: A common white item; can be ground into powder or mixed with magic ink; 5.

The Feather of Light: A rare purple item; originated from the light fairy, it can be used as a medium for casting powerful light magic; 115.

【……】

After clicking on an item, you can also see its detailed color information, as well as a detailed description, rating, and recommended usage instructions.

Although Ranch focuses on sealing success rates, high-quality Kalah card ratings still require reference to the available rare materials based on the current inventory of the Iktherite Cardmaker Association branch.

It is possible that other categories need to be integrated into the seal system, becoming composite magic types.

Lance quickly added several materials needed to make the seal-binding magic cards to the list, hardly hesitating at all.

Only in the middle did Lance see some materials of other types of magic. He needed to think a little about whether he should consider making high-quality magic cards today with these as options.

Although he had half an hour to prepare, he was almost done choosing in about ten minutes.

Lanche's strategy is to make a white quality guarantee on the equipment cards he's least skilled with, and to make blue or purple on the summon cards and spell cards he's more skilled at.

In this way, as long as the card is successfully made, he will at least reach the bronze level. Even if in the two purples and one white cards, a certain purple single card evaluation is extraordinary, it is possible to be determined to the silver level.

That's how Ranch quickly browsed through the materials in these four categories of screening inventory.

He watched as it was being quickly scrolled across the interface, line by line. Suddenly, when it reached a certain page, it immediately went back.

Lanche's hands grew sluggish and slowly came to a halt.

He saw a very special pink sacred-grade material: [Unnamed Light Element Stone].

According to the evaluation by the Association of Card Makers, there is currently no catalytic processing scheme for it. Using traditional elemental stones directly may only achieve the effects of a purple rare grade.

Despite this, the single jewel itself costs a whopping 1250.

Lanche originally didn't want to consider such an expensive single item material.

But as he scrutinized the appearance of this elemental stone, his brow furrowed even deeper.

He had seen this type of spherical structure in a science magazine from his past life.

This doesn't seem to be a rock from the ground, but rather a solid form that emerged from the condensation of solar nebulae. It took accretion and a long time to form its current appearance!

That is to say, it is actually a meteorite from outer space....

Lance stood before the light screen displaying materials, chin resting on his hand as he pondered.

Last time's 650 prize, Huberly didn't take a penny and gave it all to him.

When Alaric left the Nan Wan Tina border region, he had around 1,000 in assets, which he had already given Talia a considerable amount of, and would continue to pay her in the future.

That is to say, if one buys the materials themselves and successfully creates magic cards, there would be a bonus as additional compensation.

But if it fails, they'll suddenly become impoverished and may even need to seek support from their families before moving on to the next film world to make money.

If possible, he still doesn't want to ask his family for money in the short term.

Lanchi knew that the butler, Hans, would definitely want to see a good show, so he didn't tell his father, Noel, who was far away in a foreign land, that Lanchi had been accepted into the Academy of Sages.

Lance didn't mind either way. He was just preparing to make a name for himself in the royal capital of Iceris, show off his skills, and then surprise his old man. Best of all would be after he pulled off something big in the Northern Continent and came back.

Since Old Man Noah invested in him, Ranch would definitely give back Noah's expectations!

After some deliberation.

Ranch still made the decision.

He removed most of the original purple rare quality materials, purchased this element stone, and chose other materials to pair with it.

That's how time flies.

And finally, the prompt sound for the official exam to begin has arrived!

Today is the 4th update, and there are still 2 chapters left.

(The End)most falling.The male guard stood in the corner like a ghost, his short sword gleaming coldly in his hand.Count Palokas felt himself growing lightheaded, and before he could recover, a wave of icy dea...