Master of Trading Star Card Game

Chapter 48 - The New Instance Play (Part 1)

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Base Attributes: Health 2000, Attack 0, Defense 1500, Agility 5, Critical Strike Chance 0%

Additional Skill: Self-torture (Huang Gai flogs himself, causing 20%/40%/60%/80%/100% damage to his basic Health, and increasing 20%/40%/60%/80%/100% Attack of an appointed teammate; 10 second cooldown.)

Additional Skill: Loyalty (Huang Gai proactively drops 20% of his HP and provides the appointed target with an Earth Shield of the same amount of HP; During the existence of the shield, the target is immune to every control. If the shield is broken, it will add 50% of the target's basic Health to the target; 30 second cooldown.)

Xie Mingzhe, ".................."

Self-harm assistance plus the protective healing skill, his design was presented on the card again!

Covering a teammate with low HP with the shield could not only protect the teammate for a period of time, but also help the teammate regain 50% HP when the shield was broken!

If they took [Huang Gai] to farm instances, they wouldn't be concerned that [Zhou Yu] would die at all.

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At the same time, Chen Xiao and the other people in his studio were using [Zhou Yu] for farming a daily instance.

That day's daily instance was Jupiter's 'Purple Bamboo Forest' which was pretty easy. It had no Boss but a great amount of mobs, which made it a popular 'experience instance' among players. And there were many experience stones dropped by mobs.

The small-scale experience instances like this would have a card number limit of five cards per team.

Normally when farming instances, because the mobs were densely arranged, in order to protect their cards from being besieged and attacked to death, a team would bring a healing card, a charge card with high Defence and three AOE cards used for pulling mobs together to rapidly kill them.

Today Chen Xiao's team applied the same card allocation, Pang Yu's [Rhinoceros] was responsible for pulling mobs, Chi Yingying's [Cure Goddess] was used for regenerating HP, and the rest used [Zhou Yu] for launching group attacks.

[Zhou Yu]'s Fire attack was really strong and thus the instance was rapidly finished.

Chi Yingying said, "It is a lot faster than usual! Previously we needed five minutes, today we only used four minutes."

Pang Yu said, "Fire spreading AOE is indeed awesome! Especially when mobs are densely distributed, the more targets were burned, the bigger the fire was!"

While Jin Yue paid more attention to the data issue and said, "An instance mob at the maximum level has at least 100,000 HP. [Zhou Yu]'s Critical Strike can reduce their 40,000-50,000 HP at once, and could basically burn all of them to death after the fire spread three times. This card will definitely make us a fortune!"

At that time, Chen Xiao was sent a PM, "Brother Chen, I made a new card again. Have you finished the instance? Come back and help me check it!"

Chen Xiao immediately led his partners to Xie Mingzhe's individual space.

Xie Mingzhe showed him the card, [Huang Gai], "Earth high-HP card. It can protect [Zhou Yu] during instances."

Chen Xiao was surprised inside, "The self-harm version of support?"

This kind of self-harm type card was scarce, and the most famous one was made by the founder of the Deathrattle School, the Flowing Frost City Club's Fang Yu. He had the strongest Sacrifice Cure card in his hand which could make the whole team immediately heal back to full HP when it committed suicide.

Actually, the [Huang Gai] that Xie Mingzhe made could commit suicide too.

The first skill 'Self-torture' proactively deducted a particular proportion of HP and proportionally increased the teammates' Attack, which could be considered as a self-harm buff. If [Huang Gai] proactively deducted 100% HP to maximize the teammates' Attack, this behaviour was equivalent to committing suicide.

The second skill 'Loyalty' was producing an Earth shield by deducting its HP. The shield could protect the teammates from control and also regenerate HP if it was broken. This skill was very helpful when it came to protecting their team's core card!

Chen Xiao couldn't resist saying, "Your card could be used both in instances and in arenas. In the arena it could protect its team's core output. The skill combination of self-harm and shield is really excellent."

Xie Mingzhe chuckled, "I originally designed the card for protecting [Zhou Yu] in instances. After all, [Zhou Yu] is so squishy that it can be killed easily. In that case, [Huang Gai] can also be used in protecting other targets in our team in arenas, which means its application range is larger."

Chen Xiao nodded, smiling, "Actually, [Zhou Yu] can also be used in the arena. However, normally the enemy won't be so dumb to let your [Zhou Yu] easily interlink his cards in an individual race. But when it comes to the group race with a large number of cards, maybe [Zhou Yu] can create powerful magic at that time."

Xie Mingzhe asked out of curiosity, "How many cards can exist simultaneously in a group race?"

Chen Xiao said, "At the top-level group race, there are four players and each player can control two to three cards, so there are more than eight cards existing at the same time. If you summoned your [Zhou Yu] with perfect timing when the other side gathers together and used the skill 'Chains of Iron Rings' to set fire, the damage would be devastating."

Xie Mingzhe said excitedly, "Brother Chen, when I finish my card group one day, please take me to the arena!"