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Chapter 113: Lanchi's Conservative Style
Chapter 113: Lanchi's Conservative Style
As Lanchi stepped through the massive Void Gate with his usual pace, he once again found himself engulfed in boundless darkness.
An encompassing darkness where even the sound of his heartbeat faded away, a familiar sensation.
However, when the surroundings lit up once more, he wouldn't be in that academy anymore.
Gradually, a faint light, like the dawn breaking for a lost sailor in the night, entered Lanchi's vision.
With the appearance of the silvery radiance, a series of words streaked across the sky like shooting stars, rushing towards him.
【Welcome to the Registered Card Maker Examination Venue, an artificially created simulated Shadow World.】
【Currently in preparation time, the formal examination will begin after the preparation time ends.】
【Preparation time remaining: 29 minutes and 50 seconds.】
【Before the exam begins and during the exam, you can purchase materials at any time, and they will be delivered to your current location in the Artificial Shadow World within 5 minutes of purchase.】
【Purple rare and above materials purchased can only be used for exam card making and cannot be taken out of the Artificial Shadow World exam venue. Unused materials will be recycled by the Association, and 80% of the fee will be refunded to the examinee.】
【If you successfully turn the materials into magic cards during the exam, a proportion of the material fee will be refunded as a bonus, in the following proportions: white common 10%, blue precious 20%, purple rare 30%, pink sacred 40%, and orange epic 50%.】
【The finished magic cards and their patents belong to the examinee, and the Southern Continent Card Maker Association only retains the right to display them.】
【Examinees must produce magic cards of no less than the third rank. If the rank of the card is higher than the third rank, a slight score bonus will be added; if the rank of the card produced is lower than the examinee's rank, a slight score reduction will be applied.】
【After leaving the Artificial Shadow World exam venue, the registration exam results and evaluation results will be automatically calculated for the examinee.】
【...】
【This information can be reviewed at any time during the exam.】
【Have you read and agreed to enter the exam environment?】
【Continue/Exit】
Lanchi quickly finished browsing.
Being familiar with the law, he knew that each regulation had its considerations.
For example, the association wasn't being greedy by only refunding 80% of the price for leftover materials; it was to prevent some wealthy examinees from buying and hoarding large quantities of scarce materials at the start of the exam, causing other examinees who need them to be unable to purchase them normally.
Not allowing materials to be taken out of the exam venue was also to prevent speculators from buying high-level materials to manipulate prices.
Additionally, Lanchi felt that the bonus and penalty system for high-level cards was fair. If a fourth or fifth-rank card maker participated in the registration exam and only made a third-rank card, they would be deducted points, but if they made a fourth or fifth-rank card, they would receive extra points.
For examinees like Lanchi, who was a third-rank card maker, he could only make third-rank cards, with no additional bonus or penalty.
As Lanchi's fingertip touched 【Continue】, ripples appeared on the silvery light screen, rapidly spreading before his eyes until they disappeared.
The surroundings lit up quickly, and Lanchi found himself standing in a standard-sized card-making workshop.
The 【Examinee Operation Panel】 in front of him had many new functions, including 【Select Scene】 and 【Purchase Materials】.
During the preparation time, examinees couldn't start making cards yet and could only do the necessary preparations.
Thus, Lanchi calmly began to choose his scene.
The selectable environments ranged from indoor to outdoor, with various styles, covering almost every map recorded in the Artificial Shadow World.
Soon, Lanchi chose a spacious room with a style similar to the principal's office.
Only in such a place would he feel most comfortable and have the highest work efficiency.
Afterward, Lanchi began to select the materials he needed to purchase.
On the browsing panel, he could see all the inventory and detailed information of the Ikelite Card Maker Association branch.
Some essential materials were already included in the exam fee and would be provided by the association—five sets of basic magic card-making consumables, delivered to the examinee's single-person Shadow World at the moment the exam officially started.
These basic materials represented five chances and couldn't be purchased additionally.
All other materials could be freely selected according to the examinee's card-making needs.
Lanchi filtered the materials by category to 【Seal】, 【Spirit】, 【Light】, and 【Healing】, browsing the inventory and introductions.
【Curse Seal Magic Ring: Blue Rare Item; Required for mild seal magic or biological magic; £12.
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【Mysterious Gemstone: A White Common item; Can be used as a medium for sealing power; £1.】
【Holy Seal: Purple Rare item; Produced by the Church, imprinted with a divine seal, it has a suppressing effect on evil beings; £65.】
【Holy Water: Purple Rare item; A consumable with an extremely potent restorative effect, it can also be thrown at undead creatures or used as a reagent in crafting; £20.】
【Healing Magic Flower: White Common item; Can be ground into powder or used to create magical ink; £0.50.】
【Light Feather: Purple Rare item; Derived from Light Fairies, it can be used as a medium for casting powerful light-based spells; £115.】
【...】
Upon opening the entry, one could view its quality, details, introduction, evaluation, and recommended usage.
Although Lanchi would primarily focus on seals to ensure success, if he wanted to craft a high-quality card with a high Kala score, he would also need to take into account the current inventory of the Ikelite Card Maker Association branch and the available high-rarity materials.
It was possible that he would need to incorporate other categories into his seal-based magic, creating a composite magic type.
Lanchi quickly added to his cart some essential consumables that were necessary for crafting seal-based magic cards; there was no need for hesitation with these items.
It was only when he came across materials of other magic types that Lanchi had to pause and consider if he wanted to include them as alternatives for the high-quality magic cards he planned to make today.
Even with half an hour for preparation, he had almost finished selecting his materials in less than ten minutes.
Lanchi's strategy was to create a white-quality equipment card as a baseline and aim for blue or purple quality for his stronger suits—summoning and spell cards.
With this approach, as long as he succeeded in crafting the cards, he would at least attain the Copper rank. If one of his purple cards received an exceptional evaluation, he might even achieve the Silver rank.
As Lanchi swiftly browsed through the materials in these four categories, his eyes, which had been scanning the interface like a conveyor belt, suddenly stopped and retraced to a particular page.
Lanchi's hand slowed down and eventually came to a halt.
He had spotted an extremely unique Pink Sacred-tier material—the [Unnamed Light Element Stone].
According to the Card Maker Association's assessment, there was currently no known method to catalyze and process this stone. Using traditional means of employing elemental stones would likely only yield Purple Rare-level effects.
Despite this, it was priced at a staggering £1,250.
Initially, Lanchi hadn't intended to consider such an expensive single-piece material.
However, as he carefully examined the structure of the element stone, his brow furrowed.
He had seen this granular type of structure in scientific magazines from his previous life.
It didn't seem to be an earthly stone but rather a solid mass formed through the condensation of solar nebulae, followed by processes like accretion over an extended period! In other words, it was a cosmic meteorite...
Lanchi stood in front of the light screen, deep in thought, as he considered purchasing the materials.
The last time, Hyberian had given him the entire £650 reward without taking a single coin for himself.
When Lanchi left the South Van Tina border territory, he had about £1,000 in assets, a large portion of which he had already given to Talia, and he would continue to support her financially in the future.
In other words, if he bought this stone and successfully crafted a magic card, he would still have some bonus money left.
But if he failed, he would suddenly find himself in poverty, and he might even have to ask his family for financial support before earning money in the next shadow world.
If possible, he didn't want to ask his family for money again anytime soon.
Lanchi knew that Hans, the butler, was probably eager to see the show, and he hadn't yet informed his distant father, Noe, about his admission to the Sage Academy.
Lanchi himself didn't mind; he intended to surprise his father after making a name for himself in the Royal Capital of Ikelite and accomplishing great feats, preferably after returning from a significant undertaking in the Northern Continent.
Since his father, Noe, had invested in him, Lanchi was determined to reciprocate his father's expectations.
After much contemplation, Lanchi made his decision.
He removed most of the Purple Rare-quality materials from his cart and purchased the element stone, carefully selecting other complementary materials to go with it.
Time ticked by, second by second, until finally...
The prompt signaling the start of the formal examination arrived!
Today there will be 4 chapters, with 2 more to come.
(End of Chapter)
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