The Master of Cards Chapter 45: Plan Forward

As Alex read through the information he gathered through the Knowledge Tower, Alex finally understood. Cards had a specific rank. The rank described their hierarchy in the Card generation regimen.

However, a card also had another intrinsic property that factored in the performance of the card. This was the grade of the card. Every card can have five grades E, D, C, B and A. E grade cards have the most basic performance, but A can be considered to be the peak understanding and control of the power of the particular card.

The grade of a card could be determined by a machine or even through self insight. When a card is manifested, it forms with E grade. Consuming special items of the same energy attribute can be channeled through the base card to improve the grade of the card.

Thus, Alex immediately realized that those special items use was to improve the grade of the card.

The second aspect that affected the performance of the card was practice. Practicing with the card helped increase the control and flexibility of using the card.

The third aspect that affected the performance, was physical strength and using a combat tactic that supplemented the attribute. This was common knowledge and Alex had already assimilated this idea.

With this information, Alex finally understood. He needed to gather special items of the light element, dark element and the energy element. Energy element was an unknown element and he was lucky to have found that crystal earlier, for that he could only depend on the Card Dimension. Light element could actually be traded, but Dark element might be harder.

Alex had earlier searched for training formula and special items of the dark element on the Card Frontier and didn't find any. He had an intuition that dark attribute users were either secretive or did not have a good reputation, which is why he had hidden away that attribute. For now, he decided to check the Adventure House and if that failed, he would have to search for it in the card dimension.

Alex then spent another 200 points to find a comprehensive map of the Highland shelter for as far as it had been recorded in the Knowledge Tower. This map blew him away, for the map was very detailed and the scale of exploration marked on this map was huge as well as all the monsters in each area, their fragments as well as value of their carcass and most useful parts of each monsters as well as herbs and fruits.

Alex sighed. The Knowledge Tower was not at all a bad thing to join. After this he left the Knowledge Tower and returned to the dojo. He once again entered the Card frontier and ayed a PvP game. After destroying his opponent, Alex immediately went into the trial tower and completed another 10 levels within an hour.

Now the announcement of a 40 level streak went across the frontier and people were stunned once again. People were shocked and many of the top players in the Card Frontier were also paying attention to Your Dad is a Noob.

Meanwhile, Alex turned a blind eye to this. For him card frontier was not a challenge now, his only goal was to earn points to buy special items.

Alex went to the store. He purchased 1 condensed light matter worth 10,000 card frontier points as well as five more lotus seeds which were the last of the stock. Then he went offline after finishing all his points.

After a few hours, a drone appeared at the dojo and then he received the objects. He did not even display patience. He quickly picked up the Pure Lotus seeds and directly swallowed them. Just like before the seeds turned into a thick liquid and was absorbed by his Light Attribute Card.

The Base card this time took 2 seeds to form a dot and then took the next 3 seeds to form another dot. Clearly using the same item repeatedly decreased its efficiency.

After consuming all the seeds, the light base card now had three dots on it. Alex then took the condensed light matter and also swallowed. This time a much more terrifying amount of that light attribute fluid flooded the base card, rapidly increasing the number of dots by 10.

Now the light base card had 13 dots closely marked on it. Alex felt an urge within his body and followed on the urge, pressuring his Light attribute base card. Then five of the dots disappeared and Alex clearly felt like the Light Aura card had broken to a new grade, it had shifted from Grade E to Grade D!

Alex activated the Light Aura card and once again the pale light surrounded him like a liquid. Alex took the stick into his hand and he could clearly feel the ease in coating the stick with the light aura as well. Clearly, his proficiency with the card had improved considerably.

He spent the rest of the day constantly using the Light Aura card. it clearly had a usage limit of five minutes at the moment and using it made Alex hungry. He understood how having a stronger physical body would help him have a higher usage limit.

Alex constantly employed the light aura and fought using his stick, manipulating the control over the pale fluid like coating over himself to the limit. Once he became exhausted, he would eat some of the dried monster meat which he had not sold amd replenish his energy, before continuing to practice.

Alex spent a week practicing with the Light Aura card. The Energy Affinity card was a passive that was always activated and thus had constant practice, but he needed to find pure energy to improve its grade as well. Alex trained within the gravity room at 15 Gs, pushing his body to the limit as he continued to work hard.

Alex was planning to return to the Card Dimension. This time he was thinking of turning his attention to the dark base card. He needed 100 rank 1 fragments to form the rank 1 Light Aura card, so he probably needed 100 rank 1 fragments again to form the rank 1 Dark Attribute card, but also need A special item of Dark Energy for it.

Chapter end