Chapter 159 In the Card-Making Workshop

Inside the card-making workshop, reminiscent of the headmaster's office.

Lan Qi cleared the spacious worktable and began preparing new materials for processing and mixing.

On the low side table, various materials were arranged in divided trays.

It was quite similar to the scene when Talia made the [Great Love Poet].

These were the materials that Lan Qi had spent a lot of time preparing and mixing.

After placing the divided trays on the worktable, Lan Qi handled the materials calmly and skillfully.

Making this card was perhaps a gamble; buying the materials alone had cost him almost all his money.

In order to harmonize with the core sacred quality material, the [Unnamed Light Elemental Stone], Lan Qi used a considerable amount of light and seal-type materials.

If an ordinary card maker were to handle these materials that were their entire fortune, they would likely be so nervous that their hands would tremble.

But Lan Qi remained calm, feeling even less pressure than when he was making cards at Talia's house.

Rather than lamenting that he always failed at crucial moments, it was better to admit that his strength was simply what it was.

That's what Lan Qi thought.

No matter what, treat it as just another ordinary card making, and that would be the best state of wholehearted dedication.

Lan Qi's hands worked quickly and accurately, his expression calm and determined, and he completed all the preparatory work in less than ten minutes.

His preparations quickly attracted the attention of the broadcast team.

The broadcast screen began to focus on Lan Qi from time to time.

Because once materials of this level were used, either it would be a complete failure, or it would produce a rather good finished product.

On the screen.

Lan Qi breathed a sigh of relief.

Then, a magic card appeared in his hand, and he summoned it.

"Great Love Poet, are you ready?"

After confirming that all the preparation steps were complete, Lan Qi asked the Great Love Poet, who had just been summoned.

"Yes, no problem."

The Great Love Poet cheerfully raised her arms, twirled around as if dancing, and replied.

Instantly.

Not only on the floor of the Card Makers Association but also on Hutton Pedestrian Street, many surprised voices were heard.

"An epic-level summon?"

Generally, summons of this level only appeared in high-level Shadow World broadcasts.

No one expected to see one in the Card Maker exam.

"During the Card Maker exam, you can indeed use any spells and magic cards."

Soon, someone in the outdoor area of a shop on the square said knowingly.

If an epic-level summon with a high degree of self-awareness was present, it could theoretically become a helper.

They had often heard that some big shots, if they had summons with particularly good tempers, might summon their magic cards for long periods of time to act as butlers or attendants.

Generally, just the appearance of an epic-level summon would attract a lot of onlookers.

Not to mention the Great Love Poet, a summon with such a gorgeous, cute, and moving image.

"Wait, gray hair, red dress, a charming beauty..."

Someone seemed to remember something.

"Could it be the [Great Love Poet] of Headmaster Lan of the Demon Academy, who has been rumored about recently?"

As the discussion gradually became noisy, more and more passersby on Hutton Pedestrian Street stopped and looked at the live footage on the association's glass curtain wall.

Inside the very conspicuous headmaster's office.

Lan Qi had already begun making cards without hesitation.

Although there were still more than two hours left in the exam, his mana had already begun to deplete after summoning the Great Love Poet.

The Great Love Poet and Lan Qi began to collaborate with each other as tacitly as a nurse and a chief surgeon in an operating room.

During the period of making cards in the dormitory, Lan Qi often summoned the Great Love Poet to collaborate with him.

What gradually made Lan Qi doubt his life was that he discovered that the Great Love Poet's card-making talent seemed to be even higher than his.

She was clearly just a magic card, but she just learned everything as soon as she tried.

Although the Great Love Poet was not nearly as talented as Lan Qi in painting, her understanding and mastery of magical engineering even exceeded Lan Qi's.

Unfortunately, the Great Love Poet was only at the fixed First Order. If making high-level magic cards, she could only be Lan Qi's assistant.

So, whenever Lan Qi was making high-difficulty magic cards, he would summon the Great Love Poet to collaborate with him.

"This card making is especially important. You have to give me some pressure."

Lan Qi said to the Great Love Poet while mixing the light-attribute magic crystal powder that had already been ground with the seal-specialized magic core liquid to make ink.

The Great Love Poet seemed to understand something.

Her expression froze, no longer with the lively and unrestrained temperament she had before, but became extremely cold, like a strict supervisor overseeing Lan Qi.

"Is that enough?"

The Great Love Poet asked coldly.

"That's the taste."

Lan Qi felt that he had entered a state of immersion.

In short, the Great Love Poet was cosplaying Talia, giving Lan Qi pressure.

Besides the help that the Great Love Poet could bring to Lan Qi, there was another reason why Lan Qi had to summon the Great Love Poet this time when making the card.

The magic card he was trying to make would be based on his [Wonderful Notes] (Purgatory's Sound), a Third Order magic card of the highest quality, and imitate the core principles of its demon magic.

Few humans would use foreign race magic cards for a long time, because if humans overused demon magic runes, it would lead to irreversible local distortions and demonization of the body and soul.

This abnormal demonization could not change the human race into a demon; it was only a kind of malignant distortion, which would greatly shorten one's lifespan and even turn people into a madman or a monster.

The way to avoid these side effects was to find a suitable demon medium. The usual method was to use demon materials as consumables, but it would greatly increase the cost, and there were still risks. Lan Qi could use the Great Love Poet, who was soul-bound to him, as a medium and assistant, and he could use her to avoid the harm that demon magic would bring to him.

It was just that Lan Qi needed to maintain summoning the Great Love Poet for a long time during card making, consuming a lot of mana. In addition, card making with her participation also depended on the cooperation between him and her and her performance.

Ordinary card makers could not cooperate with the Great Love Poet. In a state of high concentration, just hearing a little of the Great Love Poet's voice would likely cause ten times the anxiety and tension, leading to mental breakdown and card making collapse.

Only Lan Qi's unique state of mind could be immune to the Great Love Poet's huge negative impact.

Lan Qi, who had entered a state of immersion, mixed the best ratio in a rather familiar and easy manner.

Then, the Great Love Poet began to help him synchronize magic power with ink. Soon, the ink was mixed with her unique magic power.

Pouring the magic ink into the magic pen, Lan Qi unwrapped the sealed magic scroll and imprinted the summon prototype he had previously made with the core material onto the whiteboard card.

The most critical step next was to rewrite and finalize the enchanting structure, which would stimulate the characteristics of the materials and truly give the summoning card magic attributes.

Lan Qi sat at the worktable, buried his head and concentrated on slowly imprinting, while the Great Love Poet stood at the other end of the worktable, helping him sort out and point out the magic circuits on the card, collaborating to inject their magic power completely and evenly into every intricate magic symbol.

Because of the huge amount of engraving, his progress seemed particularly slow.

Just burying his head to complete this step, he seemed to have lost the concept of time.

Outside the Shadow World exam hall, the midday sun had been shining on Hutton Pedestrian Street for a long time.

A full two hours had passed, and Lan Qi was still drawing.

As the end of the exam approached, fewer and fewer candidates remained in the artificial Shadow World exam hall, and the screen would increasingly focus on Lan Qi.

The screen showed Lan Qi's figure in the headmaster's office. He had been pouring his heart and soul into the key step of imbuing the summon with a magic structure and image, like a sculpture.

This unfinished magic card, mostly blocked by Lan Qi and the Great Love Poet's hands, had gradually begun to spread out dangerous light arcs, seeming extremely unstable and likely to explode at any time.

However.

Lan Qi seemed to turn a blind eye to it and unhesitatingly carried out the final steps, completing the drawing completely and finally debugging, processing, and encapsulating it!

At this moment.

Under the glass curtain wall of the Yiketerit Card Makers Association on Hutton Pedestrian Street, many onlookers opened their mouths unconsciously.

When the broadcast team finally focused the camera on Lan Qi, they knew that whether this card was made or failed depended on this moment.

"This card can't be finalized. Even if the magic circuits and the principles of the spell are all correct, the image he wants to give the summon is too crazy."

"Confused, ah. It was not easy to complete the previous steps. As long as he performs normally, it will at least be a purple rare grade magic card, but he seems determined to destroy this magic card."

"Humans, how can they draw such greatness..."

Some people marveled, some were stunned, and some regretted.

There were also people who, even knowing that Lan Qi would definitely fail, could not help but stare at the faintly visible magic card under the hands of Lan Qi and the Great Love Poet.

Because Lan Qi seemed to be using the pen in his hand to depict the sun!

At this time, Lan Qi's face had become increasingly pale. Even though he was at the Third Order, he was about to exhaust his mind and mana for this final drawing.

Maintaining the Great Love Poet for a long time, his mana was finally about to run out.

But perhaps it was because Lan Qi was too focused.

It seemed that he had not noticed his own state and the changes on the card surface at all.

This was a state of selflessness that even surpassed immersion. Even to the death, he would complete this work.

The changes on the magic card were produced slowly, and Lan Qi did not really notice them until it was completely changed.

That was the strong light that Lan Qi's eyes could not bear for a moment.

In the instant he closed his eyes, a fleeting dazzling light seemed to swallow everything in the entire headmaster's office. In the white picture, only the gray contour lines of Lan Qi and the Great Love Poet remained until they completely disappeared.

...

Hutton Pedestrian Street, under the glass curtain wall of the Yiketerit Card Makers Association.

The eyes of the onlookers were focused on this most amazing moment, so that the air seemed to be frozen.

The light on the screen expanded instantly, as if to devour the real world.

At that moment, all the viewers were about to stop breathing, and their eyes were firmly locked on the screen.

"...Was it destroyed?"

"It finally failed. He was too greedy. If he really made it, I don't know what level it would be set to!"

"Fortunately, the artificial Shadow World has a protection mechanism. Even if he is injured by the explosion, he will return to his normal state after coming out."

"What a pity."

However.

Just as many people sighed and prepared to turn around to continue their weekend plans.

It seemed that the picture on the glass curtain wall of the Card Makers Association had not been interrupted.

It was not until all the light dissipated and returned to calm that a card emitting orange electric cocoons was finally presented on the screen!

[Radiant Virtue]

[Category: Summon Card]

[Grade: Orange Epic]

[Order: 3]

[Effect: Continuously consumes a large amount of magic power to summon a small sun with extreme brightness and no damage, interferes with the sight of all targets, raises the temperature nearby, the light effect gradually increases in confined spaces, and the visual light effect gradually weakens in open terrain.]

[Note: In the morning we sing, reaching the Supreme through the clouds, compassion and omnipotence, all the saints respect, glory and praise, return to the wonderful body of the sun, put down the golden crown, surround the crystal sea, thousands of heavenly soldiers kowtow, and sing the true name of our Lord together, Lan Sect.]

Updated 12,000 words today, Xi's burned out... I feel like I'm delirious...

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