Cards are born to be king

Late at night in the library, the bookshelves in the middle of the entire first floor collapsed, and the ground was in a mess.The smooth starstone floor was full of uneven pits as if it had been hit by a meteorite rain.Intermittent curved dark blue lines can be seen faintly beside the gravel, which are completely destroyed magic pattern array marks.

Such destructive damage did not attract the attention of Olanna's administrators. The entire library was silent, just like the battle that took place here just now.The alchemy lamp was completely destroyed, only a ray of moonlight came in from the window, reflecting on the mess.It is surprising that the ruins are slowly recovering.Wood chips flew up from the ground, reorganizing the bookshelves, and the torn and dusty parchment gradually returned to their original state.

Presumably, the Olanna Library will return to its original appearance in the morning, and what happened tonight will be completely buried.An incomplete blue branch was inserted obliquely in the pile of parchment, and the only golden leaf on it was only the root, which was scorched yellow and curled, crumbling.Suddenly a hand stretched out from the side field and pulled out the branch.

The hands holding the branches looked awful, with loose skin piled up and covered with brown spots.The fingers were rough and twisted, full of deep bloodstains.When he picked up the branch, the wound on his finger split open again, and blood beads rolled down the skin, which looked shocking, but the man didn't care.After picking up the branch, he casually shook the dust off it, then slipped it into his breast pocket.

"Hiss, this old bastard really has a few tricks."

The low and hoarse voice was like that of a night owl, mixed with constant coughing and panting.The moonlight reflected on the man's face, revealing an extremely terrifying scene.I saw that the left half of the man's face was loose and wrinkled, covered with age spots, and his eyebrows were gray.It seems to be getting old.However, the right half of his face was young and handsome, with clear eyes.

He stood lazily among the ruins, watching the bookshelves and the damaged ground gradually recovering, his lowered eyes seemed to be thinking about something.Suddenly he grunted and raised his hand.I saw that the left arm he picked up the branch just now had completely disappeared, and there was no bleeding from the wound, but a pitch black nothingness.From time to time, there are chaotic patterns of space distortion.

The looming golden light flashed from there, faintly showing the appearance of a pocket watch in the darkness.But the golden light seemed to have been exhausted, before it was fully gathered, it shattered with a bang.The man twisted his eyebrows in extreme pain, but a smile appeared on the corner of his mouth.After the brilliance disappeared, the wrinkles on his left face gradually disappeared, and the chaotic eyes became clear again.

"I was too careless. I didn't expect that the former card king of this world still has so much power."

The man said to himself, and stood quietly waiting for the left side of his face to recover.Thinking of the missing left arm, the man who had been bored all this time finally frowned:

"Can't it be recovered? It's really troublesome."

He muttered, as if venting his dissatisfaction, and then the man took out a card.This card is a little different from the cards of the star disciples, it is completely transparent and has a certain thickness.Like a thick piece of glass.Without the notches found on cards, this 'thick glass' is a rich milky white color, as if filled with milk.

It's just that one or two tentacles and small silver-white carapaces can be seen emerging from the milky white liquid from time to time.Holding the card in his hand, the man shook the gap in his left arm, as if he was sprinkling cumin.Milky white light spots poured down, condensing into the phantom of the arm in mid-air.After the man's left arm fully recovered, half of the 'milk' had been consumed in the transparent card.

Waving his newly grown arm, the man suddenly frowned, and held the transparent card in front of his eyes.Carefully observe the milky white liquid in it.After a long time, he suddenly touched his chin in doubt.

"Strange, why is there a drop missing?"

He said to himself, a playful gleam flashed in his eyes.During the rebirth of the broken arm, the entire library was extremely quiet, only the slight crackling sound of the broken bookshelf recovering.At the same time, he kept looking out of the window.Through the carved glass windows, you can glance at the tents not far away.

The outside world was quiet, and there was no one, as if they were all asleep due to the power of the thick fog.But seeing the corner of the man's mouth outside the window, a smile gradually formed. The smile grew bigger and bigger, and finally carried a hint of self-confidence.

"I know you're here."

He said softly, as if there was a person standing in front of him.The more he talked, the brighter the man's eyes became, and the brighter the smile on his face.

"That's right, where the Child of Destiny is, you will always be there. Isn't such a small movement enough to lure you out?"

"Silde...Marshal."

After this sentence, the surrounding light suddenly dimmed, and the cloud covered the moonlight, making this place dark.The bookshelves that had been recovering slowly stopped suddenly, and all the parchment scrolls that were being restored in mid-air turned towards the man at the same time.This space seemed to be imprisoned, and there seemed to be some consciousness staring at him in the dark, silent but with a creepy smell.

However, the man snorted coldly, the smile remained at the corner of his mouth, but his eyes revealed a bit of sarcasm.

"Low-level world, even if you find us, so what. Your barrier is full of loopholes, and it won't be long before it will be fully analyzed. At that time, even if the card king is resurrected and the gods are reborn, and thousands of children of the world are born, they will not be able to stop it. The footsteps of our conquest."

Before the words fell, the consciousness in nothingness seemed to be irritated.The man's body burst completely with a bang, like a burst balloon.The man was blown into a cloud of blood and covered the ground.The incomplete branch and the transparent card fell into the pool of blood with a clang, and it was covered with blood.

After the man exploded, the consciousness seemed to be satisfied, the thick clouds covering the moonlight dispersed, and the still bookshelves and parchments began to recover themselves again.Everything was going on quietly and orderly, but at the next moment, the incomplete branch that fell into the pool of blood moved slightly, as if an illusion, the withered leaf stalk fell, and the bud-like pale gold leaf buds gradually took shape.

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Although Xiaobiao said it was best not to go out the night before, Jiang Yong broke the precept the next day.Not long after dawn, all of them were called together, and when they were all there, they were taken away from the Orana Star Academy and went to the dwarf forest to the south of the Star Academy.Before them, star institutes had set off one after another, and this time, both the contestants and the substitutes were all present.A team of seven, led by one of Orana's mentors.

With a breakfast bun in his mouth, Jiang Yong sat on the back of the chocobo and looked around. The Olanna Star Academy is located on the Zuogong grassland, which is vast and boundless.The distance was too long, so the people did not walk forward, but rode the green-feathered chocobo provided by Olanna.This blue-green bird is plump and nearly two people tall.They can't fly, but they run extremely fast on grass.

Their feathers are round and stubby, like scales.And this kind of feather can greatly reduce drag when running in tall grass.Coupled with a fur color that is very similar to the grass color, this green-scaled chocobo is an excellent grassland mount.The bird that Jiang Yong was riding was half a head shorter than other chocobos, and the base of its beak was still slightly yellow.

It's not an adult chocobo, but a semi-adult bird that the 'caring' Olanna's team leader found for Jiang Yong.In fact, when Instructor Olanna found out that there was a famous first-year student in the team of Kailan Star Academy, he was also shocked. After repeatedly confirming that Jiang Yong was indeed a substitute, he looked at Jiang Yong's height and found him a docile and obedient person. juvenile bird.

Jiang Yong didn't care if the mount was an adult or not, it still ran as fast anyway.He was thinking about the news he got from the team leader during the previous exchange.It seems that because he is a first-year student, the tutor who leads the team is not very wary of him, so Jiang Yong caught the loophole and said a lot.It stands to reason that it should still be in the stage of the individual competition, but just yesterday Olanna suddenly received a serious news, so he temporarily decided to advance the team competition.

"Hundreds of years ago, there was a blood goblin tribe in the Ria Coppice south of Olanna. After signing an agreement with Olanna, they stayed there to prosper. However, during the Plague Era, the blood goblin tribe was infected. They turned into irrational monsters. Their blood pool was also polluted, causing the land hundreds of miles around to be destroyed and turned into a blood field. At that time, five high-ranking star apprentices from Olanna took action, and together they cut and sealed that area into the void space middle."

"To this day, the original sealing array is somewhat damaged, causing blood energy to be released. However, after hundreds of years of evolution, the blood energy no longer carries the plague virus, but has become an element that changes the geology. There are many blood energy growing there The plants that were born, and the monsters that originally lived there also mutated."

"In this team competition, you need to kill as many blood monsters as possible. Kill a monster to collect its magic core to earn two points, collect a medicinal plant spawned by blood energy to earn one point, and find the monster hidden in the space crack. [-] points. The team with the highest points within ten days wins the final victory."

The words of Instructor Olanna reached everyone's ears, and the vision in front of them suddenly became clear.The vast expanse of tall grass finally came to an end, only to hear a rough cry.The chocobos stopped at the edge of the tall grass, and there was a desolate wilderness ahead.The land is reddish-brown, with sparse blood-red sawgrass growing on it.

There are large and small blood pools on the land, scattered all over the place, the water in the pools is turbid, and small monsters can be seen beside the blood pools.Looking further into the distance, the hazy blood mist is as ethereal as a veil, covering the distant scene.It was only vaguely able to see dense and strange bushes, as well as huge bones like hills.This is just the corner of the blood that leaked from the seal. It is hard to imagine how cruel the scene was.

Everyone was stunned by the bloody land in front of them for a moment, and even Carmenro, who wanted to be arrogant, showed two points of shock and fear on his face.Everyone quietly felt the desolation and wildness from the ancient era in their thick blood. Even Mentor Olanna didn't announce the start of the competition immediately, but gave these teenagers time to adapt.But at this moment, there was only a commotion in the back, accompanied by the frantic and mournful 'quack quack' birdsong.

In the chaos, a fat blue-green chocobo rushed over, its small eyes blinked in a panic, and its degenerated fleshy wings kept fluttering, trying to grasp the balance.However, it was still a half-grown bird after all, and did not stop the car.In the end, he was brought forward by the huge body.In the turmoil, it plunged into the bloody mud like a meat bullet, and then stopped.

When everyone came back to their senses and anxiously started looking for Jiang Yongshi, they found that he had jumped off when the chocobo lost control. At this time, he was sitting on the ground, with gold stars in front of his eyes, and a few pinches of bird feathers on his head. .

Seeing Chocobo struggling in the mud puddle and trying to smash his head, and Jiang Yong who fell in a daze, everyone was silent for a while.All sense of desolation and vicissitudes have disappeared.

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