Chapter 174: Creating the God Cards
While Hephaestus and the others were continuously engraving runes, inspiration for these duel cards flashed in Liam's mind one after another.
As the 0.1 version, this card pack's main promotion was the Xenos deck.
No matter which Familia's card pack they used, they would definitely put a few cards from the Xenos deck in it!
Afterward, to accelerate the copying and production of the cards, the Goibniu Familia, the Hestia Familia, the female Xenos, and the members of the Hephaestus Familia.
Were all staying at the Goibniu Familia home base at this time, and had started a bustling production in the forging and production workshop.
Because Liam was present, plus the female Xenos were very attractive just by their appearance.
Coupled with the fact that Liam had specially prepared clothes for these female Xenos, their charm was even greater.
Liam instructed the crowd, "Attention, the duel cards are divided into N, R, SR, UR according to rarity.
The back of the cards must all be a uniform gold and black vortex. The size must all be identical.
The front of the card, the exquisiteness, and the strength of the engraved rune's magic power will be controlled according to rarity!
For selling card packs, only three cards are allowed in one pack, and they must all be random.
The card packs must be engraved with anti-snooping runes, and then made in the style of a runic book!"
Tsubaki was extremely excited, "Liam, is there anything else to pay attention to? Hurry up and say it!"
"When a card is placed on the duel field, the rarer the card, the more magnificent its appearance effect must be!"
Tsubaki's face became flushed, her breathing rapid.
"This idea is really too great! I must participate fiercely in the production!"
The reason why each card pack had to have a gorgeous packaging was also for the sense of ceremony.
A book-style card pack wrapped in leather, although it sounded expensive, as long as it was mass-produced, the cost would be controlled.
And speaking of leather, it was naturally the cheapest sheepskin, pigskin, and monster leather that were redesigned.
Then sealed by a one-time anti-snooping rune engraving, including the cost of the cards. A card pack sold for one thousand Valis could have its cost controlled to within three hundred Valis.
The anti-snooping rune could shield against many magics, such as clairvoyance, weight perception, magic power fluctuations, and so on.
And the card packs could be recycled for 200 Valis, for circular use.
After designing all the abilities of the Familia members led by Loki and Freya, he did not rush Hephaestus and the others to produce them.
He chose to take these original drawings to The Hearthfire Manor and invite the gods and members of the various Familias to come and appreciate them.
Because they were based on these members, he still had to produce a picture that satisfied them to be sold as duel cards.
Freya came up to Liam and pointed at her own portrait.
"Liam, why am I dressed so conservatively in my portrait?"
"Because I don't want these women to be collected by others in a way that sells their bodies. Beauty should not just be about sexiness.
Besides the beauty that stirs human lust, there should also be a pure beauty that is not mixed with desire.
This is my aesthetic."
"Liam, your understanding of aesthetics is impressive."
"Lady Freya, if you need, I can customize an exclusive portrait for your main god card."
Freya revealed a smile, "You are really interesting. So, what's the price?"
"Naturally, it's not to reject those Xenos."
"Xenos? I will." Freya walked away from the banquet with an enchanting gait.
Liam breathed a sigh of relief. Then he, one by one, in the name of custom-designing duel card portraits, got everyone to, on the surface, no longer proactively reject the Xenos.
Of course, he only needed to customize one main god card for each Familia's main god.
Three days passed in a flash. Liam and his group had prepared a full ten thousand packs of card packs.
This was after pulling in all the members of the Grand Casino and the Xenos to help.
However, Liam still underestimated Orario's love for the Duel King game.
The card packs, which could build at most one thousand five hundred decks, were actually completely sold out in just two hours.
The sales in two hours reached ten million Valis. This turnover was truly exaggerated.
Liam had a bit of a headache, "Let's limit the purchase from now on. From now on, each person can only buy three packs.
If it's still not enough, I will allow them to go to the Guild hall and conduct transactions under the witness of the Guild staff. We are not responsible after the purchase leaves the counter.
As for the specific amount, they can discuss it themselves.
Then, invite the members of the Adventurer's Guild to host the competition."
Four duel fields were prepared and listed in the center of the Colosseum.
As for the duel disks, twenty sets were also prepared. He planned to place ten sets each in the Daedalus Street district, the bustling street where the Grand Casino was located, and inside the Grand Casino.
Although the Daedalus Street district was a slum, Liam intended to upgrade and transform it.
And he was prepared to develop this place into their Familia's sphere of influence.
He had sufficient financial resources, and the land in the slum was not valuable.
As long as the development was reasonable, it could make a large number of simple, low-level residents grateful.
As for those scoundrels like dog-skin plaster, Liam had plenty of ways to deal with them.
In addition, Daedalus Street was the exit of the artificial labyrinth. Six of the exits were in Daedalus Street.
So this place, Liam had to completely bring it into his Familia's sphere of influence.
The drop rate of powerful and rare cards was all controlled by Liam, so the drop rate of the card packs was still very fair.
Currently, in the duel cards, N cards (Normal) were guaranteed in every pack.
R cards (Rare, with a silver name using silver foil stamping), basically one in ten packs.
SR (Super Rare, with a foil card art, the picture showing a flowing effect, and a purple foil name), the drop rate was one in a thousand, meaning one in a thousand packs.
UR (Ultra Rare, with a gold foil name + foil card art, the picture showing a golden flowing pattern, Legendary), the drop rate was one in ten thousand.
Eina originally had a lot of work to handle, and now because of the need to hold a Duel King competition, she was even busier.
Eina looked at Liam with a resentful gaze, "Liam, to help you, do you know how exaggerated my workload is now?"
"But Eina, only you can be competent for this job. I need your help."
Eina's cheeks immediately flushed, her heart racing.
Her originally somewhat angry mood instantly became cheerful, "Since you need help, then I will also find a way to handle the work efficiently!"
"Don't get too tired. You can appropriately delegate work to other members!"
"Okay!"
Liam breathed a sigh of relief. Although the main purpose was to let everyone accept the Xenos.
But who knew that he would actually make the entire Orario go crazy.
At the duel card sales shop, all the card packs had long been sold out, but the customers were still unwilling to leave, even preparing to camp out.
Taking a break from his busy schedule, after seeing everything was on the right track, Liam took out a communication crystal and called Fels.
"Fels, I want to obtain the development and management rights for Daedalus."
"Hmm? This matter, I need to report to the god. By the way, Ikelos has been exiled by the Guild."
Liam said "Mmm." Ikelos didn't care about his subordinates at all. It was a dereliction of duty. If he dared to provoke him again in the future.
When he had his third awakening, he would go and kill this guy.
Not long after, Ouranos's image appeared from the communication crystal. A burly old man with white hair and beard sat on his throne.
"I can give you the total development and management rights for Daedalus Street. The total management rights still belong to the Guild.
This is the reward I'm giving you. You let humans and monsters coexist peacefully. I can see your efforts and sweat."
So all my thoughts were seen through.
"Then thank you. This way, I have no worries."
Liam smiled. Since he had already received the approval of the Guild's supreme leader, he could let go and develop the entire Daedalus Street.
To say it was development, it was actually mainly buying land.
Because it was a slum, the funds to buy the entire district were about one-tenth of the market price.
The reason no one was willing to invest here was mainly because it was dirty, messy, and poor.
Poor environment, poor security, poor quality of residents, and so on.
After getting all the land deeds for the entire district, the rest was a drastic transformation.
He directly provided work in exchange for relief, directly spending wages to invite the local residents to carry out housing construction.
Apart from those who squandered the money they got, the remaining residents with strength all joined the infrastructure construction work.
And the residents who got the money from selling the land, apart from eating and drinking, actually used the rest of the money to buy duel cards.
And it wasn't just one or two, but almost more than half of the people in the slum.
To speed up the project progress, he also directly let Lyd, Gros, and other male Xenos join the infrastructure work.
When the local residents saw these Xenos working diligently and not actively harming people, these residents no longer treated the Xenos with hostility or fear.
But to proactively chat with the Xenos, the residents still couldn't do it.
Magic card sales, and the selection competition, Liam left them to Eina to be responsible for.
The street transformation design was left to the relevant personnel of the Guild.
As for the street construction and supervision, Liam fully entrusted them to Fels.
For a full four days, Liam spent his time every day cultivating his Selfless Sword Art in his spare time.
And most of the time, he was working while letting the sword aura circulate in his body, striving to make the sword aura circulate in his body like in a cultivation novel.
Because he hadn't found the meridians, the sword aura circulated directly in the blood vessels in his body.
Flowing from the arteries to the veins and even to the capillaries and then back to the arteries. Although it was dangerous, it was finally on the right track. In the future, he just needed to accumulate it step by step.
Liam here had already designed all the cards for the 0.1 version, but he felt that something was still missing.
"In the two-thousand-health version of axe-man versus axe-man, it seems something is still missing."
He recalled the plot of the first season of the Yu-Gi-Oh anime, "That's right, the subsequent Yu-Gi-Oh can be designed as a four-thousand-health and eight-thousand-health version.
And you can also design God Cards and the Seven Millennium Items!"
The God Cards and the Seven Millennium Items were the most classic designs in Yu-Gi-Oh. Other duel cards could be modified, but the God Cards and the Seven Millennium Items he had to keep!
"Since my main purpose is to let the Xenos be accepted by the world, then the strength of the Xenos deck must be at the top of the T0 list for many years.
At the very worst, it has to hover between T0 and T1."
Regarding how to become the Duel King, Liam already had a preparation in his heart.
And that was to use the power of the bond of the cards!
To engrave the bond with the cards into the rune patterns of the duel cards!
The deeper the bond, the more the cards will respond to the duelist!
From the production of the first duel card, Liam used his authority to directly upgrade the cards he had specially designed for himself.
Afterward, each card mold was also upgraded with rune engraving.
No one could accept the Xenos more than him. If there was, it could only be Ouranos, Fels, and Bell Cranel.
And relying on his familiarity with the duel cards, he didn't think he would lose to Bell in terms of soul power and card power.
Even if Bell had strong luck, he was the creator of the Duel King cards!
He didn't speak too full. He could only say that Bell and some duelists had the possibility of defeating him.
After finishing all the matters, Liam came before Tsubaki.
"Senior Tsubaki, I want to ask you about the forging techniques for magic swords."
Because the molds and runes had all been forged and engraved, she, who was now free, happened to have time.
"Oh? You want to forge a magic sword? I can teach you."
Liam hurriedly nodded, "I only need to know the forging principle of a magic sword. Mainly, I want to create reusable magic cards."
Tsubaki came over excitedly, "Go on, I like your idea!"
So no one has ever made them before?
Liam wiped the non-existent cold sweat from his forehead, "Since magic swords have one-time and reusable ones.
Then why not magic cards? Storing magic in them and releasing it?"
"The key is that the volume of a card is very small, so the patterns that can be drawn and the magic power that can be stored are not much."
"It's not like releasing a full-power blow equivalent to LV6 or even higher. Just the strength of Lv1 is very sufficient."
"Do you want to use it on duel cards?"
Tsubaki's excited voice raised several volumes. Goibniu and Hestia also came over.
"Everyone, Liam wants to use the manufacturing principle of a magic sword to make duel cards! Let's develop it together!"
Goibniu's eyes were full of fighting spirit, "Why didn't I think of this before? I already have inspiration!"
Hephaestus moved her shoulders, "I'm not tired at all now. I can just start working!"
Liam hurriedly looked at the crowd, "Okay, I'll explain the concept. Let's do it together!"
Because Liam understood the rune principles of forging armaments, but was not familiar with those of a magic sword.
So his learning efficiency was very high. After he had basically mastered the basics, Tsubaki had already created a prototype of a magic sword version of a duel card.
"How about this?"
"It still needs to be optimized! What I want to make is a God Card. I must express the majesty, power, and mystery of a god to the fullest!"
"A God Card, just hearing the name makes me so excited!"
Tsubaki trembled with excitement. Everyone began to develop the God Cards together according to Liam's concept.
It took a full three days for Liam and the others to forge Obelisk the Tormentor.
This was already the highest masterpiece that Liam and the others could create with all their efforts.
"Obelisk the Tormentor (THE GOD OF OBELISK), Type: God, Star Level: 10 stars
Attack Power: 4000 points, Defense Power: 4000 points
Effect: Requires 3 Tributes to Normal Summon.
①: This card's Normal Summon cannot be negated.
②: When Normal Summoned, cards and effects cannot be activated.
③: Cannot be targeted by Spells, Traps, or card effects.
④: You can Tribute 2 monsters; destroy all monsters your opponent controls. This card cannot declare an attack the turn this effect is activated.
⑤: If this card was Special Summoned, during the End Phase: Send it to the Graveyard."
(End of this chapter)
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