Chapter 175: Ais: I Want to Join Liam's Familia
The God Card was a special card independent of rarity. The Obelisk card had a black border and a blue frame, and all the text used a special white font.
And a large number of magic runes were engraved in it, its surface covered with an exclusive diamond-shattered foil effect.
Held in hand, the Divine Beast seemed to be sleeping, sealed within a magnificent diamond crystal.
Magnificent sky-blue runes flickered within the black border and blue frame of the card. When Liam held this card, it began to flicker slightly, glowing and dimming like a breath.
Carefully sizing up Obelisk within the card's art box, Obelisk seemed to have already awakened within the card and was also sizing him up.
A magnificent and burly inverted-triangle-shaped giant, one arm was the same dimension as its torso.
Its shoulders and the top of its head all had sharp spikes. Its entire body was of a deep blue and sky-blue tone.
The synonym for danger and violence, the supreme incarnation of absolute power, this was Obelisk the Tormentor!
This one card was the culmination of the full efforts of all four of them, Liam's group. It could grow with the holder's ability, a living magic sword-type rune card.
In fact, the greater the energy input, the greater the power that would erupt. Its value and strength were equivalent to the highest-grade First-Grade armament!
Liam pinched this card and looked at everyone, "Everyone, I can feel it. As long as I input sword aura or magic power, or even stamina, I can summon the projected illusion from within the card.
It can even release a destructive power equal to my own strength!"
Tsubaki clapped her hands excitedly, "This is really too great! I told you my magic sword theory was the most correct!"
Hephaestus breathed a sigh of relief, "I added a large amount of the highest-grade materials into it without considering the cost.
If it had really failed, I would have been very heartbroken."
Just this one card, its strength, performance, and growth potential were completely equivalent to Bell's Hestia Knife from the original work.
However, its volume was much smaller than a dagger, so the difficulty was at least ten times higher than the Hestia Knife.
Liam put this God Card into his card pack with great satisfaction. The God Card was immune to monster card and trap card effects, and magic cards were only effective for one turn.
"I really have to thank you all. With this card as a foundation, I can complete the subsequent God Cards and Millennium Items on my own."
Hephaestus snorted coldly, "Such an interesting thing, you want to manufacture it all by yourself? Have you asked how we feel?"
Liam smiled awkwardly. He had forgotten. The people present were all filled with an unparalleled passion for creation.
"No problem, then after we rest, we'll continue production!"
Goibniu, Hephaestus, Tsubaki, and the others had no intention of possessing the card Liam had created.
It was more a thirst for knowledge in developing an unknown field.
A card-type magic sword, giving a picture image destructive power through runes, and even creating a spirit life form.
This was simply creating a life!
Tsubaki and the others could be said to be using knowledge to create a type of life that had never existed before.
Apart from Ouranos and Zeus, the divine power of other gods could not create life.
And to approach, imitate, and even surpass the divine power of the creator god with knowledge, such a grand feat made Goibniu and the others unable to stop.
Even Ouranos's creator god power couldn't create a God Card, right?
...
As his own ability scores improved, Liam's drawing ability was also rising.
The improvement in his dexterity ability score greatly increased the efficiency of his hand-drawing practice.
Of course, the main artist for the God Cards was Hephaestus. As a first-class forging genius, apart from Liam, they all had top-tier painting abilities.
Hephaestus took out a paintbrush, "Shall we draw the Sky Dragon for the second card?"
Liam recalled the appearance of the Sky Dragon, "Slifer the Sky Dragon, its theme color is red, slender, crimson, four-legged, two-winged, with two layers of dragon mouths stacked on top of each other..."
After hearing Liam's introduction, Hephaestus already had a draft in her mind, so she quickly drew a line draft with her paintbrush.
"Liam, is it like this?"
Liam took the paintbrush, and just as he was about to take a closer look, a flash of light suddenly rose from his back.
A dazzling golden light shot directly towards the sky.
"That direction, could it be from the duel card sales shop at The Hearthfire Manor? It seems our UR card has been sold!"
Tsubaki's eyes lit up, "Oh? Could it be that one?"
Liam nodded, "Yes! It's that six-star Minotaur Xenos from the Dungeon. When you open a card pack, if there's an R card or a rare card above R, there will be different special effects.
An R card will emit a blue light, an SR will emit a dazzling purple light, and a UR can even release a golden, dazzling firework towards the sky!
When a rare card is used in a duel, there will also be corresponding light and shadow special effects."
Hephaestus looked at Liam, "Which lucky person could have gotten that UR card?"
...
After Liam had stated all his ideas for the Sky Dragon, Hephaestus and the others immediately began to design and engrave the runes.
Because they had Obelisk as an example, the overall framework of the subsequent design did not need to be redesigned.
Taking advantage of his free time, Liam prepared to go back and wash up.
Because it was a four-person collaboration, everyone had time to rest in turns.
Just as he returned to the Familia home base, Sword Princess Ais also happened to pay a visit.
The young woman strode up to Liam, "Are you available now? Can you continue to guide me?"
Liam nodded, "I have a new understanding of the Selfless Sword Art recently. It's a good time to teach you the Selfless Sword Art.
However, you need to be my disciple for me to teach you. And, the Selfless Sword Art is very dependent on talent. If you really don't have the talent, I can't help either."
The first time he guided Ais, his adventurer level was only Lv3, and his Sword Soul template was less than level forty-five. His understanding of the Selfless Sword Art was far from what it was now.
At that time, he could only use the characteristics of the Selfless Sword Art to improve the other's combat experience.
And when he was guiding Wien, he had already completed his awakening. His own understanding of the Selfless Sword Art had completed a realm sublimation.
The Selfless Sword Aura he released after awakening, his understanding of it had naturally reached a new height.
He could even easily explain the knack to Wien.
Ais's eyes became resolute, and then she knelt on one knee before Liam. "Master, please teach me the Selfless Sword Art!"
Liam helped the young woman up, then taught Ais the knack he had told Wien.
"Generally speaking, that's it. The so-called released Selfless Sword Aura is essentially releasing the life energy from within your own body.
After being highly compressed, this energy will have astonishing killing power."
"You must enter a state of selflessness once, and then stimulate the life energy out of your body."
Ais nodded seriously, "What should I do? Master Liam, I want to master it as soon as possible."
"The fastest speed?"
Liam thought for a moment, "In that case, we can only use this method. When I taught Wien before, she also took three days to barely get the hang of it."
He took out a duel card from his pocket, "If I infuse a large amount of Selfless Sword Aura into this card, what effect will it have?" Liam's right hand held Obelisk high. A dazzling blue and white Selfless Sword Aura was infused into the card.
The card face emitted a dazzling white light. The sky above the two's heads changed, and in the blink of an eye, it was covered with dark clouds, lightning flashing and thunder rolling.
A large amount of white lightning fell from the dark clouds, connecting the sky and the earth with white thunder.
The Obelisk card simultaneously erupted with a dazzling thunder. A white pillar of light full of sacred aura tore through the dark clouds and bombarded the ground beside Liam.
A blue giant with two wings appeared in the pillar of light. Its height reached a terrifying fifty meters!
Massive, magnificent, mysterious, the incarnation of absolute power...
This was "THE GOD OF OBELISK" Obelisk the Tormentor!
Ais's eyes widened. She had never seen this kind of combat method before.
A massive amount of Selfless Sword Aura had actually condensed into a huge energy body!
"Fight with him. Learn from him how to release the Selfless Sword Aura!"
Liam felt that his stamina had been drained by a full half. He hadn't expected summoning Obelisk to be so draining.
But the result was very astonishing. This energy body could attack, defend, and even release its effect abilities according to his will.
"Obelisk, spar with this lady. Don't use a killing blow!"
Obelisk nodded its head. Its massive body gradually compressed, condensing from a height of fifty meters to a height of three meters.
Then it swung its fist at Ais. Just the wind from its fist was a slashing hurricane like Liam's Secret Sword Art.
Ais did not dare to be negligent and immediately used magic to enhance herself.
A tall body, explosive power. Just the storm released by its fists and wings was mixed with a sharp Selfless Sword Aura.
This special energy body was also something Ais had encountered for the first time, and she was quickly at a disadvantage.
Obelisk's fist was very hard. Ais's sharp blade, when it landed on it, only produced some sparks.
After fighting for about half an hour, Obelisk's figure became illusory, and Ais had finally touched the threshold of the selfless state.
She casually swung her sword, and a faint blue and white Selfless Sword Aura was slashed out by her.
Liam breathed a sigh of relief. It seemed his stamina could only maintain the summoning of Obelisk for thirty minutes. If he summoned it a second time in a row, he would probably lose his ability to move.
And, this was still Obelisk's energy-saving mode. If it were to fight at full power, the time it could be maintained would probably be even shorter.
And he hadn't used Obelisk's special ability either. He could only wait until he entered the Dungeon later and try it on a monster.
Obelisk slowly dissipated, and the sky covered with dark clouds also immediately returned to normal.
"You've got the hang of it?"
Ais looked at Liam uncertainly. After receiving Liam's affirmative answer, she breathed a sigh of relief.
Then she looked at Liam with anticipation, "Master, can I join your Familia?"
"Have you decided? Changing Familias is not that easy. How about this, I'll talk to Goddess Hestia,
and you talk to your main god first."
Ais nodded, looking at Liam seriously. "Master, only by following you can I improve my strength faster.
I must join your Familia."
Liam patted her head, "Don't worry, even if you're not in the same Familia as me, I'll still teach you swordsmanship.
And Ais, an adventurer's level and ability scores are certainly important, but swordsmanship, abilities, magic, and the like are also important.
If you only want to improve your ability scores and don't consider your own aspects, you will become weaker and weaker!"
Ais nodded seriously. After saying goodbye to Liam, she decided to join Liam's Familia.
Liam's potential was extremely exaggerated, and he had an unparalleled creativity.
Not only did he create his own Selfless Sword Art, but his level was lower than hers, yet he had astonishing strength.
And now, just the summon he created was stronger than her.
Now, if Ais wanted to go a step further, her original Familia could no longer provide her with assistance.
So, she had to get closer to Liam!
...
After washing up and resting, Liam once again set off for the Goibniu Familia.
"There's no rush to create the Seven Millennium Items. And the God Cards are not something that should appear in the 0.1 version. But with the first one as a template, the efficiency of the subsequent two will only be faster."
"Currently, the mainstream Familia strength in Orario is Lv5 and Lv6. Only the Freya and Loki Familias have Lv7.
As for Lv8, one can only consider deceased adventurers.
Even ten and twelve, which represent ten-star and twelve-star monster Familia cards, probably can only be represented by gods.
But that's all for a much later major version."
Arriving at the Goibniu Familia's home base, Goibniu had already handed over the rune engraving draft for the Sky Dragon.
"Liam, how is this rune circuit?"
Liam carefully observed the rune composition, and after confirming there were no errors, he nodded. "No problem, this design is very reasonable."
Tsubaki came over, "Just now, the sky over Orario was covered with dark clouds, a bolt from the blue. What was that?"
"It's the power of a God Card!"
Liam introduced the situation of using the God Card just now.
Hephaestus, Tsubaki, and the others listened with curiosity, and then, one by one, their curiosity got the better of them.
"Liam, quickly summon it again, let us have a look? A magic sword-type rune card that can actually cause celestial phenomena to change, this is too interesting!"
Liam was a little embarrassed, "Releasing it once consumes half of my stamina. Not only me, but even you all probably can't use it without divine power."
"Wait until my stamina recovers, or until I've made a matching duel disk, how about that? A God Card released with a duel disk should have much lower stamina consumption."
Tsubaki had no choice but to give up. Although she was Lv5, she didn't think her stamina was better than Liam's.
"Alright, then let's make the remaining two God Cards first~!"
Registration for the preliminary selection had already ended, and the first 500 duelists who had assembled their decks had completed their registration.
The preliminary selection mainly depended on personal luck and financial resources.
These five hundred duelists would decide the fifty who would participate in the finals. Twenty-four venues would hold simultaneous matches, and each person would only have one chance.
Because there were no participation restrictions, the members of the major Familias, and even interested main gods, all participated in this Duel King competition.
The Xenos would also participate in the competition. Although their dueling skills were not that great, they had at least gotten familiar with many humans and adventurers.
(End of this chapter)
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