This Summoner Is Too Powerful-Chapter 343 - 324: Group Advancement, Knockout Stage Begins (Part 2)
A set of Mushroom cards and a set of Lava cards took turns in battle, each time leaving the opponent utterly powerless.
As for Bai Jing in the platinum rank, he could only take second place with a record of 8 wins and 1 loss.
However, to complete the number of participants in the second round, it seems that the second-place players with outstanding performances (more than 7 wins) in each group can have one round of losers’ resurrection, allowing a few to advance.
So Bai Jing still hasn’t completely lost his chance.
But this doesn’t involve Li Pu, who just needs to take a break and await the start of the second round the day after tomorrow.
In the first round, a total of 2048 players were selected, experiencing 10 stages of eliminations to pick the top four.
Then the top four conduct a round-robin tournament to decide the final rankings.
Basically, during these 10 rounds of eliminations, by the later stages, everyone pretty much knows what cards everyone has.
Currently, there’s more than a day left until his next match, so staying here doesn’t hold much significance.
Therefore, he plans to take a stroll in the beast area outside Zhongdu City.
Both to collect new cards and incidentally gather related materials.
Li Pu thought and acted quickly, but before departing, he borrowed Jiang Guiju’s phone to contact Li Fan.
The general content was to request the teacher’s help in finding a method to contract with elemental beasts.
Upon careful consideration, it should be the easiest and fastest to get the desired information from Li Fan.
After all, the method of contracting with elemental beasts is not some exclusive secret, getting it earlier is to allow for better preparation.
Otherwise, if he has to wait until returning to school, and if the trading station doesn’t have the relevant materials for sale, he would have to order them, wasting even more time.
Upon hearing this request, Li Fan remained silent for a long while over the phone, likely speechless at his sky-high cultivation speed.
But in the end, he agreed, the methods of contracting with elemental beasts, while hard to find in the market, he could easily acquire due to his old connections.
After completing this task, Li Pu immediately left the venue and took a cab towards the outskirts.
Upon reaching his destination, he immediately took action.
Because it’s near the city edge, the beasts here are of very low strength, basically below the first rotation level 10.
If there were strong and highly threatening beasts nearby, they would have long been cleared by city defense summoners.
Thus, Li Pu began a divided action.
With Scarecrow and Bu Bu as his summoned beasts, the cards they collect automatically go into his pocket.
Hence, he along with Wolf Pup, Scarecrow, and Bu Bu, split into three teams with the primary aim of card collection.
Given their current levels, even in the first rotation beast areas they can move flawlessly without issues.
After an entire day, the surrounding area was thoroughly scavenged, yielding a considerable harvest.
Among them, Li Pu obtained 33 cards and 3 F-grade related materials.
Scarecrow obtained 21 cards.
Bu Bu obtained 3 cards and several otherworldly fruits.
If willing to spend more time, Li Pu could have gathered even more related materials.
But he hadn’t forgotten the actual purpose of this trip, hence he largely ignored related materials.
cards were pocketed, significantly expanding Li Pu’s card pool.
Furthermore, possibly due to regional differences, the cards near Zhongdu City have some unique characteristics.
These are things Li Pu hadn’t seen around the school, likely combining them could yield new strategies.
With half a day left until the start of the second round of eliminations, Li Pu returned to the dorm to rest, and organize his deck.
A new round of competition arrives as scheduled.
When the group returned to the venue, they noticed a change in the place.
The original 300 card tables were reduced to 32.
Meaning 2048 people in total needed to play 32 rounds to finish one round.
Today is the third day of the Cube Card Track, if not eliminated, Li Pu will play two matches here.
From 2048 down to 1024, then from 1024 down to 512.
"But on another note, where did your brother go?"
Not seeing Chang Jicuo today, Li Pu was slightly puzzled.
"Oh, he’s on the other end of the venue."
"Volunteered to keep track of the cards of the players on that side for you."
Chang Shoushang spread his left hand, while leaning his right hand on a crutch.
Yesterday he accidentally fell off the fifth-floor balcony and sprained his ankle.
"Brother Jicuo... better to forget it."
Li Pu didn’t have much expectation of this.
"By the way, I got the intel on your opponent for this round."
Jiang Guiju, who was beside him, handed a piece of information to Li Pu.
Upon further consideration, they realized it was indeed a difficult task for just two of them to keep track of the cards in the first few rounds.
So early on, they could only resolve this issue by hiring information brokers.
Just after Li Pu drew to determine his opponent, Jiang Guiju went to find an information broker and bought the intel.
The information on what cards that player used in the group stage was clearly recorded.
"Doesn’t seem very strong."
Li Pu commented after finishing reading.
Of course, if overall the opponents in the group stage aren’t strong, hiding one’s strength is quite easy.
Moreover, he knew that since he could obtain the opponent’s information, the opponent could surely acquire his as well.
After all, the player deck intel for this round only costs a few Federation Coins, not too expensive, any Summoner can afford it.
At the audience seats near his assigned card table, Li Pu and the two others sat down, watching the match while waiting.
The pace of the second round’s start wasn’t as fast as before, each match gave the players ample preparation time.
Thus, in round 17, Li Pu waited two hours before finally getting on stage.
His opponent for this round was a young lady wearing glasses.
Wearing Zhongdu University’s school uniform, a bunch of people in the nearby audience were cheering for her.
"Go Zhuzhu junior!"
"Pass two levels today, and I’ll treat you for dinner tonight!"
"Zhuzhu, don’t lose, don’t disgrace our class!"
"Stop pressuring Zhuzhu junior, Zhuzhu junior, the seniors always support you!"
It seems this girl specializes in Cube Cards, wearing Zhongdu University’s uniform.
Li Pu carefully scrutinized her, finding her quite pretty.
Prepare to beat her senseless.
"Hello, Mosaic classmate."
The girl named Zhuzhu greeted Li Pu with a smile.
Though her inner thoughts were similar.
She planned to have him beaten till he abandoned his armor.
She had already studied his deck information earlier, possessing cards that countered his Mushroom and Lava decks.
"Hello."
Li Pu nodded in response to the greeting.
Though he was slightly annoyed by the nickname.
He heard it had even spread among students in both Imperial University and Modu University.
"Players, please set your cards."
With the flow guided by the staff, the two began operating at the card table.
(By rights, his Mushroom deck is stronger than his Lava deck.)
(This is the elimination phase, unlike the group stage with room for error.)
(Logically, he should use his stronger deck...)
While keeping an eye on Li Pu, Zhuzhu configured her cards.
"I’m ready."
"I’m ready too."
"I declare, the match begins now."
[Gugu Da!]
[Muxa Sha!]
[Gu Hou Hou!]
As Zhuzhu expected, Li Pu revealed his old trio of mushroom tank cards.
In fact, the decision to use the Mushroom deck had two reasons.
The first is that the elimination phase had just begun, he didn’t want to reveal too many tactics.
The second is in comparison to the Lava deck, the Mushroom deck’s strength is indeed higher.
Also, because the Mushroom deck was his earliest collected deck, it has numerous substitute cards.
With the help of [Substitute Card], it offers the most variations among all decks.
However, Li Pu clearly didn’t know his choice was exactly what the opponent hoped for.
(Oh yeah!)
At this moment, Zhuzhu clenched her fist, silently celebrating her wise decision.
This match, she will undoubtedly secure victory!
A flag was thus planted down.
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