This Summoner Is Too Powerful-Chapter 358 - 331: The One-Shot Card Appears
Because he was worried about being recognized again and dragging more trouble with old rivals, he decided to disguise himself.
Li Pu’s match, he naturally cared about.
Furthermore, Xiu Cangjia was also curious about the level of Li Fan’s student at the card table, so the two agreed yesterday to come watch the match together.
However, due to the elaborateness of the disguise taking too much time, they missed the last match and only just arrived now.
"She’s a third-year student in our school’s cubic card program, and her class advisor happens to have a good relationship with me."
"This young girl still has some strength, I heard she’s already reached Gold Rank 1 this semester."
"Your student might face a tough opponent this time."
Even Xiu Cangjia acknowledged a bit of strength, which meant Li Pu’s opponent was indeed quite strong this time.
At the card table, both players also had a greeting session.
"Hello, my name is Shi Zhen."
The girl even came over and took the initiative to shake hands with Li Pu.
"Hello, Li Pu."
Li Pu nodded slightly.
"I know."
Shi Zhen smiled faintly.
In fact, during the rescue operation for him and Long Ren, she was one of the 20 selected players.
However, she was ranked slightly lower at 11th place and was not selected at the time.
After exchanging friendly greetings, they each returned to their positions.
While placing his cards, Li Pu thought a bit.
After all, reaching this step meant each opponent should be strong.
Earlier he had glanced at the opponent’s deck used in this tournament, which was mostly stone-type cards.
The characteristic of stone-type cards is high defense but relatively weak attack.
In this sense, it’s one of his favorite opponent types.
Currently, his usual Mushroom Array focuses on restoration and endurance.
If the opponent’s attack strength isn’t enough, they would be slowly worn down by him.
So after thinking for a bit, he decided not to change his selections for the first three cards.
As for Shi Zhen, placing her cards wasn’t so quick either.
Compared to Li Pu’s knowledge of her, she knew Li Pu even better.
Mainly due to the rescue operation, she had been somewhat paying attention since the start of the tournament.
She knew that if she played the way she did before, she definitely couldn’t handle Li Pu’s mushroom army.
So now, the trump card she originally prepared to reveal after the top 32 might have to be exposed earlier.
Both sides had their own thoughts and completed card placement after consideration almost simultaneously.
[Mushroom Boom!]
[Sand Mushroom Sand Mushroom!]
[Mushroom Roar!]
The same old three, Li Pu’s first cards were revealed in order.
After revealing his three cards, it was Shi Zhen’s turn next.
[Boom Boom Boom!]
A low, rumbling sound was heard as Shi Zhen’s middle card was the first to be revealed.
A giant formed of rocks slowly crawled out from the card’s surface.
Before the card’s information could unfold, Li Pu saw the giant making an astonishing move.
It clumsily turned its body facing its own ace card side.
After a few steps, it arrived at the face-down card behind it.
The rock giant squatted slightly, then lifted the face-down card...
This unusual projection caused the surrounding audience to exclaim.
"Damn, what kind of strange behavior is this."
"A linked card isn’t supposed to behave like this, right?"
"It feels more like it’s about to rebel."
"Haha, I think so too, it feels like it’s about to flip the table."
However, the suspected linkage effect, believed by everyone including Li Pu, did not happen; the rock giant directly lifted the face-down card completely off the card table.
Honestly, Li Pu wanted to bend down to see if he could peek at the bottom of the face-down card from below, maybe he could sneak a peek at the card’s information in advance.
Just a thought, he didn’t actually do it.
Because clearly, there couldn’t be such a BUG on a cubic card table, allowing someone to peek at the opponent’s face-down card in such a way.
Siao!
Sure enough, when the rock giant lifted the face-down card upright, Li Pu found its front and back patterns were identical.
The face-down card wasn’t truly face-down; it was just a presentation state of a card.
Still, to be honest, up to now he hadn’t figured out what the projection of the rock giant was supposed to do.
The key was that from his display, after the face-down card was lifted, it showed as an empty spot.
Fortunately, the answer appeared the next second.
The rock giant held the upright face-down card with one hand and reached towards its revealed card with the other hand.
Boom, boom, boom...
The face-down card on his side was being dragged backward by it.
"No way, is there really such a reveal effect?"
Li Pu felt he finally understood.
This rock giant was actually swapping card positions!
It’s really quite exaggerated.
Who’s Li Pu, you or me."
Bang!
With the swap of two cards, the rock giant’s card information finally appeared.
[Rock General] - 20 points, A
10/10
Atk 1, Def 8
[Give Way to the Grandfather]: When the Rock General is revealed, it swaps positions with the face-down card behind it
[Stone’s Bloodline]: When the Rock General takes damage less than or equal to its defense, all damage is reduced to 0
[General’s Dignity]: The Rock General cannot [Defend], and leaves the field after taking 1 point of damage
[Tactical Guidance]: When a rock card on your side leaves the field, the Rock General can grant a rock card on your side the [Stone Race Crush] effect next turn
([Stone Race Crush]: This round’s attack can make 1 target leave the field directly, followed by 2 turns of silence)
"This card..."
Li Pu finished reading it and was dumbstruck.
This feels even more rogue than me!
The audience on the side erupted in exclamations after seeing the card.
"Holy crap, a 20-point A-grade card! This is the strongest card I’ve seen in this tournament!"
"What does this [Stone Race Crush] effect do? It’s like an instant kill, damn!"
"No matter how you play, it’s always a one-for-one trade, who’s going to stop that."
"It’s invincible, how is anyone supposed to play against that?"
"Just looking at a card and feeling like you’ve won, what kind of experience is that..."
One must say, this card is really strong.
First of all, the self-preservation ability of the [Rock General] is extremely strong.
It can not only reveal and swap positions to place itself in a safer spot, but also has an incredibly robust survival ability [Stone’s Bloodline].
This means that unless Li Pu has cards with attack power over 8, there’s simply no way to deal with it.
"This card... the [Triangular Spiral Bull] can’t handle it."
Even Li Pu himself had to admit this point.
Due to its rank limitations, the [Triangular Spiral Bull]’s [Seal] only works on D or C-grade cards.
And the [Rock General] is A-grade, with a whole B-grade gap in between.
[Stone Tribe Forever!]
[Stone of Wisdom!]
Afterward, Shi Zhen’s left and right first cards were also revealed.
One was a stone figure similar to the [Rock General], but slightly smaller in stature.
[Rock Warrior] - 10 points, C
10+3/10
Atk 1, Def 6
[Stone Skin]: After being revealed, the Rock Warrior has 3 [Shields]
[Fragile Form]: During the reveal phase, the Rock Warrior can temporarily sacrifice 3 points of defense for 2 points of attack.
And a humanoid beast dressed in savage garb with a round stone head, literally Stone Man.
[Rock Priest] - 10 points, C
10/10
Atk 2, Def 3
[Rock Spirit Curse]: After being revealed, Rock Priest grants +1 defense to revealed cards on your side
[Stone Tribesman]: The Rock Priest doubles the beneficial effects on stone-type cards
Seeing these two cards, especially the [Rock Priest], Li Pu’s head hurt.
The [Rock General] originally required a card with 9 attack points to defeat, but now the threshold has risen to 11 points.
The biggest problem now is finding a card with 11 attack points.
Could it be that he’ll have to reveal his ace this match?
At this moment, he fell into a brief contemplation.
This gets a bit tricky.
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