This Summoner Is Too Powerful-Chapter 360 - 332: Framed for a Scam, Poor [Shield-Shroom]_2
"I knew it."
After reading the card information, Li Pu secretly let out a breath. He had indeed predicted it correctly.
A card that can attack across other cards deducts 1 point from the maximum health each time it attacks in this way, somewhat similar to a berserk mode tactic.
This turn, the [Rock Thrower] gains the [Stone Race Crush] buff and can instantly destroy one of his cards in the second row through an across-cards attack.
The second-row card revealed by Li Pu this turn must be of utmost importance, potentially even a game-changer.
If it can be destroyed, then even if [Rock Thrower] has to pay the price of losing 1 maximum health point and remain still for 2 turns, it would be worth it.
The above is Shi Zhen’s thought.
However, she stood there for several seconds, wanting to see which card Li Pu would reveal this turn, but no result came.
Instead, what came was the action phase prompt.
"..., huh?"
Shi Zhen was stunned on the spot.
"Sorry, I didn’t reveal any cards this turn."
This time Li Pu smiled.
"Come on, are you brain-dead..."
Shi Zhen wanted to say something, but the words stopped at the tip of her tongue.
She had really forgotten that it was possible to choose not to reveal a card.
Because so few people make that choice!
Unless their brains were fried.
Upon further thought, she realized Li Pu’s brain wasn’t fried, which is why she didn’t continue speaking.
On the contrary, Shi Zhen, as the opponent, had to admit that Li Pu’s decision was clever.
Because the choice had now landed back in her hands.
Originally, her plan was indeed as Li Pu had envisioned: wait for him to reveal a key card and then use [Rock Thrower]’s across-cards attack to take it out.
As a result, the opponent chose not to reveal a card, which was awkward!
So now, what should she choose?
Directly take out the opponent’s core tank card [King Shroom Guard], or choose to hit a face-down card in the second row?
Attacking a face-down card in the second row is gambling for both sides.
Gambling on whether Li Pu’s key face-down card will be hit.
However, no matter how much Shi Zhen calculates, she can’t predict that for Li Pu, it wasn’t gambling at all.
Because all the cards Li Pu placed in the second row were 10-point cards, and they’re mushroom cards with little use in this match.
The truly useful cards, he would swap in using [Substitute Card] before revealing them.
In other words, no matter how Shi Zhen bets, she can’t hit Li Pu’s key cards.
"Oh well."
After some serious thought, Shi Zhen finally made a decision.
Li Pu chose much faster than her, thus both sides began their action phase.
[Rock, Heavy!]
The first to take action was the [Rock General]. With a wave of its hand, a dirt-gray, semi-transparent pillar of light descended from the sky, shining on the [Rock Thrower].
[Rock, Heavy!]
Enlarged under the glow, the [Rock Thrower] let out a roar.
Immediately afterwards, it picked a large rolling rock from its body and hurled it at the face-down card in the middle of Li Pu’s second row.
This was Shi Zhen’s well thought-out decision.
Statistically speaking, the middle position has a higher probability of being a key card.
In fact, she wasn’t too worried about missing the opponent’s key card.
The presence of [Rock Thrower] itself is a crucial card in this deck, second only in importance to [Rock General].
Because it can cause self-damage through repeated across-cards throws.
Self-damage until it exits the field can reactivate the [Stone Race Crush] effect.
So theoretically, even if the opponent never attacks, relying entirely on [Defense] + [Healing] to trigger the stalemate mechanism is impossible.
The remaining three cards then swarmed again to attack [King Shroom Guard].
As for Li Pu, his choices seemed a bit timid, with all three cards taking [Defense].
"What is Mo Saike doing? The three cards on the opposite side are just scraping..."
"Yeah, defending makes no sense..."
"Could it be he’s given up because he thinks he’s going to lose?"
Even Shi Zhen couldn’t figure it out, and neither could the audience.
"Actually, the junior’s choice is understandable."
"He must be worried after what happened with [Little Pebble], fearing that if he rashly depletes the opponent’s card health, it might trigger another ’car accident’ situation."
"It’s just that this won’t work in the long run. I wonder what cards he has in hand to turn the tables."
Jiang Guiju looked at the cards and analyzed.
"Xiao Jiang is actually right."
Li Fan nodded, but ultimately couldn’t resist asking: "But why can you recognize me even with all this cover?"
Before heading out, he had looked in the mirror and seen that he was covered up so well even his mom wouldn’t recognize him.
Even if you say that behind this trench coat + wig + hat + mask + sunglasses ensemble is a scarecrow, someone might actually believe it.
"Because I put a tracker on the teacher."
Jiang Guiju tilted her head and flashed a sweet smile.
Li Fan: "You’re really damn thorough with the rules."
Xiu Cangjia: "..., is she some kind of obsessive fan of yours."
While the three of them were chatting here, the card game below had already reached the third round.
The cards on both sides were revealed in succession.
[Leopard Stone Leopard Stone!]
A roar came from Shi Zhen’s side, and the last regular face-down card was revealed.
It was a shadow of a leopard as if sculpted out of stone, yet the movement was extraordinarily agile.
The combination of the awkward, stubborn stone and the quick, agile leopard should be contradictory in some sense, but it was not apparent on this leopard.
[Stone Leopard] - 8 points, C
10/10
Attack 3, Defense 5
[Rock Charge]: Stone Leopard can launch 1 [Piercing] attack, 2-turn cooldown
[Agile Sliding Stone]: If Stone Leopard remains unattacked for 3 turns, it can attack an additional time in the next turn
This last card that Shi Zhen played was an attack-oriented card.
Specifically used against those opponents who try to stall for time.
Originally, she had stronger attack cards, but considering the relationship between stone types and points, this [Stone Leopard] was the optimal choice from the card pool.
[Did you cure mushrooms today~]
Meanwhile, what Li Pu revealed was the face-down card positioned behind the [Shield Bear], his mushroom army’s logistics support card.
[Healing Mushroom] - 10 points, D
10/10
Attack 1, Defense 3
[Mushroom Saves You]: Healing Mushroom consumes 1 point of life to heal the target by 2 points
"So it’s this card."
Upon seeing the [Healing Mushroom], Shi Zhen let out a slight sigh of relief.
In the previous round, she had once been tempted to choose to instantly kill this position.
But now it seemed fortunate she hadn’t chosen that.
The previous [Healing] card from the opponent was a very ordinary deck combination, posing no significant threat.
However, what puzzled her was that Li Pu continued to employ the three meat shield [Defense] strategy, and the [Healing Mushroom] healed the previously damaged [Sand Mushroom King].
"Why is that?"
This course of action left Shi Zhen completely baffled.
The opponent seemed to have no desire to attack, as if they had already given up on the card game.
But if you had given up on the card game, why not just forfeit directly?
With these doubts in mind, she proceeded to the next round.
In the card-revealing phase of the next round, Shi Zhen had no cards left to reveal.
Li Pu, however, had one last regular face-down card remaining, which he revealed at this moment.
[Uhh-Mushroom~~~!]
With a long chant, the projection of a wolf looking up howling slowly rose from the card surface.
Only this was not an ordinary wolf.
Its fur was cloud-like and dark-colored, and its back was covered with mushrooms of various sizes.
[Mushroom Wolf] - 10 points, C
Attack 5, Defense 5
[Cloud Riding]: Every 3 turns, Mushroom Wolf can attack twice in the current turn
[Mushroom Wolf]: Whenever a mushroom card leaves the field, Mushroom Wolf gains +3/+3/+3 for 2 turns
The appearance of this card caught Shi Zhen slightly off guard.
Nonetheless, she was not particularly affected, considering the opponent’s [Healing Mushroom] ought to be healing the [Sand Mushroom King].
To achieve the maximum damage output, she decided to have all active cards attack the [Shield Mushroom] this round.
Then, she witnessed an extremely absurd scene.
[Yanyan!] x3
[Mushrooms!] x3
All at once, nearly all the active card projections on the field charged towards the [Shield Mushroom].
And then... it was a thorough beating!
[Mushroom you all the mushroom!] 𝐟𝗿𝐞𝚎𝚠𝐞𝚋𝕟𝐨𝚟𝐞𝕝.𝕔𝕠𝚖
[Shield Mushroom], beaten by enemies and allies alike, cursed from its position on the ground.
Everyone else: "???"
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