My cards can be infinitely combined.

Chapter 17 Dog Dodge

Zhou Nan strongly suspects that the "King of the Caves" possesses the skill of "card creation".

Card crafting, like card enhancement and card synthesis, is a universal skill. Similar skills include card dismantling and card reforging.

However, acquiring these skills depends on luck.

Every 10 levels a player gains, they will have a chance to draw a skill. The system will then randomly give out three skills, which could be class skills, general skills, or special skills. Players can only choose one of the three skills given.

If you're lucky enough to unlock the [Card Crafting] skill, keep it and use skill points to unlock it, and you'll have it.

In Zhou Nan's mind, [Card Crafting] is an absolutely god-level skill, and everyone who sees it should choose it.

Unfortunately, this skill has a very low occurrence rate, and very few players possess it.

A moment later, Zhou Nan left the trading post with 20 Murloc cards. He went to the warehouse and stored all the materials he didn't need in his inventory.

Players only have one hundred storage slots in their inventory. Each card takes up one slot, and each coin takes up another. If the inventory is full and you can't fit all the loot, it can be quite frustrating.

However, Zhou Nan did not store the 36 materials dropped by the Black Goat, such as the Black Goat Horn and Black Goat Hair, in his warehouse.

He planned to take these materials to the [Guardian of Casanar] dungeon and exchange them with the NPC for [Small Awakening Potions]. 36 materials would be enough to exchange for 36 bottles, each of which could restore 20 mana points. 36 bottles would restore 720 mana points, enough for Zhou Nan to use the [Little Murloc Card] 72 times, allowing the Cannon Master to fire 72 times.

Zhou Nan wasn't in a hurry to continue grinding dungeons. He went to the quest lobby and stood in front of the level 2 experience chest.

"After reaching level 2, I still have 32 experience points left. I need 168 more experience points to reach level 3, but the level 2 experience chest can randomly give 100 to 200 experience points, which might allow me to level up directly..."

Every time a player levels up, their stats are fully restored. Zhou Nan's mana is currently full, and he's worried that if he levels up after opening a treasure chest, all his mana will be wasted if he doesn't have time to use it.

It's important to know that players' health and mana regenerate relatively slowly; before level 10, they only recover 1 point per minute.

"Let's examine the white card we bought before!"

Zhou Nan quickly made a decision and took out the 11 unidentified blank cards he had previously purchased, eagerly beginning their identification process.

"Ding! Congratulations on obtaining a one-star white card [Long-tongued Frog - Croak]!"

"Ding! Congratulations on obtaining a one-star white card [Silly Goose - Quack Quack Quack]!"

"Ding! Congratulations on obtaining the one-star white card [Fishman Feswan]!"

"Ding! Congratulations on obtaining a one-star white card [Shar Pei Dog - Doug Tu]!"

"Ding! Congratulations on obtaining a one-star white card [Nearsighted Rabbit - Dumb]!"

"Ding! Congratulations on obtaining a one-star white card [Little Snail Gou Gou]..."

After examining all eleven blank cards, Zhou Nan looked dejected.

As expected, the unidentified white cards that were put up for sale were all trash. My 11 white cards were all one-star summon cards, and the strongest of their summoned beasts was probably a Shar Pei!

The only slightly useful item is the Murloc card, which can only be used as a cannonball and has a market price of 19.8 gold.

This is a total rip-off!

Spending 1100 gold coins is practically throwing money down the drain; you might as well buy some useful cards.

Zhou Nan learned his lesson once again, but... he'll do it again next time.

"A person cannot live without dreams..."

Zhou Nan shook his head and sighed. He had used up 110 magic points to appraise 11 white cards, leaving him with 90 points.

Next, we need to run dungeons. Using the Panda Card and two Hero Cards will consume 40 mana points, so Zhou Nan must keep 40 mana points. He still has 50 mana points left to play around with.

He then randomly drew two cards from the 11 newly identified one-star white cards and started trying out card synthesis.

"Ding! This card synthesis requires 20 mana points..."

"Ding! Due to the influence of the [Black Card Synthesis] talent, this card synthesis will use a self-created secret formula. The one-star white card [Silly Goose - Quack Quack Quack] and the one-star white card [Long-tongued Frog - Croak Croak] will definitely be synthesized into a mutated black card. Calculating..."

"Ding! Congratulations on synthesizing a one-star black card [Dumb Frog - Quack]!"

"The pattern of synthesis is becoming increasingly clear!"

Zhou Nan quickly checked the attribute information of [Dumb Frog - Gagua] and found that it was still a trash card. Dumb Frog might not be stronger than Long Tongue Frog or Dumb Goose.

Zhou Nan tried card synthesis again. This time, [Little Snail Gou Gou] and [Nearsighted Rabbit Dai Dai] were combined to create [Little Rabbit Gou Dai]. The attributes of Little Rabbit Gou Dai were even worse.

"It really is a combination of names? The attributes of the synthesized black card are somewhat related to the synthesized card, but it seems to have more to do with the name of the black card, making it very random..."

Zhou Nan understood. He only had 50 mana left, so he stopped combining cards with lingering interest and went to open the level 2 experience chest.

"Ding! You have opened an Experience Chest and gained 181 experience points!"

"Ding! Your level has increased to level 3. You have gained one free skill point, and your maximum health and mana have both increased to 300..."

A golden light flashed around Zhou Nan, and he couldn't help but smile smugly: "I really leveled up! All my stats are maxed out, awesome! I'm going to play some more card combining now!"

With an additional 300 magic points, Zhou Nan continued combining cards.

This time, he tried to combine two cards of the same type, which was to combine two Murloc cards, and the result was a "Murloc Card".

The Little Man Card can summon a "Little Man" after use. According to its description, this "Little Man" means a child. Its attributes are terrible, but it is actually positioned as an assassin!

"What the hell is this little assassin..."

Zhou Nan continued to synthesize, eventually using up all 11 one-star white cards. He then attached a Murloc card, using a total of 12 one-star white cards to synthesize 6 one-star black cards.

During this process, Zhou Nan summarized the rules for synthesizing black cards.

The black cards you synthesize yourself will have two characters in both their prefix and suffix names, and the characters will be randomly selected from the names of the synthesized cards to form words.

A one-star black card can only be synthesized into a one-star black card.

Considering the previous synthesis of the Panda Card, Zhou Nan suspected that the star rating of the synthesized Black Card was the average of the star ratings of the two synthesized cards.

Furthermore, synthesized black cards are not necessarily stronger than synthesized cards, as evidenced by the Rabbit Card and the Little Man Card. There is a large element of randomness involved, making it difficult to predict.

He thought for a moment, then used black cards to synthesize other black cards. He first combined six black cards in pairs to get three black cards, then selected two of those three to combine, and finally combined the remaining one with the synthesized black cards to create a one-star black card, [Little Dog Dodge].

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.

Card Name: Dog Dodge

Card color: Black

Card Star Rating: One Star

Equipment Level: None

Mana cost: 10

Instructions 1: Summon [Dog Dodge] to fight for you. Dog Dodge has 500 HP, a keen sense of smell, and is good at finding treasure in the wild (can use treasure maps and other items). It can increase the drop rate of monster loot by 5%. It is positioned as a follower pet.

Explanation 2: Woof woof woof, woof, woof woof woof...

Sigrún has taught at the Iceland University of the Arts as a part-time lecturer since and was Dean of the Department of Fine Art from -. In – she held a research position at Reykjavík Art Museum focusing on the role of women in Icelandic art. She studied fine art at the Icelandic College of Arts and Crafts and at Pratt Institute, New York, and holds BA and MA degrees in art history and philosophy from the University of Iceland. Sigrún lives and works in Iceland.