Date 18 Mar 2321
Time 16:52
Location Sky Blossom City, Adventure Guild Association, Adventure Guild Mall
Card creation, theoretical young Wyatt could be considered a pro in this but practically he had zero experience as one had to be a Card apprentice to practically create a card.
Thanks to Papa and Mama Wyatt, Young Wyatt was familiar with the card creation process, he had seen them create hundreds of cards.
But still watching someone else eat will not solve your hunger, similarly watching card creation hundreds of times did not mean that Young Wyatt was good at card creation.
It meant that Young Wyatt had enough theoretical knowledge to start a card creation process on his own.
There were many beginner card recipes in young Wyatt's memories, these were all basic card recipes meant for beginner card apprentice's to practice card creation, so I did not have to worry about copyright issues over these card recipes.
One card recipe [superhuman] in particular caught my attention,
[Card Recipe Name: superhuman
Card Type: Skill Card (passive)
Card Rank: F rank, common grade
Card Ratings : [1-40]stars
Card Durability : [60-100]
Card effect: enhances users bodily functions to a superhuman level passively. Additional effect - superhuman stamina.
Card Ingredients :
Titan Vine fluids - F rank, Common grade
Titan vine essence - F rank, Common grade
Titan vine core - F rank, Common grade
Common Core - F rank, Common grade]
With this card, my body would work more efficiently and I would not have to worry about
Me getting tired. Deciding on this card recipe I said, "how much for a set of superhuman card recipe ingredients?"
"One set of Superhuman card recipe has 4 F rank ingredients,
Titan Vine fluids - $800
Titan vine essence - $1200
Titan vine core - $2,099
Common Core - $100
Total - $4,199
How many sets do you require sir?"
My left eyelid twitches hearing the cost for one set of superhuman card recipe ingredients. For some reason all of a sudden my throat went dry and I started to feel thirsty. 'Is this how being poor felt?' I thought.
As if the saleslady could hear my inner thoughts she said, "sir if you are going to practice card creation then I would recommend you to our beginner's card recipe catalog. It's cheaper and more affordable."
Hearing her last sentence my left eyelid twitches again, "that would be helpful"
Looking at the beginner's card recipe catalogue shared by the saleslady I felt more thirsty, with money that I have on me I could barely buy one set of card recipes.
After browsing the beginner's card recipe catalogue for while I finally found one card recipe within my budget,
[Card Recipe Name: Gale Rabbit leather boots
Card Type: Item Card
Card Rank: F rank, common grade
Card Ratings : [1-40]stars
Card Durability : [75-100]
Card effect : Sprint (active), Double jump(active)
Card Ingredients :
Gale Rabbit leather - F rank, Common grade
Gale Rabbit core - F rank, Common grade
Common Core - F rank, Common grade]
Sprint - increase agility for a minute. Cooldown time - 240 seconds
Double Jump - ability to jump a second time in the air. Cooldown time - 35 seconds
Gale Rabbit leather - $100
Gale Rabbit core - $999
Common Core - $100
Total - $1,199
Sprint and jump were reasonable ability, the card effect didn't matter cause I was planning to sell whatever card I made back here in the mall.
And make profits with the difference in selling price and ingredients price. After all, a good quality Gale Rabbit Leather Boots could sell from anywhere around $4,100 to $6,099.
With the money on me, I can buy 3 sets of Gale Rabbit Leather Boots recipes. If I can successfully make one item card I would still manage to reap a minimum profit of $500.with this in my mind,
"I would like 3 sets of Gale Rabbit Leather Boots card ingredients."
"Sure sir, that would be $3,597. Sir, I would like you to consider joining Adventure guild association membership with it, you will be entitled to a 5 % discount for your purchase at the guild association mall."
"Okay, where do I sign?" Adventure guild association membership has no strings attached, it is a stunt to make sure that customers would do their next shopping at guild association mall for a 5 % discount.
After becoming a proud member of Adventure guild association mall, collecting 3 sets of ingredients and paying $3,417.15, I prepared to leave but the saleslady stopped me,
"Sorry sir, I forgot to mention that every silver grimoire holding member can use guild association mall card lab 10hrs per month for free. Would you like to avail them now sir?"
I do need a quiet place to create cards and it would be hectic to come back again to sell the Item card, so why not try this fancy guild association mall card lab.
"Yes please, I would love to. Lead the way."
Date 18 Mar 2321
Time 17:11
Location Sky Blossom City, Adventure Guild Association, Adventure Guild Mall Card Lab
Card lab is just a fancy name for the empty room with good lighting and better soundproofing. Card creation requires the complete concentration of the card apprentice as the card creation process is the most mentally tedious work.
The card apprentice has to completely map out the whole process of card creation in his mind. Slight disturbance can lead to failure. Therefore card apprentices tend to create cards in the place where they feel most secure, that is their home or office.
Let's take an example of item card steel sword, in this card creation process the card apprentice has to mentally imagine the incredible temperature of furnace required to melt steel, cast to give shape to the sword, the pounding of casted steel sword to refine it, the sharpening of blade etc all these steps have to be mapped out in the mind of the card apprentice and with the help of grimoire he has to mentally refine the card ingredients following this process to get the end product, the card.
Now coming to the gale rabbit leather boots Item card that I choose to create, first I need to have a clear picture of the end product I am going to make that is how the gale rabbit leather boots will look? design? how comfortable will they be? what kind of model boots will they be made after?
After thinking hard I settled on the model, a pair of ultra fly boots sold in my previous world, those boots were normal but they still cost me 3000$. They don't judge me, every man likes..no! Respects a good pair of ultra fly boots.
After deciding on the model of the boots comes the cutting of leather according to the requirements of the boot design.
Then comes the stitching part, this part is the trickiest as various stitching techniques are required to get the perfect shape and design to create a good pair of ultra fly boots.
Most important of all the boots should be built around the common core as the centre. The core is named core because it is the core of any card. After all, they house the soul abilities of the card.
Once the boots are ready then I have to transfer soul abilities from gale rabbit core to the common core of the leather boots.
All the aforementioned steps have to be carried out very carefully and precisely, otherwise slight mistakes can lead to a decrease in the durability rating and an increase in star rating.
Decreased durability rating means low quality while increased star rating means the card apprentice has to use more star power to activate the card.
This will lead to a decrease in the price of the card. This is also the reason why most of the card apprentices do not prefer to use complicated models leading to most cards having just plain design.
And also the reason why card apprentices choose to create cards in the safety of the environment that they are familiar with.
After mapping out the card creation process I took out the first set of card ingredients and placed them on the card creation page of the grimoire.
After that, I closed my eyes and poured my mental strength into the grimoire to guide me through the process of card creation.
Since I had already chosen the model of boots, I immediately started to cut the leather as per the design requirements mentally.
But to my surprise this step turned out to be much harder than I had thought, the leather pieces were not cut cleanly, did I not apply enough mental strength or was it something else I don't know.
If the leather pieces are not cut neatly then it will hinder the stitching process, so we will not get the desired design leading to the creation of a cheap knock off version.
I tried to trim the edges of the leather neatly but it made it worse, finally, I was beginning to understand why the card apprentice chose to go for plain models with less complicated design.
I began to sweat because at this rate the leather will be damaged before I even started the true process of card creation. I was frustrated since all the solutions I came up with didn't seem to work.
Suddenly I had an epiphany, I remembered that once papa Wyatt said I should not focus on shaping and refining the ingredients itself but shaping and refining the aura of the ingredients and the card creation will become a lot easier.
What is the aura? When young Wyatt asked, papa Wyatt said that aura is like the soul of the ingredients, one can only feel it with enough concentration and experience but never see it.
Soul of ingredients, was he talking about the string pathways of everything I saw earlier using the soul pupils. I wasn't confident but I decided to give it a try
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