19 Mar 2321
Time 12:34
Location Sky Blossom City, Adventure Guild Association, Guild Association Mall.
Since I just made a buttload of money I decided to visit the auction section of the mall where all the good stuff is sold.
This part of the mall is more luxurious with all the fancy lighting and flamboyant decor, after all the people visiting here are big spenders or strong card apprentices who provide the auction house with all the rare materials. So, the mall has to keep up with its appearance.
But for some reason today the auction house seemed to be crowded, so I decided to call a guide,
[ please wait as your assigned sales representative will soon reach you]
[Expected wait time: 70seconds]
As I waited for Susan, I heard a commotion. The commotion had attracted a bunch of watermelon eating spectators.
Susan is the bob cut brunette who helped me yesterday every silver member of the guild association mall members gets assigned with a sales representative of choice. I chose Susan, she seemed professional enough.
"What do you mean you can't put our item in tomorrow's auction?"
"I am sorry sir the catalogue for tomorrow's auction has already been published, we can't add any more items. Now we are only accepting items for next week's auction."
"No! That won't work for us, we need money urgently! Please see if you can somehow squeeze us in tomorrow's auction."
"I am sorry sir I can't help you with this."
A small mercenary group with 6 Bronze Card apprentice upon clearing an E rank dungeon boss got an E rank Common grade dungeon boss core with the beast will. But in the process, one of their members lost an arm.
Not to worry in this world recovery of a limb or reattachment of a limb is no big deal but it's not cheap. No wonder they are in such a hurry.
"Good day sir, how may I help you today?"
Susan greeted me. Impeccable timing, how does she do it? I was impressed with the professionalism of the Guild association mall staffs.
"Susan, how much did you guys offer for the E rank beast will core?"
"Let me check sir." checking her Iron grimoire Susan replied "345,000$, sir"
"So, cheap!" Cores with the beast will within them are very rare and can be used as ingredients to create origin cards. The Mall's asking price was cheap, no wonder they wanted to auction the core.
"Sir even though cores containing beast will are rare ingredients used in the making of origin cards, they usually don't sell because nobody is willing to buy them unless it matches the origin cards they are making."
What Susan said made sense, though beast will core are rare if nobody needs them then they lose their value.
Walking near the booth I used my soul pupils on the beast will core to check what is the difference between a normal core and a core with the beast will within it?
Um, when seeing through the soul pupils a normal core contains a bright mass of light within it, as for the core with the beast will it also has a bright mass of light in it but this mass of light is in the shape of the beast the core belonged to.
In this case, the bright mass of light was shaped in the shape of a Bear, as the core belonged to the Abyssal Giant Bear. Looking at the curled up bear in the core a sudden idea for a new card flashed in my and I decided to buy the core.
But I did not walk to the card apprentice to talk business, I conveyed my intention to Susan and let the professional do the job. Susan wasn't cheap, as the Mall charges a 5% brokerage charge for any deal brokered through it.
Turns out it wasn't just me who showed their intention to buy the core. Many small time merchants wanted to make some profit off the desperation of the card apprentice.
So to get my hands on the beast will core I had to quote a sincere offer. Considering the market price of the beast will core and my need to satisfy my curiosity I quoted a million dollars but the brokerage fees would be shouldered by the other party.
I thought I would have to wait for the other party to make up their minds before answering but the other party readily agreed to my offer.
"Here's your beast will core friend, hope you successfully create your origin card."
"Thank you but I did not buy this core to create an origin card."
"W-what?! then why did you quote such a high offer?"
"I need this core for a card recipe I came up with. So, I thought the core was worth the price."
"Okay that's good, that's good. But aren't you a little young to create your own card recipe?"
"No, I am not."
19 Mar 2321
Time 12:51
Location Sky Blossom City, Adventure Guild Association, Guild Association Mall
"Sir, how may I help you?"
First, I wanted to walk around the auction house, but since I got my hands on the Beast will core, I decided against it because I wanted to check if the new card recipe I came up with was possible.
"Lead me to Card Lab, and I also want to buy the following cards,
E rank Bear Form Card, x1
F rank Aura Guard Card x1
E rank Common Core x1"
"E rank Bear Form Card - $147,000
F rank Aura Guard Card - $22,000
E rank Common Core - $10,000
Discount - 5% - $8,950
Total - $170,050"
[Card Name: Bear Form
Card Type: Skill Card (passive)
Card Rank: E rank, common grade
Card Ratings : [24]stars
Card Durability : [84/84]
Card effect: user becomes 'Elite' in Beast form martial arts [Bear form]. Addition effect - strength and senses of a bear (passive).]
[Card Name: Aura Guard
Card Type: Skill Card (passive)
Card Rank: F rank, common grade
Card Ratings : [14]stars
Card Durability : [82/82]
Card effect: strengthens the aura of the user. Additional effect - passive protection from harmful and negative rays example ultraviolet sun rays]
E rank 'Bear Form' card rose the proficiency level of Beast forms martial arts 'Bear Form' from Proficient to Elite.
Martial arts proficiency can be divided into
Proficient<Elite<Master<Grandmaster
As for Aura Guard, according to studies every living being has Aura emitting from their body and stronger the Aura means that person is healthier.
If any average John/Jane Doe from my world were to be equipped with Aura Guard then he/she could easily live across 110 years of age.
When I first saw the curled up Bear in the core my first thought was this will go great with Bear Form Martial Arts. Then upon further thoughts, I came up with a possible new card recipe. Being an Inventor I couldn't wait to try it out, so I didn't hesitate to quote a sincere price for the beast will core.
I entered the Card Lab collecting all the ingredients, I still had nearly six and half hours of monthly free time left under my membership.
Sitting in the Card Lab, placing all card ingredients on the card creation page I closed my eyes and poured my mental strength into the grimoire.
This time the card creation process would be more difficult than last time as I am using two already operational cards as ingredients.
Thinking about the kind of card I wanted to create I opened my Soul pupils and scanned all four ingredients E rank Bear form card, F rank Aura Guard card, E rank - Beast will core and E rank common core.
Within the Bear Form card, I saw a bright mass of light shaped in the form of a Martial artist continually practising Bear Form Martial arts.
While in the Aura guard card I saw the bright mass of light shaped in the form of guard.
In the Beast will core I saw a Bear sleeping in a curled up position but the bright mass of light in here was much brighter compared to the mass of light in the 'Bear from' card.
My intuition told me that if I tried to bind the beast will core to the Bear form card then I would fail as the Bear form card soul pathways seem to be weaker compared to the soul pathways in the beast will core.
Therefore I came up with an idea to strengthen the soul pathways of the 'Bear form' card with the soul pathways of the 'Aura guard' card.
I proceeded accordingly, using the mental strength I moved the bright mass of light from the Aura guard card to strengthen the Bear form card. I was careful so that I didn't leak any bright mass of light in the process.
The soul pathways of Aura guard easily dissolved into the soul pathways of the Bear form card strengthening the Bear form card
Next, I didn't directly try to bind the Beast will with the strengthened Bear form card. I used the E rank common grade core as the medium.
I slowly moved both soul pathways of beast will and Bear form into the common grade core simultaneously, the beast will resisted at first but being overpowered by the soul pathways of Bear form its resistance was of no use and bound with the common grade core.
I looked into the E rank Common grade core, with the addition of beast will and Bear form soul pathways the speck of bright light inside it turned into a large mass of bright light in the shape of Abyssal Giant Bear, this Abyssal Bear was no longer curled up and sleeping instead it showed intelligence and was continually practising Bear form Martial arts. Then I activated the morphing property of the common grade core turning it into a card.
Card Creation Complete, [ Abyssal Giant Bear Spirit Guard]
[Card Name: Abyssal Giant Bear Spirit Guard
Card Type: Skill Card (passive)
Card Rank: E rank, common grade
Card Ratings : [26]stars
Card Durability : [100/100]
Card effect: user becomes 'Elite' in Beast form martial arts [Abyssal Giant Bear form].
Additional effect - strength and senses of the Abyssal Giant Bear (passive), Abyssal Giant Bear Spirit Guard(passive), Abyssal Roar(active), Intimidating aura(passive).]
Abyssal Giant Bear Spirit Guard(passive) - the user's aura is strengthened to the point where it takes the form of an Abyssal Giant Bear spirit, this Abyssal Giant Bear Spirit is sentient and will passively protect the user meanwhile strengthening users Abyssal Giant Bear form Martial arts by giving increased strength, defence and senses of the Abyssal Giant Bear and other Abyssal Giant Bear abilities.
Intimidating aura(passive) - user passively emits the Aura of a wild Abyssal Giant Bear.
Abyssal Roar (active) - user can roar like the Abyssal Giant Bear stunning all nearby enemies for 1-3 seconds based on strength difference. Cooldown time - 140 seconds.
The star rating is very high than I expected it should be because the star ratings of cards I used as ingredients was high, thankfully the durability ratings are perfect one of the reasons I preferred the aura guard card for strengthening over other alternatives.
What was more shocking was the evolution of Bear from Martial arts to Abyssal Giant Bear form and evolution of Aura guard to Abyssal Giant Bear spirit guard. Not to mention the Abyssal roar and intimidating aura.
This card could be considered overpowered in E rank common grade cards, 3 passive and one active abilities with such low star ratings and perfect durability ratings was unheard of.
I bet this card would fetch me a fortune if I auctioned it. Removing the F rank Bear form card I equipped the E rank Abyssal Giant Bear Spirit Guard Card. Due to my lacking star power, I could not hold cards more than 32stars.
But with E rank Abyssal Giant Bear Spirit Guard Card who needs as an F rank Bear form card.
E rank Abyssal Giant Bear is a boss monster with it and my Gale rabbit leather boots abilities complimenting each other's weakness, I had become an unstoppable force within E - ranks.
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