Chapter 78

Effect: Must be actively triggered. After triggering, summon three Swords of Revealing Light in the designated area to form a sword array. All enemy units within the sword array fall into a sealed state, unable to launch attacks from within, and their speed is reduced by 50%; after the Swords of Revealing Light are destroyed, they cause a violent explosion.

"Sealed state, unable to launch attacks from within, and there's also the debuff of 50% reduced speed that wasn't there originally; it can be considered a decent restriction method."

"It's just that the Magic Card civilization is reality after all; the Swords of Revealing Light are not without ways to be broken." Although they cannot launch attacks from within, the Swords of Revealing Light do not have much defensive effect against external attacks.

"However, after the Swords of Revealing Light are destroyed, they will cause an additional violent explosion, which to a certain extent makes up for the lack of defense." Lu Li estimated that being hit by this, even if one didn't die, would definitely be uncomfortable.

Overall, Lu Li was quite satisfied with the results of reconstructing the Red-Eyes Black Dragon and creating the Swords of Revealing Light this time.

Opening his eyes, Lu Li saw Hearing Mana and Bai Bai, one big and one small, staring at him.

"What's wrong?" Seeing this, Lu Li couldn't help but ask.

"Nothing, Master Beast Tamer." Bai Bai's face flushed slightly, and she shrank behind Hearing Mana. Even in front of Lu Li, this little girl was quite shy.

Of course, if it were a battle, that would be a different story.

"Master, congratulations." Compared to Bai Bai, Hearing Mana was much more open; after all, that was her personality, and she had spent longer with Lu Li than Bai Bai.

Lu Li had just experienced two magic power fluctuations, which meant that in addition to reconstructing the Red-Eyes Black Dragon, the new Magic Card he created was also a success.

"Come and try it out." Lu Li reached out and affectionately pinched Hearing Mana's nose, then, amidst her coquettish protest, took out the Swords of Revealing Light and placed it against the girl's chest.

Like other special Magic Cards such as the Magic Spell Book, the Swords of Revealing Light slowly merged into Hearing Mana's body, followed by Hearing Mana's aura slowly rising until it reached a critical point.

【Dark Magician Girl Hearing Mana successfully fused with the Swords of Revealing Light, quality increased to Legendary!】 A few seconds passed, and the aura on Hearing Mana's body reached a new height.

Finally promoted to Legendary? Receiving the system prompt, Lu Li couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.

Back when she fused with the Magical Cylinder, the Dark Magician Girl's quality had already been improved. This time, after fusing with the Swords of Revealing Light, she broke through her original Perfect quality and advanced to the Legendary level.

"Six-star Legendary, the quality is even stronger than the awakened Blackie, enough to rival the pre-reconstruction Red-Eyes Black Star Dragon."

"However, if Hearing Mana wants to break through her original rank, she still needs to fuse with the Eye of Timaeus or the Red-Eyes Black Dragon. Relying solely on her original quality, she still can't keep up with the increasingly high-intensity battles."

"In that case, the production of 【Loaded Cylinder Nest】 and 【Chaos Ritual】 needs to be put on the agenda." Lu Li thought silently in his heart.

【Loaded Cylinder Nest】 combined with 【Magical Cylinder】 could further improve the Dark Magician Girl's counterattack intensity and upper limit, while 【Chaos Ritual】 was one of the patches Lu Li planned to give the Dark Magician Girl, referencing the Chaos Dark Magician.

It didn't need to fuse with other Magic Card spirits, but rather improved her own strength through the effect of the ritual, which could be considered a compensation for Hearing Mana's relatively weak basic strength.

"Hearing Mana's situation will stay like this for now. The reconstruction of the second Magic Card, the Red-Eyes Black Dragon, is complete, but this is not the end. The Red-Eyes Darkness Metal Dragon and the Red-Eyes Undying Dragon Emperor in the future are even higher-level terminals."

"There's also the Blue-Eyes White Dragon and Kisara. Judging from the process of reconstructing the Red-Eyes Black Dragon just now, the pressure of creating high-level Magic Cards is not as great as it was at the beginning, but the situation of this Magic Card is special, so the background and settings need to be carefully considered."

Kisara, the soul of the Blue-Eyes White Dragon, was the foundation for Lu Li's plan to perform a certain degree of magic modification on the production of the Blue-Eyes White Dragon.

"In terms of Digimon Magic Cards, I also need to start preparing for the production of X-Antibody evolution Magic Cards. X-Antibodies that can be applied to various different stages of Digimon are enough to raise the strength of Digimon Magic Cards by a stage."

"Besides X-Antibody evolution Magic Cards, I also need to consider Ultimate evolution Magic Cards," thinking of this, Lu Li couldn't help but rub his head: "Network evolution can allow Digimon to adapt to different environments and improve their strength. According to the situation from Bai Bai to Blackie, and then to Angewomon, Ultimate Digimon might reach the nine-star level, which is already the pinnacle of high-level Magic Cards."

"Besides that, there's also the production of the Warship World and Ship Girl Magic Cards!"

"Tsk! The college entrance exam is over, but I always feel like I have a pile of things to deal with." In the end, Lu Li sighed.

143. Multiple Fusion: Replacing High-Grade Materials with Low-Grade Materials!

"Not only the background and settings, but the materials for creating Kisara and evolution Magic Cards are still lacking quite a bit, and the materials for Ship Girl Magic Cards haven't even been started. Let's first look at the effect of this hidden authority of multiple fusion." Having a general direction for his next key goals, Lu Li had two portions of gray-grade materials appear in his hands.

As for Hearing Mana, she was incredibly excited because she had obtained a new equipment card, pulling Bai Bai to the side to whisper. Her actions were just like a player who had obtained an authentic Bandai toy.

Authority activated. A flash of realization crossed Lu Li's mind. As magic power surged from his body, he brought his hands together, and the two portions of materials merged together without any obstruction, finally turning into a new portion of material, and its quality was also raised to the white-grade level.

"If others saw this, their jaws would probably drop." Even Lu Li, the initiator, couldn't help but click his tongue in wonder at this scene; the reactions of others would definitely be no better.

"The magic power consumed is slightly increased by about one-tenth compared to rewriting and reorganizing materials of the same level. Is the consumption increased by one-tenth for every level, or does synthesizing higher-quality materials consume more magic power?"

Holding this thought, Lu Li took out another portion of white-grade material to test.

Although the hidden effect of the second authority had been activated for a while, Lu Li had been busy with other things during this time, so it was only until now that he was testing it. And the result seemed quite okay, but to obtain more precise information, he still needed to continue trying.

On the side, Hearing Mana, who was originally excited because she had obtained the Swords of Revealing Light and her strength had improved, and Bai Bai, who had been pulled by her to whisper, also noticed Lu Li's abnormality. The two little cuties looked at each other and gathered around Lu Li, and then they saw him, as if performing a magic trick, clap his hands and synthesize the two white-grade materials into a higher-level green-grade material.

"Wow!" Whether it was Hearing Mana or Bai Bai, it was the first time for both girls to see such a magical performance, and they couldn't help but let out a low cry. But immediately after, both of them reached out their little hands to cover their mouths, obviously very worried that their exclamation would disturb Lu Li, which was incredibly cute.

"Is it still only an increase of one-tenth in consumption?" Not noticing that Hearing Mana and Bai Bai had quietly slipped to his side, Lu Li picked up the newly obtained green-grade material and examined it carefully.

【Mecha Axis Modified】

Description: A special axis made of precision instruments, often used in the production of mechanical or modified Magic Cards. It seems to have been processed in a special way. Compared to conventional mecha axes, the Mecha Axis Modified can, to a certain extent, replace certain mechanical and modified blue-grade materials.

"Mecha Axis Modified? And this final introduction!" At first, Lu Li just wanted to see if there was any difference between this synthesized new material and conventional materials, but when he saw the introduction of the Mecha Axis Modified, Lu Li couldn't help but tremble.

The quality of materials will have a certain impact on the finished Magic Card, so Magic Card Masters have strict quality and type classifications for materials put into the Magic Card editor, because it is possible that just a difference in the quality and type of one material will affect the final card success rate and the strength of the Magic Card spirit.

But this Mecha Axis Modified synthesized by Lu Li through multiple fusion could, to a certain extent, replace certain materials, which meant that materials synthesized through multiple fusion had a wider range of usage.

But more importantly, the synthesized Mecha Axis Modified was only a green-grade material, yet it could now replace certain mechanical or modified blue-grade materials. Even if it could only replace a limited number of materials, this broke the original boundaries!

"Sure enough, the hidden authority has a lot of room for excavation. If the materials synthesized in the future can all replace higher-quality materials to a certain extent, this means that if I create top-tier Magic Cards in the future, I will be more advantageous than others!" Realizing this, Lu Li couldn't help but become excited.

For example, if both are creating seven-star Magic Cards, an ordinary Magic Card Master needs to use blue-grade materials as materials, but Lu Li only needs to use green-grade materials synthesized by multiple fusion to achieve the same effect.

And by using synthesized materials of the same quality, Lu Li can create Magic Cards of a higher level more easily than ordinary Magic Card Masters. The effect of this addition and subtraction is simply terrifying.

Especially when creating ten-star or higher Magic Cards that transcend high-level Magic Cards in the future, the price of materials needed for this level of Magic Card is far beyond imagination, and it has even reached the point where there is a market but no supply, often requiring deep penetration into some dangerous areas to obtain.

"Creating Kisara might require the use of purple-grade materials, and creating X-Antibody evolution Magic Cards might even require orange-grade materials, but now with the materials obtained from multiple fusion, there is a great chance that I only need to use blue-grade and purple-grade materials to create these two Magic Cards."

"The workload of fusing materials here might be quite a lot, but combined with simulated construction, this is just a matter of time." While thinking, another portion of green-grade material appeared in Lu Li's hand. These were just his conjectures for now, and further testing was needed to experiment.

Multiple fusion authority activated again, magic power surged in his body, but this time, the two green-grade materials did not merge into higher-level blue-grade materials under Lu Li's coordination.

But soon, Lu Li understood the reason. Under the gaze of Hearing Mana and Bai Bai, Lu Li took out two more portions of green-grade materials and activated multiple fusion again.

This time, the four portions of green-grade materials merged together without any obstruction, becoming a new portion of blue-grade material.

"Sure enough, this blue-grade material obtained through synthesis can also replace purple-grade materials to a certain extent," looking at the new blue-grade material in his hand, Lu Li was thoughtful: "However, synthesizing green-grade and white-grade materials only requires two portions of low-quality materials to succeed, but at the blue-grade level, the energy required for synthesizing materials has increased quite a bit, which leads to a doubling of the demand for materials."

After his first failure just now, it was because he noticed this point that he took out two more portions of green-grade materials to reactivate the authority, and the result was exactly as he had thought.

"Then what if I synthesize purple-grade materials?" Thinking of doing it, Lu Li continued to test the multiple fusion authority.

Successive multiple fusions consumed a lot of his magic power, but there were several magic power crystals in his body, enough to support him to continue testing.

144. Shangguan Wan'er's Appointment

About half an hour passed, and a portion of fused purple-grade material and orange-grade material appeared in front of Lu Li, but that was as far as it went; Lu Li had to stop the test.

"Synthesizing purple-grade materials also only requires four portions of blue-grade materials, but synthesizing purple-grade materials once directly consumes all the remaining magic power, and although this consumption is a bit large, it is still within an acceptable range."

"It's just that when synthesizing orange-grade materials, not only does the number of purple-grade materials used as raw materials double again, requiring as many as eight portions, but even the magic power consumption becomes more terrifying, actually consuming two magic power crystals directly."

But even so, Lu Li was already satisfied. After all, obtaining an orange-grade material for the price of eight purple-grade materials and some magic power was a huge profit.

Normally speaking, let alone eight portions, even the price of eighteen portions of purple-grade materials might not be enough to get one orange-grade material.

"However, the consumption of synthesizing orange-grade materials is still a bit of a burden for me now." Putting all the materials obtained through multiple fusion in front of him into the Magic Card editor, Lu Li considered his planned tasks for the day finished.

At the moment, there was only one magic power crystal left in his body to prevent emergencies, but even in a full state, Lu Li didn't think that with the magic power held by the Commander Realm, he could synthesize red-grade materials one level higher than orange-grade.

Red-grade materials were already materials used to create ten-star Magic Cards. Lu Li had a feeling that the amount of magic power consumed to synthesize materials at this level would definitely be extraordinary; even if he advanced to the Monarch Realm, he might not be able to support the consumption.

"Master, someone was looking for you just now." Seeing that Lu Li had finally stopped, Bai Bai handed the personal terminal she was holding to Lu Li with an incredibly obedient expression.

Just now, when Lu Li was testing, the personal terminal had received several communication requests, but the two girls had not made a sound to avoid disturbing Lu Li's test.

"Thank you, Bai Bai." Taking the personal terminal, Lu Li rubbed Bai Bai's head, causing her face to turn bright red. Then, noticing Hearing Mana's eager expression on the side, Lu Li helplessly reached out and gave her a head-pat as well, before opening the personal terminal to check.

There were quite a few messages on the personal terminal, most of which were invitations from some merchants. After all, the college entrance exam had just ended, and Lu Li, the top candidate in the Eastern Region, was in the limelight.

If they could get Lu Li, the top candidate, to endorse their products, the harvest in the coming year would be much richer.

As for after a year? Hey, isn't there another top candidate for the college entrance exam? For these capitalists, naturally, they cooperate with whoever is more famous.

However, Lu Li had no interest in these so-called endorsements, and he had received quite a few of these so-called invitations during this period, but they were all cleared; clicking on them was a waste of time. With this time, he might as well spend more effort on conceiving new Magic Cards.

Select all, delete—Lu Li's entire operation process could be described as smooth and efficient, and the message board of the personal terminal was finally much cleaner.

"Hmm? Is it her?" Quickly scanning the page of the personal terminal, Lu Li finally stopped at a name.

Shangguan Wan'er!

Lu Li still had a relatively deep impression of this young lady of the Shangguan family, but he couldn't figure out why she would come to him at this time.

During the last trip to the Cangdu Youth Training Tournament, the few of them had exchanged contact information before parting, but they hadn't really been in contact.

While thinking, Lu Li pressed the communication link. A few seconds later, the little loli Silver Crown Mandragora Queen wearing a crown first appeared in his view—tiny and very cute.

"Master Lu Li, please wait a moment." Seeing Lu Li on the screen, the little Queen loli moved her short legs and ran quickly toward where Shangguan Wan'er was, but the personal terminal she held in her hands was very steady, without any shaking.

Don't look at how tiny this Queen is; even if the personal terminal in her hand were replaced by a two-meter-tall giant, running would still be as easy as walking on flat ground.

"Is this in the library?" Through the light screen, Lu Li saw rows of bookshelves flying backward, fully stacked with various books.

Even through the light screen, Lu Li had a feeling of being in a sea of books, which was no less inferior to the libraries of his previous life.

In the very center of the sea of books, Shangguan Wan'er, wearing a light blue tight-fitting long dress, was looking at the book in her hands with focus, wearing rimless silver glasses.

Sensing the arrival of the little Queen loli, Shangguan Wan'er raised her head slightly. A strand of naughty hair fell in front of her eyes, which not only didn't destroy the beauty of her person in the slightest, but instead revealed a liveliness different from her quietness, carrying a sense of contradiction, as poetic and picturesque as a painting.

Seeing this beautiful scene, even Lu Li couldn't help but be slightly stunned, praising: "I finally understand why you possess such a strong scholarly temperament."

Seeing this beautiful scene, even Lu Li couldn't help but be slightly stunned, and he praised: "I finally understand why you possess such a deep, scholarly temperament."