Chapter 2535: Teacher's Praise and the Full-Power Card Player

Even a loyal witch apprentice couldn't help but look at her teacher when faced with such temptation.

Miss Wensilai Te had been paying attention to the conversation between the two. Although she didn't play cards much, she also knew the great name of the "Founding Series", and she was very considerate of her apprentice:

"Charlotte, then you can play a game with Xia De. If you win, you can keep this card for him for the time being. If you lose, I will give the 'Legendary Player' some other reward. The oil painting I originally promised to paint for him can have one more added."

"No, Miss, how can I let you gamble for me? Please let me use my special card to gamble!"

Miss Bell said immediately, her tone full of energy, without any of the gentleness she had always had.

Miss Wensilai Te pretended to be angry:

"Is it possible that my oil painting is not as valuable as your playing cards? Charlotte, I am in charge here, don't use your cards."

Then she looked at Miss Dannis Te:

"Let's just treat it as entertainment for tonight. Want to guess who will win?"

The red-haired girl shook her head with a smile, because there was no need to guess at all.

The card game took place here on the sofa. Xia De and Miss Bell sat on the short sofas at both ends of the coffee table, while the other two ladies sat on the long sofa acting as referees.

The card game adopts the most classic point system, with a total of three rounds, scoring 1 point for winning, 0 points for losing, and -1 point for busting, which requires trying to avoid busting as much as possible during the game.

And while the two were exchanging decks to shuffle, Xia De even declared in advance:

"I currently have 38 special rule cards in my deck. If you think this is unfair, I can take out some special cards and keep only the Founding series."

Ever since the number of special rule cards in his deck exceeded thirty, even in his spare time in Tobesk, Xia De had never used a "full" deck to play cards with others.

And Miss Bell looked at Xia De's deck in her hand, stunned for a moment, then shook her head quickly, and "snatched" the deck from Xia De's hand:

"Keep all the special cards; I want to try... My deck contains a total of six special cards, including 【Racial Legend·Elf】."

After both sides finished shuffling, the game officially began. Both decks were spread out in a fan shape on the coffee table, and then they each drew their first two cards.

"Speaking of which, what does Miss Jia Lin Na think of you playing cards?"

The witch on the side also asked Xia De curiously.

"I don't smoke or drink. My hobbies are just raising cats and playing cards occasionally. She doesn't have any opinion. Miss Jia Lin Na often says my life is too monotonous, but I really don't have hobbies for other things."

Xia De looked at the face-up card in his hand—

【Phantom Opera House·Silent Audience】, Suit: Moon 12. If this card is drawn and the previous card was also a Moon suit, all players except the player themselves are forced to stop drawing in this round.

He showed the card to the girl across the table, then inserted it into the gap between the first face-down card and the coffee table surface.

"Don't you like operas, concerts? Or horse racing, salons, banquets? Look at this face of yours and your perfect figure. Even if the noble girls of Tobesk know you are Miss Jia Lin Na's lover, they must have slipped you notes. Oh, have you received handkerchiefs or un... at banquets?"

The witch teased, and then was patted by the red-haired girl.

"Compared to banquets, I prefer reading at home at night."

Xia De said, flipping open his first face-down card, showing the card face of a black-robed figure facing the bubbles in the boundless starry sea:

"Sorry, 【Founding·Space】, Suit: Moon 10.

After drawing this card and before the stop-drawing stage, you can choose whether to activate the effect only once: flip a coin, if it is heads, force the opponent to discard the first card and the last card at this time, and draw again; if it is tails, swap your first card with any non-Moon suit card displayed by the opponent."

Miss Bell covered her mouth. The black-haired girl widened her eyes to look at this card, her face carrying an inexplicable flush:

"This is really..."

"Xia De, 12+10=22, you busted."

The red-haired girl reminded. Xia De nodded with a smile:

"But aren't there rules that can be activated? I choose to activate the effect of 【Founding·Space】."

He looked at the hand cards of Miss Charlotte Bell across the table. The face-down card had not yet been displayed, and the face-up card was a normal card, Sun 9.

He then rummaged through his pocket for a coin, flipped it out and caught it, then showed the result of the coin facing up.

"Swap my first card with Miss Bell's Sun 9."

He handed out the card, and the girl, whose right hand was trembling slightly, took 【Founding·Space】 and handed out her Sun 9.

"I am now 9+12=21 points, stop drawing. Miss Bell, according to the rules of 【Phantom Opera House·Silent Audience】, you must also stop drawing now. May I ask what your points are?"

"I lost."

She displayed the face-down card with the suit of "Star 7", her eyes still fixed on the 【Founding·Space】 she had swapped with Xia De.

Miss Wensilai Te on the side shook her head, as if regretting that the first round ended so quickly:

"Xia De, you said you only like reading at night? Is this because your teacher is present, so you want to show off a bit?"

"Xia De is indeed very diligent."

The red-haired girl sitting beside her helped Xia De defend:

"Xia De is an excellent student of the Academy, and he even won the Academy's 'Feilianna Medal' at the end of last year. He not only has great talent but is also very diligent; I know this better than anyone."

Miss Wensilai Te held her teacup and turned slightly to look at her:

"So your conclusion is that your student is the kind of ascetic person?"

Originally Miss Dannis Te wanted to nod, but thinking of Xia De's complex emotional life, she had to admit:

"The only difference between him and an ascetic is that he has almost no resistance to beautiful girls."

Miss Wensilai Te thought she was talking about Cavendish, but in fact, she was talking about the Cavendishes.

The second round began, and Xia De and Miss Bell drew cards again. Of course, 【Founding·Space】 was still by Miss Bell's hand at this time, and she wanted to wait until the game ended before returning it to Xia De.

Xia De's face-up card was a normal card "Star 2". After taking a look, the face-down card was also a Star suit:

【Great City Player·1853 Tobesk Champion】, Suit: Star 12. When drawing this card, you have the right to view one of the opponent's face-down cards.

Xia De thought for a moment and displayed this card:

"I am now 12+2=14 points."

Miss Bell widened her eyes again to look at this "Champion Card", and then displayed her two hand cards:

"Sun 13 and Flower 6, 19 points, I stop drawing."

"Then do you want to continue drawing cards?"

The witch holding the teacup asked Xia De, and Xia De nodded of course:

"Continue drawing cards, I still have an adventurous spirit... 【Founding·Knowledge】, Suit: Flower 1."

He displayed his third card, and the rules of this card were extremely complex:

"Activate the effect according to the number of hand cards when this card is drawn. This is the third card, so activate effect 3: you can choose whether to force the opponent's total points to be reduced by 3. I choose yes. My total points are now 12+2+1=15 points."

Miss Bell looked at the card, and after getting permission, took it into her hand and watched it carefully for a while:

"I am now 19-3=16 points."

"You are still in the stop-drawing stage, I choose to continue drawing cards."

Saying this, he went to take the next card, and after flipping it open, he laughed:

"【Life Ritual·Wedding】, Suit: Flower 5. Roll two 20-sided dice, if the numbers differ by less than or equal to 2, you can adjust the card points between 4 and 5.

I don't need to roll the dice, after all, no matter what the result is, I win, it's just the difference between 19 points and 20 points."

Miss Bell pursed her lips and nodded, then looked at the two "Founding Series" by her hand:

"In this way, your points have reached two. Next round, unless you bust -1 point at the start, and I don't bust and get 1 point at the start, otherwise I lose no matter what."

"So there are too many special rule cards in the deck, even if the special rules of most cards are harsh to trigger, it will still make the game very boring."

Xia De said, and went to draw cards again, but didn't expect the witch apprentice to look at him very seriously and shake her head:

"Not boring at all, Mr. Hamilton. This is the most interesting card game I have ever experienced.

For ordinary players like us, being able to play a game with you even with just one Founding series card is a dream, let alone playing against your full-power deck.

It is very boring for you, but for me, this is as tense and exciting as every time I practice with Miss—I'm really sorry, I couldn't make you use your full power."

Xia De believed that his expression must be very strange at this moment, because Miss Wensilai Te and Miss Dannis Te both covered their mouths and chuckled.

"There is no need for such an apology."

Saying this, the third round officially began. Seeing the face-up card 【Founding·Silver Moon】 in his hand, looking at the lady on the card sitting on a high stool holding up the moon, he couldn't help but smile, and then shook his head with some nostalgia:

"Look at this, this is the first special rule card I obtained. Simple and practical, it can adjust the number within the range of 1 to 5."

Then he prepared to flip open his face-down card, but was stopped by the girl opposite:

"Sorry, please look at this!"

She smiled reservedly and showed her hand cards to Xia De. On the card face was a figure looming under a clock tower in thick fog:

"【Urban Legend·Murderer in the Fog】, Suit: Moon 11. When drawing this card, if this card is the second card and all players have not viewed their first face-down card, all players cannot view their first face-down card before announcing their stop-drawing, and all players must draw a third card."

"I have a Moon 4 【Urban Legend·Non-existent Street】, is this card of yours a card for gambling on luck?"

Xia De understood:

"This card itself has 11 points. In the case of not knowing the first card, the possibility of busting when drawing the third card is not small." ===== CHAPTER 2536 =====