Chapter 188: The Unexpected Acquisition (1/2)

Chapter 188: The Unexpected Acquisition

Translator: Nyoi-Bo StudioEditor: Nyoi-Bo Studio

With a light note of surprise, Butchie retracted her ordinary devil-may-care expression and became very serious. Paxy was looking on with admiration. Because he was so close, he could sense the rather powerful perception emitted by Sister Butchie. The fluctuations in perception really were powerful—several times more powerful than that of the teachers in his school.

Sister Butchie was really a powerhouse among the powerful! He didn't know when he could ever get to where she was.

As Butchie's perception started to make contact with the fiery dragon card in her apparatus, she got a better sense of the card's mysteries.

”Interesting!” Her phoenix-slanted eyes flashed as a near smile started to form in the corner of Butchie's mouth. Then, her empty right hand was raised, and with a whoosh, a fiery dragon seven or eight meters long appeared around her body. Paxy was startled and watched the monster with some dread. The fiery dragon's body was huge; its gathered-up body left its majestic head right on top of Butchie's, with its deep-set dragon eyes watching straight ahead. The heat emanating from the fiery body made Paxy back up a few steps. The dragon looked very real with its bright red, fiery scales formed of energy.

Raising his little face, Paxy was watching the fiery dragon in awe. To so very casually cause such a realistic fiery dragon to be emitted, Sister Butchie was awesome. The more precise one's perception got, the more realistic the fiery dragon could become. That would mean its internal energy composition was more realistic and could emit more power.

The fiery dragon was very lifelike and exquisite, and its power would certainly not be slight.

Butchie wore a thoughtful expression as she sent her right hand lightly forward, and the dragon squatting on her head leapt forth. Paxy only noticed a red flash going by, after which there was a loud bang that shook the ground under his feet. The blast wave sent countless fine pieces of gravel sweeping toward him, making Paxy quickly cover his head.

By the time he lifted his head, he found a big hole about five meters in diameter not far away, emitting blue smoke from its charred insides.

”The power is not bad.” Butchie was looking at the big hole and mumbling to herself. She was inwardly amazed. That card was quite different from ordinary fiery dragon cards. The internal energy composition of the energy body formed by it was completely different from that formed by an ordinary fiery dragon card. If it had been an ordinary card, it would have been able to achieve no more than two-thirds the damage she was looking at.

In truth, she wasn't paying that much attention to the card's power; even the power of that fiery dragon card wasn't much to her. But, that didn't hinder her surprise with the card. The fiery dragon was a very mature card, having gone through many years of development. It wasn't the most amazing card, but it wouldn't be saying too much to say it had the most mature structure.

Because there were so many who used it, quite a few card masters had been making improvements to it all along. Having undergone the excavations of countless generations of card masters, every bit of the fiery dragon card's potential had been uncovered. By 30 years ago, the composition of the card had already been completely set. It was a very mature product. During those 30 years, no one had ever heard of anyone being able to make any further improvements, which just proved how mature its composition was.

Still, right in front of her was a completely different fiery dragon card whose power was greater by half in comparison with the ordinary card. Being increased by 50 percent might be a common enough circumstance moving between different levels of cards, but it had become extremely rare in a single product.

If any card master were to say he could improve any particular card to where its power would be increased to 150 percent, then that card master would either be crazy or a great master among the top great masters in the world, like Rosenberg or Heiner Van Sant. But, why would such a card master put so much energy into something so low-grade as the fiery dragon card? To be able to increase the power of any card by ten percent would be pretty good.

No matter how she looked at it, 150 percent was a stunning piece of data!

Butchie wasn't any card master, but as a professional card artisan, she knew how much weight that would carry. When would such an awesome card master have ever appeared in Pomelo?

Every card artisan would long to be connected with an outstanding card master, and Butchie wasn't any different.

She'd recently felt as though she were approaching a breakthrough. If she were ever able to break through her current limits, then the card she had would no longer suit her.

It was actually very difficult to assess the strength of a card artisan. Apart from the hard indicator of perceptual strength, there were still quite a few things, such as battle awareness and experience, that couldn't be evaluated by metrics. So, a card artisan's division into levels wasn't something many card artisans concerned themselves with.

A big part of what determined a card artisan's strength was the card they used.

A card suited to oneself would always bring a card artisan's greatest strengths into play.

It looked as though she would have to ask around to find out what card master had made the fiery dragon card. Butchie was thinking it over. She hadn't realized she would make such an unexpected acquisition as soon as she got to Pomelo, which made her rather excited.

She looked up to find Paxy full of anticipation and chuckled. Watching Butchie for a while with her smile and dazzling natural beauty, he blurted out, ”Sister Butchie is really pretty!”