17. Gathering The Named Cards I

"Yeah, thanks Sil. How long I was out?" (Jin)

"It's not that long, maybe around 30 minutes or so."(Silvanaz)

I tried to move my body up since I'm already awake but when I only tried to move a little, I felt an immense pain through all over my body.

"Gahh! Gghh gha... What the..."(Jin)

"Please don't move to much master. You just had an intense fight so you're injured right now and need to rest. I doubt you have much health left after the fight." (Sil)

I opened my status to see how many health I have left and it was a stunning number of 7 out of the 82 health I have.

Health : 7/82 (+1/ 10 minute)

I thought that since this is a game, I won't feel that much pain even if I was hurt but I was proven wrong from this fight.

To speed up my recovery, I called all the healer I brought with me and ordered them to heal me.

I brought 4 healers with me and each of their heal healed me by 5 which brought my health up to 60 after each of them using their lesser heal skill 3 times.

With my health pumped to 67, though still painful, it was much better than before. After that I got up and start to count my gain.

It was then that I noticed a blinking letter symbol on top left corner of my vision.

When I thought about using it, rows of messages fro the game system shows up one by one.

[Gotia The Goliath, a named silver grade card has submitted to you, do you want to retract it back as a card?]

[Congratulation, you have received a silver named card]

[You have defeated a mini boss by yourself as a rookie without using any card, a feat that few had achieved till today. You have received the 'Super Rookie I' Title.]

[Congratulations, you have defeated the Crimson Tower Guardian, you may choose 1 of the following rewards]

- Extra Life Card

Description: Gain 1 extra life.

- Captain Rank Upgrade Card (Imperian Exclusive)

Description: Raise a follower(Imperian) rank from captain to commander.

- +10 All Attribute Card

Description : Add 10 points to all attributes.

[Congratulations, you have cleared the Crimson Tower, you may choose 2 of the following rewards]

- Silver Grade Growth Card

Description : Can be used to increase a silver grade card to gold.

- Silver Grade Skill 'Battle Aura' Card

Description : Manifest an aura that took form of a giant figure around the user that increase the power and defense by 50% for 30 minutes. Cooldown : 2 hours.

- Silver Grade Artifact 'Elphian Scepter' Card

Description : a scepter that can be used to summon a horde of Elphian in exchange for cards. Summon 1 elphian every 25 iron card sacrifice, 5 Lead card sacrifice, and 1 bronze card sacrifice.

[You have received +5 to all Attributes, 3.000 Game Point, and 250 Upgrade Point as bonus clear reward]

[You have level up to level 11, +5 to Power and Defense, +10 to Health, Mana, and Spirit]

After I have read all the reward descriptions, I discuss over it with Sil and Kirika. When I told them about the extra life card, both of them immediately told me to pick it so I did.

After that, I picked the silver grade growth card and the battle aura skill card. With the growth card, I can increase Kirika grade to gold and the battle aura skill card will increase my overall strength.

I turn Kirika back to card form at once and use the silver grade growth card on her. Her card outlines that were silver colored before change into sparkling golden one after that.

Her status also change a lot compared to before.

[Crowned Royalle Kirika]

Grade : Gold

Faction : Imperian

Rank : Commander

Cost : 25 Spirit

Power : 375

Defense : 235

Health : 310/310

Skill : Courageous Stance(Active) - Crowned Royalle Kirika will enter invincible state that negate all kind of damage for 30 seconds together with all soldiers under her banner. Cooldown : 1 hour.

Additional Faction Skill : Summon 100 Onna Bugeisha(Iron), 10 Shrine Maiden(Lead), and 1 Elite Samurai(Bronze) when this card is summoned. Last until this card is unsummoned. Every dead follower will be summoned automatically back every 10 days.

She has grown far stronger than how she previously was but the cost to summo her also increased by a lot as well.

Still even with her high cost, she still worth it as I will get a bonus of 103 other followers when I summon her.

After the process of upgrading her grade is done, I immediately summon her back to join us.

When I summon her back, there were some change in her appearance.

Her previous kimono has become more beautiful and durable but it still colored in black and red, her previous weapon also become 10 cm longer.

But the biggest change in her is her beauty. If before she looks like a charming young woman warrior, then now her overall aura and looks felt like a princess or a royalty should be.

Behind her stood an army of 100 soldiers that were summoned along with her that will bring the total soldiers under my banner to around 250.

Kirika stood gallantly in front of them, emitting a powerful aura, but that grandiose living scene was soon broken by Kirika herself.

"Don't stare to much master, it's embarrassing~ But if you insist then I'm willing to serve you with my new body, master~"(Kirika)

'*Sigh* Yup, even if she change from the outside, she still the same perverted Kirika in the inside.'

"Alright, let's stop playing. We already spent a lot of time to find this place, and there still 2 other places that we need to find." (Jin)

Since we don't have anything to do left in here, we got out from this crimson tower and regrouped with Mirai.

I also checked Gotia card and my status as well.

[Gotia The Goliath]

Grade : Silver

Faction : Imperian/Crazmad

Rank : Commander

Cost : 25 Spirit

Power : 195

Defense : 180

Health : 250/250

Skill : Giant's Berserk(active) - increase power and defense 3 times the original amount but decrease the health by half for 2 hours. Convert 10% of total damage to health in this state. Enter weakened state that weakened the user by 75% of his original stats for 6 hours after the skill duration is over.

Additional Faction Skill : Can convert 20 Iron/Lead grade soldiers into Berserk Giant Soldiers. Reduce the spirit cost of all Berserk Giant Soldiers to 0 while Gotia the Goliath is summoned.

[Status]

Name : Jin Konoe

Faction : Imperian

Title : Super Rookie I (30% bonus GP gained and 20% bonus chance to get card drops)

Level : 11 (197/200)

Power : 71 + 29 = 100 (36)

Defense : 178 + 29 = 207 (33)

Health : 107/107 + 29 = 136/136 (47/47)

Mana : 47/47

Spirit: 24/59

Rank : Unranked

Named Card : Silvanaz(Gold), Kirika(Gold), Gotia(Silver)

Game Point : 7247

Life : 2

Universal Skill : Attribute Plunder(Passive) : 50% chance to plunder 1 random attribute from every player you kill.

- Battle Aura(Active) : Manifest an aura that took form of a giant figure around the user that increase the power and defense by 50% for 30 minutes. Cooldown : 2 hours.

Faction Skill : United We Stand : Grant +1 to Power, Defense, and Health for every 10 summoned soldiers. Grant +2 instead for every captain summoned, +4 for every summoned Commander, +6 for every summoned General, and +10 for every summoned Marshal. (Current bonus : 29 attributes l Limit :100)

Artifact : Coldsteel Armor(30 Defense,15 Health), Glusteel Gauntlet(25 Defense,10 Health), Glusteel Pants(25 Defense,10 Health), Glusteel Helmet(25 Defense,10 Health), Glusteel Boots(25 Defense,10 Health), Glusteel Belt(15 Defense ,5 Health)D, Sun Sword(35 Power).

When I regrouped with Mirai, she got baffled by the number of soldiers that I brought back with me.

"So this is how Imperian players play huh..." (Mirai)

"What do you mean by that?" (Jin)

"I'm just awed by your faction play style. Wait, don't tell me you also don't know the normal play style of each factions?" (Mirai)

"Is there any problem if I answer no idea at all to your question?"(Jin)

"Hah... It can't be helped with your family background. Alright I will explained to you in their stead then." (Mirai)

So basically what Mirai told me just now was about the play style of each factions.

Imperian players norm play style is similar to mine right now and then Naturia play style also have a similar play style with my faction.

For Naturia players, their cards also divided into 5 rank as well starting from Child, Teen, Adult, Elder, and last Matriarch.

Different from how a captain or a commander ability to summon soldiers, the Naturia play style is not about summoning other follower with them, instead they spawn them.

For example, when I summon Kirika, her ability also summoned another 100 soldiers together with her.

As for Naturia players, the card they summoned don't have the ability to summon other follower together with them but they have the ability to spawn other follower in a specific time interval with no limit.

That's why Naturia and Imperian factions are famous with their army battle style in the mid to late game.

She also talked about other factions play style such as Dragonor one man army play style or Runedite bombarder play style, and many other but let's save them for another time.

Fortunately Mirai still has some tact to not ask about what I gained inside the tower, though some times her curios expression give it away.

As Mirai talked about the play style of many factions and some unique style that only used by some player, we move west north toward our next destination, the lake temple.

Of course travelling with a big group like mine made us very easy to locate and attacked by the wild beasts but instead of disadvantage, it was an advantage to me as with my new gained title, I keep getting more GP and card drops faster than before.

Looking at my current group, no one would believe me if I said that I achieve this in a matter of 3 weeks.

Anyway, it took longer than I expected to find the lake I'm searching for. It only take a week to find the crimson tower but now after travelling for more than 10 days, we haven't reached the place yet.

I couldn't ask Kirika as she cannot say anything about those places except if I 'accidentally' found it by myself and asked her about it.

As a resident of this world before it fall, Kirika was bounded by some rule to not disclose the location of other former residents like her which has turned into silver and gold card right now.

But there's a loophole here where she is allowed to tell the history of this world but that's all. That's why she was able to hint me about those places without any problem.

It would make the game system suspicious is I ask her more than this so that's why I have to find it by myself without Kirika guidance at all.

Since it has been 10 days without any result, well not entirely with no result as I got 30 more soldiers and about 1.000 GP.

Anyway I decided to sent my soldiers in a team of 10 to enlarge the search circle.

It has been a month since the match started so the wild beast level is also higher than before, but a team of 10 iron soldiers could deal with medium size group of wild beasts so except for some unexpected situation, they should be able to survive.

I sent 15 search team to the east and west side, but still keep the search path toward west north.

Even at this point Mirai would realize something off from this action of mine but I was able to shake her suspicion off by telling her that I'm only trying my luck to find a similar place like the previous tower we found.

Since all the hunt was done by my soldiers with their current overwhelming numbers, I was left with a lot of free time which I used to train with Sil and Kirika.

I let Mirai watch my training most of the time except for when I trained my battle aura skill.

I also manage to reach level 12 after the 10 days of search since I was only 3 UP off from leveling up. Unfortunately I was only able to hunt 7 players within those 10 days.

Since now I got 10 more spirit each level up, I was able to summon Gotia at the seventh day of my search.

Mirai could only gawk stupidly from seeing him, after all with Gotia, now I have 2 silver and 1 gold cards being summoned at the same time.

I only manage to do this because I got a lot of spirit attributes from the crimson tower.

Anyway Mirai was silent for the whole day from the shock but fortunately she returned normal the next day.

After I summon Gotia, I began to spar with him a lot to train my dodging and countering skill.

[Status]

Name : Jin Konoe

Faction : Imperian

Title : Super Rookie I (30% bonus GP gained and 20% bonus chance to get card drops)

Level : 12 (4/300)

Power : 76+32 = 108 (41)

Defense : 183+32 = 215 (38)

Health : 117/117+32 = 149/149 (57/57)

Mana : 57/57

Spirit: 9/69

Rank : Unranked

Named Card : Silvanaz(Gold), Kirika(Gold), Gotia(Silver)

Game Point : 8584

Life : 2

Universal Skill : Attribute Plunder(Passive) : 50% chance to plunder 1 random attribute from every player you kill.

- Battle Aura(Active) : Manifest an aura that took form of a giant figure around the user that increase the power and defense by 50% for 30 minutes. Cooldown : 2 hours.

Faction Skill : United We Stand : Grant +1 to Power, Defense, and Health for every 10 summoned soldiers. Grant +2 instead for every captain summoned, +4 for every summoned Commander, +6 for every summoned General, and +10 for every summoned Marshal. (Current bonus : 32 attributes l Limit :100)

Artifact : Coldsteel Armor(30D,15H), Glusteel Gauntlet(25D,10H), Glusteel Pants(25D,10H), Glusteel Helmet(25D10H), Glusteel Boots(25D,10H), Glusteel Belt(15D,5H)D, Sun Sword(35P).