Chapter 217 In the Style of the Principal's Office

Inside the card-making workshop styled like a principal's office, Lan Qi cleared the wide workbench and began a new process of material handling and proportioning.

On the low side table, several divided trays held various materials.

It somewhat resembled the setup Taliya had when making [Great Poet of Love].

These were materials Lan Qi had spent a lot of time preparing.

After bringing the divided trays to the workbench, Lan Qi handled the materials calmly and skillfully.

Making this card was perhaps a gamble; buying the materials had cost him almost all his money.

To harmonize with the core sacred quality material, [Unnamed Light Element Stone], Lan Qi also used a complex amount of light and sealing materials.

If an ordinary card maker were to handle these materials that risked their entire fortune, they might be so nervous that their hands would shake.

But Lan Qi remained calm, even less stressed than when he was making cards at Taliya's house.

Instead of lamenting that he always failed at crucial moments, he might as well admit that his strength was just like that.

That's what Lan Qi thought.

No matter when, just treat it as an ordinary card making, that is the best state of wholeheartedness.

Lan Qi's hands worked quickly and accurately, his expression calm and firm, and he completed all the preparations in less than ten minutes.

His preparations quickly attracted the attention of the director.

The broadcast screen began to focus on Lan Qi from time to time.

Because once materials of this level were used, either it would fail miserably, or it would produce a rather good finished product.

On the screen.

Lan Qi breathed a sigh of relief.

Then, a magic card appeared in his hand, and he summoned it.

"Great Poet of Love, are you ready?"

After confirming that all the preparation steps were completed again, Lan Qi asked the Great Poet of Love who had just been summoned.

"Yes, no problem."

The Great Poet of Love cheerfully raised her arms, spun around as if dancing, and replied.

Instantly.

Not only the floors of the Card Makers Association, but even Hutton Pedestrian Street resounded with surprised voices.

"Epic-level summon?"

Usually, summons of this level only appear in extremely high-level Shadow World broadcasts.

Unexpectedly, it could be seen in the card maker exam.

"Any spells and magic cards can indeed be used during the card maker exam."

Soon, someone who knew the ropes in the open-air area of the square's shops said.

If an epic-level summon with a high degree of self-awareness was owned, it could theoretically become a helper.

They often heard that some big shots, if they owned a summon with a particularly good temper, might summon the magic card for a long time to be a housekeeper or follower.

Generally, just the appearance of an epic-level summon would attract many people to watch the fun.

Not to mention the Great Poet of Love, a summon with such a gorgeous, lovely, and moving image.

"Wait, gray hair, red dress, a graceful beauty..."

Someone seemed to remember something,

"Could it be the [Great Poet of Love] of Principal Lan of the Devil Academy in the recent rumors?"

As the discussion gradually became noisy, more and more passersby on Hutton Pedestrian Street stopped and looked at the live screen on the association's glass curtain wall.

In the very conspicuous principal's office.

Lan Qi had already started making cards without hesitation.

Although there were more than two hours left in the exam, his mana had begun to drain after summoning the Great Poet of Love.

And the Great Poet of Love also began to cooperate with Lan Qi with great tacit understanding, like a nurse and a chief surgeon in an operating room.

During the period of making cards in the dormitory, Lan Qi often summoned the Great Poet of Love to cooperate with him.

Later, what gradually made Lan Qi doubt his life was that he found that the Great Poet of Love's card-making talent seemed to be even higher than his.

It was just a magic card, but she just learned everything as soon as she learned it.

Although the Great Poet of Love was not as good as Lan Qi in painting talent, her understanding and mastery of magical engineering even exceeded Lan Qi.

Unfortunately, the Great Poet of Love only had a fixed Tier 1. If making high-level magic cards, she could only be Lan Qi's assistant.

So, whenever Lan Qi made high-difficulty magic cards, he would start summoning the Great Poet of Love to cooperate with him.

"This card making is particularly important, you have to put some pressure on me."

Lan Qi said to the Great Poet of Love while mixing the light attribute magic crystal powder that had been ground with the sealing-specific magic core liquid to make ink.

The Great Poet of Love seemed to understand something.

Her expression solidified, no longer the lively and unrestrained temperament she had before, but became extremely cold, like a strict supervisor supervising Lan Qi.

"Is that enough?"

The Great Poet of Love asked coldly.

"That's the right feeling."

Lan Qi felt that he had entered a state of immersion.

In short, the Great Poet of Love was cosplaying Taliya, giving Lan Qi pressure.

In addition to the help the Great Poet of Love could bring to Lan Qi, there was another reason why Lan Qi had to summon the Great Poet of Love this time when making cards.

The magic card he was trying to make would take his Tier 3 highest quality magic card [Wonderful Notes] (Purgatory Sound) as a blueprint, imitating the core principles of its demon magic.

Few humans would use alien magic cards for a long time, because if humans overused demon magic patterns, it would cause irreversible local distortions and demonization of the body and soul.

This abnormal demonization could not change the human race into demons, it only belonged to a malignant distortion, which would greatly shorten lifespan, and even turn people into a madman or monster.

The way to avoid these side effects was to find a suitable demon-type medium. The usual practice was to use demon-type materials as consumables, but it would greatly increase the cost, and there would still be risks. Lan Qi could let the Great Poet of Love, who had a soul contract with him, act as a medium and assistant, so he could use her to avoid the harm of demon magic to himself.

However, Lan Qi needed to maintain summoning the Great Poet of Love for a long time during the card making, consuming a lot of mana. In addition, card making with her participation also depended on the cooperation between himself and her, as well as her performance.

Ordinary card makers could not cooperate with the Great Poet of Love at all. In the state of card making with highly concentrated spirit, just hearing a little voice from the Great Poet of Love might cause ten times the anxiety and tension, leading to mental runaway and card making collapse.

Only Lan Qi's unique state of mind could be immune to the Great Poet of Love's huge negative influence.

Lan Qi, who had entered a state of immersion, skillfully and easily mixed the best proportion.

Then, the Great Poet of Love began to help him synchronize magic power with ink. Soon, the ink was modulated by her unique magic power.

Pouring the magic ink into the magic pen, Lan Qi unwrapped the sealed magic scroll and engraved the summoning prototype he had previously made with the core material onto the whiteboard card.

The next most critical step was to rewrite and finalize the enchanted structure. It would stimulate the characteristics of the material and truly give the summoning card magic attributes.

Lan Qi sat at the workbench, burying his head and concentrating on slowly engraving, while the Great Poet of Love stood at the other end of the workbench, helping him sort out and point out the magic circuits on the card, cooperating to put their magic power completely and evenly into every intricate magic rune.

Due to the huge amount of engraving, his progress seemed particularly slow.

Just burying his head to complete this step, he seemed to have lost the concept of time.

Outside the Shadow World examination room, the midday sun had been shining on Hutton Pedestrian Street for a long time.

A full two hours had passed, and Lan Qi was still drawing.

As the end of the exam approached, fewer and fewer candidates remained in the artificial Shadow World examination room, and the screen would focus on Lan Qi more and more.

The screen showed Lan Qi's figure in the principal's office. He had been pouring his mind into the key step of giving the summon magic structure and image like a sculpture.

The unfinished magic card, which was mostly blocked by Lan Qi and the Great Poet of Love's hands, had gradually spread out with dangerous light arcs, as if it was extremely unstable and could explode at any time.

However.

Lan Qi seemed to turn a blind eye to it, unhesitatingly performing the final steps, drawing it completely and finally debugging, processing and packaging!

At this time.

Under the glass curtain wall of the Yikelite Card Makers Association on Hutton Pedestrian Street, many onlookers opened their mouths unconsciously.

When the director finally focused the camera on Lan Qi, they knew that whether this card would be made or fail depended on this moment.

"This card can't be finalized. Even if the magic circuit and formula principle are all correct, the image he wants to give the summon is too crazy."

"Confused, it was so hard to complete the previous steps. As long as he performed normally, it would at least be a purple rare grade magic card, but he seemed determined to destroy this magic card."

"Humans, how can they draw such greatness..."

Some of them marveled, some were stunned, and some regretted.

Some people, even if they knew that Lan Qi would definitely fail, still couldn't help but stare at the magic card that was looming under Lan Qi and the Great Poet of Love's hands.

Because Lan Qi seemed to be using the pen in his hand to depict the sun!

At this time, Lan Qi's face had become increasingly pale. Even if he reached Tier 3, he was about to put all his effort and magic power into this final drawing.

Maintaining the Great Poet of Love for a long time, his magic power was finally about to be unable to support it.

But maybe it was because Lan Qi was too focused.

It seemed that he didn't notice his own state and the changes on the card surface at all.

This was a state of selflessness that even surpassed the state of immersion. Even if he died, he would complete this work.

The changes on the magic card were produced slowly, and Lan Qi didn't really notice it until it was completely changed.

That was the strong light that Lan Qi's eyes couldn't bear for a while.

At the moment of closing his eyes, a momentary dazzling light seemed to engulf everything in the entire principal's office. In the white picture, only Lan Qi and the Great Poet of Love's gray outline lines remained, until they completely disappeared.

…

Hutton Pedestrian Street, under the glass curtain wall of the Yikelite Card Makers Association.

The eyes of the onlookers were focused on this most amazing moment, so that the air seemed to freeze.

The light on the screen expanded instantly, as if to devour the real world.

At that moment, all the audience almost stopped breathing, and their eyes were firmly locked on the screen.

"...Destroyed it?"

"Finally failed, he was too greedy. If he really made it, I don't know what level it would be set to!"

"Fortunately, the artificial Shadow World has a protection mechanism. Even if you are injured by the explosion, you will return to normal when you come out."

"What a pity."

However.

Just when many people sighed and were about to turn back to continue their weekend itinerary.

It seemed that the picture on the glass curtain wall of the Card Makers Association did not stop there.

It was not until all the light dissipated and returned to calm that a card emitting orange electric cocoons was finally presented on the screen!

[Radiant Virtue]

[Category: Summoning Card]

[Grade: Orange Epic]

[Tier: 3]

[Effect: Continuously consumes a lot of magic power, summons a small sun with extreme brightness and no damage, interferes with the vision of all targets, increases the temperature nearby, the radiant effect gradually increases in a closed space, and the visual radiant effect gradually weakens in open terrain.]

[Note: In the morning, our voices sing, soaring through the clouds to reach the Supreme Being, compassion and omnipotence, all the saints admire, glory and praise, return to the wonderful body of the sun, put down the golden crown, surround the shores of the crystal sea, millions of heavenly soldiers worship, and sing the true name of our Lord together, Lan Men.]

Today, 12,000 words have been updated, and Xi's is completely burned out... I feel that people are already delirious...

(End of this chapter)