Act 54 The Road to Transcendence (Part 1)

"Planeswalker?"

Brando almost groaned. He couldn't help but touch his forehead, wondering if he was dreaming. The young man in front of him who claimed to be Tumen, the special space he was introduced to, and the bizarre information all made his mind confused.

He had never heard of a profession like planeswalker in the Amber Sword.

The first thing he thought about was whether this was a profession he didn't know about. After all, in a world that was so huge and complex and perfecting itself every day, he couldn't be omniscient and omnipotent. But then Brando felt a little awkward, and his intuition told him that this conjecture was not valid.

Brando looked calm on the surface, but he kept thinking in his heart: What on earth is going on? What is a planeswalker? What is this place?

Tumen put his hands in his sleeves and floated in the dark void. He saw Brando's confusion and replied with a smile: "It seems that you are still confused. In fact, this is just a refraction magic. It allows me to stay." The information below can be projected in your mind through this, so you don’t have to be nervous. This is just your own inner world. Everything here is structured according to your inner thoughts——"

Brando knew he meant to speak subconsciously.

"You mean, this is a magic effect that affects the mind? But why didn't my unyielding will respond?" He calmed down a little, but immediately asked: "How should I get out of here." Because he suddenly remembered I'm still in danger, so I can't waste time here.

"Why go in a hurry, because this is the world in your mind, and everything happens here as fast as your thoughts - there is a proverb in Barstow: 'A person can complete a long task in a short moment. A long dream'. Because people's thoughts are as fast as lightning, you can have many thoughts in a flash, and not a second has passed before these thoughts are over."

Tumen smiled and said: "Even if you are going to die in the next second, you can survive for a quarter of an hour here."

Brando carefully chewed the meaning of the elemental emperor's words. Intellectually, he was more willing to believe this explanation, but his instinct could not help but be concerned about the dangers outside. He took a breath and asked: "I understand, but let's finish this message quickly. Emperor Tumen, what do you want to say to me? What is a planeswalker?"

Brando, who forced himself to calm down, began to figure out the meaning of this 'dream'. Since Tumen said that this was a projection of a message, it meant that he had something to leave for himself. What can you say? Brando doesn't think there is any connection between himself and the other party.

Brando himself is a pure-blooded southerner of Eruin. He has neither the blood of the Miner people nor the Bastow people. When it comes to inheritance, Tumen will not only find him.

Besides, there must be some medium for storing spells,

In other words, this piece of information was originally stored in something close to him through a triggering spell. Brando lowered his head and couldn't help but think about it carefully, trying to find out the doubts about the things on his body - the ordinary items that had to be eliminated first, his clothes and some other items such as matches and cotton wool. Small objects. Then exclude the items he and Tamar made, such as the cursed crossbow, the statue of the saint (white deer) and the mana potion over there. Finally, there are naturally generated items, such as the fruits of the golden magic tree, and some magic materials.

Now the only suspicious items on his body are those trivial items obtained from the battlefield and the Wind Queen's Ring.

But there is no trace of those trivial pseudo-magic items at all. The Ring of the Wind Queen has long been judged to be bad in the game - it has a follow-up plot, and Brando has already asked the cripple - the loan shark businessman He does know the ring in the oil painting. According to him, the oil painting was given by a businessman to the knight who Brando's grandfather once served, and the knight then gave the oil painting to Brando's grandfather. . Later, the oil painting remained in Brando's old house.

As for the story before that, it’s a long story. The lame man said that a total of thirteen imitation rings were made. Although they were not genuine, each one would be extremely valuable hundreds of years later. The businessman wanted to please the local lord, but he couldn't explain what happened next.

Although Brando is still skeptical about what the cripple said, this at least shows that even if this thing has something to do with the wind sage Saint Osol, it has nothing to do with Tumen.

The next object of suspicion was the mysterious stone fragment obtained from Borg Nathan's body. Brando had always suspected that the background of this little nobleman was not that simple. As a noble daughter, how could Antitina learn the design and production of magic devices by such a coincidence? In Eruin, this is not an ordinary thing.

And Brando believes that he can detect this, and so can others. The Viscount Tester must also understand this.

He has now begun to suspect that the viscount's motives are not pure.

And now it seems that it is this piece of stone that is most worthy of suspicion. But then he shook his head and remembered another thing. Before entering this world, he touched another thing of unknown origin - the scroll of elemental revelation. Brando recalled the situation at that time. He clearly remembered that the scroll of elemental revelation contained the ink pad of the Crystal Forest and the unique numbers of the fairies.

That said, there's nothing wrong with the scroll itself.

But he had come to his senses, and he finally realized what the opportunity was for him to trigger this spell: to open the elemental pool.

But what's the connection?

He immediately thought of the Destiny Cards. Yes, he had always regarded these mysterious cards as skills rather than items, so he did not think of them for a moment. But looking back now, Brando found that these cards became more and more suspicious the more he thought about them.

First of all, these cards have never appeared in Amber Sword.

Perhaps Brando has never heard of a single magic item in the game, which is not doubtful. But if a series of magic items has never appeared in the field of vision of a hardcore player, this will inevitably make people suspicious. You can imagine: if a person has never heard the name of a certain magician's professional equipment in the game, if we assume that the world is huge - so it is not so incredible. But if he has never heard of the huge concept of 'magician's professional equipment', it would be a bit inexplicable.

Maybe you will say that he must be a newcomer.

But Brando is not a novice.

And the cards themselves are not dispensable, trivial, useless items. The great freedom they contain can even allow a warrior to freely manipulate magic. It can be said that they themselves constitute a complete professional system.

It is impossible for Brando to have never heard of such a set of magic items.

What's more, these things don't appear in some distant country. For example, 'they' only appear in the territory of Madala, Brando's nemesis, so Brando may have fewer opportunities to know about them. But on the contrary, the places where these cards appear, at least now, seem to be the areas that Brando was most familiar with before.

Tomb of Guirende, Valley of the Golden Tree, Lidenburg, Bragues.

These areas are areas that Brando has explored countless times and knows every corner and detail. Even Brando can clearly describe the rumors and behaviors of all the famous players in this area in the first three years of the game. He loves this world so much that he can empathize with everything about Eruin.

But the problem now is that he really has never heard of these playing cards, and he even has some doubts about how he could let go of these doubts so easily in the first place - of course, he did not realize that when he first saw these playing cards, he was in Under conditions where even survival cannot be guaranteed, ordinary people would be happy if they received a little help in such an environment - rather than doubting it. So this is actually human nature.

But once he reacted, this suspicion only deepened.

He couldn't help but touch his chest, subconsciously remembering the concept that had flashed through his mind before, 'They constitute a complete professional system in themselves'; Brando was startled and subconsciously raised his head. He raised his head in disbelief and blurted out: "The planeswalker you are talking about is...?"

Tumen smiled: "You are right, there is indeed an inseparable connection between the destiny cards and the planeswalkers."

Brando immediately shut up because he knew that the young Tumen in front of him would definitely tell him everything.

"First of all, I want to clarify a misunderstanding. In fact, I did not create these destiny cards. You can also see that they are much older than the history we know." Tumen spread his hands and placed a A destiny card - just the back, with the complex holy pattern drawn on it: "You see this mark, it is the original sample of the holy pattern. I simplified them based on some superficial knowledge I know, and combined this Knowledge was codified and taught to men, elves, and minrr.”

"Wait a minute -" Tumen raised his hand to stop Brando from asking: "I know what you want to ask. As a descendant of the Barstow and Miner people, the mortal enemy of all creatures who yearn for light, why? I want to help humans and elves?”

He smiled: "Actually, it's very simple. As a planeswalker, my way of looking at problems is a little different from ordinary people. Of course, this is just my own point of view, but it has something to do with my own deck - I was too I am young and blindly want to pursue the laws and principles of this world, so my deck is called "All Things Return to One". Adhering to the meaning of this deck, except for the most essential everything in the world, there is not much difference in my eyes. ”

After Brando heard these words, he sat back again. He thought for a moment and asked about the doubts in his heart: "To be honest," he asked, "I don't quite understand what you mean. Can you explain it more simply?" .”

He has no intention of going back now, but he vaguely feels that this career in Tumenkou may bring huge changes to his future path. He didn't know why he had this idea. Maybe it was an illusion, or maybe he had smelled an unusual smell in his intuition and instinct.

Tumen nodded: "Of course, I will tell you in detail."

He added: "When it comes to planeswalkers, we have to start with the Destiny Cards. The Planeswalkers are the only people in the world who can touch the true meaning of the Destiny Cards - this truth is the power of the world. Every card Destiny cards are all manifestations of a world from a certain angle. It is neither a simple projection of rules nor a superficial copy of reality - many such cards constitute a small world."

"Just like my deck, 'All Things Are Unified', this deck describes the essence of the world through the harmony of six elements, so it is also the meaning of my card: the power of rules."

"And another planeswalker I know, I know his deck is called 'Infinite Power', which is a deck composed of a large number of red and black destiny cards. The meaning of his cards is to pursue the supreme power. The red deck can be seen as fire, but it can also be seen as strength. The black deck can be seen as darkness, but it can also represent death and destruction."

"Of course, we all failed."

Tumen smiled: "So the meaning of the card is actually given by the deck. The wonderful thing about the destiny card is that it can explain the thoughts between you and the world from multiple angles. Even your deck represents Another self within you.”

"As for why these cards exist and where they come from, we actually don't know. The earliest planeswalkers should have been born in the dark ages and spread among the Matatani people. I even doubt the profession itself. It is born out of this society.”

"It is rumored that the Matatanians are a traveling people. Their tribes always move from one place to another. Their understanding of the world is somewhat different from ours. We think that the world is vast and infinite, including infinite The concept of things and knowledge, but in the world view of the Matatanians, the world is a very small and narrow concept. They have a larger concept similar to our 'world', called 'Uhs', the word This is the origin of the word infinity in the Elvish and Cruz languages. In the world view of the Matatanians, Uhs contains countless small worlds, and they are always traveling between worlds."

"I suspect that they formed this concept by misunderstanding the relationship between the Guardian Land and the entire world. Of course, humans in the past had limited understanding of this world." Tumen suddenly smiled and said, "I said that accidentally. There are so many irrelevant things, it seems that it is really difficult for me to get rid of this old habit."

Brando thought for a while and asked: "I have also heard of the Matatania people, and maybe now I know that they are the first batch of planeswalkers, but what does this have to do with me?"

Tumen shook his head: "You continue to listen to the end. The Matatanians divide a day into six stages, and a planeswalker's day is also strictly divided into six stages."

The young man with black hair hanging down his shoulders glanced at Brando and continued: "The first stage is from the dawn to the morning. That is, from six to ten o'clock, the Matatania people call this period of every day For: Sun Growth, and Planeswalkers call it the 'Growth Phase'. During this stage, Planeswalkers can exhaust their land cards and obtain the necessary mana for the day——"

"Wait!" Brando yelled: "Tap the land card?"

"Exactly, tapping land cards, this is the most basic ability of every planeswalker. It is also the source of their power."

"Wait, can you elaborate."

"It's very simple, as long as you have the basic land cards, as well as their own element pool and mana pool. You can tap them during this period of each day, and the land cards will combine the power of the 'territory' they belong to and your The elemental pools are connected and the power of the elements generated in the 'territory' during the day is injected into it."

"Wait a minute, but doesn't it say on the land card that one element will be generated every week?" Brando couldn't help but blurt out.

"That element is outside the element and mana pool. Its function is to 'lend' the card to new people who are able to lead the path of planeswalkers, so as to understand and get in touch with the power of this world. When you become an official planeswalker, you won't need it," Tumen replied.

Brando thought about it for a while, then nodded: "I understand, you go ahead."

"During the growth stage, planeswalkers can also get the benefits of the 'payment' ability on other cards. I remember that you have a gray land/water card called Highland Squire. It says on it that when Highland Squire exists On the field, the lord can gain one point of reputation every day. This reputation is paid during the growth stage."

"At the same time, planeswalkers can use anything involving green (life, nature), white (light, shelter, nurturing), red (fire, vitality, vitality), blue (water, nourishment, irrigation) and existence during the growth stage. A mixed card of the above elements.”

Brando frowned, he had never noticed this problem before. But Ciel actually told him a similar problem. He mentioned the special case here, which is the white magic card that has no need.

"Then we enter the second stage of the day: from the early morning to the scorching sun, that is, from ten o'clock to two o'clock in the afternoon. Not only the Matatani people call this period of every day: everything flourishes , wizards and witches also describe these four hours of the day, called 'ebb' - because this moment is the moment when the power of the sun is strongest and the power of the moon is weakest, which is also the period of weakness of magic. Magic and elements are here The other waxes and wanes, so this stage is the most active and offensive stage of the elements, so the planeswalkers call this stage the 'heyday stage'."

"This stage is the only stage where the planeswalker can use any card without restrictions. At the same time, he will also be able to draw three cards from the card library and put them into his hand."

"Wait," Brando was stunned: "What does this mean?"

"This is the rule of planeswalkers. At the beginning of each day, a planeswalker always has a fixed number of cards in his hand. He may be able to draw more cards than this limit during the day, but every day's During the reset phase, he must discard these excess cards. And we call this fixed number of destiny cards a hand."

"On the other hand, the stronger the planeswalker is, the more cards he can hold in his hand. But like you, as a new planeswalker, you can only hold five cards in your hand."

"Are the cards in my hand designated by me?" Brando asked.

"No, the cards in your hand will be drawn by you from the designated deck. Like me, my card meaning is the unification of all things with the power of the six elements, so the rules divide my deck into six equal parts, so I There are six sub-decks," Tumen replied.

Brando frowned: "But in this way, the uncertainty has increased a lot. Then I only have a few powerful cards, and throw away those useless cards, wouldn't I be free to maintain my own Is the card strength maintained at the same level?"

"Theoretically, this is true, but this is not the ultimate goal pursued by planeswalkers." Tumen shook his head.

"final goal?"

"You know that after the three-level power system, some people can cultivate elements to make themselves extremely powerful. But you may not know that after enlightening elements, the next stage of power is the perfect body, from black iron to gold , but the final step is to pursue the existential power that only exists in legends."

"You know, fire is an element, and its highest level is the fire element, because the fire element is the origin of all flames in this world. But in fact, there has always been a rumor that above the fire element, there is with a higher element, which we call 'matter'."

"Elements such as 'matter', 'time', 'space' and even 'logic' and 'power' themselves, which represent the most basic meaning of the profound world, are all called existential power."

Brando stared at Tumen and was speechless for a moment. Of course he knows about the perfect body, because he has already gone through this stage in the past game - level 130, silver body. He has also heard about the power of existence, but it is rumored that after players reach level 160 and complete the golden body, their experience will no longer improve. No one knows that they should break through the final level and reach the one that is almost only one step away—— The power of existence.

But none of them thought that such a path actually existed.

"You mean," he couldn't help but ask in a daze, "that the planeswalker can finally lead to the power of existence?"

Tumen nodded, pointed at the cards and said: "When you perfect your 'world' and when this 'rule' can be self-consistent, the door to the power of existence opens. Of course, before that you still have to It’s a long road to go through,” Tumen seemed to have discovered Brando’s heartbeat and continued: “Start by building your most basic deck.”

"What should I do?" Brando asked subconsciously.

"Actually, you have already revealed your destiny card deck from the time you came into contact with the first destiny card. But I am a little strange. Your deck is different from any one I have ever seen. It seems It is to express a huge professional system through card groups. I don’t understand why you are interested in the professional system, and there is this idea of ​​‘all-professional dominance’ – what does this mean?” Tumen thought for a while, a little confused. asked.

When Brando heard this, he couldn't help but sweat. When he first came into contact with Destiny Cards, he was still Sophie's soul. As a professional player, he instinctively wanted to find a powerful profession. But most players, who didn't have some YY dreams of being a full-time professional player, didn't expect that It was actually captured exquisitely by the destiny card.

Only now did he realize what the opening of the knight's road meant...

I go! Brando shouted in his heart, if cards are the embodiment of a world view, is it really going to be full-professional dominance this time?

(PS: I have been away from home for the past two days since I returned from sweeping the grave. I will resume normal updates tomorrow and make up for the word count I owed for the past week. This chapter is almost 7,000 words, so I won’t break it into chapters to avoid inconvenience.

Hey, just a complaint by the way. In my hometown, other people eat meat and drink wine, but I just sit at the table and eat vegetable porridge while looking at the table full of vegetables. It was such a miserable year for me when I was there. Now that I hear about eating, I want to die. Because I don’t have much time, I wrote this chapter yesterday and today together. I’m not used to using notebooks and I don’t have much information at hand. I don’t know if something went wrong. ) (To be continued, if you want to know what happened, please log in. There are more chapters, support the author, and support genuine reading!)