Chapter 288 The Birth of the Card Master

Seeing that the old druid who had taught her was interested in this thing, Joanna placed two spirit cards in her deck on the table and summoned the spirits.

They were two wildebeests that exuded a sacred aura, with a spiral horn on their foreheads, looking vaguely like unicorns.

Joanna equipped one of the wildebeest spirits with a multi-attack card, which successfully defeated the opponent and gained the opponent's energy, evolving into a form that was pure white and closer to a real unicorn.

This strange "game" was something Rayleigh had never seen before, but he inexplicably developed some liking for the rules of this game.

"The strong devour the weak, the fittest survive, and the survival of the fittest."

Rayleigh said this while looking at the stronger wildebeest spirit.

At the same time, this sentence is also the principle that the Son of Winter has always followed.

Joanna frowned slightly, but still retorted:

"The reason why this wildebeest spirit can win is because I used equipment cards on it, not because it is strong in itself.

What I am showing you now is just the most basic gameplay. If you want to play this game well, you also need to match various equipment cards, and even use weak spirit cards to assist the ace cards in battle!"

The implication is that you should not bring everything up to the Creed of the Son of Winter.

Rayleigh's gray eyebrows slightly curved, and he did not yell at Joanna like those radical colleagues, but pointed at the spirit card on the table and asked:

"Do you want to play a game with me? Compared with a simple description, I feel that actually playing a game can help me understand the gameplay of this game faster.

Speaking of which, you seem to have some misunderstandings about me. I think wisdom and tools are also part of strength. I even went to Carl to make prosthetic limbs that druids can also use."

Unsure why Rayleigh suddenly became interested in this card game, but Joanna still took out another pack of cards from the drawer and handed it to the old druid opposite.

These decks of hers were actually the spare decks that her cousin Kasha replaced.

Compared to Joanna, who was busy with government affairs all day, Kasha, as the captain of the security team of the city hall, had plenty of time to understand and play with spirit cards, so he inevitably became a little addicted to them.

If he hadn't been on duty at the city hall, he might have gone to the wilderness of the adventure zone to hunt powerful monsters and extract materials to condense powerful spirits like those adventurers.

Soon, after introducing more rules of spirit cards to Rayleigh, the old and the young started their first game.

The duration of this game was very short, and Joanna defeated Rayleigh with good operations.

In the second game, Rayleigh almost figured out the rules, so he also began to learn from Joanna to accumulate the number of spirits, but unfortunately Joanna eventually evolved the wildebeest spirit into a real unicorn.

Under a charge, those ordinary spirits were quickly killed and injured.

At the beginning of the third game, the two fell into a stalemate. Rayleigh kept reducing the number of Joanna's spirits on the field, and his own spirit was also severely damaged.

The two were thinking about the next game strategy, but suddenly there was a burst of hurried footsteps outside.

Joanna, who was still a child, subconsciously wanted to cover up the fact that she was slacking off, but Rayleigh, an adult, was addicted to playing cards and stopped Joanna's intention to disrupt the game.

At this moment, the door of Joanna's office was opened from the outside.

Viscount Lando, who was wearing a gorgeous robe and exuding a cockfighting aura, broke in from the outside, and the guard who had just guided Rayleigh to the office was still trying to drag him out.

Shaking his sleeves, Lando pushed the guard away, walked into the office, and closed the door of the office.

Although he did want to humiliate Joanna, he felt that the struggle between nobles should not be seen by those mud legs, otherwise it would be disgraceful.

"Heh! Governor Joanna, if you want to play cards, you'd better go home. This is the office, you..."

Just as he was about to teach Joanna a lesson, Rayleigh, who had just been studying the card game, suddenly raised his head.

The originally gentle face now had some of the wildness unique to the Son of Winter. It was obviously the same face, but Rayleigh at this time looked more in line with the outside world's evaluation of the Son of Winter Druid.

Randu's heart skipped a beat, and his legs seemed to have lost the ability to support his body all of a sudden, and he almost fell down.

At this time, Rayleigh reminded him of the feeling he had felt from a captain of the palace guards when he met Queen Andel.

He, who was originally eloquent, seemed to be strangled by an invisible momentum at this moment. He opened his mouth, but couldn't say anything.

Finally, Joanna couldn't stand it anymore and stepped forward to ask:

"Lord Lando, what are you doing here?"

As he asked this question, Lando felt like he had just woken up from a nightmare.

Swallowing his saliva dryly, he said in a hoarse voice: "I hope you can dispatch some adventurers to escort me and other noble children back to Khorvaire. Almost all of those guys have gone out to hunt monsters. There are not enough people in Storm Bay."

Hearing the other party's request, Joanna subconsciously glanced at Rayleigh.

In terms of purpose, the two of them are actually in the same group.

After thinking quickly for a moment, Joanna sighed and said, "Sorry, I can't do this. The most I can do is to inform the adventurers not to go to certain areas, or issue corresponding tasks, but I can't directly order them to accept your employment."

After a pause, she continued, "In fact, you can hire the Guardian Dragon Mark Family and the Storm Dragon Mark Family to take you back. I remember that someone from them seems to be going back recently. You can spend less money to achieve the same goal, but they probably won't go with you after you arrive in Sarn."

Opening his mouth, Lando wanted to struggle, but Rayleigh's aura made him feel a little uncomfortable, and he could only leave in the end.

After dealing with this trouble, Joanna turned around and prepared to continue the game, but heard Rayleigh say, "You girl, did you cheat?"

Hearing this, Joanna's body stiffened, and her head subconsciously glanced to the side.

"No, no!"

Strictly speaking, she did not cheat, but just gave Rayleigh a pack of weaker cards to use.

"Hahahaha, the spirits in my deck are weaker than the spirits in your deck, both in terms of initial strength and after evolution. Hmm, this game is really interesting. Where can I buy this?"

Hahaha, Rayleigh didn't bother to worry about the obstacles Joanna had set for him. Instead, he stood up and asked her where the spirit cards were sold.

"The Afterlife Bar in the underground city sells them..."

Before Joanna finished, Rayleigh turned into white mist and flew away from the window.

But soon, the white mist floated back to the window.

"Remember to restrain those adventurers and tell them not to hunt the beasts in one place. Although we, the Sons of Winter, believe in the survival of the fittest, that is only our understanding of the laws of nature. It is still our responsibility to maintain the balance of the natural ecology. We have never forgotten that we are still druids!"

After that, the white mist left quickly and disappeared in the distance.