I Rely on Drawing Cards to Set Up a Persona

Chapter 32.2: Difficulty Upgrade

Sitting in his chair, Asrit did not move. His bony fingers traced the scales of the golden python, and his green eyes carried a hint of coldness.

“Bring it up.”

Howard, who had his head down at one side, answered in a low voice.

The golden python looked at the departing Howard and then at the frowning Asrit, hissing its tongue.

Asrit ignored it, and a moment later, he took out a golden dagger from his storage tool.

Pulling out the dagger, the silver-white sharp blade reflected the eyes of Asrit without a trace of emotion, which seemed vaguely like the eyes of a great beast, cold with killing intent.

Then, when Howard walked into the room with two middle-aged men, the two fell to their knees in fear as soon as they entered.

A dagger was thrown to the ground with a crisp sound, only to hear the man sitting on it say, “It’s been long enough.”

The two middle-aged men were stimulated as they understood the other’s meaning. They instantly sobbed with fear and hurriedly surrendered: “Emperor, we have cut off all the minions of the empress dowager in the past two days, and all the remaining undercover agents of Biala from a few years ago are dead. We are connected by blood, and we are all from the royal family……”

They really regretted it. They should have known that they should not have gotten so close to Biala just because the empress dowager was Biala’s princess. The current emperor had a tyrannical personality, and they didn’t know if their sincerity would keep them alive.

“Noisy.” Asrit looked down and suddenly let out a laugh, “There are too many people.”

The next second, without waiting for the two to react, they fell to the ground, blood spreading, unable to speak again.

Howard wiped the blood-stained dagger clean and handed it to Asrit, half-kneeling.

Then, he heard His Majesty say rather regretfully, “I still haven’t had time to let Qiao see the ugliness of these people together. I originally wanted to introduce him to these two uncles of mine, but I didn’t expect them to be in such a hurry to defect. It’s really no fun.”

“If he really saw this scene, his eyes should be very beautiful.”

Howard knew that the one on the throne did not need his response.

“Tell the three leaders of the Wood race that since the item has come to hand,” Asrit stood up, his voice cold, “There is no need to keep the royal family.”

Since then, there has been no human being linked to His Majesty’s bloodline.

Howard bowed his head in response, cold sweat seeping from his back.

His Majesty is already like this now, even before he has taken the scale pearl. When he takes the scale pearl until he reaches full adulthood, his temper will only get more violent. He needs to make sure that everything going on around him does not irritate him.

Nowadays, there are few things that can affect His Majesty in the whole empire, and the biggest variable among them, Howard’s mind came up with Qiao Xingnan’s group.

On the other hand, Qiao Xingnan did not know that the tyrant was about to be upgraded, and the difficulty would likewise increase dramatically. On his way back, he glanced at Ilir and moved his finger.

Zero, who was following him, then nodded at Ruiert without a trace.

Without changing his face, Ruiert instantly understood that it was now their turn to play. With his arm on Zero’s shoulder, he took a sip of wine and casually asked Ilir.

“Ilir, if we get the itch to fight magical beasts, where should we go?”

Ster next to him was disgusted with Ruiert’s improper posture. He clutched his cane and glanced away from him.

Ilir looked at the “emperor” walking in front of him and then looked at Ruiert, who seemed to have no qualms about the occasion. He was silent for a while and said: “The knights will go hunting in the countryside every day. If you want to go hunting, tell me first and just go with the team the next day. ”

Ruiert’s eyes lit up at the word: “Well, then, Zero and I will go to practice tomorrow and save the old man materials for a magic scroll along the way.”

The old man?

Ilir looked at the dark-faced Ster behind Ruiert and averted his eyes, pretending not to see.

Qiao Xingnan, who was walking in front, was in a very good mood. Since Ilir said so, Zero and Ruiert could continue hunting magical beasts unrestrainedly. Of course, the more you get, the better.

It’s a good thing that Ruiert and Zero can also use the reason to go out hunting, avoiding the paladins as well as the Wood race. It’s killing two birds with one stone.

Together with the magical beasts exchanged with gems, after surviving these few days, they can definitely save up enough gold coins.

It turned out that this matter was very right.

The paladins knocked on the door of their palace the next day when they went hunting.

Ster looked at the couple of tall paladins before him and was puzzled: “May I ask who your Excellency is?”

The chief paladin standing in front was graceful and politely said, “We would like to invite His Excellency Ruiert to our paladin gathering.”

Saying it was a gathering meant that it was just a fight.

Recently, for some reason, none of them were allowed to leave the imperial palace, and they had itchy hands every day, so they came to find this newcomer to play together.

Ster looked apologetic: “Ruiert is not present here. He has gone hunting magical beasts.”

The paladins had no choice but to leave in disappointment at his words.

The Wood race was somehow later than the paladins, knocking on the door of Qiao Xingnan’s palace only on the third day.

The visitors were the two beautiful-looking and serene Lotus clan leaders.

When they saw the elder who opened the door, they nodded politely: “We heard that there was a fellow of the same race here and especially wanted to invite him for a chat.”

And then, they got the news of Zero’s absence from Ster. The two of them were a little lost but still smiled gently and said goodbye to Ster.

“Lian Fu, do you think the other party left on purpose?”

Even Lian Fu was not sure of this answer as they slowly walked towards Long Teng’s palace.

Yesterday, their young master had begun to digest the scale pearl.

This is an extremely dangerous time. Everything that happens around him may affect his ability and temperament as an adult. However, influenced by his infancy, the young master has entered a period of tyranny and does not allow them, who are of a different race, to come close. Yesterday, escorting from afar was the limit.

They can now only try their best to suppress all the variables lest they affect the other.

But the action should not be too big lest people find out that something is wrong.

Soon, the two walked slowly into Long Teng’s palace. As soon as they entered, they saw Long Teng guarding the golden python.

A palm-sized scale pearl was placed on the soft bed, and the golden python was sleeping so soundly that its body curled around the entire pearl.

Lian Fu’s eyes were filled with softness: “His Highness Jin can finally grow up.”

They only found Asrit after he inherited the throne at the age of eighteen. At that time, the other party had already passed infancy but was unable to reach adulthood.

Now, they can accompany His Highness Jin through his early years, but they still regret the fact that the young master once spent his infancy alone.

Now, the foreign race can’t even get close to him, and all they can do is send people to keep an extra watch.

Long Teng nodded at the words of the two, then asked, “What is the result of the test?”

“The other side went out hunting.”

Long Teng frowned when he heard it: “There are not many branches of the Wood race that can be aggressive, and they rarely inherit the ancient Wood race’s crimson pattern.”

The two leaders of the Lotus clan were also puzzled by this matter.

“Wait until the situation of the young master and His Highness Jin has stabilized in the next few days, then we will try again.”

“Don’t let those of them with unknown backgrounds come near the young master these days.”

Lian Fu and Lian Yao nodded solemnly.

In the following days, no one came to look for Qiao Xingnan again.

This caused Qiao Xingnan to sigh in his heart that the recent days were too good.

There is no telling what the paladins and the Wood race are busy with. They had no time to test their group, and they didn’t have to be on their toes in front of the tyrant.

Although he was a little curious, Qiao Xingnan did not inquire. He has been taking advantage of this time to borrow Zero’s body and Ruiert to fight monsters on the mountain.

Uncle Ster was still inside “refining magic scrolls”.

Before they knew it, thirteen days had passed.

Qiao Xingnan’s family money was also saved up, and he carefully counted how many magical beasts he had exchanged for gems with the help of the tyrant’s power.

Last time, the tyrant did not accept the gems he presented. Altogether, he exchanged them for high-level magical beasts, a full three hundred boxes, all laid out in the system space at this time.

[Ding, the total value of high-level magical beast eyes, scale armor, etc.: 280,000 gold coins]

Qiao Xingnan knew it could be exchanged for many gold coins.

But when he saw that the magical beasts exchanged for gems could actually be worth 280,000 gold coins, he was still very surprised.

He suppressed his inner excitement and turned to switch the system’s interface to look at another input from his family.

A few days ago, Zero and Ruiert went up the mountain to fight magical beasts. The price of each high-level magical beast is much higher than the magical beasts over the manor, and it seems that the magical beasts over here are stronger.

It is said that the magical beast cave on the mountain will constantly supply magical power to the beasts, making the high-level magical beasts continuously stronger. That means the magical beast cave on this side may have stronger magical power.

In the past few days, Qiao Xingnan purposely did not look at the money earned by Zero and Ruiert just to leave some mystery to the present. At this time, he was a little nervous and raised his hand to open it.

Looking at the total, he then rubbed his eyes.

160,000???

The corners of Qiao Xingnan’s mouth rose and could not fall for a while. That is to say, if he was luckier, he might now be able to upgrade Uncle Ster when the upgrade of Zero and Ruiert was over.

After all, in addition to the money he saved, he had earned 440,000 gold coins in the past few days alone!

Thinking this way, Qiao Xingnan couldn’t help but look at the three resting cards next to him and smile.

After giving them an upgrade, he still needs to draw another card to round out the small end he left before.

In fact, Qiao Xingnan was originally prepared to give the system some more gold coins, but 035 was dead set against it.

“Host, 035 just moved something. 10,000 gold coins are more than enough!”

Seeing such an understanding 035, Qiao Xingnan felt a little emotional for a moment. Then, he decided to fool 035 less in the future. Otherwise, his conscience would really be a little uneasy.

On the screen, Zero’s card interface emerged, marked with a large [R (Level 1) Card], and under the sign are Zero’s attributes.

[Ding, do you want to use 100,000 gold coins to upgrade Zero – Puppet Card]

Qiao Xingnan chose to confirm. He prayed in his heart that 100,000 gold coins would be enough to rush to SR ah!

He knew that, generally speaking, it only takes 50,000 gold coins for a lucky person to rush to SR grade. Qiao Xingnan felt that no matter how bad his luck was, it couldn’t be any worse.

[Ding, upgrade successful, Zero – Puppet Card, current grade R (Level 3)]

Looking at the pop-up window that appeared in front of him, Qiao Xingnan was silent for a moment, wiped his face, and continued!

[Ding, do you want to use 100,000 gold coins to upgrade Zero – Puppet Card]

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[Ding, upgrade successful, Zero – Puppet Card, current grade R (Level 5)]

Qiao Xingnan felt as if he had found the rule for successful upgrades.

That is, desperately spending money.

[Ding, do you choose to activate Zero – Puppet Card SR (Level 1)?]

With Qiao Xingnan choosing yes, another 10,000 gold coins were gone.

Qiao Xingnan looked at his previous total of 430,000 gold coins, and now only 220,000 gold coins remained in his inventory.

Hopefully, Ruiert can give some help.

He raised his hand and silently pressed the upgrade on Ruiert’s card interface, and when the system beep sounded, Qiao Xingnan didn’t even dare to look at his money anymore.

[Ding, do you choose to activate Drunkard Ruiert SR (Level 1)?]

With the sound of 10,000 gold coins being extracted once again, Qiao Xingnan silently opened his eyes.

Remaining: 10,000 gold coins.

Surprisingly, there are still some left?

Qiao Xingnan breathed a sigh of relief for a moment.

He felt very lucky this time. As he turned his head and was about to talk to Ruiert and Zero, he saw Ruiert, who was in tears for some reason, and a blank-eyed Zero next to him.

On the side, Ster had a dark face and was leaning on his crutches as if he was holding back something, but finally, he couldn’t hold back and held his breath and said to Ruiert, “What a disgrace to the cards.”

Card elders never cry.

Ruiert really embarrasses his fellow cards!