NFBE Chapter 8: Everyone else buys cards, but I delete them!
Chapter 8: Everyone else buys cards, but I delete them!
"Cheating? Find me a cheat that can hack this spire? This guy's a real pro! Didn't you see he even got a first kill without taking any damage?"
"Holy crap! First kill grants extra lives? And unlocks the entire map? This reward is outrageous!"
"Hey pro! Need help! I'm 180cm tall, an 8/10 in looks, I can warm your bed, and I can shout '666' (a Chinese internet slang for 'awesome'). Looking for someone to help me climb the tower!"
"There are 70 billion people in the world! And only these two people defeated an elite monster? And without taking any damage? That's outrageous!"
"Now I finally know why I died. They figured out the mechanics from the start, while I was still agonizing over whether to choose the 10-point health option. How can you compare???"
The world chat channel went completely crazy, filled with messages of shock, admiration, and requests for strategies. Countless people were spamming the chat, trying to find Lin Ye and Su Qingyue and latch onto their powerful backers.
The world's 70 billion people are absolutely thrilled!
Everyone remembered the names Lin Ye and Su Qingyue.
While everyone else was still struggling in the newbie room, barely able to save their own lives, these two had already achieved the world's first elite monster kill, and without taking any damage!
As Su Qingyue listened to the global announcement in her mind and watched the world channel buzz with excitement, she felt lightheaded, her cheeks flushed red with excitement.
She actually made it onto a global announcement?
Or the world's first kill?
In the past, she wouldn't have dared to even think about it!
She looked at Lin Ye beside her, her eyes sparkling, completely captivated.
With Lin Ye by my side, not only would survival be a breeze, but even clearing the entire Spire wouldn't seem like a difficult task!
Lin Ye watched the uproar on the world channel, but his face remained completely calm.
For him, this was just the beginning.
It's just an elite monster on the first floor, nothing special.
Next, he needs to achieve the world's first kill of the gatekeeper BOSS, the first kill of the first floor, and step by step stand at the very top of this spire world.
He strode out of the room, his voice calm yet brimming with absolute confidence.
"I'm gone."
"Next, we should go to the shop and refine our deck."
The buzz surrounding achieving the world's first elite kill without taking damage is still going strong in the world chat.
While countless players were still frantically spamming the chat asking for guides and asking for help from experienced players, Lin Ye and Su Qingyue had already followed the map route and entered the shop room on the first floor of the spire.
The heavy wooden door closed behind them. The room was filled with a dazzling array of card displays. An NPC merchant in the corner wiped a cup and glanced at the two of them.
The Spire Shop is now open. You can use gold to purchase cards, relics, potions, or delete cards from your deck.
Deleting a single card costs 50 gold.
Almost at the same time the store opened, the world chat channels for players worldwide were flooded with messages again.
The players who entered the shop at the same time as Lin Ye were all frantically buying up the items, wishing they could buy out all the cards in the shop.
"Holy crap! The shop has rare cards! I'm rich now, I'm buying them all!"
"Buy! We have to buy! The more cards the better! Max out your attack cards and you'll blow the monsters' heads off!"
"I bought attack cards with all my gold. Now I have over a dozen attack cards in my deck. Let's see who dares to say I can't damage monsters now!"
"Hilarious! Are there really any idiots who would keep their gold coins? In this godforsaken place, only cards are the key to survival. Can you eat gold coins?"
"Damn it, my hand was scrambling to get some good cards while fighting the mobs. If I bought more cards, I'd be lucky to draw something usable!"
The overwhelming flood of posts about buying cards reflects players' obsession with "the more cards, the stronger they are."
After all, in everyone's common understanding, in card games, the more cards you have and the rarer they are, the more combos you can make and the greater your chances of winning.
Su Qingyue was clearly no exception.
Her eyes lit up instantly, and she stared intently at the dazzling array of cards on the shop interface, her breathing quickening.
On the display stand, rare attack cards glowing with purple light, poison cards with special effects, and thick defense cards—each one looked incredibly tempting.
Her finger instinctively hovered over a rare attack card, and she excitedly muttered to herself.
"Lin Ye, look! This [Poison Sting] is amazing! It deals damage and stacks two layers of poison!"
"And this [Bouncing Bottle]! It can poison all monsters, it's so useful in group battles! Let's buy it!"
She now has over 100 gold coins, including the 80 she started with and the reward for the first elite kill, enough to buy several rare cards.
Any novice would immediately go on a shopping spree and fill their deck to the brim at this moment.
Just as she was about to press the button, Lin Ye's voice rang out again, calm yet carrying an unquestionable command.
Don't buy it.
"The first thing I do when I enter a store is never to buy a card, but to delete it."
Su Qingyue's fingers suddenly stopped, and she turned her head, her face full of disbelief and bewilderment.
"Huh? Delete the card?"
She even doubted that she had heard correctly and subconsciously asked back.
"Not buying cards is one thing, but deleting cards is another? We don't have many cards to begin with. What are we going to do if we delete them and have nothing to play?"
Not only Su Qingyue, but if other players in the world channel heard this, they would probably laugh their heads off.
Everyone else is frantically buying cards to fill their decks, but Lin Ye is different. The first thing he does when he enters the shop is delete cards?
Isn't this just cutting off your own limbs?
Lin Ye ignored her shock, pulled up her deck interface, pointed to the densely packed basic cards, and said in a way that couldn't be more blunt.
"Tell me, in your current deck, how many cards are truly useful for dealing damage and keeping you alive?"
Su Qingyue was stunned for a moment, then looked down at her deck.
Attack x5, Defense x4, Neutralize x1, Deadly Poison x1.
Of the 11 cards, only 2 are core Poison stacking cards.
She answered instinctively, "Just... the neutralizing and the deadly poison, two."
"That settles it then." Lin Ye chuckled, pointing to the five basic attack cards. "So, what are the rest?"
"It's trash, it's a useless card, it's the culprit that will kill you at the crucial moment."
Su Qingyue still didn't quite understand, and frowned as she tried to explain.
"But... these are all basic cards. Without attack cards, how will we deal damage? Without defense cards, we can't withstand the monsters!"
"I'm asking you, what's your profession?" Lin Ye looked at her and asked in return.
"The Silent Hunter."
"So what is your core output?"
"Stacking poisons," Su Qingyue blurted out. After saying that, she paused for a moment, as if she had grasped something crucial.
Lin Ye nodded and explained the core logic clearly in plain language.
"That's right, your core damage output is stacking poison, not going in with attack cards to hack and slash at monsters."
"You apply a layer of poison, causing you to lose health steadily every turn, which is more effective than playing ten attack cards."
"What's the point of keeping these basic attack cards? Besides taking up space in your deck and preventing you from drawing poison cards in crucial turns, they're completely useless."
He paused, then pointed to the four basic defensive cards.
"And these basic defenses, costing 1 mana, only block 5 points of damage. They seem useful, but they're actually garbage."
"We only need to keep 2, the rest are just a burden."
"The more useless cards you have in your deck, the lower your chances of drawing key cards."