After a moment of hesitation, the girl still decided to add a lightning effect, as there was also a lightning-elemental mage in the team this time.
"The price for one element is two thousand. You want a storm with lightning, which is water, wind, and lightning elements. My quote is six thousand. Do you find that acceptable?" Lu Chenxing stated his price, a price he had carefully considered.
Customized cards on the market start at ten thousand, regardless of the card's order, but no one has ever made a First Order customized card.
First Order cards are not expensive to begin with; a blue card is two hundred, a purple card is five hundred, and a gold card is one thousand or more, with no set price.
Lu Chenxing quoted two thousand per element mainly because he felt that the word "customized" meant the price couldn't be too low, otherwise, it would lose its prestige and might seem cheap; otherwise, he would have quoted even lower!
Seeing the girl opposite him stunned froze there, Lu Chenxing's heart skipped a beat. She wouldn't think it was too expensive, would she? He should have quoted even lower!
"What's wrong? Is it too expensive?" Lu Chenxing, seeing that she hadn't left, couldn't help but say, "If it's too expensive, then..."
"No! Deal!" The girl's eyes suddenly lit up, and she quickly pulled out her phone from her pocket, scanned the QR code, and paid. Six thousand yuan, immediately deposited!
Her actions were so quick, as if she was afraid he might go back on his word!
"Boss, when can I pick up the card?" the girl asked excitedly. This was her first time buying a customized card, and she didn't expect it to be so much cheaper than she anticipated!
She was a First Order Perfect Stage water-elemental mage, a freshman this year, and recently preparing to advance to Second Order. Because her advancement mission was to kill a Second Order Early Stage Magma Giant, she found a few close classmates to form a four-person team.
Magma Giant live in underground areas with magma, which are very dry and hot, significantly reducing her strength. Although her classmates would help cover her, she couldn't do nothing herself.
So she started looking for usable cards on the market, but most First Order cards on the market were not very good and didn't meet her requirements. Then she started looking at terrain cards.
However, there were almost no First Order terrain cards, because for First Order, the effect of terrain cards was quite limited; at least after Third Order, terrain cards could influence the battle.
After searching around, she unexpectedly found this Super Martial Card Shop at her own university.
Seeing the money arrive, Lu Chenxing's face also broke into a smile. "This afternoon, around four o'clock, you can come and pick it up."
"Okay! Thank you, boss! Goodbye, boss!"
Watching the energetic back of the female university student as she ran off, Lu Chenxing couldn't help but curve his lips slightly.
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In a civilian house near the outskirts of Loshen City, thick dark curtains blocked all sunlight. The area within a hundred meters around the house was so quiet that you could hear a pin drop, and even birds would fly around it.
Inside the room, a purple-black hexagram array lit up in the darkness. A white candle was placed at each corner, and as the purple-black flames burned, countless screams seemed to rise from the candle flames.
As the purple-black hexagram array fully lit up, a blurry figure appeared above the array. From its form, the figure in the light did not seem to be human.
"Hail, Our God!" In front of the array, several people dressed in black robes stood in a row. Upon seeing the light figure appear, they immediately bowed down.
In front of them was another person in a black robe, who appeared to be the leader of the group. This person's build and appearance were unremarkable, the kind that would be lost in a crowd.
The creature in the light figure emitted a hoarse voice: "Zhang Er, how are things progressing?"
The leader named Zhang Er immediately knelt on one knee and replied with a grim expression: "Reporting, my lord, our plan... failed."
"Oh?" The creature in the light figure seemed somewhat surprised. "Did this King not give you the virus sample? How could it fail?"
So Zhang Er recounted the entire story in detail, and the name Lu Chenxing also appeared in his account.
"Heh heh, interesting, very interesting. A newly awakened First Order mage can actually crack a virus with broken rules. It seems his talent is very good. Find an opportunity to kill him, then try again in another city. If that doesn't work, then activate the backup plan."
"Yes!" Zhang Er and the others knelt on the ground, responding piously. After the candles extinguished and the light figure disappeared, the group stood up and let out a long breath.
A black-robed person behind him said in a relaxed tone, "It has to be our lord; his emotions are stable. If it were other lords, and the plan failed, we might not have survived!"
The other black-robed people nodded in agreement.
"It's your good fortune that the lord spared you. If the next mission fails again, you won't need the lord to act; I will personally clean house!" Zhang Er snorted coldly, his tone chilling.
The black-robed people behind him quickly assented. After all, Zhang Er was the divine messenger, and they still relied on his rewards to improve their strength, so they dared not disobey.
Seeing everyone quiet down, Zhang Er continued, "Next, our primary task is to kill the young man who ruined our plan. I already have a candidate."
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"Gather water elements to form small water droplets that make up clouds, then the clouds collide and merge into large water droplets, which then fall as rain. During this process, friction between the clouds will generate lightning, and then add some wind to accelerate the cloud collisions!"
"Tsk, the clouds feel a bit sparse. Then I'll add a bit more space element to hold more..."
Inside the Super Martial Card Shop, Lu Chenxing muttered to himself while creating the spell using the Weaving effect.
"Hmm, that's about right, but it might evaporate when released. So I'll add some ice elements to maintain a low temperature. The range will be set within 20m. She didn't specify the duration, so I'll follow the market standard for terrain cards, five minutes... Alright, perfect!"
The Weaving effect took hold. Because the logic chain was relatively complete and it wasn't an offensive spell, it didn't consume much magic power.
In an instant, a thunderstorm orb appeared in Lu Chenxing's hand, which he sealed into a blank original card. A purple light flashed, and a purple terrain card appeared.
"Is it judged as a purple card because multiple magic elements were used?" Lu Chenxing nodded thoughtfully, then used the Copy Art to duplicate the card.
It must be said that because the first card he made was Bombardment Art, making other First Order cards now felt effortless, and the mental energy consumed for card creation was also greatly reduced.
A moment later, the card creation was complete. Such customized cards, because they would only be used by a specific person and had no value for widespread circulation, did not require patent applications or anything. Lu Chenxing casually put it away and began his midday cultivation.
As two First Order Perfect Stage crystal cores lost all their luster and emitted a "crack" sound, Lu Chenxing's magic power finally reached First Order Late Stage.