Creating Cards(Part 2)

"I still can't get used to this beautiful sight…"

After taking a brief moment to take in the void soul plane's splendor, his eyes seemed to turn as sharp as blades. With a wave of his hands, five cards materialized in front of him and seemed to float.

"I set the [Spirit Dust] as the core material, while the other four cards are set as the auxiliary materials".

The [Spirit Dust] card floated towards the center, before releasing a thread of light towards the other four cards. Then each card connected to the other cards as well, forming a spiderweb of light.

"Combine!"

The golden lines on the cards bloomed, before all of them shot straight towards the center. This formed a soul card with an empty face. With a wave of his hand, the card floated towards his left hand.

"Now it's time for the challenging part…"

The tips of his index finger glowed ever so brightly, as he then used it to write on the empty soul card.

'Roland was descended from a family of great Maguses. Just as everyone else in the family did, he had the talent for magic. However, he didn't have a knack for things outside of the theoretical side of magic. Thus, he grew up to be a bookworm. On his 11th birthday, Roland's grandmother gifted him a pair of glasses. She said that it could help him read books better. And that, it did. However, unbeknownst to him, it could do more than just that. After all, even Roland's grandmother had only known that it was used by her own father as a young man. Thus, when Roland was ridiculed at the Osdette's University Of Magic, an unknown power gave Roland the confidence to challenge that person to a duel. Which, he won.'

The final scene in the card's face was of Roland, holding his glasses with his right hand and a view of the sky and the arena.

Low-grade soul cards didn't need to be so concrete, but Eric still wanted to make it as concrete as possible. However, looking at the card's "full" face, he had to stop early.

"Haish… low-grade soul cards really can't be written too detailed. Still, hopefully this is enough".

Click!

After he let the card float on its own, it glowed like a star which blinded Eric for a few moments. Once his vision returned, a satisfied smile bloomed on his face.

"Success! Although, not quite as I expected…"

[Name - Spirit Glasses(Sealed)

Grade - 1½

Type - Tool

Tool-type - Wearable Tool

Attribute/s - Spirit

Effect/s -

(Spirit Tune) - Harmonize with the world and gain a layer of (Spirit). The deeper the level of harmonization, the more layers of (Spirit) gained. With each layer of (Spirit), comprehension is raised by 0.1. Consume ten layers of (Spirit) and enter an absolute state of calmness(lesser) for 10 minutes.]

"Still, it's good enough".

In this world, the quality of cards are judged through its grade. The lower the grade, the worse the item is. However, for a beginner card master like Eric, it was for the better. As beginner card masters or rather, card apprentices could only use cards graded 3 or lower.

Aside from that, a card with a grade like 1½ meant that the card had a much greater potential hidden within. In other words, upon card promotion—the act of upgrading cards, its upgraded variation could be two or more grades higher than it currently is. While normal card promotion could only raise a card's grade by one grade.

"Now that my first card has been made, it's now time to make my actual battle deck".

Countless card concepts formed in Eric's head, as he continued to smile in the void soul plane.

He then started to crazily 'attack' the stack of material cards on his deck. Before long, Eric had made a simple set of cards.

[Name - Ashley The Orphan

Grade - 2½

Type - Summon

Species - Human

Attribute/s - Ice

Abilities -

(Ice Affinity) - All ice-related abilities are enhanced by 1.2×. Does not enhance the effects of (Blessings of the Frost), and is instead replaced by it when it is activated.

(Strange Physique) - All physical attributes are enhanced by 1.2×. When under extreme emotions, enhance it by 1.3× instead.

(Blessings of the Frost) - All ice damage is halved. When under cold weather, all physical attributes like speed and power as well as ice abilities are enhanced by 1.5×.]

[Name - Frostfang

Grade - 1½

Type - Tool-type

Tool-type - Longsword

Attribute/s - Ice

Effect/s -

(Spell Bite: Frost) - All novice ice spells casted by the holder can be released 1.5× as fast as normal.

(Cold blade) - All melee attacks executed through Frostfang has a 10% chance to trigger (Freeze).

(Fragile) - 20% chance to break each time Frostfang clashes against anything.]

[Name - Fire Javelin

Grade - 2

Type - Spell

Spell-Type - Long-ranged Attack/Elemental Weapon

Attribute/s - Fire

Effect/s -

(Javelin: Fire) - Conjure a javelin condensed from fire elements.

(Pentrate) - It can penetrate through thick armor.

(Burning) - Once it hits, trigger (Burn).]

[Name - Frost Heal(Inferior)

Grade - 2½

Type - Spell

Spell-Type - Single-target Heal

Attribute/s - Ice

Effect/s -

(Frost Heal) - Select a target with the ice-attribute, heal all its small wounds. Chance to trigger (Freeze) on the target.]

[Name - Magic Shield(Inferior)

Grade - 3½

Type - Spell

Spell-Type - Single-target Buff

Attribute/s - None

Effect/s -

(Magic Shield: Inferior) - Conjure a shield made out of magic power that can block all inferior grade attacks for 30 minutes.

(Instant Shield) - Conjure a shield that can block up to grade 4 attacks, however it can only last for a single second.

(Charge) - Can charge this soul card in advance.]

With this set completed, excitement filled Eric's mind so he quickly left the void soul plane to glance at his cards in 'reality'.

Upon entering his 'reality', he reached out and pulled a translucent box from the air.

He then grasped a card before closing his eyes, after a few moments the card glowed before flying inside the box. He did this a few times before all his new cards were inside.

"I'm finally, officially a card master"

Well, Eric was indeed already an official card master before he did all of this. However, he did not place any cards in his [Soul Card Box].

All because he wanted his first cards to be made by him. As for [Card Search: Area], that was just Eric using 'magic tricks' in order to roleplay as a card master. After all, he wanted to release his inner child.