9: Gambling mechanism

【 Name: Lu Yuan 】

【 Race: Huaxia Human 】

【 Level: First-Rank Card Master Apprentice (7 Stars) 】

【 Source Power: 7 / 77 】 (Note: Slowly replenished on the way home)

【 Talent: Guaranteed Gold Drop (Unique · Evolvable) Cooldown: 6 days 21 hours 39 minutes 】

【 Identity: Card Continent Citizen / Earth Human (Hidden) 】

【 Remaining Origin Card Slot: 1 】

Seeing only a pitiful 7 Source Power left in that column, Lu Yuan shook his head helplessly.

Wait! No, how did my level increase!

So Guaranteed Gold Drop also has a cooldown!

During the First-Rank Card Master Apprentice stage, each star requires 10 Source Power to advance.

He is currently 7 stars, still 3 Source Power short of 8 stars, and even 13 Source Power short of 9 stars.

As for the Second-Rank Provisional Card Master after the apprentice stage, the threshold is reaching 100 Source Power and using a special "Advancement card."

There are four main ways to acquire Source Power:

First is natural meditation and absorption. This is the least efficient, suitable for daily accumulation.

Second is using source cards or absorbing Source Power crystals. This is the fastest method but requires a large amount of money to purchase.

Third is hunting monsters. After a monster dies, it dissipates Source Power, which can be absorbed by a Card Master, and there's also a chance to drop cards. This is the most mainstream and highest-risk method.

Fourth is card gambling. Each time a Card Master successfully gambles a card, he receives a heavenly feedback of Source Power. The higher the quality and star rank, the more he obtains. Lu Yuan's current upgrade was precisely due to this.

Don't think card gambling is easy; in fact, it's the most treacherous. The card gambling probability table is attached below.

card Gambling Probability:

1. Each rank increases by 10%, each star decreases by 5%.

2. card gambling only gambles on star rank, not quality. Quality depends on luck. For example, if two one-star blue cards are gambled, a successful outcome will definitely be a two-star blue card or higher in quality. It's impossible for a two-star green card or white card to appear, which would be a regression in quality.

3. card gambling is divided into synthesis and advancement. Same card, same star is advancement; different cards, same star is synthesis.

For a First-Rank Card Master Apprentice, the success rate for gambling a one-star card is 10%, for a two-star card is 5%, and for a three-star card is 0%... For a Second-Rank Provisional Card Master, the success rate for gambling a one-star card is 20%, for a two-star card is 15%, and for a three-star card is 10%... For a Third-Rank Senior Card Master, the success rate for gambling a one-star card is 30%, for a two-star card is 25%, and for a three-star card is 20%... For a Fourth-Rank Elite Card Master, the success rate for gambling a one-star card is 40%, for a two-star card is 35%, and for a three-star card is 30%... For a Ninth-Rank card God, the success rate for gambling a one-star card is 90%, for a two-star card is 85%, and for a three-star card is 80%... Whether it's synthesis or advancement, there's a huge risk of failure.

If it fails, the material cards invested will be directly destroyed, turning into blank cards.

Blank cards can be used to make artificial standardized cards or to capture dying monsters, which is also the source of most beast taming cards on the market.

The original owner's Green Water Turtle was probably a product of such rough crafting.

After reading the author's explanation, Lu Yuan understood. For balance, so that's how it is. (Playful)

With his current financial resources, buying source cards or crystals is clearly unrealistic.

Meditation is too slow.

card gambling is difficult to succeed without talent.

His only option seems to be to go to the edge of the safe zone outside the city and hunt low-rank monsters.

But this also requires a certain initial strength and means of self-preservation.

"Origin Card Slot..."

Lu Yuan noticed "Remaining Origin Card Slot: 1" on the panel.

This was one of the benefits he received from his transmigration.

Card Masters in this world usually only awaken one Origin Card Slot at the first rank.

The Origin Card Slot is extremely important.

Placing a card into the Origin Card Slot, making it an "Origin Card," offers numerous benefits.

The most significant point is that if it's a beast taming card, even if the beast "dies" in battle, it won't truly perish. Instead, it will return to the Origin Card Slot and can be restored by consuming a certain amount of Source Power and time.

This greatly increases the fault tolerance and sustained combat capability of beast taming cards.

Other types of cards becoming Origin Cards will also have various buffs, such as reduced consumption, increased power, or gaining additional growth potential.

As a Card Master's rank increases, the number of Origin Card Slots will also increase.

Two at second rank, three at third rank, and so on.

He is currently only a First-Rank Apprentice, yet he possesses two Origin Card Slots.

This is definitely a huge advantage!

Which card should he place in the second Origin Card Slot?

Lu Yuan fell into contemplation.

He currently has two usable cards:

【 Swamp Crocodile 】: Four-star blue card. Decent attack power, "Death Roll" skill is fierce in close combat. The drawback is its lower quality and limited growth potential.

【 saber-toothed turtle 】: One-star blue card. A defensive beast, with weak attack power. The advantage is... unclear, perhaps its high defense.

Which card to place in the Origin Card Slot is crucial, as it often determines a Card Master's early combat style and development direction.

No!

Lu Yuan shook his head. He has the "Guaranteed Gold Drop" talent!

Even if he gambles on two of the trashiest one-star gray cards, as long as it succeeds, a two-star gold card will emerge!

Just like the Raging Waves Sea Soul!

So his best choice should be to buy two cheap two-star cards from the card Mall to gamble!

(The protagonist is a First-Rank Apprentice, suppressed by the rules, and cannot gamble on three-star cards at all, with a 0% probability.)

If he could obtain another powerful three-star gold card... his strength would undergo a tremendous transformation!

One Raging Waves Sea Soul is already outrageous, what about two?

Moreover, a gold card every seven days, what if he doesn't use it himself and sells it instead?

Thinking of this, Lu Yuan's eyes lit up.

A flame was burning fiercely in his heart.

His journey as a Card Master has just begun...