10: 16 to 8

The Crude Stone Demon is a very common and useful Persistence character card.

The main responsibility of Persistence cards is to absorb damage, so the lower the score they occupy, the better, as it frees up more score allocation for subsequent output cards.

Additionally, its simulation task is relatively easy, and the price of its token card is also low.

It can also be promoted to a two-star character card, the Stone Demon, by synthesizing it with material cards.

It's considered a popular entry-level card among Silver card players.

Among the Silver card players in Shi Li's class, forty percent own this card.

However, from the opponent's attributes, it was clear that her task completion rate was probably around 70% at the time, so her attributes weren't as good as Shi Li's.

So far, Shi Li had only used a maximum of 1 Defense card in his battles against classmates.

They didn't know that he actually possessed 3 Defense cards.

Therefore, considering the subsequent card game, he still followed his previous playstyle.

Coupled with the advantage of a Silver 4 player against a Silver 2 player, the situation quickly became one-sided.

Ace cards are different from regular cards; they cannot be revealed voluntarily.

Thus, when the card game reached the third round, Shi Li revealed his third regular card, while the opponent only had two regular cards.

3V2, he easily secured the victory.

He even won without needing to reveal his Ace card, advancing to the top 32.

After the battle, Shi Li returned to the audience seats.

The focus of this round was to observe Gong Ping and Liu Yue's card game performance.

In the second batch of matches, Gong Ping faced Shi Li's classmate, Qian Wu.

In their class, besides Shi Li, this male student was the strongest.

From his name, one could tell that his skill level ranked among the top five in the grade.

He had now advanced to the Silver 3 tier, and his strength should not be underestimated.

However, for Gold 1 Gong Ping, Qian Wu's tier was not impressive enough.

He almost replicated Shi Li's previous playstyle, using only 3 regular cards to defeat Qian Wu's 2 regular cards + 1 Ace card.

“This guy is hiding his strength.”

After watching this card game, Shi Li could only draw this conclusion.

As a Gold card player, Gong Ping did not bring out his two-star character card.

He ended the battle using only 3 very ordinary one-star character cards.

The key was that these 3 one-star character cards were completely different from the information Shi Li had.

Regarding this point, it was one of the aspects of the opponent that made Shi Li quite wary.

The level of the Gold tier is determined by the number of two-star character cards a player possesses, not the number of one-star character cards.

This means that Gong Ping might have five, six, or even seven or eight different one-star character cards.

Such deck depth allows him to have more tactical choices.

After Gong Ping's card game ended, the most anticipated match in the third batch was naturally Liu Yue from Class 2.

Liu Yue's performance, it can only be said, was even more dominant than Shi Li's and Gong Ping's.

She faced a Silver 2 classmate and ended up not using a single one-star card throughout the entire match, resolving the battle with only 4 zero-star cards.

Judging solely from the three's card games in this round, Liu Yue undoubtedly played the best.

This caused her popularity to soar, even showing signs of subtly catching up to Gong Ping among her classmates.

In the subsequent 32-to-16 round, all three of them advanced successfully without any surprises.

Their performance in the card games was also largely similar to the previous 64-to-32 round.

However, in the 16-to-8 round, Gong Ping and Liu Yue drew each other.

A clash between two powerhouses was naturally the situation Shi Li most wanted to see.

No matter who won this game, he could collect intelligence on the victor's deck.

Both sides knew that their opponent was not comparable to the previous Silver 2 or Silver 3 players, so they immediately revealed their first row cards, going head-to-head.

The projection of Liu Yue's first row card was a tracked boxing robot.

【A-17】

Balance System, 30 points, one-star

Attack 30, 100/100

【Counterattack - Passive】: A-17 has 10 Counterattack (T4) in the round it is revealed.

(【Counterattack】: Attacks the source of damage once.)

This Counterattack is a common attribute in the Momentum and Persistence systems, and while Balance System cards do not have active skills, their advantage is that they can carry attributes from other systems to a certain extent.

“This attribute is definitely not A-17’s initial attribute; it must have been synthesized by her later.”

“Amazing. Balance System cards usually have an Attack of 30 points, but their HP is 100/100.

So to take down a card with 100 HP, 4 normal attacks are needed, which would result in 20 points of overflow damage.

But if the Counterattack is successful, the opponent's HP becomes 90/100.

This way, only 3 normal attacks are needed to eliminate the target.

It saves attack attempts and avoids wasting overflow damage.”

Just then, Shi Li suddenly heard the analysis of a classmate next to him.

There's a fascinating aspect to this world.

That is, when a card player watches a card game, they involuntarily begin to analyze the current game.

And sometimes, a phenomenon similar to a flash of insight occurs, where their thoughts are exceptionally clear.

This phenomenon is very common and is called being possessed by the God of Void Commentary.

And those who are “possessed” are called Void Commentators.

At this moment, after seeing Liu Yue's revealed card, Gong Ping merely smiled faintly.

His revealed card projection was a shadowy figure clad in an old black robe, completely hidden beneath the garment.

【Shadow Apprentice】

Wise, 30 points, one-star

Attack 30, 100/100, 40/40

【Magic Shock - 30 Energy】: The Shadow Apprentice attacks 1 target, inflicting Stun (T2).

This Shadow Apprentice is considered a relatively high-quality card among one-star Wise cards.

Because most one-star Wise cards only have an energy cap of 30/30 or even 20/20.

“The Shadow Apprentice brings hard crowd control, which can perfectly counter A-17’s Counterattack!”

“As long as A-17 is interrupted in the first round, its attribute won't take effect in the second round!”

“It seems Gong Ping came prepared!”

Although in a Cube Card game, actions of both sides occur simultaneously.

However, depending on the effect of the action, there will also be a difference in priority.

Those with higher priority will act and be judged first.

The priority in the action phase is usually as follows:

T1: Positive effects

T2: Negative effects (including attached attacks/damage)

T3: Displacement

T4: Attack damage

T5: HP settlement, retreat, death rattle, etc.

For example, the Stun of the Shadow Mage will cause A-17 to lose its ability to act in T2, preventing it from unleashing its normal attack and Counterattack in T4.

Among all control effects, Stun is definitely considered the king of hard crowd control.

After the first round, the HP of their first row cards came to 70/100 : 100/100.

From the card display, Gong Ping held an absolute advantage...