87: Kill elite monsters skillfully

The first card Shi Li revealed was the Ace, Red Blade Maiden.

“The Ace’s 30 Attack power bonus, combined with its 20% health percentage damage, can deal high damage to the Great Crocodile-mouthed Wyvern.”

This Ace was reasonable and didn't surprise Zhong Xin.

The second card he revealed was the Rock Giant Centipede.

Moreover, this card was placed vertically, occupying a 1-column, 2-grid space.

“PVE is different from PVP; there’s no concept of revealing the entire first row.

So, even if it’s placed vertically in the first row, it’s acceptable.

And this card only costs 50 points, which can lower the 40-point Ace’s cost by 10 points.

Its HP is also very high; under Defense, it can withstand an attack from the Great Crocodile-mouthed Wyvern without dying.

But merely surviving one attack is clearly not enough…”

From this point on, Zhong Xin was already skeptical.

In his opinion, including the Rock Giant Centipede in the deck had little significance.

Even with subsequent healing support, it could at most withstand 3 attacks from the Winged Lycan before needing to retreat.

However, the third card Shi Li revealed greatly surprised Zhong Xin.

It was a 1-star Youyou Slime.

And its position was also very peculiar.

Centipede [Covered Card]

Centipede Youyou

Empty Empty

Empty Red Blade

“A 40-point Ace, a 50-point giant card, plus a 20-point Youyou Slime, leaves him with 40 points remaining for his score limit.

Could his other first-row card be a 40-point card?

A 40-point single-grid damage-absorbing card, is that reasonable?

Furthermore, his last row is completely empty, which would make the Ace quite vulnerable, wouldn’t it?!

Besides, this 1-star card is of no help to this card game at all!”

Zhong Xin felt completely unable to understand such a formation.

Because according to the blocking rules, as soon as the Rock Giant Centipede is defeated, and the Great Crocodile-mouthed Wyvern performs 2 Movements.

Moving to the second grid of Shi Li’s left column, parallel to the Youyou Slime, it could directly attack the Ace, Red Blade Maiden.

Unreasonable, very unreasonable.

Of the 4+1 deck, 3+1 cards had been revealed so far, and Zhong Xin still couldn't see a shred of hope for Shi Li to win.

But what he didn't know was that Shi Li’s most crucial, or rather, most important card in this game, was this last first-row card.

Tiao Tiao!

As the card was flipped, Tiao Tiao jumped out.

Bouncing Guard

Steadfast, 30 Points, Two-star

Attack 30, 50/50+50/50, 0/40

Multi-Core - Characteristic: Bouncing Guard’s HP is divided into 2 segments and is not affected by any external buff effects.

Unyielding - Passive: When Bouncing Guard’s HP reaches 0, it gains 1 round of Stasis.

Tiao Tiao Awakening - 0~100% Energy: Bouncing Guard can summon 1 Small Tiao Tiao for every 10 energy consumed.

(Stasis: Delayed retreat)

Small Tiao Tiao

Steadfast, 5 Points, No-star

Attack 5, 5/5, 0/10

“This!”

Zhong Xin was so experienced that he immediately saw the true purpose of this card.

“Wonderful! Wonderful! Wonderful! It’s wonderful!”

He couldn't help but exclaim several times.

“Summoning has T0 priority, which is equivalent to revealing a card.

Whereas Movement is ranked T3, far behind it.

The most critical point is that the Bouncing Guard has one aspect that is far superior to other summoning main cards: it can summon multiple summoned cards at once!

This way, if the Great Crocodile-mouthed Wyvern’s movement path is completely blocked by summoned cards in T0, then it will be completely useless!”

“Zhong Captain, who are you talking to?”

Shi Li couldn't help but complain about this behavior of being possessed by a phantom commentator.

“No, nothing, haha.”

Zhong Xin’s mood was clearly much lighter, and he continued: “Even if the Rock Giant Centipede is defeated, leaving an opening for the Great Crocodile-mouthed Wyvern, the Small Tiao Tiao can still block its path.

And if it really enters the column where the Rock Giant Centipede was, it would be like being caught in a jar.

There are no card slots to Movement to the left, and on the right are the Bouncing Guard and the Youyou Slime.

If it can’t Movement left or right, then it can’t evade attacks!”

During his explanation, the first round had already arrived.

Although the Great Crocodile-mouthed Wyvern’s movement energy consumption is only 10 points, its starting energy is 0, so it needs 1 round to warm up.

Therefore, how to operate in the first round was crucial for Shi Li.

Shi Li raised his hand and played a hand card.

“LV2 Defense: Makes 2 of your cards enter Defense state, reducing damage taken by 50%. (T1)”

This hand card was a Level 2 hand card obtained when Tiao Tiao ascended in star level.

Playing it now put both the Rock Giant Centipede and the Bouncing Guard into Defense state.

“A bit of a waste…”

Zhong Xin was a little puzzled when he saw this scene.

“Even if the Bouncing Guard is in Defense, it will still lose a bar of health if hit by the Great Crocodile-mouthed Wyvern.

It would be better to let the Bouncing Guard attack; a mosquito, however small, is still meat, and 30 damage is still damage.

What if, in the end, those 30 points of damage are the difference between defeating the opponent and not?”

Boom! Boom!

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However, this round, the Great Crocodile-mouthed Wyvern chose to attack the Rock Giant Centipede.

“OK.”

Shi Li felt very comfortable seeing this scene.

Because for him, this kind of opening was the best opening.

Next, his 2 cards were in Defense, but the actions of his remaining 2 cards were very surprising.

Pop pop~

-10

“Sorry, comrade!”

-35

The Youyou Slime and Red Blade Maiden’s target was surprisingly the Bouncing Guard!

“This… I see!”

Zhong Xin’s eyes lit up when he saw this.

The combined attack of the 2 cards could provide the Bouncing Guard with 30 charge points.

This way, he could summon 3 Small Tiao Tiao next round!

And the combined attack dealt 45 damage, which wasn't enough to deplete a full health bar from the Bouncing Guard, leaving it at 5/50+50/50.

So this was the meaning of using LV2 Defense!

The second round arrived, and Shi Li indeed had the Bouncing Guard consume 20 energy to summon 2 Small Tiao Tiao.

They sandwiched the Great Crocodile-mouthed Wyvern from left and right, completely depriving it of any movement space.

This way, it completely lost the initiative.

It couldn't evade attacks through Movement, nor could it trigger recovery effects through Movement.

If it attacked a Small Tiao Tiao, it would waste 1 action round.

And even if it defeated a Small Tiao Tiao, Shi Li could still summon new ones next round.

Boom! Boom!

The Winged Lycan were not the kind of monsters completely devoid of intelligence; it wasn't foolish enough to actually attack the Small Tiao Tiao, but chose to continue attacking the Rock Giant Centipede.

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This attack was enough to take down the already low-health Rock Giant Centipede.

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