Chapter 215 Chapter 9 Wargame Cards
Igter was pulled by the young girl and walked to Ophi’s side. The Ice Dragon Girl took out several gold coins from her embrace and her fair white little hand took back a delicately decorated card.
Under Ophi’s long, ice-blue hair, her exquisite snow-white little face flushed with excitement.
“Little Fei, what did you buy? Why are you so happy?” Igter came from behind the girl, reached out, patted her shoulder, and asked curiously.
In recent days, Igter found that the Dragon Clan’s little princess was indeed much easier to get along with than his own young lady, and he would often joke with her.
Ophi’s shoulders trembled in fright. She turned her head and saw that the person was Igter, and then a smile reappeared on her face.
“It’s Igter, hee… Of course, I bought this, look!” Ophi excitedly raised the card she had just bought and showed it to Igter.
Verafia became curious, stood on tiptoe, propped herself on Igter’s shoulder, and looked.
What Ophi’s slender hand displayed was a very exquisite metal card, with golden borders adorned with runes, and the fluorescent light emitted after enchantment slowly moved.
The card depicted a magnificent and elegant frost-blue dragon, yet it was not lacking in majesty and terror. The dragon’s head, which was struggling to rise, had a pair of frost-blue dragon eyes that seemed like frost fire frozen. Between its wings and frost-bound scales, blue ice-colored light overflowed, seeping out pure white light.
Under the projection of the frost dragon was a magnificent spear blade holding an ice crystal, and a long-haired girl whose slender figure was outlined by frost armor.
In addition to the dragon and the girl, the lifelike illustration also bore five golden stars, and below it were two rows of small characters inscribed with runes. Besides the common language, there were also magical text-like, and in fact, many ancient and obscure fonts. Verafia recognized them for a while before identifying that they were ancient texts from the Golden Age.
However, the meanings expressed by the two fonts were the same, seemingly referring to the illustration on the card: Frost Eye Light Dragon.
“Frost Eye Light Dragon? A very rare card… But I didn’t expect you to play wargame cards too, Little Fei.” Igter took the card from the girl’s hand and examined it carefully, then raised his face and smiled.
As Igter brought it closer, Verafia could more clearly feel the magical aura on the girl’s faintly visible golden patterns.
“Wargame cards… What is this?”
The girl tugged at the hem of the young man’s sleeve in front of her, her big eyes looking up in confusion and asking.
Igter knew that although the Phoenix Miss in front of him had a lot of knowledge due to Nirvana and Lord Lothel’s memories, she wasn’t very familiar with what had happened in the last hundred years, so he smiled and explained.
Wargame cards, the prototype of which was created over eighty years ago by an alchemist working at the Imperial Royal Academy. Although his initial purpose was to make them as toys for children, they quickly became popular among young nobles.
These cards used magical runes and illusion crystals to produce illusions, which could not only display magnificent and fierce battles but also had different card characteristics, equipment, and strategic runes, which were also quite strategic.
Of course, for some people, wargame cards were also a way to experience the battle scenes of high-level powerhouses by simulating battles, allowing those who couldn’t train and fight to personally experience them.
However, to expand their numbers, the creation of wargame cards was not only based on the legendary renowned heroes, but many were also created by a mixture of imagination and art. The highest rarity was not necessarily a character that existed in reality.
For example, the “Frost Eye Light Dragon” in Ophi’s hand, there was no such dragon-girl in history who was set as “melting frost and light, tearing apart the sky of evil gods,” but this did not prevent her from becoming the most popular card, and she had considerable popularity among wargame card enthusiasts.
The most famous incident was five years ago, when an obsessed fan of a dragon girl bid an astronomical price of over eight thousand imperial gold coins at the auction of the “Frost Eye Light Dragon” commemorative card! It’s important to know that even the entire fortune of a Star Rank powerhouse was only around ten thousand gold.
However, Igter didn’t know whether that fervent dragon girl fan had actually paid the over eight thousand gold.
Thinking of this, Igter couldn’t help but smile a little and handed the “Frost Eye Light Dragon” back to Ophi. The ice dragon girl’s porcelain-white little face was still rosy, and she looked quite excited.
According to Ophi, all her wargame cards were plundered from the human nobles her father captured. When she was young, only her sister would play with her, so she didn’t have many chances to get rare cards… let alone this “Frost Eye Light Dragon.”
Speaking of which, is it because this Dragon Clan little princess likes this card so much that it is also because it is quite similar to her attributes and appearance?
Igter thought in his heart. But soon Verafia’s crisp voice sounded in his ears.
“You explained so clearly… Did you play it too, Igter?”
Igter looked at the girl’s raised big eyes, shook his head, and smiled.
“I only played it when I was a child, after all, I wanted to experience Lord Lothel’s experience back then, so I had to try to simulate it this way. However, it is just a game, and the gap with real combat is still quite large.”
Verafia blinked her eyes. She didn’t expect to be harassed by this fan in such a game.
Igter didn’t guess what his young lady was thinking at this moment. He smiled at the girl.
“But… would you like to try it too, Young Lady?”
Young Lady Verafia came back to her senses, quickly twisted her delicate face, and said with disdain.
“Tch. I’m really not interested in your mere human crude game. Since Little Ice Dragon has also bought it… then, Little Fran, we should leave too!”
The girl took Little Fran’s hand, moved her slender lotus-like feet, and walked towards the outside.
Igter was used to his young lady’s tsundere personality. He shrugged helplessly at Ophi, and then quickly followed the girl’s figure.
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After leaving the transaction market, Verafia took the group to have dinner, and after forcing Ophi, who still had money on her, to pay, it was already quite late.
So, at Igter’s suggestion, the group of girls came to a hotel that, although not luxurious, was actually quite suitable for adventurers to stay in.
“Sorry, Miss Mage.”
The看板娘 (Kanban Musume – poster girl/shop girl) at the counter looked at the adventurer’s credentials marked with profession and name placed in front of Verafia, as well as eight silver coins with fleur-de-lis patterns, and bowed apologetically with professional etiquette.
“There are only two vacant rooms left in the hotel… If possible, could you share accommodation with your companions? Please rest assured, the space and beds in the hotel rooms are large enough and will not be crowded.”
The看板娘 also did not forget to add kindly at the end.
