Amber Sword-Chapter 637: Episode 67 Underground King (18) (2nd update, please support)
From the financial income point of view, he possesses Rochelle’s Market and the Prosperous Gold Mine, one with 8 wealth and the other with 4 wealth, totaling 12 wealth per day.
However, he needs to pay for:
Unicorn Knight card’s maintenance cost, 6 wealth, 1 dark per day.
Lucas’s mercenaries, 2 wealth per day.
Highland Followers, 1 earth per day.
Holy Great Angel, 1 light per day.
In general, Brand’s dark element and earth element essentially equate to having no income each day. Dark element is somewhat fine because Medisha rarely enters the cemetery. But the earth element is another necessary consumption for Brand’s powerful card combination ’Wind Spirit Spider - Holy Sword Technique,’ and this consumption is quite significant, often taking half a month to suffice for just one battle.
To save the earth element, Brand would rather reshuffle Char back into the deck and summon him anew, as summoning Highland Followers requires only 1 water, while maintaining them on the field requires 1 earth.
But this approach also comes with disadvantages. First, the daily 1 reputation provided by the Highland Followers is unattainable. Second, Brand’s water element storage is also dwindling, his former lifestyle soon facing the crisis of an empty Element Pool.
This practice of robbing Peter to pay Paul is not something Brand considers as a competent Travel Mage. Before this, he never relied on this profession as his main support, but as an additional aid, it was still more than sufficient.
However, Brand vaguely senses the potential power of the Travel Mage profession. He thinks this profession might bring him a major surprise in the future, even becoming the lifeline. But he also understands that it requires a much larger deck to support it.
This process is long, but the prospects shown are heartwarming. Therefore, Brand couldn’t help but say, "Interesting—" when he saw the roulette wheel.
He immediately tapped the light screen with anticipation, hoping to get the desired card. The roulette wheel started spinning, and Brand’s gaze remained fixed nervously. After a few seconds, the pointer slowed down, first passing by the Gem Plain, making Brand’s heart tighten slightly with disappointment. But soon he saw the pointer approaching the North from the other side.
At this moment, the Duel Arena was silent, everyone watching Brand standing there motionless, focusing his gaze on a distant point.
"Lord?" Medisha asked softly, turning her head.
Brand turned a deaf ear, watching the pointer inch past the Blood-Soaked Altar, yelling in his heart, "Stop! Stop!"
But that disobedient pointer still slid past by a tiny bit, just a tiny bit, changing the card face:
Fire Claw Spearman
(Flame Tribe II)
fire
[Creature - Fireclaw Lizard / warrior, level 27 creature]
Warlike.
Place a squad of Fire Claw Spearmen into the field.
Pay 5 wealth per day while Fire Claw Spearmen are in the field.
’The enemy’s scent is in the flames—’
"Lord Martha, please don’t do this!" Brand yelled dejectedly in his heart but did not show this disappointment. Instead, he watched the roulette wheel disappear instantly, and a fiery red card floated down into his hand.
Brand looked at the card, the illustration depicted a Lizardman Warrior. Unlike Vaun’s lizardmen, these scarlet-scaled lizardmen were notably stronger, wearing simple metallic armor and carrying long spears on their backs and waists.
What’s noteworthy to Brand were the lizardmen’s golden diamond-shaped pupils. Among Vaun’s reptiles, golden pupils invariably mean the giant dragon bloodline, and these are closely related sub-dragon species.
Though the individual combat power of these Fire Claw Lizardmen was only barely at the Black Iron Peak, their ancestry was significant, suggesting their ancestors had once been mighty. 𝓯𝙧𝙚𝒆𝙬𝙚𝒃𝙣𝙤𝒗𝓮𝓵.𝙘𝙤𝙢
Thus, the ’Warlike’ trait on the card made sense, as the Dragon Clan’s reputation for being warlike is well-known. Brand might not know much else, but he understands this trait quite well; in Amber Sword, some monsters with a ’Warlike’ trait get a morale boost when attacking or taking damage.
Translating this boost into data is tricky, but each point of morale increases overall combat effectiveness by roughly ten percent according to Brand’s estimates.
This buff is quite potent overall.
But this card made Brand feel somewhat disappointed; he needed a Resource Card, not a Creature Card. Not to mention the Fire Claw Spearman’s costly summoning fee of 15 fire and maintenance cost almost as high as Unicorn Knight’s, and in every aspect, it’s inferior to the latter.
Brand scrutinized the card repeatedly, his eyes finally resting on ’Place a squad of Fire Claw Spearmen into the field,’ slightly soothing his mind. According to Madara’s calculation, a squad consists of thirty, while one hundred in Erune; unsure how these fire lizards are organized, but Brand believed they wouldn’t be too disappointing.
When this card reached him, it hadn’t been unsealed. The young man’s thoughts slightly moved, making it disappear from his hand and entering his deck. This scene naturally caught Medisha and the other youths’ eyes, but Kulan, who Brand faced away from, did not notice this subtle action.
"Lord?" Medisha, who was also a summoned creature, wondered why Brand acquired a card out of thin air.
Brand snapped back, hurriedly responding, "Just a reward, let’s continue the challenge."
"Still want to challenge?" The Silver Elf Princess was stunned.
Brand glanced at the Earth Sword in the duel arena’s center and nodded. Ever since losing the Azure Light Piercing, he had been eager to find a suitable weapon; he didn’t want to miss this chance.
Moreover, the Earth Sword was indeed tempting.
Thus, when the grand voice resounded for the third time above the duel arena—"Mortal, do you wish to continue your challenge?" Brand unhesitatingly nodded.
"I want to take on the advanced challenge." Looking at the Earth Sword on the stele, the young man replied.
The duel arena fell silent.
Then, under everyone’s astonished gazes, a huge cage slowly rose from the sandy ground on the other side. The enormous monster inside shut everyone’s mouths in an instant—
It was a dragon.
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