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Card Disciple – Chapter 17: Belated Billboard

Star Academy was one of Tianyou Federation’s Six Great Schools and it possessed a long history. Furthermore, its founder was the renowned Heiner Vincent. Because of this, Star Academy never fell from the ranks of the Six Great Schools despite being in a decline these few years, although it was now ranked last among them.

The decline of Star Academy was directly related to their system.

Star Academy was divided into an inner court and an outer court. At a certain time period each year, the school would select a few students from the outer court with both excellent grades and innate talent to study within the inner court. The inner court was Star Academy’s most central location and every single person who managed to graduate from the inner court was able to leave a strong mark in history, whether they were Card Creators or Card Refiners1.

However, not only were the prerequisites to enter the inner court extremely strict, graduating from it was equally difficult. It has already been a whole decade without anyone emerging from the inner court, and this was also the main cause of Star Academy’s decline in these few years. As for the other five of the Six Great Schools, not even mentioning the United Federations College at the zenith, even Kuji Temple with its scarce student population was bound to produce one or two students with astonis.h.i.+ng talent every few years.

Only Star Academy went for a whole decade without a single person emerging from the inner court.

Star Academy had been relying on the students of the outer court to prop them up these last few years. Only then were they able to support themselves in this awkward situation.

However, the outer court students of Star Academy were still considered to be a lot better compared to the students of ordinary schools. This was why Zuo Tingyi would say such things, immediately ridiculing the words of his egotistical friend endlessly.

It has already been a week since the day Chen Mu went to Gold Avenue, and the Magic Card Billboard created for Uncle Hua was finally completed today.

Chen Mu was rather satisfied with the final product.

The card made from the specially processed bark from a Thousand Cloud Tree appeared a translucent white, and a serene blue construct pattern formed an elegant and complex design on the half-palm-sized card. Chen Mu’s strokes were already rather seasoned, with each line flowing freely.

A single blue orchid as tall as a grown man, with emerald-green leaves, a long and thin stalk, and a pale creamy-white flower, was faintly swaying. Every ten seconds, the orchid flower would spout some multi-coloured particles of light that would change like mist, to form “Uncle Hua’s Grocery Store”, the words s.h.i.+ning bright and overflowing with colour.

At night, this blue orchid would blossom, revealing all of its brilliance.

In these last five days, aside from this Blue Orchid Magic Card Billboard, Chen Mu had also made another Magic Card.

This Magic Card was made by imitating the brilliant and peerless Magic Card advertis.e.m.e.nt he saw at Shuanghuan Card Shop that day. However, because there was such a huge difference between Chen Mu’s ability and the creator of that Magic Card, he was currently still unable to copy such a complex Magic Card advertis.e.m.e.nt.

Chen Mu’s magic card only imitated one part – that fiery dragon encircling the grave and stern man in black. The image projected by that magic card had aroused Chen Mu’s interest.

Dazzling beauty and fervour represented power and might. This was the three-star Magic Card that was considered a middle-grade battle card, the Inferno Dragon Card. This fiery dragon was simulated with all of its capabilities, and under a Card Refiner’s control, not only could it emit astonis.h.i.+ng heat, it also possessed an explosive nature with both flexibility and formidable power. It was favoured by many Battle Card Refiners.

This card that Chen Mu had copied was indeed related to the Inferno Dragon Card, but it was only a one-star Magic Card. In other words, this was not a genuine Inferno Dragon Card at all, rather it was only an Inferno Dragon Mirage Card. This Magic Card was able to produce an extremely lifelike illusion of a scarlet flame dragon, but this illusion was only made of light and didn’t possess any lethal power.