Return and Card Draws

Above the Atlantic, the massive transport warplane’s wings swept through the clouds, tearing several white wounds across the blue sky.

After more than a month of war, the officers who had fought as the vanguard were exhausted in body and mind, quickly falling asleep in the cabin’s cushioned seats. The captured scientists, important hostages, also wore grave expressions under the armed soldiers’ watch, maintaining silence among themselves.

This left the transport warplane’s cabin so quiet that only the faint sounds of its internal machinery and the airflow outside could be heard.

Kyle sat by a window with his eyes closed, resting as his consciousness gradually sank into the vast Card Space.

After the Allied forces’ large-scale campaign to occupy Germany, he was probably the greatest winner of them all—the spoils he had collected from the battlefield and underground military arsenals had reached an astonishing amount!

Within the vast Card Space, tens of thousands of Item Cards floated in the unprocessed Material Card area. Each radiated white, green, or blue light, like countless stars competing to shine across the night sky above a grassland.

In truth, White Item Cards made up the smallest proportion. They were mostly cheap, common mass-market equipment that Kyle had casually drawn during the early stages of the campaign. Later, with green-tier weapons and equipment scattered everywhere across the battlefield, he could not even be bothered to look at white-tier items, much less draw them.

Kyle first sorted through the cards in the Material Card area. Valuable items such as gold, gems, and collectibles were transferred into the Item Card area for storage, becoming the financial foundation that would support the cultivation of his future forces.

The greater number of German military weapons and items remained in the Material Card area. To him, these outdated weapons were neither worth keeping nor worth throwing away. Following his usual practice, he would simply treat them as Material Cards for Sacrifice Draw.

Sacrifice Draw—

With a thought from Kyle, more than ten thousand selected green Item Cards immediately rose into the air. They shattered and vanished one after another, replaced by a thousand newly created cards of various kinds.

A thousand consecutive draws!

You sacrificed German Mauser Pistol ×1023, German Rifle ×2046... Mauser 98K ×59, Squad Automatic Weapon ×49... Reconnaissance Instrument ×26, German Grenade ×186...

Although they were all green Item Cards, this was still his first time performing such an enormous chain draw, and even Kyle felt his heart tremble slightly.

Draw successful. Congratulations, you obtained Add Life Card ×34, piranha, Golden Lion, Galactic Federation Language Mastery, Military Tank, laptop computer, Unhatched Monster Egg...

As the thousand new cards created through sacrifice emerged, radiating dense green light, one dark-blue card flew out from among them.

"It wasn’t easy. After a thousand draws, I finally got one card above the tier." Kyle sighed, reaching out to catch the new rare Blue Card.

Unhatched Monster Egg: A giant monster egg with genetic mutations. Blue Rare Creature Card.

Suspected to be an egg produced through the crossbreeding of an ancient lizard and a dinosaur. It has not fully hatched and must be placed somewhere warm and stable to incubate over a long period of time.

Current status: Can be materialized, cannot be summoned.

"What the hell is this?" Kyle was a little bewildered. This was his first time drawing this type of Creature Card.

Whether it was the Blue Eagle and Ancient Giant Dragon Turtle, which could be summoned repeatedly, or the one-time summon [Poisonous Wasp Nest], they were already in a mature, summonable state when drawn. Only the initial Venom symbiote had been a newborn baby when first drawn.

This was even more absurd. It had directly given him an egg and expected him to slowly incubate it with time?

"But if even a creature egg is blue rare, then once the creature hatches and grows up, it might reach purple tier. A dinosaur monster? An alien life-form?" Kyle stroked his chin as he pondered it. In the end, he transferred the card in his hand to the top of the Creature Card area for storage.

Who knew how long this egg would take to hatch? If it still had not cracked after a century or two, that would be ridiculous.

After sorting the thousand new Green Cards once more and dividing them by attribute into Ability Card, Creature Card, Item Card, Material Card, and other areas, Kyle finally turned his attention to the fifty blue-tier Gem Energy cards.

The facts proved that relying solely on low-tier Item Cards for Sacrifice Draw was unreliable. The chance of drawing a card above the tier was pitifully low.

If he wanted high-tier cards, he could only use Item Cards of the same tier as sacrifices!

"This time, I’m counting on you again." Expectation filled Kyle’s eyes as he threw all of the Gem Energy into the sacrificial materials.

You sacrificed Gem Energy ×50!

Draw successful. Congratulations, you obtained Cling, Alien Bomb, Elf's Blessing, Add Life Card, Aerial Sprint.

Five new cards appeared clearly, glowing blue as they floated quietly above the Card Space.

"They all seem like good stuff. Has the goddess of fortune finally sided with me?" Kyle excitedly licked his dry lips and hurriedly examined the other four Blue Cards besides the familiar Add Life Card.

Cling: Freely cling to any surface. Blue Ability Card.

For half an hour after activating the skill, you can easily cling and secure yourself even to the smoothest glass walls of skyscrapers, and can freely cling and walk at any angle. Cooldown: three hours.

Current status: Skill-type Ability Card. Does not affect physique or genes.

"Isn’t this similar to that future Little Spider’s ability?" Kyle mused. But since it had been drawn as an independent skill, Cling seemed even stronger than wall-crawling, since it allowed one to treat walls like flat ground and walk freely across them.

Its only drawback was that skill-type cards required a cooldown. However, Venom, which could learn its host’s abilities, happened to make up for that weakness.

After the Stealth skill, this was his second Blue Card with a skill-type ability. It was not bad.

Kyle put away Cling and continued examining the remaining three new cards.

Alien Bomb: An alien bomb created through extraterrestrial technology. Blue Item Card.

This small round bomb contains devastating explosive power. Once its activation button is pressed, it will irreversibly begin a ten-second countdown. After ten seconds, it will consume and destroy everything within a hundred-meter radius.

"A miniature nuclear bomb?" Kyle’s eyelids twitched. If he were even slightly caught in its blast, he would probably be skinned alive even if he did not die.

Elf's Blessing: A blessing granted by nature spirits. Blue Creature Card.

Summon a nature spirit and have it bestow a blessing upon another person. The blessed recipient gains affinity with nature and nature's favor.

Current status: One-time use. Can be used on one other target. Cannot be used on the card owner (killing aura too strong).

"Another strange Creature Card after the monster egg." Kyle frowned and placed it directly beside the monster egg card.

He then looked at the final new card, and his heart jolted as delight filled his eyes.

Aerial Sprint, the third skill-type Ability Card!