SWDnovel Chapter 15: Can you delete cards at the campfire? That's invincible!
Chapter 15: Can you delete cards at the campfire? That's invincible!
[The Acidic Slime Mother has taken 31 points of poison damage! Defeat!]
All the smaller acid slimes that split off have been automatically removed along with the dead parent slime!
[Battle over!]
[You have defeated the elite monster: Acid Slime without taking any damage!]
[Rewards: 80 Gold Coins, Rare Card [Venom Splash], Relic [Chemical Agent]!]
The moment the system notification sound faded, two deafening global announcements once again slammed into the minds of 70 billion people worldwide!
[Global Announcement! Congratulations to players Lin Ye and Su Qingyue for achieving the world's first Acid Slime kill! Reward: +1 Life, 100 Gold!]
[Global Announcement! Congratulations to players Lin Ye and Su Qingyue for achieving the world's first no-damage kill of the Acid Slime! Reward: Rare Relic Chest x1, Spire Reputation +200!]
After the two announcements were released, the world chat channel, which had been flooded with cries of despair, fell into a deathly silence.
For a full ten seconds, no one sent a message.
The entire Spire, with its 70 billion players, fell silent.
Just now, they were still following the Dawn Guild, lamenting that Acid Slime was an unsolvable death challenge, a monster that was impossible to defeat.
In the blink of an eye, Lin Ye and Su Qingyue achieved the world's first kill, and without taking any damage!
Two people managed to defeat an unsolvable level that wiped out twenty elite players from the Dawn Guild?!
Ten seconds later, the world chat channel was completely overwhelmed!
"Holy crap? First kill? A first kill without taking any damage?"
"I'm fucking dumbfounded! The Dawn Guild was wiped out by twenty people, and those two guys beat it without taking any damage? Is this what a pro is???"
"Who said this monster was unsolvable? Doesn't their face hurt? That expert already took it down without taking any damage!"
"Forest Master! I need a guide! How do I defeat this Acid Slime? I've already lost 6 lives!"
"I'm impressed! From the start of the game until now, these two have taken all the world first kills! What kind of god-like players are they???"
"Where is Dawn Guild Leader? Didn't you just say it was unsolvable? How come that expert beat it without taking any damage?"
Even Dawn, who had previously said that this strange phenomenon was unsolvable, fell completely silent and never sent another message.
He couldn't understand how the two of them had managed to clear a level without taking any damage, when he and twenty elite players had been wiped out.
Inside the room, Su Qingyue looked at the reward in her hand and listened to the global announcement in her mind. She was so excited that her face turned red, and she couldn't help but jump up and give Lin Ye a hug.
"We won! Lin Ye! We really won without taking any damage!"
"We killed that monster that everyone on the server thought was unbeatable in just four rounds!"
Lin Ye was taken aback by her sudden hug, then smiled and patted her on the back.
"I told you, it's just a paper tiger."
"They can't win simply because they don't understand the mechanics and just attack blindly."
"Now, all the monsters blocking the way have been cleared."
He stepped out of the room, his gaze falling on the boss room at the end of the map, glowing with a scarlet light, a sharp glint flashing in his eyes.
"Next, it's time to get the world's first kill on the first level's boss."
After securing the world's first kill of the Acid Slime without taking any damage, Lin Ye, along with Su Qingyue, steadily advanced along the optimal route on the map.
Ordinary monsters along the way cannot even cause a ripple in the face of a deck refined to its extreme.
Su Qingyue consistently stacked over ten layers of poison each round, while Lin Ye used zero-cost skill cards to fully stack block, resulting in a smooth, zero-damage push throughout the entire process. He barely even needed to use the healing effect of [Burning Blood].
Turning past a moss-covered stone wall, the warm yellow firelight was the first to pierce through the chill of the spire.
A camproom illuminated by a campfire came into view, the crackling flames dispelling the biting chill, and a system notification popped into their minds simultaneously.
[Arrived at the campfire campsite, you may choose to rest now]
Almost simultaneously, the global player community channel was completely flooded with campfire-related content.
Countless players who had just escaped death clung to the campfire as their only lifeline.
"Holy crap! We've finally reached the campfire! I'm down to only 3 health points, time to rest and heal to full!"
"Damn it, I almost died from being hit twice by a monster. Luckily there was a campfire, or I would be dead!"
"I was at full health, so I immediately chose to upgrade my cards, maxing out my core attack cards. My damage doubled instantly—it was awesome!"
"Seriously? Someone actually goes into the campfire without resting or leveling up? Are they going to delete their cards? Are they out of their mind?"
"Exactly! Deleting cards is pure idiocy! The more cards you have, the more secure you are. If you delete them, you'll have no cards to play, and you won't even know how you died when you encountered a monster!"
"I just impulsively deleted a defensive card, and then I got a terrible draw in the next room, losing a life. I'm so regretful!"
Looking across the entire server's 70 billion players, their choices upon arriving at the campfire were remarkably consistent.
Players with low health unanimously chose to rest and recover, while players with full health mostly chose to upgrade their cards; almost no one touched the option to delete cards.
In everyone's mind, those who choose to delete their cards are either crazy or stupid.
Su Qingyue looked at her full health bar, then at the three options that popped up on the campfire interface, her eyes filled with anticipation.
[Rest: Restores full health]
[Upgrade: Upgrade any card in your deck]
[Delete Card: Delete any card from your deck]
She turned to look at Lin Ye, her tone full of eagerness, and put forward the exact same idea as all the players on the server.
"Lin Ye, we're at full health right now, we don't need to rest at all."
"How about we upgrade our core cards? Upgrade my [Deadly Poison], and the poison stacks will definitely be higher. Your [Corruption] can also be upgraded, and its effect will be much stronger!"
In her view, this was the most normal and optimal solution.
After all, everyone on the server is making this choice. Upgrading cards can directly improve damage and survivability, which seems more reliable than the vague idea of deleting cards.
But Lin Ye shook his head, his tone calm but with an undeniable certainty.
"No."
"When entering a campfire, the first priority is always deleting cards."
"Secondly, upgrade. Never choose to rest unless you are at your lowest health and on the verge of death."
Su Qingyue was stunned, her face full of disbelief, and she subconsciously took half a step back.
"Huh? Delete the card?"
"But our deck is already very pure! My deck only has 8 cards, all of them are core poison stacking and defense, there's nothing to delete, right?"
"Besides, everyone on the server says that deleting cards is a stupid thing to do. The fewer cards you have, the easier it is to run out of cards to play, and you'll just get killed instantly when you encounter a monster, right?"
Her thoughts were exactly the same as those of 99% of the players on the entire server.
In the conventional wisdom of card games, the more cards you have in your hand, the more situations you can handle; deleting cards is like cutting off your own limbs.
Lin Ye pulled over her card deck interface and, in the simplest terms, broke down the underlying logic of the three campfire options clearly.