Chapter 677 - 640: Hero Poker
Nightmare Space, Da Fei’s Angel Army was engaging in fierce combat amidst a pile of poker cards, with Da Fei’s explosive fireworks continuously blooming in the sky.
Despite still not encountering the Little and Big Wang, nor obtaining anything beyond poker cards, seeing his own Nightmare evolve and level up into a Diamond A with over thirty thousand health points gave Da Fei immense peace of mind.
Maybe if he couldn’t break this game, he could still upgrade his Nightmare to a Little or Big Wang and break the game? He refused to believe that he couldn’t collect a complete deck of cards! He had been entangled in this Divine Beast game for nearly an hour. He wasn’t asking for much; since S-class equipment were the spoils of war in competition games, let this game drop a Divine Artifact then, wahahaha!
Just when Da Fei was in the heat of excitement, his Nightmare spoke, "Master, a massive force is about to enter the Nightmare Space, please be cautious in dealing with it."
Da Fei, surprised, said: "Where is this force coming from?"
The Nightmare answered: "Of course, it’s from the children who have started to have nightmares again while sleeping. This is the most dangerous time, but it’s also the easiest to find the Source of Nightmare."
So that was it! Da Fei instantly understood; he’d been fighting here for nearly an hour, and half a day had passed in the game, meaning it was the time when NPCs would go to sleep at night. To be safe, Da Fei immediately ordered the troops back to the chessboard to rest and recuperate, observing the unusual changes in the space from an elevated position.
Soon, a whirlwind swept through the space, and the fiery red space suddenly darkened. The chessboard beneath Da Fei’s feet also shook violently, and the floating movement speed increased, or to be precise, the flight speed of the various toy poker cards floating in the entire space all increased.
And it was at this moment that a dazzling red dot suddenly appeared on Da Fei’s radar. Da Fei looked closely and was shocked to his core!
There it was, the ace he had been searching so desperately for! What shocked Da Fei was that this flashy Poker had a ring of aura wrapped around its body, a Hero Aura?! My goodness, even a Poker can become a Hero; has this bloody thing cultivated into a demon?
Da Fei hastily asked the Nightmare, "How can this Poker be a Hero?"
The Nightmare replied somberly, "Because this card has trapped a part of a hero’s soul within it, this card is a Source of Nightmare. If you defeat it, I believe you’ll achieve a major breakthrough."
Ror, surprised, said: "A part of the trapped soul is still a hero, so just how powerful is the hero who is having this dream?"
The Nightmare responded gravely, "I do not know, but it’s a reasonable fact that the spiritual power of a powerful hero can sustain such a vast Nightmare Space."
Da Fei felt a tightness in his heart upon hearing this. After all, whether it was the Skeleton Captain Renior or Deirdre’s bargain teacher Siriel, they had lost their hero status when severely injured, which could simply be understood as being due to soul energy damage. And now, this mere "part" of a soul trapped in a dream had directly reached a heroic state that even Renior’s ghost form couldn’t achieve; this hero must be extraordinarily powerful.
What Da Fei feared the most was battling against unknown NPC heroes. A hero’s strength is not something ordinary bosses can compare with. No matter how strong a boss’s attribute skills are, they’re still just a commander with no troops. While a hero possesses the power to turn decay into miraculous strength, allowing weak Second-level Soldiers to have their combat power increased by several times or even more than ten times, not to mention that the forces of this Poker Hero were not weaklings but Poker Monsters with thousands of health points!
This meant that the hero’s health points were also at least in the tens of thousands! This way, the only shortcoming of a hero compared to a boss monster, being their health points, was completely overcome!
Da Fei hurriedly asked, "Now that the opponent’s hero has appeared, can we still use cards to deal with their forces?"
The Nightmare replied, "The hero can strengthen his forces, but it is not enough to modify the rules of Nightmare Space; so, Master, you can still use your cards against them."
So that’s how it is. As long as the rules don’t change, my "Fight the Landlord" bombs can still blast them away; after all, these cards weren’t relying on their forces to hack and slash when they weren’t led by a hero. Well then, no more Mr. Nice Guy, after killing for more than an hour, I’ve amassed two thousand cards, nearly two hundred decks of bombs; I refuse to believe I can’t take them down.
Da Fei confirmed there were no other formidable enemies below and decisively launched his attack!
As Da Fei swooped down, the ace excitedly let out a shrill scream, "Finally, someone to play with William!"
In an instant, a skyful of poker cards, like a whirlwind, swooped down towards Da Fei, their speed incomparable to that of a moment before. Holy crap, Da Fei was scared pissless in an instant!
Without time to think, the first thing to do was to activate the Blood Eagle Petrification Aura to slow them down!
But even with the enemy slowed down, the dense flurry of cards still made Da Fei’s eyes swim, unable to make out what hands were coming. Perhaps this level of game conflict has exceeded the coping limit of Da Fei, this amateur player. Now the only thing Da Fei could do was to recklessly throw bombs!
— System Prompt: You have successfully obliterated the target hand by using "Bomb" with four 5s. You lost the bomb!
— System Prompt: You have successfully obliterated the target hand by using "Bomb" with four 9s. You lost the bomb!
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Each bomb dropped was like a firework bursting in the sky. Amidst Da Fei’s bombardment, the sky seemed to celebrate like a festival, with the booming sounds echoing throughout the Nightmare Space! The bombing continued for a full minute; Da Fei was so thrilled that he couldn’t stop!
And just when Da Fei was having a blast, he suddenly found his ammunition was running out. Yes, his bombs were launched but failed to collect the fallen cards! The profitable trade of swapping bombs for planes did not happen again!
Da Fei was startled. Is this the hero’s special skill? No, this is a common setup for heroes! Of course, you must completely defeat the enemy to gain the spoils of war; that’s the major difference from fighting wild monsters. This means that for every hand played, one less is left; this battle is about ammunition!
Realizing this, Da Fei broke into a cold sweat on the spot. With the current speed of these poker cards, even with the Blood Eagle Petrification, it was hard to ensure that his troops could escape, not to mention whether these pokers would chase to the death. In short, once out of ammunition, there would be no choice but to slug it out with these poker cards with tens of thousands of HP, even without a hero leading them, they couldn’t be easily felled, let alone now with a hero at their helm!
Fortunately, after Da Fei’s intensive bombardment, the poker horde in the sky thinned out a bit, and the wind wasn’t as fierce as when the battle started. With the aid of Petrification Slowdown, Da Fei could finally see clearly.
Da Fei couldn’t help but breathe a sigh of relief. After all, his preparation work with ample ammunition was excellent! The previously nearly limitless number of poker cards had decreased, indicating that the rules of the game had indeed changed, i.e., when a hero appeared, their numbers became limited. Of course, they had to be limited; otherwise, players couldn’t cope.
In any case, he couldn’t throw bombs around anymore. He had to make sure to capture the big ones and let go of the small ones, meaning blasting all the long straights and plans, and let his Angel Army hard resist those small pairs, single random cards, freeing himself up to bomb the smaller hands with big cards.
As time went by in the intense bombing, although the sky was still full of poker cards, only single ones floated around, no long straights or plans to be seen. And Da Fei still had two bomb sets reserved for the final battle, along with less than 300 random cards. It must be said, dealing out 2000 cards in just a few minutes, Da Fei felt a strong sense of cramping in his hands.
Even better, through the previous frenzy of bombardment, Da Fei’s Nightmare Poker leveled up rapidly, unwittingly reaching the 2 of Spades, just one step away from the advance to Little Wang!
In any case, Da Fei believed there was a huge chance to win if the situation continued like this! After all, aside from the initial blustering might of the hero poker, it wasn’t really that big of a deal, right? After all, it was only a hero "in a partial soul state"; being able to blow a gale force wind at the start was pretty awesome, and if it weren’t for Da Fei’s Divine Skill of Petrification Aura, any ordinary person might have been flattened right then and there!
Hahaha, in the end, my last two bombs are reserved exclusively for you, I really want to see what equipment this Poker Hero will drop!
And just when Da Fei was brimming with confidence, the Poker Hero suddenly let out a sinister chuckle, "Do you think you can win? Then let me show you the reason why a king is called a king!"
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