This Summoner Is Too Powerful

Chapter 461 - 379: Temporary Job_2

If we factor in sending the three summoned beasts out for treasure hunting and hunting, it might add another 10,000 to 50,000, depending on their reliability.

Li Pu would only consider it if the job Guan Heshi introduces can earn over 150,000 crystal coins a month.

Otherwise, he might as well enjoy his own carefree life.

"Have you heard of the Magic Beast Farm?"

"I know a farmer in the suburbs of Xidu City; I can introduce you for a part-time job."

"The work involves cultivating the magical plants grown there, or magical cattle and sheep."

"As for the pay, it depends on your personal ability."

"In theory, there’s no upper limit."

Guan Heshi’s last remark made Li Pu think it might be worth a try.

Regardless, spending half a day to understand the situation won’t hurt.

So Li Pu agreed, and the two of them planned to visit the Magic Beast Farm early the next morning.

After leaving Guan Heshi’s villa, Li Pu returned to the dorm to find only the little tree man, Chacha, at home.

Chacha mentioned that the battered Wu Guinan had come back briefly but hurriedly rushed off to class.

This guy, contrary to what people might think, has never missed a class, nor has he ever been late, and he’s quite diligent in his studies.

As for Long Ren, Li Pu knew where he went.

He heard Long Ren say that he was using the Abyss Gorge’s dragon head section as a training ground for half-dragons and fire-clamp scorpions.

Because the dragon energy there is strong, it’s an excellent place for dragon attribute summons to train.

Perhaps he might even find an opportunity to gather dragon scales.

Now, only the little tree man was left in the dorm, wanting to go out and play with the scarecrows and others.

But he’s a bit afraid, as he still owes the Disciplinary Office three 10,000-word reviews he hasn’t finished yet.

If it weren’t for Jiang Guiju being familiar enough to smooth things over, he might have had to roll out a mat in the office to sleep.

Looking at this ugly tree man, Li Pu thought for a moment before pulling out his whip.

Of course, not because he’s ugly.

But because there was an agreement to help it regularly digest energy.

So now that he had some free time, he started to work.

Occasionally, when other dormmates passed by and saw this, some unsavory rumors started to spread.

However, according to Chacha, if he continues to endure the whip like this, he might be able to undergo his first evolution by the end of the semester or during the winter break.

After completing today’s whipping task, Wu Guinan returned to the dorm, bringing back food from the canteen for everyone.

Li Pu didn’t hesitate and dug in.

What was odd was that Wu Guinan was actually eating standing up.

It seemed since he entered, he hadn’t sat down at all.

Later that night, after everyone washed up and went to bed, Li Pu noticed he was sleeping face down.

This led him to suspect that maybe Wu Guinan’s butt was injured.

As Li Pu lay in bed, just about to drift into sleep, a message suddenly popped up in his mind.

[Deity Arrival Phase nearing]

[Following Divine Version]

[Preparing work for Cube Card Metaverse]

[Minor update to Cube Cards]

"The last update wasn’t that long ago, was it?"

Li Pu couldn’t help but complain.

He felt these so-called updates were like patching up holes.

This time, however, the update content was sparse and easy to digest.

There were no changes to the cards, just a small tweak to the game rules.

The rule of the substitution phase was altered.

Originally, a face-down card could be swapped with any card from the card pool, as long as it didn’t exceed the total point limit.

But now, you need to decide the complete card lineup during card placement phase, and each face-down card can only have two substitute cards prepared, not exceeding the original card’s score.

Meaning, for example, a 10-point initial face-down card can only have two substitute cards at that position, totaling three cards, with these two substitutes ranging from 0 to 10 points.

Li Pu felt this change was quite reasonable.

In today’s card game, he was slightly burned by the previous substitution mechanism.

He worked hard to eliminate the opponent’s face-down card, only for them to lose a mere 1-point junk card, which felt a bit unfair.

True, one could argue the opponent lost a face-down card, which is one less chance to reveal a card.

However, to take down that face-down card, he used a card-revealing opportunity to reveal the ’Mushroom Cannon’ and spent two turns to defeat it.

Providing an extreme example: if player A has a card that can gain 100 attack in one turn, one-hit KO-ing a face-down card, but player B uses the substitution rule to swap that face-down card for a 1-point card, then player A’s opportunity is wasted.

With the new rules, it’s clearly more reasonable.

This sort of gameplay is akin to exploiting a card bug.

Li Pu knew that because in the Cube Cards world, he encountered this scenario in several advantageous games, which ultimately made him abandon the ’Mushroom Cannon.’

Furthermore, the new rule is good news for a card game newcomer like him.

It mainly manifests in two aspects.

The first aspect being the new substitution phase limits the overall deck size.

Taking a 6+1 game as an example, it becomes truly 3 main cards + 3 face-down cards (6 substitute cards) + 1 trump card (2 substitute cards), totaling 15 cards.

Of course, substitutes might overlap, so strictly speaking, the deck shouldn’t have more than 15 cards.

This absolutely lowers the card pool depth requirements for players compared to the previous unlimited substitution.

In a large sense, it narrows the pool depth gap between the two players at the table.

From this point, Li Pu saw a flicker of hope in defeating Xiu Cangjia.

Afterall, in the previous coaching game, he was playing with a small pond against Xiu Cangjia, who had an entire lake, perhaps even an ocean, with no chance of winning.

The second aspect is that after the new substitution rule, direct counter cards will appear less frequently.

Direct counter cards refer to those that counter specific cards like wood cards, beast cards, or mushroom cards.

Cards countering strong offense styles, defense styles, endurance styles, these tactical counter cards aren’t included.

With limited substitutes, I believe future opponents will focus more on tactical counters and developing strong deck-pools, rather than always thinking about how to counter mushroom cards.

Indeed, Li Pu believed the biggest beneficiaries would be minority decks like mushroom decks.

With this update, the lifespan of his favorite mushroom deck will significantly increase.

Once he digested this update, Li Fan still hadn’t appeared.

This assured Li Pu that there wasn’t much in the update needing further explanation.

"Why do I feel like there are invisible eyes watching my card games?"

"Every major game seems followed by patches."

After some more griping, he gradually drifted off to sleep.

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The next day arrived, and after a hearty breakfast at the canteen, Li Pu went as arranged to Guan Heshi’s villa.

Guan Heshi was already waiting in the yard, with his summoned beast, the Guan Bird.

The Guan Bird was a bird summon resembling a crane but several times larger.

Li Pu, curious, circled the big bird and discovered besides feathers adorned with ’Guan’ pattern markings, it was basically a huge crane.

According to Guan Heshi’s introduction, the Magic Beast Farm was located in the outskirts of Xidu City.

Today, the two of them would fly there on the Guan Bird.

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