"Frog Puppy is back!"
Mu You’s eyes light up.
The traveling frog had been gone for five or six days without a sound. He had almost forgotten about it, but surprisingly, it returned with quite a few items according to the text prompts.
Mu You hastily checks the harvest.
[You reach into the toad’s pocket and rummage around, finding a ’Perforation Stone’.]
[Perforation Stone: A special magical sandstone born from seaside reefs. Take it to the blacksmith, and he could forge a gemstone slot in your weapon or equipment. The socket could hold gemstones, potions, and the like, adding their effects to your subsequent attacks.]
Mu You is not unfamiliar with Perforation Stones. Many online games have similar items that create slots in equipment to hold gemstones, thereby enabling the gemstone’s effects. For example, equipping a fire gemstone would add burning damage to your attacks.
However, not only gemstones but also potions could be held in the slots made by this stone!
Does this mean if he creates a slot in the Mithril Bow and pours poison inside, his arrows would be poisonous?
If that’s the case, the effects would be quite good and match well with his occupation as a Magic Potion Master. In the future, he could utilize various types of magic potions with the bow and arrow, indirectly enhancing his combat effectiveness!
Mu You stows away the stone in satisfaction and continues to search.
[You reach into the toad’s mouth again and rummaging around, you pull out a soft, slimy jellyfish body. Its translucent body continues to emit a faint white light even after its death, illuminating your surroundings like a lighthouse in the dark night.]
[You obtained a ’Lighthouse Jellyfish’.]
"Lighthouse Jellyfish!"
Mu You is momentarily stunned before he bursts into joy.
He can’t forget this name. It is one of the six main ingredients for the Spirit Calling Potion, and quite valuable because each costs nearly 300 years of lifespan.
Indeed, conservation of karma, Mu You thought. He had gathered herbs on the mountain for days without encountering a significant herb, but the fortunate frog had brought back this surprise on its first journey!
[The Pocket Toad brought back what you needed, and you praise it generously!]
[The toad is very happy. After you pet it, it does not seem in a hurry to leave but rolls onto its back, indicating that you should continue searching.]
"Oh? Are there more treasures?"
Mu You was taken aback when the new text appeared.
The Perforation Stone and jellyfish are things he needed, and he was already very satisfied to have obtained these two, but it seemed that there were more gains waiting for him.
[You lift the toad’s pocket and search thoroughly, finally finding a thin card attached to the bottom of its pocket. You take out the card and find a poker card!]
[You obtained a ’Poker Flying Card’. This is a magical poker card. When filled with magical power and thrown out, the Poker Flying Card will fly in a circular trajectory back into your hand, cutting everything in its path. The more magic power you put into it, the slower the Flying Card will fly and the stronger its destructive power will be. Depending on how much power you use when you throw the card, the flying trajectory could have a maximum diameter of ten meters and a minimum of one meter.]
Mu You was stunned for a second and then clicked the text of the ’Flying Card’.
An ’Ace of Hearts’ poker card appeared in his hand. The card was as thin as a cicada’s wings, had the texture of plastic paper, was highly pliable, and super resilient— it wouldn’t break no matter how much you bent it.
After toying with it for a bit, Mu You put some Magic Power into the poker card, flicked it with his fingertip, and the card instantly spun out, drawing a circular arc in the room before it inserted itself halfway into a wooden cabinet not far away.
Mu You went over and pulled out the poker card to examine it. There was no damage on the card.
"It can cut the wood in half. Its destructive power is not bad," Mu You thought.
But according to the game, the more magic power you put into the card, the stronger its destructive power.
Thinking of this, he went back to his original position and started to input Magic Power into the card continuously.
His total Magic Power is as high as 2600 points. He had filled a third of it when he started to feel that he couldn’t continue. Apparently, this was the card’s limit for storing magic power.
The surface of the Flying Card was emitting a faint blue light due to overflow of Magic Power.
Mu You flicked his finger again and threw the card.
The card, spinning at high speed, created a blurry white afterimage. However, its flight speed was very slow, about half a meter per second.
After leisuring spinning in the air, the Flying Card cut off a corner of a steel table in its path, then returned steadily to his hand without any deviation.
Retrieving the card was also quite particular. As long as you raise your hand when it returns, it will automatically fly into your palm and immediately stop spinning, so you don’t have to worry about cutting your fingers.
After catching the card, Mu You hurriedly checked the table and found the cut was as smooth as a mirror.
This was the corner of a solid iron table, and it was cut off so easily... This cannot be referred to as a Flying Card, but rather a Flying Sword that can easily cut through iron, Mu You thought.
After being stunned by the power of the Flying Card, Mu You regained his senses and thought carefully, but found that its practical value in real battle might not be high.
Because the power and speed of the Flying Card are inversely proportional.
If you want it to fly quickly, the power of the Flying Card will decrease, resulting in insufficient killing power. It could possibly cause fatal damage to ordinary people, but for players, at most it might cut the skin.
But if you want high power, the speed of the card will become very slow. Just like the leisurely flight speed just now, players could easily dodge it unless they didn’t see it coming.
The only use in real battle would probably be in combination with control magic, using the Flying Card for effective damage when the opponent is immobile.
Of course, that’s in player combat.
In daily life, the application of this card would be very wide.
"Since the flight speed can be controlled..."
Mu You quickly thought of an application for the Flying Card.
He threw the card out again, then watched its flight trajectory and stepped forward into the card’s cutting range.
The next second, the Fool’s Boundary automatically opened around him.
Mu You chuckled, stepped back to his original place, deactivated the Fool’s Boundary, and effortlessly caught the returning poker card.
With this card, there’s no need to go to the trouble of pointing a gun at his head each time he wants to activate the Fool’s Boundary. Instead, he could just throw out the Flying Card, and he can even control the flight time freely, which is very convenient.
Even in future battles, he could make use of the Flying Card to forcibly use the Fool’s Boundary.