Magic Academy Bans Harem

Chapter 149 Black Card
"Are the cards you drew divided by color? White, blue, purple, gold, etc."

The Bathing Goddess then asked.

"Yes, yes! As expected, those cards are related to the Bathing Goddess?"

The black nun asked repeatedly.

She looked a little excited.

The black nun, who obviously had no sense of confidentiality, told everyone about the white blade, which was why she attracted disasters such as the "corpse plague".

But even if the Black Sister really did not hide any information from the people around her and described what she saw as much as possible, but again, no one could understand what she said.

It wasn't until this day that she seemed to have finally met someone who "understood".

"Card drawing module?"

Ritas was still a little confused and hoped that the Bathing Goddess could explain it in detail.

After some thought, the Bathing Goddess gave an example.

"I remember that there are board games in your world, right? In those role-playing games on paper, don't you have to control a chess piece to act? But what if you encounter an event or an enemy that you can't defeat with just one chess piece? Isn't the best way to do it? And if the board game you are playing does not belong to you, that is, you are playing someone else's game, so you cannot add chess pieces without permission. At this time, either the owner of the game or the host will give you a proposal. 'I can sell you a chess piece.'"

Listening to the words of the Bathing Goddess, Ritas felt a little emotional.

The "game information" from the Bathing Goddess, which he had previously thought was completely ineffective, actually came into play one day.

"Next, I prepared a box filled with various chess pieces. I prepared so many, but I only sold one chess piece to you. Isn't that a loss?"

“Why would a peer-to-peer transaction where you get what you pay for be a loss?”

Ritas said with disapproval.

"Tsk, don't interrupt! If you can make more but don't make more, you're losing money! Anyway, in order to sell more chess pieces to you, I will give you the right to draw chess pieces from the box once at a certain price. However, the appearance and strength of the chess pieces are different. The worst is white, followed by blue, purple, and the best is gold. The better the chess pieces, the fewer there are in the box. So, in order to get better chess pieces and complete the game smoothly, you may need to draw many times to get high-level chess pieces. This is called drawing cards!"

At this point, Ritas roughly understood what the significance of the card drawing module was if it was a game.

"But since we're directly extracting 'chess pieces' or characters, isn't this mode a bit redundant?"

The card drawing module of White Blade draws "gifts" or, to be more precise, information related to gifts. However, these gifts are strongly bound to the corresponding characters, so it is like drawing the characters directly.

Of course, in reality, Ritas can understand the reason for this design, but what the Bathing Goddess is talking about is about the game.

"There must be many reasons, right? Otherwise, the card drawing games here wouldn't be about drawing gifts. A long time ago, you could draw people directly from the card pool, but it has become more and more demonized in the past few years. Is it right to draw a person, a companion who lives with you day and night, a 'wife or husband' who has gone through difficulties together, from the perspective of ethics and morality? Treating people like objects and distinguishing them by quality like this will set bad rules for children~ and so on."

".But it's just a game. Strictly speaking, the things you extract are just created 'pawns', right?"

"Even if you say that to me, I... Although I also tend to call my favorite characters 'wife', I'm not that delicate. Maybe those manufacturers have other purposes. For example, card drawing games have always been suspected of gambling, so the designers have been trying to cover it up from all sides. For example, buying gold coins will give you more chances to draw."

Hmm. So if the object to be drawn is changed from chess pieces to gifts that require one more step to be completed, can the suspicion be removed?
Ritas had the impression that the "divine realm" where the goddess of bathing lived was "tangled in strange places."

"Speaking of this card-drawing mode, which company started it? However, it's not all bad. The gift-drawing mode in some games is quite interesting. For example, those characters are usually scattered all over the world, and you can invite them to join your team with the gifts you draw. Ordinary gifts may help you fight a battle and won't say a few words to you. But for rare gifts, there are more battles and the performance is more enthusiastic. Exclusive gifts will join the team permanently, open personal plots, unlock favorability bars and so on. Although it's not bad to recruit with ordinary gifts, in order to own them forever and make them say they love me, I will unknowingly spend a lot of money."

"."

Sure enough, the "usefulness" of the Bathing Goddess did not last long, and she began to instill invalid information again.

After sorting out the information about the Bathing Goddess and the Black Nun, Ritas further confirmed that the white disc and the white blade must have originally been one and the same.

They actually have something in common, that is, whether it is the Bathing Goddess or the card drawing module, they only provide information to Ritas and the Black Nun in this world, and do not directly interfere with them on the physical level.

Just as Ritas can completely ignore the words of the Bathing Goddess, the Black Nun can also ignore the information about the gifts she has drawn.

Moreover, after combining the effects of both parties, Ritas vaguely felt the true purpose of the strange white prop.

The function of the white disc is actually the "church system", or the "organization system". The white disc was probably influenced by Ritas or the goddess of bathing, and then became the church.

As proof of this, the number of members of the "Adventure Group" established by the Black Nun through the information of the White Blade is also counted into the church system.

Ritas inquired about the establishment time of the "White Cat Adventure Group" and the number of people in each period, and then found that the number of members was almost the same as that of the "Church System".

On the night of the Summer Festival, the Black Sister happened to obtain the white blade.

Therefore, the five people who met the upgrade conditions for the first time in the church system were actually Ritas, Cecilia, Tabatha, Merci and the Black Sister.

Afterwards, the church system met the twenty-person requirement for the second upgrade because the White Cat Adventure Group, which had been growing rapidly recently, filled the majority of the number.

Having finally solved a mystery, Ritas felt much more relieved.

At the same time, he realized that his previous energy was wasted in vain.

Who knows, there are other fragments of the white disk scattered in other parts of the world.
It would be strange if he could guess it.

While Ritas was thinking, the Bathing Goddess was asking the Black Nun with great interest.

"So, what cards did you draw, Black Nun? Were there any rare ones?"

Before, the Bathing Goddess was a little confused. It was natural for her to know the conventional rarity colors such as white, blue, and purple, but why did the Black Nun seem to know the rarity as well?

As for this doubt, the answer of the Black Nun is the situation when the card is drawn.

White means almost nothing happens. Blue means there will be a small circle of blue light around it. Purple means a larger area emits a more dazzling and slightly flickering purple light. As for gold, it is so dazzling that she needs to squint her eyes to see what she has drawn.

Therefore, based on the special effects when drawing cards, the Black Nun roughly guessed the high and low level divisions of several colors.

"There is a golden card. It points to the daughter of the Lord of Ample, 'Liz Ample'. However, the prefix of Miss Liz is a bit strange. It is called 'Ample's Hellfire'."

".Eh?"

The daughter of the Lord of Ample is named Ample's Hellfire?

The Bathing Goddess always felt that there was something that could not be easily touched. "Have you tried to recruit her?"

"Hmm. If I just try it a little bit, I'm curious about it. However, it's a gold card, and it's different from the purple card. There are three things on the gold card, and they have all turned into black silhouettes. I can't tell what it is. One item looks like a box with two wheels, and the other two items look like documents, but one is broken. Among the three items, only one should be in the scope of Lily of the Valley Town, and the remaining two are in the Territory of Ampel. However, we were attacked before we even had time to check the item in Lily of the Valley Town."

The Black Sister said as she stroked the white blade again and checked the cards she had drawn.

Then, she couldn't help but say "Hmm?"

Because, on the "Liz Ambler" card, the black shadow with wheels in the three things has turned gray.

The black nun, who had never encountered such a situation before, didn't know what was going on for a moment.

"Hey~ In the game, you can just teleport over to recruit after you draw a gift. Some games even have quick paths on the UI. But in real life, how can you run over to find it? It's more troublesome than you think. If that document or something is locked in a safe by the Lord named Ampel, wouldn't this gold card be drawn in vain?"

"Ah uh. Ahaha. Uh uh."

Obviously, not everyone can be like Ritas, who can calmly deal with the unfamiliar words uttered by the Bathing Goddess.

"In addition to the gold card, I also drew a black card."

"Black card! Is it some kind of SP card?"

As the Bathing Goddess was expecting her, the black nun's behavior became a little awkward.

She recalled that when she drew the black card, the "special effects" that used to only appear on the screen even spread to the outside, making her feel as if she was in endless darkness for an instant.

Therefore, if she encounters the character on the black card in a different way, the Black Nun might be very afraid of him.

but.
"Could that black card be..."

Seeing the black nun being embarrassed and looking at Ritas from time to time, with an expression of not knowing whether to say something or not, a hint of disappointment appeared in the voice of the Bathing Goddess.

When he heard that the conversation between the two people affected himself, Ritas turned his gaze away, was silent for a moment, and then pointed at himself.

"I?"

"Yes. The silhouette on the black card with the prefix 'Professor of Magic' is you."

In the hall, the conversation between the three people continued.

Ritas, who clasped his hands and leaned back, felt a bit complicated.

Before, he was still talking about the card drawing module, and things like "chess pieces". And now, he has become the object of the card drawing.

This complex emotion is a little different from the feeling I had when the goddess of bathing said he was a game character.
So, what kind of expression should he make now?

"So, if you want to marry our Xiao Li, what kind of dowry do you need?"

"I sense ill will, Bath Goddess."

As Ritas looked unfriendly, the black nun operated the screen that only she could see in a panic.

"But, maybe it's because Lord Ritas's card is special. There are five items on it. Moreover, there are no pictures of these five items like black silhouettes, only names, and there is no way to track them."

The black nun took a deep breath and then said,

"They are, 'The Fourth Ark', 'Demon God Stele', 'Fruit of Life', 'Fruit of Wisdom', and 'Fruit of Desire'."

Listening to the black nun's story, there was silence for a moment.

If doubts could be turned into reality, then a question mark would appear above the heads of Ritas and the Bathing Goddess at this moment.

"As expected of you, Xiao Li. I don't know what these are, but none of them sound normal. What do you want to do with these things?"

"It's not like I'm asking for most of it. This is the first time I've heard of it. Besides, what's the point of not knowing? Didn't the Bathing Goddess see the 'Fruit of Life' with her own eyes?"

With a slightly frowned brow, Ritas spoke in dissatisfaction, then stared at the black sister, trying to silently put pressure on her for an explanation.

The black nun, who couldn't explain anything, just kept shaking her hands.

"Oh, the one John used to raise the maze. Eh? You actually want five of that level? Do you want your strategy to be more difficult?!"

"."

Ritas wanted to emphasize again that the things on the card had nothing to do with him, but he realized that he couldn't be too firm in his words.

Because, there have been examples before that prove that the White Blade's "card drawing module" will indeed guide the Black Nun and provide the people in the cards with things they need and that are enough to impress them.

Gee.
All Ritas could say was that this feeling was terrible.

It feels like my desires, which I didn't even know about, have been pulled out and put on the table without my permission. What's worse, those desires may not belong to my current self, but to my future self.

“Oh my god, this is such a demanding request, how can it be met normally? This card is useless, it’s better to draw a white card. At least I can hear the sound!”

The goddess of bathing said indignantly. The black nun, who was defended by the goddess of bathing, could only smile dryly as cheerfully as possible in the face of Ritas's unfriendly gaze.

She didn't get the "Professor of Magic" just because she wanted to!
If I had known this earlier, I wouldn’t have said it.

"Eh? That's not right. Speaking of which, since the 'Church System' and the 'White Cat Adventure Group' are one and the same, they share the same number of people. Then aren't you already a member of the church, Xiao Li?"

"So, this card drawing template can still draw you out?"

Just when the atmosphere in the hall just kept getting worse.

Suddenly, the Bathing Goddess keenly noticed the illogical phenomenon presented by the "card drawing module" of the white blade.

(End of this chapter)