The villainous young master just wants to live a Buddhist-like life.

　However, the magic card that Dark obtained did not contain a "personal mark" or even a "mind lock".

　There seemed to be some kind of restriction in its card. But Dark easily broke through it by simply pouring in magic power.

　Then, you can use that magic card directly! Dark flipped the card over.

　Six-star Magical Spirit Card – "Flame Demon Sergeant"!

　The personal imprint of the six-star magical spirit card is enough to completely bind it.

　But this magic card doesn't have it.

　Dark reached out again and pulled two cards from the stack of magic cards on the table. He then summoned one of them, a three-star magic spirit card.

　That was a Magical Spirit Card specifically designed for offering sacrifices. Once you had the sacrifice, you could perform a sacrificial summon.

　Dark continued chanting the incantation and actually managed to summon the "Flame Demon Soldier"!

　As the saying goes, even if you haven't eaten pork, you've seen pigs run.

　Although Thompson had only been practicing as a mage for half a month, he knew that others could not use his magic cards.

　However, Dark broke this basic common sense in front of him. Dark looked at the "Flame Demon Warrior" and felt the temperature around him rising, so he withdrew the summon and put it back into the "Magic Card".

　But the experiment did not end there.

　As a qualified researcher, he would certainly do something as basic as a controlled experiment.

　Dark drew two more magic cards from Thompson's deck and handed them to Laura beside him, saying, "Try summoning them."

　It's still a three-star chicken and a six-star demon.

　After receiving the two Magical Spirit cards, Laura began attempting to summon them. However, forget about the subsequent sacrifice summon; she encountered an obstacle even when summoning the three-star Magical Spirit card.

　Summoning failed!

　Not everyone can use Thompson's magic cards.

　At least Laura wouldn't do that.

　After confirming the results, Dark gave the magic cards to Hannah and Joliet to experiment with separately.

　As a result, neither of them was able to use the three-star magic card.

　"In other words, although this set of magic cards wasn't created by Thompson, it still has limitations. However, both Thompson and I possess the key to unlock those limitations."

　Darke almost immediately figured out the crux of the problem.

　"So what I need to find now is what I have in common with Thompson."

　He looked up at Thompson and saw that he looked completely bewildered, so he knew he couldn't get anything out of him.

　So Dark rearranged Thompson's magic cards and pushed them toward him again.

　Then he made an even more outrageous request: "Could I see that Lava Demon again?"

Chapter 1529 Swallowed in one gulp, refined in an instant [4k]

　Thompson's "God Card" eventually ended up in Dark's hands.

　Dark took the "God Card" from his hand and examined the card carefully.

　The lava demon, with skin as red as fire, sat half-reclined in a boiling, churning pool of magma.

　As he looked at the card, the demon's eyes widened suddenly, staring at him from within the magic card. Crimson flames overflowed from the corners of its eyes, and even the magic card itself became scorching hot.

　"Cards of God"

　Dark couldn't help but mutter to himself. This "God Card" was called "Fire Hell Demon," and its race was still [Demon], not "Phantom God."

　Its level has a full twelve stars, and its attributes are fire and darkness. When the "Fire Hell Demon" awakens, a divine aura slightly overflows from this magic card.

　This indicates that it is indeed a "God Card," possessing a sixth-tier rank.

　However, this slight leakage of aura was far from the divine aura he had sensed when he entered the cave.

　"As expected, it didn't emanate from this 'God Card'..."

　Dak raised his eyelids and glanced at Thompson.

　The extremely dense divine aura he sensed in the cave seemed to still be within Thompson's body.

　"Let's do an experiment."

　Dark narrowed his eyes and channeled magic power into the "Fire Hell Demon" card. Normally, a mage only needs to channel a wisp of magic power into their own magic card to receive informational feedback.

　But this "God Card" doesn't belong to him.

　—Although it has been proven through experiments that Thompson can use all of his other magic cards.

　But "Fire Demon" is, after all, a "God Card," and it has its own consciousness.

　If a magical spirit resists, the magical card will also reject the mage. And the magical spirit of this "God Card" clearly resists him very much.

　as predicted.

　His magic encountered an obstacle.

　This obstacle is somewhat similar to the obstacles encountered from other spell cards in Thompson, but it is also different.

　When Dark manipulated his magic to attack it, he immediately sensed the "Fire Demon's" anger.

　Others might find it difficult to tell.

　But as a mage specializing in the mental system, he naturally wouldn't miss this crucial information.

　A magical spirit with its own will can even emerge from a magic card on its own without relying on a mage's summoning.

　This act of summoning oneself is not uncommon in records related to spiritual mages.

　However, it is mostly triggered when its mage master is in danger.

　Moreover, according to those records, a mage can summon himself without needing a "sacrifice".

　Even high-star magical spirits don't need it.

　This phenomenon, which breaks the rules of summoning, is called "Bond Resonance" by the Mind Mages.

　It can be said to be something that is in the same vein as the "Bond Evolution" that Dark is researching.

　But that's a mind magic system.

　As it stands, the self-summoning of the "God Cards" is clearly different from the Mind Magic system.

　Both Alice's "Four-Winged Angel" and Thompson's "Fire Demon" were summoned through sacrificial offerings.

　Of course, it cannot be ruled out that there are other "God Cards" that can be summoned without tributes.

　But none have been found yet.

　"..." In just that short time of thought, Dark discovered that his magic had broken through the barrier of the "Fire Hell Demon".

　Then, some information from the "Fire Hell Demon" magic card was fed back along with the magic power.

　—The will of the "Fire Demon" was used to open a shell during this process.

　Therefore, when Dark received those feedback messages, the "Fire Demon" pattern on the card surface roared like a volcanic eruption.

　"Impotent rage".

　Dark couldn't help but chuckle.

　Little did they know that this situation had already left Thompson, on the other side, drenched in sweat. But it might be slightly different from what Thompson had imagined.

　Dark's magic was able to break through the "Fire Demon's" barrier, not because his magic power was particularly high.

　The truth is, he didn't feel any major obstacles at all.

　Despite the "Fire Demon's" inexplicable rage, the "God Card" itself did not resist his magic power; in fact, it seemed to be reaching out to welcome it.

　The same thing happened with the other magic cards. This is definitely not a coincidence!

　Under these circumstances, Darke is now almost certain that he can also use this "God Card".

　After reading the information about this "God Card", Dark did not continue to try to summon it.

　Although the success rate of the summoning was over 99%, he deeply suspected that once the summoning was successful, the "Fire Demon" would retaliate.

　His assessment of this magical spirit was "lacking in intelligence".

　……

　"Thank you."

　Dark placed the "Fire Demon" on the table, pressed down with three fingers, and pushed it back in front of Thompson.

　After regaining the "God Card," Thompson suddenly found himself feeling no joy.

　He originally thought that after acquiring this set of magic cards...

　He could completely turn his life around, transforming himself from an ordinary adventurer into a powerful, noble, and extraordinary mage in an instant.

　During his duels in the preliminary rounds, he truly experienced the feeling he craved: to be envied, envied, and surrounded by others, while he remained aloof and superior.

　But after waking up from the dream, one must eventually face reality.

　The magic cards he was so proud of, after passing through the other party's hands, returned to his own.

　This is a magic card that can help a mediocre adventurer make it into the World Cup qualifiers!

　Doesn't the other party want it?

　Or perhaps, the magic cards he considered incredibly valuable were actually worthless in the other person's eyes.

　"Commoners and nobles!"

　"Lowly adventurers and noble mages!"

　"Son of a tailor and a blacksmith, a duke...son of a Valkyrie!" [Life is inherently unequal.]

　A voice suddenly appeared in Thompson's mind.

　He reached out and pressed his hand against his "God Card"—"Fire Hell Demon." A molten, intense heat emanated from the card, flowing through his fingers into his body.

　In that instant, it felt as if magma was about to erupt from his heart.

　Was it anger, resentment, or the escalation of jealousy and inferiority (Burn him!)

　"Burn him!"

　Thompson suddenly looked up, and black flames instantly erupted from the holes in his face.

　The flames spread into mist, condensed into snakes, and swirled around his body like a storm.

　The divinity that had been previously contained within his body erupted once more. It instantly unleashed terrifying divine power, surging wildly towards the surrounding cave. "Whoosh—"

　The intangible energy transforms into the tangible wind.

　Darkdemon and the three maids beside and behind him were all disheveled by the sudden gust of wind, their hair flying wildly and their clothes billowing in the air.

　The three maids attacked almost simultaneously.

　Hannah's black cat twisted into a shadow in that instant, rushing towards Thompson like a rope.

　Joliet's orange cat suddenly opened its huge mouth and bit at the stone table and the magic cards on it.

　Lara's "Shadowfish" instantly spewed out jet-black shadow bubbles, protecting Dark within them.

　"Roar--"

　Thompson suddenly roared.

　The roar echoed violently and deafeningly in the relatively small cave.

　The black flames that were wrapped around him exploded in all directions with a roar.

　The black cat's shadow was suspended in mid-air by the flames. The magic cards on the stone table were swept away by the black mist in an instant, and the orange cat bit into empty air.

　The shadow bubble of the "Shadow Ghost Fish" blocked the impact of the fire wave and expanded in an instant, dividing the entire cave in two with the stone table as the dividing line.

　Dak remained seated.

　He frowned as he looked at Thompson.

　Golden eyes pierced through the blurry shadows and focused on Thompson's face.

　Thompson's change was very abrupt.