Drawing Cards in the Middle Ages to Rise in Ranks

"You've really studied it."

Furinjira muttered softly, "Sorry, Sir, I just felt that with my current level, I shouldn't cause such severe consequences anymore."

Losa reached out and touched Furin's white long hair, "I think so too."

"But next time, you can't experiment in the castle anymore. I can allocate you a deserted manor or prepare explosion-proof magic arrays in advance."

Furinjira said a bit dispiritedly, "Okay, I understand."

Kurs smiled and said, "Your Highness, the bathwater is ready, you'd better go freshen up quickly."

Furinjira responded somewhat unhappily, "Oh."

Watched as Furinjira departed.

Losa looked around the room.

Black mist was swirling around Kurs's hands, and the shadows projected by the light crawled slowly on the ground, with colors leaning toward deep red.

Coming to the acid on the ground corroding the tiles, they opened their mouths and gobbled it up, quickly cleaning the acid, leaving only deep marks etched into the stone.

Losa nodded slightly to Kurs, "Thank you for your hard work, Kurs."

Kurs shook his head, "No, Sir, this is my duty. Perhaps it is a bit presumptuous, but I still want to say, please take care of Furin more. She may seem like a very proud girl, but in fact, she's quite sensitive and needs companionship."

Losa was somewhat silent.

He certainly knew this.

"I know, thank you for the reminder."

During this time, he indeed spent very little time with Furinjira because he was often with Jeanne, learning riding skills and training swordsmanship, while also managing affairs in the domain.

And Furinjira, being a silly child who knows nothing about this, couldn't even understand when Losa handled political affairs, let alone join the conversation.

So, feeling somewhat "useless," Furinjira began patiently researching alchemy potions that could assist Losa.

Otherwise, with her character of feeling bored within three seconds, how could she have such perseverance?

...

Returning to the room.

Prajna was lying at the table, attentively using a quill pen to dip ink and write something on paper.

The novel she wanted to create herself was still in its embryonic stage.

Just the discarded drafts had piled up in a thick stack, like those online novelists in her previous life who earned money by word count, who would certainly bleed with heartache.

Losa asked with some confusion, "Prajna, you set your standards too high. I've seen some of your drafts, and indeed, the content is quite good. Why did you discard them?"

Prajna was slightly startled, looking up, with a gentle wave of motion brewing in her plain eyes—you actually read them?

Presumably, it's just some content that's inconsequential.

Otherwise, his attitude wouldn't be what it is now.

So she lowered her eyes again.

Long eyelashes cast a row of shadows under her eyes.

She said softly, "Writing is just a process of pleasing oneself. I enjoy this process, but it doesn't mean I really want to write something."

"Is it because it feels too boring?"

"Not bad."

Question: What does the woman's "not bad" mean?

This question involuntarily arose in Losa's mind, and he said with a smile, "Care for a round of Gwent card? Whoever wins will battle Furinjira when she returns."

Prajna hesitated, inserting the quill back into the pen holder, and stared at Losa for a long while.

Black long hair fell beside her fair face.

Losa looked at her frankly, and in terms of appearance alone, Prajna was indeed flawless. Just a distant gaze also felt pleasing to the eye.

"Alright."

"Let's use the randomly shuffled box, where neither of us knows the hand cards of the other."

Losa took out two boxes of Gwent cards.

The popularity of Gwent cards is also related to their material.

Not only had the paper texture been improved, better than most books, but they were also framed with metal to avoid bending, with drawings using modern realistic techniques differing from the painting skills of this era.

Even excluding the entertainment function, they're considered quite nice collectibles.

If not for the existence of engraving printing techniques, it's questionable whether it could even make money.

This has led to a prosperous trend in Jerusalem City, where even civilians have money to purchase a deck, making this entertainment activity subtly trending from the King down to freemen.

As for peasant slaves?

It's hard enough to live, so how could they possibly have money to buy such things?

Losa handed over a box of Gwent cards, saying, "Should we use rock-paper-scissors to determine the order?"

In the design of his Gwent cards, having the second move holds an obvious advantage, so how to determine the order has always been a significant issue.

"No need, first and third rounds you go second, second round I'll go second."

Prajna is quite confident.

Her strength is indeed very strong, and in all of Hebron, only Jeanne can fight her evenly.

The card deck Losa holds is the Monster deck, which includes creatures like Ghouls, Inferior Demons, Night Demons, Vampires, and Soul-Stealing Demons… great at card destruction.

And the deck Prajna holds is the Jerusalem faction, which excels at team enhancement.

The current version of Gwent cards only has two camps: the Kingdom of Jerusalem and the Ayyubid Kingdom.

The Monster faction has not yet been released.

As for subsequent card decks, they are still being refined, and before launch, both of them must playtest extensively to avoid the emergence of bug-style cards.