Magic Card Era: Infinite Deck Enhancement — Chapter 104

Chapter 104: Digivice! Breaking Through to the Commander Realm!

[Worldview review passed!]

Isolated within the pristine void of the college entrance examination space, Luke remained blissfully unaware of the absolute chaos he had just unleashed upon the outside world. He had no idea that the Night Queen and a pantheon of supreme experts were currently watching his every move with bated breath, their minds thoroughly shaken by the sheer scale of the Digital World he had just conceptualized. With the worldview successfully validated, he immediately pivoted to the next critical phase: crafting the Digivice.

In Luke’s grand design, the Digivice wasn’t just an accessory; it was the absolute beating heart of the entire Digimon Magic Card series. Its structural importance eclipsed even the Digimon themselves. It served as the fundamental anchor for the evolution mechanic, acting as the primary bridge connecting the vast, ethereal data of the Digital World to the physical reality of the monsters.

[Digimon can continuously expand their data volume through relentless combat, evolving into higher-tier lifeforms., they can form a symbiotic partnership with a Tamer, achieving rapid, adaptive evolution channeled through the power of a Digivice.]

[Digivice: A specialized piece of equipment exclusive to Tamers. It acts as a localized terminal, storing the foundational algorithms of Digital World evolution alongside vast repositories of Digimon data.]

[Tamers can use the Digivice to exponentially amplify a Digimon’s attributes. By executing a ‘Card Slash’—swiping specific Magic Cards through the device—they can shatter the innate limitations of a Digimon’s original data volume, triggering instantaneous evolution to crush formidable adversaries.]

As the complex lore and functional parameters of the Digivice were etched into the system, Luke’s mental power began to hemorrhage at a terrifying rate. The sheer processing load required to manifest such a complex conceptual tool was staggering. Yet, his expression remained a mask of absolute calm.

The Moon Spirit Ring adorning his finger pulsed with a soothing, icy radiance. It fed a continuous stream of revitalizing coolness into his mind, aggressively accelerating his mental recovery and anchoring his consciousness so he could push through the grueling crafting process.

[Magic Card background passed. Please complete the card art and insert materials!]

The prompt he had been waiting for finally materialized. Luke’s remaining mental power instantly coalesced into ethereal pen and ink. With a series of sharp, decisive strokes, the sleek, unmistakable silhouette of the Digivice took shape within the Magic Card Editor.

In his past life, the Digivice had taken on numerous forms across different generations. After careful deliberation, he settled on the Generation 3 model from the Tamers era—the D-Ark.

According to his mechanical framework, the physical act of swiping a card was the ultimate catalyst for the Tamer-Digimon linkage. Among all the iterations, the D-Ark’s aesthetic and built-in card reader function were flawlessly suited for this exact purpose.

He began feeding his carefully prepared materials into the Editor. The crown jewel of this collection was the Evolution Stone. This single item contained the dense, foundational code required to simulate digital evolution.

It was the material he had spent the most agonizing amount of time rewriting and restructuring over the past few weeks, accounting for a staggering eighty percent of his total material modification efforts. If he hadn’t stockpiled and refined enough of these stones, forging the Digivice would have been a pipe dream.

[Construction successful. Magic Power Feedback acquired. Level breakthrough to One-star Commander!]

[Construction successful. Magic Power Feedback acquired. Level increased to Two-star Commander!]

[Construction successful. Magic Power Feedback acquired. Level increased to Three-star Commander!]

Three consecutive, euphoric chimes echoed in his mind. The massive surge of Magic Power Feedback generated by the birth of the Digivice washed over his body, shattering the bottleneck of the Battle General Realm. He didn’t just step into the next tier; he rocketed straight to the Three-star Commander Realm.

His lifespan expanded, his cellular vitality surged, and his total mana reserves deepened into a vast ocean. But the true prize was the unlocking of his third Magic Card summoning slot. This meant that once he finally crafted Sistermon, he wouldn’t have to bench any of his current partners; he would have the capacity to field his entire roster of Magic Card Elves simultaneously.

Deep within his core, the capacity of his two magic crystals shattered their previous limits. He could feel them greedily devouring the ambient magic power drifting through the examination space, their crystalline structures expanding and refining.

‘Unfortunately, there’s no time to test the absolute limits of my new mana capacity right now, and this exam space isn’t exactly the right venue for it.’ After taking a brief moment to acclimate to the intoxicating rush of his new Commander Realm strength, Luke glanced up at the golden countdown clock suspended in the void. Satisfied with his pace, he pulled up the data panel for his newly minted Magic Card.

[Digivice – Unique]

Type: Item Card

Restriction: Requires relevant Digimon data to be registered before use.

Effect: By swiping different cards through the reader, Digimon with registered information can undergo adaptive evolution according to the Tamer’s will, temporarily gaining higher-tier combat power.

Note: During the evolution sequence, the Digimon is granted absolute invincibility., a unique BGM will play based on the specific evolution Magic Card used!

A highly specialized, singular effect—but for Luke, it was absolutely perfect. It was the ultimate catalyst for limitless adaptive evolution.

The invincibility frame during the evolution sequence was a massive tactical advantage. But that final note? BGM? This damn thing actually came with its own built-in soundtrack? Luke stared at the final line, not even knowing where to begin roasting that particular feature, though a part of him was deeply amused by the sheer anime accuracy of it all.

‘The Digivice isn’t a conventional combat Magic Card,’he mused, feeling the thrum of power in his veins.’Even as the core engine for Digimon evolution, the raw Magic Power Feedback it provided wasn’t astronomical. But it was just enough to push me into the Commander Realm and restore my mental and physical stats to their absolute peak.”Now… it’s time for the main event.’

Constructing the sprawling worldview of the Digital World and carefully forging the Digivice had consumed a massive chunk of the clock. A significant portion of the exam’s first phase had already ticked away. The only reason he wasn’t behind schedule was his terrifying one hundred percent success rate.

While he had been lost in his digital architecture, a small handful of the elite candidates had managed to successfully craft their own Magic Cards. However, the fruits of their labor were nothing to write home about. They were low-grade creations, just barely scraping past the minimum threshold required to pass the first phase.

But for those sweating, exhausted students, a pass was a pass. It allowed them to breathe a heavy sigh of relief, securing their ticket to the next stage while the vast majority of their peers continued to struggle in desperate, agonizing failure. As for whatever brutal trials awaited them in the second phase? They would just have to cross that bridge when they came to it.

Meanwhile, back in the opulent viewing hall of the Cangling City Lord’s Mansion, the atmosphere had taken a sharp nosedive.

“Did Luke’s card crafting… fail this time?”

The expressions of Cang Fenghua, Da Baiman, Principal Gu, and Chairman Yu had gradually morphed from breathless excitement to grim solemnity. Their brows were knitted together in deep, anxious furrows.

They had clearly watched through the monitors as Luke fed his materials into the Magic Card Editor. That meant every preliminary step—the worldview, the framework, the logic—had been validated by the system without a hitch.

Yet, the iconic, heaven-piercing pillar of creation light—the universal herald of an Original Magic Card’s successful birth—was nowhere to be seen. The silent void above Luke’s workstation was deeply unsettling.

Because none of them were Original Magic Card Creators themselves, they lacked the intimate understanding of the process’s nuances. To their eyes, the absence of the light could only mean one catastrophic thing: his crafting attempt had collapsed at the finish line.

“Could it be a material conflict?” Da Baiman ventured, his voice tight. “If the system approved the background and the settings, then the only variable left to cause a failure at that stage would be a fatal mismatch between the physical materials and the conceptual lore.”

“It’s highly probable,” Principal Gu sighed, shaking his head with a heavy heart. “You have to remember, Original Magic Cards are a completely different beast compared to the standardized templates circulating in the market. Those commercial cards have had their material recipes refined and verified by countless Magic Card Masters over generations. Luke is walking in the dark. He has to deduce the perfect material combinations purely through trial and error. The difficulty is exponentially higher.”

It was the eternal gulf between an architect drafting a blueprint from scratch and a builder following an instruction manual. Creating something from absolute nothingness was a monumental, often heartbreaking task.

“Even if he did fail this attempt, only a fraction of the total exam time has elapsed. He still has a generous window to start over and craft a new card,” Chairman Yu interjected, trying to inject some optimism into the room. He paused, his gaze fixed on the screen. “What truly worries me right now isn’t the clock. It’s the psychological blow. I just hope Luke’s mental fortitude can withstand the crushing disappointment of a failure, and that it doesn’t shatter his focus for the rest of the college entrance examination.”