<h4>Chapter 70</h4>


    With Joshua’s arrangements, the dwarves let out a seat for both Messai and Ynor.


    Messai was finally able to battle the demon face-to-face.


    Even though this battle was not fought with swords and blood, Messai was at least given an opportunity to pressure the demon head-on. Through this opportunity, she could even defeat her.


    Messai and Ynor’s storage crystals were both provided by Joshua. Ynor’s card storage crystal was Joshua’s own card storage crystal. There were multiple decks Joshua made in that storage crystal.


    As for that female knight, her storage crystal was naturally an impoverished starting ount without anything special.


    “Choose Warlock as your ss. You should know the rules of Hearthstone. Defeat her. This is an order,” Joshua said to Ynor quietly.


    Among Joshua’s decks, the Warlock deck was extremely... brainless. It basically resembled a ‘zoo’ deck in its embryonic form. It was mainly focused on attacking the opponent. Winning against a basic deck would not be difficult at all. [1]


    Messai poured her magic power into the ck originium crystal. Upon doing so, the pictures stored in the crystal were projected toward her. Seeing it, she waspletely confused as to what to do with the many interfaces present.


    It was much moreplicated than the battlefield that one could step into merely by holding a sword.


    But, Messai soon found a ss that she was fond of — the ‘Pdin,’ Uther.


    Messai immediately fancied this righteous-looking knight the moment she saw his portrait. Uther’s portrait gave Messai the feeling of a legionmander of the temr army.


    Starting ounts uses the basic cards. Messai possessed zero knowledge of Hearthstone. Thus, she naturally had no idea what she would be greeted with.


    When she chose the aged Pdin as her hero, Ynor, her opponent, also finished making his ss selection.


    The ck originium crystals were ced into the card channel. The curtains to the battle between a temr and a demon have been pulled apart!


    “I will fight with honor!” [2]


    Joshua had Sir Weissenasche find a veteran stage actor to say Uther’s opening remark. The voice acting... was quite emotional.


    At the very least, when Messai heard that opening remark, she felt even greater acknowledgement toward the Pdin Uther. She had stubbornly believed Uther to be an existence representing the lesiastical Temrs.


    “I am your nightmare!” [3]


    Ynor’s ss was the Warlock ss that represented demons. Joshua had localized the Warlock ss. Take for example the naming of demons. Joshua had changed to what the demons addressed him as.


    Joshua had also changed the opening remark that the Warlock hero Gul’dan says. That being said, Joshua does not possess extravagant hope that he would be able to change the impression the people had of demons through ‘Hearthstone,’


    In this Hearthstone match, Messai was fully immersed. Whether her hero or her cards, they all reconstructed the circumstances of the battle between the lesiastical Temrs and the demons.


    Unfortunately, the final oue of the battle ended in Ynor leading his demon army to utterly defeat Messai. Ynor had achieved a near total victory over Messai.


    In the initial battle, Messai suffered a crushing defeat. She was practically beaten so badly that she cannot even fight back. Seeing the giant ‘defeat’ that appeared before her, Messai grew momentarily silent.


    After the ‘defeat’ animation disappeared, a reward card pack appeared before Messai. That was the first freebie that Joshua would give to newbies.


    Whenever a newly established ck originium crystal finishes its first battle, it will receive a ssic card pack.


    The price for a ck originium crystal was set to 10 gold. The first card pack was included in the price as a gift.


    “The potential of the Pdin ss far surpasses only this. There are a lot of powerful Pdin cards for you to gather...” said Joshua as he walked behind Messai.


    “The desk you were using earlier was the basic Pdin deck. It is also the weakest Pdin deck. Inside that card pack might be a stronger Pdin card. Try opening the card pack to have a look.”


    The young female knight of the lesiastical Temrs never managed to realize what she just heard were the ‘whispers of the devil.’ Messai was unwilling to ept her near-crushing defeat under Ynor’s hands. She wanted to challenge Ynor again.


    From their match, Messai had realized that her deck seemed extremely weak... There was even a lot of minions that had nothing to do with the Pdin ss, nothing to do with lesiastical Temrs!


    Holding that hope, Messai began her life’s first luck of the draw.


    “Umon”


    The rarest card Messai managed to open from the card pack was actually a guaranteed Umon card. It would appear that the gods’ protection did not increase her luck.


    But, that Umon card’s name was ‘Equality.’ It could be said to be one of the strongest Pdin cards. [4]


    The effect of ‘Equality’ changes the health of all minions to 1. Combined with any AoE card... as long as there’s no Divine Shield, it could practically clear the board. [5,6,7]


    “Again!”


    After having yed a match, Messai was able to vaguely feel that ‘Equality’ was a very powerful card.


    She could be said to be the representative of the lesiastical Temrs. All the dwarves and humans were watching her match... the match between the lesiastical Temrs and demons!


    Messai does not wish to hear, while walking on the streets of Nond in the future, others discussing among themselves saying things like ‘Did you know? In that tavern, the demons managed to crush the lestiastical Temrspletely.’


    This was no longer an issue of whether she could win in this card game or not. This battle was now intimately rted to the honor of the lesiastical Temrs.


    “Ynor, you’re on a half-day break. You are now representing your race in this match.”


    After being granted the permission by Joshua, the battle between the Temrs of the Holy Church and the demons, the battle that has continued for a millennium, once again unfolded on the card table!


    The oue of the battle ended in the Temr’s crushing defeat again! The soldiers of the demon army scaled the city walls and effortlessly massacred the new recruits of the Temr army.


    “Sure enough, the Pdin ss is incredibly weak. So a Warlock is actually that powerful?”


    “You’re nning to y Warlock?”


    The dwarves standing nearby began to discuss the game. Due to them being dwarves, the majority of them chose to focus on the Warrior ss. After all, Warrior was the ss that represented manliness and strength the best.


    Very few dwarves attempted the other eight sses.


    Messai was able to hear the discussions of the dwarves. Inevitably, their discussions brought upon great humiliation to her. This humiliation was all caused by her own hands. She has been defeated by this demon seven times in a row.


    Had this been on the normal battlefield, this record would be enough to make her so humiliated that she can’t even bring herself to face the gods she served.


    “I think you can give Mage a try. Miss knight, Mage is the ss that’s most suited for new yers.”


    Joshua presented to Messai a proposal that could allow her to defeat Ynor.


    “No! I will definitely defeat that demon using this ss! Again!”


    Messai was unwilling to give up on her faith that easily. Even if it was only a game.


    “Let me call to your attention that it’s nearly midnight now,” said Joshua.


    Only after hearing that did Messai turn toward the windows. It was already veryte at night. She cannot y Hearthstone leisurely all night like the dwarves. The Temrs of the Holy Church possess very rigorous rules.


    Among them included a certain time that they must offer prayers, a certain time they must go to sleep and a certain time they must wake up at! Messai had missed the time to offer the night prayers. To her, that was an unforgivable mistake.


    But, Messai was itching to retrieve the lesiastical Temrs’ lost honor in another round of Hearthstone! Unfortunately, between honor and the rules that she upheld for over a dozen years, Messai had no choice but to leave this match of honor to tomorrow.


    “Tomorrow... I will return tomorrow...”


    Messai clenched her teeth. After leaving those words, she rushed out of the tavern. She was still able to hear the ridicules andughters from the dwarves behind her even after she left the tavern.


    She vowed that she would one day make those dwarves and that demon realize how powerful the Pdin ss was!