Apocalypse Descends: I Win Effortlessly by Turning Trash into Treasure

’I have to keep the initiative firmly in my own hands.’

Besides, she wasn’t wrong. It was just a five-star card. She could get one if she wanted to; it would just cost some energy as a trade-off.

Sure enough, after seeing Perry Yates’s rather nonchalant attitude, Will Wyatt’s brow furrowed. The confidence he had before was now faltering.

’Did we get it wrong?’

But even as the thought crossed his mind, Will Wyatt’s expression only flickered for a moment before returning to normal.

In reality, the reason Will Wyatt’s Base One had decided to offer this five-star card was not just because it was a Support Card, but also because the cost to use it was quite steep.

A single use was enough to drain a healthy adult male dry.

Of course, these people didn’t know it was because they lacked Fusion Cards.

This was also why ordinary people couldn’t use item cards.

Using item cards also required energy.

Players could use them normally because of the power granted by their Fusion Cards. Ordinary people, lacking this power, needed to substitute it with some other form of energy if they wanted to use a card.

And the Healing Wand was a five-star card. For it to only drain one person’s Life Force per use was already quite a bargain.

Take Perry Yates’s Noah’s Ark and Golden Spirit Illusion Feather, for example.

Both were Support Cards, and five-star ones at that. But for an ordinary person to use either one, it would require draining the Life Force of at least a hundred people just to barely activate it.

After a moment of consideration, Will Wyatt stated the price they had decided on before coming.

"Even so, Boss, this gold card must be quite rare. So, we’d like to trade it for one hundred two-star cards—eighty Skill Cards and twenty item cards—plus fifty three-star cards and two four-star cards."

And that was just the price for the five-star card. Will Wyatt was implying that the Xenomorph corpses they had brought would be a separate transaction.

Sometimes, you laugh when you’re left speechless. And Perry Yates did indeed laugh.

’I’m starting to regret saving them. If I’d known it would be like this, I should have just robbed them blind.’

Seeing Perry Yates just laughing without a word, Will Wyatt couldn’t help but grow concerned.

But before he could say anything more, Perry Yates’s laughter ceased.

She rested her chin on her hand, her eyes behind the mask gazing playfully at Will Wyatt and the men behind him.

"Why is the Boss looking at us like that?"

Perry Yates’s stare made their skin crawl, as if something terrible was about to happen at any moment.

"I was just wondering," Perry Yates said candidly, "if I threw you all back out right now, would I have to listen to this ridiculous offer anymore?"

"You’re joking, Boss."

Will Wyatt said, a drop of cold sweat trickling down his forehead.

"You’re the ones who started joking with me," Perry Yates said, smiling.

"Twenty two-star cards and two three-star cards. That’s my offer," Perry Yates said coldly, her tone leaving no room for negotiation.

It was a good thing no other players were around. If they had heard Perry Yates’s offer, they probably would have fainted from shock.

After all, according to The Card Tavern’s price list, customizing a five-star item card required one hundred two-star cards.

Even with the two three-star cards, which were worth twenty two-star cards at most, the total value was only forty two-star cards—not even half the standard customization price.

It was a rip-off. A complete and utter rip-off.

At that moment, the look on Will Wyatt’s face wasn’t pretty. The reason was simple: the price Perry Yates had quoted was drastically different from what they had hoped for.

However, it seemed they didn’t have the right to refuse.

They were on her turf, after all. If they refused, she might actually throw them to the Xenomorphs. And in that case, the card would end up in her hands anyway.

After a few failed attempts to haggle, realizing that Perry Yates absolutely would not budge, Will Wyatt had no choice but to agree to the price.

Once the price was settled, Perry Yates didn’t hand over the cards immediately. Instead, she claimed she needed some time to prepare. That night, she used Ascension to upgrade two newly obtained "Corrosive Slime" cards to three-star, handing them over the next day.

As for the remaining cards, Perry Yates gave them some options to choose from.

「On the seventeenth day of the game.」 Will Wyatt and his group departed with a total of fifty-two cards.

After leaving the protective shield, Will Wyatt looked around at the obvious scorch marks, the complete absence of Xenomorphs, and the fresh shoots of grass just starting to sprout. He couldn’t help but feel relieved that he hadn’t let his anger get the better of him and tried to fight her. Otherwise, they all would have likely met the same fate as the Xenomorphs.

Meanwhile, before Will Wyatt left, Perry Yates had learned from him how they had obtained the five-star card.

It turned out that half a month ago, Base One had unexpectedly captured an Alien Queen. This card was the loot drop after they killed it.

Perry Yates, who had also killed an Alien Queen but only received a two-star card for her trouble, was rendered speechless. ’What, is there some kind of discrimination between Alien Queens now?’

’Why?! I just want to know why! WHY?!’

’We both killed a queen. They get a five-star, I get a two-star.’

No one knew the depths of Perry Yates’s frustration.

Outside, the players were a hive of activity, busily dismantling one Xenomorph corpse after another.

「On the eighteenth day of the game.」

The outside world was unusually calm today. No locals came to trade for cards, and no Xenomorphs came to cause trouble. The Xenomorph corpses had been mostly dealt with, and for once, everyone enjoyed a peaceful day.

「On the nineteenth day of the game.」

Today was as quiet as the day before.

It was the first time so many players had gathered together outside The Card Tavern.

And with so many people in one place, it was inevitable that someone would get a bright idea.

Perhaps because they felt secure with Perry Yates as their backstop, the players grew bolder. They actually started thinking about going on the offensive.

As soon as the idea was voiced, many others chimed in with their support.

After all, it was a rare opportunity. After the trials of the past few days, they felt they had accumulated enough hunting experience.

Perry Yates didn’t stop them, because she too was using her spiritual power and Clones to search for traces of Xenomorphs outside.

At the same time, she was also controlling her Space Grass, making it spread out continuously from the edges of the protective shield.

Thanks to the information from Will Wyatt, Perry Yates was now extremely interested in the Alien Queen.

Unfortunately, Alien Queens were extremely rare. Aside from the newly matured ones, most Alien Queens remained in their nests, constantly spawning Xenomorphs, and rarely ever ventured out.

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