Chapter 60
For the past few nights, Hyrlan had been watching Joshua and her sister Ciri crunching away at the production of Hearthstone and had provided some technical assistance along the way.
Hyrlan had in fact never thought that her arcanotech device would bring in any income for her as she could not imagine someone who would pay a lot of money to purchase the storage unit of runes.
Even there was any, it was the sort of high-level runes of ‘transference’ and ‘conversion’, and a rune for storage of images had practically no market in Norland.
Even so, she still enjoyed the process of creating Hearthstone with Joshua and her little sister Ciri. This was because of Joshua’s knowledge of runes was something unheard of in her opinion, even the best tutors in her academy did not have such advanced understanding as his.
Be it calculations, languages and the expression of logic had already completely subverted Hyrlan’s understanding of runes.
In her view, runes were very simple things. Giving air the ‘freeze’ rune would create ice, and then adding the ‘burst’ attribute to it would create a simple ‘Ice Burst’ spell.
Of the complex magic she had learned in the high academy, most of them required less than a hundred runes, and even higher level magics would need at most about a thousand of them.
However, the application of the ‘programming’ Joshua had taught Hyrlan would need over thousands of runes to complete a simple function.
Just like her best friend Sansa, even the girl who believed in the Holy Light had always wanted to meet Belle or Zenarth’s actor.
“Bought? To be precise, it was exchanged for three cards and a hero’s avatar,” Joshua said.
Cards? Hyrlan was already prepared to hear Joshua pop the tens of thousand gold coin figures, but for three cards and a hero’s avatar for so many crystals?
“The Epic-level card Gorehowl, the Legendary-level cards Grom Hellscream and the Legendary-level card Alexstrasza, and also the Dwarven King of Khaz Modan, Magni Bronzebeard. Three cards and a hero’s avatar allowed me to purchase these crystals at a more favorable price.”
Joshua explained to Hyrlan.
“This… wasn’t a Hearthstone card pack worth three gold coins? How did you pull that off?”
Joshua had told Hyrlan about the pricing of the card packs while she was creating the game with him.
A card pack had five cards in it, and he had exchanged three cards for originium crystals that were worth tens of thousands? And Joshua had paid a discounted price for it…
How?! Hyrlan simply could not comprehend.
“How did I do that? It’s because that Great Elder of the Frostaxe Clan is a Hearthstone player.” Joshua gave a very simple answer.