Happily entering the card game, ending the card game in a daze.
This is Ben's mood right now.
Before playing cards, he felt that he, the strongest card player in White Orchard, should be having a back-and-forth fight with the unknown nobody in this palace.
But the reality proved that this was just his imagination.
Because the cards this guy has are just unreasonable!
All sorts of revive and spy cards, while all you have in your hand are cards with only attack power and no special effects.
Of course, if that was all, it would be fine, but the attack power of the cards in his hand is simply explosive!
And the most confusing thing for Ben is that his weather cards don't seem to affect the opponent's ten-attack cards.
How the heck are you supposed to play this?
Isn't this cheating!
My cards are being crushed!
This is like playing a card game, and your deck is full of common cards.
But the other guy has all super rare cards, and they are the kind with healing, tanking, magic damage, physical damage, and all upgraded to the max level.
How are you supposed to fight that?
"This is so unfair!" After playing three or four rounds in a row, he won one small round in two of them, and was crushed without any suspense in the other two.
Losing 40 bucks directly, Ben couldn't help complaining.
But after complaining, he came back to his senses.
Thinking about it carefully, it actually makes a lot of sense.
According to the previous description, Gwent is an activity loved by everyone from high-ranking officials to ordinary people.
Some high-quality cards are quite expensive, and some people even kill and steal for a Gwent card.
So thinking about it carefully, the ordinary small vendors on the street are playing with commoner decks, but who are these people in the palace?
Nobles! High-ranking officials! Rich and powerful people!
Their deck is a pay-to-win deck!
It seems pretty reasonable that he, a country card player from White Orchard, can't beat a whale player!
"But to run into a pay-to-win card player in the first battle, is this to cure my card addiction?" Ben was speechless, especially looking at the disappointed look on the face of the card player in front of him, who said he thought there would be a good fight, he felt even worse.
"It's only because this is The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt, if this was Red Dead Redemption: Redemption, I would have scattered your ashes!" After saying that, Ben didn't continue to play cards with the NPC in front of him, but instead planned to build a great card deck himself in the future and come back for revenge.
Although you're very awesome now, but when I have money in the future, I'll buy a powerful card deck and come back to beat you to death!
Temporarily putting aside his obsession with Gwent, Ben returned to the main story of the game.
Controlling Geralt to meet Emperor Emhyr in the palace, he understood the seriousness of the Wild Hunt's appearance.
Because the emperor's only biological daughter, who is also Geralt and Yennefer's adopted daughter, was actually seen appearing in this world.
The emperor wanted to take this opportunity to bring his daughter back to take the throne, but he was busy with the war and didn't want to be caught by his political enemies, so he commissioned Geralt and Yennefer to secretly find Ciri.
Regarding the relationship between Ciri and Geralt and Yennefer, and the fact that Ciri is Emhyr's daughter, this related story.
It was not directly mentioned in the previous life's The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt.
Mainly because of the game's story and pace.
Although Lucas didn't directly add to the game's story explanation in this area.
But through some of the previous crossover events involving Ciri, he had already given the players some clues, allowing them to understand the relationship between Ciri and Emperor Emhyr.
Emhyr was originally the rightful heir to Nilfgaard, but he encountered a political change when he was a child, his father was tortured and killed and he was cursed by the political change's sorcerer to become a half-man, half-hedgehog monster, and he would only return to normal at midnight every day.
With the help of loyalists, Emhyr escaped to the north and lived under the name Duny, and years later, for some reason, he secretly fell in love with a princess of Cintra, and prepared to go to the princess's birthday party to take her away.
But the powerful Queen of Cintra would never allow her daughter to be with a hedgehog spirit of unknown origin, so she invited Geralt hoping to use the witcher to get rid of him.
But she didn't expect the White Wolf to lift Emhyr's curse on the spot, allowing him to successfully marry the princess, and when faced with Duny's reward, Geralt chose the witcher's 'Law of Surprise', which is when you save someone, you will choose something that the other person already has but doesn't know about.
And no one expected that the princess was already pregnant at this time, so Ciri in her belly became the White Wolf's adopted daughter.
After that, Emhyr returned to Nilfgaard and retook the throne, but the front-line general's unauthorized actions led to the massacre of Cintra, and little Ciri was therefore exiled and eventually met Geralt.
During this period, Ciri also developed a very close family relationship with the White Wolf and Yennefer, and after the unfortunate death of the Wolf and Yennefer, Ciri took the two of them to the Isle of Apples to revive them, thus exposing her Elder Blood and attracting the Wild Hunt, and had to embark on a journey of escape through time and space.
It is because of these elements that Ben can also relate to the emotions of Geralt and Yennefer.
What happens to the empire is not important to Geralt and Yennefer.
The only thing they really care about is Ciri's safety.
So facing Emperor Emhyr's request, Geralt didn't hesitate to accept the task of finding Ciri.
Not for Emperor Emhyr and his Nilfgaardian Empire, just simply wanting to find Ciri and protect her.
Then Geralt and Yennefer talked about some clues about Ciri, according to the Empire's spies, they had seen Ciri appear in two places.
Namely, the war-torn No Man's Land - Velen.
And the largest city in the north - Novigrad.
At the same time, Yennefer also found out news that a mysterious explosion had recently occurred in the Skellige Islands, which was very likely related to Ciri.
So the two of them split up to take action, Geralt went to Velen and Novigrad to investigate, while Yennefer prepared to go to the Skellige Islands to investigate.
At this point, the game officially began its free exploration.
Going to Velen, Novigrad, or the Skellige Islands, it's all up to the player's mood.
But after all, this is an ARPG game, Ben also noticed that the maps of the various regions in the game, although they are open world.
But there are also some recommended levels, out of consideration for the difficulty, and his confidence in his own skills. Ben decisively chose the lowest level requirement: Velen.
And starting from here, Ben finally truly experienced the vast charm of The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt for the first time.
Well... and the fun of Gwent and boxing.
(End of chapter)
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