Cards: Awakening Traits Turns Board Games into Domain Cards

Poker, Werewolf, Legends of the Three Kingdoms, Monopoly... These board games from another world are collectively known as “Domain Cards” in the Azure Realm. Each deck unfolds into an independent battlefield governed by its own rules.

Lin Hun is bound to the Daily Trait System. On the first day, he gains the trait of entertainment and turns fifty-four blank card blanks into a deck of poker cards. But when a game of Fight the Landlord begins, a bomb sends his childhood friend Xue Hai flying to the infirmary. On the second day, he gains the trait of explosions. The same poker cards become deadly throwing weapons, and when fifth-tier instructor Zhuge Jingwo deploys the second-tier defensive card “Radiant Brilliance,” a rocket-powered attack from the two jokers shatters his barrier, sending him out of the workshop in disgrace.

A hundred years after the invasion of Starsea creatures began, everyone in the Azure Realm pursues combat cards, mechanical cards, and summoning cards. No one takes entertainment seriously. But when Lin Hun unfolds his Werewolf domain, enemies marked as “werewolves” can no longer tell friend from foe, and all their attacks automatically veer toward their teammates. When he plays “Duel” from Legends of the Three Kingdoms, his opponents must expend twice as much energy to resist, or be killed outright by the rules. When the Monopoly board spreads across the battlefield, every step can land on “Fate”: at best, players lose their equipment; at worst, they're eliminated on the spot.

This novel and its characters are entirely fictional. Any resemblance to actual people or events is purely coincidental. Do not imitate.