Apocalypse Deck

The apocalypse arrives, and the Laws of Cards replace everything.

Everyone starts with a ten-card draw. Some pull divine weapons, others draw food and clean water, while Lin Ye gets ten useless N-rank cards.

In his previous life, he scraped by for three years with those ten worthless cards.

He was robbed, swindled, and stabbed in the back.

He watched his brothers turn into walking corpses, his lover die beneath the claws of an SR-rank card beast, and those who got perfect hands from the start climb steadily to the top.

In the end, he died beneath the hooves of a third-tier ironhide rhino, with only three battered cards and a blank card he couldn’t figure out how to use left in his hands.

As he died, he thought: If only I could do it all over again...

And then he really did.

Back to one hour before the apocalypse.

Still those same ten worthless cards.

Still a starting hand with nothing to his name.

But this time, Lin Ye smiled.

Worthless cards?

Can’t worthless cards be combined into R-rank cards? And can’t R-rank cards be combined into SR-rank ones?

This time, I’ll avoid every pit I fell into last time. I’ll seize every opportunity I missed. And the people who stabbed me in the back last time? You’d better pray you never cross my path.

“What? You mean a System?”

There is no System.

No status screen, no notification sounds, no sign-in rewards.

The Laws of Cards are the world itself: they aren’t considerate or kind, and they won’t give you special treatment.

So what?

The experience he carved into his bones over three years of surviving the apocalypse is Lin Ye’s greatest golden finger.

First kill with a Flame Dagger. First clear of the abandoned supermarket instance. The first SR card in hand.

So what if he started with a worthless deck?

Watch me play a royal flush with a terrible hand.