Cards depicting various weapons like the Storm Halberd, Flame Saber, Dragon Saber, Dragon Shield, etc., along with skill cards like the Crimson Drill, Kamen Rider Kick, and Clock Up, were stacked layer upon layer, making it impossible to count how many cards there were. However, only the gun and sword transformed from Emperor Rider's exclusive weapon, the Ride Booker, were in a brightly activated state; all other cards were in a gray, unusable state.
Sliding further down were cards like Golem, Musou Red Dragon, Phantom, the Ride Shooter that traverses the Mirror World, and the Den-O train that travels through time. Unfortunately, none of the contract cards were in an activated state; they were all gray and unusable.
The bottommost deck contained auxiliary cards like Hibiki's Disc Animal, Wizard's Familiar, and Ghost's Ghost Gadget. This was the only deck that could be used without transforming and redeemed without activating the relevant Kamen Rider.
That's right, redemption. Any unactivated card, whether it was a KR card that could transform into different Kamen Riders, an AR card for weapons or skills, or a contract card or auxiliary card, all had a different number listed below.
The smallest auxiliary card was marked fifty, while the largest was the time-traveling train contract deck, requiring a total of three hundred thousand for the complete ten carriages. And directly above the field of vision was a solitary number '50'.
Having been influenced by countless system novels, it was easy to guess that this was likely the 'points' for redeeming different cards, and they were probably contributed by those two thugs from last night. 25 points each seemed reasonable; after all, compared to the Diqi Armor, those two were definitely slime-level in an online game. It's just unknown what these points are based on, whether they increase with different strengths, if they differentiate between good and bad people, or if there's a difference between killing and knocking someone out.
As a veteran gamer, loyal web novel reader, and struggling novel author, Greer had countless guesses popping into his head. It wasn't his fault for guessing wildly; this 'system store' was just too low-tier. There were no cute and cuddly system sprites, no system AI shouting 'Host, Host'; all rules had to be figured out by trial and error. The service attitude was simply the worst it could be.
Unfortunately, no matter how much he complained or how dissatisfied he was, no one jumped out to take responsibility for this matter. There still wasn't an explanation for why he, a person who was sleeping normally, was thrown here. Even the disappearance of the heart wound last night was so domineering and unreasonable, like a 'What's wrong with letting you come here? What's wrong with the wound just disappearing like that? What's wrong with the store being this low-tier? Objections overruled!' kind of overbearing CEO vibe, making Greer seriously doubt if he had transmigrated into a Mary Sue-style female protagonist novel like 'The Overbearing CEO Fell in Love with Me'.
Without a system sprite to explain the rules, he would just have to figure things out slowly. But what was even more outrageous was that he couldn't even find essential elements of system-flow novels like character templates, spatial inventory, or system quests. If the system novels he read in his previous life were Maseratis, then his own 'system' was definitely a bicycle. This kind of time-saving, setting-saving system store was probably rushed out by a temporary worker.
However, whether this was the system store he understood was still up for debate. After all, there were only these four sets of cards, and not a single word mentioned 'system' or 'store'. Calling the redemption numbers 'points' or 'gold/silver coins' didn't matter; Greer just called it a store and points for convenience of understanding.
Perhaps it was a built-in function of the Decade Driver. After all, the Knight Card Box could connect to the Klein Bottle, which only exists in four-dimensional space. With such high technology, creating a virtual reality projection or something similar would be too easy.
However, whether it was a system store or a technological projection, as long as it could enhance his strength, that was fine. Greer attempted to redeem the cheapest and only affordable ghost gadget—the Cobra Ketai (cobra phone).
There was no need for manual operation at all. With a thought in his mind, a card depicting a cobra in the auxiliary card deck option instantly lit up and was simultaneously colored, transforming into a lifelike cobra.
The next second, on the table next to the Decade Driver, a hexagram magic circle appeared out of thin air. Then, a black phone emerged from the magic circle, and the magic circle subsequently disappeared, leaving only this black 5-inch screen smartphone lying quietly on the table.
Greer's eyes were practically popping out. This scene was too unscientific, especially the glowing hexagram circle; it was exactly like the computer effects in movies. Moreover, it was delivered to the consumer's hands immediately after placing an order in the 'store'. If this technology were mastered, all express delivery companies worldwide would probably go bankrupt.
Extremely surprised, he picked up the new phone from the table and started playing with it, filled with novelty. Three minutes later, the novelty disappeared, leaving only two words in his mind: 'scam'. He wished he could smash this broken phone to vent his frustration.
This cobra phone was indeed true to its name; it was just a phone. Other functionalities, such as transforming into a cobra form, detection, electromagnetic invisibility, tracking, monitoring the biological reactions of targets and recording video and audio, and even hardware like expanding the hard disk capacity to store these videos and audio, all required points to be redeemed before being installed on this cobra phone.
Other software for anti-tracking, intercepting communications, interfering with communications, or hacking nearby devices also required points to redeem. The fifty points only bought a phone that could make unlimited calls and access the internet without paying phone bills, and it was a 'three-nos' product with no brand, no certification, and no after-sales service.
Drawing inferences, Greer suddenly thought about the Knight Cards, weapon skill cards, and contract beast cards. Were they also following this pattern? For example, if he redeemed the Kamen Rider Den-O's train, would it just be the train? Would the time-traveling function and the weapons on each carriage also need to be redeemed separately? If he wanted to become the ultimate form, would he have to gather the basic forms of every Kamen Rider?
If that were the case, this would simply be a bottomless pit that no amount of points could fill. Forget about gathering the complete Kamen Rider lineup; it would be good enough just to gather the forms, weapons, and skills for the ten Kamen Riders, including Decade.
He suddenly felt like he was playing one of those free online games from Tencent. You could create an account without spending money, but if you wanted to get stronger, just top up; if you wanted good-looking fashion, top up; if you wanted god-tier pets, weapons, mounts, top up...
Topping up makes you stronger, topping up lets you enjoy the game. If you don't top up, play by yourself.
Thinking of this widely circulated slogan in the gaming community, Greer couldn't help but pick up the Decade Driver, wanting to see if there was a penguin with a scarf logo on it. This money-grabbing style was exactly the same as Tencent's.
He didn't find the little penguin with a red scarf, but on the smooth back of the Decade Driver, he found a simple scale pattern. The two pans were made of cuneiform script, which he still couldn't read but knew the meaning of: the left side represented fairness, the right side represented order, and the scale represented justice.
Greer seemed to hear the ten words, "Order is fairness, fairness is justice!", but he completely failed to remember them, just like how he would forget everything after the teacher finished speaking in English class in his previous life.