Apocalypse Descends: I Win Effortlessly by Turning Trash into Treasure

The butler maintained a faint smile in the face of the female player’s excited expression.

”The Beauty Card and the Slimming Card are both part of a new series of beauty cards the boss just released. Besides these two, there are over ten other types, including the Slender Waist Card, the Butterfly Bones Card, the Height Increasing Card, and the Skin Lightening Card. They can make you beautiful from your toes to the tips of your hair.

Moreover, these cards can be used not only by players, but by ordinary people as well.”

At these words, it wasn’t just the female players anymore; now even the men were intrigued.

They weren’t interested in things like slender waists for themselves, but the fact that ordinary people could use these beauty cards meant they could use them to win over women in the outside world.

They couldn’t help but snicker just thinking about how wild those women would go.

”By the way, Butler, are there other cards besides these beauty ones?” a young male player asked.

The butler, still wearing a faint smile, spoke in a calm and measured tone. ”Besides the beauty cards, we have Health Cards, which come in Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced tiers. There are also Treatment Cards, which are similarly divided into Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced.”

In the same vein, we have Enhancement Cards and Physical Constitution Cards.

And the Life Span Card, which adds three years to your life upon use...”

The butler then rattled off a dozen more types of cards, leaving everyone present practically drooling with envy.

Most importantly, all of these cards could be used by ordinary people.

The other cards were one thing, but the Life Span Card and the Vitality Card could directly increase a person’s lifespan.

If the wealthy, who know their time is short, were to get wind of this, there’s no telling how crazy they’d go.

After all, the older people get, the more they fear death—a fact particularly evident among the powerful and influential.

Need one look further than the great emperors of history? Even they could not face death calmly, frantically searching for the secret to eternal life.

To achieve their goal, they would spare no expense, exhausting vast manpower and resources, even resorting to consuming dangerous alchemical elixirs.

If the emperors of old went to such lengths, it’s easy to imagine what modern people would do.

”Butler, how do we trade for these cards? What are the prices?”

A young man among the players—one with delicate features, but a pale complexion and a frail body that clearly showed the signs of overindulgence—asked impatiently.

The young man’s name was Xavier Alden, and he was born into a prominent family.

His grandfather had six sons, and his father was the youngest.

As the youngest, with five older brothers to take on all the responsibility, Xavier Alden’s father grew up with no ambition or skills. He knew only how to eat, drink, and be merry—a textbook wastrel.

When it came time for them to marry, his older brothers all wed and had children, naturally choosing brides from families of equal social standing.

It was the classic case of strategic marriages between powerful families, a union of strength.

Xavier’s father was expected to do the same.

However, at a cocktail party, Xavier’s father fell in love at first sight with a celebrity—the woman who would become Xavier’s mother—and swore he would marry no one but her.

Eventually, his relentless pursuit won her over, and the two started a relationship quite smoothly.

However, the relationship was met with fierce opposition from the Alden Family.

But the more the family disapproved, the more determined the couple became, especially Xavier’s father. He was absolutely dead set on it.

To get his family to agree, he even staged a hunger strike and nearly starved himself to death.

Only after that incident did the Alden Family reluctantly consent to their union.

After they married, they soon had a child—the fruit of their love, Xavier Alden.

However, because of his mother’s background, Xavier was never given much importance in the family.

Of course, part of the reason was his own doing. He was a disappointment who had perfectly emulated his father’s youthful dissipation. He was a master of wining, dining, and womanizing, doing everything short of breaking the law. It seemed the student had truly surpassed the master.

How much of this was just him giving up and leaning into his rotten reputation was anyone’s guess.

Xavier had originally thought he’d spend his whole life like a worthless pile of mud, rotting away while his cousins walked all over him.

That was how it was supposed to be.

But then, the survival game appeared. He was lucky enough to become a player and even obtained a decent card during his very first game.

At first, he thought this would be his chance to rise to prominence, but he abandoned that idea after surviving the first round.

After all, just surviving the game was a matter of luck.

So, he decided against telling his family about it.

Recently, however, his second uncle, who had always looked down on Xavier’s little family of three, had been constantly whispering poison in Old Master Alden’s ear, trying to get them kicked out.

Most importantly, Old Master Alden was clearly tempted by the idea.

Xavier knew his own family’s situation best. With his father’s temperament, he probably wouldn’t last three months without the protection of the Alden Family.

So, to ensure he could continue to have a happy home, Xavier Alden decided he had to do something.

His original plan was to reveal his identity as a player.

After all, in this day and age, even though being a player was dangerous, it still carried a lot of weight.

Especially since, as far as he knew, he was the only player in the entire Alden Family.

Old Master Alden’s sixtieth birthday was in two days, and Xavier had originally planned to make his announcement then.

But now, Xavier Alden suddenly thought, ’Maybe I can up the ante.’

As his biological grandson, even an unfavored one, he knew exactly what Old Master Alden wanted most right now.

With his advancing age, and despite being monitored around the clock by a professional medical team, Old Master Alden’s health had inevitably begun to fail. Minor ailments had appeared, and he was getting weaker by the day.

Therefore, Xavier Alden made up his mind. For his future status in the family, and so his parents could continue to live without a care in the world, he had to get one of those cards, no matter the price of the Vitality Card and the Life Span Card.

Hearing the question, the butler replied in his usual unhurried manner, ”A card from the beauty series costs five Happy Circle Cards. The Vitality Card, Life Span Card, and Health Card are a bit more expensive—they cost ten White Cards.”

As junk cards, Happy Circle Cards were basically worthless.

Seeing everyone’s excited faces, the butler cleared his throat and continued, ”Everyone, please be patient. I haven’t finished. Besides trading with cards, we also accept Gold, jade, and gemstones.”

”Me, me, me! I want three Beauty Cards!” the female player who had first stepped forward to ask exclaimed impatiently.

Perry Yates had previously announced that, in addition to cards, The Card Tavern would also accept Gold, jade, and gemstones for trade.

Because of this, some forward-thinking players had taken the opportunity to collect a fair amount of Gold.