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How To Sell Champions On Marvel Contest Of Champions 〈BEST — MANUAL〉

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How To Sell Champions On Marvel Contest Of Champions 〈BEST — MANUAL〉

“But… you can’t sell the same Champion twice,” Lyra whispered, horrified and fascinated.

Lyra left the cantina with her head spinning. Behind her, Kael activated his holo-broker and posted a new listing:

The second buyer was a completionist. A deranged millionaire from Sector 7-G who had every single Champion except the original, pre-buff, utterly pathetic 3-Star Groot. Kael named his price: three Tier 5 Basic Catalysts. The millionaire paid without blinking. how to sell champions on marvel contest of champions

He pointed a thumb at the door, where a line of Summoners was already forming. Some held bags of gold. Others held rare awakening gems. One held a handwritten IOU signed by Thanos himself.

“You don’t sell Champions,” the newbies would say, sipping their overpriced Quantum Brew. “You rank them up. You awaken them. You hoard them.” “But… you can’t sell the same Champion twice,”

“So how do you sell Champions in the Contest?” Kael leaned forward, his voice dropping to a gravelly whisper. “You don’t sell the stats. You sell the potential for a story . The upset victory. The complete collection. The secret synergy that only you understand.”

He slid open a reinforced drawer beneath the counter. Inside, nestled on a bed of shredded ISO-8, were seventeen identical 3-Star Groots. Same signature level. Same dupe count. Same pathetic stats. A deranged millionaire from Sector 7-G who had

He polished a glass with a rag that smelled of burned electronics.

About the Author

Elaine Chiew is a fiction writer and visual arts researcher. She is a two-time winner of The Bridport Prize, amidst other prizes and shortlistings. Her debut short story collection, The Heartsick Diaspora, will be coming out with Myriad Editions (U.K.). She is also the compiler and editor of Cooked Up: Food Fiction From Around the World (New Internationalist, 2015), and has had numerous stories in anthologies and journals. She also writes flash fiction (named Wigleaf Top 50 twice, along other honours). In October 2017, she was the Writer in Residence at Singapore’s premier School of the Arts. She received an M.A. in Asian Art Histories from Goldsmiths, University of London in 2017. In addition to writing freelance on Asian visual arts for magazines like ArtReview Asia, she also blogs about contemporary Asian writers at AsianBooksBlog and the visual arts on her blog, Invisible Flâneuse.

About the Artist

Fanny Cammaert is a digital artist living in Belgium. She adopted the stage name Lizzie Stardust as a member of the electro group Velvet Underwear. Since recording and touring with that group, she began working in visual media. Drawing on the kilim weaving that is part of her Ukrainian heritage, her art explores the interplay of digital patterns and electronic glitches. Thematically, her work brings digital infinity into connection with human emotions.

This story appeared in Issue Sixty-Three of SmokeLong Quarterly.
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