Super Warriors: Battle with Cards

Chapter Eleven: Gymnastics?

Having never encountered such danger before, Chen Mu didn't panic; it wasn't the first time his life had been threatened. During his childhood as a wanderer, along with hunger and cold, there were many dangers. Stray dogs were just as likely to be lethal to a wandering child. And those vicious traffickers saw stray children as nothing more than a piece of meat.

But never before had a danger left Chen Mu feeling so helpless. In his eyes, this illusion card represented the pinnacle of illusion card craftsmanship, utterly unattainable. To a half-baked card maker who had just learned to make one-star illusion cards, it was simply an existence to be looked up to and not surpassed. This feeling of danger wasn't just external; it arose from the deepest recesses of his heart.

Chen Mu forced himself to calm down. He believed that the purpose of making this card would not be to trap the user in the illusion. Because if that were the case, there would be all sorts of harmful attacks inside, rather than the peace currently present. It was only that he hadn't found the key point to exit the illusion.

Without proper training as a card maker, it was unrealistic to try to solve this problem with the knowledge he had. After pondering for a while, Chen Mu decided to use a brute-force method—process of elimination, since there weren't many things in the illusion.

But he had almost touched everything in the illusion just now! None of them had reacted. So where could it be?

The void, the puppets, himself!

A flash of insight struck Chen Mu's mind. Yes, he had been neglecting a possibility all along, and that was himself! Throughout the illusion, in addition to the void and the eighteen puppets, there was also himself!

Chen Mu's gaze fell on his wrist, and suddenly he froze—his wrist-mounted meter was visible! Almost instinctively, Chen Mu pressed the activation button on the meter on his wrist.

Phew, the scenery before him changed, and Chen Mu found himself back in his familiar room.

His legs went weak, and Chen Mu sat on the floor, completely relieved. He was too tired! Right now, he couldn't even muster the energy to move a finger.

Trying those eighteen movements had drained him physically and mentally. His body and mind had undergone a severe test.

Exhausted, Chen Mu fell asleep on the floor.

Chen Mu was awakened by hunger once again! The feeling of waking up hungry was absolutely terrible. Chen Mu hated the feeling of hunger; it was probably a shadow left from his days as a wanderer.

He wasn't picky; he just wanted to eat his fill. Opening the fresh food cabinet, a blast of cold air hit him. The core of the fresh food cabinet was a card capable of cooling, which kept the food fresh. It was inexpensive, but its monthly energy consumption was not insignificant.

Cards like the cooling card in the fresh food cabinet, the heating card in the heat pot, and so on, weren't high-level, only one or two stars, yet they became indispensable parts of people's lives. They could be mass-produced on a large scale, which made their cost even lower.

The application of low-level cards radiated to every aspect of ordinary people's lives. In the world of cards, two masters were undisputed—Rosenberg and Haina Vincent. Master Rosenberg was the first to propose card theory and created the first energy card and illusion card in human history. And Haina Vincent not only developed Rosenberg's illusion card to unprecedented heights but also created many other cards that were quite different from Rosenberg's style.

These two masters reached the pinnacle of the card world.

But in this world, there was also another outstanding figure who radiated an incomparably dazzling light in a different way, being hailed as the master closest to the two masters!

That was Roche! Roche, as a high-level card maker, was so overshadowed by the outstanding card makers in history. But such a card maker ignited an unprecedented revolution in the world of cards. He devoted his entire life to linking cards with the lives of ordinary people. Many cards that were once out of reach entered the lives of ordinary people because of him.

Fresh food cabinets, heat pots, shuttle cars...

He had incredibly ingenious ideas, which brought huge value to those seemingly insignificant one or two-star cards, and people's lives changed drastically because of it. This also greatly improved the lives of many low-level card makers struggling to make ends meet. This also brought him immense wealth, and he was equally wise in his management. His wealth grew like a snowball, and in just a few decades, he became the wealthiest man in the entire Tianyou Federation at that time. Even now, the Roche family remained one of the few noble families in the entire Tianyou Federation.

Roche was a controversial figure; in the eyes of traditional card makers, he was a typical representative of idleness. At the time, Haina Vincent sneered at him and called him "a guy full of copper smell." But in the eyes of many, he was an undisputed genius, a genius of a different kind. That's how he appeared in Chen Mu's eyes.

Breaking conventions wasn't something everyone could do.

Chewing on hard bread, sitting at the table, Chen Mu's gaze fell back on that mysterious card. This enigmatic card was still a mystery. He hadn't found any answers he wanted. He thought that with a three-star energy card, the mystery of this mysterious card would be revealed, but in the end, it was still unclear.

The lifelike illusion in the card cut off all his connections with the surrounding environment, as if it were another world. It almost made him unable to find a way out and still brought him a powerful shock.

So, illusions could reach this level!

Thinking back to the illusion he had created, Chen Mu felt a sense of defeat. But this feeling of defeat only lasted for a few seconds. Chen Mu believed that such an illusion card was absolutely rare today. What followed was a great encouragement. Illusion cards, the most traditional cards in the Tianyou Federation, were indeed powerful!

Subconsciously chewing on hard bread, Chen Mu's mind was full of the eighteen different movements. None of these movements seemed to be attack techniques. Chen Mu wasn't a card repairer, but fighting while wandering was common, and he was quite experienced in it, so he could see at a glance that these eighteen movements had no offensive capabilities.

They all looked a bit like gymnastics or something similar.