Catastrophe Card King

Chapter 849: Chapter 267: Catastrophe – Ground Roar_2

If any large force were to control this “Divine Ruins Treasure House,” they could certainly create batches and batches of strong fighters.

By contrast, the current Card Master Federation really does seem like beggars scavenging through the wilderness, gathering a hodgepodge of patchwork inheritances.

The Taren Dynasty of the past was born into silk and feasted on jewels.

While Leonard Churchill fought bitterly, his thoughts also began to whirl.

Battling his own shadow and deciding the outcome would take some time,

and he wasn’t in a hurry to do so anymore.

After all, he had to be trapped here, absorbing those terrifying emotions.

Rarely encountering an opportunity to fight with oneself, he increasingly threw caution to the wind and unleashed the “Shepherd Wandering Body Palm,” which was both defensive and offensive.

It was also an opportunity to gradually identify any flaws he might still have.

The longer the battle dragged on, the more combat enlightenment Leonard could gain.

….

It wasn’t just Leonard who triggered a shadow.

Anyone who exceeded the normal combat power of their current tier would trigger one.

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Sophia Jones and her two companions soon encountered the same outside.

Their “shadows” abruptly appeared on the battlefield.

The situation quickly descended into chaos.

The shadows were their respective adversaries,

and what was originally a two-on-one fight now turned into a three-on-three melee and another two-on-one.

Leonard managed to glance at the battlefield outside and let out a slight sigh of relief.

This turn of events was not necessarily worse for Sophia.

Because, strangely, these shadows had not replicated “Domains”!

Seeing this, Leonard began to guess at some possibilities.

Normally, Sixth Tier card masters could not comprehend Domains; those who could were all individuals with extraordinary talent.

This Mysterious Realm was not meant to kill the trial participants but to encourage them to become stronger.

Thus, the “Intermediate Replica Body” was never meant to limit the extraordinary talents who could comprehend Domains, and it did not replicate this ability.

But as a result, for the three legends, the pressure from their shadows was significantly reduced.

Once a Domain was activated, dealing with their own shadows was even easier for them than for Leonard.

Witnessing this scene, Leonard suddenly thought of Barre Shepherd.

Although the old man had comprehended Divine Power and was, in a sense, already a “Demigod,”

he had not fused a Profession Card and his tier was still at the Sixth Tier.

And since the shadow couldn’t even replicate a Domain, let alone Divine Power,

wouldn’t it be a matter of minutes for the old man to dispatch his own shadow?

This Mysterious Realm posed little danger to him, aside from those super-tiered monsters.

Leonard had a feeling that, with Old Shepherd’s sly character, if he hadn’t been delayed, he might have already arrived.

He was just not intervening, probably enjoying the show from the sidelines.

Given the elder’s temperament, he could certainly relish watching Leonard himself take a beating.

Leonard could even picture it: an old man, or maybe two, hidden in a corner watching the fight, occasionally making snide comments, “Oh, this youngster is not bad at all~ To think he has spotted his own weakness…”

As this thought arose, Leonard inexplicably felt relieved and murmured, “Has my comprehension of ‘Intention’ deepened?”

This inexplicable feeling was exactly “Intention.”

It was the sixth sense beyond the “five senses” of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch.

Not only did it sense danger, but it also often had unexplainabvle uses.

…

Outside the Barrier.

In a corner, two old men hid in an inconspicuous spot.

“Oh ho, Merlin, look at that. The kid has good enlightenment, doesn’t he? He even realized this weakness by himself; I thought it would take him years…”

“Indeed, he’s done well. When I first met him, he was a Card Master Apprentice, and I didn’t expect him to progress so surprisingly fast. By the way, Old Shepherd, I thought you had given up teaching disciples?”

“I didn’t take the kid on as a disciple. I just casually taught him a few moves, that’s all.”

“…”

“This ‘Divine Ruins Treasure House’ is indeed as legendary as they say. But when did your Illuminate Association find this treasure? Why not speak up sooner? I’ve been searching outside for decades and never found a Seventh Tier Profession Card that truly suited me. If I had known killing ‘shadows’ would yield rewards, I would’ve been here sooner. Heh, even the ‘Intermediate Replica Bodies’ provide such pleasant surprises; I can only wonder what rewards ‘Advanced Replica Bodies’ might offer…”

“I’ve only just figured out the full extent of this plan as well.”

“That’s also true; all the Pursuers of Light from generation to generation are mysterious and elusive, with plans almost like preordained fate, always conjectured… But after all, ‘Divine Artifacts’ as the legends have it must come at a considerable cost. After this, that Mushroomhead, he probably won’t make it either.”

“Ah…”

“…”

Just as Leonard had guessed, Barre Shepherd and Merlin arrived quickly upon seeing the signal.

The two of them together were virtually invincible in this Mysterious Realm, provided they didn’t encounter the super-tiered monsters.

And it wasn’t just them.

More and more people were drawn to the grand battle.

But what they were more interested in was the fight between Sophia and the other two knights of the Orlan Dynasty.

Such a scene of three legends fighting to the death was not to be seen elsewhere.

Some had even thought about intervening,

But with the appearance of the shadows, now no one dared to interfere.

Not to mention the intensity of the fight that ordinary peak-tier card masters simply had no place meddling in: even if they did go, should they trigger a shadow without a Domain, they might not even be able to beat their own shadows, let alone provide help.

On the other side, Catherine Carter watched with a worried frown.

She didn’t know the situation on Leonard’s side.

But she was certainly the person among the onlookers who least wanted to see Leonard come to harm.