"I don't know if you've ever come into contact with a card artisan, but what I'm saying now is my understanding of battle.
Use your perception to probe! "
Mark Victor, under the protection of the twining thorns, was so angry that he looked like a god of war, with no trace of his usual droopy uncle look.
"Actually, whether it's a close-combat card artisan or a long-range card artisan, the core content is the same, which is attack and defense."
Suddenly, Mark Victor's right leg pulled back a little, and he stepped into a half-squat.
"This is defense!"
Mark Victor bellowed, and the energy thorns around his body abruptly contracted inward, like a spring suddenly tightening. Mark Victor's entire body was protected so tightly that nothing could get through.
The protective circle formed by the pale golden energy thorns suddenly glowed brightly, and the glaring golden light made it impossible to look at it directly, as though it were the sun.
Since he didn't need to worry, Chen Mu's perception spread out to its fullest, and he needed to carefully capture every little change in Mark Victor's energy thorns.
He knew very well how rare it was to have an opportunity like Mark Victor's to let him probe without reservation.
For a card artisan, that was like telling himself all of his weaknesses.
When dealing with card artisans, if you were to release your perception in front of someone else, that would be a very impolite and dangerous move.
It was a signal that you were full of hostility toward him, and if you were to run into a card artisan with a bad temper, he wouldn't hesitate to attack you.
There were many kinds of energy compositions that could emit light, and the composition of the energy was different depending on the color of the light.
Apart from specialized cards like the illumination card, there were very few cards that were specifically designed to emit light.
Generally speaking, the energy composition emitted by a card had its own characteristic of emitting light, or it could be said that the energy composition itself contained an energy composition that could emit light.
But it was said that some aces could emit energy bodies that couldn't be seen with the naked eye. That was because the energy composition had been simplified to the extreme.
But to be able to do that, not only did the card artisan need to have a deep understanding of the composition of energy, but he also needed to have abnormal perceptual control.
That was still too far for Chen Mu, who was just a rookie who had just completed his basic training.
His perception wasn't the least bit affected by the glaring light emitted by the energy thorns, and he could clearly capture every little change in the twining thorns.
The coils of energy thorns were spinning at a shocking speed.
Its coiled spring-like body was rhythmically lengthening and contracting at a strange frequency, which gave Chen Mu the illusion that it seemed to be breathing.
Suddenly, something flashed through Chen Mu's mind. He seemed to have grasped something, but when he thought about it carefully, he didn't get anything.
Just then, he was interrupted by Mark Victor's shout, "This is an attack!"
Like a python that had been waiting for a long time, the energy thorny crystal spear shot out like lightning.
So fast!
Chen Mu's expression changed slightly. Not to mention that he couldn't see it with his naked eye, even his perception couldn't keep up.
Fast as lightning, a stunning strike!
He really couldn't think of anyone who could block such an attack.
Although its attack range was only nine meters, the speed of the attack had already surpassed the flying speed of the tailless shuttle.
Unless you don't let him get close to you, once you enter Mark Victor's attack range, you're basically dead.
He now understood why the energy thorns would maintain a high-speed rotation state. This would greatly increase the initial speed of the thorns.
In the dazzling golden light, he could vaguely see a human form.
Mark Victor's steady voice came from within, "The advantage of this kind of attack is speed.
You have to remember that for us close-combat card artisans, time is extremely short.
You've expended a lot of energy and thought of every way to finally close the distance between you and the enemy.
But, most of the time, you have less than a second.
You need to launch an attack and hit your adversary in that less than a second.
This is a demonstration, and in order to let you see it more clearly, I've slowed it down quite a bit. "
Chen Mu couldn't help but flash a look of horror in his eyes, since that kind of speed was already so fast that he wouldn't be able to react.
But in Mark Victor's mouth, it was only slow motion. Only then did he deeply feel how unfathomable the power of the number one ace at close-combat on the base was.
In the face of such speed, even if Chen Mu knew the weakness of Mark Victor's twining thorns, he still wouldn't have the slightest chance of victory.
Mark Victor's demonstration wasn't over, as his twining thorns changed once again.
"If we run into a defensive-type card artisan, they will generally have a defensive-type energy cloak card. At that time, what we need to consider isn't time, but rather how to increase the power of the attack.
For example, like this. "
The crystal-clear thorns spike suddenly spun like a drill, with a deep, incessant hum.
"Ha!"
Mark Victor exhaled, and the thorns spike spun into a blur, like a rapidly contracting tornado, fiercely blasting toward the target in front of him.
Boom!
The target that had been used for the test split into pieces in an instant, with the fragments flying in all directions.
Chen Mu sucked in a breath of cold air.
What kind of power was that?
Good lord!
What kind of power was that!
Chen Mu mumbled to himself, looking lifelessly at the empty target rack, which had already been completely destroyed by Mark Victor's attack.
The numbers on the screen were jumping wildly, but very quickly it showed the words "Damage Unknown."
The maximum damage that that type of target could take was about 1200.
Thinking of the scene of the last fragments of the target flying in all directions, Chen Mu guessed that the damage from Mark Victor's attack must have been about 1500.
His face was a little pale, since Mark Victor's attack was really too overbearing!
The tailless shuttle card's damage value was 756, which was about half of Mark Victor's attack.
And the hundred blades card that he had made last time was just like a child's toy in front of such an overbearing attack.
A damage of about 1500 would shatter any ordinary four-star energy cloak card, never mind a three-star energy cloak card, and it would shatter like glass shards.
The number one close-combat card artisan on the base certainly deserved his reputation!
And Chen Mu believed that it certainly wasn't Mark Victor's most powerful attack.
He simply couldn't imagine what it would be like if Mark Victor used his most powerful attack.
After seeing Mark Victor's attack, Chen Mu finally understood what it meant to be an ace!
Of all the people he had ever encountered, only the demonic woman and the students from Star Academy could be at that level.
Even that card artisan from the Zuo family, who he had finally killed when he had been cornered, couldn't compare with Mark Victor by a long way.
The golden light had dispersed, and although Mark Victor still looked indifferent, the feeling he gave Chen Mu was completely different from before.
Seeing the look of shock on Chen Mu's face, Mark Victor laughed with some encouragement, "You will be even more awesome than I am!"
Then he solemnly exhorted, "Never be superstitious about cards.
Ha ha, the standard output damage of this twining spinning thorn card is 423. "He had said that last sentence quite lightly.
When those words fell into Chen Mu's ears, it was like a thunderclap.
The so-called standard damage was the damage value of the energy body without any adjustments to the composition of the released energy body.
Chen Mu was very familiar with that value, which card masters would often use, showing the degree of perfection of a card's internal composition.
Mark Victor wouldn't lie to him. For a card with a standard output damage of 423 to be able to produce more than 1,500 damage was enough for Chen Mu to look at Mark Victor with a gaze full of respect.
That showed how profound Mark Victor's understanding of the card's energy composition was.
To be able to make adjustments to the released energy body to increase the damage value by more than a thousand, Chen Mu prostrated himself in admiration.
That was what a real ace was!
Mark Victor then demonstrated a few other techniques, explaining in detail the scope of each technique's application, as well as their tactical thinking.
The two of them were using completely different cards, and the techniques on the technical level didn't have much value for reference.
But the tactical wisdom contained in those techniques was the crystallization of Mark Victor's countless battles, and the value of those things was far greater than the techniques themselves.
Chen Mu listened carefully, afraid to miss a single detail.
Drawing on analogies to comprehend, Chen Mu immediately felt that his horizons had broadened quite a bit after that detailed explanation.
He then realized how lucky he had been to have won those few battles before, and how crude his use of tactics had been throughout the course of the battle.
After an hour, Mark Victor stood up, "That's all for today. Go back and think about it, and we'll start the real battle tomorrow.
You don't have much time, so you'll have to use this method.
I've taught you everything that needs to be taught, and the rest will depend on your own comprehension in battle. "
What he had gained that day was far beyond what Chen Mu had imagined, and he would need quite a long time to digest and absorb them.
None of that knowledge and experience had belonged to him before.
Walking along the road, Chen Mu suddenly remembered when he had been watching Mark Victor's demonstration, and that flash of inspiration in his mind.
What had he thought of at that time?
That feeling must have been that he had thought of something, and certainly something important, otherwise he wouldn't have remembered it so deeply.
But what was it?
Chen Mu simply sat on the floor of the corridor, frowning and thinking hard.