Her eyes suddenly lit up. Why didn't she just fly up into the sky?
Her perception was about the same as her adversary's, but she was far worse in terms of perceptual control. They weren't on the same level at all.
Could this be the true power of a professional card artisan?
Chen Mu couldn't keep his calm any longer, and his face was full of amazement.
Could it be that she had seen some terrifying illusion?
Chen Mu shook his head to himself.
The so-called fantasy cards were mostly one-star or two-star fantasy cards, but they were really too realistic, just like the real environment. People with weak minds would often be confused by the illusion.
But which one of those card artisans didn't have a mind as firm as iron?
In the shadows, when her adversary raised his face to look at her, that blurry but strange face and those slightly squinting eyes seemed to be suddenly branded into her brain.
She also knew that the face must have been a mask, but whenever she thought of that image — that slightly raised, blurry and strangely distorted face and those eyes in the dark shadows — a bone-piercing chill instantly exploded from her tailbone!
Although those energy bodies were small and not difficult to control, when there were more than 20 of them, the difficulty increased exponentially.
Moreover, she wasn't only controlling the direction of those 20 energy bodies, but also the high-speed collision between them, which demanded a high degree of precision.
Although there were only 20 or so small energy bodies, the power of the explosion was still amazing, and the momentum was spectacular.
Butchie's two companions were also affected, and they were thrown far away by the blast.
By then, Chen Mu was like a seasoned hunter, calm and without a trace of panic. He hid in the shadows and watched his adversary.
He probably didn't even know that his squinting action was somewhat similar to Wei-ah's.
That was Butchie's Charging Rain Blast!
Although he was amazed, Chen Mu still paid attention to maintaining his concealment.
Apart from his amazement, he couldn't help but feel pity.
He felt pity for the red-clothed female card artisan, who probably wouldn't have much luck that time.
His concealment was also very successful, and the female card artisan who arrived later didn't find him that time.
Now that he thought about it, he had just been discovered because he happened to be in her adversary's flight path.
Lu Xiaoru didn't look down on those energy bodies because they were small; her adversary was a card artisan assassin.
In that era, there was no room for a card artisan assassin who wasn't outstanding enough to survive.
Her adversary certainly had some extraordinary means.
Could it be that all card artisan assassins gave off such a strong sense of oppression?
What a dangerous fellow!
Furthermore, the calmness and composure displayed by the other party also left a deep impression on her.
The other thing that surprised her was his movement, or rather the way he walked.
Butchie had never seen such a strange way of walking. It felt like she was gliding along the ground.
Thinking back to the position where he had been lying in ambush just now, where he could see Lu Xiaoru, she felt that she was right.
This was an original tactic created by Butchie.
The power of the tiny tadpole-shaped energy bodies was limited, and they couldn't even break through the energy cloak of a slightly more powerful card artisan.
Thus, she came up with this method to control a large number of energy bodies in an extremely small area, and then the energy bodies would attack each other intensively.
In this way, the energy body would become abnormally berserk and cause a shockingly powerful explosion!
Another fatal aspect of it was that it could produce an extremely high temperature that could not be measured. A slightly weaker energy barrier would not be able to withstand such a high temperature.
At the same time that Butchie discovered him, Chen Mu also discovered her.
He was in a surprisingly good state today, and his senses were much sharper than usual.
He was full of curiosity about the card of the red-dressed female card artisan, which had nothing to do with necessity. It was entirely a research hobby of his.
The other thing that made him feel regret was her card.
Her attack method was very strange, and Chen Mu had never seen anything like it.
He speculated that the red-dressed female card artisan must have used a very unique card to achieve such an effect.
He had originally intended to find a way to capture her. Apart from investigating her objective, he also wanted to see what kind of card it really was.
Her adversary's shuttle had locked onto her throat.
Even though it had shattered the energy cloak, its direction had been inevitably affected by the obstruction of the energy cloak. What had been a fatal blow had become a hit on her shoulder.
The other kind of fantasy card was much rarer and of a much higher grade.
For example, the mysterious card that Chen Mu had obtained was a very high-grade fantasy card.
Once you entered the fantasy realm it formed, all your perception of reality would be cut off.
You would not be able to hear what others were saying to you, nor would you be able to hear what was right in front of you.
Most of those fantasy cards had been handed down from ancient times, and no one had ever heard of anyone making them.
Everyone who had been to the assassins would never want to go there a second time.
Although Butchie had never been to the assassins, she had heard quite a few rumors about them.
She had once asked big brother Hugo about that question, and she had learned that the path of advancement for such card artisans was a lot more difficult than for ordinary card artisans.
The things they studied were too diverse, which limited their later development. That was also why the number of truly top-notch card artisans could be counted on one hand.
The power of the tadpole card wasn't considered powerful for her at that time, but because she had used it for a long time, she was already familiar with the card to the point where she couldn't be more familiar.
She couldn't be more familiar with this card. From the energy bodies that were not far from her, it could be seen how powerful her control over this card was.
She had also comprehended a few new energy compositions, which not only greatly increased the power of the tadpole card, but also greatly increased the variety of its tactics.
Although her adversary's attack was powerful, she had long since been prepared, so she wasn't in a difficult position.
What made her most ecstatic was that she had sensed her adversary's position.
The most terrifying part of battling with card artisans was that you couldn't accurately lock onto them. You couldn't even figure out where they were hiding.
Once you had determined their position, they weren't even as good as ordinary card artisans.
If he had used his physical strength, there would certainly have been a bouncing and landing motion, but he hadn't.
If he had used a jet stream card, Butchie had seen him draw on the strength of his legs.
Moreover, her adversary's position was erratic and hard to predict.
Butchie wasn't sure if she would be able to lock onto her adversary once he moved.
Lu Xiaoru's expression was a little ugly, and her left shoulder was dark red. It looked like she had been injured.
Butchie was a little curious about who had hurt her.
With just a few glances, she had determined that Lu Xiaoru's skills were about the same level as her own.
Apart from herself, everyone else on the battlefield who could hurt her was in the midst of a fierce battle.
If ordinary card artisans wanted to hurt her, they would have to work together. But if that were the case, she would have been wounded all over.
She had spent a lot of time on that card. Ever since she had been able to use three-star cards, she had started to use the tadpole.
As her power continued to increase, the card was no longer suitable for her.
The eldest had come looking for her specifically about that matter, but she had still insisted on using the tadpole.
Thinking about that, he couldn't help but feel ashamed of himself. The tailless shuttle hadn't changed much in his hands, and he was still using its most primitive and simplest methods.
Chen Mu suddenly felt he was wasting God's gift.
Suddenly, Chen Mu moved. Like an agile leopard cat, he suddenly shot out from the shadows. His feet exerted force, and the big mud fish card was brought into full play by him. After a series of erratic zigzags, he disappeared between the broken walls in the space of a breath.
If he hadn't known that his perception had greatly increased during that time, he was afraid he wouldn't have been able to match up to his adversary's.
Calmly comparing them, Chen Mu shockingly discovered that he wasn't her adversary.
But, what was strange was that he didn't feel any fear.
His current state of mind was like a different person from when he had just encountered Lu Xiaoru. There wasn't the least bit of the panic that a novice would have.
That guy had finally made a move!
At the same time, she finally breathed a sigh of relief.
People were like that. When the adversary didn't make a move, it was when the pressure was the greatest. Once the adversary made a move, the pressure would be greatly reduced.
Lu Xiaoru's attention was focused on the sudden attack behind her, and she had actually thrown her fear to one side.
After a few seconds, she saw Lu Xiaoru.
In the shadows, that strange slightly raised mask flashed uncontrollably in her mind. She seemed to have seen a flash of cold light in the eyes behind the mask!
That was due to its special composition. The wavy blades were formed by energy oscillating at the same frequency, so the energy would often collapse in the middle.
The higher the frequency of the oscillation, the thinner it would be, and the more shocking its power would be.
Moreover, they were always vibrating at a low amplitude at a high frequency, which could easily cut through hard alloys.
Because of what big brother Hugo had said, she didn't have any fear of the card artisan assassin.
But, when she was really facing a card artisan with that style, she finally understood the powerful sense of oppression they had, which ordinary card artisans couldn't have.
Chen Mu didn't feel too sad about a life disappearing in front of him, since he had already seen that kind of situation many times.
What he needed to consider just then was that once the woman was dead, there would be no way to know the purpose of her attack.
A feeling of danger instantly made the hair on Lu Xiaoru's body stand up.
It was the first time she had seen such a small energy body, and she sighed in admiration at how extraordinary her adversary's methods were.
Generally speaking, the volume of an energy body was proportional to its power, and the more energy it contained, the larger its volume.
Of course, there were some exceptions, such as the wavy blade card. Although a wavy blade with greater penetrating power wasn't necessarily smaller, it was usually thinner.
Chen Mu's spirit was roused. The red-clothed female card artisan wasn't dead!
Wasn't that kind of formless and immaterial attack what he hadn't understood all along?
Without waiting for him to finish summing it up, he saw Butchie's Charging Rain Burst!
If it wasn't an illusion card, what was it?
Could it be him?
Butchie's heart was pounding!
She didn't rush out but quietly and very slowly released the tadpole-shaped energy bodies. Her battle card was called the Tadpole, a three-star battle fantasy card.
Once the energy bodies were released, they were like tadpoles entering the water, lively and abnormally agile.
But since each energy body was very small, the energy fluctuations they produced were also very small.
In the entire course of the battle, the moment a card artisan released the energy bodies would produce the largest energy fluctuations.
Once the energy bodies were released, their energy fluctuations would gradually diminish, making it hard to detect.
Dozens of tadpole-shaped energy bodies gathered around Butchie, as though they were being attracted by something.
Hugo had said that a card artisan really only needed one card in his life.
If you could delve into any card's energy composition to the extreme, then you could bring out its power to the extreme.
Once all the cards reached the extreme, there wouldn't be any difference in power.
He was immediately stunned by such a wild explosion!
Compared to the soundless explosion caused by the beam of light emitted by the man with the half-face mask, that explosion was undoubtedly more visually impactful.
Bright red flames rumbled loudly, and the ground trembled violently. The blast wave of that explosion, in addition to the powerful airflow carrying gravel, also had a threatening heat!
Chen Mu was about 30 meters away from the site of the explosion, and he could still feel the scorching heat from such a distance.
Butchie looked at the place where Chen Mu had disappeared with lingering fear.
She didn't know what that guy was really doing there, but she hoped he wasn't an enemy. Butchie was lost in her thoughts.
She was shocked to the extreme, to the point that she could only watch as the other person calmly left without any reaction.
Such a reaction would be a fatal and low-level mistake for an experienced professional card artisan.
But she wasn't in the mood to think about that. She felt a little cold when she thought back to that scene.
Through the orange energy cloak, he could see the pained expression of the woman inside. She seemed to be enduring severe pain, but Chen Mu didn't see the slightest trace of injury.
Almost unconsciously, she released the energy cloak she had prepared long ago.
That card artisan assassin's attack was ferocious, and the effect of the energy cloak was rather limited. But if it hadn't blocked it for her, she was afraid she would already be dead!
Lu Xiaoru's mind was taut, and she didn't dare to relax.
She could still clearly feel the vibration of the signal ball through her waist bag.
The two of them looked at each other for a few seconds.
On that ever-changing battlefield, a few seconds was a long time.
But the air between the two of them seemed to be frozen, and neither of them made any sound.
In order to increase the surprise of the attack, Butchie had deliberately slowed down the speed at which she released the energy bodies. After they were released, they didn't take the initiative to attack the target as they usually did. Instead, they swam around Butchie's body.
The other side of the hole pointed straight at Butchie, who was shrouded in the energy cloak.
At the same time, Butchie's orange energy cloak suddenly vibrated violently. It vibrated at a high frequency, and the materialized energy cloak made a buzzing sound.
She couldn't wait to fly into the sky where the battle was the most intense. Although it was dangerous there, she could get rid of that guy hiding in the dark.
Even Hugo couldn't stop praising its power. Since it was a sneak attack, Butchie had only released about 20 or 30 energy bodies.
The most she had released was nearly 70 energy bodies, and then she had suddenly launched the Countercharge Rain Explosion.
That explosion had turned the training ground that had been specially used to experiment with explosions into ruins.
Since then, the number of people pursuing Butchie had plummeted, and she had gone from being a good girl in everyone's eyes to becoming a famous female tyrannosaurus in the organization.
Those thoughts flashed through her mind like lightning.
It had been a long time since she'd had such distracting thoughts in the middle of a battle. It looked like the impact from that card artisan just then had been strong enough. Butchie smiled bitterly to herself.
But she finally displayed the good mental qualities of an outstanding card artisan. She quickly cast aside all the distracting thoughts and focused all her attention on the battle that was about to begin.
The sound of the explosion was really frightening. Even the card artisans who were fighting fiercely in the distant sky had noticed the commotion there, though not one of them had come over.
No one dared to touch that female tyrannosaurus.
Just as Chen Mu was inwardly regretting it, the situation on the battlefield suddenly changed.
That kind of fantasy card was hard to come by, and those used in battle were even rarer.
Rather than suffer that kind of torment there, it would be better to go to the melee in the sky.
The melee in the sky was unbearable, but in her eyes, it was still better than that place where there were shadows everywhere and dangers lurking everywhere.
That kind of pressure, which she couldn't see and which wasn't present from time to time, was so overwhelming that she could hardly breathe.
It was like there was a pair of eyes in the dark staring at her until her scalp went numb.
But if it was a fantasy card, then what was up with that hole in the flame?
Lu Xiaoru had been ready to release the energy cloak to guard against Chen Mu's sneak attack.
But she had never thought that what she had been waiting for wasn't Chen Mu's sneak attack but Butchie's.
Hong!
But she quickly recovered her composure. She still needed to rescue her companions in front of her, and that wasn't the time to let her imagination run wild.
She composed herself and continued to quietly approach Lu Xiaoru.
Chen Mu didn't leave but switched to another place.
He felt he had a certain degree of certainty in taking down that red-clothed female card artisan, so he decided to stay.
Sure enough, when those tiny energy bodies were about three meters away from her, they suddenly became like sharks smelling blood, and they abruptly converged at a point in front of her.
The sudden change caught her off guard. She didn't understand what the purpose of those energy bodies were doing that.
What surprised Chen Mu the most was Butchie's abnormal perceptual control.
Chen Mu didn't let go of any details of the battle between the two of them.
Butchie's tactic made his eyes light up.
Chen Mu could roughly guess what kind of card she was using, but it was exactly because of that that he praised such a unique and creative tactic.
He hadn't thought those unremarkable energy bodies could release such enormous power after going through such a collision.
A hole suddenly appeared in the middle of the red flame, a hole about ten centimeters in diameter.
There wasn't a trace of flame in that empty area. Chen Mu could clearly see a pair of hands, a hand wearing an apparatus.
But whether it was because of the high temperature or some other reason, the light seemed to be a little distorted.
She wasn't as surprised as Lu Xiaoru about the assassin card artisans.
There was a special assassination unit in the organization, and the people inside were all like that.
It was said that even their living quarters were pitch-black and gloomy.
Those people walked without making a sound.
When you were in the assassination unit, you wouldn't even know how many assassin members had passed by you during the time you were there.
Butchie's face was a little pale.
A mass of scorching flames suddenly rose up and enveloped Lu Xiaoru.
The bright red flame was like a monster showing its hideous face, its volume expanding and rising at a shocking speed.
Even Butchie, who had launched the attack, released an energy cloak to protect herself from being burned by the hot airflow that swept over.
Her perception was firmly locked in on her adversary, and she believed he couldn't escape!
Where was he?
Lu Xiaoru felt she was about to go crazy. Where was that assassin card artisan hiding in the shadows hiding in ambush?
Every shadow and darkness seemed to be emitting a sinister chill.
Glancing at the two card artisans not far away, she revealed a cold smile at the corner of her mouth. I'm not going to play with you!
The middle-aged man who had used the blue polar snake-line card that day was really awesome.
The blue polar snake-line card was a very ordinary card, but in the hands of that middle-aged man, not only was its power astonishing, but it had endless transformations that made people gasp in amazement.
Big brother Hugo said there weren't many card artisans in the assassination unit who could harm her.
The most famous was none other than the Star in the hands of the president of the Star Academy. It had been made by the great master Heiner Van Sant and was one of the most famous and powerful cards in the entire federation.
That was one of the reasons why the Star Academy was still one of the Big Six despite its decline.
But, before she could kill her adversary to vent her hatred, she had to dodge that wave of attacks first.
Her perception was like a fog pervading around her body. The little energy bodies that were lunging at her were shockingly fast and extremely nimble.
Just as Lu Xiaoru was about to get rid of them, a sudden change occurred, and her expression changed!
In the shadows, he raised his head and slightly narrowed his eyes.
He recognized Butchie. When he had just been watching the battle, he had discovered how awesome that female card artisan was.
Her understanding of energy and control of perception were things he couldn't hope to match.
That meant that person was still nearby!