Robert's death was the turning point of the whole battle.
Chen Mu and Wei-ah's attacks were as deadly as blades. In the blink of an eye, they had taken the lives of several card artisans around Lu Xiaoru.
After the first attack, Chen Mu and Wei-ah once again hid.
Since their attacks had no perception or energy fluctuations, they didn't attract the attention of their adversary.
They took the opportunity to continue hiding, waiting for an opportunity.
They were waiting for a chance to strike a fatal blow.
And this time, it was undoubtedly extremely successful.
Several card artisans were killed at the same time, which was a huge blow to the morale of the Downstream Alliance battle card artisans.
The adversary's tenacity was beyond the expectations of these battle card artisans. No one had thought that there would be an ambush!
After Chen Mu threw the dagger in his hand, he didn't hesitate. His whole body leaped out like an arrow from a bow.
This time, he could no longer hide his figure.
But he didn't intend to hide.
The big mud fish jet stream card was brought into full play, and the huge thrust forced him to bend his body and crouch.
As soon as the adversary's energy fluctuations came, Chen Mu staggered, and his body was like a mud fish, swaying and swaying.
Suddenly, he was like a cloud of virtual fog, and his whole body suddenly became indistinct.
The battle card artisan who was ready to attack was aghast. He found that his perception couldn't lock on to his adversary.
His adversary's movements were too fast, and because of the continuous high-speed changes, the airflow around his body was turbulent, which caused great interference to the locking of perception.
It wasn't a secret that continuous high-speed changes could cause interference to perception. On the contrary, it was common knowledge to every card artisan.
But there were pitifully few card artisans who could make a fuss about it.
Everyone understood the principle, but there weren't many who had the ability to do it.
On the one hand, it required very strong perceptual control.
Several continuous changes in direction were completed in a very short time, which meant that the perception had to operate the jet stream card in reverse several times.
The more changes in direction, the more difficult it was to control the perception.
On the other hand, the card artisan who used this tactical move needed a strong body.
The faster the flying speed, the more rapid the changes in direction, and the more continuous changes in direction, the better the effect of this tactic would be.
But at the same time, the pressure on the body would be greater.
If a card artisan whose body wasn't strong enough forcibly used continuous changes in direction beyond the scope of his ability, it was highly likely that it would cause the brain to explode due to high blood pressure.
So, when this battle card artisan found that his perception couldn't lock on to his adversary, it was no wonder he was so shocked.
An expert!
This was the first thought that flashed through his mind.
The strength of the card artisan leaping toward him was far beyond his imagination.
As far as he was concerned, only those famous card artisans in the card artisan tournament centers in the big cities could do it.
Dying in the hands of such an expert was probably not an injustice.
This was the last shred of consciousness in his mind.
Quietly approaching, Chen Mu didn't make any mistakes. His right hand floated with an extremely weak layer of pale green light, and he lightly swiped it across the neck of the swiftly retreating enemy.
After doing all this, he didn't stop and pounced on the next enemy.
Compared to Chen Mu's erratic weirdness, Wei-ah had a different style.
His movements were simple and direct. There was nothing fancy about his movements, they were plain and unadorned.
His attacks had two distinct characteristics. One was speed, and the other was weight.
Chen Mu's movements were already fast enough, but Wei-ah was undoubtedly a cut above.
His movements weren't as erratic and strange as Chen Mu's. They were straightforward, but they were fast, so fast that people couldn't react.
Up until then, every time he made a move, he had never missed, which was evident.
Each of Wei-ah's attacks seemed casual and understated, but when they landed on the enemy's body, it was like being hit head-on by a swinging heavy hammer.
Whenever Wei-ah defeated his opponents with his bare hands, their corpses would always show unnatural distortions.
The sudden appearance of Chen Mu and Wei-ah turned the power balance of the entire battle upside down.
The morale of the Downstream Alliance's battle card artisans was low, but what surprised Chen Mu was that none of those battle card artisans had fled.
In all the battles he had experienced, he had never encountered anyone who hadn't fled after being hit to that extent.
Those card artisans in front of him and those who were fighting head-on were simply not from the same power.
But he felt relieved after thinking about it. Those who could be appointed to carry out a sneak attack mission were naturally the cream of the crop.
Lu Xiaoru and the rest weren't any less tenacious than their adversary.
That blow just then had drained the last bit of strength in her body.
She fell limply to the ground and directly fainted.
In the blink of an eye, two more card artisans had been injured, but their adversaries weren't much better off, either, having been seriously injured at the same time.
They had already done their best.
To tell the truth, the gap between them and their adversary wasn't just a little.
The reason they had been able to stalemate until then and still effectively kill their adversary was largely because of the existence of Chen Mu and Wei-ah.
Apart from those two, even the strongest of the nine, Lu Xiaoru and the bar-browed man, were slightly inferior to the strength of the enemy's ordinary team members.
However, Lu Xiaoru's Sound Beam was extremely rare, and it complemented the bar-browed man who was good at assassination.
Apart from Chen Mu and Wei-ah, the two of them had killed the most card artisans.
However, although the strength of the other card artisans wasn't good enough, they had a tacit understanding and had effectively restrained part of the enemy's power.
But the gap between their individual strength and that of the adversary's card artisans was too great, and that was all they could do.
The adversary's card artisans' perceptual strength was all above level five, and there were even five card artisans with level six perception.
If that kind of power had been placed in the ordinary residential district, it wouldn't have been a problem to sweep a city.
But, although those card artisans' individual strength was strong, most of them fought alone, which gave the card artisans under Chen Mu an opportunity to take advantage of.
Apart from further reducing the adversary's advantage in numbers, the two attacks by Chen Mu and Wei-ah had also dealt a huge psychological blow to the enemy.
Killing the first card artisan head-on had taken Chen Mu most of his strength.
He had done it with great difficulty while being pincered by the five enemies.
But, his confidence had soared after his success.
Fighting against those enemies, he didn't have the powerful and seemingly omnipresent sense of oppression he had when fighting against Wei-ah.
Although it was a little difficult, he had still succeeded.
Very quickly, he got used to that kind of battle rhythm and became more and more at ease.
One, two, three …
When the battle was nearing its end, Chen Mu was stunned to discover that he seemed to have suddenly become so powerful that even he couldn't believe it.
Not long ago, he had almost been forced into a desperate situation when he was facing Xiaobo alone.
The strength of those Downstream Alliance card artisans wasn't inferior to Xiaobo's, but how could he have won so easily that time?
All along, he hadn't had any desire to win.
As far as card artisans were concerned, he had only chosen them because he had no other choice.
Moreover, he had always thought that he hadn't received formal systematic training and couldn't be considered a real card artisan.
He had only figured out a few unorthodox ways, and that was under Wei-ah's coercion. It was like squeezing out toothpaste, which he had squeezed out.
What he had asked of himself was very simple.
He would be satisfied if he could hold out for three minutes in a one-on-one confrontation with Wei-ah.
But, looking at that goal at the moment, it seemed to be very far away.
But, just by relying on his half-baked strength, he had actually been able to kill so many card artisans …
He still didn't know that the card artisans he had killed weren't as simple as elite card artisans, but battle card artisans who had been professionally appraised.
His movements were very fast.
The ever-changing nature of the Big Mud Fish had been brought into full play by him.
In the dark, Chen Mu's figure was erratic and strange. Coupled with the "pseudo breath control," he was simply like an assassin walking in the dark, which was impossible to guard against.
In the perception of the enemy card artisans, Chen Mu appeared and disappeared like a ghost drifting in the wind.
And once he got within a ten-meter range, you would find that no matter how you changed direction, you couldn't get rid of that ghostly shadow.
You could only watch helplessly as the adversary closed in on you.
If you hadn't put up your energy cloak when he got within ten meters, then you would be dead.
Wei-ah was more efficient than Chen Mu. Even Chen Mu felt a chill when he occasionally glanced at him casually.
Wei-ah didn't restrain his murderous aura, which seemed to materialize and made people feel as though they had fallen into an ice cellar.
He was like a cold-blooded and heartless butcher, or perhaps a machine specialized in harvesting lives, fighting silently and indifferently.
Sticking close to the ground, Chen Mu didn't use the jet stream card. He bent over and quietly snuck behind his adversary.
That was the last card artisan. If he could successfully kill him, they would be even closer to complete victory.
Ten meters.
Staring at his adversary's back, Chen Mu's expression was focused as he calculated the distance between them.
A distance of ten meters was the best distance for him to launch an attack.
His legs suddenly exerted force, and the jet stream card was pushed to the maximum at the same time.
A huge thrust made him turn into an arrow, shooting toward his adversary.
His adversary seemed to have suddenly woken up and hurriedly leaped forward, hoping to pull away from Chen Mu.
But for Chen Mu, who had already launched his attack, that kind of resistance was futile.
That was exactly what Chen Mu had expected.
Suddenly, a slight energy fluctuation was produced in front of him.
Chen Mu's expression suddenly changed.