Catastrophe Card King - Chapter 976 - Chapter 976: Chapter 301 Swamp Encounters Sophia Jones Again
Chapter 976: Chapter 301 Swamp Encounters Sophia Jones Again
In the following days, whenever he had the chance, Leonard Churchill would go and chat with Aragon.
He looked for opportunities to carry out a rescue and also discussed various transcendental knowledge.
The Frederick family to which Aragon belonged had carried on a heroic bloodline for thousands of years, inherently passing down many ancient secrets unknown to others.
Perhaps because Leonard had saved Alice, Aragon didn’t shy away from any topics and answered almost every question.
Leonard also learned much interesting knowledge about the Southern Continent, the world, and the pathways to transcendence.
Every “Hero” is destined to lead an extraordinary life.
Aragon’s ancestors played various historical roles — adventurers, dragon slayers, exorcists, saviors, generals…
Many of them were renowned figures in the history of the Southern Continent.
Those epic stories only heard from bards in taverns were, for Aragon, just oral accounts of his forebears.
Leonard felt that merely listening to those stories was a very wonderful experience.
It was like the protagonist of a novel recounting his thrilling adventures in the book right in front of the reader.
Leonard had a rudimentary understanding of the Time Rule.
Listening to the stories was like watching history pour into reality, giving him a magical sensation of traversing through history.
He saw the lines of fate for each “Hero” within those stories.
And he saw how heroes in the world’s grand script affected countless other lines of fate.
Some people are destined to shine brightly. “Heroes” are such beings, inevitably one of the few standing at the pinnacle of their era.
Besides these discussions,
they also talked about the Demon God Secret Skill “Celestial Godfall”.
Previously, in the “Battle of Ironforge”, Leonard had obtained only a section of the introductory mantra for this Secret Skill.
But Aragon’s family possessed a bronze fragment of this Secret Skill.
Although the Secret Skill inscribed on the bronze piece was also incomplete, it held much more than what Leonard had obtained.
And after thousands of years of contemplation and practical use, the family had amassed innumerable insights and techniques for deploying this Demon God Secret Skill.
Normally, discussing one’s personal cultivation Secret Skill was a very private matter.
Yet Aragon was sharing without any reservation.
What Leonard didn’t know was that Aragon initially offered to share some transcendental knowledge because of their collaboration and as gratitude for saving Alice.
But later, it was because Aragon found that they were kindred spirits.
He saw certain traits in Leonard that Leonard himself wasn’t even aware he possessed.
And coincidentally, Leonard happened to have the “Power Gem Golden Sphere”, a legendary cultivation relic exclusive to “Celestial Godfall”.
Aragon strongly felt that it was destiny.
…
“Plague Marsh” was much like the “Relics of Summer Shepherd City” Leonard had visited before.
There were few Alternate Dimension spaces here; instead, it was itself a vast outdoor Mysterious Realm.
The marsh was filled with strange creatures. There were also monsters of “unknown tiers” and ancient Restrictions, making the death rate for explorers quite high.
To card masters from the East Continent, this place might indeed be considered “forbidden”, beyond their ability to challenge.
But there were not a few top-tier card masters in the Ariel Empire.
As time went by and the main forces of mercenaries and hunters from the Red Dragon Kingdom arrived, such open Mysterious Realms would eventually be subdued.
Leonard’s original plan was to wait and gather information, to see if there was a suitable opportunity within the Mysterious Realm to rescue Toad.
The situation had been like this for the past few days.
Hunting Teams, leading War Slaves, forged ahead deeper and deeper.
People gradually ventured into the central area of the marsh, unearthing a wealth of ancient artifacts and bringing out a lot of intelligence.
Leonard analyzed this data every day, discussing with Aragon whether any of it was suitable.
But before a chance could present itself, an accident happened.
That day,
in the camp of the Viper group, Leonard was packing up his gear.
Recently, the higher-ups of the Red Dragon Kingdom had released many missions to explore deeper into the marsh, and just in time, the main force of the Viper group had arrived, preparing to move out.
However, a sudden explosion and shockwave rocked the entire camp.
“Boom!” Deafening.
The shockwave rolled over tent after tent, like a wave overturning boats.
Adventurers looked towards the depths of the marsh, abuzz with speculation.
“What happened?”
“That shockwave… looks like the work of those folks from the East Wilderness. I heard that someone spotted people from the East Wilderness in the Relics a couple of days ago. General Heman of the Thorny Snake Corps even personally went to capture them. It looks like we have some results today…”
“…”
Leonard, picking up on the faint smell of gunpowder in the shockwave, understood what had happened.
Although there had been sporadic sounds of fighting from inside the marsh these past days, the noise from a bomb explosion was still quite distinctive.
People from the Southern Continent don’t use bombs.
It could only have been people from the East Wilderness.
“Strange… just who is in the marsh?”
Leonard squinted slightly, deep in thought: “Judging by the magnitude of the explosion, it should be the ‘K35 Magic Energy Bomb’ that detonated. Such military-controlled explosives aren’t easy for ordinary people to get their hands on.”
He had actually heard about the discovery of an East Continent card master in the relics yesterday but didn’t pay much heed to it.
After all, Leonard had communicated the situation here to Catherine Carter, and the “Alliance Army” wouldn’t send anyone over.
Thoughts drifted to some unfamiliar forces; he hadn’t been too concerned.
But now, witnessing the explosion,
Leonard had this inexplicable feeling that something was off, as if the conflict involved him somehow.
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