Chapter 845 - Fate Exploration
They’re there.
Rhode narrowed his eyes and raised Gracier and Madaras’s cards. Shortly after, an interwoven thread of green and white emerged in midair, merging into a straight line that pointed to the depths of the abyss. Rhode nodded in satisfaction before putting the two cards away and continuing his journey toward the underground tunnel.
After defeating the Crystal Brute, the amount of EXP he received brought him to level 62 and he had a total of four skill points now. But after serious consideration, he didn’t use the four skill points on his passive talents. Instead, he had chosen to use them on one of the talents in the fourth stage—[Fate Exploration].
[Fate Exploration: Can be activated when the holder’s card deck fills its quantity by more than one-third. Appoint the card deck for exploration (Duration: LV1/LV2/LV3)]
This was one of the Spirit Swordsman’s top talents in the Summoning Master talent tree. Through activating this talent, Rhode could specify a deck with more than one-third of cards to confirm the location of the remaining card spirits. This way, Rhode could fill up the entire deck and receive the full force of a complete deck. Currently, he didn’t consider strengthening his skills and masteries of his swordsmanship as it wasn’t necessary at this juncture. Instead, he focused all the four skill points onto this talent because he possessed one of the most powerful card decks possible.
“How interesting…”
Rhode shook his head with a bitter smile as he gazed at the cards. Come to think of it, this was his first time taking the initiative to fill up his card deck. Among the four holy sword cards, he had gotten Star Mark first, followed by Succubus which he obtained out of pure luck. He received Gracier and Madaras from Lydia and received the other ‘Christie’s’ guidance to turn them into card spirits. He had never taken the initiative to search for holy sword cards because firstly, he didn’t know where to find them, and secondly, he didn’t have the time to. Now that the truce was in place, it naturally became his priority to search for the remaining cards. If he was lucky enough to gather all the 10 cards, he could take his strength to the next level and wouldn’t be afraid of even the four legendary generals!
“Fear will only make one miserable~ I’m not afraid no more, not afraid no more…”
Rhode hummed the mixed tune from a collection of old songs as he casually strolled toward the underground tunnel. It would be interesting if one were to only hear the lyrics. But it was an entirely different matter with that poker face of his. Anne and Lesa gazed at each other curiously. They figured that Rhode was singing, but they couldn’t understand at all. However, this didn’t stop Anne from humming along with him. This melody was simple enough, wasn’t it?
“Hmph!”
However, with Anne and Lesa around, he didn’t regard these Imps highly at all. He merely grumbled before shifting his attention to the devil standing before him. Although he was aware that it was the angels’ seal that completely blocked off the Devil Gulf’s entrance and exit, the fish net might fail to keep the small fishes away despite trapping the big fishes. The devils had never given up on sneaking through the chinks, so it wasn’t strange to meet a few fishes that slipped through the net.
But… These fishes were just too small and weak.
“Grrrrr!”
The devil who had lost one of its arms charged toward him, raising and brandishing its other arm in blazing flames. But Rhode wasn’t in the mood to dodge at all. He wielded Star Mark and his eyes glinted in a shimmering radiance.
Shing!
The criss-cross sword rays ripped through the scarlet flames and punctured the devil’s body. This time, before the devil shrieked in pain, its shredded body flinched and bulged like a balloon immediately—exploding out of a sudden.
Boom———!
The violent explosion filled with flames and air current resounded in the tunnel. The deep explosions rang in his ears while his feet shook to the trembling ground. Filthy dust scattered and the Imps who couldn’t avoid the explosion were caught in it.
“Cough… This is why I hate these things…!”
Rhode stretched out his arm and waved away the dust around him. He gritted his teeth and retrieved a card. Shortly after, the Spirit Bird emerged behind him and flapped its wings to clear the dust away.
——!
But before Rhode could catch his breath, he heard a series of heavy footsteps from the other tunnel, where a dozen fully-armored soldiers ran out from it.
Indeed. Just like the movies. The police and army only showed up after the crisis ended.
Rhode let out a helpless sigh at the sight of the dazzled soldiers.