Chapter 837: Chapter 264: The Surprising Reward for Killing the Shadow_3
Catherine Carter gave him a look and said solemnly, “You can’t even beat your own ‘Shadow’; do you think we can escape?”
Grousing aside.
Since she had chosen to come along, she intended to help.
With that, she added, “I might as well stay here. In case there really is a problem, I can lend a hand in time.”
“Hmm.”
Leonard Churchill smiled but didn’t say much.
...
This old friend who had been through life and death with him could be trusted as a teammate.
Lew Williams didn’t pretend to be strong. Knowing he couldn’t be of help, he said, “Then Leonard, brother, shall I wait for you over there?”
Leonard nodded.
The two walked away.
Leonard glanced at the two retreating figures as if the matter didn’t concern him and asked, “Did you notice anything?”@@@@
Catherine: “There is a bit of a problem.”
Neither elaborated, but both knew they were referring to the lead “Monica” of the Royal Dance Troupe.
She could pretend on normal days, but at life-or-death moments, a single detail could reveal much.
She didn’t quite seem like a mere decorative actress.
Catherine said, “She might be a professional agent from some force or perhaps a commercial spy. But she did indeed save that fat man’s life before.”
Leonard listened in silence.
He just found it a bit odd.
After thinking it over, Catherine added, “That fat man has a unique business insight. With the wisdom of the Song Family’s old patriarch, he certainly wouldn’t overlook this fat man’s potential. It seems now that the outside world may have all guessed wrong; that important will concerning the Song Family’s future might put this fat man in a very important position. That’s also the most important reason I agreed to cooperate.”
She wouldn’t say this to others but felt no need to hide it from a friend.
Leonard was also surprised when he heard her analysis.
What keen intuition.
A moment later, he straightforwardly said, “He is the next helmsman of the Song Family.”
Leonard’s expression grew even stranger when he heard the explosion—it was the sound of his signature Floating Kicks stomping through the air.
Being a specialty of his own, he could tell the level of it by looking at the posture and was surprised, “The level of Controlling Air is exactly the same...”
If it weren’t for the Blood Plague preventing Transformation,
He thought that the Shadow would likely go for a Werewolf Transformation right away, and its speed would surge significantly.
In the blink of an eye, the Shadow had charged at his face. Leonard saw the Cyclone swirling around ‘his’ fist and muttered, “It can even use the Overlord Fist.”
The punch with its wind-sharp ferocity created an Air Explosion, sounding like a cannon—it was undoubtedly the Tiger Cannon Fist.
The timing of the move, the skill, the battlefield intuition, were all impeccable.
Strength, Agility... all attributes had been perfectly replicated.
In an instant, Leonard observed a lot of useful things.
Normally, facing an enemy exactly like oneself, the odds would be evenly split.
However, Leonard’s expression became subtly odd.
As the wind-sharp fist grazed his cheek, he threw a punch that hit the Shadow squarely in the body.
“Thud!”
The Shadow was blasted away with a single punch.
Leonard looked at his own fist as if he had realized something.
This wasn’t a flaw.
It was precisely because he understood himself so well that Leonard knew if the enemy could anticipate the intention behind such a punch, the seventh rib on the left chest would be a weak point.
But to land the punch there was for another reason.
...
On the other side, Catherine, who was watching the battle, had her heart in her throat, and the Mystery Cards in her hand were nearly squeezed dry.
She watched the fight with full concentration, ready to assist at the first sign of trouble for Leonard.
However, as soon as the fight began, she was struck as if by lightning, standing there dumbstruck.
“This... a crippling blow with just one move?”
Catherine’s eyes widened, utterly shocked by what had unfolded.