Chapter 839: Chapter 265: Sophia Jones’s Domain – Descending Gods


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    Leonard Churchill had slain his own “shadow,” and received a reward that surprised even him given his current level of experience.


    Now, he had begun to understand that this “Divine Ruins Treasure House” was likely a mysterious realm created by some ancient major powers to pass on transcendental knowledge to card masters.


    Moreover, the reward mechanism was fair to everyone who entered this mysterious realm.


    No matter the tier of the card master, as long as you could defeat your own replica, you would receive a reward.


    Leonard Churchill also made a point of asking Catherine Carter about the situations of the others.


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    If someone else helped to kill your shadow, the reward would be much less.


    This mysterious realm seemed to encourage card masters to challenge themselves, to find their own weaknesses and improve, while also obtaining fitting rewards.


    The higher the difficulty, the more rewards you would get.


    This made Leonard Churchill even more eager to challenge higher difficulty shadows.


    “Junior replica” had awarded a skill enhancement card.


    So, could there be “Intermediate” and “Advanced” ones as well?


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    A battle that was expected to be extremely perilous, ended easily.


    This left Lew Williams and Monica, watching from afar, utterly speechless.


    Lew Williams wasn’t shy, and directly asked, “Brother Leonard Churchill, how come it seemed so easy for you to kill your ‘shadow’?”


    The Song Family’s transcendent gifts were all rather mediocre, and running a business required too much energy and time, so they couldn’t go far on the path of a card master.


    But for this chubby guy, having such an expert in the team drastically increased their chances of survival.@@@@


    After all, it was better if the expert’s tier was lower.


    If there were a Cursing Spirit Fourth Tier guardian and the shadow was also fourth tier, if the shadow couldn’t be killed, everyone would die.


    Leonard Churchill was about to explain, but seeing the chubby man walking over, he frowned.


    Catherine Carter, standing beside him, also sensed something and said sternly, “Be careful, we’re under an illusion technique. This technique’s tier is extremely high, it’s probably the Silver Moon Sect causing trouble again.”


    However, Leonard Churchill felt that something was off and thought to himself, “Crow knight?”


    He had read various classic books.


    He was sure this creature did not exist in reality, and he had never seen it in any books that introduced bizarre Catastrophe Demon Beasts.


    Rather, this creature usually only existed in certain folk tales.


    It was a part of many bedtime stories told by adults to mischievous children before they slept.


    Catherine Carter also noticed something was amiss: “This creature seems somewhat off...”


    Leonard Churchill nodded.


    Their levels of understanding were both very high, and they instantly noticed something was wrong with the monster.


    And at this moment, Leonard Churchill also noticed black threads emerging from Lew Williams’s body.


    This was “fear.”


    But it was now more than ten times stronger than before.


    “Has fear been magnified... has the New King of Orlan entered too?”


    Leonard Churchill had witnessed such a scene once before.


    Last time, in Lion City, the New King of Orlan had used some Secret Skill to magnify people’s fears and absorb that fear.


    Now mixed with the Silver Moon Secret Technique?


    In just that moment, Lew Williams’s fear had been magnified several dozen times.


    The form of the [Crow knight] seemed to be affected by some mysterious power, becoming more and more grotesque.


    To the naked eye, it looked as though a Demon God had descended, unbeatable.


    Leonard Churchill had only been somewhat concerned about the appearance of a Super Tier monster a moment ago.


    But seeing how the shape grew increasingly exaggerated, he actually felt relieved, and the corners of his mouth curled into a slight smile, “So that’s how it is...”


    He had seen through the true nature of the monster.


    With that realization, he planted his feet firmly and disappeared from the spot in an instant.


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