Mythical Card Master: Start with the Knight

"what happens?"

Everyone's spirits were trembling, and they suddenly felt a surging and strange aura appearing in the black and red world.

Miguel stared northward, his face becoming solemn.

"It seems that not only those monsters, but the entire Thorn Flower County is covered with the blood of the person behind the scenes."

After hearing what he said, Chu Ming's expression changed and he looked at the grass and forest around him.

I saw traces of red mist on the earth floating out from the soil, and gradually condensed together, forming a strange thing that looked like tree roots and flesh and blood.

The flesh-and-blood tree roots were like blood-red muscle threads beating out of thin air. They kept floating toward the north, gradually condensing into flesh-and-blood tree roots that spiraled into a whirlpool.

Flesh and blood streaked across the golden barrier above Chu Ming and the others in mid-air, with slapping sounds one after another. Blood-red flesh and blood slapped on it, turning into a pool of blood mud, staining the golden barrier with blood stains.

George's scalp was numb and he shouted: "Everyone, hold on tight, we are leaving Thorn Flower County immediately."

After the man finished speaking, the ice blue slime under his feet began to squirm again and fled southward at a faster speed.

Around everyone, the blood red gradually faded away, and the surrounding area returned to darkness.

The blood-red gathering brought up gusts of gusts of wind, Chu Ming's long hair fluttered, and his eyes stayed on the giant blood-red whirlpool in the black and red world in the north.

The blood gathered into a solid body, like vines or pillars, climbing up towards the thunderous clouds.

Suddenly, a strange spiritual wave spread out from the blood-red vortex, penetrated the golden barrier, and transmitted the blood-red picture into everyone's spiritual sea.

Chu Ming's spirit flashed, and he found himself in the center of the bloody whirlpool. The place was densely covered with flesh and blood, and rumbling thunder sounded. He could faintly see the gloomy thunderclouds flickering outside the blood.

"Is this...the perspective of those monsters?"

A flash of enlightenment flashed through Chu Ming's heart. He felt that the blood around his body was getting richer. The monster just looked down and saw that the golden scales on its body continued to fall off and merged with the churning flesh and blood.

"This is like the transformation process of the golden giant tree before..."

Chu Ming paused in his heart, suddenly remembered something, and his face changed wildly.

"Could it be said that the main task of these four legendary creatures is not to expel the principality mages, but to become the backbone of the whirlpool?!"

This idea flashed through his mind, quickly took root, and became firmly rooted in his heart.

Before Chu Ming could continue to look, flesh and blood spread, gradually covering the monster's field of vision. He only felt his eyes darken, and he exited the strange mental state.

Chu Ming's vision returned to clarity, and he looked at the mages around him. Their faces were confused, and they seemed to have seen the scene just now.

The corner of Chu Ming's mouth twitched, and he was about to speak when suddenly the strange mental fluctuation struck again, but this time only he and those mages above the epic level saw the new picture.

His eyes became increasingly blurry, the light of the golden barrier distorted and disappeared from his eyes, and a trace of blood continued to expand in his field of vision.

After a few seconds, his perspective changed and the scene in front of him became clear.

"This is?!"

In Chu Ming's eyes, the huge bloody vortex occupied the entire field of vision, endless bloody bee pupae came, and fleshy tree roots were thousands of kilometers long, spiraling to cover the mountains and plains, covering hundreds of kilometers in the bloody glory. .

"hehe……"

An inexplicable laughter sounded from the mouth of the owner of the perspective. The man raised his head and looked above the whirlpool of flesh and blood. He saw a huge pillar of flesh and blood, like the sky-reaching vines in mythology that could reach directly to the kingdom of the sky. On the giant pillar of flesh and blood, flesh and blood continued to flow. Climbing, spinning and mixing together, the thunderclouds were turned into a huge vortex, and continued to spread towards the sky.

"What exactly is this going to do..."

Chu Ming's heart tightened and he stared at this scene, not daring to let go of any details.

This mental illusion lasted for a long time, and the owner of the perspective kept raising his head and looking above the swirling clouds, as if there was something worthy of his expectation that was about to come to this world.

Suddenly, Chu Ming saw from the man's perspective a dark mysterious object being dragged down from the sky by the wriggling flesh and blood tentacles on the giant flesh and blood pillar.

You know, the shortest of those flesh and blood tentacles are several hundred meters long, and the longest ones can even reach tens of kilometers. They are extremely thick, with a maximum diameter of several thousand meters.

But even in front of such a giant thing, the dark corner of the mysterious thing is not inferior in size.

Chu Ming stared closely at the black one. As its huge body was dragged down, Chu Ming's heart trembled inexplicably. He felt the ancient and vicissitudes of life coming towards him along with the majestic light that made people dare not look directly.

At this moment, he seemed to be in a vast land, peering into the vastness of the world like a tiny ant.

"The breath of the gods..."

Chu Ming's eyes narrowed, and he made a basic judgment about the dark and mysterious thing in his heart.

The flesh and blood on the flesh and blood tentacles kept climbing, sticking to the dark things, and just pulled hard.

boom! ! !

The clouds collapsed in an instant, and a huge hole seemed to be opened in the world, revealing a dark, empty starry sky.

"Well……"

After Chu Ming saw the dark starry sky, he crazily twisted across space, traveling through the spirit and drilling directly into his head, and an indescribable and strange aura raged in his mind.

On the slime mount, sweat suddenly broke out on Chu Ming's forehead. He opened his eyes suddenly, covered his head in pain and fell to the ground. Like him, other epic mages also caught a glimpse of the dark starry sky and fell to their knees in pain. On the ground, some people even passed out directly.

Miguel, the only legendary mage present, also turned pale and his expression became dazed.

"Mr. Lane, are you okay?"

Mattie's worried voice sounded in his ears. The maid supported his body that was about to fall to the ground, looking a little overwhelmed.

After Crono and the others saw that Chu Ming and the epic mages suddenly appeared in abnormal states, he hurried to Chu Ming's side, wanting to use his mental power to explore Chu Ming's state.

"Crono...stop."

Chu Ming raised his head, sweating profusely, "Don't try to pry with your mind, you won't be able to bear it."

As he spoke, he weakly turned to look at the maid who was supporting him, "Mattie, protect me, I may lose consciousness next."

He took a deep breath, and his consciousness connected with the strange fluctuations again.

The thing that seemed to be a god was about to reveal its true form. How could Chu Ming be willing to give up halfway?

He planned to take the risk of peering into the starry sky and having his spiritual sea be crazily invaded, to witness the arrival of that dark thing with his own eyes!

Chu Ming's consciousness became blurry again, and he vaguely heard the sound of thunder resonating in his ears.

boom!

A bolt of lightning suddenly exploded nearby. His heart was shaken, and his consciousness was completely restored. The huge pillar of flesh and blood that shot straight into the sky and the dark object also appeared in his eyes.

I saw thunderclouds wrapped in mysterious objects pouring down from high in the sky. The clouds continued to flow back, and the dark giant gradually revealed its figure.

From Chu Ming's perspective, the charred broken tree roots under the dark giant body smashed through the clouds with the giant island of earth, winding into the distance, followed by an extremely thick and dark tree trunk with a diameter of dozens of kilometers. Falling from the sky.

Thunder light flashed, illuminating its charred and vicissitudes of tree body. In a daze, Chu Ming felt the aura of majesty on it, mixed with the slightest trace of crazy twisting.

He looked shocked and murmured: "Could this be the remains of an ancient god?"

High in the sky, the bloody vortex continued to rotate, and the giant pillars of flesh and blood gradually disintegrated and turned into countless tentacles attached to the broken roots of the charred giant tree.

From Chu Ming's perspective, those bloody tentacles connected to the broken tree roots, seemingly becoming one with the charred giant tree.

"hehe……"

The laughter of the owner of the perspective sounded again. It seemed to be coming from a distance, and it seemed to be ringing in Chu Ming's ears. His spirit was shaking inexplicably. Before he could react, his vision suddenly went dark, and he was disconnected from the strange mental fluctuations. .

On the slime, Chu Ming's eyelashes fluttered and he tried hard to open his eyes, but in the end he fell into endless darkness.

…

I don’t know how much time passed, but a hazy voice sounded in the silent darkness, echoing in Chu Ming’s heart like a whisper. He suddenly woke up, the darkness around him shattered instantly, the light shined brightly, and his consciousness was wrapped in white light and flew towards a place far away from the darkness.

Red Rose County, Bernard City Mage Tower.

"Mattie, Master Ren seems to be waking up."

"Excuse me."

Mattie and another unfamiliar voice sounded in Chu Ming's mind. He only heard the creak of the door closing. His consciousness gradually returned and he slowly opened his eyes.

The rocky ceiling appeared in front of him. He just wanted to move, but he felt physically weak and his mental state was not good either.

"Mr. Lane, how are you feeling?"

Mattie's voice sounded again, and Chu Ming turned his head and saw Mattie sitting next to him.

"Ahem, give me a glass of water."

The maid nodded, poured out the warm water from the kettle, and served it in a cup in front of him.

Chu Ming picked up the cup, his Adam's apple rolled, and he drank the entire glass of water with a few gurgles.

He wiped the water from the corner of his mouth with his sleeve and looked around the room.

Different from the shingle structure of ordinary houses, the room he is staying in now is made of ashlar. Houses built with stones like this are either castles, mage towers or churches.

He did not see the church or family emblems on the walls or other household handles, and he immediately understood that he was in a certain mage tower room.

Chu Ming put down the water glass, looked at Mattie, and asked, "Where are we now?"

Mattie showed a relaxed expression on her face, wrung out the towel and handed it to Chu Ming, saying: "After you fell into coma that day, we fled to Red Rose County. Since most of the mages were in poor condition, Lord Miguel decided to let the team of mages stay in Bo We will rest temporarily in the Mage Tower of Na City and place the villagers here by the way."

Red Rose County belongs to the Western County of the Violet Principality, and borders the counties of Thorn Flower County and Violet County.

It seems that after the mage troops changed their route, they went southwest to the more prosperous Bona City in Red Rose County.

Chu Ming struggled to stand up from the bed, wanting to get down and move around.

Mattie supported him and said worriedly: "Be careful if you fall. Mr. Miguel said that you were affected by the darkness and lost a lot of strength in your body. It's not serious at all."

Chu Ming waved his hand and said, "Don't worry, I still understand my physical condition."

His feet landed on the floor, feeling much more at ease.

"call……"

The blood power in Chu Ming's body slowly began to circulate, recovering the lost strength and physical strength.

"Mattie, how many days have I been in coma?"

"In about three days, most of the mage team left Bona City and rushed back towards the Royal City. Only us and Master Crono stayed here."

When Chu Ming heard this, his expression moved slightly, "Mattie, can you help me find Crono? I have something to ask him."

Mattie nodded and saluted, opened the door, and before leaving, she did not forget to warn: "Mr. Lane, wait for me here, and don't move around to avoid any accidents."

Chu Ming helplessly nodded to Maddie, and after she left, he took a deep breath and looked at the palm of his hand.

The spell models in his mind connected quickly, and a flash of green light grew vigorously like a new bud, and the condensed magic power inside seemed to be stronger than before.

"Unexpectedly, it turned out to be a blessing in disguise. Under the stimulation of darkness, my mental power broke through the bottleneck and reached the deep blue level."

Chu Ming had a somewhat surprised look on his face and happily accepted the breakthrough in strength.

It's just that mental power breakthrough can only add some power to existing spells. To truly transform mental power into actual combat effectiveness, new spell models must be imprinted.

When he was in the royal city, he had memorized the fourth-level spells. When his mental power broke through the deep blue level, he could imprint the spell model immediately.

But now he has changed his mind. He plans to put aside the fourth-level spells he originally prepared and find some new spells.

After several battles in Thorn Flower County, he discovered that there were many flaws in the Thunder Cloud Mystery.

Although Thunder Cloud Mystery has a high explosive power, its high explosive power will appear somewhat powerless when faced with enemies with abnormal recovery abilities.

Of course, this does not mean that Yunlei Profound Truth is restrained by life recovery, but that Chu Ming's explosive power cannot surpass the enemy's recovery ability.

After all, when he fought the epic scale-armored giant bear, he was still just a blue-level knight. With such a huge disparity, it was surprising that he could hurt the giant bear.

Not to mention that after he advanced to Deep Blue, he almost hit the giant bear violently. If it were an ordinary epic creature, it would have been wiped out by his Thunder Giant Sword. He could easily kill the Deep Blue creature at the same level as him. can be solved.

"Sure enough, there is a huge difference between extraordinary creatures that can draw on the power of gods and ordinary extraordinary creatures."

Thinking of the strange recovery ability of flesh and blood, Chu Ming couldn't help but show a bit of solemnity on his face.

"Faced with these strange enemies related to evil gods, no matter how cautious you are, you can't be too cautious."

…

Ten minutes later, Mattie returned to the room, and she brought Crono back with her.

Crono poked his head out of the door. Seeing that Chu Ming was okay, he walked into the room and said with a relaxed expression: "Thankfully you are okay, otherwise I don't know how to explain to the tower master."

"By the way, what do you want from me?"

Chu Ming stretched his body and came to the seat next to him, "I would like to ask how the situation in Thorn Flower County became after I fell into coma?"

Crono was stunned for a moment, and the smile on his face gradually disappeared. He sighed and said: "It's not good, it's very bad."

"After you fell into coma, most of the land in Thorn Flower County was occupied by the bloody vortex, and this vortex has no tendency to stop. It seems that it will continue to maintain."

He paused, raised his head and looked at Chu Ming, "You should have seen that giant tree."

Chu Ming nodded, "Do you know its origin?"

Crono carefully took out a few excerpted pages from his pocket, "When I was still in Thorn Flower County, I heard some inferences about the identity of the giant tree from Mr. Miguel. After returning to Bernard City, , I read a lot of historical books from the mythological era in the library to find out the identity of the giant tree."

Crono pointed to the rough map on the crumpled paper and said: "If the record in the book is correct, in the mythical era, there used to be a sacred tree kingdom named Pasi at the location of the Violet Principality."

Chu Ming raised his eyebrows, "You mean..."

The man nodded and said: "I suspect that the huge blackened tree in Thorn Flower County is the remains of the Pashi Holy Tree from the mythical era. However, due to insufficient historical data, we don't know what happened to the Holy Tree Kingdom back then. , which caused the sacred tree’s divine remains to be exiled outside the world.”

As he spoke, he smiled bitterly, "Actually, historians are not sure whether the Holy Tree Kingdom actually exists. The names of the Holy Tree Kingdom and the Holy Tree are things I learned from some places that have not been recognized by historians. I found them in history books, and they just happen to correspond to the giant tree skeletons in Thorn Flower County."

Chu Ming pondered for a while and said: "Anyway, there is no doubt that the giant tree is a divine skeleton, but what exactly does the person behind the scenes want to use the divine skeleton?"

Crono guessed, "The Holy Tree of Resurrection?"

Chu Ming shook his head to express his ignorance, and asked: "What did Miguel and the others say?"

Crono's eyelids jumped when he heard Chu Ming calling the legend by his name, but he didn't say anything.

Anyway, Miguel is not here, even if Chu Ming curses Miguel a few times, he will not respond, and he is used to Chu Ming's problem of speaking carelessly.

Crono thought for a while and finally shook his head, "Mr. Miguel just said some simple inferences. As for the decision-making, I can't listen. Only those epic mages can hear it."

"I estimate that the mage troops have returned to the royal city now. Lord Miguel will definitely hold a meeting of mages to discuss this matter with the tower owners. I will go back and ask the tower owners, maybe I can get some news."

"Such an incident happened in the principality..." Crono's face became sad, "I'm afraid the future will be difficult."

Chu Ming stood up and comforted: "You are just a little mage. Even if something happens, it won't be your turn to take the blame. There is no need to worry too much."

Crono heard this and said with relief: "Yes, the fate of the principality is decided by the big shots above. At worst, I can just go back to my hometown."

My brain is stuck...