Catastrophe Card King

Chapter 864: Chapter 271: Kingship’s Theft, Sophia Jones’s Origins

Atop the ruins, Barre Shepherd and the people of the Orlan Royal Court were still confronting each other.

Further away, the battle near the Silver Moon God Tree had become increasingly intense, with shockwaves surging higher and higher.

Visibly, the moonlight in the sky had dimmed noticeably, and the divine tree showed signs of withering.

It seemed that the divine power was being gathered by the Old Days Believers, dealing with the great battle against an unknown assailant.

Leonard Churchill was starting to understand.

Barre Shepherd had appeared, but Master Merlin was not here, likely at the Silver Moon God Tree.

So this must be the card game the Pursuer of Light had mentioned before—the one he had laid out.

And in any card game, most of the time, it starts with the smallest card.

Then begins a full round of exciting gameplay.

Leonard’s earlier intuition had become reality. He now understood that choosing to risk absorbing the Law of Fear was indeed the right decision.

From beginning to end, he was that perfectly placed “small card.”

He was the necessary prelude that triggered this battle.

After all, the theft of the Law of Fear was probably the only lure that could attract the personal attention of someone from Orlan.

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And inevitably, there would be strong allies coming to support Leonard, so the Orlan Royal Court would send their top fighters as well.

Whether Sophia Jones would come or not, as long as Barre Shepherd was present, nobody from the Orlan Royal Court would be able to deal with this trouble.

Nor could anyone prevent Leonard from continuing to absorb the Terror Law.

So it was inevitable that the New King of Orlan, Arthur, would come.

And that led to the current situation.

A feint to the east but attacking to the west, the true objective was to deal with the Silver Moon Sect.

‘The Pursuer of Light’s power is really strange… It’s like he’s writing the script, and the plot is developing exactly as he has written, ‘ Leonard thought.

Leonard recalled his prior conversations with Noah Wright in the Flood Gang headquarters.

It was only in hindsight that he saw how the entire card game had unfolded.

If he wasn’t mistaken, Mushroomhead’s Professional Sequence was likely the [Diamond 7·Bard].

This Sequence offered a variety of career choices in daily life, most of which were non-combat support card masters.

Or to be precise, all four art-related sequences were very weak in the early stages.

[Spade 7·Painter Master] gardeners, sculptors, painter apprentices, and terror artists…

[Heart 7·Trickster] street performers, magicians, acrobats, dancers, animal trainers…

[Club 7·Singer] high-pitched screamers, Siren’s songs…

[Diamond 7·Bard] horror novelists, tragicomic playwrights, historians, archivists…

All were essentially various support professions for daily life.

But if one could follow the complete inheritance and advance to the later stages, the skills would be more peculiar than the next.

Leonard wondered, but then he thought confusingly, ‘However, coming back to Mushroomhead, he clearly died back there in the Flood Gang headquarters, even his ‘spirit’ had dissipated… then what power is that?’

Unable to figure it out, Leonard’s thoughts were drawn back to reality.

Because the card game had only reached the middle phase, and it was far from over.

Leonard didn’t think that a card game that the Pursuer of Light was staking his life on would be settled so easily.

….

In the distance, the four knights below the king had already unleashed their full combat power.

‘The Puppeteer’ Domingo, who had been caught off guard earlier, had now caught his breath and was currently summoning a blood-soaked Puppet shrouded in dark red Law threads.

Without recognizing the Puppet’s lineage, Sophia Jones’s side comment of “Super Tier Puppet” had already made the conclusion.

‘The Four-eyed Weird Monk’ Karan also took out a Disaster Object, the great sword [The Sword of Grendel],

The ‘Forbidden Curse Master’ Jolin held an epic forbidden curse card featuring mysterious eyes…

‘The Red Dragon’ Hogan’s flame Golem was also unleashed to its limit…

The four Grand Knights were now truly showing their hand.

These were super-tier equipment that required a certain price to use, and they were some of the few remaining supreme treasures passed down through the Orlan Royal Family for thousands of years.

Having witnessed Barre Shepherd’s outrageous combat power before, they realized that if they didn’t play their trump cards in this battle, they might only take them to their graves.

Leonard eyed the treasures with great envy.

Like a major boss in a video game, just one piece of legendary equipment could drop from the items carried by the knights below the king.

However, Barre Shepherd still didn’t pay much attention to them.

That old man was brimming with confidence, not just in strength but in spirit;

Even if he couldn’t overpower them, it was unlikely they could hold him down.

On the other hand, with him present, the chances of the opposition escaping were virtually nil.

Either they would fight or continue the standoff.

In the distance, Sophia Jones immediately had a bad feeling upon seeing this, “We need to get out of here fast!”

“Yeah.”

Leonard shared the same thought.

A cornered dog will leap over a wall.

If these Orlan Remnants, holding strong cards, truly became desperate, such drama was not something everyone could survive watching.

With Barre Shepherd drawing their fire, the two quietly began to retreat into the distance.

No sooner had they started walking away than they heard the nearly grinding, furious shout of the New King of Orlan from behind.

“Old man, are you really determined to fight to the death?”

“Good! Good! Good!”

“You rebels, since that’s how it is, then everyone… go to hell together!”

The Law of Kingship inherently carried an imperial dignity that did not brook defiance, and Arthur had it in spades.

But the old man before him was impervious to this influence.

At this moment, Arthur’s heart held only one thought, raging uncontrollably: to kill everyone within the Mysterious Realm!

As this fury erupted, the Demon God’s Phantom wearing a crown behind him also became vividly alert.

The Law of Kingship came with the pressure of a human emperor, and as Arthur’s anger erupted, a dominant force swept across the entire scene.