Chapter 11 (1/2)
Chapter 11 – Strengthening Exercise
Since he was a street urchin in his younger years, Chen Mu suffers from malnutrition for quite a while. After obtaining a better life, his body started to become more robust. Although from the surface, he can’t be considered well built, but he actually has an excellent const.i.tution, and rarely fell ill.
However, when Chen Mu tried to do one of the movement, he discovered that the movement is abnormally strenuous, requires a high level of strength in the lower extremities, which is not really his strong points. Back and forth several times, both of his legs feel aches and limp, just like moving in a mud. He did not know if he did the movement right or not, but he clearly can feel his legs aching.
When he tried to do all of the 18 movements once, he can only do three. He also discovers, as long as he did one of the movement similar to the standard, the corresponding image will become dimmer. If what he did is not similar, then the images will not change.
Except for this small change, regardless of what Chen Mu do in the void, no changes around him occurs at all.
Chen Mu repeatedly did the movements until his strength were almost depleted. His current problem is not how to complete the 18 movements, rather, it is how to get out from this dreamland.
All around him is just an empty void. Except for the 18 human-like images, there are no signs of other things. Can it be, these 18 human-like images…
Chen Mu quickly shot down this idea. These 18 images are just a phantom. Maybe he needs to complete all 18 movements? Chen Mu forced a wry smile, if really so, then he is certainly very miserable! These 18 movements, he cannot do it all smoothly in an instant. He would need to go through quite a lot of practice to be able to successfully do the movement. Breaking open the dreamland? There’s no need to even think about it. Such a brilliant dreamland, depending on his own power, is simply impossible to break.
Where is the exit point of this illusion? Recalling all the stories and legends about high-ranked magic cards, a bit of cold sweat seeps out from Chen Mu’s forehead.
If the exit point can’t be found, then he only has two choices. The first one is to wait until the energy card supply the magic card to run out of power. Then the dreamland will naturally be removed automatically. The other one is that he died of dehydration and starvation before the energy runs out.
A drop of sweat slides down the bridge of his nose, dropping off the tip of his nose into the endless abyss beneath.
Although he is facing a perilous situation, Chen Mu did not panic. This is not the first time he encountered a life-threatening situation. Living his childhood as a street urchin, in addition to starvation and cold, there are a lot of dangerous situations. Stray dogs, towards street urchins, is equally fatal. There also is those diabolical human trafficker. In their eyes, street urchins are no different that a piece of meat.
However, never once those dangerous situations made Chen Mu felt so helpless. In his eyes, this magic card represents the highest rank of magic cards, too high for him to reach. For him that was just a while ago finally learned how to make one-star magic card and entered half a step into the realm of Card Creator, it is an insurmountable existence that he can only look up to. This sense of danger does not come from the outside, but from the depth of his heart.
Chen Mu forced himself to calm down. He believed that the purpose of this card is not to hold the user to death by starvation inside the dreamland, because, if it were that way, then the inside of this dreamland should be filled with attacks to kill and wound. It is unlikely to be this mild. Then – the only possibility is that he hasn’t found the exit point of this dreamland.
He didn’t go through the orthodox Card Creator’s aspect of the study, so to use his current knowledge to solve this problem is clearly unrealistic. Pondering for a while, Chen Mu decided to use a simple method, by using the process of elimination, to remove the wrong answer, since there’s not too many things in the dreamland.
However, almost all of the stuff inside the dreamland has been touched by him! There’s obviously no response. Where would the exit be?
Void, human-like images… himself!
Chen Mu felt like a flash of light just went inside his mind. Right, he has overlooked one possibility all along, which is himself! In the entire illusion, beside the void and 18 images, there is also him!
Chen Mu’s sight went towards his wrist. On his wrist, he can see his device! Almost subconsciously, he pressed the activation b.u.t.ton on the device.
*Haah*, before his eyes, the scenery changes. He has returned to his room.
With his legs that has become a jelly, exhaling a sigh of relief, Chen Mu sat down on the ground. Too tired! He doesn’t even want to move a finger at all.