Chapter 1345 - City of the Decisive Battle (2) (1/2)

“Perhaps I have made a bad decision.”

Walking down the street and looking at the broken walls around him, Rhode sighed helplessly. He hadn’t noticed it before, but after arriving in the city, he found that this place was no different from a war zone; shattered, crumbled walls and ruins were everywhere. He initially thought the war hadn’t started but now, he realized that the war had already begun, where the lower buildings were destroyed.

Karin told him that the towers weren’t simply magical towers; instead, they were the pillars of her mental world. If all of them collapsed, her mental world would crumble entirely. These mental pillars were also considered the last insurance of her mental world, which troubled Rhode quite a lot. It seemed like this wasn’t only a PvP map, but also one with a time-limit, which was quite problematic. Also, he learned from Karin that the city was quite huge, where it would take a long time for him to walk through it. Thus, finding 12 people in such a vast city wasn’t an easy task at all.

Not only that, but what left him speechless was that after he stepped into the city, Karin left right away. At the end of the day, he wasn’t able to figure out which personality of Karin’s was the one who just spoke to him. But now, he didn’t care about that. The most important thing for him was to consider what Karin said.

According to that Karin, there were now 12 mental projections in the city, including those of Eleanor, Catherine, Dona, and Little Five. Like everyone else, each of them had three mental projections respectively. In other words, in this place, apart from the three Karins who were natives, Rhode had to face a total of 12 mental projections. Moreover, according to Karin, to avoid accidents, they were all separated upon arriving at this place. In other words, even Karin wasn’t aware of who they would encounter. As for Rhode, he had an even lesser intelligence advantage.

And that wasn’t the only trouble for him. Most importantly, he didn’t know much about the remaining four card spirits. Even toward Shira, he was able to easily recognize which of the mental personalities was more alike to the core personality. After all, he spent quite a lot of time with the core personalities, so he more or less had an understanding of the other personalities.

But it was totally different for the rest. Although Rhode received Little Five for a while, he barely used her. Meanwhile, the other three card spirits hadn’t even been with him for more than three days. Under these circumstances, it was hard for him to tell which one of them was the core or sub-personality. This situation would be equivalent to fighting in a completely unknown situation, and if he were to make a wrong decision, how things would turn out—only God would know.

But come to think of it…

Looking at the ruined streets, cars on fire, and wreckage of tanks, Rhode couldn’t help but twitch the corner of his eyes. Then, he once again recalled the things that Karin told him earlier.

“For them to get to know their master in the shortest time possible, we have, thus, added dreams belonging to you to the scene, Master. We believe that through this way, you will get to know one another better, Master.”

Know one another better, my *ss!

At this thought, Rhode felt his head throbbing. In other words, apart from this place being Karin’s mental world, his dreams were also mixed in as well. Although he didn’t know how Karin did it, he was aware of the fact that everything was possible in the mental world, which was why he didn’t dwell on it any longer. The most important thing for him now was to look for the mental projections and… Ugh… See what he could do.

The city before him was eerily silent. All he heard was his footsteps and the sound of the wind blowing through and nothing else. At the very least, large advertising screens and bustling music were playing on the streets of his dream world. In comparison, this city was truly dead and lifeless. The fierce battle earlier had completely died down; there was no more movement and no way to know precisely who had fought with whom and what had become of it.

At this thought, Rhode had no choice but to embrace himself and head over to where he saw the battle take place. After all, there was at least some activity just now, so he might be able to find some clues if he went over there. In any case, it was better than wandering around like a headless fly as he was now.

The area where the earlier battle took place was just ahead, so he only crossed a few streets and found the battlefield without much effort. Although he knew that the battle was intense, after witnessing it with his own eyes, he was still astonished. The entire ground was as if bombarded by artillery fire and filled with potholes everywhere. The towers collapsed onto the ground in a massive mess of debris scattering everywhere. Although the specifics of the battle were unknown, one could tell that this place had experienced a great battle. Both sides were also compelling and it could almost be said that they were fighting at full strength without mercy. Otherwise, they wouldn’t have let these towers with magical protection meet their end in such a tragic way.

“This is just…”

Looking at this scene, Rhode shook his head and began his investigation. Judging from the wreckage, it was apparent that there should be two people fighting here. However, their fight didn’t start here because according to the wreckage ahead, which seemed to be crushed by gigantic monsters, it could be deduced that the two people actually fought their way over here. Then, they used their ultimate moves and it seemed like one of them suffered defeat, while the other left after achieving victory. However, Rhode had no idea where the winner went.

“Sigh… What a bother…”

Rhode took another look at the ruins of the collapsed towers in the distance. It could be seen that the other party had definitely dealt a rather powerful blow, while the other person wasn’t able to block it, so she got blown right into the tower. And because the impact was so great, the tall and sturdy tower crumbled entirely. As for that unfortunate one, perhaps she was buried in the ruins now.

Come to think of it, can she even die just like that? If that’s the case, wouldn’t that make me fail the challenge already? Then again, I won’t be that unlucky, right?

Boom!

While Rhode pondered, a blue light beam erupted out from the ruins all of a sudden. Along with the sound of whistling winds, debris from the thick walls scattered in all directions. Soon after, he saw a petite figure crawling out of the large hole that was blown out of the ruins. Looking at this scene, he felt relieved. It seemed like no matter what, his challenge wouldn’t be implicated by their death.

At this thought, he stepped forward with large strides and arrived next to the petite figure, staring at her curiously.

It was a translucent young lady crawling out of the wreckage. She looked like she was 12 or 13 years old, and on her back was a sword shrouded by wind. Perhaps due to her translucent body, Rhode wasn’t able to have a good look at her equipment, but judging from its outline and appearance, she should be wearing a long skirt. At that moment, she crawled on the ground without the slightest majesty. To put it bluntly, she looked like a abused puppy at first glance…

“Are you alright?”

At that moment, Rhode confirmed that this young lady was precisely the mental projection of the Queen of Blades, Little Five. After all, she was the only card spirit to emerge in the form of a pure soul. And he remembered that Little Five and Shira had a fetish for ‘killing each other lovingly’. What he also recalled most clearly about Little Five was the scene where Angelina complained to him; it was a terrible past that the poor vampire hated to recall… Well, her body was hacked into chunks countless times by Little Five, after all.

And now, this Little Five wouldn’t have the same interest, right?

At this thought, Rhode raised his guard, stared cautiously at the young lady, and asked. Of course, he also felt a little puzzled since Little Five was in a spiritual form but despite that, she was still ‘buried’ under the debris, which didn’t make much sense. But now wasn’t the time for that. After finally encountering one of the mental projections, Rhode naturally had to get some valuable information from her.

“Argh… Who are you?”