Card Master System - Chapter 10 Danger!

“All of you should escape into the underground area as well. The monster wave this time was much bigger than we had expected and some monsters are getting into the village much easier.” Nathan shouted out.

Nathan then took out his battle axe and charged towards the monster with his four fellow guards. With a single swing, Nathan was able to heavily injure the monster with his weapon.

At first, Leo felt that the monster should be able to easily overpower all of the militia members who stayed behind within this building due to it being a level 10 beast with its title glowing in orange letters.

To his surprise, Nathan’s name was actually in red. Which meant, that this Nathan fellow was more than capable of defeating this monster, especially with the four guards in his small squad assisting him.

In the matter of only a few moments, Nathan and his patrol were able to finally land the final blow onto the monster.

“All of you go into the underground area now before I personally throw you all down there myself!” shouting with rage, Nathan gave his order while charging back out into the village, now that two more monsters had made their way into the village’s walls.

As the other villagers finally started to move towards the underground entrance, Leo, decided to halt his movements.

“If that other monster’s corpse earlier had a card within its abdomen, I wonder…” pondering for only a brief moment, Leo decided to head towards the corpse to inspect it.

None of the warriors who were fleeing wanted to call out to Leo due to him only being an outsider and useless to them. This allowed Leo to approach the corpse without Nathan and his men noticing him charging out of the building.

“Roar!” a lion type monster and a goat type monster were in a fierce battle with Nathan and his men. Though, Nathan and his men outnumbered these two beasts, they were still struggling to land any heavy blows onto the monsters.

“I have to hurry, I hope this risk that I am taking, will be fruitful.” Leo snapped out of his thoughts as he finally approached the corpse. However, to his surprise, there were actually two cards within the monster’s abdomen this time!

“I hope that two cards hold at least equal or more value than the single card I looted from that other corpse. Time to escape back!” pondered Leo as he placed both cards within his pockets.

Right when Leo was about to rush back into the building, he was sensed by the nearby lion type beast. Letting out a fierce roar, the lion switched his movements and tried to pounce towards Leo.

“Not so fast you stupid monster!” in a mere instant, one of the guards who was fighting the lion type monster shot an arrow at its head as it focused on shifting its sights on Leo.

Crack!

Within that moment, the lion type monster, landed on the ground nearby Leo, but decided to turn its gaze back towards the two guards who were fighting it earlier.

It seemed as if the lion type monster felt a sense of danger due to its new injury and wanted to kill these threats to its life before slaughtering some weaker prey.

“Roar!” now ignoring Leo, the lion type monster pounced towards the two guards as Leo fell to his knees in terror.

“In practically a single moment, my life would have perished. My past life may have been hard, but I should cherish this new chance I have.” pondering for several breaths of time, Leo slowly go up onto his feet and sprinted towards the underground area of the building.

Leo felt that the battles going on around him were now too dangerous for him to stay hidden. The loot of those battles may have helped him gather more of those cards, but, it was too big of a risk now.

“If I become too greedy, my life span will shorten significantly. It was already luck that I was able to loot a total of three cards without personally taking any actions. However, that does not mean that I will be lucky in the future.”

“Survival. That should be my new focus from this point forward. As long as I can continue to survive, I will always have an opportunity to become stronger!” now with his mind made up, Leo finally approached the underground area of the building.

“Hurry up and get in here before we close this gate without you inside!” shouted a patrol leader as he ordered his men to halt their movements.

This underground actually had a massive gate on the outside of it, protecting it from enemies. To Leo’s surprise, the gate to this underground area also blended in with the surrounding areas. If a monster did not have very high intelligence, it would even ignore the gate itself and head to another place.

“Cough, cough!” once inside the underground area, Leo couldn’t help but cough from exhaustion. He used all of his energy to grab the loot and to flee from the area.

“I really need to raise my attributes, so that my endurance can last much longer. I guess this underground area is safe enough for me to finally lower my guard.” Leo thought as he found a corner for himself against one of the many walls in the area and began to doze off.

Beep Beep Beep!

Several hours later, Leo finally woke up from hearing the beeps from the blue screen.

“What the heck?”