Card Master System - Chapter 37 Test Begins!

“That is the kid huh?” one member of the guild asked another while looking over at Leo. During this time of day, the guild was a little rowdy with many members who took a small break from their missions and just wanted to socialize.

The guild would give discounts to their members when it came to food and alcohol. Therefore, if they were not out traveling or out on work, you could usually find many of the members in the guild’s building having fun.

This was the life of a commoner who showed enough promise as a warrior to earn money completing missions using a guild such as this one. If it was any of the major powers such as the alliance Leo was indirectly part of, you would never see such a scene unless it was for an extremely good occasion. For commoners though, they chose to reward themselves by spending more time with their friends drinking cheap alcohol and eating cheap food.

“Oh Gorg, it is great to see you! How did the mission go this time around?” suddenly everyone in the guild’s hall could hear a guard shouting out to Gorg who had just arrived. The guard was clearly trying to warn everyone within the building about his arrival from his excited tone.

Gorg was one of the heroes of this guild. Several years ago, the guild took on an extremely big mission that had majority of its members taking part. If it was not for Gorg’s contributions, they would have been wiped out.

During the mission, a bandit camp that was very well known had chosen to attack the caravans that their guild was responsible for protecting. Luckily, the leader of the bandits and Gorg were the strongest warriors on their sides and fought a drawn-out battle. However, Gorg was able to defeat the bandit’s leader in a clean fight and the remainder escaped!

During the battle, Gorg used a large portion of his life energy to draw out his remaining potential to defeat the bandit’s leader. This caused him to be unable to take on anymore big missions, but he was still praised by the guild and was even responsible for conducting newcomer’s tests.

“Of course, thank you for such a warm greeting! After I conduct the tests for today, let me treat you to a round of food and drinks. We haven’t caught up in a while.” Hearing Gorg in a good mood, the members of the guild became more relaxed. Though he was referred to as a hero, Gorg still had a temper that no one wanted to deal with.

Walking into the building, Gorg was being followed by his squad members as he had a big grin on his face. It seemed as if he had forgotten about what Leo had done earlier and was now with his friends again after a long mission. However, the grin on Gorg’s face started to slightly change as he saw Leo sitting patiently on a chair within the hall.

“So, it is YOU?!” halting his steps, Gorg’s face became quite a sight. He was a bald middle-aged man who had an eye patch over his left eye. Though he would look rather peaceful and like a hardened veteran when he was happy, right now he looked like an enraged killer eying its prey!

Recognizing Gorg right away, Leo felt that he would harm him in any way and would keep up an air in front of the rest of the guild. Instant regret flashed in Leo’s mind as he fled backwards as Gorg’s killing intent shot towards him and filled him with hopelessness.

Tap! Tap! Tap!

“If you are going to fight this boy, you should at least do it during the test.” Walking into the guild hall, an older man with a lofty presence appeared. If it was not for the tapping of his shoes, no one would realize that he was present. This lofty figure was the guild master and he was extremely formidable!

“Fine old man, but I will not be holding anything back. From what he had done to my daughter earlier, showing mercy is not an option!” Gorg not lowering his killing intent shot his gaze at the master of his guild. One was an enraged hero that wanted nothing more but to smite Leo while another was an old man who was as lofty as an expert that roamed the world freely.

“Do as you would like, but if you bully such a boy that seems to have quite a bit of potential, do not blame me for punishing you accordingly.” With a quick shine from the corner of his eyes, the older man replied to Gorg before exiting the hall.

“Alright kid, you heard the guild master, I will be conducting your test today and it will be a combat-based test. Follow us to the back where we have a small arena.” Gorg now turning back to Leo said without wasting any time.

As Gorg walked out of the hall, every single member that was present followed him. They did not want to miss this possible show! Without wasting any time, Leo quickly followed everyone as he arrived at an arena. Gorg gestured Leo to walk and meet him in the arena as the members of the guild made their way to the bleachers.

“Alright kid, as I mentioned, I will not be taking it easy on you. This test is a fight to the death and if you are unable to protect yourself, you will fail!” Gorg shouted out for everyone to hear as he pulled out his flail. Showing how carefree he was and how Leo was not a threat to him, Gorg showed off some simple swings as the flail’s chains extended little by little.

“That flail is not very simple.” Leo thought as he let Gorg continue.

“Hey kid, draw your weapon before I kill you with a single strike. I am only a single step away from reaching the executive level and I can freely extend my flail’s range using my water elemental affinity. This type of power is not something that you can compete with barehandedly!” Gorg told Leo as he allowed his flail to create a small crater within the floor of the arena.

“Are you finished talking?” asked Leo as he sprinted towards Gorg filled with energy and his own killing intent.

“Fine, just know that I warned you!” swinging his flail towards Leo, Gorg tried to wrap the chains around him into a trap. However, Leo quickly created two after images before crouching out of the flail’s range.

Passing the after images, Gorg’s flail started to use the power of the water element to shift its direction. The flail was now in midair and was falling towards Leo’s position like a meteorite crashing into the earth. The force of the flail itself caused the onlookers to sweat.

“My move is far from over!” Gorg yelled out as Leo finally drew his sword! Leo, however, was too late and the chains of the flail started to wrap around him. Luckily, his sword was able to block the flail from hitting him in his head, but he was now trapped.

The next moment surprised everyone present. It turns out that Leo originally created two after images but also, a clone! The strength of Gorg’s flail was enough to strangle the clone, but Leo was casually standing in his original position, as if he never even moved the whole time!

“That technique seems familiar. Too bad for you, every time you create a clone, it takes quite a bit of power away. Let’s see just how long you can keep such a strategy up for!” now laughing from embarrassment of being fooled by Leo, Gorg was now past his limit for his anger.

Before Gorg made his next move, a sword was pointing under Gorg’s neck. However, he only snickered as he sent out a fast kick what seemed to be just in the air where no one was. At this moment, Leo’s body was seen on the floor several feet away from Gorg’s position as he coughed a mouthful of blood.

“A technique like that will never work on someone who is stronger than you. Only those who are much weaker than you will not feel your killing intent while using such a sinister technique!”

Feeling a little helpless now, Leo used his sword to lift himself off the ground as he faced Gorg. Leo thought that some of the techniques he picked up from the Mist household’s inheritance, would have been more than enough for him to deal with Gorg. Now, that seemed like foolish thinking as his attacks only made him angrier!