The Card Apprentice - Chapter 15
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Chapter 15

The best place to look at advertis.e.m.e.nt Illusory Cards was the most prosperous trading street in the Eastern Citadel – The Golden Street.

The Golden Street was one of the most antique streets in the Eastern Citadel. It existed in those very first days when people just started to build the citadel. But now, it was the trading center of the whole city.  Skysc.r.a.pers were standing close to each other on the Golden Street, with numerous people going back and forth. It seemed like every famous traders had had a store here.  To someone who wanted to learn about Illusory Cards, nowhere was more suitable than this place.

Here, even the smallest stores would own an advertis.e.m.e.nt Illusory Card. Especially at night, the dazzling light emitted from those advertis.e.m.e.nt Illusory Cards had turned this place into a mythical world.  Whether they were locals or tourists, everyone loved the night scenery of the Golden Street.

However, when Chen Mu carefully thought about it, he realized this was the first time he had ever visit the Golden Street.

This street was one of the signature symbols of the city. Of course, they wouldn't allow homeless kids and beggars to step foot in here.  Even from before, Chen Mu had always emerged himself in researching the Cards. Things like wasting time to take a stroll had never been in his plan.

It was really crowded!

That was Chen Mu's first impression when he arrived at the Golden Street. There were streams of people going back and forth. If he weren't careful when walking, it would be easy to b.u.mp into others.  He was not too familiar with this.

However, he quickly s.h.i.+fted his attention to the advertis.e.m.e.nt Illusory Cards on the stores around him.

Big b.r.e.a.s.t.s, slim waist, round bottom with eyes like pearls, straight eyebrows, and crimson red full lips, not to mention their alluring eyes. What made Chen Mu confused was that among all the advertis.e.m.e.nts that he saw, the majority of those images were beauties.  These beauties were either standing straight or bowing down to greet. Their dimly visible chest combined with enticing eyes had totally captivated people.

He could even see pa.s.serby who would either deliberately or unintentionally walking pa.s.s those beauties' chests.

Chen Mu was speechless.  Was this a trend right now?

Chen Mu continued to walk forward. He ignored it every time he encountered a beauty advertis.e.m.e.nt Illusory Card. However, he quickly found out that, the bigger the store was, the more creative and perfect the advertis.e.m.e.nt Illusory Card would be.

Let used the advertis.e.m.e.nt Illusory Card that he was looking at as an example.  Its illusion was ma.s.sive. It was as high as a two-storey building.

Chen Mu was dumbfoundedly standing right at the entrance of the store. He widened his eyes and looked up at the illusions from the advertis.e.m.e.nt in front of his eyes. It was almost as though he had forgotten himself.

Looking from above to the city below, skysc.r.a.pers were built close by each other.

A solemn young man in black was standing on top of a skysc.r.a.per, nonchalantly looking ahead.

A blind man, who was standing in a dark alley, slowly raised his head. His empty eyes were heading straight to the horizon.

In a room filled with moonlight, there stood a girl wearing tight brown clothes. Her hand was gently caressing the Cards. She suddenly looked up.

Each of their faces, either experienced, or naive, or stunning, or hideous, constantly appeared.

Right at this moment, the rhythm suddenly accelerated.  From above, countless of dark shadows plunged out from those skysc.r.a.pers. Their actions were incredibly smooth and flexible.  Their faces were all solemn, along with the fast speed music in the background, these made people nervous.

More and more people were coming, they were all flying to one direction.

Rawr!

The roaring sound of a beast echoed. Chen Mu had never heard something like this before. The roar was loud and quickly spread out.  Like responding to this, countless of roars started to resounded, like a ma.s.sive wave hitting the sh.o.r.e with full force.

Outside of the citadel, numerous of beasts were like a tsunami, madly rushed forward.

The people who were already running had tried to increase their speed.

At last, both side finally collided!

Blazing fiery dragons, crescent cold waves, and brilliant meteor shower,… followed each other and appeared one by one.

The colors and brightness continuously changed, dazzling people eyes.  The enormous collision had created countless of sparkling pieces, lighting up the night. The pressure from the fierce battle had almost suffocated people.

A fiery dragon was flying around the young man in black. Each of its attacks was critical, bringing along loud explosions. Right now, he looked like a G.o.d of war.

The girl who was wearing tight brown clothes was flexibly dodging the beasts' attacks. At the same time, her hands constantly drew out numerous of white crescent blade light; each strike was made to hit the target accurately. The scene was incredibly stunning.

The blind man, who was like a ghost flying among the beasts, was holding a bamboo stick in his hand. Every time he lightly hit the stick on the ground, hundred of light spots would suddenly appear. With another hit, those bright spots would burst out in power, flying forward and unhesitatingly piercing through those wild animals, leaving behind a long tail of light, which  looked like a meteor shower.

There was no doubt that human would receive the victory.  And the last image to appear was the Cards which were used in those heroes gear. On it was the name of this store – Double Hoops.

Way too marvelous!

Chen Mu couldn't help but sigh inside. It could be seen that the level of this advertis.e.m.e.nt Illusory Card wasn't too high, it was only level two.  But its content was exceptionally abundant. Moreover, the characters and structures inside the illusion were both incredibly realistic.  What worth the compliments was its eye-catching effect.

This was a successful advertis.e.m.e.nt Illusory Card, incredibly attractive!

Chen Mu could guess, with such Illusory Card, the price wouldn't be low.  Although its level was not high, the making process was complicated.  Its concept was extraordinary. A regular level two Illusory Card wouldn't be able to include such many contents. It should be consisted of at least five Illusory Cards. But they still had a tight connection in between. If one weren't a Card Creator, they would hardly realize it.

This world had too many geniuses! Not anyone was able to make a level two Illusory Card to this extent.  At least Chen Mu knew that his capacity was far from that.  This experience had opened his eyes.

The sale a.s.sistants at the Double Hoops Card Store were confused.  That person had been standing right at the entrance for more than half an hour. It seemed like he was looking at the advertis.e.m.e.nt Illusory Cards.  This Illusory Card was made two years ago already. It costed a fortune. At that time, the whole Eastern Citadel went crazy when they saw it. Even now, whenever she recalled that scenery, she still felt proud.  Every day, people stood in front of the store just to see this advertis.e.m.e.nt.  Also, from then, the stores had generated a significant amount of income.

However, no matter how good the advertis.e.m.e.nt was, two years had pa.s.sed, people had lost interest in it.  Gradually, fewer and fewer people came to look at it. Now, there was barely anyone.  The superiors had already prepared to replace it with another advertis.e.m.e.nt Illusory Card. But the Card Creator, who had made this advertis.e.m.e.nt that year, had pa.s.sed away. They had looked for others famous Card Creator, but the effect was far from this one. That why it hadn't been replaced yet.  What made the sale a.s.sistant surprise was that there were still people who were interested in this advertis.e.m.e.nt. How rare!

After a while, the weird young man was still looking at the advertis.e.m.e.nt. The female staff was scared that it could affect the business since someone was standing in front of the entrance for too long. She took the initiative and stepped out.

"Greetings sir, may I help you with anything?"

Chen Mu shook. He recovered his consciousness, shaking his head, "Not really." He understood the female staff's intention. Without saying a word, he turned around and left.