The Magician's Trick (Thanks to Alliance Leader Little Bookworm 991

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A streak of bleak white slowly fell.

Like a graceful line slowly extending through the air, it descended toward where they stood like a dance step.

In that instant, the maddening noise and countless chaotic vibrations vanished completely.

As though someone had pressed the mute button, the world fell silent.

Huai Shi was pinned to the deck by an invisible force, unable to move. He struggled to raise his eyes, but could only see a haze of white light.

Yet Russell seemed utterly unaware.

Still lowering his head, he casually tossed out the playing card in his hand.

The card flew from between his index and middle fingers, spinning and flipping through the frozen air. Light as a bird in flight, as though it had spread invisible wings, it overturned the entire world.

Huai Shi suddenly felt dizzy, as though the sky and earth were spinning.

It was as if the card had remained suspended in midair, never moving even an inch. What spun, danced, and fell was not that ink-printed sheet of white paper, but the entire world!

Heaven and earth turned over, and all directions fell into disorder.

Only when the card silently landed in the deck did the turbulent world return to stillness.

"Spades K."

Russell said, "I won, Huai Shi."

"At a time like this, you're still going on about that?!"

Huai Shi could not understand what this old bastard was talking about. Besides, he had seen it clearly just now—what Russell had thrown was obviously a Hearts A!

Yet now, after everything had settled, the card before Huai Shi had changed along with it.

As though everything that had just happened had merely been... an illusion?

Russell smiled and spread his hands.

Like The Magician at the end